Disclaimer: I obviously do not own Carlisle or any other Twilight character-or Twilight for that matter. Stephenie Meyer does. I'm just borrowing them to create this fanfic. I only own the plotline and the Subway white chocolate/macadamia nut cookie and can of Diet Coke that gave me the idea for this. Credit is due entirely to Stephenie Meyer and the cookie and Diet Coke. I don't get any.
Why Carlisle went mad-Prologue
It began as any other day in the Cullen household. Rosalie was admiring herself in the mirror, Emmett and Jasper were acting like children over a video game while Edward refereed, Alice was out shopping and had dragged Bella and Esme along, and Carlisle was sitting in his study reflecting on his three and a half centuries of life.
Carlisle's thoughts soon turned to his family, as they often did. He began to contemplate each member in turn, thinking over their personality and the key part of their personality that was the most dominant-the defining trait, if you will. It seemed more to him that everyone else had something really dominant in their personality, and with the exception of Rosalie, that dominant something was really freaking awesome. It also seemed to Carlisle that he did not have an awesome aspect to his personality, and this upset him.
To think this was even possible! Carlisle had been under the impression that he too was awesome in some way-being surrounded by awesome people gave him the idea that since everyone around him was so great, he must be as well. And yet, he felt pretty miserable as he began to focus on each of his 'childrens' awesomeness and even worse when he focused on how amazing Esme was. Maybe, he thought with dread, she won't still love me if I'm not awesome. How did this even happen, he mused. The head of a family-vampires at that-and a pretty damned powerful one too, and he wasn't awesome. Why?
His theory was only solidified by the realization that Edward had not heard his thoughts and come to investigate, nor had Jasper felt his mood. Rosalie was too wrapped up in herself to give him any attention, and Emmett was too focused on blowing up aliens with Jasper.
And with that, Carlisle Cullen had his most drastic realization in three hundred and fifty years: he truly was not awesome.
This is just the prologue: the next chapters will be Carlisle contemplating each member of his family at length. Renesmee doesn't feature. This story is after Bella has become a vampire and Breaking Dawn has ended. Warning: following chapters may have excessive use of the word 'awesome'as demonstrated in this. Intended for humour. Chapter 2 to come shortly.
