Behind the story... 1
Emmett PoV 1
I paced up beside the window taking one slow step at a time, keeping my eyes drawn with full attention to the Forrest outside. Turning on my heels I paced back still looking and observing outside. I froze still at the sight of 2 wolves stalking from a distance. Focusing in more depth, it was the only protection we had against Sam and the pack- Leah and Jacob.
I took a sigh of relief and carried on with my pacing still on watch.
"I'll take it from here..." Jasper mumbled placing his hand on my shoulder suddenly. I looked at him and nodded, stepping away from the window. Cautiously
I walked over to where Rosalie was sat down, and sat beside her. I ran my hand down her thigh, inhaling in her scent. With one of her hands she gripped mine and squeezed tightly. I nuzzled my head in the crook of her neck, planting little kisses up and down to her collar bone.
"I'm so thirsty..." I whispered swallowing hard.
"You have to hold on." She cooed, her voice sounding shaky. "For Bella's sake."
Her words pierced through my skin. I knew she was right yet I couldn't find myself able to hold back the urge for blood.
"I won't be able to last much longer." I admitted to her as our eyes drifted into contact. Hers were as black as mine where she to craved for blood.
"We have to wait it out. If we leave- we'll be killed. Sam and his pack are outside right now, waiting for us, waiting to attack. They have the whole area permitted. We're outnumbered by too many." She reminded me quietly squeezing my hand again. I nodded understandably and no further questioned about feeding. But if time came to fast, we'd all die, even before the baby was due to be born.
"I hate living like this." Rosalie mumbled leaning her head against my chest taking deep unnecessary breaths. With my other hand I stroked along her pale white and ice cold cheeks. All I could feel was bone.
"Like you said- we'll make do." I reassured her, hugging her face tighter into my chest. At that moment Bella stirred in her asleep- waking herself up. Her eyes fluttered half open, as she no longer had any energy to open them fully.
She looked over to us and weakly smiled. I showed my compassion by returning the smile best I could.
"How long was I out?" She asked trying to sit up slightly.
"4 hours." I said bluntly looking down at my watch.
"Which isn't long enough." Rosalie added trying to convince Bella she should try and doze back to sleep for a few hours. With every blink Bella made, every breath she took, she wasted valuable body energy- making every day a battle against her own life.
"Are there any updates?" She questioned directing her eyes between me and rose.
"Nothing. Jacob can't hear the pack anymore." I said gloomily.
"Do you know where Edward is?"
"He's doing further research in the study with Carlisle and Alice." She nodded and turned her head to watch Jasper pacing along the window watching out. She did look terrible. Death was here for sure, it was just a matter of days. Any moment she'd go, and the sad part was that we all knew that.
"I'm going to stretch out my legs." Bella stated wobbling to her feet slowly.
"No your not." Rosalie commented and rushed to her side to grab a hold of her arm before she fell and broke more bones.
"You need to be resting, not walking. You're too weak and we can't risk your life considering how far you've come- how far we all have." Rosalie said forcefully defeating Bella instantly.
"I can't keep lying down on this couch." Bella said in disagreement."That's not healthy for me either."
"Just rest somewhere else..." I said logically. "Like a bed.. Or the bath." I suggested trying to be polite.
"A bath would be great. Do you mind?" Bella asked Rosalie and she shook her head with a slight smile.
"Not at all." She said holding Bella up as they walked out the room and down the hall where I nor jasper could longer see them.
Jasper huffed loudly and came to sit down where Bella had been sleeping. We no longer had to be on duty.
"It's killing her..." He stated staring down to the wooden flooring.
"It's killing us all..." I said looking over to him. He too was in pretty bad condition.
"Alice can't see her future. And I can't feel her emotions." He licked along his stale dried up lips. Hungry with thirst.
"It's out of our control. She chose to do this."
"I didn't think it would end up like this."
"There's one of us inside her. It's eating her alive day by day, minute by minute."
"It's so hard to watch... Especially at blood frenzy."
"She smells so strong, I can taste her through the air." I admitted accidentally to him.
"I know. I can too. And it's becoming too much." He also admitted.
The sound of shoes walking against the flooring echoed through into the room we were sat at. Edward appeared through the doorway looking even worse than the both of us and we had less control then he did.
"Where is she?" He immediately asked us without a second thought.
"She wanted to bath... Rose is taking care of her." I answered to him.
"There's a surprise." He muttered loud enough for us to hear.
