A/N: Hi, everyone! How are you? Like I said, I'll be updating this fic and Facing the Past alternately. In other words, on the day I update this one, there wouldn't be an update for facing the past. On the other hand, if I'm updating The Vampire Hour, I wouldn't be updating Facing the Past.
Chapter 2: Bella
Two months have passed since that day. I still thought about Jessica frequently. She was my sister-we grew up together.
She and I had spent countless nights talking about Mike. Both of us have a crush on him. I gave up on him for her sake. Mike seems to like her too. She was supposed to have a date with him that Saturday-three days after the attack. I was helping her pick up some clothes. That was a distant memory.
Nowadays I'm busy training. Most of my time was spent sparring and working out. I'm with the wolves now. That's what the group of vigilante fighting vampires call themselves. More often than not, they were able to kill more than one when they were on a hunt. They did this using magical incantations to make vampires skins temporarily penetrable. Once these happens, we were able to tear them to pieces and burn them as quickly as possible.
Although I'm fairly new to this, I had made quite a number of kills. The first time I had killed a vampire, I didn't know if I was going to make it. I was fighting for my life. I was trying to break their skin with my stake but their flesh were like diamonds-the hardest substance on earth. However, the moment I said, "radiatio", the vampiric skin softens and I was able to break her into pieces and burn it. Now, it didn't matter anymore. I wanted to get rid of the vampires. There would be nobody else who would lose their best friends under my watch.
I was going on a hunt on my own. My friends tend to be fairly slow and they would just hinder me. I was on my way to Port Angeles when Jacob, my godfather's son, saw me. He was the leader in charge of the wolves.
"You're going again, Bella?" Jacob asked.
"What do you think?" I said to him in reply.
He caught up with me and walked right next to me. He smelled of lilacs and strawberries-the signature scent of a female vampire. He had just returned home from the hunt.
"Can I join you?" he asked.
I nodded. We took the bright red Chevy truck that my father had given me. It was fairly sturdy-something necessary to fend off hungry vampires.
"You do this every night. Don't you get any rest?" he asked.
I shook my head. "I'll rest when I'm dead."
We knew when the vampires were often hiding. Most of them don't know how to blend in. They just go as far away from civilization as possible and then go to a more populous area during the Vampire Hour. It meant that they're often lurking in the forest or underground. We just found an underground burrow and decided to set up.
Jacob's preferred weapon was a spear. The sharp end of it was good enough to skewer a vampire but the other end was soft enough that he couldn't accidentally kill someone behind him.
Personally, I liked the dagger better. I could get up close and personal with them and stab them on the neck. Then, it would be easy to separate the rest of the body together.
Holding the flashlight, I went straight to the burrow. I saw not just one but two vampires draining their victims which I believed they caught during the last Vampire Hour. There were two. One was unharmed while the other they tried to drain. Then they saw us.
I didn't even have time to blink. They had us pinned down the wall. In that moment, I actually felt fear. Fear that I would die. Fear that I would become one of them.
The vampire in front of me was more handsome than the movie star. He was tall, with light brown hair and red eyes. He smelled musky. I resisted the urge to offer myself to him. These are the mark of him being a predator. Before the Vampire Hour, their good looks and their scent drew in their prey-us. Not that they needed it. Their speed and invincibility alone would've done it.
In that moment, all I could do was pray. Pray that at the very last minute I would be saved. In that moment, a loud sound came through the entrance. The commotion was loud enough that the vampire in front of me left me to search for the intruder.
Ending Notes: What do you think of my take of the wolves? This is an AU so I hope you don't mind the liberty I'm taking with these characters. Jacob was Bella's godbrother. The two had grown up together so they treat each other like siblings. I'm not sure if there would be a love triangle with Jacob, Bella, and Edward yet.