Okay, it's the long-awaited update!!! This is the last chapter of this scene, next is the trip to Volterra, and the transformations!!! Yay!!! So, read and review!!! (I mean it about the reviews; I've gotten less than 10 between the last 2 chapters. I need 15 before a new scene is up. So, click that button!)
Rosalie POV:
I didn't need Jasper's power to know that I was taking my life-existence-into my own hands as we walked downstairs. I knew everyone, with the exception of Bella, wanted to rip my throat out. If they really didn't want me here to do this, I would just leave permanently. I would stay human with Emmett. We got to the bottom of the stairs, and then sat down on a couch facing everyone else. It was time to try and convince everyone to keep an open mind about this. I took a deep breath and started.
"I know you guys don't like the thought of me doing this." Three pairs of eyes glared at me. "But, it's the only way to keep us together." The glares softened somewhat. "It's really going to be fine, I promise. I'll be doing the exact same thing Bella did, and she survived. Barely, I know, but, again, we didn't know what to expect, so I'll be fine." Everyone was silent. I started running through the conversation I had with Esme in my head, trying to figure out a way to tell them without them getting upset. They would be so happy if she and Carlisle did what Emmett and I were going to do. Then, I remembered Edward. He now knew everything that had happened outside. He snarled, and Alice's head snapped toward him. She hissed and jumped up. At the same time they growled, "You didn't." "What?" Jasper asked, alarmed by the sudden change in the emotional climate of the room. I looked at him and Bella, the only two who didn't know what was going on, wondering how they would take it. "She told Esme," Edward said quietly, so quietly I almost missed it. I saw a smile break out on Bella's face, but I also saw pure fury roll across Jasper's face. He glared at Bella and hissed, "Why are you so excited about this?" She looked at each of us evenly, almost daring us to interrupt her, and then started talking. "I know you care about one another, but really, don't you want the people you love to be happy? Rosalie and Esme are going to be fine! Why can't you guys see that?" Edward looked at Bella, and the look on his face clearly showed the war he was having with himself. Finally, he sighed.
"She's right. Even though they're going to be going through a ridiculous amount of pain, they're going to be perfectly fine, as Bella said." This was Edward- well; he did change his perspective when he could 'hear' his child, maybe that's what swayed him. Alice was enraged. She had been counting on him to stay opposed. "Edward! Are you serious? Do you want to see her go through the same thing Bella did?" he glared at her, furious. "Do you want her to leave?" Oh. He had heard that part too. Alice looked wounded, like Edward had hit her. Jasper, in Alice's defense, spoke.
"I don't want to see Alice go through that. I would like to have a child, but not that way. If Alice wanted to do it, then I wouldn't stop her, but I think she agrees with me." Alice nodded slightly in agreement, silently. Everyone was quiet for a little while, and I started thinking about what everyone was saying earlier; how this day had progressed. I saw Edward listening out of the corner of my eye, and when I remembered the part where Bella had basically called Emmett an incubus, we both burst into laughter. Alice glanced at me, and then had a vision of one of us explaining. She started giggling with us. Emmett, as usual when Edward and Alice used their talents and left him out of the loop, yelled, "Will one of you please explain to the rest of us why you've gone insane?!" Bella laughed at his expression, and he glared at her. Edward calmed down before me, so he explained.
"Rosalie was just thinking of what you said earlier." He looked at Bella, waiting to see if she could come up with it on her own. Her expression grew more and more frustrated as she searched through the conversations, and finally she said, exasperated, "What are you talking about?" He grinned and said, "Rosalie was thinking about Emmett being an incubus."
It was like a bomb went off. Everyone was laughing hysterically; Emmett and Jasper were on the floor. After a while, the laughter died down, and we waited in silence again for Carlisle and Esme. What were they doing anyway? Surely they heard us. Alice gasped then, and pointed out the window.
Carlisle and Esme were outside; that would explain why they hadn't checked on us; they hadn't heard us. Bella glanced at me. "Hey, Rosalie. He said you talked to Esme, right?" I looked back at her, unsure of where she was going with this. She gestured for me to listen to Carlisle and Esme. It wasn't hard, Carlisle was yelling at the top of his lungs. "Emmett and Rosalie are going to have a baby!" I smiled to myself. There was no way Alice and Jasper would go against something Carlisle approved of. He set Esme down, and then yelled, "And so are we!" No way! This was unbelievable! This was fantastic! We all started celebrating, even Alice and Jasper. They started back toward the house, so rushed to sit so they could tell us themselves.
