7

"Well hi yourself! Are you doing a Rhett and Scarlet impression?", Carlisle asked, taking in our position on the stairs.

"Hi, Mom! Hi, Dad!" yelled out Edward and Alice from the kitchen. "Hungry? We have leftovers!"

Emmett walked down the stairs and stopped in front of his parents, still holding me. "Hi," he said. I smiled and said hi, too.

"So...what's up, son?" Carlisle asked. He had a half grin/ half smirk on his face.

Emmett shifted positions a bit and looked down at me and obviously had no idea what to say. "We were just going to see what the news was on the storm, Dr. Cullen. How was the hospital?" I asked.

"Very slow, thank goodness. Most people are staying home and not a lot of emergencies. However, some of the patients that are ready to be released can't go home yet because the roads are still blocked," he answered. "Now when are we going to discuss your pain?" He said it so fast, I almost missed that last part.

"Aww, Alice!" Emmett yelled. "Did she call you, Dad?"

Alice appeared in the doorway and had a guilty look on her face. "I'm sorry, Carolyn. I was worried about you. I called Carlisle and gave him a heads up that you were in some pain. I didn't go into any details, just that you had to take some Advil."

Oh great. She didn't go into any details. No, "hey Dad! Emmett fucked Carolyn so hard she can't walk, want to maybe check her out when you get home?"

"Well, let me talk to Carolyn and see how she feels. Why don't you take her into the family room and let her lie down on the couch, Emmett?"

Emmett carried me to the couch and whispered again that he was sorry. I tried to reassure him that it was OK, but I could tell he felt terrible that his Dad was now indeed going to check me over and probably ask some uncomfortable questions. "Stay with us, OK, Em?" I asked him.

"Sure," he said with a smile.

"OK, so Carolyn, why don't you tell me where the pain is and what level you would say it is on a scale of 1 to 10," Dr. Cullen said as I sat down on the couch.

"Well, it was about a 5 or so at first, but now it's fine...maybe a 2?" I answered. "I felt a big pop in my hips and then all of my muscles just kind of gave out. It feels like my hips are out of joint or something. It's happened before and an adjustment from the chiropractor has taken care of it. As soon as the roads are clear, I can go in for an appointment." There, no mention of sex at all.

"Hmm, OK. Why don't you stand up and I just want to see if your hips are uneven? And, I want to see how steady you are on your own feet," he said. He definitely had his "Doctor" face on now. So, I stood up slowly and he stood behind me and touched my shoulders, my back, and then my hips. "I'm going to press a bit, OK? Just take a deep breath and"...CRACK!

I winced and Emmett immediately jumped up and yelled, "Oh my God! Now you did it again!"

I smiled and laughed and said, "No, no, Emmett. He just popped me back into place! I didn't know you could do chiropractor stuff as well, Dr. Cullen?"

"I hope that didn't hurt too much. Feel better now?" he asked me and gave me a small hug.

"Yeah, umm, I feel fine now. Thanks so much."

"OK, so now that I've done my official doctor stuff, now I'm doing my official Dad stuff. I'm not asking questions as to how exactly this happened. I trust you, son, and I know your judgement and I have complete faith in you. However, I did leave you unsupervised and I'm certain that this will not happen again, right?" Dr. Cullen said, looking back and forth from Emmett to me as he spoke.

I swallowed loudly and said, "thank you". Emmett did the same. I think both of us were wishing for that floor to swallow us up again.

"Alright then! I won't bring it up again. So what's for breakfast,Esme?" he yelled as he walked off towards the kitchen. We could hear Esme saying something about warming up some bacon.

I sat down onto Emmett's lap and smiled up at him. "Well, now that could've been much more uncomfortable than it was. And now I feel fine! Thanks for staying with me. I was worried it was going to be a sex talk or something," I said to him as I brushed his cheek with my hand.

"You and me both!" he said. "I mean, the sex talk part. Did that hurt, Care? Man, it sounded like it hurt. But you really feel better now? Maybe I can have him show me exactly what he did. What if it happened again? I'm kind of afraid to touch you now, I feel like I really did break you like Jasper was joking about before," he said. He was so cute when he was worried. All serious and a little line formed between his eyes when he crinkled up his nose.

"Emmett Cullen, you did not hurt me and I am fine and if you don't touch me again later I...umm, I don't know what I'll do. But I absolutely want you and love you and I think you're just about the best guy in the world and I am going to kiss you now." And I did just that. I kissed him and held his face in my hands and soon his worry was gone and he was kissing me back.

We kissed for a few minutes before we realized we were not alone. He pulled away and cleared his throat a bit and said, "Umm, hi guys." I looked over my shoulder and there were all of his brothers and sisters and Bella, standing in the doorway smiling at us.