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Summary: She had resisted temptation after all these years and allowed her past to remain forgotten. After all, it was for the best. What did she have to look back on anyway? But soon, she discovers a shocking truth – her son Charles had lived all those years ago.
Looking for Beta
Arms of Love
By LeviosaFlight
Prologue: Discoveries
1984
Privet Drive, a suburban street in Little Whinging – an English county of Surrey, was rather dull if Esme was honest, and she was. The neighborhood consisted of a number of boring, boxy houses; each identical to the last. Even the cut of their lawns were the same, with well trimmed hedges and maintained lawns.
The architect in Esme frowned in distaste, but quickly she shook her head to refocus on the task at hand; the home before her – 4 Privet Drive.
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She had resisted temptation after all these years and allowed her past to remain forgotten. After all, it was for the best. What did she have to look back on anyway?
Her parents, who were long gone by now, had pushed her one an abusive alcoholic husband, and a son who she only had for a few short but precious days.
Yes, it was best to allow those memories to be forgotten, to be consumed by the dense fog of time.
But then, just out of curiosity, she found herself in the library of Anchorage sitting in front of a microfilm reader scanning though the newspapers for Columbus, Ohio of 1921 – the year of her death. Her golden eyes moved quickly through the articles and pages faster than any human could comprehend; reading every word, recognizing every advertisement that passed by.
I had been odd coming across her own obituary; she had nearly forgotten that Esme Anne Evenson was dead to the rest of the world.
She paused momentarily to stare at her own face that stared back at her in black and white. The memories of that photograph had long since faded from her mind, but she could tell from the forced smile upon her face and the makeup that donned her too thin features that it was taken after she met her husband, Charles.
She mourned for her, the woman in that photograph taken so long ago, she mourned for how much she suffered.
"You will be happy," she said, her voice barely above a whisper, too low to register to human ears, "I promise you will be happy, you will be okay."
Then she continued on with her search, but after another half hour she let out a huff of air in frustration – nothing.
It had been Alice who had suggested she contact the Ohio Genealogical Society a few days after her disappointing trip to the library.
Esme had not mentioned anything about her search but, one could not keep secrets from Alice, the pixie-like vampire who could see the future or her eldest, Edward, who could read minds. However, neither had said a thing to her, respecting her privacy – until then.
It had taken Esme a day to get the number and then a week to build up the courage to call. With her husband Carlisle at her side, Esme dialed the number and waited for someone to answer on the other end...
"Yes, hello. I am hoping that you could help me find the obituary of an infant born in 1921? Yes, I have the name – Charles Evenson Jr, son of Esme and Charles Evenson."
While her kids were at school and her husband as at work at the local hospital, Esme came home four days later to a package on her doorstep. She stood there for a moment, frozen on the steps that led up to her beautiful home staring at the seemingly innocent looking package.
Slowly, she stepped up to the packing already regretting ever starting this. She knew she should have let her past stay in the past but something in her, some little selfish part in her just wanted something of him – of her son and the only thing she could have was his obituary.
As she grabbed the envelope Esme knew that if she was alive her hands would have been shaking as she hugged it to her chest. She went inside her immaculate home, already decorated for the upcoming Christmas holidays.
Her hand hovers over the phone as she passes, wanting to call Charlise, but she allows it to fall back at her side – she can do this on her own. She settles down in her favorite crème colored arm chair, and takes a deep unnecessary breath, clenching her jaw she opens the package and pulls out its contents; papers.
E. Cullen –
Provided is a collection of information for one Charles Evenson II; which was changed to Charles Evans upon his adoption in 1927…
At this, the collection of papers fluttered to the ground from Esmes' cold and limp hands.
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Records of Charles Evans born Charles Evenson II
Certificate of Birth
Name: Charles Evenson II
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: February 17, 1921
Born to: Esme Anne Platt Evenson and Charles Evenson I
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City and State: Columbus, Ohio
Certificate of Adoption
Date: November 17, 1927
Name: Charles Evenson II
Birth Parents: Esme Anne Platt Evenson Date of Death February 20, 1921
Charles Evenson I Date of Death August 12, 1927
Adoptive Parents: Robert and Judith Evans
Certified Copy of Entry of Marriage
Date: January 1, 1944
Name and Age (Groom): Charles Evans, 23
Name and Age (Bride): Jasmine Middleton, 22
Certified Copy of An Entry of Birth
Date: September 15, 1955
Sex: Female
Name: Petunia Evans
Mother: Jasmine Evans
Father: Maj. Charles Evans
Certified Copy of An Entry of Birth
Date: January 20, 1960
Sex: Female
Name: Lily Evans
Mother: Jasmine Evans
Father: Maj. Charles Evans
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Authors Notes:
The name of Esme's son was never given and though she did leave her husband, or something like that, I gave him his fathers name.
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