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Born Again Four Chapter

Emmett was broken from his daze early that morning when the phone on the bedside table starting to ring. Cursing Emmett quickly reached over Ash and jerked the portable to his ear looking down at his shape shifter to make sure she was still asleep. "Hello," he spoke softly seeing that Ash slept on soundly. "Hey." Came Bella's voice. Emmett was happy to hear from her, ever since Edward turned her Bella had become a close friend of Emmett's. The one that he confided in.

The phone conversation went around to all of his family each asking about how he was and how Ash was. It was Bella he told about his feelings. "I'm falling in love over here Bella." She laughed and said that Alice had seen it. He had figured as much. When he hung up the phone reaching back across Ash she shifted pulling him close, throwing a bare long leg across his upper thighs and wrapping her arm around his waist. She was burning up and burrowed into his coldness while his body absorbed the warmth. Gently he laid a kiss on her brow and wrapped an arm around her encircling her smaller body with his much larger one.

Ash woke up with an almost normal body temperature and a large male intertwined with her. She snuggled down deeper before opening her eyes and looking up at his face. Meeting his own gaze caused a slow lazy smile to stretch across her face. "Good morning." She said in a slightly husky voice. She watch Emmett's eyes heat up and felt him casually pull his lower body away from hers.

"How did you sleep?" He asked. She pondered his moving before answering.

"Better than I've ever slept in my immortal life." Ash laughed in a joyous sound rolling over on her back and giving her body a long stretch, stretching out her arms above her head and legs out as far as they would go. Her eyes flicked to Emmett as a low growl escaped his throat. She watched his eyes travel across her half bare form. She knew how to seduce men, but actually wanting to and enjoying watching the hunger spark in their eyes was something completely new to her, and she liked the feeling very much.

"Emmett..." She looked at him with a wicked smile on her face. He knew that she knew exactly what she was doing to him. "Yes." His voice came out low and rough.

"I'm starving. What all do we have for breakfast." She asked playfully rolling on to her stomach and half on to him where their chests pressed against each other. Cool tremors ran along the skin that touched his bare skin.

Suddenly she was being tossed into the air and landing in strong arms that carried her downstairs. "Why don't we go see. You know I thought cats always landed on their feet." As if to make a point he carried her to the stairwell as if he were going to drop her. "Don't you dare Emmett!" she screamed making him rumble with laughter that she could feel coming from deep in his muscled chest.

He carried her to the kitchen and sat her down on the bar gently. "What would you like me to fix you?" He asked snatching an apron leftover from when Bella had been human and Alice, Esme, and himself had taken turns cooking for her. She snickered at him, watching him tie it on. Hopping down she walked over to the fridge and inspected the contents. It looked freshly stocked full nothing having been open yet. "Cinnamon toast?" Ash requested looking across the room at Emmett. He flashed her a brilliant white smile and started taking things from cabinets She sat down in the comfortable chairs gathered around the small white oak table in the kitchen and watched him amused.

"Do you like to cook?" She asked him noticing that he seemed to be happy as he fixed everything in a professional manner.

"Yeah, I didn't notice until around 2 years ago when my brother Emmett's mate, Bella was still human. We had to cook for her since she was over her so much. Alice made me start helping her out and I figured out that it was relaxing. I haven't had anybody to cook for in a really long time though." He said with regret in his voice.

"You can cook for me anytime you want to. I'm not used to having home cooked meals since most nights we have to grab take out at sunrise after Claire retired for the half the day." She said softly. She felt so good to be here with him. So free and relaxed. Relaxed enough to laze about watching Emmett cook in her lingerie. The situation was somehow very intimate but she wasn't the least bit uncomfortable as Emmett smiled down on her in a way that made her heart beat faster and her insides glow.

"I hope you enjoy." He said formally before slouching down in a chair and watching her scarf down the French toast. He had remembered how much she ate so there was a full plater. I could do this, Emmett thought to himself. I can take care of her. Feed her, tend to her, play nursemaid, whatever she needed he could and would do it for her.

Ash walked downstairs to the living room to find Emmett waiting for her. He had spent the morning giving her a tour of the house and the woods behind it. She'd changed into a jaguar for him in a fluid motion and leaped off through the woods. For hours they played tag with each other and wrestled around in a meadow. The memory made her smile.

When they came back a little after 12 in the afternoon. Emmett suggested a lunch, a movie, and dinner in Port Anglos which Ash found she couldn't say no too. She'd never been allowed to go to the theaters and had only been once back in the 1950's when the films were still played at a drive through.

When she told Emmett this much he insisted that she go upstairs and change from the mid thigh t shirt she had pulled on when the came back inside. Ash had spent the last hour taking a shower, blow drying her long oddly colored hair straight and debating what to wear. He'd boughten her so much nice clothes...What do you wear to movies? She'd decided on a black turtle neck cashmere sweater with stylish long bellowy white slacks and Italian leather stilettos she didn't remember getting. A fitted white jacket came with the slacks and she put it on while heading downstairs, having no trouble with the stiletto heels.

Emmett watched her come down the stairs looking stylish and sophisticated. She shrugged into a white jacket and fixed her hair over it. He sighed when she walked towards him. The black sweater made her eyes a royal purple and her hair and skin glowed against the white suit. He fit sported a pair of stilettos. "Don't those hurt your feet and through you off balance?" He asked while helping her into the car.

Ash shrugged. "No, I'm used to them Claire liked for me to wear them, so they don't bother me any more. Hell, I could probably do laps in them without snapping off the heel."

