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Now this is Chapter Two. I have decided to go with each chapter having a different couple. So bare with me. It will keep you all interested. So here goes!
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight. Or Afterglow By: INXS
Trials of the Heart
By: Alunamai
Chapter Two: Afterglow
Carlisle POV
Ashland, Wisconsin
1921
It has been nearly ten years since I last saw Esme Platt. She was the only human I had ever come across that had me restraining my hunger for her blood. The heavenly scent still lingers in my nose. It's funny how a woman can have such an effect over a man. I never thought I would ever find someone I wanted more. But as you can see, I was obviously wrong.
Here I amLost in the light of the moon
That comes through my window
I sit here staring out the morgue window watching the moon move slowly across the night sky. Her small frame sits on the stretcher she was brought on, half dead, half alive. I had bitten her just to save her from death, it was selfish I know, but it had to be done. I wasn't going to live the rest of eternity with out her. I had lost her once; I was not about to lose her again, especially to death.
"Carlisle!" I heard her scream. I know she hadn't seen me. She was unconscious was she had been brought in, considered to be dead. But I had heard the heart beat; I smelled the little bit of life that still clung to her. I was going to be the one who would save her, for I was the only one who knew she was still even alive.
Bathed in blueThe walls of my memory
Divides the thorns from the roses
It's you and the roses
Flashback 1911 Columbus, Ohio
"Good evening, I'm Dr. Cullen, I will be your attending physician."
"Esme Platt." She said shyly. This I expected.
"now what seems to be the problem Ms. Platt?"
"Esme, and I broke my leg."
"Then you may call me Carlisle. And how did you do that?" I started to access the damage.
"I fell out of a tree."
(End Flash Back)
I moved over to where she lied, I took up a wet cloth and wiped her face gently for it was still caked with dry blood. I had been doing this for about three hours now, because in order for me to have her continue the transformation at home, she needed to be cleared of the blood. My fear was Edward trying to destroy this angel before she had a chance. Only problem was trying to get the rest of her. It's funny how I would be thinking of being a gentleman, when this girl was supposed to be dead.
I walked down to one end of the hospital and found one of my favorite nurses, she was not at all dazzled by me, she gave me attitude and she was also a vampire. Her family and mine spent most holidays together. She was the only one who would understand what I was about to ask of her.
"Agatha, I need you to come with me to the morgue." She gave me the strangest look ever. Her gold eyes looked over my face for a moment, as if she were trying to read my mind. I spoke very quickly trying to explain what I needed her for.
"Of course, Dr. Cullen. I will be there in a few moments."
I returned to the morgue and quickly started to change the paper work for the other woman that had been brought in. The ironic part of the two women is that they both tried to commit suicide in the same manner and they looked a like. Only this one was a Jane Doe and Esme came in with an identity. Now this poor woman will have a proper burial. And Esme will finally be where she belongs, with some one who will love her and take care of her. Obviously her husband was not good to her, why else would she attempt to commit suicide.
Touch me and I will follow
In your afterglow
Heal me from all this
sorrow
As I let you go
I
will find my way when I see your eyes
Now I'm living in your
afterglow
(Flash back)
"Now, I need you to grab hold of my arm and squeeze when you feel any pain as I try to set your leg." She did as told. I had half expected her to gasp at how cold my skin felt. I began to set her leg back into place.
"AHHHHH!" She screamed.
"We're done." I told her as I heard the snap. "now all I will need to do is to wrap this and you can go home."
I deliberately wrapped her leg slowly. And in that time we spoke about her family, likings, what she wanted to do with her life, and she asked me questions. Tons of questions. And I answered them as truthfully as possible.
(End Flashback)
Agatha entered the morgue and I was just about done with the other girls paperwork.
"Does any one else know that were two of them?"
"Seamus, but I sent him hunting, his eyes were blacker than I had ever seen them. Had to of been from bringing in this one." I pointed at Esme. Seamus was Agathas husband, and he drove the morgue truck at night.
"Well, we can't spend all night cleaning this girl up. We have to get her cleaned and out of here. She can't possibly stay here.
Here I am, lost in the ashes of time, but who wants
tomorrow? Touch me and I will follow in your afterglow
In between the longing to hold you again
I'm caught
in your shadow, I'm losing control
My mind drifts away, we only
have today
Heal
me from all this sorrow
As I let you go I will find my way
I
will sacrifice 'til the blinding day when I see your eyes
Now I'm
living in your afterglow
Who needs tomorrow when we have today? I have you now, and I will never let you go. I couldn't possibly let her go. I was sacrificing my job by saving her. If I had not bitten her, she would be dead by now. And now I only had a matter of three hours till my shift was up and I would be packing Edwards bags and mine. We were on our way to New York.
"Carlisle! Please! I can't! NO!" she was screaming again.
"When was the last time did you see her?"
"Ten years. She left such an impression on me that I never forgot her. And obviously she has not forgotten me." I admitted.
"She's dreaming. And she obviously kept you on mind at all times. You're the one saving her from her husband in this one. But she is arguing that she can't go. That her husband will find her and kill you both." Agathas gift was reading dreams of humans. It was her personal entertainment that was why she worked in the hospital.
When the faith has gone as I let you go, as I let you go Touch
me and I will follow in your afterglow
Heal me from all this
sorrow
As I let you go I will find my way, I will sacrifice
Now
I'm living in your afterglow
I had returned to the window to watch as the moon floated across sky. I had almost lost all faith of seeing her again. I followed in her afterglow; I lived in her afterglow. But I found her. I have her back and now three days I wait. I wait for her to awaken.
"She's ready to be moved. Now, you have to wait until she is awake to start your move to New York. I will send some clothes over with Seamus before we start on our way to Canada." And she left. I sometimes wondered what Agatha was like as a human most likely a very caring woman.
Three days had passed and I stood in the window, watching as the moon snaked it's way across the sky. She had awoken six hours ago and was not talking to me. She sat in the bed I had laid her in and read. She was upset about what I had told her. That she was a vampire, that she would never be able to die, never be able to eat, and would be on a diet of blood for the rest of her life.
She had risen from the bed and stood behind me. She wrapped her arms around my waist and stood on her tiptoes so she could reach my ear. Then I heard the sound of her beautiful voice.
"Bathed in blue, the walls of my memory divides the thorns from the roses, it's you who is closest."
A/N: So what do what do you think? I hope you all liked it. R&R!
