Twilight: A New Story

INTRO

My name is Molly Cullen. I was born on the seventeenth of February, 1662. My father is called Carlisle Cullen but he died fourteen years ago, just after I was born. No one knows how he died or even where his body is, but still no one would take me in. He was twenty-three when he died, not that old. He would have been thirty-seven this year.

Anyway, by now I know how to survive by myself. I know all the good spots for water and the animals with better nutritional value. When not to provoke an animal and which animals not to go near.

Today, unfortunately, my luck ran out. I was out hunting for some deer when a pack of wolves took me by surprise. I had no chance. They jumped onto my back and started ripping at my throat. Then they disappeared. Something must have scared them off. I was bleeding really badly now and I accepted it was over.

Then, a man was standing over me. He had blond hair, golden eyes and was pale skinned. He didn't look too old either. My guess was he was an angel come to take me away.

Suddenly I was in excruciating pain. The angel man lifted me up and took me away. I screamed and he looked down with me with a look of sadness. Then, I blacked out...

~*~

It turned out that the angel man was my dad, Carlisle. He hadn't died, he had turned into a vampire and he saw me bleeding to death and recognised me. He turned me into a vampire too and we travelled the world together. We left England and went to Scotland, then travelled to Germany and France then Spain. That wasn't the best idea as it was incredibly sunny there and, being vampires, we sparkled in the sunlight. Yeah, I know.

After a while we split up. Carlisle went to Italy to join the Volturi, pretty much the vampire cops, and he explained to me I couldn't go with him. I was an immortal child. I changed into a vampire while I was young and the Volturi don't allow that as I shouldn't have been able to learn. I shouldn't know what was right or wrong and I should be acting like a moody teenager who likes to go against authority and never listens to anyone, I just don't. But the Volturi would still try and kill me and Carlisle, so I had to stay behind.

I moved back to Scotland for a while. Away from everyone else, I stayed in the forests. Carlisle had taught me to only drink the blood of animals and how to control myself around humans. Only drinking animal blood was the reason our eyes were golden when they should have been red, like most other vampires who drank human blood.

I travelled the world during the time I was separated from Carlisle. I made many acquaintances from many different places and from that I heard word about Carlisle. He had left the Volturi and was seeking out other 'vegetarian' vampires. I occasionally wondered if he would ever look for me again and as I thought of that, I decided to go back to Scotland.

~*~

I sat with my head against a rock. I had nothing to do.

'Molly? Are you ready to go to America?' came a voice and I started.

It was Carlisle. I frowned. How could I not have smelt him? I quickly jumped up and we ran out the forest. We had vampire super speed so we could pretty much walk across water. This is what we did. We ran all the way across the ocean to Chicago. Carlisle became a doctor and I went to school, like normal humans do. He had been away for a long time and seemed to be more solemn than I had remembered him. He seemed lonely too. Not the Carlisle I remembered. I often went to the hospital and helped him with patients and I noticed that the nurses were constantly trying to get his attention to flirt with him, which was slightly awkward from my point of view.

A few years after we had moved there, Carlisle treated a patient for Spanish Influenza. The patients' mother had died of it and he was dying too. His name was Edward Mason and he was only seventeen. His mother had told Carlisle to do anything to save Edward so he changed him. I felt pity for Edward. He didn't know who he was anymore and he couldn't accept our diet of animal blood. He left us soon after and began to drink criminals blood, not innocent people.

A few years later Edward came back and we had a happy life. About a decade after Edward's transformation Carlisle turned Esme, his mate, then later on Rosalie and Emmett, who were mates, and Alice and Jasper, who were already turned, joined us too. Edward could read minds, Jasper could control emotions and Alice could see the future, too. Talk about a strange bunch.

I also had a special ability. It was completely different to everyone else's and I suppose it shouldn't have been possible but I could do it. Anyone I knew or had seen in my life, I could take their ability. They were still able to use it, but I had it for a while too. Anytime I wanted that ability, I just had to think of that person and their ability and I had it. I hadn't told anyone about this and I avoided thinking about it whilst Edward was around. I wasn't sure how they would take it.

Anyway, for the next few years we lived a reasonably peaceful life. We went in between different countries but that was normal. Everything was fine until we moved back to Forks, Washington again...