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From far away, I heard what sounded like Kate's voice. "Perhaps she needs some motivation." It seemed to have come from outside.

Rubbing my eyes, and stifling a yawn, I quietly asked Bree who was laying next to me, "What's going on?"

"Good morning to you too." She said to me with a teasing smile on her face.

"Morning." I deadpanned.

Sitting up, I noticed that we weren't in our bedroom. We were in mum and dad's room?

"How did we get here? I don't even remember falling asleep." I muttered under my breath. My arms were wrapped around Bree's waist, and Bree had an open book on her lap. She must've been reading while I was asleep.

Bree turned to me with a light smirk gracing her lips.

"After you were done giving your pep talk to the lonely nomad upstairs, you came back down and stayed with me.

You then proceeded to deliver death glares to Vladimir and Stefan for almost 3 hours nonstop.

And that only ended, when they left to go hunting.

And as soon as they were gone, you collapsed on top of me and immediately entered dreamland.

" She answered me with clear amusement in her tone.

"Oops." I whispered out in surprise.

"Yeah. Oops indeed. You haven't been sleeping, have you?" Bree asked me in a pointed tone. "With how quickly you fell asleep, dad said that your body must have been pushed to the brink of exhaustion for that to happen."

She was glaring at me when she spoke. And although obvious annoyance was present, there was also clear concern within her eyes.

I just sighed in acknowledgment and replied honestly, "With everything going on, all the new faces around here, and all of the new members in the packs, I've been, on alert, the whole time.

I guess I never really found the right opportunity to get some rest."

Bree delivered a light slap to my shoulder, showcasing her clear disapproval of my actions.

"I know. I'm sorry, okay. I've just been on edge.

Allowing myself to relax is... difficult.

" I apologised, knowing that it was better to acknowledge the problem I was facing, instead of just brushing it off as nothing.

I've learnt not to fight with Bree, cause if I do, I'll end up upsetting her, and that's the last thing I want.

It took a minute for Bree to respond to me, but when she did, I felt a little better. "I get it. I'm worried too Pearl."

I nodded my head and pulled Bree in for a proper hug. Bree's book was tossed aside as we embraced each other. Before we pulled apart, I left a tender kiss on Bree's forehead, and she smiled warmly at me in response.

Looking around the room again, I asked in a light tone. "But seriously, how did we get here? If you were the one to drag me to bed, we would have ended up in our room."

My imprint giggled at me and simply pulled her phone out of her pocket. Unlocking the device, she tapped on her photo gallery and revealed a bunch of pictures to me. There were so many, and all of them showed Emmet treating my body like a doll!

It was like he was dragging a dead body around and posing for photos with it! How was I that out of it to not wake up?!

In a panic, I snatched Bree's phone out of her hand to check all of the photos' contents.

What I found, made my blood boil. There were a multitude of embarrassing situations Emmet had placed my unconscious body into!

To name a few: There was a photo of him lowering my head into the freaking toilet!

Another where I was wearing a cat costume!

Where the hell did he even get that from!

? One of them had Rosalie standing next to him and posing with my body in between them, and I was completely kitted out with make up and styled hair!

And another had me dressed up like a baby and being carried around like a freaking infant!

What's worse, SOME OF THE PHOTOS' HAD THE FUCKING WITNESSES IN THE BACKGROUND!!! HE DID THIS IN FRONT OF EVERYONE! ONE OF THE PHOTOS EVEN INCLUDED JACOB IN THE BACKGROUND LAUGHING HIS ARSE OFF!!!

WHAT THE FUCK?!

Still giggling, Bree eventually brought me out of my internal yelling, by saying in a highly amused tone, "He took a lot of selfies with you as well.

I only managed to capture some of the highlights.

And this all happened before, dad realised what Emmet was doing with you.

He made Emmet put you down, and dad brought you here to stop Emmet from getting ahold of you again.

I'm still amazed that didn't wake up for any of it. "

The look of horror on my face could have probably been measured, with how intense it felt. "How long did he have my fucking body for?!" I screeched in disbelief and terror.

Bree looked sheepish and hummed a little before replying to me, "Umm, long enough for him to get enough blackmail material to hold over your head for the rest of your life."

"But we're gonna live forever?!" I yelled out.

"Yep." Bree responded bluntly, without clarifying any new information.

I'm gonna kill him... I'm going to fucking kill him! I'm better off as an only child! He's dead!

As the shock of what Emmet had done with my unconscious body finally settled into my core, Edward's cry of pain caught my attention.

