Rosalie's eyes were wild as she looked upon the dying form of her husband. Tears coursed down her cheeks and her skirts were soaked in that awful red liquid.

"Everyone get back!" Jasper ordered, motioning for the bystanders to back out of the jewelry store.

"We need room!" He turned towards Edward who was standing beside him. "We have to get him out of here," Jasper said lowly, watching Edward struggle to control his bloodlust. "He's going to die, Edward. No one can mend a wound like this, you're his only hope."

"Shouldn't Rosalie have a say in the matter," Edward said, his voice hoarse.

"Of course, but if we don't get him back to the Opera House, there will be no reason to ask because he'll already be dead. We have to hurry!"

Edward took a deep breath, ignoring the waves of venom that coursed down his throat, and got on one side of Emmett while Jasper got on the other. Edward could have lifted Emmett by himself, but that would have been disastrous considering the audience they now had. He had no idea how they were going to get Emmett back to the Opera House undetected, but they had to try.

"Oh God, please hurry!" Rosalie sobbed. "Ed-Edward, please help him."

He looked20up at her. Was she asking him to change Emmett?

"Edward, pay attention!" Jasper hissed.

Emmett was unconscious and still bleeding dangerously fast. They carried him out of the jewelry store carefully, making sure to not to jar him. The crowd was starting to thin, following the crazed man that had stabbed Emmett. He was the real excitement. The man was trying to hit the police that swarmed around him, his hands and body covered in Emmett's blood.

"Rosalie, we're taking Emmett to the Opera House," Edward said hurriedly. "Make sure that no one but Alice and you are in your bedroom. With your permission, I will change him."

She nodded once, the tears still pouring. "Yes, thank you, Edward!" She ran off towards the Opera House. It was only feet away but they had to go gently but quickly. Emmett was in his last moments and anything they did now would determine whether he lived or died.

Once they made sure that no one saw, Edward carefully maneuvered Emmett so that he was caring him easily in his arms, and ran to the Opera House. Edward's movements were smooth as milk as he made sure not to jar Emmett. He kicked the doors open and rushed through the hallways to Emmett and Rosalie's bedroom.

"Daddy!"20Alice screamed as Edward placed Emmett onto the bed. Jasper came running into the room, out of breath. Rosalie rushed to Emmett but Edward motioned her back.

"Are you sure about this, Rosalie?" he asked seriously.

"Yes, of course!! Please hurry before – " She stopped abruptly, unable to acknowledge the worst.

Alice was sobbing as Jasper held her by the waist away from the bed. Edward nodded once, steeling himself for what would be a huge test of his control. Bella then burst into the room. "What happened?!"

Knowing that there was no time to explain, Edward leaned down and sank his teeth into the tender flesh on the inside of Emmett's wrist. Suddenly, Emmett was conscious again, eyes wild with pain and agony. A hoarse cry erupted from his throat.

The blood was sweet in Edward's mouth, sweeter than any animal blood. Almost too sweet. The venom entered Emmett's bloodstream, already beginning to affect him. The thing that scared Edward was that there was hardly any blood in Emmett's veins.

Sobs tore from Rosalie as the tears coursed down her face. There was so much pain on her husbands face, such agony, that she was sure he was going to die. Bella watched in shock as her Angel bit Emmett, turning him.

Edw ard stood back now, wiping off the excess blood from his mouth. "That's all we can do," he said lowly. "The change takes three days, and it's not easy." He turned to Rosalie. "I'm sorry it had to come to this."

She shook her head, her eyes locked on her husband. Slowly, she went to Emmett, placing her hands gently on his forehead.

He groaned in pain, clenching his eyes shut against the onslaught of agony.

"Emmett?" she said softly, as if she were afraid that talking too loudly might worsen his pain.

"Emmett, darling, I love you."

He opened his eyes for a brief moment, and looked up at her. His eyes were hazy and unfocused, but then focused on his wife's face.

"Rose…" he whispered, his voice nearly insubstantial.

She cupped his face tenderly. "Yes, love?" He closed his eyes and gritted his teeth as another wave of pain surged through him. Edward could see that his wounds were healing quickly. The body had to heal completely before the change could really take place.

But he couldn't say anything else for the vicious snarl that emitted from his throat. The tendons in his neck were taunt and his hands tightened into fists.

