So, I'm finally on time! I got some terrific news that I would be performing at a national conference and it made me really happy! I'm hoping you guys are liking the story, I am. Don't you just love Emm? He's such a badass!

-Luna

Chapter Two

When Edward was rejoined and feeling better, Alice and Jasper took him hunting for him to regain his strength, while Carlise and Esme took the traumatized Bella back to the house.

One Edward had had his meal, they went back to the house to talk.

Everyone somberly got settled.

Carlisle sighed. "Do you see him or anything he's trying to decide Alice?"

She shook her head. "No, it's like Emmett's avoiding me, so I can't see him. The last vision I had of Emmett was him deciding to kill Edward, then him deciding not to once he saw you and Esme."

Carlise nodded and held Esme a bit closer as she shuddered and started to sob again. He titled his head in confusion and turned to his firstborn, or first-turned.

"What about you, Edward?"

Edward had tears in his eyes.

"I couldn't hear much, his thoughts were almost... evading me. And when he was running away from me, I couldn't even see him."

He shook his head. "The only thought I could hear was the one he was thinking when he directed it at me. He too disgusted by my presence to talk to me." He almost on choked on his words, but Esme took his hand in hers. "What was he thinking honey?"

He sighed again and pinched the bridge of his nose.

"That he would drink Bella dry and then rip me to pieces and burn me if it wouldn't hurt you and Carlise to lose another two children."

Esme dropped his hand and almost ran upstairs to the master bedroom, Carlisle catching her and holding her tight, trying to give her the strength that she needed.

Alice gasped, and Bella broke into another round of sobs, crying for the entire family since she was the only one who could.

Alice gingerly glanced at Edward. "Does he hate me too?"

Edward nodded. Bella was so stunned, she stopped crying.

"What? Why would he hate Alice? Who could ever hate Alice?"

Edward gathered her into his arms and started rocking her before ducking his head to Alice.

"He knows you saw what was going to happen. I don't know how, but he does."

He looked off into space, still shocked. "Fun, Silly, Emmett was going to kill me. There was a lighter in his hand when he ripped off my arm. He was going to do it."

Everyone except Jasper was stunned, but they were even more so when he spoke up a few moments later, after keeping quiet the entire time.

"I felt it all. There was pure hatred inside of him. When I tried to calm him, it was like his feelings weren't there anymore, and they were repelling me."

This triggered one of Carlisle's memories, and he spoke up, turning to Edward.

"Is there a possibility of Emmett having a latent ability?"

Edward winced at the sound of his brothers name, but then he thought about it. It somehow made sense.

His thoughts being gone when he desperately didn't want them to be heard, his overwhelming then blank feelings, Alice's visions about him lost when he turned away from her, there was something too it.

Carlisle spoke to Edward in his mind, and then to his family.

"Once when I went to visit Aro, he told me of an ability he coveted, but feared because it was impossible to find and impossible to stop. It was a complex kind of shield, not like Renata, or even whatever mental shield Bella has. It it extremely powerful and repells all vampire abilities and has some abilities of it's own. I think that Emmett might be one of these shields. He might be an evasionist."

Alice gasped. "Emmett has always been happy. He's never had second thoughts about this life, or done anything that threatened him in anyway. He's never had to hide from any of us. That's why we loved him. He was always to so honest, so open. That must have been why Eleazer was so curious about him. Emmett's evasion was there the entire time, he just had no reason to use it, and it had no reason to be found."

Esme looked up at her husband. "We'll never find him, will he?"

Carlisle just sighed, but Jasper was the one who answered. "Not if he wants to be found."

It took a while for the words to truly sink in, and the Cullen family sat silently in a daze.

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dunt dunnnnn dunnnnnnnn! You love the dramatic endings. haha

I try to put as much of a visual as I can into my stories, so I hope you liked what you saw in this chapter, even if it was a little short... Emmett's too awesome to simply be "stronger" than your average vampire. Pshh. I had to give him a power.

Playlist for this chapter (By the way, I'm a huge music fan, so tell me if you listen to what I do!)

Pete Wentz is the only reason why we're famous- Cobra Starship

Let Me Go- 3 Doors Down

Missing You- P. Diddy

As I Moved on- Blue Foundation

The Sounds of Silence - Simon and Garfunkel

Dust in the Wind- Kansas