A/N- This is going to be the story of Breaking Dawn from Rosalie's POV. In all major respects it will be canon-compliant (so yeah, there will be Jacob imprinting on Renesmee, sorry) and I'm going with book-Breaking Dawn rather than movie version. As with everything I write all the characters are the creation of and belong to Stephenie Meyer, with much love and thanks for giving us her Twilight world to play in!

Comments, questions, thoughts etc are always welcomed- I love hearing from readers and try my best to respond to everyone.

Chapter 1- The Day Before.

"What are you doing?" Emmett stomped into our room and kicked the door shut behind him, flopping out onto the bed beside me.

I looked up from my journal. "Practising the piano…can't you tell?"

Emmett chuckled. "Defying Alice? You're braver than I am."

I grinned at him. "She's over at the Swans' house, doing final fittings for Charlie's suit and Bella's dress. I figure I've got another hour or so before she comes back and I'll be at the piano by then. She's too busy to waste time checking up on me and it's Pachelbel's Canon…as if I can't play that in my sleep."

"You don't sleep," Emmett pointed out.

"Well, then just think how much better I'll be playing it when I'm awake," I said brightly. "Really, Alice is being ridiculous about this wedding. I know I'm not Edward, but I'm a more than competent pianist…it's practically insulting the way she insists upon me practising and stands there to criticise."

"You should try being her decorating lackey," Emmett grumbled. "Three miles of fairy lights on that damn driveway…and the flower garlands! Do you know how many ribbon bows I've tied today? Most of which Alice yelled at me about and then went and tied again anyway?"

I couldn't help laughing at his disgruntled expression. "I can well imagine." I flipped my journal across the room onto the desk and slid down the bed to lie beside him, looking up at the heavy silk canopy hanging above us.

"You don't wish it was you?" Emmett asked, his voice gentle. "You don't wish it was our wedding?"

I shook my head. "Not this time." I smiled at him affectionately as I remembered those days when the fancy white dress was mine, and the flower garlands that Emmett hung were for us. "It's about time it was Edward's turn. And you," I poked him hard in his chest. "Whatever you're planning on saying in your speech…think again!"

Emmett looked wounded. "Are you implying that I might be inappropriate?"

I snorted. "Are you trying to tell me that you haven't planned out some awful jokes and a speech full of cringe worthy innuendo?"

"But it's so much fun to make Bella blush!" Emmett pouted. "And I'm not going to be able to do it much longer."

I rolled my eyes. "Yes, I know you enjoy teasing but for this wedding you need to behave. Just this once Emmett, for Edward." My eyes drifted down to the ruby and diamond ring Edward had given Emmett so many years ago so he could propose to me the first time, and I remembered how instrumental Edward had been in bringing Emmett and I together. "Remember what we owe him."

Emmett's eyes on me were soft. "I know baby. I remember, and I'll promise I'll behave." He stretched his arms over his head and his t-shirt rode up, exposing a few inches of his belly above his belt buckle that had my thoughts skittering away from the wedding and towards other, much more pleasant subjects. Almost without meaning to I reached over and lightly traced the line between his abs, pushing his shirt up as I followed it towards his chest. "You're like an anatomy lesson," I mumbled, mentally labelling all the muscles as my hands roamed across them.

"I think you need to make an in depth study to be sure," Emmett's voice was half amused, half desiring, and I smiled and rose up to brush my lips across his.

"You do, do you?" I slid the t-shirt easily over his head and began tracing the muscles that made up his neck and chest and shoulder, this time saying the names aloud.

Emmett watched me, his thighs clenching as I made my way lower, back down his belly and towards the bulge in the front of his jeans. "Jesus baby, you're probably the only person in the world who can make the muscular system sound so fucking dirty," he muttered, helpfully lifting up his hips so I could draw his jeans down and off his legs, tossing them carelessly off to the side.

I couldn't help laughing as I slid my hand across the sole of his foot and began caressing his legs, continuing to name the muscles I could feel him flexing under my hands as I moved up his calves and thighs, my fingertips very gently brushing the skin on his groin and inner thighs as I named the muscles there.

"Hey," he murmured. "There's something kind of obvious there that could do with your attention..."

"What? This?" I ran my finger along the underside of his cock, which was lying up on his belly and getting harder by the minute, smiling as I heard Emmett's unconscious growl of pleasure. "Sorry, that's not a muscle," I said, shrugging and taking my hands away. "Nothing to do with today's lesson…maybe some other time." I laughed at Emmett's outraged expression and then shrieked as he grabbed me and pinned me underneath him.

