Carlisle was lying on the soft white couch, placed against the glass wall in his large living room pretending to nap. He opened his eyes when he heard his lovely wife come in. He looked at her beautiful pale face and smiled as she gracefully made her way by him.
"Hello, Esme." He said with a wide smile across his abnormally beautiful face.
"Good morning," she replied while lying down on top of him, resting the back of her head on his chest.
"How did you sleep?" he asked with a chuckle.
Esme giggled softly, "Wonderful, of course."
Carlisle smiled. He loved the fact that no matter how many centuries he spends with her, he could never love her any less; he could only love her more.
"You know, I was thinking," Esme started, "what would I do if you had died? I contemplated on this question for quite some time, but I was never able to come up with an answer." She sighed. "So, I thought, 'what would Carlisle do if I happened to perish?'"
Carlisle chuckled, "Well love, the answer to that is simple. I am absolutely certain that I wouldn't last more than a few days without you. I love you far too much to be able to handle that." He started to stroke her soft hair. It felt like silk in is smooth hard hand. "I can barely last one day without you."
Her eyebrows scrunched with thought. She turned over so her stomach was resting on his. There was a moment of silence, but then Esme broke it. "But you do understand that I could die any second, right?" Esme questioned, while playing with Carlisle's lower lip with her pale index finger. "I mean I would be awfully upset if you didn't go on with your life. I love you far too much for you to be brought to your death just because of mine…"
Carlisle put his finger over her mouth, and smiled when she looked up at him. "What if I promised that I would try my hardest to go on with life without you, no matter how impossible it seems. Don't worry though because you won't be getting hurt while I'm around."
"Don't promise things like that Carlisle."
"Ok, I apologize." Carlisle gently kissed her lower lip, and Esme happily returned the kiss. Then as Carlisle started to kiss her more passionately he heard someone walking to there room. He gently took Esme off, and sighed. "Sorry love, someone is coming…Jasper."
Esme smiled "I know, it's alright."
They heard a knock on the door.
"Come in Jasper." Carlisle muttered.
Jasper walked in. "Did I interrupt?" he asked trying to keep his face free of emotions.
"Of course not," replied Carlisle, "did you need something?"
Jasper chuckled once; he could feel Carlisle's embarrassment. "Well, I am terribly thirsty, and I noticed that Esme is thirsty as well. So, I decided to ask Esme if she would like to accompany me on a hunt."
Esme sat beside Carlisle's feet. Carlisle sat up and looked into Esme's pitch black eyes. He could tell that she didn't want to go, but didn't understand why. "Go ahead love. I will be waiting here for your return." Carlisle smiled at his lovely wife.
Esme kept her face blank. She knew what could happen next. She wrapped her arms around Carlisle's neck and squeezed him tightly. "I love you." She whispered into his chalky ear.
Carlisle smiled and kissed her ear. "I love you to."
Esme stepped off the couch and hurried out the room. Jasper quickly followed, but stopped at the top of the stairs. Alice had sent him to go get Esme but asked him to stay at the top of the stairs until she called. He wondered why...
Esme strode up to Alice. "Alice? Has anything changed?" she demanded.
Alice looked up at Esme with pain in her eyes. "No, if we bring Carlisle right away, he will get himself killed. The best vision I got was that we called Carlisle when it was almost over and you…"
"What will happen if we just don't call Carlisle at all?" Esme asked after a moment of silence
"Bella… will… die." She hesitated.
"Ok, then I guess we will have to contact Carlisle when the battle is almost over."
Alice's eyes widened, "No Esme, that is unacceptable!" Alice protesed as a child would. "I can find another way…"
"No, Esme interrupted, you said that they were coming for Bella at midnight." She glanced at the clock hanging on the beige wall. "It's already eleven. We have come up with many different plans and they all end the badly. If we bring Carlisle he will get himself killed trying to save me. If we don't bring him at all Bella will die too. I am willing to sacrifice my life for Bella, and that is exactly what I am going to do." She paused and took and unnnessissary breath."I have never seen Edward so happy, and I am not going to take that away from him because of my own selfishness."
Alice looked like she was about to cry. "But Esme," she protested in a whisper, "Think about Carlisle he will be devastated. And so will Edward and Bella, Jasper, Emmett and Rosalie, and…" her voice got even quieter, "and me. We love you Esme."
"I love you all to, but this is for Bella." Esme tightly hugged Alice.
Alice froze. Esme stopped hugging her. She saw Alice starring straight ahead, her eyes wide. "Alice, what do you see?" Esme rushed.
