Carlisle P.O.V

"They got married and they have a daughter." Esme said softly reading the Chicago newspaper. I was sitting at the table on the island. Lydia who was sitting with my father watching television.

"Stop checking up on them Esme." Lydia warned as she read her magazine. "They are the enemy now."

"He is your grandson and your son and my son." She said standing up getting fed up with the way things have turned out. "What is the point of this, what was the point of raising him to become the head of the family only to punish him the moment he would."

"It's not Carlisle's time to step down. There are things he still needed to do as the head of this family and Emmett could not accept that. He needs to be punished." my father said.

"More than he's already been punished. Bella was in a coma and you killed his unborn child!"

"Listen… Esme I know that he's our son I get it. But you and I and everybody in this room is a team. Just like Emmett. Bella and Laurent and Edward and Jasper are a team. Our sons turned on me and they will pay. Now if you don't want to be on this team then don't but if you do. You're with me till the end …the inevitable end." I said extending my hand out to her. She looked at it hesitantly contemplating on making this decision. But then she took my hand and I knew that no matter what Esme would always be on my team.

Emmett P.O.V

"Emmett you have to help me." Charlie said as I handed the lady another suit.

"Actually I don't. Last time I did one of these things for Rene and Isabella had me on the couch for a good two weeks. Do you know what can happen to a back on the couch in two weeks?" I asked him as I walked further into my closet. I was cleaning with my housekeeper while Isabella and Tanya were out for the day. I thought I'd have a fun time as winter cleaning was one of my favorite past times. But of course. Charlie Swan had to ruin it with his baby mama drama.

"You think I haven't been on the couch? I have a love child Emmett" He said with a face that showed no remorse considering all that he had to go through.

"I have no sympathy for you do you know what you're putting my wife through my pregnant wife through." I said as I picked up a baseball jersey and added that to the huge pile of clothes in Esmeralda's hands. The pile in her hands was getting pretty high but it wasn't high enough to throw these clothes in a bag and start again.

"Don't go lecturing me I've been married way longer than you have I know the meaning of ups and downs." He said. I just glared at him.

"And was Carmen during one of those downs?" I said rolling my eyes as I basically took out all the sweaters hanging and gave it to the woman who nearly toppled over but Charlie helped her keep her balance. She walked off to go put the clothes in a bag and start all over.

"Don't make me shoot your fucking head off."

"Charlie let's not go into using threats with guns I am one of the biggest Mafia bosses in the world." I said giving him a look with dead eyes. He just shoved me and I carried on with my cleaning as he sat and sulked quietly in the corner. Part of me felt badly for him but the larger part of me did not give a shit.

"I have a serious problem here!" Charlie said grabbing me by my collar. I punched him in the face and he tackled me down to the floor.

"You wanna talk problems!?" I yell as we fight with each other. "My parents and grandparents are trying to kill me and my unborn child!" I grunted as he shoved and pushed me up against the wall. To which I elbowed him in the neck. He kicked me in my balls and I tackled him to the floor. Esmerelda was screaming in Spanish trying to get us to stop but Charlie and I both had a lot of pent up anger towards each other. We deemed this the perfect time to let it all out.

"Dad!" Ariana yelled jumping in the room and helping Esmerelda get me off her grandfather. "What has gotten in to you two!?" She yelled as she came in with shopping bags. Both of us were just huffing and puffing in separate corners.

"Mom is stressed out and she REALLY SHOULDT BE right now." She said to the two of us. "You guys need to get yourselves together before she gets home. Ok?" She said breathlessly talking to the both of us. We just nodded and she picked up her millions of shopping bags.

"Come on Esmeralda you need a break." She said quietly walking out with my housekeeper. Leaving Charlie and I in the closet alone.

"What do you want Charlie?"

"I need them in the same room all of them. I need them to sit down and talk to each other talk to me." He said and I sighed.

"Alright one dinner and when Isabella puts me on the couch I'm coming to your house." Is all I said before I got up and left the closet.

*Two Nights later*

"So who exactly is coming over here tonight?" Arianna asked wearing a pretty black dress that Bree picked out for her. She was making up for missing the whole adoption process of Arianna as she was behind on getting to know her. Now they were like best buds. I think Bree was Arianna's favorite.

