Legacy: A Twilight Fanfiction

Chapter Thirteen

Previously: This chapter involves discussion of rape and abortion. It is NOT graphic but is important to the plot. Just a warning but I cried while I wrote this...

Rosalie sat down, Alex's expression suddenly changed and nothing could have prepared her for was Alex was about to say.

"Last year, Drake forced me to have an abortion."

Rosalie's whole expression changed. For the first time since she woke up as a vampire, Rosalie actually felt the room spin for a minute. This was a fifteen year old, who'd been forced to have a abortion. Rosalie felt like her heart split into pieces, she wanted to throw up, she wanted to rip Drake's head off... In a few seconds, so many violent images of what she wanted to do to Drake passed through her mind.

"I'm sorry," Alex cried, making Rosalie freeze and wonder how much anger her expression must have showed. Rosalie told her how much she wanted children and now Alex thought she was mad about a forced abortion. Rosalie took the child into her arms. The anger began to melt away when she saw Alex's devastated face.

A child who was too young to know such pain existed.

"I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at it," Rosalie said as she rubbed Alex's back. Drake didn't deserve to be regarded as a human being in Rosalie's eyes.

"It's why he killed my mother. The police launched an investigation, he wanted to eliminate us from the picture," Alex sobbed as she remembered the doctor who did the procedure whispering that they were obligated to investigate any abortions under the age of 18.

"It's my fault my mother's dead! You should be mad!" Alex sobbed harder. For a second, Rosalie wasn't sure how to respond, except to hold the girl closer.

"That is not your fault. You didn't do anything wrong; Drake did. He was a monster, he did those things, not you! Don't you dare blame yourself for something that was forced upon you," she said, strongly. "And before you can say anything, the world is a far better place now that he isn't around to ruin it."

For about an hour, Rosalie held onto the small child as she cried out years worth of pain onto her shoulder. It was the most devastating thing she'd ever experienced and what's worse, is she knew all she could do was let the girl cry and just try to calm her if she became too hysterical.

There was nothing she could do to get rid of that kind of pain and heartache. This was something that needed to come out and as much as it hurt to watch, Rosalie knew this is what the child needed. Rosalie at points found herself crying along with the child.

When Alex finally began to calm down, Rosalie just handed her a kleenex but kept holding her incase another wave of tears came. When Jasper and Alice approached her about talking to Alex, she wasn't sure what to expect and she got a lot more than she'd expected. Jasper had said she was holding back emotions but Rosalie didn't even think Alice had seen such a heartbreaking confession coming out of Alex's mouth. She was surprised the child opened up to her but Jasper said, she was coming to a breaking point, whether she knew it or not.

Alice had wanted to be there, but her eyes were pitch black with thirst.

Alex's eyes were bloodshot from crying so much, Rosalie didn't know such a small person could hold so many tears.

"You okay now?" she asked, moving Alex's bangs off her warm forehead.

Alex nodded.

"I'm sorry for crying over you," Alex said, her voice cracking.

"I'm here for you anytime if you need a shoulder to cry on or someone to talk to.

I know Seth'll listen but I'm here if you want to really talk and try to help you make sense of everything. There are somethings its just better to talk to another woman about," she said.

Alex nodded and hugged Rosalie.

"I'll get you some water," Rosalie said, walking into the kitchen. Her phone beeped halfway to the sink. At vampire speed, she glanced at her phone.

Try Gatorade was the text Alice had sent her.

Rosalie grabbed a sports drink and went back to the living room. Alex looked exhausted, but she also looked like a child who had been through way too much. Like a child who had never experienced a mother's love and that's what this child desperately needed right now. She handed her the bottle and pulled her back into her arms. It wasn't long before Alex fell into a deep sleep.

After a while, Alice came through the door. Her eyes were back pale gold but her face was a mask of devastation. She'd not been aware of just how much Alex had truly been through, just how much she was holding back and how hard it was to not be there for her.

Rosalie lifted the small girl and placed her into Alice's arms. Alice curled up onto the couch with Alex nestled tightly into her arms, fully prepared not to move until morning.

"She's been through a lot Allie," Rosalie stated.

Alice nodded as she began rocking the child in her arms and humming to her.

When Jasper came in, he wrapped his arms around his wife and sent the two girls calmness and tranquility.

"She needs us, Jazzy," Alice said once Rosalie had gone off the find Emmett.

"And not just part time."

"I know, Allie, I know," Jasper whispered. "We'll hold a family meeting in the morning."

For the rest of the night, Alice rocked her great-great-granddaughter in her arms, ready to become the mother Alex needed so desperately.

This chapter was hard to write but it's crucial to the developing plot. This chapter was to create a solid bond between Rosalie and Alex, next chapter will be up soon.