Esme stared at Tempus, hearing him tell a story about his childhood. She felt like she was winning him over.
"She sounds like a wonderful woman." Esme said, a small smile spread across her lips.
"She really was. Is this little one's mother, is she as kind?" Tempus asked, looking into Esme's eyes
"If not more. This baby will know nothing but love."
"Then I will let her go. You can take her to her mother, and let her live a long and happy life." Tempus said, turning around, his head still down, remembering the life his mother gave him as a child.
Esme heard her family behind her, running around, grabbing Gracie's things. Esme felt at ease as she watched the older vampire snap his head up and look directly in her eyes. As the fear was beginning to build up in Esme's chest she heard him speak.
"My mother may have been a kind wonderful lady." He began his voice, getting harsher and rough with every word. Suddenly Esme was looking at the back of Carlisle as he lifted her up and placed her behind him, shielding her from him. "But she wasn't a good mother, my mother was a slut, only kept me around to help her look for her next 'friend'." Tempus's voice was suddenly deep and turning almost Demonic. "I won't let any kid grow up like I did!" he shouted.
Everything was happening so fast, Esme's head felt like it was spinning, so much was happening at once. She was still recovering from the spin that Carlisle just did on her. She heard her kids suddenly go tease. She heard Edward scream but didn't hear what he was saying.
Turning to her head she saw Rose holding Gracie close to her chest. She was washed over with relief, only to be filled with horror again as suddenly Alice was in front of them both. Before she could process anything there was a blood curdling scream that filled the room and sent a shiver down Esme's spine.
She went to take a step forward when she realized the scream came from Alice, but Carlisle wouldn't let her. She watched in horror as her daughter convoluted and screamed on the floor of the nursery. She tried to keep up with everything, but it was all happening so fast.
When the screams ended Alice was still on the floor. Panic flooded through Esme's veins, fearing the worst. She heard her family asking about what happened, she heard Rose yell something but Esme couldn't keep up. Her stomach felt rock hard and she feared her daughter was dead.
Finally she watched her daughter open her eyes, though she was scared she was alive, that was all that mattered to Esme at that moment. Her daughter was alive. She watched her Alice begin to freak out and she knew she needed to calm her down.
"Alice, Sweetie, please I need you to calm down." Esme said smoothly, watching her daughter struggle to breath as she began to panic.
"How..how do you know my name? Where am I?" Alice aske. Esme could see that she was shaking.
Esme thought of an excuse for why they would have a 13 year old Alice here. After explaining to her they were here to babysit, Alice looked at her confused.
"Where's the baby?" Alice asked in a small voice.
"What?" Esme asked, confused.
"If I am supposed to be watching your baby, where is it?"
"Oh, well Rose is holding.." Esme looked up to where Rose was standing before to find her gone. "ROSE!"
Everyone began looking for Rose, Tempus and Gracie, but Esme stood still. She felt her stomach tighten as water was running down her leg. She didn't process what her family was saying or doing. Finally Carlisle's face came into view.
"Carlisle.." She was able to squeak out.
"Don't worry my dear, we will find them. I promise, everything will be okay." he said, wrapping her up in a hug.
Once he let go, she looked up at him, her true fear showing. "No, Carlisle, My water just broke."
"Your.. what?" he asked, wrapping his head around what he was hearing.
Suddenly Esme grabbed onto his arms and leaned forward in pain. "Oh..oh no!" She groaned.
"Oh! Okay! This is happening." He began to panic. Looking around he notices half of his family was missing.
Everyone was staring at Esme in shock, besides Alice. "What is happening?" She asked innocently, her voice slightly panicked matching the tone of the room.
"Sweetie, your mother, eh, Esme here is, well the baby is coming." Carlisle stammered out, placing an arm around the back of Esme while holding on to her hand, easing her towards the door.
"Oh! A baby!" Alice squealed, clapping her hands together. "This is so exciting."
Esme couldn't help but smile at her daughter's excitement, she might be younger but she was still their Alice.
"Love, we need to get you home. Edward go pull the car around." Carlisle demanded. Edward was gone before Esme could say anything.
"NO!" She shouted.
"What do you mean no, You are having our baby, you can't have it here." he said, trying to get her to move, but Esme planted her feet on the ground unwilling to move.
