I know, bad author for not updating but in my defense I have had good reasons for it….. Friday I went to a football game, Saturday I had Region Choir (I made 19th chair out of 40 and about 100 people tried out), Sunday I was out of town shopping Monday I had writers block, Tuesday I had soccer practice, and today I had a DI meeting………… So yeah I had reasons not to update. Now on with chapter 9.

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--Skyler POV--

They were having some kind of family time when I left. The doctor was worried about his wife. He was confused on what had happened to her.

I silently slipped out of a bedroom window. I ran home and let the hostage go home because she promised to say nothing of what happened.

I used my triplet telepathy and said,

Come to my room - Me

Why your room - Jasmine

Because I said so - Me

Be there soon - Emmett

I sat on my bed as patiently as possible. I started to make it drizzle outside on purpose. I just sat on the edge of my bed watching through the window. I was startled when Jasmine put her hand on my shoulder. I jumped and squealed like a piglet.

"Someone's a bit jumpy today aren't we." Emmett said while pulling a book out from behind him. I got a good look at the cover and instantly know it as the family photo album. "You are going to have to accept the fact he is family, Sky."

"I refuse to believe that mother-leaving, heart-breaking boy is my dad, or even part of my family. Jas, Mom, and you are my only relations." I retorted.

"Whatever help you sleep at night." Emmett muttered.

"Sis, just try to see it this was, if mom somehow died we would have no where to go but with him." Jasmine tried to reason with me, and I knew she was right.

"I will try to not judge him on what he did in the past, but I will not promise it will work. Are you happy now?" I replied.

"That is all we could ask for, I guess," she said.

"What did you mean about he should feel pain like you feel earlier?" Emmett blurted.

"I meant nothing of it. It was just the heat of the moment. It meant absolutely nothing." I knew they would question later, but they would let it go for tonight.

"Fine. Just so you know mom is out shopping in Billings tonight with the ladies from the hospital." Jasmine said as you began walking out the door.

"Good to know," she was already out the door. She left me alone. A movement behind reminded me that Emmett was still here.

"You know I am always here. You can tell me anything. I will protect you from everything that I can," with that he simply left.

He has no clue what he is protecting me against. He doesn't know I am fighting against myself now. The only way to protect me now is to kill me.

I fell asleep uneasily that night with the feeling that I was being watched.

--Edward POV--

I went over to Bella's house to watch my children sleep like I used to watch her. I decided to check on the one that had a temper tantrum. Emmett was walking out of her room leaving her to the silence. She had a look of frustration on her face as she fall on her back to the bed. Hoping to calm her down, I almost inaudibly hummed Bella's old lullaby.

As she went into sleep, she had a look of uneasiness on her face. She began to thrash around on her bed screaming for something in her dream to let her go.

"Let me go! Don't do this to me please!" She sounded like she was pleading with them.

"Stop, Andrew!" So it is a boy obviously. What is happening in her dream that could make her such a violent sleeper. I climbed in through her window after picking the lock.

I went over to her and cradled her like a baby to my chest like a baby. It seemed to comfort her because she curled into me. She quieted and stilled. She feel into a deep, dreamless sleep.

--Bella POV--

I knew Edward came back over to my house again. Now, I began to see his point of view on things. It is his right as a father to check up on his children if he wants to.

I heard Sky in her room tossing, turning and screaming, but I wanted him to have some father-daughter bonding time. When she's sleeping may be the only time she wants him around. I heard her window crack open, and he slowly crept in. From the wound of her bed silently creaking, he crawled onto her bed and picked her up. He must have cradled her to his chest to have quieted her. This only worked because when she was little I always held her close to me.

(A/N: I had to get Bella in here because it held a little information you should know. She would have heard Edward creep in, so you would have wondered why she didn't kick him out, yet again.)

--Skyler POV--

I awoke the next morning feeling chilly. When I fully open my eyes, I noticed he was in my room holding me like I was a baby. I pushed off of his chest using my hands and did a back flip onto the floor.

"What are you doing in my room, in my bed, and holding me?" He looked speechless. My outburst must have taken him by surprise.

"Do I have to ask again, or will you answer me first?"

"Um, I came in to keep watch over my daughter. You were thrashing around your bed screaming about some man holding you and not letting you go." Oh, no! I talked about that in my sleep. I wonder how much he heard about it.

"Well, get out of my room! I did not say you could ever be in my room or life. You have never been there for me, so you never will be."

A look between guilt, sorrow, and sadness crossed his face before he left my room noiselessly.

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Okay, I am done for today at least! Review! If you have questions, complaints, or suggestions leave them in a REVIEW!! I am officially tired. Just so you know, there was a little bit of foreshadowing. I am getting writers block. I NEED a beta if anyone would like to do it.