Anything But Me

Alexa Nicole DeNova stared at the clouds above her. Her long brown and blonde streaked hair was back in a ponytail. She couldn't believe that she had a sister. Alexa was 20 and this newly founded sister was 21. Apparently, her biological mother had given birth to her not too long after her sister.

Now, Alexa was en route going to Seattle with the intentions of meeting her sister and her boyfriend and the others she had been told about. She had seen a picture of the people and had been told via email who was who and Alexa was more than ready. She stretched her arms out and her eyes flashed their amazing green color before she stood and walked to her truck, opening the door and looking back.

"Roscoe, let's go boy." Alexa said to her 2 year old pit bull. Roscoe was a beautiful dark color of brown and as the dog hopped in the truck she pat his head and she shut the door after she got in herself. She smiled and felt a burning sensation fill her as she played the radio, trying to calm down. There was a college in the town of Forks, surprisingly, and Alexa was determined to continue learning if she could.

As she began to enter the town of Forks she looked around. Everyone was staring at her it seemed. She looked at the directions on the email from her sister and soon found herself following a dirt road path and then at the door of a fairly nice house. She watched her dog raise his head and then lay back down. She got out and saw 8 people walk outside.

"Alexa?" A brunette with long brown hair and eyes colored seemingly golden and dark black asked stepping from the crowd. There were three girls, an indescribably beautiful blond whose hair flowed down her back in soft curls and a small pixie like girl with an impish smile and short brown hair and a brunette with long brown curls and a beautiful smile and warmth to her.

There were four men. One was tall and extremely well built with short, brown hair. There was a thin boy with dark blond hair and a peaceful expression. Also there was a short frizzy haired blonde boy with a somewhat sullen look on his face and a man who looked very handsome with blonde hair.

"Bella?" Alexa asked back and Bella nodded her head as she approached and hugged her tight. The man next to Bella smiled softly.

"I'm Edward, Bella's boyfriend." Edward was the peaceful and thin looking one. Alexa nodded and shook his hand.

"Ok, so this is Esme and Carlisle, the adoptive parents of these guys and girls." Bella pointed to the two people who waved and smiled.

"I'm Alice, this is Jasper, that's Emmett, and that's Rosalie." Alice was the short haired one, but Alexa was able to keep up. She smiled but her eyes rested on Emmett. He was amazing. She blinked her eyes away from him and remembered the details of most of the family.

"Alright, come on in. We have a room set up for you, Alexa." Bella said smiling and Alexa nodded and turned hopping up to open her passenger door and Roscoe barreled out past her and sat waiting. Suddenly Alexa realized she had all the family helping grab her things and they carried things inside and Alexa followed with her dog at her heels. Soon she was unpacking and Roscoe sat on her bed resting.

"You are totally not sleeping there, Ross." Alexa said to him and the dog just ignored her as she began to put away the last things. This was massively weird on many levels. She couldn't help but feel uncomfortable. Alexa changed her outfit feeling weird. She was wearing a black long sleeved t-shirt and a pair of nice hip huggers.

As soon as she walked downstairs she noticed she couldn't find anyone. She shrugged her shoulders and walked outside and was then confronted by Rosalie. Rosalie seemed to be open and kind but Alexa just kept her head down and tried not to anger her.

"Alexa, my family and I are going off for a while. Why don't you go explore on your own?" Rosalie's tone was demeaning almost. Alexa nodded and ran upstairs grabbing her keys and hurrying quickly out. She drove off quickly feeling the tinge of hurt.

"Why did I come out here?" She asked herself as she drove through the woods. Alexa stopped her truck not too far from the house, pulling on the side of the road. She lay down in her truck and silently cried. She hated for others to see her cry or see her weak.

After a few hours, Alexa decided it would probably be okay to head back. She had decided she would be quiet and leave the family to their own business. She was really only there for Bella. As she pulled up she saw some of the family outside cooking on a grill. She got out of her truck and upon seeing Rosalie walk up to the others she darted inside, slamming her door shut and laying down with a flop on the bed. Roscoe had fallen asleep once more under her bed.

