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Prologue

(BPOV)

I never believed in the supernatural. Never believed that there was something up higher on the food chain than what we were lead to believe. That all changed when my Mother and Phil moved us to Texas when Phil got a job promotion to the coach of the Texas Rangers. We were all very proud of him. It was a toss up between Florida and Texas and in the end, Phil chose Texas.

There was debate for awhile of me moving to my Dad's in Washington so I could give my Mom and Step Dad some time together, but she wouldn't hear of it. She said that the house we are moving into has a small guest house so I wouldn't be a bother. I agreed to stay in the end. Fork's wasn't really my cup of tea anyways.

I spent my junior year of high school in Texas and enjoyed the year. I made a lot of good friends and even had one boyfriend, however Renee and Phil were never home. They were always traveling for Phil's job, or away on vacation or some new fad that Renee wanted to try. She was always a child in an adult's body. Until Phil came along, I was the one who collected her money from her work from her and paid the bills and cooked the meals. I didn't mind the latter too much. She was always a terrible cook.

At the end of the year, a couple of my friends ended up dragging me to a party for the graduating seniors and their friends. The party was rockin and drinks were over flowing. I made sure to steady myself, but still ended up with an enjoyable buzz.

Out of no where, an extremely georgous man casually bumped into me and we got to talking. His name was Jason and he looked to be about twenty. His hair was a bright blonde and curly and had, what I could only guess at the time, to be red contacts. He was built like a super star and I couldn't believe he would even talk to me, let alone be interested in me. He reminded me of my favorite war hero from the Civil War, Jasper Whitlock. Normally I don't do one night stands, but just this once I threw caution to the wind and decided to go home with him.

We had a night of passion that went on well into the next morning. He was a complete gentleman and took me home to my guest house. He wanted me to give him my number, so I invited him inside for a moment so I could write down my number. He said forgot his cell phone on his nightstand.

I finished writting it down on a post it for him, then pealed it off and folded it in forths. I turned around and went to hand it to him, but stopped dead in my tracks. He wore a sadistic smirk on his face and his eyes were now pitch black. As hee began advancing on me, I began backing up. He lunged faster than I could comprehend, but I was not going down without a fight. We fought briefly, but it was no use. He was impossibly fast and strong. I even tried to stab him with a knife, but it only broke the blade without even piercing his skin. He had me against the wall by my throat and was smelling my neck, when two more people appeared and proceeded to pull him off of me. They killed him in the oddest way (to me anyways) by him by tearing him apart and then took him out to the woods that was behind our house and burned him.

My saviors were named Peter and Charlotte Whitlock. They both had red eyes that I learned were in fact NOT contacts. Peter had sandy blonde hair and Charlotte had natural bleach blonde hair. They were inhumanly beautiful, just like Jason was.

They proceeded to tell me about vampires and their stories about how they became who they are today. I was amazed, and I believed them immediately, considering I had the proof demonstrated before me, via Jason's attack.

They told me that Peter had a gift of knowing things, and that his gift insisted that I needed to be saved. He wasn't sure why yet, just that it was important. Charlotte had a gift of seeing mating bonds. They told me all about soul mates and what it meant to be mated. I learned about the Volturi and the vampire laws, the immortal children...everything. Peter said that it was important that I learn about all of this, but once again, he didn't know why.

When I asked about Jason, they told me that he was actually their sire's great-great however many times over grandson. That Maria, the person who's army they were created to be apart of at the time, was trying to replace her Major with another from his blood line since he ended up being so powerful. He was known as the God of War. They told me all about him and his alter egos. He sounded like such an amazing person. Someone I would love to meet one day. Imagine my suprise when I discover that he was the same Jasper Whitlock from Civil War? He was someone I always loved to learn about ever since I learned about him. History was always a favorite subject of mine and my small library consisted of books about history and classics, such as Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austin books, Call Me Ishmale, and so many more. After a few hours, Peter and Char left with promises to see me again soon and reminded me to keep their secret. I swore that keeping their secret was the least I could do since they saved my life. Even if I was to blab it to someone, I would probibally just end up in a padded cell.

