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~RPOV~

I added more pressure to Emmett's body as his strength kicked up, again.

I really couldn't remember a measure of time from my own change, so I had no idea if any of what was happening now was on schedule or not, but I really didn't think he'd be this strong this soon. If this kept up, I wouldn't be able to hang onto him toward the end.

Newborns were notoriously strong to begin with and Emmett was strong by human standards, so logic would dictate that he would be one seriously unstoppable force of brute strength when his transition was complete.

I'd had to shut my mind off from his after a while, for my own sanity. If I would have continued to listen to his mental torment on top of having to watch the physical agony play over his body, I'd have lost my own mind. I did check in on occasion though, out of curiosity. I wondered if there would be a 'visible' change in his mind as the fire inside started to ease. Not to mention I had to make sure he wasn't royally pissed at me for biting him and putting him in this situation in the first place.

Taking a deep breath, I cracked open my mind and allowed his thoughts to pierce mine.

My head snapped up and my hand nearly slid off of his mouth from what I heard.

This couldn't be happening. Not yet. Could it?

The pain was still raging like wildfire inside his mind as could be expected.

But underneath it, a barely audible hint of a whisper, a very quiet, and very scared, "Rosie?"

"Emmett? Baby, I'm here." I nuzzled the side of his face, his skin wasn't as warm as it used to be, it had been getting steadily colder and his breath was becoming more shallow where as his heart beat was picking up pace.

Where on earth was Bella? I needed her, now! If there was a chance to get inside his head and ease him out of this...

I concentrated all my efforts on Bella, a conscious decision. "Bella, I need your help," I whispered.

Please, let Alice be paying attention.

~APOV~

"What the hell happened to the couch?" Bella whispered to me as I instructed Jasper and Edward to sit across the room from the busted piece of furniture. "Esme is going to kill you."

"Never mind the couch, we have to tell them and we have to do it now," I said quietly.

"I gathered, but why now?"

I took her hand and showed her the last vision that had gripped me.

Rosalie was lying on the floor of the cottage with Emmett, but she was looking at Emmett very strange and whispering, "Bella, I need your help."

Bella gasped and started to turn for the door and I stopped her. "Not yet, it's not time." I nodded to the guys in the other room. "We need to take care of this first."

"How much do they know?" she wondered.

"Enough to know that we aren't 'normal' girls," I said.

"That's an understatement," Bella chuckled. "Is it going to be okay? I mean, are they going to freak and run?"

"I don't think so."

Bella turned and arched her eyebrow at me. "You don't think so?"

"Look Bells, I've got a lot on my plate right now and it's not like this ability comes with a how-to manual."

"Sorry, Alice," she mumbled and looked back over her shoulder. The guys were starting to get antsy. "Well, let's go find out what they think they know."

We both took a simultaneous deep breath and headed into the other room.

~EPOV~

"I guess we should start with what you two know about my sisters and myself," Alice said. "We know that we're different, but we need to know how different you think we really are."

"Okay," I said quietly. "I know that sometimes, when we're around the two of you, there is a part of us that is scared for our lives, but then there is an even greater, more dominate feeling that is terrified of being away from you." I chuckled nervously and shook my head. "I can't believe I'm actually saying all of this out loud."

I ran my fingers through my unruly hair, tugging at the roots while I pondered what I was going to say next.

"I guess what I'm trying to say is that, it doesn't matter. At this point, I honestly don't think that either one of us can live without either one of you, even if we wanted to."

Way to go Ed, just put all out there, jackass. Why don't you just tell Bella that you think she's a witch while you're at it? Oh and that you think Rosalie took Emmett out into the woods and slaughtered him for parts but you don't give a shit as long as she keeps sexing you up the way she's been.

I really needed to stop letting my imagination get the better of me. Bella was just a normal girl that just happened to be cold as ice, hard as a rock and could gouge handfuls of wood out of a trunk of a tree.

Okay, maybe not so much with the normal but what was normal anyway?

"Edward, I'm a vampire," Bella blurted out.

I didn't know what to say. What does a person say when the woman he loves drops a bomb like that?

I glanced at Jasper and his jaw was hanging open and his eyes were as big as saucers when a strained chuckle shot out of him.

That did it. I started to laugh and it wasn't because I thought she was kidding, something inside me knew that she was very serious. After a few minutes I gather myself as much as I could.

Bella was a vampire, a real, honest to God, vampire.

Suddenly a realization hit me, a memory of this afternoon.

"So, earlier, out in the woods, when we…" were having the best sex ever, "and you were…ya know…"coming like a bat out of hell, "you had your mouth on my neck and all of a sudden you pulled away and said 'no'…you were…"

"Trying not to bite you," Bella said quietly.

