Hey Guys, since I have been ahead on chapters I will try to update once every week :D
I planned to update yesterday but I had a performance on and I got home late :(

Anyhoo, I know theres a bit of confusion about Damien because of The Vampire Diaries and the character Damon Salvatore. I know that the picture I used for Damien is of Damon Salvatore but thats just coz I always pictured my character to look like him with the black leather jacket and motorcycle kinda look. I just wanna say that Damien is no reflection on Damon Salvatore because I have had the idea for Damien long before Vampire Diaries even came out :) Just clearing that up :D

Enjoy.

Chapter 26 – Shooting Stars
RPOV

"Okay, so where are we going?" I laughed as we walked to his car, it was a new black Audi parked in our driveway that gleamed under the light of the moon.

"Curiosity killed the cat." He laughed and I sighed, "Oh and the car is a gift from Carlisle in case you were wondering, a sort of, thank-you gift, I didn't want to accept it but he wouldn't take no for an answer, it's not a half bad car. Carlisle is a great man." He said like he was talking about his own father, he had been staying in the main house for two weeks now, Uncle Emmett was thrilled that he had a new buddy to watch sports with, Uncle Jasper was interested in Damien's stories of adventure, Aunt Alice and Rosalie just liked to have some new man candy to stare at, or so dad says.

Apparently, he looks like a god when he gets out of the shower. Not something I'm likely to want to see but I have a god of my own to stare at. "Yeah, he's the pillar of our family." I said and laughed, Grandpa Carlisle was our centre. Damien opened the passenger door for me and watched me get in before closing the door slowly and running to the other side in less than a second.

"I can tell, you all look up to him with such love and respect." He said as he opened the door, so he liked to observe as well. I chuckled a bit and decided to change the subject.

"You seem to know about me and my family, but what about you?" He looked away uncomfortably, maybe it wasn't any of my business to ask, I mean he could be decades old and all his loved ones could have died. SHIT! "I'm sorry, I—Uh you don't have to answer that." I said once I realised the stupidity of my question.

"Oh, no, no, it's okay," He started up the car then and pulled out of the driveway while I waited for him to talk, "I don't remember much about my human life, I know that I was a journalist for Rolling Stone magazine, I loved rock music," He laughed as if it were all a distant memory now, "My parents didn't approve of my interests, I left home when I was sixteen and never spoke to them again." I felt sadness wash through me, someone as great as him should have had everything.

"That's horrible, if you don't mind me asking but when were you turned?" I asked curiously, we might as well get to know each other; he was probably going to become a familiar face among us.

"I was twenty one when I was turned, the day before my twenty second birthday I was working late, I had to finish an article on a band named 'Illuminate', it seems stupid now that I think of it, I had the rest of the week to finish it but I chose to finish it early." He cleared his throat then and looked at me with those golden eyes that stared deeply into my soul.

"What happened?" I asked, I was so dazzled by his eyes that my thoughts suddenly focused on him; I wanted to know everything about him. When he looked away I snapped out of it, vampires had that effect on everyone beside werewolves. DAMMIT!

"I was walking home around eleven I think, the details are kind of sketchy, I heard something following me next thing I know I'm lying in a ditch burning." His hand gripped the steering wheel tightly and I could tell it hurt him to think about it. I touched his arm in an attempt to comfort him.

His skin was ice cold, and hard as rock, I was so used to Jake's warm skin that it almost startled me. "Do you know who turned you?" I asked.

"It's not very clear." He just said after a long pause, "Now enough about me, tell me about you? How are you even possible?" He laughed and I had to chuckle along with him, that is true, my existence did confuse some people.

"Well, I don't like to think about how I was conceived, because that is something I never want to know about, but pretty much, when my mom was human, she conceived, carried and gave birth to me… nearly killed her, but my dad changed her and everything was okay." I said, yeah and then the Volturi tried to kill my whole family because of me but no big deal. I figured it was best not to add that.