Alice looked at her. "They changed their minds. They are coming now." Alice's voice was squeaky and soft.
Jasper walked in, he felt Alice's sudden panic and couldn't wait for her to call him. "What's going on?"
"We'll explain on the way." Esme answered quickly and quietly
They met Bella and Edward in an abandoned warehouse. It was pitch black, the only things blocking the stars were the pine trees that stood over a hundred feet tall, and about eight feet wide. They would obviously kill a human if it fell on them. Of course the Cullens didn't worry about that.
Alice stood by Edward. "They are on their way. How much time do we have?" Alice asked Edward as calmly as she could manage.
Edward tightened his grip on Bella's hand. "Five minutes."
When Bella turned her head she noticed that Emmett and Rosalie had gotten there. She was always amazed by how quickly vampires could run. She started to think about how Alice told her that the vampires wanted to kill her because they knew that she would be stronger than most vampires, and on top of that she would be living in one of the strongest vampire coven in history. She shivered at the thought of Edward and everyone else having to fight who knows how many vampires.
"Bella." Edward said, pulling her from her thoughts. "Don't forget the plan. Emmett and Rosalie are going to take you as far as possible when they are about thirty seconds away, so they won't sense you leaving until it's too late."
"Ok." Bella whispered so low that a she coud barely hear. Of course, Edward heard clearly. Edward held her tight around the waist.
Seconds seemed like eternities to Bella, although, unlike the rest, she was unaware of Esme's fate. "Why is the ground shaking?" She thought. Then she realized that her whole body was shaking violently. Edward held her tighter.
"It's time. Emmett, take her on your back." Edward rushed.
Without answering, Emmett took Bella and put her on his back with ease. Bella locked her legs around her waist and grabbed his neck in a chokehold.
Emmett took off. Rosalie took a glance at Esme and quickly hugged her, knowing that that would be her last, and quickly took off after Emmett. Edward looked nervously at Esme. "Esme, I will do everything I can to…"
"Don't worry Edward," Esme interrupted. "I know you will do what you can. Don't morn over my death too long. Please?" she begged
Edward tried to keep his face blank, but failed. "I'll try." He said his voice shaky.
Esme smiled, keeping all emotion off her face. Jasper was holding Alice's had. Alice was trying not to hyperventilate. She held his hand tighter, and he stroked it with his thumb, and desprately tried to keep his cool.
Edward's face turned paper white. "Their here." He whispered.
Jasper let go pf Alice's hand and they all got ready for battle.
Five vampires walk slowly toward them, and stopped three yards away. Three of them were at least one century old. One was a man with red curly hair, and too many freckles on his face. His face was smooth and he would be just as beautiful as the others if his face weren't covered with those freckles that are too dark for his light skin. Even his puffy lips were spotted with small dark freckles.
The second older one was also a man. He had strait dirty blonde hair that reached to his waist. He smiled cockily.
The last older one was a female. She had Blonde hair that reached to her shoulders. Her hair was in perfect smooth spirals. Not one strand of hair was out of place. Her face was the whitest of them all. She reminded Esme of a pale Shirley Temple.
The other two were obviously newborns. One was a male. He looked egger to start the fight. He had strait black hair the reached to the bottom of his neck, and a small silver hoop on left side of his lip. He also had a bang that nearly covered his entire right eye. He was shorter than his newborn companion who didn't look egger at all. She had light blonde hair. She didn't look threatening at all, all though she was. You could tell that she wanted to resist fighting (which is almost impossible for a newborn). There was a shy look in her eyes, and she didn't look any of them in the eyes, like the other ones were.
But they all had one thing in common, they were beautiful, of course, and they had bright red eyes.
Before Jasper could try and talk the newborns out of fighting, the black haired newborn attacked him. Then the other newborn and three older ones quickly attacked the rest of the Cullens. The Cullens quickly responded, attacking with all their might. But they were out numbered. The blonde girl had attacked Edward, and pinned him to the ground. She had already bitten his arm and neck.
The redhead had attacked Esme. She was shocked by how strong he was. He had her pinned to a tree, and they were ripping at each other violently.
Alice had the male with the blonde hair. In the beginning she wasn't sure if he was a male or female, but this was the least of her worries. The blonde man thought that Alice would be easy to be fought off, due to her tiny feature, but was quickly proven wrong.
The curly haired female helped with Esme. She knows that Esme would be the easiest to kill, because she is the eldest, so they might as well start with her.
Alice scented a fire about a half a mile away "They've started the fire!" Alice yelled as she pushed the blonde male of her.
