Hi, I'm back. I worked it out and if I did a chapter a week, by the end of October, there would be a massive break, probably until next Summer because I will be so consumed by school work that I won't have time to write. This is why I'm going to aim for one chapter every two weeks so there is a better chance at there being no post breaks. At this moment in time, I have up to Chapter 21 written so that's chapters up to December 7th. I have another two weeks left of my summer holiday and I am aiming for a chapter a day. I don't really have much to say here today except that I hope you enjoy this chapter. I have to recommend that you listen to a song that I listened to when I wrote the second half of the chapter, when they go up to Edward's bedroom to talk. It will really add to it. It's called, 'I Get To Love You' by Ruelle. Look it up on YouTube, you won't be disappointed. It's my favourite song at the moment.
Enjoy!
Chapter 14-
"Bella, is that…" Edward trails off.
"It's Emmett." She replies looking at her boyfriend. She then looks back at her brother and removes the gag.
"Don't remove the rope. He's still dangerous." Edward rushes out before his girlfriend lets him free.
"What?" Emmett asks.
"You tried to kill us. You might try to kill us again. You are dangerous." Edward tells him slowly.
"Edward, he might be dangerous but he's still my brother. Back off." She snaps at him and then turns back to her brother. "Why Emmett?"
"Why what? Bells, I have no idea what you're talking about. I was driven here and placed in this room, given a gun and then five minutes later, shot and knocked out. Then I wake up, I'm gagged and tied up and then I hear your voice." Emmett says confused. "I honestly don't know what you're talking about."
Bella looks at Edward with pleading eyes. "Jasper!" She shouts.
Jasper comes running out of the room with frantic eyes, his gun raised. "What?" He asks in confusion, lowering his gun when he sees no one in danger.
"Emmett says he was placed here five minutes before he was shot." She turns on her brother. "Wait, you go shot?"
"Priorities Bells." Emmett tells his sister and she turns around to look at Jasper.
"Did he get placed here five minutes before he was shot?" Bella asks Jasper.
"Yeah, that man walked out and then 2 minutes later, he was brought in by another man and told to wait for you. He was given a gun and then the men all cleared out. Sorry, I should have said but with Ali, I forgot." Jasper apologises.
"It's okay." Bella says with a smile. "Thank you. Tell Ali I hope she's okay."
"Will do." Jasper says with a smile before running off down the hallway and back to his girlfriend who is getting put in the car and then they drive off to the hospital.
"Edward, he might not have had anything to do with it, it doesn't sound like it." Bella pleads with her boyfriend.
"He stays tied up, I will get Carlisle to check him out and screen him for chips, and I will also get Alec to check his story." Edward concedes.
"Okay, thank you." Bella says to her boyfriend and then she takes hold of Emmett's hand.
Carlisle walks into the room with his bag full of medical supplies, followed closely by Edward and Alec.
"Hi Emmett. I'm just going to check your head. Are you experiencing any blurred vision? Headaches, other than the one caused by being knocked out? Dizziness? Memory loss?" Carlisle asks him as he sits down on the stool that Edward placed in front of the sofa.
"No. I'm fine, just a bit sore." Emmett replies.
"Okay, that's good." Carlisle reaches into his bag and grabs his light, lifting it up to Emmett's face. "Okay, I need you to follow the light with just your eyes, don't move your head."
Carlisle moves the light back and forth, first in front of Emmett's right eye, and then his left. "Okay, your head seems to be okay. Alec is going to ask you questions and then I'm going to take you down to the basement, into the examination room I have down there and screen you for any chips. I can't sew your bullet wound until I've screened you unfortunately. I must apologise for my wife doing that to you."
Edward and Alec start to laugh. "Did you really just apologise for Mom?" Edward asks rhetorically.
"You're going to die bro." Alec tells his younger brother.
"It's okay, she was just protecting her family and that includes my sister. Thank you doc." Emmett says, turning his head to look at Alec. "Ask away."