"My turn then," he said with a flash of his dimples that made my knees weak. "If you're going to be such a tease, then I'm going to give you a lesson."

"And just what do you plan to give a lesson on?" I gasped, as Emmett removed my clothes with much greater haste and much less care than I had taken with his.

"Emmett's favourite body parts and what he likes to do to them." He grinned at me devilishly, lowering his head so that he could flick at my breasts with his tongue. "And it's also going to be a lesson on why Rosalie shouldn't tease her Emmett…I'm gonna start right here because, oh look at what happens to these nipples when I do this…" he sucked hard, my nipples hardening and growing under his mouth. I half laughed and half groaned as I reached out towards him, but he gently slapped my hands away. "Nuh uh, you had your turn…too bad. I get to do all the touching now baby, just for teaching purposes you know, and I'm not finished with my first favourite part yet. Or parts? There are two of them…"

His big hands cupped my breasts and squeezed them, his mouth once again on my nipples as I arched my back and pushed towards him with a tiny whimper. He kept all his attention on them, kisses and bites and squeezes and pinches and caresses until I was half crazy with wanting him to never stop and yet desperately wanting more.

Finally, he raised his head and looked at me with eyes gone black with want. "I think that about covers my first favourite part and what I like to do to them," he said hoarsely, "and maybe now I'll move on…"

Shamelessly I opened my legs for him, but Emmett laughed and nuzzled into my neck as he pushed my thighs back together. "Remember the second part of the lesson, baby? Why you shouldn't tease me? You're going to find out that I have lots of favourite parts when it comes to your body…"

I groaned in frustrated desperation, but there was nothing I could do but enjoy the exquisite torture as Emmett demonstrated that there wasn't an inch of my body that wasn't his favourite part, and that he didn't love to touch and taste and explore and play with. He made me writhe and he made me moan and he made me scream, and when he finally made me come I thought my stone vampire body might well shatter under the intensity of what he made me feel.

"I love you baby," Emmett murmured into my hair as we lay together, slowly drifting back into reality.

I smiled up at him blissfully. "Mmm." I noticed his eyes were lighter than they had been when he was looking at me, but still darker than normal. "You're thirsty."

"Yeah. Jas and I are taking Edward out tonight," Emmett said lazily. "Bit of hunting for the last night of his bachelor freedom and all that…"

I snorted. "Bachelor freedom? Edward? You and Jasper do realise he's spent the last two years watching Bella sleep right?"

Emmett chuckled. "He can't help being such a sad case."

"So just hunting? No strippers?"

"You volunteering?"

I really laughed at that. "Please! Can you see Edward's face if I did?!"

Emmett's whole body shook with his own laughter. "Oh baby, please…that would be epic."

I shook my head and slid off the bed, heading into the wardrobe to find myself something to wear. I could hear voices coming from downstairs and looking at the darkening twilight through the window I realised I had long missed Alice's return from the Swans' house. I was half surprised she hadn't come barging into my room to scold me for failing to practice the piano as she had ordered. She really had become a complete tyrant about Bella and Edward's wedding.

Emmett joined me in the closet, digging out a pair of jeans that he'd already put the knees through and adding a plain t-shirt. "Denali clan are here," he told me, helpfully zipping up my dress.

"Thank you," I murmured, slipping on a pair of heels and rapidly brushing out my messy hair. "Are you and Jasper and Edward heading off now?"

"Edward's not here," Emmett said. "It looks like Jas and I will have to go over to Bella's and drag him out. In a few weeks he'll have her for eternity, I think he can give his brothers one night. Besides," Emmett waggled his eyebrows and then raised them so high they nearly disappeared off his forehead, "If Edward is going to have any sort of honeymoon at all, he'd better not be thirsty…"

I grimaced, feeling the irritation flare. "Don't talk to me about that. Of all the stupid things Edward has done in regards to Bella Swan, this human-vampire honeymoon has to be the most asinine thing I've ever heard of…but then, it's not like anyone asked me!" I rolled my eyes and took Emmett's hand, and the two of us descended the stairs hand in hand to find out Alaskan cousins with Carlisle and Esme in the living room

"Rosalie!" Kate briefly clasped my hands. "And Emmett, it's lovely to see you both again." Her eyes sparkled with mischief. "We arrived a little while ago…good to know things between the two of you are going so well."

