Summary: Emmett disagrees with his family, especially Edward,for leaving a heartbroken Bella behind after her birthday incident, so he decides to return and care for her.
" I wouldn't have left her like you did!"
Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight. Stephanie Myer is the respective owner, I'm just fooling around with the characters.
He halted the car to a stop when he arrived in front of the white, medium- sized house with the all- too- familiar orange truck parked in the driveway. He ceased the ignition, peeking out of the other window to see the chief's blue cruiser parallel to the other vehicle. The lights through the windows on the left, and in the room upstairs showed that her father was indeed home from work, and probably freaking out about his daughter's whereabouts.
He sighed, turning the Bella- who had been quiet the whole ride there. She had been looking out the window, probably trying to figure out what to say to her father about tonight. He could see she was nervous, but wouldn't explain that to him- especially not now after their little spat. Her small pale hands fidgeted in her lap, and he noticed her face twitch a little as she bit her lip.
" You want me to walk you to your door?"
" He'll have a heart attack when he sees you," She paused. " It'll be better...if I just lied and bring Jessica into this somehow. He's understand then,"
" He doesn't even know me, " He pointed out, releasing his seat belt from his torso- one of the silly props he had to use to enforce his humanity.
It was true. He had never met the infamous Charlie Swan a day in his life- but he had heard a lot about him from his family. He was the gruff and tough police chief that watched over Forks with an iron fist. The man who kept everything in order and the citizens in check- and he was friends or associated at least. with pretty much everybody in town- minus Emmett and his family.
Yeah, he never really seemed to like the Cullens too much at all. Something about them being too perfect- too flawless it was disturbing.
And the fact that they could never be seen around town when it was sunny out.
Emmett could see why he would be suspicious.
And now he had them leaving his little girl behind with a broken heart to add to his list.
" It won't take him too long to figure it out,"
" And how is that?" Emmett asked, intrigued.
He really was interested.
" You look anything but human. You Cullens are just too perfect-looking- you stand out like a sore thumb about the rest of us bland and normal people. You practically charm and capture the interest of everyone you meet. You walk around so agile and graceful, it's like you were born to walk on air- not to mention there are very few people with honey-colored eyes in this town," Bella listed deftly, folding her arms over her chest.
" Let's not leave out the part about the blood-drinking," Emmett replied, a smirk on his lips- and the brunette stared at him with a blunt expression on her face, already furrowing her brows in annoyance. He couldn't help himself- adding humor to the conversation; it was one of the things he knew how to do best. Besides, it had been directed towards Bella herself. He was hoping it would diminish her tense demeanor- if not just a little.
" He doesn't need to see you Emmett, not right now," She paused as she kept her eyes on the charcoal dashboard of the interior.
"Not when he's already had so much to deal with," From the sound of her voice and the glossy look in her eyes, he could tell she was on the verge of tears.
" This isn't your fault," Emmett argued softly- turning his head to look at her. She didn't meet his eyes- only sat there, still.
" None of this is Bella, is your fault. You couldn't have predicted any of this would happen,"
She bit her lip again and didn't reply- instead she gripping onto the door handle and pushed the door open- exiting the truck.
" Thank you for tonight," Was the response he received instead, and he looked after her as she bunglingly ambled away to her house. She didn't turn back to look at him when he ascended the steps of the porch- even as she neared the front door and gripped the handle. She slipped inside after reaching into her pocket for a key in only a matter of seconds- and Emmett was met with silence when she finally slammed the door.
He started the engine then- the troubled brunette girl still on his conscious when he departed from the premises, seconds later.
ooOoo
Emmett looked up at the giant white residence that had been purposely built to be secluded within the forest, and away from the neighbors and the usual busy streets. It was, for an extremely remote reason; and where the cloudy grey skies seemed to invariably replace the rare sunny weather that Forks was granted with occasionally during the day.
Perfect habitat for a vampire.
Walking up the steps at a human pace, he reminisced on the first time he had ever laid eyes and set foot into that very house, and it looked exactly as how it had been two years ago.
Esme had designed the layout six months in advance before they moved into Forks, already having looked at the area a few months earlier. The Cullen family had been in search of a location they could see themselves residing and growing accustomed to, even if it were going to be only a couple of years. It would have been a matter of time before they would have to relocate- if one of them ever slipped and caused some kind of uproar; not to mention people would start to question why they never seemed to age as the years went by.
The large white mansion proved to be fit for the Cullens, and so they settled in, and arranged themselves as they did countless other times, even as their family grew. Carlisle, being the skilled medical expert, transferred to the local hospital on the other side of town. Esme played the role of a stay- at- home mother, and supportive wife, while continuing to work as a home architect for the local citizens of Forks.
And that left the Cullen children- Alice, Jasper, Edward, Rosalie and finally Emmett to enroll in school so they could' finish up' what ever years they had left before they graduated like the other students- and finally leave for college.
