Can't Hold Us

by i think i like that spot

Emma and Rosalie are moving towards their future together, but will certain people and events get in their way and throw everything they've worked for out the window? Sequel to Nothing is Harder Than to Wake Up all Alone. You're going to want to read that first before reading this or you'll be confused.

10. Hiding Out

I throw myself down at all of your feet and beg for your mercy and forgiveness. If you can't give me that then please avoid the face and the hands when you gather into an angry mob. I've been away from this story for an insane amount of time all because of writer's block and studying to hopefully join the Navy. I hope you enjoy.

"Please tell me that Ma was just as bad when she was pregnant with me and Kate and that everything will get better soon." I whispered, fearfully glancing at the garage door that led to the house. Rosalie's latest and loudest tirade, so far, seemed to manage to keep the rest of the family to hear me.

For the past month and a half Rose's mood swings have been all over the place, giving everyone serve whiplash and more than a few migraines. Over the last two weeks I've taken to ducking out of the line of fire whenever she got wound up, like the biggest chicken to ever walk the planet.

Mom sliding in under Ma's Porsche next to me just a few minutes after Rose got started made me feel a little better about my cowardly actions. If Mom's seeking refuge from something then I have every reason to do the same and not feel ashamed. Rosalie's intimidating and a bit bitchy at the best of times, but these mood swings magnify it times twenty.

"If her pregnancy is anything like Alice's by the end of this month she should start yelling at you and blaming you for all this. That's when the fluctuating emotions finally end and the hormones that you actually like start up." Mom whispered, slightly leaning her head up to check that the door was still closed and our hiding spot undiscovered. "I can't believe that I'm hiding from Rosalie instead of standing my ground." She muttered, shaking her head a little.

"At least you're not the only one. All the boys have hauled ass since the very beginning. Every time her voice even started to rise in volume they were already inching towards the closest exit." I said, rolling my eyes. "Besides you're not the only one hiding under this car." I gestured at the length of my body. "Us hiding is just good old common sense, right?" I said, turning my head to face her with a pout on my face.

Mom shook her head and laughed at me. "To be honest I hid from your Ma sometimes too. So I would be a complete hypocrite if I didn't agree with ya." She replied, grinning at me. "Like I said all these emotional outbursts should be over by the end of this month. Just try to hang on and smile and nod along." She said, shrugging her shoulders. I could tell that she was trying to make me feel like I could survive this. I totally should be able to get through this without tearing every single strand of hair on my head out. Then again Rose might just beat me to it with the way she glares at me sometimes.

"Wait, what do you mean by hormones that I'll like?" I asked, looking over at her in confusion. Mom usually didn't like to acknowledge the fact that me or Kate have sex or have had sex. She froze up a little and looked at me. "I kinda forgot for a second that you're my kid." Mom said, with a small grimace. "But um, yeah that happens." She said, avoiding eye contact with me. "Um, thanks. That's nice to know." I replied, trying not to be too awkward or imagine my parents doing...it.

"Please tell me I can slide in next to you two." Kate asked, quickly sliding into the room. The brief few seconds that she opened the door amplified Rose's loud, almost screeching voice. I grimaced, knowing that if Kate could find us the rest of our family could just as easily.

"As long as you don't rat us out you can slide your butt under here with us." Mom replied, scooting in closer next to me so that she could be in between Kate and I. "Emmy, your wife is like the seed of Chucky or the spawn of some demon or something. I'm just surprised she hasn't started to throw anything yet." Kate said, throwing her hands up as much as she could with the car above us.

Mom let out a snort and I shook my head. "Your Ma actually threw my stuff out once. Like literally threw my all stuff outside in the yard." She said, grinning a little bit. "Well I take that back, she didn't throw all my stuff. She threw out everything but my clothes." She finished, nonchalantly, shrugging a little. Kate and I looked up over at each other and couldn't stop the little giggles that spilled out. "Of course she would keep the clothes safe." Kate said, rolling her eyes.

