The Adventures of Emmett and Rosalie – Invasion
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I own a burrito and a large pepsi, but the world belongs to Stephenie Meyer right now.
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I couldn't feel my legs. It was if they weren't even connected to my body. Whatever that vampire had done to my head, it had taken a toll on my entire body. I felt defeated and weak and stupid for falling for the lies I saw in that vision. I felt even worse for what I had done to Edward. I knew in my heart he would never hurt Rose or betray me that way, but what I saw would make anyone crazy enough to attack their own brother. I collapsed onto the kitchen floor and leaned my back against the cabinets.
"Emmett?" Rosalie rushed into the kitchen from the living room. "What happened to you? Did the vampires come after you, too?" She looked between Edward and I for answers, but I didn't know what to say.
"Yes, they were out there. We just managed to avoid a face-to-face confrontation with them. The ability the older one has to provoke hallucinations is baffling. He somehow made Emmett envision that you and I were being overly friendly with each other before I hit you for no reason. It set Emmett off and he attacked me. He's going through the same period of weakness you suffered when you hallucinated two days ago. He is much younger than you, so he is stronger. He will be up and around in no time."
I looked at Rosalie and squeezed her hand weakly. "Have you seen Esme? Where is she?"
"She's upstairs." Rosalie answered, but Edward was already off looking for her. "Carlisle called. He won't be home until tonight. He said he found a new house for us, but nothing about where it's located. I don't want to leave, Emmett. I'm happy here."
"Me too." I looked up into her eyes, which were black as night. The usual golden color that complemented her hair so well was gone. "I couldn't bring you anything. Edward said we had to come back."
"That's alright. I can wait a little longer to feed. You need to rest. When I came back, that was the only way I could recover. I just closed my eyes and tried to find a safe place for my thoughts." I looked up at her beautiful face and forced a smile.
"Being with you is my safe place, Angel. Can you help me to my room?" She nodded and lifted me from the floor in one swift motion. I closed my eyes for a moment and found myself in my own bed once I opened them again. "Rosalie?" She had gone before I could stop her.
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It was all becoming too much for me. Seeing my family uprooted because some random vampire wanted to cause trouble. Emmett was in bad shape now; I had been in worse shape two days ago. Everything was falling apart, and it was my fault. I went to the living room to find Esme, but an overpowering scent floated in through the screen door. My stomach lurched as my mouth filled with venom. There was a human nearby and they were bleeding.
I was so thirsty from not hunting in over a week that I had lost my self-control. I nearly tore the screen door from its hinges on my way to the woods. The scent grew stronger as I walked farther from home. It was so sweet, but salty and strong, like the scent of Thanksgiving Dinner I remembered from my youth. As I came around a bend in the trail, I saw a figure in the path ahead of me. It was a child. A young boy no older than five or six and he was crying for his mother. He had fallen somehow and scraped his knees. I could see a line of blood trickling down his leg under his shorts. What I wouldn't give to see some variety of wildlife at that moment, anything to distract me from this innocent little boy and quench the burning thirst in my throat. But there was nothing. Only the boy and myself. "Are you lost? How did you get here?" I whispered. I refused to move any closer to the boy. I would never hurt a human, a child.
"Please? I want my mama!" He raised his hands out to me for help. He looked so alone and desperate for someone to just hold him until he was back with his family. I took another step toward him, but stopped myself.
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"Esme? I'm in here!" I yelled out to the kitchen. Esme rushed into my room in a panic. "Was Rose out there in the kitchen with you just now? She was in here for a moment, but then she took off."
"She left? She knows she's supposed to stay inside! Did she say where she was going, Emmett?"
"No. I thought she was looking for you. You mean she's not in the house?" I tried to stand up, but the room was spinning. After a moment, I found my balance and walked to the kitchen with Esme. Rosalie was nowhere to be found and the backdoor was left open. The fear of something awful happening to my Angel had given me most of my strength back. "Edward, she's gone. We have to find her. I think she went off to hunt. She said she wasn't thirsty enough yet, that she could wait, but she looked like she was starving."
"You're in no shape to help her if she's in any danger, Emmett. Stay here and wait for Carlisle. Esme and I can search for her." Edward protested, but I wasn't going to listen.
"I'm coming with you. That's my girl out there. I won't sit back and wait to hear the story later. I'm in this with you. We're family." I put on a strong face and looked to Esme. She was the deciding factor in this matter. Even if she had said no about me going, I was still going to find a way to Rosalie.
"Fine. We need all the help we can get." The three of us made our way down the narrow trail toward the creek. Esme first, then Edward, then myself. Esme was sniffing the air desperately trying to track Rose's scent. "She went this way. She's close. Keep low and don't make a sound." We crept down the trail with our heads low searching for anything out of the ordinary. Esme stopped in her tracks and pointed ahead. Rose was off to the side of the trail standing partially behind a tree. She was bent over at the waist slightly, as if she was talking to someone, but there was nothing there.
"Is she seeing things, Edward? Can you read her mind?" I whispered. Esme was searching around for any sign of the other vampires off in the distance.
"I can't. I'm trying but I can't pick up her thoughts. The same thing happened with you. I could only see your memory of the vision after you had come out of it." Edward looked frustrated at this fact. It really bothered him that he couldn't use his power for a good reason when he finally wanted to.
I heard a thud and a crunch from the trees far in the distance to my right. "Edward, what was that? Is Esme hurt?"
Edward paused for a moment, then shook his head. Esme was talking to him with her mind. "She's fine. A young vampire came up behind her, but she fought him off. He ran away toward the creek where she thinks the older vampire is hiding. She's following him. Emmett, stay with Rose. I'm going to help Esme." I nodded as he took off at full speed through the trees.
