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~EPOV~

I knew this was going to hurt, I expected it to hurt.

The actual bite itself wasn't bad, and truth be told, that part was actually kind of erotic. Bella's eyes fluttered and I felt her cool tongue whisper against my skin.

Suddenly, it felt like fire was injected directly into my body. The searing, white hot fire of a thousand suns to be exact. My body jerked involuntarily and I gasped at the pain.

Immediately Bella dropped my arm and scrambled to the end of the bed.

"Jesus," I said, instinctively cradling my arm to my chest.

~BPOV~

Edward's eyes got wider and he rocked back and forth. I could practically see the fire starting to spread under his skin.

Shit, Bella, think.

I'd tried to get inside Emmett's head before with limited success, but I didn't have the connection with Emmett that I have with Edward. Not to mention by the time I'd gotten there the fire was raging in full force inside Emmett's skull.

Maybe, with enough direct skin to skin contact, enough concentration and the fact that Edward had only been bitten seconds ago… maybe this would work.

Quickly and carefully, I lay him on his side, putting as much of my cold flesh against his, gently I pressed his cheek to mine and closed my eyes in concentration. Immediately, I felt the same jolt of power I'd felt back in the cottage.

"Edward," I whispered, "I need you to listen to me, I need you to focus."

I wrapped my arms around him, spreading all my fingers and flattening my palms against his back, maximizing the contact.

"Bella," he whimpered. His voice choked in his throat as his body jerked against mine and his arms clamped tightly around me. "Burns…"

"I know, I'm sorry, but you need to let me in Edward. Try to open up for me."

He grunted in response and a crack formed inside his mind.

More than I needed.

I took a deep breath and slipped in, weaving myself inside his head.

The heat was intensifying by the second and fire burned on the edges of his mind.

"Edward…" I called.

It had been less than a minute since the bite; his heart rate hadn't even accelerated, surly he wasn't completely consumed by the fire yet.

"Edward!"

A, small, quiet voice spoke from behind me. "Bella?"

I whipped around to see Edward curled into the fetal position on the ground. Fire danced up and down his skin in waves, his eyes were squeezed shut and every muscle in his body strained with pain, teeth clenched, knuckles white, tendons stretched taut and his breathing rushed in and out of his lungs in a near hyperventilated state.

Kneeling beside him I reached out a cold hand and tentatively placed it on his arm, praying that this would work.

The fire passed over the space where my skin met his so I mimicked our physical body position in his mind. Laying him out and covering his body with mine.

His body started to relax, his breathing was returning to normal and his eyes slowly blinked open, focusing on mine.

"Bella?" he asked quietly, the uncertainty of what was happening tinged his voice. "What…"

I softly press my lips to his, quieting him.

"Shhhhh, just be here right now and try not to think about anything else okay?"

"Okay," he whispered, and laid his face to my chest, curling his body against mine.

I was vaguely aware of the presence of others in my room, whispering to each other. Who they were and what they were saying was unimportant, I wasn't sure how long I could hold the fire at bay so I needed to keep my focus.

Digging deep inside myself I shut everything out, but Edward.

~APOV~

The vision struck with so much force that it literally knocked me to the ground.

"Alice!" Jasper yelled, rushing to my side, his warm hands stroking my hair as we sat at the bottom of the stairs.

"Bella…" I gasped.

I saw her biting Edward and his reaction. I saw what she was doing, wrapping her arms around him and pressing her body to his, squeezing her eyes shut in concentration.

She moved faster than I'd ever seen another creature on this planet move before.

She was racing the fire, and with help, she might just win.

I gasped and grabbed Jasper by the shoulders, pulling into a near bone crushing embrace.

"Alice," he choked, "honey, you're kind of hurting me."

"Oh my God baby, I'm sorry," I said, dropping my arms immediately. "I just got a little excited."

I explained my vision to him and that if it worked he may not have to live through the fire of the transformation.

Moving at breakneck speed, even for a vampire, I called Esme and Carlisle. If this had a snowball's chance of working, we were going to need them.

Poor Jasper stood staring as I blurred around him, speaking so quickly into the phone that I was surprised that Esme understood me.

It would take them a good twenty minutes to run back from where they were with Rose and Emmett, and that was running at top speed.

I couldn't wait; I had to see it for myself.

Pulling Jasper upstairs we cracked the door to Bella's room open.

