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Okay, so Emmett was holding the story hostage, not letting me get the words on paper. Finally, I threw him through a window so I could write. Also, somehow Edward took control of this chapter in the middle. What can I say he's a controlling vamp that manages to always get his way. Enjoy!

Slippin' and a Slidin' Emmett Cullen Style

Chapter 3 – LA PUSH BABY – Part 1

Emmett's POV

While last night was the worst experience of my life, overall yesterday was a totally great day and I knew that today was going to be even better. Those guys really knew how to have fun and Paul was going to have to pay big time for being a pompous ass in thinking he could best me in an eating contest. I never told them that some of my vague human memories were of winning a pie eating contest at a county fair when I was only 10 years old.

I was so excited about going today that I had to ask.

"Carlisle, can we leave for the beach now?"

"Emmett, for the hundredth time NO, it's the middle of the night; people don't go to the beach at 5 am." Well Rose and I do, but we're not swimming then.

"Ahhh, when then?"

"We are leaving at 9 am, now I suggest you go find something to do and relax yourself until then," he said, rolling his eyes at me.

Something to do, hmm, Jasper was reading and Alice had Rose and Esme making sure we had everything, as if she'd forget something, please, the woman was more prepared than the Marines going into a battle. They probably should get her to join. I can see it now Drill Sergeant Alice, she'd probably scare them half to death, heck she scared us and we're already dead!

Maybe Bella wanted to do something; I headed down to the cottage to see. I hopped up on the edge of their bedroom window.

"Hey, Bella, want to do something?"

"EMMETT, get out of here, we're busy," Edward growled while throwing a sheet over them, and Bella giggled.

"Busy, you can do that any time. I'm bored and by the way put some clothes on; no one wants to see your skinny butt."

"May I remind you that this is our house and you're hanging in our bedroom window uninvited? And, my butt isn't skinny," he huffed.

"Funny, you had no problem hanging in Bella's window uninvited." Take that little brother. Bella was trying to hold back from laughing.

"Emmett, his butt is just fine, actually more than fine, yummy in fact." She wiggled her eyebrows at me.

"Gross, Bells."

She laughed, "Besides, he was invited. How else would he have been able to come in…since…vampires have…to...be invited into the house," she was now starting to snort from holding the laughter in and Edward was starting to crack a smile. I loved my lil sis, she was a ball and so easily baited.

"My Love, don't encourage him." Yeah right, like I needed encouragement.

"So that means Newton and the others could just come and go as they pleased with no invite since they're not vampires?" Yeah, Edward was growling big time now.

"You've met Mike and while he works in an outdoor store, he is far from the outdoor type, just picture him climbing a tree. I could climb a tree better than him when I was a human and have. Besides I would have shut the window on his skinny butt," she said and was all out hysterical now.

"So, maybe you should have let vamp-boy in sooner and he would have cracked before the wedding?"

"Hmmm interesting thought, but since that's water under the bridge and I have my cracked vamp-man, you might want to go help Alice load up the cars or think of some interesting games for today because I intend to get hot and heavy with him right now."

"Alright, I'm going, I can see you guys aren't going to be any fun, and by the way, you two are as bad as me and Rose." Take that and I quickly slipped down from the window.

As I headed up to the house and went to help Alice, I thought about what Bella said, she's right we needed some games. By the time we were ready to leave at 9 am, I had a bunch of games in mind, and they were going to be lots of fun.

Carlisle's POV

Thank the heaven's it was finally time to leave. If I had to endure one more minute of Emmett asking if we could leave, I was going to run screaming from the house. As everyone gathered in the living room, I could see how excited they were and truth be told, so was I. It still astounded me that we were friends and how well we got along with the wolves. If someone had told me that when we made the treaty, I would have said they were crazy. We have come a long way from that day and it's all thanks to my newest daughter who seemed to be vibrating with excitement as much as Alice.

"Okay, who is driving with whom?"

"We'll come with you and Esme," Edward said.

"Oh no, no way, no how, Carlisle's taking Emmett and Rose because if I'm in the car with both Emmett and Alice in their overexcited states, I'll drive right into a tree," Jasper groaned.

"Hey, I don't care who we drive with, feel free to take Mr. and Mrs. Lustful. Let's just get in the cars already and go. The beach and fun are waiting for us," Emmett said. We all piled into the cars and headed for La Push.

