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Chapter Twenty-one

Freedom or Death – Part 2: The path to Immortality

Emmelie

I felt warm lips kissing my shoulder as I stirred back to my harsh reality. I was in a warm hug that I wished I could stay in forever. I opened my eyes and looked up at Alex, my boyfriend, my soul mate, looking down at me.

'Hey,' I whispered and he smiled and kissed my lips, our naked bodies so close together that I wasn't sure where I started and ended. His smile faded the moment I moved slightly and frowned as I felt sore.

'I'm fine,' I reassured him and he nodded his head, not saying a word or repeating the apology he gave me during our lovemaking, we knew we were to face far worse things than the minor physical pain that I experienced during our ultimate joining.

'I heard them returning a few minutes ago, none came here to disturb us however.' Alex said and I nodded my head, our parents gave us the time to enjoy or first and possibly last time as a couple, I hated that the possibility of dying and never experiencing all the love I tasted was so close to me.

'I feel like we're heading towards our death in fast forward.' I said quietly and Alex framed my face with his hands, suddenly all the fear and worry and pain surfaced and I couldn't stop the tears, the desperation was getting the best of me. 'We're gonna miss so much, our love, our passion, our wedding, everything our parents enjoyed in the fullest is forbidden for us…' I said through my tears, my words muffled because of Alex's lips on mine.

'I wish I could have a little more of us, I wish our parents didn't wait outside, knowing what we're doing here and hoping for us to get done with it as to be turned, but I'm giving you my word, Emmelie Esme Lillian, I will die fighting for you, for us, for our love and passion and wedding. I'm already gone in heaven by having you by my side so physical death won't be a problem with you in my mind.' Alex said and I was amazed at how steady and clear his voice were, he must have thought a lot about it during my nap. His words of dying made the whole thing all more clear and scary.

'If something happens to you… I won't be able to go on,' I said the truth that hurt me most and he smiled sadly for the first time, his dark eyes finally allowing me to see his own fears and pain.

'And I won't be able to go on without you, that's why we're gonna fight for each other, that's why we're gonna survive both or fall together.' Alex said and I nodded my head in determination, we were like the rest of the couples in the families, two halves of a whole that couldn't be separated. 'Right now, we both wish for things that hold no importance, we're gonna try and win, and then, if we're still able, we'll deal with everything before us,' Alex added and gave me a last kiss before he stood up and extended his hand, inviting me to our last moments of mortality.

Rosalie

I could hear their hearts, both beating rapidly as they approached the big house that Emmett, Carmen, Eleazar, Jasper, Alice and I were in already. We had spent some time here, waiting for the children to brace themselves and come for their turn.

'So it's going to be you as Emmelie wants or should I do it, Rosalie?' Eleazar asked me and I looked at him, I had taken my decision during the hunt, knowing what was the best and less painful method of turning a human into a vampire without me tasting the blood of my own child.

'It will be my venom but not me,' I said and my siblings, cousins and husband looked at me confused. I decided to elaborate. 'Edward saved Bella by injecting the venom straight in her heart, it helped in time of need, we're going to do the same now, I will fill a syringe with my venom and inject it in Emmelie's chest, I think you should do the same with Alex, it would be better without either of you tasting your son's blood.' I said and everyone nodded, Carmen and Eleazar looking at me almost grateful for my idea.

'This is very good, Rosalie, you're right, it had lasted less and this isn't only making Emmie's suffer last less but it also buys us more time.' Jasper said impressed and smiled at me encouragingly, knowing how hard it is for me to actually cause pain in any way on my child. Emmett hugged me close and gave me a kiss as our daughter and Alex entered the house.

'I love you,' Emmett whispered before the only humans of the family approached us, Emmelie came close to us and both hugged her, I felt like something was different, it wasn't just the knowledge of what my daughter had with Alex, it was another feeling, the realizations of my child wasn't a child anymore, she could take any blow and remain standing, she was a strong, smart person, she was a true Cullen indeed.

