Violetta

I didn't feel as well as I was letting on this morning, but I really wanted to go home and sleep in my own bed, with Mason at my side, or Jasper or Esme or Carlisle. I wanted to be under my own warm covers, listening to the laughter downstairs as I drifted off to sleep. It was hard to fall asleep without it. I prayed that Edward wouldn't come this morning and hear my lies, or Jasper to sense my guilt of lying to my parents.

Mason came back early in the morning. He was playing with my hand mindlessly as we talked and laughed. He was telling me about everyone's petty arguments while I was away, Emmett and Edward's fight, and Rosalie and Jacob's little arguments. He didn't say a single thing about Jasper or Alice. I assumed they were more affected by this than the others, and couldn't bring themselves to talk or smile or laugh.

"Jasper and Alice?" I asked. Carlisle and Esme were sitting on the seats by the window, both reading. They looked up when I asked.

Mason sighed, "They're pretty shaken up. They don't leave their room unless they're coming here or getting another book to research or just read. I haven't heard Alice's voice in 2 days. Jasper looks terrible, despite the amount of times he's hunted. They're not doing so great."

I turned my head to Carlisle and Esme, "I'm going home today."

"Violetta, you need—"

"I need to go home." I cut Carlisle off. "I'm completely fine dad, but I'd be a lot better if I was home and Jasper and Alice could relax."

"I'm not risking your health just because you want them to be happier." Carlisle shook his head. "I'm sorry sweetheart but you're staying another night."

"No, I'm—"

"Vi." Mason cut me off, "You're still in pain."

"No I'm not!"

"Edward says different, and I'm sorry but I know you'll lie to get out of here."

"Edward hasn't seen me in 12 hours."

"12 hours ago you said you weren't in pain, and he said you were. Would you like me to call him in to tell me that you're telling the truth?"

"No." I said quieter.

"That's what I thought…" He smirked.

"I just want to go home, Mason." I whispered.

"Tomorrow." He replied.

"That's what they said yesterday. They'll say it again tomorrow."

"You're going to go home sometime, Vi. We just want you to be 100 per cent before you do."

"I'm never going to be 100 per cent, Mason."

"Physically." He clarified.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you. Dad tried to put me on anti-depressants the other day."

"Carlisle." Esme said, "You didn't tell me that."

"She wouldn't take it anyway." He said.

"You still should have told me."

"I was going to tell you if she cooperated and took it." He looked over at me, "But we all know how stubborn she is."

"Like father like daughter." I smirked.

"I am no way near as stubborn as you."

"You almost shoved those pills down my throat!"

"I did not. I simply kept asking."

"Yeah, every few minutes."

"I could start asking again if you would like."

"No, thanks anyway."

"If at any time you want to try it out, just ask."

"I can guarantee you, I won't."

"Mm, we'll see." Carlisle raised his eyebrows and returned to his book.

A soft knock distracted me and another doctor came in, "Carlisle." He motioned for him to follow him and he walked back out. Carlisle closed his book and kissed Esme, then my forehead and left the room.

"Who was that?" I asked Esme.

"His boss. They have a rule here where they aren't supposed to work on their own family unless no other doctor is available. There were other's available, but Carlisle wouldn't let anyone else treat you. He is either about to lose his job, or just get yelled at big time. Maybe demoted." She explained.

"If someone else were to treat Vi, they would know immediately that she was not really human, wouldn't they?" Mason asked.

Esme nodded, "Her heart is irregular, her skin is unusually colder than humans and her body doesn't react with a lot of medications."

"If he loses his job, we have to leave, don't we?" I asked.

Esme nodded, "Eventually. Carlisle gets bored and irritable very easily when he doesn't work. He also supports Alice and Rosalie's shopping addictions and, to be honest, we need to have all the money we have now so we can afford to leave at a moment's notice. And with our family getting bigger, other covens get threatened, so we need to have a way out. It's way passed our normal time to leave anyway. We dragged it out because of Renesmee and Jacob, and Leah and Seth."

"Where would we be going to?" I asked.

She shrugged her shoulders, "We'd like to stay as close as we can to the pack, so Alaska, Minnesota maybe."

I looked at Mason as he spoke. "If I listened in geography, this would be easier for me to understand."

"Minnesota is a little over 24 hours I think. Alaska is like a day and a half."

