Esme

The long, flat beep of her heart monitor blared and I sobbed harder into Carlisle's chest. He still kept his back, making me his priority at this time.

Jasper walked through the door silently and stopped dead in his tracks as he realised what the sound was. His gasped and his whole body trembled.

"Carlisle—"

"I didn't do anything. She let go." Carlisle said quickly and quietly. He kissed my head again. I was still sobbing.

Jasper walked back out quickly, struggling to keep himself together.

Carlisle and I stood in complete silence, apart from my sobs and the soft flat line never-ending beep.

A few minutes passed, and it turned into about 10 minutes. Then, the beep changed. It picked up again, like her heat just jumpstarted itself. I turned my head towards her. Carlisle's arms loosened and he walked over to the heart monitor. He turned it off and back on. Her heartbeat picked back up, getting stronger with each beat.

Carlisle turned around and stared at me.

I smiled, I couldn't believe it. "Violetta?" I whispered.

Her eyes fluttered open and she took a few deep breaths. She took her hand out of mine and removed her oxygen mask before she coughed.

"You died." I whispered. "You let go."

"I know." Her voice was soft and hoarse.

"How are you alive?"

"Everything went…black." She stopped and took a breath, giving herself a second before she continued, "But I could still think, and hear."

I looked back at Carlisle. His eyes kept switching between her and the monitor.

"I heard you crying. I decided I wanted to stay with you."

I whimpered and put my hand over my mouth.

"It just took me…a while to get back." She took the oxygen mask off of herself completely and threw it beside her on the bed. Carlisle took it and moved it. He kissed her forehead and brushed her cheek with his fingers.

"That was the worst 10 minutes of my entire existence." He said quietly.

"Likewise. That was more painful…than it has been…over the past few days."

Her heart was strong and steady now, but she had to take a breath between every few wrods. She had strength in her arms, and her legs moved. She tried to sit up but Carlisle put his hand on her shoulder. "What are you doing?"

"Trying to sit up…"

He shook his head and grabbed the remote that was handing from the side. He clicked a button and the back of the bed moved.

She snickered and rolled her eyes.

"Oh look, you're back to your old self…" Carlisle smirked and kissed her forehead again.

I leant down and hugged her. She hugged me back and laughed, "I can't be that important."

I stepped back and my eyes narrowed.

"Okay, sorry." She lifted her hands in defence.

"I need to call Jasper." I said quietly. My phone had gone flat, so I was using Carlisle's for now. I picked it up and dialled Jasper's number quickly. He didn't pick up. I tried again.

"What?" His voice was shaky.

"This is hard to explain, but she's okay…" I said.

"She died Esme." He said harshly.

"No, she's awake. Here, talk to her." I handed the phone to Violetta.

"Hey Jazz…" She sounded confused. I guess she didn't hear him enter the room. "Yes, I am…really Violetta." She smirked.

She dropped the phone from her ear and handed back to me, "Bye then."

I called Mason next. I said I would explain it later, but for now he should just come back to see her.

He walked in minutes after my call. The other wolves followed behind him, as well as Renesmee. Her eyes were red, she had been crying, a lot.

Jacob was holding her close to him, but when she entered the room, she ran from his side and into my arms. I hugged her back and kissed the side of her head. I looked over to Carlisle. He was staring intently at Violetta.

"Carlisle." I got his attention. When he looked at me, I smiled and nodded, as if to reassure him that she was alive and breathing.

"So, can we…go home? I hate hospitals."

"Not yet." Carlisle replied.

Renesmee let go of me and returned to Jacob's side.

They were sitting down again, and she lay across him. She closed her eyes.

"You can go home, Ness." I said.

"I'm not tired."

"Renesmee, go home." I said sterner.

She sighed and sat up. "Fine."

I watched as she left with Jacob, Seth and Leah.

I explained what happened to Mason after they left. He was shocked, and I often caught him looking at the heart monitor too.

"I am going to turn that off in a minute if you don't stop looking at it." Violetta said. "Hey! I said a whole sentence!"

"We might go home tomorrow, Letty. Get some sleep." Carlisle said. He was sitting at her side. Jasper had brought him a book when he came to visit her again after hearing the news. He didn't want to leave, but he needed to hunt again, and Alice needed to as well.

I was sitting on Carlisle's lap. My head was resting on his shoulder and my eyes were closed. What I would give to be able to sleep right now.

A nurse came in a few minutes later, and thought I was asleep. I was keeping up our charade, at least.

"You do look asleep." Violetta said once the nurse left.

"You look dead." Mason said flatly.

"I am dead…" I said.

Violetta tried to hold her small laugh back, but failed. She coughed afterwards.

"Maybe we should try more antibiotics." Carlisle said.

"If the painkillers had little to no affect, antibiotics certainly won't. They didn't work the other day anyway. The cough will go away eventually."

"I still think we could try."

"Why stop there? Just keep them coming. I can be like Lindsay Lohan…" Violetta said.

"You're not going to become a drug addict." Carlisle rolled his eyes.

"Morphine is pretty good stuff…"

"It hardly even worked." I said. "And he gave you so much more than any human could take at one time."

"Trying to kill me before I even asked you to? Whoa dad."

He rolled his eyes, "Go to sleep."

"Are you going to inject more drugs into me while I'm out?"

"Very funny." Carlisle smirked.

Violetta laughed and turned her gaze back to Mason. "You can go home if you want. You're exhausted."

"I'm fine."

"Mason." Her eyes narrowed, "Go get some sleep."

He sighed, "Fine." He stood up and kissed her forehead. He said goodbye to us and walked out. Edward and Bella came at the same time he left.

Violetta smiled at them and turned back to Carlisle and I. "I have a question that will probably upset you."

"I know where this is going and I would really like it if you didn't bring it up." Carlisle said.

"Why were you so hesitant to kill me when I asked?" She asked me, "And why were you so willing?" She asked Carlisle.

"Because you're too important and I knew you could live through it and we all love you too much. I guess my hesitation was sort of selfish. I didn't want to lose you." I said.

Violetta nodded and looked at Carlisle, "Well?"

He sighed, "Letty, don't get me wrong, you are one of the most important things in my life, but you were in so much pain, and it wasn't the first time you wanted your life to end. I wanted to do what you wanted."

She nodded.

"Are you in pain right now?" I asked.

"No." She replied.

I looked at Edward for confirmation. "Her heart it hurting, but not from the illness. From you guys."

I looked at Carlisle before I moved my eyes back to Violetta.

She closed her eyes as they were becoming heavy, and we stayed silent so she could sleep peacefully.