The whole idea in itself- to Emmett, as well as his other adoptive siblings- was rather amusing. But it was brought to attention by their parental figures centuries ago- they, especially Esme, wanting to operate and live together as a normal, human, family rather than just some group of indifferent vampires living together.
Emmett didn't really mind- in fact- he thought it would be pretty fun, going to high school for his senior year even if it would be his hundreth time doing so- he was practically old enough to be in his tertiary year of college- at the consecutive age of twenty years old. But given how versatile his appearance was- he had the luxury of posing as a high school student- even if the humans didn't necessarily buy into it.
It would give him something to do rather than just linger around the house or the forest hunting whenever he was thirsty- even though he would never be totally alone- with his mate Rosalie at his side, ready to do all kinds of distracting activities and infidelities to pass the time.
But she- they were gone, and as far as he was aware- he wasn't going to reunite with them, any time soon.
At least, not while they were on the other side of the fence concerning Bella.
To say this trip to the now empty household was awkward, would be a total understatement. But it was, his only source of shelter- he had been staying there for the last couple of days- and he would never really see himself anywhere else. For the first time, since he returned, he found himself ascending the stairway soon enough, to the floor of the bedrooms upstairs- his heavy feet thudding against the black, cherry wood steps as he went.
He passed the first room- which had been occupied by Alice and Jasper, Edwards beside there's, and Carlisle and Esme's on the right hand side farther down the hallway. He came to a stop at the door where he and Rosalie had been staying for the time being and clutched his hand around the cool brass of the knob.
It creaked slightly as it gradually opened- alluding the bits of the advents that happened the night they left.
The queen- sized bed dressed with the smooth, black sating bed sheets was practically the only thing in the room- well, aside from the dresser that was most likely empty- and the small bookshelf that he had never really bothered approaching in his free time.
He meandered across the room towards the bed and plopped down near the foot- his arms resting on his knees as he hunched over.
He didn't know why at first; I mean it wasn't like he could read minds too or anything. But the way his brother had been acting so strange, so distressed that evening-he knew it had to be something serious.
Then he found out- along with the rest of his family. Edward asserted that they were all to leave Forks, and Bella, immediately. And after coming to terms with what happened lately- with James, the vampire that had not been associated with the Cullens at all before, but was undeniably set on spilling Bella's blood- or drinking it, he should say- once he caught the scent of her smell during one of their many occasional thunderstorm baseball games.
And then Jasper's congenital blood-crazed attack a couple of months after that.
Needless to say, it wasn't hard to not to protest.
Except for the fact that they would be leaving immediately, and without a proper goodbye. They would be leaving the girl that they at some point, considered they'd eventually refer to as a part of their family- who accepted them for who; what they were, and not just what they looked like, or appeared to be; something that was apparently extremely hard for humans to do; if they weren't detesting them out of jealousy.
She accepted the fact that they were vampires.
Creatures that drank blood- regardless the donor- to survive and conserve themselves. And even then they weren't nearly as full and contempt as they would like to be.
It had been a first for all of them. Never would they have thought that she would have welcomed their secret so willingly; so easily.
She even wanted to become one of them- it didn't matter what the consequences were, or the eventual burdens she would have to live with, and overcome as the years went on.
The entirety of her existence in itself, captured Emmett's interest conjointly when that was made apparent.
She was unlike anyone he had ever met before; any human before her.
A creak from below snapped the vampire from his thoughts- and his head jerked towards the open doorway.
Someone else was in the house.
A human maybe?
It wouldn't be likely. The humans of this town were wary when it came to the Cullens. No one attempted to get to know them when it wasn't out of their element, and they deliberately strayed away from their premises to avoid contact.
Unless of course they are aware of the departure within the last few months- as I'm sure they had already been informed of not a day later- and were trying to burglarize the house.
Well in that case, they were about to get the scare of their life.
He quietly slipped out the door and moved towards the end of the hallway. He peeked over the railing to see no one at the floor below him, and crept down the stairs.
No one.
" What the hell?" He muttered- and before he could blink, a blur went past him. He stumbled a little as he moved out of the way and blinked.
Only a vampire could move that fast. He turned again with his fangs baring and fist clenched, only to be jostled again.
He grew irritated.
" Show yourse-" He fell onto the floor with a thud- his head bashing hard as he connected. Cool hands gripped hard onto his shoulder, pinning him to the floor, and he quickly maneuvered the vampire under his weight before they could react. Everything happened so agile- a human would see only a fast-moving blur.
He chuckled grimly- pretty decrepit for a vampire. His hand immediately flew to their neck, and he forcefully held them in his grasp- holding them to the ground as they struggled.
He stared into their eyes then- and his eyes widened, mortified, when he recognized just who had decided to show up.
" Rosalie?"
Author's Note: Dun, dun dunnn!
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