Dr. Carlisle Cullen (
ofthefamily) wrote2009-03-29 12:22 pm
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Carlisle-Esme, Pittsburgh.
Vampires don't sleep.
They do, however, sometimes find it relaxing to sit in a chair with a gramophone record playing in the background -- instrumental; an orchestra. Beyond that, there's no label on the record to dictate where or when the performance was recorded.
Carlisle's eyes are closed, his feet are propped up on a chair.
They do, however, sometimes find it relaxing to sit in a chair with a gramophone record playing in the background -- instrumental; an orchestra. Beyond that, there's no label on the record to dictate where or when the performance was recorded.
Carlisle's eyes are closed, his feet are propped up on a chair.
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"Were you studying medicine before you... were turned?"
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And stodgy and old are not words she would ever use to describe Carlisle, no matter how many years he had been on earth.
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"Good to know I am not stuck in my ways."
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Though there are moments when she wonders what his life was like before Edward when he was alone.
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"Living with others has...made me pay more attention, of late."
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"You've never lived with others before Edward and myself?"
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It's not...really an answer.
And Esme deserves one. Carlisle responded to Edward when he asked, after all.
"I lived with the Volturi for a time." Esme has heard the name mentioned and explained after the messenger came to Pittsburgh, but not...truly the scope of Carlisle's involvement.
She probably still won't get it here.
"They did not exactly approve of my choice of diet, so I moved on."
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"They didn't approve of you not wanting to eat people?"
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"I am afraid I have given you quite the skewed vision of vampires in the world, my dear. I am very much the exception, not the rule."
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"Why? That is to say, what makes you want to be different?"
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Very, very quietly: "Maybe I was simply fated to be different, Esme. I just knew I could be more than what I had been turned into if I wanted to be."
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He surprises himself with the question.
"I took the choice you made away from you. You aren't angry with me for that?"
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"I was never angry," she says. "I was very confused about your motivations."
She pauses.
"I still am, to be honest."
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She's thought it. But never said it.
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"I don't understand you," she says after a moment. "You're not like..." my husband... "the other men I've known."
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