'So, how are we gonna do it?' Emmelie asked and addressed me, I smiled at her, not leaving her from my hug.

'Like aunt Bella was turned, with the injection,' I said painfully and Emmelie smiled and nodded her head, glancing for a moment at Alex and then back at me, nodding once again reassuringly.

'Great, then we should start,' Emmett said and all of us nodded, let it on Emmett to make everyone to actually move. We all nodded and headed upstairs; untypically we knew a bed was more comfortable through the pain than a plain table or the ground. Emmett and I moved in Carlisle's office and opened a drawer, where he had a small kit for the times Emmelie was injured in the house, I took two injection he had there for precautions and looked at Emmett, he smiled back at me and I could see the smile was forced, I could see he was as afraid, now that it was the two of us.

'It will work out fine, we'll be right there for her, like we had vowed to be.' He said and I nodded my head, agreeing, needing to be there for my only child.

'Lets go,' I said simply and he nodded his head, we didn't to say out loud how afraid we were, we knew it, through our eyes, through our set jaws, our stopped breathing. Everyone had moved in mine and Emmett's bedroom, a room that we stayed in rarely, our true bedroom was in the cottage but of course Esme wanted all her children to have a room on their own here as well, one more way to make us feel lovable and one more chance for her to decorate the place.

Emmelie and Alex were already laid on mine and Emmett's bed and I sighed as I saw them holding hands, Jasper seemed uncomfortable but he was needed here right now, to calm everyone down, I gave one inject to Eleazar and he took and opened it like I did, we both spilled some of our venom inside the tube, Emmelie looked at me as I tried to fill it like a snake would if it was biting a piece of glass, my teeth dripped in venom and vampires hadn't saliva in their mouths but only venom, it was kind of easy for me to fill it.

'I want little of dad's venom as well,' Emmelie said and I looked at Emmett, he nodded silently and took the syringe, filling the last free space, we approached the bed like Eleazar and Carmen did, Emmett hugged Emmelie, keeping her shoulder like Carmen did with Alex, Alice and Jasper stood close, Alice with closed eyes, trying to see the future possibly; while Jasper had his own eyes shut as well, trying to calm both the couples of frightened parents and the terrified for the pain to come children.

I closed my eyes for a moment, trying to brace myself, I opened them and looked in my child's blue eyes for the last time, the eyes that I adored watching every day of her life, the eyes that I hated to see crying when she was scared, disappointed or sad, the eyes that were inherited from me, crimson and if all was good, topaz colors were waiting for me to see and I wished I could see her eyes again. I glanced at Emmett and he nodded as he kissed Emmelie's head and kept her shoulders even tighter.

'Remember, screaming won't help a lot, my love' I said and Emmelie nodded, always taking my advise into account, always listening to her mummy. I gripped the syringe in my hand and stabbed my child's chest where her skin was bare because of her top, above the place her poor heart was beating like crazy.

Emmelie's eyes widened for a moment of shock to the immediate pain, terror surged through my own veins as I knew her human heart was damaged, I pressed the venom out of the syringe and inside her heart and Emmelie gasped and struggled to moan in pain, her eyes looking at me in horror, for a moment she remained silent and I knew the same was happening to Alex by my child's side. But I had eyes only for my little baby, the baby that I cherished with love that I didn't even know I was able to give.

After that silent moment Emmelie's body jerked violently and her back arched, her face was a mask of pain as I took the syringe away, I tried, like Emmett did, to keep her on the mattress but of course the shock in her body was huge, it wasn't like the venom made its appearance in her veins and then led to her heart, it was gathered to the source of her bloodstream and now was spreading. Both Emmett and I almost wrestled with our withering child as Emmelie jerked again and again in pain, her eyes other times shut and other times wide open as she moaned in the torture, some screams escaped her throat from time to time but with pain in my own heart I realized even right now, in the haze of her pain, she was trying to remember what I told her.

Emmelie

The pain was endless, making me endless, I couldn't put my finger on where I started and ended, I could feel people keeping me down on the mattress that felt like stone beneath my tortured body and I knew it was my parents. I knew it was the people who brought me to this world, I knew they were the ones who also helped me through immortality.

