Third Time's A Charm.
Disclaimer – sadly I do not own Twilight or its characters . . . oh a girl can wish
Bella is human, the Cullen's are vampires.
"Really? You want me to live with you?" I asked and my heart started to beat a little faster. He nodded and beamed at me and I once again launched myself at him and wrapped my arms around him. This wasn't the first time I had hugged Carlisle and I was positive it wouldn't be the last. I nodded into his chest and he hugged me back with the biggest grin on his face.
The next two days past in a blur. I suddenly looked up to see a large white house looming over me.
"I can't do this. What if they all hate me? What if they tell you to chuck me out and I have to live by myself . . . I can't so that." I looked at him desperately and he just looked at me with un-amused eyes.
"What do you mean you can't do that?" he asked whilst crossing his arms and raising his eyebrows at me.
"I can't live on my own. I don't know how, I need to look after someone . . . I need to make sure they are okay!" I exclaimed whilst pinching the bride of my nose and then looking at my hand in wonder. Since when did I do that?
"Why do you need to look after someone?" He asked whilst his eyes flashed to his house.
"That's all I do." I answered honestly. It had only just dawned on me that I had no one to look after and I think I was going into shock.
Carlisle looked at the top floor of his house before looking down at me again.
"So you need to look after someone or you won't . . . settle?" he asked and I nodded. "Alright, I have someone for you to look after." He continued.
"I told you I had five children. My youngest, Edward needs someone to be with him and you need someone to look after and keep in line. I want you to help get my son back to his old self." He finished.
Suddenly I could see myself here. I wasn't shocked to realize that I loved Carlisle and Esme even in such a small amount of time but I needed to be there for someone – I needed to care for a person.
I kept having this feeling that I cared deeply for someone. That I needed to be with this person . . . like I had a bond with this person I didn't know. I'd been having these weird dreams for two weeks now and they were starting to get to me.
They started off kind of simple with me pushing Jessica (a bitch from school) against a wall and screaming at her. I seemed to dream about trees a lot – I was at a tree being kissed by Jacob Black (He moved away when I was 12 . . . last I heard was he was in love with some girl called Nessie). Or I was in a forest crying as a little girl.
My favourite dream was slightly . . . erotic. I was with a man, he was beautiful but I never say his face and we were having sex in the middle of the woods, just us and nothing around for miles. We seemed perfect together and I'd woken up very hot and . . . uncomfortable in the morning.
"Thank you." I finally sighed to Carlisle and he smiled at me. His eyes sparkling like never before. I'd noticed that his eyes seemed darker on the ride here but I didn't comment on it.
It wasn't like a different shade of gold either . . . they were almost black.
"Esme's going to be in there isn't she?" I asked. I wanted to make sure I knew at least one person in there. Carlisle nodded and softly pushed me forward towards the Victorian looking home.
"Rosalie, Alice, Emmett, Jasper and Edward?" I doubled checked their names and he laughed softly before nodding at me.
I took a deep breath and went to open the door when it was pulled backwards at a blinding speed. I didn't see who opened it but suddenly I was surrounded by extremely large cold arms. In a split second I felt my feet life of the ground before I was placed back to the ground.
I looked up to see a huge boy a little older then me beaming down at me. His skin was almost completely clear looking and he also had dark golden eyes.
"Emmett right?" I asked and I actually thought he was about to kiss me he looked so happy.
He let out a noise that was best described as I squeal and I found myself truly laughing for the first time since . . . well forever.
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Rosalie's POV
It had been two long days since Bella was brought back home. I was happy (that's an understatement) but something was holding me back from completely welcoming her . . . I still loved her but she was so much like the little girl I found that it was almost painful.
"Rosalie?" she asked as she walked into the living room. Her heart was beating faster and I knew she was slightly afraid of me and that caused me to frown.
"Yes Bella." I answered whilst gesturing for her to sit down.
She started to fidget and I waited patiently for her to ask what she wanted to ask.
"Why won't Edward come out his room?" she asked suddenly. I twisted my lips whilst trying to think of a way to say the answer.
He couldn't see her. He was heartbroken, I couldn't imagine being near Emmett knowing that he was my everything but knowing he felt nothing for me, that he didn't remember me, didn't care for me.
I also knew that Bella did actually feel something for him but didn't know it. She knew she had something with someone. She had said it herself she needed to look after someone, she just didn't know that she needed Edward back.
"Edward was very ill as a child and never really got to meet new people, it scares him. You'll probably have to wait for him to come and find you." I lied and I heard him scoff from his room.
I suddenly wished I wasn't the only one left as the rest of my family went hunting.
"Oh." Bella gasped before opening and closing her mouth and walking to the kitchen.
