I knelt down in front of the vampire that I used to consider my big brother, trying to get through to the real Emmett underneath.
"Emmett," I said, "What has Alice done to you? This isn't like you."
"You know what, Bitch," Emmett responded, "I'm not the same person you knew before. And I don't want to be. All that any of us want anymore is our fucking humanity back, and YOU are the key to us getting that."
Jasper called me over to talk to him, so I took one last saddened glance at Emmett before sighing and reluctantly getting up and walking to Jazz.
"As much as it kills me, Bella, we may have to do away with them," Jasper suggested with pain in his eyes. "The way it seems, they aren't giving up. They are all hell-bent on keeping you for your gift."
"Jasper!" I chatised. "You can't mean that! Rosalie was your SISTER for so long! And Emmett was like the big brother I never had! I can't bring it upon..."
Before I got to finish, I was brought down to the ground by...EMMETT?!
WHAT THE HELL?!
"Emmett! What the hell?! Let me go!" I screamed and thrashed, throwing his legless body all over the place, but he wasn't letting go.
"Not a chance, Bitch," he said. "Better kiss your life goodbye. If we can't have our humanity, neither can you!"
I looked to Jasper for help, but Rosalie had him down too, and he and Rosalie were doing the same as Emmett and I.
I could hear the pain in Jasper's voice as he threatend the woman that, for decades, had been his twin.
"Rose! Rosie! I don't want to have to hurt you, but so help me! If you don't let me go, I WILL kill you!"
"Not a chance, Whitlock! And stop calling me that! I'm not letting you go alive!" Rosalie fought.
"Emmett, please!" I cried, "Please don't do this! Listen to me!" Actual tears started flowing now. "Emmett!"
All at once, I felt the weight drop from around my throat.
I hit the ground on my hands and knees. The empact almost making the trees shake.
"Oh... Oh shit... Bella... What the fuck is happening to me?!" He growled out not nessesarily talking to anyone in perticular.
"Im so sorry Bella... I dont know what came over me... Everything is hazy... I felt like... It was almost..." He stuttered, the words right at the tip of his tounge but never making its way out of his mouth.
I crawled over to Emmetts now crying figure and wrapped my arms around his shoulders the best I could and held him to me tightly.
"Its ok Emmett... Its ok..." I felt the tell tale sign of my own bloody tears as they began to demand to flow freely. I felt emmett jerk away from me and stare at his hands. I suddenly noticed the reason of his confusion. Blood was smeared on his hands. He looked up to me. The angry blood tracks making his look leathal to others... but like a scared man to me.
"Its my gift... I guess when you came out of whatever trance you were in, It shifted to you." His face curved up into a smile. Then he bumped my shoulder with his.
"You know... its not very manly of me to be sitting on my ass with two stumps for legs... help a brother out?" He said grinning at me. I nodded my head, retrieve his legs and helped him stand to go and hunt.
I heard a high pitched scream of agony and turned toward Jasper and Rose. Rose was lying on the ground, writhing in pain. Jasper looking down at her with a look of hurt shining bright through the blood rimmed eyes. he didnt want to hurt rose... but she was not give up or snapping out of her stupor.
"Rose... Stop... look at me..." Rose glanced up at Jasper with a flicker of recognition becore she became ferral an lunged at him. He Immediatly swatted her back down on the ground.
"Look at me damnit! ROSE! SNAP OUT OF IT!" Just then rose jumped up on jasper before he had the chance to take her back down, and grabbed his head... in a flourish, she ripped it almost completly off, it handing on just enough not to kill him, but off enough to keep him from moving.
In voluntarily, A scream left my lips and I tackled her to the ground, effectively dropping jasper's body of the ground.
My vision was red... I saw nothing but a red curtain fall over my mind and The feeling of flesh under my hands was the only thing I remember. I suddenly came out of my haze when strong arms wrapped around me and pulled me off of the blond bitch.
"Bella! Stop!" Emmett said holding me steady as I looked around at the mess of body parts. Oh shit. I felt a pain of regret hit my hearts and immediatly looked aorund, relief filling me when I was that rose was only just dismembered and not completly torn apart.
"Rose..." I Immediatly began to held her fuse back together while Emmet helped jasper. When she was back to normal, her eyes looked over at Jasper. crawling... because she was to weak to walk or run at the moment. She picked him up in her arms rocking him to her as she began to chant appologies to her brother.
"Its ok rose... Im fine." He said holding her to him. Jealousy began to ring out through my body. everyone here was getting their happy reunion. and I always had the short end of the stick. Here I am... stuck to live forever... with my mate gone and never coming back... I hated everyone at that moment.
I turned around before anyone could notice and made my way back to the house to check on tiny.
"Where's Tiny." I clipped out a little harsher then I had wanted. But at the moment I was a little to emotional.
"I dont know... He got up and dissapeared into the forest. We havnt seen him. We figured we would look for him when you got back so Billy and sue were not left unprotected." Victoria explained. A feeling of desparation settled over me and I turned and ran from the house. He was gone.
I made it quickly to the river I always ran to and sat on a rock... I didnt recognize my reflection. The blood trails making themselves apparent on my cream colored face.
I cant do this. I cant keep this promise and live forever with out him... I just cant do that! A scream of agony ripped its way through my chest. I slowy reached into my pocket... retreiving my cigaretts and lighter, I lit one. taking a long drag and watched the smoke rise into the air before finally dissapearing. An Idea coming to my head.
I hurried to grab wood from the trees adding a little of my venom as a fire catcher, I lit the wood watching the flames grow and spread over the huge stump.
Taking another long drag off my cigarette, I stared into the roaring fire before me. It would all be over... I could walk right into that fire and end this all. be with him forever.
Almost like I was in a trance... I took one step toward the roaring orange and red. The heat blew a piece of my hair back. The feeling making my mind race as my wide eyes stared into the deadly beauty.
One more step, I felt the heat caressing my like a lethal siren calling to me... pulling at my chest.
"You never did listen did you?" The voice almost enough to kick start my heart into beating again. I could have swore it did. Shaking my head, more tears tore angrily from my eyes.
"You not real... You will NEVER BE REAL!" I screamed at it as the tears choked my words.
"Im just as real as you are." The voice replied again. An errie buzzing made its way to my ears... It was finally happening. I was going fucking insane. I didnt even know vampires could go fucking insane!
"You have one of two choices. you can turn around and look at me... or you can try to walk into that fire... either way... you will look at me eventually." His voice sounded a mix of soft and pissed. He didnt have no reason to be pissed... I did damnit!
"Look at me Bella!" The voice demanded sharply. The tears were still flowing thick and I shook my head angrily, fastening my eyes closed. I took one more step... The step that would have put me directly into the burning release.
A flash of warmth tackled me into the river and I opened my eyes in shock... holding me tightly as we floated in the middle of the water was jacob... my jake... My tears couldnt flow under the water... and my smile slipped into place... Before our heads broke through the surface... my lips planted themselves on his... The air hitting our heads as we broke through.
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