We arrived in no time and even though we were invited I still felt a bit nervous. When we all piled out of the cars, I almost fell over when Paul approached us. Of all the wolves, he was the only one who still hated us, so couldn't understand why he was the welcoming committee.

"Hi, Rosalie, so nice to see you, glad you could come today," Paul said and then wrapped his arm around her.

I think Rose was in shock because her eyes were wide and she didn't utter a word. Then he did the unthinkable, he kissed her on the cheek. You could hear everyone gasping in shock except a few chosen ones. I wonder if they knew something.

"You should visit us more often," Paul said. I looked at Esme and the two of us just stared at one another wondering where we were because it had to be an alternate universe.

"Yes…um…that…be nice," she stuttered out.

What the heck? Rose visit? Hugging and kissing her? And where was Emmett? I'm positive he'd want to kick Paul's ass for touching Rose or even looking at her. I looked around to find him standing off to the side with his arms folded on his chest grinning like a cat that ate a canary. What was up with that? I'm sure that was the question on almost everyone's mind.

Emmett's POV

The minute we got out of the cars, I scanned the area and saw Paul heading over to us. This was going to be so much fun, so I backed away a bit to watch the show. When Paul hugged Rose, her eyes practically bugged out of her head. Although, that was nothing compared to when he kissed her. Almost everyone gasped and when I heard my wife stuttering, I decided it was time to go over.

Slipping my arm around her, I asked, "Hey, Rosie, how ya doin'?"

"Fine, fine. Let's go down to the water." As we walked, she kept looking over her should to see if Paul was following us. "Emmett, what the hell was that? What did you do to make him act that way? I know it was you, so don't deny it."

"I can't lie to you, Rose. Paul lost the hot dog eating contest to me so he had to make good on the bet. Please don't be angry, but I knew I was going to win and he needed to be taken down. You should have seen the guys cheering for me."

"I'm not angry. I was just a little shocked by it all and feared that you were going to pound him into the ground for touching me. I didn't want our day ruined." I'm surprised she didn't pound him into the ground.

"Babe, you know me so well. By the way, you look totally hot in that bikini." I leaned over and kissed her soundly on the lips. "Want to join the others?"

"Sure, I love you. But maybe next time give me a little warning. If I wasn't so shocked I could have made a bit of a show." Next time? Man who would have thought my Rosie would have wanted to be in on it and to make a show.

"I love you too babe, thanks for being such a good sport."

We walked over and joined everyone who was now laughing up a storm. Embry was explaining, "Paul…had…to…kiss a vamp… he lost the bet."

"Who knew a vampire could eat that much food. They're not even supposed to eat!" Paul yelled while waving his hands in the air.

"Oh come on, he's not just any old vamp, its Emmett we're talking about here," Seth defended.

"Yeah, you were stupid enough to think you could out do him, so you paid the price. Even I'm that naïve," Quil stated and Embry agreed.

"That's right, I'm the most awesomest vamp there is, thanks guys. Hey, how about some cliff diving? And then I have some games for us to play."

"Yeah man, let's go." So we headed to the cliffs.

Edward's POV

When we arrived I heard Paul's thoughts, but they didn't make sense at first. 'Damn Cullen, now I have to do this. How could he have eaten all those hotdogs?' He greeted Rose with a hug and I quickly put my arm around Bella and backed the three of us away. I thought for sure Emmett was going to kill him for that. No one touched Rose.

Then when I looked over at Seth, Quil and Embry they were laughing and elbowing one another. Even Sam and Emily were laughing. I heard there thoughts, 'oh this is going to be so good when he kisses Rose. I hope she smacks him.' 'He made the bet; maybe this will teach him a lesson.' That's when it came to me that this was the price of the bet, no wonder Emmett wasn't growling and pouncing on Paul like a possessive lunatic.

It seemed that other than Paul, all the wolves liked Emmett. In their thoughts, they couldn't wait to hang out today with him. Although, when you think about it, it made sense, they were teenagers and so was Emmett.

When Emmett announced he had games for us to play, I groaned. I wasn't playing any games. I leaned over to my wife and whispered, "Bella, you gave him the idea for games, I'm not participating. I just want to go build sandcastles with Ness and admire my lovely wife in her sparkling blue almost not there bikini."

