Hi, so here is another chapter and I hope that you enjoy this one as much as I enjoyed writing it. Emmett is as always a complete and utter joy to write and to dive into his relationship with Edward was also a new and exciting challenge for me.

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Some trigger warnings for discussion on how Rosalie became a vampire.

The Bella/Edward relationship during the whole of Book 1 (and indeed all of Eclipse) is something that I struggle with immensely and therefore that is why I write it as I do. Also the whole manipulating Bella with his presence...yeah tell me that's not exactly what it sounds like. Also regardless of weather or not you agree with Bella's decision I have totally made Emmett pro-choice and I give zero apologies for it.

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Chapter 4-Future Tense

Emmett's point of view! Emmett thinks on Rosalie's decision and his understanding of it as Bella's choice becomes clear to all the Cullen's and the battle lines are drawn.

"The strength of the family is like the strength of an army, it's loyalty to each other" Mario Puzo

He was silent the car ride over.

He wasn't the only one.

Everyone was too locked in their own thoughts trying to get them out of their system before Edward turned up no doubt that when the three cars came to the airport the entire family were silent. They got out in their pairs well…Alice and Jasper, Carlisle and Esme did. Emmett turned the keys in the ignition and sat there. Rosalie found his hand.

"This will be alright" she said quietly. Emmett said nothing. He didn't even shudder. He had no idea how this was going to be alright but he was far removed from it now. The second Rosalie had made her choice he had known there was no point, he was going to right there beside her fighting to the death beside her. The problem was not Edward…he suspected that even with the mind-reading he could take Edward the problem was Jasper. Jasper who knew how he worked…who had taken stock of everyone's fighting. The second Alice turned to Jasper and asked him to save Bella, Jasper would and that was a hard thing to condemn him fore. He couldn't even find it in him to condemn Edward. If this was Rosalie…well…he was quite sure that he too would want the damn thing out.

But then again he wouldn't have been stupid enough to sleep with a human. He wouldn't have dragged this out for as long as Edward and Bella had done. Edward in his opinion should have done this years ago. Their entire family had gone through hell and back on the concept of a soul which Emmett had thought pretty damn selfish to be honest.

But then that had been Edward from the start. Even he would admit he was one of the most selfish beings on this Earth.

And now here they were.

And now it ended.

For Emmett genuinely couldn't see a way out of this that left their family intact.

But hey…he didn't have a special gift so what did he know?

"I hope your right" was all he muttered back. He didn't have Rosalie's optimism on this, he didn't have her new found faith in Bella that she would be the one who would keep this thing alive. That it really was a baby. Personally Emmett thought they had played with fire enough during this relationship, maybe this was playing with too much.

But at the same time he was loath to allow Edward to choose for Bella. Emmett was a 1930s man, he missed the standard prices of eggs and milk and though he liked having video games and a T.V he also remembered how it used to be and he missed it sometimes. The simple things that had been the staple things in his life. He had been raised on traditional values and if he had ever made it to twenty he would have been married with a small house, a few pennies in the jar and a baby on the way. But even with those values and that idea of a life that he had grown up with he had never watched his parents and saw his father dictate to his mother what was going to happen without her having a say in it.

Certainly, even if it had been legal back then (Emmett had cheered along with the rest of them when Roe v Wade had become law) his father would have never told his mother that he was finding a doctor who would violate her body medically without her consent. Even if Carlisle was gentle (which he would be because Carlisle didn't know how to be anything else, case in point that vampire Bree) it still felt wrong. He might not get it in the same way Rosalie did but he would feel a hell of a lot better about getting rid of the thing if Bella was on board with it. Right now he kinda felt like one of those assholes on TV that told woman what was good for them.

Though he knew Edward was not like that…not really…it was like the werewolf thing, always putting Bella's safety first even when Bella was screaming at him. The problem was people enabled Edward and when Edward was enabled Edward assumed that the plan was right. Again he was a by-product of the age that he had grown up in and Emmett had to wonder what life would be like if Edward had actually been human when he met Bella because had he grown up in this world that they inhabited he might find a great deal of his antics not appreciated.

He thought all of this in a minute his thoughts moving miles ahead of the rest of him. Rosalie grabbed his arm their fingers linking together. Between the two of them there was an understanding that this might be the last time they were alone together. Assuming this did not descend into a bloodbath Rosalie was going to stick by Bella's side like glue.

Great. There went Emmett's chance of sex for a very long time.

