Disclaimer: As usual all characters and settings belong to Stephanie Meyer, except for the ones I create. Spoilers: of Eclipse and Breaking Dawn.
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Chapter 5
Anger
"Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind"
Taking a deep breath he said…
"I guess…" he hesitated for a moment, as if to reconsider his decision. " I guess I'll stay…for a while."
I broke into a huge grinning after hearing that sentence; I even manage to hug him for about 2 seconds before his gift kicked in and I was forced to let go. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" I squealed over and over again.
Fred just nodded his head grinning, "Thank you again for welcoming me into your coven." He told Carlisle.
Carlisle smiled at him warmly, "there is no need for thanks, we are always happy to welcome another member into our family."
"Speaking of our family," Jasper added. "You still have to meet the rest of our members, Fred."
"Alice has probably already seen you joining our coven, which means she mostly likely told Edward." Esme guessed aloud.
"Wait," Fred said looking confused, "what do you mean by 'seen'?"
"Like you, Fred, some of our members have a gifts." Carlisle explained to him.
"For example, my gift is I can feel and control the emotions of the people around me." Jasper said. "And My mate, Alice, has the gift of seeing the future."
Fred looked at Jasper shocked, "whoa…now that's a neat power."
"The only problem is that you can never win a bet with her. Ever." We all turned to see Emmett and Rosalie coming through the front door.
"Where have you two been?" Jasper questioned them. "I thought you had to watch a football game."
"We took a break," Emmett said shrugging and flopped down onto one of the coaches.
"You mean I forced you too," Rosalie said icily.
"Emmett, Rosalie I'd like you to meet our newest member," Carlisle said gesturing to Fred.
"Um..hi…" Fred said nervously, "I'm Fred."
Emmett frowned for a moment, "wait, except for Bree, I thought we killed all the vampires in Victoria's coven during the fight?"
"Oh, I never joined the fight," Fred said quickly
"So the Volturi, do they even know your alive? Or even exist?" Rosalie asked her eyes narrowing.
"As far as we know they do not," Carlisle replied solemnly
"But aren't you afraid that we'll be punished by the Volturi if they find out that we're harboring an illegal vampire?" Rosalie questioned
"Rosalie," Esme told her warningly
"Did you even consider the dangers you may be putting our coven in, for letting him in?" she said while viciously jabbing her finger at Fred. Who, looked liked he wanted nothing more than to disappear.
"Rose," Emmett said getting off the couch and placing his hand her shoulder, "stop it."
Rosalie angrily shrugged him off, "We already have the Volturi on our backs."
Carlisle let out a sigh, "We know Ros-,"
"We've already risked our lives for Bella multiple times," she cut in, "and now we're having to risk everything for him?" she seethed.
"Rosalie come down," Jasper told her. Almost at once I felt a calming feeling wash over me, the others also seemed relax too. Rosalie however still had a mad glint in her eyes and a scowl on her breath taking face.
"If it makes you feel better," Fred spoke up looking very cautiously at Rosalie, "the Volturi probably won't even know I was part of Victoria's clan. I mean I never met they never met me…if I were every to run into them…I-I could…you know…lie to them. They would never have to know I was made by Victoria."
Rosalie slowly turned to stare at him; her face was unnervingly calm but her eyes were staring daggers at him. "Lie, to the Volturi? Her voice cracked, "you really don't know anything do you? About the world we live, about the rules we play by." Her voice was deathly calm. "Well here's some advice. The Volturi know everything, if you ever define them," Rosalie paused and took a step closer to Fred staring at him intently. "Well…you better pray that they are feeling miraculous that day and give you a painless death, and if they're not…my best advice would be to commit suicide."
She stared at Fred a few more seconds before turning and walking out the front door, not breathing a word to anyone.
"Please don't take Rosalie's words to heart," Carlisle told Fred. "She is under a stressful time, and does not usually act so…"
"Terrify, threatening, scary?" I finished for him.
"All the above," Emmett answered.
"Where do think she went," I asked nervously. I didn't want any innocent humans running into an angry vampire.
Carlisle must have read the expression on face because he said reassuringly, "Don't worry Bree she wouldn't go attacking any humans."
"She probably went to take out her anger on some mountain lions," Emmett said. "I'll look for her and try to calm her down.
After Emmett had leaped out of the huge window on the south facing wall, Fred let out a nervous laugh and said "Glad to know she's not always so scary."
"Scary? No but bitter and cold… well you could argue either way."
"Jasper!" Esme told him, shooting him the very well known mothers glare.
"Sorry Esme."
"Rosalie is going through a rough time in her life," Esme explained to Fred and I. "Sometimes she reaches her breaking point, and lashes out on someone."
"Rough time?" I asked raising my eyebrows. She had a family that clearly cared for her, a beautiful home, and eternal beauty and immortally. I was having a hard time finding how she could be having a "rough time."
Carlisle smiled dryly, "Rosalie cares very deeply about her family, and you must understand that she would devastated if anything happened to anyone of us."
"So I'm guessing the attack of our coven against yours really pushed her limits," Fred guessed.
Jasper smiled grimly, "more or less."
Fred let out a sigh, "and she hates me because I'm a threat to her coven." He said clicking the pieces together.
This was not persuading him to stay. This was not helping.
"I'm afraid so," Esme said sympathetically, " but given time she will learn to like. That I am sure of."
I silently thanked Esme.
"Besides, your arrival was not half of what is really upsetting Rosalie," Esme continued. "She has been unsettled long since you arrived."
Fred seemed to relax a bit after hearing that, I liked Esme more and more.
