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Chapter 7 is up! Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 7 – Emmett's Protectiveness

Elizabeth's P.O.V.

I stared dejectedly into the fire. How had I not noticed the signs before? How had I not noticed that there was something off about the Cullens?

Emmett especially.

I mean, I'd known that something was off about them, but I didn't think it stretched to them being effing vampires!

They seemed harmless. I mean… if they'd wanted to hurt someone, they would've done it already, wouldn't they?

But I still had to be cautious. I didn't want Sirius and Remus or anyone else hurt.

I'd decided not tell Sirius and Remus. If they found out that I was going to school with vampires, no matter how harmless they seemed, they would pack us up and move us back to London without a second thought.

I was really starting to like Forks. Here, I wasn't the Girl-Who-Lived. I wasn't the Chosen One. I was Elizabeth. Just Elizabeth.

And that's exactly the way I liked it.

Maybe I was being selfish. Maybe I was putting myself and my godfathers in danger, but I didn't want to go back to being famous.

"Hey," Jeremy said softly, sitting down on the log beside me. "You okay?"

I took a deep breath and nodded, "Yeah. I just have a lot to think about."

He softly put a hand on my arm, "Anything you wanna talk about?"

I shook my head, "It's fine, Jeremy."

"Soup's on!" his dad called from the grill.

Jeremy sighed, "C'mon. Supper's ready."

"Are you sure you have to go home yet?" Jeremy whined.

We'd eaten and sang songs and had an all around good time, but it was nearing eleven. Sirius and Remus would kill me if I was out after that.

I chuckled, "Yes, Jeremy. I'm sure. I don't want to get grounded just before the weekend starts."

Jeremy pouted and huffed, "C'mon, then. I'll walk you to your truck."

We walked to my Ford in silence, each lost in out own thoughts.

The silence was broken by Jeremy.

"Did you have fun?" his voice was soft, tentative, as if afraid of my answer.

I smiled at him, "I really did, Jeremy."

"You seemed out of it since you left school today…"

I winced, but smiled nonetheless, "I'm alright, Jeremy. I just had a lot to think about. I think I just needed friends."

He brightened almost instantly and grinned, "Well, then, maybe we could do this again sometime…?"

I chuckled, "Maybe."

I opened the door to my truck.

Jeremy grinned and softly kissed me on the cheek. Then he sprinted back toward the house, calling over his shoulder, "See you on Monday!"

I stood there, open-mouthed and staring.

Holy shit.

HPHPHPHPHPHP

My cell phone rang. I put down the letter from Hermione and picked up my phone from the bedside table.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Elizabeth1" Leah's voice came over the phone.

I smiled in amusement at her enthusiastic tone, "You don't sound very sick."

I could almost hear her shrug, "I'm still kinda sick, but not that sick. I just didn't want to go to Jeremy's dad's cookout."

"Why not?"

"You know that blond haired, blue eyes kid? I think he sits next to Jeremy in Biology?"

"Yeah…"

"He has, like, a major crush on me. He flirts shamelessly. It gets really annoying. I just didn't want to face him, let him down again."

I bit the inside of my mouth to hold in my laugh, "Mmhmm…"

"Yeah, but anyway. I have to ask you something."

"What is it?"

"Well, me and Eva are going to Port Angeles tomorrow to do some shopping, and were wondering if you wanted to come. Eva was supposed to ask you if you wanted to go at the cookout, but she forgot. "

I hesitated, "I don't know, Leah…"

"Oh, come on!" she pleaded. "It'll be fun! And besides, isn't there a bookstore there that you've wanted to go to?"

That was true. There was a bookstore in Port Angeles that had all kind of books about the 'mystical' world of the unknown. I thought it sounded pretty cool.

"And if you get too terribly bored," she continued. "You can go on and we'll meet you at the Mexican restaurant down the street from the mall."

I sighed, "Fine. Fine."

She squealed and I held the phone away from my ear, wincing at the high pitched sound.

"Thank you! It'll be so fun!"

"I'm sure it will."

"Eva and I will pick you up around ten tomorrow."

"'Kay."

"Bye!"

"Bye."

HPHPHPHPHPHP

"Where are you going, pup?"

Sirius was leaning against the doorframe to my room, his arms casually crossed across his chest.

I slung my bag across my shoulder, "Eva, Leah, and I are going to Port Angeles."

