AN: Hello Darlings. I had a small problem with my computer- thus had to gat everything transfered over to be saved from certain doom... Updates for my other stories will be coming shortly, but here's something new to chew on... Yes i have surcumb to Twilight... however I don't like the books, so none of the things that are dragged out of my archives will ever follow along Stephanie Meyers. I'm borrowing her character's giving them life, and if they want to go back then more power to them right? This Story will not contain Bella bashing like some of the things that have come from my insane brain, so i hope you enjoy. ... Bella and Edward won't be together in this one either.
Chapter One: In Which A Parent Changes Things
Charlie Swan looked at his catatonic daughter. Every day that passed she got a little bit worse, falling deeper and deeper into the depression that he couldn't retrieve her from. He didn't want to watch her fall anymore, he didn't want her to die all because she was young and in love with a boy who didn't deserve her. He did know that if he ever saw that Cullen Boy again that there would be hell to pay. No one played with his daughter's heart and got away with it like he did. Bella needed to get away from Forks, he knew it. The constant reminder of Cullen wasn't helping her, and as much as he wanted to keep her around he knew he couldn't. Phoenix wouldn't work either, because as much as he had loved Renee she was more a child then a parent. She wouldn't be able to help Bella out of this hell she was trapped in. She needed a new place entirely.
Bella was going to go to her godfather's in Las Vegas. The big city was bustling with life and filled with distractions. Plus Peter was a character, and his wife Char? If anyone could get through to her then it would be them. He knew that the Cullen's were Vampires, it was hard not too when Peter and Char were. He also knew that Bella had known, so adjusting to her Godparents shouldn't be that hard, and the touch of familiarity would help in her recovery. He was trusting Peter's feelings on this one, but he's never been wrong before so he knew it would be okay. Peter loved Bella like his own daughter and not like his great granddaughter anyways
She really didn't remember her godfather, beside's his weird humor. She hadn't seen him in almost seven years, so when her dad told her that she was going to Las Vegas and living with him it had shocked her out of her shell for a moment. She was drawn out as they arrived in Vegas and she looked into the blood red eyes of her godfather. Those eyes marked him as a human drinking vampire. She tried not to stare or flinch as her father greeted 'Uncle' Peter, seemingly unaware that he was hugging a vampire that drank human. Charlie looked at her after a moment and rolled his eyes at the fact that she hadn't moved. He was officially more insane then Renee right now if he thought that sending her to live with a freaking human drinking vampire would snap her out of her funk, and that was saying something considering that she was a thrill seeking child trapped in an adult body. Uncle Peter laughed as she still didn't move, putting his hands on his hips. It was almost comedic.
"Come on Belly-Bear. Don't be like this. You used to ask me how you could get eyes like mine when you were little. You loved them. Auntie Char and I are no different right now then when we baby-sat for you and changed your nappies. We're not about to take a bite out of you anytime soon young lady. Now I have some things to say, you look horrible baby girl. Yer daddy told me a veggie vamp broke your heart. No worries Darling, there are plenty of vamps in the sea if that's what floats yer boat, though in my opinion none of those punks are good enough for my princess.." He joked. Despite herself Bella found herself relaxing slightly. This was her Uncle Peter, nothing had changed, she could see it in that moment. At her relaxing Peter grinned widely, hugging her, and Aunt Char cleared her throat loudly, demanding her attention. Bella looked at her as she smiled grimly.
"I heard through the grapevine that the Cullen's did get you in a spot of trouble though, and you had to promise to be turned. I want you to know Darling, that if you don't want to then we'll find a way out. Considering you're that lump's family then we have a good chance of making it." She murmured softly. Bella smiled a little. The very fact that she was facing death without being turned had contributed a lot to her depression, because if she was going to die without them anyways why should she go on. Char had a knowing look in her eyes as Peter hugged her a little tighter. Her father was watching her as she blinked.
"I think I would still like to be turned." She replied softly. She felt her uncle chuckle more than she heard it, and she had to smile just a little. Uncle Peter's laugh was really infectious. She'd never been able to be sad around him for some reason, and the relieved look on her father's face at her smile made her realize just what she had been doing to him by retreating for the world, and over a boy. Uncle Peter kissed the top of her head.
"Now little lady, Char and I have no problems changing you. You're mother, Rennie, as eccentric as she is she never quite agreed to being turned. It'll be nice to have part of my family around for all eternity. Char and I do hunt humans, but only the ones that deserve it. You know the dregs of society, rapists and such. When you join the dark side you can go veggie if you really want to. Now Charlie here's made me promise to keep him updates since he can't stay that long. And if you don't completely snap out of this funk soon? I'll find something cruel and unusual to do to you until you do." He murmured, joking at the end. Charlie laughed at the look she made as she imagined just what her crazy uncle could do to her in trying to break her out of this. None of it looked very pretty in her head. She glared at her father for the look he gave her, agreeing to what he planned and Charlie smirked.
