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AFTER THE EXISTENCE OF RENESMEE CULLEN WAS REVEALED TO THE Volturi, the Cullens relied on friends, old and new, near and far, to support them and stand witness for their newest family member, to prove that she wasn’t an immortal child at all, but a human/vampire hybrid, born when her mother still had blood coursing through her body.
Bonnie Dvorak had first met Carlisle Cullen when he was only around a century old—still a baby to Bonnie’s then three-hundred-seventy years—after he left the Volturi and traveled to the New World, where Bonnie had been. In many ways, the two of them became something of siblings after spending decades together. Bonnie viewed Carlisle as a younger brother, and truly felt protective over him and loved him, despite their difference in diet. Carlisle’s feelings mirrored her own.
When Carlisle ventured off to Chicago and Bonnie decided to return to New York, she was adamant on telling Carlisle to keep in touch—always, and to reach out if he ever needed her; she would come running. When he started his family, she was overjoyed for him, and viewed his adopted children as her nieces and nephews.
As a human, Bonnie was born into a noble family in Italy, with her father being a member of the Catholic church. Her mother managed their household and organized many events. She was responsible for the education and upbringing of Bonnie and her sister, Taynara. As a teenage girl, Bonnie was very dedicated, very intelligent, very disciplined, but also very insecure. People in her area often viewed her as a misfit, shunning her for being too provocative and too bold .
Bonnie’s true passion was music. At just four years old, she began playing the lute at the insistence of her mother. She took lute lessons and practiced through her childhood. The lessons taught her to create music by ear, which Bonnie preferred over reading sheet music.
Bonnie was raped at age nineteen by her father’s friend— the man who had been teaching her about music. Her whole life after the incident was tarnished with trauma and panic attacks. It took centuries as a vampire for her to heal from the pain caused to her. The man who raped her kept her locked in his house for months, only letting her go when he realized she’d fallen pregnant. After dropping her on the street, he fled the country, while Bonnie was forced to find her way, all alone, home. She ended up miscarrying the pregnancy later that month; even all these centuries later, Bonnie would never be entirely sure if she was relieved or horrified when she lost the baby. Perhaps it was both.
Later that year, a mysterious man named Tyrone Johnson showed up in her area. His skin was ashy and his eyes blood red, fading to black at certain times. He only ever came around on rainy days and the evenings and nights. Tyrone was instantly drawn to Bonnie. They began a relationship months later, and over the course of the year of their relationship, Tyrone opened up to Bonnie about his true nature, his vampirism.
Before long, Tyrone had bitten Bonnie and turned her. Bonnie’s transformation into a vampire changed her in some ways; after the first couple of months of her new life, Bonnie ended things with Tyrone and began traveling throughout Europe.
Bonnie had lived many lives in her six-hundred and twenty-one years alive, she’d seen many things and experienced all sorts of experiences. Only once in the entirety of her vampire life had she been stunned—the moment she stepped into Carlisle Cullen’s home and her eyes landed on Renesmee Cullen, a being born of a human woman and a vampire man.
She would be stunned once more, not even two days later, when the Denali coven arrived after her to support the Cullens and she met eyes with Kate.