"Okay," I started, pinching the bridge of my nose, trying wrap my head around the little nugget of information that had just been dropped on me. "You're a…." vampire, "a real….." vampire, "and Alice is a…" vampire, "an…and…Rose is a……"vampire.

Why couldn't I get that one word to come out? Bella and Alice nodded.

I guess Emmett was wrong about the whole witch thing. Emmett…

"Is Emmett okay?" I finally asked. "Rose didn't, you know, eat him did she?"

Alice and Bella looked absolutely mortified. "We don't eat people Edward," Bella said, looking down at her feet, clearly hurt by what I'd just said.

Shit, way to go Ed.

~BPOV~

Did he really think that we ate people? He thought we were monsters.

"What I am disgusts you," I said, taking a deep breath. "If you want to leave right now and never come back, I completely understand."

"What, how can you say that?" Suddenly I felt Edward's hands on my face. "Bella, look at me," he said, urging me to look up. When I opened my eyes I was looking into his beautiful green eyes. "Where am I gonna go?"

"Edward…"

"My life had no meaning until two days ago, don't you get that? I had resigned myself to a life of sheer and utter boredom and…averageness. Before you, there was no me," he said, leaning his forehead against mine.

"Bella," Alice said, laying a hand on my shoulder. "You have to go now, Rose needs you."

"What's going on?" Jasper asked. "Is Emmett okay?"

"He's been bitten and he's going through the change," Alice explained.

Edward and Jasper exchanged glances before Jasper spoke again. "You mean, he's changing into a…"

"Vampire, yes and Rosalie needs Bella's help with that right now," Alice said.

"Then I'm coming with you," Edward said, taking my hand. "I'll help in anyway I can."

"I don't think that's a good idea Edward," I said and started to explain why when Alice cut me off.

"He needs to go with you Bella; you're going to need him."

What did that mean? I was going to ask but I started to see the urgency in Alice's eyes. I was going to have to trust her. Normally that wasn't an issue, but given her recent behavior I was understandably hesitant.

"Fine," I said, taking Edward's hand and heading out the back door. When we hit the grass I flung him onto my back.

"Whoa!" he said, gripping my shoulders, tight.

"This is going to be very fast," I warned.

"What is?"

"Running."

"We're running?" he asked.

"No, I'm running. You're holding on."

"Okay," he said, wrapping his arms around my neck and his legs around my waist. "I'm not hurting you am I?"

"No," I chuckled. "Just hang on."

I whizzed through the trees at a good pace. Not top speed, but pretty fast, it was his first run and I didn't want to scare the piss out of him, literally, he'd been through enough in the last hour and I was pretty sure it wasn't over yet.

When we stopped he finally released the breath he'd been holding the entire time. "That was cool," he finally said.

I was still smiling when I opened the door of the cottage. The look on Rose's face wiped it off quickly though.

"Are you insane?" she growled at me. "He can't be here."

"I want to be here," Edward said from behind me.

"Alice said we're going to need his help, Rose," I tried to explain.

"And you believed her?" she laughed. "That lying little…" her words were cut off in a groan of pain. "Never mind, get over here."

Without hesitation I positioned myself on the other side of Emmett and pressed my hands to the sides of his face, making sure to make contact with Rose's skin somewhere.

"What do I do?" Edward asked, kneeling at my side.

"I honestly don't know, talk to him I guess, let him hear your voice," I said before I bent forward and pressed my forehead to Emmett's.

I projected myself and Rose into Emmett's head.

"Jesus," I whispered.

"What is it?" Edward asked.

"Fire…everywhere…" I said.

"He's in there Bella, I heard him," Rosalie said. "We have to find him."

"Em, man, can you hear me?" Edward said, stroking Emmett's hair. His littlest finger brushed against mine. I felt the power jolt through my body and I could have sworn I saw Edward standing there with me and Rose for a split second.

"What the hell?" Edward yelled as he jerked back, panting. "What was that?"

I raised my head and looked at him. "How did you do that?" I asked.

"I…I don't know, I just barely touched you and I was there in that…what was that?"

Suddenly, I knew why Edward needed to be here. Something deep down in my core, an instinct, told me what we were supposed to do.

"Edward, I need you to do something. I don't know if this is going to hurt or not but I need you to put one hand on Emmett and one on me, can you do that?"

"Yeah," he said, getting back into position beside me.

"Okay, then let's try this again," I said, laying my forehead back on Emmett's.

Edward placed one hand on Emmett's chest and one on the back of my neck. This time I was prepared for the jolt that coursed through my body. Edward's energy flowed through me and amplified my power ten fold. Not only that, but I was able to project Edward as well. I'd never projected a human before, but of course I'd never tried to either.

