The Adventures of Emmett and Rosalie – Dismemberment

T to be safe

Stephenie still owns everything, but I can pretend cant I? Lol.

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I rushed from the bathroom toward the next building and crept down the halls. Once I was outside the classroom Edward was occupying, I began to yell for him in my head. I went outside to wait for him beside the car. I was nearly in a panic, but I tried to hold myself together and not make a scene.

"Rosalie? What's going on? I only have a moment. I told the teacher I was going to the men's room." Edward rushed outside to speak with me.

"The wolves. I know who they are. I'm not sure how, or why, but I was just in the girl's room and…and it's David Black and Quil Ateara. They're the wolves." I whispered.

"And you found this out in the girl's bathroom? I'm missing something. Help me out, Rose?" He was speaking to me like I was insane. Instead of explaining poorly once again, I replayed the whole scene in my head starting from the morning I came to school without him. "The La Push kids are turning into wolves and hunting us?"

"What did Carlisle think was happening? Is something else going on you aren't telling us?" I shrugged when he shook his head no. I wanted answers just as badly as he did, but they weren't coming fast enough. "Quil isn't here today. I saw them pull up and only David and Meadow are here. Did you hurt either of them when you ran them off last night?"

"One of them took off with a bad limp. If Quil shows up for school with a cast, we'll know for sure he was one of them. I have to get back. We will talk about this over lunch." He turned and went back inside, but I went to the car to think for the rest of the period. I had already missed half of it and didn't want to make a scene walking in so late. Besides, it was study hall and I already knew everything there was to know in high school.

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"I have to bring the wash in from the line. Finish this set of math problems and you can take a break, Emmett." Esme smiled down at me and went out to the yard. I nodded and sighed when I saw how hard the problems were going to be. Fractions were not my specialty by any means. When would I ever need this useless stuff? I was a vampire. I didn't need math.

I worked on the problems and finished them all, when I noticed Esme hadn't returned. It had been nearly half an hour and she hadn't brought the laundry back in yet. I went upstairs to my room to read, but after still another half hour, she hadn't returned. I began to get worried for her. I went down to the yard and saw her basket under the clothesline. Half of sheets she had washed were still swaying in the breeze, but the others were piled in her basket. The sheet at the middle of the line was hanging half way off by only one clothespin.

"Esme! Esme, can you hear me? Where are you?" I yelled into the trees. There was no reason for her to take off without telling me. She knew she shouldn't hunt alone. If she were that thirsty, she would have asked me to go with her. "ESME?" I yelled again, feeling very alone and very nervous. I walked to where she was last standing, probably over her basket and sniffed the air and the grass. "Think Emmett, you can do this. Follow it. She's going to be fine, just follow the scent." I turned and continued breathing deeply through my nose into the woods to the east of the house. There was no trail here, but I could see broken branches on the bushes and lines in the dirt where it looked like someone had been dragged.

I was terrified something awful had happened while I was the only other person home. Would they blame me? Should I have been with her when she brought in the wash? I didn't want to think bad things. Esme was going to be fine, I kept telling myself. I crouched to the ground suddenly when I heard a loud SNAP then a woman's scream in the distance.

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"Go over and talk to them. See how they react to you. I want to see what the boy thinks when you talk to them?" Edward whispered. I looked at them from the corner of my eye, then across to the pep-squad girls. I shook my head and looked down at my history notes. "What's wrong? You had no problem talking to them the other day." He grumbled and looked at the pack of girls who were staring at him. "What exactly did you do…the morning I wasn't here? I know you arrived at school in one piece, but you're hiding something." I began singing an old song in my head and looking around the room in a nervous fashion.

"I should go talk to Meadow."

Edward looked back at the pack of girls and shook his head. "You ditched class…and smoked in the bathroom with…them?" He whispered, but he looked furious. Edward was even more opposed to ditching class than I was. Stupid mind reader. "I can't leave you alone for one day, can I?"

"Shut up!" I snapped back, but barely audible to anyone but him. I stood up and gathered my books. "You weren't here. I didn't know what to do. So I took one day for myself to be a human girl, so what? I had fun."

"At what cost? What's next Rose? Trying out for the squad? Dating Roger when he sweet-talks you? You can't be friends with them, Rosalie. You're not one of them."

"Don't tell me what I can or can't do. That's Carlisle's job. Last time I checked, you weren't him, no matter how badly you want to be." I turned quickly and walked out of the lunchroom past the La Push kids table. I went out to my car to sit and sulk, but Edward had beaten me there by going through the other door. "Leave me alone. I don't want to talk to you." I growled and sat in the car.

"They hate us." He whispered. "When you walked by Quil, his pulse went crazy. He nearly went into a convulsion at you being so close."

"I saw him in…the hall earlier. He seemed flustered, but not angry. You're sure he was angry at me?"

"At both of us, at the whole family. I know you didn't see him in the hall. He was thinking of the whole scene in the bathroom over and over while he ate. Apparently, he and Meadow aren't supposed to be involved. I'm not sure why. He was trying very hard to keep his hands off her in public. The wolves are being taught that we are their enemy."

"I promised I wouldn't tell anyone I caught them." I whispered sadly.

"You didn't tell me. I found out on my own. I won't say anything."

"Do you think it's dangerous for us and them to be here at the same time, Edward? What are we going to do about that? We all have the right to be here. Until their school is finished, we all have to coexist."

"Just stay clear of the boys. Meadow seems to be neutral, as she isn't one of them, only a tribe member. If you run into trouble, call out for me. I'll be by your side in an instant. I'm sorry I was upset about you ditching."

"It's alright. We need to stick together right now. No more arguments. We have to focus on what's important." I whispered and walked back into the building with him.

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I could smell Esme's scent stronger now than at any other point in the forest. Wherever she was, she had to be close by. I couldn't hear any sound except for a dull scratching in the dirt. "What is that?" I took a few steps further and jumped back in absolute horror. I had stepped on something, and it was moving toward me; crawling at my boots. It was a bare arm with a hand attached to the end of it. The pale, white flesh at one end was torn roughly and covered in some kind of slime that was picking up the dirt and leaves as it inched forward by its fingertips. Something shiny caught my eye on one of the fingers. A wedding ring was still bound to the skin.

"ESME?" I screamed once again and picked up the arm. The hand grasped frantically to the front of my shirt and for a moment, I feared it would try to choke me.

"Emmett?" I heard a faint call from a few yards away. "Is that you? Where are you?"

"I'm coming, Esme! Keep talking!" I followed the sound to her body, which was lying in a pile of ferns. "Oh, God! What happened? Are you able to walk? Are you in any pain?"

"Yes, I think so. It hurts so badly, Emmett. Help me up? I'm just confused. Is that my…oh, dear! I'm so sorry, but thank you for finding it." I pulled her up slowly and brushed the dirt from her dress. "I was taking down the laundry when something snuck up on me. It grabbed me by my shoulder and carried me off before I had the chance to scream for help. It dropped me to get a better grip. That's when I saw it was one of those wolves Carlisle spoke about. They are absolutely enormous. I tried to fight it off, but it got a hold of my arm and shook me like a rag doll."

"Can he…can Carlisle fix that?" I whispered and helped her walk back to the house. She seemed disoriented and in a lot of pain, but otherwise okay.

"Yes, he knows what to do. It won't be a problem and I can't die from it, but the pain is unbearable. When we get inside, please call him for me? Ask him to come home right away?" She whispered and held onto my arm for support. I thought I saw something, or someone, a person possibly walking through the trees a good distance away, but when I looked again they had gone.

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The end!

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