Rosalie parked the Lamborghini across the clearing from the skeletal frame of her old car. She took a deep breath before opening up the door, stepping out and slamming the door shut. The resulting crunch of the door slamming against the frame was the perfect reminder that she was slamming the door shut on her old life and stepping into a world of pain. Why am I doing this? Why don't I run? The girl kept asking herself as she walked to the back of her car and took out her bags. The answer came immediately and without hesitation, because I love my family more than I love anything in the world. I will do anything to protect them, even if it means spending the rest of eternity with a psychopath. She had just set the last of her bags on the ground, when his scent drifted to her on the breeze. Her body tensed and she felt herself start to tremble.

"I'm glad to see you made the right decision, didn't want your family to die did you?" Royce asked as he stepped out from the woods, followed by a couple of his henchmen. Rosalie recognized all of them, it was like she was seventeen again, walking into the alley. The one on the left had been the first one to touch her, then the one on the right. She felt her breathing speed up in terror. A realization hit her like a sack of bricks, she wasn't just going to be used by Royce for all eternity. She would be a toy to all of them. Something to bring out when they were feeling bored. Her instincts told her to flee, but before she could even take a step, Royce appeared in front of her.

"Having second thoughts, love?" He asked, with fake sorrow. His boys laughed loudly in the background and started to close in on her, blocking her escape. "That wouldn't be any fun though, would it?" He said before his hand reached out to cup her face.

Rosalie reached up with her left hand and pushed his arm away. It was then that Royce's eyes landed on her wedding ring. "Looky here boys, my girl is still wearing another guy's ring. What should we do about that?" He grabbed her wrist and twisted it hard.

Rosalie felt the bone crack, cried out in pain and crashed to her knees.

Royce's boys laughed.

"Take it off!" One yelled.

"You always did like to be rough, Royceboy!" the other cried.

Royce pulled off the ring Emmett had given her, crushed it with his fist and threw it into the woods. He bend down in front of Rose, "That wasn't really nice, now was it Rosey. That really hurt my feelings." He said with a sad frown before his face hardened with anger and he spat, "Things like that don't go unpunished!" He pulled her to her feet and threw her into the arms of one of the waiting henchman. The man, put his arm around her waist, pulled her close, and started to kiss her neck.

"Get away from me!" Rosalie snarled, jamming her elbow into his nose.

"Bitch!!" The man yelled, releasing her and putting his hands to his face.

Royce only laughed and flitted after Rosalie as she broke for the woods. He caught her quickly and slammed her to the ground. "That wasn't very nice, Rosalie. You seem to have forgotten your manners after all this time." He said with a twisted laugh before kicking her repeatedly in the side. Rosalie felt each blow but grinded her teeth against the pain. She wasn't going to let Royce have the satisfaction of hearing her scream.

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So close! Almost there! Were the thoughts flying through Emmett's head as her raced up the hillside. He was almost to the cliff top, he could practically smell Rosalie's scent on the breeze, along with three other scents he did not recognize. He knew in his heart that one of them was Royce, the man who had caused his Rose so much pain and suffering. He pushed himself faster and faster, thoughts of what could be happening to her at that very moment pushing him to greater and greater speeds. He burst out of the trees and into the clearing, the first thing he saw was his Rose on the ground, and a man repeatedly kicking her. He bellowed in anger and the man stopped and looked up at him, shocked.

"Get him!" The man yelled to the other two men who stood around him. The other two jumped towards Emmett, but he easily beat them to the side, killing them the only way he knew how to kill another vampire. Decapitation. During the ten seconds it had taken Emmett to dispatch the two henchman, Royce had picked Rosalie off of the ground and now held the struggling girl close to him, one hand on her chin ready to break her neck in and instant. The other was around her waist, pressing Rosalie up against him.

"You must be the husband." The man, Emmett guessed to be Royce, said with a smirk. "It'll be fun killing you in front of her."

Emmett snarled and replied, his voice dangerously low and quiet, "Let her go, and I swear I'll kill you quick."

"Kill me? You don't stand a chance." Royce said with a cynically laugh before turning Rose's head towards his and kissing her full on the lips. "Yet, I can see why you want her back so bad, she sure is fun. Especially when she puts up a fight."

Emmett bellowed before rushing Royce. The man threw Rose out of the way and met Emmett's attack full on. Emmett tackled Royce into the ground and beat him upside the head. Royce pushed Emmett off of him, and knocked Emmett to the ground. Royce straddled his chest and put his hands on either side of Emmett's head. "Ready to die?" Royce asked a twisted grin on his face. He was just about to snap Emmett's neck when he felt a pair of hands land on his head. "Go to hell!" Was the last thing Royce heard before Rosalie killed him.

She fell to her knees, tearless sobs racking her body. "He's dead, he's really dead." She whispered over and over again. Emmett crawled over to her and wrapped his big arms around her, cradling her to his chest. "You did it. You did it, babe. He's never coming after you again. It's over." He kept murmuring into Rosalie's hair as he rocked her while she cried. Finally, she looked up at him and whispered, "I tried to make you hate me."

Emmett looked down at her asked, "Why?"

"I wanted it to be easier for you to move on, when I left."

"I could never get over you, you should have just told me. We could have ended this a lot sooner."

"I love you."

"I love you, too."

"Do you forgive me?"

"You did what you had to save your family, that doesn't need any forgiveness. We all would have done the same thing."

Rosalie smiled at this and kissed her bear of a husband.

"Are you ready to go home?" He asked before standing up and lifting her into his arms.

"Yea, you can drive my new car." Rosalie replied.

Emmett had just set Rosalie in the passenger seat, and placed her bags back into the trunk, when Edward, Alice, and Jasper burst into the clearing. They looked around at the three dead vampires and then at Rosalie and Emmett. "We'll take care of this." Was all Edward said before each of them picked up a body and disappeared back into the woods. Emmett nodded after his family and got into the car. They drove home in silence. Rosalie told Esme and Carlisle that she needed to be alone for awhile before she and Emmett disappeared into their room. They laid down on the floor, Emmett's arms around her holding her close. Rosalie laid her head against her husband's shoulder and sighed. After two days of hell, she finally felt safe again. She would always feel safe in Emmett's arms.

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AN: yeah it was kind of a crappy ending, but I suck at endings so I did my best. Thanks for the reviews! There all really nice. Sry it's taken me so long to write. I've been busy. I just bought a horse and made the softball team so whenever I haven't been at practice or doing homework, I've been out with the horse. Hope you liked my story.