Disclaimer: Same as chapter 1.

Chapter 12: Teeth

"You know that was real, right?" Emmett said with a giant smile on his face as if that was the best joke in the world. For some odd reason it brought a small smile to the red-head who was laying naked beside him.

"That was a terribly insensitive joke." Rian made a motion to grab her dress that was thrown across the small clearing. "But good to know." She said laughing at his joke regardless.

Night had fallen and Rian's human eyes had trouble making out anything that wasn't Emmett (she could see him simply because he was much closer to her than almost everything else).

She wanted to talk to him more, wanted to ask him questions about vampires, but she also knew she had to get home soon. She never stayed out this late. Her face fell at the thought of parting with him again. "I need to get home, but I don't want this to end. I have questions I want to ask you." The words were out of her mouth before she could stop them: "Wanna stay over?"

Emmett smiled at her and he was dressed in a flash. She wasn't sure how she'd get away with sneaking a six foot, heavy guy into her room; but she'd figured once he was in the house, she could play music to cover up their voices as they talked.

Rian was never more excited to have the room to herself in her life. Granted the room was the smallest room in the house, but she never had to share it with one of her siblings. Emmett had told her to leave her window open before they parted just down the street and said he would get himself in. How he was going to get himself in a second story window, Rian wasn't sure.

Rian was sitting at her computer, looking through her playlist, when the vampire cleared his throat behind her. The girl nearly jumped out of her skin, she hadn't expected him to make it inside so quickly or so quietly. She resisted the urge to hit the man even though he didn't mean to scare her.

Emmett Cullen was unsuccessful at containing his laughter at her reaction, though he was careful enough to not be too loud. He took the opportunity to look around her room as Rian turned her attention back to her computer. Her walls were painted a light blue color, her bed was a small twin size bed clothed in simple dark blue sheets and her closet was open (and a mess; clothes strewn about inside the tiny thing and shoes piled on top of each other). She had a dresser, nightstand, and a desk in the corner (the desk she was currently sitting at). Her blue walls were decorated with a sketches and paints that he assumed she had done. Her desk had several notebooks of some kind along with her backpack and school books.

Suddenly the girl made a loud laugh at something on the computer before the music blared through the computer speakers (not to loudly because the laptop's speakers weren't very loud). Some of the first lyrics from the song he didn't recognize was 'I've done this before, show me your teeth'. He couldn't contain his laughter this time. "Well played." His joke at her mental state was now countered with a joke of her own on his vampirism. Although he was sure the song was more about sex than vampires, her joke was still clear.

Rian turned her chair around to face Emmett, who was still standing just inside the window. "So, I take it vampires don't need permission to enter a mortal's home. Are any of the myths about vampires true? Stake to the heart? Garlic, or is it onion? Sunlight?" Weakness were her first priority; she could arm herself.

"A human doesn't have the strength to drive a stake through our skin, not that it would kill us anyway." She remembered how strong his skin felt the first time he touched her. "Neither garlic or onion would hinder us other than the smell irritating me. And the sunlight hurting us isn't true."

"So I have no way to defend myself. You cheater."

"Is it cheating when it's in my DNA?"

Rian ignored the question, he was still cheating. "How old are you?"

"Umm…20."

"Okay. Why are you still in high…Wait, 20 when you were changed or 20 years all together?"

"I was 20 when Carlisle changed me."

Rian narrowed her eyes at the man. "And when was that?"

"In 1935."

"Damn, you're old."

Emmett laughed at the girl. "I'm one of the youngest in the family. Bella was changed just a few years ago, but before that I was the youngest."

The music suddenly changed, the pop music faded into memory and a 90's rock song started. Rian wasn't in the mood to listen to the song, so she turned to the computer once again and quickly ran through her playlist and found another suitable song to play. When she turned back to Emmett he had moved to sitting on the bed. She briefly debated in moving over to him as well, but she wasn't sure if that was a good idea or not.

"Does it hurt to become a vampire?" She had been wondering how much of her visions were true, but she hadn't gained the nerve to ask Carlisle about the truth hidden in her hallucinations.

"Vampires have venom, its spread by our bites. It is what changes humans. If the human is drained they don't change, but if the vampire stops before draining their victim, the human changes. It's a long process and yes, the venom burns as the human changes."

Rian looked back at her stack of notebooks on the desk and pulled out the one on the bottom of the stack. It was a large black leather bound sketchpad. She search for a specific back and took a deep breath before walking over to the bed, handing the book to him. "Like this?" She hadn't shown anyone other than her therapists her sketchbooks.

The page that was currently open had a brief description of the nightmare she had drawn on the other page. It was very detailed about the pain she had felt that night. It was dated for almost five years prior to this exact moment, which explained why the drawing on the next page was very crude.

Emmett took the book in his hands and looked over the pages quickly, his eyebrows drew together wondering how the girl had gotten the details so exact. "Yes." He said simply as he turned the page.

Rian's alarm was clear on her face, she hadn't wanted him to look through the book. But she resisted the urge to slam the book closed on his hand.

"Tell me something I don't know." She said suddenly, hoping to distract him for her terrible drawings. She had others that were filled with better drawings, she should have grabbed one of them.

"I know many things you probably don't. I've lived a long time and saw a lot of history unfold." He said absentmindedly as he changed to another page.

"I meant about vampires, old man." This caught his attention and he laughed at her little jab at him.

"Umm…well, it looks like you know all about our strength, speed, and venom already." He thought for a moment on what he could tell her that she doesn't already know. Later he'd realize that he could have told her about the fact that some vampires exhibit additional, unique traits and abilities such as Edward's mind reading or Alice's clairvoyance. But instead he said, "Apparently, male vampires can father a child with a human."

The look on Rian's face was difficult to determine, she had many emotions running through her; embarrassment, shock, interest, and even slightly angry. She mentally checked, just to make sure, if she had had her period in the last few months and she sighed a breath of relief when she realized she hadn't missed any since she met Emmett. "What?!" She practically screamed at him.

"Woah, I've been prepared every time with you." He brought his hands up in defense as if the girl could actually do damage to him if she had struck the man.

Rian relaxed slightly, at least he had protection; she silently debated if she should try to get birth control as well, but wasn't sure how to go about it. She definitely didn't want to talk to Carlisle or her father about it; she thought maybe Winter but that would be a whole discussion of vampires, Cullens, and sex that she didn't want to get into with her yet (obviously she'd leave out the fact that vampires were real). She filed that way to look into later.

She hadn't noticed several songs had changed while they talked about vampires and vampire/human babies. Rian wanted to know everything she could; thought it would make her feel more comfortable around his family (because she was finally comfortable enough around him now). They talked about his family members and how Edward and Bella's child was growing so fast. Rian listened to him as he talked with such excitement about his family.

A lot of her favorite songs had something about insanity, or madness, or mental health; even if just in a line or two. That's why when 'Nobody's Home' got to her favorite part she sang along, loudly; not even noticing Emmett's presence anymore. Rian felt it described her perfectly for most of her life. "Her feelings she can't hide, her dreams she can't find, she's losing her mind, she's falling behind, she can't find her place, she's falling from grace, she's all over the place."

The sudden change in volume and attitude in Rian almost startled Emmett, but he smiled and watched her sing and lose herself in a song that he didn't believe describe her at all.