Overture

Regulus piled all the things he bought aside, and sat down on the sofa wearily.

Esme quickly packed up all the items. The speed of the vampire was indeed unrealistic. Regulus only saw an afterimage before his eyes, and then the ground full of items was emptied.

"Ray, you came back a bit late, did you encounter any trouble?" Esme said worriedly, although she knew that Regulus had grown up, but in her eyes Ray was still a child, no matter from what he said In terms of lack of common sense, it is still the age difference between the two.

Regulus said: "I chatted with someone for a while, and he said that his name is Sam Uli, a Quileut who lives in La Push, and he persuaded me to leave Karen's house."

Esme: "Sam Uli, some familiar names."

Esme frowned suddenly, and said with a distressed expression: "Oh, he seems to be a werewolf. I don't like werewolves very much. It's hard for me to like the smell on them. I said what about your body? It is contaminated with a strange smell, which almost overwhelms the smell of your blood."

Regulus raised his arm and sniffed lightly, but he didn't smell anything, "Is there a smell?" He didn't smell anything except the smell of the clothes that Alice specially put in his closet.

Seeing Regulus' actions, Esme showed a kind smile on her face, and she said, "Of course you can't smell it."

Regulus cast a spell on himself, and asked, "Is there still that smell?"

"Praise this amazing magic, I can't smell that nasty smell at all." Esme took a breath, and then asked in doubt, "I don't know if you can continue to cast magic after you become a vampire, you should be able to." Well, the talent of a vampire is generally to infinitely expand the traits of that person in life. Is casting magic a trait? It doesn’t feel right. You said you were born a wizard, so casting magic should be an instinct for you. Since it is an instinct, then change Is it impossible to retain the ability to be a wizard after becoming a vampire? It doesn't seem right..."

Regulus couldn't help but interrupt Esme, who was starting to mutter again.

Esme's brows and eyes were stained with sadness, "Don't you want to become a vampire?"

Regulus said: "I didn't think about it, but I didn't think about it either."

"If you leave Carlisle alone, he will be very sad." Esme said, she looked at Regulus who was a little bit at a loss with his eyelids widened and continued, "Of course if you don't want to do this If you do, I think he will also obey your wishes, and he will be by your side to accompany you until you grow old, but this is too cruel to him, isn't it? Of course, it is the same to you. "

"Wait! Esme, you..." Regulus was glad that Rosalie and the others were not here now, and probably went out for a "picnic" on the weekend.

"Ray, you like Carlisle, don't you?"

Regulus clenched his left hand on the sofa, and the manicured and smooth nails still left a deep white mark on his palm, "Yes. Esme..."

"Ah, I want to defend Carlisle. He never liked me, and I never liked him. All the relationships in this family are just one that has to be done in order to live a stable life in the society of ordinary people. Pretend, like Edward and Jasper, they were transformed into vampires earlier than me, but they still call me mother outside, so I seem to be taking advantage?  … I'm sorry, I accidentally got wordy. In fact... I have never liked any man, and I don't want to give myself to anyone other than myself anymore."

Charles Evanson, her ex-husband, the scum with a name that was completely different from his true face, she thought it would be better to put this name of noble heart on anyone than to let him get it , thanks to him, she developed a lingering fear of marriage.

She didn't know what she was thinking, but the smile on Esme's face seemed to become calm and relieved, and the already soft face added a bit of warmth.

"My marriage is a failure. I hope my family can have a perfect marriage, Carlisle, Edward, and you."

"... Carlisle has been waiting for someone, and he finally waited for you."

Regulus opened his mouth, his gray eyes revealed a bit of hesitation, and he said, "Esme, you know? Sometimes what you say makes me panic, and I always feel that you trying to hide something."

Esme said: "I only know that Carlisle has been waiting for one person. If anyone knows more, it must be Edward, but it is not easy to extract some useful information from him." They are doing their best to keep secrets that he should not hear for others.

"Ray, go talk to Carlisle, he's upstairs."

……

Regulus put his hands behind his back and gently closed the door, "Carlisle?"

Carlyle by the window is standing at the intersection of light and shadow. He is holding a palette in front of the drawing board, holding a paintbrush in his hand, and is painting an oil painting that can only be seen in vague outlines stroke by stroke. He is slightly sideways, He looked at Regulus with a smile in his eyes.

