After

Summary: After years and years of euphoria, what happens to the Cullens, as well as the entire vampire and werewolf population, when Earth's time comes? Usual pairings, post- Breaking Dawn, apocalyptic.

Chapter 1

Bella POV:

The year was 9021. We were living in Quebec at the time, masquerading as humans, of course. We didn't attend high school anymore. No one did. Obviously, there was still some form of education in the world, but it was necessary to take high school out of the equation because it was a waste of time. You learned to read and write and were taught the imperative vocabulary words at the age of 5. Then, you immediately went to an academy of science where you were assigned the task of figuring out a way to stop the impending doom. By this, I mean the end of the world. In the 2200's Global Warming struck, and it was almost too much for us to bear. It was unceasingly sunny, and we almost never got to venture outdoors. Jacob and Renesmee hated being cooped up, Alice got really tired of ordering from catalogs, and Carlisle had to take a break from medicine because he could never make it to work. The humans didn't fare too much better. The Earth's population was down to about 10 million, which was pretty low when compared to the 6 billion of my time. Most of their crops died because they were exposed to too much sun. The ice caps melted, which raised the water level of the ocean and most of the coasts were lost like Atlantis, completely submerged.

That was a long time ago, though. We have bigger problems nowadays. It had been centuries since the sun had shone bright yellow. A dull red flowed from it now. It was too old to accommodate humans any longer. Naturally, all of the Cullens were very worried about the ramifications of the sun dying out. No humans or animals meant no blood. The non-vegetarians were already fighting over the southern territories where the humans had fled to. Fortunately, a large amount of vampires had given up humans in search of more copious supplies of food.

One day, Emmett had tried to lighten the mood. "You know, when the sun is red it doesn't make our skin sparkle, so we can go outside whenever we want."

Rosalie just sighed, rather morosely. Carlisle had been researching for weeks with Edward, and the rest of us had been trying to stay quiet so as not to distract Alice from potential visions. I think it had been a full week since she had moved, or spoken, or even opened her eyes. Jasper sat across from her in the living room and watched her, only budging once to offer his input to Carlisle.

I just stood at the window, thinking. A few hours ago Emmett had asked me if I wanted a stress ball. I don't think I even responded. I was so distracted by what would happen to our family when the sun finally died. We probably wouldn't be able to stick together because of the blood shortage. And who knows if we would even be able to survive the demise of the sun. Maybe the vampires would live, but the werewolves wouldn't. Maybe we would all survive, or maybe we would all die. Like I said, no one knew anything of the future of the allegedly mythical creatures. As I stood there, contemplating, I felt Edward's eyes on my back. I turned to look at him, a little fearfully I must admit, I had no idea what emotions I would see etched into his face.

He looked as confused and worried as I did, but there was something else behind a strategically placed facade. Fear? I walked to the next room where he and Carlisle had set up their researching station. "It's been three weeks, Bella, since we last fed. I was wondering if you would like to go hunting with me?"

Both of our eyes were a solid black, it was about time for a hunting trip. "Sure", I replied, holding out my hand for him to take. Maybe he would tell me what was on his mind when we were away from unwanted listeners.

He stood and grasped my hand. I spoke to the whole family, "We'll be back by tomorrow morning. Be good, Renesmee."

Even without looking I knew that Renesmee had rolled her eyes at my parting comment. Edward said nothing as he set a pace that had me running as fast as I could to keep up. He stopped about ten miles from the house. I sniffed the air, searching for the scent of an animal. Edward watched me with a small smile on his immaculate face. I couldn't smell anything, and I was wondering how much of a difference a century of extra training could make when Edward spoke. "Bella," he said in his serious voice to attract my attention.

I quit sniffing and looked at him. "Bella, they're coming", he said slowly, as if he was afraid of my reaction.

"They?", I asked hoping for some kind of elaboration.

"Yes. All of them".

"The Volturi? All of the Volturi is coming here?" I was trying to piece it all together, and Edward wasn't really helping.

"Not just the Volturi. Everyone. Every single vampire is coming here to have some sort of meeting that the Volturi called concerning the death of the sun", he answered, finally giving me something to go on.

"Oh. Oh wow. Sooo what now?" I didn't really know what to say. My mind was too busy thinking about what this meant for the Cullens to formulate intelligent responses or to voice any sort of opinions on the matter. He shrugged, still watching me as if I was about to freak out.

"Why here? Why not Italy?", I asked, finally thinking of some questions to pose.

"No one trusted them enough to walk right in to their lair unprotected. Aro asked Carlisle to let him hold a meeting here to discuss the effect this might have on our kind. Well, actually, he hasn't asked yet, but he will. Soon. Alice had a vision just before we left. Carlisle says yes, everyone moves here----

I cut him off. "Moves? They're moving here? They're going to be staying here permanently?", I asked, incredulous.

"It's possible that they will be staying here a little longer than we hoped, yes", he said sounding guilty and a bit afraid. Agitated as I was at the Volturi, I still had to laugh at Edward's expression.

When I had calmed down, I decided to get some more questions out of the way. "We get to keep our room, right?", I asked, genuinely worried. The last time this many vampires had gathered at our house it was to protect Renesmee from the Volturi. Edward and I had had our own cottage, then, so I knew we wouldn't be giving it up to house our guests. Now, I wasn't so sure. Everyone lived in the main house. No new couples had joined our family to warrant the need for a cottage. It had been a full seven thousand years since anyone new had taken the name of Cullen. Renesmee didn't even go by Cullen anymore. She married Jacob and took his last name shortly after her twentieth birthday.

He laughed. "Yes, love. I'm sure we won't be uprooted."

"Okay, good." I was relieved. " Come on, let's go hunting. We have a long ways to go and I'm really thirsty. I was thinking we could go back to our meadow. Forks is a ghost town, now, so there will be plenty of animals."

"Sounds perfect", was all he said before taking my hand and spinning me in the direction of Forks, or at least the place where Forks used to be.

This chapter was really short, and I'm sorry about that. I just wanted to set up the time line at the beginning to eliminate confusion. The other chapters will be much longer, I promise. Review, please. I like to know how I'm doing. This is my first story ever, so all suggestions are welcome.