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Chapter Ten

Emmett's POV – Discovering The Past

I helped a sleepy Bella make a sandwich, something she totally could have made on her own. I wasn't a child, even if I did act like it most of the time. That woman at the door… She was familiar. I don't know how, but I just know I've seen her before. For some reason it really upset me to see her sad. Which, by the way, I didn't understand. Had I done something to her? Maybe I left her at the pound or something. I snickered at my inner thoughts as I oh-so-expertly cut Bella's sandwich.

I let my gaze drift behind her to where Edward and Rose still argued in the entry way. Well, might as well listen in!

"He has a right to know, Rosalie!" Edward hissed in a low voice. "Do you really think you can keep him in the dark?"

"What's in the past should stay in the past. When we turn, we leave our human lives behind us. Emmett might not have chosen this life, but she did."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa." I held up my hands and walked over to them. "What aren't you guys telling me? Is it about how that girl totally freaked out when she saw me? And not in the usual way women freak out around me." I gave them a wide smile which slowly shrank when they looked away. "Oh… it is."

"Emmett, there's something you need to see." Edward started up the stairs, motioning for me to follow him.

"Edward… Please don't so this!" Rosalie's thin lips twisted in a frown. She looked to me, her eyes pleading.

"Sorry Rose-bud. If it's about my past, I kinda want to know. Maybe I can fix whatever is wrong between me and the mutt."

She wordlessly watched me follow Edward upstairs, and out of sight. I was confused when he walked straight for the attic door. As far as I knew, Carlisle and Esme only kept old junk they've collected over the years up there. I followed him up the dusty stairs, flicking on the light when we reached the top.

"This has been up here a while." He walked over to one of the far walls, sliding an old shoe box from a stack. "Carlisle kept it in case you ever wanted to know about your human life, but Rose made us promise to not show you unless you asked."

I frowned as he handed me the box. "Why wouldn't Rose want me to see what's in here?"

He sighed and sat on an old trunk. "It's the stuff you had on you when you were turned. Well, what was left after the bear attack."

I rose an eyebrow at this. Oh. "Well, no use dragging this out."

I pulled the top off and set in on a shelf next to me. The first thing I saw were what could only be described as cloth strips. I realized quickly that it was once a shirt. Holy shit! The bear really had done a number on me. I placed in to the side, disappointed to see only two more things sitting at the bottom. The first was a tiny velvet box. With one hand, I carefully opened it. Oh… In the center of the age-word velvet lining sat a huge diamond ring in a simple gold band. I was apparently going to propose to someone. It was weird, to think of myself with anyone other than Rose. After all, she was all I knew in this life. Carefully placing it on top of the shirt, I turned back and lifted the last item from the box. It was a pocket watch. I could tell it had been a polished silver at one point, but dried blood had settled in the design.

"That's it? You brought me up here to tell me that I was once in love with someone and knew how to tell time?"

Edward pinched the bridge of his nose. I loved when I could make him do that. "Open the watch, Emmett."

"Pushy." I mumbled, pushing in the tiny button.

The clock hands themselves didn't move – not that I expected them too. What caught my attention was the picture pressed against the inside of the top. Looking closely at the grainy black and white photo, I was stunned. There I stood, my smile wider than I thought possible, with my arms wrapped around the tiny brunette that had just recoiled from me only a few minutes ago. In the background was a large diner. I squeezed my eyes shut as the diner flashed through my mind in full color. I had known that diner… That's right! It had been my mother's!

"Oh…" I breathed as my eyes went back to the she-wolf.

"You've said that a lot today."

"No, I've thought it! You're just nosy!" I put everything back in the box, quickly covering it again. This was dangerous, I could see why Rose didn't want me anywhere near this stuff. Placing the box on a shelf, I brought a hand to my chest. It was weird, but I could have sworn there was an ache there. Out of the corner of my eye, I caught Edward frowning at me. "Don't give me that look Ed-weird. I don't even remember her."

Deciding it would be better just to lay low for a while, I headed down stairs and joined Bella in the living room. Rosie wasn't in the house anymore, which meant she probably went for a hunt. Throwing myself down on the couch next to my favorite human, I let myself get absorbed in whatever Lifetime crap she was watching. I tried not to think of the contents in the box upstairs, or the brief flash of memory I had of my mother's diner.

"You're her imprint aren't you?" Bella's voice drew my attention. Edward gave us a worried look from her other side. When had he joined us? Fucking mind reading ninja vamp.

"I have no idea what that means." I shrugged and turned my eyes back to the T.V. They should just call this the 'Men Are Horrible' channel.

"Wolves – when they find their imprint it's like love at first sight. It's an unbreakable love. Their imprint becomes their whole world. Alexandria said her imprint got turned into a vampire… And well, I saw the way she reacted to you."

Alexandria…

"Bridget, I was wondering where you went!" I looked to my very pregnant sister with a wide smile. It was her first baby, and we were all excited for the newest McCarty.

"I was greeting our guest! This is Alexandria."

I turned to her only to freeze. She wasn't dressed up like all the other party guests, but she seemed to shine brighter. Her caramel hair fell around her face in loose waves, but all I could see were her eyes. It was like the air was knocked out of me. I used to make fun of my father for saying that he fell in love with my mother the instant he saw her… now that didn't seem so unrealistic. Alexandria… She was perfect. It didn't escape my notice that Bridget looked between us with a large smile.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." I managed to make my voice work, my accent thicker than usual. "Truly… A pleasure."

I shook off the memory, quickly standing. I tried to hide just how shaken up I was, but Edward's sympathetic gaze told me he had seen everything. Awesome. I wordlessly made my way out of the house, and out of Edward's mind reading rang. There were a lot of questions I had, unfortunately, there was only one person that could give me answers, and I didn't think she was my biggest fan.

I jumped the small stream as I came to it, settling on a rock on the other side. Bella said the imprint love was unbreakable… Did that mean she still loved me? I frowned at the thought. Probably not if she let me go off with Rose. Did I know about her being a wolf when I was human? If the love is instant, is it instant for both sides? If that was the case, maybe I never really loved her at all and was under some kind of werewolfy spell. Again, I shook my head. There was no use asking myself questions I couldn't answer.

AN: This one is a little short, but the next one will be longer! Reviews are loved!