She looked at me smiling and opened her mind to me, "Dear, please for me, there might be a reward in it for you. Besides they'll be fun, I'll make sure of that." I think I was officially scared of what she was planning, but decided the reward was going to be worth any of the consequences or humiliation.

We all then went over to say hello to everyone else and Bella bolted at vampire speed from my embrace screaming, "Wolf girl, how are you?" Throwing her arms out and hugging Emily.

Emily in return opened her arms and screamed, "Vampire girl, I've missed you?" I think the look of shock on my face is what brought Sam over.

"Hey, Edward, good to see you." He held out his hand to shake and I immediately took it.

"Hi, Sam, nice to see you, too. Do I want to know what that's all about?" Actually, I was dying to know.

"My little Nessie, come here and let me see you." He reached out and took Ness from me giving her a big hug and kiss. "I can't wait to have one of my own just like you." Ness giggled, hugging Sam. Until that moment, I hadn't realized how much we were truly accepted for who we were by the tribe.

"I'll tell you, but you might not like it too much. I know how it freaks you out that she would hang out with us especially when she was human." Freaking out was putting it mildly.

"I've gotten better about it, not much I'll admit, but I can't control the overwhelming need to protect her. Even now that's she's more durable, the feeling never dissipated and it drives her crazy. I told her it was a vampire thing. Of course, she told me it was an Edward thing since my siblings never do that. It was then that I noticed how Jasper, Emmett and Carlisle actually did do it, but they were smart enough to hide it from their wives." What the heck did I just admit all that to Sam for?

"Trust me it's not a vampire thing. I have that same overpowering feeling about Emily and it drives her crazy too. I would have been totally freaked if it was the reverse and Emily was hanging out with vampires. A few times she told me if I didn't step away from her, she was going to hit me with a frying pan. Not that it would have hurt me, but it would have hurt her hand. Usually when that happens, I just phase and go for a run to get out of her hair for a bit," he laughed.

"Yeah, well I WAS hit with a frying pan once by Bella. Now I know where that idea came from."

"No way, how did she manage that?"

"I can't read her mind so I never saw it coming. The funny thing is that I was always the one telling everyone not to antagonize the newborn, but I went ahead and did just that. She wanted to go down to visit Charlie alone and I may have told her that she couldn't go alone, that it wasn't safe. Everyone was out hunting and that as soon as they came back someone would go with her because she needed protection and Emmett and I needed to go out next to hunt. We were standing in the kitchen when she sort of flipped out on my ass. Before I knew it, a frying pan slammed into the side of my head. That wasn't even the worst of it." Why was I spilling my guts?

"How could it get any worse?"

"One word, Emmett. After she realized what she did, she was beside herself. She jumped on me kissing my face and apologizing over and over even though I told her I was fine. She was so upset going on and on about what a horrible person she was begging me not to leave her. As if I'd ever leave the love of my existence. Right in the middle of all that, Emmett walked in and asked what was going on. I tell you I think Emmett has a gift of knowing when something embarrassing is going down that he can use against you. Bella told him everything because she wanted to be sure I wasn't hurt. Needless to say, he was grinning like he just won the lottery."

"Yeah, he really does have that knack and to him, it was probably better than winning the lottery. Look what he did to Paul today, although Paul definitely deserved it mind you, but he is certainly creative, I'll give him that."

"Definitely creative, he had the frying pan she hit me with, which had a profile of my face imprinted on it, framed and hung it in our kitchen as a surprise. I wanted to throw it out, but he argued it was art. The frying pan jokes are still going on, not to mention the gifts of everything frying pan related. This is probably going to go on for the next decade unless something else happens."

"Should I venture a guess that that something else will most likely still be you and Bella?"

"Most likely, we're like high entertainment for him."

"That's what I thought, both of you are easy targets."

"Daddy, Uncle Sam, can we go down to the sand and play?" Uncle Sam, interesting, and look at the smile on his face when she said that.

"Of course, sweetie, we'll just let mommy know."

"Its fine honey, you guys go, and we'll be along shortly. Love you, guys."

"Love you, too." So the three of us headed to the beach to play in the sand, but on the way Sam started to explain the whole vampire/wolf girl thing to me.

