Bella Pov

Bella had not seen men in speedos, or really looked if she had, but she was pretty sure Emmett was right. There was nothing small about it at all. It was awkward to look over the dining table, to look over her dinner and see almost all of Emmett. His speedo covered very little and his muscles were everywhere. She'd gotten a good view of his chest in the bedroom, but still it was impressive. Bella remembered watching He-man cartoons as a kid, and Emmett could easily pass for those characters, especially in his speedo. For someone who usually acted like such a boy, Bella had never seen such a man as the body in front of her. If Rose was a goddess, and she was, then Emmett was a god. It was kind of perfect actually, that they were together, because no one else would measure up to them. Who knew Emmett was packing all that?

She managed to drag her eyes up to his face after a moment, but it was harder than it should be. His knowing smirk irritated her when she noticed it. "You should so go as a character from He-man for Halloween." She teased weakly, a little dismayed that her voice came out quite that weak.

"Was that a comment about my muscles or my big sword?" Emmett joked, before stepping closer to the table, but he didn't sit down. "My sword is big, isn't it?" He pressured her and Bella struggled, really struggled not to look. He gave her a small smile. "Too late, I know you want to look Bella Bear. Just do it and get it out of your system." He was so damned smug and Bella stared him in the eye, she knew better than to look right now, he'd never stop teasing her, for eternity, she was pretty sure, it would be his favorite story. "Okay, your loss." He was still smug looking as he pulled out a chair and put that 'big sword' out of visual range. He put some red fabric on the table and sat back, looking very comfortable in next to nothing.

"I'm missing a pair of socks, seems like you found them." Bella teased him, having to get that smugness out of him, and a little venom was in the words that was more directed at herself. She had wanted to look, and she was a bit upset with herself for barely resisting when she knew the consequences. She watched him pout with some satisfaction. Bella started to eat her dinner again, but no matter how hard she tried to look him in the face, it was hard not to let her eyes travel down. He was getting more and more amused and Bella was getting irritated with herself. "So I thought blood was needed to get an erection." She raised an eyebrow as she did her best to seem unaffected.

"Fluid, venom works just as well and that's what I have flowing in me." He waved one hand in a circle lower over his body, as if pointing out the current flow. He then reached up to start to towel off his hair, but a strong breeze came through, smelling like Rose and Bella swore she saw a blur of skin color, before she looked back at Emmett and he was holding nothing in his hands. He just shrugged and grinned.

"You didn't." Bella stared at him. He forced Rosalie to have to streak into the living room. Bella was grateful she could move so fast, but knowing she'd been right there, naked, Bella's blush grew embarrassingly.

"Well, she started it." He pouted. "She gave me a woody and pushed me out of the shower." Bella just stared at him, unblinking, as he ratted Rosalie out and suddenly his joke wasn't so over the top. "See, it was completely fair." He nodded.

"Okay, I'll grant you that one, but is winning worth not getting any?" She pointed it out to him, even though she blushed a bit dramatically as she said it, unable not to visualize that at the moment.

"I always knew you were smart." Rosalie's voice was seductive and Bella couldn't stop herself from turning to look. Her eyes widened to find Rosalie's pale skin highlighted by a deep red bikini. Her hair was wet and clung to her neck, but she had a towel in her hands and was slowly working the ends of one side. The blonde vampire's stride toward Emmett was pure sex and power. Emmett got a deep kiss, and Bella struggled to look away, before she stared intently at the hot tub. Her heart was beating a bit fast and she cursed it because there was no way she'd be able to control it, or that the vampires with her wouldn't hear it.

"Done with dinner?" Rosalie asked her and Bella nodded, before the blonde took her plate away. Rosalie was perfect, all over perfect, and Bella's eyes went wide when she saw the back of her. A large hand obstructed her vision and that helped Bella be able to blink, before she turned to see a small amused grin on Emmett's face, but he didn't say anything. In that moment, she could have declared her love of him again, for not embarrassing her, but then she'd have admitted out loud what she was doing and Rosalie would know.

"Will the hot tub make my scent harder to deal with?" Bella asked without turning to watch Rosalie. She wasn't sure when she'd be able to look at Rose again for a little while without being distracted.

"Not really, not enough to matter." Emmett told her, but he smirked at her and Bella felt self-conscious about what her scent was telling anyone in the area about her now. Bella sighed heavily at that and at the proof she hadn't needed cold showers after pe all month. "What's wrong, did you want us to bite you?"

"No," She shook her head at that crazy thought. "I just have been taking miserably cold showers after PE to make it easier on you guys and it did nothing. I hate cold showers."

"That's so sweet of you. " Rosalie said as she rested a hand on Bella's shoulder. Bella hadn't felt Rosalie come up behind her. "But Emmett's right, the difference is so little that it just isn't worth your effort."

