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A/N: Hey guys! Butterflywhisperer here and I'm happy to announce this is the ten part epilogue, essentially, for the Sunrise Saga. For anyone tuning in for the first time, I highly recommend you read the stories that led up to this because this is to show you all what all the main characters have been up to post Eternal Dawn. I wanted to give you all some closure, but also show how everyone is doing in the year 2041. So, in the meantime, please enjoy!
Chapter One
*Renesmee's POV*
"Momma! I can't find my straightener!"
"It should be in the bathroom, baby," I called back to my daughter from the bottom of the stairs.
"Still can't find it!" Sarah called back.
"Duty calls," I heard Jacob tease as he walked past me, pressing a kiss to my cheek before heading down the hall towards the living room.
"Funny," I replied dryly before proceeding to walk up the stairs. The once little house Jacob and I shared with our twin daughters years ago was now built up and renovated. Big enough to accommodate all of our kids, which never ceases to surprise me.
I kept walking down the hallway of the second floor until I found Sarah rummaging through the bathroom with a rather worried expression. Her naturally curly hair was wild today and I could see the fear in her brown eyes.
"I put it right here," Sarah said to me, motioning to the top drawer of the bathroom. "I'm sure I put it there…"
"Alright, let's be calm," I said to my daughter, placing a hand on her shoulders. "Process of elimination?"
"Okay," Sarah said, taking a deep breath.
Sarah wasn't always this…On edge. However, I understood why. In about twenty-four hours she was about to get married. It's been a hectic last month with constant wedding plans being instilled by Aunt Alice, but also making sure that the whole family would get here safely. Sarah was a perfectionist. Always had been and I knew that my daughter wanted everything to be absolutely perfect.
"Let's think about the last place you used it," I continued, proceeding to keep my daughter at bay.
"I used it yesterday morning," Sarah said, biting her lip and trailing off.
"Okay, and where did you put it after yesterday morning?" I asked slowly.
"Right here," Sarah said, motioning to the drawer.
"Alright. Now, let's think where it could've gone," I continued, rummaging through the bathroom cabinet with my daughter.
"Hey guys." I look to see Izzy walking into the bathroom with none other than the straightener. Her long brown hair, usually wild with curls like her sister, was perfectly straightened.
"Iz," I said, sighing as I looked at my daughter. Izzy frowned as she stared at me and then Sarah.
"Mom?" Izzy questioned, raising her eyebrows. "Sarah?"
"I've been looking all morning for that, Izzy!" Sarah cried out, looking at her twin with a rather disappointment look.
"Sorry," Izzy muttered, placing the straightener on the vanity.
"It's fine," Sarah said, running a hand through her hair as she sat on the edge of the bathroom tub. "Anyway it doesn't matter now. I don't have enough time to straighten all my hair for the rehearsal dinner."
"Sarah, your hair looks perfectly fine," Izzy said.
"No. It needs to be straightened," Sarah concluded. "My hair for the wedding will be curly. I can't clash!"
"I think it's fine. No one will notice, baby," I said, running a hand through her hair. "Anyway, I love your natural curls."
Sarah sighed while Izzy gave her a sheepish look. That was my girls.
"Is this a bad time to ask to use this shower?" I then looked to see my son, Will, looking at us with worried glances and a toothbrush hanging from his mouth. He was also only in a towel.
"Yeah, Will," Izzy said irritably, placing both hands on her hips.
"Will, why aren't you using your bathroom?" I asked him.
"Teddy's hogging it again," Will explained, rolling his eyes. "You know how Mr. Hair is."
"Oh brother." I groaned, shaking my head. "Speaking of your brothers, have you seen Charlie? Did he come home last night?"
"No, he spent the night at Levi's," Will said, chuckling. Amusement flickering in his eyes. "Also if I'm ratting out everyone, Gilly snuck in late last night."
"Will!" I heard my daughter shout from her bedroom. "Are you serious!?"
"It's…It's fine," I said, sighing heavily as I rubbed my temples.
"Damn. Gill gets it off the hook but when I was her age you grounded me for two weeks for sneaking out," Izzy said, shaking her head disapprovingly.
"Well that's because you went to a concert on a school night without my permission," I reminded her. "Anyway, Gill is grounded. And so will Charlie when he gets home."