Emmett gave her a look of respect and started to drive, not paying attention and going well over the speed limit. They sat in silence for a while before Ash asked him what they were going to go see.

"Its whatever you want. I'm not picky." Inside he secretly hoped she didn't pick a chick flick. Not that it would matter if she did, he would still sit through it with her.

Emmett took her to a quiet outside cafe were they sat outside under a torrence since the skies were threatening to break loose and flood the earth at any minute. He watched her eat enjoying the way her tongue darted out to lick her ruby lips clean of her double fudge dessert. At the theater she picked a suspense movie about a vampire and a werewolf/vampire hybrid (like that could every happen) who fall in love while trying to save the world. Emmett had to hold back a chuckle at the irony or it.

Emmett was going to let Ash choose what she wanted to eat but she didn't want to go to a restaurant and share him with people. She wanted to go home and look at him over candle light, to have him feed her. Through the movie that she had picked out their hands had found each others and interlaced. Her head had found his shoulder and his arm found its way around her. She hadn't watched the movie but instead watched him. The smooth cut of his chin and cheek bones. The way his face was perfectly masculine. The way his lips curved and his sweet liquid brown eyes sparked when he smiled and laughed.

Walking to the lobby of the theater Ash saw that it was pouring outside. "I know where I want to eat." She whispered to Emmett. He looked down at her from his 6'4" height. "Where?" He asked playfully. Standing on tip toe she rubbed her lips against his ear. "Your house. I want you to fix me dinner and feed me with no lights but that of candle flames and no sounds but that of the rain outside." The same liquid topaz eyes that had sparked when he laughed during the movie now caught fire with desire. "Are you sure?" He asked. Ash loved that about him. How he was ever the gentleman. She cared about him very much already. "Yes." she answered.

Emmett had left Ash in the lobby to run and get the jeep so that she wouldn't get too wet. When he pulled around and she got in he could smell her strongly again. That sweet smell of pure rain. "Why can I smell you now but I can't at any other times?" He asked her in a rough voice the sent doing amazing things to his senses. She looked away with a pink tinge on her perfectly sculpted cheek bones. That only increased Emmett's curiously.

"Tell me!" He demanded.

"Thats the smell of my..." Ash trailed off turning an even darked pink

"Of your what?" Emmett asked.

"My arousal." She said it softly.

"And why would you be aroused." He said. Just hearing those words come from her lips made him hard.

"Because I want you." She said her voice growing bolder as she looked over and meet his flaming gaze. Keeping his eyes on her he lifted her hand to his lips. "Good." That was all that they said to each other instead tracing each others hands and interlacing fingers.

When they reached the house he made her wait up in his room while he prepared the living room for her lighting dozens of candles while he cooked her Italian cheese ravioli and sauce. Upstairs Ash paced impatiently. Finally after an hour and a half Emmett came and blindfolded her. Leading her down the stairs with great care he noted she was in her bare feet. He'd never realized how pretty feet could be before. Shaking himself out of his thoughts he took her to the living room sitting her down on the cushions he had piled around the Chinese chow table.

He left the blind fold on easing himself down around her so that she was positioned in between his legs with her back to him. He ran his nose along her cheekbones both aggravated and enticed by the fact that she wore a turtle neck hiding her neck from his inspection. Picking up a ravioli and dipping it in sauce he brought it to her mouth and rubbed it against her lips. She snatched it gently away, licking her lips slowly. This process continued for a while. On one of the last ravioli, as if knowing that they were nearing the end of the food as caught his hand and drew his index finger into her hot mouth sucking slightly her tongue lapping at it in smooth strokes. He hardened against her back and feeling it Ash pushed harder against him.

Emmett drew her around removing the blindfold from her eyes. As soon as her eyes found his, his mouth was on hers. He kissed her deeply and hungrily. Like he'd kissed nothing living before. He didn't even desire her blood even though her sent hit him full force as she became aroused. He wanted her, naked and writhing underneath him.

At first she answered his hunger with a sweet gentle patience. Then she kissed him back harder, breaking away to take his bottom lip between her teeth. With a bear like growl Emmett picked her up and carried her upstairs with vampire quickness. Before he even laid her on the bed she tore off his shirt a growl coming up as her lips moved down that muscled chest.

He ripped off her sweater when he couldn't get it off of her. Underneath was a sheer lace bra. He dropped down on the bed with her cupping her breasts, his mouth was moving towards them when the phone rang. She growled in annoyance and he swore viscously.

"Hello." He answered roughly.

"Emmett are you alright." Carlisle asked from over the line.
"I'm fine right now isn't the best of time if I could call you ba..." Emmett begin.

"Emmett let me speak to Ash. I've something important to tell you...Both of you." Carlisle's voice held a note of panic that Emmett hadn't noticed before. He handed the phone to Ash.

"Yes?" She said her voice slightly breathy.

"Ash? I'm sorry to have to tell you this but, my dear, while we've gotten almost all of your pack out alive. Your sister was tortured and killed when Claire found you gone."

Emmett watched as Ash's face paled. He could almost feel her heart shatter. He snatched to phone away as she dropped it. "Whats going on. He hugged her to him but she lay limp in his arms. "Emmett, Ash's sister is dead and Claire is out tracking her. You must protect her, I'm leaving it up to you until Alice and Jasper get there." With that they hung up.

"Ash my love, please talk to me." Emmett begged her turning her to face him. When she met his eyes the numbness she felt throughout his conversation with Carlisle broke and she clutched to him sobbing.