Disclaimers: I do NOT own The short second life of Bree Tanner, Eclipse or any other book written by Stephenie Meyer, this is just fanmade.
Chapter 3: A love lost
We were traveling for months now and we still hadn't found a single soul. We just had to face that there was no one but us. We had stopped somewhere in South-America and we were now sitting in the sunlight, against the wall of an old house.
"Diego?"
"Mhm?" he was playing with my hair, I liked it when he did that.
"Aren't we going to get lonely if there's no one else here?"
"Bree, you still have me, remember," he teased me.
"You know what I mean, isn't it strange to be the only two on the planet?"
"It kinda is, but I don't mind as long as I can be with you."
I looked up and smiled at him. He always knew what to do to cheer me up. He was sitting against the wall and I was lying in his arms. I turned around and sat on my knees, trapping him between the wall and me. He laughed when I gave him little kiss on his neck and suddenly a sound caught our attention. The building across the street suddenly collapsed, without any reason. A shiver ran down Diego's spine. We turned around and a woman in a red dress was standing in front of us with a scared look in her eyes. Her skin wasn't white like ours and her eyes were blue. Blonde curls were falling down her shoulders and she looked at us, she looked human.
"Am I dead?" she asked with a strange accident. Neither Diego or I could respond. She turned around and looked at the collapsed building. "O my."
"What happened?" Diego suddenly asked.
"There was a gas explosion and most of the people were already evacuated before it could happen but I was too late, I remember the ground shaking and suddenly I was standing here, in front of you. Where am I? Is this heaven?"
Diego shook his head. "I'm sorry to say this, but you're dead and this isn't heaven."
Before the woman could respond again she suddenly started to fade away into thin air.
"That was strange," I said to Diego who shivered again. "Are you okay?"
He didn't respond and just walked over to the place the woman had been standing. "She's gone, I can feel that she died but she isn't here. That means that this isn't where dead people go. I think it's like something between our world and the next. That's why we saw the building collapse. Whatever happens there, happens here too."
I looked up at him, he was the one with the special ability, he probably would be closer to the answer than I could ever be. "So, why are we here then?"
"I don't know Bree, maybe it has something to do with my ability. But that wouldn't explain why you're here too."
I walked up to him and laid my arms around him. "If people can get in, maybe that means we can get out too."
He turned around and faced me. "Bree." I knew what the sound of his voice meant, he had found out something important. "The woman said the building collapsed and it collapsed here too, do you know what that means? If something happens there, it happens here too then something that happens here should happen there too, shouldn't it?"
"I guess so, what are you planning?"
"We have to go back to Forks, we have to find where the yellow eyed vampires live, maybe they can help us." He took my hand and we ran back to the red Ferrari. It would take us at least two days to get to Forks again.
"How will we give them a message?"
"I don't know, we can write something on the wall of their house, can't we?"
"You're going to rack those people's house? Besides, who says they live in a house. For all we know they can just live in a cave."
"Bree, you told me that these vampires were special and you described how they looked. Wouldn't it be a bit strange if they wore all those fancy clothes and just lived in a cave?" I smiled at him, he was right. As always.
He was driving much faster than before, he wanted to go to Forks, he wanted to find a solution. We didn't talk much in the car, we were both thinking of different things, holding each other's hand.
My guess had been right, we were arrived at Forks in two days.
"Where should we go and look first? The police station?" he nodded once and after a few minutes he pulled in at the parking lot.
"We can look it up in the computer."
"You're forgetting I don't know their surnames, Diego."
"We have all the time of the world to find a match. You'll recognize their faces, won't you?" I nodded and he opened the door for me. He had always been a gentleman.
He walked to one of the computers and turned it on when suddenly a photograph caught my attention. "That's the human," I said to him. He looked around and found a jacket, belonging to the officer who was sitting at this desk.
"Charlie Swan," he said. "Let's look for Bella Swan then." After a few minutes, there still was no match.
"Maybe it's a nickname. Try Isabella Swan." A photo of the human girl popped up and Diego hugged me with one arm.
"I'm glad you're a smarty."
"Hey, this says her name has changed into Isabella Cullen, she must've got married. She didn't seem that old though."
Diego clicked on her husband's name and I saw the red haired mind reader in front of me. His yellow eyes were looking at us. "So, she married with a vampire?"
"I guess so. What's their address?"
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"Who should I write to?" We were standing in the mansion of the Cullens. Their house sure was big, they must've been rich or something. And everything was nicely decorated, someone really had a knack for it.
"Write the names of the vampires you know," he said to me.
I took a piece of granite we had found outside and started to carve their names in the wall. 'Alice, Jasper, Carlisle and Esme, help us. Bree.'
In the meantime, at the Cullen's mansion:
Eight vampires, one werewolf and a little human/vampire child turned their heads to the wall above the piano. A cracking sound suddenly came from the wall, as if someone was carving it with a stone.
"Mommy, why is aunty Alice her name on the wall?" Renesmee asked.
They all ran up to the wall and waited, until the whole message was standing on the wall. 'Alice, Jasper, Carlisle and Esme, help us. Bree.'
