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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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Chapter 3

“What’s wrong with him?”

It may have sounded like a demand, but it was really a whine full of anguish. I watched Edward clench his fists and steel his jaw as he tossed and turned in agony. Jasper and Emmett stared at Carlisle for direction.

At a slight nod from him they pounced on Edward, grabbing his limbs and jerking them outward and down to hold him in place. Before they were done I was on the ground beside Edward, stroking his hair from his forehead.

A high keening noise penetrated my hearing, distracting me from focusing completely on Edward. I turned my head to glare at the offender and then realized the offender was me. The keening stopped. I sucked it in and swallowed it. I would not fall apart. That could come later. Now I had to focus; Edward needed me.

“Carlisle,” I hissed, as Edward jerked and moaned.

Carlisle reached out and ran his hands over Edward’s body. “If I’m not mistaken…”

“Yarruunngh,” Edward screamed, his eyes rolling back inside his head.

My chest felt tight. If I were human my heart would be in my throat, my pulse pounding out a tattoo to match the twitching of his muscles. What was going on? He was fine until thirty minutes after returning from his hunt. Something bad was happening and I didn’t know how to stop it.

“Please, Edward,” I begged touching him; his face, his neck, his shoulders, his chest. “Please, Edward, what’s wrong?”

Jasper and Emmett were forced to throw all their weight on him as another wave of pain resulted in back arching and fists curling. Jaw stretched tight, a growl of distress broke through. I echoed it, pressing a hand to my mouth. It was unbearable to watch him and too agonizing to turn away.

“Carlisle,” I said slowly. “Carlisle, we’re not mind readers. You have to speak to us. You have to speak to me. What is going on?”

“Our bodies are made out of venom,” Carlisle stated simply, soothing Edward’s expression.

“Your point?”

“Master of the obvious,” Emmett snarled, slamming Edward against the floor. His worried expression twisting his features beyond recognition.

Jasper sent a wave of tranquility outward. Edward stilled for a moment. We held our breath and then the wave of emotion disappeared and he was back to hissing and snarling and screaming as if in endless torment.

Carlisle stared steadily at me until I managed to tear mine from Edward to meet his gaze. “The change happens because of the venom. You drank down his venom. His body has never had less venom in it until now.”

Oh. “Oh.”

“We couldn’t possibly know the side affects of this. He’s reacting like his body is on fire, though he’s too stubborn to talk to us right now.”

I shook my head in amazement. How could they expect Edward to talk through the fire? I remembered it clearly, as my mind began to comprehend the burn and think around it. I kissed Edward on the forehead. He stilled as if recognizing my touch… as if he’d reached the point I was remembering in my own transformation.

Carlisle confirmed my suspicions moments later saying, “He’s trying to stifle the moans now because he recognizes that you are here. He doesn’t want you to feel bad about what’s happening.”

“That’s just a guess,” I reminded him. Only one vampire among us could read minds and he was currently incapable of speaking his own mind.

“It’s a pretty good one. You two are always trying to ease the other’s pain,” Jasper pointed out, tightening his grip on Edward’s ankles.

“So he’s burning? Like going through the change again?” Emmett questioned. “Was he less of a vampire before? Was he… partly human?”

“Maybe and again maybe. No and no.” Carlisle smiled, but it didn’t reach his eyes. “He’s replenishing his venom. He’ll be back to his old self I think when this is over. My theory is that this is…” he waved his hand at Edward’s shivering form, “Like a human replenishing blood. He’s converting the blood to venom if I’m not wrong… but venom creation is painful.

“Like swallowing it,” Jasper said.

“Just like swallowing it,” Carlisle affirmed.

“Not to me,” I denied quietly. “It didn’t burn at all. It quenched. It soothed.”

“Hmmm…”

“You have another theory don’t you… about me…” I glared at him. “Tell me! I can’t bear this…”

I slipped my legs beneath Edward’s head and cradled him. He moaned softly, yanking his arms and legs trying to break his brothers’ hold. I shushed him, haltingly humming my lullaby, in an effort to give him a measure of peace.

“I think Bella,” Carlisle began, hesitantly, as if he didn’t want to commit himself to the words. “You are a vampire’s vampire.”

A what? “A what?” I couldn’t have heard that right.

“I think you’re a natural predator of the vampire. You may be the only one in the whole world, but one might be all that is necessary.”

“How so, Carlisle?” Jasper snarled, fighting Edward’s renewed thrashing.

“There are many, many, humans; a good amount of vampires; and you, Bella, or a few who are like you… Be still Edward, fighting us does not help.” Carlisle’s suddenly harsh tone sliced through Edward’s pain laced expression. It made the rest of us pause too, our instincts on high alert at the dangerous sound.

I ran my fingers through Edward’s hair, in an effort to calm myself more than Edward. Blurry images of my time in school as a human flickered through my mind of charts and the words food chain echoed menacingly in the back of my mind.

Carlisle cleared his throat. “Predators keep the population of the prey from growing and exceeding its ability to thrive.”

I frowned at them all.