"I'm not going to say anything about the sanctioned torture" She muttered. He laughed loudly, grinning and she really didn't have anything to say about that. Her father loved her, and she knew it. The fact that he had brought her here, knowing that she wouldn't come back the same by any chance meant more to her than he would ever know. Peter went over and cuffed Charlie across the head playfully.
"Hear that Charlie-boy she know you agreed to whatever's needed. I know a lot of different types of torture too." He teased. Charlie rolled his eyes, laughing more. Bella liked this side of her father, because normally he was so emotionally withdrawn it almost hurt to see. She relaxed onto a couch, just enjoying the moment for once in a long time. This could really work. She didn't need the Cullen's. She didn't need Edward.
When Charlie left Las Vegas three days later Bella felt lighter than she had since she had stumbled blindly into the world of vampires. She wasn't herself yet, but she was working towards being the girl who didn't need to be accepted to be happy. Her relationship with Edward wasn't healthy, she was discovering, she had been dependant and she had lost herself in him. Her relationship with Peter wasn't quite Uncle and Niece during the next couple of weeks, but more like best friends, and slowly, slowly she opened up to him about everything that had happened in those last minutes with Edward, about the party, and everything else.
The more that they talked, the more their relationship changed and deepened. She felt comfortable with telling him things, like the fact that she had a human eater after her because she had been attacked by her mate, and the Cullen's had killed said mate and stopped her from transforming by sucking the venom out. Peter had cursed as he examined the scar, which was colder than the rest of her body and would always stay that way. He hugged her, promising that Victoria wasn't going to get to her. It wasn't until she hit a wall in her progress about 2 weeks after her arrival that he pressed her for more than she had been willing to give.
"Come on sweetie-pie. You know you wanna tell Uncle Peter everything your veggie vampire said when he left you in the woods. And yes Charlie knows about that. The wolves, The Quilente excuse me, they told him about finding you." He cajoled one night, after word had gotten back to them from Forks. They had killed Laurent when he had come looking for her and wanted Bella to be on the lookout for Victoria. Well they really had wanted her to come back home so they could protect her, but it wasn't happening. She sighed, looking at the bright lights of the city around her. Peter tapped her on her shoulder after a moment of silence.
"When he asked to go for a walk he didn't act like anything was wrong so I went. And when we got to the meadow and he started talking about leaving I thought he meant that we were going. He didn't. He said people were getting suspicious of Carlisle, that his kind was easily distracted and he was bored, that I was no good for him and with my human memory I would forget them soon. I thought it was about Jasper first, I tried to tell him that it didn't matter to me, that Jasper wasn't at fault because he had felt all of their blood lust, but he said it didn't matter. That he didn't love me, that he had never loved me. When he left I did the stupid thing. I tried following because I thought if I could just catch up, that I could convince him to stay. I was just too stupid to realize I couldn't catch up with him and I got lost." She murmured, her voice clogging. Peter hugged her tightly. "He told me all of this, but then he had the nerve to tell me I promised to keep safe, that I wouldn't do anything stupid."
"He's an idiot boy, stuck at age 17 forever Ella. I don't think he doesn't love you, but I do think that he made a stupid decision. You've been in constant danger in a lot of different ways since he came into your life. The nomad, his mate, Edward himself since you're his singer, Jasper was the last straw. He left without realizing that you were still in danger. The way he left? It was immature. He wanted you to hate him, so he did what he thought he had to do to foster that hate. The promise, it showed that he cared still. He didn't know that leaving you like that would ruin you, but he should have and I won't let anything like that happen to you ever again little sister. You hear me? And if I ever see him again he's in for pain, and so is Jasper for allowing him to go through with that shitty way of leaving." He murmured, his voice angry. Bella cuddled into him, liking the new nick name.
One month after moving in with her godparents Charlie was planning his daughter's funeral. She had decided to take the plunge into forever so she didn't have to rely on anyone to keep her alive. She didn't want to be the fragile human that Edward had fought and left to keep her. She wanted to leave the past behind and start her future. As he planned Charlie started planning his own death, because he wasn't about to let his little girl live eternity alone. She may lose Renee to time, but he wasn't going to go out like that. The last time he had spoken to her, right before Peter and Char had taken her to their home in Texas to turn her, she had sounded like the Bella she was before coming to Forks. Strong, independent and funny as hell. He looked forward to eternity watching over her.
Leaving Bella had been the hardest decision of her life. She hadn't wanted to leave at all. She had fought against it and so had everyone else, including Rose, who saw a little bit of herself in their human sister. Even more now that Edward was leaving her like she meant nothing. Edward had won, by playing the one card no one could deny. He had never protested having to move when one of them slipped, he had always supported them and now he needed them to do the same. They had to put their feelings for Bella behind them and do what was needed.
She had promised not to look into Bella's future, to keep away from her. It wasn't easy but she had kept to that promise. Only she had slipped. Edward never said anything about Charlie, so she had peeked just a little. What she saw would haunt her forever. The sight of Charlie standing over Bella's grave in the rain, the date engraved on it one that was already passed would never leave her. She hadn't meant for Edward to see, but he did, and the next moment she was seeing him go to the Voltaire, asking for death. She had tackled him and when everyone looked at them confused as Edward struggled to get away from her she had blurted it out.
