Twist of Intuition (Twilight: Emmett Cullen/OC)

Chapter 11

1902 Amazon Rainforest. South America.

10 years later.

Like with the Irish coven I ended up staying with the Amazon Coven. I had planned on going to America and I had definitely taken a wrong turn somewhere but South America had the America part right. I really liked it here and was glad that I ended up here instead. It took some time and I think convincing on Zafrina's part but Senna and Kachiri warmed up to me. I tried to get them on the animal blood like I was but they refused. They respected the forest too much to kill the animals that called it home. How they saw killing humans as the better option was beyond me; but I wasn't here to judge them. They ended up teaching me how to skin an animal, usually the ones that I had killed. A very unpleasant experience. On the bright side I got clothing that actually fit me. My days were mostly spent exploring the forest with one of the three as my guide.

They showed me some magnificent places that would only be accessible by a vampire. I wasn't sure why but being here I felt so much more peace than anywhere else I had ever been. I've deduced it has something with drinking animal blood instead of human. The human blood makes you so ravenous and blood crazy that you don't care or think about anything but the blood. With animal blood it's different. Less. That's not to say I don't go blood crazy for the animal blood because I do; but I can think about things while I do it. The other thing is my gift. There are so many plants and animals here that I've been able to make it stronger and understand it even better. I tried explaining to Zafrina in more detail the way I saw things but it only made her more confused. She and I had created a bit of a deeper bond than the ones I had with her adoptive sisters. We both had an extra gift and that let us bond in a way that we couldn't with the others. Meeting Zafrina also taught me that not all vampires with gifts have an evil intent like all the ones I had met before her.

The Amazon coven was all out hunting today and since I didn't partake in human blood anymore I went off on my own. I have been following the spotted cat all day that I had favored. I wanted to try and name her but nothing ever fit. It was hard to figure out what year it was but I think it is 1902. I left Ireland in 1889 so that means I've been in the Amazon a little bit over thirteen years now. It had taken me an entire year to swim from Ireland to South America. I wasn't in any hurry to travel back there though. I was happy here.

Two months later.

The four of us sat inside the small hut each of us stuck in our own heads.

"Could I ask you for a favor?" I ask them suddenly.

"Of course." Zafrina answered for them as she sat behind me and braided my hair.

"I want to test my control around humans." I said

Two pairs of red eyes snapped up to stare into my golden ones and Zafrinas hands stopped moving. "I haven't been around a human in almost three years. I don't want to hurt anyone so I want you to stop me if I look like I'm going to attack them." I explained.

"We will do this." Kachiri said nodding.

"Thank you." I said smiling at them and touching Zafrinas arm behind me.

"When?" Senna asked.

"In a few days." I replied.

We said nothing more as Zafrina started back to braiding my hair with beads, Senna and Kachiri going back to whatever it was they were also doing with beads. Making jewelry perhaps? I hadn't been around humans or their blood in thirteen years. I didn't know what would happen if I suddenly came across them, so in asking them to restrain me should things go wrong I was helping myself. I loved the amazon but I didn't want to stay here forever no matter how beautiful it is. If I couldn't restrain my thirst for human blood than I could never rejoin human society which was my plan now that I no longer had red eyes. Obviously I didn't look very human still without the red eyes but it was closer. I couldn't be human again but that didn't mean I couldn't pretend.