Emmett in Trouble

Disclaimer: I don't own anything Twilight, I just love to write about Emmett Cullen and his world!

A/N: This is a sequel to 'The First Time I Ran' but this one explains why Emmett was in trouble at the start of the story and what happened. Then Emmett tells of his first run from Pops and why he won't do that again.


"Hmmm, ah, honey, I could stay here and kiss you all day, but I think we can go back to the house. I'm pretty sure Dad is finished with Emmett's 'discussion' by now," Edward suggested.

"Okay, let's get back to the house and check on our big brother," I said.

"Bella, Carlisle is not going to hurt any of us, including you. He rarely spanks the girls at all. You all can get away with bloody murder and all he wants to do is lecture you," Edward retorted snidely.

"What is wrong with you? Jealous much? Wish you were one of the girls?" I teased.

He smiled sheepishly, "Only when my dad is wearing out my backside."

When we arrived at the house, I was surprised to find Emmett outside waiting on us. He looked none the worse for wear, except he seemed to move a little less gracefully as I caught a wince of pain or two. To the human eye it would be missed, but not to ours. Edward realized Emment wanted to talk to me and excused himself and went inside.

"Hey, Em, you okay?" I asked tentatively, not sure what to say.

I was not prepared for my big bear of a brother to lift me up and swing me around.

"Hey, little sis, I heard you were worried about me! That's righteous!"

"Emmett, put me down. What's gotten into you?"

"Alice said you wanted to talk to me about my experiences," he beamed. "Well, here I am. Ask away, sis, I'm an open book."

"Really?" I asked. "You don't mind?"

"Nah, it's no biggie. You wanna go with me for a quick hunt? I sometimes like to feed after Dad has worn my butt out," he explained nonchalantly. "Sometimes I just veg out in my room."

"Okay. Let's start with…what did you do this time?"

He grinned sheepishly. "Ah, Yeah, that. Well…"

"Come on now, Emmett, you said you were an open book," I chided.

"Yeah, but how do you feel about reading comedies? Okay, here goes nothing…"


"You ever make Charlie so mad he changed colors?" he asked me seriously.

"Ah, yeah, let's see; when I ran away from home because of James; went to Italy without permission; got married before college; shall I continue?" I asked making my point.

"Okay, I get it. You're a troublesome child, too," he acquiesced.

"I prefer willful, thank you very much. But you digressed," I pointed out.

"Yeah, right. You remember Rose and I kinda skipped a coupla classes last week and the teacher called Carlisle? He was mad about us being noticed and him getting a call. He let us off with a lecture and a threat that nothing else better happen this semester.

"Well, we got a new idiot boy, Hank Billings, in school, who was obviously too stuck on himself to see the warning signs around us and took it upon himself to approach my wife. Now I know in school she's just supposed to be my girlfriend but everybody knows Rose is mine; and he knows it, too; but he didn't care. He drops her this note saying when she gets tired of dealing with a buffoon and wanted a real man to treat her right, let him know.

"Rose thought it was funny, but I was livid. Honestly, Bells, I would love to 'accidently' give in to bloodlust with me and him in an alley, somewhere Carlisle wouldn't find out about. But you know, Edward would 'hear it' and Alice would 'see it' and Dad would make me 'feel it' for days. But I had to do something to that jerk-off."

"What did you do, Em?" I asked pointedly.

"He starts to leave and goes to sit down in his chair in the next row over, so I shifted around and kicked his chair from under him just as he was sitting down. I was going for public humiliation but instead I got Ms. Evans all up in my face about kicking the chair and causing a possible head injury and that SOB was milking it for all it was worth; whining about his head hurting and so on. And to top it all off, the chair leg broke with the force of my kick; so they got me for destruction of school property, also.

"I got sent to the principal's office where he gave me a week's detention and Carlisle was called for two reasons. He's my father, and due to the possible head injury; he's also a doctor. Man, was I gonna get it good!

"I mean, Dad had to leave the hospital to come to the school because he wanted to make sure the boy was fine. Then his mother comes into the office talking 'bout suing us and I swear Carlisle changed colors he was so mad.

"First, he literally dazzled that idiot, Hank, and convinced him to tell the truth about what he did in front of the principal and his mom. Then Dad dazzled Hank's mom, and I swear the woman swooned but she agreed that suing would not help anyone.

"Esme would have killed her if she could have seen the way that woman was undressing Pop with her eyes. It actually made me kinda sick to see, too, now that I think about it.

"Then on the way out the door, Dad said those famous last words to me: 'I want to have a discussion in my office with you when we get home, young man'!"

"But, Dad, you see it wasn't my fault; you heard what he did; and I was only defending me and Rose from his advances," I argued lamely.

"Emmett, can you explain to me how you were threatened by this human child?" Pops asks me directly. I stood there in the parking lot dumbfounded for an explanation as Pops stared me down.

"Uh oh," he was going for the jugular. "Pop, I … you see, he thought…Pop, please he was gonna…"

Carlisle just raised his eyebrow at me and I slowed my roll. There was nothing I could say to get me out of this trouble. My behind was so his. I just hung my head and dropped my shoulders in defeat.

He told me to go straight home after school and he would see me at home. But after school, I had promised Rose I would take her to this little dress boutique to get an outfit that came in for her and I figured we would be home by the time dad came in. We didn't; and he beat us there. Nuff said.

