2: Phone Call
Just then, Alice said, "Carlisle!"
Carlisle froze, there was something strange about her voice, it almost sounded like she was either worried or confused about something.
Yet, when he'd reached the living room, she, along with everyone else, were all waiting for him to arrive, this must be important, he'd thought to himself, Edward said a few seconds later, "Oh; it is."
Esme said while she dragged Carlisle over to the loveseat, "Why don't we all discuss this as a family, Carlisle, Alice had a very confusing and strange vision just about 20 minutes ago."
Carlisle asked while prying himself from Esme's firm grip, hoping to get away from her just for a few seconds at least, but to no avail, "What's the vision about, Alice?"
Before Alice could say something, the doorbell rang, a moment later, Carlisle opened the door, only to find that Marcus was on his doorstep, looking as shock as the Cullen's were, however, one look told all he needed to know, and so he said, "Marcus, what are you doing here?
Marcus said, "Care if we go for a walk, there's some important news that I have to share with you."
Once they both were out of earshot from the rest of the coven, Marcus abruptly stopped, and he said, "The time is near."
Carlisle was about to say something, when Marcus said, "You both have no other choice, it's time."
Carlisle's eyes widened at the Volturi leader's words, however, all he could say was, "What?"
Marcus only said just before he'd vanished, "Fix this now, or else you both may never have what was once a happy beginning."
The moment he was back at the house, Alice said, "I saw what looked like a broken young man, I could make out the pale skin, pointed face, and silver blond hair-"
Carlisle froze on the spot, this could only mean one thing, he took a deep breath, careful to not let his cover be blown, he quickly asked, wanting to get out of the house in order to get some alone time to himself, "Anything else?"
Alice said, "This young man suddenly became centered around you, Carlisle. However, you became overprotective of this man, so much that, at one point, you kicked all of us out."
Edward said, "It almost sounds like you have a very close bond with this person, Carlisle."
Esme asked, "What's his name?"
At that, Alice frowned, and all she said was, "Pet..."
Carlisle's head snapped towards her, he forced himself to stay calm, no matter how much he so badly wanted his pet beside him, he said a bit too sharply, "Anything else?"
Alice said, "Carlisle, what I saw next... I kind of got a bad feeling about it, it's hard to explain... I'm not quite sure if you might not like it."
A frown was on his face, he made it seem like he was worried, of course the frown was just to cover up the joy he'd felt that someday, he would see his pet again.
He asked, "What is it, Alice?"
All she said was, "I saw Esme kill this person, something's not right here, I can feel it. Our lives are going to be different from now on, Carlisle, what are your thoughts on this..."
Carlisle felt like he was drowning in a pit of madness and lies, however, he only said, "Do you know why Esme would ever do that? I mean, it's not like I'm going anywhere with this strange human..."
Alice said, "She went mad or something, I'm not sure, when you found out what she'd done..."
Carlisle's eyes widened, he suddenly understood the rest of her vision, all he said was, "Let's hope that it wouldn't come to that, shall we?"
Alice said, "Carlisle, we all know that you two are mates, but what about this human? What if he tries to come between you and Mum?"
Carlisle said, "I know that this human doesn't try that..."
He didn't want to finish his statement out loud or in his head, his phone suddenly went off, he quickly grabbed it, and answered, his voice smooth, "Hello, Dr. Cullen here."
Someone, a male, asked him, "Carlisle, is that you?"
Carlisle's eyes grew a little darker, and he said, almost going into a frenzy, "How did you...?"
The person on the other line said, his voice full of pleading, "Listen to me, Carlisle, I didn't mean any of it... I had no choice, I didn't want to do what I was forced to do, I didn't mean to-"
Carlisle cut him off, and he said, "I understand the reason, just calm down, don't worry about me, I'm safe. You, on the other hand, I'm worried about."
The person on the other line said, his voice in frantic waves, almost like he was begging Carlisle, "Please, Carlisle, please, just please don't-"
Carlisle cut him off, his voice firm but general, "Don't even say it. You should remember what happened that night, think back to that last night, the very last night. I know that you can do it, just calm down, everything's going to be fine, don't worry. Just know that I'm safe and glad to know that you've made it out alive."
