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 5: Abilities
Diego:
"So this girl, Bree, she's in that other world?" Eleazar asked.
"Yes," Edward nodded.
"But then how did he get out while she stayed behind?"
I looked over to Eleazar. "She asked me if I wanted to live again and when I said I did I was standing here." He gave me a closer look and I could see him looking to Edward.
"I don't know if he can tap into his powers like that. It took Bella a lot of effort to make her shield protect us."
"What do you mean, tap into my powers?" I gave them both a questioning look.
"My dear boy," Eleazar said. "You can not only revive yourself, you can revive others too. But indeed, it takes years, maybe even decades to be capable of doing that. For now you can only revive yourself. But that still doesn't explain why the girl is there. It is your power, not hers, she shouldn't have survived in the first place. You can only revive people when you're in the living world and since you were already dead she couldn't be able to stay between life and death, she couldn't have stayed in that world. But yet, she is in there."
"Maybe she has a power too," Edward murmured.
"I would know if she had a power, she has the powers of a normal vampire," I said. It did make some sense that she had a power of her own. But that wasn't much of my concern. What if it did take me years or even decades to learn how to revive her, could I live with that? Could I live without her that long?
I can't take it anymore. I could hear her voice in my head and Edward looked up to me.
"Was that Bree?" No one else knew what he was talking about.
"I think so, it sounded like her." I took a piece of chalk and wrote something on the blackboard.
'Bree, this is going to be very stupid but think of a number between one and a million.'
What is he doing? Making me think of a number between one and a million. Is he playing games with me? This is so not the time. But fine, 584 653. I heard her voice again.
"What are you doing?" Renesmee asked.
"I'm not really sure." I wrote the number onto the blackboard and I could hear Bree gasp.
How can it be? She thought. It's as if he's reading my mind. Or is Edward doing this?
'Edward is doing nothing, I'm hearing you in my head and that's the only way Edward can hear you.'
"What is happening?" It was Emmet, who wanted to know what was going on, as always.
"He can hear Bree in his head, somehow. But she doesn't seem to be able to hear him," Edward said. He always took the word. Probably because he knew everything what was happening around him.
"That's not possible, she can't be telepathic, can she?" Esme said.
"No, she never did that before, this is the first time that I can hear her thoughts."
"Strange," Edward murmured.
"So about the reviving thing, how does it work?" I asked. Of course, it was great to hear Bree but I need to get her out of there.
"When you really want something it can happen, but like I said, it can take years before you revive the girl," the dark haired vampire said.
I laid my hands upon the blackboard and wished, almost begged her to be alive again but she didn't show up.
'Diego?' I looked up and saw her perfect handwriting, the way she curled my D would have let my heart flutter if I were still human.
'Yes?'
'How does it come that you hear me?' I didn't have an answer to this question but I needed to tell her that she could be alive again, someday.
'I don't know, I honestly don't know. Eleazar told me I could revive you, that I had the power. But that I probably would have to learn for years until I could. I want you to be here, with me, Bree. I can't live that long without you.'
Bree:
I looked at his words and sat down on my knees while I laid my head against the blackboard.
"I want to be with you too," I whispered.
Twelve delicious scents hit me in the head and one odor that made me want to puke.
"Bree!" I heard Diego scream and I saw his arms coming closer to mine.
All the other vampires backed up a bit, and I could see the person with the stench, Jacob, holding Renesmee close to his chest, he was the werewolf. In Renesmee's thoughts his scent had been different, appealing in a way a lover's scent was. But now that I smelled him I knew that he was familiar. I could remember the strange scents between the ones of the burning vampires at the field, a few months ago.
I could see a shiver running down the Eleazar's spine and Edward looked at him. "I've never heard of something like that before, at least not with such power."
Was there something wrong with me? I started to look at my arms and I could see my own dark eyes reflected in Diego's, so I was still me and the burning pain was still gone too. Why was he afraid of me then?
"There's nothing wrong with you," Diego said. So he could still hear me in his mind.
"Yes, I still can."