Carlisle charged into the room, very nearly taking the door off its hinges. Esme followed behind him, a little more calmly, but excited nonetheless. She sat on the couch, while Carlisle remained standing. He started speaking.
"Guys, we need to talk." The only thing we really needed to talk about was when we would be leaving. I hoped it was soon. "This procedure does turn us back to fully human, but our vampire characteristics linger, making us appear more like Renesmee. So, Esme and Rosalie are going to be perfectly fine. Now, Alice, now that you know this, do you want to go too?" Oh. Nice. I wondered if we would still sparkle, or if, for one, we could go outside like normal people. Alice seemed to be deep in thought over Carlisle's question. I never thought she would ever want kids. "Sure. Maybe since I'll be like Renesmee, I'll see her and the other children better. Do you want to do this?" She turned to look at Jasper, who was nodding before she had fully turned around. She smiled in satisfaction, then asked, "By the way, have either of you come up with names yet?" I was about to suggest an idea I had, but Emmett started speaking.
"Well, I thought Henry might be nice. It's the name of your friend Vera's child, and it also means prince. And, what with Rosalie being a beauty queen and all…" I glared at him; he had stolen my idea! Everyone else was laughing, and I joined in. All it showed was our minds were closer than ever. Finally, laughing, I said, "That's a great idea, Emmett. But, what happens if we think it's a boy, and it turns out to be a girl, like in Bella's case?" Ha! Revenge. His face scrunched in concentration. After a while, he said, "We'll deal with that if the situation arises." We all started laughing again at his answer. Carlisle turned to Esme and asked, "Have you come up with a name yet?" She looked a little shy, and then said, "Yeah, I did. I was kind of thinking Gabriel; it means one who has the power of God, and since you're religious…" Aw! That was perfect! Carlisle was in shock, again, but quickly regained his composure. "That's perfect. Our son, Gabriel." This really was going to be completely perfect. Then, Edward said, "What is it with everyone assuming it's going to be a boy first?" We all laughed at him; Alice didn't assume it was a boy first. Then, Carlisle said, "Okay then, we'll need…uh, Edward, Bella? Are you planning on taking Renesmee to Volterra?" Edward was enraged that Carlisle would assume they would put Renesmee in danger that way. "I'm not sending these three by themselves!!!" Neither Bella nor Carlisle recognized the risk. "Okay, in that case, no, we'll leave her with Jacob." Edward didn't look like he liked that situation either, but it was better than Volterra. Carlisle went upstairs to tell the Volturi we would be coming, the rest of us went to go pack. I couldn't believe all my dreams were right in front of me, each one of them coming true!
Yes, I realized Alice and Jasper's POV's are the only ones where I included Alice's name suggestions. I'm too tired to go back and fix it, and I want to get on with Emmett's POV, which was surprisingly fun to write. Here's a list of the names:
Abigail Hale (or Whitlock)
Henry Cullen-Hale
Gabriel Cullen
There's going to be a little something with Rosalie and Emmett…so the name you see might be different…or added to…that's all I'm saying on that subject. And, now that I got a new laptop, you can expect an update on this story every Friday!!! (not this Friday, b/c I updated today) Here's Emmett's POV, I combined the missing POV with the POV for this chapter, they were both too short to be separated. (There's some mild language, because it's Emmett. Enough said.)
Emmett POV:
I couldn't believe it! Rose and I were actually going to have a family! I was in shock on the way back to the house; for almost a century we thought this was impossible.
Just then, something occurred to me, and I knew it would make my Rosie smile. I've always wondered if it was true, anyway. Were vampires as fast on their hands as they are on their feet? I tried, and much to Rosalie's amusement, I overdid the force necessary to put me on my hands, and toppled over.
Rosalie saw Esme working in her garden, so she decided to talk to her first. I left them alone; it may have been a little weird if I had joined in their 'girls' conversation. I caught pieces of what they were saying; Esme assuming we were leaving permanently, then her relief when she found out we weren't. Then, I heard Rosalie suggest something that was beyond awesome.
"Would you do something like this?" I saw Esme nod, then ignored everything else they said, doing a victory dance in my head. This was so cool! I would have another little sibling to mess around with, like Bella when she was human! I waited for them to finish up, and then went with Rosalie to the house. The second we got in the door, we heard Edward snarling.
He was standing in front of Bella, who was sitting on the couch, with a confused expression on her face. Alice, Jasper, and Carlisle were standing at the top of stairs; Carlisle and Jasper's matched Bella's; Alice looked downright afraid; like she almost knew what we were doing, and praying it wasn't true. Edward spoke-growled-first.