"I love you" Rosalie said softly and Emmett turned and saw the worry and the fear underneath the burning butterscotch and he took her hand and pressed it to his lips.

"You never are going to look at me and find me gone Rosalie" he said slipping her hand down so that it was over his non-beating heart. "You know that. This weather it beats or weather it doesn't is all yours. I love you and I love you despite the crazy that is our day to day lives. And so I am here, standing behind you, always. Whatever happens I love you with everything that I am"

Rosalie smiled at him her lovely face even more lovely in that moment. Emmett was about to kiss her, to mould their mouths together in a bruising kiss but before he could there was a knock at the door and he turned to see Jasper standing there with an irritable expression on his face. Emmett opened the door.

"If you two are done with this touching moment that radiates a sickening teenage emotion all over the place like the stench of stale beer can we get on with this? Alice is getting angsty. She keeps saying you flicker in and out of sight Rose. Apparently you and Bella"

"Bella still blurry?" Rosalie said her face all business. Emmett knew what she was counting on and he had to admit she was right. The second Rosalie had cautiously decided her own fate had blurred into Bella's. Emmett suspected that soon he would be out of the picture too depending on what happened and he sighed. He didn't like this…this was going to create utter hell. But to be honest Edward had nobody to blame but himself for this one though Emmett knew he would try and blame Rosalie. Anything but see that Bella had made a decision that he could not agree with. That he did not agree with…that did not involve him or his approval or his needs.

Christ Edward needed to chill the fuck out. That or read a pamphlet on gaslighting and coercive control. Emmett personally thought both.

"Yes" Jasper said snapping them back to the present. "Yes she is and your not helping. She's terrified"

"For her visions?" Emmett asked. Jasper shot him a look that was not kind though sometimes with Jasper it was hard to tell. Emmett held nothing but love for the man, he had seen the look on Jasper's face when he had heard that Alice was in Italy. He had never judged Jasper on anything to do with Alice from that moment onwards. If it had been Rosalie…

Christ it made his vision go red just thinking about it.

The woman herself dressed in her black jeans with a black jumper and blazer elbowed him sharply in the ribs. It snapped Emmett back to reality and fast. He didn't think that Carlisle would let anything happen in a crowded airport but then again…then again when Edward got a look at Rosalie's thoughts…

"How fast did you tell Bella to be?" he muttered as they followed Jasper into the main terminal.

"She knows what she has to do" was all Rosalie said. "Trust me she knows what she has to do. I can keep it…I can keep it under control just…just try very hard Emmett not to think"

Emmett bit down his retort with difficulty. With Edward that was a very hard thing not to do. Only now as they stood with the rest of the family he was beginning to realise that they had very little privacy. Alice could see what you did before you did it, Edward could hear everything that was running through your head at any given time and with no distance needed—not really anyway—and Jasper could feel your emotions and control them.

"Are you good if he starts in the middle of the airport?" he said sharply to Jasper who was looking pained. With Jasper though it was hard to tell just what was setting him off, the way Alice was rubbing her temples with her eyes closed, the close proximity to all these bleeding, heartbeats and humans or weather or not he had gotten a hold of Edwards emotions which Emmett was willing to bet everything he had were going to slam into Jasper (and therefore the rest of them) like a freight train.

"Jasper?" Carlisle asked quietly when Jasper didn't speak and Jasper sighed. Clearly he didn't want to have to talk unless he had to. Emmett couldn't blame him. He had fed this morning and even now he could feel a dull stale ache at the back of his throat. Well…he was going to have to get used to it because until this thing was over…one way or another then he was going to have to get used to it.

"I can get him back home calmly" Jasper said barely moving his mouth. "But as to what happens after that…until we get that thing out of her…I don't know and even then he's going to hate himself for the next quarter of a century"

That Emmett thought would be the least of Edward's problems.

"Emmett why can I see you but not Rosalie? Your there but she's blurring in and out and your not as clear as you used to be?"

"Your gift Alice not mine"

Shit, now he felt like a dick for snapping at his sister not that she seemed to mind. Her eyes were closed and she was rubbing her temples. Rosalie next to him said nothing, her whole body was tight like a snake waiting to spring.

He loved her he did, he really did but for the life of him Emmett would never be able to understand her obsession with children. He understood that a part of what she had wanted had been ripped away from her at her transformation, he had understood that her reasons for keeping Bella human had not been anything to do with vanity but more with the foresight that came when you realised what you wanted but it came too late. He even understood her acknowledgement that she would give him up for another shot at having a child. He had understood that a long time ago and though in the beginning it had stung a little he had simply acknowledged that, that was just the way that Rosalie was. She had never received much love from her parents, all of their focus had been on societal advancement. She had wanted a family of her own, she had been on the cusp of getting it and it had been all taken away from her. The perfect little baby.