Sirius hesitated, "Elizabeth…"

I sighed exasperatedly, "Sirius, I'm a big girl. I can handle myself. And I'll have my wand with me at all times. I promise."

Sirius sighed, walked over, and kissed my forehead, "Be careful."

"Always."

"And if Remus hexes me, it's on your head."

I chuckled, "I know. I'll see you this afternoon."

"Bye, pup."

HPHPHPHPHPHP

I was about to rip my hair out.

We had been in the stupid mall for three effing hours. I think Leah and Eva must've tried on every single dress in the store.

"How does this one look?" Leah asked, coming out of the dressing room with a purple sating dress that stopped just above her knees.

"Great…" I answered absently.

She frowned, "You've said that the last five dresses…"

Eva poked her head out of the door, "You can go to that bookstore now, if you want, 'Lizabeth. We'll meet you at the restaurant in about thirty minutes."

I jumped up," Thank you!"

HPHPHPHPHPHP

I walked out of the bookstore with a final smiled to the cashier. I'd bout a book about werewolves. I thought it would be neat to see what Muggles thought about the creatures.

I was about halfway to the restaurant when I decided to take a shortcut through an alleyway.

It turned out to be pretty stupid of me.

"Heeeeey, beeeaaauuutifulll," a voice slurred from behind me.

I whirled around and found myself surrounded by four, obviously drunk, men.

I instinctively put my hand on my wand.

"What do you want?" I asked.

"You," one of the men said simply. They started to advance.

"Just leave me alone," I tried to break from the middle of the circle, but one of the men's arms snapped out to catch me.

"C'mon, don't be like that," one of them said.

"Get. Out. Of. My. Way." I said forcefully. I didn't want to harm these Muggles, but if they didn't back off, I would.

"No."

I started to pull out my wand, but faltered when I heard the revving of an engine.

I and the men turned.

A silver Jeep Wrangler came speeding down the alleyway. The tire's squealed when the driver slammed on the brakes.

And out stepped a livid Emmett.

"Get in," he hissed at me.

I didn't need to be told twice. I sprinted to the Jeep and hopped in the passenger seat.

"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?" one of the men roared, advancing forward.

"I think I'm a seriously pissed guy that could seriously fuck you up because I don't like it when people mess with her," Emmett hissed, his eyes flashing.

The men all stepped back, shocked.

"You stay away from her, or I swear to God, I will hunt you down and kill you. I will rip you apart limb from limb. Am I understood?"

The men stood frozen.

"AM I UNDERSTOOD?" Emmett roared.

The men nodded fervently and ran in the other direction.

Emmett hopped back in the Jeep and backed quickly out of the alley.

"Are you okay?" he asked, his voice much softer than before, but his eyes and face still livid.

I nodded and tried to control my breathing.

It wasn't the men that had me all freaked out. It was the fact that I was in a vehicle. Alone. With a vampire.

An effing vampire!

But… if he'd wanted to kill me, would he have saved me from the men?

Emmett reached over and squeezed my hand reassuringly. Despite his cold skin, warmth and comfort spread through me.

And then my phone rang.

I looked at the caller I.D. and cursed.

"Shit! I was supposed to meet Eva and Leah at the Mexican restaurant fifteen minutes ago!"

"Tell them I'll be taking you home," Emmett said softly. "Just make something up."

I nodded and opened the phone.

"Elizabeth!" Eva's panicked voice came over the phone. "Are you okay? Where are you?"

"I'm fine, Eva," I assured her. "Emmett was at the bookstore, too. We stuck up a conversation and lost all track of time. He's going to take me home. Sorry for worrying you."

She exhaled, "It's alright. As long as you're okay. We're gonna head home."

"Alright. Thanks."

"Bye."

"Bye."

We hung up and Emmett gave me an approving nod.

We drove in silence for about thirty minutes after that.

And then I couldn't stand it anymore.

"What was that Emmett?"

He glanced at me and then turned back to the road, "What was what?"

"You know… with the men in that alley… You seemed so… so…"

He hesitated, "I… I feel very… protective of you. I cant' explain it. But… when I saw what those guys were doing… it drove me over the edge."

"Are you okay, now?"

He smiled, "Yeah. I'm good."

"Well…" I hesitated. "Thanks. For saving me."

He gave my hand—which I just now realized he was still holding—a squeeze, "I would do anything for you."