This was a strange way of communicating. Less than a second later I could feel his tight embrace around me. I sniffed in the air and his scent filled my lungs. Suddenly Eleazar gasped.
I raised an eyebrow to him and Diego turned around too, looking at the vampire who was crawling backwards toward the window, trying to get a way out.
"Imposible," he murmured in Spanish. Now that I looked at him I could see the olive tone in his skin.
"What? That I'm here? But Diego's here too, maybe his power did work and he didn't need all those years…" I was interrupted by Edward.
"It's not like that Bree, Diego didn't revive you, you did it yourself." Everyone gave him a questioning look.
"I can't revive myself, I don't even have a power." A smile appeared on Edward's face. "You have."
Before anything else could happen Renesmee laid her tiny hands on Jacob's cheek. Less than a second later she was standing right next to me and smiled. "It's nice to finally meet you." She put up her little arms and I wanted to take her in my arms it but Eleazar jumped up and took the little girl in his.
"Don't touch her," he said.
"Why can't she touch me? I'm not going to hurt her, ask Edward, I'm not thirsty." It was true, Diego had told me about her human scent but she smelled more like a vampire, she smelled sweet but not like food.
"It's not that you're going to hurt her," Edward said. "At least not by wanting her blood, but by absorbing her power."
I shook my head. "I can't absorb her power."
"Yes you can," Eleazar said. "You and your partner both have a talent I've never encountered before."
I, a talent? An ability? No way, I was just normal, like most of the vampires.
"You aren't normal, little one," Diego whispered in my ear. "You always have been special to me." His nose ran up and down against my neck. He smiled when my scent felt his lungs and I smiled too. It didn't feel real comfortable with all these people around us and they could hear what he was saying but I was glad he said that.
"You can hear her thoughts," the dark haired vampire murmured to Diego. "That means…" He looked over to Renesmee. "Have you touched the child already?"
"No, she showed me her thoughts through the blackboard but nothing more, why?" Eleazar blinked a few times, realizing the little girl's power was much stronger than he had thought.
"Tell me child, did it hurt when you communicated with her?" She shook her head and her curls bounced up and down.
"Did she hurt you when you first touched her?" he asked Diego who also shook his head.
"Wait a minute!" Emmet yelled. "I don't get it, and I think nobody does except for you and Edward. What is this 'absorbing' thing you're talking about."
"She can absorb powers of vampires." Edward said. "But only if she has touched them or has been in their presence for long. She doesn't take the whole ability but only a small part and she can use it forever."
We all gave him a questioning look.
"However, she can not absorb powers who make you feel like you're in pain, such as Jane's or Kate's. She revived herself because that's the power she got from Diego, she can only revive herself though, as I said before, she can only take a small part of someone's ability. When Renesmee showed her her thoughts she took her ability, but she can only let the one she loves hear her thoughts, only Diego can."
"Then what would happen if I touched any of you?" I asked. I was dying to know what I could do with my new powers and I felt strong. Diego chuckled and I poured him slightly in the ribs.
"If you touch me then you'll probably be able to hear thoughts but only Diego's I guess, because he can only hear yours. Bella's power will be the same, although you can only protect yourself against mental attacks and not the rest of us. I don't know what will happen if you touch Alice, probably you can only see vampires or humans. As for Eleazar, you will probably only be able to sense other vampires abilities and not also humans, like he can. You've already touched Jasper so maybe you know what power he has given you."
Suddenly it all made sense. I could remember when Jasper had lead me to another part of the field on the day I had died. He had touched my shoulder and when he was frustrated or angry I could feel it too but much stronger, I almost wanted to jump at him, but I could keep control of myself.
"Yes indeed," Edward said. "You can feel the emotions around you and control yours, but not those from the others, you can't change people's mood like Jasper can."
"I want to know if your theory is true," Alice suddenly said. She took a step forward and laid her hand upon my shoulder.
"What do you sense?" she asked Eleazar. "Which powers does she have?"
