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.

First of all, I'm going to change between P.O.V's as long as Bree and Diego are apart. 'Bree:' and 'Diego:' Indicate which person is thinking. The italics are the messages written on the blackboard.

Chapter 4: Keeping contact

Bree:

Diego had been gone for almost five days now, and we were writing message to each other. It was better than nothing since he was alive and I was still dead. I missed him, and he missed me too. Our messages were the only thing we had left and I was wondering if there ever would be more, if I could ever see his face again.

'Diego, shouldn't you go and hunt? You must be thirsty.' I knew that he was an older vampire, but he became thirsty too after a few weeks and since he hadn't hunt in months, since we were dead, he must have had an aching pain in his throat. But somehow he hadn't spoken about it since he was alive again.

'I'm not thirsty Bree. It's strange. My eyes are still black but I don't need blood. It's like I'm filled.'

'You aren't?' It was indeed strange, not to say abnormal. A vampire always was thirsty, no matter what, even if he was filled. But we were never fully satisfied. We wouldn't kill if we just drank blood but we could still smell the appealing scent and feel a part of ourselves, wanting to drink the human blood.

'No, my love.' I didn't know why he was being romantic when he wrote me, 'my love.' Suddenly it occurred to me that the other vampires in the house were a lot older than us, they came from another century. He must've picked it up from someone because yhey were all lovers, they were together, they could whisper sweet words into each other's ear and I envied them. What I wouldn't do just to hear his angelic voice, to feel the rhythm of his chest going up and down when he was breathing, to touch his beautiful face, to taste his sweet smell on my tongue.

'Strange. Maybe it has something to do with the place I'm in. Maybe when you've been dead, you don't need blood anymore.'

'Maybe. The yellowed eyes vampires offered me a home here and since I don't want to hurt humans there's no danger. Bella's father was downstairs a few hours ago and I could smell him and his human scent. Still I didn't want to hurt him.' It sounded like them. It were probably Carlisle and Esme who had offered him to stay. They were both full of compassion and love, and not only towards each other or their family but to other people too. I could sense that when I first encountered them, I could smell it in their scent.

'I'm glad you've lost your thirst.'

'I'm glad too.' I could see him, looking down at the ground and closing his eyes. Something was bothering him, I could feel it in the back of my head, as if a part of him was with me. He was thinking about the fact that I wasn't there with him.

'What are we going to do now?'

'I don't know. The Cullens have called their family.'

'Their family?' Did they transform their family into vampires too, long ago? Or did they just have close friends, who were as family to them?

'They're not really family but they are different too. They only drink animal blood, as the Cullens do. One of them has the ability to sense other vampires abilities. Maybe he can explain us more about mine.' It seemed to me that the vampires who only drunk animal blood were much more civilized. They lived in houses and they could love each other and even have a family. I wasn't there when Riley only had a small amount of vampires but Diego had told me that they would always fight. And the Cullens never fought, somehow they seemed to live together without ripping each other to pieces and burning a limb or even a person when they were extremely mad.

'I hope he can. Tell me more about the girl, Renesmee. What did she show you exactly? You seem to be fond of her.' He had told me that Renesmee was staying with him whenever she wasn't sleeping. The first thing that crossed my mind then was that she was more human than I thought. Although he had told me about her vampire skin and her thirst for blood I never imagined she would also sleep like a human. She talked to him about everything, about her vampire friends and werewolf friends. About her grandfather Charlie and his new mate Sue. About her grandmother Renee who she had only heard over the phone and to whom she could not speak until her grandmother thought she was old enough too. But somehow it seemed as if they already had a bond. Diego had a bond with her too, he made it seem as if everyone around her just had to like her. I didn't really get all of it because I hadn't seen her thoughts and didn't know the whole story. He had tried to explain me a bit but he said it would be different if I could see it myself. I was still a bit dumbfounded by the fact of a vampire and a human making love and having a baby but I was sure that I would like her too. She wasn't different for me, she seemed special and she belonged into this world of vampires, werewolves, humans and everything between.

Another handwriting appeared on the blackboard. 'Hello Bree, my name is Renesmee. I want to try something if you'd like.' The handwriting was neat and gentle at the same time.

