Author note: Just so that it's clear to everyone this takes place while Jacob is talking to Bella alone after he and Edward talk.
Disclaimer: As you know she owns the Twilight Saga, God owns the praise and glory and me, the mistakes are mine.
Chapter 3: Emmett to Rosalie
"Why?"
"Why what?" Rosalie snapped as she pulled her arm out of Emmett's hand he used to pull her to the side when she followed Edward out the door. She turned back to check on Edward and Carlisle but they stood on the other side of the porch. Carlisle stood with his arms around Esme and Edward was staring down the drive way where he and Jacob had just had their talk. He went down the steps following the path he had walked with Jacob. The rest followed, all but Rosalie and Emmett.
"It's not giving Jake and Bella privacy if you stand and listen at the door, Rosalie." Edward said without pausing or looking back, until reaching the spot he stop at with Jacob, then he turned around to stare at the house. The burning man was back. Everyone left him alone realizing that now was not a time to give him comfort or encouragement, fearing that even one word would cause the burning man to burst into flames.
Rosalie hesitated but walked with Emmett when he tugged on her hand. "Why are you doing this, Rosalie?" Emmett asked her quietly pulling her off to the side again.
"Doing what?" she asked stubbornly.
"Do you want a baby so much that you would kill your brother and sister to get one?" he asked harshly. Rosalie rounded angrily on him pulling her hand free to fist both at her side, but she said nothing. "I thought" he began trying to get her to talk "you were over your hatred of Bella."
"I don't hate her!" she gasped, shocked he would think that let alone say it.
"No, it's worse," he told her dead serious, "you seen indifference to them both." His eyes beg her, "This is not you, Rosalie, you would not do this without a good reason. I know how much you want a baby in your life. And I wish," his voice broke and she gasped his arm, "I could give you one, but I can't believe you would sacrifice Bella and Edward for one. Can the baby be the only thing that matters?"
"Yes." She whispered.
Emmett closed his eyes in pain and moaned, "No, no, no – you cannot be doing this!" he exclaimed in disbelief. "Please, Rosalie…"
"Emmett," she pleaded in a whisper. "The baby's life is the only thing that matters to Bella."
"Bella?" he question in confusion and hope.
"Yes, Bella." She answered, nodding her head. "Right now, the baby's survival is the most important thing in her life."
"But, Edward is…"
"Edward is important to her, Emmett." She interrupted. "But right now, she is fighting to keep this baby alive. And to do that she has to stay alive and fight against Edward, against her whole family, except for Esme and me, but she knew it would take all her strength just to stay alive. That why she asked me to help."
"She asked for your help?"
"Yes, she knew it would take everything she got to take this baby to term and she also knew that she wouldn't have anything leftover to fight Edward's and Carlisle's concern for her. She needs me to be that strength. And she knew that I would do it."
"But what if she not strong enough?" he asked in concern.
"She is, Emmett." Rosalie told him confidently. "She thinks, and I agree, that she'll survive until she delivers and then she'll survive delivery with venom.
"Emergency vampiration!" He exclaimed seeing how this might work.
"Yes." Rosalie smiled. "She's not foolish, she knows there's a chance that something might go wrong, but she believes that Carlisle will find a way."
"You still haven't said why you are doing this." Emmett demanded.
"Because she would do it for me." She told him simply.