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.

Also my opinion on Rosalie's parents should be pretty clear in this chapter. In case it's not. I don't like them.


Spheres Of Influences

Chapter 8-Every Scar Tells A Story

Rosalie tells Bella her story as she tries to show Bella another path. And when then they land in Italy, she gets another phone call.


"Rosalie?"

"What?"

"Can I…can I ask some questions please?"

Rosalie turned her head. It was dark outside she was sure of it. Emmett was long gone from her and she was flying into what she thought was certain death with a human who now wanted to ask questions.

Well…in for a penny she supposed.

"What do you want to know?"

"Well…why do you need a Volturi, Edward said you had rules and he explained that one of them was to keep the population from finding out vampires but I don't understand, what harm could I do, you don't think that even if I had, have told anyone what you guys were people would have listened to me?"

"No" Rosalie conceded because that had been Emmett's argument throughout the entirety of last year had been that.

"It wasn't about…if a human knows about us the message is sent throughout the vampire community of the consequences. One coven member is usually saved to tell the tale. The rest are usually wiped out. The Volturi's idea of justice differs from yours, there is no kind of trial, no kind of jury. The decision has already been made before the guard even arrive. And make no mistake Bella the guard have tricks up their sleeves that make what Edward and Alice do look like party tricks. The Volturi don't take on anyone other than the best and they don't want to".

Bella was silent for a moment and then…

"And Edward is going to go into their city to break their most sacred law"

She got it then.

"I'm surprised by how much you know" she said finally. "I didn't think it was something that Edward had told you about. I thought that I would have to explain it all too you there and then in your living room with the dog."

"He told me he planned on doing it if James had killed me" she whispered looking down at her hands and Rosalie looked at her and felt both very old and very tired. For an immortal being that was saying something when you though of it.

"He thought Emmett and Jasper wouldn't help"

"Well he got that right" she said and then before she could stop the bitterness that was overflowing.

"No way that Alice would have lost her precious brother"

Maybe it was bitter because Bella looked at her in surprise and Rosalie shrugged thinking with a sinking kind of feeling that she was now going to have to explain herself.

"It's just…you wouldn't see it because you don't see behind the scenes but sometimes…Carlisle and Esme depend on Alice and Edward very much. Jasper too but mostly Alice and Edward. They depend on them too much. Case in point right here and now. I don't know what Alice was thinking telling him that you were dead. To be honest I don't know if Alice thinks in general. She's so hampered in by her gift…I don't think it every was thought of a possibility that she might be wrong, that the wolves might tamper with her sight. But she has her gift and…and Carlisle and Esme—"

"They love you" Bella said and Rosalie rolled her eyes because it was not that simple, simple girl.

"Maybe" she said because one could not. not acknowledge that she was right when it came to Carlisle and Esme's love but it wasn't about love and it was not that simple and until the years had been walked in and the experiences had been dealt there was no way that this girl next to her, this simple human girl whose father loved her beyond words that he could not express understood it then she was never going to be anything other than an hindrance.

"You're a simple girl Bella"

Bella frowned and Rosalie frowned too because yeah even she could acknowledge that, that had come off a bit too harsh.

"I mean…you live a very simple life. For the rest of us it's not…it's not that easy. Carlisle and Esme love us that much is true, but they depend on Alice and Edward more. You've seen it, you've see what happens if one of us raises a disagreement that doesn't side with them. I imagine I have been portrayed to you as vain, shallow, jealous, coveting your humanity like some villain in a Bond movie? Edward acts like this life is a burden to him but it's not, not really, the real burden is paid by us. And he has a wonderful way of pretending…pretending that he doesn't see the signs that are right in front of him until it's too late and when he does it's everyone's fault but his. If he had loved you Bella, if he had really, truly loved you he would not have put you through this, everyone knew that you were in too deep, everyone knew that you would not recover from this, he allowed you to orbit his solar system for too long, he allowed you to fall in love with him, the lamb in love with the lion and then he snatched it all away and now this…he doesn't think it through, think the consequences of his actions through. Problem is he and Alice are so close that he depends on her for advice. If she says a plan is good or an option exists that he likes then he is going to back it regardless…case in point this."

"He was never going to bite me" Bella argued. "But Alice saw me as one of you"

"Yes, and he was opposed to that for reasons I do not understand. Consent in decisions such as this is key. I don't agree with it, if you come to me for a bite you won't get it, mainly because I don't know how to not kill you but, but everyone knew that it was more than likely going to be the second option especially when you came out of that clearing with him alive the day he told you what he was. The day he showed you what he looked like in the sunlight. Edward's got this wonderful way of ignoring all of the signs, ignoring the advice and then looking around at the wreckage wondering what's happened and why nobody warned him"

Bella shook her head and Rosalie sighed. She didn't expect Bella to even begin to understand. Edward and Alice were a pairing you had to have at least a good decade under your belt before you began to despise.

