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.

And some TRIGGER WARNINGS for Bella's depression (seriously don't get me started on what that turns to in Eclipse) and Rosalie's past.


Spheres Of Influence

Chapter 3-Professional Courtesy

Alice implores, blackmails, threatens and begs Rosalie for a favour, Bella puts her foot down, Rosalie has no idea what or why she is doing this, and so we begin.


"You cannot connect the dots looking forwards. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that they will somehow connect in your future" Steve Jobs.


For a second she couldn't even get her brain to work. Her super vampire brain that was supposed to work at all times and she couldn't get it to work. She couldn't get it to snap into gear because the words that Alice was saying were utterly incomprehensible to her.

"What do you mean?" she said again. Bella was watching her and it took Rosalie a second to realise that Jacob Black was holding her upwards. Bella who had seen her face and who had known what it was that could bring out whatever hell was being played out in on her features. Bella who had known it was Edward the second the phone had rang.

Shit.

"Alice how the fuck did he even know she jumped off a cliff" Rosalie said quietly. "I never told him and I doubt—" but the second she said it she realised.

"Alice did you tell him?"

"I didn't mean to" Alice said crying her tearless sobs and Rosalie wanted to reach through the phone and shake her because even Rosalie who thought the whole thing between Edward and Bella, the whole relationship was nothing but bizarre knew enough to know that telling Edward Bella was dead was a very stupid idea with very real and very catastrophic consequences.

"I didn't mean to Rosalie you have to believe me I just…I thought it would make him care, I thought if he understood just what his actions had caused then maybe he would show some emotions and—"

"Well that was exceptionally stupid" she hissed. "Look you're going to just have to get Carlisle to ring him and then get him back. I can patch Bella through on my end if you think her talking to him would be helpful—"

Bella groaned feebly in Jacob Black's arms and Jacob Black shot her a look that told Rosalie that he thought it was nothing short of insanity to have Edward speak to Bella. Rosalie couldn't help but agree with him (and she was admitting that…well…never) and she knew that it was a bit too cruel as well but right now if it kept Edward from going to Italy then she would take it.

"No, no you don't understand" Alice said as if Rosalie was being dense on purpose. "I tried that already…Carlisle said he picked up once and then hung up the phone, he dumped it into a trash can and then went straight for the Airport in Rio and bordered a plane straight to Italy"

Rio.

Well…it was nice to know where he had been.

"I'm not being funny" Rosalie said quietly so that neither one of the occupants in the room could hear her. "But he left her, he had to know that this was a possibility, she was always going to die at some point?"

"I don't think the plan was to wait very long after she went" Alice pointed out and Rosalie blinked.

"That" she said flatly. "Is the sickest most disgusting, most inhumane thing that Edward has ever done. So the silly little human is supposed to live her life without her mate—because you and I both know this attachment has gone two ways—and then what? Edward just pops off to Italy the second the nail on the coffin is shut? No thought to any of us?"

Christ selfish wasn't even a word that one could use when it came to Edward Cullen she decided. Emmett was twice the man his brother was. Jasper too. Carlisle was so beyond him it was almost funny.

"I'm not gonna argue with you Rose but listen we have got to find a way to stop him, and…" and here her tone took on a more pleading tone that Rosalie knew was Alice asking for a favour.

"I think the only way that we are going to be able to do it is if you take Bella to Italy, I mean your closer than we are your on the right coast for a start and—"

She carried on speaking talking about booking plane tickets and just like that there was a beep and she pulled the phone away working on auto pilot rather than anything else to see that the cheeky cow had done just that, she had booked two tickets for them both for Italy to leave in two hours and Rosalie put the phone back to her ears and when she spoke she knew her voice was almost shaking with nothing short of pure, undiluted rage.

"I BEG YOUR PARDON?"

Perhaps it was the tone, perhaps it was the venom or perhaps it was just the insanity of the idea but she got the impression she had stunned Alice into silence, no doubt there was a vision backing up her insane sister's plan but for once no amount of blackmail or cajoling or threats was going to help here. There was a snowballs chance in hell of this working anyway and Rosalie was not going to leave Emmett in this world alone.

She was not.

Not for Edward. Not for anything.

If Edward could be selfish then so could she.

"Rose he is going to die if you don't, I'd go myself but I can't get there in time and I can see that you will"

"Can you see what he is going to do?" she asked into the phone. "Can you see if they will even speak to him—"

"I can't see what they are going to do it keeps shifting but Aro is very fond of Carlisle and besides…he might offer Edward a chance to stay with them if he…"

"And so I do what? Turn up with a human the equivalent of turning up with a bottle of wine for a dinner party? You know there is very little chance that anything I say to him will be able to stop him and—"

"Bella will"

"You don't even know if Bella will go and quite frankly considering the state she is in I wouldn't blame her if she told him to fuck off"

"Your words to God's ears blondie" came a growl behind her and Rosalie shuddered because the wolf was standing near her and ugh.

"She will" Alice said and it was that kind of confidence that made her hate her sister in ways that she had never hated a person before. Not even the man who had set her upon this path because this was suicide with no clear option and she wanted to sink her teeth into Alice's neck and shatter her completely.

