Twist of Intuition (Twilight: Emmett Cullen/OC)

Chapter 10

I lost track of exactly how long I've been in the water. Long enough for my clothing to start deteriorating. I was also starving so that meant it was over a month since I left Ireland. It was okay at first but I kept getting more and more confused. The currents kept pulling me to my left and away from the direction I wanted to go in. I fought against them at first but now I didn't understand why I would. I was insane for deciding to swim across the ocean. The storms and currents were much stronger in the middle of nowhere than they were around England and Ireland.

I think it's been three months now, possibly four. I lost my clothes a few nights or mornings ago. I wasn't too worried about being naked in the ocean. There was no one around I kept checking with my gift to find a boat around me so that I could feed from people but all that was around me was the greens of the ocean and its animals. That was another thing I had seen. The strangest creatures would swim around me. I had never seen anything like them before and I was utterly fascinated.

I've been in the ocean nine months now. I tried keeping close to the surface of the ocean at night so that I could use the moon as a sense of time. It didn't always work though because clouds often obscured my view so I was left with only guessing. I wanted blood so badly it was driving me insane so I stopped counting the days and instead kept swimming. I went deeper one day because the sun was up and even if no humans were around I didn't feel like shining in the sun today. As I went deeper I could see bigger green auras surround me and didn't think much of it until something slimy slammed into me. I turned around and watched as an animal's large jaw opened revealing hundreds of sharp teeth. In reflex I put my arm out in front of my face and the creatures jaw snapped on my arm. It didn't hurt me but its teeth broke from the impact. It backed away from me swinging its head back and forth so it must hurt a lot to bite a vampire's skin. I watched it writhe in pain and took pity on it so I swam over wrapped my hands around it, not even getting half way and squeezed instantly killing it.

As I let go of it I swallowed a mouthful of water that made my eyes widen. Blood was in the water around me but I didn't know where it was from. There was no yellow and I took another mouthful of the salty water trying to identify it. This blood tasted similar to humans but different. I then realized the blood was coming from this strange grey animal that now floated down to the ocean floor. I wasn't sure what possessed me to do it but all I knew was that it was blood and it was getting away. I pushed myself to it and without a moment's hesitation sunk my teeth in its skin. Blood exploded in my mouth and I was in heaven. Then the blood flow stopped and I was left with a carcass. I pushed it away from me and using my gift searched for any other creatures I could feed on. There wasnt anything I could sense so I swam to the surface and checked the suns position before I righted myself and swan in the direction of America. I felt better but I needed much more blood than the small amount I had gotten from that creature.

I soon found a group of creatures similar to the one I had first drank from but these were different and instead of trying to eat me they seemed to be playing with me. I felt very sad with what I was about to do but like that creature before I was a predator and I latched myself on to one of these creatures and drank from it then quickly did the same with all the others. My mind was now clear and I wasn't that hungry anymore. As I continued on my way I thought about what I had just done. I had killed animals and quenched my thirst, it was not as appealing as human blood but I found myself to be satisfied.

As I swam when I was hungry I fed from the creatures that were all around me. I quickly regained my strength and had time to think of things more clearly now. In America there would be animals that I could feed off. It meant that I didn't have to feed off of people anymore. I wouldn't have the power to decide who lived and who died. It would be hard to switch from human blood to animal blood. Even now I still wanted human blood over everything else even though I was satisfied. I could do things in two ways one of them would be to get away completely from human blood and only drink from animals or slowly wean myself off human blood and drink animal blood. I wasn't exactly sure which one it would be, it would depend on which part of America I arrived at and how many people were around. I was going to try the animal blood only when I finally arrived there. I couldn't believe no one had thought about drinking animal blood instead of human before this.