Recap: "I'm going to go find out what in the hell that mongrel's problem is." Jasper said, walking out and slamming the door.
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"Aww, sweetie…" Alice said, pulling Dekan in for a hug.
"I'm just…I feel like a beached whale! And I've still got a little over two months to go! I don't walk anymore, I waddle. My shoes don't even match!" Dekan cried into Alice's shoulder.
"Come and live with us, Dekan. I'm sure that'll excite Rosalie and Esme and everyone else to no end." Carlisle offered, feeling so bad for Dekan.
"Yeah! Come and live with us, you'll love it! You won't have to wake up every couple of hours when the babies cry, we'll do it for you!" Alice said, smiling.
Dekan pulled back, nodding and wiping her eyes. "But first, I want to go tell Sam and Emily and everyone about the babies."
"I'll meet you at the house. I am going to go and buy you one of those really amazing detachable shower heads. You'll thank me for that later." Alice said, skipping outside.
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Jasper was in the forest at the border between La Push and Forks, pacing. Should he break the treaty again? If Embry wasn't such a jackass…Jasper growled out loud. He pulled his cell phone out, flipping it open and dialing. When no one answered, Jasper hung up and quickly dialed another number.
"Hello?" Sam said, opening his phone.
"Where's Embry?" Jasper all but growled into the phone.
"Why?" Sam asked.
"Because we need to have a little talk." Jasper said.
"About what?" Sam asked.
"None of your fucking business, where is he?" Jasper said, losing his patience.
"This have to do with Dekan?" Sam asked.
"What is this, twenty questions? Yes, now where is he?" Jasper asked, enunciating each word.
"At his mom's. Where are you, I'll send him to you." Sam said. Jasper smiled.
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Carlisle dropped Dekan off at the border of La Push. She got out and walked the short distance to Emily's place. Dekan knocked on the door and Emily opened it a few moments later. Sam stood behind her, his expression grim.
"Come on in, Dekan." Emily said, smiling sadly. Dekan walked in, going over to the couch.
"I'm having twins. A boy and girl. And I think Embry's cheating on me. So I'm leaving." Dekan said, her voice and tone distant.
"What? Leaving? Twins? Wait…explain?" Emily said.
"You can't leave us, Dekan…" Sam said.
"I…I can't stay here. It hurts. I talked to Carlisle and he offered to let me stay with them but…just everything reminds me of Embry. I have to be somewhere that isn't so painful." Dekan said.
"What about the babies?" Emily asked.
"You all can come and visit anytime." Dekan replied.
"Why do you think Embry's cheating on you?" Emily asked.
"Because he won't have sex with me anymore. For nearly the past two months. Anytime I try to initiate sex, he just leaves. For hours." Dekan said.
Sam started shaking. His eyes narrowed and he got up, walking out of the house and slamming the door. Dekan sighed, putting her head in her hands. The tears started flowing freely.
"I need to go for a walk." Dekan muttered, hugging Emily and walking outside.
Dekan started walking around, not really paying attention to where she was going. She bumped into someone and murmured an apology before walking. Someone grabbed her wrist, making her stop and turn around.
"I asked where you were going." Jake said, repeating himself. Dekan must not have heard him before.
"Oh…for a walk I guess." Dekan replied.
"What's wrong?" Jake asked.
"Embry and I…I'm leaving. I have to leave." Dekan said.
"Leave? Why? What did he do?" Jake asked, pulling Dekan to sit on the swing under a tree.
"I think Embry is having an affair." Dekan replied.
"Why?" Jake asked.
"For nearly the past two months, every time I've tried to start sex, he gets up and leaves for hours at a time." Dekan said.
"Can't you stay here?" Jake asked.
"There's too many memories." Dekan said.
"Well forget him. I bring the offer to the table again; you can stay with me. You don't have to face Embry again if you don't want to. We uh…we can have sex…too…if you want…" Jake said, looking a bit uncomfortable. Dekan chuckled.
"Jake…you're so sweet. You're going to make a great husband one day. But you don't want to be tied down to me and two babies. And I can tell from that face you don't want to have sex with my beached whale body." Dekan said, smiling.
