Diego

Diego is one of the newborn vampires featured in the Eclipse novella "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" by Stephenie Meyer. Diego is one of Bree's few companions (the other being Freaky Fred) and is seen as a love interest. He is first introduced while hunting with Bree, Kevin and "Spider-Man", where he lectures the others for being reckless, but warms up to Bree because she is one of the "tamer" newborns in Victoria's army. Diego is seen as kindly and is appreciated by Riley, and is therefore reluctant to deceive him in order to gain information about the true leader of the army (Victoria, though she is known as "her" by the newborns). Diego is almost a year old vampire. He quickly forms a close bond with Bree, and together they see themselves as a "vampire-ninja team". Diego kisses Bree twice in the novel, and proves to her that the vampire traditions are not real; for instance, vampires don't burn in sunlight - they sparkle. When Diego goes to tell Riley about the truth about the sunlight, he disappears. Bree later realises that Riley implied that he is dead when he returned alone; he and Victoria dismembered and killed him for knowing the secret. Bree is distraught when she realises this, and it is one of the reasons why she does not fight her fate at the hands of the Volturi.