Emily's Past
A/N: So this goes along with the story, but I don't think it's an actual chapter, it might be though. You can chose whether to read it or not, but I suggest you do to understand Emily more. Basically it's about how she's half-vampire and how she lives with the Cullen's. The majority of the italics are Edward speaking, telling a tale.
Edward's POV
Downstairs, the family and Matthew sat around the kitchen table. Matthew sat between Jasper and Emmett, he didn't look scared. I shook my head, not knowing whether he was extremely brave or stupid. I took my seat next to Alice.
"What is he thinking of?" asked Alice softly. I looked at his thoughts and frowned.
"He is thinking on what ice cream flavor would go best with 7up," I whispered to her. Bella came down and took her seat next to me.
"Anything happen yet?" she asked me. I shook my head. Matthew was the first to speak up and end the unbearable silence.
"Uh, can I go home? It's getting pretty late and I have to go to school tomorrow," he said shakily. Emmett growled.
"Emmett stop, Matthew's right," said Carlisle calmly. We all looked at him puzzled, Matthew looked delighted.
"Matthew, you will go home tonight, but first you'll have to listen to what we have to say," Matthew nodded rapidly in agreement. Next to me Bella sighed in relief, and I grabbed her hand and gave it a squeeze. She was very sensible when it came to the topic of possible human harming, since she herself was just a human a little less than three decades ago.
"Yes we are vampires, well Emily is only half vampire," explained Carlisle. Matthew looked extremely confused.
"I think we better start from there," said Esme. We all nodded in agreement, "Why don't you tell Matthew the story, Edward?" Carlisle told me.
"I have a few papers I have to finish up." I nodded and he got up and left. I turned to Matthew, who was looking at me earnestly, like a small child waiting for his bedtime story.
"Twelve years ago, Bella and I went on a trip to Greece. One day, while hiking near Mt. Olympus, we heard the cry of a little girl. Following the sound of crying, we came upon a little girl who looked to be three years old. Bella stayed with the crying girl, while I went to see if I could find her parents. It took me only a couple of minutes to find them, but not the way I had intended to. I assumed they where the girls parents, because they shared similar fixtures; her long dark brown hair was very similar to the man's and her small slender face and aqua eyes where very much like the woman's. Unfortunately, they where both dead and by the looks and smell of it, they where killed by a vampire. I searched their bags, to try and find some ID. All I found was a license plate, with an address in Thessaloniki. I took it and made my way through the woods, back to Bella and the girl .When I made it back to them, the girl was no longer crying, but asleep on Bella's shoulders. I told her what I found, and we decided to go to the address and see if we could find anything.
When we got to the address, we found a good sized house, with a backyard surrounded by a white fence. The door was looked, so I had to find an open window and climb through it. Luckily for me, the side window, the one facing away from anyone, was open. I climbed in and opened the door for Bella. Bella put the girl in what seemed to be her room and we started looking through their things.
We found American passports, and letters of recommendation. It turned out that the family was originally from Indianapolis and they had to move to Greece because of the husbands work. We found out that the girl's name was Emily Kathleen Cody and that she was born on June 3rd and the last of the Cody's. There where no other living relatives.
We, meaning Bella and I, discussed the situation and resolved on taking Emily back with us. After all, she couldn't stay her by herself. We packed her essential things first and the rest we would come back for later. The next day, we left Greece.
When we arrived in North Dakota, everybody already knew we where bringing back Emily, because of Alice. They where ecstatic, yet confused, for Alice had only seen us leave with Emily not the reason. While Bella and Esme went to put Emily to bed, I explained to the rest of the family the reason why we had brought an unknown human girl back with us. They agreed that Emily should have a fair chance of living as much as a normal life as possible."
I stopped and looked at Matthew, because I could tell that he suddenly became confused. "What do you mean by a normal life?" he asked. Bella, who looked the least frightening of all of us, and the most comprehendible, answered his question.
"You see Matthew, had we put Emily in an orphanage here, questions would have been asked about her parents. Investigators would have been put on her case to find that not only did we bring her out of the country without the parents notice, put that her parents had died from lose of blood, without have been cut or anything. The Volturi; a very powerful vampire family, the closest thing our world has to a royal family, would have killed Emily, for endangering the existence of vampires," Matthew cringed at the thought. I became disturbed by that, his thoughts. Bella continued, "So having Emile live with us was the best for everybody," she told him, smiling her heavenly smile.
"Not to mention that Alice had fallen in love with her," I added, and glanced in Alice's direction. Alice giggled, "She was so adorable!" she squealed.
"Okay, I think I get it know," said Matthew. I nodded and continued the story.
"Emily was obviously smarter than the average three year old, for the next day, she asked if her parents where gone. Of course we where all stunned at first, but Jasper, who was now as good at controlling himself around humans like we where, took her aside and explained it to her. It also helped that he made it seem less sad, because of his ability.
During the next month, we went back to Greece, to back up her things. We packed toys, clothes, books and keepsakes into many boxes and shipped them to North Dakota. We made sure not to leave any trace of Emily ever living there.
