Elena's POV: (Prologue)
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age. And at a certain age, that child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
(Opening thoughts)
Seriously I am going to kill Alice! I am never going to be able to walk in these heels.
*Elena Swan/Cullen in Breaking dawn part 1*
I am at the Cullen's, practising in the shoes I am supposed to be wearing for the wedding. But there's going to be none to wear if I carry on scraping them as I nearly trip. I swear to god my sister-in-law is trying to kill me.
I glance at Alice as once again my foot scrapes across the porchway.
"Mmm...," she says slowly realising my mood. "You just have to break them in."
"I've been breaking them in, for three days," I point out to her before pursing my lips in hope. "Can't I go bare foot?"
She looks appalled at the thought. "No Absolutely not."
"Just thinking it's a little much, you know?" I ask her as we glance around at the Cullen's, beside Edward who are carrying logs that are to be seats on either side of the alter. "The dress and the shoes, plus Bella's maid of honour dress, and all of this."
"No," Alice tells me and I glance at her. "It's exactly enough. Tomorrow will be perfect."
"Where do you want them boss?" Emmett asks as he stops in front of us with a huge log over his shoulder.
"On either side of the isle," Alice says turning to look at them,
Rosalie comes next also holding one but she looks confused. "What isle?"
"DOES NO ONE HAVE VISION!" Alice says before walking off to where the wedding is going to be held in the Cullen garden.
Enough is enough. I begin to take my high heels off and put my nice and comfy canvas shoes back on. It's nice to be back on flat ground again.
I look up to see Edward, watching the others from inside the library. He seems... worried about something. But before I can think too much about it Alice blocks my view of him as she returns.
"You, go home and get lots of beauty sleep," she tells me and then she narrows her eyes playfully. "That's an order!"
I nod. "Okay."
I hug her and she hugs back. I'm not nervous anyway.
*Elena Swan/Cullen in Breaking dawn part 1*
When I arrive at home, Charlie is stood at the bottom of the stairs looking up them worried.
"Dad," I say and he turns quickly to me looking happy to see me. "Everything okay?"
Before he can answer... I hear someone throwing up upstairs. Bella again. I better go check on her.
"I got it!" I tell dad and he looks relieved as I run up the stairs and nock on the bathroom door. "Bella! Bells! You okay?"
I hear the chain flush and my twin comes out holding a tissue to her mouth. "I'm okay El!"
"Sis you've been being sick for weeks," I tell her and she shrugs. "You should see a doctor!"
She sighs. "I have an appointment next week."
"You better tell me the minute you know what's wrong...," I begin before taking her hand. "Promise."
"I will," she nods before smirking. "Now you better get some sleep before Alice rings to remind your maid of honour of their duty to make sure you get your beauty sleep."
I laugh and so does she then I head out but I am still worried about Bella.
*Elena Swan/Cullen in Breaking dawn part 1*
After I finish packing the last of my stuff in my room, as I am moving into the Cullen's straight after the honeymoon and Alice is coming to collect my stuff while we are gone, I am looking at pictures of Bella, Jake, Damon and I when we were kids.
Damon hadn't talked to me since the day everyone had started receiving the wedding invitations. He's worried that he'll have to fight us when I become a vamp. As I place the book back their is a rush of wind behind me and without looking I know my fiance is there.
I turn enough and sure enough there he is and I smile as I stand in front of him. He smiles back at me.
"I was just checking for cold feet," he tells me.
I smirk as I sit down on my bed. "Well mine are toasty warm."
"It's not too late to change your mind," he tells me seriously.
"What? Now you're having second thoughts?" I ask but when he does not answer I worry that he is. "You are?"
No," he gently promises me as he shakes his head. "I've been waiting a century to marry you, miss Swan."
"But...?" I begin but he again does not speak. "But...?"
"I haven't told you everything about myself," he informs me.
"What? You're not a virgin?" I joke with him making him chuckle a little but then he frowns and begins to walk away from me. I decide to put his mind at ease. "Look, you can't scare me away now."
I had moved to sit on the side of my bed, facing him as he tells me a story. "Look, a few years after Carlisle created me, I rebelled against him. I resented him for curbing my appetite. And so for a while I went off on my own. I wanted to know how it felt to hunt. To taste human blood. So I went to places like the movies. I could hear their heart beating, blood pumping and when they jumped it made my mouth water. I followed murders and other convicts. When they went for their own victims... I made them ones themselves. All the men I killed, were monsters, and so was I."
I am looking at the ground by the end of his story. Then I look back up at him.
"Edward they were all murderers." I point out to him. "You probably saved more lives than you took."
