Hello, so here I am again with another story again for Rosalie and Emmett a criminally underrated couple. This time we are in a New Moon setting for a smaller story of about 17 chapters all taking place from the Volterra arc. So yeah an AU but only a little bit.
(As if that makes a difference!)
A side note on the relationship with Alice. As I have previously stated as I grow older I find that I struggle with the character of Alice the most. I do see her actions sometimes as toxic and while I don't believe Stephanie intended for her to be written that way sometimes I just want to reach through the pages and shake the vampire until she understands certain things. This was a way of getting all of that out. If you love Alice and think she can do no wrong this might not be the best story for you. Her relationship with Rosalie and how she and Edward treat Rosalie is something I have addressed many a time throughout my fics and stories but I hope that you enjoy nonetheless. This is not intended to be an Alice bashing fic, this is just for me to have my say as an ardent Rosalie fan. For all Alice lovers out there I hope that you understand and I am hopeful that one day I will learn to re-like Alice again.
This is not one hundred percent cannon, if you are looking for word for word perfect scenes out of the book then I am not the author for you, this is my interpretation of these events.
There will be trigger warnings for this story and keep in mind a hell of a lot of swearing for what is in the books, also some interpretation on Rosalie and Emmett's past. This also might turn into an M Rated story depending on how I take it. Again something to keep in mind as we progress.
Some events might be missed from the book as well but the bare bones of it still remain.
Also spelling/grammar etc...not my strongest point. Again something to take note off.
Disclaimer-Nothing is mine.
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And on a side note, I like so many other Fanfiction Authors no longer receive notifications via email about reviews/PMs etc. So if you do send any it might be a while, if ever before I get back to you. Please keep that in mind for it is not intentional-If anyone has a fix please let me know.
Also this chapter is based more on the movie than the book, in the movie it all happens in the space of one night and so that's what's happening in this story. Rest of the time it should be a pretty even spread between the two.
Spheres Of Influence
Chapter 16-Venemous Creatures
Edward and Emmett, Alice and Rosalie, two conversations that needed to be had. For better or for worse. PENULTIMATE CHAPTER.
"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal" Albert Pine.
He was sat out enjoying the sun. Sun in Forks was so rare that when you had it you enjoyed it. Emmett was from Tennessee. He missed the sun, he missed it more than words could say. He missed his brothers. All of them were dead now bar one, his Momma, his Daddy, three of his sisters. Only Jack was alive. He'd been widowed now, had four children, three grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The McCarty name would die out with Jack, all the people that Emmett had known.
He wondered if his brother would remember him.
"Of course he does" came a voice from behind him. Emmett didn't even bother opening his eyes.
"Fuck off Edward" he said easily. Edward dithered for a second and then came and sat next to him on the porch.
"If you want to throw me bodily over the river you can" he said quietly. "But I need to say something Emmett and if you would do me the small mercy of listening I would really appreciate it"
Emmett sighed.
"Free country" was all he said and Edward said nothing to that. Instead he stared at his hands for a second and then out over the river and beyond the treeline down to the freeway.
"Bella and I had a long chat the other night" he said quietly. "She told me that she loved me but that her friendship with the wolf was non-negotiable. He put her back together again. And if I didn't like that then that was on me but she was her own person and if her car got broken she would taken an Uber. She doesn't want Alice to watch her anymore. She says that while she knows that I am the happy ending for her, that while she knows that this is the life that she wants I have to earn back a healthy degree of trust."
"Disappointed are you?"
"No. I…it's more than I deserve after what I have put her through. To be honest I knew it would be quite fair if she ditched me and skipped off to that reservation and never came back"
Emmett thought that would be quite fair of Bella as well. Edward hummed in an almost childlike curiosity.
"I am a product of my time" he mused quietly. "And Bella is one of hers."
"Nothing to do with it" Emmett said gruffly. "Any man worthy of the name likes a strong woman"
Edward looked at him sideways.
"Whose was that little nugget of wisdom?" he asked quietly.
"My father's"
"Your—your human one?"
"Yes"
Edward raised an eyebrow but then.