Regulus stepped into the soft light from the window. As a human being, his skin did not reflect the diamond-like brilliance in the sun like a vampire, but was only stained with a faint, almost negligible bright color. It presents a beautiful pearl color unique to human beings.

Regulus said, "I like you."

Carlisle smiled lightly but softly, "I know."

"Then don't hide it from me. Esme said you've been waiting for someone. Who is that person?" Regulus was sensitive and suspicious like everyone who just fell in love.

"I am indeed waiting for someone. Would you believe me if I said that that person is you?" Carlisle laughed. He turned around and took a brush to dip the paint into the palette. He said, "I have been waiting for you for 300 years."

These slightly ambiguous words entered Regulus' ears, and a faint warmth reverberated in his heart. Well, he had to admit that Carlisle had a great talent for intercourse/talking.

Regulus walked up to Carlisle and kissed him lightly on the cheek, "I'm really touched by these words, but..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard Esme shouting from downstairs: "Ray, I have your call!"

Have his phone number?It was a pity that he hadn't finished speaking yet.Regulus was surprised for a while, and then replied: "I'll go down now."

After Regulus left the room, Carlisle sighed helplessly, "What I said is true."

……

Mike Newton?Regulus seemed to have such a name in his mind. It seemed that he was a classmate in the same grade. Logically speaking, it was impossible for him to be in the same grade as Mike Newton. However, Carlisle wanted to let him keep up with the school curriculum. Let him go to the first year of high school who can go to the third year in terms of age, at least in terms of height and shape, he is completely indistinguishable from the students in the first year of high school, but even if he should not understand the courses of the first year of high school, He proposed to Carlyle several times the idea of ​​asking for a tutor, but every time Carlyle rejected his proposal on the grounds that he wanted to experience the lives of ordinary people.

"Hi, Mike," Regulus said into the microphone.

There was a loud voice on the other side of the phone, there should be more than one person on the phone.

Mike: "Do you have time tomorrow? ... Yes? That's good, tomorrow ..."

Mike Newton and several students invited Regulus to watch a movie in Port Angel tomorrow, and Mike and the others included a small gamble to see who could invite the new member of Cullen's family first.

"They invited me to the movies, should I go or not?" Regulus asked Esme for his opinion.

Esme said, "Go ahead and communicate more with your classmates. This is what a child of your age should be like."

So Regulus agreed to Mike's request.

For Regulus to agree so readily, Mike was obviously taken aback. After agreeing on some necessary things and hanging up the phone, he exaggeratedly clutched his chest.

A shy-looking girl said, "Did he not agree?"

"No, he agreed." It seemed that Regulus was much more approachable than his brothers and sisters.

"That's wonderful," said the girl.

Another girl said to the girl just now: "Angela, you don't like him, do you?"

"I do not have!"

Mike scratched his hair, "That kid is just like his brother in this respect, he should be a model, not a student... If Dr. Cullen adopts a few more boys, all the boys in Forks Town Girls will be seduced by their boys, so there is no chance for us."

The author has something to say: throw the update up, and the author will run away quickly

☆, 18, gunshot wound

Regulus' complexion was a bit bad, thanks to the dim light in the movie theater, others didn't notice it.

The religious atmosphere in the movie makes Regulus feel a little depressed. The conflict between the Holy See and the wizard is something that some movies with religious themes are not comfortable with.At this moment, he regretted agreeing with Mike and the others to watch this movie. Although he knew that the wizard in the movie was only played by ordinary people, as a real wizard, he still felt a little uncomfortable about it.

He found an excuse at random and walked out of the cinema, and made an appointment with his classmates to meet at the entrance of the cinema at the end of the film.There was still more than an hour before the film would end, and he decided to take advantage of this time to stroll around, after all, this was his first time in Port Angel.

Not long after he walked out of the entrance of the cinema, there were scattered raindrops on the sky, and Regulus opened the umbrella that Alice reminded him to bring with him.He remembered seeing a bookstore nearby when he came, and he decided to make it his first destination.

……

Alice, who was playing chess with Edward at Karen's house, suddenly lost her mind for a few seconds, then stood up abruptly.

……

The original pattering raindrops formed a string, and the sound of rain that became denser mixed with thunder from time to time fell into people's ears.