"Rose, think about what you're doing. It almost killed Bella; think about what it will do to Emmett if it kills you too." That was below the belt; I knew he was trying to get her to reconsider, but he already had everything he would ever want. Rosalie didn't, and no matter how long he read her mind, he would never understand the way she felt. Edward really needs to back off, he wasn't doing this, and he was NEVER this rude to Bella when she was doing this, what made Rosalie any different? It was her choice, not his, and if he thought it was suicide, again, he was being hypocritical, because he was going to have himself killed when he thought Bella was dead. It was no different, other than Rosalie was ready to die to have a child.
"Edward, I still don't know much about the incubus and the succubus and all that, but don't you think Rosalie might be okay if she doesn't do the same thing I did? I mean, as long as the placenta stays intact, she could be perfectly fine." Whoa. I never thought Bella would say anything that went against Edward; generally she was pretty agreeable with him. Everyone was glaring at her; I felt bad. She was defending my wife, and now everyone resented her for the moment. "She has a point" Carlisle said. I don't mean to sound rude, but come on! Finally, he said something in our defense! He could have said something earlier, I mean; Rosalie helped enable him to have a child, and another grandchild. "Rosalie, Emmett, please come to my study so we can talk about this some more please." We followed him up, while everyone was hissing at each other below us.
When we got to his study, we sat down and waited for him to say something. "I'm…happy you're going to do this." Are you kidding me?! Why didn't he say something downstairs, then, instead of letting everyone rip our heads off? "You are coming back, right?" He mistook our expressions for confusion, like he had assumed something wrong. I as in shock; I couldn't move. Rosalie just nodded. "Then, what is there to worry about?" Was he insane? Only the fact that Edward was right and Rosalie might die, along with his wife!
"Okay, now I need your help, Rosalie." With what? If one of them still needed to be convinced, we weren't going to be the ones to do it. We could only show them after it was all over. "I don't know if Esme would want to do this, but I would like you to tell her what you plan to do, and see if she agrees." To both me and Carlisle's astonishment, Rosalie fell out of her chair laughing hysterically. Then, I remembered her conversation with Esme and smiled slightly. Carlisle was still in shock. Between her giggles, she managed to gasp, "I…already….talked…to Esme…and she…wants to do it!" She caught her breath, and got back in her chair, and resumed talking. "She didn't know how to ask you, and she wanted me to do it. Now I guess there isn't anything to worry about!" Carlisle looked like he had seriously had too much shock today. The look on his face made Rosalie fall on the floor laughing again. He looked at me, silently signaling for me to rescue him from Rosalie's laughter. I snickered mentally, and scooped her up. We sat in our room for a couple minutes, and then went downstairs to talk to everyone else.
Rosalie started talking. I wasn't going to have any part of this; I would probably end up throwing Edward through a wall. Esme wouldn't like that. "I know you guys don't like the thought of me doing this." It really didn't matter, they had no right to begin with to try and interfere with her decision. "But, it's the only way to keep together." They stopped glaring, but they were still angry, or worried. I couldn't tell which. "It's really going to be fine, I promise. I'll be doing the exact same thing Bella did, and she survived. Barely, I know, but, again, we didn't know what to expect, so I'll be fine." This was completely ridiculous, Rosalie didn't have to explain anything to anybody; she didn't need to explain herself. She and Edward glanced at each other, and Edward snarled. Alice's face went blank for a moment, and then she jumped into a hunting crouch and snarled. I was about to deck Alice; that was over the line. "You didn't," they threatened together. Didn't what? What the hell was going on? "What?" Jasper asked, worried. "She told Esme," Edward growled quietly. So?! It was Esme's decision, plus, Esme wasn't stupid. She would have figured it out on her own. Bella grinned, she was on the right side, but Jasper was pissed. He glared at Bella, seeming to try and burn her with his eyes, and hissed, "Why are you so excited about this?" Stupid empath. But, Bella could hold her own. She leveled each of us with a glare, and then started speaking.
"I know you care about one another, but really, don't you want the people you love to be happy? Rosalie and Esme are going to be fine! Why can't you guys see that?" Edward was about to cave, I could tell. I grinned in anticipation. "She's right," he groaned. "Even though they're going to be going through a ridiculous amount of pain, they're going to be perfectly fine, as Bella said." Ha! This was excellent! Alice wasn't swayed. "Edward! Are you serious? Do you want to see her go through the same thing Bella did?" Edward glared at her. "Do you want her to leave?" He finally saw the light. The stupid empath (that's his name for Jasper now) said, "I don't want to see Alice go through that. I would like to have a child, but not that way. If Alice wanted to do it, then I wouldn't stop her, but I think she agrees with me." We all lapsed into silence. Suddenly, Edward and Rosalie burst into laughter. What the hell? Then, Alice started snickering. I couldn't stand it when they did that. "Will one of you please explain to the rest of us why you've gone insane?!" Bella started laughing at me. This was beyond ridiculous. I glared at her, which only made her laugh harder. Finally, Edward explained…somewhat.