"Noted, no more cold showers for me." Bella muttered and then realized what she'd said when Emmett chuckled. "Ass." She muttered and he stood up and turned, to wiggle his ass at her.

"Let's get in the hot tub." Rosalie squeezed her shoulders gently before backing up so Bella could stand up.

"Sounds good." Bella was proud when she managed to not stare, it was hard, but she kept her eyes under control as she followed her vampires to the hot tub.

"Hot tubs are nice once in a while. It's so warm." Rosalie spoke and it was so longing, her words. "It makes us warm too, we aren't normally warm."

"I like the cold." Bella spoke up before thinking, wanting to reassure her. Rosalie stopped and turned and Bella didn't have to struggle to not look down. Rosalie's eyes were so expressive, and so affectionate. Even Emmett gave her a strange grateful look.

"You are so sweet." Rose spoke softly. Rosalie took her arm gently, much like Alice did at school. There was so much of that cool skin to feel as they made their way to the hot tub and Bella didn't bother trying to talk. She wasn't sure she could say anything intelligent at the moment anyhow.

The air was slightly cool, but the warmth of the hot tub was more than enough to make up for it. Bella slid into the water somewhat slowly, enjoying the warmth cocooning her and she scooted to the left to make space for Rosalie, who sighed happily as she sunk into the water as well.

Emmett had paused to turn the music up, so Bella was already comfortably seated when he started to step into the hot tub. He sat down in the water, put his arms out around the rim of the hot tub, and therefore around Rosalie and leaned back just a little. Even with all three of them, the hot tub was not crowded. The sound of the waves weren't drowned out by the music and the place was just beautiful. This felt like a perfect moment and Bella couldn't help but think that she rarely got these moments, but that these two vampires were usually the reason for it lately.

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Emmett Pov

Bella bear was so adorably awkward ever since Emmett finished his shower, and once Rose joined them it got worse, but she was just starting to relax again. She was staring over the ocean as the sun was slowly starting to set. The cloud cover was breaking up a little, but nothing dangerous. It just left a few rays of sun to peak through, which is what had Bella's attention.

When he looked over at Rose, he saw his wife watching Bella with such a soft expression on her face. He couldn't help but smile at her. Rose noticed him and looked a little flustered for a moment at having been caught staring. He just made sure she noticed he was smiling.

"Not that I'm offering or anything Bella Bear, but would you ever want to be a vampire?" Emmett asked, and ignored the glare Rosalie gave him; he'd expected the glare to be much harsher than it was actually. "You never ask anything about being a vampire, and you already have a gift and are a bit supernatural yourself." They wanted to shake up her foundations and make her think about possibilities, and this would do that, he was pretty sure.

That had her full attention, she turned away from the sun and stared at him, her expression looked cautious and confused. "That's just it Emmett, you aren't offering. None of your family will ever offer. I know that." She sighed. "Carlisle has some sort of 'already dying' rule or something. But if I'm dying already go ahead, knock yourself out. I wouldn't say no at that moment." He wasn't sure that was what he was looking for.

"But what about if you weren't already dying, would you want it?" He asked, now more curious than ever.

"I don't even know what all it entails Emmett. That's a huge decision, nothing is more permanent than that." Bella's eyes trailed over both of them, but then she was staring out at the ocean waves. "But it doesn't matter, because I won't be given a choice." She sounded convinced that was true and Emmett didn't know if it was or not, but Emmett was a little upset in that moment, hearing her say that.

"Why are you so certain you won't get a choice Bella?" Rose asked softly and then paused. "The story, this came up in the story didn't it?" Emmett noticed Bella tensed at the mention of the story, and started to think Rosie had something there. That other Bella must have been pretty close to his family for it to come up, but he couldn't imagine any human being closer to his family than this Bella. "Who was that Bella to us?"

Bella's eyes turned to stare at them, and she looked haunted, her eyes too wide. "I don't want to talk about the story."

"For the issue of being turned to come up she had to be much more than Alice's new best friend." Rose wasn't letting it go and Bella's heart beat was getting louder, her face paler.

"Look, it does no good to," Bella started, but Rosalie was on a roll and Emmett felt a little bad for his Bella Bear, who clearly was upset with the way things were going.

"Bella, everyone wants to hear that story. It's going to come out at some point, we need that story to try and keep you safe. Your story is more reliable than Alice's visions in some ways." Rose's voice was softer, coaxing, but Bella stayed sitting very rigidly.

"I can't." Bella spoke flatly and firmly.

"Why?" There was a look in Rose's eye that told Emmett she knew something, that Bella was going to be blindsided like Emmett sometimes was when Rose saw through stories he'd told her. "Because that Bella married Edward?"