"Mommy, who's Bree and why does she need our help?" the little girl asked. Jacob took her closer into his arms, to protect her from whatever was coming.
"It's the name of a vampire that died a few months before you were born," Bella replied.
"But mommy, how can she be dead if she is writing that on our wall. And why can't we see her?"
Suddenly Alice ran outside and came back with a piece of granite in her hands. She ran over to another wall and started to carve in it.
Bree and Diego:
"Would they get our message?" I asked the dark haired boy beside me. We were sitting on the couch, waiting for a sign.
"We'll know soon enough." He placed a kiss on the top of my head when we suddenly heard a cracking sound, someone was carving in the wall. 'Bree, who is 'us'. Where are you? We thought you were dead.'
"It works!" Diego lifted me up in the air and spun me around.
"Maybe you should explain it," I said while I gave him the granite.
"Who is us, Bree?" he suddenly asked. "Can I tell them I am your boyfriend," he teased me. I rolled my eyes.
"No, tell them you're my baby brother. Of course you can tell them you're my boyfriend. What are we? Twelve and scared of our parents?"
Cullens:
They all ran to the wall above the couch to see a new message. Renesmee was very excited, she was already looking forward to go on a new adventure.
'My name is Diego. I am Bree's boyfriend. Riley and our creator killed me when I knew the truth about the sun. I'm sure the mind reader knows who I am. We aren't sure where we are and why we are her but I have a theory. I have the ability to sense dead people, to know where people have died. We found that out when we went back to the open field. A few days ago a building suddenly collapsed and a woman appeared. It was strange since we hadn't seen anyone else here but she disappeared a minute later. I think we're in a place between the world of the living and the world of the dead. I don't know why but we think it has something to do with my ability. Although that doesn't really explain why Bree is here too.'
"Who's Diego?" Jasper asked.
"When Jane was asking Bree about Victoria, she told me the whole story in her head. Bree and Diego were friends at first, they thought there wasn't something right about Riley's explanation, why they needed to kill us. On their little trips to find out the truth Bree and Diego fell in love. Diego was a friend of Riley, he trusted him but he got killed. When Bree knew I killed Victoria and Riley she thanked me, she got her revenge on Diego. She wasn't afraid to die, not if she could be him. Maybe that's why she's there with him."
"Anyway, we can't keep carving in our walls," Esme said. "Tell them to go to Carlisle's office upstairs, there's a blackboard."
Bree and Diego:
"So, we can communicate but we can't get out?"
Diego shrugged his shoulders. "It's better than nothing, isn't it?"
"Wouldn't you like to live again?"
"Yes, I would, in some sort of way." Suddenly Diego started to fade into thin air and I was standing alone at the blackboard, screaming his name.
Cullens:
"Bree!" Everyone turned to face the blackboard again and they saw a dark haired young man standing there. His curls danced when he moved and took a piece of chalk and wrote a message on the blackboard. 'Bree, stay here, in front of this blackboard, don't you dare to go away, understood?'
"Excuse me, sir." The boy finally turned around and looked at a little girl. The other vampires seemed to scared to talk to him and didn't respond at all. "Are you Diego?"
"Yes." He sniffed in the air and he could smell the sweet smell of eight vampires. The dark haired guy, holding the little girl stank and the little girl looked like a vampire and smelled like one, well a bit. But he could hear her heart pounding and he saw the blood going through her veins. "Who are you?"
"My name is Renesmee and this is my family, but it would be easier for me to explain if you came closer. I have an ability like you too." Diego nodded and took a step forward. Suddenly everyone was standing in front of him except for the red haired mind reader.
"He isn't going to hurt her, he isn't thirsty." Diego grabbed his throat, it was true, he wasn't thirsty. Although he could smell the human in the little girl, he had no intensions to harm her.
"But how?" A blonde woman asked. "Look at his eyes Edward, they're black of thirst."
"Still he isn't thirsty Rosalie, let him go." They all looked at him in disbelieve but eventually Diego could walk up to the little girl. She laid her hands onto his face and he could see all the adventures she had been on since she was born. He could see the Volturi, that's how Renesmee called them in her head and he noticed that four of the vampires looked very familiar. He could see that the Edward and Bella really were her parents and that she liked the dark haired guy who stank. It seemed as if he could change into a werewolf. For a human it would've been overwhelming, for a vampire it was easy to understand with so much space in your head. And somehow it seemed logical that there was more in the world than vampires.
"I didn't believe it at first, a vampire and a human being mates," he said to Edward but before he could respond he turned to Renesmee.
"You seem like a very lucky girl," he said to her and she smiled.
"I am sir, I am. And you are lucky too. Daddy told me you were dead, and now you're alive again."
Diego smiled at her and walked over to the blackboard. "Maybe I am lucky, but I am not happy." He laid his hand upon the sentence Bree had just written. 'I will… Diego, I'm scared without you.' A piece of him could feel her hand, lying on the blackboard in the same way. He could feel her presence, although she was dead, he felt that is second half was missing him too, although they were just five minutes apart. What if she would never come back? Would he ask the yellow eyed vampires to kill him again, just so he could be with her?