"Rosalie was just thinking of what you said earlier." The expression on Bella's face was awesome. It was growing more frustrated the longer she thought. Finally, she said, "What are you talking about?" Edward grinned briefly, and then said, "Rosalie was thinking about Emmett being an incubus."
Hypocrite! That was priceless! He was such a hypocrite! What does he think he was when he was with Bella, while she was still human? Jasper and I fell out of our seats and were rolling on the floor. I couldn't catch my breath, so I just quit breathing. Suddenly, Alice stopped laughing and pointed out the window.
Carlisle was striding across the lawn like he was the man, with a huge grin on his face. "Hey, Rosalie. He said you talked to Esme, right?" Why? "Yeah. Why?" We all heard Carlisle yell, "Emmett and Rosalie are going to have a baby!" There was no way Alice and Jasper would be against us now. "And so are we!" we heard him yell a second later. There was really no way they would be against us! Whoohoo! We all danced around, celebrating, until they started for the house. We all scrambled for our seats so they could tell us their news themselves.
"Guys, we need to talk." Carlisle said after doing something that would have been considered an Emmett-move- he nearly ripped the door off the wall. He was more excited than Rosalie. He also had 3 times the amount of time believing that this was impossible. "Okay, so Rosalie and Esme are going to Volterra, and before I'm interrupted by Edward and Alice, I need to explain something." Hopefully, he would be explaining to Alice and Jasper that they were going to back off. "This procedure does turn us back to fully human, but our vampire characteristics linger, making us appear more like Renesmee. So, Esme and Rosalie are going to be perfectly fine. Now, Alice, now that you know this, do you want to go too?" Whoa. Alice, Jasper, and Edward had some apologizing to do. Alice replied, "Sure. Maybe since I'll be like Renesmee, I'll see her and the other children better. Do you want to do this?" I mentally rolled my eyes. Those two never did anything that had the slightest bit of risk in it. She turned to see Jasper nodding his head off- seriously, if he nodded any faster, his head was liable to come off. She smiled happily, and asked, "By the way, have either of you come up with names yet?" I looked at Rosalie to see if she was going to say something, then spoke.
"Well, I thought Henry might be nice. It's the name of your friend Vera's child, and it also means prince. And, what with Rosalie being a beauty queen and all…" The last part was a joke. Everyone was laughing, but Rosalie looked like she was going to kill me. Surprisingly, she started laughing too. "That's a great idea, Emmett. But, what happens if we think it's a boy, and it turns out to be a girl, like in Bella's case?" Damn. No name I thought of was good enough. "We'll deal with that if the situation arises." Everyone laughed at my answer. "Have you come up with a name yet?" This should be interesting. Esme was awesome. She would come up with an equally awesome name.
"Yeah, I did. I was kind of thinking Gabriel; it means one who has the power of God, and since you're religious…" Haha, Carlisle didn't know what to say. Poor guy, that'd been happening a lot to him. "That's perfect. Our son, Gabriel." I was right it was an awesome name. I couldn't wait!!! Then, Edward had to go and yell, "What is it with everyone assuming it's going to be a boy first?" What was it with people doing stuff like me? Everybody laughed at him, he was being an idiot. A funny idiot, but an idiot nonetheless. (I resent Edward, because he left in New Moon, and I'll never forgive him for it) "Okay then, we'll need…uh, Edward, Bella? Are you planning on taking Renesmee to Volterra?" I stopped listening to anything anybody said after that, I was too lost in the euphoria that accompanied the knowledge that we all were finally going to have families. We were going to have 3 more incredible people with us. It was amazing.
Whew! *wipes forehead* That took me a long time to write. But, I've already started a new scene, so you can look forward to an update on Friday, providing that you review! And, again, a big, huge, Emmett-sized thank you to The Animanga Girl, you ROCK OUT LOUD!!! Without her, this story would suck. ^_^!!! And, to Miss C Cullen, you are awesome, and your stories are seriously awesome. (In between my updates, go read her stories, they're the bomb dot com!) This story is coming to a close. I just realized it today. Really, there's only Volterra, the preganancy, and the births left. *sad face* I really liked writing this story, too. *Giant dedication/thank you page at the end of the story*
