AN and Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight, but I did see New Moon twice already! Well enjoy and I promise to update sooner!!!

Chapter 26:

Edward's POV

It had been a pretty interesting night to say the least. Tanya had left me alone. Emma and Jasper were now an item and I was pretty sure that Alice and Ian were as well. But the best thing about the entire night was Rose back handing Tanya across the face – I wish I had seen it. Yet at the time I had bigger things to worry about.

I was worrying about Emma.

Once we had all left the party and gone back to our house, Emma and Ian finally told us what Emma's panic attack was all about.

One of the guys who had gang raped her was a member of the Denali family – just a cousin, but a member nonetheless. And to top it all off he was getting out of jail early, well at least how Kate put it to Emma and Jasper. I guess for good behavior. We still weren't sure why, but dad was determined to find out as soon as he could. Remind me never to piss off my father – he is scary when he is pissed off. I've seen him mad, angry and upset --- but never furious to the point where his looks could kill. Mom managed to get him calmed down enough to where we could convince him that Emma would be fine simply going upstairs to the game room to hang out with all of us and act like a normal teenager. I think he was on the verge of hiring her a personal bodyguard to make sure nothing ever happened to her again or at least I thought that was something he mentioned to my mom as we were making our escape upstairs. That was the last thing she needed! Besides, Emmett and Ian combined can make for pretty intimidating body guards.

I was pretty sure that all my sister needed was a night with her friends. And that was exactly what we were going to give her.

Since it was still early when we all got home, the entire gang decided to watch movies until we all fell asleep. Given it was a weekend, it was pretty certain that everyone would be camping out in the game room. It was an unspoken agreement between all of our parents, now including Jayme – if there had been a party, group date or a sporting event of some kind at school and it was a weekend evening, then it was pretty certain that the entire gang would be crashing at someone's house. Normally it was ours since we had the game room.

These were the best nights in my opinion. Everyone would wear their comfy pj pants and an old t-shirt – or in Alice's case, the newest comfy pj set from Victoria's Secret – and we would veg out in front of the TV in the game room and watch movies or the guys would play video games while the girls cheer us on. Sometimes, we played pool, but usually the pool table served as a large snack table, so we wouldn't have to go all the way to the kitchen on the first floor when the game room was on the third floor. Typically we would all go our separate ways and change into our pjs, and then the girls would get all the blankets and pillows while the guys got all the snacks. I even made sure that I grabbed a rawhide bone for Kiki, since I knew that she would be joining us as well.

"Alright! Movie marathon!" Emmett happily said as he flopped down on the couch in between Emma and Rose once we had all meet up in the game room. He slung his arms around both of them and hugged them tightly to him. "We need to introduce Emma and Ian to our gang traditions! Sorta like an initiation."

Everyone laughed and even Emma smiled. I wanted to tell Emmett to back off and leave Emma alone, since she had been through enough for the night, but the look on her face made me rethink that. She was smiling and I knew that she needed this tonight. She needed to smile more and know that we cared. And I knew that was all Emmett was trying to do – kick back and have fun! He was the perfect guy for that.

"So what movie are we going to watch?" Emma asked with the smile still on her face.

"What we always watch! Star Wars!!" Emmett happily replied.

"That sounds good. What else do Ian and I need to know?"

"Nothing really," Emmett said. "Expect that I always get the HUGE blue blanket!" he said pointing to the blanket that was on top of the pile that the girls had brought up from downstairs. Emma laughed once again.

Not long after that, everyone was situated and the movie was started. Whenever we watch Star Wars, everyone usually ends up paired off in couples. I had been so used to having the same couples – Emmett and Rose, Alice and Jasper, Bella and myself – that it took me a minute or so to take in the new matches that were now within the group.

Emmett and Rose were cuddled on the couch together underneath the huge blue blanket. For the first time in a few weeks, Emmett was actually smiling as he held Rose close to him against his chest. Good, he deserved to smile as well. Lord only knows that between his father being killed and his sister being pregnant that a little peace was what he was going to need.

Over on the other couch was Jasper lounged back with Emma resting against him, legs stretched out. She snuggled against him as he wrapped his arms around her and placed a soft kiss into her hair. I watched as a small smile spread across her face. That even made me smile. Jasper deserved to be happy and so did Emma. I could tell by Emma's body language that she was still a bit hesitant about showing too PDA much in front of other people, but I knew that she would slowly get over that. Jasper was willing to do whatever it took to make sure that Emma knew that she was loved and safe with him around.