Around Regulus, there were occasional pedestrians without umbrellas cursing the inaccurate weather forecast and running past with their heads down.He couldn't help admiring Alice's prophecy ability, not only could it be used to make money, but it could also forecast the most accurate weather conditions. This kind of vampire talent is really great.

Suddenly, a strong force came from beside him and he was slammed into the narrow dead end between the two buildings. The good upbringing he had cultivated since he was a child prevented him from immediately angrily yelling at that reckless guy.

He looked up at the pedestrian, who was holding an unknown object wrapped in a plastic bag in his hand. Before he could identify what it was, he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. The umbrella fell to the ground.The sudden pain made Regulus' eyes go dark, and then he was half-dragged and half-dragged by the passerby to get closer to the depths of the alley.

Faintly, he seemed to hear the man repeating a few words nervously in his ear, and he vaguely grasped a word——

money.

Regulus cursed secretly in his heart.What a pity.

Then he heard the stranger who suddenly attacked him say something again. He seemed to hear words like "bank" and "account".His vision gradually returned to normal, and his thoughts that had been messed up by the pain gradually became clearer.

Regulus looked at the bloodshot eyes full of madness close at hand, coughed a few times, and said, "...crazy." Immediately afterwards, he said a sentence that was enough to send him to Azkaban, the prison of wizards. Gritting his teeth, he tried his best to recite the spell.

The man on the opposite side fell to the ground without warning, and the thing covered by the plastic bag in his hand fell to the ground. It was a black pistol.

Before going out in the future, Alice must make a serious divination for him. He shouldn't underestimate the crime rate in Muggle society.Regulus smiled wryly.

He felt that his collarbone must be broken, and maybe a broken rib. He cast a healing spell on the bleeding wound, and the flickering milky white light slowly dimmed, only to stop the bleeding. That's all.

He really wasn't good at white magic.

When the rainwater falling from the sky was about to fall on Regulus, it seemed to be blocked by a layer of transparent cover, preventing the wound from getting more rainwater.

The pain prevented him from concentrating on apparating at all. As soon as he stood up against the wall, he was enveloped in darkness again. He almost tripped over a stone, so he had to sit down again. Sideways around the past.

He took out his mobile phone and turned it to silent while watching a movie. There were seven or eight missed calls, including Alice's and Carlisle's. He dialed Carlisle's mobile phone, "Carlisle..."

Before he could say anything more, the man on the other side of the phone said, "I'll be there right away." His voice lost its usual calmness.

The thing happened like this, Alice suddenly foresaw that Regulus would be injured in Port Angel, so she hurriedly called Regulus to tell him to be careful, but the answer was not connected because Regulus' cell phone was on silent. , Alice had to call Carlisle.Carlisle knew that Regulus was watching a movie with his classmates at the Port Angel Cinema, but when he arrived at the movie theater, he found that Regulus was not in the movie theater.

Since the last time he met a vampire who sucked human blood, whenever Regulus went out, he would cast a spell around himself to ensure that the smell of his blood would not spread into the air, so Carlisle had no idea where Regulus was going. up.It wasn't until Regulus was shot that the spell around his body couldn't restrain the smell of blood flowing out, so Carlisle could follow the smell of his blood to come to Regulus, but Carlisle didn't feel very happy about it, because This was precisely the proof that Regulus was injured.

Regulus spent the rest of his magic power on maintaining shelter from the rain and preventing the occasional passers-by from the end of the dead alley from discovering the place, and the wound was still burning with pain.

The body that had lost its life collapsed diagonally across from him, Regulus closed his eyes and stopped looking at him, his fingers were trembling a bit.

Suddenly, a hand was placed on his shoulder, and Regulus opened his eyes. He looked at the blond man who appeared in front of him drenched in rain, and forced a somewhat embarrassed smile.

"Don't move." Carlisle squatted down and took a general look at Regulus' wound.

Regulus didn't notice that Carlisle's eyes had turned pure black at this moment.

"The bullet is stuck in it, take it out."

"Go to the hospital?"

Carlisle replied, "Of course."

"But how do you explain it? There's that one over there..." As he spoke, Regulus looked at the corpse on the other side.

Carlisle reached out and slid his hand over the man's open eyes, closing his eyelids. Carlisle read a few words in a low voice, but Regulus couldn't hear it because it was too soft.