"Babies?" Jake asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah. Twins. A boy and a girl." Dekan said, smiling.
"That's amazing!" Jake said, rubbing Dekan's belly. "Do you have any names picked out yet?"
"Yeah, a couple. But it's going to be a surprise." Dekan said, smirking.
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Jasper was waiting in the forest, pacing. He heard some leaves and twigs crunch and snap, so he knew Embry must be approaching. Jasper smiled, his fangs showing when Embry came face to face with him.
"What's up? Sam said you wanted to see me." Embry said, crossing his arms.
"What in the hell is going through your mind, dumbass?" Jasper asked.
"Uh, what?" Embry asked.
"You know, I don't like playing bullshit games. Why in the hell are you cheating on my Dekan?" Jasper asked, his stance poised for attack.
"Who said I was cheating on Dekan?" Embry asked.
"The fact that you ignore your pregnant wife. That every time she has initiated sex, you get up and leave her. So tell me, who's the little whore you're fucking?" Jasper growled out.
"I'm not cheating on my wife!" Embry said, growling back.
"Oh yeah, sure you're not. You've just been ignoring the woman you married who is carrying your children who is heartbroken and very frustrated for shits and giggles." Jasper spit out.
"Heartbroken?" Embry said, his voice faltering.
"Don't you pull that shit on me. You know what you're doing to her!" Jasper yelled. Just then, his phone rang. He answered.
"Jasper! Why didn't you tell me Dekan was leaving?!" Alice screeching into the phone.
"I didn't know she was leaving. Where is she going?" Jasper asked, his anger subsiding.
"I don't know! Emily called me and told me! Apparently Dekan's not thinking about it because I didn't See it coming!" Alice said.
"Shit…I'll call you back." Jasper said, hanging up.
"Who's going where?" Embry asked.
"Dekan. Emily said she's leaving." Jasper said, glaring at Embry. "This is all your fault!"
"Blame me later! We've got to stop her!" Embry said, running towards Seattle to the airport. Jasper followed.
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Dekan stood in line at the airport, clutching her purse. She'd send for her clothes later. She just had to get out of Forks, Washington. This place just held too many memories for her. And as tempting as it was to take Jake up on his offer (he rated a 7 on her "How-Loud-Could-He-Make-Me-Scream? Scale), she just had to leave. Jake had driven her to Seattle after she had broken down and told him everything. It was funny, Dekan thought, that he had come to be one of her best friends. They rather disliked other in the past, but now…Dekan didn't know what she would do without him. Dekan finally got her ticket. She was going to visit her mother in Tennessee for a little while. She walked over to Jake who was sitting in a chair in the terminal. He patted the seat beside him and Dekan sat down.
"Are you sure you can't stay?" Jake asked.
"I wish I could…but it just hurts. Everything I see reminds me of Embry." Dekan said, sighing.
"When's your flight?" Jake asked. Dekan checked the clock.
"A little over two hours." Dekan replied.
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Two Hours Later…
Embry and Jasper ran into the airport at Seattle, each searching the air for Dekan's scent. Jasper looked up at the screens, trying to find a flight from here to where her mom lived, in Tennessee.
"Terminal six!" Jasper said, heading for number six. Embry followed quickly.
They saw Jake and he had his arms around Dekan, hugging her before she went to go stand in line so she could board the plane. He sighed sadly.
"Dekan!" Embry shouted loudly.
"Dekan!" Jasper shouted a second later.
Dekan stopped and turned around. There standing in the terminal a few meters away were Jasper and Embry. Dekan's heart broke all over again. She gripped her ticket tightly in her hand, looking away. Embry ran up to Dekan, breathing hard. Dekan felt his presence but didn't look up, afraid she would start crying again. 'Oh god…he's coming to tell me he's got a mistress…oh god, oh god, oh god.' Dekan thought, her eyes watering.
"Dekan…" Embry whispered, taking her hand gently. That opened the flood gates for Dekan. The tears spilled from her eyes and down her cheeks and she looked up at Embry.
Embry's own heart broke, seeing Dekan silent and crying. Had all this really been hurting her this much? Had what he done, or not done, really be hurting her? Embry pulled her to the nearest door, wanting to talk to her.
