Yesterday night I managed to write some chapters, so the first one is coming :-)))))
I hope you will like it :-))))
A/N as usually, I don´t own anything from Twilight... :-)))
have a nice day everyone :-)))
Ch 19
Ellen began unpacking things for her daughter. She was curious about her surprise but she was sure that Patricia will be amazed. She loves all the Disney princesses. Ellen was astonished how Carlisle could do everything just in one single night. He went shopping, headed to pawn shop, then visited her house and packed their clothes and in the rest of the night he worked on Patty´s own room. They might have this room ready when their little niece used to live here, and therefore he just replaced few things. Yes, this was perhaps the reason. Ellen was looking forward to Patricia´s reaction.
She still had to think about Derek, how could he behave like that on the previous day. She felt nothing else but hatred. She thought she knew him. They were married for few years, dated when she was studying to become a teacher. And now? She didn´t want to be with him anymore. She will rather be a single mother than his wife. She will file for divorce as soon as possible. She has to do it in order to be free again. She will have to search for some lawyer to finish the whole process. She remembered Carlisle saying that he knew someone, she hoped he would recommend.
After few minutes she thought about the paper she read on the previous day in the living room. Derek was accused of fraud and the trial should be held in few months. This might have been the reason he mentioned in the phone call that they would be finally rich. She knew something would happen but he never listened to her. Now he may be imprisoned and she won´t have to deal with problems with custody of their daughter. She didn´t wish him to get to prison, she just wanted to have everything solved soon. She wanted to look forward and live as she wants again. She was grateful to Carlisle for offering her some help but she didn´t want to misuse their hospitality. Therefore she wanted to stay in this house just for a few weeks untill she gets better. But really not for too long. Maybe after the Christmas, she could start searching for a new place to live. She never really liked Forks. Now it could be a good time to change the town, but somehow inside she felt this wouldn´t be the right decision. She will be a single mother, here she has her job, the kids adore her as their teacher. Patty is satisfied in the pre-school, she will start regular classes next year. And the third reason, the Cullens live here. She loved them all as friends and didn´t want to be far from them. They are her only friends.
Ellen was still worried about Derek´s reaction. He must have already found out. Ellen was sure about it. She hoped he wouldn´t do anything unpredictable. She hoped that they would be soon divorced. She didn´t want to be connected with them at all. Carlisle asked her last night whether she wanted to report him to the Police but Ellen disagreed. She wanted to be away from him and wanted to make sure he wouldn´t be able to get Patricia in his custody. But with the threat of the prison she was sure he had no chance to get her. She wasn´t a kind of person wanting revenge, she just wanted to be out of this relationship as soon as possible.
The thing he did last night… it was still hurting inside. Her feelings towards him changed into deep hate. She hoped she would get over the last day in some time. She felt the tears on her cheeks. She was glad that Carlisle was in the room at the end of the corridor and couldn´t hear her. Or at least she thought so. She sobbed for few moments but when she looked around, everything around made her smile again. All her thoughts belonged to Patty again. She felt a bit sorry that she hasn´t seen her daughter since the morning but she knew they would spend some nice Friday afternoon.
When Patty comes here, she will feel like a little princess. She already noticed that Carlisle treats Patty like one. She must have been so happy to find her favorite doll in the bed in the morning. She had no doubts that after this all Patricia adores her uncle yet more than before. Who wouldn´t? Ellen was sure that he wants to compensate her for everything Patty had to go through.
This was also one of the reasons she regarded him so high. He became the most important person for her. She could always tell him everything, she felt the constant support, he knew how to calm her, how to make her feel better. It would be so easy to love him and be with him in a relationship?...What?... What is talking about? She takes him as a friend, a good one, the best in the whole world. Yes, she loves him but not the way as a love of her life. She likes to be with him but no, she cannot get into another relationship. Why is everything so hard? She definitely wants Carlisle in her life, but only as a close friend. She doesn´t have any power to handle any other relationship. One destroyed marriage was enough. She needed some free time to realise her own goals and priorities. She isn´t ready to love someone now. She realised her mind asking about their common moments. Why did she want to be hugged by him all the time? Yes, friends hug, but not that often and don´t sleep together in one bed…..but he certainly did that just to calm her, he was so good at it…why is everything so hard? She cannot love another man now….no , no…she should stop thinking about silly stuff…. Carlisle is just a friend. He certainly feels the same.
She stood up and moved to the next bedroom which was now supposed to be just hers. Next to the room there was one door to the bathroom and one door for the walk-in wardrobe. Ellen began taking her things out of the bags and gave them in the prepared shelves. This was a completely new situation to her. She never lived in someone´s house…..Ellen heard the noise in the corridor and in few minutes Carlisle was with her in the room. She stood up and smiled: „ Feeling better again?" He smiled: „ Yes and you?" She shrugged: „ Kind of…" Carlisle wanted to say something but he heard the bell at the door. He could already smell who it was and therefore looked carefully at Ellen. She questioned his look: „ Do you think that…..?" He looked out of the window: „ Yes, it is him….." Ellen began shaking and he held her hand: „ Stay here, I will take care of him…." She whispered: „ Be careful…." He smiled, caressed her hair and left downstairs.
