A/N: I know I will get some things wrong in the next chapters, but please don't mind it. Well, now that that is said, I will present to you the second chapter. Before I start, I will just say one last thing. I have gotten 3 reviews for my first chapter. I appreciate them, but I think we can do better. Thanks to those who did review though.
Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the Twilight series, they belong to Stephenie Meyer.
chapter 2
calls and plans
Edward Cullen POV
I sat on the couch flipping through today's newspaper. Bella and renesmee were sitting on the couch with me. Renesmee was writing in a diary on her laptop, and Bella was reading a book, and shielding Renesmee's thoughts. Bella, Renesmee, and I always made sure that Bella shielded Renesmee's thoughts while she wrote in a diary. Yes, I am a telepath, but no, I do not want to interfere on my daughter's privacy by hearing in her head while she expresses her emotions. Sometimes, I do end up hearing something secret Renesmee has in her head, but I ignore it. It is none of my business. Unless Renesmee wanted me to purposely read her thoughts, I wouldn't do that.
There was a time though, when Renesmee wanted me to hear her thoughts because she was just afraid of speaking them aloud. It was that time where she thought to me, "I am beginning to love Jacob Black but I don't understand why." That was the day I explained imprinting to her. When I explained it, she said something completely shocking. Well, of course, she thought it first, but still. This thing was very shocking. Apparently she knew some of the names of the werewolves, because she said that Quil should imprint on a peace of parchment. This had Renesmee, Bella and I laughing hysterically for a few minutes. After the laughing fit was over though, I explained to her who all the werewolves had really imprinted on, and that Quil had imprinted on a girl named Claire, not a peace of parchment.
Suddenly, a newspaper headline caught my eye. What I had been last skimming through was just sports stuff, so when an actual headline came up, it sort of distracted me a little bit. I decided to read the article, I mean, what the heck? News could get interesting sometimes. I looked down at the headline.
"Kathrynn Peterson sentenced to death via Lethal injection for murdering John Nickson," the headline read. I continued on to the rest of the article.
(A/N: I will try to bold the article)
Nineteen year old Kathrynn Peterson has been in jail for murder of John Nickson for 3 months. On trial, she was proven guilty, but continues to plead innocent.
I wonder if that person is really innocent. Who really knows. Well, I guess I could know if I went to the jail personally, and read the thoughts coming out of the death row cell she was in. I skipped over the picture of her they supplied, and continued reading.
Kathrynn is scheduled to be executed in ten days.
That is crazy. I thought people waited months and months to be executed. I wonder why the execution was scheduled to be so soon.
It is extremely rare that executions are scheduled in such short notice. The warden of the Washington prison Kathrynn is being held in has actually stated the following:
"Never in my thirty years of being a warden of this prison have I ever had an execution scheduled in such short notice. This is completely new to me."
The reason the execution was scheduled in such short notice is because Kathrynn's family has requested the execution be scheduled as soon as possible. Kathrynn's mother, celeste Peterson, has stated the following:
"It is apparent that my daughter is guilty of this terrible murder. My daughter is a monster. When we were raising her, we thought she was such an angel. She always did everything we told her to do. Now though, we have realized that we were very wrong. Kathrynn is a devil, a monster that deserves to die as soon as possible."
When Kathrynn was notified of her family's request, she stated the following:
"I love my life, but apparently everyone just wants me dead. Therefore, I will follow my family's request, and be killed at the soonest time that it is possible. I have always loved my family, but they have never loved me back. I will always love my family, which is the reason I will die for them. If they want to think I am a murderer and try to kill me, I will just go with it. I just hope god thinks I deserve a happy afterlife. I have really never murdered this John Nickson guy, but everyone is deaf to my statement. I will die for the relief of them all."
Some people, including Kathrynn's family, think that this statement is just her using reverse psychology and trying to get people's empathy. Other people though, including some editors here at the Washington Journal actually do believe her statement. We will probably never know if Kathrynn is really guilty though. She has refused to get another appeal.
The prison is now working on getting an executioner who is willing to perform an execution in such short notice. We have already selected witnesses of the execution. Kathrynn's family is going to witness the execution, but they do not want the body turned over to them after the execution process. We probably will get an executioner before the scheduled time of the execution, but if for any reason we do not, the execution will have to be postponed. At this time though, the execution is scheduled for 10 days from today.
After reading the article, I closed the newspaper. That was enough news for me today. I threw the newspaper, but oops, it just had to hit Emmett in the head.
"Watch your throw," Emmett said jokingly. He then proceeded to try to throw a pillow at my head which I deflected, but it hit Bella smack in the face instead. This caused the entire family to go into a huge laughing fit, and then a big pillow fight. As we were throwing pillows, we suddenly heard the phone ring. Everyone jumped in synchronization to get it, but because of my very fast speed, I got to it first. I pressed send on the cordless phone and then spoke into the receiver.