Diego:

"What are you doing?" I looked into the little girl's deep brown eyes. Jacob, the werewolf was standing right behind her, scared as if I could attack her any minute. I didn't feel real comfortable turning my back to him but he wouldn't hurt me and if he had the intensions to, Renesmee would stop him. There was something about him when he looked at her, it was as if he was a blind man who saw the sun for the first time. It felt like they were boned, in some sort of way. He would never do anything that would hurt her. He felt the same way for the little girl as I did for Bree, although his feelings couldn't be romantic like mine, she was just a child.

"Mommy and daddy told me that I had gained my abilities from both my parents, but the other way around. You see, daddy can read thoughts, I can tell my thoughts. Mommy can keep everyone out her mind with her shield, I can get into everyone's mind. Daddy thought of it because I can show things to mommy too."

She had the lengths and the appearance of a five-year old but she was smart as if she was almost an adult. Although most teenagers didn't use the words 'mommy' and 'daddy'. This child certainly was special, for being just one year old. She grew much faster than a normal human, due to her vampire genes.

"Are you going to try and get in contact with Bree?" I asked in disbelieve.

She nodded and laid her hands upon the blackboard. "Draw my hands and tell Bree to lay hers upon the drawing, if nothing can keep me out, a shield between our world and hers can't keep me out either." She smiled at me and I smiled back. In the corner of my eye I could see Jacob gritting his teeth, he didn't like it when the little girl gave her attention to someone else.

Bree:

Suddenly I saw the figure of two hands appear on the blackboard, they were little, like from a child. Short after that a message in Diego's handwriting appeared too.

'Renesmee wants to show you herself, she thinks her ability will work although we're not in the same world. Lay your hands upon the drawing.'

This was getting strange. The only vampires I knew with an ability were Fred and Diego. Raoul also had one, but it wasn't very likely he actually did. His 'attraction' worked only on dumbasses and probably it wasn't even an ability. The others just liked to have a leader because they were all naïve and dumb and Raoul seemed to have gotten the control of them. And now, here I was, laying my hands onto a stupid drawing. I must've gone mad, believing such an ability could really reach through different worlds, but I was mistaken. As soon as my hands touched the cold board I could see Diego sitting on his knees like I had imagined him. His dark curls covered his face and he went through them with one hand.

"Is it working?" he asked.

"Yes, she can see you now." The sound of the little girl's voice sounded more angelic than any vampire voice I had heard before, except for Diego's. But that was probably because I was in love with him.

"She can?" I could see the hope in his dark eyes and he told her to tell me the story.

Suddenly everything changed, I could see the human girl, Bella, lying on a table with a scared look in her eyes. I could smell the blood in the little girl's thoughts and I knew that the human had given birth to her child, Renesmee. The view changed again and it seemed like I was watching a movie. She showed me all the other vampires and named them, to make sure I remembered them. She gave a lot of attention to the werewolf named Jacob and to her mother Bella, she loved them both deeply. After a while I could see other vampires. A boy named Benjamin who was able to control the elements, Kate who could give people electric shocks when they touched her, Zafrina who could create visual illusions and Alistair, a somewhat scared and strange vampire who could track the things he like the most. There was a whole new world opening for me but I couldn't think about it for long because then she showed me them, the Volturi. I could see the vampire that had killed me, Felix. And the little blonde witch. A smile appeared on my face when Renesmee showed me her annoyed look when she couldn't hurt anyone with their thoughts. Her mother must've been a very strong vampire. Then suddenly I could see Diego, he was screaming my name and he laid his hand to the blackboard. He wrote me a message and when he turned around to face the vampires when Renesmee had spoken, I could see the pain in his eyes. I was not sure why she showed this to me but I thought that she wanted to show his love for me. Although she had gone through all of her thoughts I still didn't know what the girl looked like. The last thing I saw was her standing with her hands at the blackboard, Diego sitting next to her and lying his hands onto the blackboard too and Jacob who was crossing his arms but seemed curious. Some other vampires were standing around them too but she didn't pay much attention to them, she was focusing on the thought of herself. The little girl was beautiful, she had a skin as white as a vampire's and her eyes were a deep brown, she had her mother's eyes. Her bronze curls fell down her shoulders and she smiled at me.

"It was nice meeting you, Bree." She said and I could see that she was wondering what I looked like. So her ability wasn't strong enough to make her see me, if she could've then she certainly would show me to Diego once she touched him. I couldn't hold it anymore and felt my whole body trembling when I thought of him. We were five days apart, and although we wrote each other, I missed him, I missed him with every cell in my body.