"26 hours to Minnesota, 44 to Alaska, in a car that is." Esme said.

"That's sort of far…"

"Not as far as Germany, or London or something."

"I'm so used to you being like 2 minutes away." He said.

I nodded and stared at his hand, still playing with mine.

A few minutes passed before Jasper and Alice came in. "Hey." Jasper greeted us tiredly.

"Hey." I smiled.

"Where's Carlisle?" Alice asked quietly.

"Getting fired." I replied.

"Not necessarily. He's talking to Doctor Snow." Esme said.

Alice nodded and sat down beside Esme. She didn't have her usual bounce in her walk. Jasper stood leaning against the wall.

"Did you come here to stand in silence?" I asked.

Jasper stared at me blankly, "What do you want me to say?"

"You can start by telling me how much of a great time you've been having while you've had no parental supervision. Have you torn the house down yet?"

"We've had a lot of fun." He said.

"Or, you could tell me that you are going to have fun tonight now that I'm telling you that I'm going to be fine and you don't need to worry."

"I'm not worrying." He shook his head.

"Liar."

"How would you know?" He asked.

I glanced at Mason.

"What did you tell her?" He asked him.

"The truth…" Mason said quietly.

"So you didn't bother to make her feel better while she's in the hospital and instead you left her feeling guilty and helpless? Because that's what she's feeling." Jasper said harshly.

"Jasper." Esme hushed.

Carlisle walked through the door and closed it behind him. "Hey." He greeted Jasper and Alice with a smile.

"Are you fired?" I asked.

He looked at Esme, "You told her?"

"She asked."

"Yes, let's all tell Violetta things that will make her feel like shit and not worry about it." Jasper said.

"Jasper!" Alice scolded. "Stop."

"I feel as though you are very stressed…" I said to him.

He went to say something but he stopped himself and took a breath and walked over to Alice, sitting beside her.

"So, are you fired?" I asked Carlisle again.

"No." He shook his head. "But I resigned. Well, I will."

"Why?" Esme asked.

"People are noticing, Esme. We need to leave. We've let it go on long enough."

Esme eye's moved to Mason and I. "Where are we going?"

"I don't know."

"We can't leave." She shook her head.

"What do you propose we do, then?"

"I don't know, but we can't leave the pack. Seth and Leah would be devastated. We can't do that to Renesmee and Violetta, or Jacob and Mason."

"They can come with us."

"So you want to make them leave their pack and families so that a few people don't make accusations that other humans won't even believe?"

"Would you like the Volturi to come back?" Carlisle asked her.

"Carlisle, imagine us in their position." Esme motioned to Mason and I. "What if I had to leave and I wanted you to come with me, but leave Edward and Bella, and Emmett and Jasper and Alice and Rosalie behind. That would kill you."

"Minnesota is only half a day away on foot. It won't kill the girls to have to run here every few days."

"What if the pack was threatened? Or we were? It would take us half a day to get here to help. We would be too late." Esme said. "Or vice versa."

"Then what do you expect me to do Esme!?" Carlisle raised his voice.

"Go home." She said.

"What?"

"You're too stressed here. Go home and calm down."

"No."

"Then don't raise your voice at me."

Carlisle took a breath and sat down on a seat against the other wall, the furthest from Esme.

She appeared at his side. She leant her head on her hand and her elbow on the arm rest of his chair. She stared up at him and batted her eyes a few times.

Carlisle stared at her before he gave in and smiled. Esme smiled and kissed him once.

"Why don't you forgive me that easily?" Alice asked.

"Because you never bat your eyes at me." Jasper smirked at her.

"Oh, I could offer you a lot more than batted eyelashes…" Alice smirked back at him.

"You're in a hospital." Jasper reminded.

"That never stopped Esme and Carlisle. Remember when we had to buy him new furniture for his office?"

"Oh god, yes I do."

"Gross…" I whispered quietly to myself.

"In a hospital? Really?" Mason asked.

"It's not like it was in a patient's bed or anything…" Esme said.

"It's still sick." I shook my head.

"Okay, let's not have this conversation anymore." Carlisle said before Esme could reply to me.


I was wondering if any of my readers speak both fluent German and English? And if you were able to PM me if you do so. I need some help translating something, and the translating sites I've tried are all saying different things. Let me know, thanks :)

-A xx