A/N Okay guys this chapter was getting a little long, so I have split it into two...

Rescued.

Chapter 15.

Esme was preparing Edward's favourite meal for dinner, it was just a quiet family dinner for his birthday, and I was pre warned that Alice and Rose would be escaping their pre-wedding partying for the night so they would be here too. I wasn't sure if I was ready to face Rose yet, but then facing her alone was probably better than doing it in front of the entire town at a wedding rehearsal dinner. I was sitting on the sofa with Edward when the front door opened, Edward was rubbing my shoulder, he could probably feel the tension in my body, he wasn't exactly looking relaxed, which to the outsider could look like we were not getting along. I leaned into Edward as Alice walked in the door, followed by Angela.

"Rose is going to be a bit late, she needed to talk to Jess and Lauren about something so I got a ride with Angela, she needs to talk to Bella." Alice announced as she walked in and wrapped herself around Jasper.

"Well you were right about one thing." Angela said sitting down beside me, I just raised my eyebrows at her. "I would have gotten a lot more work out of you if you'd stayed in Seattle." she said smiling. "Edward." she said nodding at him, "Though I guess I can't blame you." she added. I knew she was just teasing me.

"Angela." Edward said smiling back, "Sorry if I have been distracting Bella from her work."

"I just wanted to ask you about coming with me for an interview tomorrow, its an early start but we should be back for the rehearsal dinner on Friday." she said.

"Tomorrow?" I asked and looked straight at Edward, "Where is it."

"Montana." she said not looking at me. "I swear Bella it will just be there and straight back, but I have been after this interview for months, I can't turn it down, and I need you with me." the room was silent, Edward wasn't even breathing and I could feel the tears welling up, I really, really didn't want to go.

"So Angela is it?" Emmett interrupted the silence in the room, coming over to her.

"Angela Jolene Webber." Angela said shaking his hand.

"Emmett Benjamin McCarty." he replied."Its a pleasure to meet you, so what is it you do?" he asked her.

Edward turned slowly to look at me. "I don't want you to go, I'm not ready to let you go, Bella." he whispered.

"It's my job Edward, what choice do I have?" I said but I was having difficulty trying to stop myself from sobbing my heart out.

"Wait, A J Webber, the sports journalist, no freaking way, I thought you were a dude." Emmett almost shouted, breaking me out of my haze, I tore my eyes away from Edwards intense gaze and looked around the room.

Edward picked up my hand, "I only have you for a few days Bella, please... don't." he begged.

I looked to Angela, she looked sadly at my half tortured face.

"So, why do you need Bella to be with you?" Emmett asked Angela.

"She's my PA, plus she's also my photographer." Angela told him.

"So nothing that a half decent photographer couldn't do in her place?" Emmett said.

"What do you have in mind?" she asked.

"I'm a freelance photographer, I'd be happy to accompany you in Bella's place." he offered. All eyes were now on Angela, Edward was squeezing my hand tightly.

"You know what Mr McCarty, that is the best offer I'm ever likely to get, and I'd much rather have a well muscled, attractive and sexy guy chasing around after me than my extremely uncooperative, and sulking PA." she said sticking her tongue out at me.

The atmosphere became decidedly clearer after than and after making arrangements to pick Emmett up in the morning Angela left, I was left with the job of filling Emmett in on how Angela likes to operate and how she likes things done.

"That was a very scary insight." Edward whispered in my ear once we were sat at the dinner table.

"I'll say."

"I am not going to be able to let you leave on Sunday, you do realise that don't you?" he asked.

"No more easily than it will be for me to leave." I said as the door opened and once I saw her standing there I could have died, in fact I think part of me did. It all made sense now, why Rose got what she wanted from any man she wanted.

I swallowed hard as she glared at me from across the room, she was utterly beautiful, the perfect models body, gorgeous long blond hair, and a face so perfect she could have been an angel. Not in any life, place or time could I ever compete for a man against this woman, maybe I should have just left with Angela, I could really live without the humiliation that this woman was going to bring me. Her glare should have frozen me to the spot, I turned away from Edward, feeling as though I had just had the rug pulled from under me, today was turning out to be a worse roller-coaster of emotion than yesterday.

"Sorry I'm late, Jessica needed my opinion on something, and as we all know, mine is the opinion that matters." she said sitting down opposite Edward. "So are you going to introduce me to your 'little' friend, Edward?" she asked.

"Sure, Rose this exquisite creature is my girlfriend Isabella." he said, his arm snaking around my waist and pulling tight against his side, then he kissed the top of my head.

