A/N: Right, you have no idea how happy I was when I checked my emails a few hours after I uploaded my prologue and I actually had a review and subs/favourites:L lame, I know, but it did mean so much to me so thank you to: SassyGirlx92x, truelove0103, LadyLunaTwilight, Melody-Rose-20, giggle900, scoug and especially to NeverEndingImagination1210, who was the first reviewer of this story. I probably won't put credit to people like this in my author note's unless it's a really good review so thank you guys! Much love! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

~Beauty and the Vampire~

Chapter 1- Love a Killer
EPOV

Years ago…

Knock, knock!

"Hello?" I sneered, walking proudly towards my castle's front entrance, "Who dares to wake me at such an hour?"

My servants should have answered the door themselves but being the kind, amazingly nice person I was, I had given them a half hour break. I had to stop being so generous to people, especially the poor people below me.

Cautiously, I leant my ear closer to the polished wood to see if I could hear these people who had the audacity to expect me to answer at midnight. And after knocking for over ten minutes, they would be lucky if I didn't have them slaughtered.

Not hearing a sound, I started to turn away, expecting them to have left me in peace.

Knock, knock, knock, knock!

"What in heavens do you want!" Wrenching the door open, I let my anger get the best of me, "Whoever you are, you better have a good reason for waking me up on this cold winter's night!"

"Excuse me," I was taken aback by the frailness of her voice until I started to look closer. She was a scrawny, old woman with wrinkled skin and a haggard appearance. A chuckle escaped my lips before she carried on with what she was saying, "please except my most sincere apologises for coming here so late but I have been without a home for quite a while and this is the first place which I have stumbled upon…"

She paused and I stuck up my nose at her ragged clothes and pale, unhealthy skin.

"What is it that you want?" I repeated, beginning to get a chill from the cold air and wanting to just shut the door on this disgusting woman's face.

"I was just wondering if I could convince you to let me stay for the night in exchange for this rose?" She held out a red rose making me stare at her in disbelief. I'm sure that my answer was evident on my face but she carried on talking anyway, "It'll only be one night and I'm only asking because I'm so desperate to get out of this chilled weather. I beg of you, please let me stay?"

Repulsed, I snorted at her and laughed harshly in her face.

"This is all a joke, right? How dare you ask me if you, a filthy beggar, can stay in my home? It's disgusting! How could you even consider the idea that I would let you germ up my home? No! Leave, now!" I roughly shoved the door to close but her foot quickly made contact in-between the closing to stop it from meeting it's hinge.

"Do not be deceived by appearances," She hissed, her voice changing a little, surprising me slightly, "beauty is found within."

She has to be crazy, I thought to myself as I dismissed the absurd tramp.

"Go scrounge off somebody else, there is no place for you here."

As soon as the last word left my mouth, a blinding light appeared in front of me.

"I warned you." A soft, melodic voice whispered into the air around me as I span around in circles trying to find the source of this harmony.

Stunned, I tripped backwards a few steps, breathing heavily.

Greasy grey hair transformed into long, golden and healthy locks.

The hunched back and stick-like body was altered into a curvy body with amazing posture.

Saggy, wrinkled skin remodelled into glowing, flawless sheathing.

Dull, squinting lookers transfigured into golden honey eyes, filled with sadness and sorrow.

Her grimace full of anguish and misery changed into a smile of pity and benevolence.

And finally, the scraps of grey and brown clothing she wore converted to a flowing white nightgown.

She was an angel. She had to be.

"I-I-I don't understand…" I stuttered, overcome with confusion and panic.

"Of course you don't sweetheart," This cherub cooed at me, floating into my household like she owned it, "You are a handsome fellow, aren't you darling?"

In normal circumstances, I would have answered with something witty like, I know I am, but this was the opposite of normal.

"You already know that though, don't you?" She smirked, showing off her dimples.

Only just registering that she was making her way into the main foyer and I was just standing still, clueless, I followed helplessly after her.

"I-I'm s-s-sor…" I tried to apologize for my behaviour before she interrupted me.

"My name is Rose by the way," She grinned, twirling around the room effortlessly before landing in front of me, "Rosalie Lillian Hale."

I tried to force out the words that I was Prince Edward until I fainted for the first time in my life at the words which fell out of between her lips.

"I'm a vampire."

~Beauty and the Vampire~

Wake up gorgeous…

I blinked my eyes rapidly, the first thing I thought of doing being ridding myself of the sudden hazy vision. The second thing I registered was the cold, pale hands cupping my face.

"Are you ready to listen now?" She, Rose, murmured, pulling me up into a sitting position.

I opened my mouth but no words came out.

"Guess I'll explain anyway, just try not to faint again, okay?"

I nodded, gormless to what was going on.

"As I said before, my name is Rosalie Lillian Hale and I am a vampire. Now despite what you may have heard, vampires aren't all that bad. Some of us just drink animal blood rather than human blood and we call vampires like that vegetations. I was changed, I guess you could call it, by Carlisle Hale. Each vampire has a special power. Mine happens to be one of the strong ones, lucky me. I can shapeshift and make other things shapeshift as well, which explains why I looked so old before,"

I struggled to take all of this information in. Vampire? Powers?

"Enough about me, let's talk about you. Prince Edward Anthony Masen Cullen the third, right? Mhm, I know. Quite the ladies man, I've heard. Handsome, beautiful, flirty and much more."

The compliments tumbling out of her mouth surprised me. Wasn't I just horrible to her five minutes ago?

"But you know what else you are? Selfish, arrogant, prejudiced, self-centred, ungenerous, miserable, horrid, discourteous, disgusting, insolent, disrespectful and just plain mean. There is no love in your heart except for yourself and you'll pay for it. You will really pay for it."

Finally coming to my senses, I got up and starting backing away from her.

It didn't make a difference, she would just follow.

"Look, I'm sorry, okay? I shouldn't have treated you like that!" Even after my apology, her motives didn't change.

"I will become a better person, I promise. I swear!" I was full-on terrified by this time; I didn't know what to do.

Suddenly, she skidded over and grabbed my arms in a vice hold, moving to breathe softly over my neck.

"This will hurt a little bit…"

Then she bit down.

~Beauty and the Vampire~

I curse you to be a vampire and your castle and everybody who lives under your roof to live a life of misery. To keep control of yourself, you will have to conceal yourself in this castle and your only window to the outside word will be this mirror. When you look through it, you will see whatever you want to see in reality. I have also given you this single rose. It will bloom up until your 21st birthday and during that time, you must learn to love and to be loved by another by the time that the last petal falls and if you do, the spell will be broken. If you don't, you will be doomed to be a vampire for the rest of time. Good luck with this, after all, who could love a killer...