Two weeks went by and I found myself very ill. I would throw up everything I ate and had cravings for the weirdest things. Especially really rare meat. It was then that Peter and Char showed up out of the blue and proceeded to tell me that I was pregnant with Jason's child. Something that they didn't know was possible until a few months prior, when Peter's gift had them arriving in South America where they met with a half vampire, half human hybrid and his coven of full vampires. I almost fainted when I learned how the baby was born, killing it's mother and I began to get very panicky. But they said not to worry, that they weren't going to let anything happen to me, no matter what. Peter promised me that I would live through this no matter what I decided to do about the pregnancy.

When I was six, I had an accident on my bicycle. I ended up badly scraped up and had some internal damages. Since then, I was always told I couldn't have kids. Realizing that this may be my only chance, I decided to keep the baby and agreed that when the time came in two months, they could change me into a vampire. The only catch was that I had to leave with them now. I was to tell my mother and Phil that I am spending the summer touring colleges with friends, because the baby is going to develope far faster than a regular baby and it would be noticible to others. Not only that, but I couldn't let any close friends or family find out that I was pregnant. I would also need special nutriants that were far from normal for anyone to ingest, pregnant or not.

The two months passed quickly. I had to drink donated blood from a cup and eat plenty of rare meats. The baby was also very strong and broke four of my ribs through out the pregnancy. There was also something that was the equivilant to vampire skin surrounding the womb, making it impossible to determine the sex of the baby.

Finally, on August 5th, I delivered my daughter. Peter performed an emergency C-Section because she got twisted around and kicked my spine, paralyzing me from the waist down. I got to hold my daughter for about thirty seconds before I began to black out from blood loss. Peter bit me and I spent three gruling days going through the transformation from human to vampire. I suffered in silence, for I knew screaming would do me no good and would only give me more pain in my throat.

When I woke up, I astonished them by my controlled manner and lack of blood lust as I partook in their diet of criminals and occasionally the deathly ill. I liked that I was able to help people by stopping a rape or murder in progress and bringing the crime rate on other criminal activities down. I also had no problem what so ever around my half human daughter, who I named Miley Renee Whitlock. I too had to adopt the Whitlock name for the time being. I didn't mind that, because in all honesty, I wanted to have the same last name as my other coven member's and felt honored to use it.

We learned quickly that I had a very useful gift. I was what was known as a shield, and from what Peter says, a very powerful one. He explained that shields themselves were rare to find and that he has only ever known of one other one or two who was only a physical shield to cover himself or a mental shield and had to have physical contact with who she was shielding in order for it to work. I could shield someone mentally and physically. We also discovered that whoever I was shielding, if they had a gift, it became mine to use for as long as they remained under one of my shields. If I have shielded them before, if they were in the immediate area where I could sense them (which, with my shield, was a much larger range than any normal vampire could) I could pull their power or shield them without having to see them..

Miley also showed the signs of having a rather remarkable gift. She could touch you and project her thoughts or pictures. Peter says that one day, when she matures, she will be able to project without the need of physical contact. This gift has come in handy, considering the fact that Miley cannot talk as of yet.

Since I was now changed and my daughter was born and was going to be growing quicker than a normal child, we decided it was time to move. They asked if I wanted to do or go anywhere in particular and I suggested that we go somewhere that I could finish my senior year and graduate, so that in the future I can attend college. Peter offered to just have a diploma made for me if I wanted to skip senior year, but I declined. I had always looked forward to my last year of high school and wanted the chance to actually experience it for myself. Not to mention that I wanted to be a good role model for my daughter and do things the right way. They were fine with that and had some idea's of what to do that they were sure I would like.

Sadly, in order to do this and keep my Mother and step dad from discovering the truth, we had to fake my death. Peter and Char were experts in setting everything up, blowing up one of their cars with a corpse that looked like me and had my scortched up wallet in the car, near one of the colleges I told Renee I was going to see. Everyone easily bought it and we left town and headed to Forks.

We chose to go there for me to attend high school because Peter and Char thought it would do me good to be able to go to school with other's of our kind. They explained that though their sire was a companion to a seer and they belonged to a coven, he was still their, well now OUR coven leader. Five of them attended the same high school that I will be going to. Two of them are in 11th grade and three of them are in 12th grade with myself. The remaining two coven member's act as their parents. The coven leader is a Doctor if you can believe that? Ha! A vampire Doctor. Who would have thought?