"Jesus," Jasper gasped.

Bella had Edward in the center of the bed, her arms wrapped tightly around him, just like I'd seen in my vision, if it wasn't for the contrast in their skin colors you wouldn't have been able to tell where Bella ended and Edward began. They even breathed in perfect unison.

One body one mind.

To a voyeur it might look like two people tangled in the throws of passion or riding the crescendo of blissful ecstasy.

It was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen.

"Beautiful," I breathed, unable to think of another word to express what I was witnessing.

"Should we be here?" Jasper whispered.

"Don't worry, they aren't even aware of us," I whispered back.

After a few moments we left and waited downstairs for Esme and Carlisle.

Jasper shifted his weight from one foot to the other, rubbing the back of his neck nervously. "Um…Alice…am I going to have to be…ya know…naked with Bella?"

I looked at him for a moment before I started burst out laughing.

"Let me get this straight," I gasped, trying to catch my breath, "after everything that's happened in the last twenty-four hours, the possibility of having to get naked with my sister is what has you freaked out?"

"Um, well, yeah,"

God, how I love him.

"Don't worry babe, I'm the only vampire you'll be getting naked with," I said with a wink.

~RPOV~

Carlisle and Esme headed back to the house as I watched Emmett bound at the bear we'd caught scent of a little while ago. It was almost eerie how bear-like his hunting was.

And sexy as hell. I couldn't wait to see what he could really do now that he was virtually indestructible and stronger than I was. I felt a shudder of ecstasy run up my spine at the thought of the endless possibilities.

Emmett grinned and winked at me from across the field as swiped his arm across his mouth. My knees got a little weak.

See something you like? He thought as he stalked toward me.

I couldn't seem to form words, all I could do was nod.

Rosie, baby, I'm going to…suddenly, like switch had been flipped, his mind shut off from mine.

"Pretty neat trick, don't you think?" he said, a wicked smile curling his salacious mouth as he lowered himself into a crouch.

Before I had a chance to react, he leapt at me from halfway across the clearing, sailing through the air, catching me around the waist and flinging me to the forest floor beneath him.

He pinned me to the ground as his nose skimmed up my body, inhaling my scent. "Mmmmm, I can smell how turned on you are right now," he breathed. The scent of blood and desire tingeing his already intoxicating breath as he panted above me, his massive chest rising and falling in rapid succession.

He pressed his hips into mine, his hard length slid across my apex, making me gasp and clutch fistfuls of dirt and vegetation. I couldn't believe what I was feeling, although I shouldn't be surprised, he was even bigger and harder than before.

His breath hissed through his teeth as his erection ground against me. "I can feel how wet you are, even through our clothes," he whispered, taking another deep breath. "And your scent is driving me mad," he growled, bending his mouth to mine, parting my lips with his tongue in a fierce kiss.

Emmett's soft full lips brushed over my chin and down my throat. "It has taken all of my strength to wait this long to have you," he spoke against my skin. "I almost threw you to the floor of that ratty old cottage and took you, right there, in front of your parents."

He was all over me, biting through my clothes, tearing them away with his teeth and with one quick motion he gripped my pants and ripped them from my body, leaving me naked and writhing beneath him. His lips touched every bit of my flesh except for where I wanted it most and the fact that I didn't know when or where he was going to touch me next amplified the sensations.

"Emmett, please…" I whimpered as I squirmed in his grasp, twisting my body to meet his, straining for the contact he was denying me.

He slithered down my body, nibbling my already aching nipples.

"Close your eyes," he whispered and waited for me to comply before he continued, down my belly, drawing my flesh up into his mouth as he went.

This was the most exquisite pleasure I'd ever known, and he hadn't even really done anything other than deny me the ability to see inside his head. With past lovers, I'd always known what was next, what move they planned, what technique.

Sure, I had an idea of where he was headed but the uncertainty that he could veer off into another direction and I'd never know it amped up the desire.

I expected him to tease me, to sexually torment me within and inch of my sanity, but no, he dove right in.

My hips shot up in response as I curled my fingers in his hair, gasping for breath that I didn't even need. He growled and snarled as he lapped at my core, sucking my folds into his mouth like I was the neck of that bear.

He brought me to the very edge, suckled me into near hysteria only to halt just before I reached the brink of release. When I cried out in protest, he only laughed.