I screamed through the pain, when the moans became desperate, and I always regretted it as it hurt my already feeling like ripped throat. I didn't know for how long I was there, pinned on the mattress of my parents' bed. I only knew my heart's beats, desperate, crazy, every beat, every time my heart moved as to surge more blood it surged pain and venom at the same time, making me feel the torture all over again. I was on fire, every fiber of my being burning down and then burning again, my heart was feeling like a hot stone inside my flesh, surging lava around my body.

I lost track of time, I lost track of space but the one thing I lost and was terrified about was the feeling of Alex's hand in mine, I think I lost it during my first jerks, I was feeling alone even if somewhere in my head I knew that he was right next to me and my parents were actually above me, trying to keep me down, the path to immortality was probably a path that I needed to cross alone. The last beats of my heart signaled the end of my torture, they had told me before, when to expect the torture to end, I knew it I was soon to find what I had become.

I looked around me and the first thing I noticed was the smells along with my great view, I could see every single detail around me, things that my human eyes didn't notice, things that no human could see. I was staring around me without actually noticing people but I focused when my mother's face came into view, just a few inches from my own face, I looked at her and marveled at her beauty, if she was beautiful to my human eyes I wouldn't describe how beautiful she was now, dad was right, she looked like an angel fallen from the sky. I noticed an arm around her and I looked at my father by her side, I knew he was ready to jerk my mother away in case I was going to cause her pain.

That moment I realized I was a newborn, a full of blood newborn, I noticed my painfully sore throat, it felt like throbbing from the absence of moisture and I needed to drink blood, right now as to satisfy my pain. Another thought however crossed my mind that moment and I jerked my head on my side, Alex was there, starting to stir as well, I smiled and searched for his hand, I found and took it in mine, I felt him squeezing it with force, like I did after a point. My mother was talking to me so I looked back at her and my father.

'How are you feeling baby?' she was asking, her face a mask of fear and pain, if vampires could collapse, I knew she would do so right now.

'Good,' I said and almost smiled at my improved voice, I always had a nice voice, mom and I used to sing while playing the piano but now my voice sounded like an angelic melody. My mother smiled and looked at my father for a moment, he smiled back at her and then at me, I could see they were keeping a distance and I knew they were afraid but I wasn't lying, I was feeling good, apart the fear of what I became and the need to drink blood right now, I was feeling good.

I had been explained what my different DNA was and I always feared the day I would be a vampire, I didn't want to hurt my own family, they were my reason to live, if I ever hurt them… I sat up on the bed and my parents moved a bit away, I had probably stood up way too fast for them to expect me to, I looked at Alex again and he was looking back at me, our hands still joined tightly.

'Hey,' he whispered and that moment my world contained only him.

'Hey,' I replied and he smiled, his own parents close to him, trying to help him from a small distance. Eleazar cleared his throat in a way for us to look at him and I felt my father's hand on my shoulder, if they were going to be distracted by what Eleazar wanted to say, my father made sure of having the time to stop me in case I did something like attacking.

'They… have more than one power, if this is possible,' Eleazar said and for a moment I didn't realize he was talking about his son and me, in my clouded mind the fact of Eleazar having the gift of indentifying the gifts of the vampires emerged and I listened to him all too more careful.

'Alex has the power of appearing where he wants and he can see into the past of everyone, he can also project what he sees to others.' Eleazar said, looking at Alex with a face full of pride and worry at the same time. His eyes traveled on me and he smiled 'Emmelie has the shield of protection in the physical level, like Bella has in the mental attacks and Emmelie has the power of persuading people around her.' Eleazar said and I considered my powers, they sounded good, I always wanted to protect the people I loved, I could remember the feeling of the need to protect my powerful family from anything, in the clouded mind of mine. My parents nodded their heads, looking at me with love and pride.

