Audrey Emilia McCarty-Cullen

Chapter 1

It had been a few days after Emmett and Rosalie's disagreement and... To say the least, Rosalie had become pretty bummed out just like any other time that they would talk about it, as the rest of their family had named the subject of Rose wanting a child. Alice, Bella, Renesmee and Esme had put it on themselves after they had come home from their fight, to take Rosalie out on a two-day hunt-and-shop trip somewhere in Canada in attempts to cheer her up, so the boys had the house to themselves and they were going to love every minute of it.

It was a couple of hours after the girls had left in Rose's Mercedes and the four men had scattered out in the living room to do their own thing. Edward was at his piano, quietly playing a few notes of a song that he was currently writing on semi blank sheet music paper before scribbling out what he didn't think belonged. Carlisle was sitting at one end of the couches with a medical book in hand, seeming very interested in blood clots and the effects of them on the victim's body. And Emmett had managed to wrangle Jasper into playing a game of Call of Duty: Black Ops and they were sitting on the floor with controllers in hand, playing animatedly. As they played, Emmett had different kind of game strategies that could put him on the top again in the leader boards and Jasper could feel the excitement coming from his brother while Edward was able to see the different plans and cheats that Emmett was going to use against Jasper. Disapproving, he turns his attention from the music sheets to the backs of his brothers before speaking up.

"He's in the back hallway, crouched down and waiting for you to make the stupid mistake of taking the stairs up right to him." Edward says to Jasper from his spot on the bench, wanting to help Jasper and his little character from their plotting brother.

Emmett pauses the game from his remote controller after moving the joystick quickly between his fingers, running and trying to find a new spot for his game character, but in the process of all of the chaos Jasper's character runs out and shoots him in the head. Hollering in joy, he looks over at Emmett with a smirk. Clutching the controller tightly in his hands, almost to the point of it cracking, Emmett turns his attention to Edward and chunks the controller at his head but Edward dodges it easily.

"Dude! Your not even in this game and your managing to mess it up for me!" Emmett bellows from his spot on the floor, causing a few snickers from both Edward and Jasper.

"Alright, alright boys. Settle down. There's no need to get rowdy." Carlisle mutters after looking up from his book, not wanting the boys to bicker back and forth over something as silly as a video game.

Emmett shuts his mouth, but he throws a glare towards his brother before taking both his and Jasper's controller and puts them back into the cabinet while Jasper turns of the game system, knowing by his brother's emotions that the game was over. All of them knew that the burly man was going to sulk around the house for a several minutes or a few hours, depending if he was really offended by Edward's actions or not.

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Later on that night, after Emmett went to hunt some grizzly bears after his hour and a half of sulking from earlier, he went up to Carlisle's home office because while he was out, he thought of something that he wanted to talk to Carlisle about. And before he could even knock on the door, Carlisle invites him inside. When Em steps into the room, he begins to feel the beginning of nerves in his stomach because of the sheer knowledge of the sensitive subject of the question he was going to ask his adopted father, but he smiles to himself.

"Hey pops." He says as he plops himself down into the chair across from Carlisle's desk, ignoring the soft groan from the chair. "Do you mind if I ask you something?" Seeing Carlisle nod his head silently, waiting for his son to continue on with what he was saying, slipping the medical files of a patient he was reviewing for tomorrow's surgery.

Emmett moves in the chair nervously as he tries to find the right words to his question, but blurts it out in a rush before he could collect his thoughts or stop himself, "I want to adopt a baby for Rose." Taking an unnecessary breath. "It's our anniversary coming up... I wanted to do something special."

Silence.

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It was like that for just about six seconds or so before Jasper and Edward come barrelling into the room with identical shocked faces; Edward had been so busy playing a challenging game of chess with Jasper -He was trying not to read his mind as Jasper decided his moves- that neither of them had been paying attention to the conversation upstairs. Edward was the first one to say something since he had seemed to compos himself faster then Jasper.

"You want to adopt a baby... To give to Rose on your... anniversary." Edward says slowly as if he was trying to test the words on his lips before he gave Emmett his opinion.

Emmett nods his head after Edward had spoke, not finding it so difficult to talk to Edward or Jasper about this because they were his brothers, but Carlisle was another story. Carlisle was their father figure and Emmett respected him tremendously; he didn't want to do anything that could cause him to think he disrespected him.

With Edward already being a father, he knew where Emmett was coming from and he wouldn't tell his brother, but he had heard a few thoughts pass Em's mine and knew that he had a secret desire to become a father. He also knew that Rosalie was slowly becoming desperate to adopt a child because instead of once in a blue moon would she talk about it, but now it was becoming every few weeks that she'd bring up the topic. Knowing his opinion, a smile appears on his lips and he moves over behind him and claps a hand over his shoulder.