"You don't have to be like that with her! She's doing her best around here and all you can do is make crappy little comments like that about her helping your god damn wife? You're the one who's done this to her! Done this to all of us!" I snapped standing up defending my wife.
Jasper raced in front of me holding me back from tearing up Edward which I so desperately wanted to do at this given moment.
Jasper washed out my angry emotions and replaced them calmly. I hated him for it but glad I would no longer do something stupid or reckless.
"We've all given up so much for you and for Bella. Don't be disrespectful.
Anyone can walk out at any point but we're choosing not to because we're family, and we know you'd do the same. So leave rose alone. She's the one who's willingly stuck around for the longest..." I shoved jasper aside and brushed past Edward. There was a lot of things I could tolerate about Edward but him talking about my wife like that- not happening.
Walking upstairs to my room, it turned out Rosalie was bathing Bella in our on suite. Which wasn't an issue expect the doors weren't closed. Being respectful,
I didn't look just laid down on our bed with a book to kill some time of mine, and to distract me.
Later Edward, rushed in without a knock and stood in the doorway of the bathroom looking in carefully. Bella was stood with her dressing gown pulled down to her elbows. There was nothing but skin and bones left of her. She was dangerously thin... Breakable by a single touch. Being the strongest in the house I always kept my distance from her.
Through the mirror Bella looked up to meet Edwards eyes of disgust, it was intense to say the least. I got up from my bed and pulled Edward away from the doorway so that Rosalie could close and lock the door between them.
"What have I done." Edward questioned himself quietly still staring at the closed bathroom door.
"At least you know yours works." I teased trying to lighten up the mood a bit. Everyone always joked around with him still being a virgin- but now he was the only one out of all of us to get a girl pregnant, fair play to him.
"I knew the risk... I should never have done it." He seethed walking out the room and down the hall. Man things were fucked up around here!
Later on Rosalie brought out a now fully washed and dressed Bella. They walked slowly with Bella gripping Rosalie tightly. She struggled to walk further so I got up and swooped her off the ground.
"Where to?" I asked.
"Back in the living room... Please." Bella strained. I walked her out of our room and down the stairs to where she wanted to be. Laying her down on the sofa, Rosalie grabbed her a blanket and covered over her legs.
Soon enough everyone came in to check up.
It was silent, yet everyone's minds must had been loud with thought.
Bella fiddled around with her jumper sleeves a little before Edward spoke up. "You cold?"
She nodded lightly.
"I got this..." Jacob announced thinking he was a hero. He shuffled his body over to Bella and placed a hand on her stomach where she put her hands over. She rolled her eyes and smiled up to him.
"Don't do that." He said. "Don't smile like I'm your favourite person in the world."
"Your one of them. It feels complete when your here Jacob." She replied then quickly sat up leaning over the couch making gasping noises. Edward held her up the bin to throw up in, but she didn't only winced in pain.
"We have to find some way of getting some food into her system. These drips aren't enough anymore." Esme said as Bella laid back down.
"We have no food." Alice stated looking over to a desperate Bella.
"Jacob just had an idea." Edward said suddenly.
"It wasn't an idea. It was a snide comment." Jacob defended with a smirk on his face.
"What was it?" Esme asked with hope.
"Just he's probably looking for someone to sink his teeth into."
That was it. Jacob was right.
"He's thirsty." Bella scrunched her eyebrows sinking further into the couch.
"I know the feeling." I interrupted.
"If he's hungry- animal blood won't be enough." Edward pointed out.
"I got some human blood samples in the fridge." Carlisle rose up from his chair and left the room quickly.
"Walk with me." Alice told jasper standing up and pulling him to his feet. Hand in hand they left the room swiftly.
My eyes shot to Rose's instantly. I tensed my jaw and swallowed. She nodded lightly with pain expressed in her face. I got up from my chair and went down to the garage.
If I was in blood frenzy, there is no way in hell I would possibly be able to remain sat watching Bella drink down some human blood.
Out in the garage, there wasn't much for me to do. I walked around playing with some tools then decided to crank up my stereo system in my truck.
I heard feet against the stone floor and sat up to see who had joined me out here. Rosalie.
She came up to my window and smiled sweetly.
"Bella's done." She informed me leaning through the window slightly more so I could fully hear her.
"Alright cool." I said not caring at all but not wanting to be too rude.
"Are you not coming back in?" She asked sounding actually surprised.