"Everybody." I said as Bree came into the room. "But that's between me and you." I said softly to her before I walked out. Collin was standing by the door and I looked at him.

"There's going to be a lot of angry people here tonight so please if anyone draws a gun. Get Arianna out." I whispered to him discreetly.

"Got it." He said nodding and I touched his shoulder.

"I'm happy you're protecting her. I trust you Collin." I said with a friendly nod before I walked away. I went over to the dining room where Isabella was standing up the table in a pretty pink dress, at five months her stomach was no longer flat she checked in the mirror every night. I kissed her temple by surprise and she giggled turning around to give me a proper kiss.

"Why are you in such a good mood huh? Free kisses?" She said softly with a smile.

Because you're not going to let me kiss you for the next month after this dinner so I'm trying to savor your lips on mine.

"No reason." I said softly to her. She looked at the table and crinkled her eyes.

"Why are there so many table settings?" She asked.

"What?" I questioned not knowing what to say.

"Table settings there's so many. Whose coming just your brothers their girlfriends Bree, Sam, Leah and Jacob right?" She asked as she squinted her eyes and counted all the place settings. The doorbell rang and I jumped at the chance to get it. When Jacob and Bree walked in Bree made a B line for Arianna. Showering her with a brand new tennis bracelet. Jacob just looked uneasy.

"What's your problem?" I asked downing scotch and holding my hand out for my butler to take the glass from my hands and place a new one their.

"She wants a baby." Jacob said. I laughed.

"Good fucking luck." Was all I said patting him on the back before I observed what people were going around the table. Once they wanted a baby it was endgame, no going back it made or broke your entire relationship and if Jacob wanted Bree in his life forever he better love the idea of sex for procreation. Edward and Rosalie walked in both with warm greetings barring wine. Jasper and Alice followed suit. When Isabella noticed everyone was here she smiled and clapped her hand together.

"Perfect nearly everyone's here we can eat soon just missing mom." She said as people started bringing her piles and piles of elegantly cooked food to the table. When there was a knock on the door everyone looked around. I downed my scotch and gave Collin a look he gave a slight nod and, in an unnoticeable movement went closer to Arianna. Leah got up to get the door and then Charlie, a pissed looking Rene and Carmen were revealed.

"Mom." Isabella said with a smile. When she noticed her father and half sister she stopped dead in her tracks.

"Aunt Carmen?" Arianna said.

"She's. Not. Your. Aunt." Bree said slowly to the teenager and Leah just turned to look at the table.

"Who invited him?"

"It wasn't me that's for sure. He was at the door when I got here." Rene said angrily as she handed her jacket to Collin mistaking him for the housekeeper. I saw Ariana take the jacket from him with a sheepish smile.

"Hi grandma."

"Hi honey." Rene said taking her seat at the table and angrily putting food on her plate.

"Dad you're not invited. And she's an outsider." Isabella said.

"I'm sorry I was invited here. I didn't mean to cause trouble."

"Yes you did." Rosalie said softly to her from her spot at the table. Edward narrows his eyes at the girl who usually doesn't get involved.

"She's right." Tanya said… "I mean that's why you came and found them. If you don't want to start trouble you wanted to start something." She said quietly siding with her blonde friend.

"I just wanted to know my family." She said softly.

"I'm your niece." Ariana says perkily to which Carmen smiles at.

"Ariana not now." Isabella says giving her a look, she sinks in her chair again.

"Emmett invited us. This is his house too." Charlie said dragging me under the bus. Isabella turns on her heel to look at me and I give her a little shrug. She just glares at me before she walks to the dinner table and takes her spot at the table and I took mine. Everyone was seated and it was awkward.

"Collin for God sakes sit down and eat." Isabella said angrily to the body guard as she roughly opens her napkin.

"I shouldn't the boss-

"I'm your boss too." She said angrily. I just looked at him.

"I wouldn't upset her." Was all I said. He takes a seat beside Ariana who smiles at him a little bit and he smiles back. I paid those two no mind. Carmen sits beside Charlie her only ally at this whole table. It was silent for a long time as people really had no idea what to say. Collin and Arianna were staring at each other. Isabella, Leah and Bree were all silently talking to each other with their eyes. Charlie was eye fucking Rene. Edward and Jasper were stuffing their faces. Alice was texting and Jacob kept staring at Bree muttering the word baby like an utter and complete moron. The whole table was in shambles. Was I the only sane one here? Was this what my life had become? I felt like the ring leader in charge of a circus of slow moving assholes.