So Emily grew up as a Cullen. It turned out to be harder than we thought to keep our cover, since she was the only one who grew. It helped that she had skipped Kindergarten and the 1st grade and started the second grade at the age of 5, but we still had to move more than often." I stopped the story and sighed. I looked up and saw that Esme, Rosalie and Alice had left. They had heard this story before, and knew that the sad part was coming. I continued the story, and I noticed that my voice had become sadder, deeper.
"You have to understand Matthew, we have one golden rule in our family and that is to keep Emily safe," whispered Bella, "But sometimes, we mess up, just like humans." Everyone nodded in agreement.
"We often get visitors, like ourselves. Emily already knew the truth about us, and she would stay in her room, being as quiet as possible while we tried to keep them far away from her as possible.
One day, when Emily was nine, a pair of vampires came to visit. She was at dance that day, so we didn't try to rush them. Unfortunately, we forgot that since that was the last class, before going on to the summer break, it was an hour shorter. When Emily's carpool dropped her of, we where in the fields and didn't hear the car arrive. When one of the vampires left, we didn't notice. It wasn't till we heard glass break, that we remembered. Since I am the fastest, I got to the house first. Fortunately, the fields weren't that far away from the house. I heard Emily scream come from the kitchen. Jasper had caught up with me then, and he headed toward the kitchen, in time to see Emily curled up tightly against the wall and the vampire leaning over her, his mouth millimeters away from her neck. We bought ran at him, and knocked him over, but it was too late. He had already started to sink his teeth into her. He had just broken the skin when we knocked him off. We immediately killed the vampire, not giving it a second thought. By the time Carlisle and the rest got to us, Jasper had a comforting hold on Emily, who was shaking terrible, in his arms, trying his best to calm her. There was nothing we could do. There was no way of getting the morphine out, especially since Emily was frightened of us at the moment.
Carlisle theory was proved wrong, that night. We placed her in her room, and left her alone. We all sat around downstairs, waiting. The other vampire, decided to stay with us that night, and we let him. Around ten at night, she started to scream. It was horrible, to hear her scream like that. We had spent nine years, keeping her safe from harm. Not once did she ever fall, and get hurt or a scrape. Yet, we hadn't kept her safe from this. All we could do was, have Jasper there, trying to calming her down. She kept screaming for an hour, and then stopped. At first we thought it was just a break, a pause. But when she didn't start screaming again, we got worried.
We entered her room, to see what was wrong. We found her in her bed, shivering feverously. She was extremely hot, yet, she was cold. It was like her body was trying to decide a temperature to stay at. Through out the night we kept a constant watch on her. Around two in the morning, her fever broke. We were all very confused. Then, the vampire who stayed came up with a theory. "What if, to turn someone into one of us, you have to give them a certain amount of morphine? When you found the girl, Dilate (the vampire who bit her) had just barely broken the skin, and very little morphine passed into her. When any of us where bitten, we must have gotten the right amount of morphine." He said. We all agreed on the theory, but didn't know what to expect. All we could do was wait.
The morning was very quite, very unpredictable. Everyone was in their own rooms sulking, and the vampire whose name was Dean, was outside somewhere in the fields. Nobody heard Emily get up. Nobody heard the blender go off. Everyone was just lifeless. It wasn't till I heard talking coming from downstairs that I decided to check on Emily. When I went to her room, I opened it to find an empty bed. I became more alert. Bella stood behind me and she too start to panic. My only thought was that the Volturi had arrived and taken her away. I went to Jasper's room, which was across from her room and knocked on the door. He opened it to revile Emmett, Rosalie and Alice. Bella was hyperventilating, so that sort of gave them the idea that something was wrong. "What's wrong?" asked Rosalie.
"Emile's not in her room," I stated simply. Everyone's mind kept asking the same question and all I could do was shrug.
"We better tell Carlisle and Esme," said Jasper as he headed out the door. I sighed at the thought of Esme, who would be heart broken if anything had happened to Emily.
Emmett knocked on their door. Before Carlisle could finish opening the door, Emmett was already telling him the news. As always, his face seemed calm, but his eyes flashed with fear. "Have you searched the house?" he asked. We all shook our heads. I remembered hearing the voices coming from downstairs. I quickly turned and ran down the stairs to the kitchen.
At the kitchen table, sat two people, one of them was Dean and the other had her back towards me. They must have been having a conversation, because they stopped talking and turned to look at me.
At first, I was confused at the sight of the other person. Then, as I looked more closely, I could tell she shared the features of Emily. It was Emily. I felt my mouth drop open as I stared at her; her long straight hair was now slightly wavy and went down to the middle of her back, her aqua eyes where a shade of light hazel. Behind me, I could hear the footsteps of the rest of my family, and a gasp coming from someone. "Um, hi" said Emily in a sweet angelic voice, which too had changed.
