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This chapter is in Emmett's POV (the chapters will vary in POV's but it will only ever be Rose or Em's!)

Rose and I tensed and listened. I heard Alice, clear as a bell, answer the phone downstairs.

"Hello?" Alice said urgently, all the melody in her voice was gone.

"Alice tell everyone Bella and I will be home in around 16 hours." Edwards voice was as clear as a bell down the phone, so was the pain in it. He hung up.

Beside me Rose sighed frustratedly. I held her closer.

"You would think," she seethed, "that when we return from a hunting trip and news like this emerges in our family, they would tell us as soon as we came through the door!"

I was about to point out that we had not come through the front door, we had come in through the large glass doors in our bedroom and we hadn't even come in together (I had been finishing off a particularly nasty grizzly when Rose got Bella's call), but decided that it was better to think before I spoke...

Rose sighed into my chest again, but not as angrily. I felt that stupid pain and guilt again. It was stupid for three reasons.

1. Rose had just told me why I didn't need to feel this way.

2. Even if I am capable of... performing the art of... well, making a baby... Rose's body couldn't change to make it capable for carrying one - it wasn't her fault, I would never blame her for this.

3. It wasn't really my fault either, but I still felt guilty.

I needed to work better at hiding it though, Rosalie had caught on in an instant when I felt it kick in a few minutes ago...

"Stop it." Rose said gently.

Damn - better Emmett not worse.

"This isn't your fault Emmett." She hadn't lifted her head from my chest to look at me, yet she had still sensed my pain. Worse still, she'd said it as if it was her's.

"It's not your's either." I told her back and rubbed her back in gentle circles to calm her.

"It is." She whispered. My heart was nearly torn in half.

I used my other hand to lift her chin up, to make her look into my eyes - I always do that, she listens most when I do.

"No." I said firmly, "It's not."

Then she used her best defence to my tactic - she closed her eyes.

"Think about it," her voice was becoming quieter but I could still hear it perfectly, "clearly, Edward can perform - he's an incubus. Carlisle bit him, so Carlisle must be an incubus too."

I knew where this was going - and I didn't like it.

"So logically, if Carlisle bit you too..." She trailed off as if the pain of the thought was too much.

So what, did she want me to go find a human and have a baby with them? I shuddered at the idea. Leaving Rosalie was never ever an option. Never.

"Rosalie, listen to me." I said it in my normal voice, which seemed quite loud compared to the quiet tones our conversation had been in. It made her open her eyes again in slight shock. Good.

"I. Don't. Care." I said slowly, pronouncing every syllable carefully. "The only person I would ever want a family with is you. If I can't then we'll adopt - 10 - no - 20 kids. I don't care how many as long as you're with me when they're here."

I smiled at the image in my head. Kids running round crazy in the garden with me and Rose running after them.

She laughed. Thank God.

"Twenty might be a few too many." She smiled.

"Ok so enough with the pity parties then!" I said jokingly.

We stood up and I was heading for the door when Rose called me back.

"Emmett, can we just wait a minute?" She pleaded, I nodded and took her in my arms again.

"Bella asked me to help her." She said to me. I knew right away that Rosalie had agreed, she wouldn't have mentioned it otherwise.

"Sounds like a 24 hour job then." I joked.

"Until I trust Carlisle and Edward then it might have to be..." I held her tightly. This would mean less of... well, us - and our alone time.

"I'll be here Rose, right by your side." I kissed her forehead.

"I'll miss you though."

"I won't leave the room unless you're leaving it too. I'm annoying that way." I laughed.

"Let's go down then." She didn't leave my arms, even though she had just decided to go downstairs.

I inhaled her sweet scent and then nodded my head in agreement.

"You go, I'll stalk -" I cleared my throat purposely, "I mean follow you."

She laughed at my lame joke, I loved her laugh, then took my hand and dragged me out of our bedroom behind her.

Esme was at the bottom of the stairs - she must've heard us coming. She was fiddling with her caramel hair distractedly.

"You heard then." It wasn't a question, it was a statement. The concern for her newest daughter seemed to fill the room everyone in it. I felt it catch in my chest, this would be worse than I had thought, the look on Carlisle's face was a cross between shock and confusion. This was something we had never seen a human live through...

I looked across to Alice, who was curled up on the couch with Jasper, she whispered something to him, so quietly that I couldn't hear it - but I could guess what she had said because seconds later I felt a wave of calm wash over me.

Esme smiled at him gratefully.

I took Rosalie's hand, I thought we would go outside to the Cars, Rose liked to work out her frustration there, but instead she lead me over to the other, unoccupied couch and lay her head on my shoulder.

As much as I liked Edward, it had been nice having him out of the house for a while. I could think what I wanted, when I wanted without worrying about him listening. I knew he didn't do it on purpose, but it bugged me.

I looked down at Rose. She was playing with her necklace absent mindedly.

I didn't really need Edward's power to know what she was thinking. Right now, she was wondering what time it was so she could see what time Bella and Edward would be back at.

I knew because she had glanced at my wrist twice, looking for the watch I usually wore but I had taken off for our hunting trip.

"It's 1:30pm." I told her. She grinned at me, almost laughing.

"Did Edward lend you his powers?" She teased.

"No, I'm just a natural." I grinned. "Like right now," I had lowered my voice so only Rose could hear, "Jasper really needs to go to the toilet, but he can't get Alice to get off him."

Rosalie let out a loud laugh, because of Jaspers concentrated, almost painful expression as he tried to control the emotions in the room and Alice's arms around him, she tried to disguise it as a cough, which was a bit stupid since vampires didn't need to cough. Everyone looked at us.

"Sorry." I muttered trying not to laugh, "We wouldn't be as cheery but..." I glanced at Jasper. He didn't make the calm and happiness lesser any.

I didn't mind, it would be while before I would be able to see Rose laugh happily again...

Their eyes turned elsewhere and Rosalie hit me on the knee playfully for getting her in trouble.

"Around 5 in the morning then." She stated. Esme nodded. Jasper gave up his efforts after hearing how long it would take, he didn't have the strength to keep it up that long so there wasn't much point in him continuing now.

It was going to be a long 16 hours...

Ok so I hope you enjoyed it... I should be doing coursework/revising for the test that our dope of a french teacher forgot to tell us about... That woman.... I shan't get started lol! Oh well! To my french text book! Woop!

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