AN: I trying to post a new chapter every week or so and I update them when I notice writing errors. PLEASE REVIEW! I write for two reasons 1) to get the ideas out of my head 2) to give a reader a good original story. I need to know what you like or dislike about the story. I don't write with an ending in mind so your feedback will give me idea on where to take the story. PS Esme is not in the story; to me she has always been the supporting role for Carlisle. She seemed to be Carlisle's filler partner to make Edward look lonely being the only one without a partner. It seemed like their pairing was too tailor-made and I couldn't fit her into my story. I'm still deciding whether or not to kill her off or just pretend she never existed. Although the OC and Carlisle do end up with one another, the OC is a flirt until then and has encounters with multiple guys. A majority of the story is in Luna's POV.
Luna's POV
I begin to regain awareness but soon regret it. My head is throbbing from the inside out even though the rest of my body is seemingly unfeeling. I'm extremely drowsy when I try to open my eyes but I'm too weak. I begin to hear footsteps and a few voices I don't recognize. My head begins to hurt more as the steps and voices draw closer I start gritting my teeth together.
"Even though she's waking up I still can't see anything. Do you know who she is?" it was a high pitched melodious female voice she sounded irritated but also curious. A fresh wave a pain sheers through my head, making it feel like it's going to combust.
"No, everything's a jumble, because she's in a lot of pain. Jasper do you think you can help- " Before he could finish my entire body began to shake in rejection to some outside force. Something's wrong, this more than physical pain, something is invading my body!
"Geez she's shaking so violently, you sure she isn't one of the mutts?" this husky voice a different male voice "It looks like you're making it worst Jasper." A stronger wave of pain hit me again, and I tried to get a grip and focus on the situation. It's difficult with the pain but I go from major convulsions to only trembling. The pain wasn't caused by something internally, but nothing is physically touching me, there isn't anything that is outside the body that can hurt the inside of your body with making contact with the outside. Even radiation burns the skin before damaging the organs.
"She's obviously not a Quileute and she would've healed on her own if she was. The high dose of pain medications should've already taken affect by now. I don't understand why she's in pain, besides her head wound there weren't any serious injuries from the car crash. I'm going to put her back under, you all should leave." I began to hear footsteps begin to evacuate the immediate area. The crash! I was headed to Isabella to save her from- My thoughts are cut short when I feel a freezing cold hand begin to pin me down. My body was desperate for energy and absorbed it from them instantly and my eyes flashed open. I absorbed more the half their energy within a split second, acquiring the reason for my excruciating pain. These were the hands of a vampire; a vampire was responsible for this pain running throughout me. Two in particular, one was reading my thoughts and another trying to influence my emotions. This was my body rebelling against their unwelcome presence. They must have kept me alive to get information out of me. I can't do anything rash, there's too many to take on at once. First things first ... Having regained my strength by stealing another's, I forced the mind reader and the foreign emotions out and put a shield in to place to keep them out. Some people are born with a built-in shield; others like me had to learn to put one in place. Now that the source of the pain was cut off, it's time to wake up. This all took a second to process. I sat up and looked at the blonde who had stopped short of drugging me again. He was probably feeling weak at the knees from the loss of energy. He regained composure instantly and looked at me about to speak. Noticing the needle was still dangerously close to my skin. My skin was now impenetrable to the thin piece of metal, so it was best if he didn't break it trying to pierce my skin. I put a finger to my lips and moved the needle away with my other hand.
"Sorry but you're not sticking me with anything cold and hard." I give him a quick up and down. He's pretty hot for someone with such cold hands. "Not today at least…"
Bella's POV
On my eighteenth birthday while opening my last gift there's a loud crash that ripped through the air making me jump. "Ouch! Paper cut…" I realized I was bleeding in a room full of vampires, so did Edward since he instinctively came in front of me. However I wasn't the problem, I saw Jasper launch himself outside. Emmett and Carlisle followed immediately and began pinning him down once they caught him. Edward and I follow them out the house. Alice began saying incoherent things in Jasper's ear trying to calm him down. I look around searching for the source of the chaos and soon find it. There it was a totaled car wrapped around a tree it was too dark to make out further. After Jasper starts to be led away by Alice, Carlisle goes up to the wreck and examines it further.
"I hear a heart-beat!" Carlisle proceeds to rip away the misshapen car pieces. "She's alive but I don't know for how long she will be. She's bleeding profusely you all should clear out I'll have to treat her wounds here." Rosalie and Emmett rush off in a gust of wind into the brush, but Edward doesn't move away instead he begins to help clear away the left over metal trapping the woman. I see Carlisle pull her out of the remains of her car and carry her bridal style towards the house. She's engulfed in black hair that's gripping with bl… BLOOD! The smell filled my nose and I began to feel sick to my stomach. I think Edward noticed how my knees buckled and the blood rushed out of my face because he took my hand and led me in the dining room, distant enough from the scene, since Carlisle would be working upstairs in his study. After he sits me down I see him gathering cleaning supplies to clean up any bl… mess left by the wounded visitor. When I regain some of my composure and took a few sips of the water he poured me when I had my head down something occurred to me. He wasn't cleaning the carpet just for the sake of keeping it from getting stained; he didn't want his siblings to be bothered by the scent.
"Why didn't you leave with the others, aren't you tempted by the blood too?" He was a vampire too after all. Jasper certainly jumped at the opportunity to cheat on his all animal diet.
"One drop of your blood is more tempting than buckets of anyone else's." I remembered then my paper-cut and ran water over my finger. Then nausea began to well inside me again at my own blood this time. He paused and looking sympathetic towards me and began to change the subject. "I wonder why she was headed here. The road is difficult to find and it leads only to our house. I don't think she just made a wrong turn, but then what reason did she have for coming here."
"Maybe she came to wish me a happy birthday." I said with a sarcastic laugh, when Edward looked at me curiously so I added on a more serious note. "I don't think I know her although I didn't get a good look. After Carlisle cleans her up I'll go see her. Could she have been coming here on business from the hospital?" Edward had already finished cleaning up with his speed.
"No Carlisle would've gotten a call first and she would've been dressed differently. I'm sorry about your birthday this wasn't the way the night was supposed to go..." A look of deep regret crossed his features.
"It's not your fault, not even Alice saw this coming. I'm not a big party person anyway. When you think about it we're just celebrating another year closer to death I am." Before he could object a loud explosion came from outside a low curse came from Edward's throat and he walked to the front door. A pillar of smoke began rising and the tree that had caught the car was now on fire with metal chunks dispersed around its immediate area.
"Anything that would've given us answers to our questions would've been in her car. I should've emptied the car before anything else."
"I guess you'll have to wait until she wakes up and ask her yourself…"