"Well, that's a lot more interesting than my story." He laughed, "I didn't know humans and vampires could have children…" He said curiously.

"Yeah, neither did my parents when they went away on their honeymoon." I made a disgusted look and shuddered slightly at the thought of my parents… away… alone… on their… honeymoon.

He laughed at my fake horror and pulled into a park. I looked at him, slightly confused as to why we were parked here but he just shrugged and smiled. He pushed the button on the car stereo, turning it on and putting the volume on low so that it's just background music before reaching behind the seat and pulling out a white plastic bag with a plastic container which held some type of food.

"Firstly, why would a vampire take you to a restaurant where he's not going to eat anyway? And second, I think this is much better." He chuckled and handed me the plastic container and fork, I opened it and took a whiff, it was Chinese food from my favourite place.

I laughed and set the plastic box down on the seat so that I could shift my position so now I was sitting with my legs crossed in front of me and I was facing Damien. This was much better than twisted my head and looking at him side on. I patted my dress in front of me so that I wasn't flashing him and took the container in my hands.

"I remember you telling me that you quite enjoyed that Chinese place opposite the hospital, so I went and got some of that for you." He smiled; he had a good memory too. How could my family not trust him, he was being so kind and generous.

"Wow, I don't even remember telling you that." I laughed and opened the container before settling my fork in the noodles and twirling. "Anyway, what's your favourite meal? I'm guessing from your eyes that you drink animal blood?" I asked before lifting the fork to my mouth and chewing.

"Hmm, my favourite meal would have to be… Panther… when I was in Southern Florida they were everywhere, and how can you tell by my eyes?" He asked, had nobody educated him, had he ever met other vampires?

"Well, usually human blood drinkers have red eyes because the blood is more concentrated and more potent, but with my family, since we drink animal blood, our eyes are golden, like you." I smiled, for a vampire who didn't know what he was choosing, he chose the right thing.

"Oh, well thank you for that, I didn't know." He laughed, there wasn't a hint of sarcasm in his voice and I wondered how he ever managed not to become a typical vampire.

"Why though? Why did you choose animal blood?" I asked inquisitively, he was definitely one of a kind. I couldn't think of anything bad about him.

"I guess I didn't want to become a monster, the day I woke up I wanted to drink, I remember catching the scent of my fiancée, I went for it, I followed it, but when I saw her, I remember how sad she looked, she was grieving for me, I had gone missing, and I knew that I would never want that look to be on someone else's face because of me, so I trained myself to drink on the next best thing." He said, he was engaged too, poor thing.

"What was she like?" I asked again, I wondered if she was beautiful, what she did for a living, all these questions were just crying to come out.

"She was beautiful, she had that smile of an angel, I used to carry a picture of her around everywhere I went just to show her off to the world and say that she was mine. She was a brunette, her hair wavy, just like yours, her eyes the most incredible shade of baby blue, she had that ability to make you smile when you didn't even feel like it…" The way he described her, with so much love yet with so much sadness, I felt so sorry that he had lost the love of his life because of this life.

"She sounds lovely." Was the only thing I could say, what else was I supposed to say? I'm sorry you lost your wife because you got damned to live an eternity like a vampire?

"Her name was Maia…" He paused for a second and looked down before sighing and putting a smile on his face, "Well, how about you and Jacob? You two seem like you were made for each other." He laughed; his laugh was so musical, a lot like dads, like chimes.

"Jacob." I sighed dramatically before laughing, "Jacob is my everything, my pillar of hope." I said, I didn't want to go into details about how much I loved being with him and holding him right after Damien had just talked about the love he had lost. "Unfortunately, he is over protective, which has worsened after what happened." I said and Damien chortled.

"I do imagine him to be over protective, what with the wolf hiding in the trees behind you and all." He laughed and I blushed before turning around and scanning the area, I couldn't see anyone or thing.

