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.
Please Read and Review.
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.
I have realised that I had forgotten my little quote at the start of the last three chapters. Below you will find two quotes for Chapter 8 and Chapter 9 and one for Chapter 10. My apologies for my mistake it will not happen again.
Spheres Of Influence
Chapter 10-Shouldn't Have Been Alone.
Rosalie, Edward, Bella and the Volturi come face to face. Part One.
"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone; we find it with another." Thomas Merton (Chapter 8)
"We do not suffer from the shock of our trauma, but we make out of it just what suits our purposes." Alfred Adler (Chapter 9)
"People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it." Walter Langer (Chapter 10)
They had a sense of beauty she supposed. A sense of pageantry, a sense of beauty and stunning behaviour. They were deadly of course but beautiful. Maybe that was the point though. They were vampires. Beauty and death was part of the genetic make up. It was how they got by in the world. It was how they got food for a start. It was how humans fell in love with them. It was how they made each day mean something. Humanity's greatest weakness. Falling in love with the monsters.
The two guards had clearly not been expecting her. She didn't know who they were, she didn't know names and clearly she was not going to get any help from Edward who was staring at her as if she had just jumped out of a ten layered cake and started doing the can-can. Bella was clinging to him and Rosalie wondered for a second how much of the talk she had given Bella on the plane ride over here she had actually listened too. She saw Edward's eyes widen slightly and she resisted the urge to grin. She didn't know why she found that funny when it was so very, very clear that she was going to die but if you didn't find this funny then quite frankly you weren't having enough fun in show business.
One of the guards was looking at her in a way that reminded her far too much of her ex-fiancé and she ignored him completely turning to the other one who seemed to at least be well mannered.
"Perhaps we should remove this conversation to a more appropriate venue" he said smoothly looking at her and she smiled her face taking on the empty vapid look that had once turned Royce on and that Emmett had once told her he never wanted to see on her face again.
"Perhaps we should," she said simpering. "But Bella doesn't need to be here for this surely? As Aro was already aware that she knew our secret and then surely she doesn't need to be here? No laws were broken as you have already attested? Perhaps if I went along with you I could explain that too your Masters and then this could all be done in time for dinner?"
"You angling for an invite sweetheart?"
Rosalie threw the other one a hard fast look.
"You wish"
Blonde guard snorted and she thought she had to win brownie points for that if nothing else. He opened his mouth and then Edward groaned softly under his breath and Rosalie was about to ask just what he was on about now when she heard little footsteps coming down the courtyard.
The vampire was female but small, smaller than Alice and her footsteps reflected the same. Her blonde hair was short and tied back off her face and looking at her Rosalie thought she had never seen someone so ugly both inside and out. There was nothing in this girl's features that even immortality had saved and then she remembered Carlisle telling them about the twins that Aro had acquired all those years ago and she titled her head to the side at Edward thinking…
"Jane? The one that can cause pain?"
Edward nodded the very picture of defeat and Rosalie knew why, there had been very little chance that they would get out of this anyway but now it was looking more and more unlikely. They were going to have to follow this Jane or she would make them pay and despite what Emmett had said about maybe this was the best she could hope for Rosalie was not one to walk willingly into pain. Unless it was for her husband and then that was something else entirely. But right now if it was a choice between co-operate or be slaughtered she was choosing the co-operating part of her.
Besides…did they even have a chance before?
Wasn't it always going to be this way?
She swallowed down the venom pooling in her mouth and smiled.
"Jane" Edward deadpanned.
"Aro sent me to see what was taking so long. He wants to see you. The human included"
"Fantastic" she muttered before she could stop herself and Jane shot Rosalie a look that told her that at the whisper of a command Rosalie was going to find herself flat on her back screaming in pain. Rosalie was (mostly) unafraid. She had done the whole screaming in pain thing before and she was almost certain that nothing was going to be more painful than what she had experienced in her human life.
But there was no other choice but to follow and so follow they did.
"Rosalie?"
"Yes Edward?"
"Not that I am not happy that you are here but…why are you here?"
"Because I was in Forks when all of this kicked off"
"Why?"
"My lilac cashmere sweater"
"I told you I didn't want—"
"Edward" she said turning to face him. Bella was still staring at Edward as if she was struck dumb by his very presence. "Are you really going to fucking start that with me now? Are you really, really going to treat me like I am the one who has done something wrong? Do you want me to go into the many, many ways in which this entire nightmare could have been avoided if I don't know you'd have just picked up the fucking phone?"
Edward turned to look at her for a second and then nodded.
"Apologies"
"I'd say drop dead but it's never been appropriate"
He flicked a smile at her as they stepped out of the elevator into the hotel and she saw the human woman step up when she saw Jane and the other two and she raised an eyebrow at Edward who very pointedly did not look at her.
"Does she know?" Bella asked.
"Yes" Edward said through tightly gritted teeth.
"Then how—" and then suddenly it must have hit Bella because she nodded if only to herself and shot a look backwards a the human woman, Giana who was also looking at Bella and it was as if the two woman had, had a revelation about the other one.
"She wants to be" Bella said quietly and Rosalie sighed even as the guards chimed in with their opinions.
Was everyone desperate to be a vampire these days? Honestly did Giana and Bella both understand what they were giving up. Didn't they understand that there was consequences to actions such as these? Didn't they understand that once the teeth were in you there was no going back. None.
What was the sudden rush to end human life?
Edward snorted once and she shot him another look as they dropped underground. Right now she did not need Edward to think that she agreed to him. She wanted to scratch the fucker's eyes out.
Emmett was…fuck he is hysterical right now do doubt, she thought bitterly and she watched as the smile dropped off Edward's face.
Good.
She was furious with him. She was honestly so furious with him she wanted to do this Aro's job for him. She wanted to scream and shake him because love him as she did he was so beyond selfish.