"Rosalie, you should move back," Edward said, taking her arm gently in his. "He's in a lot of pain right now because the venom is changing him. He's not thinking logically now and he could hurt you."

She shot daggers at Edward with her eyes. "I'm not leaving him, Edward. I'm staying right here."

He nodded.

She kisses Emmett's forehead and smoothed his hair away from his face. "I'm here for you, Emmett," she murmured. "I won't leave you."

Edward turned away, feeling as if he was witnessing something more intimate than any kiss or caress. Bella stood against the wall, eyes wide in disbelief. He took a deep, unneeded breath.
Edward knew that this moment would come, where he would have to talk to her. She needed to know that changing into a Vampire was not easy.

"Edward, is..." Bella's words got stuck in her throat, she couldn't form them, but to Edward, he knew exactly what she was going to say.

'Is it going to be that painful for me too?' Bella's mind asked for her, her mouth unable to utter the words she was thinking.

Edward's voice became small, and it was thick with bloodlust. "Yes." Edward's now light rust color looked into Bella's brown eyes. "Still want to be a monster?" Edward asked, being=2 0quite serious. Bella's head nodded vastly, but then her eyes got wide as a moan of pain came for Emmett's lips.

"I'm sure." Bella said in a squeak, to Edward's disapproval. "When?" Bella asked, Edward looked at her sharply, he couldn't believe she was asking him this in this time. Emmett was surely in the most pain he'd ever feel and she couldn't wait to be in the same spot as him. Unbelievable.

"Bella, I can't talk about this right now, for godsake!" Edward exploded. " You want to be a monster so bad, you want to live with me, and I'd love that to happen, I would love that! But the fact is, is that no matter what, your going to get hurt. Isabella, I dont want to hurt you!" Edward said looking down, his eyes filled with tears that the venom was beginning to eat away.

Bella's hand went to his eyes, but he put his hands over his face, out of Bella's reach. "Edward.." Bella pleaded with him.

"I love you, I need to be alone. You don't understand Bella." Edward said as he fled the seeing eyes of his family. He didn't want to hear Emmett's pain, he didn't want to hear how upset Rosalie was, he didn't want to hear anything but his beautiful Piano.

"What was that about?" Alice asked, Bella looked up, tears in her eyes.

"He's just upset." Bella said.

Alice rushed towards Bella, and she rubbed her back, "Over what?" Bella shook her hea d no, and just looked up, with a swollen face, a sullen look, and tears streaming down.

"I don't know. I think about me changing." Bella said wiping her nose on her sleeve.

Alice shook her head at Bella, even her as her best friend couldn't see why Bella would choose such a time for this discussion. How couldnt' she see how pained Edward was by having to bite his brother. Alice couldn't help but still be crying over the matter, and if she were Edward she'd be devastated, and then have your girlfriend come up and say she wants to be like that, and that she wants to know when, is just something nobody could stand.

"Are you daft?" Alice asked in an angry voice, "honestly Bella, my father, pretty much your father, is going through immense amount of pain and all you can do is sit there and relish the thought of being in it too?" Alice exploded, her heart was pounding loudly, which the sounds make Emmett let out a moan.

Rosalie looked over and glared. "Get out, you're upsetting him." Rosalie looked upset, her hands with Emmett's his hand looked like it was crushing her's in the painful battle his whole body was enduring.

Bella, Alice, and Jasper walked out of the room, Jasper seemed upset, along with Alice.

"How could you do that?" Alice asked Bella, again. Bella turned away and began to cry. Jasper sighed and touched her shoulder. She went to walk away, Jasper attempted to stop her. She shrugged him off.

"It was a mistake!" Bella bellowed, "I'm sorry, Ali, my true love isn't alive like yours, and I'm sorry, that you can kiss him without having to be pushed away from being near venom coated teeth!" Bella paused, "I'm sorry I want a real life, an immortal life with the person I love, But Alice, do not stand there and tell me that I'm dead wrong. Maybe the timing wasn't right to bring it up, and I know it wasn't, but don't you dare stand there and judge me, because you've no clue!" Bella said and she turned and stalked off, Jasper looked over at Alice, who was completely confused.

"Did she just.. yell at me?" Alice asked in disbelief.

"Yes." Jasper said in the same bemused voice she did.

