Catherine "Cate" Helen Swan

Irish twins, that's what their parents said they were. Cate had been born first and, barely nine months later, Bella came tumbling after. Irish twins, but the Swan girls were as different as the sun and the moon. Not long after Bella was born, Renée found it too depressing to live in a small town under a rainy climate and filed for divorce. Even though they're parents still cared about each other and maintained contact, they never reconciled their relationship. Neither could bare to be parted from their children either so Charlie kept Cate with him in Forks while Renée took Bella to Phoenix. Cate's relationship with her mother was miles stronger than her relationship with her sister. Renée would call three times a week to check-in and Cate did the same while Bella would only call on major holidays and her birthday. After awhile, Cate just stopped calling Bella entirely. She barely knew her sister; she was more of a stranger to her than the Creepy Cullens.

Learning her mother was getting remarried was a shock she didn't want to accept – sure, she knew, realistically, that her parents would never get back together but dating other people? Getting married? Those were things she'd never even thought to plan for and Cate always had a plan – but Bella moving in with her and her dad was full-on unimaginable. Not only did she have to share her father, house, food and oxygen but she had to share her school and friends as well, both on and off the Rez. And, to top it all off, she had to virtually play babysitter to her. It wasn't fair. It wasn't fucking fair! Cate had a life of her own and she had a plan: finish school and join the police academy, be a cop, like her father, hopefully Chief one day. That was Cate's plan and it certainly didn't involve holding her baby sister's hand through the graces of Forks High, mothering her through a seriously overdramatic breakup, dealing with fucking vampires and werewolves, or a bloodsucker war in her backyard!

(I had an idea that, after finally accepting the Cullens as decent people who would never hurt her sister or anyone in town, Cate ends up forming a strange/solid friendship with Emmett. After everyone graduates and Bella's wedding, Cate decides to take a road trip before going back to Forks and joining the police academy. While in New Orleans, however, she is attacked by a vampire. Although she is saved by Garrett, she's already on the verge of death and he decides to turn her in order to save her. As it turns out, she's his mate and she's just as bloodthirsty as him when Rosalie and Emmett come to collect him for the war against the Volturi. Her power as a vampire is that she is a mirror to Bella: while her sister can create a mental shield to protect herself and others from psychic attacks, Cate could absorb those attacks empathically and use them herself for a limited time)