"Her own power, to absorb and like Edward already said, she can revive herself and let Diego in her mind. She can also feel our emotions and she can have visions, it seems to be exactly the same as your power, Alice. But that can't be, so we should wait until she actually gets one. And I feel like I have to puke when I look further into her mind."
"Freaky Fred?" Diego suddenly asked. It all made sense now, why the others could barely look at me when I was sitting beside him. I had spend a lot of time next to the vampire and maybe I had gotten a bit of his powers too.
I nodded. "Anything else?" Alice asked. I wondered why none of them asked who Freaky Fred was, but Edward had probably told them who he was, after I told him the whole story in my head while lying to Jane.
"She seems to be a survivor."
"Victoria," Carlisle said. It was a possibility since Victoria had touched me to bite me, but I wasn't a vampire back then. Did the powers already exist once the venom was in you?
Renesmee wanted to get to know me, now she knew that I hadn't hurt her aunt and she told me to pick her up. Once she was into my arms I wasn't standing in the room anymore.
I was in the forest, running when I suddenly saw a huge brown, reddish wolf running next to me. A slim and pale young woman ran after it and giggled. Her bronze curls were falling down her shoulders and I ran faster and faster, trying to keep up with them. "Jake!" she yelled. We were standing in an open field now and suddenly a young boy came out of the trees, wearing only an old ripped short. "Yes Nessie?" She giggled again when he said her name and she ran into his arms. "I love you," she whispered. "I love you too." They placed a kiss on each other's lips and the view started to fade.
"Bree?" I blinked once and Diego was waving his hand in front of me. He had a concerned look in his eyes.
"What was that?" I looked over to Edward who was chuckling now.
"I see that you're filling in Alice's blank spots."
"My blank spots?" she asked.
"You can see vampires and humans. She can see werewolves and halfbloods like Renesmee." (A/N: Omg, that sounds like Harry Potter xD)
"Finally, I don't have to worry about you and your stupid plans anymore," she said with a smirk while pointing towards Jacob.
Bella now walked up to me too and Renesmee crawled in her arms. She seemed like a nice young woman and I regretted that I once wanted to kill her. Her arm touched mine for only a fraction of a second.
"Bella!" Eleazar yelled. "Now she's blocking me. I can't read her powers anymore."
"She'll learn how to control them," she answered. Edward walked up to me too and laid his hand upon my other shoulder. Alice was still holding my left and Diego stood right behind me, his arms around my waist.
God, I've missed her and her scent is making me crazy.
I turned around and Alice and Edward took a step back. I narrowed my eyes and looked into Diego's eyes. My scent makes you crazy? You're acting as if I'm a human you want to kill, I thought with a teasing tone.
"How?" Diego blinked once.
"My power," Edward said. "It seems to work exactly as I thought it would. Renesmee and my power combined makes you two able to communicate telepathically."
Cool, Diego thought. I rolled my eyes and turned around when Rosalie spoke up.
"I don't want to disturb you but I am thirsty." Her eyes were as black as mine and so were Emmet's, Carlisle's and Esme's.
"We should probably make a little hunting trip," Carlisle said. They excused theirselves and went downstairs. Jacob was the last one to walk through the door since Renesmee and her mother were in front of him and when he came closer his heat made me feel uncomfortable. His bare skin crossed mine and a shiver ran down my spine, not because I was cold but because the heat didn't feel good, he was too warm.
Diego and I were alone now and I turned around to cuddle my head into his neck while placing a little kiss. He took me by my shoulders and looked deep into my eyes. Suddenly something snapped, it was as if no one else existed, only he, he was the one I was living for, the one thing that kept me on this earth.
I heard Edward's laughter downstairs but I couldn't react to it, I couldn't stop staring into those two beautiful dark eyes.
"Hey Eleazar!" Edward laughed. "You were wrong, she doesn't take powers from vampires, she takes those from werewolves too!"
I could hear someone turning around on the couch to look at him.
"What do you mean, Edward?" Jacob asked.
"She can imprint too, she and Diego are bonded."
We both blinked and looked at the door.
"Bonded?" we shouted at the exact same time, causing Edward to laugh again.
