Chapter 109
Peter
We picked the photographs up and studied them,
"You know I woulda remembered this for sure so what happened?"
Emmett shook his head looking to the door where Rose and Char had disappeared seconds earlier.
"Well, whatever happened we aren't gonna get them to believe us in a hurry. They must have been doctored."
"What?"
"The photo's, they must have been altered to make it look like you and I were having fun with Tanya and Kate."
"OK but how the fuck did they get those kinda photos of us? I don't know about you but I would've remembered if Char had started taking photos of me in the buff."
"They aren't us."
"What?"
"It's our faces but the bodies can't be ours, they've superimposed our faces on naked bodies."
"The girls too? Maybe not, they'd shed their clothes at a smile."
"I don't know, 'never seen either of them naked but I don't think its a good idea to dwell on them, not unless we want to find ourselves cut off in our prime that is."
"So what do we do?"
"I could try proving it was a fake."
"And how long will that take?"
He shrugged,
"I don't know, a few days maybe if I can find the right program to work on it."
"Days? You do know we are on a knife edge right now? Let's try talking to them rationally. They should be able to recognize our bodies after all."
Emmett had been studying the photograph in his hand carefully.
"Actually Peter its not going to be as easy as I thought. Whoever did this was good, really good and they took a lot of trouble to make the photographs look really authentic."
"Are you saying you can't do it? Em, I'm gonna be an old man by the time Char lets me back in her bed. You gotta do something man."
Emmett
I tried, I really did even when Peter wasn't breathing down my neck but I had no luck. Maybe Darius could have helped but I was reluctant to get anyone else involved. In the meantime Rosie wasn't speaking to me, hell she wouldn't even look at me and all I could see were the pornographic photographs of me and Tanya which appeared to have been taken at the warehouse when Peter and I were setting up the joke for Jazz and Jay, a joke that had backfired on us badly. The photographs of Peter and Kate were just as bad, taken at the same time. It was payback of course but how to prove it that was the problem. Rosie had always been a jealous and possessive wife although I'd never given her any reason to be and I still hadn't. Charlotte was acting the same, they simply got up and walked out if we entered a room where they were, neither would hunt with us or even say hello and as for sex…...forget it. If we didn't get this sorted out we might never get any again ever!
Peter
Worst of all for me was watching the two newly wed couples falling over each other. It just made me want my own mate but no dice, no nothing in fact. I tried to give Charlotte a hug but only once, she almost ripped my right arm off! And Emmett wasn't having any more luck than me, in fact Rose had locked him out of their room and disabled his truck. Crazy enough I think that upset him almost as much as getting no sex!
Emmett
I tried everything to get around Rose, I even rang Denali to see if Tanya would speak to Rose and tell her we didn't do anything but she wasn't in a cooperative mood, she just said it served us right and to go to hell. I guess I was off her Christmas card list this year! Worst of all was Esme's reaction, I expected a little support from her and Carlisle, they knew me well enough to understand I would never do anything to hurt Rosalie but I was wrong.
Esme gave me a long lecture on how a married man should behave,
"I really expected better of you Emmett and you can't try telling me it was Peter's influence because you are a grown man. But with Tanya? Emmett really, what am I going to say to her or Carmen for that matter? I am so disappointed in you I really am." They totally ignored Peter so he hung around me moaning and threatening to go back home but I think he was worried those two girls and their vampire friend might turn up again!
Peter
I'd just about had it here, the accusatory stares and the innocent looks from Bella and Alice were doing my head in. Eventually I talked to The Major,
"Come on help a friend out here. We both know this is down to Bella, can't you put a word in for me?"
"Peter, you and Emmett are merely reaping what you sowed. If I were you I'd go crawling on my knees to Bella and beg forgiveness."
"Never."
"Then you are going to have a very cold lonely bed for the next ten or twenty years I'm afraid."
"You are enjoying this and I thought you were my friend."
