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Chapter 13: What are you?
"Yes, I do. I think that it is accountable to Stephen."
"Why do you think that your pregnancy is attributable to Stephen?" Emmett asked me half surprised, half suspicious. The smile vanished from his face. I was surprised to read uncertainty in his eyes. Was he really having doubts about my fidelity toward him?
"I...am not really sure about that. It is just...um...how can I explain it? I am almost sure that I had met him before coming here. In one way I feel linked to him, but despite this attraction, I am on my guard." I tried to explain before being interrupted.
"You feel attracted to him? Like you wanna be his friend or just rip off his clothes and make him yours?" he snickered darkly.
"I am not willing to be close with him in any way…at least when I'm not already close to him. But every time I saw him, I felt...strange. He always caught my attention even when I hadn't seen him or smelt him. I feel attracted to him but it isn't natural. It scared me. I don't like it either, Emmett!" I said to my husband. I held out my hand to him and he took it after one second of hesitation. "I swear to you that I have never ever considered someone other than you in an intimate situation." I concluded. He nodded his head to let me know that he had heard my whisper, but he spoke to Edward.
"I need to know what is going on with that guy. I need someone who will be able to read him." he asked.
"Of course," my brother replied, and after lightly kissing my forehead they took off without adding anything. I didn't see them for the next three days.
Emmett's point of view:
Edward and I were following the guy who had been stalking my girl for two days now. We hadn't found anything suspect about him and I was beginning to fear that we wouldn't ever find something. During those two days, he went to class before heading to his mum's job where he worked until 8 pm. He usually would then pick up something to eat before heading straight to his house. He was the only child of his family. His dad was a source of conflict, and every day he would call at 9 p.m. to verbally fight with his wife and tell his son what a disappointment he was. Coming from a loving family as a human, even if I didn't remember much about it, I felt sorry for him.
Anyway, I was bored. During his sleeping time I would go to hunt, because being near humans all the time was tiring me out. I wanted to go see Rosalie and make sure that she was okay, but thanks to Edward I knew that she didn't need me.
Today, day number three, Stephen woke up for the same ritual. He would put on his jogging suit and go run 10 kilometers at a pace too slow for my vampire state. Back home, he took a shower and put some perfume on before throwing some clothes on. My Rose would have been out of her mind, seeing him putting clothes that didn't match at all together. I smiled at that thought. My mind slipped to the last night we had shared together so long ago and I wondered if she would let me make love to her when I returned. I missed her so much and I wanted to go back to the way we were before. I needed to prove to her with more than just some words that I loved her with all my mind and body.
I was surprised that Edward hadn't begged me to stop my wild thought when I saw his eyebrow bend in a frown.
"Something is not normal" he said. "He is thinking about eating but with such a strong obsession..."
At that very time, the brown guy emerged from his entrance, screaming to his mum his wishes for her to have a good a day. I was expecting him to go to his Volvo and to make his way to school but he just checked that no one was spying on him. He casually took his path toward his running course and sniffed the air. He sure was focusing on looking for something. A big smile appeared on his face and he took off like a bullet. How could he run so fast? Edward and I were following him at high speed and this time he smelt us because he turned and snarled at us. His eyes were a dark crimson color. We saw too late a young boy that he snatched and drank from while continuing his course through the forest. As soon as he was done drinking, he stopped and turned to look at us.
"Well, well, well! Look who is following me. How interesting! I had the feeling since this morning that something was off," Stephen said before asking, while pointing to the body, "May I?"
We understood that he wanted to dispose of the body. He dug a hole into the ground and, to our surprise, said a prayer before covering it.
"What are you?" Edward began with hostility, keeping his eyes on each movement Stephen made.
Without fearing us, he sat on a rock near him and answered:
"Do you still need to ask? Aren't you one yourself?"
"I wanted to have confirmation, that's all," he said matter-of-factly and smelt again before continuing." Why don't you smell like us? How can you change your eye color?"
"Is it why you are following me? And here I thought you were coming for a more important matter like my future mate," he declared while looking straight at me. I didn't get it at first but when I heard Edward growling, my brain made the link between what he had said and Rosalie. I was going for his throat when Edward stopped me.
