Emmett POV

Boring, boring, and more boring. I love Carlisle like a Father, but man! He is such a bore!!! If I were human, I would be sound asleep right now.

Hmm. I wonder where my beautiful wife is right now. Oh yea. Her and Alice had come barreling down the stairs and out the door a few minutes ago. Maybe I should g-

"Emmett, I need you to do me a favor," Carlisle said, ripping me from my thoughts.

"Whatever you want Popsicle, I'm your guy," I said, smiling. He didn't get the funny I made.

"Don't be mad, but I think Rose is going to join the Volturi. I overheard her and Jane making arrangements. So can you please go with her and make sure she doesn't do anything she will regret later? And please try to talk them into letting Bella and Edward go, but only if they are still alive." Shit. Does he know Rose had spoken to me about following her to Italy and joining the Volturi? Was this some kind of test. Carlisle is notorious for his psycho-babble crap.

"S-sure," I whispered, I hope he didn't catch my hesitation. I decided to change the subject.

"Why are we just sitting here? Why don't we go get the bastards and remind them of how strong we are?" I yelled. I had to keep appearance up. I smiled to myself.

"Because we are not stronger than them. Last time we fought them, we had some pretty powerful Vampires on our side. Including Bella and Edward. Even if we had them fight with us once again, Katrina would block and control their powers. In the end we would lose and so would our friends."

The room became awkwardly quiet. I chuckled to myself and thought of what Alice had once told me about awkward silences. 'We contribute to the gay population every time there is an awkward silence, so I suggest we keep talking before the gays take control!'

All of the sudden, Jasper fell to the floor in agony. I took off in a run outside towards my baby. Alice was on top of Rose beating the crap out of her face. Cool! Cat-fight... wait! Emmet you idiot, your wife is getting wailed on in the face! Snap out of it!

I was standing over them in one giant step. I grabbed Alice by the collar and chucked her across the yard. She snapped up and ran back over to my baby. I prepared myself for her attack, but Carlisle and Esme intercepted her.

"HEY! WHAT IS GOING ON HERE??" Carlisle screamed.

"Should I tell him or do you want the honors Rose?" Alice growled at her.

Crap. I thought to myself. She knows about what happened.

"Shut up Alice!" I slid my arms around her waist for reassurance.

Go ahead Rose, tell them how you ruined our lives with you selfishness!" Rosalie was dry sobbing by now. She slid out of Emmet's arms and fell to the ground, weeping.

"I didn't know what I was doing. I wasn't thinking. It was so long ago..." Her words trailed off.

I didn't want to say this, but I had to keep up appearance.

"Rose sweetie, you have to tell us so we can sort this mess out."

"I-I-I s-s-sold B-Bella and Edward t-to the Vol- Volturi."

The was an awkward silence. Man, there were a lot of gay babies coming into the world today.

Jake and Alice leaped on top of her and began pounding her face. Everyone struggled to pull them off. Carlisle began to speak.

"Guys stop this! This is ridiculous! We are family. Like it or not. I refuse to sit here and watch more members of this family get taken away from me. So I think we need to go into the house and into separate rooms for a while until we all cool down. GO." We all started towards the house, but Carlisle stopped Rosalie.

"Not you. I need a word with you," he said sternly. I turned around and caught Rose's terrified glance, begging me to help, but she was beyond saving.

Carlisle POV

I stared at my daughter, the traitor. She refused to look me in the eyes. How had this happened? How had Edward not heard it? My thoughts were cut off by Rosalie.

"Carlisle, I know you are disappointed in me, but-"

"Disappointed? DISSAPOINTED?? Oh we are way past disappointed!!" I screamed at her. I took a deep breath. If I lost my cool now, how will the rest of the family be able to keep theirs? Rosalie seemed to shrink back into nothingness with each word I spoke.

"Carlisle, listen to me. I know I had no good reason to do this, but I-I just was-wasn't thinking!"

"Damn right you weren't thinking!" Man! Why can't my temper stay down? I took another deep breath, this one a bit slower.

"Look Carlise-" I cut her off.

"I want you to leave. Just go. Go to the Denali clan, spend some time with Tanya and the others; I think you need to take a break from the family. You and Emmett both." Her head shot up. She had a confused look on her face. She was probably trying to figure out if I knew about her joining the Volturi... which I did. I know for a fact Emmett does not want to leave this family, but I know those 2 cannot part for even a second. I'm just making it easier on them.

"Carlisle, I don't want to leave," she whispered. I could see the lie in her eyes. She wanted desperately to leave so she wouldn't have to face her furious sister, grief stricken Mother, and disappointed brother.

"I don't care what you want to do; just go." I pulled her into a brief hug. "We all love you and Emmett very much. Come back to us, OK?" I meant what I said. I loved my family very much, and someday I hope to see all the holes patched up; making us the perfect family again.

She didn't even have to call out to Emmett. He was at her side in an instant. He glanced at me awkwardly, then pulled me into a huge bear hug. I let out a light chuckle. Emmett always did know how to make everyone laugh.

He pulled back and his face fell; so did mine. He stepped back a few inches and turned towards Rose.

"Baby, I can't go with you. I'm sorry, but I just... can't." He looked at his feet while Rosalie's face twisted in anger. She let out a fearsome growl, though it was unclear who it was targeted at. She took off full speed in the other direction.

"I couldn't do it sir." He choked out. I placed my hand on his shoulder.

"I understand that, but is this what you want? To lose Rosalie?"

"Of course not! But I am not going to follow her on this. I don't understand why she did it in the first place. I mean, she has done some pretty nasty things to people before, but this is by far the worst. I love Bella and Edward. They are my family and best friends and I am not going to lose them." He stalked off in the other direction of Rosalie.

I don't exactly know how he had come to that conclusion, when we had been talking about something else, but I knew then that what Emmett said was true; he was not going to lose them... no matter what it takes.