"I think I made a mistake, Roscoe." Alexa said and then she heard a knock at her door. She sat up and the door slowly opened.

"Hey, you want to join us?" Emmett's form filled her doorway and she half smiled at him. She rubbed her arms and shook her head.

"It's alright. I don't want to intrude." She spoke as kindly as she could. Emmett stared at her sadly and shook his head.

"Damn her. Listen, please don't listen to Rosalie. She can be quite the bitch and as of late she's been extra bitchy. Come on, if you won't come down for yourself, would you at least come down for me and the others?" Emmett was wearing a black muscle shirt and a pair of jeans.

"I guess I could do that." Alexa rarely acted as weak and mind numbingly petrified as she was right then. She stood and followed Emmett out of the door. As she was walking down the steps she almost fell but Emmett caught her quickly and she stared at him.

"Oh, boy, she hasn't told you yet." Emmett said quietly and Alexa stared at him in question but it didn't take that long for her mind to fit the pieces together. She shook her head.

"Vampire." Alexa whispered to herself as she had also felt the cold of his skin and he looked at her with a grin, nodding.

"Good, you are quicker at figuring things out than your sister." Emmett had paid no attention to the small look of shock that had passed over her face as he admitted to what he and the others were. Alexa could barely move from her spot as she stared after Emmett. He turned back and sighed putting a hand to his forehead.

"I'm sorry." Alexa whispered again and he had heard once more and appeared in front of her quickly and she looked down.

"Don't be." Emmett had a reassuring tone to his voice and Alexa looked up as she felt a fingertip on her chin. She smiled at him.

"Alright, but only because you said so." Alexa joked and began to relax a little. She realized that she was living in a house full of vampires. The thought didn't even bother her. What had shocked her was the fact she hadn't been told in advance. She heard a grunt and a cough from downstairs and she looked over Emmett's shoulder, following Emmett's eyes intently.

"Don't be alarmed. Just wondering where my big brother wandered off to." Bella stood downstairs in all her beauty. Her unnaturally ghostly beauty. Alexa smiled for a moment before she remembered what she had just been told.

"Vampires, Bella? You couldn't tell me that you and your family are vampires?" Alexa asked the shock returning only slightly.

"I didn't know how you'd react. Plus you really aren't supposed to know." Bella remembered that she had been transformed due to her knowledge. If the Volturi knew the same would happen to Alexa.

"Oh, well yet another of the many secrets that have been hidden from me throughout life. Not only do I have a sister, but she is also a vampire!" Alexa yelled out and groaned in disappointment at this new development.

"Please let's just stop and relax, ok?" Emmett placed a hand on Alexa's shoulder holding her in place and preventing her from falling. Alexa turned to stare at him, he saw it then, something dark flashed behind her green eyes.

"Do you think I'm so annoyed because I wasn't told that you are all vampires?" Alexa asked quietly knowing he would hear her. Emmett's golden eyes pulsed with the darkness.

"You were bitten or something weren't you?" Emmett asked and Edward appeared next to her. She looked to him.

"Yes, she was, but she wasn't fully transformed. For some reason it was a…a…torture method." Edward cringed as he touched her mind and her eyes flashed black again.

"Yes. He's right. It was the lone most painful thing I've ever experienced and to this day I haven't been able to live completely in the darkness as my mind and heart wishes to." Alexa suddenly showed the side she never did to anyone. Emmett's grip on her shoulder tightened as he seethed.

"How could anyone torture you? You are so beautiful." Emmett whispered to her calmly and Alexa blushed as she looked at him. Alice had appeared at the bottom of the steps with Jasper close behind her.

"No, I'm not." Alexa argued back and he shook his head. She smiled as she looked back down now seeing Alice and Jasper.

"You are going to fit in just fine around here, Alexa. And I can promise that what you have had to live with will no longer be a problem soon enough." Alice's mind had already given her the vision that was necessary.

"I still don't want to be who I am right now. I would love to be anything but me." Alexa explained the pain that she held inside seeping out. She made Emmett release her as Rosalie entered.