"I owe you an apology Emmett. I owe all of you an apology but I feel like I owe you one most of all. I did apologise to Rosalie on the plane but…but I didn't…I don't have to imagine what it was like for you because I was there. I don't ever want to feel the way you had to be feeling. And I know it was my fault. I just…you don't know what it was like to feel that knowledge. You thought Rosalie could die, I knew that Bella was dead. In that moment, and the pain of it…" he closed his eyes and shuddered and Emmett looked at him as he processed that.
"I never want to feel like that again" he whispered. "I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I certainly would never wish it on someone I love"
"And yet you put me through a fraction of what you were feeling? You thnk I don't know what you were starting into. The abyss? I was looking into it too. And you think I had options, you think I would have been able to skip off to Italy? I'm sorry Edward but you fell in love with a human. There were two outcomes that you had from that moment onwards, and you pushed through a third that nobody, not your mother or your father or even the woman you claimed to love wanted and you forced that girl to remain human out of some bizzarro soul thing that nobody understands and how much did you beg her to when she got home? How much did you dismiss her and tell her that the Volturi could be taken care off—"
"I don't want her as a vampire"
"Why? You love her, she for reasons beyond comprehension adores you. You've made it clear that you don't plan to live without her. What did you think was going to happen when she did die. We would say alright and help you pack your bags?"
"You don't have to tell me how flawed the plan was Emmett…I know I am a work in progress"
"Well at least you can admit that" he said quietly and he saw the ghost of a smile on Edward's face and despite the fact that he had promised to hate his brother until the end of eternity he found that he too was getting a bit sentimental.
"I know I've been given a second chance that I don't deserve" Edward said quietly. "And I know I have been unfair to you and Rosalie—"
"Do you? Or is this Carlisle speaking for the good of the family?"
He didn't mean it to sound so cynical, not when Carlisle was more than likely with Esme in hearing shot both of their ears straining to overhear. Not when Rose was upstairs packing and listening too.
"This is me speaking" Edward said quietly. "I didn't…I didn't see it from Rosalie's perspective, I did but I didn't if that makes sense, it's hard to see it from that view because how could I ever understand what Rosalie has lost? I didn't come from a world where the family was all that I wanted, I came from a world where war was all that I wanted. I didn't get the peace of the middle times"
Emmett wanted to point out that neither had him. He had been transformed in 39 at the beginning of the end. The end of a decade that had started with his country in a Depression and ended with his country on the brink of a war that they all knew that they would have to go and fight. Hell even working on the railroad in the backwoods Emmett had heard of Adolf Hitler.
In an ideal world, in the human world, he and Edward would have gone to war and both of them probably would have died in the first wave of men to the slaughter.
"Do you get what you have put me through?" he said finally. "Do you get what I have been through? Do you Edward? Do you understand that all you had to do was call, you took Alice at her word and you created chaos. And I want to forgive you for that Edward I do but I just…I am so fucking angry at you and I don't know how to stop. I get it but you have to get where I am coming from"
Edward nodded.
"I am sorry Emmett" he said quietly. "I am so sorry that I put you through that, I never wanted…I never wanted any of you to go through that, I just…I just didn't want to live anymore." he shook his head and Emmett turned to look at him and he sighed.
"I don't want to stay mad at you" he said finally. "You know I hate being mad at people, but she is my whole world and you nearly took that from me and you were so…you are so blasé about it. I know that you don't intend for that to be the case but you are. You act like she doesn't matter. And I can't…I love you, I understand you, I cannot yet forgive you"
There was a pause as the two of them stared at each other and Edward nodded slowly. "You think you ever will?" he asked casually or at least as casually as he was able to.
Emmett shrugged rubbing a hand over his face. "I want to" is all he said quietly. "I want to forgive you. And that's progress believe me. Take it or leave it Edward that's all I can give you right now"
Edward sighed but for once Emmett didn't think it was condescending. He thought that perhaps it was one of understanding.
Maybe that was all he needed.
He would forgive Edward one day of that he was sure about because Emmett didn't believe in holding grudges. But they had an eternity after all and he was entitled to a few months of anger he thought.
Kept the nightmares away.
There was a knock on the door and Rosalie not looking up from Emmett's Hawaiian shirts said "Enter?"
"Hello?"
Fuck.