That's just about the time we came in and you guys saw us. So after you left, Pop came upstairs.

He said to me, "Emmett, I 'm tired of talking and since that isn't doing any good because apparently your head is harder than your behind, obviously I'm going to have to talk to the part of your anatomy that could be made to understand what I mean when I said stay out of trouble."

"Pop, listen, I'm sorry. I know I shouldn't have tried to do anything to that boy, but I was just so mad and he was so smug, I wanted to wipe that look…" I started but he cut me off.

"I know exactly what you were thinking, boy, and as I have said before there is no need to establish a pecking order with human children. But every now and then you forget that it just doesn't matter. Except to me!" he seethed.

"Pop…"

"Get over to my desk right now! Lose the pants and not another word unless you want double!" he forced through his teeth.

I whimpered. He was going for blood this time and I didn't even bleed anymore. Whether it was blood from a stone; blood from a turnip; or blood from a vampire; it was all relative. Carlisle was about to beat my behind and I better shut up unless I wanted to get it worse. Esme and the rest of the girls went to the cottage. You and Eddie had left and Jasper was still in town.

I unfastened my pants and let them fall and leaned over pop's desk. He hooked his fingers into my boxers and took them down, too. Then he lit into me HARD!

Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!

"Owwwwwww, POP! Whoaaaaa!" I screamed out shamelessly.

I jumped up from the desk and grabbed my behind and danced around, not even caring about my stuff all hanging out cause I was hurting from the git go! This was gonna be really bad.

"Come on, Emmett, we're just getting started," Carlisle chastened. "Get back over here so we can finish this."

"Y-y-y-yes, Sir," sniff. "Please, Pop, I'm so sorry," I begged.

My behind was on fire and he wasn't done! He was just getting started.

Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!

I cried out as he smacked my behind but good. There was no mistaking the displeasure my dad had with this last fiasco of mine. I was glad no one was home so I didn't have to be the brave older brother right now. Pop was fierce and I was free to cry as much as I wanted without being embarrassed.

Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!

I folded my arms on his desk and cried as he whooped on my butt something fierce.

Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!

Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!

Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!

"Awwwww, Pop. Please, Pop. Owwwwwww, Please, Please Pleeeeeeeassseeeee, Pop!" I cried.

Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!

"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry, Pop. Please!"

I cried and cried. My butt was burning like hot lava. It hurt like hell!

Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!

"Do I need to remind you about how important it is to keep us out of the public's eye, Son?" He was starting to lecture now. "You could have gotten this family in so much trouble," he said as he pounded furiously.

Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!

"Nooooooooo, Daddy. It won't happen again, I swear! I swear, Daddy! It won't! Ahhhhhhhh!"

Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!

"I certainly hope not. I could see the Volturi having a field day with the suit making the news. We would never be rid of them. And having to put up with the vile things that woman was offering me is reason enough for me to be upset!" my dad informed me.

Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack! Smack!

"Ahhh! Yes, Dad! I'm sorry! I'm sorry, Pops!" I couldn't hold still it hurt so bad. "Please forgive me. I'm sorry, Dad. Please," I was crying and begging so loudly, I barely heard what pop was saying. "I'm sorry, so sorry, please, Pop! Please…" I hadn't even realized he was finished with my spanking; I was crying and begging so hard.

"Emmett. It's over. Shhh. It's over," Carlisle was rubbing my back and trying to get me to calm down.

"I'm so sorry, Pop. I really am," I sobbed pitifully, feeling bad for all the trouble I had caused him and the family with my thoughtless antics.

"I know, big boy. I know. It's okay, you're forgiven now. Calm down. I got you, big boy, shhhh."

"Sorry, Pop; so sorry. So sorry; didn't mean to cause trouble,"

It was good to be able to let it all out and not feel like I had to be strong and powerful. Pops knew me for who I was but I kinda keep it from the others.

"I know. I know, it's okay. All is forgiven. I love you, Bear. Come on; let's get you fixed up, okay?"

"Kay, Pop," I sniffed stilled trembling as he helped me get dressed and cleaned up.

"I came downstairs just as Alice came in to inform me that you were concerned and wanted to talk to me. She said you saw something that made you question Edward and you might want to ask me something, too."

"Well…" I stammered.

"Come on, spill it, little sis. I just described in detail a serious smack down on my butt. Not a whole lot left to hide at this point," Emmett insisted.

"Edward told me that it's worse when you run from your dad when he decides to have a discussion with you. Is that right?" I asked.

"Yeah, that's true. Why? You're not planning a great escape are you? I didn't think you could do any wrong as far as Dad was concerned. What did you do?" He asked ready to start some kind of teasing knowing Emmett.

"Nothing! I just wanted to know what happened when you first ran from one of Carlisle's discussions."

"Oh, is that all? Sure, I'll give you the low down. You sit and I'll talk. You'll understand why I feel the need to stand, right?" Emmett rubbed his butt to indicate the pain was still making itself known and grinned sheepishly.

I hung my head down waiting for that ever condemning blush that no longer came.

"Do you know those three caves where we like to hunt bears and mountain lions?" Emmett asked me.

"Yeah, sure. Why?"

"It used to be only two caves."


Also to my wonderful Beta, Dollybigmomma; thank you for helping me dot my i's and cross my t's and actually make some sense in certain places.

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