"I see we have a drama queen." Rosalie commented and it was the wrong thing to say as Alexa turned to look at her.

"I think you should shut the hell up!" She yelled with a growl and everyone stared between her and Rosalie. Rosalie's jaw had seemingly dropped to the ground.

"I'm going to my room. I wish for none of you to disturb me from here on out. I won't bother you and you won't have to bother with me, alright?" Alexa was fired up and already regretted her statement the minute it escaped her mouth.

"I'm not going to do that." Emmett spoke first with a determined look on his beautiful features.

"Nor am I." Alice said and Jasper agreed with her as Carlisle and Esme walked inside.

"None of us will." Carlisle said calmly as he walked up the stairs to stand with Emmett, Edward, and Alexa.

"I have made quite the fool of myself. I apologize, Dr. Cullen." Alexa said her head not down but having seemed to have shrunk into her neck.

"Please don't call me that. Call me Carlisle at least." Carlisle was watching Emmett's eyes on Alexa. He could, as well as Edward, sense the attraction Emmett had to her. Rosalie growled softly at the foot of the stairs.

"Let's everyone calm down and go to bed." Alice said as she glared at Rosalie. Bella nodded as Edward rejoined her at her side and the two disappeared off to his room. Jasper and Alice departed just as quickly, with Esme and Carlisle doing the same. This left Rosalie, Alexa, and Emmett.

"Good night." Alexa said as she tore off quickly to her room and shut the door, not missing the hand that Emmett had reached out trying to stop her. She could hear Rosalie arguing with Emmett who seemed to be uninterested in what she was saying. Alexa tried to fall asleep but it wasn't possible considering the fact that she could hear someone outside her room.

"You can't leave me!" Rosalie's shriek made Alexa sit up straight in her bed and she tumbled out of it, dashing out of the room and followed the sound to find Emmett glaring at Rosalie, who was naked in the bed, but covered up, and next to her was a man who looked somewhat like Emmett but couldn't truly match the strength and charisma that Alexa saw.

"Oh boy." Alexa said as she retreated quietly, but ended up bumping into Emmett's chest. She turned to look at him forgetting he had the speed to move so quickly and her mouth shot open. She couldn't move as he stared at her, his eyes cold and hard with pain.

"I'm sorry." Emmett whispered, his face holding a strong, stoic look and Alexa shook her head at him.

"No, I am." Alexa replied back and rubbed her arms lightly. She couldn't imagine the pain he was experiencing.

"Don't be." Emmett responded and suddenly he was gone and Alexa looked around and ran to the stairs to hear the sound of an engine starting. She ran downstairs and looked outside watching the big Jeep pull away.

"It was going to come out sooner or later. He's such a wimp." Rosalie's voice drifted to Alexa's ears and Alexa whipped around to glare at her.

"Yes, I assume he should know that his seemingly perfect girlfriend is actually the perfect little slut." Alexa growled to her and Rosalie hissed at her, almost descending the stairs but deciding against it as Carlisle appeared next to Alexa.

"I should have known you'd be this stupid. I shouldn't have put it past you. But I did." Carlisle said smoothly and Alexa looked at him as he stared at Rosalie.

"So what are you trying to say? I need to leave?" Rosalie asked flabbergasted and Alexa smirked a little but could feel Emmett's pain inside her still. That look wouldn't leave her.

"That is exactly what I'm saying." Carlisle answered back and Rosalie huffed and turned, heading back to her room to pack. Carlisle turned to look at Alexa. He shook his head before he spoke again. "You may be his only hope now. I think he likes you. When he returns…"

"I'll talk to him, don't worry, Carlisle." Alexa said already feeling at home even though it had been such a short time. Alexa walked upstairs slowly and flopped onto her bed again, hearing the roars echoing through the forest.

Within a few hours it was getting light outside and Alexa awoke to Roscoe licking at her face. She shoved him away and sat up groaning. She pulled out her laptop and started it up, clicking iTunes and played a song or two as she changed into a pair of shape fitting hip huggers and a blue shirt. She shut the computer quickly and headed for downstairs.