"What makes you think that she will be?"
"Why are you following me?" Stephen repeated again.
Edward exhaled slowly, and his voice took a cold tone.
"You know us. You knew that I was able to read your mind, and that was why you were changing your scent and your mind every time you were around us.
"You're not the only gifted one, Edward. I have a most unique talent. I can change the molecular structure of everything. That is why I can make my eye color, my scent or anything I want like I want it to be," he declared. "A wonderful gift, don't you think Emmett?"
"You have changed something in Rosalie? What?" I asked, fearful of the consequences it might have then.
"The reason vampires can't have babies is because they are frozen into one state. Being next to Rosalie I activated the maturation of her ova in order for her to be fertilized during the next mating with you."
"Why did you do it?"I asked.
"Do you need to ask? Isn't it obvious? I had heard about her desire and it seemed like a perfect action to do for her."
"Why her? Why do you want so much to fulfill her wishes?"
A smile spread on his face as his eyes filled with an emotion I didn't want to see on his features while talking about my wife.
"She is the most beautiful woman I have ever met. Her smile, her scent, her movement, everything is just perfect the way it is. I have never felt such strong emotion for someone. I would do anything for a simple touch of her," he confessed.
"Don't you dare come close to her again!" I warned him.
"My gift has a short duration effect, Emmett, as you must have already acknowledged it, and without me there will be no such thing as a pregnant and happy Rosalie. She is in a way linked to me for quite some time. That's why this dear brother of yours hasn't let you get to me since our encounter."
"Is it true?" I asked Edward. He wore a blank expression on his face and asked, "What do you want from us? Nothing is ever free," he said.
"I want to make Rosalie happy. She has to be mine. I. Want. Her." he said slowly.
Edward or not, the guy has signed his death warrant. How could he announce with such carelessness, the fact that he wanted to take her from me? I wouldn't be appeased before I had lit a fire and put every piece of him into it. I struggled to free myself from Edward, guessing that I was stronger than my brother; Stephen stood up and readied himself to speed out of my path as soon as he needed to.
"Calm down Emmett, we need to analyze the situation before doing anything," he tried to convince me. Seeing that his speech had no effect at all on me, he used a disloyal tactic.
"How do you think Rosalie would react if she loses the fetus?"
I was beaten, I had to let him live until our baby is born but then…there would be no obstacle between him and me. Word of Emmett Cullen!
"How often will Rosalie need to be next to you?" Edward asked, keeping his head straight to our discussion.
"The more, the better!" he smiled.
"We need to go and talk about it with our family" my brother said.
"As you wish! You sure know where and when you guys can find me," Stephen said while changing his scent and eyes to the ways they were in my memory.
"Wait! Why do you change yourself to human ways?"
"My mum will not like the new version and it's easier this way. I don't need to attract my prey, I like to chase them. It makes the game more exciting."
I did like to play with my prey but they weren't human. Then again, if it hadn't been for Rosalie, I am not sure I would have taken the vegetarian style of life. On the other hand, I was confused. How could he still live with his human mum and not drink from her if he kept on feeding on humans?
Rosalie's point of view:
Three days, eight hours, thirty minutes and forty seconds and still not even a quick appearance of Emmett or Edward. It was driving me crazy to be kept in the dark. Without being sure that Stephen was really the one who allowed me to be able to carry the fetus, I was sure that he was a person I should stay away from. I didn't feel comfortable, not having my sibling and husband next to me. All my instinct was screaming "Danger!" I was pacing around the house before hearing Carlisle call me for my everyday checkup before he had to go to the hospital. Every time, he would frown a bit more but he has never said anything to me as if he was hoping that the guys would come back with some explanations about my situation. I didn't need him to say anything either because my memories of Bella's pregnancy were fresh; I knew that mine was very different from hers. In some way the process was quicker or slower than her. It followed no pattern at all of any kind of living creatures, or myths for that matter.
