***I DO NOT OWN THESE CHARACTERS***MOST OF THIS STORY IS FROM THE TWILIGHT BOOK BUT SOME IS MADE UP BY ME BECAUSE ITS NOT IN THE BOOK***
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We drove back to hers, she didn't seem to scared. I'd put the radio on to a station that played all my old favourites, ones she'd probably never heard before, I sang along to them. I sped along the road at a speed that was probably to fast for her, she looked shocked, hardly taking her eyes off of the road as a drove with one and and her hand in my other. I glanced out to the sunset and then to her, her hair blowing in the wind coming in from her open window.
"You like fifties music?" She asked.
"Music in the fifties was good. Much better than the sixties, or the seventies, ugh! The eighties were bearable."
"Are you ever going to tell me how old you are?"
"Does it matter much?"
"No, but I still wonder... There's nothing like an unsolved mystery to keep you up at night."
"I wonder if it will upset you,"
"Try me,"
I sighed and looked towards her, watching the road from the corner of my eye, never faulting on the road. She didn't seem like she was going to be scared of the answer, but still when i told her she could react in any way and i wouldn't know what was coming. I looked back towards the sunset. "I was born in Chicago in 1901." I paused and looked at her through the corner of my eyes, she didn't look at all shocked, surprised or even disgusted. "Carlisle found me in a hospital in the summer of 1918. I was seventeen, and dying of the Spanish influenza." She gasped, I realised that i hadn't told her anything about how i'd even become what i had, never mind that i was dying. "I don't remember it well — it was a very long time ago, and human memories fade. I do remember how it felt, when Carlisle saved me. It's not an easy thing, not something you could forget."
"Your parents?"
"They had already died from the disease. I was alone. That was why he chose me. In all the chaos of the epidemic, no one would ever realize I was gone."
"How did he... save you?"
I stopped to think about how i could word this without going into too much detail, without scaring her. "It was difficult. Not many of us have the restraint necessary to accomplish it. But Carlisle has always been the most humane, the most compassionate of us... I don't think you could find his equal throughout all of history... for me, it was merely very, very painful."
I couldn't remember much of the life i lived as a human, but the memories of the burning pain of the venom spreading around me were agonising, pain that i could never put her through. She was silent for a while until i broke the silence. "He acted from loneliness. That's usually the reason behind the choice. I was the first in Carlisle's family, though he found Esme soon after. She fell from a cliff. They brought her straight to the hospital morgue, though, somehow, her heart was still beating."
"So you must be dying, then, to become..." She didn't say the word, she didn't need to though.
"No, that's just Carlisle. He would never do that to someone who had another choice. It is easier he says, though, if the blood is weak." I looked back at the road, this wasn't easy to talk about with her.
"And Emmett and Rosalie?"
"Carlisle brought Rosalie to our family next. I didn't realize till much later that he was hoping she would be to me what Esme was to him — he was careful with his thoughts around me. But she was never more than a sister. It was only two years later that she found Emmett. She was hunting — we were in Appalachia at the time — and found a bear about to finish him off. She carried him back to Carlisle, more than a hundred miles, afraid she wouldn't be able to do it herself. I'm only beginning to guess how difficult that journey was for her." I raised our hands and brushed her cheek with the back of my hand, withstanding human blood was hard enough, I'd never realised how hard it must have been for her to carry him, bleeding, all that way, until I'd come across Bella.
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"But she made it,"
"Yes, she saw something in his face that made her strong enough. And they've been together ever since. Sometimes they live separately from us, as a married couple. But the younger we pretend to be, the longer we can stay in any given place. Forks seemed perfect, so we all enrolled in high school. I suppose we'll have to go to their wedding in a few years, again." I laughed.
"Alice and Jasper?"
"Alice and Jasper are two very rare creatures. They both developed a conscience, as we refer to it, with no outside guidance. Jasper belonged to another... family, a very different kind of family. He became depressed, and he wandered on his own. Alice found him. Like me, she has certain gifts above and beyond the norm for our kind."
"Really? But you said you were the only one who could hear people's thoughts."
"That's true. She knows other things. She sees things — things that might happen, things that are coming. But it's very subjective. The future isn't set in stone. Things change." Things defiantly could change from what she'd seen, there was no way i was going to let her vision about Bella come to life.
"What kinds of things does she see?"
I tried to think of a suitable vision i could tell her about, without telling her what she couldn't know. Then the vision she'd had about Jasper before they'd met played in my head. "She saw Jasper and knew that he was looking for her before he knew it himself. She saw Carlisle and our family, and they came together to find us. She's most sensitive to non-humans. She always sees, for example, when another group of our kind is coming near. And any threat they may pose."
"Are there a lot of... your kind?"
"No, not many. But most won't settle in any one place. Only those like us, who've given up hunting you people can live together with humans for any length of time. We've only found one other family like ours, in a small village in Alaska. We lived together for a time, but there were so many of us that we became too noticeable. Those of us who live... differently tend to band together." I thought about the Denali's, Carlisle's old friends, vegetarian like us, the only others we'd ever come across.
"And the others?"
"Nomads, for the most part. We've all lived that way at times. It gets tedious, like anything else. But we run across the others now and then, because most of us prefer the North."
"Why is that?" She didn't seem to have noticed that we were parked outside of her house. I could tell her father wasn't home because there was no thoughts coming from her house.
"Did you have your eyes open this afternoon? Do you think I could walk down the street in the sunlight without causing traffic accidents? There's a reason why we chose the Olympic Peninsula, one of the most sunless places in the world. It's nice to be able to go outside in the day. You wouldn't believe how tired you can get of nighttime in eighty-odd years."
"So that's where the legends came from?"
"Probably."
"And Alice came from another family, like Jasper?"
"No, and that is a mystery. Alice doesn't remember her human life at all. And she doesn't know who created her. She awoke alone. Whoever made her walked away, and none of us understand why, or how, he could. If she hadn't had that other sense, if she hadn't seen Jasper and Carlisle and known that she would someday become one of us, she probably would have turned into a total savage." I could tell she had more questions to ask but she was interrupted by her stomach rumbling, she hadn't eaten in a while. "I'm sorry, I'm keeping you from dinner."
