CHAPTER TWO: STEP ONE

Rosalie's POV

A few months ago Jasper had told me about this crazy plan of his to try to adopt a baby, and I loved it. I really didn't think that he'd be able to pull it off. I had thought of this many times, and every time that I would go to talk to Carlisle about adopting a kid some particularly annoying vampire (cough, Edward) will tell him. Then Carlisle has time to think of what he's going to say to me, and sometimes Emmett, about how it would be dangerous for us to bring a child into our home. (AN: I don't hate or dislike Edward I just think that this is how his family would see him sometimes) But then Jasper thought of a plan that would get around both Edward and Carlisle's attempts to stop us.

When he told me it was when we had gone hunting together. First we would have to make sure that Emmett and Alice found out, and they were able to back us up on whatever we told Carlisle. I did my part of that last week when Emmett and me went hunting up in the mountains where there were reports of bear attacks:

Flashback! -Flashback! - Flashback!

"Rose!" I heard Emmett say from downstairs, "Hey, I need to go hunting and there are a bunch of those crazy bears in the mountains. Do you wanna come?"

This was my chance to talk to Emmett; I could tell him all about Jasper's plan without any chance of Edward overhearing us talk. Right now Edward and Bella weren't in the house, Edward was probably getting away from all of our thoughts so that he could do things to Bella that I'd rather not hear coming from their bedroom, so I was free to imagine how different my life will be if I really can raise a baby.

I could just tell him now, while we were still in the house, Carlisle was still at work and Esme was at the site of an old, crumbling house on the outskirts of Portland. Jasper and Alice weren't here either; hopefully Jasper is telling her everything now, and we can go to the adoption center soon.

I took my time getting downstairs; letting Emmett wait for me to make my appearance. I walked to the top of the stairs and looked out over the banister to my husband. He was all decked out in camping gear. He had long kaki pants and one of the tee shirts that Alice buys for us to go hunting in. On his back was a huge backpack that was most likely filled with human food, a tent, and other camping junk that we really didn't need to bring along with us.

I smiled. Emmett and Alice both love to play dress up when they go hunting, because of our camping excuse they like to fit the part of a camper. Alice only dresses up because she loves her clothes and thinks that each outfit should perfectly fit the area around you. I would agree, but I don't really care that much about wearing baggy clothes and pretending to live in the woods. Emmett just really loved camping when he was a human, so I let him wear the outdoors clothes, because if it weren't for his love of camping then that bear would've never found him in the first place. And if that never happened then he wouldn't be the extremely handsome vampire standing down in the living room; smiling like that cat from that silly movie, Alice in Wonderland, I had to watch it when Alice felt that she need to 'relive' her childhood.

"What did you say honey?" I asked pretending that I hadn't heard him, "Something about bears?"

His smile grew even wider, "Yeah, in one of the nearby national parks there have been sightings of multiple bears, and the rangers are getting worried. They want the bears removed from the park," he grinned a wicked grin, "Do you want to come? You look like you're getting thirsty."

He was right I was thirsty. My eyes were as black as coals and the burning in my throat was becoming more and more painful to bear. I had hardly nodded my head yes that Emmett put the backpack on the ground and almost flew up the stairs to me sweeping me up into a hug that would've crushed the bones of an ordinary human. We would have to work on that if we were going to try to raise a baby.

Emmett then picked me up bridal style and ran me back into my room. He placed me on my bed while he went into my closet to try to find appropriate camping clothes for our trip.

"Wow, Rose, did I ever tell you that your closet is huge?" I heard him say, "Echo… echo… echo!" he kept saying 'echo' over and over again trying to get it to actually work. I rolled my eyes and lay down on my bed waiting for him to come back out or to say that he had gotten lost in my closet… again.

Three minutes later he gave up and walked out of the closet, "Um… Rosalie?" I sat up and looked at him, "Maybe you should go and pick out what you're going to wear."

I smiled and got off the bed. As I walked past him to my closet I turned and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek for his efforts. Then I went in to my closet to find something that Emmett would think of as "camping clothes."

Five minutes later I was ready to go; I had taken an ugly plaid shirt, that I still haven't figured out how I it got into my closet, and I've turned it into the cutest thing any girl had ever seen.

"Ready to go Emmett?" I asked looking at him.

"Yeah! Lets go bag us some grizzlies," my husband said standing up and run downstairs for his dress up props.