"You owe me." I hissed at Edward and he turned his music up louder in response.
I heard a slam and looked up in shock when Bella came storming into the living room looking for something. She started to slam draws and curse under her breath. I smiled. That was the Bella I had as a sister. I didn't like this weak quiet Bella.
"What you doing?" I sang in an annoying tone hoping to piss her off.
"Where is my book that I was reading before?" she demanded and I smirked knowing where Emmett hide it.
"Emmett took it." I answered simple. I watched as her lips pushed together tightly and she started to storm back into the kitchen. I followed her silently hoping she would jump when she turned around.
"What do you want?" she snapped whilst still looking forward. I froze for a second. There again she had always been able to tell we were near her before.
"Listen; just go easy on Edward when he does talk to you." I snapped back before walking away. If I had to be the one to get my kick ass sister back then so be it but I would not live with "I must please everyone" Bella anymore.
"Fine." Was all she said before sitting in the same seat I had sat with Emmett when we sobbed over her. The day we sorted out the Tanya mess . . . when we talked about marriage.
What the fuck happened to Tanya anyway?
"You ever thought about getting married Bella?" I asked randomly.
"When I'm back with my soul mate." She answered automatically and then had a confused look on her face. I guess not many people say "back with my soul mate".
There's hope Edward I thought to him in a very loud voice.
You only get three chances. This is it! Start fighting . . . fuck sakes I've done more then you have and she's my god dam sister . . . she's practically your wife. She's alive and so are you so man up you pussy! I ranted at him and I heard him sigh once I was done.
"That's cool." I answered and she locked her eyes on me.
"I had a dream about you. We liked each other, we kept each other safe. There was this girl that we didn't like and we kept each other calm. Makes no sense to me . . . just thought I'd tell you." Bella spoke slowly like she watching my reactions.
I smiled slightly remembering the day Tanya arrived.
"Was she blonde?" I asked offhandedly. She nodded.
"Ah, maybe I thought she was after Emmett and you are close to Emmett so maybe we were trying to keep her away from him." I offered even though it had been Edward we had tried to keep her away from.
"Maybe."
"Do you normally have dreams like that? With our family in it?" I asked and watched as she smiled at the word "our" and she didn't even know it.
"Yes, my dreams are slightly weird though."
"We are a slight weird family."
"Would you ever have sex in the woods?" she asked and at this Edward almost had a heart attack.
"Been there, done that . . . literally." I smirked as she blushed slightly.
"Okay. That one isn't so weird . . . um . . . crying in a car park?"
"Lots of people cry when they have people they feel safe with them, it doesn't matter where."
"I have dreams about weird fire. That isn't normal." It was like she was trying to prove to me that she wasn't meant to be here. Like hell I was going to watch her do it.
"Dreams about fire mean you could be thinking about transformation. You have transformed from the girl your dad knew to the girl you are now."
"Fighting with people I would never talk to or look at the wrong way?"
"You're stronger then you think. In your dreams you can be anything."
"Being frozen in a certain age?"
"Fear of growing old."
We were right in each others faces now yelling at each other. We were practically fighting with words and she was not going to win.
"A lust for blood?"
"Someone caused you pain and you want to be there when they go through pain themselves. We lust for the time when they will pay."
"Kidnappings?" she yelled whilst looking at me with a hateful glare.
"You're afraid of loosing your self or your safe surroundings, you're afraid of loosing family!" I was screaming now.
"ENOUGH!" Edward suddenly roared from the door way. We both spun to see him glaring at us with solid black eyes. He looked . . . awful. He was breathing just as deeply as we were.
"Rosalie you don't have to prove anything!" he spat at me before turning on Bella. I suddenly felt like I would need to protect her. He looked lethal.
"You are supposed to be looking after me not trying to find a reason to leave because you're scared of being hurt. Guess what Bella, you're not the only person who's been hurt and lost someone!" he seethed at her.
She leaned away with wide eyes. Her heart was at a normal rate but it was clear that she was terrified.
"Edward . . ." I tried to say something but I didn't know how to calm him down.
"Bella as you're meant to be looking after me you might as well see where I hide most of the time and where I would be if you two hadn't started a fucking screaming match about some stupid shit." He practically ordered before slowly storming upstairs.
Bella and I turned to face each other slowly.
"Bella meet Edward." The person you're madly in love with. "As you can tell, he doesn't like thing mess up his day. I'm sure he'll be calm when you go up."
"Right." Was all she said before she nodded tightly. Her eyes flashed to a dark brown and stayed that way.
"I'm not going to say sorry." We both said at the same time.
"Women!" Edward yelled in frustration and I tried not to snicker.
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