"Go to the hospital to take out the bullet first, and leave the rest to me."

After Carlisle sent Regulus to the hospital, before the doctors and nurses arrived, Regulus asked, "Who will operate on me?"

"It should be Dr. Snow." Carlisle replied, and after seeing Regulus frowning slightly, he immediately added, "His medical skills are very good."

Regulus continued to ask: "I thought it was you, why not you?"

Carlisle sat down beside Regulus, "Do you know what a dangerous proposal this is? When I bandaged your wound for the first time, I knew very well how attractive your blood is to me. I don’t want to take another risk.”

Regulus stretched out his hand and grabbed Carlisle's sleeve, but gasped because he touched the wound, and said, "At worst, I'll be bitten by you and become a vampire."

Carlisle poured cold water on him mercilessly: "There is a possibility that I will suck up the blood and die."

"You won't." Carlisle is the vampire in the Cullen family who has been "vegetarian" for the longest time and has the highest tolerance for blood. Regulus has great trust in him.

"...well, as you wish"

The author has something to say: It's not about transforming vampires, it's just about taking bullets OTZ

I really have a talent for writing thunder...

I will reply to the comments of the previous chapter tomorrow, rubbing my eyes, I am a little tired today, I want to go to bed early, good night everyone ^^

☆, 19, sick visit

The author has something to say: At the end of the last chapter, it was obviously a very pure talk about taking bullets

After the anesthesia was given, the pain in the wound finally stopped, and Regulus finally let go of his left hand that had been tightly clenched, but his face was still pale.At the beginning, he kept his eyes open and watched every move of Carlisle, who was busy for him. After a while, the mental exhaustion and the previous physical pain made him fall asleep.

When he woke up again, the operation had already ended.He found himself lying in a clean and tidy ward, turned his head slightly, and saw a bunch of lilies that he didn't know who came from on the bedside table.

"That was sent to you by your classmate Angela."

"Carlisle!" Seeing the male doctor who had just entered the ward, Regulus' tone was filled with joy.

He licked his upper teeth lightly, but didn't find the two fangs that belonged to vampires. He winked at Carlisle, "It seems that I'm still human, and I knew you could do it successfully." As he thought As expected, Carlisle perfectly restrained his blood-sucking desire during the operation, which should be counted as the second success.

"I dare not live up to your expectations." Carlisle's eyes were full of helplessness.He walked to the side of the bed, leaned down and touched Regulus' lips lightly, touched the bridge of his nose with the tip of his nose, touched Regulus' injured shoulder with his fingers, and asked softly, "Does the wound still hurt?"

Regulus blushed slightly, he coughed uncomfortably, "It doesn't hurt anymore."

Carlisle straightened up, "Really?"

Regulus gritted his teeth, and gave Carlisle a slight look, "...and a little more."

Carlisle took half a step back unhurriedly, and the distance between the two returned to a "normal" state. At this moment, the door of the ward was pushed open, and a female nurse walked in.

After seeing Dr. Karen in the ward, the female nurse subconsciously straightened her back. After changing a bottle of infusion for Regulus, she carefully glanced in Dr. Karen's direction. When Dr. Lun just lowered her head and wrote something in the medical record folder, she wrinkled her nose in disappointment, and then dally left the ward.

Carlisle looked up after the female nurse left, and asked Regulus who was staring at him, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Although Regulus knew that Carlisle hadn't done anything, he still couldn't help adding the word "flirting" after Carlisle's name.

During the hospital recuperation, the remaining members of the Karen family came to visit in turn.

If it weren't for the fact that vampires couldn't shed tears, Regulus felt that Esme would definitely shed tears in front of him.

Esme looked sad, and she said with self-reproach: "I knew you would be injured in Port Angel, and I shouldn't have agreed with you when you asked me if you wanted to watch a movie with your classmates that day. You will definitely not be lying in a hospital bed now."

Regulus sat leaning against the head of the bed, he raised the arm on the other side of the wound, and held Esme's always cold hand, "Okay, Esme, we all know it's not yours. Wrong, you don’t have to blame yourself anymore, if you want to blame, blame the crime rate in the United States is too high and the law and order is too poor, don’t take the blame that is not your fault on yourself.”