"Tell us what happened after the fire?" Alec says.
"I remember going to bed that night after the film finished we were watching that night and then I woke up in a pitch black room, tied to a table. Then three men walked in and one of them sat next to me. He told me that his name was Aro and that someone had taken my sister. He also told me that he was going to help me get her back. Then he locked me in a house for last two years and I was never allowed to walk outside. I was taught to fight and shoot but never allowed to leave. The first time I walked outside in two years was this morning when I was herded towards the car by one of the men that was always watching me, Jared Lewis. I was driven here and see loads of cars parked up and windows smashed before loads of people run out of the house and into the cars before they drove away. Then I see Aro again, for the second time in two years, walking out of this house and over to me. He told me that my sister was in this house and I needed to wait for her. Then I was put in this room by Paul Fife, another one of the men that were always watching me, given a gun and told to wait before everyone disappeared. That's it, honestly." Emmett says looking at the three men in the room and finally landing on his sister.
All eyes then move to Alec who is furiously typing on his tablet, trying to corroborate the information he was given. After a few minutes, he lifts his head up and looks Bella in the eye. "He's telling the truth, I just asked a few of the guys that are undercover with Aro. They knew that the picture that we sent them might be you but they couldn't get close enough to get a hair from you. Someone was always watching you."
Bella smiles so wide her face almost splits in two and she reaches over to give her brother a massive hug. "I missed you so much, Emmy!"
"I would hug you back Belly, but I'm kind of tied up at the moment." Emmett jokes.
"Jesus, yes. Sorry." Bella rushes to untie her brother. "You need to get screened now. Can I come with him?" Bella asks Carlisle.
He smiles at Bella. "Of course, dear."
"Great, I just need to get Charlie, Marcus woke her up when he shouted for Edward." She says, getting up and walking back down the hallway and into the office.
She walks in and sees Charlie being bounced on Marcus's knee to calm her down.
"Look Charlie. It's mommy." Marcus coos at the baby girl. "I think she wants you." He says passing her over to Bella.
"I'm going to introduce her to Emmett, he's been cleared and is now going down to be screened for chips." Bella tells them all as she walks out the door, back down the hallway and into the room where she sees Edward and Alec now sat on the sofa where Emmett once was.
"Hi Charlie." Edward says giving her a kiss on the head and sniffing her. "I love the smell of babies." He looks at his girlfriend. "First door of the right. Don't worry about knocking."
Bella smiles at him, kisses his lips and then walks out of the room. She walks towards the basement door, down the stairs and then turns to the door on her right. Without knocking, she walks in and sees Emmett laying on a table under a massive machine.
"Hey Bella, Charlie. I'm just screening him for chips but it's almost complete." Carlisle says.
A few seconds later, a beep fills the room and Carlisle stands up from his monitors, walking over to Emmett. Lifting up the machine, he looks at Emmett. "You have three chips. One in your shoulder, one in your groin and one in your bloodstream. The chip in your shoulder keeps an eye on your heart rate, the one in your groin keeps an eye on your location, and the one in your bloodstream looks at what hormones you're producing."
"Jesus." Emmett says sitting up.
Carlisle walks over to the monitors again and picks up his medical bag again. Emmett looks over at his sister and smiles.
"Hi Belly, and who is this little cutie?"
"Emmett, meet Charlie. My daughter."
Emmett's jaw drops and he looks at his sister. "Your… your daughter. You have a daughter?"
"Her name is Charlotte, Charlie for short. Charlotte Marie Swan." Bella says.
"Oh my god. How?" Emmett asks.
Bella smirks and raises an eyebrow at her little brother.
"Obviously I know how, but who? When?"
"Her sperm donor was called James Rothwell." Bella tells him.
"James Rothwell? As in Brian from next door's creepy ass son, James Rothwell?" Emmett asks shocked.
