A/N: Okay, sorry for the cliffy last time but I couldn't resist. So, AS I always do, I am updating today and thanks to those who reviewed!!!!
Oh and I can't take credit for the powers that the baby has. Those were suggested by daddysgirl96 and clairddycatt
I don't own Twilight (how many times's do I have to tell you?)
Emmett
"Lacey? Is that you?" I asked shakily as I looked at the girl in front of me. I just couldn't believe who I thought it was.
"Emmett?" Her voice was small almost as if she was scared.
I nodded and I saw her face light up as she ran over to wrap her small arms around me. I smiled a small smile and returned the embrace loosely. I forgot about our audience and just thought how she could be here.
Who changed her? When was she changed? How did she come to live up here in Denali?
"Excuse me," I heard the most beautiful voice in the world and I froze.
I turned back to the family and realized that Rose had left the room.
What's wrong with Rosalie? I asked Edward in my head but he just gave me a skeptical look as if this was the easiest thing in the world.
What?
I watched as he quickly gestured to Lacey and I and then it clicked. What was I doing?
I gently, but firmly pushed Lacey away from me as I stood up to follow Rose. She had gone out into their backyard and was now sitting in on the railing of the porch with her eyes closed. Before I exited the house I heard Edward and Carlisle beginning to explain Rosalie and the baby to Kate, Garrett and Lacey.
I moved to sit next to her on the railing but I didn't dare say anything. I just turned to look at her as the wind blew through her blonde ringlets but she didn't open her eyes. I wondered if she even knew I was here because it seemed that she was catatonic.
So I said the first thing that came to mind.
"I'm sorry."
She was silent for a moment before opening her golden eyes as she turned to look at me. Her eyes reflected no expression but I could see through her wall. I knew I had hurt her.
"What do you have to be sorry for?" Her silky voice was barely above a whisper but she didn't look away.
"For…..in there!" I gestured to the house angrily before putting my head down in my hands. "I didn't mean to hurt you." I murmured and I felt her turn towards me slightly as she wrapped her slender arms around my waist comfortingly.
"It wasn't what you did that hurt me it's just…..the fact that you've never told me that you knew this Lacey. I'm just confused, that's all. Please don't beat yourself up about it." She whispered and I sat up and put an arm around her, pulling her closer to me and she leaned her head on my shoulder but didn't loosen her death grip on my torso.
"Well, if you really want to know…."I trailed off and took a deep breath; I had hidden this from everyone ever since my change. Even Edward. That is until today when I let my thoughts slip and I'm sure he knew. "It was before you changed me, Rose, that I was engaged. The wedding was in a week but when I foolishly wandered out into the woods alone, that's when I thought it was over. But it wasn't Rose, it wasn't. It was a beginning, a beginning with you."
"You were engaged?" She whimpered out brokenly. "Why didn't you ever tell me?"
"I, well, I thought I would never see her again and I didn't want to hurt you." I said, willing her to understand.
"But now I've ruined your life!" She yelled at me as she ripped her arms from my waist and hopped off of the railing. "I'm so sorry! I d-didn't know and I'm…oh, I'm just horrible!" She sobbed as she slumped into a heap on the ground and I jumped off of the railing to kneel in front of her. I put my finger under her chin and slowly tilted her face up to look at me. The look of self loathing and pain on her face made me want to just die right there.
"No! No, you haven't ruined my life! You made it so much better Rosalie…" I said to her.
"But, I took you from her," She said to me and I shook my head.
"No, the bear did. I would have never been able to see her again anyway but Rosalie you let me live." I said to her but she still wouldn't listen to me.
"I'm a horrible person. You shouldn't love me when I've damned you to this life. And I took you from your fiancée." She wasn't even talking to me by now; she was more telling herself these things. I sat down on my knees in front of her and pulled her shaking form close to me.
"Rosalie, if I ever hear you say that again, I swear I'll snap." I said to her and she looked up at me brokenly.
"Well, at least now you have her back. Because I can understand if….you don't want me anymore." She said and I gaped at her. Why would she think that?
"Rose, what are you talking about?" I asked her.
"I just want you to be happy, Emmett. Even if it's not with me." I could hear the pain in her voice and my heart broke at the sound of it.
"Listen, first, you didn't ruin my life okay? And I don't care if you think you think that I shouldn't love you because I do and there's nothing you can do about it. You're the best thing that has ever happened to me Rose and I wouldn't give you up for the world. If I didn't want you, I would have left a long time ago so that kind of means that I do want you." I said to her and I hoped she got my point.
"But….don't you want Lacey back?" Rose asked me hesitantly and I tightened my grip around her.
"Rose, Lacey is my past. You are my present and future because I honestly think that you are the only person I was meant to be with." I said and I knew it was true.
"Do you love her?"
I thought about it for a moment before deciding my answer.
"I do love her…but I'm not in love with her. I was in love with her in my human years but when I saw you Rose it was different. It was like I had been actually waiting for you to come along all those years. My love for you is so much stronger and so different and no one can change that." I said hoping she understood.
She didn't say anything as she sat up on her knees like me and wrapped her arms around my waist. I wrapped my arms around her before leaning down and touching my lips to hers lightly.
"I love you," I said to her as I buried my face in her soft hair. I could almost feel her smile against my chest.
"I love you more," She murmured and I was about to protest when I remembered the family inside.
"I guess we should probably go inside then," Rose spoke my thoughts and I nodded. I stood up and extended a hand to her and she grasped it. I hoisted her up but I didn't let go of her hand as we headed for the back door.
Suddenly I heard her gasp and she fell towards the ground dragging me with her. She had her arms around her stomach protectively and her teeth were clenched as she held back a scream.
