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A Vampire's Vampire	By : Meghan Category: Twilight Series > Het > Bella/Edward Views: 3417 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Seconds after my collapse to the floor, the door to our cottage was actually ripped off its hinges by Emmett. Jasper flew through the door and planted himself between me and Edward, snarling in warning. Emmett soon joined him. Both ready to defend their brother against me.

Alice came through next and after a warning glare from Jasper paused between him and me. I was glad he made her stay on that side of the room. I was a monster.

I wanted to die when Carlisle strode into our home calmly, his face completely blank as he went over to Edward. I hurt him so terribly. I don’t know what came over me or why. How could I have hurt Edward that way?

My chest ached fiercely. If I could cry I would be sobbing. I was holding my breath still, fighting the uncomfortable feeling of sensory deprivation. The urge to inhale was becoming more insistent but I fought it off. Until we could determine what happened I refused to give into the need.

My husband groaned and my misery increased. I hid my face and wished desperately for the ability to cry. Why? Why did this happen? I had fed on elk until my body could hold no more… or so I thought. I moaned, biting my lip, feeling my teeth prick sharply.

Carlisle was efficient in his examination. He murmured to Rose and Esme, who had been waiting on the outside of the cottage. They swept in carrying medical supplies. Numbness was starting to settle over me. Numbness was good. Maybe I could hide from the pain with it.

“Bella?” Alice said softly, touching Jasper as she walked around him. He snarled and I jumped. Alice turned and glared at Jasper. “If you won’t help, go back outside.”

Shock wiped his face clean. His lips thinned and he glowered at her before shifting his gaze to me. I cringed and then suddenly calm swept over the room. Emmett even dropped his defensive stance for a moment because of it before shaking it off and reverting to his crouch. I didn’t fight the emotions; I needed calm to stay sane.

Alice moved slowly again drawing my attention. She held a hand out to me and kept walking. I wanted to shy away but forced myself to stay still until her hand rested lightly on my shoulder.

“It’s okay, Bella,” she whispered sinking down beside me.

I shook my head. I refocused on Edward as Esme and Rosalie followed Carlisle’s instructions. Soon they were hoisting Edward up into a sitting position. He wobbled a bit when they let go and moved to lean against the opposite wall.

Bright white bandages plastered to his skin. The purple under his eyes stood out more starkly then usual. I watched him closely, afraid to look away. I counted his breaths. One… two… five… twenty… seventy-two… and then he opened his eyes.

His gaze found mine immediately. It warmed immediately upon noting my own anxious pleading one. “I’m fine,” he murmured, his voice lower then a sigh of air.

“Thank God.” My voice was just as soft. I closed my eyes in gratitude and sent a fervent prayer upwards. I had used a little of my air supply. I would have to be careful and save it for expressions I could not articulate without words.

“What the hell happened?” Trust Emmett to break the silence.

I looked at Edward and shook my head. I didn’t know. Edward looked at Carlisle, who cleared his throat.

“I need to know what transpired. I’ve never come across anything like this.”

“Edward breathed on her,” Alice supplied, knowing Edward and I were out of it.

“That’s all?” Carlisle said with a frown.

Alice nodded emphatically. “That’s all.”

“We’d,” Edward’s voice cracked. He touched his throat in surprise and swallowed. “We’d gone hunting. Bella had taken down three large bulls. They only slightly appeased her thirst. We came back here and made love. After we were both spent I breathed on her. Directly on her face.”

It was a sign of how serious things were that Emmett didn’t take the opportunity to rib Edward. Jasper radiated energy and it was beginning to affect me. Carlisle’s pensive form was the focus of every pair of eyes. Peripherally they were also all on me.

“Dazzled,” I supplied as what he said clicked through my head.

Edward jerked his eyes to mine. His thoughts raced backwards, flickering across his expression as he ran through his memory of what had happened.

“Are you thirsty still?” Carlisle asked me.

I thought about that. “Yes and no.”

I was nearly out of breath. I thought perhaps I could safely inhale, but was convinced the risk of being wrong was not worth it.

Carlisle pursed his lips then said, “Explain.”

I pointed to my chest and pantomimed breathing in and out with exaggerated movements.

“She’s holding her breath,” Esme told the room.

I nodded relieved that she’d been so quick on the uptake.

Alice got a far away expression. She snapped to attention and said, “If we stay very still, Bella will be able to inhale and explain.”