"But wait," Fred suddenly asked, " What is upsetting her then…if it's alright to answer."
Carlisle let out a tired sigh, his face suddenly looked older as if he had explained Rosalie's behavior more times then he wanted.
"You don't have to tell us if you don't want too," I said quickly.
"No Bree it is fine," Carlisle told me with a reassuring smile. "Rosalie's bitterness dates back since the day she was turned." Carlisle paused for a second as if listening for something. Sure enough a few seconds later you could faintly hear the soft footsteps against the forest floor.
Carlisle turned back to face Fred and I, " Perhaps it would be best if Edward told you her story."
Fred furred his eyebrows, "Edward?"
"The mind reader," I whispered back to him.
"Oh."
Esme turned to the back south facing wall and said, "Edward and Alice should be arriving right about…. now."
Just seconds after she spoke, two vampires gracefully bounded throw the window, and landed lightly on the floor.
I could easily identify Alice with her short pixy hair and her small petite body. She didn't seem at all fazed at Fred's presents; in fact she looked like she had almost been expecting him to show. I shifted my eyes toward the other vampire. Edward. Although I had seen him in the meadow, I hadn't really been able to study him clearly, since I was having my life being threatened.
Like the other entire vampire's in the world he was chillingly beautiful, that made normal humans self-esteem drop five stories. Edward was easily the least bulky of the Cullen brothers, but you could still tell if you messed with him, he would easily tear your head off as if it was a Barbie dolls head. Edward also looked more boyish than the rest of the men in his family; his untidy, bronze-colored hair helped him keep his noticeably youth full appearance.
Fred nudged me nervously, "um…why is he scowling?" I did a double take on Edwards face, and my stomach lurched when I realized that his face did look indeed sour.
"Did I do something to upset him already?" Fred asked clearly not wanting another Cullen made at him.
"Oh don't mind him," Alice told Fred while rolling her eyes at her brother, "his just grumpy because he had to leave Bella for a couple of minutes. He has nothing against you Fred don't worry."
"Wait, how do you know my…" Fred began.
"She saw you joining our coven a while back," said Edward for the first time, "that's why she dragged me back here to meet you."
"O-oh I-I didn't mean to drag y-you away from your mate," Fred hurriedly stuttered.
"Oh don't listen to him," Alice said dismissively, "Bella wanted to go visit Jacob, so it was the perfect time for you to go meet our new members since we're not allowed on their land."
Who's "their"? I wondered to myself
"The werewolves," Edward answered reading my mind. "It's a long story."
"Speaking of stories, Carlisle said you could explain Rosalie's story to us?" said Fred.
A smile flickered across Edwards face before he spoke, "yes I can and don't worry Rosalie doesn't want to murder you."
"Are you always going to be reading my mind?"
"I'll try to avoid," Edward said.
"We'll see," Fred told him clearly not totally believing him. "Um anyway Carlisle told me you could explain Rosalie's behavior too Bree and I?"
Edward sighed, "yes I can, I did after all partly cause her recent behavior."
"How?"
"Rosalie treasurers humanity," Edward began "she often wishes to be human again…she would trade anything and everything to be human again."
"Everything?" I breathed "even her family? Even her mate?"
Edward nodded gravely, "yes" he answered. "When she was first turned, she was very bitter towards her new lifestyle that was thrust upon her. She had always wanted to have a family of her own, and know that dream of hers was suddenly ripped away from her."
"Why was she turned then?" Fred asked suddenly.
The Cullen's shared uneasy looks at each other, as if that subject was a touchy matter.
"I don't Rosalie would like us telling you quite yet," Esme finally told us gently. Just from hearing that I could tell the reason Rosalie was turned wasn't a good, and that the matter shouldn't be discussed.
Moving on Edward continued, "Rosalie's bitterness decreased when she met Emmett, in some ways part of dream was complete. But about a year ago I started to date Bella. The girl your coven was trying to attack." Edward added, a hint of anger in his voice.
"Sorry," I whispered.
"It's fine," Edward, said his face softening, "you were just following orders."
"Recently Bella has agreed to marry Edward," Esme continued.
"And has persuaded us to turn her." Edward added.
"Let me guess," I said, " Rosalie is upset that Bella is willingly giving up her humanity, something that she would kill to have back."
"You got it," Jasper said.
"That's…harsh." Fred said
I nodded silently in agreement while millions of thoughts ran through my mind, and I was sure Edward was reading all of them. After Rosalie's story I couldn't help but pity her, for me becoming a vampire was almost a blessing in disguise. It allowed me to escape the hell of the life I was living in and begin a new one. Although becoming vampire did almost get me killed, it also brought me to the Cullen's. For Rosalie though it was almost a curse thrown upon her, sure she was given immortality and undesirable beauty but some of her most wanted dreams were ripped from heart forever. Never to be achieved in her never-ending life.
"Well," Alice said hopping up from where she was perched, and jolting the rest of us out of our melancholy thoughts. "Now that you've learn some of our family history, I think it's time for the fun part!"
"The fun part?" I asked wearily.
"Shopping!" She said excitedly, "You honestly don't think I'm going to let you were those clothes for the rest of you life!"
"Is it bad that I'm feeling a bit scared right now?" Fred asked worriedly
"And should we be scared?" I added nervously
"Deathly," Edward responded seriously.
Authors Note: I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I thought I wrote Rosalie's story a bit odd, but hey I'm not Stephanie Meyer right? So do think Fred should stay permanently or should he leave after a while? Thought, feelings, or questions let me know I love hearing from you! Reviews are greatly welcome!
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