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Chapter Two

APOV

I pretended not to notice Rosalie's angry glare as I followed her husband up to my room where Bella was waiting for him. When I finally got there, he already had her curled up in his lap, stroking her hair soothingly and whispering something too low for even my ears, I had no doubt that she couldn't hear it.

Not that she'd pay much attention to it anyway if he were to yell it right in her ear....

I smiled a little despite myself at the sight of them, those two are amazing together. It was almost as if they were truly siblings.

I walked over to Jasper, placing a comforting hand on his tensed shoulder, and watched as he relaxed visibly.

"I'm doing all I can," he mumbled.

I'd hate to see what she would look like without the help of her own personal empath, I thought as I took in her soulless eyes and her limp, sobbing form. Or Emmett, I added when I looked back to him as he rocked her back and forth, as if she were a baby he was trying to put to sleep.

"You're doing fine," I tried to reassure my pained looking husband feebly as I moved my hand on his shoulder to rub it. We could all see how much pain she's in, and he could also feel it so he obviously knew she was miserable.

"Make it stop," sobbed Esme, to which Carlisle held her tighter. He sent a meaningful look at Jasper, and within moments the sobs quieted and Bella was fast asleep.

"I can't believe I had to sedate her....."

Before anyone could say anything, Rosalie's shrill but perfect voice cut in. "Emmett!"

I motioned for Emmett to stay with Bella when he moved to get up. Instead, I went to their room myself to find a very frightening vision of the Ice Queen herself.

"I asked for Emmett," she said coldly.

"You're just going to have to settle for me," I said, biting my tongue to keep from starting an even bigger argument than the one I already knew was about to take place.

"Just leave me alone and go get me my husband," she snapped.

"I don't think so," I plopped down on their bed. "he's with Bella, and she's the one who actually needs him right now."

"I don't care!" She yelled. "I want to speak to my husband, now."

"Well, it's about damn time that you learned you don't always get every single thing you want. Sometimes other people come first, Rosalie. Bella is-"

"Sleeping," she cut me off. "Now go get my husband!"

"Why?!" I asked, fed up with her game. "What did he even do that was so incredibly wrong?" I asked, fed up with my brother continuously putting up with her shit. It was about time someone stood up for him, since he obviously can't do it for himself.

"He's keeping Bella here," she said as if it were obvious. It wasn't. "And he should be wanting her to have her own family, not endangering her life and keeping her under the impression that young forever is a good thing!"

"All he's doing is comforting his little sister," I said incredulously. "I thought you of all people would have liked that, little miss family values and all," I said, using her own excuse against her. "And you know as well as I do that nobody here is about to hurt Bella."

"That is not what I meant and you know it," she snapped. "I want her to have her own family one day- I did not want her to have mine!" She exclaimed. "And Jasper can't control himself around blood."

"My husband did perfectly fine restraining himself when Bella came here, all scraped up!" It was true, and she couldn't deny it. Jasper was too caught up with everything to so much as notice her blood. "And how can you possibly say that? Bella is just as much a member of this family as you are!" I exclaimed, dumbfounded by what she was saying.

"You're wrong about that," she said with a certain conviction in her voice. "She will never truly belong to this family now," she said smugly. "Not after Edward wised up and dumped her."

"You are such a bitch, Rosalie!" I had to dig my nails into my skin to stop myself from hitting her. "I can't believe you just said that. You've seen how attached everyone grew to Bella!"

"I'm not a bitch, I'm honest. Something you should try to do sometime," she said the words as if she truly believed every single one of them. "We only ever put up with her because it was that or watch Edward mope around for who knows how many more centuries until he decided to just get over himself."

"Speaking of getting over yourself....." I trailed off smugly. "And you're wrong. We all love Bella now, we even chose her over Edward!"

"Only out of guilt," she persisted. "Just wait and see how long it takes for Esme to realize she wants her fist son back."

That I couldn't argue with, everyone knew full well that Esme deeply loves every single one of her children.

"Bella is her daughter, too. Every bit as much as we are," I said through gritted teeth.

"Keep telling yourself that, Alice," she said with an eye roll. "Not everyone here is as easily moved by a human, much less one with countless flaws as you are." At seeing my angry expression, she continued with a taunting smile, "there was a reason you were put into an asylum, if you're crazy enough to befriend that girl."