We heard someone approaching, my ability to hear things was huge, I felt like stepping into a whole new world of sensations. Soon a stench hit my nostrils and I snarled, making everyone gasp and look at me and Alex.

'Sorry but it stinks,' I said and my parents looked at Alex's parents in confusion.

'I think they're different indeed, more calmed and controlled, Carlisle was right, they're tamed because their DNA had made their bodies to adjust.' Eleazar said and I could see the relief in everyone's faces, probably in my own face was in relief and calmness, I wasn't going to hurt anyone after all.

After a few moments, the stench became unbearable and I had to actually cover my nose and try not to snarl as a whole pack of wolves moved up the stairs and entered the room, led by my aunt Bella, she stood on the door, the wolves behind her, I could see some of them looking at everyone in the room ready to snarl, maybe because of the newborns of the room and I had the urge to snarl and growl in instinct but I calmed myself as I knew I shouldn't provoke them. My aunt was crouching her shoulders in a way but uncle Jasper seemed to be calming everyone down as Aunt Alice and mom explained everything. Bella relaxed after that and smiled at me with her old, good way of making people feel good.

'Someone is gonna need some help with her powers then.' Aunt Bella mused and I smiled and nodded my head, I didn't know what to say at that, everything was coming back to me, the thread, the possibility of dying, me being finally a vampire, the relief of being under control, the need to learn to use my powers, the fear of not succeeding, the thirst that burned my throat, the death that hang above everyone's heads, the werewolves who were now gathered here, it was all too much.

'It's going to be all right, things worked out in our favor so far,' Alex whispered in my ear and one more feeling surfaced inside me, lust, lust for the man I love. I knew he was right but as I looked into his crimson eyes, I felt like exploding by the love and the need I was feeling for him, I knew both he and I were making my uncle Jasper very uncomfortable but right now, I needed Alex with all my power.

Rosalie

'OK, Emmelie, focus on your mother's protection.' I heard my middle sister advising my child as I stood a few feet away from both of them. We were in the middle of Emmelie and Alex's first hunt and I was amazed at my child's abilities.

Emmelie and Alexander were different from other vampires indeed; they were improved, even better than the rest of us. They could control themselves easily, they could set priorities and pretences for their own good and now, after a few hours of hunting down bears and lions, Alex and Emmelie were practicing on their powers. Alex was helped by his parents and Emmelie by me, Emmett and Bella, the wolves were watching closely, making my stomach turn and my mouth ache as to spat remarks.

We had decided to follow the method Irina and Zafrina had used on Bella, as my sister had been "forced" to use her power as to save Rennesme from Irina's power we had decided to help Emmelie do the same with her power by endangering me as to provoke her powers through her need to save me.

Emmett was a few feet away, looking uneasy as he was about to hit me, I knew that if my child couldn't use her power I would feel pain, and the thought of my husband causing that pain felt surreal but the Volturi was arriving and if we could use Emmelie's power we could make the difference.

'OK, Emmelie, ready?' Bella was asking and my child looked at me and her father's huge form, she nodded after a moment and a glance at Alex's direction who was practicing on his appearing power a few feet away from our group in the forest.

'Ready,' Emmelie said and Bella nodded and waved her hand, signaling the start of the try. I saw Emmett sighing, he didn't like the idea, he preferred Alice to attack, and he started running, heading towards me with speed, I knew the moment we would collide I would be forced down on the ground but I tried to stop my instinct and remain where I was, I closed my eyes as Emmett got even closer, I knew he was going to crush and even if his attack could never kill me, I was going to have a few painful minutes for a few of my bones to repair themselves.

The moment Emmett tried to take me down I felt like something was hugging my body all over and I felt a warm whisper touching every inch of my form, Emmett was hugging me, trying to take me down with force but even if I wasn't putting any effort on staying standing he couldn't take me down, his feet were actually pushing against the ground in effort as to force me down. I moved my hand and pushed him away but even if I couldn't actually defeat him, I wasn't attacked by him either and that was a great feeling.