It was then followed up with the voice of a DEAD MAN!

"Dude you're not motivating her."

"You wanna try?" Edward said exasperatedly towards his brother.

That was all I needed to hear to speed out of the house with my gift active.

"Yes. Yes he does." I quickly responded. Appearing behind my LOVELY big brother, Emmet.

Everyone jumped at my sudden appearance. And the deadly aura that was surrounding me, made all of them flinch away from my presence. Good... They should be scared...

I may not know what is currently happening, but Edward had cried out in pain while supposedly trying to motivate Bella, and he had then offered his position to Emmet. And that, sounds like an absolutely wonderful idea.

"Oh... Hey Pearl..." Emmet greeted me nervously. Having plastered a faux innocent smile on his face.

"Hello big brother." I returned his greeting with a cynical smile. Turning to Edward, I said, "Whatever you're doing, Emmet has just volunteered to take your place."

Edward grinned at me, and immediately moved away from Kate and Bella.

"Wait! No! I didn't agree to this!" Emmet's voice was became panicked, as soon as Kate started to approach him with a smirk on her face.

The big vampire then tried to make a desperate run for it, but his escape attempt was in vain. I grabbed him with a steel like grip and held him in place with ease, for Kate to grab onto him. I don't think I've ever liked her gift more, than in this moment.

The second the blonde woman made contact with his arm, I let go and he started screeching in pain. The electrical shock he felt, caused him to fall to his knees in an instant.

When Kate let go, Bella quickly apologised to my traitorous brother. "I'm sorry, I wasn't ready!"

I chuckled as I stared at Emmet's breathless crumpled up form. "Please continue to not be ready." I said, while giving Bella a sadistic smile.

Garret shuddered from beside me, and took a step backwards, but I paid him no mind. All that mattered right now, was my brother's suffering.

Turning to Emmet, I stated in a dark tone, "I don't know what these guys are doing. But this is what you get for playing doll with my unconscious body last night."

Emmet's eyes widened at my remark. His nervous grin had completely disappeared from his face, and it was replaced by utter indescribable terror. He didn't even try to deny it, he knew he had been caught.

Kate's voice broke me out of my staring contest with Emmet. "Focus Bella. Or he's gonna be hurting."

Bella stared intently at Emmet's form, trying to project her shield onto him. But she seemed unable to do so, since when Kate's hand was placed onto the back of Emmet's neck, the vampire in question, was immediately sent to the ground while shouting in agony.

Edward tried to hide his smirk from his brother, but Pearl made no move to hide her growing grin. After seeing some of the many pictures Bree had captured of Emmet playing around with her unconscious body, he deserved everything he was getting.

Emmet went through quite a few more rounds of pain at the hands of Kate's gift, before Bella was finally able to shield him successfully by using her own ability.

Her success intrigued Alistair who was watching from above in a tall tree. Edward stared at his wife fondly, while Garret continued to stare at Kate with a love struck smile on his face.

By the end of it, Pearl was fairly satisfied with Emmet's torture, so she offered her hand to him, to help the vampire stand back up.

Emmet hadn't gotten up since Kate's power brought him to his knees the first time she used it on him.

He hadn't seen the point of getting back up, as he would only fall back down again afterwards.

Seeing her hand and the small smile on his sister's face, Emmet quickly accepted it without hesitation. So Pearl pulled him to his feet.

"Am I forgiven?" Emmet hesitantly asked.

Pearl let a smirk slip onto her face. "Only if you delete all of the photos you took." She swiftly replied, whilst wearing a threatening gaze.

"Aww man. I wanted to keep those." The man child quietly complained under his breath.

"You keep them, and you're going to continue to help Bella train her gift for the foreseeable future." Pearl menacingly remarked.

Instantly, Emmet unlocked his phone and handed it to the hybrid, so that Pearl could erase any evidence he had captured of the previous nights events.

"I wanna go again." Bella declared, still feeling quite proud of herself.

Seeing Pearl quite content, erasing the contents of his photo gallery, Emmet looked over to his brother and volunteered him for the task. "Edward."

The mind reader looked slightly pained at the thought, but he wandered back over to Bella and Kate so that his wife could keep practicing.

Pearl handed Emmet's phone back to her big brother after erasing all of the embarrassing photos he had taken. And the group watched Bella train her gift for quite a while after that.

Some time later, a thought entered the hybrid's head. 'Wait a second... Bree and Emmet both took photos of my unconscious form, and some of Bree's photos had Emmet posing for her camera. So does that mean that... brEE WAS IN ON IT?!'