Hi all, so here is another chapter and I hope that you all enjoy this one, I will do my best to bring you the next one sooner rahter than later.
Disclaimer-Nothing here is mine just this plot.
And this chapter is a little bit shorter and there will be a little stop gap between this chapter the next because...imprinting.
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Chapter 15-Little Angel
Edward and Rosalie share a moment, Rosalie spends some time with Renesmee before Bella wakes up as a vampire. Last point of view of Rosalie's for a while and slightly smaller filler chapter between Bella's transformation.
"There are times in our lives when we have to realise our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future" Eleanor Brown.
She went back to the house and showered until the water went cold and then she showered again until the water went hot again. She scrubbed and scrubbed at her skin, with a body scrub, with a shower gel, with body oil, she rubbed her hair with her shampoo and then her conditioner, she put a hair treatment on the ends and she scrubbed her face with an exfoliator and then a cleansing mask. Alice who had an obsession (let's call a spade a spade) with clothes and buying them had nothing on Rosalie when it came to her skin care routine. She stepped out of the shower and was relieved to see the bloody clothes had gone and she opened the draws of her shared vanity and she smiled. All of her skincare was still there stocked nice and neat and she went about her usual routine letting the cream and the oils and the scent of the lavender candle lit in their room dull out her senses. She was achingly aware that she was putting off the inevitable but after getting her self up to scratch she went to her shared wardrobe (much like their vanity most of it belonged to her and not a lot belonged to Emmett). She chose a blue wrap round dress and tied the sash at her side letting her now drying hair fall down her back and went out into their room to see Emmett lounging on the couch watching her.
"Damn" he said wiggling his eyebrows appreciatively. "Good lookin broad I got there"
Rosalie huffed a laugh. God sometimes her husband was so 1930s Tennessee.
"How long do we have?"
"Couple a days at the most. It's been fairly quiet. Odd really. Carlisle is ridiculously pleased, he seems to think that this is proof morphine might be able to stem the flow of a transformation. Block out the pain if there's enough. I'm surprised he's not writing a letter to Aro to let him know that there's a way we can turn into vampires that might be free from pain.
Rosalie laughed but the thought persisted. It was a very Carlisle thing to do.
"Edward with Bella?"
Emmett shrugged. "Wild horses wouldn't drag him away from her side. He's given the baby to Jacob who seems quite content. I let him know that the two of you would have to share but right now Esme's at his shoulder waiting her turn."
"That's…nice"
"Yeah, Jacob and Esme seem to be getting on."
"Only Esme could get on with that lot"
"That's true. You feel better now you've hunted?"
Rosalie smiled. Her husband was so gentle sometimes. He was built like a Greek God on one of their lazy days but he was so gentle sometimes it was like he was a little boy. Emmett was watching her with that dimpled smile but his eyes (back to being a golden butterscotch) were on her and ladled with concern.
"I'm…" she didn't know how to put things into perspective. Part of her still felt like she was waiting for the other shoe to drop. She was still not sure if she was going to blink and this whole thing had been some sort of strange, impossible, vampire dream.
"I guess it's taking a while." She said being honest with him. "Carlisle has helped but things into perspective. We…we owe him a lot more than either one of us can say"
"Amen to that darlin" Emmett said and then he wrapped both arms around her. Rosalie gave a long sigh her eyelids fluttering closed. It had been such a long time since they had been alone together, since they had been able to have the comfort of each other's touch and she wanted to never leave his arms again. Shamefully she had forgotten what joy the simple touch of her husband could bring, she had forgotten what his touch could do to her, his smell, the softness that she had missed.
She loved him.
Heart and soul she loved him.
"I love you" she said into the softness of his jumper and she felt him press a kiss to her rapidly drying hair.
"And I love you" he said and it didn't matter how many times that she said it or he said it she was always going to love hearing it. She was always going to adore saying it. They were the best words in the world.
"You did it" Emmett said quietly. "You confound me you know, I never thought…I should have had your faith. You are an amazing fucking woman Rosalie Hale"
"McCarty" she said grinning. "My name is Rosalie McCarty remember"
"I do"
"You know the next time we move somewhere let's just pretend that we eloped at sixteen. That way we don't have to be apart. We can be Mr and Mrs McCarty"
"Scandalous" Emmett said and his hands dropped a little to her backside and she shivered with an onslaught of desire.
It had been a long fucking time alright!
Emmett laughed and then he pulled back. Rosalie frowned because Emmett pulling back when they were in this flirty, teasy pre sex mode was unprecedented.
"I cleaned these for you" he said finally. "They were covered in blood. Esme managed to rip up the carpet and she's got Jasper replacing the wood. All in all it should be fixed for when Bella wakes but I noticed while you were in the shower. So I scrubbed them down for you"
It was her rings.
