A Twilight Fanfic
By Rei Edogawa
Copyrighted to Rei Edogawa. Do not take and redistribute.
I was visiting Seattle when my life changed forever. I was walking in an alley when I heard footsteps approaching rapidly. I didn't have time to react. I found myself trapped up against the wall and a sharp pain in my neck.
I tried to scream, but couldn't. I was losing consciousness when I was suddenly released and fell to the floor. I was blacking out when the pain hit me. It kept me at the surface, between awake and blissful release. It slowly spread all over me. Before I knew it I was screaming and writhing in agony.
When I finally opened my eyes it was daylight. The pain had spread throughout my body. I must have been out for hours. A paramedic team arrived, someone had called them. They tried to find a vein, but couldn't. They didn't know what was wrong with me and just decided to take me in.
At the hospital the doctors were baffled. No needle could pierce my skin, so they couldn't give me pain meds. They tried to do several x-rays but found that the films came out blank. No needles meant no blood work, and they didn't know what to do for me.
I writhed in pain for days. Finally they put me in an isolation room far from any other patients because they couldn't help me and I was disturbing the others with my screams. I had settled into a state of extreme pain where I felt it all yet endured it. I heard the doctors saying that it was only a matter of time. Whatever was affecting me was going to kill me and they might find out more answers after the autopsy.
I knew something was changing. My heart felt hotter and began to beat faster. The pain had started to recede. When the pain started to recede even more quickly, I began to believe I would survive. I felt stronger than ever and ready to take on the world, but then my heart began to beat as fast as a helicopter and the machine went wild.
Doctors chose to ignore me because nothing had changed. They couldn't do a thing for me. So they waited for the inevitable. My heart began to stutter, slow and finally stop as the pain disappeared completely. I lay absolutely still for the longest time, not even breathing as for the first time in days I felt nothing.
But I was still alive. The thought crossed my mind. Was this what being dead was like. My heart wasn't beating and I felt nothing. I hoped not because being trapped in a coffin, aware like this was the worst thing imaginable.
So I decided to take a breath and to my amazement, I did. However I immediately regretted it. My throat began to burn as I smelled the most wonderful smell. Quietly I stood up and approached the tantalizing smell, unhooking the wires from my chest as I went.
The scent was coming from an elderly worker who was the only one in the room with me. I could see everything in amazing detail, but my eyes were on the person in front of me.
"It's you," I whispered.
The man whipped around and I struck. It was on pure instinct. My mouth was on his throat and biting into his skin like butter. His blood filled my mouth and I drank it down. His blood was the most wonderful thing I had ever tasted in my life. It soothed the burn of my throat and made me feel stronger.
He couldn't make a noise and tried to claw me away, but his nails had no effect. A bitter taste was now mixed in with his blood. I knew it was some sickness, instinctively, and that it would have no effect on me. When he was dry, I pushed him away in horror at what I had just done. I heard voices coming down the hall and I just ran.
The world slowed down as I ran as fast as I could. They were all stone still as I raced passed, too fast for them to acknowledge. I took off through the city at this pace, heading east. In what seemed like minutes I was in the woods climbing the mountains around the city like it was nothing.
I raced on and on for a while. When it seemed I was far enough away and no one was around I stopped to assess what had happened to me. I couldn't get my head around it. I was a murderer and apparently had a bizarre desire to drink human blood, I ran faster than people could see, stronger than ever, and more endurable than anything had seen before. His nails left no scratch on me.
About this time I realized I was naked. The hospital had put me into one of their gowns and it hadn't survived my mad jaunt into the woods.
"Just perfect," I said.
At that moment, I realized I wasn't alone. A woman with a short pixie hairstyle was standing there between two trees, just staring at me. I didn't want to kill her too so I ran again. What really freaked me out is that she was just as fast.
I yelled, "LEAVE ME ALONE!" and struck out at her. She wasn't there anymore and I stumbled. I found her again a second later and this time struck out at her differently. By instinct I reached out with my mind and overwhelmed hers. It was difficult, but I managed to instill fear and panic in her at the sight of me.
She ran in one direction and I ran in the other. Then I ran into a man. This one tried to stop me too. I engaged his mind and found it far different than the woman's. He was in my head too, I realized and struck out at him when he was distracted the most. He went flying, and I went running.
I heard him yell out, "Bella, he's got some mind power. You're the only one who can stop him."
Then another woman showed up. I guessed it was his Bella, and tried to fight her like the others, but she just smirked at me and said, "Your mind games don't work on me, or him for that matter."
Next thing I knew I was on the floor as a very large man tackled me from behind and had me pinned. I knew it, I thought. I just knew I was going to die today.
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