Did you think about Emmett? Or Jasper? Or Carlisle? Or Esme? Did you even think about your favourite little sister Alice? Did you think about any of us? Did you think that maybe, maybe Alice might not be as infallible as you like to believe that she is? Did you think that all of this might have been avoided if you'd have gone to see her? You didn't even have to make yourself seen? So many things you could have done and you have done this. I really do not know how you are going to look everyone in the eye when this is over. Emmett is going to give you a reason to run back here when he is done with you. That is of course assuming we will make it out alive.
She ended her mental rant because Bella had stopped dead. Rosalie paused and looked down and Oh Goodie, she thought sarcastically, they were going to have to jump through a dark, dank, hole in the sewers.
"Couldn't have gotten a front door like normal vampires?" she asked into the quiet of the collective people and blonde vampire who was not Jane grinned again at her as if he found her genuinely amusing. Dark haired male vampire was too busy staring at her ass and he looked as if he was going for a pat (being as good looking as she was—and despite what Edward and Alice said that was not vanity speaking rather truth) gave one a sixth sense on things like that and she turned around blonde hair whipping into Jane's face and Edward took the opening to whisper in Bella's ear.
"Try it sunshine and you'll be wanking with your feet"
Blonde male vampire was now opening laughing. "My dear" he said as Rosalie shot the other one a poisonous look. "You are truly something else, please tell me that your sarcasm and wit is appreciated in your…family"
"Is yours?"
She got a sad fake ass kind of sigh in response that had both Jane and the other vampire shooting him looks that she too had sent her siblings upon occasion. She was beginning to wonder if despite everything the Volturi was kind of like one big family at least within the guard. Maybe it was not the same kind of love and loyalty that Carlisle had inspired within them but it was something. Maybe it didn't make a difference, maybe it did.
Did it matter when they weren't going to be alive after this? Did any of it matter?
"Which one of you is going first?"
Rosalie turned to look at Edward who was looking at her in that expectant way that she hated. He had looked like that when he had first brought Bella to the house and she had been the evil bitch would wouldn't welcome the human with open arms. She raised an eyebrow because surely catching Bella was all that Edward did on a day to day basis before this so why not do it now?
"No" Edward said and then he shot a bland look to Jane and she understood. He didn't want to leave Bella alone with the vampires. He wasn't what? Banking on her saving her if they chose to strike?"
"Not that" he said and then he nodded and Rosalie sighed jumping through the hole and then letting him dangle Bella like a child through it. She went easily enough and Rosalie caught her and deposited her back on her feet but Bella all but skipped back to Edward's arms. Rosalie looked at the two of them and honestly wondered why on Earth she had bothered in the first place. It didn't matter did it? Didn't matter that Edward was always going to be Edward and was always going to think that he knew what was best? She almost felt sorry for poor Jacob Black.
Edward shot her a confused look but she didn't think much on it. He'd hear the story from Bella no doubt and then he would pat Bella on the head and tell her to stop seeing her scary friend and when that didn't work he would just stick Alice on her and…
"Jesus" Edward said stopping and causing the guards to stop with them looking confused at the mental conversation that was taking place around them.
"I am not that bad you know" he said turning to Rosalie.
"Sure" she said picking up the pace so that Edward had to trail behind her dragging Bella by the arm. "Keep letting Alice tell you that Edward. But the two of you are kidding yourselves and yourselves only"
"Can we not have this conversation now?"
"Works for me"
"What are the two of you on about?" blonde male vampire said looking between the three of them with confusion in his face.
"Nothing you want to know about" Rosalie snapped. It was amazing how she and Edward worked she thought. Here they were being walked to their death and they were still finding time to have an argument. She wondered what Emmett would make of that and then she remembered that she would more than likely never see Emmett again and that was enough of a thought to send her to her knees.
She did stumble once and Edward was suddenly there and his other hand found hers even as her eyes closed and her feet stopped.
"Oh for the love of—let me show you what happens if we stop again—"
"Jane give her a moment please, we are co-operating here"
Jane hissed through her teeth and Edward bent to whisper in her ear.
"Come on, you can do it. You can't let them see the Ice Queen melt. Your Rosalie Hale for crying out loud! Come on you can do this. Don't think about him, your gonna need to carry on for just a bit longer"
She nodded and his hand squeezed hers and she found that even though seconds ago they had been at each other's throats she was clinging to him and him to her. She had never stopped to consider that Edward too might be afraid. He was masking for Bella but he couldn't mask for her and so she took a breath she technically didn't need and she nodded lifted her head and shook back her hair and smiled her winning smile at both vampires. The dark haired one looked at her with a lusty smile she wanted to punch clean off his face.
"Deepest apologies" she said in that simpering tone she had seen her mother employ at dinners when she was a girl and the host would be talking down to her because they weren't as rich. For the life of her she could never get why her mother had put up with it but she supposed it was horses for courses at the end.
"Thank you for your patience, we can carry on now"
Jane mashed her teeth at the fact that she had dominated most of the conversation and Rosalie didn't look at her as they carried on walking throwing her into the shade as she carried on walking. She was Rosalie Hale and if she kept her hand in Edwards and ran her engagement ring and her wedding ring around her other hand then that was entirely between her and…well…Edward really.
She carried on walking and soon they were being let into a room where the brightness even to her was jarring.
And she knew even without the pressure Edward suddenly put on her hand that this was the moment that they had been waiting for and the fight for their lives had just reached fever pitch.
And there you go, I hope you enjoy this chapter, we now only have seven chapters left of this story so I hope you enjoy.
Next Chapter-Rosalie, Bella and Edward meet Aro, Marcus and Caius, Felix makes his stand and Bella appears immune. AKA Part 2 of the Cullen's meet the Volturi.