Diego:

I could hear a car slowing down and driving towards the house. Edward, Bella and Carlisle were standing next to me. Edward had heard Renesmee's plan to show Bree her thoughts and they were curious to see if it worked. They were pleased when it did and of course proud, like any parents would've been, that their daughter's ability was that strong. Carlisle walked up to the window and I could hear two people stepping out of a car. A human wouldn't have heard it, their steps were too soft. Less than five seconds later they were standing behind me. The man was tall and had dark hair like me. There was a bit of an olive tone in his appearance and I wasn't sure if human eyes could notice it. His mate, the woman, also had dark hair and a light olive tone. They seemed as if they were from the south.

"Carmen, Eleazar," Carlisle greeted them. The woman gave him a kiss on his cheek while the man shook his hand.

"Kate, Garrett and Tanya didn't come, they were on a hunting trip for the weekend," the man said. The names rang a bell in my head and now I looked closer to the two vampires in front of me I knew that Renesmee had showed me them with her thoughts.

"Renesmee!" Carmen shouted and she ran over to pick up the girl while embracing her in a tight embrace. "Usted ha crecido, bebe." (A/N: I think it means 'you have grown, baby')

She smiled and laid her hand upon the woman's cheek, probably showing her everything she had missed. I was too occupied looking at the two to notice Eleazar's strange look. I turned around to see Edward frowning and staring at him.

"Are you Diego?" he asked with a tiny Spanish accent, it wasn't really clear but my sensitive vampire ears picked it up.

I nodded. "Yes, you must be the vampire with the identification ability."

He nodded and started to examine me, walking around in circles. It felt a bit uncomfortable but I let him continue.

"Interesting," he said. "I've never seen anything like it. And I thought you were strong," he said while he turned his head to Bella. No one seemed to know what he was talking about but Edward. "But this young man is the strongest vampire I've ever seen. If Aro knew he would have such an ability… He would be pleased indeed, he would want him to join the guard."

I growled in frustration. I would never join the ones who killed Bree, never.

"What is his ability?" Renesmee asked while still being held by Carmen. She was being curious as always, she wanted to learn new things.

"He is an immortal immortal." Everyone in the room looked at me with a questioning look, everyone but Edward.

"What do you mean?" I asked with a demanding tone, I didn't like to be let out on things, certainly not if I was the subject.

"He's saying that you can't die. Not even if you're torn to pieces and burned. It seems that you have the ability to control death," Edward said.

I heard some gasps coming from downstairs too and suddenly everyone was standing in front of me.

"Look, Bree is writing something!" Renesmee suddenly said. Everyone turned around and they could see letters being formed.

"Bree?" Carmen asked.

"His girlfriend," Edward replied. "She was killed by Felix, four days after he died. She can communicate through the blackboard."

Eleazar and Carmen gave him a questioning look and he started to explain what happened. Diego on the other hand ran to the blackboard to answer Bree. He hadn't written anything, she must have thought something was wrong.

Bree:

'Diego?' It had been almost ten minutes since he last wrote something and I started to get a strange feeling, something had changed in him. At first he had been nervous and then suddenly angry, now he was confused and I wanted to know why.

'Yes?' O good, he was okay.

'What happened?'

'Eleazar came, he's the one who can identificate abilities. He says I'm an immortal immortal, that I can control death. That's why I didn't die. He says it's a strong ability, he even called me stronger than Bella.' I shook my head. Stronger than Bella? After all that Renesmee had showed me I couldn't believe that there was a vampire stronger than Bella. She had the ability to stretch out her shield and protect everyone around her, even Jane and Alec couldn't hurt them. But Diego was stronger?

'But that doesn't explain why I'm here, does it?'

'No. Edward is explaining everything to Eleazar and Carmen right now, maybe they know a solution.' I hoped they would find one, I needed to be with him again, I wouldn't be able to bear this much longer.

'Diego?' I asked.

'Bree?'

' I want to be with you.' Another drawing of a hand appeared on the blackboard, this one was much bigger, it was his hand. I laid my hand upon it and waited to get a response.

'I want to be with you too,' he wrote.

I cursed myself for not being able to cry, 'cause I would be glad if my tears could fall, they would fall for him.