Emmett stopped trying so much and that moment I felt the warmth leaving me, finally making me feel normal again, that moment Emmett finally took me down but not with enough effort to hurt me, I actually started laughing as we ended up on top of each other with Emmelie somewhere behind us squealing and laughing.

'I did, I did it,' she was laughing and screaming like the little good-natured girl I knew.

Bella was smiling next to her, encouraging and hugging her, the werewolves were commenting how good a newborn could be and Alex along with the rest of the Denalis was smiling approvingly. Emmett gave me a peck on the lips, his eyes mirroring the pride for our child; he stood up and helped me on my feet the moment Alice and Jasper were emerging from the woods along with Carlisle, Esme and the Irish vampires, Siobhan being the largest of the group. We all greeted each other, we knew the help would arrive but the feeling of finally seeing friends and co-fighters gathering once again for your family's sake made us all feel good and safe.

We kept practicing, trying our best, having some fun when Alice and I were supposed to attack Jasper and Emmett respectively, we also had some hard time when Alex was supposed to be attacked by Emmett and I could see my husband was overreacting in his try to bend our daughter's power and actually hurt our potential son-in-law.

After a few more days, Edward and Rennesme had arrived along with Nahuel. Following, Irina, Garret and Tanya showed up along with the Romanians. Everyone was delighted to have almost everyone gathered in here, we were a day away from the fight as Alice had seen and finally Emmelie and Alex were almost perfect on using their powers.

'The families with children like Emmie declined to help, they were actually shaken and started packing as to migrate as far away as possible,' Tanya said when Carlisle asked what happened in their trip, her words reminded us how dangerous things were for everyone.

When we all returned in the house from our hunts, a day before Alice's vision was to be true, we started making a plan for the fight we had ahead of us, we knew this time things would be raw and the cruelest would win.

'I'm sure this time, they won't pause, they will strike,' Jasper said and all of us nodded.

'They will probably have the newborns on the front line, wanting to take down as much of us as possible,' Edward filled in.

'Bella, Emmelie and Alex should stay behind, trying to help with their defensive powers, Rennesme and Nahuel can be right in front of them as their last defense, Emmett, Jasper, Edward, the Romanians, the Amazons and the wolves should be in our front line. Rosalie, Esme, Alice and Tanya should frame the defensive ones in the middle, the rest can be between the front line and the middle section as to stop anyone who will slip through the front line, we need to gain time as to take down their newborns and their guard and get to the Three.' Jasper said again and all of us nodded our heads, we knew how much we needed to protect Bella and Emmelie since they had the powers that could save us and I was more than glad to give my life as to save my child.

'Alex, you should try and see what Aro might hides, we need to find a weak spot, anything that could make the three turn against each other, we need to find a way even to buy some time in case things go bad or the Volturis got too close to Bella and Emmelie, after all their first priority will be to take down you, Emmelie and Bella.' Eleazar said, addressing his son but filling one more aspect in the plan.

The talk kept on and on until we had a full plan made in everyone's head and a few plan-B moves in case things got out of hand. As I watched my family, the Denalis, the wolves and the other covens talking and agreeing and arguing about techniques and ways of defense and attack I felt like this might be the last time everyone was actually here, this time tomorrow we would probably be done with the fight and I felt my stomach melting at the thought of anyone of my family missing. I felt like losing it in at the thought of some of my siblings been gone, or Carlisle and Esme been lost, the thought that actually made me gasp was the thought of my child or my husband being away, I felt like burning down to ashes at the thought of my currently strong child being one of the fallen ones.

I knew people were going to die tomorrow but I prayed to any greater power that pulled me in my endless, vampiric existence not to end my time or my family's. I wouldn't be able to go on if someone from the family was gone and I would not go on if one of my two reasons to exist was lost a few hours from now.

Sooo? What u think of the chapie? I wanted Alex and Emmelie to make love but I wanted just to mention things happening like SM is doing in BD, what u think of the turn? what about Alex and Emmelie having more than two powers? what u think of their kind of powers? i have my reasons for choosing these powers in particular. Please review my work and let me know if i did well in this one.