"Hello Alice"
"I heard you were pack—when did Emmett get those?" she pointed at the Hawaiian shirts as if they were a thing of horror (to be fair they were) and Rosalie shrugged.
"I don't know" she said finally. "You think he's found a way around your vision?"
"At this point everyone else has" Alice said a little testily and then…
"No sorry that was harsh. I just…Rose can we talk?"
"About?"
"About it all"
Rosalie sighed putting Emmett's shirts in her suitcase and then shutting the lid.
"What do you want to talk about? I don't know what we can talk about, so much of it seems locked in place"
Alice sat on the bed.
"I…I know this is my fault" she said finally. "I know it was. Rose you don't know…I didn't consider what might happen, I should have called you in Forks and gotten you to check and then called Edward, the whole thing was compounded by me calling him. If I had waited, if I had gotten on the plane myself then this thing might have been avoided. I know that. I did the fundamental thing that I promised myself in this life I would never do. I believed in my own gift too much. I refused to believe that I had a flaw in my gift and perhaps I underestimated Edward. I never knew you see that he had told Jasper and Emmett what he was going to do if Bella had died. I knew that Jasper and Emmett wouldn't have helped but I never knew…I didn't consider the wolves, I didn't consider a lot of things, If I had waited six hours all of this could have been avoided but I was just…so sure. I just wanted him home so I could mourn my best friend and I…I don't know. But I know it stemmed from me and that is a mistake I will never make again and for that I can only apologise to you and Emmett"
Rosalie swallowed back venom and then she sat back on the bed.
"I would have gone anyway" she said quietly. "I would have done Alice, I think…he was my brother, he is my brother. I would have gone if you'd have asked me. You didn't drag me or her by our hair onto that plane. We would have gone anyway. Besides…It wasn't too bad"
"Wasn't it?"
"I just…" she paused. "I had a reminder of what my life looked like in New York. There was this big guard Felix and it was really nothing I couldn't handle but I don't know…Royce came back to me and I…" she shook her head. "I don't know. I didn't know Emmett had wailed on you that much until I spoke to him when I came back. I didn't…I don't think—
"He wasn't wrong" Alice said quietly. "Jasper had me look at it from another perspective and he wasn't wrong. I don't think you are cold or unfeeling, I don't get your reasons for Bella I don't but that's just me and my experience, I do understand that you want things that I never wanted. I never wanted children Rosalie, I think that even if I had stayed human and never gone to the asylum I never would have wanted them. I think even if Jasper and I had met when we were human I don't think I would have wanted children. Maybe that makes me bad—"
"Having a choice doesn't make you bad Alice"
Alice sighed.
"I know Bella is like your sister"
"She is"
"I know"
"But your my sister too Rose, and I let you down and I blamed you and I manipulated you and I used your worst fear against you and I did the same to Bella. I am the friend that is warned against on the pamphlet that Carlisle brings home and—"
"What are you on about?"
Alice sighed ringing her hands together and then.
"I just…I understand now what I did. And I want to make it right. I told Edward unless Bella is in danger I wont spy. Victoria, the Volturi that's it. She trusts the wolves, to be her friend I have to trust her"
Rosalie snorted.
"Bet Edward loved that"
"He wasn't too happy no" she said with a smile. "And considering he can read minds I don't know if it will make a difference but I suppose that he can try. Bella made it clear that he is on his last leg. I don't know if that was your idea but she's got one hell of a willpower now"
"Good, she needs it"
Alice said nothing and then.
"I want us to be sisters again" she said quietly into the empty room. "When you come back from Mexico, can you and I try again? Can we try and be sisters again?"
And there it was.
"Yes" Rosalie said quietly. "I suppose we could try. When we come back"
It was not quite what Alice had wanted she could tell. It wasn't quite what Edward had wanted either.
But it was a start.
And that was all Carlisle and Esme had ever wanted.
And that was a whole something in itself.
And yay! Only one more to go! And yay Bella finally has some self respect! Also given my complicated feelings about Alice and Edward this was not an easy chapter to write, therefore I hope I did it justice.
Next Chapter-THE FINAL CHAPTER-This story comes full circle the way it began, Emmett and Rosalie and their happy ending.