And look it was not like Emmett had never thought of it. Of the dark haired boy and the blonde girls and sitting on the front porched grey in their hair with their grandchildren surrounding them. He had thought of it. Though he would not admit it to Rosalie he had thought of it quite a bit.

But he was happy without children. Would they have been nice yes but only with Rosalie by his side. With some other nameless, faceless woman he did not think he would want them half as much. But he had immortality, a lifetime with the woman he loved more than life itself. A nice family, the chance of looking back and seeing his own family have children and making sure that they were being looked after. Three McCarty children were in Ivy Leagues now, two were surgeons, three were in military and climbing the ladder all of them receiving scholarships from unknown sources. He and Rosalie in some way had family out there that they could look after. Jasper's had been annihilated somewhere between the Alamo and the aftermath. Alice couldn't remember. Edward had been the only child of only children parents. Carlisle and Esme both had reasons for not searching for the remnants of their family.

But children of his own? He didn't want them in the all consuming way Rosalie did. He didn't miss them as if they were air the way that Rosalie did. He understood her reasoning and he wished beyond the measure of words that he could be the one to give them to her but…but he couldn't.

And so he stood there for the final few seconds and waited until he had to do the hardest thing, for him at any rate.

Nothing.

Eventually they came off the plane. Whatever Rosalie was thinking she was doing a good job of masking it or perhaps Edward was just not hearing it. Emmett had thought that he had seen the worst of Edward's emotion during those months when he had separated from Bella but now…but this…

This was beyond words.

Whenever Bella looked at him he managed something that might have once been an assuring smile but Emmett could see the depths of his brother's misery written all over his face and something inside him twisted a little at the double betrayal that Edward was about to get.

Bella pulled away from Edward but his brother didn't move. For a second his eyes were on his wife walking away from him without a second glance backwards her hands on her stomach that actually now Emmett was looking at it was looking a little bit rounded (and oh if he was human he was sure that he would have been sick all over the airport carpet) and then his eyes slid to Emmett and Emmett knew that it was written all over his face even if it wasn't in his thoughts.

But it was too late. Even if Edward had moved with vampire speed it wouldn't have made a difference because Bella had sidestepped Alice who had stepped forwards with her arms out expecting her little human friend to fall over her and had instead went straight to Rosalie and Emmett knew the second that his wife had entered his sister's arms Rosalie had let the charade drop.

"Emmett?" it was Alice who turned to him in surprise but he couldn't tear his eyes away from Edward. Jasper who had looked between Bella and Rosalie clutched into a tight embrace looked to Emmett and then to Edward and groaned.

"Oh fucking hell"

"Jasper!"

Crap that was Esme. Oh this was going to be hard.

"Emmett what is…I can't see Rosalie now so what is…what's going on?"

"Emmett…son?" Carlisle his voice gentle his hand on Emmett's back looking from both of his sons with eyes that were comprehending but none the less concerned and Emmett suddenly felt like crying and he hated himself for it.

Edward was still watching him his face stiff with betrayal. Emmett should have felt bad, no he did feel bad but the truth was that Edward would have done the same if their roles had been reversed. If it had been Rosalie asking Bella for help. And all the reasons he had already thought of. Regardless of what was inside Bella he did truly one hundred percent believe that only Bella could make decisions about her body. It was her right, her human right, her vampire right even.

Her body. Her choice. And he didn't have to like it, neither did Edward but Emmett was a McCarty and where he came from you respected woman and you respected their choices and though he did not agree with this one Edward had to understand that he would stand by his wife as she protected Bella from the monster…

And this time brother, the monster is you.

Someone had to think it.

Edward seemed to cave in a little on himself but it propelled him to walk forwards even as his expression became menacing.

I'm sorry brother. Emmett thought.

He moved to step in front of his wife and his sister-in-law, ready to fight…to kill his brother if needs be to protect them. It was his first move, his first real move and Emmett knew it would not be his last.

And just like that, everyone else understood.

And there you go. I will do my best to bring you the next chapter sooner rather than later.

Next Chapter-As the family reel from Bella's decision to keep her baby, battle lines are drawn and the Cullen family finds itself dangerous poised to break. (Still Emmett's point of view)