We get to hear from little Georgie in this chapter!
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**Its not mine, except for what I made up**
Georgie POV
"Dr. Cullen?"
"Hush, Georgie. Just close your eyes and we will be home before you know it."
No, that's not what I want. I can't let him take me and Henry back there.
"No, Dr. Cullen. Stop, please!" He looked at me like I grew another head.
"Why, Georgie?" He asked as he slowed down. He stopped and sat down on a tree stump, still holding Henry. "Why wouldn't you want to go home?"
I rubbed at my eyes when I felt the tears starting again.
I'm a big kid, I'm a big kid. Maybe if I keep telling myself that I'll stop crying all the time.
"Emmett died, Dr. Cullen. Momma and Daddy tried to keep it from me and Henry, but I heard them talking about it two days ago. They said a bear attacked him, but we can't even have a funeral because it ate him all up." I began shaking then Dr. Cullen pulled me up on his lap.
"Georgie, I'm so sorry. But can I ask why you and Henry were in the woods all by yourselves?"
Well, this was going to take some fancy talking as Em used to say.
"It's ok Georgie, you can tell me. I won't tell your Momma and get you in trouble."
"Well, Momma is so sad all the time and she's so mad at Patty because she told Em not to take his rifle and that's why the bear ate him. Momma kicked Patty and Frank and the baby out because of it. Then Willie came and said that Em got what he deserved cause he's a big shot all the time. Robbie punched him when he said that and then Momma kicked them both out."
"Sounds like your house is a pretty rough place to be right now." Dr. Cullen said sadly.
"It is. It's not the same without Em around, making us all laugh. But anyway, I heard Momma say to Daddy that it's not right that poor Em ain't gonna get laid to rest and that she'd be happy just to see him one more time. So I thought if I could find him, Momma would get happy and she might not kick me out if I make her mad. I didn't mean for Henry to come though. He follows me everywhere."
"Georgie, you're very brave for going out on your own to search for your brother. Did you and Henry get tired? Is that why you laid down?"
"Yes. I just needed to rest my eyes for a minute and I guess we both fell asleep. I haven't slept since Em read to us last." He just gave me that look the church ladies who came to visit yesterday gave me.
"Listen Georgie, I'm going to take you home now. I'm sure your Momma is very worried. Just lay your head down on my shoulder and I'll do the talking when we get to your house."
Ok, I thought to myself as Dr. Cullen began running.
I'm so glad he showed up.
He'll fix everything.
Emmett POV
"Emmett? Can I ask why you were just standing and staring at the boys?" My angel's voice is so sweet.
"I was trying to decide if I should try to pick them up and take them home. I saw them laying there from about a hundred yards back, but when I ran up I just smelled this amazing smell that I've never smelled before." Angel got a sad look in her eyes then and looked over to her brother.
"What is it, angel? Why the sad eyes?" I asked, putting my arms around her again.
"I don't want you to get upset with me when I tell you this." She started.
"Upset with you? Never!" I told her. She smiled up at me. Gosh, she was so beautiful.
"That smell was their blood, Emmett." What the hell?
"He doesn't understand, Rose. That's her name by the way." Her pip squeak brother piped up.
I have a feeling that if my arms weren't around my angel, or Rose, that I would pound the shrimp into a tree.
He just smirked at me.
"Look at me, Emmett." I focused back on my angel.
"First of all, my name is Rosalie but you can call me whatever you want. Second of all, they smelled that way to you because you're a vampire now. Carlisle tried to tell you that back at the house, but it made you angry and you ran off."
"You mean that I wanted to kill them?" I could never kill my little buddies.
"No, I don't think that at all. You would've done it if you were going to before we got there."
"Do I have to kill people?" The thought made me sick. I couldn't live with myself if I took someone from their family.
"No. We do not kill humans." She replied.
"We feed off of animals, Emmett." I heard the other woman say. "My name is Esme."
"Oh well, I got a head start on that." I laughed, thinking about the bear I left laying on the bank by the stream.
