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Kin and Kindred

Chapter 3

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Jack P.O.V

Being a vampire was lamer then I thought.

Not to mention boring. Ever try to find something on late night? It’s fucking impossible! I miss being able to sleep, at least you have something to take up a lot of time.

Another thing was the attention they all gave me, I was never alone! They always had someone watching me; I never got any privacy in this fucking house!

Not to mention I was so fucking pissy all the time. Now I admit I have always been stand offish but being a vampire has made it worse. Now I actually try and kill people. Even I don’t know why I want them dead, they just piss me off and I lose control.

Everyone is always asking how I am doing; how the fuck do they think I am doing? Its going to take more then a week for me to get over being a vampire for fuck sakes.

To top it off I have to meet some werewolves. According to Jasper there are two packs, all of them natives from the reservation in La Push. They were pro-vampire. The other pack didn’t start shit but they weren’t very vampire friendly.

I can’t say my experience here is a new hell compared to the old life. It is nice living with a rich family, Carlisle has a cool library, full of books to read, all the channels to watch (though the skin channels have been denied to me) plus hunting is fun. You ever fight a bear and live without getting a scratch? Yes that’s right envy me.

I was hoping I would have some kick ass power, but sadly I seem to be in the lame vampire crowed with no special power. What I wouldn’t do for laser eye beams.

If I had a list of who I liked and at what level it would go like this...

1. Nessie. She’s a kid, though growing fast, she doesn’t treat me like a loose canon and she isn’t always asking how I am. Plus her power is cool.

2. Bella. Leaves me alone. Period.

3. Alice. When that prick Jasper starts giving me a hard time she is there to listen to me vent. Plus she buys me pretty shit. But she can be pretty bossy about my cloths and that irritates me.

4. Emmett. Unlike the others he doesn’t have a stick up his ass, though he can piss me off with his jokes. I’m twelve and I can act more mature then him. If he makes one more crack about me being a Peter Pan stand in I will gut him!

5. Esme. She never means me no harm but her mothering gets on my nerves. I had a mom and it did not work out, I don’t need another. I always feel bad when I snap at her though. She’s the only one I say sorry to and mean it.

6. Carlisle. He’s okay, but like Esme he tries to much to be my dad, never had one, don’t need one. Though I do enjoy listening to his tales of his early days of being a vampire. Plus the library, mustn’t forget the library.

7. Then there is Mr. stick up his as Edward Emo Cullen. Seriously what right does he tell me how to talk? I don’t care if I am twelve for all eternity, I am an American vampire and I will not be told how to act or what to say by some prissy little ass with a girlie haircut.

Yeah hear me jerk off! Screw you and your old school thinking! Nothing but a load of old shit anyway! No wonder it took you a century to get laid!

8. Rose. Big dumb blonde bitch, what else can I say? I can’t understand how Emmett can stand her, she must be good in the sack.

9. Jasper. Need I say more? First he bites me, puts me through a hellish three days, then he acts like he is my father. Telling what to do, taking away my shiny new possessions, treating me like a kid!

God what I wouldn’t give for laser eye beams.

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“What the fuck are you looking at ?” I asked the werewolves.

It was just me and Jasper in the mansion. Edward, Bella and Nessie were having a family day. Emmett and Rose were out hunting. Esme and Alice were shopping and Carlisle was at work at the hospital.

The wolves had shown up. They were all tall and muscular. Except the girl, Leah. She was pretty hot. She was a bit taller then what girls usually are. She was muscled but not in a manly way.

The other guys were tall and buff, like Emmett. Only they all wore the same kind of clothing. Jean shorts, wife beaters, or no shirt at all. Another thing they all had short hair. The girl had slightly longer hair but the guys were all cut nearly bald, very military like.

Another thing, they smelled horrible. They smelled human but there was a strong animal edge to the blood that didn’t make them smell so appealing.

We were introduced to one another. Jacob or Jake was the tallest and the leader of the pack. He was imprinted on Nessie which I thought was disgusting. Jasper told me all about wolves and their freak ass love at first sight thing but I still thought it was disgusting.

Quil was Jake’s cousin and he to imprinted on a little girl. Is pedophilia a symptom of being a werewolf or something?