Surging with strength I didn't know I possessed I shoved his hulking body off of mine, sending him sailing into the trunk of a tree on the other side of the field, cracking it in half. Using the centuries of skill I had on him, I flew across the clearing and pinned him to the ground next to the fallen tree before he could make the next move.

With two quick swipes of my hands his clothes lay in shreds around us. I crashed my lips against his, driving my tongue into his mouth as I straddled his hips, impaling myself on his rock hard length.

He roared and gripped my waist, pressing his thick fingers into my flesh, holding me still against his body. He growled with such force that the surrounding trees shook and leaves rained down on us.

Emmett sat up and was in my face, his lip twitching as he cradled my ass in his massive hands so fast it made me gasp. He held his mouth millimeters from mine as he surveyed my surprised and excited expression.

"You like not knowing what's going to happen next for change, don't you?" he asked with a smirk.

"Yes," I breathed, rolling my hips over his.

He reached up my back with one hand and buried it in my hair, tilting it to the side, stretching the skin taut as he attacked me with fervor. His teeth scraped across my flesh lightly, teasingly, across the scar that branded the side of my neck.

My body jerked against his as the orgasm shot through me making every inch of my skin tingle.

With a fierce snarl Emmett swept me off the ground and pressed me to a tree. The bark cracked and popped as he pushed up into me, thrusting so hard that the trunk twisted and snarled in protest against my back.

I raked my nails across his strong back and he bared his teeth at me in response, his eyes crackling black with lust.

With the wickedest grin I could muster, I leaned into his neck and slowly licked up the entire length of his bite mark.

Digging his hands deep into the wood, he toppled the tree with the force of his release, shuttering and growling my name as he came.

"Jesus," he gasped rolling onto his back, taking me with him and settling me on his hard chest. "And I thought the blood was good," he grinned up at me, wiggling his eyebrows. "That was…" he took a deep breath and blew it out. "Damn, I thought sex with you was mind blowing before, but that…just…damn."

I nuzzled against his thick neck and inhaled his heady scent. It was the same as it was when he was human, just thicker, stronger. I trailed my fingers along his chest, drawing lazy patterns on his skin, listening to the quiet.

I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little worried when he woke up from the change. I hadn't heard anything inside his mind right away and what I did hear were broken thoughts and static, for lack of a better word.

I had attributed it to the change but his thoughts weren't getting any clearer, in fact, they were getting progressively muddled as the day went on.

I never would have dreamed that he would have an ability such as this.

It was quite fitting actually, considering how enormous he is.

Emmett was a shield.

"So, I assume we have to head off to the house too," he said, dragging his fingers lazily up my back. "I could totally hear Alice when she was talking to Esme and it sounded serious."

I pulled back and looked up at him. His eyes were already starting to change, the intense red giving way to a softer, deep burnt orange as they danced with excitement.

"You actually like being a vampire don't you?"

"Dude, I heard both sides of a phone conversation from across the freaking field! How cool is that shit?" He stood up and brushed off his naked backside. "Besides, I'm dying to challenge Edward to a race. That little fucker has beaten me in every god damned race since he was fourteen."

How do I tell him that he might not get to be around his brothers until they are changed? That he may never see his father again at all?

"Emmett…"

He took me hands in his and silenced me with a soft kiss.

"I know," he whispered, leaning his forehead against mine. "But I have to try."

~EMPOV~

When Esme worked her vamp voodoo on my she whispered to me that it was all up to me. I had to make the conscious effort, I had to choose between the thirst for human blood and the love of my human family.

If that's all it took, there was really no choice, I would resist.

Rose and I ran at top speed back to the house. I'll admit that I didn't run as fast as I possibly could, letting her get in front of me so I could watch her naked body move through the forest.

Damn, I was one lucky son of a bitch.

We were about a hundred yards from the house when the scent hit me.

I felt my eyes dilate and venom filled my mouth and burn down my throat.

I stopped and clung to the trunk of a tree, terrified that if I let go I would fly through the house and drain one of the humans before I knew what I was doing.

Human? What the hell?

Brothers, they were my brothers.

I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself down. Bad move.

Fire licked down my throat and I dug my fingers into the bark, anchoring myself.

"Rosie," I croaked and opened my mind to her, letting her know what was going through my head.