"No... I'm finishing up out here."
"What are you even doing?"
"Replacing stereo."
"Why?"
"Cus I'm bored and have nothing better to do."
"Well come upstairs and I could keep you entertained for a few hours."
"Baby, rose, I don't want sex." I said honestly.
"... What?"
"You heard. I don't want sex. Stop being so forcing.." I said again looking up to her.
"Fine." She snapped turning around and walking out.
"Rose! Baby..." I called after realising how upset I must had made her. I huffed loudly and throw the tool in my hand to the garage shut door, making it rattle. Getting out the truck I followed into the house smelling where Rose was. She was talking with Esme in the kitchen. I chose to stand outside and listen instead of barging through on my hands and knees begging for some kind of forgiveness.
"Am I a bad wife?" Rose spoke up. I couldn't see her expression but I knew it wouldn't be a pretty one for sure.
"Of course not Rosalie sweetie! He's probably just moody because of the no feeding rule, that's all. He needs blood in him system."
"Should I go out there and get something for him? He's so hungry Esme..."
Rosalie was going to risk her life and her safety to go out and hunt me something to eat.
"Come on rose don't be silly. It's too dangerous out there for any of us. And it won't be fair either if he gets to eat but no one else does."
"I just can't keep seeing him like this... Moping, grumpy, gloomy. It makes me feel like I don't satisfy him anymore." Rosalie admitted.
"I think you're just as bad as him! All this hunger has made you think too much! You should just stop worrying."
"But how can I? With everything going on... It's all too much now."
Esme didn't further say anything or rather I didn't hear anything else said.
Backing away I went as sat in the living room where Jacob, Bella, Alice and jasper were watching a football match. Slumping down on the sofa I looked up to the screen effortlessly.
"You missed jets first score of the season." Jacob let me know.
"Pity." I muttered not caring.
Several hours into the games Rosalie later came in with Bella's cup of blood. The smell danced to my nose, everything about it was just so inviting. My lips quivered as I watched Bella sip at her straw. My throat boiled up and my lungs froze.
Rosalie stood in front of Bella blocking the view so that I could no longer watch. Also it was a safer pro causation because I was ready to leap up at any moment and drink what I needed. But I didn't.. Just sat there remaining calm... Staring at my gorgeous wife's ass.
"Thanks Rosalie." Bella gasped handing the empty cup to rose. She turned around to face me but her expression didn't change. She walked off back to the kitchen where I sprung to my feet and followed after her.
"Rose..." I pleaded taking her hand and turning her around to finally face me. I pushed her up against island firmly. Her eyes flustered to the ground avoiding any contact with mine.
"Baby..." I tried again lifting her chin up.
"I don't really want to hear it emmett." She sighed staring up to my jet black eyes.
"What's this about, beautiful?" I asked wanting to sort things out.
"I don't know. You tell me. Maybe about how forcing I am as wife!" She snapped. Shit so she did hear me say that earlier in the garage and she did take offence.
"Baby I didn't mean it like that... Rosie I just.."
"Don't want sex. I know- I got the message thank you emmett."
"Hay come on, I wasn't in the mood for sex then... But now.." I said seductively.
"If you think you're going to get laid now, you must seriously be joking."
"Yeah I thought that was pushing it..." I admitted and she laughed. "It was worth a shot." She smiled but didn't further say anything.
"I'm sorry I was like that..." I finally said knowing that it basically what she wanted to hear.
"You always take it out on me."
"I don't mean to baby. It just comes out so fast I don't have time to process."
"I just... You make me feel so unwanted and I hate that. You know how that makes me feel."
"I know and I hate myself. I hate that I'm making you feel like this..." I agreed.
"Then stop?" She said but it rather sounded like a question.
"I'm just so blood frenzy rose.."
"That's not even an excuse, we're all starving. Nobody's hunted in weeks. But you can't say that and expect to be let off for being an ass."
"And how will I make it up? And I have I got a big enough wallet?"
"I want knew shoes..."
"Done."
"With the matching bag."
"I can push to that..."
"And the dress."
"There's a dress?"
"Oh and the necklace."
"No fucking way."
"Which comes with the matching bracelet for free."
"Something that I don't have to pay for."
"But you so have to buy the earrings."
"This sounds like a really expensive apology."
"Good thing you're sorry then." She winked skipping out of our embrace and down the corridor where I could no longer see her.