"How's ballet sweetie." Rene asked her granddaughter as she ate.

"Great Lorinda thinks I can go pro. She wants me to go to Miami in the summer for an elite program." Arianna says.

"That's great sweetie are you going." She asked. Ariana glared at me.

"No."

"Don't start." I said.

"Dad don't you think I'm talented."

"Of course I think you're talented. I also think you're young too young to be gallivanting around Miami all summer alone." I said finalizing my decision.

"Mom." She says using her usual back up plan looking at her mother. Isabella looks at her softly with an apologetic look.

"Honey-

"You know how good this school is you were a ballerina… one of the best." Ariana argues.

"I was also bulimic… I'm sorry Ariana I just don't want you gone for that long… alone." She said looking at Collin for a minute her mind elsewhere as she sips her juice. Ariana just sighs and Bree smiles at her.

"I can be a ballerina. Like the nutcracker." She says pleading with her mother.

"You had the same dream." Leah said smiling softly siding with her niece as she looked at Isabella who just smiled.

"Really." Ariana asked.

"Yeah… yeah I did I wanted to be in the nutcracker… And I was." Isabella said.

"It was your last show right?" Carmen says getting every one's attention. "Your last show as a prima… before you went back to school."

"How do you know that?" Isabella asked.

"I was there." Carmen said. "It was years ago."

"Six." Isabella said staring at her half-sister who looked more like her then her full ones did. "But whose counting" she finished with focusing on her pasta.

"I was in the audience because I saw your name on a pamphlet and I knew you were my sister… I felt close to you just by reading your name." Carmen admitted.

"What is that supposed to prove?" Isabella said harshly. I had never seen her so angry before. Isabella was always open hearted always accepting…. I knew she was really off about her sister Carmen because she was extremely hurt over the topic of her in general.

"I felt like you were my family then."

"She's lying."

"Isabella !" Charlie said.

"She is… there's no way you felt related to me at that recital. You didn't go. You could have easily just googled it"

"But I did… Isabella."… "I remember sitting in the crowd and watching you play the lead. Everyone in the audience was in fancy dresses and adorned in diamonds talking about how pretty the lead girl was. I sat there in sweats and I balled my eyes out the whole show. Because I was thinking of the time I asked my mother to do Ballet classes and she said maybe if your dad didn't leave us for his other family… you could afford to be a ballerina." She said as she got chocked up and tears fell from her eyes. Isabella just stared at her wiping away a tear that fell herself.

"Oh I was there Bella trust me I was… I watched everything you did. I watched how you floated across the stage and how everyone admired you it brought me back to that day. Watching you dance made me feel like that little fatherless girl again" Carmen explained.

"It's not our fault he left you." Rene said speaking to Carmen for the first time. Isabella, Bree and Leah look at their mother. "If I had known… he would not have left you Carmen." Rene said softly to her. Carmen just smiled at her softly with tears in her eyes before she spoke.

"But you would have left him." She whispered finally saying out loud, the real reason why Charlie Swan had left his last daughter behind alone with her mom. Because he would have lost three daughters and a wife and as bad as it sounded. He was going to choose them over the possibility of a daughter with a woman whom was not his wife.

"You had to make a choice." Carmen said to a distraught looking Charlie. "I get it. I do."

"Then why come back why now. What do you want." Bree said softly.

"Well I wanted to know my family." She said softly as tears filled her eyes. Isabella didn't say anything but just ate her food elegantly and everyone soon did the same. Trying to pretend like this was not one of the most heaviest topics to be having over bruschetta.

"You're not going to Miami… I'm sorry Arianna you're just too young." Isabella whispered as Arianna just stared at her with pleading eyes not letting the ballerina thing go.

"But-

"No." I said and she just pouted at her plate the rest of dinner.

"Jasper and I are going to Tahiti." Alice said excitedly.

"Why?" Tanya asked as she stuffed pie in her mouth. She always ate her desert with her dinner and it made me uncomfortable.

"You know just a little vacation…We're thinking of adopting." Jasper said.

"Bree and I are trying for a baby." Jacob said.

