Summery: Strength can be masked with beauty…

Yet undeniably, it is still there…

My name is Isabella Swan…

And I am a Vampire.

Disclaimer:I do NOT, I repeat, NOT, own twilight :)

I sat there looking out the passenger window as we drove past an endless amount of green.

I sighed making the glass fog up, and looked up at the ceiling; I couldn't help but think of what got me in here in the first place.

My name is Isabella Swan, but please call me Bella. I was born in Phoenix, Arizona September 13,1815.

My parents Renee and Charlie Swan were forced into marriage at 18 years of age, having me a year later.

As a child I was always adventures -though still a huge klutz-, loved learning new things, and looked for the beauty within everything.

I had a wonderful childhood, a lot of friends, two loving parents, a beautiful sunny landscape to gaze upon, and a great education, but soon the depression hit our town nad with it a new

way of living. On my 10th birthday, both my parents lost their jobs, leaving us broke, homeless, and on the streets (what a wonderful birthday gift).

We moved from town to town, working and eating when we could. By the time I was 16 we were in Forks, Washington and I was extremely ill.

The doctors said that it was lung cancer (most likely caused by my love of train hoping), and put me in the hospital saying I had only one year to live.

Doctor Carmen Henry (aka. The lady who made me what I am today) was the only doctor who cared enough to try and help me not die.

She has honey blonde shoulder length hair, smooth jaw line, chiseled nose, white skin, and curves that could lower a models self esteem.

She was, well, is a very skilled doctor, whom undeniably knows what she's doing when it comes to the medical field.

We became close and when my mother met a well endowed entrepreneur and decided to move back to Phoenix - and leave my father and I behind - she became a mother figure.

She had tried everything medically possible to cure my the cancer but nothing worked. Little did we know there was actually something that could cure the cancer, but it wasn't at all medical related.

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The day after my 17th birthday Dr. Carmen came in for my usual check up, at least that's what I thought

Flashback

"Good morning dear, how are you feeling?" I looked up and my eyes were met with a pair of gorgeous topaz ones, which today seemed to be hiding something.

"I'm doing well Carmen, thank you, and how may I ask, are you?" I replied truly thankful, and curios as to what she could be hiding.

"I'm doing fine dear, but.." she paused "What is it Carmen?" I asked, worried

"Oh don't worry dear, Its nothing bad… at least not the bad your probably thinking of." she told me

"well than what is it?" I asked getting rather anxious. "Well dear, you aren't getting any better." she sighed.

(this is it, she's going to tell me that I'm going to die soon. I know I was told I would die a year ago , but when It's right around the corner its rather depressing) I thought to myself.

"but, I know how to make it go away…" she finished, catching me completely off guard.

I gawked at her, I'm sure disbelief evident in my gaze. (Is she kidding?! She had just moments ago told me I wasn't getting any better.

Was she trying to give me false hope?! I love Carmen like I do my mother, and she had said before that I was like a daughter to her,

but would she lie to me about such a serious thing??)

While I was thinking this, Carmen stood there - looking eerily similar to a statue - waiting for me to say something.

"Are you joking?" I finally asked "Of course not Isabella!!"

(She rarely ever calls me by my name. So she isn't joking after all!! Maybe I wont die yet after all!!)

After coming to that conclusion I was filled with excitement. "So I don't have to die yet?" I asked hope laced within my words.

" I didn't say you wouldn't die… per say," she said barely above a whisper, but I still heard her.

I couldn't speak, or even think for that matter. To say I was shocked would be an understatement, It was more like a combination of shock,

confusion, betrayal, and most of all, curiosity. " Bella…dear?" she sighed. I nodded signaling her to continue.

"I have a secret - a rather large secret actually - but dear you have to promise to tell no one of this secret, not even your father."

I thought this over taking into consideration what she was saying, and decided I wouldn't tell any one of what she was about to tell me, what ever it was.

"Carmen, I promise" she looked at me skeptically, then nodded to herself. "might as well just cut to the chase," she mumbled to herself, while I looked at her expectantly.

"Dear, I'm a vampire" I looked at her, and somehow saw that it really was the truth,

and I wasn't scared one bit by this incredible new piece of information. "Okay… but, how exactly does this help me?" I asked.

She chuckled, saying something about how my reaction wasn't quit expected, but still answered, " Bella" she sighed "The only way the cancer will leave is… if you became a vampire as well, otherwise you will most likely pass away in the next three months or so, but the decision is yours to make…" she trailed off leaving me to decide

.(Well lets go over my options shall we. One: die within the next few months OR, Two: become a Vampire, a creature that was supposed to be mythical….