"Momma!" Gill called out, walking into the room with a rather annoyed expression. "Really!? You and Daddy used to sneak out!"
"Yes, but also my parents knew about my whereabouts," I pointed out. "Anyway baby, you're only fifteen. If you're going to sleep over Red's house I need you to tell me or text me the least."
Gill huffed at this before heading back to her room. "Momma?" that's when my youngest child made her presence. Marlie looked into the bathroom. My only daughter with bronze hair looked at me with her big, brown doe eyes. "Auntie Alice called and said the dinner should start around five today."
"Okay. Thanks baby," I told her, nodding my head.
"Mom?" I looked up at Will again. "Where should I shower?"
"Honey, just go use your father and I's bathroom," I told him. "Just don't make a mess."
"Okay. Cool," Will said, walking away. "Thanks, Mom!"
I then turned to the twins. "And now, Sarah, let's fix this. Okay?"
"Okay," she said, nodding her head gently as I proceeded to help my daughter fix her hair. Once I was finished, I walked downstairs to find Jacob seated at the couch watching the game.
I frowned at him as he looked up at me with a scared expression. "What did I do?"
I sighed before I proceeded to plop on his lap. "Nothing…I'm just exhausted."
"Well with all seven kids under the roof I don't blame yeah," Jake said, bringing me into his arms and hugging me tight.
In the last twenty-three years Jacob and I had seven children. I never thought I'd ever have this much. In fact, my cousin Aidan likes to joke and say that we're the vampire version of the "Weasley" family just without the red hair or the wizard powers.
Our first children, our daughters, Sarah Renesmee and Isabella Jacoba had been born right before the Volturi threatened our very existence over twenty years ago. In about two months, it would be twenty-three years since we defeated the Volturi and were able to start our forever.
Sarah and Izzy were our pride and joy for the longest time. The two girls looked the most like me now that they're fully grown. Their big doe brown eyes and facial features. However, they had Jacob's russet skin tone and my mother's long brown hair and curls.
Sarah and Izzy were also polar opposites. Sarah was reserved, studious, and a perfectionist. She obeyed rules and did as she was told. She loved to read and even majored in English her first year at college and now has a Ph.D specializing in 18th Century British Literature. Sarah is also working towards her medical degree now with a new interest in Biology. She strongly takes after my mother in that aspect. However, Jake likes to point out her strong need to nurture and protect is much like me. Truthfully, I can see a lot of myself in Sarah as well.
Meanwhile, Izzy was my bubbly girl. In a way, she was very much like Aunt Alice, Jacob, and my grandmother, Renee. She is outgoing, loves shopping, and playing rough. She did college with her brother, Teddy, but never really liked it. In fact, Izzy loves working on machines with her father. As a child, she loved spending time in his auto shop or sitting in the garage with Aunt Rosalie. A true definition of a free spirit.
When the twins were two, I fell pregnant with our third child. I had just finished getting my medical degree and Jacob's auto shop was flourishing so we decided that it would be a nice time for a third child.
Thus, William Masen Black was born or "Will". Named after Jacob's father and my brother, Will is our first shape shifting child and my first child without an extreme growth rate. Will did grow a little fast, but his growth rate was rather slow and more human being that he takes a lot after his father. He looks the most like Jacob with his black hair, russet skin, and deep brown eyes. However, I find that he has a lot of similar facial features to my father and even Grandpa Charlie. His black hair is also very curly, like the Swan's.
Will is a leader and a good big brother to his younger siblings. He's also a voice of reason when it comes to his brothers, Teddy and Charlie. Often making sure his two brothers don't do something reckless. He reminds me a lot of my father and Masen. However, he has his moments. Will is very much a teddy bear and is super down to earth. Will is an absolute mush when it comes to his little sister, Marlie. He is also obsessed with tattoos. I wasn't thrilled at first when he got his first one, but I find the sleeve apart of who he is now so I've just accepted it at this point.
After Will, Jake and I decided we'd have one more child. That's when our son Edward Seth Black was born. Also known as "Teddy," our son was named after my father and Seth because Seth actually helped with the delivery. I had gone into labor when Jacob had been away and the first person I could reach was Seth. Next thing you know, Seth is calling everyone and helping me deliver my son on the living room floor. Seth is also a little brother to Jake so it felt only natural to name him that.