"Yes, well, I had just managed to update half of her wardrobe so there was no way in hell I was going to ruin them." All three of us froze and eyeballed each other with wide eyes. I glanced over at Ma's feet and started to wonder when she got in here and how none of us heard her. "Emma, your wife is scary and she's your wife, carrying your child so you need to go be with her and talk her down or something." Ma said, sticking her foot under the car to poke at my foot.

I looked over at Mom and Kate and gave them a little grimace. Kate mouthed out that she'll pray for me or something along those lines. I rolled out from under the car and got to my feet in front of Mama. She arched an eyebrow an the charming grin on my face. "You go take care of Rose. Now." She said, shooing me towards the door.

I let my feet drag as I walked out the garage and into the house. I stopped at the foot of the stairs and took a deep breath. I let out a small sigh once I realized that only mine and Rosalie's scents where the only ones in the house. I'd have to face my pissed off, pregnant wife without any barriers.

As I walked up the stairs I stretched out all my senses to see just how bad things would be once I got up there. Nothing really helped as I got closer to the bedroom door. I lightly knocked on the door as I slowly opened it. "Hey there, gorgeous." I said, as I poked my head into the room looking to see where she was. I smiled softly, hoping to appear as non confrontational as possible, when I spotted her sitting on the edge of the bed. Her head was bowed and her hands were folded in her lap.

I slowly walked over to her and softly sat down next to her. "I love you." I said, scooting closer so that our shoulders were touching. "Even when my hormones are making me acting like something that's crawled out of Satan's ass?" She asked, resting her head down on my shoulder.

I chuckled and nodded my head. "Even then I love you." I said, kissing the top of her head. "I'm so sorry. I honestly can't even remember what set me off or why I was so angry. I just remember getting more and more annoyed about something and then I finally blew up." Rosalie said, sinking into me.

"Honestly, I'm secretly kinda happy that you're experiencing all this. I mean isn't this one of the main things people talk about when it comes to pregnancy? Carrying a child is the one thing that you've wanted all your life, human and vampire, and now you finally get to experience it." I said, managing not to shrug my shoulders to disturb her as she eyed me in disbelief. "Don't get me wrong the mood swings are scary as hell and I wish there was some kind of warning or something we could get before World War Rosalie starts up." I finished, waving the hand that wasn't against Rose around in the air a bit.

"You're amazing. Not a lot of people would see it that way." Rose said, sliding her arm in mine. "I love you so much." She sighed "I would hope so since we're married to each other and you're knocked up." I said, chuckling as she pinched my arm. We sat quietly together, enjoying the silent house and each other.

"I was always jealous of Bella and Alice during their pregnancies. I was happy for them, of course, and I was able to experience what it was like through them in a way. But I still felt like that saying, 'Forever the bridesmaid, never the bride.' I thought I would always be on the outside looking in." She said, softly as she tightened her hold on my arm.

"Then I found out I was pregnant. Everything changed in that millisecond and I was so...overjoyed and excited. And there was only one other time that I felt like that and I never thought I would ever feel that way again." Rose leaned up and pecked me on the cheek before resting her head back down on my shoulder. I leaned my head against hers and smiled, happy that she's finally gotten to grasp that last bit of happiness she's always wanted.

"I'm a little scared." She whispered softly, her left hand resting on her stomach. "I think it's normal to be scared. I mean who doesn't get scared when they realize that they're about to be parents." I replied, kissing the top of her head. "That's not why I'm scared." She said, picking her head off my shoulder. I looked at her in confusion. What did she have to be scared about?

She nodded her head towards the middle of the bed and started to crawl over to lay her head down on one of the pillows. I followed after her and laid down, face to face with her. I smiled at her encouragingly when we were both settled. "I'm sure that both you and Kate know that you took a lot out of Alice during the pregnancy and the birth. There was some time where we weren't sure how to help her or you." She said, slowly as she let her fingertips trail over my cheek.

"What if this is different from hers? I mean you're a half wolf and I'm a full vampire. Will our baby need food like you or would a diet of just blood be fine? Then there's all the things that could happen after I give birth." She said, looking at me with thoughtful, scared eyes. "What if they can't shift or if they can, but it's hard for them? What if they're like a newborn vampire and can't control their blood lust? Wasn't it hard for you when you were younger?"

