Title: Row, Row, Row your Boat into Trouble

Author: Enelya

Dedication: This is for Carol who gave me the song. :D

Series: 4- in the Testing Carlisle's Patience Series

Disclaimer: Twilight Characters are not mine they belong to Stephenie Meyers.

Summary: The Cullens kids intentionally try test Carlisle's patience.

Warning: Nope no spankings yet. I thought it was going to happen this chapter but it didn't.

A/N: Yes I'm doing the whole song again.

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It was quiet upstairs. A little too quiet, and for some reason it didn't sit well with Carlisle. Had he been too harsh? He opened his book once more, but couldn't seem to get pass the first page. He suddenly felt bad for scolding them, but they had broke a bed and Jasper actually threatened Edward with a pillow, but that had been in play he was sure of. Jasper would never harm any of his siblings. He was prepared to head back upstairs to apologize when he thought he heard it. It started off low at first, and then got louder. He sighed softly. *I should've known.* Carlisle thought to himself.

He sat there a minute to listen to which ones were singing and was surprised to hear that they were all singing. He opened his book and started to read when he realized they were doing a round robin of one song, so that none of them were singing the same words at the same time. He shook his head and ignored them. As long as they weren't tormenting each other he was happy.

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"Ok guys let's do it again. Rosalie you first, then Alice, Jasper, Edward and myself last," Emmett said as he tried to get his siblings to cooperate.

"Uhm guys I really don't think it's our singing that bothers Carlisle. I'm pretty sure it's the fighting," Jasper said. Of course that didn't go over well with the others and he just got smacked with pillows for it.

"Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily merrily merrily merrily, life is but a dream," each sang as soon as the one before them had completed the first verse. They sang for over an hour and still it didn't bring the desired effects.

"Ok I'm done. This is boring and that song is stupid," Rosalie said as she got up and stretched. She sauntered out of the room and down the hall towards her and Emmett's room.

Edward shook his head. "She really shouldn't have said that," he said and grinned at his siblings.

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"Oh Rosalie get over it. We were just singing it. Why's it such a big deal now?" Edward asked not understanding his sister's logic sometimes.

"Because, I was helping to sing it. Now I'm not and it's a boring song," Rosalie grumbled as she sat on her and Emmett's bed with a scowl marring her face.

"It's not boring if we have fun with it Babe," Emmett said as he walked over, sat down next to Rosalie, put his arm around her and grinned. One thing he knew how to do was have fun. He rubbed his cheek on top of Rosalie's head trying to get her to give in.

"But I don't want to sing it anymore. That's the point," Rosalie growled as she pulled away from Emmett and glared at him.

The smile vanished from Emmett's face as his shoulders dropped and he looked away from all of them. He walked over to the others with his head down and heaved a sigh.

Edward and Jasper both growled at Rosalie. They didn't like to see their normally playful brother have his feeling crushed by anyone, Rosalie included. Edward grinned slightly at Jasper's mental plan and nodded at him. They began to advance humanly slow on Rosalie determined to tickle some sense into her.

Rosalie's eyes widened as she watched her brothers head towards her both with evil grins on their faces. She looked pleadingly at Emmett, knowing that it normally had her mate rushing to her side to protect her. A gasped noise of surprise sprang from her throat as she watched Emmett just grin as he watched his brothers advance on her. The boys were nearly upon her when she looked back and she shrieked knowing it would at least bring Carlisle up there to save her.

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Rosalie's shriek made Carlisle look up from his book. *Oh now what.* he thought. He was normally very patient, but today his children were truly testing that patience. Carlisle marked where he was in his book, headed out of his office and upstairs to see what was going on now.

Edward and Jasper pounced at the same time onto Rosalie and were tickling her mercilessly when three short raps to the door made them stop quickly. They both looked at Rosalie while Alice looked at Emmett.

"Come on in Pops. We haven't broke anything this time," Emmett called jovially.

Carlisle walked in and raised his eyebrow at Edward and Jasper on the bed still crouched over Rosalie. "What are you two doing?" he asked more curious than anything.

"Rosalie needs to lighten up, so Jasper and I decided that she needed to be tickled," Edward answered as he looked back at his sister ready to continue the torture.

"I thought I told all of you to stop tormenting each other," Carlisle began as he glared at Jasper and Edward, who finally moved away from their sister and stood next to the bed.

"Now to be fair Pops, you didn't actually say we had to stop, just that it would be better if we did," Emmett said giving Carlisle a small grin.

"Emmett, all of you know what I meant. You just chose to twist my words so they were an advantage to you," Carlisle said as he watched the smile fade from Emmett's face. "This is your final warning, I will not tell you all to stop tormenting each other again," Carlisle said firmly his anger clearly showing through.

Jasper was the first to respond. "We'll stop," he said quietly as he began to send calming emotions towards everyone.

Carlisle felt himself calming and looked at Jasper knowing where the emotions were coming from. He nodded at his sensitive son and then looked at the rest. He watched the rest of them nod completely subdued at the scolding and turned to leave. As he headed down the hall he called over his shoulder, "If I have to come up here again because of you tormenting each other again, the consequences will not be pleasant."

Alice and Edward's eyes both widened at this. They both knew what Carlisle had in mind should they disobey this time.