A/N: Well here is the next chapter and it is Esme and Carlisle. THANK YOU MORNINGSTRIPE FOR THE SONG IDEA!
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight. but Stephenie Meyer Does YEY! I also don't own Pretty Baby. That was written and sung by Vanessa Carlton.
Trials of The Heart
By Alunamai
Chapter Six:
Pretty Baby
Esme POV
I awoke in a strange room with absolutely no recollection of how i had arrived there. My last memory was jumping off that cliff, or was it seeing Dr. Carlisle Cullen watching over me as I slept? No, that last part was most definitely a dream. There was no way that he was here and still look the same as he did ten years ago. That was physically impossible. He should be at least forty five by now. But then again… Carlisle Cullen was nothing like ordinary people.
The door opened slowly and I sat up faster that a bolt of lightening. What greeted my eyes was most definitely a dream. The blonde haired, golden eyed angel, that I now call my husband, was entering my room. Or what I took to be my room.
"You're awake. How do you feel?"
"Confused." I answered quietly… shyly.
"I thought as much, Ms. Platt." He spoke to me as if I was one of his patients. Which I clearly was.
"Evenson." I looked away from him half expecting him to start yelling at me for I corrected him on my name.
"What happened to the bright high spirited girl I met in Columbus ten years ago?" his concerned voice took me by surprise. I half expected to be slapped.
"She married the Devil." I continued to lookdown at my hands.
"Esme," he sat down on the bed beside me and lifted my chin to face him. "You never have to go back to him. You are more than welcomed to stay here with Edward and I."
"Edward?"
"My son… In a way." My face must have shown my confusion. For he told me the most ridiculous story I had ever heard. "We're not human… Edward, myself, even you. We are vampires, we drink blood. The blood of animals, not humans. We are tamed."
"That is the most ludicrous thing I have ever heard." I pointed out. "The sad part is you expect me to believe you." I was out of the bed at this point. "How long have I been asleep for? For all I know I could still be dreaming. Why else would you be here telling me I'm some creature out of a Bram Stoker novel?"
"Since you jumped off that cliff, and that was three days ago." He stood in front of me as he spoke, his hands resting on my shoulders trying to keep me still. "Why would I, Carlisle Cullen, ever lie to you? You of all people. Why would I lie to you?"
"The impact alone should have killed me." I looked out the window a moment.
"But it did not." He turned my face to look him in the eye. "You need to feed. Your eyes will look much lovelier when they are gold. Would I lie to you?"
I picked up a book on the desk that was near the window. I went back to the bed and and began to read. Carlisle took his place over by the window. To tell the truth, I was not reading. I was more focused on what he told me. Vampires… that was preposterous. There was no such thing. But then I really thought about… He hadn't aged since I saw him ten years ago, and there had to be a reason for that. That had to be it.
I could not say how much time had passed. A couple of minutes would have been and understatement and anything over ten hours would have been cause for suspicion. I stood slowly and walked up behind him. I circled my arms around him and lifted my self to my tip toes. I rested my chin on his shoulder and waited a moment. I waited for the moon to shine on him.
"Bathed in blue, the walls of memory divide the thorns from the roses. It is you who is closest."
He slowly turned himself so he could look at me. We held each others gaze for moment before he asked me the one question I had ever wanted to hear spill from his lips.
"Marry me?" he whispered into my ear.
-x-x-x-x-
You light me up and then
I fall for you
You lay me down and then
I call for you
Stumbling on reasons that
Are far and few
I'd let it all come down
And then some
For you
-x-x-x-x
"Yes." I whispered back.
-x-x-x-x-
Edward, of all the ways to describe the boy before Bella would be desolate, angry, and spoiled. Of course that was only half his personality. When I met him, I met the angry, uncooperative and hateful boy.
"Edward please calm down." Carlisle yelled after Edward went off on mine and Carlisle's engagement.
"Do you not know how… how… terrified she is? She's afraid that if she says no you'll… harm her. You don't know what her husband had put her through… why she attempted suicide… what happened to her infant son."
"No, but I am sure I will learn in due time. Now what have I told about prying into the minds of others?"
"I CAN"T HELP IT!"
"Please stop, the both of you! You are acting like children." I yelled before thinking. The two of them stopped and looked at me. "Edward, you should know better than to talk back to your elders. And I don't care if you are twenty years old. You still have manners, and I am sure your parents raised you better than this."
"You don't even know who my parents are… were! How can you say things like that?" he stormed out of the room and slammed his bedroom door.
"Edward if you break that door again I swear to God I am going to make you replace it!" Carlisle yelled after him. "Not that it matters, he has the money to do it. What lesson would that teach him?"
I was seated on the sofa and Carlisle came to join me. He motioned for me to come closer to him, to which I obliged. He lifted me from my seat and sat me on his lap. I leaned my head against his shoulder and he rubbed my back.
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Pretty baby don't you leave me
I have been saving smiles for you
Pretty baby why can't you see
You're the one that I belong to
I'll be the embrace that keeps you warm
For you're the sun that breaks the storm
I'll be alright and I'll sleep sound
As long as you keep coming round, oh pretty baby
-x-x-x-x-
We sat there like that for hours. We were meant for one another no matter what the circumstances were. They say that if you love someone that you should let it go. If that person comes back to you then it is meant to be. Carlisle and I belong to one another.
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And I know things can't last forever
But there are lessons that you'll never learn
Oh just the scent of you makes me hurt
So how's it you that makes me better
Why can't you hold me and never let go
When you touch me it is me that you own
Pretty baby oh the place that you hold in my heart
Would you break it apart again… oh pretty baby
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A/N: Okay I know the song really doesn't go with the story but it was the song that was being sung in Esme's heart all those years she hadn't seen Carlisle. She wanted him all those years and now she has him. Corny, I know. Well Tell me what you think! R&R!