FLASHBACK:
At Derek´s work
When Derek had sex with his own wife, he left for work. It was almost time. At that night the guys at work were gossiping the local women. He didn´t participate during because he didn´t know the local people too much. But he couldn´t miss one word, they were commenting a new local pediatrician. Some blond hot Dr. Cullen. It seemed that all women were kind of crazy of him. One colleague, Mike, turned to Derek and asked about his wife. Derek replied: „ I really don´t know, I didn´t talk with her about some doctor….My wife isn´t like that…." He remembered about their moments before he left to work. She wasn´t exactly agreeing but didn´t fight with him. Mike was watching his reaction and looked at George. The named one turned to Derek: „ Well, I thought she was a good friend with the Cullens, especially with the pediatrician and his daughters. I saw them shopping and having fun… and my wife says that she saw them once in Port Angeles going to a pretty expensive restaurant…. So I thought you might be his acquaintance." Derek gasped and didn´t know what to say. What the fuck was that?
During the rest of the shift he had to think about it all the time. Was she really cheating on him? She swore that she would never. But he remembered about Alison. One of his mistresses he was seeing when he was working in his company. She claimed she loved him but kicked him later on. He decided to do some kind of his private investigation. When Ellen is in the shower, he needs to search through her diary, she might hide something. He wasn´t sure about anything. He works at nights what if she fucks this idiotic doctor in their house. She would have enough chances to do that…He couldn´t do anything before the end of his shift. But just the suspicion itself brought him crazy. He felt that having sex with her was a terrible idea, he should already get rid of this silly whore a long time ago. He couldn´t believe it. He hit her last time for seeing one of them. That guy was too young to be the local pediatrician. His father must have been the mentioned doctor. He had no idea Ellen falls for older guys. That one must be around fifty if he had adult children. Well, he will find out the truth. Ellen will reveal it, or he will punish her.
He already counted minutes but finally the shift ended and he headed home. He drank the beer that George offered him: „ Don´t worry, my wife certainly sleeps with that doctor too…..the way she talks about him…..they must have an affair….." Derek didn´t say anything and left home. When he entered the door, it was silence everywhere. He wanted to go to wake Ellen. He opened the door to the bedroom and the bed linen seemed untouched. Ellen wasn´t sleeping here last night. He thought she was sleeping in Patricia´s room. He went to open the door to the other room but it was empty too… He searched through all rooms in the house but no one was in the house. Yet their personal things were missing. Patricia had no toys and clothes in her room. They must have left.
The thought made him incredibly angry. How could she just leave? And where could she go? What if George was right and his wife was really having an affair with that doctor? BASTARD….. screwing his wife…..He took out a glass of vodka, drank it but felt too tired to go anywhere. It will wait untill he takes a little nap. The night shift was hard and he wants to have some sleep.
- end of flashback-
Few hours later he woke up around the noon and went to the pub. The guys there advised him where the Cullens live and he had no problem of getting there. He rang the bell and waited. He heard the voices in there and suddenly the door opened and he could watch a tall blond man in the door: „ Can I help you?"
He replied: „ Yes, I am searching for my wife and my child… I am sure they are here….and I came for them, I want them back…"
„ If you mean Ellen and Patricia….yes, they are here….. but I think they don´t want to go with you…."
„How do you are to speak to me like that… I want to speak to my wife…."
„ She filed for divorce….you no longer have any rights to her….you lost them when you raped her last night"
„Rape? That is what she told you? We just had sex as people do….and you certainly know it better than anyone else."
„I beg you pardon?"
„ you are screwing my wife and half of the local female population…."
That made Carlisle laugh and Derek couldn´t hold on and wanted to punch him. He suddenly moved fast and planned to hit his face. But Carlisle expected it and so Derek had no chance. He caught Derek´s hand and turned him around moving the hand on his back and dislocating his shoulder. Derek shouted with pain and Carlisle let him go. He slowly moved back to the stairs.
Carlisle gave his hands back to his pockets: „ Mr. Williams… I ask you to behave yourself…. I had nothing with your wife…."
He pointed at him: „ And you should leave immediately or I will call the police and report you for rape and also for trespassing."
Derek was already turning around when Ellen appeared behind Carlisle: „ Get out Derek, leave out of my life….you are not my husband anymore…"
Derek tried to move closer again but Carlisle stepped in front of her to protect her.
She continued: „ Derek, leave… I want the divorce…..and you should really get out…..I know about the charges of fraud, don´t make it harder to yourself….."
Both men stared. Carlisle had no idea about something and Derek didn´t know where she took that information. He looked at her with disgust in his eyes and hissed:
„You´re gonna regret it …we haven´t finished yet….." He turned around and left the place.
Ellen and Carlisle went back to the house and Ellen was just trying to go through what they´ve just heard. Carlisle closed the door and noticed Ellen shaking.
He wanted to hug her but when he came closer, she closed the arms around herself before he could come closer:
„ Sorry, this is just …..what I feared…."
He caressed her hair, while she moved the hands down: „ It is over, he knows you are away and won´t bother you anymore…."
She just looked down but remained silent.
Carlisle wanted to make her smile and therefore commented: „ But truly, he surprised me, I had no idea that I am so popular among local population….."
She didn´t reply, still looking down and therefore he continued: „ He said that I had something with the local women…. And I haven´t even touched any of them…"
She added silently, moving her eyes from the floor up to his chest in front of her: „ gossips…." He smiled softly: „ Yes, therefore I am just laughing to them…. Small towns….people tend to comment things…"
Ellen now looked straight in his golden honey eyes: „ You don´t mind?"
He shook the head: „ No, and do you know why?"
She shrugged and he continued: „ Because this is better than if they claimed the opposite….."
That made Ellen giggle when she imagined what he had just said.
Carlisle seemed amused that he made her smile: „ What would you say if we take Patty out of school earlier and then go to some nice restaurant for lunch?"
She kept the smile on her face: „ I would say it is a great idea…" He gave her the jacket, it was getting colder outside. The middle of November was coming.