"Bella's dead. I couldn't resist checking in on Charlie, and I saw him standing over her grave. She died two weeks ago, and now he's going to go kill himself." She panted. Jasper and their father bolted over and took Edward from her, wrestling him down to the basement. Alice couldn't look at her mother as she started to sob for her lost daughter, and Rose looked so sad. Their family was broken, because their sister had died and they hadn't known.
When Edward couldn't escape he tried starving himself, and when he was at his weakest he confessed his crimes against Bella. He told them everything he had said to her, and Alice realized that him purging the truth? It was another way to see to his death. Rose and Emmet proved that when they tried to help him along in his mission to die. No one could believe how he had systematically destroyed their sister, their daughter. In the end they were so preoccupied with keeping Edward alive, making him live in the after math of never being able to tell Bella the truth, they didn't call Charlie to check up on him. When his future went blank Alice did notice. One month after her first vision Charlie Swan died when his car went off a cliff. Alice never wished she could cry as badly as she did then, but nothing would bring either of them back and she knew it.
When she told her family that Charlie had followed Bella her father was silent. The next time he saw Edward, when he was bringing him his blood he looked the other vampire in the eye. He spoke slowly, and as calmly as he could when he said that he had already lost his daughter. He pleaded with his first child not to make him go through the pain of losing his son. After that Edward's attempts didn't attempt to die with as much vigor as he had before, and life settled into a depressed ménage of getting by day by day, trying not to think about the best friend that she had failed and left behind, and the father that couldn't live without his child.
Bella didn't make a sound while she turned. In fact it looked like she had laid down and went to sleep for two days. Peter and Char slipped up, expecting her to stay out for another day they went out to hunt. They had missed the scent of another vampire, wanting to be at full strength to deal with the newborn. Bella woke up with a familiar red-head standing over her and attacked. The shocked vampire never stood a chance and went up in flames outside within five minutes of the newborn waking.
When they arrived home Bella was calmly sipping a wine glass of blood, a headless rabbit in the sink. As they stood staring at her in shock she just smirked, finishing her meal in silence. Neither of the elder vampires moved, not wanting to scare her into attacking. As the glass emptied she moved to the sink and rinsed her glass before turning to look at them and laughing a little. Char raised her hand and she laughed harder.
"I've been awake three hours Char, and I woke up to a nasty surprise. Apparently Victoria followed us here, and she was standing over me. Let's just say that she didn't expect me to wake up when I did and I had a little bond fire, then I caught myself a thumper and mixed in a good finger of rum." She reported. Peter cursed loudly, then looked at her warily, as if he was going to set her off. She just shrugged.
"My dad's a cop Petey. I've heard hell of a lot worse growing up. Now where were you two? Leaving a baby vamp transitioning alone isn't very smart you know? That could have went a lot worse." She lectured. Char laughed a little, and came up fast, hugging her. When Bella just hugged her back Peter sighed.
"I should have known that you wouldn't be like other Newborns Ella. I'm looking forward to seeing how different you going to be Darling. I have aa feeling you're going to be something great. Those asshats will rue the day that they left you. Idiots didn't know how special my girl was when they had her." He grumbled. Bella giggled, looking over her godmother's head and winking wickedly at her godfather as Char snuggled in close. He laughed.
"I look forward to causing you as much trouble as I can." She shot back before squealing as Char pinched her butt. Peter smirked this time as his wife moved away and looked their goddaughter over.
"I'll get your measurements, and get you some proper clothes baby-girl. Then we go into testing. We have to know just what kinda control you have, strength and otherwise." She murmured. Bella rolled her eyes.
"I'll tell you that I didn't snack on the human I found when I was looking for my Thumper. I didn't even scare Kevin or his friend Krysta. In fact Krysta was quite interested in going shopping sometime, because apparently I'm downplaying my beauty and it's a shame. I got her phone number even." She said, almost bored. Again her two guardians looked at her in shock and she giggled delightedly, going back to her room.
The surprises didn't just stop with Bella's perfect control, and human like bodily functions. She had a mental and physical shield, which explained her control, but beyond that she incorporated the powers around her, meaning she had Peter's 'Knowing Shit' ability. Then, when they turned Charlie he exhibited the same powers, minus absorbing others. Looking at the two 'newborns' he was struck by how damned lucky he was. And how unlucky Cullen was. Charlie had quite the temper, and had vowed that one day the boy who had broken his daughter's heart would pay. He had more than enough strength to follow through with the threat now.
Char was almost closer to Bella than he was. She had played a major part in helping Ella move, on, but it was the intrinsic woman's code that bound them together in eternal sisterhood. Whatever may hurt Ella was eliminated with extreme prejudice. And fashion? Well Charlie tried stepping in most of the time, reminding his wife that his daughter wouldn't be showing that much skin if he had a say in it. Ella just laughed in his face when he told her that, before going clubbing with Char in the skimpiest outfit she could find. Charlie was not amused as all, but Char was delighted by her attitude, and helped her choose exactly what to wear to piss him off.