Embry was the shy quiet one. He didn’t talk much, just let the others do the talking, I think I was going to like him.

Seth was the youngest. He had an aura of happiness and cheer that made me want to kick him. He also always had a smile on his face that made me want to slap the shit out of him. What? Happy people annoy me.

Leah the hot one is Seth’s big sister. She would have been hotter if she didn’t have a scowl on her face all the time.

After we had been introduced all they did was stare at me. Like they were expecting me to do a trick or something. I should be the one expecting them to do a trick, they’re werewolves not me.

“Jack!” Jasper admonished immediately.

“What? Their looking at me like I’m a freak!”

“I apologize for Jack,” Jasper said.

“Don’t apologize for me!” I growled.

“He is right, we were staring,” Seth laughed. “Sorry were just not used to seeing vampires so young.”

“And I’m not used to seeing people so freakishly tall but I’m not staring at you am I?”

Insensitive prick, like I need to be reminded I am going to be twelve for all time.

That wiped the smile of his face. Quil laughed.

“Kids got a lot of mouth just like you Leah.”

Leah glared at him. “Shouldn’t you be playing dress up with Claire?”

“Yeah seriously, Stone Phillips called, he wanted to schedule your appearance on dateline to catch a predator,” I said.

He glared at me and made a growl.

“Jack enough,” Jasper warned.

I looked into his eyes with defiance. His eyes were golden yellow now having lost their orange tinge. The wolves would never know what he had done. Unless I told them the truth. But I would not. If I did they would try to kill all the Cullens including me. Jasper I could care less but the thought of Esme or Alice being hurt made me sick.

“Sorry dad,” I sneered.

“One more word and you won’t have your Ps3 for a week,” he threatened. Evil bastard. I kept my mouth shut not wanting to lose my Ps3.

“I apologize for Jack, being a new born is more difficult for him because of his age,” Jasper said.

“How has his training been going?” Jake asked.

“Good, he has not been exposed to any humans, you and Nessie are the closest thing he has been to anything remotely human.”

“You had him around Nessie?” Jake asked sounding angry.

“He has not tried to harm a hair on her head, in fact he seems to favor her the most,” Jasper said.

“Yeah because she isn’t up my ass all the time,” I muttered.

I forgot about the vampire hearing thing. Jasper glared at me again and the wolves laughed.

“How do you like being a vampire?” Seth asked.

“Be fine if I wasn’t stuck with this stiff all day,” I said.

Quil and Embry snickered, Jasper growled at me. “Man Jasper you have your hands full with this kid,” Embry said.

“Screw you Squanto,” I shot at him. “I may be a kid but at least I don’t look like I walked out of a fourth world country.”

They all glared at me, whether for the Squanto comment or the fourth world country comment I don’t know, or care.

“Watch it brat!” Leah growled.

“Am I bothered?” I asked.

“What?” she asked.

“Am I bothered though?” I asked.

“You should be.”

“But I’m not though, see look at my face.” I pointed at my face. “See not bothered.”

“I’m going tear you to pieces!”

“Still not bothered though.”

“Little blood sucker!”

“Face.”

“Shut up!”

“Bothered.”

“I will kill you!”

“Are you a transsexual?” I asked.

They all froze. Leah in anger and the guys in shock. “What did you say?”

“I asked if you were a transsexual, are you a post-opt or pre-opt, they take one off or put one on?”

“I am a girl you little shit!”

“Yeah what ever you say, never seen a girl look as butch as you though, you sure your not a dyke or something?”

“Jesus Christ.” Jasper said rubbing his head.

Leah began to shake. Like she was having a seizure or something. But her teeth were bared and she was glaring at me.

“Go Jasper get him out of here!” Jake was shouting.

Embry, Quil and Seth were trying to calm Leah down. I wanted to watch her turn into a werewolf, see if it was messy and painful like on the T.V. But Jasper grabbed my arm and we ran outside, all the way to the woods.

He shoved my arm away and I almost fell to the ground. “What is wrong with you!” he seethed. “Antagonizing a bunch of werewolves! What is wrong with you!”

“What? They started it,” I said.

“They did not! They did absolutely nothing to offend you; once again you let your emotions get the best of you!”

“They were staring at me! What was I supposed to do? Nothing?” I asked.

