Elena's POV: (Opening thoughts)
My wrist is killing me, Bella is driving me home but Damon and Jake refuse to leave so they are in the back of the truck, I don't know how long before Edward will be here so Damon can leave and I am pissed.
We arrive back at my house and I slam the car door as I get out Bella also gets out and the other two follow. I do not hear the car but Edward is suddenly in front of Damon, pure anger on his face as he shoves him back with his hands on his chest.
"EDWARD!" I warn as I try to get between them.
"If you ever touch her against her will again!" Edward growls at him.
"EDWARD Don't do this here!" I warn him not wanting to disturb Charlie.
Jake shoves Edward off of Damon. "GET THE HELL OFF OF HIM!"
"She's not sure what she wants!" Damon says.
"STOP all of you!" Bella tells them as we try to get between the three.
"DON'T DO THIS HERE!" I yell again.
But my pleas fall on death ears as Edward side steps Jake and gets right into Damon's face. "Let me give you a clue. Wait for her to say the words!"
"Fine!" Damon agrees before glancing at me. "And she will."
"Jacob get him out of here okay!" I tell Jake who separates the two as he has a lot more force then me.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Charlie, who had heard a commotion from inside, comes out and gets between Edward and Damon and Jake keeps a hand on Jakes chest to try and keep him calm. "Easy guys easy! Let's take it down a notch. All right?" Charlie glances from Edward, to Jake and Damon. "What's going on?"
Edward glares at Damon who finally speaks after looking down. "I kissed Elena." Charlie looks shocked as he says this and Bella places her hand on my shoulder in comfort. "And she broke her hand... punching my face. Total misunderstanding,"
After a minute the guys leave and Charlie heads inside. Bella looks at me.
"I'm sorry," she says and I shake my head. "When Damon said he needed to talk to you I never imagined he'd do that."
I smile at her gently. "It's not your fault... but I better get to Carlisle and get my wrist checked."
She nods and then hesitates before saying... "Say hello for me and Edward look after my twin."
Edward looks shocked for a second before nodding.
Maybe things will look up soon.
Carlisle is now bandaging my wrist. Plus side... it's not broken.
"It's just a sprain," he informs me as I hold my wrist up, now pain free after some meds, while he bandages it, Edward is stood at my side. "Should heal fairly quickly."
Emmett and Jasper enter the room, probably just finished their shift on watching for Victoria.
"Trying to walk and chew gum at the same time again, Elena?" Emmett jokes smirking at me.
I shake my head as I scoff. "I punched a werewolf in the face."
"Badass," Emmett nods leaning over the table to smile at me. "You're gonna be one tough little newborn."
I nod and smile at him.
"Tough enough to take you on," I inform him.
Rosalie, who was sat on the sofa behind Emmett, gets to her feet, throws down her paper and storms off into her room. I watch her go before turning to Emmett.
"Don't worry about it," he tells me smiling.
Carlisle finishes and Edward turns to Jasper as I glance at Rosalie's room.
"Got any leads?" Edward asks Jasper.
"No sign of the intruder," Jasper explains. "But Victoria continues to make appearances."
As he finishes I get to my feet and head in the same direction Rosalie did.
*Elena Swan in Eclipse*
I enter Rosalie's room to see she is stood by her window.
"Go blabber to someone else about the joys of becoming a newborn," she snaps at me.
What did I ever do to her? I think it's about time I asked her.
"Okay," I say approaching her and standing to her right side as she stares out at the view. "Rosalie, I don't understand what I did to make you hate me so much?"
"Hate?" I hear her whisper the word in question before turning to me. "I don't hate you. I don't particularly like you, but... Elena, I envy you."
That's insane and cannot possibly be true. "What? That's ridiculous!"
"No it's not," she is persistent. "You have a choice. I didn't. None of us. But you do and you're choosing wrong... I don't care how miserable your human life is."
"My life is not miserable," I explain to her as I lean against her balcony. "It's not perfect. Nobody's life is perfect."
"Mine was," she tells me and I can tell this was how she felt about her human life. "Absolutely perfect. There were things I still wanted. To be married with a nice house and a husband who kissed me when he came home. A family of my own." She begins to tell me her story and I can see she is remembering as she tells me.
"Royce King was the most eligible in town. I barely knew him... but I was young... I was in love with the idea of love. On the last night of my life I left a friends house late. Royce stopped me on my way home. I could smell alcohol all over him as he forced me to kiss him in front of a bunch of his friends. I force him off of me but he was so drunk he touched me in inappropriate places I told him to get off of me and thats when he and his friends..." I did not need her to finish, I could imagine how they left her nearly dead and did not need the visual. "They left me in the street thinking I was dead. Believe me, I wanted to be. Carlisle found he, smelled all the blood. Thought he was helping me."
"I'm sorry," I tell her and I truly mean it.
"I got my revenge on them one by one, Saved Royce for last so he knew I was coming... and I turned up in a wedding dress," she tells me and I can see a smirk on her face. "I was a little theatrical back then." I look down understanding now why she is against me becoming one of her and also feeling sorry for her. "Things got better after I found Emmett. But we'll always be this. moving forward. That's what I miss most. Possibilities. Sitting on a porch somewhere. Emmett grey hair by my side. Surrounded by our grandchildren. Their laughter."
I nod. "I understand that's what you want. There's nothing I'm ever gonna want more...Than Edward."
She turns fully to me now.
"You're wrong again," she tells me bluntly. "After you've been changed there's one thing you'll want more. One thing you'll kill for. Blood," she then pauses and turns to open a draw. She pulls out a picture of her and another blonde haired girl.
"Who...?" I begin.
"My litte sister," she tells me and I glance up at her. "Caroline Hale. She was the hardest thing I had to give up..."
"I know what you're saying," I begin thinking of my own twin. "But Bella has her own life and she is finally beginning to respect mine."
"But that's not the end of this story," she continues. "When Caroline was 17... she was in a car crash. Bleeding on the brain caused a lot of complications. The day she was dying I asked Carlisle to do for her what she did for me..."
I see her look down. "Did he?"
She nodded.
"He turned her," she says and something tells me if she could she'd be bawling her eyes. "And she resented me. She ran off with another vampire who once lived with us... Stefan. I believe they go to see the Denali's every now and then and Stefan calls to let us know what they're up to. They're vegetarians but I don't think Caroline will ever forgive me Elena... and you need to consider how it'll rip you and your twin apart."
I look down as I consider this. She had to make this so much harder.
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