I turned to Edward. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, where the hell are we?" he asked.

"Inside Emmett's head."

"Shit," he said looking around.

Emmett's body surged with power, nearly knocking our connection loose.

"Should he be this strong already?" I asked Rose.

"I don't know, I've never done this before other than my own change, but I don't think so," she replied.

"Then we need to hurry. You two start calling for him."

"What about you?" Edward asked.

"He won't know my voice; I'm just the only way to get you two in here, the guide I guess."

"How do you know this?" Rosalie asked.

I shrugged. "It's weird, I just do. As soon as Edward touched me, it was like a switch was turned on inside my head and I just, knew."

We started to wander aimlessly through the flames, looking for any sign of Emmett as Edward and Rose started calling for him.

"Rosie? Edward? Is that you?" Emmett's voice rang out of what seemed like nowhere, but everywhere at the same time.

"He's over here." Rose started to dart in one direction.

"No, over here," Edward said, taking off in the opposite way.

Luckily, I was able to grab both of them before they ran off. "You two have to stay with me, we have to stay together."

"But I heard him over there," Rose said, pointing.

Edward shook his head. "No, over there," he said, nodding the other way.

"I think you're both wrong, get him to talk again, and watch the fire."

Rosalie stood still "Emmett, baby, I need you to talk to me so I can find you."

"Rosie, I'm right here."

Well all watched at the fire pulsed in time to Emmett's voice.

"Holy shit," Edward gasped. "He's not in the fire, he IS the fire."

"Pretty much, yeah," I said. "That's how this experience is manifesting itself inside his head anyway."

"Someone's coming," Rosalie said. "Outside the cottage…but I can't…wait…oh no. Bella, do you see?"

I did, crap. "Yes, I see."

Suddenly I felt a cold hand on my back. "Bella, I need you and Edward to step away, everything will be fine, I'll take it from here."

Edward looked around nervously and asked, "Who the hell is that?"

~JPOV~

Okay, let me see if I could maybe process a smidgen of what was going on at this moment. The woman I love is a vampire. One of her sisters did something to one of my brothers and her other sister just left with my other brother to help.

Why was I not terrified? I should be attempting to fashion a wooden stake or a cross or something like that to save my lousy hide and then go hunting for the other two and avenge my brothers. That's what Van Helsing would have done right?

But I wasn't him and this was real life, not a movie. Would any of that shit even work anyway?

Alice was quiet for a moment before she started to giggle. "Jasper you are so cute, I know what you're going to ask and no, none of that stuff works, it's all Hollywood."

"How did you know I was going to ask you anything?" I wondered.

"I can see the future," she said, like it was the most natural thing ever. "Rose can read minds and Bella can project into minds. That's how we got inside your dreams."

"You mean Bella was the one in my dreams? Pretending to be you?"

"No," she laughed. "My sisters and I have a special gift. When we touch we can tap into each other's abilities."

"So, she wasn't watching the dreams was she?" I could feel the heat of embarrassment rising in my cheeks. Some of those dreams got pretty intense and graphic.

"She just lead the way, once I was inside your though, that was all me," Alice said with a wink and a smile.

Phew.

"How far into the future can you see?"

"It depends really, you for example," she said stroking the side of my face.

I knew I should be repulsed by her cold fingers, but I leaned into her hand. Her touch was so soothing and right. "I saw you, even before you were born."

Before I could ask another question, the front door swung open and a man and a woman entered the house.

Alice was by their sides in the time it took me to blink.

"Alice?" the man said, nodding in my direction.

"It's okay Carlisle, he knows," she said, winking at me.

The woman moved with such grace and elegance that she practically floated across the room. "You must be Jasper," she said, her voice had that same silken, melodic tone that Alice and her sisters had.

"Yes ma'am," I said with a nod.

Suddenly Alice was at my side, with my hand in hers. "Jasper, this is Esme and Carlisle, my mother and father."

"It is very nice to meet you young man," Carlisle said, suddenly standing in front of me and shaking my hand.

"Yes sir, very nice to meet you as well."

The woman, Esme, gathered me in her arms and gave me a surprisingly warm hug. Not warm temperature wise, a mother's hug. It was odd, I hadn't felt like this since our mom died, and it was nice. I didn't realize how much I'd missed this feeling.

"I hate to have to leave so abruptly, but I believe we have a mess somewhere that needs picking up, do we not?" Esme said, looking at Alice.

"Cottage, to the west, just follow their scent," Alice said quietly. "I'm sorry Esme, I should have seen it before it happened."

"Darling Alice, even the best laid plans have their snags. I'm just glad that you called me when you did."

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