Chapter 5 - Options & Abilities
Even though I was a vampire, who was always cold, I knew it was very hot. The only thing I could think was where the hell did all this fire come from? Then I clicked in, I was a vampire and one of the only ways to kill a vampire is to burn them. When I realized that I jumped out of the bed and into my Edward's arms. I was having hysterics and I was shaking something awful. As Edward held me tight to his chest and Emmett ran into the room with a bucket of water to douse the fire.
"What the hell happened in here!" Emmett exclaimed, as I sobbed tearlessly into Edward's chest.
"I have no idea!" He said, rubbing my back to try to calm me down, it didn't work. "One minute she was mumbling my name, then she said Jane and I noticed it was starting to get really hot. After that she just..." he hesitated, trying to come up with the right words. "Spontaneously combusted" Emmett didn't know what to make of it, he just stood there like an deer in head lights.
By this time, everyone was in our room again and had heard what had happened, and just like Emmett, they were lost for word. I was starting to calm down now and I had stopped the hysterics but I was still shaking like a leaf. I was going to be traumatized; I had never had a scarier moment in my life. Not even James, Victoria, and The Volturi all in one could top tonight!
"I think I'm going to have to start the tests I wanted to do much soon than I expected." Carlisle said with an odd tone to his voice, I wasn't quite sure what he meant so I just had to ask.
"When you say tests, what do you mean exactly?" I questioned him, trying to keep the shakiness out of my voice.
"I just need to do some tests to see what's going on inside your body." He explained. "It's nothing too bad but I can't do it at the hospital so I'm going to have to bring the stuff home. I was hoping to have a little time to get it here, but this could turn out to be serious so, I'm going to have to do the tests sooner rather than later."
"Oh" was all the reply I could give. "Will that was an interesting first vampire night." I said trying to ease the tension in the room. "First I find out I'm a freak vampire who can sleep and then I nearly burn the house down while having a nightmare. I can't wait to see what else I can destroy" okay so maybe the last line was a killer, I even bummed myself down. Even while I said this Emmett looked like HE might explode, I was worried he would never move again, he didn't even comment. I walked up to him and waved my hand in front of his face. "Hey Emmett are you in there?" I asked
He blinked a couple times and then turned to Carlisle and finally spoke. "What if that's Bella's power?" he said blankly. I was shocked; I didn't know what to make of his words. That was impossible, I just didn't make sense.
"What? That's not possible, isn't the power just an enhanced ability of the former life?" I asked then I came up with a solution. "Wait! You're right!" I exclaimed. "Who else do you know that has a natural ability to cause trouble where ever she goes? Now I've just added fire to the mix... how wonderful!" I said, with sarcasm so thick the only way to cut it would be with a chainsaw.
That got Emmett going. He burst into the biggest fit of laughter I had ever seen in my entire life. I was sure he was having a seizure; he was lying on the floor rolling around like he was a turtle stuck on its back. Everyone was laughing at him, everyone but Rosalie, who had her hand over her eyes and shaking her head back and forth while mumbling something along the lines of 'utter imbecile'.
By the time everyone had gotten calmed down enough to talk, it was about ten minutes later. Emmett was sprawled out on the floor gasping for air and holding his sides, Edward was standing beside me, arms around my waist, and everyone else went to sit on the bed that was charred and soaked.
Emmett was the first to speak. "Well I wasn't quite thinking that way, but now that you say that I guess it kind of makes sense." he said with a chuckle as he sat up and crossed his legs on the floor.
"That was a good way of explaining it, but I'm just not sure. We are going to have to wait and see after the tests to be sure of what's going on." Carlisle said with a smile still placed on his young gorgeous face.
"Yeah, so when and where are you going to do these tests?" I asked. We couldn't possibly do it in here now, thanks to me the bed was roasted, toasted, and then soaked.
"Oh don't worry we will have to get a new bed. First of all, we know you can sleep so that maybe a regular thing. Second, this is the best room to do it in, you're comfortable here so that should help while doing the tests." He explained.
"Alright but if I ruin the next bed too that's it I'll sleep on the floor if I have to." I said with a chuckle.
"Will before you go to sleep I will check to see if you will have any nightmares, and if you will I just won't let you sleep on the bed." Alice said giggling to herself.
"Fine, I guess that will do." I said ending the bed conversations. "So when are we going to do these tests?" I asked, I wanted to be ready sense I didn't know what was going to happen.