Esme panicked. She knew that the end was coming soon.
The fight had been going on for sometime now, and everyone had battle scars all over. The blonde, unfortunately, had one on his cheek. The two who had been attacking Esme got a hold on her legs and arms, and pulled her off the ground. Alice panicked. She knew what was going to happen next. "Esme!" she yelled. She looked over at Edward. "Edward, we have to call Carlisle, now!"
Edward, Alice, and Jasper knocked a tree on the blonde male, and as they fought Alice continued piling rocks and trees on him until she knew that he wouldn't be getting out for sometime. Alice quickly dashed toward the fire. As she was running she pulled out her cell phone and called Carlisle.
Carlisle looked at his phone, it started playing 'So what' by Pink. He lightly laughed at the silly ring tone that Alice had put on his phone. He picked it up at the second ring. "Hello?" he asked.
Alice was relived when he finally picked up the phone. "Carlisle! We need you know! Vampires attacked and-and now they have Esme! They want to…kill Bella. We need you now!" Alice slightly stumbled over her words. "We are at the forest in by Bella's house. Just follow the sent of the fire."
"I'll be there right now." He hung up the phone and frantically ran towards the door. He ran faster than Edward, using panic as acceleration. He sped through the forest, with horrible thoughts running through his head. What if they burned everyone? Or what if they burned Esme without burning him to? He tried to push away these questions and concentrate on getting to his family as fast as possible. The scent of fire got stronger the more he headed north. When he saw the orange sparks, he went as fast as he possibly could.
When he reached the fire, his eyes widened in panic. His whole family was being held by at least three vampires each, except Emmett, Rosalie, and Bella because they weren't there. But what made him panic the most was Esme and the five vampires had her held still. They were getting ready to throw her in the fire when Carlisle ran toward them, not caring that he was out numbered. Before he could attack six vampires grabbed him by his arms, legs, and waist. Carlisle struggled trying to break free. As the vampires threw Esme in the fire she mouthed, "I love you." to Carlisle. She screamed when she landed in the fire. Carlisle yelled twice as loud as he saw Esme's flesh burn before his eyes. He thew two of the vampires right into the fire and attacked the other four.
As he was trying to get the four vampires off of him, two vampires walked up to Esme with a large bucket in each of their hands. The buckets were three times there size, but they didn't struggle with them at all. They started to slowly pour the acid on Esme. She screamed at the top of her lungs. This is when Carlisle really lost it, he through some of the vampires into the fire, and the others in random directions. He ran to the two vampires with the acid and dumped it on them. When he was about to pull Esme out of the fire, two vampires grabbed him. He yelled out of anger and pushed one in the fire, but three more grabbed him. Alice, Edward, and Jasper were also fighting off vampires.
The vampires pushed Carlisle toward the fire, but before he fell he felt someone catch him. He looked and saw it was Rosalie.
All of the vampires were killed but one. Carlisle put his hand in the fire, but what he pulled out wasn't Esme, but the burnt remains of her arm. It didn't even look like an arm; it looked more like a black blob. "No!" Carlisle yelled, refusing to admit that his wife of three centuries had perished, that his life had perished. He stuck his hand back into the fire, trying to get his wife out, but all he got was ashes. He refused to give up. He kept on digging, and then he felt something big. He pulled it out feeling hope, but when he saw what he pulled out, that hope was replaced by panic. He had pulled out what used to be his beautiful wife's head. It was now a big black and brown blob, except the corner of her lower lip was slightly pink. There were hallow black holes were her piercing eyes used to be. Carlisle screamed at the top of his lungs from horror.
Edward threw the remaining vampire in the fire, while Rosalie walked towards Carlisle. While she was walking towards him she was trying to think of as many ways possible to help him calm down and stop screaming. When she reached him her mind went blank. She had never seen him like this; he had always kept his cool no matter how bad the situation was. She did the first thing she could think of.
"Carlisle?" Rosalie whispered while putting her hand on his shoulder.
Carlisle quickly got up and ran into the forest letting Rosalie's hand fall limp back to her side.
Rosalie looked at Alice, "Should we go get him?"
Alice closed her eyes, concentrating. After a minute of silence, her eyes flew open. "No, he will come back home. He won't dare do anything stupid, at least not today. He promised Esme. We should let him be." Alice said trying not to hypervenilate.
Rosalie shared glances with Edward, Alice, then Jasper, then back at Alice. She nodded and they started to head home.
Throughout the story there might be mistakes. Sorry, but my microsoft word isn't working so I have to use notepad, and that doesn't tell you if you've made a mistake =(