Roseanne Evans Wilkins - Noonday Sun: a Fanfiction Book

Noonday Sun: A Fanfiction Book

Roseanne Evans Wilkins

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This book is dedicated to

Stephenie Meyer,

without whose characters this story

could never have been told

and to

Beth who saw the vision

and helped me continue

and

to Craig

who dazzled me the first time I saw him

and who continues to dazzle me

I love you

To some it is given by the Holy Ghost

to know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God,

and that he was crucified for the sins of the world.

To others it is given to believe

on their words,

that they also

might have

eternal life

Doctrine and Covenants 46:13-14

The Cullen/Volturi incident had taken the vampire world by storm. There had been nearly fifty vampire witnesses at the event, and it had been like watching meiosis in action. You could see the birth of a new vampire world taking place, and it wasnt the ugly, monstrous world that everyone had thought it was. Suddenly vampires all over the world were seeing the distinct, human possibilities in their monster world. It was like the morning sun after the breaking dawn. Things as they were didnt have to be.

The absolute love and devotion of the Cullens and their family had impacted the vampire world like nothing in the history of the worldwith one exception. The birth of the first vampire. But that was anotheran unknown, and vampires had been too tied to their insatiable appetites to focus on the beginning. But this was a new world, with new rules, and Carlisle had begun the search

Hanover, New Hampshire. Home of Dartmouth College. At the normal, human rate of travel, Boston was just two hours away, Montreal three, and five hours to New York Citynot that we ever felt a need to go to The City. Canada was the preferred location. There was plenty of wildlife there to hunt.

My forever eighteen-year-old face was reflected back at me from the jumbo jets window. I still wasnt accustomed to the white skin, the eerily attractive features. Little pieces of my human self had survived. My long mahogany hair was the same. My lower lip was still a little too full to match my upper lip, and the shape of my brow was the same as my human one, but the stunningly attractive beauty staring back at me still seemed alien. I was grateful the freaky red eyes had faded into a color closer to Edwards golden ones. It was our shared vegetarian diet that colored our eyesvampire vegetarian, anyway. Those of us that chose to dine on animal rather than human blood shared the golden eyes. Mine were closer to a soft Topaz. I was still only a few months old. It took time for the initial horror red to fade.

I shivered in anticipation. The plane would be landing in Boston in a few minutes, and I wasnt sure how ready I was to accept the changes in my life. I still wasnt accustomed to traveling first class. This flight would have seemed a lot longer in coach. As it was, the flight was over before I was ready to get off.

Edward, a lock of his forever seventeen-year-old bronze hair falling forward, squeezed my hand with his long pale fingers. He sensed rather than heard my agitation. He could hear the thoughts of everyone else who shared the jet with us, but hed never been able to hear my thoughts until I learned how to lift my shield. I was too distracted to attempt lifting it just then.

Jacob, my Quileute shape-shifting nearly-seven-foot-tall future son-in-law, and RenesmeeNessie now, even to mewere in the row ahead of us, Nessies head snuggled against Jacobs shoulder. Her bronze curls framed her perfect face.

Will I ever get over the wonder of her face? Her beautiful skin was slightly luminescent, but nothing that would keep her out of the sun. She looked about six even though she was only a few months old. Voicing my thoughts, I said, Nahuel reached full maturity at the age of seven. Im just waiting for Nessies growth to slow down. His aunt didnt really say what his growth rate was through infancy. I never thought to ask him if his sisters development differed from his. He didnt seem to like them very much, so I didnt want to pry Nahuel and his three sisters were the only other half immortal beings Id ever heard about, and Nahuel was about 150 years old.

A familiar crease formed between Edwards eyes. I didnt think to ask, either. I was just relieved that her abnormally fast development was typical. His lips turned into a small smile. As if typical can be used to describe Nessie.

We had never thought in our wildest imaginings that our vampire family could include a child. Of course, I had been human when we were first married, but we didnt know that a vampire could conceive a child with a human. I hadnt even wanted to be a mom when we were first married. I just wanted to be with Edwardforever. It was Edward whod brought up the subject of me and children.

I never really wanted any, but the moment I felt Nessies first nudge, I loved her with the same intensity that I loved Edward. It had been very difficult for Edward to watch me dying while I carried his child, and he had to transform me into a vampire to survive the birth, but our beloved daughter was the light of both our lives.

The landing gear touched down. What will my new life bring?

We worked our way through the airport. It had been a late flight so the normal daytime airport traffic was reduced to an occasional weary passenger. At the exit was a tall man in a black uniform. Cullen glared darkly on the whiteboard he held to his chest. I looked over at Edward, one perfect eyebrow raised in a silent question.

Even though he couldnt hear my thoughts, he could read my face, and he replied, I had a limousine ordered to drive us home. Our cars will be in the garage.

Of course, that made sense. Uniforms just made me nervous. They reminded me of the Volturi.

I had a constant, nagging worry about the Volturi. I knew they would be back, sometime. Aro wanted Alice and Edward in his guard. The Volturi had never run away from a battle. But they had run from us, and they were scheming. I was sure of it. I knew Aro feared us. He knew Alice would be watching for their move and that we would be prepared for whatever they planned to do. Alices ability to see the future would prevent him from launching a sneak attack.