"Tomorrow night, I will get everything I need tomorrow at the hospital and bring it home so we can get this out of the way." Carlisle said. "For now though, why don't we go out and take Bella on her first hunting trip, she must be just about starved. Actually surprised that she hasn't tried to rip someone's throat out." he said with a chuckle. Why did everyone have to laugh at my expense, I thought to myself.
"Actually, I'm fine. I'm not at all thirsty right now... Man I really am a freak!" I exclaimed.
"You're not a freak love, just unique." Edward said, with my favorite crooked smile that I loved so much on his face.
"Okay, if you say so." I said, not totally convinced, but willing to drop it. I didn't want to be the topic of choice anymore, so I decided to bring up something else that could potentially make them very mad, it was sure to be a touchy subject. "Do the wolves know?" I asked a little warily not sure what they would say.
"No, they have no idea yet, but we're going to tell them after the tests are done and the results are in." Carlisle told me calmly.
"What do you think they'll do?" I asked still worried, that I might get one of my family members hurt.
"I'm not exactly sure, but I don't think it will be pretty." He said looking at the floor.
"Well they knew it was coming, I mean they warned us before, so they would have had to have a reason. They knew that Bella and Edward were serious so it won't be much of a shock, right?" Jasper spoke up. I turned to look at him and frowned. They wouldn't be shocked but news like this was sure to bring Jake back, even to kill me himself. He would hear it in the heads of the pack and would come back just for me.
"Will, I guess we will just have to leave before they can decide to do anything. They won't follow, because they are bound to protect their land." Esme said. "We needed to move soon anyway, we've been here too long, soon people will notice that we haven't been aging and they will get suspicious. Now seems like the perfect time."
"That's a great idea Esme, so in a few days, once the tests are back, we pack and tell the wolves about Bella, then we leave and never come back." Carlisle said getting excited by the thought of moving to someplace new. "Where should we move to this time?"
"Whoa, wait just a second. Never come back? What about Charlie? I can't just totally cut him out of my life, he will think something is up, he'll get suspicious." I was totally appalled by the idea of NEVER ever seeing my dad again.
"Bella it's okay, you can still see your dad, but we just can't come back anywhere near Forks. I'm sorry but the wolves will kill us, we have started a war and now we have to live with the outcomes." Carlisle said trying to keep me calm. "You can always call him and invite him to the new house, we would be glad to help with travel expenses if that were to be an issue. You don't have to cut him out, just cut back a little. Okay?"
"Okay, yeah I guess you're right. Sorry I freaked like that, I guess I just want to spend as much time with him as possible. I can live forever, he doesn't have that much time, who knows how much time he has?" It was hard to talk about my father's death but I was going to have to get use to it. I was going to have to face death a lot and I really wasn't looking forward to it.
"We know it's hard, sweetheart, but it will be alright." Esme said in her calm motherly voice.
"I know, I guess just the thought of never seeing him again, it hurt a little." I said glumly, as Edward pulled me tighter to his chest.
"Well, what do you say about hunting, while Carlisle goes to work and gets the testing stuff?" Edward asked me, I got the feeling he was slightly more excited than I was. I was starting to get a little thirsty.
"Umm... Okay." I said a little warily. "I'm not sure I know what to do though."
"It's okay. Just let your instincts guide you." Edward said, standing up and taking my hand. "Let's go."
"Alright," I said as he pulled me to the window.
"Kay. I'm going to go first you follow." Edward bent his knees and very gently and gracefully jumped out the window.
I was worried I didn't know if I could do this. "Can't I just use the door?" I asked not wanting to make a fool of myself. It would just be something else for Emmett to laugh about.
"Come on Bella you can do it. Just do what I did." Edward said very reassuringly from below, three stories down.
So I did, very carefully I bent my knees and jumped out the window. I could see the ground coming but it didn't frighten me, it was like everything around me was slow motion. I kind of wished the ground would hurry up and get to me already, then it did. It was a lot sooner than I expected, and it amazed me. At the rate I was going, I thought it would be another few seconds, but it was like the ground was coming towards me.
I looked over to Edward and he seemed distant. I looked closer and saw that his eyes were wide with disbelief. Oh god what had I done now? Why was he looking at me like that? I decided to look around me to see what he saw.
I guessed what I saw and what he saw were pretty similar. Me on top of a stone pillar!