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While in Birmingham, I met a vampire called Minnie. It was the year of 1703.
She was out hunting when I met her. She was a human-drinker, but I was becoming accustomed to the "regular" way of vampire-life. It didn't mean I liked it though.
In disgust, I looked as she drank the poor middle-aged man, and let her memories flood my mind. Her name was Minnie, and she had been a vampire for merely 5 years. So, in vampire-years, I was older than her. When she was done, she turned around and snarled at me. I raised an eyebrow at her, as I read her plans. She wasn't going to attack me, just scare me off.
"You might as well just talk to me; I am not going to be scared away," I told her calmly. I had learned from my many years as a vampire that I should not be afraid of other vampires. I had the element of surprise if they decided to attack me. But if I just handled them calmly, they wouldn't attack me, I just had to get them to know so first.
She was curious; you could see it in her blood-red eyes. Probably because I had golden eyes. Or because I didn't crouch down as her as she snarled at me.
Then she narrowed her eyes at me.
"Who are you?" She asked. Her voice was sweet and caring, a voice, that didn't match the eyes at all. She had a round face with plum lips, big eyes, framed with the lashes of a vampire, and her short, soft reddish curls framed her face. She looked about 20. She was medium height, and had a petite form. Her nose was slightly turned upwards.
"Me?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I am Isabella Cullen. And who might you be?" I asked. She frowned at me.
"My name is Minnie. Is it your real last name?" her answer surprised me. Theo hadn't remembered his last name, but was it natural for all vampires?
"Why of course. I have been named Isabella Marie Cullen my entire life." I told her. She looked sad; she couldn't remember her life before becoming a vampire. Maybe I could help her.
She had the gift of discovering the lie. I would not be able to lie for this girl.
"I didn't know my name when I woke up. So I decided I be called Minnie." she whispered.
"I know." I stated. She looked shocked, probably because she could detect no lie from me.
"How?" Her tone was higher than just a second before.
"Come with me, I assure you, I mean no harm. I live in a small cottage in the forest, I was lucky to find one no one lived in." Just like in Dublin... I thought.
She nodded slowly, unsure of she could trust me. I chuckled.
"You can trust me." I smiled at her, and reached out to take her hand. Hesitantly, she took it. We took off, toward the little cottage Felix and I had been so lucky to find.
When we reached it, I could hear Felix wandering around because he was bored.
"I live with a dog. His name is Felix, but don't worry, he doesn't mean any harm either." She looked at me like I was the strangest vampire she had ever seen. Which might just be true.
"Bella? Do you have a vampire with you?" FeeFee thought.
"Yes. Come with me Minnie." I smiled at her. She looked confused.
I brought her inside the cottage where she sat down. The fire was still on, and she sat as far away from it as she could.
"Don't worry about the fire, it's for Felix." Even though he doesn't need it now. She nodded. I sat down in front of the fire, fascinated by the flames.
"So, Minnie, what would you like to know?" She eyed me, and took a deep breath.
"Well why are your eyes golden?" Of course she would like to know that.
"I have never tasted human blood. I live of off animals." I told her calmly. She gasped.
"You can do that?" She said. I just nodded, smiling. Then FeeFee came into the room.
"Wait. He is not a normal dog." Minnie said. I looked at her for a moment and then decided just to tell her the truth.
"That is because he is a vampire-dog. He might be the only one in the entire world." She looked at me with wide eyes. Then at Felix. Then at me.
"Is he... Strong?" She whispered. I laughed slightly.
"Yes, he is very strong, he can run faster than us, his smell and hearing is better. His sight is not as good as ours, I think. But then again I have no idea. We are stronger than him, meaning we can hold him back if he decided to run." She looked at me wide-eyed.
"Do you want to hear something?" I asked. She just nodded, still with eyes that might pop out.
"I can hear his thoughts." She must have known I was telling the truth, she just didn't wish to believe.
"She doesn't believe..." Felix stated. I looked at the laying form beside me.
"Of course, would you? I just told her I can hear an animal's thoughts, and that said animal is a vampire-dog. It is a lot to take in. Give her time." I told him. He nodded his dog head understandably.
"So it is true. But how did you know that I didn't know my name?" Minnie asked. I looked at her and smiled.
"I can see the past, plans and powers of any vampire. I call it the 3 P's. But the plans are more like immediate intentions. It comes automatically whenever I meet a new vampire." I told her. She smiled.
"Do I have a power?" She asked. I looked shocked.
"I thought you knew?" She frowned.
"Knew what?"
"That you can detect any lie?" She beamed at me.
"So I do have a power!" I nodded and smiled at her enthusiasm.