Good.

There were numerous others at Forks, actually most of the guys soccer team, that wanted to score with Emma as soon as they knew who she actually was – well had been. I knew most of them just wanted to say that they had scored with Emma McGregor. But with Jasper that wasn't the case. Besides I knew where he slept if he fucked up, which I knew was the last thing on his mind.

I continued to look around the room. Sitting in the large comfy chair – well actually curled up in it – was Alice who was playing with Ian's hair, who was sitting on the floor beneath the chair. Even she was smiling, which was a positive thing – especially since Emma and Jasper were going out now or that was how it seemed. I've heard horror stories of sisters who had dated the same guy, which never ended pretty; but thankfully that wasn't the case here.

Lastly I glanced down at the angel in my arms, whose eyes were fixated on the TV screen as we were curled up on the third couch that was in the game room. We were snuggled under a blanket as well, since Bella had been complaining that she had been cold. I had my arms gently wrapped around her while I gently traced figure eights against her stomach. Our daughter seemed to like it enough since she was moving slightly under my touch.

Our daughter…our little Anna Catherine…

We had decided on that name just a few days ago but we hadn't told anyone yet. We had decided to wait until Christmas to surprise everyone. Plus it would save my mother and Alice from running out and getting everything embroidered with Anna's name on it. Besides I knew that they would do that anyways.

Even Kiki was happy. She was lying next to the couch that Emma and jasper were sitting on, happily gnawing on the rawhide bone that she had been given. I swear if that dog would smile, she would be. And I know that she will even be happier when Emma takes her for her first walk in almost a month.

Yet right now everything seemed to be going pretty good for my friends and myself. And I couldn't be happier. But if this cousin of Tanya's dare mess with Emma, then he was a dead man. That was if he even came to Forks after all.

Carlisle's POV:

I carefully and quietly peered into the game room early the next morning. After finding out that one of the sick bastards who had hurt my little girl was possibly getting out of jail, I hadn't wanted Emma to leave my sight. But Esme gave me a death look, which meant 'back off or you'll be sleeping on the couch'. So I did. That didn't mean I didn't spend most of the night worrying about her. In the past month so much had happened to my family, I honestly didn't think that we would make it through it all. But we had. And just when everything was looking brighter, this happens. I only hope that Emma was wrong in what she had been told by one of the Denalis.

But that wasn't the case.

After tossing and turning for almost the entire night, I eventually had given up on sleep and gone down to my study to make a phone call to the Scottish authorities. I had to know for sure if Emma had heard right.

I was hoping that she had been wrong.

That wasn't the case.

Emma had been right. Demetri McDouglas was being released from prison early because of a combination of things – none of which truly mattered to me. The only thing that did was that Emma stayed safe.

The idea of hiring a bodyguard ran though my mind again. I'm sure some of the Quileute boys would be more than willing to take on that role. Some of them were pretty well built. But then again so were Emmett and Ian. So I'm really not sure.

Yet as I peered into the game room at the sleeping teenagers on the floor, I realized that Emma wouldn't need a personal bodyguard. In fact she had four of them already along with one pretty protective dog.

Emma lay in the middle of the floor, with jasper lying close to her back – arm draped protectively around her. Then against her stomach lay Kiki, who was snuggled close to her. Then around her, yet still paired off in couples lay everyone else. Edward with his back to her, holding Bella close; Emmett above her, with Rosalie snuggled close; and Ian with little Alice curled up against him.

I couldn't help but smile.

"See I told you that you didn't need to get her a bodyguard." Esme whispered as her arms encircled me from behind. "Emma has all the protection that she needs right here under this roof. Emmett and Ian consider her their little sister, just as Edward does. Then Jasper has been smitten with her since she arrived. Now add them all together and you have some pretty hefty protection. Then add an overprotective father and hopefully no one will ever hurt Emma again."

"I hope you're right," I whispered as I turned around and followed Esme back down the stairs. "I hope you're right."

AN #2: Much of the next few chapters is going to focus on Emma and Edward, plus a little Jasper and Emma. I just wanted to let ya'll know! Oh and I never did like Nessie's name, so that is why I changed to name to Anna.