Moonlight
Questions and Answers
BellaPOV
" Good evening, Bella. I am Carlisle," a tall man with blonde hair slicked back greeted me. He had the usual features of a, as I know now, vampire.
" Nice to meet you sir," I said politely. I remembered that he was a doctor.
" Please call me Carlisle," he smiled. I smiled back.
" Carlisle," I grinned.
" Please sit down Bella," Esme said gently, motioning to a spare chair next to Alice.
" Now, is there anything you want to ask?" Carlisle asked after I sat down.
" Why do you do it? Not eat humans, I mean? Why?" I said and automatically blushed. Edward patted my hand but I pulled it away.
" Sorry Edward, I have a boyfriend," I said quietly. Rosalie gave Edward a smug look.
" Well, we don't want to be monsters. We want to help humans," Carlisle explained.
" Is that why you are a doctor?" I asked. Carlisle smiled and nodded.
" How do you become like you? Do you have to be dying to do it?" I asked becoming more confident.
" No, Carlisle just wouldn't do this to anyone who had another choice," Edward said. I did notice that he avoided my first question, though what he had said caught my attention.
" Carlisle changed you?" I asked.
" Yes, Edward first, then Alice, then Esme and finally Rosalie," Carlisle answered.
" Who change you?" I asked Carlisle.
" a savage vampire changed me about 300 years ago. I was 23," Carlisle replied. I looked expectantly at the four other vampires. Edward sighed.
" I was dying of the Spanish Influenza in 1918. Carlisle was working at the hospital and he found my dying. My parents were already dead so she thought no one would miss me. He changed me when I was 17," he said.
" I jumped of a cliff because my baby died. I was taken to a hospital morgue. Carlisle heard my faint heartbeat, changed me and I fell in love," Esme said, smiling affectionately at Carlisle, " I was 26,"
" My fiancé and his friends were drunk and they attacked me. It was in the 1930's. I was wealthy and shallow. Carlisle found me and changed me. I hated this existence but since I met Emmett everything has gotten a little better. Oh and I was 18," Rosalie said, smiling slightly at the thought of my brother.
" I was put in an asylum for my visions. A vampire was hunting me and Carlisle found out. He changed me before the tracker could," Alice said smiling, " I was 18 and I was changed the year after Edward,"
So Edward is the youngest, physically speaking.
" Can you do anything special?" I asked eagerly.
" What do you mean?"
" Like do you have any gifts?" I asked thinking back to my vampire book.
" How do you know about all this stuff?" Edward gasped.
" If you answer my questions, I'll answer yours," I said stubbornly.
" Fine, " Edward grumbled, " Yes, some of us have gifts. Alice can see the future. Carlisle has an unusual gift. He can change things. For example, he can change our eyes so they seem more natural and he can make our skin feel soft and warm and he makes the illusion that we can eat and so forth. Oh and I can read minds,"
I gasped.
" W-wh-wha-what? Read minds?" I stumbled. Then I remembered something.
" But you still feel cold to me and hard and your eyes are gold and you didn't eat dinner," I said.
" And I can't read your mind," Edward said quietly. I shot him a glance, but he was looking down at the table.
" It would seem that you can block mind gifts but not physical gifts. Alice can still see your future," Carlisle explained.
" Did you see us coming?" I asked the little pixie quietly.
" Your brothers kept popping up in our future all the time," Alice said, smiling slightly, " Now the Swans are part of our future,"
" You see we are like rock. Hard and cold. Of something does change us the change is permanent. Emmett is mysoul mate, Jasper is Alice's soul mate and Esme and Carlisle are soul mates. It is final and forever lasting," Rosalie said
I nodded but didn't miss how Edward had no soul mate.
" Are you going to tell Jazz and Em?" I asked.
" We will have to I guess. Unless they figure it out themselves. If they are anything like their sister, they might," Carlisle decided smiling but I shook my head.
" They don't read or believe the stuff I do," I said.
Then Alice went ridged and her eyes were unfocused.
" Vision," Esme whispered in my ear
" We are telling them tomorrow," Alice said but I hardly heard her. I was practically falling out of my seat I was so tired.
" I'll take her up," someone whispered. I think it was Edward, considering the velvet voice, gorgeous smell and well-muscled chest that I was held against.
They last thing I remember before drifting off into oblivion was Edward tucking me in and a small kiss on my forehead.