Teddy has black hair like Jake's, but it was thick and messy like my father and Masen's. His skin was pale like mine and his eyes were also brown like mine. Teddy is very much like Grandpa Charlie and Uncle Emmett. He is essentially the prankster of his siblings and even a little more reckless like Izzy. Alongside Lily and Ethan's daughter Nora, the three of them have always been close. Often following around their older cousin, Tyler, Johnny Swan, Wes, and Bo. Getting into all sorts of trouble. Teddy is also a hybrid like his older sisters. He even has my mother's ability– a mental shield.
Teddy takes a lot after my father and brother because he was our only child to fall in love with a human. In 2029, Teddy ended up falling in love with a young girl named Brooke, who he met in college when he was a junior and she was a freshman. She was a young girl with a complicated past. Parents who were dead, a tough home life, and an abusive boyfriend, Ross. However, when she met Teddy she was already six months pregnant with Ross's son.
Teddy still fell in love with her though and the two planned to run away together, but then Ross harmed Brooke. He almost killed her and the baby if Teddy didn't stop them. Izzy ended up having to rip Teddy away from almost killing Ross. Ross would later die in prison, but Teddy brought Brooke to the hospital. The baby was saved, but Brooke was dying. Teddy then made the decision to change her and since then the two have been mates, raising their child in London now. Teddy adopted Brooke's son as his own– who was named Edward Sebastian Black, to honor Teddy and Brooke's father.
Anyway, Jacob and I planned to stop having children after Teddy. We didn't want to have anymore because four was enough for us. Then, the kids were growing up and I felt like they didn't need me as much anymore. Sarah, Izzy, Teddy, were heading to college at the time with their cousins while Will was physically about fourteen years old. That's when we both kind of slipped and had our fifth child in 2024– Charlie Aidan Black.
Named after my grandfather and my cousin, Charlie was a lot like Uncle Jasper and my sister, Lizzy. The intellectual of his brothers that loves to debate with Sarah and Will for hours, but also loves stirring up trouble with Teddy and Izzy. He is witty but also very caring. Charlie loves art as well. He's a painter by trade and even hopes to going to art school in the future. Jacob says he takes a lot after his mother and sister, Rebecca.
Charlie looks a lot like Jacob as well with his black hair that he keeps long unlike his brothers and his russet skin. However, he has my father and Lizzy's green eyes. Our only child to inherit that trait which I found amazing.
Jacob and I would go on to have two more children. After Charlie we would go on to have Gillian Rebel Black. Gillian was the first child with a combined name. We weren't really looking to do them until my cousin Lily pointed out that her name combined with Grace's created Gillian. So I got creative and ended up with Rebel as well– the combined name of "Rachel" and "Rebecca" Jacob's two older sisters.
Gillian is our first female shape shifting daughter. She is very much like Jacob in looks and traits, but also a lot like Aunt Rosalie. She's my tough girl. Gillian does not take anyone's shit and is very protective of the ones she loves. As for looks, her hair is very much like my hair now, brown with copper streaks. An interesting twist of bronze. Izzy took her under her wing and loved having a happy sister to dote and teach all sorts of tricks to.
Finally, Jake and I decided that our seventh child would be our very last one. After this, we would have no more and that was final. Marlie Elizabelle Black was born seven years after Gillian. She was named after my two aunts, combing the names "Mary" from Mary Alice and "Rosalie" to form Marlie. My daughter looks the most like me, and even my sister Lizzy, with her bronze hair and pale skin. Her bronze curls as well was a Masen family trait. As for her eyes, well she has my brown eyes. Jacob jokes that she's a little Renesmee, often taking a lot after me. She was a sweet soul. Never had an ill thing to say about anyone. I can actually see a lot of Grandma Esme in her.
She has the most mixed genes out of all her siblings because she takes after vampire and shape-shifter. She processes both qualities. Grandpa Carlisle believes she has vampire abilities, but also her gift is to essentially shape shift because as a child Marlie shape shift but it didn't exactly effect her like her siblings or her father. She didn't necessarily go through a transition, she just transformed. It's because of this her growth rate is fast, but it's also slower. Grandpa Carlisle estimates it'll be around ten years, like Lizzy's was. She's five now and resembles that of a ten year old.