“YES! Exactly! Do nothing! You act like everyone is out to make fun of you or something! One day you’re going to mouth off to the wrong person and get hurt, or worse get someone else hurt. What if she had phased and one of the others had been home and she had hurt them? It’s like all you want is to be alone!”

I was starting to get pissed. An emotion I knew all to well I was also feeling guilt, I did not think of the others when I began to antagonize the wolves. “Maybe I do want to be alone,” I said.

“Maybe I want people to just leave me alone; I don’t want or need your pity!”

“What are you talking about?” he asked.

“I see how you and the others look at me, always with pity. Always pity or scorn!”

“Pity is not an emotion you should reject, we pity you yes because you are so young and yet you have no idea of what you have lost. And you have not been the most pleasant of late.”

“Fuck you!” I shouted.

“There you see, I try to tell you the truth and you can’t handle it. Why must you always be so confrontational?”

“Because it’s the only way I know how to be!” I shouted. “All I have ever known to be is confrontational. People have always beaten me down, made fun of me, insulted me. Why should you and the others be any different? My own mother made me feel like a freak what makes you so special?”

“I do not want to hurt you Jack, I did not bring you hear so you could be miserable, we aren’t sitting around plotting ways to hurt your feelings, you need to trust us,” he said.

Trust you! How can I trust you! How can I trust anyone, people are nothing but a bunch of lying, backstabbing, greedy bastards being a vampire makes you worse!”

It was true. My own family was a testament to that. My grandmother cheated her own father out of his garage. He lived right next door to his precious car shop and everyday he looked out his window or stepped out his door he was reminded what was stolen from him, right until the day he died. He was a prisoner in his own house; she was always up his ass never giving him a moment’s peace.

They all gossiped and spread ugly truths about one another, the only time they talked to each other was when they wanted something or to dig for information.

Why should the Cullens be any better? Jasper said all their human attributes are carried over and intensified. If the good bits are intensified then why not the bad? They act all nice on the outside but a few more days they’ll show their true colors.

Adults like to think the difference between them and children is wide as the grand canyon, but the truth is adults are children, just bigger and more blood thirsty.

Jasper walked up to me and took my shoulders, “I sense your cynicism, your jadedness. What made you this way?” he asked.

“Life,” I said. “A hard life full of cruel, cruel truth.”

He sighed. “Jack, what do you want? What can I do to show all I want is your happiness?”

“How about you and everyone else giving me some fucking space?” I asked.

“Jack, until you reign in your anger we can not trust to leave you alone.”

“Alice would see if I was going to try and do anything that would risk the family,” I argued.

“Her visions change; she did not see you and me, remember?”

“All I want is to be left alone, to go out and do what I want when I want,” I said.

“Until you can control your anger we can not even risk you going to school or interacting with humans in any way. We can’t even risk letting you hunt alone.”

I got fed up. It was like I had to live with all these rules and regulations. I felt trapped; a prisoner with no walls but rules stealing my freedom and happiness from me.

“You should have finished me off; you should have never allowed me to change!” I yelled.

I ran away from him. Once again I ran from him, ignoring his calls for me to stop. Screw him, screw everyone, I’m better off living by myself. As far away from everyone and everything.

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Jasper P.O.V

Damn it!

I tried calling out to him, tried to chase after him but he was to damn fast. Soon I lost sight of him, only following his scent. I tried calling his name but received no reply.

Soon I was no longer able to sense his emotions. The last I felt were fear, anger, loneliness, self-denial.

What ever the boy had experienced as a human was still haunting him as a vampire. What am I to do? I am responsible for him and yet I feel like I have failed before I even tried.

He is lost on an island of self exile and I do not know if I can reach him.

I realized with a start where his scent was leading, not Forks…La Push! Why would he go there? We told him not to enter their territory. Was he going to tell the wolves? Wait…did we ever tell him where the boarder was?

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Jack P.O.V

Great, just fucking great! What the fuck was I thinking! I just had to go and ruin everything!

I mean I was looking at eternity with a rich vampire family, now I’m looking at eternity chasing after squeals by myself in the woods.

Let’s see, poor vampire, rich vampire, which is better? But I just had to go and fuck it all up, as usual. And now here I was once again lost and wondering the woods lost and scared and pissed and…shit why does it smell like wet dog in these woods?