"Why the hell is everyone trying to have a kid?" Leah asked and Sam looked at her agreeing. I just chuckled as I touched Isabella's stomach and surprisingly she just smiled at me she didn't seem angry at all.

"Soon." She whispered and I smiled.

"How is everything with the pregnancy." Bree asked eagerly to live through her sister.

"It's great we find out the sex next week."

"It's a girl." Edward said.

"No it's a boy trust me." Rosalie said silencing her husband and his idea.

"What do you want?" Charlie asked.

"Healthy." Isabella said I shook my head and decided to be honest.

"I want a boy." I said as I ate my food. She just rolled her eyes and continued to eat. I smiled.

"A boy of course… the next in line." Laurent said.

"It can be a girl." Ariana argued. I chuckled.

"No it cannot be." I said. The last thing I wanted was my little girl in business with a bunch of ruthless mafia bosses. My son however… my son I'm sure could handle it. Call me sexist… I really did not give a shit. The rest of the dinner surprisingly went normally. People argued and fought, Jasper and Edward stole food and at the end of it Carmen, Charlie and Rene were still here. I went into the kitchen to find her.

"Hey." Carmen said.

"Hi." I said as I poured myself a glass of scotch.

"Charlie told me what you did… thank you."

"Well you are family now." I said dully as I kept my eye on Arianna who was sitting in the living room with her mother. Isabella was stroking her hair and smiling at her softly.

"You're a lucky man Emmett." Carmen said as she followed my gaze to see what I was looking at.

"I am… I'm sorry that you got Charlie for a father but if it's any constellation. I know he cares about you and Isabella does too.. You just need to give her time." I said and she smiled at me before I walked out of the kitchen and into the living room with my wife and my daughter.

Bella P.O.V

I walked around the penthouse with a cup of decaffeinated tea and sighed as I looked at everything in here. Thinking about how much I would miss it. Walking into Emmett's study I smiled when I saw him hunched over behind his desk.

"Your baby misses you." I whispered to him softly.

"Which one." He answered softly. I smiled as I walked in and sat on his lap. "I'm not mad about what you did." I said to him he nodded and rubbed my back.

"I know how important family is to you and your dad begged and-

"I know." I answered softly passing my hand through his hair. "I know." I concluded as I melted into his body. Then I started to cry and he was not surprised by it almost as if it was expected that I do. He wiped the tears away softly and did not say a word because in reality there was nothing to be said. He knew I would talk when I needed to, and I did.

"Am I a horrible person?"

"You know you're not a horrible person." He answered softly.

"I was so rude to her"

"You're angry…. You guys are all angry."

"I'm not letting Arianna go to Miami."

"We're not letting Arianna go to Miami she's far too young to be out in Miami alone." He answered. I wiped my tears away. "I don't want to ruin her dreams you know it's just I remember those days. Ballet…. I was so mentally unstable every time she goes to ballet classes I get more terrified of that then her on a motorcycle." I explained quietly.

"I know." He said rubbing my back soothingly and I sighed as I thought about the other million things on my mind. The fact that I knew Emmett was out nearly every night almost getting himself killed on many occasions scared me half to death. I couldn't fathom the thought of him not being there to see our child be born. To not see Arianna go through high school because some other mafia boss from an opposing team killed him before he got the chance. The baby that was growing inside me that despite wanting more than anything I was completely afraid of having and did not know if I could actually care for a newborn baby. The fact that I knew Arianna and Collin were in love with each other but would not tell Emmett and that was a huge betrayal because the two of us were supposed to have honesty. I just couldn't do it, I knew he'd be upset and I knew he would try to keep them from each other and the way she looked at Collin… the way he looked at her. It would destroy them if he kept them apart, but I knew my husband he would not see that. I kissed the top of his black hair and he put his hand on my stomach his new favorite place on my body.

"Everything's going to be ok… Why don't we go away?" He suggested.

"I can't fly in my condition remember." I reminded him softly. He smiled.

"Right I forgot." He said softly.

"We'll have fun here… Christmas time with the whole clan." I said somewhat drunkenly and he laughed. He kissed my stomach.

"Come on let's get you two into bed." He said lifting me up easily and carrying me to our bedroom where I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. So fast that I almost didn't notice him leave the bedroom again to go out. But I did but, I knew better than to ask where he was going, all I hung onto was the fact that I knew no matter what. He always came back.