I lay thrashing in his arms for what felt like an eternity screaming out in pain then suddenly it began to fade, slowly at first then faster until it was gone completely. When I opened my eyes for the first time, it was impossible to focus, everything was so clear. The seams on his shirt, the brush strokes of the paint on the wall everything around me was so definite. "Hey you," Emmett coos fondly brushing my new silky curls out of my face.
"Hi," I smirk having a new appreciation for his beauty.
"How'd you do that?" He asks in surprise.
"Do what?" I ask still staring at him clueless.
"Your eyes changed color, they were just red and now they're pink."
"Am I defective?"
"You just did it again. They're gray." He tells me.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to." I apologize.
"You have nothing to be sorry for baby; I've just never seen anything like it. You're breath taking to watch."
I giggle leaning forward to kiss him for the first time in days.
"Pink again," he notes when our eyes meet. "Carlisle get up here you've got to see this," Emmett shouts giddy to show me off.
"What's wrong?" Carlisle says in a worried voice.
"Nothing's wrong just look at her eyes and tell me if I'm crazy. They're pink right?"
"They were, purple now," he smiles just as intrigued as his son by my new mood ring irises. I breathe a sigh of relief once he tells me that this is my special ability, but stop dead in my tracks smelling something delicious.
"Do you smell that?" I growl clutching my throat.
"Well red obviously means thirsty," Emmett teases as they continue to watch me.
"What is that? It smells like strawberries and honey, so sweet."
"That would be Bella," Emmett tells me gently as if not to upset me.
"Oh I'm so… I didn't mean that. I would never hurt my sister." I say wishing I could cry.
"Blue," Emmett breathes running his finger along the line where my eyebrows furled together.
"Admitting you'd like to drink from a human is completely different from the act of doing so, you'd do well to remember that," Carlisle tells me kissing my hair before leaving the room.
"So are you excited for your first hunt babe?"
"Nervous."
"Why."
"What if I'm not good at it?"
"It's impossible for a vampire not to be good at it," He laughs dragging me from the bed to the mirror. Wrapping his arms around me, my eyes turn pink again.
"When can I see Valkyrie?"
"When we get back, she's amazing. I can't wait for you to meet her." He smiles running his thumb over my bottom lip. "There are a lot of things I can't wait for you to do," he winks suggestively.
"Later," I return his smile before running out of the house with my new found speed. I head for the woods eager to out run Emmett. I will my legs to run faster and they do, sprinting quickly through the trees. Once I think I'm far enough ahead I stop and wait for him to catch up.
"Keep up slow poke," he teases passing me in milliseconds. I race to catch him and I'm content to run along side him for what feels like forever just enjoying this new experience I can share with him, an act that would have been impossible as a human. I like this new side of him I see only when were hunting, dark and dangerous as he takes down deer after deer. "How can you still be thirsty?" He asks entrapping me between himself and a tree.
"I'm not, what made you think I was?"
"Your eyes are black, which for most vampire means they're thirsty but then again you aren't normal so maybe it means that…"
"I think you know what it means," I reply arching an eyebrow seductively.
"You're a very dirty girl Mrs. Cullen."
"Only for you," I breathe tearing his shirt open to reveal his perfectly sculpted chest which I can now see in its full glory. Pectorals shimmering in the sunlight, ripped abs, and strong arms I stare open mouthed for a long moment. "I never knew, all this time I couldn't see," I scramble around my brain for the right words to describe how perfect he truly is.
"When you become a vampire all your senses are heightened, sight, sound, smell, taste, especially this," he hitches my knee up around his waist and rubs his clothed erection against my sex.
I gasp at the overwhelmingly pleasurable sensation.
"Now you understand how amazing it felt for me to make love you to you every single time," he murmurs sucking at my collar bone as he unzips his fly and springs free from his boxers resting rock hard cock against my inner thigh. Tearing my underwear from my body he slides into me in one quick thrust and I feel every inch in detail from his head to the veiny length of him. My eyes spring up to meet his, "That's not even the best part," he says pulling out before ramming back into me. "I don't have to hold back anymore in fear of hurting you, now you're completely at my mercy to fuck as long and hard as I want."