I swear ever since I hit a few miles back the smell just got stronger and stronger. It was like those werewolves only stronger. Shit. Makes me want to gag.

The sun was out, a rare occurrence in this misty back woods town. The trees were tall enough where they took up all the sun, only beams of light could shine through the sky. I stopped walking and stretched my arm into the sun beams. My skin sparkled like beads of diamond were embedded in my skin.

I sighed and pulled my hand back. To think last week I was wishing to escape my crappy life with my slosh of a mother. Now here I am wishing I was back. Being a vampire always seems much more fun in the books and movies.

My head is a war zone. All the anger and resentment I had buried inside of me has been watered and now it is growing out of my control. I wanted to trust Jasper and the Cullens, I really did. But every time I trust someone I get screwed.

Every time I told someone a secret then everyone knew my own mom would spill stuff she promised to keep a secret, even when she was sober. Even secrets I was supposed to keep and would tell her would be blabbed.

I mean it’s not like they will blab to anyone, who will they tell? But this little voice in my head was screaming ‘Don’t trust them’ the same little voice that made me shy and embarrassed to be around people.

I hated meeting new people; I always was afraid they wouldn’t like me or would find some fault in me and hate me for it. So I did my best to avoid people. I have always been a loner, always have, and always will.

Mt temper didn’t help much either. What can I say? Being raised by an angry drunk won’t help make you the most sociable person out there.

I was wondering how long before Jasper came to find me? I know he wont give up on me, he feels too guilty. (As he should) Plus I was a liability; if I ever blabbed then him and his family were toast. Luckily I knew how to keep secrets, unlike my family.

I was disturbed from my thoughts by the sound of a wolf howling close by. Something large came running my way. It was too big to be Jasper. Suddenly a wolf came running through the woods. It…was…huge! It was the size of a small horse. Its eyes were different though. They didn’t look like wolf eyes, they looked more human. And there was an intelligence in them you did not see in a wolf. Plus the smell was awful….and very familiar.

The wolf bared his teeth at me, teeth the size of daggers caught the sunlight. Then he ran at me. I thought he was a mere wolf, but I was wrong. When he leaped at me he was fast! Like vampire fast. I dodged him, almost not getting out of the way in time. Had I not moved he would be mauling me right now?

Lets see, familiar disgusting smell, to human eyes, vampire like speed.. It’s a werewolf! Why the fuck would a werewolf be attacking me? Was it Leah? Did she follow me because of the whole transsexual thing?

I remembered Jasper telling me there were two packs, Jake’s which was pro-vampire and that Sam guys who was anti-vampire. I remember him telling me about the treaty. I also remember him not telling me the boundary lines between the Cullens and wolves territories. Shit.

“Wait it’s not what you-”

He lunged at me again. Another near miss. I was getting pissed. My vampire instincts were kicking in. I hissed at the fucker and I felt venom pooling in my mouth. I remember Jasper saying our venom is venomous to these things. But if I killed him the rest might come down on the others. But if I did nothing he might kill me. So I turned tail and ran.

The wolf chased after me. I could hear him growl as he chased after me. I glanced behind and to my horror I saw he was gaining on me. Fuck! These things are fast. I knew he would catch me soon, he was gaining on me. I jumped to the side and rolled. Loving my new vampire reflexes as I did a cool roll followed by a jump that made me face him.

“Look fur ass! I am sorry I intruded on your turf I-” I meant to tell him I was new but wolf boy jumped me again.

I was seriously getting fed up with this bullshit! Fucking wolf thinks he is so cool. Well I’ll show him. I made a fist and swung it back just in time for it to connect with his face. He yelped in pain and went flying back. I grinned savoring my victory.

He got up shaking his head. He began to circle me, showing me his teeth. “Look I’m not trying to start some shit I am a friend of the Cullens, I’m the new guy, I didn’t mean to trespass, and I did not know I ran into your land!”

The wolf growled in response, I knew he didn’t believe me. He lunged at me and I tried to get under him. Trying to roll under him and try to run for it. But I miscalculated. The wolf saw what I was trying to do. It swiped at me with its paws as I passed. I felt the paws tear into my back and I screamed in pain. I could feel the claws tear into my flesh.