The pressure was building inside of me and even Jasper couldn't always support it, so I took some time every day to go outside under the strict surveillance of Esme and one of my family members.
This checkup wasn't any different from the previous one, and my patience was wearing thin. I relaxed slightly when my nose caught the scent of Renesmee. It was a long time since we had talked and I was suspecting that in one way or another she felt a bit lost. For the first time in her life, her father was far away from her and she was still in a cold war with Jacob. I could see that she was suffering severely from both losses.
I followed her and found her limp in the sofa, a cute pout on her face. I smiled, and then what struck me was the sharp pain that I could read in her eyes. When she realized that I was with her, she made a gesture toward the door like she wanted to escape from me. I suddenly realized that she was, for some reason unknown to me, putting me aside from her life. That awakening hurt me because there had always been a special spot in my heart for her since the first breath she took some years ago.
"Renesmee, please!" I begged her and without saying more she ran to me and hugged me with all her strength as if she was afraid that I might leave her. Sometimes, I truly forgot that even if she looked quite mature, she was emotionally still very young.
"What's going on in this pretty head of yours, darling?" I asked her. She blushed furiously but didn't answer me.
"Are you worrying about your dad, or is it this fight with Jacob that is putting you in this state?" I pushed her to confide.
"Nothing is ever going to be right! No one wants me anymore!" she wailed.
She took me completely by surprise. She was the most loved and spoiled little person in our circle. Where was this fear of the future coming from?
"Why are you thinking that?"
"First of all, you are going to have a baby and I will no longer be close to you."
I squeezed her in my arms and kissed her forehead while I tried to reassure her that she was indispensable for this family.
"Renesmee, you are my niece, my only niece, and it is true that I have never hidden the fact that I wished that you were my child, but the truth is that you never were. I have accepted this fact but it didn't make me love you any less! I still wish to be able one day to cuddle my own little baby in my arms, but in my perfect vision of this event, I see you next to me, sending to him or her flash of us and how she is going to have an amazing friendship with you. I want you to be as close as possible with my child and to help him or her in whatever mischief she is going to put her or himself into. I can't imagine any future without you, and that is why it makes me so mad to see you like a little puppy, following Jacob everywhere," I concluded. I was proud of myself. I could see that Renesmee was once again feeling sure of herself but I needed to put an end to her quarrel with the mutt! I never thought I would sink so low, I secretly sighed. Anyway, she was linked to Jacob and she was hurting, so I needed to help her.
"Jacob and I, we are not friends anymore...I think" she said after a good minute.
"Why not?"
"I have been once with him but I couldn't get the words of excuses out of me. I wanted to, I really did, but it was like if I was frozen."
"So, what happened next?"
"He acted as if nothing had happened and we went to see a movie together, but since then I feel heavy inside, guilty. I can't be myself next to him and I took some distance from him."
"Your pride has been more powerful that you feeling for him, that is why you feel so bad inside. I supposed that if you are honest and open with him, your relationship will go right back to what it used to be."
"I don't want it to go back to what we used to share." she said with vigor before she became redder, "I want more."
"More?"
"Like you and Emmett, mum and dad, grandma and grandpa, Alice and Jasper!"
"I think I get your drift!" I smiled at her.
"I think I do too!" said Edward's voice, with so much violence that it froze me and made Renesmee reduces the distance between our bodies. My joy at seeing Emmett was so intense that I had to fight my instinct to run to him in order to continue to appease my niece. My eyes were speaking for me to Emmett, begging him to come closer. He looked at me long enough to make it awkward but sat next to me. He took my hand in his giant one and kissed it. I felt that something was off. However, before I could ask him what was wrong, a big smile blossomed on his face and he asked with a cocky voice:
"More ? I think that it is time for us, young lady, to have 'the Talk'!"
He chuckled and his eyebrow went up and down quickly, making Edward growl and pushing me to hit on his scalp, but nothing could lessen his joy. He had been waiting for this moment since Renesmee's birth and with an evident pleasure, he pulled a condom out of his pocket and began his speech for the benefit of both of the Masen Cullen members. This moment is engraved in my memories as one of the most epic ones!
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