I needed this one to work for two reasons...
1) i needed to explain how Bella could just reject all the human blood in the second chapter and
2) she needs some new family members.
xoxo
Tress
Chapter 3. Saviour
I'm in London now with my coven. See, after I said goodbye to Jacob, I went to Phoenix and said a final farewell to my mother. She took it a lot better than Charlie did and after that, I went to Canada for a short time. That's where I met Andrew and Vee.
It was thirty years later, in Canada. I was thirstier than usual; it was getting harder and harder to reject the smell of human blood. I'd worked out that I had a gift. The power of rejection. I had a natural aversion to anything I concentrated on, even other vampiric powers. I was in the frosty pine forest of Canada, feeding off a reindeer when I heard a screams coming from across a wide-open lake. I ran through the pines to see an enormous bear trying to take down a young couple. The was a boy, no older than 19 who was trying to lure the bear away but it was focused on the girl, 18 at the latest who was scrambling up a pile of driftwood on the bank. The couple smelled human but they were both bleeding profusely.
The bear swiped at they boy and he was knocked against a nearby tree, going limp. The girl screamed again and I jumped into the water. I have a strange loathing of bears, I don't know where it comes from but I just really don't like them. They're big, strong and impulsive. I swam over to the other side of the lake but by then I was too late. The boy had lost too much blood to be healed humanly and the girl was uselessly trying to throw driftwood at the big black bear. But she was bleeding too, a lot of blood spreading all over the white gritty sand of the beach. The girl finally went limp on the pile, accepting her fate. I jumped onto the bear and sunk my teeth into its arm. It cried out in pain and then rage as it flailed its arm about. I held fast to the ground and sucked it dry. Another thing about bears: they have strong tasting blood, like strong vodka almost. Soon it went still on the ground.
The girl was looking at me in timid fear but I wiped away the blood from my mouth and approached her anyway. She shuffled back a little and I held up my hands in a non-threatening gesture. "What's your name?" I asked, softly. I took in her appearance. She had light blonde hair and dark green eyes that were dull with shock.
"Vee Mathews. What are you? The- the bear just came out of nowhere and attacked us." Her eyes flared with recognition and she glanced at the boy behind me. "Andrew! Please you have to help him." She begged meekly and I looked over my shoulder at Andrew. His heartbeat was getting slower as we spoke, the only way I could save him would be to turn him. But even then I didn't know if I was strong enough to do it. He had light, almost blonde brown messy hair and tanned skin.
"My name is Bella Swan. I don't think I can save Andrew…" I answered. Or yourself. I added silently, as I took in how much blood was on the driftwood. The bear had swiped at her stomach and it was now bleeding a lot. I was concentrating extremely hard on rejecting the blood.
"Please? I need him. He's my fiancé. He proposed before the bear attacked see?" she said, choking on her words a little. Vee smiled weakly at the moments before. She was growing colder by the second as she held her hand out. A small glittering diamond ring was on her left hand. I took a deep breath.
Decision time. "Vee? Do you know what I am?" I asked and she shook her head. Another breath, I rejected all of the blood. Harder than it looked when it was so close. "I am a vampire. The only way I can possibly save Andrew is to turn him into vampire too. He's not exactly conscious right now but I need a decision." I explained. She crinkled her forehead and looked lovingly at Andrew. The next words were faint.
"Do it. To both of us." She murmured. I raced over to Andrew who was almost dead, and placed him next to Vee. The next few moments were blurry for me but I remember biting them both on the wrist and then carrying them up to my cabin. It was similar to the one Victoria changed me in, I thought ironically. There were two couches and I set them both up on each one. They were already screaming in pain.
My first thought was: what have I done? But then Vee looked up to me, tearfully and nodded, grasping Andrew's hand. I knew they really loved each other. She was doing this to herself so she could be with him. Like what I would've done to be with Edward. The thought stirred a horrible pain in my chest but a squashed it back down and took in the couple's appearances.
I noticed they both had each other's names tattooed on their wrists. I reached out and held their hands. I went through the hell with them for three days, until the finally woke up.
Vee was gorgeous. Her blonde hair was now gleaming and golden coloured while her eyes were bright red. Andrew's were red as well, but his skin was paler and he looked up confused at first. Vee jumped onto him and started kissing and hugging him.
Andrew asked Vee where they were and what happened and while Vee gave a terribly accurate blow-by-blow account, I left them alone. They needed a private moment I decided. It was about fifteen minutes later when I heard Vee calling my name. I introduced myself to Andrew and he grinned back. He reminded me a little of Emmett in some ways. That stung a little in my chest.
"Vee, Andrew, I need to ask something of you." I said, softly. They both look grim. I laughed. "It's nothing terrible. I just need you to promise that you won't hunt humans. Animals are a lot easier and less conspicuous to feed on. I'm sure you must be really thirsty huh?" they both nodded, eyes darkening for a moment.
After that, I told them all I knew and we became a coven. Vee was smart and quiet, sort of like Angela. Andrew was exactly like Emmett except for his size. He wasn't far off, but Andrew lacked the enormous mass Emmett had. They were both more like siblings to me than friends. I told them about Forks, Charlie, and the Quileute Pack. Last of all I told them about the Cullens.
It took nine years for them to overcome their blood lusts but when they were done, they were perfectly at ease. The first thing they did was get married on the beach were Andrew proposed. I thought it was a little gruesome having such a wonderful ceremony on the place where they were eternally damned but they apparently thought otherwise.