I hit the ground and screamed again. I turned around and saw the wolf staring at me. I thought for sure I was going to die then and there. The wolf would show no mercy, no compassion. It was going to kill me and there was nothing I could do to stop it. I did not want to die, I was still so young, I had so many things to see, so many things to do.

“Somebody help!” I screamed loud as I could. I confess it was a dumb move, plus with my pre-pubescent voice it sounded girly. Great, go out screaming like a bitch real nice Jack.

The wolf lunged and I was too terrified to even close my eyes. Then something jumped in front of me and the wolf. It was Jasper!

He used his arm to shield himself from the wolf but the wolf had clamped its jaw on Jaspers arm.

“Jasper!”

“Jack run!” he yelled.

I saw the teeth of the wolf digging into Jasper’s arm. Then the wolf jerked his head back and ripped Jaspers arm off. I stared in horror as his arm was ripped off. Jasper screamed in pain.

What have I done? This is all my fault. If I hadn’t been such a brat this would have never happened. Jasper would never have followed me here, never would have exposed himself like that. He was trying to protect me, he had always been trying to protect me and I was such a dick to him, now look where I brought him.

Jasper hissed at the wolf and back slapped him. Jaspers arm went flying from the wolfs mouth and landed next to me. The fingers still moved as if they were still attached.

I looked up and saw the wolf had Jasper pinned to the ground. Jasper was using his free hand to keep the wolf off him; I grabbed his arm and ran up to him and the wolf. I brought his arm down on the wolf’s head as hard as I could. The sound of the arm hitting the wolf’s head was like lightning.

The wolf fell forward. I hope I didn’t kill him. Jasper pushed him off. “Jasper I am soo sorry, I didn’t know I was running into their land and I didn’t mean to get you hurt!”

“It’s okay, but we need to get out of here, more wolves will show up soon,” he said.

“Here, let me help.” I knelt down and put his arm back against its socket. I watched fascinated as the ligaments and muscles began to retie and re-knit themselves back together.

“Your not going to kick me out are you?” I asked.

“For what?” he asked raising an eye brow.

“The family. I’m sorry for everything. I just can’t help it. There’s something in me, its angry, mad, pissed off. I just can’t trust other people, I wish I could but...”

“Jack, you need to start trusting me. To start trusting all of us. All we want is what is best for you, to make you a part of our family, to help you control your hunger so one day you can go where ever you want and not need us with you.” He put his hand on my shoulder and for once I did not shrug it off. “We just want to help.”

“I have gone so long watching others back stab one another after they made such promises, I don’t know if I can just believe all that.”

“Then we’ll work things out, I want you to open up to me more, tell me more about your past, help me understand why you are the way you are so I can better help you adapt to your new life.”

“I’m sorry Jasper, I’m so sorry!” I grabbed him in a tight hug and cried into his shoulder. The stress of the last week finally came crushing through.

After all I put him through he still wanted to help me, to be my friend. I cried in his shoulder, no tears though, just me sobbing with dry eyes.

“Are you hurt?” Jasper asked.

“Fucker got my back but I’m okay, what about you? How is your arm?” I asked.

He showed me his arm, it was fully healed, not a mark on him. “Shit!” I said.

“Werewolf claws can scratch us up but it won’t leave scars,” he said.

Just then the sound of something large was coming our way. More werewolves! We got up and five werewolves came rushing in, growling and snarling. One was silver, one was chocolate brown, one was sandy yellow, one was silver with brown spots and the last and largest of the wolves was a russet red.

“Shit!” I said.

“Don’t worry, it’s Jake and the others,” Jasper said.

The big wolf hid behind some bushes that barely covered it. Something strange happened; the wolf seemed to shrink disappearing from view. Then Jake came walking into view wearing a pair of Jean shorts.

“We heard the howl and thought it might be you, you did a real number on Brady,” he said.

“I tried to tell the fucker it was a mistake but he kept on jumping at me, he even tore Jasper’s arm off!” I said.

“I am partially to blame, I never told him where the border was,” Jasper said.

Jake sighed and checked on Brady who was still in wolf form. “He’s alive, just knocked out; Sam isn’t going to like this.”

“I’m sorry, I’ll apologize personally if it will help,” I said.