"Yes. After the fire, I thought everyone was dead so James took me in, then he moved to America so I moved with him. He raped and beat me but I got a beautiful baby girl from it." Bella explains quickly knowing what her brother's reaction is going to be.
"He what!" Emmett roars making Charlie cry from the sudden raise in volume. "Sorry Charlie. Can I hold her?" He asks his sister, putting away his anger for now.
"Yeah." She says passing her screaming daughter over to her brother.
Emmett rocks her and makes weird faces until she stops crying and then starts to coo at her. "Hi Charlie. I'm your uncle Emmy, and I promise to always give you that extra cookie when nasty Mummy tells you no."
Bella laughs. "You can clean up the vomit then."
Carlisle laughs and pulls up a stool to sit in front of Emmett. "Sorry, but you'll need to give Charlie back to Bella so I can remove the chips."
Emmett hands the baby over to her mother and Carlisle passes him a glass full of cloudy looking liquid. Emmett looks at it with a disgusted look on his face. "What is it?"
"It's going to break down the chip in your bloodstream and you will urinate it out. Don't worry, it tastes like Lemonade." Carlisle says.
"Okay…" Emmett says, holding his nose and knocking it back. "Ugh, you lied. That tasted like shit."
"I know." Carlisle says with a shrug. "It was the only way I knew you'd take it. Sorry. Now I need to numb your shoulder, thank Esme for shooting it, it means I don't need to cut." He says reaching up and injecting his shoulder and groin with a local anaesthetic.
"I'm getting mixed feelings here doc, should your wife be sorry or should I be grateful?" Emmett asks with a smirk.
"Bit of both." Carlisle replies back smiling.
They wait 5 minutes and Carlisle pokes his shoulder with a needle. "Do you feel that?"
"No."
"Great." He reaches into his bag and pulls out a long tweeser type tool, reaches into Emmett's bullet wound and pulls out a little chip. He places it in a small plastic container and then stitches up the wound and cutting open Emmett's groin, reaching in and pulling out another chip and then sews up the wound.
"Where's the bathroom?" Emmett asks.
"Through that door there." Carlisle says pointing towards a door on the other side of the room. "Thank god that liquid works fast, they may have still been getting the transmissions."
Emmett jumps off of the table and walks over towards the bathroom and closing the door as Edward walks in. He walks over to his girlfriend, takes her daughter out of her arms, hands her to his father and wraps his arms around her, giving her a massive kiss on the lips.
"I have my little brother back." She says in shock but with a huge smile stretching across her face. "Thank you." She reaches up and kisses him again.
They don't notice Emmett walking out of the bathroom until he's standing right next to them and he clears his throat. They break apart and look at him.
"Hi, I'm Emmett, and you are?" He says to Edward even though he saw him upstairs, he thinks they should have a proper introduction considering he walked in on his sister and this man kissing.
"I'm Edward. I'm Bella's boyfriend." Edward replies.
"He's like thirty, Bella!" Emmett exclaims, looking at his sister now.
"Actually he's thirty-five." Bella says with a smirk.
"You're eighteen!"
"Thank you so very much for pointing that out, I'd forgotten." Bella sarcastically replies.
Emmett smiles at his sister. "I've missed this."
"Me too, Emmy. I love you."
"I love you too." He then turns to look at his sister's boyfriend, his face unreadable. "Edward, I want a word with you."
"Okay, my room?" Edward asks.
"I don't put out on the first date." Emmett replies with a straight face.
"I… Um… Wasn't asking… that… I meant for our chat… Um…" Edward says, his face going bright red, even his ears turn pink.
Emmett and Bella start to laugh which causes Charlie to smile her big toothless smile. "I'm just messing with you, Eddie. Let's go." Emmett says walking towards the door.
"I don't like being called Eddie." Edward tell him.
"Okay, Edwina?"
"Um…"
"Edward, he gives nicknames to everyone, whether you like them or not. It's either Eddie or Edwina." Bella informs her boyfriend. "I have a few, 'Bells', 'Belly', 'Isasmella'. You learn to live with it."