I scooted closer to her and put my hand on her waist as I looked around the room, thinking of how I could calm her fears. "With the blood lust it was a little hard at first. I couldn't really tell the difference between wanting blood and wanting water. Kate and I managed to get a handle on it within a few months though." I said, trying to put her at ease. "I think it was harder when I hit puberty. All the hormones made it a little hard to figure out if I wanted to sleep with a girl or drain her. That took some time to work out." I said, glancing at her face at the mention of me being with another women.

She scowled a bit and then her eyes lit up in understanding. "Is that why you bit so much when we first started having sex?" She asked, tapping on my bottom lip. I let out an embarrassed little chuckle. "Yeah, but it was mostly me wanting to mark you to show that you're mine." I replied, fighting the urge to bury my face in her neck as she laughed. "It's not that funny. Besides you've given me quite a few bites and bruises." I said, tapping on her ever expanding stomach lightly before rubbing it softly.

"I know that everything is scary and there's a lot of questions. There's probably some that we haven't even come up with yet. But we can talk to Carlisle and my parents about it all and if a problem does come up then we will deal with it." I said, once she calmed down. "Honestly, I know that it might feel like the other shoe will drop. It pretty much always does when it comes to us, but this is going to be different. We're all going to be happy and safe. I swear to you." I said, squeezing her waist a little.

Rose smiled at me a little and shook her head. "You shouldn't promise things that you really have no control over." She said, resting her hand on my cheek. "But you have a point. There's no point in stressing out over things that may or may not happen. I need to be as healthy as I possibly can be for our little boy." Rose said, grinning at me.

I roll my eyes at her. She's been absolutely convinced that we're having a boy for the last two weeks or so. "You know when our daughter gets here I'm never gonna shut up about the fact that you thought she was a boy. Plus I get to be right about something. For once." I said, sticking my tongue out at her. "Real mature, Emmy. What if we're both right and I give birth to twins? What would you say then?" She asked, poking my nose a bit roughly.

"Please don't jinx us. Two kids at once is just chaos." I said, shaking my head and shuddering in mock horror. I wouldn't mind having more than one but two at the same time would probably kill me. Knowing my parents they would just say it's payback for what they had to deal with raising me and Kate. Then again neither one of us were all that bad really. Ok, maybe we played a few too many pranks sometimes, but we weren't all that bad.

"Maybe next time." She said, smirking at me as she trailed her hand down to the bottom of my t-shirt. "You know that with your genes and mine this little one is going to turn out to be smart and gorgeous so why the hell wouldn't we make more?" She stated, slipping her hand under my shirt. "Is this your way of saying that you wanna get a jump start on making those twins?" I replied, easing over on my back and pulling her to rest half on top of me. "Hm, maybe." She whispered, nibbling on my ear. Seems like Mom was wrong on when the fun hormones would start kicking in.

"Hey, it's all quiet guys! I think Emma tamed the wild beast." Emmett's voice boomed out from downstairs. I let out a mild growl and possessively tightened my grip on Rosalie's lower waist. "I've never wanted to strangle that man more in my life." Rose growled out, burying her face in my neck. "How do you think I feel?" I asked, sarcastically.

"Emmett, sweetie, I love you but if you can't smell what I can smell you need some help. Now let's go and keep everyone else away for a few hours." I heard Kate say and then the doors opening and closing. "We're totally naming our daughter after her or building her fucking a shrine." I said, nipping across Rose's jaw as she slid her hands out from under my shirt and down to the button of my shorts.

I growled as I felt her fingers run back up to run along the waistband, just barely touching my skin. "Stop being such a damn tease." I grounded out, wanting her more than anything else. Her pleased chuckle filled my ears. "Or what?" She asked with a slight snort. "You'll spank me?"

