Because You Live
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S through Z › Twilight Series › AU/AR › Het
Rating:
Adult ++
Chapters:
6
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4,282
Reviews:
4
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Currently Reading:
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Nightmare
Prologue
"NO!" I screamed as Victoria came towards me, her black eyes glaring at me hatefully. Edward shoved me to the ground hard and pounced on her. He tore her apart and threw her in the bonfire, and then everything happened so fast. One of the newborns pounced on him before the wolves could get to him. I screamed as I saw the love of my life being torn apart. Just as the last bit of smoke cleared, I saw Jasper and Emmett step in and finish off the last newborn.
I sank to the ground, realizing that not only was Edward dead, but so was Esme. Carlisle's Esme, the mother figure of the Cullen coven. I wrapped my arms around my torso and let the guilt wash over me, and then everything went black.
Chapter 1
"NO!" I screamed, thrashing around. I was being restrained somehow. The cold arms around me felt like iron bars, and I struggled against them.
"Bella, shhh, it's okay," a soft voice murmured. My eyes snapped open and I stared into a pair of golden eyes.
"Carlisle?" I asked in confusion.
"I'm here, Bella, I won't leave you."
Ever since the newborn attack led by Victoria, I'd been having nightmares. My Edward was dead, and nothing would bring him back. Vampires didn't come back from the dead. Unlike a human who could come back as a vampire if another vampire changed them, once a vampire was dead that was it, it was over forever.
I wasn't the only one suffering, Carlisle had lost Esme too. The entire Cullen family had been torn apart. Alice and Jasper spent a lot of time in their room, as did Emmett and Rosalie. My father was a little glad that I wasn't leaving anytime soon.
This summer I would have married Edward and gone to Dartmouth college in the fall, and then I would have become a vampire. Now my plans had changed. I decided to go to the University of Washington in Seattle and try to live my life normally. Yeah, like my life would ever be normal again. I had fallen in love with a vampire, my best friend was a werewolf, and I had wanted to become a vampire.
"How did you get in my room?" I asked, looking around in confusion. Carlisle ran a hand through his blonde hair and sighed.
"The window." Somehow the idea of Carlisle coming through my window made me furrow my brow in confusion.
"I might be over 300 years old, but I'm still as agile and limber as the next vampire," he said, smiling briefly. I just rolled my eyes. I'd never seen him as anything but Edward's "father", he had been changed into a vampire when he was 23, but he told everyone he was in his 30s. He just seemed to be too mature for 23.
"Bella, I'm sorry, I'll go if you're feeling uncomfortable." He started to pull away from me, but I wrapped my arms around his neck and buried my face in his neck.
"Don't go, stay with me please." I was trying to keep myself from crying, and I didn't realize my cheeks were wet until I felt him brush them away.
"Shh, Isabella, I'll be here until you send me away." I lay back down, still wrapped up in his arms, breathing in his scent. Somehow sleeping next to him seemed to keep the nightmares at bay.
"NO!" I screamed as Victoria came towards me, her black eyes glaring at me hatefully. Edward shoved me to the ground hard and pounced on her. He tore her apart and threw her in the bonfire, and then everything happened so fast. One of the newborns pounced on him before the wolves could get to him. I screamed as I saw the love of my life being torn apart. Just as the last bit of smoke cleared, I saw Jasper and Emmett step in and finish off the last newborn.
I sank to the ground, realizing that not only was Edward dead, but so was Esme. Carlisle's Esme, the mother figure of the Cullen coven. I wrapped my arms around my torso and let the guilt wash over me, and then everything went black.
Chapter 1
"NO!" I screamed, thrashing around. I was being restrained somehow. The cold arms around me felt like iron bars, and I struggled against them.
"Bella, shhh, it's okay," a soft voice murmured. My eyes snapped open and I stared into a pair of golden eyes.
"Carlisle?" I asked in confusion.
"I'm here, Bella, I won't leave you."
Ever since the newborn attack led by Victoria, I'd been having nightmares. My Edward was dead, and nothing would bring him back. Vampires didn't come back from the dead. Unlike a human who could come back as a vampire if another vampire changed them, once a vampire was dead that was it, it was over forever.
I wasn't the only one suffering, Carlisle had lost Esme too. The entire Cullen family had been torn apart. Alice and Jasper spent a lot of time in their room, as did Emmett and Rosalie. My father was a little glad that I wasn't leaving anytime soon.
This summer I would have married Edward and gone to Dartmouth college in the fall, and then I would have become a vampire. Now my plans had changed. I decided to go to the University of Washington in Seattle and try to live my life normally. Yeah, like my life would ever be normal again. I had fallen in love with a vampire, my best friend was a werewolf, and I had wanted to become a vampire.
"How did you get in my room?" I asked, looking around in confusion. Carlisle ran a hand through his blonde hair and sighed.
"The window." Somehow the idea of Carlisle coming through my window made me furrow my brow in confusion.
"I might be over 300 years old, but I'm still as agile and limber as the next vampire," he said, smiling briefly. I just rolled my eyes. I'd never seen him as anything but Edward's "father", he had been changed into a vampire when he was 23, but he told everyone he was in his 30s. He just seemed to be too mature for 23.
"Bella, I'm sorry, I'll go if you're feeling uncomfortable." He started to pull away from me, but I wrapped my arms around his neck and buried my face in his neck.
"Don't go, stay with me please." I was trying to keep myself from crying, and I didn't realize my cheeks were wet until I felt him brush them away.
"Shh, Isabella, I'll be here until you send me away." I lay back down, still wrapped up in his arms, breathing in his scent. Somehow sleeping next to him seemed to keep the nightmares at bay.