A/N: do not own Twilight


"So. Who brought the key?" Emmett said, looking round at his siblings. Emmett found the mildly horrified faces of Alice and Bella rather entertaining. "What. None of you got it out of the glove compartment?"

Rosalie sighed, she wasn't in the mood for playing games. "We don't take the key Emmett. Its left in the log shed." She dropped her backpack and made her away towards the back of the cabin.

"Ah common Rose, I was just having some fun." He called as she vanished from sight.

She reached the log shed, pulling the door open. Luckily Carlisle had thought to install a shelter between the shed the cabin. The area where she stood was only a few inches deep in snow. She grabbed the key from its concealed location and the shovel from its position up against the log piles, and made her way back to the others.

When she rounded the corner, Edward and Alice where sitting on their dry packs watching Emmett hand shovelling the snow away from the door.

"Whats the time?" Bella asked looking out at the expanse of snow in front of her.

"Time for lunch." Emmett grunted as he chucked another arm full of snow to the side.

"Its ten past one." Rosalie said passing the shovel to Emmett.

"Ah, what did I say!" Emmett said, smiling as he tossed a more satisfying clump of snow from in front of the door.

"Shut up and shovel." Edward said

"Well if you think you can do it any faster, feel free." Emmett said offering the shovel to Edward.

"Please continue." Edward smiled as he leant down to mould a snowball. Emmett looked up with a death stare. Edward smirked at him but threw it in Bella's direction. As it left Edwards hand Bella turned round to say something, only to be met with a face full on snow. As the snow peeled from her red face, Edward's laugh became audible.

Emmett muffled his laugh as he continued to shovel. As he brought up the next clump of snow he swung the shovel, aiming the heap of snow in Edward's direction. At the same time, Bella had reached down to make up her own snowball.

Edward was still trying to contain his laughter so was unaware of what was coming, even though he should of expected it.

The attack which mounted from both sides, hit him with so much force from Emmett's end, it knocked him off his bag which had become his pedestal. He backward rolled a couple of times before face planting the 10ft down the hill which the cabin was perched on. The only one of his siblings which was genuinely concerned for him as he lay there was Rosalie. She didn't want trouble and so help her she would thrash anyone who targeted her.

When Edward lifted head a few seconds later his face had a look of determination. Pulling himself up he roughly clumped up two snowballs. Bella was moving to take cover behind one of the conifers. Edward threw one of the snowballs who ducked to avoid a collision. He quickly made one more shovel of snow, clearing the door way more reaching to create a new snowball of his own. Alice, who was stuck in the middle of the conflict, crawled out the way to join Emmett who was throwing, and receiving a heavy stream of snowballs from Edward.

Rosalie just stood there looking at her siblings with contempt as they laughed and hooted when scoring a successful hit. Since Emmett had cleared the door way, thought it best to get out of the way.

Once she was inside the second door, she shut them both blocking out some of the noise out. Faint light streamed though the shutters. It was an open plan kitchen, living and dining room with a wood fire on the left wall. The living space took up the front of the cabin with the kitchen extending down the right. There was 3 bedrooms, one double and two triple beds. The girls usually shared a triple and the boys the other but since Carlisle and Esme weren't here, Rosalie had silently claimed the double room. The double room was located down a corridor behind the kitchen, with the other rooms coming off the opposite side of the corridor. The bathroom was at the end of the corridor next to a door to the woodshed.

After dumping her bag in the bedroom she quickly got a fire started before sitting down to check her blood levels again. It had been 2 hours and plenty of walking since she last checked and as she assumed they were low. She grabbed the apple out of the small bag she had brought back from the bedroom. As she ate it she watched the flames lick the dry logs which where slowing beginning to catch fire. She could still hear the others outside. Trying to block them out she thought of David again. Closing her eyes she imagined being with him again. She knew he liked her. It was the way he was around her and she couldn't deny the fact she felt the same back. Closing her eyes she reminisced the times they had together.

She was interrupted by Emmett storming though the door, red faced and hungry.

"Ah good, you've got the fire going!" He said as he proceeded to put his pack down and head for the direction of the store cupboard.

"So i was thinking." He said poking his head out of the cupboard. "That we have some lunch then get the skis and boards out and head over the the north slope. You know to get some practice in before going down the main run tomorrow?"

"You know Em, i think I'm going to stay here for today. Ill come out with you tomorrow though."

"Whats wrong?" He said pulling out of the cupboard all together and coming to sit next to her.

"Just tired." She lied. It was worse than that, the walk had taken everything out of her. She didn't want to full out hypo on the side of the mountain. Emmett looked at her for a second before deciding not to push her to come. He pulled her close, in an embrace as she closed her eyes again. After a few minutes the others walked in breathlessly, still joking about the events which had just passed. Emmett swivelled in his seat and relayed his plan to the others.

"Sounds good. I'm just going to start the generator up." Edward commented as he traded his bag for the gas canister Emmett had brought in earlier.

"Has anyone checked the water tank yet. Really need a wee." Alice said moving to also put her pack on one of the chairs.

"Nice Alice. I haven't, but you could always go turn it on."

"But i've never done it before." Alice sighed.

"Its easy. Wait a second for Ed to get the generators going then go down to the cellar and check the gauge which tells you the temperature of the water. If its below 0 then you will have pull the third lever across from the gauge down. If it above 0, pull the second lever, wait for 1 minute then pull the first one. Got it?"

"Right 3, 2, 1. Got it!" She said smiling at her brother. A couple of seconds later the generator roared to life outside.

"Off you go then." Emmett encouraged, cocking his head towards the cellular door.


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