Emmett chuckled unrepentantly as I closed my eyes in mortification. Living together as a family the way we did made some things unavoidable and I had long ago stopped wasting energy on embarrassment over what people overheard from Emmett and I, but I still had some sense of decorum and in front of guests was something else!

Kate laughed wickedly at my discomfort. "Oh, don't worry yourself Rosalie!"

"Rosalie should be sorry," came Alice's lilting voice, doing her best to sound stern, as she and Jasper came gliding into the room. "She was supposed to be practising the piano, she promised me she would, but what do I hear when I get home? Not Pachelbel's Canon, that's for sure!"

I threw up my hands in exasperation. "If the two of you don't mind, can we please stop? Alice, you know I can play the music perfectly well. Don't your visions tell you that? Kate, it's lovely to see you too." I rolled my eyes at the two of them and went to greet Carmen and Eleazer, then moving towards where Tanya was engaged in serious conversation with Carlisle and Esme.

"I had no idea she felt so seriously," Carlisle said soberly.

Tanya shrugged. "We did not really understand it either, until you called and asked for her help when you were having trouble with Victoria and had made your alliance with the wolves. It all came out then, how strongly Irina had felt for Laurent and how his death at the feet of the wolves had been festering in her heart." Tanya's lovely face was troubled. "We feel very badly over it all Carlisle. I have long considered you family, and turning our backs on you at that time is not an act I am proud of."

Carlisle shook his head. "Think no more on it Tanya. It's water under the bridge now, and we're just so happy to have you here for the wedding."

Tanya smiled. "We're delighted to be here. I'm sorry Irina felt unable to join us, but I'm sure in time…well. We'll see."

I gave her an answering smile, but I couldn't stop the flare of irritation and unease. Bella Swan and her penchant for courting death had brought so much trouble to our family! For all I had been against her throwing her human life away for this seductive half-life of immortality, now that she was marrying Edward and it was all inevitable I couldn't help but wish she'd just get it over with. Thinking about their planned honeymoon and the opportunities for disaster that still offered made my temper rise at the sheer pig headed stubbornness and stupidity of Edward and Bella.

An instant later I felt a sudden wave of sleepy good humour, and I couldn't stop the smile even as I turned my head and tried to frown. "Not subtle, Jasper!"

Jasper gave me a lopsided smile in rueful acknowledgement. "It wasn't meant to be Rose. The wedding is tomorrow- you need to calm down about it. One more day, a few weeks of honeymoon and then Edward will turn her and it will be done. Only a few more weeks, after all we've gone through…what can go wrong now?"

A/N- Jasper...bless him.

Just in case anyone is interested, the title for this comes from the Bob Dylan song 'Beyond the Horizon'. These are the lyrics for it, just because I think there's a lot in it that made me think of Cullen vampires, particularly in relation to the imagery of breaking dawn.

Beyond the horizon, behind the sun
At the end of the rainbow life has only begun
In the long hours of twilight 'neath the stardust above
Beyond the horizon it is easy to love

My wretched heart's pounding
I felt an angel's kiss
My memories are drowning
In mortal bliss

Beyond the horizon, in the Springtime or Fall
Love waits forever for one and for all

Beyond the horizon across the divide
'Round about midnight, we'll be on the same side
Down in the valley the water runs cold
Beyond the horizon someone prayed for your soul

I'm touched with desire
What don't I do?
I'll throw the logs on the fire
I'll build my world around you

Beyond the horizon, at the end of the game
Every step that you take, I'm walking the same

Beyond the horizon the night winds blow
The theme of a melody from many moons ago
The bells of St. Mary, how sweetly they chime
Beyond the horizon I found you just in time

It's dark and it's dreary
I ponder in vain
I'm weakened, I'm weary
My repentance is plain

Beyond the horizon o'er the treacherous sea
I still can't believe that you've set aside your love for me

Beyond the horizon, 'neath crimson skies
In the soft light of morning I'll follow you with my eyes
Through countries and kingdoms and temples of stone
Beyond the horizon right down to the bone

It's late in the season
Never knew, never cared
Whatever the reason
Someone's life has been spared.

Beyond the horizon the sky is so blue
I've got more than a lifetime to live lovin' you.

Beyond the Horizon, by Bob Dylan