"Eddie's fine." Edward begrudgingly says.
"Great! Let's go Eddie." Emmett jovially says.
"If you're going up to your bedroom, can you take Charlie up to bed. Her nap was interrupted earlier." Bella asks the boys.
"Sure!" Emmett says skipping over to his sister and taking the baby out of her arms. "Uncle Emmy Wemmy will tuck you in nice and tightly."
"Uh-" Carlisle gets interrupted.
"It's cool doc, I know how to put a baby down safely." Emmett calls through the door as him and Edward make their way out of the room and up the stairs into the living room. From there, they walk up the stairs to the first floor of bedroom and down the hall. They stop in the doorway to Charlie's room, seeing that everything's been trashes. Furniture smashes, toys ripped to pieces, clothes torn to shreds.
"I'm going to take a guess and say that her room isn't supposed to look like that." Emmett says.
"No." Edward replies walking to his bedroom and opening the door seeing nothing even touched. "Huh. Let's talk in here and you can get her to sleep in your arms, it will have to do for the time being."
"Okay." Emmett says as they walk into the bedroom next to Charlie's and they both sit on the bed. Emmett starts to rock Charlie to sleep as he turns towards Edward.
"What are your intentions with my sister?" Emmett asks.
Edward laughs and then stops. "Oh, you're serious… Oh, um, well I like her a lot and we've only known each other for a month. I love Charlie like she's my own and I see myself with Bella for the rest of my life. I won't ever hurt her."
"You love her." Emmett says in realisation.
Edward looks down, his ears turning red and a smile growing across his face. "Yeah. I think I do. But she isn't ready to hear it yet so keep it to yourself for now, please Emmett." Edward pleads.
"Okay. You're so much older than her though, I don't want her to get hurt."
"If I ever hurt her, you can hurt me back, but I promise it wouldn't be intentional. I love her. I really really love her." Edward confesses out loud for the first time. "I'm letting her set the pace for this relationship, I'm not telling her until I'm sure she's ready to hear it."
"Okay, I guess I can accept that, but know this, I would kill for her. It might do her good to hear it from you now, I know I haven't seen her in two year and can't even comprehend what she's been through, but I know my sister. Now, I want to know what we're going to do to that scumbag James." Emmett says in a cold hard voice.
"We've already sorted him out, we tortured him, cut his dick off and then killed him. We did that the day after she got here, she ran away from James late one night and I happened to come across her and brought her and Charlie here. She's almost fully healed, physically at least. Mentally, that will take a while. She's in therapy with my mom, she's a registers Therapist, and it's already working wonders." Edward tells him.
"Good. Shame I wasn't there to see it."
"Let's go back downstairs, I think we all need to go to my house because it's not safe here."
Emmett stands up and passes Charlie to Edward and they walk out of the room and down the corridor getting halfway down the stairs when Emmett stops them both. "I'm going to go down to the living room and tell them all to keep it down. I don't want her to wake up."
"Okay, Em." Edward tells him as Emmett runs down the stairs and into the living room.
"Can everyone keep it down please. Charlie's with Edward because her room is trashed and we got her to sleep." Emmett tells them all.
"Okay." Rose says. She stands up and walks over to Emmett with her hand out. "Hi, I'm Rose."
Emmett bring her hand up to his mouth and kisses it. "Hi Petal, I'm Emmett."
Rose looks at Bella in confusion.
"He gives everyone a nickname." Edward says walking in with a sleeping Charlie in his arms.
"It's true." Emmett says. He points at Bella, "That's Belly, Bells, or Isasmella." He points at Edward, "That's Eddie." He points at Carlisle, "And that's Doc."
Rose just laughs pulling her hand back from Emmett and turning to look at Edward. "You let him call you Eddie? I thought only Jake could get away with that."
"It was that or Edwina." Edward says.
Marcus stands up. "I'm Marcus." He holds his hand out. "What's my nickname?"