A few minutes later we were in Emmett's jeep; driving as fast as we could to the national park, so Emmett could get his bears. All of the Cullen's knew all of the short cuts on how to get anywhere in Washington or Alaska, so he would sometimes pull randomly onto some invisible trail in the woods and drive on that before turning back on the road.

"How many grizzlies did you say there were?" I asked, wondering how long Emmett was going to hunt.

"The website didn't say," he said looking over to me and taking my hand, "I know that one ranger spotted five at once, but they're afraid that there're more than that. I sure hope so."

Five. Relief flooded through me this trip wouldn't take long. At least five bears. I can live with five, two for me and three for Emmett at least. That was only enough blood to just fill us up so we can last another week or so in the human world. If there were more then we'll only pick the strongest, most dangerous bears. Then I'd talk to Emmett.

Just then we pulled into the parking lot. A big sign on the visitor's area said, "Warning! Bear Alert, Keep Away," we just ignored the sign as always and got out of the jeep.

A park ranger walked out of a building and saw us, "Hey! The parks closed."

Great another stubborn human who thinks that he can tell us what to do. This one looked to be about twenty-five; a little bit older then Emmett looks, he had dark brown hair cut way to short, and his big, pointy ears just screamed overgrown elf.

He was coming nearer to our jeep, and I knew that it was time for me to work my magic. I walked closer to the ranger with Emmett following behind me. I batted my eyes and said to the ranger, "Oh I'm so sorry, Mister," I said in an innocent voice, Emmett snorted, "I didn't know that it was closed," I walked closer to the ranger, "I'm so sorry. I love camping at this park and I really wanted to go camping here," I pouted.

"I'm sorry Rosalie," he said just loud enough for the ranger to hear, "All you wanted for your birthday was to go camping, but the parks closed. Maybe we'll go somewhere else."

For the first time the park ranger noticed Emmett and immediately took a step back for my giant boyfriend, "Um… uh… sorry," he stuttered.

I took another step closer to the ranger and whispered in his ear, "I like you maybe later tonight you can tell me a little bit more about the rangers in the park," I smiled one of my killer smiles and I flipped my hair.

"Well…" the ranger said he was stunned by my beauty and kept staring at my breast, "I guess you two can go camping… uh… just stay on the trail, and take one of our radios in case anything happens. Alright?"

"Yes, sir," I said, and then I whispered "I'll see you later."

We walked back to the truck to get our camping things; silently laughing about all of the things that man was probably thinking right now.

"Rose that was amazing!" Emmett said once we reached the car.

"That… poor... man…" I said between giggles, "He's going to stay up all night hoping that I'll show up." We both fell into another fit of laughter thinking of the ranger. Like he'd even get a second thought. And besides I was way to old for him, he thought that he was going to be spending the night with a beautiful young woman when really I was old enough to be his great-grandmother. Idiot.

Once Emmett got his camping gear; we found a clearing for him to set up a tent. Even if we weren't going to use it Emmett still enjoyed setting up the gigantic tent that would fit our entire family.

Then… we'd hunt.

Emmett's POV

That idiot thought that he stood a chance with my queen? Not a chance he wouldn't even be able to keep up with her. I bet that baby would start crying before they did anything. Not that Rosalie would ever do anything like that to me. I've watched her 'dazzle,' as Bella puts it, into getting what ever she wanted.

I kind of wanted to beat him up for staring at her boobs like that, only I can do that, but if I did I'd probably get arrested for a number of things that he could throw on me.

I can imagine that pathetic ranger's voice telling a judge something like, "I don't know why he attacked me. He was forcing his girlfriend to go camping at the park, and when he found out it was closed he threatened his girlfriend to make her talk me into letting them stay. I didn't want him to hurt her."

That would be bad. And besides I wouldn't want to end up in the 'Book of Shame,' that Bella and Alice gave Carlisle last year for his 400th or something birthday. (AN: any ideas about how old he is?) Once Carlisle got that book he started putting pictures of the entire family in it from the times that we were arrested, everyone except the goody two-shoes, Bella. She's still afraid to break the rules. Edward, Jazz, and me each have whole sections of the book dedicated to us, and I don't want to have the biggest.

I had se up the tent and was getting in my hunting mode. Rosalie figures that the bears will be a few miles away from the ranger's station, so we'll head out and start tracking them.

