"I would hold you in my arms, I would take the pain away…" Christina Aguilera
One shot based on the line from Eclipse 'Esme's made do with us as substitutes…' which indicates to me that she also thinks of Esme as her mother.
Begins after Rosalie has told Bella her story, and Edward is taking Bella home. Carlisle is at work, Emmett Alice and Jasper are out hunting, leaving Rosalie upstairs contemplating what she has said to Bella, and Esme downstairs reading.
Esme POV
After hearing Rosalie decline the offer of hunting with the others I decide to stay home as well; Rosalie tends to dwell on things so I want to be there to talk to her. I climb the stairs slowly, giving her chance to hear my approach, her bedroom door is already open from when Alice invited her out with them so I poke my head around the door;
"Rosalie?" She startles, clearly not having heard my approach, "Is everything okay?"
"Esme! I thought everyone had gone hunting, I didn't hear you come up the stairs"
I enter the room and sit next to her on the bed. I can see from her face that she's upset. I slide closer to her on the bed, and pull her in to my arms. My ice queen cold hearted daughter would usually pull away, joking about my sentimentality but Rosalie melts in to my arms and clings to my arm. Panicked slightly now I kiss her forehead and wait for her to tell me what's wrong.
"Talking to Bella was harder than I thought, it brought back so many memories and so many thoughts of what I'll never have. I'll never have children, or grandchildren, there will never be anyone to pass family heirlooms to, and I'll stay frozen forever, never moving forward" She sobs. "I wish Carlisle had never changed me." I sit there as she cries in my arms and gently stroke her hair.
"No Rosalie, you'll never have children of your own, but that doesn't mean you won't have a family. That doesn't mean you don't have anyone to share your life with. Try to think more positively about your life. You'll never have to see that monster Royce King again. Nobody will ever be able to assault you again now you're so strong. The time when your attack happened was a long time ago, even if you had survived without being changed society would have required your parents to force you to marry Royce, to increase their own social standing and your life would have been miserable". She looks up in to my eyes and I can see shadows of doubt, for the life she assumed she would have had. "You wouldn't have had children anyway, because they would have been born in to an unhappy household with an abusive partner and I know you would never have allowed that, but with this life, you have found your one true love, and you'll be together always, endlessly young and forever beautiful".
I can see Rosalie contemplating what I have said, and we lie together on her bed, her lying against me for hours, thinking. When we hear the others return I turn to her; "You need to let go of all the hurt and start to live", and she glides from the room and in to Emmett's arms, together forever.