"Elena that's what I told myself," he says matter of factly. "But they were all human beings. I looked into their eyes as they died and I saw who I was, and what I was capable of."
I look down as I realise what he was getting at. "And what I'll be capable of. Why are you telling me this tonight? Did you really think this was gonna change my mind about you?"
"I just wondered if it would change your mind about yourself," he corrects me. "And who you wanna see when you look in the mirror a year from now."
"Hey," I get to my feet and walk over to him, looking straight into his eyes and I take his hands. "I know I can do this. Let me tell you why. Because you did. Now, hopefully a year from now, I'm gonna look in the mirror and see someone like you. I mean someone capable of courage and sacrifice, and love."
He leans forward and we kiss deeply. To say I was against it at first, I cannot wait to marry him tomorrow.
He places his hands on my waist. I turn as I hear a sudden noise outside and then a whistle.
"What's that?" I ask my fiance.
"COME ON! LET'S GO!" I hear Emmett's voice yell through the window.
"I'm late for my bachelor party," he explains to me.
There is a sudden woosh and bang as Edward appears in my window and smirks at me. "Send him out, Elena. Or we're coming in after him."
I hold Edwards hands and smile at him.
"So this party," I begin wanting to check. "Is their gonna be strippers?"
"BORING!" I hear Emmett's voice yell from the garden.
"No just a couple of mountain lions," he says and I feel relief. "Maybe a few bears."
Next Jasper appears in the window. "Don't worry Elena, we'll give him back in plenty of time."
He disappears and then their is a nock on my door. Edward nods that it's okay.
"Come in," I say and Bella opens my door. "Hey!"
"Hey! Hey Edward!" She begins nodding. "Elena please send your fiance out because I have to live here still after tomorrow and that's not possible if they break the house!"
I laugh and so does Edward. I hear the other two laughing from the ground.
"No worries," I say moving Edward towards the window.
He turns back to me as he gets to the window,with the hugest smile on his face I have ever seen. "I'll meet you at the altar!"
I nod, taking a deep breath.
"I'll be the one in white," I point out to him.
He chuckles and Bella rolls her eyes.
"That was very convincing," he tells me and I smile.
He jumps out the window which I race towards just in time to see them run off.
I turn to my twin. "You feeling okay?"
She nods. "I'm taking Pepto Bismol and it seems to be working. Hopefully it can stop me from throwing up all over my maid of honour dress. I may not be best buddies with Alice... but she has taste."
"Yeah you my maid of honour, she my bridesmaid," I nod. "What can go wrong tomorrow?"
She smirks. "Famous last words. Anyway I'm off and you... SLEEP!"
I laugh as she leaves before I head to bed.
(DREAM)
I am in my dress and I have just got to where I begin to walk down the aisle. Their is red petals everywhere. I was wrong about being the only one in white. Edward is in white, Bella instead of wearing her maid of honour dress is in white and so is everyone else.
Edward is smiling as I approach him. I glance from left to right, my friends, my mum, Phil, Charlie, they're all in the crowd. I finally reach Edward and he takes my hand and we stare into each others hands before we look at the vicar-
But it's not the vicar... it's Aro, Caius and Marcus of the Volturi!
I begin to panic as I turn to my friends and family... who are no longer there. Not even Bella is at my side where she should be.
All the petals are surrounding me and as I begin to follow them, I see blood, and in one huge mountain, are my friends and family. Edward and I are stood on top of them.
I look at Edward to see blood all over his mouth and down his suit. Then I look at my own hand and see blood. I come to one revelation.
I KILLED MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY... INCLUDING MY-
(DREAM OVER)
KNOCK, KNOCK. KNOCK!
I gasp as I sit up when their is a knock on my door. I rub my eyes.
"Come in," I say before looking up as my twin enters with a big smile on her face. "Hey!"
"Hey!" She says before running over and bouncing on my bed. "Come on! Breakfast! Cullen's! Pamper time! Get ready! Then time to become Mrs Cullen!"
I laugh at her enthusiasm. "For someone who hates my fiance you are very enthusiastic!"
She takes my hands. "As long as you're happy... and he never breaks your heart again... I can tolerate having vampires as in laws! Now... how was your last night in your bed?"
That's when it hits me... I'm moving out of here.
I look around at the bedroom I even had as a child and it feels weird. Bella holds her stomach.
"Sis... you okay?" I ask.
"Yeah," she promises. "Pepto Bismol... then breakfast!"
I nod but try to mask my worry as she runs to the bathroom.
QUEENC2020:
First chapter! Hope you enjoy.