"If he lives through this and you take him back the first thing that will have to go is that dog" she said trying to get Bella to see. "He will use every weapon in his arsenal, he knows how you work and how much you want him. He won't even negotiate. And then he will have Alice watching, the second you disappear from her vision he will come over and then he will distract you before you have even left the house, he will rip out your car, stand in front of the door, monitor your phone calls. He will break the treaty and he will make it all rest on you. he will tell you it is because he loves you. That Alice spies on you because she cares, and she will, she won't see that it is anything wrong. She can't. She has no experience of relationships outside Jasper and while I would not call Jasper a doormat he and she both know who rules the roost in that relationship"

Bella blinked, clearly she had not thought of that and Rosalie saw her opening to drive her point through and took it.

"That's how they work. I don't hate you Bella, I have complicated feelings about you because I don't believe you know half of what you are getting into mainly because Edward will not educate you. He likes you in this little box. He's from the 1900s he doesn't know what to do with a woman from your time, he doesn't know how to be in a relationship with any woman come to think of it. Alice is…Alice…Esme doesn't have to say what she thinks hell she hardly has to raise an eyebrow and I…we spar but I too came from an age where woman were supposed to fall into a nice little box and stay there. It would never occur to him that you might want to stay friends with Jacob Black, you are just the little human who doesn't understand that the wolves are dangerous, who doesn't understand that Edward spies and controls and Alice watches because she cares. And the tragedy is that neither one of them will ever realise that what they are doing is wrong, because they have been doing it so long unchecked. Do you understand that?"

Very slowly her brown eyes wide Bella nodded. Rosalie didn't know if it would change anything. She didn't know if it meant anything. If Bella Swan was still going to be Bella Swan. She would take Edward back but she hoped, she really, really hoped that when that inevitable thing happened (and it would, I mean come on they all knew it!) she hoped that Bella put her foot down and told Edward what her demands were and made the twisted twit learn to live with them. They had been in a one sided relationship for too long.

What was it that every teen idol was saying now?

I am woman. Here me roar.

"What…when you say that I have a choice…is that because you didn't?"

"Yes" Rosalie said sighing. "Nobody had a choice really, you are quite unique in a sense that you want this life. It's not the life that I would want" she let out a humourless chuckle. "Actually I would give it all up tomorrow if I could"

"Why?"

Rosalie turned to look at her. The plane was quite, everyone was either sleeping or had their headphones in. They were alone.

"How much did Edward tell you about what happened to me?"

She may as well take the plunge now, she thought. She had come this far after all.

Bella's eyes widened and then she looked at her hands and Rosalie suspected that Edward had told her something but not everything. Sometimes she wished he wouldn't do that. If Edward was going to tell Bella, better tell her the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Made it easier for times such as these.

"He told me that what nearly happened to me in Port Angeles was what happened to you"

Ah.

"Well…" she tapped her nail on the armrest for a second and then…

"I grew up in Rochester New York in the 1930s, 1933 to be exact., my family were well to do but not wealthy and they were what you would call a social climber. I had a nice life I suppose but it was installed into me that my beauty was a weapon, that I should use it to have more, my mother was a great believer in wanting more. She had three healthy children and when the Depression hit my father had managed to cling to his money but no…that wasn't enough for my mother and father" she said bitterly remembering. Even now she could close her eyes and remember.

"In my world orbit, in my parents world orbit there were a family, the King's. Royce Sr, Royce Jr, and his insipid wife. I won't bore you with the details but from thirteen onwards my mother and father seeing the full extent of how beautiful I would become—and I was a beautiful child Bella I don't call admitting that vanity—began to use it to their advantage. Royce was the prize and at seventeen he was caught. We went for four chaperoned walks before he popped the question. My wedding was to take place soon after I turned eighteen. I didn't know then that it also came with a business deal attached to it as well"

Bella was watching in silence and Rosalie sighed again.

"I didn't care" she confessed. "I didn't care. I…God he was the most handsomest, cleverest man in every room and people flocked to him. I thought it was because he was smart. It never occurred to me that it was because he was rich. I thought he was in love with me and not my looks but…anyway, I was eighteen and it might be hard for you to hear but at eighteen I wanted things, I wanted the nice house and the nice shiny kitchen with the modern appliances and the maid and the cook and the French linin. I wanted a husband who would kiss me when he came home and drop little boxes of jewels onto my lap. I wanted little blonde children…God Bella you cannot imagine how much I wanted children. Friends of mine had already begun to have them, at eighteen it was normal in 1933. I wanted them so badly…" she shook her head gripping down hard on the pain and trying to dispel the memory of Henry, sweet little dimpled Henry and the way that he had grabbed her long hair even as Vera had cooed at him to stop and the way that he had made her feel, all excited and longing for her own.

"It seems stupid looking back on it. I was walking home. I should have rang for my father but it seemed such a short walk. It was 1933. I had lived such a life that It had never occurred to me…Royce was, five men were with him, they were drunk, I made the stupid mistake of walking over to greet him when he called me over. There was five of them Bella. I couldn't have fought back even though I tried. Five of them…" she shook her head again and then.