One thing about this coven that differed from us was that they were all animals drinkers. I thought that was a wonderful idea and tried it myself, but unfortuneately it just wasn't for me. I ended up hunting a buck. I found the taste revolting and I figured that if I had to drink blood for the rest of eternity, I would at least hunt something I actually liked. From then on out, I decided that I would be sticking to my familiar diet of criminals and the deathly ill. With this discovery, I decided that when Miley is old enough to hunt on her own, she will be partaking in that diet until she is much older and understand the seroiusness of taking human life. There was no way I was going to let my daughter hunt humans yet and she could only survive on donated blood for so long.

Peter and Char also told me about the Quilaute Reservation and the chosen that shape shift into horse sized wolves. I couldn't believe what I was hearing, considering the fact that I grew up with a lot of the kids of the Rez when I would visit Charlie. They explained that they have a treaty with the Cullen Coven and that since we do not partake in their diet, we will have to make our own treaty as to keep the peace.

Yes, my father and some childhood friends still lived in Forks, but my appearance changed so drastically that no one would ever discover who I really was. Not to mention I haven't seen my friends there for at least six years. When I was 12, I decided that I didn't want to go there anymore and instead had Charlie meet me in California where we would vacation for two weeks every summer. We all decided to play the roll of siblings, me being the youngest and living with my 23 year old brother and his wife, saying that our parents both died in a crash back in Texas. We used colored contacts to cover our red eyes, and also had my transcripts made illegally by a lawyer named Jay Jenks. Char said that they have been using his family for decades to make identifications, passports, diploma's for when they wanted to try college, marrige certificates...and so forth.

Finally the day came where we were heading to Forks. It was November and Miley looked to be a little over 2. She was walking and could talk but chose to commuicate via her gift. She was the most beautiful little girl any of us had ever laid eyes upon. Peter thought that she reminded him a lot of an immortal child, except for her eyes, and had the same qualities, such as charming almost everyone she meets. She had such a loveable personality and was very outgoing and friendly once she got to know you. She had long dark blonde hair with natural bright blonde highlights from the sun that fell in little ringlets down to her lower back with striking blue eyes. It was the perfect mixture of Jason and myself.

Peter said the he had gotten in touch with his sire, Jasper, whom both he and Char called 'the Major,' and Carlisle, who was the coven leader. He said that they would be thrilled to have us stay with them and that his wife remodeled the cabin that was on their property for us. He also explained that he did not tell them about Miley, and since Carlisle and Jasper never said anything, he is assuming that she is invisible to the seer. He said that until they met Miley and heard her heart beat and have her show her side, that they would not understand. We did not want the Volturi to find out about her until we were ready for them to know, and with Carlisle being a friend of Aro's, he believed that it was best we wait. I knew that Peter loved my daughter and would never do anything to put her life in jepardy, so I did not question him any further on his decisions reguarding her.

Also, we all agreed that it was best to wait to tell Jasper about Jason being Miley's father and what happened to him. Peter said that when the time came, I should be the one to do it and that I would know when and why it had to be me. I was nervas at the prospect, but once again, I trusted Peter.

As I sat in the back of the large king cab of the truck with Miley sleeping in her car seat, I began to get this feeling. It began to get stronger and stronger the closer we got to Forks. It was like something...I don't know what...was pulling me there. I knew in my heart that once we arrived, my life would change. I only prayed it was for the better.

A/N: So how do you like it? Yes, I know, it is only the prologue and there is alot crammed in there, but I needed to explain her story up to the present time for you all to understand where I am going with this, rather than have you guessing. I thougt it would be a better idea and give you a bit of an understanding.

Anyways, I will have the next chapter posted within the next day or two, along with the next chapter for my story Dhampir. If you like my writting, I have plenty of story's in progress that I am working on for you to view!

Lastly, I want to let everyone know (if you don't know already) that I am now a Beta Reader and am now accepting Twilight Stories. I am doing any stories that involve Jasper/Bella/any female lead, or Bella/Caius/Paul/Emmett/Edward.

PM me and I'll give ya the det.'s!

- Bella'Xo -