I clenched my fist even tighter, nobody disrespects Bella on my watch. If it wasn't for Esme this girl would be in pieces right now. "I daresay your craziness just multiplied when you changed."

"Yeah, I must be crazy to not bow down when a psychotic bitch asks me to. You might be used to getting everything you want, but this is where you're going too far. Do not fool yourself into thinking that we're getting rid of Bella. If you have a problem with it, then you leave."

"I'm not about to let some pathetic excuse of a girl kick me out of my own house," she snapped.

"Nobody is kicking you out, Rosalie. We're just not going to kick her out, either."

"We'll see." She answered with a smile. "I'm pretty good when it comes to getting things to go the way I want them to."

"You're also pretty good at being an insufferable pain."

"Well, you're not too good at listening. I asked you to get my husband for me, how long ago?"

I just cocked my eyebrow, "what do I look like? Your maid?"

"No, if I had a maid she would at least know how to follow such a simple order. Now go get my husband, before I march in there and throw him out myself."

"You're not going anywhere near Bella," I growled. "Stay away from her, I'm not kidding. And nobody has the time to put up with your nonsense right now."

"My nonsense?"

"We're not your personal servants! And Emmet is your husband, Rosalie, not your property. And right now he's comforting his sister, so stay away from them."

She opened her mouth to say something, but I cut her off. "You're seriously going to try and sneak past a psychic?" I asked incredulously. "Good plan, let me know how that works out for you."

"No," she agreed. "But that doesn't mean Bella can just stay here."

"Don't even think about touching her," I growled before leaving without another word. Once I was out in the hall, I saw an upset looking Esme and gave her an apologetic smile.

Even though she knew I was just defending her daughter, I knew how she hated her children fighting. Much less trying to kick each other out and threatening each other.

She didn't say anything, so I continued back to my room only to find a surprised looking Emmett.

"What was that?" He asked he asked in an amused sounding voice.

"What do you mean?" I asked, completely startled that he seriously needed to ask. He obviously had heard the whole thing.

He simply shook his head with a small smile on his face, which he tried to hide with no avail. Then, he suddenly sighed. "I guess I have to go deal with her now?"

"No," I answered. "You're not going anywhere near her. Not tonight, at least."

He nodded his agreement without the slightest argument It was quite clear that he didn't want to go talk to her anymore than I wanted him to stay with Bella.

We continued sitting in silence for what must have been another hour, with him absently rubbing soothing circles on her back and me trying to glimpse what was going to happen with her.

As if knowing exactly what I was doing, he asked, "when is she going to be happy again?"

I let out a frustrated sigh. "Emotions are unpredictable," I muttered. "Never before has that frustrated me as much as it does right now......"

He looked up at me worriedly, "is she going to be okay, at least?"

I shrugged helplessly, "as much as I'd love just to say yes, I don't really know that either."

He bit his bottom lip as he looked down at the sleeping girl on his lap. "You don't need to see the future to take a guess," he persisted. "There's a reason you became a psychic in the first place. Take a guess?....please?"

I moved to sit by him on my bed, lacing my fingers through Bella's. "I can only assume so," I said helplessly. "After all, everyone gets over heartbreaks eventually, right?" He didn't answer me, not that I expected him to.

What must have been ten minutes later, he started rubbing her back again-I didn't even notice he'd stopped, and he asked, "so she'll be back to the clumsy, blushing beauty of a Bella we all know and love?"

I gave him a sad smile, "you know the answer to that as well as I do. Pain changes people," I said sadly. "But she'll still be Bella, and no matter what we'll all still love her." I said with more conviction than what I really felt. I know we'll love Bella no matter what, but I also don't really have a clue as to what is going to happen.

He only nodded, as he turned his attention back to Bella as her heartbeat sped up, signaling her waking up.

Just as he gave her a light kiss on her forehead, I unlaced our hands and slipped out of the room completely unnoticed.

One thing is for sure, I'm not letting Rosalie near either of them until she pulls her head out of her ass long enough to realize that this family doesn't revolve around her.

For the time being, it revolves around making Bella get over my dick of a brother. No matter how long that may take.....

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