Out of the Shadows, Into the Light

Disclaimer: Me? Own Twilight? HAHAHAHA…no.

Summary: A new vampire has wandered into Forks. She is a newborn, but she has controlled herself around humans and doesn't drink human blood, but her unnatural traits go far beyond these. She is alone and only wants a chance to start a new life, so the Cullens take her in. But then things start getting a bit out of hand…General/Romance, Edward/Bella, Jasper/Alice, Emmett/Rosalie, Carlisle/Esme, OC/OC (AN: starts in Eclipse, Jacob and Bella are just friends, Bella's already a vampire and Renesmee is born, Bella still goes to school, she and Edward are married but don't tell the people of Forks)

This chapter is dedicated to twilighter97 (first reviewer for my first non-comedy! THANK YOU!), Pinetail Alice Cullen, madeofawesome22, SunnySkies4Life, Ilove4everJasperHale, cullensdazzleme, and Miss C Black or Cullen. I have a new poll on my profile closing on Valentine's Day, for the next story I should write! And don't forget to check out my other stories.

Her Story

Everyone had hunted and satisfied their thirst. Carlisle asked Lily if she wanted to stay at their house for a bit, and she agreed.

When they got to the Cullen home, Alice was overexcited, as Lily didn't have any clothes but the ones she wore so she had an excuse to go on a major shopping spree. She had dragged Lily upstairs before the others even entered the house. Alice showed Lily one of the spare rooms, where she would be staying.

There was a silver couch and a mahogany floor with an almost floor-to-floor silver carpet. The wall opposite the door was a floor-to-ceiling one-way window. One of the walls next to the door was completely covered by a white bookcase with a third of it stuffed full of books and another third with electronics. The wall opposite it was blank and white, as was the ceiling.

There was another door next to the bedroom door that led to the closet, which was huge and empty, with a revolving mirror in the middle. "Is this room alright?" Alice asked concerned. "I mean, if you don't like the color, we can change it, and the wall isn't painted –"

"Alice, don't worry. It's amazing," Lily reassured her.

Alice's eyes glazed over, and then she blinked. "I had a vision that you are going to tell us your what you know!" she said excitedly. Then she frowned. "But it was really fuzzy and hard to see…Oh, well."

Lily blinked. "Yeah, I just decided that, since your family's doing all this for me."

"And the others all really want to hear. Let's go!" Alice dragged Lily back downstairs. The rest of the family and Jacob were sitting in the family room, Jacob in human form and wearing t-shirt and jeans. "Lily is going to tell us something now!" Alice announced.

"Are you sure, dear?" Esme asked. Lily nodded.

"The first thing I remember is waking up next to a house in the middle of the woods. Then I just started…knowing things I don't think I even should know. I knew I was a vampire, even though no one told me. It just came into my head. I knew I could be a 'vegetarian'. I started wandering.

"Then I knew about you guys, other vegetarians. I knew there was Carlisle, Esme, Emmett, Rosalie, Alice, Jasper, Edward, Bella, Renesmee, Jacob…

"I knew the way to find you. And…now I'm here."

Esme and Alice hugged Lily. "Oh, you poor dear, you can stay here as long as you need to."

Lily sighed. "Thanks, but I couldn't do that to you."

"It's no problem," Carlisle reassured her. "We have more than enough room."

Lily smiled for the first time in eight weeks. "Thank you so much."

Jasper was looking at Lily carefully. "I don't know why, but you seem…a bit different somehow than how we found you."

They turned to Lily and observed. Alice gasped. "She looks like a fifteen-year-old now."

Lily frowned and tried to get a glimpse at herself. "Really? I thought I looked thirteen-years-old."

"You looked twelve when we found you," Bella mused.

"That could be my power, to change my age," Lily suggested.

"How would you know all this?" Carlisle wondered.

"It could be another power," Esme pointed out.

"I think Eleazar needs to make a trip down here," Edward muttered. "I'm trying to read her mind, but all I'm getting is this dark shadow and these incoherent whispers."

"When I try to see her future, it gets all fuzzy," Alice added.

"And her emotions are muted, so I have to strain really hard to feel them," Jasper concluded.

"This is very odd," Carlisle muttered.

"And I also know that it's my birthday tomorrow," Lily added. "Even though that's kind of useless information."

Alice squealed. "It's your birthday tomorrow? Now we can do more shopping!"

"No, Alice, don't do that to her," Bella groaned.

"It's alright. Shopping isn't supposed to be a harmful activity," Lily replied. "But I'm not sure how I'd feel about it."

Esme turned to Lily. "So, dear, what do you want for your birthday?"

"I'm taking her shopping tomorrow!" Alice announced.

Bella sighed. "Anything else?"

Lily thought for a bit. "Do you have paint? Like, a lot of it?"

"Sure!" Emmett raced upstairs. Edward chuckled, and Alice looked about to explode. Lily just looked a bit confused. Emmett raced back downstairs, arms full of nail polish. "I have all of Alice's nail paint, take you pick!" he said cheerfully.

Yeah, this is pretty short, but next chapter is going to be VERY long. I have a very weird habit, I keep thinking up all these story ideas AFTER I post up new polls and stuff, and I work on the new stories that won't get published for a LONG time, so my brain is kinda thinking of ideas for other stories, so I have about two or three chapters after this already written out, but if you have any ideas, feel free to send them!

Long Live Twilight XD

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