"What?" Emmett muttered in shock and turned to see if Bella laughed, if it was a joke, but Bella was as pale as they were at the moment. "Oh god."

"You said she got married, and you weren't impressed. He was a controlling bastard." Rosalie spoke softly, but Bella was frozen and unmoving. "I know my brother is controlling. We have trouble with him all the time." Rosalie's voice softened even more. "He would never give a woman the choice to become like us, he hates what we are and has very strong opinions about Heaven and Hell."

"Bella, is this true? Was she with Edward?" Emmett found the words coming out of his mouth made him a little sick. Sure Edward was alone a long time, and Esme fretted about it, but the thought of Bella with him was horrifying, even if it was a different Bella. He was always giving Emmett bad advice about relationships, he couldn't even imagine what a mess Edward would make of his own.

"I never understood what she saw in him. I didn't even like him; I thought he was bordering on abusive actually, I didn't understand her because I considered it a little scary." Bella spoke slowly, admitting it. "I thought she'd have been better off with anyone else, anyone at all, but that Bella was all about Edward."

The hot tub became very quiet and the waves became even more noticeable as even Emmett struggled to figure out what to say. "So you major cock blocked Eddie boy by showing up." He muttered and the slap to his head was a bit more substantial than Rose's normal light bat. "What, it's not the end of the world."

"I guess I did." Bella managed a weak smile. "But I don't want to tell that story." Her smile faded quickly. "I may not like him much, but he doesn't deserve to have to hear that story now, when she's gone." Bella sighed heavily. "Those things will never happen, so there isn't a point."

"But some of those things will happen Bella." Rosalie spoke firmly, softly but firmly. "Sparing his feelings isn't worth your life. Not to mention, he's never going to stop pressuring to hear the story. He's convinced you have secrets that could get us killed."

Bella looked insulted and angry when she looked up from the water at them, "Me, he thinks I'm the danger, he's the one that," Her words trailed off but her jaw was clenched. Emmett actually thought he was watching her count to ten and take deep breaths, which he didn't see humans do too often.

"He's at fault for something?" Rosalie spoke up, and there was a hint of irritation in her voice. "Why doesn't that surprise me?"

"I really think the story will cause more harm than good." Bella finally spoke up, her voice just a little deeper, more serious. "It'll hurt him, no doubt, but I think it will hurt everyone and I don't see the need."

"I think you need to share it." Rose pressed and Emmett could see Bella shaking her head.

"It will hurt everyone Rose, even you. It will hurt you." Bella's voice cracked and Emmett felt his own heart ache a little at how much the idea of hurting his Rose bothered Bella. Rose caught on to that as well, and she moved, pulling away from Emmett to tug Bella closer to her, wrapping an arm around her and holding her tight.

"Even if it hurts, I want to know what the dangers are Bella. If something happened to you I would always wonder if there was something in that story that could have stopped it, and that would hurt so much more." Emmett watched as Rose caressed Bella's hair and kissed her cheek tenderly. Bella's heart rate sped up at the contact.

"Bella Bear, we can take it. Whatever you have to share we can take it." He spoke slowly.

"Edward will not stay, he'll run. He probably won't even let me finish talking, which would make it even worse, it's the kind of story you need it all if you have some of it." Bella sounded older, tired, Emmett didn't like it. "I don't want to do it, but I can't make any decisions now, Alice is home with Edward."

"Okay, no decisions." Rosalie spoke softly and Emmett noticed she kissed Bella's cheek again, her lips lingering a little longer, and Bella's heart rate went faster still. "They will probably know the minute we get home, if Alice didn't catch it, that SHE was his mate though. That's going to make him upset and hard to live with. We won't be able to put it off for long."

Emmett moved to scoot around the hot tub in the other direction, until he was sitting on Bella's other side. He laid back and stretched his arms out with one behind both of the women in the hot tub with him. "It'll be okay Bella Bear, don't you worry."

They sat in the hot tub longer and after a while Bella shifted, "I should go to the bathroom and get something cold to drink, this is a lot of hot tub time." Bella muttered. They let her go, watching her carefully to make sure she got out of the hot tub safely.

Emmett spoke softly, "She knows seven vampires, five of them are friends she goes places with on a regular basis, and she thinks no one will ever offer. I don't like that Rose."

"This isn't the life I would have chosen." Rose spoke softly.

"But you see the life she is choosing, is it any better than what we'd offer her? Really Rose, can you say anything good about the life she's planning?" Emmett sighed heavily and leaned his head back to stare up at the stars. "She doesn't expect to find love Rose, and you already love her. How is it fair to not give her a chance at happiness? She doesn't want any of the things you regret about not being human, she doesn't want any of that. What would she miss? Does she ever talk about missing anything of her old life?"

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