"That was very impressive, Emmett. What made you go for the bear?" Esme asked, seeming thoroughly interested.
"I don't really know. It just smelled good and the next thing I knew I was on its back, drinking its blood. Then I wasn't thirsty anymore." The memory made my throat burn again.
"We'll have to teach you to clean up after yourself." The small fry said.
"I'm six foot one inch tall. Just because you're a giant mountain man, that does not make me a small fry."
Rosie glared at him.
"Relax, Rose. He's fine. His thoughts aren't violent at the moment."
How in the hell does he know what my thoughts are?
I felt Rosie's hands on my arms again and immediately my mind and body relaxed.
"Edward's a mind reader, Em. Some of our kind have special abilities. We think yours is your immense strength."
Just then, a memory of lifting logs into place for my brother's cabin flashed through my mind.
Georgie was running underfoot, wanting to help but getting in the way more than anything.
"Em! Let me help!" He pleaded, with a big smile on his face.
"Let's take him to see his family." I heard Eddie say.
"Edward, sometimes you do have a heart." Rosie said as she began pulling me in the direction of Wolf Valley.
"Please. By the way, Emmie, the name's Edward." Eddie said as he came around to my other side.
Whatever you say, Eddie. I thought to myself.
"You know, I've never had a brother. Let me teach you how to deer hunt on the way." He said, slapping me on the back.
"You, teach me? Ha!" I bagged the biggest dear in Anderson County last November.
"With a firearm, Emmie. Let's see how you do with your bare hands."
"You're on, Eddie. I took down a bear, didn't I?"
He took off in front of us like a flash of lightning.
I kissed Rosie on the cheek and sprinted off after him.
Holy shit, he sure can run. Good thing I can run just as fast.
We leapt over another stream when I smelled it.
It was similar to the smell of the bear, but still different. My body drank in the scent as my head swam; desperate to figure out from which direction it was coming.
"Just follow your senses, Em." I heard Eddie say.
I was like a bloodhound, chasing the scent. Finally I found it and before I knew it, I had a buck by the neck.
I snapped its neck and drained it quickly. The steaming blood quenched my burning throat.
As I threw the deer to the ground, I could feel my angel staring at me.
The look in her eyes drew me over to her.
I guess you could say the McCarty in me took over.
I took her in my arms, bent her backwards and kissed her like I've never kissed a girl in my life.
I felt her small hands weave through my curly hair and felt her sink into my body, attempting to get closer.
Her legs wrapped around my waist as I picked her up and placed her back against the nearest tree.
"A-hem!" I heard behind us. Eddie. I guess my new brother would be just as annoying as a real one.
"Get a room! For God's sake, it's bad enough I have to hear it in your mind. I do not need to see it!"
"Edward is right." Esme added. "Believe me, I know how hunting can make you feel, but you just met!"
Well, when she puts it that way.
Rosie patted my cheek and gave me a sweet kiss on my lips. "Put me down, big boy. Let's go so we can catch Carlisle before he leaves your house."
I had completely forgotten about going to see my family.
"Is this the last time I'll be able to see them?" The thought of leaving them forever broke my heart.
"It would be easier on your family if it is. You cannot explain to them what you have become. Humans are forbidden from knowing about us." Eddie explained.
"But Carlisle knows people. He's a doctor!"
"That is true, Emmett." Esme said. "But he tries his hardest to keep them in dark, so to speak."
Another memory overtook me. Shaking Carlisle's hand and it being freezing. His eyes.
"Oh my Lord, I'm all of those things now!" The reality of the situation seemed to hit me just then.
I can't go back to my family. They'll know right away that everything about me is different.
My skin would feel like ice to them. My eyes a strange gold color, like a barn cat.
"Just so you don't get alarmed when we go home later and you look in a mirror, your eyes are currently a delightful shade of crimson." Eddie noted.
Crimson?
"Red, Emmett." Thanks for that, Eddie.
I felt Rosie grab my hand and kiss it with those beautiful lips. Esme then took my other hand.
Edward put his arm around Esme as we walked off to say goodbye to my old life.
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