This interview was conducted at Forks Smash Repairs and Panel Shop, Forks, WA.

What follows is a transcript of the actual interview. Nothing has been omitted, censored or changed from the original recording. These are the thoughts and feelings of the interviewee and the thoughts and feelings of the interviewer have in no way hampered the transcription process.

Lisa: Thank you for agreeing to this interview. I have a few standard questions and then we'll get on to more personalised ones. Please state your full name.

Rosalie: Rosalie Lillian Hale McCarty Cullen

Lisa: The year you were turned?

Rosalie: 1933

Lisa: And your sire is?

Rosalie: Carlisle Cullen

Lisa: Your age at your transformation?

Rosalie: Look, is this really necessary? (We break the flow of the interview so that I can remind that interviewee that any information given is at the discretion of the giver. After a brief review of the 'rules' the interview continues) Fine. I was 18, it was a very happy and spoiled childhood, blah blah blah.

Lisa: (I can't help but laugh. I'd known this was going to be some interview) Alright, one more boring question and then we can move on. Where were you born?

Rosalie: Rochester, New York.

Lisa: You said it was a very happy childhood. What would you like to tell me about it? If anything?

Rosalie: I had everything I wanted and needed.

Lisa: Everything?

Rosalie: Yes. Anything I wanted my father provided.

Lisa: So your family was wealthy?

Rosalie: Look, there is nothing more to say on it. I was born to two healthy, loving parents, I was bought up in privilege but I didn't choose this life. That's an end to it. Move on.

Lisa: Alright. What would you like to tell me about the time of your change?

Rosalie: I didn't ever say I wanted to tell you anything about it.

Lisa: Alright. Is there anything you can tell me about your change?

Rosalie: It fucking hurt.

Lisa: They all do. Alright, moving on. Your mates full name please?

Rosalie: Emmett McCarty Cullen.

Lisa: Your daughters full name please?

Rosalie: Angel May McCarty Cullen.

Lisa: Would you like to say anything about the way she came to be yours?

Rosalie: (Huffing lightly before answering) I'm sure the others have said it all.

Lisa: I haven't asked anyone else.

Rosalie: Really? I get to tell it? All of it? (Her face lights up as she warms to the subject of her child) Oh, well alright then. After the fight Edward and Alice told us that one of the fallen had left behind a human mate who was pregnant. Emmett and I went to his home to help the girl. The result was Angel.

Lisa: The girl didn't wish to be turned?

Rosalie: No. And by the time we found out about her, and got there, it was too late to do it.

Lisa: What was her name?

Rosalie: That's private and something that Angel will tell you for herself if she wants to.

Lisa: Understood. Please describe for me your place inside the Cullen coven.

Rosalie: (tutting quite loudly) God, fine. I'm the third turned of Carlisle, sister to Alice and Bella, Jasper and Edward. Mate to Emmett, adopted daughter of Esme and aunt to Renesmee. Mother to Angel.

Lisa: Do you hold a position on the Council?

Rosalie: No.

Lisa: Did you nominate?

Rosalie: No.

Lisa: Why not?

Rosalie: It's not my sort of thing. I don't play well with others. (She laughs)

Lisa: Okay, we'll move on. Do you, your mate or your child have a gift?

Rosalie: No.

(Reverting to questions about her child, whom she obviously adores, seemed the best course to take at this point lest the interview be ground to a halt at the interviewees request)

Lisa: How has becoming a mother changed your life?

Rosalie: In so many ways. For a start it was a gift I had long since given up hope of ever having. And then it was just handed to us. Well, not just handed to us. We are all very mindful of what Angels mother gave up in order for us to have Angel, but she was a gift I never thought I'd ever have all the same. And at the time that was frightening.

Lisa: How so?

Rosalie: Longing for something you know you can't possibly have is easier than having to learn to have it. It didn't come as naturally as I always thought it would. It's been hard. But it's also been amazing.

Lisa: What things do you find hardest?

Rosalie: Understanding her.

Lisa: How so?

Rosalie: She is only half vampire and I've been a vampire for so long I've forgotten what it's like to be human.

Lisa: And that's been difficult for you to come to?

Rosalie: It has. Having Bella around made it a little easier because she is the most human of us all, and the newest to this life, but it's still be a steep learning curve for me. We'll have to teach Angel, just like Eddie and Bella did for Nessa, about being human so that she can live amongst them. That's hard when you don't recall how to do that on a grand scale. Sure we pretend pretty well but there is hardly any similarity between remembering to cross your legs every ten minutes - and to blink when you're bored - and teaching your child how to eat human food. One doesn't relate to the other at all.