Within seconds Jasper appeared at her side, embracing her in a hug. Emily seemed stunned at first, but then hugged her brother back. One by one we crowded around her, giving her hugs and kisses. Everyone was relived because the Volturi didn't know about Emily. But there was also confusion, for we didn't know what to do next.
We all sat around the kitchen table, a habit we had when needing to talk about important issues. At first everyone was silent, and then Emily took a slurp of her shake. I mentally sighed, so she could drink and eat normal food. Emile got up, and she had grown too, for now she was two inches taller than yesterday; and threw away her eggs, which I noticed where untouched. As she came back to join us, Carlisle grabbed her and placed her on his lap, they way he did when he wanted her to tell him something. "Emily, why did you throw away your eggs?" he asked. She looked up at him, her eyes looking sincere.
"Well daddy, after I made the eggs, they smelled funny, and when I took a bit of them, they tasted weird, like bad. So I think that the egg was just spoiled," she explained. I saw confusion; trouble and relief pass through Carlisle eyes. Dean, who I just remembered was there, cleared his throat.
"I think we should talk about this, I've seen it before," he said in a low fast whisper. I don't know if Emily could hear it or not, but if she did, she decided to ignore it. "Daddy, can I go play outside on the swings?" she asked Carlisle. He looked down at her and smiled, gave her a kiss on her forehead and set her down. Emily smiled and took of running towards her room, at a speed faster than the one of a nine year old.
We watched her as she left for her room. We turned our attention back to Dean. "What do you mean you've seen it before?" asked Jasper.
"I've seen someone like her before. I've never actually saw it happen until yesterday. My suspicions where confirmed this morning." He babbled.
"What suspicions? What do you mean by someone like her?" Emmett asked, you could tell he was getting irritated. Dean turned to look at Emmett directly.
"You're sister, Emily, is half-human, half-vampire," he said solemnly. Those words where some that I would never forget.
I stopped talking and there was a silence. I looked at Matthew, and could tell by his face that he was trying to put pieces together. "Matthew, if you have any questions, you can ask," said Bella reassuringly and Matthew nodded. That was one of the reasons I loved Bella, she always knew what to say to people.
"So, does Emily only drink stuff? I've seen her drink many different things, but I've never seen her eat. What did you mean by 'for Alice had only seen us leave with Emily not the reason,'?" he asked all at once. Before I could answer him, Rosalie ran in, "Sorry to interrupt, but Alice is upstairs and she needs Jasper," she said to us, and then more directly she turned to Jasper, "She's having a vision." Jasper quickly stood up ran upstairs towards Alice's room, Rosalie right behind him.
Matthew looked very confused at the moment. "You see Matthew; we have a theory, that when you change, you bring something of your strongest human traits with you into your next life, where they're intensified- like your minds and your senses. For example, when I was human, I must have been sensitive to the thoughts of people around me, because know I can read minds. Alice must have had some precognition, now she sees the future and Jasper was very charismatic in his first life, able to influence those around him to see things his way. Now he can manipulate the emotions of those around him. Carlisle brought his compassion, Esme her ability to love passionately. Emmett brought his strength, Rosalie her tenacity or pigheadedness, which ever you prefer. Bella brought her ability to look at people for what they truly are," I stopped and smiled at her. "Don't forget to tell him that she can tell whether your lying or not," said Emmett. And Rosalie is not pigheaded! He thought. I raised my eyebrows in disbelief. He just shrugged.
"Did Emily bring anything with her?" asked Matthew curiously. I nodded, "Emily brought her ability to learn, she is literally a walking encyclopedia. She also has ability with electronics; she was fascinated by them when she was young. Its also one reason why every time she steps into her room, her computer turns on and her IPod starts playing songs that are close to her emotions."
"She also breaks everything when she's mad," huffed Emmett, who still hadn't forgiven Emily completely for destroying his car's stereo last week, even though she fixed it and made it even better.
"Get over it, Emmett," groaned Bella as she rolled her eyes. I remembered that Matthew had other questions.
"Getting back to the questions. Emily doesn't eat any solid foods. She could, we all can, but it is very uncomfortable and a really bad taste. She enjoys drinking, especially hot chocolate, that's why we can only offer hot chocolate." He nodded then yawned. I looked at the clock. It was eight thirty. Carlisle walked into the room, followed by Alice. "Hey Matthew, you got your questions answered?" she asked. He nodded and smiled. "I'll take you home then," she said and skipped of to get her Porsche. Matthew slowly got up, he was still afraid of Emmett.
"Thank you for having me here. Don't worry, your secret is safe, I won't tell anyone." He said. I looked at Bella and she nodded, he was telling the truth.
"We wouldn't have told you if we didn't think you could," said Carlisle as he took Matthew by the shoulder and steered him to the door. Jasper came down after Matthew was out of the house.
"I still don't know why we told him," growled Emmett. "I don't trust the pup or his family, especially his family." Jasper shook his head and spoke in a solemn voice, "Well, you better get used to having Matthew around. The vision that Alice had, was all about Emily. Something bad is going to happen, we don't know what, but she's going to need Matthew to get through it.