As Alexa walked downstairs she could feel the tension. She saw Jasper and approached him slowly feeling a calm wash over her. She smiled at him and he nodded towards the den where the TV was playing sports. She nodded back at him and headed quietly towards the room.

"Hey." Alexa said as she walked in and saw Emmett staring at the TV with no obvious interest. Emmett didn't look at her as she spoke, nor as she walked over and sat on the couch next to him.

"Hey." Emmett finally replied after a few more seconds of silence and Alexa looked over at him. She could see he was hiding his pain this time.

"So, I was wondering if you would take me around town, maybe." Alexa had a plan already in her head and was adamant on getting Emmett out of the house. He nodded, still not looking at her and stood.

"Lemme get my keys." Emmett was back in a flash the same look on his face. As he turned to walk Alexa grabbed his arm and felt him flex. He looked back.

"Don't move so fast, it makes me jealous." Alexa joked trying to elicit a smile out of him but found he wouldn't budge. She followed him as he walked out to the garage and she got in his jeep and looked straight ahead.

For the next few hours Emmett showed her everything he could and all the nooks and crannies of the town. He pointed out the places that weren't safe to go to and what was okay. The whole time he refused to smile or make a joke. Alexa finally decided she would corner him.

"You said something about hiking nearby. I want to go hiking now." Alexa's plan had changed as she watched the still stoic bear of a man. He nodded and they traveled a little way out of the town until they came upon a trail. She got out and he grabbed a backpack from the back.

As they walked through the forest Alexa told him as much as she could about her life, considering he wanted to know, and he explained most of his life to her and then they came upon a cliff. The water that expanded out was beautiful and dark. Emmett still refused to look at her and she finally stood in front of him as he stared out at the water.

"What?" Emmett asked finally looking down at her and she flashed him a small smile. He tried to smile but it was lost as he looked away. Alexa reached up and grabbed his face.

"Hey, I know you're probably in pain because you've been with Rosalie for so long but that doesn't mean that you're meant to be depressed like this. A face like yours doesn't deserve to show no emotion." Alexa was trying to be as kind as possible. She knew his pain. She knew how it felt to be so wrapped up in someone and for them to turn the tables on you.

"Thanks. Now I hope you can forgive me for what I'm about to do." Emmett said and leaned down holding her close to him and shoving his face into her neck. Alexa smiled and stroked his hair. She could feel his lips shudder against her skin.

"I know you can feel my pulse. I hate it." Alexa said and he looked up from her neck into her eyes.

"Are you insane, woman?" Emmett asked as seriously as possible and she shook her head pulling her hair back a ways to show the scars.

"They would bite and then withdraw the venom. Bite, and then withdraw again. They would do it all the time." Alexa said and he held her face in his hands making her look at him.

"It's over now." Emmett tried to reassure her seeing the tears come to her eyes but she shook her head.

"Not when every night you go to sleep and have nightmares and no one there to hold you." She said and he pulled her into his large frame and stroked her hair.

"I'll be there tonight." Emmett whispered quietly into her hair and she smiled a little but still cried. She had been in pain for many years due to everything. Now as the sun began to fall in the sky, Emmett lifted her into his arms and held her tight.

Soon, they were heading back to the house after Emmett had stopped at a restaurant and let her eat. She was tired and as Emmett laid her in her bed, he covered her up and watched her as she slept. Half-way through the night Alexa began to toss and turn as her nightmare began again. This time she cried out a name.

"Emmett, help me. Emmett." She repeated and Emmett looked back at her from his place in the chair facing the window and he stood walking over and touching her arms. She shook and woke up looking at him with wide eyes.

"It's alright. I'm right here and I'm not going anywhere." Emmett said quietly and she nodded as he crawled in next to her, taking his shoes off and throwing them to the side. She snuggled up to him and could feel the cold from him but she loved the feeling. She fell asleep and he stroked her hair as he felt at peace with everything.

All right, this story will be co-written by a friend of mine. Next chapter you all should enjoy. Hope you liked this one!

Much luv,

Animus Patronus