A/N - Huge thank you to everyone that read, reviewed, alerted and favourited. You guys rock :D. More Cullens coming up in the next chapter. Sorry it's taking so long to bring them into it.
Chapter 4
The Warehouse
"Sandy," I yelled, a strawberry blonde poked her head around the corner at the top of the stairs.
"What's up Bells?" she asked walking down the stairs. George followed her and I had to hold back a smile. Those two really were inseparable. I tried not to think of the reason why that was.
"Have you seen Will? I told him that we could watch that new movie he got, but I can't find him anywhere."
Sandy and George suddenly looked nervous. They still felt that they weren't part of the family and hated telling any one of us something that would upset us.
"What did he do?" I asked trying to keep the growl out my voice. The two looked at each other and then George took a step forwards.
"Well, see, he didn't think that Jenny's vision would come true if he didn't go anywhere near any warehouses … so he ran up to the border to go hunting."
Growling I took a couple of deep breaths trying to calm myself. I could see the other two looking at me apologetically and felt bad for the way I was reacting.
"Alright I want you two to call Jenny and Mark and tell them what happened. I'm going to go after the idiot and bring him home. I'll have my cell with me … if it works up there."
The two nodded and nervously smiled, "It's not your fault," I said, "Will's an idiot."
I gave them both a quick hug before running out of the house. It didn't take me long to pick up Will's scent and head off in the direction.
As I followed Will I just hoped that he wasn't going to do anything stupid. I stiffened as a second scent joined his. I felt a nervous feeling in my stomach and tried to place where I had smelt that scent before. It seemed a lot stronger now than it had back when I had first smelt it.
It definitely wasn't Victoria or any of her coven. I tried to shake off the fluttery feeling and almost froze when a warehouse came into view. Will's scent went straight towards the warehouse and I growled as I got closer.
***
"What the hell exactly were you thinking?" I said, yelling at Will as I dragged him out of the warehouse. I was pulling him along fast, hoping that the blonde wouldn't have had enough time to get up yet.
Punching Rosalie probably wasn't the best way to have handled things, but the shock and the anger I felt had clouded my better judgment.
Will pulled his arm out of my grip and turned towards me, "Sure I'll tell you, just as soon as you tell me who that was. An old friend?"
I rolled my eyes and shook my head.
"No Will," I hissed at him, "How could you be so stupid? What if that had been Victoria? Or Laurent? Or anyone …" I suddenly trailed off as something clicked.
Rosalie had been fighting Will. In fact the look on her face before she had seen me was murderous. She was going to kill Will. What was going on here?
As if in answer to my question the blonde vampire ran out and stopped abruptly when she saw us. I saw her glare at Will and then her awe when she turned to me.
"Bella?" she said. That one word seemed to have a lot of questions in it, the biggest of which was how? I grabbed Will and pulled him behind me as I saw the dawning comprehension on his face.
"Rosalie Cullen," he whispered. She glared at him again and I took a step towards her.
"What are you doing here Rosalie?" I asked trying to block her view of Will, which was hard, considering he towered over me. I heard his chuckle as he realized what I was trying to do and I shot him a glare. He wasn't taking this nearly as seriously as he should've been.
"It's really you?" Rosalie continued as if she hadn't heard my question. She appeared to be in shock.
I rolled my eyes and nodded, "Yes Rosalie. It's really me. Now would you mind telling me why you were trying to kill my brother?"
I saw confusion cross her face and then understanding, "So he didn't kill you," she breathed, "he just turned you."
I raised an eyebrow, deciding I didn't care what she was doing here. I knew where curiosity got me and I wasn't about to let my family be torn apart again because of it.
"Yes he did," I replied in answer to her question, "Well it was lovely catching up but we really should be off. Things to do, places to be, brothers to shout at."
I grabbed Will and turned away. I could feel the irritation coming off her in waves at my dismissal and wasn't surprised when she appeared in front of us.
"Wait," she said, "look Bella I know we didn't really get on when we last knew each other." I snorted and looked at her in disbelief.
"Okay that may be an understatement, but we didn't … I mean we thought … You're alive Bella! Wait til Edward and Alice and everyone …"
She trailed off as I glared at her. "We didn't see each other Rosalie," I said, "Just pretend we never met. That's what I do."
I pushed past her and broke into a run, trying to ignore the look of shock, and something else I couldn't quite place, on her face. It wasn't long until I heard Will catch up to me.
He grabbed onto my arm and stopped me.
"Are you okay?" he asked. I nodded, trying to ignore the rush of emotions that were clamoring in my mind. Anger, that I had to see any of the Cullens again. Pain, as I remembered what happened after they had left. Guilt, that I had actually wanted to stay and talk to her. And a sense of sadness that it hadn't been the one Cullen I knew would have swept me off my feet again if he had been there.
But I knew that that was just a fantasy. He didn't want me. He never had. And he would probably be relieved that it had been Rosalie, and not him, that had seen me.
***
"William Grace!" I smiled weakly as I heard Jenny's yell as she came outside, "What do you think you were doing? Do you have any idea …"
I walked past Jenny as she yelled at Will. I knew that Will would talk her down; Jenny couldn't help but forgive him.
As I walked in I saw George and Sandy playing a video game. I gave them a small wave and smile walking past them out to the back patio. I sat down and tried to control my emotions. It had been years since I had felt my emotions this out of control. I tried to stop the dry sobs that I knew were coming.
"Want to talk about it?" I smiled and looked up at Mark as he asked the question. I felt my heart clench as I was reminded once again of Charlie. They were different and yet so much alike. My smile wavered and I shook my head. He sat down, pulling me into a hug and we sat there looking out into the trees.
"I …" I whispered, shaking as I wished, not for the first time, that I could cry properly, "I'm not sure we should've come back here after all."
He nodded and I could hear him 'hm' in question.
"It was Rosalie, the blonde that Jenny saw. Rosalie Cullen." I felt him stiffen. The whole family new about the Cullens and what had happened after they left.
"Do you want to stay?" I heard him ask in a strained voice. Mark hated seeing any of us in pain and would do anything to protect the family.
I stared off into the distance and thought. "Yes, I need to do this Mark. If I don't, I don't think I'll ever be able to come back."
"No-one says you have to." I looked up at him and shook my head.
"I need to do this. If they're here I can deal with it," I saw his look of concern, "No I mean it. I mean, now that I know they might be here I can prepare for it. This will help with closure. It might be hard in the beginning but I'll work through it and be a better person for it."
He raised an eyebrow in speculation and then nodded, "Well if you change your mind you let us know. We've gotten pretty good at packing quickly."
I grinned at him and stood up.
"I guess I should go see if Will is still in one piece," I said and walked towards the front feeling slightly better then I had walking in the house the first time.
Snippet Chapter 5
"I'm sorry Rosalie. Really. But I didn't come back to Forks for any of you or for your … good. I said what I did to Jasper because he shouldn't blame himself for what happened. It was in his nature. I understand that. Hell, I understood that back then. But apart from him, I'm really not interested in 'getting along' with any of you."I tried to ignore my body shaking as I walked away from the table. Guilt at the way I'd spoken to her running through me. As I reached the doors, they opened.
If I hadn't been shaken before, I would've been now.
"Edward," I whispered.
A/N - I don't know why but I just love writing Rosalie and Bella. As you can probably tell. Let me know what you thought of this chapter or what you think will happen in the next one :).