In the these last twenty-three years most of my children are fully grown and moved out. The only ones that still live with me and Jacob at the moment are Charlie, Gillian, and Marlie. Will is the only one that lives in Forks though and not with us. Meanwhile, Izzy lives in Italy now with her wife, Teddy lives in London with Brooke, and although Sarah is currently residing in Forks at the moment with her fiancé, they are planning to move soon.
"How was the pack today?" I asked Jake.
"Fine. I think some of the new wolves are adjusting fine," he told me, shrugging. "Fae's been helping out a lot with the training and such."
"I'm glad to hear," I said.
After the battle against the Volturi, many of the original wolves such as Sam, Paul, and Jared, Embry, and Brady retired. Quil and Colin were still shape shifting for awhile after, but then Quil caught up to Claire's age and Colin imprinted so they soon retired. Once they retired, Fae Littlesea took over as the new alpha with Jordan Ortiz-Clearwater as he beta and Megan Uley as third in command.
However, now they had all retired and many of the first and the second generation's children were shape shifting now. The third generation was currently being led by Nathan Uley, Sam and Emily's son. However, I think he was going to pass the role to another wolf being that he would be taking the immortal life to be with his imprint.
There were a few immortal shape shifters besides Jake, Leah, and Seth. Many of them were our children or they imprinted on members of our family or other supernatural creatures, so they would be continuously shape shifting to be with them. Jake, Leah, and Seth were in charge of these wolves.
"I think it'll be a little less crazy once the wedding is over," Jacob explained. "A lot of them are getting excited at this wedding."
"I don't blame them," I said. "It's long overdue."
"You can say that," Jacob agreed.
"God…I can't believe Sarah is finally getting married," I said softly to my husband. "After everything she and Bo went through…"
My daughter was marrying Bo, the youngest son of Aro Volturi. Bo and Sarah grew up together and we could often tell that Sarah had a crush on him. Alongside her cousin Ella, the two girls had major crushes on Bo and his adopted brother, Wes. However, Ella and Wes got together when Ella was in high school. My niece has a way of getting what she wants. Meanwhile, Sarah always stayed quietly watching Bo. Never making a move on him. Bo always liked her back, but became busy. He ended up helping out his older sister, Dru, with running the new supernatural government– the High Council.
So, for the last twenty-three years the two of them have been running around in circles. It took a tragic incident where Sarah almost died from an enemy vampire for Bo and her to finally come together.
I shivered at the thought of that memory. Sarah had been up in Canada helping Dru and the rest of the council with Izzy, due to their abilities. There was an issue at the time with a new rising threat and the council needed all the help they could get.
By now the girls have mastered their powers and only use them when needed due to the fact they like to keep them secret and not have the whole supernatural know about them. However, Jake and I were supposed to head up there the next day to help out when I go a phone call from Ava saying Sarah and Izzy had been both hospitalized. Sarah had been caught off guard by an enemy vampire, who had been trying to hurt Bo, and ended up biting her. Sarah was injured, which caused Izzy to lash out and use her power.
Izzy had been hospitalized for being absolutely drained of power while Sarah's body was counter-acting against the venom. Bo stayed by her side the entire time she was unconscious and since then I think the two realized how much they needed each other. Then, about a year later, last spring– they had twins of their own.
Faith Isabella and Hope Esme. The two girls were currently being babysat by my mother and father up at their cottage. That's right, I was a grandmother to two beautiful little girls. They were my first grandchildren and an utter joy to both Jacob and I.
After the twins were born, Bo proposed to Sarah and the two decided to get married the next year. The girls both mixed breed, but very powerful and gifted. Hope having Bo's ability to distort memories while Faith could read them, much like her deceased biological grandfather.
"Well, I'm happy that they'll be happy," Jacob said, hugging me close. "And let's face it, it's about to be one hell of a wedding."
I laughed as I pressed a kiss to my husband's lips. As we pulled apart, I could see Charlie sneaking in through the kitchen.
"I see you, young man!" I called out to him. Charlie paused and looked at me with wide green eyes.
"Oh…Hey, mom," Charlie said nervously, scratching the back of his head. "What's up?"
"Did you sneak out to Levi Uley's house again without us knowing?" Jacob asked, raising his eyebrows.
"Maybe," Charlie said, shrugging and followed by a nervous laugh.