"What is it, Rosalie?" I asked frantically. What happened to her?
"She- she kicked again," She choked out breathlessly before her breathing returned to normal. What was our baby doing to her?
She was going to stand up again but she doubled over on pain. She didn't scream though she just kept clenching her teeth to hold it back.
"Rose!" I said as I bent down and stroked her cheek lightly. "What's wrong?"
"I…think she's stretching. She needs more room in there." She replied and I was silent until she finally exhaled and relaxed. I hated seeing her in pain like this but I couldn't do anything about it.
"Are you okay?" I asked her because I really couldn't think of anything else to say.
"I'm fine," She whispered and we stood up as I lead her over to the door where we entered the house.
"Rosalie!"
"Rose, are you okay?"
"What's wrong?"
Questions sprang out from around the room as we took a seat again on the love seat.
"It's fine. She was just….kicking. Yes, that's all." Rosalie replied weakly and that was enough to quiet everyone down.
I noticed that Lacey had her topaz eyes fixed on me and I looked away. I couldn't deal with this right now.
"Well, since we're all acquainted now, why don't we go shopping?" Alice suggested a little while later after everything had been explained.
"Yes!" I heard Kate's voice and I rolled my eyes. She was almost like a second Alice, and trust me; one was enough for this world.
"Why?" Bella whined but she didn't object this time.
"Come on Rose, you too," Alice commanded and Rose, who was curled up next to me sat up and looked at me pleadingly but I shook my head.
"Please?" She begged me and I almost gave in. Almost.
"I'll be here when you get back, I promise," I told her and she pouted but nodded before pecking me goodbye and rushing with Bella and Renesmee out to the cars.
"Lacey?" Kate asked and I cringed.
"Um, no thank you. I'll pass this time." She politely declined and Kate nodded before leaving with the rest of them
Carlisle, Esme, Eleazar, and Carmen had gone hunting. I had absolutely where Garrett was but I did know that Edward and Jasper were both watching TV and I got up to join them in the other room.
"Emmett? Can, I speak to you?" I heard Lacey's voice from behind me and I froze.
"Okay." I said but I didn't get up from my seat in the red armchair.
"Privately?" She asked and I sighed. I nodded to her and got up to follow her out of the house. When she was out of the back door she took off into a run and I followed her lead into the woods.
"Where are we going?" I asked curiously as we ran.
"You'll see." She whispered as she sped up in front of me.
Finally, after a few minutes of running we came to a small clearing surrounded by trees where the sunlight shone in slivers through the branches.
"Okay what did you want to talk about?" I asked her as I leaned against a tree with my arms crossed over my chest.
She stayed a few yards away from me and looked down at her feet. She looked up again as she sighed and ran a hand through her dark hair. I gasped when I saw the ring on her finger. The engagement ring I had given her. She was still wearing it.
"What?" She asked as I gasped and I just shook my head.
"Lacey, why are you still wearing that ring?" I asked her softly.
"Because….well, I knew it was stupid but I had hoped that you would come back to me." She said her voice barely above a whisper.
"I can't Lacey," I stated as I held up my hand to her. I heard her intake of breath as she looked at my wedding band.
"But why? I thought you…I thought we…." She couldn't seem to find the right words and my heart was breaking for her. I didn't want to do this; I didn't want to hurt her.
"Lacey, after I was changed I just, I moved on. And I'm happy where I am now, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. I'm so sorry but I've changed." I said to her carefully and she could cry she would have been.
"But- but that's not fair! I wasn't there, I couldn't have….." She trailed off as a sob escaped her mouth.
"You couldn't have stopped it Lacey. It was fate, and I honestly don't think that we were meant to be or else I wouldn't be married with a pregnant wife that wasn't you." I said to her and I wanted nothing more than to comfort her but that would only make her hurt worse. I couldn't lead her on.
"But I love you," Lacey said quietly and I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.
"That's where you're wrong Lacey. You're in love with the man you met seventy four years ago, not me." I said to her and she just shook her head frantically but I wasn't done. "I do love you Lacey, a small part of me always will, but it's not enough to change my mind."
She was silent and I didn't dare say anything else.
After a while, she looked up at me her face expressionless.
"I understand. You don't want me, and I- I can accept that. I don't want to ruin your happiness," She said flatly but I could hear the pain in her voice. I could almost tell she was holding back sobs as she turned away from me.
"Oh Lacey, don't do this," I murmured and I could help it. I closed the distance between us and wrapped her in a hug but she didn't want it. She pushed away from me stubbornly as she sobbed. "I'm so sorry Lacey. I'm sorry. Tell me what I can do. Please." I begged her but she just stood there not looking at me.
"I j-just wanted to be loved; I just wanted to like me for me. Not this," She said and gestured to her body. "Do you know why I was changed?" She asked me.
When I didn't answer she snapped.
"Do you!" She screeched and I took a step back from her as I shook my head violently.
"After they declared you dead, my parents were furious. I was forced to be engaged as soon as possible and in no time I was." She said but for some reason I didn't want to hear the rest but she kept going. By the time she was done I gasped at the story.
It was so similar to Rosalie's that I wanted to cry. Why did that have to happen to the two people I ever dared to love? Why?
"I'm sorry Lacey but I can't give you that love. But I know that someone can. Someone's out there waiting for you." I tried comforting her again.
"I hope so," Was all she said before running to me and wrapping her arms around my waist. I was caught off guard but I hugged her back I hoped she would find that someone. I knew I had though and I was glad that Lacey understood.
A/N: Okay there goes that chapter and I hoped you liked it!!! Please review and I will update tomorrow!!!!!