"Shit, don't move and for God sake, stop breathing," she said as she darted past me, returning in seconds with a couple of squirrels and a raccoon. "Here, drink, it will help."

I clamped my teeth around one of the squirrels and drained it in one draw, snatching the next critter out of her hand. The third one, the raccoon wasn't going down without a fight. That sucker was pissed, it hissed and scratched at me. I don't know what it was, but it tasted better, more satisfying than the other two.

I started to open my mouth to say something when Rosalie pinched my lips between her fingers.

"Don't speak, if you speak, you have to breathe," she explained. "For now, just let me do the talking for you, okay?"

I nodded, feeling the fire subside in the back of my throat.

I think I'm good.

"Okay, let's be quick about this, the sooner we're in, the sooner we're out."

Ha, you said in and out.

She rolled her eyes at me and shook her head. "Just watch and do what I do."

Bending her knees slightly she leapt into an open window.

Judging the size of the window and how far it was from where I was standing I leapt, twisted and sailed right through her window, landing on the balls of my feet and flinging my arms over my head like and Olympic gymnast.

"Show off," she muttered with a grin.

I heard that.

"Good, now get dressed, Alice snuck into your house and gathered some stuff for you," she said, tossing a bag at my head.

As I was getting dressed I used one of my other vamped out senses, hearing.

I could hear two heartbeats, but one was getting faster by the second. Not by much, but I could tell.

"Keep a tight leash on him," Alice said from the doorway, glaring at me.

What the hell did I do to her?

"She's afraid you're going to attack Jasper," Rose said quietly.

Well she's the one with the crystal ball, can't she see what's going to happen?

Before Rose could answer me Esme was at the door, next to Alice.

"There you two are," she said with a wide smile. "Come, you have to see," she waved for us to follow her.

Stepping out into the hall we followed Esme up the stairs to the room on the next floor with the door open. I could hear Carlisle in there rustling around in his medical bag.

Rounding the corner I saw Carlisle hunched over Edward, his stethoscope pressed to Edward's back and I could see Bella's snow white arms locked around his body.

I heard breathing, it almost sounded like one person breathing but it was the two of them, breathing in tandem and his heartbeat was racing faster and faster.

What the hell…

Just then Carlisle moved to put his equipment away.

And there's Edward's naked ass. Ew. I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. Wait, I don't feel out of control. As a matter of fact, I feel very much in control. Maybe I'm a vampire Zen Master or something.

"It's because he's been bitten and venom is already coursing through his veins right now, he shouldn't want to attack him anymore than you would when you were both human," Rose explained.

"How are you fairing, by the way?" Esme asked from the door. "You seem to have yourself under a great deal of control for a newborn."

I looked to Rosalie and she explained why I wasn't speaking.

"Very smart Rosalie." Esme beamed with pride. "Excellent way to utilize your ability." She glanced at Bella, her naked body wrapped around Edward. "We've taught our girls well."

Just then, I heard another heartbeat. Steady, thick, strong. I could practically hear the blood moving. My entire body trembled with the need to seek out the source of that blood and take it.

"Easy," Rosalie warned, "remember your control."

Swallowing back the accumulated venom in my mouth I shook my head, trying to clear it.

Rosie…I need…

She knew what I was thinking before I finished the thought. She grabbed me by the hand and whisked me out of the room.

The dull thud of the heartbeat wafted up the stairs as we passed and I jerked Rosalie off course, following the sound.

So good…

"Esme, Carlisle…" Rose called, but it was too late. I dragged her down the stairs and had my eyes locked on my kill.

"Emmett," she screamed, clawing at my arms, trying in vain to stop me closing in.

Tiny Alice crouched in front of the source of the delicious heat and sound, baring her teeth, hissing at me.

Three sets of arms held me where I stood, three feet from the…

"Em?" a voice I vaguely recognized broke through the haze of my hunger.

I looked behind Alice and a face emerged.

Jasper.

My brother, Jasper.

"Em, man, it's me, Jazz," he spoke.

Jazz.

My brother, Jazz.

"That's right, that is your brother, Jasper," Rosalie said, trying to calm me down.

When I tried to swallow back the pooled venom that had collected in my mouth, I noticed that I had to move my lips over my teeth.

My God, I was going to bite Jazz.

I clamped my hand over my mouth, in shame.

I watched, in shock, as Alice carried Jasper away from the house.

I'm sorry, Jazz.

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