"I can smell him, they have that really bitter smell, burns my nose." He said before scrunching up his face and sticking his tongue out to show how disgusted he was. I probably smelled like that too, but hopefully I got most of it off in the shower, still, I highly doubt it, I'm pretty sure Jakes scent is marked on my body. Like a dog marking its territory.

"Yeah… Over the top and over protective." I laughed and looked away embarrassed, I can't believe he noticed. I felt like some secret spy or something that needed protection everywhere I went.

"Well I don't blame him, someone as beautiful as you should never be harmed." He smiled and gestured for me to eat, "You don't want it to get cold." He laughed. I looked at the half eaten bowl of noodles and smiled before digging my fork in.

"Ha! Beautiful." I said sarcastically before bringing the noodle vined fork to my lips and taking a bite.

"For someone who looks like you, you're very modest." He smiled, "Oh, would you like something to drink; I have Coke, Ice Tea, or water." He offered.

"Ice Tea, please." I said and continued to eat, he handed me a bottle of Lipton Peach Ice Tea and I smiled, my favourite, I don't remember ever telling him all my favourites, but he did seem to remember. "Mm, okay, I think I'm ready to hear about what happened now." I said bravely and closed the plastic container; I had finished most of it and couldn't eat anymore.

"How about you ask and I'll answer seeing as I have absolutely no clue where to start from." He smiled and urged me on with his liquid golden eyes.

"Okay… how did you find me?" I asked, he told me it was because I was screaming, but I wanted to know about it in more detail.

"Well, I've been wondering around this area for a while now, your boyfriend tried to chase me off the reserve and Mr I-Have-Anger-Issues tried to attack me," I laughed at his new nickname for Paul, "So I was trying to keep away from them, I was going hunting and then you screamed, by the time I got to you the vampire had run off, I could only get the faintest trail, I figured it would be best to save you." He smiled, thank God for random strangers wondering around in the forest.

"Oh… Um, what did I look like; I mean was there lots of blood?" I asked, of course there was, I just wanted to know how bad it was.

"Well, when I saw you, you were lying on your front, you were trying to crawl away as if you thought I was going to attack you, there was a reasonably fair amount of blood on the ground and your clothes were drenched, I was told you lost quite a lot." He said without smiling, he looked shaken by the whole experience and I wondered what it was like for him to find me.

"I'm sorry, that must have been bad for you, my blood everywhere." I said feeling bad that I must have caused him a lot of effort, yet still grateful that he chose to save me.

"Don't apologise, and your blood is like nothing I've ever smelled, it's like flowers in bloom, freesia and orchids put together, you don't smell like anything I would want to eat yet your scent is absolutely delectable." He chuckled; I had heard that before from so many different vampires, I wondered if anyone would ever find my blood appetizing in the smallest way.

"Yeah, I get that a lot." I sighed, dipping my head slightly so that he wouldn't have to see the stupid envy that I have for humans, he seemed to sense my weird sadness that came from not being appealing, it should be a good thing, it's just sometimes I felt like something weird, blood ran through my veins yet they didn't find it the least bit tempting.

He brought his index finger to my chin and lifted my head up slightly so that I was staring directly at his face, "Be proud to be unique." He whispered and smiled, his eyes were so intricately shaped, they were just the perfect oval shape, with thick black lashes, it fitted his face flawlessly.

I felt sort of odd, sitting here with Damien, being intimate in a not so intimate way, I felt like I was betraying Jake with my actions even though I was just sitting here talking. I moved my head slightly and he took the hint by dropping his hand and giving me a shy smile. "Um, so how long have you been…? I meant to say vampire, it just sounded weird in my brain.

"Around eight to nine years I think." He answered. He looked sad, I would be too if I had my whole life planned and then had it ripped away unwillingly.

"Wow, and you've been… alone all this time?" I said, I didn't know what other word to use, I was extremely curious about where he came from.

"Well, yeah, I tried living a normal life, fitting in with the crowd, but it didn't seem right, I wasn't one of them anymore." He looked out the window and sighed quietly before up looking at me with gleaming eyes. "Look!" He pointed out the window, "It's a shooting star." He smiled, I had never actually seen one before, "Close your eyes and make a wish." He whispered, and I did as he said, in my mind, I simply whispered the words, I wish for love, life, and happiness.