"You're always so talkative. Ray, you're such a good boy," Esme said.

He is an adult.Regulus shouted mentally for countless times.

And Alice, who came to visit him with Esme, also seemed very guilty. Alice, who had always been energetic, suddenly became quiet. Her playful curly hair seemed to have lost its vitality. She felt that she should have predicted the thunder earlier Gullus will be wounded in Port Angel so he can have countermeasures to deal with the event.

Regulus had no choice but to comfort Alice after comforting Esme. Sure enough, this group of vampires became bored because they had lived too long. One feels even more like a child than a child.

When Edward came to visit him during the period, he revealed to Regulus while Carlisle was not in the ward: "Ray, although Carlisle behaved the same as usual before you woke up, I swear, Carlisle's heart was absolutely It was the most flustered time ever, his thoughts were a complete mess... Carlisle is coming, I'm leaving first, see you another day."

As Edward said, just as he disappeared from the ward, Carlisle opened the door and entered.

Carlisle smelled Edward's breath in the house, and smelled: "Ed has been here?"

"He just left," Regulus replied.He looked very happy.

"Did he say anything?"

Regulus deliberately said in a gorgeous tone: "I didn't say anything."

"I'll just pretend that Edward didn't say anything," Carlisle said.But he had already made up his mind to ask Edward exactly what he had said to Regulus when he went home.

Of course, the people who came to visit Regulus were not only members of the Cullen family, but also his classmates at Fox Middle School. The male classmates generally cursed the security of the United States angrily. Why did it turn to criticism of the US authorities? Regulus, who was still learning about politics not long ago, said that he couldn't keep up with the thinking of these boys.

"Hey, Regulus, did you think I was right? If Bush had been smarter, he wouldn't have..."

Regulus nodded because he didn't understand.

The boy then said, "Look, Ray agrees with me."

Regulus felt that it was better not to tell him that he didn't understand what he just said.

A girl named Angela stood aside and watched him quietly. Regulus remembered that the bouquet of flowers on the bedside when he woke up was sent by her.She stood quietly on the side, and said to Regulus when she left, "I wish you a speedy recovery."

"Thank you, I think I will be able to return to Fox High School soon." Regulus replied with a smile.

Regulus' wounds healed quickly, but this only refers to the wounds on the flesh, it still takes a long time for the bones to heal.Carlisle simply took Regulus back to Karen's house for recuperation.

Regulus looked at his right shoulder in the mirror, the steel plate inside made him feel a little weird, but Carlisle insisted on taking it out after a while.Regulus once again missed the magic potions in the magic world. If this was in the magic world, there would be no need for such trouble.

He walked out of the bathroom and threw his body heavily on the bed. Because of his outrageous behavior, there was a needle-like pain at the broken bone. Although it only lasted for a second, it still caused Regulus' forehead A fine layer of cold sweat seeped out.

He whispered to himself, "It deserves it."

He opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling, then slowly closed his eyes.I don't know how long he still couldn't sleep peacefully. This situation started from the day he woke up after the operation. Whenever he closed his eyes, the image of the gunman lying on the ground would appear in his mind. Immediately afterwards, that strange face would gradually transform into another appearance of someone in his memory.

The faces that finally transformed were all the faces of people who had been tortured and killed by the Cruciatus Curse or the Killing Curse at the order of the Dark Lord when he was a Death Eater.He didn't dare to calculate how many of these people deserved the most and how many were innocent, because he knew that the final result would definitely be unbearable for her.

He found Carlisle and said to him: "Carlisle, give me another sleeping pill, I really can't sleep."

"You've been taking it for the past few days. I don't suggest you use drugs to force yourself to fall asleep." Carlisle said worriedly. He saw the worry on Regulus' brow and asked, "What's on your mind?"

"...Yes, there are many." Regulus supported his head with one hand, and rubbed his forehead against his palm.

"You can confide in me, and I'd love to be your listener," Carlisle said, and then he laughed. "That's what I do."

"I almost forgot you were a priest."

Carlisle corrected, "Priest."

Regulus said: "It doesn't matter, they both look the same to me." Don't expect a wizard to tell the difference between a priest and a priest (Note).

Carlisle: "...Forget it, you can start talking."

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(Note: priests are Catholic, priests are Christian)