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 4-Headlong Towards Disaster.
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.
"Loss and possession, death and life are one. There falls no shadow where the there shines no sun" Hilaire Belloc
For a second he was sure everything had stopped. The birds in the sky had stopped. The sun in the sky had stopped shining and the air around them had stopped as if aware of the nightmare that was going to unfold before them the second Emmett got control of his faculties because for one endless, beautiful second his entire being had stopped and he had been unaware of anything and everything that had been happening.
And then it all came slamming back into him and he swallowed even though he didn't need to and when he spoke such was the tone of his voice that Carlisle who had been watching him with heartbreak in his golden eyes suddenly came to stand by his side as if he needed the support—or the restraint. Emmett didn't know which one it was nor did he care quite frankly. His brain was still playing catch up and his eyes were on the miserable excuse of a vampire in front of him who could not meet his.
That was what made it worse. Anyone else would have at least tried. God knows both Jasper and Emmett would have done.
"I'm sorry" he said and he was honestly surprised, as if he was watching this from a distance, with how calm his voice was because calm was the furthest from what he felt right now and he knew Jasper was good but nobody was that good.
"I'm sorry Alice could you tell me that again please? And you know look me in the eye while you do"
The last bit came out in a snarl and Jasper shot him a look but so help him if Jasper even tried to get involved then Emmett was going to snap. Alice had the gift of foresight. She should know how this was going to end up the second she had put her god-awful plan in motion.
Alice sighed and then she looked up to meet his eyes and Emmett had the absurd, obscene notion that she was tired with what was going on and the urge to reach out and snap her neck into pieces between his thick hands and what as she begged for a mercy that was never going to come.
"Edward is under the impression that Bella killed herself—"
"No I got that part" Emmett said and he could truly understand it even if he thought it was a hideous, selfish thing to do. He had no truck for people who did that, no truck for Edward in this position. He might have done the same thing if it was Rosalie but the difference was he and Rosalie had been guaranteed immortality, they had been guaranteed forever. Edward had known that unless he turned Bella he was going to be on a shelf life. To put them all through this was unspeakably cruel and unbelievably selfish.
"I got that part Alice" he said again and he could feel the tenuous grip on his emotions slip and he could feel the rope holding him back slip out of his fingers and whatever Jasper was throwing at him was rolling off him in waves without any affect whatsoever.
"It's the other part that I am struggling to wrap my brain around—"
"Emmett" and he could hear the desperation creeping into his sister's tone and once upon a time it would have made him feel…something…anything…but this time it didn't register. It didn't register at all. All that came was just the anger and he was holding that back like a man held back the waves of the ocean. It was beginning to slip through his fingers and the tsunami that followed would be brutal in ways that nothing else would come close to.
"Emmett we had to try"
"We?"
"We—I—what does it matter? Either way we had to try, we had…we had to try…if Rosalie can get Bella to Edward then maybe we can stop him, I think that might be the only thing that does and yes I know there are pitfalls to the plan but—"
And that was the moment that he snapped. And when he snapped he snapped.
Emmett had never done anything by halves. He didn't need a fancy gift to be frightening.
He had been frightening even when he had been human.
Only this was the one time that he wanted everyone to fear him.
"PITFALLS?" he roared. "PITFALLS? YOU SEND A HUMAN AND MY WIFE, MY WIFE TO VOLTERRA AND YOU THINK THERE MIGHT BE PITFALLS?"
"Emmett" Carlisle said his hand on his chest but Emmett didn't care. He didn't care about the soothing tone that was coming out of his father's throat. He didn't…this had happened because Carlisle had been too indulgent of Edward and Alice. Fuck everyone else and maybe it was his anger that was making him irrational but he couldn't stop the runaway train that had now left the station with bells on.
"Emmett if you can think of another way to save Edward—"
"I DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT EDWARD YOU STUPID LITTLE FREAK!" he snarled and this time she took a step backwards as if the full force of his anger had hit him. Jasper too doubled back and Edward knew that it was because the full force of his anger had hit him and there was nothing else that he could do but let it wash over him. Emmett knew that he was too far gone to be stopped and he ran towards the red mist because if he didn't have the red mist then he was going to disintegrate on the floor and nothing anyone was going to do would stop him.
Only one person could stop him and she was not here.
"I DON'T GIVE A SHIT—WHY—WHY WOULD YOU SEND MY WIFE ON A SUCICIDE MISSION! DO YOU NOT GET THAT EDWARD HAS SIGNED HIS DEATH WARRANT ALICE?! HE DID THAT MONTHS AGO WHEN HE BROUGHT BELLA HOME, HELL ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE HAD WAS THAT THE VOLTURI WOULDN'T LIKE IT! WE ALL KNEW THIS WAS HOW IT WAS GOING TO END THOSE OF US WITH BRAINS ANYWAY AND YOU SEND MY WIFE…MY…ROSALIE TO THE VOLTURI WITH BELLA IN AN ATTEMPT TO DO WHAT? DO YOU NOT REALISE THAT SHE IS AN ACCOMPLICE BRINGING DINNER TO THESE MONSTERS!"
"I HAD TO TRY" Alice screeched back but Emmett just snapped. He went for her with both hands outstretched and Alice screamed jumping back into Jasper's arms and Carlisle got there first. Come to think of it, it was only the fact that he could not hurt Carlisle and Esme that stopped him. Esme who was watching with her hands clapped over her mouth at the complete and utter disintegration of her family and Carlisle who finally managed to push him back away from Alice but who was keeping a great deal of considerable force on keeping him back.
"WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?" She shouted back at him and Emmett scoffed.
"I DON'T KNOW ALICE, YOU'RE THE ONE WHO RAMS THE FACT THAT YOU CAN SEE THE FUTURE DOWN OUR THROATS EVERY TEN SECONDS YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE DONE? I WOUDLNT HAVE SENT BELLA TO ITALY AND I WOUDLNT HAVE SENT ROSALIE I KNOW THAT MUCH. NEITHER ONE OF THEM KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE VOLTURI! IF EDWARD MEANS SO MUCH TO YOU WHY DON'T YOU GO?"
She opened her mouth but Emmett had gotten there first. This was the tip of the iceberg and it was all pouring out. He had stayed silent for so long because Emmett had never wanted to be that guy who smashed faces in for his wife. Rosalie was more than capable of giving as good as she got as far as Edward and Alice were concerned and he had genuinely liked Bella to boot and being a romantic he had kinda wanted to see where it went…to see Edward happy but in doing so he had let the slurs and the comments and the eyerolls and the expectation that his wife wouldn't care or didn't want to be a part of somethings slide and it was too much to bare anymore. Had he been a braver man he would have done this sooner, maybe if he had they wouldn't be where they were now.
"YOU SENT ROSALIE BECAUSE TO YOU SHE IS DISPOSABLE. TO ALL OF YOU SHE IS DISPOSABLE"
It hung there in the air and he watched as Alice's face cracked in two. He didn't have it in him to feel like a dick. He knew, Emmett knew in the same way he knew the difference between good and evil, right and wrong, black and white that he had dropped a grenade into the family and he knew that it would take ages before they could come back from this moment. Had it been anyone else he might have been upset, but it was Rosalie and there was nothing he wouldn't do and nobody he wouldn't hurt to have her standing back with him side by side, their hands linked ready to face the uncertain future.
"I have never thought—"
"DO NOT LIE ALICE. DO NOT FUCKING LIE TO ME RIGHT NOW! YOU HAVE CONSISTANTLY PUSHED AND PRODDED AND BULLIED MY WIFE BECAUSE SHE HAD RESERVATIONS ABOUT BELLA! YOU HAVE TREATED HER LIKE A LOST CAUSE BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T SEE WHAT YOU SAW! AND YOU SENT HER TO VOLTERRA AFTER BULLYING HER INTO GOING TO THAT WOMAN'S HOUSE IN THE FIRST PLACE! YOU DO NOT GET TO STAND HERE IN FRONT OF ME AND SAY THAT YOU ARE THE INNOCENT PARTY HERE!"
The snarl that had escaped him was almost inhuman and Emmett knew he had to get out of there. He switched his gaze to Jasper who was watching him with wide eyes and Jasper answered his question without him even having to ask.
"She's in the air, even if you ran you'd be behind her"
"You waited until she was in the air to tell me" he said and Jasper couldn't say anything. Maybe he was just relieved that he had stopped shouted.
He shoved off Carlisle's arm and took a step forwards and Alice couldn't meet his eyes and he felt his lip curl with hatred for her, for Edward and for the helplessness that was threatening to choke him.
"You stand here in your superiority and judge my wife for being cautious" he hissed into the silent room. "And you cannot even look me in the fucking eyes as you send her to her death. You are the most pitiful creature that has ever walked this Earth Alice Cullen, you and Edward both."
She met his eyes then and he couldn't…he had to curl her hands into fists because if he didn't he would strike her and McCarthy men did not hit woman. It was the only thing he could remember from his human father. All the other memories had faded with time.
He'd had Rosalie.
There was nothing left to cling to.
Not really.
"If Rosalie gets out of this alive I am taking her and getting as far away from you all as possible and I swear to God we are never coming back. You want Bella, you can have her"
And with that he turned on his heel and walked out the door slamming it shut with enough force the glass fell through.
"Emmett"
"Go back to your special children Carlisle, you have always put them first over Rosalie and me so don't change the habit of a lifetime because one of them is about to be killed by all means—"
It was a cheap shot and he knew it but suddenly the knowledge that Rosalie could die hit him and he felt the terrible gasping panic crawl up his throat and threaten to expel out of him and he couldn't…he couldn't…he couldn't do helplessness, he couldn't do this kind of helplessness, he had never felt like this, this powerless, this alone, this scared before. He was a vampire, he was the deadliest creature to ever walk the Earth and here he was scared out of his mind because the woman he loved more than anything in the world, more than the world itself was…
He started running half aware of what he was doing and totally unaware of where he was going and because he was so out of his mind he didn't realise that he was being followed.
But Carlisle was Carlisle and Carlisle was never going to lose three of his children if he could avoid it and so Carlisle was following him and Emmett ran blindly trying to block out the grief and the pain and the agony that was tearing him apart and his father was following as a father would follow a son in pain determined to comfort even when his heart was breaking himself.
So this was Emmett saying what needed to be said. And It really did need to be said because the way the Cullens treat Emmett and Rosalie (I'm sorry-internal screaming)
Next Chapter-Emmett and Carlisle share a moment as reality crashes down on both of them.