"They raped me"

Bella inhaled sharply but said nothing.

"They weren't gentle about it, they rapped me and beat me and left me in the street thinking I was dead. It had frightened Royce you see, he had learnt his own power that night. God knows how much I wished that he had killed me. One of his friends from Georgia came close a couple of times. That's how Carlisle found me, he smelt all the blood. He…he knew it was Royce…well…Edward did from my thoughts but Carlisle had already…I don't think it ever occurred to him that I might want to die instead of becoming this. He explained it to me as I was screaming. When I woke up and realised what I was, what he had taken from me…old age, children, a life…it was a culture shock. Esme had never minded, I did. I wanted children. And a part of me felt like he had taken my last remaining choice from me too. The choice to die. The choice to die with my shame—"

"What shame?" Bella asked and her tone made Rosalie laugh.

"Bella it was 1933. Assuming I had survived everyone would have known. I could have shouted from the rooftops who it was and I doubt justice would have happened. My father would have wanted it all to go away, so would Royce, I would have been ruined and spoilt. I would have been considered at fault, and the easiest solution would have been for us to be married. His mother would have turned against me, you think your little High School world is hard my God woman you should have tried living in mine. It's not all Anne of Green Gables"

Bella nodded slowly her eyes wide in her white face.

"What happened to them though?"

Rosalie smiled and she saw Bella gulp and knew she must look like the savage that she had been back then.

"I went after them. Carlisle disapproved but…I think he knew that it had to be done. Edward was downright encouraging. It was the closest I think we have ever been. I didn't…I didn't drink from them, my record is very clean, I didn't want them…in me I suppose. Two of them were married, I killed them easily, made it look like a car accident and a suicide, one I left in the exact same spot that I was found in. I had one of the married men hang himself in Royce's factory workers dining room. John from Georgia…oh I had fun with him. He wrote out a confession and then I published it to his parents, to mine, to Royce's."

Bella looked nothing short of gobsmacked.

"Wasn't enough for dear old Sr though. I don't know if the old man knew it was me doing it but Royce did. I don't think he believed how but he made plans to ship him out to Africa, two guards outside a locked room. It was easy to get in there. I was…slightly theatrical back then. I wore a wedding dress. He screamed for hours and hours and hours"

"Good" Bella said and then. "If I had champagne Rosalie I would be toasting you"

Rosalie laughed and this time she genuinely meant it.

"What happened to your family, If you don't mind me asking?"

"Nothing, my brother and sister made quiet marriages, my father died in a car accident and my mother went soon afterwards. His father…I paid a visit too. I only wanted to show him what a monster he had raised, I told him what I had done to Royce…you see I had made it obvious what had happened but I had taken the body and made sure that it was never found again and I knew it was slowly killing the old man not knowing. He never did know. He had a heart attack that night and his mother didn't last long afterwards too. I think it was because she knew that everyone of those five men had families that knew the truth. I broke them, I broke them all. It was the best vengeance I have ever had."

"But you had Emmett."

"Yes. I found Emmett afterwards. And he is half the happy ending, but I will never grow old with Emmett. And that's what's so very hard for me. Emmett doesn't see it the way I do but…but if I am ever going to give you some advice Bella let it be this,…you don't get to take back this life. You don't get to undo the bell. You are eighteen years old. Think about what it truly means to give up humanity before you do it. This is not the life I would have chosen for me. And I wish someone had been there to stop Carlisle that night. Maybe I would have found Emmett anyway. I don't know. But I wish someone would have said to Carlisle maybe we should just let her go. I wish someone had said that this was my choice to make. I love Carlisle and I will not go into my relationship with him which is complicated I admit….but there is a lot more to this than my vanity"

Bella nodded and then leaned back in her seat.

"We are descending" she said quietly.

"I know"

"Thank you for telling me this Rosalie, I didn't…I am so sorry that this happened to you"

Rosalie swallowed. It was sincere, and so she could be magnanimous.

"Thank you Bella"

Bella's hand ghosted hers for a second but she didn't touch and Rosalie appreciated that in ways she couldn't fully express.

She closed her eyes as they made their descent into Italy and it was only when she got off the plane that her phone rang. Bella had gone to the bathroom and Rosalie flipped the phone to voicemail.

She had told Emmett to tell Alice to text. Right now she was too raw, to open, too exposed to speak to the woman who had put her on this path.

Alice's message came through seconds later.

Rosalie stared at it for a long time, or what felt like it anyway until Bella came back. She took one look at the message and blew out a breath.

Rosalie sympathised. It was quick and too the point but then again right now so was Alice.

They've told him no. He's going to step out in the sunlight at the clock tower at noon.

It wasn't a solution.

But it was a fucking start.


And yeah, someone had to explain to Bella about Edward and Jacob. Doubt it makes much of a difference.

Next Chapter-Rosalie and Bella arrive in Italy, it's a race to get to the clock tower, but that is only half the problem.