The Twilight Twenty-Five
thetwilight25 dot com

Prompt: 7 Desecrate
Main Character: Emmett
Rating: M
Word Count: 500

"Em, honey you just smashed Alice's laptop into a thousand pieces. What is wrong?"

"Rose, I'm so furious right now I can't think straight. I need to destroy stuff."

"Baby, leave the trees, go for boulders. Do you want company?"

"Rose your presence won't help. When I'm…"

"Em, I don't care about my laptop but I saw trouble if you go out. Sit down and tell Rose what this is all about."

"I'll stay but I'm not ready to talk."

"Fine, I'm going to send Jasper down and maybe you can play one of your hundreds of violent video games as therapy."

Alice and Rose went upstairs; I grabbed one of Ness's pencil crayons out of the box turning it into dust. By the time Jasper came down there was a pile of dust and one pencil left. I destroyed it and ignored Jasper when he sat down beside me.

"Em, you owe Ness a sixty pack. Let me calm you down a bit before all her dolls are headless."

"You can try but I don't think you will get any results."

I was shocked when I felt about a quarter of my fury dissipate. I looked over at Jasper who was smirking at me. I punched him in the arm and growled. We sat in silence for half an hour and I calmed down a little bit more on my own.

"How about some Grand Theft Auto?"

"Don't want to turn my controllers into dust too."

"Em, what the hell is going on?"

"Alice had her laptop on the Seattle Times and I hit the wrong button. I wanted sports and got the front page. I read the most heinous article I've ever seen."

"What was it about?" Jasper inquired knowing now was not the time to tease Em about using a big word like heinous.

"A one year old boy was found starved and beaten to death and his parents were responsible."

"Fuck that is awful."

"Awful? It's fucking deranged, I want to find those two degenerates and cause them so much pain they will beg me to kill them. A child's life is sacred and there are so many parents desperate to have a child. I thought of Rose and how much she still wants a child of her own even though Ness has patched up most of that gaping hole in her heart…"

"Actually Em, you did most of that patchwork and Nessie is the bonus."

"Rose and I would have loved that little boy and given him a proper family. His name was John. That precious baby probably never had a happy day in his short little life. They must pay."

"I'll follow the story Em and keep you updated. You getting enraged will only upset Rose and you know how intuitive Ness is. She'll drive you nuts trying to figure out what's wrong and she doesn't need to know a real life horror story."

"True, I'm going to smash some boulders. Thanks Jasper"

"Anytime."