"Alice, I love him too despite our differences and I admit that I want to do all I can but If I walk in there and he's halfway through a plan then we are all dead. Me, Bella, Edward…you want to sit and explain that to Carlisle, to Esme, to Emmett"

"No I don't but I don't want to sit here and be ideal when there is a chance either. Do you want to look back in fifteen hundred years and realise that we could have done something to keep our family together, that you could have done something and you turned it down, you want to look into Esme's face and—"

"DO NOT PUT THIS ON ME YOU STUPID LITTLE BITCH!" Rosalie screamed and such was the force of the scream that she felt a pane of glass in Charlie Swan's back door shatter. Jacob who was still dealing with rousing a fainting Bella nearly dropped her in shock. Such was the force of his yell that he stopped his habitual shaking whenever she came near.

"DO NOT PUT THIS ON ME, I SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE"

"AND YET YOU ARE"

"AND WHOSE FAULT IS THAT?"

"IT—ROSALIE THEY ARE GOING TO KILL HIM DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT, HE IS GOING THERE TO DIE AND I CANNOT LET HIM, I CANNOT LET HIM DIE BECAUSE OF MY MISTAKE SO PLEASE, PLEASE JUST GO AFTER HIM AND DO YOUR BEST TO STOP HIM"

"And if I can't?"

She lowered her voice and she bit her bottom lip so hard it nearly cracked.

"If I can't Alice what then? I die with him? Or do I take Bella home and skip back to Vancouver and we live happily ever after? This should have never been allowed to get his far, this should have never…someone should have spoken to him months ago and gotten this sorted, we should have not indulged this behaviour, Carlisle and Esme should have made sure that this was not the threat that it has been, I wasn't being petty and vindictive Alice this was always a possibility and the second he left her—"

"Rosalie I am aware that this should have been dealt with" Alice said and she sounded tired and lost and broken and scared and Rosalie felt just the same even though she did not know how the hell the two of them were supposed to do this. How she was supposed to take this human and pull this off.

"Is Emmett there?"

"No, he and Carlisle are out hunting, I sent Esme to find them and also Jasper has gone to get them back but—"

"He doesn't follow me" she said decision made and she heard Alice sob over the phone.

"He doesn't follow me Alice I don't care what you have to do if I hear Emmett is on his way to Italy I am turning back and coming straight home to meet him and Edward can quite literally turn into a pile of ashes."

"Rosalie—"

"It has not occurred to you at all to apologise to me for this mess you have stuck me in" Rosalie said and her voice was cold as ice. "And I know why, I am not some bitch with no feelings, I am worth just as much as you and Edward despite the fact that lightening cannot shoot out of my tits. When this is over if I come out of this alive you and I are done"

And with that she snapped the phone shut and turned to find Jacob Black practically about to spring into action and Bella sat leaning heavily on him looking at her with tears in her eyes.

Rosalie ground her teeth together and then launched into the story.

By the time she was done Bella looked as if she was on the verge of the brink.

"So what does Alice say?" she said finally. "She wants me to come with you and stop him or…"

"If I was to run up to him and scream at the top of my lungs and the top of my thoughts that you were alive he would think it was a ruse and he would react as such" she explained. "If he sees you—I cannot blame her for thinking it's the only way Bella but you don't have to go"

"Of course I will go"

"I cannot ask you"

"Ask me"

"He didn't want you anymore" Jacob Black said looking at Bella as if she was speaking in a different language. "He left you and he didn't…he didn't want you anymore and now you want to what, walk into Leach Central like you're the wine course?"

"Yes" Bella said and there was nothing in her tone that told Rosalie she was going to change her mind.

"Do you have a passport?"

"Yes"

"I…Bella I…I really cannot believe that I am asking you…"

"Your not" Bella said shaking her head some of the colour coming back to her cheeks, "You're not Rosalie I promise you, I have to do this, I have to do this for…" she physically stumbled across his name and then carried on regardless.

"He cannot die, I cannot let him die and if you don't take me then I will go myself."

Well, Rosalie thought, you had to admire her resistance if nothing else.

"Okay" she said hating every word that was coming out of her mouth. "I will go get my car get what you need"

Secretly she hoped that the dog would do his best to talk her out of it but by the time she got the car around and was in front of the house Bella was climbing in.

Out of the corner of her rear view mirror she thought she saw a blur of tan skin and brown jean shorts explode out of the back door but she didn't stop to pause. She had committed to this she was going to have to see it through regardless of weather or not she wanted to and so for that reason and for that reason alone she put the car into drive and drove away from the little house with the human and the werewolf in the back garden and she did not think of her husband or how the hell she was going to explain this to him (she did not envy being in Emmett's general vicinity or being Alice full stop when he got this news), at all.

And so, we begin.


And yeah, next chapter we get real into it.

Next Chapter-Emmett's point of view. Emmett finds out that his wife is on his way to Italy and loses his temper. Alice better run because she can't hide and Carlisle gets a shock. Otherwise known as Emmett says all that the reader wishes he'd said in the book.