"Oh God," I groan groping at the bark of the tree and cum hard around him.
"That was fast," he chuckles continuing his powerful thrusts.
"Shut up, you've had time to get used to this." I pant defensively moving my hands to rake my nails down his back, the pleasure distracting me of the scraping sound they made.
"Gentle," he warns in a hoarse voice.
"Sorry," I apologize, suckling on his neck.
"Don't you dare fucking bite me," he growls when my teeth gaze the skin. After the sun began to set we'd decided to take a break for now and return home.
"Is she much bigger?"
"Slightly." He says running the wet wash cloth over my mouth and chin removing all traces of our hunt. I slip into a fitted pink dress and look over my reflection once again.
"Does this look ok?"
"She's less than a week old what does she care what you look like," he chuckles kissing my forehead and taking my hand, leading me down stairs.
"You look amazing," Esme says touching my shoulder affectionately.
"Thanks." I smile walking past my family to the center where Rosalie cradles Valkyrie in her arms. When she hands her to me she stares up at me almost as if she's just as mesmerized by me as I am by her and in that moment no one else exist. Soft tuffs of curly blonde hair line her head and to my surprise when she smiles at me a full set of teeth have grown between her pink lips. "Perfect," I whisper lightly stroking her cheek.
"Just like you." Emmett adds bringing me back to reality where everyone watches me apprehensively. "I have to accompany Esme and Carlisle to hunt tonight, just to make sure Sam's pack doesn't try anything stupid. Will you be ok here?"
"Yeah I'll be fine." I assure him returning my gaze to our daughter who flickers her eyes between the two of us as if trying to committee our faces to memory.
"She doesn't want you to leave again," Edward interjects from the couch having read her thoughts.
"I'm not going anywhere and Daddy will be back soon," I promise as one of her tiny hands grasps my finger tightly while reaching out with the other for Emmett.
"I'll always come back for you angel, don't worry," he soothes her.
"Love you." He says kissing us both on the forehead.
"Love you," I sigh as Valkyrie lets out a high pitched wail causing him to pause in the door way with a pained expression. "Just go, I've got her." He nods before the three of them speed into the woods. The lights flicker as she screams a second time tears spilling onto her pale cheeks. "Don't cry bug." I plead with her and she calms down some at my pet name, she must have recognized it from when she was in the womb and why wouldn't she, that's all she was referred to as for nine months. "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are gray; you'll never know dear how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away." I sing softly, my new voice slightly sweeter than my human one. Then suddenly the flickering stopped. "Did you do that?"
She flashes her pearly whites at me displaying her dimples proudly. "Does she do that a lot?" I ask.
"Not with the lights, normally she throws a book off the shelf or slams a door." Alice explains.
"That's going to be tricky when she's a teenager." I scoff. "In a couple of days you're gonna have someone to play with." I tell Valkyrie. She turns her head expectantly towards Bella and I'm in complete awe of her intelligence. Sitting beside my sister on the opposite side of Edward I watch her drink the final blood bag in the house. My throat burns but it's nothing I can't ignore. When she stands to greet Jacob the cup slips, she bent to grab it then suddenly falls to the ground in pain, her body twitching and convulsing against its will. I flea from the house afraid to lose control around the fresh blood, circling the house I find Jasper in the backyard.
"They kicked you too?" He asks in a light tone.
"No I kicked myself out."
"Are you sure you're a newborn?"
"It's all about mind over matter."
"Normally when it comes to blood you lose your mindand it doesn't matter who or what you're sucking the life out of. Maybe you feel guilty after the fact but love has no bearings during the attack." He explains.
"It's not like that for me." I say sitting down in the grass with Valkyrie between my legs, she pulls a dandelion from the grass and holds it up to me. I wish for a thousand moments like this as I blow on the white cotton puffs and watch them fly away.