What to do, what to do,… well dying is not appealing in the slightest, but either is becoming a creature that feeds on blood…

but for some unknown reason, I feel like, if I become a vampire, that I wont regret it, because the world has something planned for me in the future… ) "Carmen?" "Yes

sweetheart?" "Can I ask you a few questions before I decide?" I asked "Of course dear, ask away"

"Why are your eyes Topaz, shouldn't they be red?" a smile spread on her face "That's because I feed off of animals blood," she stated proudly

"a vampires eyes only stay red if they feed off of humans."

"okay, do vampires really burn in the sun?" "No, we do sparkle though." she replied

"do they die when staked?" I asked truly curios, she laughed then answered " no dear that purely myth, we only die when set on fire…" she answered.

I decided to get the rest of my questions out at once, for this was taking too long for my liking.

"How old are you? How did you become a vampire? Do vampires have powers?!!!" I rushed out.

Carmen looked very amused, and smirked because of my sudden outburst, but answered nun-the-less. " Physically I am 26, and actually today is my 223rd birthday-"

"oh.. well Happy Birthday!" I replied rather enthusiastically. Carmen chuckled but went back to talking

"Why thank you dear. Now where were we.. OH Yes! Okay, well I was changed by my mate Zachery Henry, even during his newborn years he fed on animals,

but he says my blood sang to him, I was his 'La tua cantante' and he couldn't help but come after me…" her eyes began to glaze over slightly as she continued

"Mid-feed he looked down at me, and stopped, he felt horrible, and took me to where he was staying, where I endured three days of excruciating pain,

I screamed in agony, for it was the worst pain anyone could ever have to endure, but each of those days he spent looking after me…"

she trailed off and I heard her whisper "Mi Amore"(my love) with a small smile on her face… She finally looked up at me and continued

" As for the powers - minus strength hearing and speed - only some vampires have them, Aro of the Volturi - a group of vampires with many abilities,

focused on keeping our existence secrete - has the ability to see all thoughts a person has ever had with only one touch"

she looked at me then answered my unspoken question "And as for me, I can sense wither someone is telling the truth or not."

I looked at her for what seemed like days then finally I told her my decision "Carmen I want to become a vampire" she looked in my eyes and she knew I really did want this…

Carmen wasn't lying about the pain of the change either, I mean I never really thought she was lying but experiencing it is totally different compared to just hearing about it.

But what surprised me completely was when she told me I never screamed once during the change.

She said, and I quote "You looked extremely peaceful, you just lay there, like nothing was happening, while we heard your heart beat slowly fade away."

Right after the change Carmen and Zach taught me "The way of the Vegetarian," well at least that's how Carmen puts it.

Over time Zach became as much a father to me as Carmen was a mother. He, just like Carmen has honey blonde hair -his going down to his squared jaw line-

he has a perfectly chiseled nose, and like Carmen and I, white skin. Zach's ability is doing anything evolving the mind;

erase memory, read minds, move things, insert a memory, he could also see every thought they had (without having to touch them).

Now you ask what is my ability? Well I have several, the main one being my shield.

My shield blocks out ANY power whither it be mental, physical, emotional etc., no power can be used on me.

But the coolest part about my shield is that it can absorb the powers of others. Of course they still get to keep their power, but so do I.

I currently have the ability to do anything with the mind, sense when someone is lying, see peoples pasts, predict the future precisely, turn human,

persuade people, control the weather, and I have hearing, strength, and speed more advanced than a normal vamp.

"Sweetheart…Bella…Bella!!!!" exclaimed my mother (Carmen) as we pulled into the driveway of a beautiful cream colored house.

We were currently in Forks, Washington, the place were my vampire life began. I was going to attend Forks High School as a junior,

while my mother worked at the local hospital, and Zach, well he was just going to stay home. "Yeah mom?" I asked

"Bella dear we're here" my mom said "Yes I can see that mother" I replied with a smirk,

she rolled her eyes and smiled You and your sarcasm thought my mom "Come on mija (daughter), lets go inside"

she said "Mom, did that vacation to Mexico get to you?" Once again she rolled her eyes, and we got out of my gorgeous black on black Austin Martin Db9

"Excited to see dad are we?" She looked at me smile placed on her face and thought but of course my dear daughter

and we both laughed getting our stuff out of the trunk, then entered our new home....

AN: Thank you guys for reading. This is my first fanfic, and I would really apriciate it if you reviewed.

kay PEACE :)

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