Suddenly the room was motionless. A stillness descended that only vampires could achieve. I was grateful for Alice’s vision. It meant I could talk freely without fear. After a few seconds I inhaled sharply. Relief filled me as the air tasted clean and pure on my tongue and in my throat.

“No, I’m not thirsty in the way I have been for a long time. Yes, I am thirsty in the way you’ve described being thirsty after satisfying your cravings. The burn is there, but it’s small, easily ignored.”

“And dazzled?” Carlisle said quickly, using little air.

“Edward has always been able to dazzle me,” I said slowly, still testing the air again as I inhaled. It was okay. “When I was human, he could breathe on me or stare me directly in the eyes and I would get dizzy, my thoughts would scrabble, and my heart rate would accelerate.”

There was silence in the room until Edward broke it with a questioning, “Yes?”

I frowned at him, confused. As understanding washed over me I knew he must have answered Carlisle’s unspoken question. Something along the lines of “Have you dazzled her since she’s changed?”

I tried to recall myself. I couldn’t remember being affected by his breath like this before now. His penetrating gaze, yes, easily a hundred times over. “Not with his breath.”

“What did his breath smell like to you, Bella?”

“As a human – exceedingly pleasant and sweet, like cool winter wind. I noticed almost immediately after the fire left me. His breath smells like…” I broke off, if I were human I would have blushed scarlet. I took another deep breath, fortifying myself and started again. “It’s almost honey, almost lilac, colored overall by the sun.”

All breathing stopped. Nobody move. Their muscles were locked down, Jasper was frantically pouring out peacefulness by the buckets which was frankly having the opposite affect on me. I froze too, holding my breath as well.

“Our breath isn’t that distinctive Bella,” Carlisle replied. “It’s sweet and cool but not much beyond that. Werewolves would say it is sickeningly sweet.”

“Do we smell distinctly to you also?” Alice asked the question away from me before turning and cocking her head in my direction.

I nodded, reluctant to admit this. I wanted desperately to be held by Edward. I want to feel his strength wrap around me. I wanted him to protect me from myself, whatever I was. I swallowed thickly and turned my head away from Alice.

“Esme is like cinnamon and hyacinth. You’re like pear and seawater. Carlisle is something like rising bread and vanilla. Emmett is pine and moss and leather.

Jasper smells of apple and chocolate... Rose of lavender and fresh cut grass… or maybe wet grass like after a spring shower.”

“Wow, you’re a freak Bells,” Emmett said after a full minute had ticked by.

Edward growled. It sounded weak to my ears. Emmett tossed me a bashful apology. I waved it off. I was a freak. I was a monster who would eat my husband. It didn’t get freakier than that.

Esme came forward slowly, no fast movements. She imitated Alice and touched me gently on the arm. “How do you feel, Bella?”

“Strong,” I admitted guiltily. I closed my eyes and forced back a wave of mortification that threatened to pull me under. “I’m pretty positive I could wrestle Emmett to the ground in less than 10 seconds.”

Emmett glowered, his chest swelling as wounded ego took control. Rose touched him and snarled, “Don’t you dare dream of testing that.”

“Come here,” Edward rasped.

Startled as I was by the directive I wasn’t sure I should move any closer to him.

“It’s okay, Bella,” Alice said reassuringly. Her assurance eased the sudden worried looks that had crossed the faces of the others.

I crawled to him and paused indecisively before him. Edward looked tired. He smiled my favorite crooked grin, and it made my heart ache. “Oh Edward,” I sobbed.

“Shh,” he sighed, opening his arms.

I dove between them and he wrapped me up, but it wasn’t as tight as he would normally hold me. “I’m sorry, so sorry. I didn’t mean to, I swear.”

“I know,” he answered, stroking my hair. “I know, Bella. I’m okay. You stopped. It’s okay.”

I shook my head in denial. It was not okay. I wasn’t okay. He wasn’t okay. Nothing was okay.

“Edward,” Carlisle said with a low undertone. His voice was girded with a layer of steel. “You need to hunt. Immediately.”

“We’ll go with him,” Rose volunteered, grabbing Emmett’s arm.

She obviously didn’t trust him to stay behind and not challenge me to that wrestling match. It was also strategic to leave Jasper behind with me because of his skills. He was also uncomfortable leaving me in Jasper’s presence. Jasper stared at Edward for a long moment and Edward nodded. The tension broke and Rose was able to usher Edward away.

Edward didn’t like that they had to help him stand. I didn’t like it either. “I’ll be back soon,” he promised.

I nodded glumly. “Be safe.”

Then he was gone.
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