"No, we have to fix Alice, I won't leave until I know everyone is safe." She protected, bending forward as another contraction hit.
"Love, you can barely stand, there is no way we can have you wait until we can figure a plan out."
Esme let out a groan as her contraction grew stronger. She looked up and saw Emmett's face come into view. His features looked almost tired, she knew he was going through Hell. His mate was missing, his sister wasn't herself and now his mother is bending over in pain.
"Oh my god! Mom!" he projected, running to her side, hesitating not knowing what to do. "What.."
"Your mothers water broke, she needs to get to the hospital but she is being too stubborn." Carlisle said sternly, knowing in any other circumstance he would lose this battle. She was also stubborn and was usually right about everything, but she was too human for this. She wasn't thinking with her head, she was letting her emotions take hold. He was listening to Emmett try to talk some sense into his mother, while Jasper slowly walked over or Alice.
"Hi." Jasper said softly causing Allice to turn her head and look up to meet his gaze. She had wrapped her arms around herself and she kept shifting her weight from one leg to another. She was very visibly uncomfortable.
"Oh, um, hi." She stammered, giving him a little wave.
"I would like to apologize ma'am." He stated, standing straight next to her, his southern accent ringing through her ears like church bells. "I may have startled you earlier, I do apologize for holding you without your full permission."
"Oh, that's alright." She breathed out, looking away from him and continued to watch the other try to talk to Esme, trying to get her to leave. "It wasn't you holding me that scared me. I woke up and didn't recognize anyone, I just needed a moment to understand what was happening. " She realized they began walking. They walked out of the nursery and were walking down a hall.
"And do you?"
"Do what?"
"Know what is going on, do you remember anything?"
"Well the last thing I remember was running to my neighbor's house, you see my dad didn't believe me, and told me I need to stop telling lies. He never believes me." Alice said, her head bowing in shame. "He was chasing me, and I thought I was going to die. He...he doesn't understand me."
"I do." Jasper voice rang through her ears. His voice scared her, she believed she heard it before but couldn't place it.
"You do?"
"Yes."
"But you don't even know what you are believing." She said defensively.
"I believe you are special. I believe you are a strong, independent girl, who doesn't allow anyone to get in her way." He said, watching a smile spread across her face. " I believe you can see things differently than others."
Alice snapped her head, looking at him, her eyes widening. "How did you..?"
"I know so much about you Alice, you have no idea. I know you are able to see things that others can't. I know it can be really confusing right now, but I promise you will be able to control this. I can try to explain this to you, but I am afraid you will only become more confused." He breathed his laugh, wishing she only knew half of what he did.
"Are you special, like me?" She asked, looking at him more closely, noticing the scars in his face.
"In one way, I can't see things the way you do, but I can do something else."
"And what would that be?"
Alice suddenly felt very calm, then her emotions turned extremely happy, and suddenly she felt nothing at all. She felt all her emotions settle till she felt the same as she did a moment before. "How did you?"
"Like you said, I am special." He smiled.
"Esme, love, please we need to go, you can't have the baby here." Carlisle pressed, trying to get her to leave.
"No, Gracie and Rose are missing. Alice has no memory of us and is younger, how am I supposed to leave, when everything is falling apart. I need my family. I need them with me. " Esme argued.
"Dear, look around, most of your family is here. Our family is expanding, and for us to stay together, she needs to be born in the states." he pressed, kneeling down to look up are her.
Esme looked around, She saw Edward, Bella, and Emmett all surrounding her. She heard Alice and Jasper talking in the hallway.
"That's not a bad idea. "Edward said smiling. "We could make that work."
"What are you thinking love." He asked, moving a strand of hair behind her ear.
"I know I want us together, but I would feel better if we had people here, looking for Rose and Gracie." She admitted.
"We can do that, As for Alice, we will bring her with us, and figure out a way to save her after our daughter is born."
Esme nodded in agreement.
"Edward, and Emmett and Belle, you stay here and look for Rose and Gracie, Jasper and Alice will come with us." Carlisle said, lookin around the room before looking at Esme, who gave a small nod in approval.
Once outside, Esme was placed into her husband's car, noticing Edward was driving and Carlisle was holding Esme, While Jasper drove Alice in her car. Grabbing her husband's hand tightly, Esme let out a painful scream, while leaning forward. With that Edward hit the gas and they began flying towards home.