Chapter 13

Edgard's Fight

I awoke at what appeared to be three in the afternoon, my brothers were still snoring and I realized that for the first time in over eighty years I was hungry. Perhaps because I had been awoken by the smell of bacon and eggs. I got out of my hammock and started down the stairs. My Alexa was making food for the family while Rosalie washed the floors. I also saw that they were both trembling. They were sobbing and no one was helping them.

"Enough is enough." I cried coming down the stairs. "How long have they been your slaves?"

"They wanted to do it Edgard." Elizabeth said.

"Right, just as you wanted to be teased right? Elizabeth this is pay back for what I and Emmett did when you joined the family isn't it? If you have a problem don't take it out on my wife of forty years." They gasped. "Yes forty years and Emmett's been with Rosalie even longer. You can stop this petty behavior now or me and Alexa are leaving with or without your blessing." I spat on the ground. "I only wish that I had awoken sooner, you have made them cry does that make you feel like the big girl Elizabeth does it?"

"No." Elizabeth said the last shaky and also started to break down. No one had seen me in this rage before, as I had not had something to rage about but no one insults or demeans my Alexa and gets away with it.

"The three of us are going hunting." I announced and took both Rosalie and Alexa by the hand. "Tell Emmett when he wakes that I wish that my family had died. Goodness knows it would be a lot simpler. I could sleep with my wife for one thing." I stormed off with Rosalie and Alexa.

"You stood up for me." Alexa said.

"For both of us."

"Emmett would have done the same. It wasn't right the way Elizabeth was treating you it was petty."

"You risked your relationship with your family." Alexa said.

"Actually I didn't shock is the only way to get through our skulls. Blood runs thicker and is much tastier than water. They will be coming after me about now." I said and Henry rushed into me he was obviously as mad as I was.

"I know you never have liked Elizabeth but you had no call to say that to her."

"Well she had no call to treat our girls like slaves when we were asleep and couldn't stop her. Just as you had no call not stopping her from doing so. They were both sobbing when I came down." I glared at him. "I was nine at the time compared to her ninety seven. I actually had grown to respect and love Elizabeth as a sister and the girls as well but this incident shows me how very petty she is." He attacked and I smiled grimly. "You might like to know I have been training with the Voturi for the past fifty years." I said dodging. "If I need to hurt you to prove a point then so be it." He ran again at me and I dodged.

"Stop it Edgard I fight my own battles." Alexa said. "Think of it from their point of view, a close knit group they would have to be in order to survive. They have been together for almost a century then we come waltzing in and you and Emmett both instantly expect them to accept us?"

"Edgard I know you are mad, but don't fight with your brother over our honer. We can prove our honor if we must but that is no reason to fight with him." Rosalie protested and Henry stared at both of them.

"Yes, we have minds and we aren't afraid to use them we are more than just household appliances." Rosalie snapped. "You remember the sixties right, well right now your whole family is being incredibly sexist. My brother just got married to a girl that is a century younger than him and she was human at the time. I did not force her to cook or clean I kept my distance from her. Now I have a sister that I love. When Emmett joined our coven in the 1930's everyone was accepting of him. Goodness knows we didn't tie him in apron strings."

"Now I know why the Cullen's sometimes call you tiger." Alexa told her and Rosalie blushed.

"I am sorry I spoke out but I am tired of being talked down to, as is Alexa." She told him.

"I will speak with Elizabeth." Henry said. "You still had no right to say what you said."

"I am not quite sure what I said." I replied. "When I get angry I tend to go by my feelings completely. What if you awoke to your wife crying and your family standing around doing nothing? Not then but now after eighty years together. We have only had forty but I feel the same you do for Elizabeth and I love her with all my heart. You know I don't care what you think anymore Henry, I will sleep with my wife if I choose, I will hug my wife if I choose and I will sit next to MY WIFE IF IT PLEASES ME. I have had my own authority to answer two for the last eighty years and I like it that way. My life can have a place for this coven but only if they give MY WIFE SOME RESPECT." I got so animated that I yelled the last.

"It's alright Edgard really." Alexa said coming over to him.

"I am sorry I couldn't protect you."

"Against some snide comments and a little work?" Alexa asked and pulled my face down into her topaz eyes they were sparkling again telling me how much she loved me. "For your happiness Edgard I have sacrificed my own. I hated Volterra but you liked your life and so I stayed. You fallowed me to Alaska and met your brother there. You are upset because within the space of a week your life has flipped over so many times that you don't quite know what is happening next. You don't want your family dead you are just mad at them. As you don't think Elizabeth petty you think her trying to be controlling of me. Elizabeth has worked for many years to get the position in the coven she has now. She is afraid that we will take it from her." She told me and I started sobbing into her shoulder like a baby and in front of my brother. She stroked my hair. "Now lets get you something to eat, my drama king." She kissed me on the forehead and I nodded still shaking with sobs. She could always see what I was feeling or thinking. Rosalie fallowed us into the house.

Henry however stayed outside I could feel him staring at me Alexa. Alexa got out a plate and put at least three quarters of the eggs on it. She also added toast and jam. She then brought this plate almost as big as me and my stomach growled. She laughed and set it down sitting down next to me and putting an arm around my shoulder as I ate. We were both so preoccupied that we didn't realize that the whole family Emmett included was staring at us. I would start sobbing again and she would run my back saying comforting nothings into my ear.

I got up and took my dish to the kitchen. "Sit Alexa, Rosalie I can take care of washing my own plate." I told them and then looked puzzled at the soapy water, I had no clue how to wash dishes. When I was growing up Ma did it by herself. Then Elizabeth and the girls helped her. After that I was changed and I stared puzzled at the soapy water knowing that I was making a fool of myself. Alexa came over to me and smiling led me to the water. she made me drop the plate and it floated there before disappearing. She then took out a sponge and put it in my hand. I scrubbed it and dunked it in the clean water putting it in the drying rack proud of myself.

"Good job Edgard." She told me and kissed me on the cheek. I put my hands around her kissing her passionately.

"I love you Alexa."

"I love you too." There was cheering Alexa had been accepted into the family. Rosalie and Emmett both were staring at each other as they cheered. Rosalie had not yet gotten enough chance to prove her worth to her husband.

AN

In the 1930's men looked after their women and it was the woman's duty to provide cooking cleaning and child rearing to her man. Emmett's family are farmers and hunters as such they would have had to been a very close knit group. The economy was still recovering when Emmett was changed and so although much better off than most they were still poor. Many young men in that time did what Henry and Edgard did they boarded trains leaving their wives behind. After several weeks on the train the conditions must have been pretty bad, bad enough to contract deceases.