"I have a plane to catch." Dekan whispered.
"Talk to me first…if you still want to leave, I'll buy you another ticket." Embry said.
"What is there to talk about? You're having an affair. I don't blame you. I wouldn't want to be near a beached whale either." Dekan said.
"Beached whale?" Embry asked.
"Me." Dekan replied.
"Oh shit…no. You are not a beached whale. And I'm not having an affair; I swear it on my life." Embry said, pulling Dekan to look at him.
"Every time I've tried to initiate sex, you get up and leave. For hours." Dekan said, her tears falling.
"I…I'm afraid of hurting you and the babies." Embry said. "The book you got said that sex could hurt you and the babies and make you go into premature labor and…"
"What's hurting me is you rejecting me!" Dekan said, wiping her eyes.
"But that book…" Embry said.
"Screw the book!" Dekan shouted, pulling out her cell phone and dialing Carlisle's number. He answered on the third ring.
"Dr. Cullen speaking." Carlisle said.
"Carlisle…it's me." Dekan said.
"Dekan, are you alright? Alice said you were leaving us…" Carlisle said.
"I…I need to ask your medical opinion." Dekan said.
"Ask away." Carlisle said.
"I'm going to put you on speaker phone so Embry can hear you too." Dekan said.
"Go ahead." Carlisle said. Dekan clicked over to speaker phone.
"Carlisle…does sex during pregnancy in any way harm the mother or the unborn child?"
"That's a complicated question." Carlisle replied.
"Can you explain?" Dekan said, biting her lip.
"Well, the relations that would go on between you and Embry, no. But the more…BDSM sex, yes." Carlisle said.
"So you're saying Embry and I could have sex and it wouldn't harm me or the babies?" Dekan asked.
"Unless you both are into pain and torture, then no. Where did you get an idea like that?" Carlisle asked. Dekan gave a look to Embry.
"In that baby book, it said that sex could hurt her and the babies and make her go into premature labor." Embry said.
"For women whose bodies aren't healthy enough to conceive in the first place. Dekan is well able, as you can see." Carlisle replied.
"So we can have sex?" Embry asked.
"Yes. I recommend it, in fact. Your hormones are high because you're young. Dekan's hormones could probably double yours. I've had patients who say that sex during pregnancy is unlike anything they've ever had before." Carlisle said.
"Fuck me…" Embry muttered. "I'm sorry, Dekan…that book…I didn't want to risk hurting you or our babies."
"I wish you would have told me…we could have cleared this up two months ago." Dekan said.
"I could have saved two months worth of painful blue-" Embry said.
"I think that I should disconnect before you finish that thought." Carlisle said, chuckling.
"Thank you, Carlisle. Tell Alice I'm not leaving." Dekan said.
"I will. Thank you. Bye." Carlisle said, hanging up. Dekan hung up.
Jasper and Jake were standing by the door, listening intently. Jasper had a huge smile on his face as he walked outside.
"So you're staying?" Jasper asked.
"Yeah, Dad... I'm staying" Dekan said, smiling.
"Hell yeah!" Jake said, smiling.
"Now if you all will excuse us, we're going to go find the nearest hotel. I've been waiting two months and if I have to wait a second longer, I'm going to explode!" Embry said, picking up Dekan and heading for the Days Inn across the street.
"Hey Dekan!" Jake shouted.
"What?" Dekan called out.
"I heard about your scale!" Jake said, laughing. Dekan laughed, burying her head in Embry's neck.
"Oh?" Dekan replied.
"What was my score?" Jake asked, smirking.
"A seven!" Dekan said, smiling.
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Author's note: WOOHOO! Silly ol' Embry! Jake's a real friend, isn't he? Especially there at the end, haha! I actually made up this scale in my head, rating each of the Cullen/Hale and all the people she knew in La Push. Only a few people scored higher than Jake, oh snap! And of course, one of them was Embry. So, what did you think? Alls well that ends well? Don't worry, there's still a few chapters left. It's almost over! Sadness! I think you should leave me a fantastic REVIEW! Please? Mwaaaah!