Pre-story
Courtesy of The Official Illustrated Guide with some minor alterations of course ^^ so it might seem a tiny bit familiar at first...
I think it's weird how when I type "Carlisle" I say it Car-lisle but when I say it aloud I say it correctly, Carlile, without the 's'.
I wrote this while I was in Mississippi this summer. Glad to be back in the Valley of the Sun.
To all my VSM readers, I'm working I swear! TGC readers..it's kind of hard because no matter how hard I try, in my mind Emma and Rebekah are sort of existing as one person so..I'm trying to work that out.. Don't give up on me!
...A DamonxEsme fic
Be My Bride
Esme Anne Platt Evenson Cullen
DOB: 1895... DOT: 1921, age 26
COLOR: BROWN
PD: "Esme has a heart-shaped face. Her body is small and slender, but curvy."
"Esme Ann Platt grew up on a farm outside St Columbus, Ohio. As a child, she lived a happy life, although in her teen years she found it hard to conform to the behavior that was expected of a respectable young lady at the time.
In 1911, Esme fell and broke her leg while climbing a tree. The local doctor was away, and she ended up being treated by Dr. Carlisle Cullen. Although she mentioned it to no one at the time, meeting Carlisle affected her deeply. He was unlike anyone she had ever met- genuinely thoughtful, and truly interested in what she had to say. Unfortunately he was in town only briefly and soon left, but she never forgot him.
Esme's friends began to marry, and before long she was the only one still unwed. Esme wanted to fall in love herself, but she never found anyone who measured up to her memory of Carlisle. Esme tried to persuade her father to allow her to pursue a teaching position in the west, but he didn't think it was respectable for a lady to live alone in the son of a family friend who wanted to marry her. Several years Esme's senior, Charles Evenson held a good prospects. Esme was indifferent to Charles, but not opposed to him, so she agreed to the marriage to please her father.
Esme quickly discovered that the marriage was a mistake; Charles's public face was very different from his private one. He physically abused. It was around this time that Damon Salvatore came into town and took interest in Esme; he began watching her.
Esme's parents rejected her plea for asylum; they counseled her to be a "good wife" and keep quiet. When Charles left to fight in WWI, it was an enormous relief.
Esme and Damon met during Charles's absence, and instantly made a connection. Steadily they fell deeply in love and dreamed about running away together. Esme knew Damon was different, but did not fear him.
When Charles returned unscathed in 1919, it was nightmare.
Soon after his return, Esme became pregnant with Charles's child. The baby, aside for her desire to elope with Damon, was Esme's motivation to escape. She would not bring a child into Charles's home. Esme ran away and went to stay with a cousin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Damon followed her. When her husband discovered her whereabouts, she fled to Ashland, Wisconsin where she posed as a war widow and stayed with Damon. In order to support herself (refusing Damon's attempts to spoil her), Esme pursued her old dream of being a school teacher.
Esme began building a life for herself and her baby. She loved the unborn child more than her own life, to Damon's dismay. Damon wished it could have been his.
But two days after her son was born, he died of lung fever. (Damon did not heal her son, it is one of his darkest secrets) Feeling as if she had lost everything, Esme walked to a cliff outside of the town and jumped before Damon could stop her.
Damon found her body and desperately tried to heal her or turn her with no luck. He came across Carlisle and left her body with him and fled in despair and disappeared.
Esme regained consciousness in excruciating pain. Despite the pain, Esme was amazed to see Carlisle again, not sure if she was in heaven or hell. When the transformation was over, Carlisle explained that he'd turned her into a vampire in order to save her life. Esme was not as upset as he had expected.
She wondered if this meant she was like Damon now. Adjusting to her new vampire nature had its challenges, and there were times when the call of human blood was too strong for her to resist; still, she was happy to be with the man she's always idolized, though Damon always lingered in her thoughts. What had happened to him? Was he happy and safe somewhere, or still grieving over her death? Her youthful crush for Carlisle transitioned into full-fledged love, and rivaled that of her affection for Damon.
Before long, Carlisle and Esme married. She never lost her maternal instincts, and as the oldest of the Cullens, she automatically fell into a mothering role with Edward and, later, the other members of the family.
Damon always lingered in the back of her mind, but she never told Carlisle of any of her children of her love Damon.