I opened my eyes and looked at him; he was still staring out the window, his eyes closed and his face hopeful. I thought it was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen; of course coming from a family who didn't believe wishing on stars could bring you anything.

When he opened his eyes he looked at me with optimistic eyes and smiled, "You believe in that stuff?" I asked surprised that vampires could do that.

"Of course I do, after all, I am still a person… A weird, cold, dead person… but still a person, and I think everyone deserves a wish or two in their lives." He chuckled and nudged my arm.

"Do you believe you have a soul? I mean my dad has his weird opinions on this, but I believe that everyone has a soul, like my mom, she's been trying to convince him." I laughed, oh the odd family discussions about religions and what it means to have a soul.

"I believe I have a soul, and that one day if I die, my soul will go up to heaven to rest." He said with full confidence, what an interesting vampire. I didn't have anything to say about that, all I could do was admire his honesty and his beliefs, from what he's been through; he has a lot of hope left.

After that the conversation went on to talk about my family and their abilities, I talked about mine and gave him a demonstration, of course like everyone else, he was completely shocked, but after a while he got used to it and laughed about it. I told him about Aunt Alice's visions and Uncle Jasper's emotion-controller-thing. I told him about Dad's mind reading abilities and Mom's shield, which he found more interesting than the others because of his own shielding abilities.

He found it weird how he was both a mental and physical shield, although, he couldn't project it yet, but the idea seemed daunting to him, he hadn't learnt anything about his abilities yet.

We talked about our interests and all the things we liked, I found that he was into the rock music and he was a guitar player, which seemed pretty normal for a rock journalist I would say. He also liked hunting and we made a date for both of us to go hunting together for fun, even though Jake would most likely protest or have someone else follow me.

Seth. Poor Seth was outside, sitting in the forest, offering a feed to Jacob who was most likely in wolf form right now listening to every word Damien and I exchanged. After a while I didn't bother to soften my words, I was myself with Damien whether Jacob liked it or not.

We talked about how Jacob didn't like Damien around me and how protective he was, Dee asked me questions about Jake and I and I gave him honest answers, no doubt Jake would be a bit pissed off with me tomorrow for it, but who cares, this car was a truth zone, I wasn't going to lie to the man who saved my life.

We talked a bit more about the attack, Damien said that he followed the scent in the two weeks I was in the hospital, everyday he would start new and see how far he got before heading back home.

Before I knew it, I realised time had flown past, it was nearly midnight and here we were deep in conversation, I think he realised it too when he said that we ought to be going now. He promised that we would do this another time though.

I think I fell asleep on him because the next thing I knew I was being woken up by a pair of golden eyes telling me we were home. I blinked a few times before blushing; I cannot believe I fell asleep.

He chuckled before getting out of the car and coming around to open the door for me, the breeze hit me, it was freezing and it sent shivers down my spine. "Do you want my jacket?" He smiled; before I could answer he had his leather jacket off and around me. It smelled like aftershave and man, if you could call men a scent, in a good way of course, we all know sometimes men don't smell too good. It was eccentric, I hated to say it but he smelled better than Jake.

I snuggled my face into the jacket and inhaled the scent, it was intoxicating. "Thank you." I said and stepped out of the car.

"You can give it back to me tomorrow." He smiled and took my hand while he led me to the front door, I didn't know what to do, his face was so close to mine when we stopped at the door.

"I had a really nice time." I whispered, I didn't know why I was so nervous all of a sudden, his scent was so intoxicating, his face was so beautiful, everything about him surrounded me sent my head into a whorl.

"So did I, Miss Renesmee." He chuckled quietly before leaning his head in, his face was so close to mine, I was frozen in my position, did I want to kiss him?

Well, 26 chapters have taught you guys what to do now, huh ? ;)
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