Jasper nodded. “So Bella’s ability is out of a natural need for population control of vampires…”

“Ability or natural evolution?” Emmett questioned under his breath.

“But just because I could eat you… kill you doesn’t mean I should,” I protested hotly. Glad my vampire body could not betray me the way my human body would have. “You don’t after all eat humans… we’re all vegetarians!”

Carlisle shook his head. I dreaded what he was going to say next; I was sure I wasn’t going to like it. I stalled him by speaking words of encouragement to Edward, stroking his neck softly and rubbing his shoulders.

“Vegetarianism is okay for us, Bella, we can survive on animals just as well as on humans, there’s no difference in our physical health by avoiding humans.” He shrugged, reaching out to rest his hand on my shoulder. “You, however, were wasting away before our very eyes. Animal blood might slow the process, human might slow it more, but I have a feeling only vampire venom will sustain you.”

That was what I had been dreading.

“Oh holy crow…” the words were expelled harshly.

I squeezed my eyes shut. Could I pretend he hadn’t said it? No, I couldn’t ignore it. I could not put them in harm’s way.

Emmett and Jasper were quiet. I opened my eyes, trying to glean from their blank expressions what they were thinking.

“That’s bad Carlisle that’s really bad…” I whispered. “If you’re right I will have to hunt vampires and then the Volturi will find out and they’ll come after us or me in either case it won’t be good.”

“Breath Bella,” Emmett chuckled.

I inhaled sharply.

“No I dare say it won’t be good,” Jasper agreed with me. Carlisle nodded.

“I can’t bring the Volturi down on you all. I’m going to have to disappear.”

“Don’t be absurd,” Edward’s hissed. His dark onyx eyes speared me. I was helpless to look away.

Emmett rubbed Edward’s shoulder reassuringly. “Don’t worry brother, I won’t let her slip away.”

He nodded weakly and subsided. “How much longer Carlisle,” he rasped.

The exchange was done in silence. Edward nodded limply and whispered. “Let go, please, I promise not hurt myself or anyone else.”

Jasper and Emmett shared a look and then turned as one to Carlisle who nodded. Carlisle then motioned them to stand up and follow him. “We will leave you two alone,” he said kindly before disappearing in a flash.

“Go easy on him,” Emmett said before following after Jasper.

Edward groaned lowly and curled up against me. I shushed him, cooing softly. My hands sought to sooth every inch of his burning flesh.

“That feels nice,” he said.

“Then I will keep doing it,” I promised.

“You aren’t leaving,” he said.

“No,” I assured him. At least I wouldn’t leave now, not while he needed me.

He smiled wanly and touched him cheek. “You aren’t leaving period. I know that look. I saw it more than a few times on myself. You can’t fool me.”

“How are you feeling?” I asked, changing the subject rather obviously.

“I was good at evasion too,” he said.

I glared at him. He chuckled, a sad note creeping into it at the end. My lips pursed of their own accord and my expression must surely look as defiant as I felt.

“Stop thinking, Bella,” Edward commanded. “I don’t have the strength to argue with you right now. It hurts too much.”

“Oh, Edward,” I cried, breaking down. “I’m sorry, so sorry. If I could make it stop, make it go away…”

“I told you didn’t I that you would be a bit stronger.”

“Don’t joke.”

“I’m not,” he said, sitting up slowly.

“Edward, you must lie down, you shouldn’t be sitting up.”

As usual the beast of a vampire ignored me. He moved gingerly as if testing every action for his tolerance of its accompanied pain. Edward pulled me into his arms and held me with all the strength he had.

“I won’t let you, you know,” he whispered against my temple. “I won’t let you leave me. I will find you wherever you go, no matter how far. I existed without you once, don’t make me go through it again.”

“Edward…”

“Yes, Bella,” he said, pulling back, pressing kisses all along the way until he captured my mouth.

We moaned together at the contact. I couldn’t tell if his moan was a happy one or a pain filled one, but when I tried to pull back, Edward stopped me by holding the back of my head. He pursued me, leaning closer, kissing deeper. I sighed into his mouth and wound my fingers through his hair. The kiss was electrifying, my mouth tingled and shivers pulsed through me.

It was noisy and desperate on my end. Edward was strangely quiet, kissing with a ferocity I hadn’t seen from him since that first week when we were able to make love with impunity. I puzzled about this as I parried the thrust of his tongue, which battled sleekly against my own. Then it clicked. He was being very careful not to dazzle me with his breath.

When I figured that out, I stopped kissing him back. He growled, pressing his mouth to mine harder. A single touch against his chest and he stopped, pulling back to look at me grimly.

“I don’t want to stop,” he said, the hungry look in his eyes made my insides turn liquid.

“You’re holding your breath,” I accused.

He turned his head away and sighed gustily. I held my breath. When he turned back his eyes were bleak. “You just held yours.”

“I know,” I said gloomily. “I didn’t want to risk it.”

“I didn’t want to make it harder for you,” he returned, life crackling in his black eyes. He touched my cheek before letting his hand drop away.

I covered my face with my hands. “I’m a monster.”

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