"It was the first time Bella came with Jake to our house to meet Emily. All the guys were there and they were busting on Jake about his thoughts of calling Bella or not after she found out he was a wolf. Well, when Bella came in to meet Emily, she greeted her with 'hi, vampire girl' and Bella came back with 'hi, wolf girl.' And, the rest my friend, is history," he laughed and I still couldn't believe how it disturbed me with her being with so many wolves at once while she was human.

"Well, that's not as bad as I imagined. Although, I can't help that it still bristles me that she was with so many young wolves while human. I guess that's never going to change," I laughed.

"Probably not. I know it's not going to for me. And, if I have a little one like this, it will probably get worse."

"Daddy?" Ness reached out her little arms to me to take her from Sam. 'Look at him, he just looks so happy being called daddy.' Sam thought and I couldn't help grinning like a fool.

"Sam, you have no idea. It's just sad that one day she'll be grown and not be able to call me daddy anymore because I'll still be seventeen. Then she'll have Jake and won't need me at all." That seriously upset me and it's the first time that I've voiced it to someone.

"You have nothing to worry about, you'll always be daddy. Maybe not out with the general public will she be able to say it out loud, but she'll be thinking it and you are at least lucky enough to be able to read her mind to hear it. Also, at home and down here on the rez that will never have to change for you. As far as Jake goes, he'll be important to her and love him beyond all reason, just like Bella does you. They'll have fights because as guys it's in our nature to do or say stupid things, and then she'll be calling you, her daddy to comfort her. Then you'll call Jake to yell at him for being stupid, they'll make up, she'll call you to let you know everything is fine and tell you didn't have to yell at Jake, but glad you did. She'll tell you how much she loves you and that you are the best dad in the world. And I know you're probably wondering how I know all this."

"Yes, I really am." I'm kind of shocked to say the least.

"It's because it's happened to me with Emily and her dad. I'm guessing you haven't experienced this with Bella yet."

"Well, once, but I didn't know that that was what it was or this was a common occurrence. We had an argument so I walked into the other room to calm myself. I heard her on the phone, but thought she was talking to Esme or Carlisle. How I wish it was one of them. Let me just say that Charlie's phone call was a shock. And me, a vampire was actually afraid of him. I couldn't get two words in edgewise. He told me off like nobody's business and that if I didn't apologize, he would be coming down with his gun. Even if the gun couldn't hurt me, it certainly got the point across loud and clear." We were both laughing over that image.

"Same for me with Emily's dad and I'm a wolf. It just doesn't matter what or who you are, dads are scary and overprotective when it comes to their little girls."

"Thanks Sam, you're very wise like Carlisle. I never thought about it that way before it certainly makes me feel better." 'Wow did he seriously compare me to Carlisle? A doctor and smarter than anyone else I've ever met, who has lived and seen more than I can even imagine, just wow.'

We arrived at the beach and started building our sandcastles. Bella and Emily had come down shortly thereafter and were helping us as well. It wasn't long before they took shape and looked like something out of a storybook.

"Ness, honey, that's beautiful," Emily complimented.

"Thanks, Aunt Emily."

Bella opened her mind up to me 'I didn't realize how much time she spends down here. Are you okay with her calling them aunt and uncle?' My sweetheart was always worried about me. I looked up at her smiling my special smile that she loved so much. 'I'm glad, they love her and us very much you know.' I gave a slight nod. It was true, they did love us, Jasper told me as much, which shocked me to no end with the revelation a few weeks ago when some of the pack members came over with Jake.

"Hey, are you two having a private conversation?" Emily inquired.

"Yes, you caught us. We do it so often that we don't even realize we do it sometimes. Sorry about that," Bella admitted while biting her lip. Her blushing and blood may be gone, but those other traits remained. God I was such a lucky man.

"No worries, I just heard Emmett and the others talk about it. Well mostly Emmett griping. I was just surprised; it's really nice actually to have such a connection."

"I can see Sam and your connection at times too. You and him can exchange glances, looks, or just a movement toward one another and know exactly what the other is thinking," Bella said.

"Really? Jake said that to me once, but I didn't believe him," Emily said.

"So whose castle is that Ness?" I inquired.

"It's Princess Mommy and you are over here daddy, you're the Prince, you're riding in on a white horse, Jake said it had to be white, I wanted it to be silver like your car, to visit after having saved the princess from the ogre. You're going to take the princess to a movie, kiss her goodnight, marry her, have a cute little baby girl, and then live happily ever after." We were all pretty much laughing over the story of what she perceives as her parents life. If only it had been that simple.