"Girlfriend?" Rose almost growled, glaring murderously at me, then turning her attention on Alice.

"Bella, that is Emmett's girlfriend Rose." he said then he moved to whisper in my ear.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"She's very beautiful." I said quietly and I could hear the pain in my voice as I spoke, though I didn't know if he could. He stood up and pulled me up out of my seat.

"Please excuse us for a moment." Edward said to his family then led me out of the room and up the stairs to his room. He shut the door behind him.

"Do you really believe I have any feelings for her?" he asked me his voice slightly raised in anger, but I couldn't look at him. "Look at me." he said in a softer voice placing his hands on my face, until I looked into his eyes. "Answer me." he insisted.

"But she is perfect." I said.

He shook his head, "I might have thought that once, back when I was sixteen, but I haven't felt that way about her since then, she means nothing to me Bella, all that so called perfection is nothing compared to you. Rose's beauty barely goes skin deep. But you... your beauty is infinite, there is no depth to it as it runs right through you, inside and out." he said. "She has never once touched my heart, not like you, you are so much better, so much more beautiful and more perfect than she could ever be." he said, wrapping his arms around me, pulling me to him as he kissed my lips. "She means nothing to me... NOTHING! Do you understand me?" he asked and now I did, but I had needed to hear him say it, I nodded. "Good now we can go back and have some of my birthday cake before we try and get the Pumpkin to bed." he said smiling down at me as I bit my lip to stop myself from smiling.

"Wait." he said when we got to the bottom of the stairs, he slide his hand around my neck and kissed me hard, I had gasped at his sudden kiss, leaving room for his tongue to plunge into my mouth, and for several minutes we stood making out in the hallway. Slowly he pulled away and looked down at me. "Excellent, pink cheeks and swollen lips, now you look like you've been kissed, we can go back in." he said smirking as he took my hand and led me back into the dining room.

For the remainder of the meal I focused mostly on Pumpkin, though Alice did her best to get me to join in a discussion, but I just didn't want to look anywhere near Rose, I could feel her glare on me as it was. After dinner I went to Pumpkins room and sorted through her toys with her, most of which Edward had bought back when he moved her from Chicago, but they were a little young for her now, but they would be enough until her birthday in September, at least that was what Edward thought. I ran her a bath and she seemed calm, not bothered by the fact that we were in her room and not mine. After her bath though she was hesitant about getting into her own bed, I went to retrieve my laptop from my room whilst Edward read her a bedtime story, and I promised to stay with her until she fell to sleep. I assured her that if she awoke in the night that she could come to my room, and that seemed to placate her, and soon she was asleep.

I closed her door behind me as I left, I was about to go to my room when someone spoke behind me. "Whatever your game is, you can't have him you know..." Rose said.

"I have no game, Rose."

"Sure you do, everyone wants him... but I will not let you take him." he said, her voice calm and controlled, as she walked closer.

"What goes on between Edward and I, is nothing to do with you." I said, turning my back on her and continuing up the hall until I reached Edward's room, his door was half open and I could see him sat on his bed.

Rose grabbed my shoulder. "Oh whatever Edward does concerns me, I own him." she said pushing me against the wall. "I haven't stayed this close all this time just to have some two bit PA come in and take him from me." she growled, I pushed her off me.

"You might want to inform Emmett and Edward of your plans, I think they would both have something to say about it." I said, and she swung her arm back ready to slap me, but then she stopped dead, staring over my head to my left. I turned to see Edward in his doorway and Emmett standing directly behind him.

Edward wrapped his arms around me, pulling me away from Rose. "You have some nerve, you never gave a shit about me, you just don't want me to be with anyone else, this is all because I was the first and only person to say no to you, and you can't stand that. Well I can't speak for Emmett right now, but I want you out, and I never want to see you again." Edward said, pulling me back into his room and closing the door, we could hear hushed voices outside the door for a few minutes but then.

"I said, pack your shit and get the fuck out of my life." Emmett roared, we heard sobs and then slamming doors.

I stared up at Edward, "Did she hurt you?" he asked, when I tried to pull away from him.

"No, but I need to check on Pumpkin, all the noise may have woken, and frightened her.

"I'll check on her, you go and get ready for bed, okay? I'll be up soon." he said he kissed me softly and we both left the room.

A/N Finally Rose got her marching orders, hmmm do you think she'll give up that easy? Or will she still fight?

This chapter was meant to be the citrus fresh one, but it was getting too long so I will post the rest later today, when its finished. So warning to those of you that need to have brain bleach available, or are not over 18, the next chapter might be one you should skip. ;)