Emmett shakes his hand, steps back and looks at him. "Hmm… Charles the second."
Bella laughs. "Really?"
"I'm confused, who's Charles the second?" Marcus asks.
"He's my favourite King of England." Emmett replies and then looks at his sister. "It was that or Henry the eighth. My seconds favourite."
"Except Marcus hasn't had six wives, or syphilis." Bella laughs out. "Well, I assume he hasn't."
"No dear." He laughs out.
"I'm Alec." Alec says as he stands up and walking over to Emmett.
Emmett shakes his hand. "Hi Merlin."
"Merlin?" Alec asks.
"He's listing his favourite people from English history and folklore." Bella explains.
"I'm trying to stay true to my roots." Emmett explains with a shrug and a smirk. He walks over to Jake. "And what's your name little man?"
"I'm Jacob." He says shyly.
"Jakey!" Emmett says. "You are my new best friend."
Jake smiles. "Really?"
"Yeah. Who else? Eddie?" Emmett leans in close and stage whispers. "He smells."
Jacob laughs and points at Rose. "That's my mommy." He says proudly.
"Is it?" He looks at Jake closer. "Well now I can see it. You have the same eyes, and nose, and mouth, yet your hair is all Eddie."
"I know. He says I'm a poor kid." Jacob says.
"I actually think it's pretty cool." Emmett tells his new friend.
Edward walks over to his girlfriend and passes her daughter to her. "I think we should all go to my house, it's not safe here yet. I've texted mom and she's going straight there from the hospital."
His family all nod their heads, standing up and walking out of the room, Emmett walks over and takes Charlie from Bella before walking towards the front door. "I'll get her strapped into the car."
"Okay." Bella says in a daze and then looks at Edward. "You have a house?"
"Yeah, we all do. We only stay here when something big is happening, this last month qualifies as something big. Well, we stay at the house closest to whatever's going down. Mom and dad's was the closest to the area I found you." Edward tells his girlfriend, walking over and wrapping his arms around her.
She wraps hers around his and buries her head in his chest. "It just shocked me."
"I must have forgotten to mention it but Charlie has a full nursery set up for her and you have your own room if you want it. I got it all set up the first night you spent here."
Bella looks up at him shocked. "Really?"
"Yes really. I knew you were going to be a big part of my life, even if we don't work out, you'll always have a place in my heart and my home." Edward kisses his girlfriend on the top of her head as she blushes and hides her face in his chest, wrapping her arms tighter around her.
"I love you." She says muffled into his chest.
They both freeze. "What did you just say?"
"I'm sorry, I know it's too soon because we've only known each other a month and been together since last night but I love you. It just slipped out, I didn't mean to say it but it's true. I don't expect you to say it back, don't worry." Bella says hiding her head even more in Edward's chest.
"Bella, look at me Angel? I want to see those beautiful brown eyes." He waits until she does and she sees his smile. "There they are." He whispers in awe. "Isabella Marie Swan, I love you too."
Bella beams up at her boyfriend. "Really?" She whispers in shock.
"Yes really." He chuckles, cut off by Bella's lips on his own. They break apart a few seconds later and he kisses her nose before wrapping his arms around her shoulders and she wraps her arms around his waist. "God I love you." He tells her as they walk towards the front door and out onto the driveway.
They break apart and Bella walks towards Edward's car seeing Charlie strapped in and Emmett sat in the front, she also notes that the others have already left. They both climb in and Edward starts the engine, pulling out on to the road and after a few minutes the highway.
Edward and Emmett share a look between them and then Edward suddenly take a right turn down a back road.
"What the hell!" Bella exclaims.
"Sorry Angel, but I'd hold on. We're being followed."
Hi. Did you all enjoy it? I know I said that we'd find out the sex of Alice's baby in this chapter but I promise, we will next chapter. It's already written as I post this chapter. Did you listen to the song? Did you like it? Please review and tell me. ~Megan xxx