"Look at Sam's castle, isn't that nice honey?"

"Yes, it's really nice, but it needs to have blood in the moat."

"What? Blood, why would it need that?" Jeez where does she come up with this stuff?

"Well, that's Count Dracula's castle and his castle has a blood moat." Oh god, everyone was now frozen in place.

"How do you know that?"

"Yesterday when we were building sandcastles Uncle Emmett told me. Grandpa knows him so maybe we should ask?"

"EMMETT! EMMETT GET OVER HERE NOW!" I screamed. Carlisle immediately flew over to us having heard the conversation. Damn Emmett and his wild stories. I'm going to kill him.

Emmett's POV

I was cliff diving with the guys when I heard Edward screaming, "EMMETT! EMMETT GET OVER HERE NOW!"

"CRAP!"

"Hey, Em man, what did you do now to your uptight brother that he's screaming like a banshee?"

"It's probably no big deal, but you know how he is, I have to get over there before he blows a gasket."

"I HEARD THAT EMMETT! AND, FOR THE RECORD, I'M NOT UPTIGHT OR SCREAMING LIKE A BANSHEE, QUIL!"

"Quil, dude, don't poke the beast down there." They were all laughing.

"We're coming too, not going to miss the fireworks. Your brother knows how to flip a lid like no one else. You know if he was a wolf with that temper, he'd be bursting into one all the time," Seth snickered while we were all hysterical, it was so true.

"I HEARD THAT TOO, SETH!"

"Then you know it's true, admit it Edward." Seth was a serious instigator.

We all ran down to the beach to see what the banshee wanted. I'm sure it wasn't anything, but with Edward everything was a HUGE deal. The dude needed to chill. We arrived, just as Ness asked Carlisle the question.

"Grandpa, maybe you can tell daddy about the vampire Count Dracula and his castle having a blood moat since you know him." I could see all the others had an ear turned toward them to hear his response.

"Okay, let's just say that Uncle Emmett has a wild imagination, incredibly wild, like Wild Kingdom wild. There is no real vampire called Count Dracula, but there was this evil human man who lived a long time ago in a castle. He's dead now. He did not have a blood moat as much as Emmett wishes it were the case. I didn't know him, I only heard about him from stories people would tell. People gave him that name because he was a very bad man, and over the years, the stories have taken on a life of their own and have become twisted into something else that isn't even close to the truth." I was barely able to hold the laughter in as Carlisle explained this.

"Oh, so it's like a fairytale, but not a nice one like with the princesses or vampires that mommy tells me." Wait, hold the deer's antlers, Bella had vampire fairytales?

"Exactly, honey." Okay, having Carlisle glare at me was a bit scary.

"Wait, what are these vampire fairytales that mommy tells you?' Cripes, I had to know.

"Emmett, I'm warning you, stop."

"Edward, chill dude, it's a fair question."

"No, it's not, isn't it bad enough you have filled her head with this crazy story?"

"Oh come on man, admit it, it was funny. I bet every one of you was shocked when Ness asked about Count Dracula. Sorry I missed the looks on your faces."

"He's right you know," Quil and the other guys agreed, while still laughing.

"You know, Edward, I hate to say this, but Seth is probably right, you'd be bursting into wolf form all the time if you were one."

Edward was now laughing as he looked at Sam, "Especially if I had to deal with Emmett constantly. How about you take him on for a bit, let's see how long you last before he has you bursting left, right, and center, Sam."

"Point taken and now that I think about it, glad he's a vampire and not a wolf. These guys are enough to deal with," he laughed.

"Hey, I'm not that bad."

All I heard in unison was, "YOU ARE, TOO."

"Maybe, but I'm the fun one. So, who's up for some cliff diving?"

Nessie jumped up and yelled, "I am Uncle Emmett, just like yesterday okay?"

Ut oh, everyone's eyes went wide and if I didn't know any better Edward was starting to look like one of those cartoon characters where the top of their heads blew off and steam came out of their ears while they turned beet red.

"EMMETT, you have a two second head start before I chase you down and rip you to shreds."

HOLY CRAP ON A CRACKER, I'M GOING TO BE TOAST!

A/N Please review and I'll arrange for you to go cliff diving with Emmett right after me!