The golden band of her wedding ring had been caked in blood she had been aware of that much and she did not want to think about her engagement rings. Every time Emmett proposed to her he gave her a new ring and she wore each one of them to school and whenever someone dared ask her about it she would lie and say it was fake (not that many humans ever did dare ask her) but there was only one that she wore on her hands when they were in the house and that was the one he had originally given her in 1940 when he had first asked her to marry him. The world had been falling apart and they had no idea what to do or how to hide away the fact that they were all of fighting age and that there was nothing they could do to stop the slew of human bloodshed coming their way.
The ring was a simple reflection of that time. It was a square diamond on a simple gold band with two little diamonds at the side of it. Over the years they had gotten flashier and then demurer depending on what the fashion had been but Rosalie had always come back to this one and she had been wearing it when this whole thing started. Her hands had been caked in blood and so had her rings but as she looked at them they looked brand new. For a second she stared and then she looked up at Emmett's pleased expression.
"You cleaned them?"
"Took some doing but as you were in the shower for so long I figured that would be the right time. "
"Put them on then"
And he did just that with an open kiss to her hand and then he picked her up her legs coming around his waist and she sighed at the touch.
"We don't have time"
"Yes" Emmett said and it came out as more of a growl than anything that had happened before.
"Yes we do"
And with that he carried her to the floor and then to joy.
It was some hours before they were out of that room. Jasper shot her something that might have been a betrayed look as she left in new clothes (the blue dress reduced to a sad collection of rags on the floor) and she smiled smugly at him as she went downstairs. Bella was still in the medical room still on the table, the wolf was sleeping on the couch. It was night time and she could see the other two wolves (or was it now three?) outside stalking the permitter.
"It is three" came a voice beside her and she turned to see Edward standing there the baby…Renesmee in his arms. She was asleep too and there was a sense of peace that had fallen amongst them. She knew it would not last. This time tomorrow there would be a new newborn vampire in the house and peace would be a thing few and far between but Rosalie thought that this was a nice time, the calm before the storm.
"Another one defected?" she asked with an eyebrow clenching her hands least she stop herself from reaching for the baby.
"Yes. Embry. Hardly surprising considering he was Jacob's best friend before this thing all started. And he makes Leah bearable so I'm not complaining"
Rosalie raised an eyebrow but she didn't say anything. This was a nice moment for her and Edward and she didn't want to do anything to discourage it.
"Carlisle send you out here to talk to me?"
"No why?"
"Just wondering"
Edward rolled his eyes. "I came out here to see if you wanted to hold your niece"
"I do" Rosalie said and then her arms were full of a sleeping baby. She had grown a little in the two days that Rosalie had not seen her due to hunting and…well…fucking she supposed. The baby was bigger in her arms, heftier but she still looked the same, still smelt the same and her dead heart still heaved a little with love. Edward smiled down at his sleeping daughter and then so quietly that only she staring at the baby with everything that she had would have been able to hear it.
"Thank you"
"For?"
"You know what for. For this. I should have…I shouldn't have underestimated Bella. I shouldn't have underestimated you. And I am sorry. I know I was an absolute brute at times. I know that I…I know that I said and did things that shock me. Now looking back I can see it clearer. I can see what I did clearer. I never wanted to be one of those uptight arses who told woman what to do"
Rosalie shot down her response which was that he had always been that way but Edward either didn't hear it or didn't want to go into it and to be honest the past few weeks since the wedding had been so hectic and so filled with hate and discord that she was not prepared to start another fight even if starting one with Edward so…so fucking easy.
Instead she just looked down at the baby in her arms and thought that despite it all it had been worth it, it had always been worth it. Everyone had always thought that Bella and Edward had been the greatest gamble and that had paid off but she thought instead this had been. A new species all of it's own and she had helped birth this most precious member of the family and she smiled down at the darling baby girl in her arms and for the first time since she had been transformed into what she was she felt complete. Emmett had been the balm to a wounded soul but this little girl, this precious little baby had been the thing that pieced her heart together and it didn't matter that the baby wasn't hers. She felt Edward's hand slide around her waist as he hugged her and she smiled again.
Neither one of them would ever admit that they had gotten things wrong. They were much the same when it came to things like this. Neither Edward nor Rosalie could admit to things like that easily, but with this little angel in her arms Rosalie thought that they could perhaps but the past behind them and move on towards a brighter, peaceful future with very little trouble.
(It was a moot thought all things considering but to be fair none of the Cullen's knew that yet)
Edward's arm squeezed her shoulder softly as Renesmee slept on and Rosalie knew that he agreed.
And there you go, I hope that you enjoy this chapter and I will bring you the next one sooner rather than later. I predict another update (maybe more) before I do a Christmas update which is double chapters.
With this chapter we are over halfway as well.
Next Chapter-Bella has woken up and found out about Jacob (and she is not happy) as she and Edward celebrate immortality Emmett considers fatherhood when he babysits Renesmee. Emmett's point of view next couple of chapters.
