After we had fed enough I assumed we would head straight home. Emmett had different ideas though, he explained to Jasper and I that he had been 'keeping his finger on the pulse' and 'reading the news' and that there was something in this area he wanted to check out before we returned.

Emmett settled into a crouch and gestured for us to huddle in closer as started to explain. "Now, I know what you're gonna say, but Rosie says there's no harm looking if that's the only thing that will finally stop me." he whispered. "You need to follow my lead on this, and you need to be real quiet."

I looked at Jasper and muttered "You might want to film this." He raised an eyebrow quizzically, but pulled out his phone and hit record. "Good, yeah, that's good Jazz, I wanna make sure we get the evidence." Emmett encouraged.

"OK, now Jasper, can you search the area? Edward, you too. Do a scan. "

"What for, exactly?" asked Jasper.

I thought it best to let Emmett answer this one.

"See if you can detect any animals thinking about their feet."

"What?" Jasper shot me an incredulous look.

"Y'know like oh there are my feet. I can see them. My feet are furry and big."

I indulged Emmett, he seemed so very, very excited about this all. "I can hear something down the gorge that's pretty big. I think it's a bear probably." I whispered.

"Enhance!" Emmett demanded.

"What?" I was becoming most confused.

"Enhance. Like, zoom in, like on TV." He said.

"That's not how it works Emmett. Jasper, what do you think? Is that a bear to the northwest?" I kept my voice low, as per Emmett's instructions as Jasper kept the camera trained on his expectant face.

"Yup, definitely a bear. Do you want another one Em?" Jasper asked.

"No, keep scanning!" He whispered.

"Emmett…." I began as I started to get fuzzy images from the murky depths of his potato brain, but he interrupted. "No, Edward. I've seen the films on the Internet. I've spent all summer researching. And my research shows we're close, really close, and I really want to try him."

Emmett's mind was flooded with images of dogeared copies of Fortean Times and The National Enquirer. Him sat in the Forks public library children's section, hunched over with a furrowed brow in the too-small chair, highlighters and a stack of Goosebumps paperbacks littered with post its before him on the brightly colored table. Emmett watching an episode of The X Files, remote control in hand and a yellow legal pad in his lap, replaying one scene over and over, and hitting pause, taking frenzied notes, Rosalie sat beside him painting her toenails. He had really tried.

Oh, Emmett. No.

"Emmett. We are not letting you eat Bigfoot."

Jasper let out a loud laugh and doubled over, handing the phone to me and gesturing to keep filming. He ignored Emmett's furious shushing and insistence that he would scare him away

"Fuck's sake Jazz! I bet you've scared him off now." hissed Emmett and tutted. He stood up, let out an exasperated sigh and dropped his hands against his thighs in frustration. "Well, that's ruined it now. You owe me for this Jazz, you gotta help me out properly next time." he said in his usual outside voice. After all, Emmett was not blessed with possession of an inside voice.

"Oh don't worry, I'm definitely going to and I'm bringing a better camera." Jasper responded, smirking as he saved the video on his phone. "I wouldn't miss it for the world."

We headed home after that. Even though we did not find Emmett's target, I found I was glad I'd been there to witness it all. I wonder what Bella would have made of this if she could have known. I know it is foolish, but I wish she could really know everything.

A/N: Please leave a review! Do you think Edward can hear animals' thoughts? Would he be able to hear Bigfoot? What would Bigfoot taste like?

I'm glad to get back to being able to write a little comedy. This story is labelled as angst/comedy and though it started out as comedy caused by Edward's angst, it is now a balance of both I guess. Edward is growing though and I think that is a beautiful thing. Are you falling in love with him yet? I hope so.

I plan on uploading the chapters without comedy in batches so that those who are here for the laughs aren't too alienated by the tonal change and can whizz through them. I sincerely hope you will fall in love with him on the other side of all of this. The only way out is through.

Thanks to the creative, kind and funny wh1teow1 for being the best beta for this story please show some love and read Moirai, a reimagining of Twilight for the new decade!