I let out a loud growl from the back of my throat and dragged my nails deep into her back all the way down to the waistband of her sweatpants. "Sounds like that's a very good idea." I whispered in her ear before I bit into her neck. Her small, breathy moan turned me on even more and had my blood rushing faster. Almost as if I was on autopilot I flipped Rose over onto her stomach. Her surprised squeak made me smirk in triumph.

"What? You didn't expect that?" I asked playfully, feeling a rush of power flow through my body from her excited breaths. "You should know by now that I'm not just all bark and no bite." I said, pushing her hair to the side so I could get a clear shot at her neck. I leaned in and deeply inhaled her scent and then bit into her neck, making sure to bite hard enough to leave a dark as possible mark. Her loud moan had me grinding against her ass to relieve some of the tension.

"I don't care if they're up there! They have all the time in the world to get nasty with each other. I'm starving and Mom's house is like the damn desert and I want something homemade and filling." Mom's voice floated up to us from downstairs. "I'm going to fucking rip their heads off." I groaned out as Mom and Ma's arguing voices reached our ears. "Tell me who you want me to go after first and I'll do it in a heartbeat. Or we can totally just ignore them and continue on." I said, keeping my weight all on my left hand so I could run my right hand up and down her side.

Her stiff hand stopping my wandering wiped the grin off my face. "I think our little bundle of joy just moved." She said quietly, lightly pushing me away so she could roll onto her back. My eyes shot down to her stomach and I pushed her shirt up to her chest and at her smooth skin. "On a scale of one to ten how sure are you?" I asked, getting a little excited.

"Um, I'd have to say somewhere between five and a half to an eight and a half." She replied, breathlessly staring down at her bellybutton. We sat there staring for the next thirty minutes, ignoring the sounds of our family downstairs. I started to get more and more nervous as time went by. Rose has felt little bits of movement every now and then but I was never around to experience it with her.

"It's still really early and she's still small so she's not gonna move around too much." Rosalie said, when she finally looked up at my face with a soft smile. She could tell that I was just a little disappointed. I gave her a small smile and leaned down to give her a small kiss in thanks. "I know, but I just got really excited when you said you felt something. I mean this is our baby girl in there so I wanna know everything and be around for it all." I said, shrugging a little bit.

Rose grinned at me. "I'm sure our son will be happy to know just how excited his Mommy was for him to grow and get here." She said, with a mischievous gleam in her eyes. I rolled my eyes at her and shook my head in exasperation. She tugged on my ear and said, "Hey, if I'm right about this I'll never let you live it down and I'm sure our son will be on my side in that."

"Hey, you're not allowed to double team me! That's not fair." I said, swatting at her hand to get her to let go of my ear. "Then that means you and Kate can't double team me." She said, refusing to let go of my ear. I opened my mouth and then closed it, trying to come up with a good comeback.

"Let's forget I even said anything, ok?" I said, giving her a pleading look. She laughed at me and pulled me down to lay next to her. Once I was settled she cuddled up to my side as if we were magnets. I looked up at the closed door and shook my head at the sound of Mom and Ma arguing.

"Think we can manage to get away from the family for a few hours tomorrow?" I asked, still a little annoyed that I was so close to really awesome sex and then the family just had to ruin it. Rosalie laughed and nodded her head. "I promise we'll get away at some point tomorrow." She said, pulling my arm around her waist. "Just cuddle up with me for now."

I grinned and tightened my hold on her. As I felt her body start to warm up from my body heat my grin turned into a full blown smile. "Hey, you said that there was one other time where you were overjoyed. When was that?" I asked, suddenly curious about what could make her that happy. Rosalie rested her chin on my chest and smiled up at me. "The day you were born." She said, laying her head back down.

I bit my lip to hold back the cheesy grin that I was sure was going to spill out across my face. I kissed the top of her head, finally giving up on holding in my smile. I had everything anyone could possibly want and in about six or so months I'll be a parent to a squirmy little bundle of joy.

Like I said earlier, I'm so sorry for taking so long to put this chapter up. I haven't really felt any inspiration to write anything dealing with this except for little one shots that randomly pop in my head or a future plot point. As always please let me know what you think and feel free to message me on here or tumblr.