I walked over to where Rose was standing and whispered her name. She couldn't hear me. All she could see was the hallucination in her mind. "Rosalie? Please answer me? It's Emmett. Come back to me?" She began to mumble to the unseen person in her vision. It sounded as if she were speaking to a child.
"No, just wait. I'm sure she will find you. I can't help you. I'm bad, sweetheart. You don't want anything to do with me. I wish I could help you, just stop crying, please? Oh, I don't know what to do. Don't look at me that way. I can't pick you up. I can't. Be a big boy. No more crying. Please stop crying."
Rose loved children. She had mentioned her friend's son Henry a few times when we were talking. It broke her heart to see them cry. If she was seeing a scared child, why wouldn't she try to pick him up or comfort him? I moved toward her, but a figure in a white shirt and tan pants emerged from the trees and wrapped his arms around her from behind. It was the vampire who had caused me to attack Edward that morning. "Finally, I have the two of you all to myself."
I growled at him and took a step forward. Rosalie was fighting his grasp, reaching for the child she saw in her mind. "No, you scared him away! He's going to be all alone!"
"Hush now. He will be fine. My name is Vincent, Rosalie. I've come to take you away from here. We will have a beautiful life together." He purred in her ear, causing her to relax instantly and forget about the child she had imagined. His voice was hoarse and held a strong English accent
"Don't listen to him, Rose! He's going to hurt you!"
"Nobody is going to hurt you, my darling Rosalie. I promise to take very good care of you. Your Emmett, on the other hand…"
"What do you want with us? Just let her go and you can do whatever you want with me!" I took a step toward him, but he raised his hand and a heavy fog began to grow around the forest. "Where are Esme and Edward?"
"They are rather occupied at the moment." He had Rose in his arms with her back to him. She was staring at me as if she didn't know even know me. The look on her face told me she was beginning to enjoy the way he was holding her.
"She doesn't want anything to do with you! Rose? Listen to me, it's Emmett! You saved me from the bears. We're going to get married. Can't you remember?" How could she not want to fight? How could she let him hold her that way, as if he were a friend?
"Married? Is that what this little trinket means?" He pulled the chain from her neck and swung it around on his finger carelessly. "My darling, I had no idea you were so intent on the idea of long-term commitments. If that is what you'd like, it could be arranged." My mind was playing tricks on me, I was sure of it. I couldn't tell what was real anymore and what was in my head. He slid my ring onto Rose's finger and kissed her hand. "You are mine, Rosalie. He will never love you the way I love you."
"What are you doing to her? Let her go! Rosalie? What do you want with her?" I took a large step toward them, but a pair of strong arms wrapped around me from behind and squeezed me like a snake. "Edward? Is that you? Who are you?"
"Emmett? Tell me you don't remember your good friend, Pete? I thought you might have a happier reunion, but it seems that is not the case." Vincent laughed evilly.
"PETE?" It couldn't be. Pete had left me for dead the day Rosalie found me with the bears. "Pete? Don't hurt me! It's Emmett, your good ole' buddy Emmett from Ralph's Tavern. Don't you remember me?" I was so relieved to know it was him. I wasn't mad about him deserting me anymore. It had brought me to Rosalie and my new life. I was grateful to him.
"I remember you alright, cheating bastard." He growled in my ear. "Carl told me everything when I came back from my honeymoon. How you had been sleeping with Marielle the entire time we were together. Even once in my own house!"
"Marielle? No, Pete! Carl was sleeping with her! He lied to you! I was trying to tell you, but it didn't work out the way I had planned." I tried to reason with him, but it was pointless.
"You were always a horrible liar, Emmett. I left her as soon as I found out and went to drown my sorrows at the bar. That's when Vincent found me and gave me a new life. " He gripped me tighter and lifted my feet from the ground for a moment.
"Emmett?" Rosalie whispered suddenly. "How could you? You told me it was Carl, as well! You lied to me."
"Rosalie, no! He's the one lying!" She turned away from me in Vincent's arms and purred into his chest.
"He lied to me, Vincent. You were right, he doesn't love me. Will you take me away, like you said before? I can't stand it here any longer."
"Of course, my darling. You and I, and Pete and the rest of my family will all be together. There are so many delicious humans where we are going. You will be my bride and together we will live like royalty." Vincent leaned in to press his lips against Rosalie's when I saw something from the corner of my eye. Edward pounced onto Vincent's back from the bushes and tackled him to the ground. Rosalie landed a short distance away and was lost in a fit of confusion.
"Vincent! NO!" Pete growled from behind me. He lifted me off the ground again, but I countered him using my weight on the way back down. I flipped him forward over my head to the dirt and couched into a face-off with him. Esme flew in from the other side and scooped Rosalie up in her arms before carrying her away to safety. I never took my eyes off of Pete. "You're going to die, Emmett."
"I'm already dead. You made sure of that when you left me there in the woods that day. I'm going to destroy you, Pete, but only if you turn down my offer." I growled as we circled each other. "If you accept, you might be allowed to survive."
"What offer is that? I don't want anything from you, but your suffering."
"Join our family and become one of us. You won't have to kill any humans ever again and we can protect you."
"That's no fun. What's the sense in being a vampire if you can't hurt people? I don't want your help, Emmett. You ruined my marriage, my friendship with Carl, everything I had worked for. If you want to destroy me, go ahead and try." He lunged at me with such force, it knocked me backwards into the bushes. I heard a series of cracks and screams from nearby, which could only have come from Edward and Vincent's fighting just out of my eye sight.
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The end!
Sorry about the cliffhanger lol, but this thing was six pages long! I hope you guys are enjoying this cuz OMG this was the hardest chapter to write! I've been redoing it over and over all day, I thought it was never going to work out lol. Please, pretty please, read and review? Let me know what u think!!