Alice was never yelled at by Bella, but everything was spiraling out of control. Emmett was becoming a Vampire in a slow agonizing way. Alice was getting married, today was Rosalie's birthday, Alice was overwhelmed, Jasper was confused, Emmett was dying, Bella was upset, Edward was a mess, and nobody could control themselves enough to understand that what was happening was Alice's vision.

Her vision of them all becoming Vampires, it's starting off with Emmett, and none of them realized this, none of them. The eternal drink. That's what they called it, and the only drink that was taken was the Vampire feeding off of the human. Like Edward did to Emmett, like Emmett will most likely do to Rosalie, but who was to turn Jasper, who was to turn her? What was going to happen? Alice wasn't sure, all she knew is that they were going in a spiral of no return, and they were in the middle of an immortal problem.

Bella sat in her room, and her eyes were closed, her legs were curled into her chest, and she looked as if she were sleeping, the only dead give away to her being awake were the soft sobs coming from her chest.

Edward would come, and make it better, she believed. She waited, for hours, she heard Emmett's screams, heard Alice and Jasper make passionate love, heard Rosalie sing to Emmett as he worked through the venom spreading. And, no Edward. no angel. She began to cry even more.

"Daddy.. please, help me." Bella begged her dead father, she began to hum a few cords of his last song he was working on. Her mind fluttered to her childhood garden, where her and Alice would share many games of hide-and-go-seek. Where her and Jake would play tag, where she would sit with her mother, and hum lullaby's her father would play on the piano as a special treat. She hummed, she sang. She cried. And she waited for her Edward to return to her, to comfort her, and to tell her that he was sorry for over reacting, but he didn't come.

She fell asleep crying, and humming to herself, and Edward didn't come. To her surprise.

Edward sat at his=2 0piano, doing what he did best, sulking. His music was very dismal, and dark. He had no passion at all, it was so sad, if he could have wept from hearing it, he surely would. He couldn't believe what he had done, he had made another. He was a sire now. His own brother was upstairs, in Rosalie and his room screaming out in pain, and he wasn't there to talk him through it. Rosalie was doing that for him.

And the love of his life was upstairs, crying, talking to her dead father about how she'd like to change what was happening. Her moaning in her sleep, crying out for Edward, to find he wasn't there.

Edward couldn't face his love. She wanted that pain, the total complete package of being a Vampire, she wanted it. She wanted it all. He couldn't stand to know that part, but he was happy that Isabella wanted to live the rest of her life with him, to be with him, to love only him. She loved him so much already, and how could he refuse her.

"Such a fool, yes of course." Edward sung to himself. "Why must you be, so coarse." He sighed,
"you've no heart, and no should. To her young body, you surely must be old.." He sighed to himself,
"do not fear. Do not fret, we will get past this..." Edward sung to himself quietly. He wanted to talk to Bella, but it would be wrong to wake her. Tonight she needed to be alone. To mourn. So did Edward.

The Next Day.

=0 A

Rosalie was talking to Emmett, he was quieter, that day.

"Do you remember when we met?" Rosalie asked Emmett's shaking body. "You and I were the same age, 15 years old." Rosalie laughed at a private joke of hers. "You and I hated each other... I thought you were a jerk to your younger brother, Edward. Then we bonded over the whole focus on that you were right, Edward was a prude." Rosalie laughed to herself, tears in her eyes. "I remember.. when you asked me out on our first date... Carlisle was so angry, because I was met for Edward..."

Flash Back

"That is a bride for your bother!" Carlisle said, his face turning a shade of red. Carlisle never got mad before.

"He's younger than me, father! The oldest is to get married first." Emmett argued, "besides, Rose doesn't even like Edward, she detests him." Emmett said in an angry voice.

"That does not matter!" Carlisle argued.

"So her opinion doesn't matter? Father, I love Rose!" Emmett said in an angry voice, shaking his head violently.

"No."

"It doesn't matter, I have Mr. and Mrs. Hale's permission and blessing!" Emmett said, Carlisle's face was pure fury, and Esme stepped in, her caramel colored hair bouncing as she tried to calm them.

"Now, now. There is no need to go elope. I want to see my son's=2 0wedding. Carlisle, he's right, the oldest should be married first, and why not Rosalie, she's beautiful, and she's quite lovely, and he is right, she doesn't like Edward." Esme rubbed Carlisle's shoulders and cooed to him.