"Try to tell a lie." I nodded at her request. What to say.
"My mother is a vampire as well." I said with as much conviction I could muster. She frowned.
"I can't feel anything. Are you sure I have that gift." I was shocked.
"I am one hundred percent sure. My gift never tells me a lie." She nodded, but was sad.
"Hey, Minnie, look at me." I said in a soft voice. She looked up and was sad.
"Maybe it does not work on me." I said. Confusion was evident in her eyes.
"Minnie." I looked her straight in her blood-red eyes.
"Do you want to have golden eyes?" I asked. She lit up and nodded eagerly.
"Okay, I know you have been a vampire for about 5 years now. I have been a vampire for 10. I have never tasted human blood, but I work around it, so I feel like I understand why you are so attracted to it. But you need to forget how it tastes. You need to be able to think around it, and not be tempted." She nodded.
"Wait. You work around it? How?" She was quick. I smiled at her.
"I work as a nurse at the hospital." I said. She was even more shocked, but she got the expression of determination on her face.
"Good, then I can work to become just like you. Work at the hospital. My goal will be to become just like you." She said. She was determined; it was so clear on her face. She meant it, she meant she wanted to become just like me. To work as a doctor.
"It is great that you have something to go after. Now, let us just wait a couple of days, and then we can go out hunting. After deer." I said at the look she gave me.
The next couple of days, Minnie got to know Felix, through me, and she and I got close. I tried to look past the black hole that was her past, but I only caught glimpses.
"You lived in Wales and you were 19 when you were changed. I cannot see your name or anything else than that. I am sorry Minnie." I told her. She just shrugged her shoulders.
"It is okay Bella, I didn't expect anything else." I smiled sadly at her. Every day, I would go to work, and Minnie would stay with Felix. Whenever Minnie started to get restless and her eyes would get darker, Felix would drag her out into the forest and take her hunting. That way, she never slipped. It was good I had Felix there, and Felix was happy for the company she provided. Minnie grew to be my best friend at the matter of a few days. I knew everything she knew about herself, and she had gotten the whole story of my life. She thought it was so sad that she even accepted she couldn't remember her own past.
"Rather not remember than have your memories." She had said. Though, just as Theo, she found it good that I had killed James. Minnie stayed with me, and FeeFee and I taught her how to fight. And also, Felix taught her the famous puppy dog eyes he taught me.
With Minnie, I learned that no vampire gift worked on me. I had a theory that it was because of my past. It was a defense of some art; my shield - as I liked to call it - prevented anything from filtrate my mind. And my gift for seeing the past, plans and power was a help for me to defend myself. It protected me from other vampires. With the past-seeing part of my gift, I could see their fighting methods, and how many vampires and whatnot they had killed. With the power-part, I could see what I should be careful with. And because I was able to see what they wanted from me, and did I not like it, I could flee or I could fight. Nobody could touch me. I also worked on another theory as to why I was able to change Felix. Firstly, I never saw him as my prey; I had formed a bond with him. Secondly, he didn't appeal to me. And thirdly, I had never tasted human blood. I drank off of animals; that ought to do something to my venom.
Together, Minnie and I discovered Felix' gift. I hadn't been able to see it because his brain didn't work as others. I could see his past and plans perfectly because it worked as any other mind. But about his powers, that was something else. His mind just didn't work as other animals nor humans or vampires. He was unique. But we discovered that as soon as he became good friends with another vampire, he could project his thoughts into his or hers mind. He bonded with Minnie, and at last he could speak in her mind too. But it wasn't like me; I was his creator, so I could read his mind all the time. Minnie had been so happy when we found out; she said she felt like she was finally really a part of our little family.
Minnie hadn't been out of the forest for an entire year, and she had only had animals, so her eyes were golden like mine. When she for the first time saw her new eyes, she could have been crying was she still human. She swore she would never ever go back to having those "vile, blood-red eyes" as she called them herself. But she still needed to perfect her self-control, so I took her into the city every night after the sun set. It went just like with Felix, I would have to hold her back, and Felix - who was with us - pushed her backwards with his nose whenever she tried to run away. And if she succeeded in running away from me, he was quick to run after her, and tackle her to the ground where I would come running, and we would drag her back to the forest where she hunted. It took us another year to perfect her control, and even when she was able to breath and not feel like killing half the city, she still struggled. It must have been harder for her because she had lived off of humans for the first 5 years of her existence. When we were in the woods, I taught her how to read and write. She was a quick learner, and therefore, she soon had read almost all the books I had.
Well, here we go! Bella's got herself a vampire-companion, and Felix likes her. Hope you enjoyed it ;)
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