Lisa: And your mate, does he struggle as well?

Rosalie: Whoa Nellie, I never said we struggled. I said it was hard to learn, at first. And for the record Emmett's never struggled with a damn thing in his life. (She laughs) Renee, that's Bella's mother, she's been great. When Nessa was small she went there, to the kindergarten that she owns, and Angel goes there too now.

Lisa: And at the kindergarten she learns to be more human?

Rosalie: Not more human. She's half and always will be. But yeah, she goes there to learn human traits and to learn to be around human children so she blends in better.

Lisa: Does she mix with the children on the Reservation at all?

Rosalie: Of course she does. Seth especially. But all of them really, when they're around. Which is always. (She huffs)

Lisa: How do you feel about the inclusion of the wolf pack to your family?

Rosalie: I don't like it. (She laughs)

Lisa: You don't like that a wolf shifter has imprinted on your niece?

Rosalie: I never said that. If you print that I'll hunt you. (She points a long, pointed, painted fingernail at me and growls softly) It's not that I don't like the wolves, per se. But they smell so bad. And they shed. (She laughs) They don't really shed, but I like to tease them about it anyway. But the smell is bad.

Lisa: So they take a bit of getting used to then?

Rosalie: I don't think I'll ever get the smell of wet dog out of my new house, no. But they're okay I guess. They fight great and they are pretty loyal I guess. They can track and hunt and Seth's good with Nessa and Angel. Oh, alright. They aren't all bad. But I'll deny having said that if asked.

Lisa: Is it true that you were given a half share in this business?

Rosalie: That's true. Yes. I got it for Christmas.

Lisa: And you share it with the wolf pack Alpha?

Rosalie: (rolling her eyes) Fine, yes. I share it with Sam.

Lisa: And he has the controlling interest?

Rosalie: He likes to think he has control. (She laughs)

Lisa: Did you not consider a place teaching at your brother's school?

Rosalie: And give up all this? (She waves a hand around the office which is strewn with oily car parts and engineering magazines.) No, I didn't want to teach. I don't like humans all that much and I definitely don't like human children much. No, wait. I take that back. I don't like snotty human children who think they know everything and would resent being shown how to rebuild a carburettor by a chick.

Lisa: But the wolves don't mind that?

Rosalie: If they do they know to keep quiet about it. (She laughs) But no, they don't mind because I don't have to show them anything. They know what they are doing and they knew long before I scored a share of this place. I guess that's why this works as well as it does. Nobody knows more than anyone else, nobody has to show anyone anything, we just turn up to work and fix what's bought in.

Lisa: Is there anything that your daughter has shown a particular aptitude for?

Rosalie: Nothing in particular, no. She seems to be good at most things so far. She learns fast.

Lisa: Is it possible that she's a savant, as your niece is?

Rosalie: (Scowling) Definitely not. She's normal.

Lisa: You consider your niece to not be normal?

Rosalie: I didn't say that. (Pointing the same polished, razor sharp nail at me and scowling) If you say I did you'll be looking over your shoulder for the rest of your days. Nessa is normal, for us, I meant. But she's got gifts up the wazoo and nobody can really help her with that, settling into who'll she'll become when she's grown, because nobody we know of has more than one gift, or gifts like she does.

Lisa: Alright. I'd like to talk a little bit about your mate for a moment. Your sire changed your mate, at your request, is that correct?

Rosalie: (Scowling) Yes.

Lisa: And you are the product of imprinting?

Rosalie: I'm not, my mate is. (She laughs)

Lisa: You imprinted on him the instant you saw him, is that correct?

Rosalie: Yes.

Lisa: And you felt compelled to protect him?

Rosalie: Of course.

Lisa: And your adoptive parents, are they an imprinted pair?

Rosalie: (thinking momentarily) I'm not sure. They behave as if they are, but I don't know for sure if either one imprinted on the other. You'd have to ask them.

Lisa: And your brothers and sisters, are they imprintees?

Rosalie: You know that Edward and Bella are, but I don't know how to describe Alice and Jaz properly.

Lisa: Alright. Let's move on. What do you hope for your daughter, for her future?

Rosalie: I want her to be healthy and happy and have and do what she wants. It's pretty simple.

Lisa: And for yourself?

Rosalie: Nothing more than I already have.

Interview concluded.

A/N:

Thank you for all the recent good wishes.

I have now had the dreaded tumour removed and will go later today to get my first look at the mess that is left, and hopefully some pathology results. To everyone who wished me well for surgery thank you, your good wishes got me through.

I have one more interview to post, Renesmee, and then I will continue with the main story.

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