"I am your friend or I would have sorted you out myself when you arranged for Tanya and Kate to attack Jay and I."
"You loved it, admit it."
"Oh yeah, I enjoyed it about as much as you would have, had it been you."
Of course he wouldn't, but then I wouldn't have enjoyed it either being mated and very much in love with my mate.
Carlisle
I could see how upset the boys were and I had a nasty feeling this was actually down to Bella and Alice. Especially as to me the girls seemed to be acting too light hearted away from their mates so I had a word with the girls and it was as I suspected.
"I think you should put the boys out of their misery. After all it was just a buck's night and they didn't mean anything by it but I do have a question for you."
"OK Carlisle go ahead."
"These photographs, they're very good but they are fakes. How did you do it?"
"Easy, we enlisted Darius, he was only too happy to help out Charlotte after all she did for Sara. He knew someone who does it for a living, mainly film work in Hollywood. All he needed were some facial shots and a couple of the guys in the nude or as close as possible. He also knew someone who has a useful little gift. She can cause a sedative effect in vampires and humans, so they do what you ask them to and don't remember anything afterwards. It only lasts a couple of minutes but that's all we needed. We hired a couple of call girls to play bait and told them it was a buck's party prank. They were happy to help for a price. The guys stripped off themselves on command and the call girls drove off convinced they had finished their job once the shots were taken.
It was easy to get the shots we needed once the guys were stripped and Darius' friend did the rest. We knew they would think they'd got off lightly and would show their heads as a result, just like they did."
Of course when you knew the right people it was easy just as Bella explained. They agreed to speak to the boys but it still went on for a whole tortured, miserable, week.. Charlotte refused to leave saying she didn't want to be alone with Peter while Rose suggested they might like a trip to Alaska!
Peter
Emmett and I confronted the girls out in the garden in desperation,"Come on girls, have a heart, we're dying here."
Bella looked at us both coldly,
"And just what do you want us to do?"
"Get us out of this mess, after all you got us in it."
"Actually I think you'll find you got yourselves in it but I suppose we could help, what do you think Alice? Have they suffered enough?"
"I'm not sure Bella, perhaps we should ring Denali, see what the girls think?"
"Please?"
Emmett was even more desperate than me.
"Have you learned your lesson?"
"We have, we'll never mess with you two again we promise."
We followed the girls back into the house hoping that maybe once they explained that the photos were fakes, that they had set us up, Char and Rose would cool down and we would be in favor once more. Mind I thought I might have something to say about Charlotte's readiness to believe I had been fooling around behind her back. She knew I loved her and she ought to have known I wouldn't hurt her like that, especially not with those two man eaters!
Rose and Charlotte were sitting with Esme and when we walked in a frosty silence fell over the room.
"What do you want?"
Charlotte snapped at me aggressively and I put my hands up in defeat,
"Please just listen to what Bella and Alice have to say. You'll see we are innocent then."
"Oh really? Go on then we're listening."
"We did not do anything, really. It was a set-up to get their own back on us. They doctored the photographs to make it look as if Em and I were….well you know, with Tanya and Kate. I would never hurt you like that and if you want the truth I'm pretty fucking mad you could think such a thing, Em too Rose."
I was amazed by their responses, they all burst out laughing.
"You poor boys, it must have been hell for you."
"Yeah it has been so what's so funny? We didn't do anything, either of us."
"We know you didn't."
I stopped looking at Charlotte as if I couldn't believe what I just heard,
"What?"
"We know you didn't, we were in on it. We just thought you should understand what it feels like to be the butt of the joke for a change."
Emmett looked at Rose open mouthed,
"You knew it was a lie?"
"Of course, I know you wouldn't betray me, especially with the Denali's."
"And you let me think….? You ignored me? Rosie how could you?"
"To teach you a lesson Emmett. You too Peter. You won't do anything like that again in a hurry will you?"
We shook our heads relieved it was over but of course that didn't mean we wouldn't be back to our old tricks in the future. No siree!