However, in the background, Carlisle heard someone say, "Draco love, are you alright, your Mother and Father are worried about you."
Carlisle's eyes narrowed into slits, and he snarled, his voice cold and sharp, "Where are you?"
The male on the other line gasped, and he cried, his voice becoming more frantic then ever, "No Carli-"
He was cut off, Carlisle heard the female say on the other line, her voice sharp as knives, "You will never have him, bloodsucker. I know all about you and your kind, you're a demon from hell-"
Carlisle growled, ignoring the shocked and confused looks from everyone all around, "What have you done?"
The female only said, "Oh don't worry about him, he isn't going anywhere. He's been such a good pet-"
Carlisle snarled, seeing nothing but red in his eyes, "You wouldn't dare! Don't you-"
The female sneered, "He BELONGS to me! I'm the one who he's supposed to be with! If I can't have him, then no one, and I mean NO ONE, can have him!"
Carlisle snarled hatefully, "I don't care, I will hunt you down, and I will have you for a snack, do you hear me!?"
The female said, "Try me, Cullen..."
The male was back on the line again, only this time Carlisle said, his voice soft but also firm, "Where are you?"
The male whispered, his voice saddened and hurt, "The Manor. You know the laws, Carlisle, you... I don't want to let anything happen to you."
Carlisle said, his hands slowly unclenching, fearing for the man, "No, I have to make sure that you're safe, I can't bare it if something happens to you, you should know that. You haven't told anyone about it, have you?"
The male whimpered, Carlisle know that sound, he couldn't say it in front of his family, the next few seconds, he was in his office, door shut tight, he sat down at his desk, sighed, and said gently, his voice calm and like velvet, "Remember when we first met?"
The male said, "Yeah..."
Relief flowed threw Carlisle, he said under his breath, forgetting that his 'wife' and 'children' were in the same house as him, "Thank Marlin."
After a few moments, he said, "So you haven't told anyone about what you've found on your mission, remember that day?"
The male said, "No, I haven't... Glad that I was threaten in the first place, right?"
Carlisle forced back a snort, and he said, "Believe me, if I wasn't there, you may have just lived off of that threat."
The male said, "I actually did for a few days, not being with you was like getting hit with the Torture curse, which actually happened, you know."
Carlisle said, "What happened?"
Before he was about to say something, Carlisle heard Esme say from the hall, worried about her 'mate', "Carlisle, you're wanted at the hospital."
Carlisle said, "I'm dreadfully sorry, but I'm wanted at the local hospital."
The male chuckled softly, however, he said somewhat distantly, as if trying to recall something long ago lost and forgotten, "I remember those nights in that hospital, how you would just hold me, listening to my life story, and how, just before I went to sleep, you'd sing my soul to sleep with just my lullaby and a soft goodnight kiss to the cheek... Carlisle?"
Carlisle was about to be lost within those long ago memories, when he heard his 'mate' shout just outside the door of his office, "Carlisle!"
Carlisle whispered, "I have to go, don't worry about me."
The male said, "Awe, you have to go already? Not fair..."
Carlisle could actually see his adorable pout, he couldn't help but say lightly, a small smile on his lips, "I know that your pouting, young one..."
The male cried stubbornly, "Hey, that's so not fair! You mean..."
Carlisle sighed, got his things together, headed out of his office, ignoring Esme's furious glare about him ignoring her and the rest of their family, as he headed downstairs, he thought to Edward, 'I'll be home once this is cleared up'.
Once in his car, away from the house, he said, still on the phone, finally able to 'breath' once again, "Pet, are you alone?"
His pet, the male, said a moment later, "I love -"
The phone was cut off, Carlisle looked at his phone in confusion for only a second, when he glared angrily at it, hurt that he didn't get to hear those three wonderful words from his little pet, and he snarled at the phone, "Bloody stupid woman, you'll never have my pet."
Yet, he didn't know that the rest of the family will be getting a special guest soon.