"Hello?"
Through the speaker on my ear came a response from the urgent voice of the one and only Mr. Alpha dog, Sam.
"Have you read that article about that girl Kathrynn Peterson?" he asked.
"Yeah, why?" I responded.
"Well, to put it short, Embry imprinted when he saw the picture of her."
Did I just hear him right?
"Wait, Embry imprinted on Kathrynn Peterson?" I questioned in a very surprised tone.
"Yes." Sam replied. "Would you and your family mind coming to my house so we can discuss this with the rest of the pack?"
Renesmee then chimed in.
"Please, I can see Jacob if we go. Please?" she shrieked jumping up and down. It wasn't like I was going to decline in the first place, but my daughter's pleading made me even more motivated to go.
"We will be right over," I said, and then hung up the phone as he was saying thank you.
A few minutes later, we were all huddled together in Sam and Emily's house. All the thoughts of the wolves were very urgent. I tuned out of them, I didn't want a headache at the moment. Sam was the first to speak.
"So, as you may all know, Embry here has imprinted on Kathrynn Peterson from the newspaper article that was in the Washington Journal today," he said poking Embry hard in the back. "I just wanted to see if Edward would do us a little favor and maybe go to the prison that Kathrynn is in, and read her thoughts to see if she is guilty. Would you mind that, Edward?" he asked.
How could I decline. My family and I were all best friends with the wolves now. I looked into the thoughts of my family, and they were all encouraging me to go. Bella even had her shield up, and was encouraging me to go.
"Okay, I will do that," I said. Then something came into my head. "How would knowing she is innocent help us? Even if she is innocent, she is still getting the lethal injection," I said stating the obvious.
"Can't we just replace the drugs of the lethal injection with vampire venom, and change her into one of us?" Bella asked.
"That probably would be hard," Carlisle interjected. "I guess we could do that if one of us applied as the executioner so we can change the drugs, I mean they are still looking for an executioner who will perform the task in such short notice–" I cut him off.
"What about the heart monitor and all that? The heart monitor would still be going after the three drugs were administered." I asked.
"I think I could mess with the heart monitor enough and false program it," Carlisle responded. Bella then asked another question.
"Wouldn't Kathrynn be screaming and thrashing throughout the transformation? I mean I was prepared, she wouldn't be–" Emmett cut her off.
"Wouldn't the Sodium thiopental and Pancuronium bromide paralyze her?" he asked. Carlisle answered the question.
"We wouldn't want to take that risk. When the Pancuronium bromide is used, it can cause death through asphyxiation. Also, the dosage of Sodium Thiopental they use can also cause things to occur such as profound respiratory depression and problems within the brain stem which can be lethal in itself." Alice contemplated for a minute, and then interjected.
"Jasper, can you cause paralysis using your empathic power, maybe make someone feel so tired they can't move?"
"That is actually a good thing to consider," I responded.
"I am not sure, I have never tried it," Jasper answered.
"Maybe we should test the theory?" Embry asked.
"Only if you will be the test subject," Emmett retorted.
"Anything for my imprint," Embry sighed.
It turned out that Jasper was able to use his empathic power to make Embry so tired that he was paralyzed. I just didn't know how this would help with the situation at hand. Esme beat me to the question though, asking exactly what I was thinking.
"Well, Jasper could be the volunteer executioner, I mean he was in the military and all," Emmett said. This caused him to get a smack on the back of the head and a growl from Alice.
"Jeez, someone's on PMS," Emmett then complained which caused another smack in the head from Rosalie.
"I guess I could take that part of the job," Jasper volunteered. "I have gotten much better with the sight of blood, and I did get one medical degree and also a degree in law."
After a few more minutes of talking, we had come up with a plan that we would use if Kathrynn was innocent. Of course, I was going to go and read Kathrynn's thoughts in the prison, maybe by hiding. Then, if she was innocent, Jasper would be the executioner; Alice had seen in a vision that he would get the position. Carlisle would be the physician that "examined the body to make sure death had occurred" and then instead of taking the body for autopsy, he would take the still alive Kathrynn Peterson back to the house for the remainder of the transformation. Alice had also seen in a vision that this would work. If necessary, some of us would also get positions on the execution team, if they need more than one executioner. Though, if Kathrynn was guilty and she didn't feel guilt for committing the crime, the plan wouldn't be carried out, and Embry would unfortunately not be able to spend his life with his imprint. All in all, this plan had been worked out, and now all we had to do was put it into action.
A/N: That was the end of the chapter. Please review. I accept anonymous reviews, which means you don't need a user account in order to review. The more reviews I get, the more I will be motivated to continue writing. Also, feel free to give suggestions. They probably would help me write more of this story.