"You and Gill are grounded," I told him. "However, after the wedding. Tell your sister that so she can stop complaining about it to her cousin. We can hear her on the phone and I thinks he knows this."
"Will do," Charlie said, giving me a soft smile before running away.
"He and Levi are getting really serious," Jacob pointed out.
"I know," I said, nodding my head. "I'm happy for him, really I am…Just one more baby out of the nest."
"We have a few years left with him. He's just a teenager," Jacob pointed out.
"True," I said, leaning my head against his shoulder.
Four of our children were either imprinters or imprintees (if that is a term). The first time it happened was with Will. He imprinted on Lily and Ethan's daughter– Gwen. We had been shocked. The two had been close as children, but then Gwen's rapid growth rate caused her to grow up faster than Will and the two drifted for a bit while Gwen made human friends and Will spent a lot of time on the rez. Then, when Will phased at sixteen he immediately imprinted on Gwen. I think we were a little grossed out at first being that they're adopted cousins, but got used to it fast. Anyway, Lily and I couldn't help but love that our kids would be together and we'd be grandma's together.
After Will, Levi Uley imprinted on Charlie last fall when the two both shape shifted for the first time. I wasn't surprised at all for that one. I always knew Charlie had a crush on Levi. He sat behind him in math class and Quil, who teaches there now, used to tell us all the time how he thinks they're gonna end up together. Next thing you know, they're imprints. They both phased around the same time and imprinted on each other. I think Levi was scared at first, but soon the two found their way to each other and I couldn't be happier.
Then, Gillian imprinted on Red Rider– Abby and Lucas' son. Now that was the biggest surprise of them all because we did not expect that one. The two had hated each other growing up. We would always have to separate Gillian and Red from playing with each other because Gillian would punch Red and then Red would try to use his shield against Gillian. It was ugly, but thankfully Red grew up faster than Gillian and the two didn't have to be around each other as much anymore. However, when Gillian phased for the first time this year she was disgusted with the fact that she imprinted on Red. However, Red, who is good in nature accepted it and helped Gill figure everything out. They started dating about a month ago and I have to say so myself, things have been going rather well for them.
Finally, Marlie was imprinted on by Levi's older brother, Nathan. At the time Nathan had just been prompted to leader of the pack and had been shape shifting continuously since he was sixteen. A few days after I had Marlie, Jacob and I brought our newborn to the Uley house to meet members of the pack for the first time and that's when Nathan imprinted on her in front of everyone. I think he was embarrassed at first, but being that many of us were used to it by now the environment was a lot more relaxed and easy.
The two embody a very similar relationship to Jacob and I. In fact, they remind me a lot of Jacob and I. They're currently best friends. Marlie loves hanging out with her "Natty." I love the fact that she has someone watching her the way I had Jake. It gives me ease.
"Hey, Mom. Dad." I look to see Teddy making his way over. I wasn't surprised to see that his hair had been all touched up. "I'm going to go fetch Wes and Ty and we'll pick up everyone at the airport."
"Wait! Wait!" Izzy then started running down the stairs. "We're bringing Carolina too. After all, it is mostly her family we're picking up."
"Where is Carolina?" I asked. Carolina was Izzy's wife, and also happened to be the daughter of Stefano and Lexie.
"She's at the main house with Grandma Esme and Grandpa Carlisle," Izzy explained. "Helping out with the decorations for the wedding."
"Perfect," I said. "Alright, we'll see you all later."
"Come on, lil bro," Izzy said, nudging Teddy as they headed out of the house. I then turned to Jacob who was giving me a rather goofy smile.
"What?" I asked, feeling a grin making it's way onto my lips.
"Nothing, just reminds me of our wedding," Jacob told me. I smiled as I then reached over and pressed a kiss to his lips. Jacob grinned against them as the two of us enjoyed the moment.
"Come on," I said to him, tugging at his hand. "We have a wedding to make possible."
"Aye, aye captain," Jacob joked as the two of us then headed upstairs to help out our children and get ready for the rehearsal dinner tonight.
A/N: This may be a little confusing for some of you, but def check out the wiki if it makes your head spin! This is how most of the chapters will be set up due to the fact it's just going to explain what's happened. Anyway, now that we know what's up with Renesmee and Jacob, get ready to hear from the others!