"Fine." Carlisle said walking away in a dramatic gust of wind.

"Well, you've managed to piss off Dad again I see." Edward said as he walked in from the music room. Emmett looked over and glared hard at Edward.

"Shut up." Emmett said as he stalked away, there stood Esme, her head turned and looked to see a young Rosalie standing there, confused, and very surprised.

End of Flash Back.

"I bet you didn't even know I was there. Esme couldn't say anything to me, I think she was too embarrassed. I still acted surprised though, didn't I?" Rosalie asked, her nose began to run, and she sniffled in an unladylike fashion. She wasn't in the mood for manors.

"You are going to live forever. And now that you are, I am." Rosalie said looking at him, his face distorted in agony. She heard Edward walk lightly into the room. "Hello Edward."

"Hello."

"Did you hear me telling him the story of how we got married?" Rosalie asked, her eyes not looking at Edward.

"I did."

"Did you know I was there?"

"I didn't. Not until now. I nev er really had my ability back when I was human. I had a sneaking suspicion when you thanked Carlisle profusely at the wedding. I knew that Emmett wouldn't have told you that, the fight, he's much too smart to do that." Edward said looking down at his brother, his rust colored eyes were slightly dark. He could hardly hear his brother's heart beat. Not too long. He'd be a Vampire before the night was over, Edward was sure of it. He was going fast.

"What's wrong?" Rosalie noticed the change in Edward's stance, finally laying her violet eyes on him.

"He's going to be finished soon." Edward said, "in sixteen hours, perhaps." Edward said, trying to calculate the time by counting his heart beats.

"Really?" Rosalie asked, her voice got higher, and a slight feeling of hope washed over her.

"Yes, but he will be slightly more dangerous for a while. He'll be extremely thirsty." Edward said looking at his brother's body which was still slightly shaking.

"Will he remember me?"

"Yes. Others, like actors, not so clearly. Things will be fuzzy, you just need to remind him." Edward said looking down at his wrist watch. "At four in the morning, tomorrow, he'll be awake." Edward calculated. Rosalie's eyes darted to her husbands body which laid in their wedding bed.

"Thank you, Edward."

"You don't mean that." Edward said, trying to convince himself, and Rosalie.

"I do, you saved him. Now I can be with him, forever. I'll never loose him. I can't stand to loose somebody. Perhaps that is why Bella urns to be a Vampire. So you can't go away from her. So she can't loose you." Rosalie said, her tear filled eyes looking at Edward, he looked over, confused, but comforted by her words.

"I don't-"

"-She's not thinking about the pain, or the things she'll have to give up to be with you, Edward. She's thinking about never loosing you, always having you beside her. She's thinking about her love always being with her. Your love will never die, because you can never die. The sooner for her to become imortal, the better. So she can love you properly. So she can be like you, love like you, stay with you." Rosalie said looking at Emmett.

"She's not thinking about the pain. Edward." Rosalie looked over at Edward, his head snapped up, "If she doesn't think about it, you shouldn't either." Rosalie said looking at him, her eyes burning holes in him.

"How can I not think of the pain that she's going through while she is screaming in agony?" Edward asked, he was astonished by Rosalie's request.

"By knowing that she is doing what she wants to be with you." Rosalie said, she turned to the door.

"What Emmett, I have to use the powder room." She walked out of the room, to see Bella standing there.

=0 A"How is he?"

"Which one?" Rosalie asked.

"Emmett? Whom else?"

"Emmett is fine, Edward says not long, sixteen hours, perhaps. Edward, on the other hand, is confused." Rosalie said as she walked away to the powder room. Bella walked in, her movements slow.

"I'm sorry."

"Do not apologize, Bella. It is I who should be sorry. Rosalie tried to reason with me, to show me where you are standing. I understand now, I know what you're thinking... I know you don't want to loose anymore people, and I realize that I am to be lost, if you are dying. I do not want to let you go, I'm naturally selfish. I'll set a date." Edward said looking at her, a grave look on his face as he held hands with his brother.

"When?" Bella asked, her brown eyes finding his rust colored eyes, which seemed to be becoming golden again.

"Two days after Alice's and Jasper's wedding." Edward said looking at Bella, his eyes never letting go of hers.

"I'm ready." Bella clarified, showing no fear.

Edward nodded his head, and smiled, "I know you are."

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