“It wont, he’ll raise all sorts of hell about this,” Jake said. “You two best go, I’ll have Seth and Embry escort you back to the mansion.”

We got up and the sandy wolf and the silver wolf with the brown spots came up to us. “I’m sorry for the Squanto remark and the fourth world country,” I said. I looked to the chocolate brown wolf. “And I’m sorry for calling you a transsexual,” I said to Leah.

The wolf growled at me and the wolves chuckled. “That’s not Leah, that’s Quil,” Jake smiled.

“Oh sorry pedo no offense.”

Jasper sighed. “You were making such progress.”

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Jasper Diary

The meeting with the wolves went worse then what I expected, but it may have been for the best. Since yesterday Jack has become more open with us. He is still stand offish but he is not as easily offended as before.

After I saved his life I think it showed him we are not trying to hold him back but take care of him. He is still incapable of having a civilized conversation with out swearing more then three times. We have decided to set up a system, every time someone in the house swears they must put a quarter in the swear jar.

We have it so everyone must do it to make it fair. Jack has already put fifty dollars worth in the jar.

Sam was indeed quite upset with what happened. He came to the house to remind us of the treaty and promised that if it ever happened again there would be consequences.

Jack seems to have warmed up to Carlisle and Esme. Esme he helps in the garden now helping her plant flowers and has been more invested in his studies with Carlisle.

He still is a smart mouth and still gets snippy; only know he apologizes for his actions. I think we have made progress, I think the near death experience in the woods has forced him to see past his insecurities and fears of trust and family.

It was an unfortunate incident but it did force a bonding between us. He isn’t the most welcoming person still but he is now trying to open himself up to us. I am hoping we can soon play a game when the thunder comes, some good family baseball might help.

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Jack P.O.V

I sat in my room reading a book.

It was the night after the little incident with Jasper and the wolf in the woods. For once I was alone. No one was hovering over me, no one was watching over me, just a little bit of freedom.

I heard the sound of a quick heart beating slowly getting closer and then there was a nock on my door. I already knew who it was and opened the door. Nessie.

“Hi Jack,” she whispered walking in.

“Come in why don’t you make yourself at home,” I said sarcastically as she sat on my bed. I know I don’t sleep but some habits don’t die so easily. “Shouldn’t you be asleep? It’s ten.”

Nessie was sleeping over. Jake had thirty left minutes ago after he tucked her away. I could never be in the same room as Jake and Nessie. The whole imprint thing was to fucking weird. They say he has nothing romantic in mind, they say he is just a big brother. But I just can’t approve of it…personal reasons.

Edward and Bella were over at their cabin. They had Nessie come over tonight for some…private time. Ah love, makes me sick to my ass.

“I’m not sleepy, I want to talk to you!” she said excitedly.

“Shh, keep it down!” I hissed.

“Please, I am bored, I can’t sleep,” she begged.

“Fine, but you have better not get me in trouble,” I said.

“Thank you,” she smiled. “I’m glad you’re with us now, being the only young one sucked.”

“Just so happy I can make you feel better,” I said dryly closing my door.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings,” she said looking sad.

I sighed. “It’s okay, still trying to get used to the whole idea of being twelve for all eternity. I am envy you one thing. You age, one day you’ll be full grown and can go to high school or college, get your own car and drive, go out to some fancy smanshey club with the rest of the family…not me.”

“Funny, I envy you,” she said.

“Why?” I asked.

“You’re a full vampire at least, no matter how old I get I will always be a half vampire,” her face fell. “I’m stuck between human and vampires for the rest of my days. I’ll never be as powerful as a vampire, but I will always be more powerful then humans. I will never know what it is like to be a human, so frail, so delicate, so easy to die, living on borrowed time. Nor will I know what it is to be a vampire, so strong, so powerful, to be a king and live under your own power. You may be twelve, but I would be one and a half vampire. You’ll always be better then me, even when I am fully grown.”

I walked up to her and made her look me in the eye. “It doesn’t matter who or what you are Nessie, I may be a vampire and I may have powers you don’t, but no matter how stronger someone is that does not make them any better then someone else. Where I come from people thought having the most money or some material thing made you better. But it didn’t. It just made them a bunch of selfish and greedy bast-I mean jerks. Being strong or powerful doesn’t make you better, it’s your choices.”