"Emmett, you ready to go?" Rose asked me.

Heck yeah I was ready to go. I love me a good grizzly. I grinned and shot off through the woods with Rosalie following right behind me.

It didn't take long before I found their scent. It crossed directly over the path that I was making through the forest.

Off I went.

Through the woods. Left and right. Oops lets not hit the tree. I'm coming closer… I can hear it now… it's just past these trees…

BEAR!

I lunged.

First I… (An: I'm going to edit this part so he kills the bear and drinks it's blood. Emmett would be a lot more graphic if he's telling the story.)

That was delicious. My second favorite food ever, and I had at least two more to snack on. I'm glad that I was "raised" by Carlisle. If I hadn't been then I'd probably have a feast every night, like the way Jasper used to have.

I smelled more bear; this time the scent came from more than one bear. Two of them had to be babies. Out of all the ways to take down a grizzly, taking them while they're young is the best. The cub's blood is still new; it seems fresher.

I came into a very small opening in the forest and I smelled the mother and her cubs right behind a blueberry bush. The leaves rustled and the mother came out. She was standing on her hind legs, towering above me, she had her claws out; she was prepared to fight.

I allowed myself one quick smile before going in for the kill.

"STOP!"

I spun around right before I was on top of the mama grizzly. My momentum would've kept me going, crashing into the grizzly, if it wasn't for something crashing into me first. Thunder sounded everywhere, like two boulders just fell on top of each other. I fell into the leaves, and looked up at Rosalie growling at me.

"Rose!" I cried, she was pinning me two the ground and wouldn't let me up. I had no choice, but to watch the bear walk back into the bushes to her cubs.

"Emmett," she growled, "That bear has two babies to take care of."

"So?" all I knew was that Rose was keeping me away from my dinner.

SMACK!

"What was that for?" I yelled, trying to get out from under her.

"So?" she screamed back at me, "So who's going to take of her babies?"

"Me! They were going to be dessert!"

SMACK!

"What the hell was that for?" I bellowed, "They aren't the only ones who needs to be taken care of."

"Well then who needs to be taken care of?"

"Me!"

SMACK!

"Ow! Will you stop that?"

Rose took a deep breath and said in one of the calmest voices ever, "Emmett, look I'm sorry that I freaked out like that."

I wanted to argue more and go track down those bears, but the look that Rosalie gave me melted my heart, "Rose…"

"I'm sorry," she whispered, "It's just… that mother bear… she has those babies to take care of, and it's just… I want…"

Then I understood it; Rose had been thinking about children again, "Rose, you know that you can't have a baby. Carlisle has explained it to you, to us, several times. It just won't work."

"No Emmett," she interrupted me, "Jasper has a plan…"

"Wait!" I broke into a huge smile, "Jasper? Jasper has a plan on how you can get a kid?" I busted out laughing.

Rosalie raised her hand to smack me again, but I saved myself by saying, "No. No. Rose I bet the plan is great, and I'm sure that it will work, but I just think it's hilarious that Jasper has started missing humans."

"It's not funny, Emmett. It's sweet that he misses human," she told me, "He has given me the perfect plan on how I can get a child. Emmett you've known how long I've wanted a baby, I've wanted one for decades. Think about it Em, you can be a daddy."

"Rose…" I felt really bad that Jasper had put an idea in her head that she could have a baby, "Rosalie, you're a vampire. You can't have a baby. Vampires can't have children. I'm sorry about whatever Jasper told you to make you think that you could have a baby, but you can't."

To my surprise Rosalie smiled at me, "Emmett, you've misunderstood. I don't want to have a child. I want to adopt one."

Adopt one? Adoption? Why haven't we ever thought about adoption? Adopt a baby… the idea was turning around in my head; it was a good one. Rosalie could raise the baby that she always wanted, and I'd be a dad. A dad.

I gazed into Rosalie's eyes and let my emotions go crazy. I pulled myself toward her a kissed her. In this kiss in wanted to tell her everything. I wanted her to know that I loved her idea, and that I loved how happy she would be if she could watch a child grow up.

I imagined how things would be. Our son, at least I hope that we could adopt a baby boy, watching him run around in diapers, and growing up. I'd be a father, and Rosalie could have her hearts desire, other than me of course.

"So, what do you think?" Rose asked me.

I smiled, "Rosalie Hale Cullen, we're going to have a baby."

That won me another kiss.