akissfromtheundead:

“You did get some of your happy ending, though, ” I reminded her. “You got Emmett.”
“I got half.” She grinned. “ You know that I saved Emmett from a bear that was mauling him, and carried him home to Carlisle. But can you guess why I stopped the bear from eating him?”
I shook my head.
“With the dark curls… the dimples that showed even while he was grimacing in pain… the strange innocence that seemed so out of place on a grown man’s face … he reminded me of Vera’s little Henry. I didn’t want him to die —— so much that, even though I hated this life, I was selfish enough to ask Carlisle to change him for me.”