She smiled. “I still wish I could be a vampire though, I can never fight alongside my family. I’ll always have to go to the sidelines because I may be able to fight an army of humans, but I can never stand against a single vampire.”

“Funny isn’t it? I envy you for being a half-vampire, you envy me for being a full vampire,” I said. “Oh and I envy you for having a power.”

She laughed. “Being able to show my memories to others isn’t useful as the others,” she said.

“So? You can show people your thoughts, your feelings. Most people spend their lives trying to show others their point of view, to show others how they see the world; you can do it with a mere touch.”

“Thanks for making me feel better,” she said.

“Come here, let me show you something.” I said.

She got up and followed me to my book case. I grabbed a book and opened it up to the page I was looking for. “See this?” I said showing it to her.

“What is it?” she asked looking at the picture.

The picture was of a young boy asleep on a bed. He wore Greek cloths and was asleep on a Greek bed, there was little light but you could see a small butterfly floating above him.

“It is Thanatos he is the personification of death in Greek mythology. Butterflies were one of his symbols. In Japanese mythologies Butterflies are the symbols of life,” I said. “Just think, something so small and frail can be used to represent life or death, and then imagine what a frail little half vampire can do.”

She beamed at me, her little smile was infectious and soon I was smiling to. I tucked her into bed and showed her pictures of different breeds of butterflies. Explaining to her how they start as eggs, then caterpillars, then the cocoon, then Butterflies.

By midnight she was asleep. I pulled the covers over her making her more comfortable. I went to my desk and began to read my book again. Nessie did smell good to my senses. So good. A part of me thought of taking a small sip of her blood, just to see what it was like. I quickly put those thoughts away. She didn’t smell that good, thank god her vampire bits made her smell not so appealing.

I admit she smelled a lot better then the werewolves but I knew, or rather the vampire instincts I know had knew human blood was sooooo much better. The thought of it made my mouth water with venom. My god if this is what she smells like then what would a real human be like? No way would I be able to resist.

I know all the Cullens had to fight off the urge to drink. It was always there, every second of everyday. Some had better control then others, like Bella and Carlisle. Others like Jasper and Emmett however did not.

How Carlisle could stand being around blood was a mystery to me. He may be able to resist drinking it but he still felt the pull to it. The desire to drink and drink and drink. That took him years to perfect. Years before I would be able to go to school, years before I could wonder alone.

Not that I could be seen for a while anyway. They were still looking for me back in Oregon. I had been on the local news and everything. I never watched the videos. Last thing I needed to see was my mom tearfully crying for me to come home safely.

A loud bang made me turn to the window. Nessie shot up, half asleep, half awake.

“What izzit?” she asked.

“I don’t know, stay there,” I said. I could hear the sound of a tiny heart beat faster then Nessies. I could smell something birdlike outside. I opened the door and found a small bird, it’s neck was bent oddly.

I picked the poor thing up, watching as its chest rose and fell, unable to move. “Just a bird, dumb thing flew right into the window.” I said.

Nessie got out of bed and ran over to me.

“Oh, poor thing,” she said.

Poor thing was right. Its heart was slowing down. I knew it was going to die. Broken necks to that. Might have also got some internal bleeding. Poor thing. Minding its own business got a little careless and now here it is dying in my cold lifeless hands.

Is it afraid now? Is it frantic being unable to move? Is it afraid to die? Can it already see a light at the end of a tunnel?

I felt something strange happen in my hands. It was like some warm invisible heat had gathered in my hands. The bird’s heart began to pick up and it began to twitch. Within a few seconds it flew out of my hands and flew around the room. Knocking down books and hitting the wall causing a loud Bump every time.

The door opened and Jasper stood in the door way with Alice. “What’s going on? Nessie why aren’t you in bed?…Why is there a bird in here?” he asked.

I opened the window wider and waved my arms at the bird to make it fly out the window. It flew out and I shut the window.

“Well I guess you have one less thing to envy me for,” Nessie said with a smile.

She was right. I healed that bird. I have the power to heal others!..

I still would have liked laser beams. Then I could have shot down that damn bird

Fusedtwilight: That went pretty good. I hope you all like Jacks power, lets just say there’s more to his healing then you think. Please review.
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