Disclaimer: don't own them and not making a dime... just wanted to play with them
Years after Breaking Dawn, Carlisle and Esme have move to a new town, the children have decided to live on their own. There they meet a young lady that is just what Esme has been missing.
After the children all decided to move away from the family home, Carlisle was looking forward to sharing the small three bedroom house he bought for Esme to remodel. He was hoping to enjoy some time alone with his mate. They had spent a few weeks together before he starting working again. He missed helping people, saving lives he knew a human doctor couldn't. His first days in a new hospital were always intrusting. First he had the joy of having to act like a doctor fresh out of residency, trying to balance saving lives and not looking so polished as to rise suspicions. Then there where the nurses, the first month was all about trying to convince them that: yes, he was married, and yes they were very happy or at least he was.
Esme stood looking out the windows of the new house Carlisle has bought her as a "project." She missed her children. No amount of home renovation was going to make that go away. Edward and Bella had chose to travel the world, last she heard from them they were in Egypt, enjoying the sights. Emmett and Rose were on another honeymoon, after yet another wedding. Jasper and Alice are enjoying time away from humans, in the wilds of the arctic, Jasper had a bit of a slip, no one was hurt, but he wanted to get away to clear his head. Renesmee and her now husband Jacob were nicely settled in their wedding gift, a very nice house in LaPush. She knew that they would all come home, they always did, but her nest was empty and she didn't like it. She tried to focus on Carlisle and the house, but there are more hours in her day then she can fill.
"Esme?" So lost in thought she didn't even hear her mate come in. "Are you okay, Dear?" He knew physically there was nothing that could be wrong with her, but since the children have move out, she has been distracted and depressed. He wrapped a protective arm around her, she never like when it was just the two of them. She needed someone to care for, maybe she should volunteer. "Have you thought about getting out more, maybe doing some volunteer work, the hospital is always looking for volunteers to help cheer people up." There were places in the hospital that the smell of blood was not as strong. Esme has a good control over her blood lust and if she fed every morning he had every faith that she would be fine.
"I'll think about it," and she had been thinking about getting out more. Esme landed into his embrace. She feared even going to the hospital to see her mate for a moment, let alone spending any amount of time there. "What if I lose control?" the silent question mulled around in her head. She has had remarkable control after spending so much time with human Bella and her family. Maybe she was up to this, if she hunted regularly, maybe she could do it. "Maybe I'll go in with you sometime and see if I can handle being there for longer than a few minutes at a time." A sound decision. They spent the rest of the night standing together looking out over the woods behind their house, both lost in thought. It wasn't until the sun started to rise over the trees that Carlisle's phone rang.
He looked at the caller id, "Alice" he said to his wife before he answered, "Hello dear. " All of the Cullen children knew to call in from time to time, despite their children being inviolable. a mother still worried when they didn't call. "How are you?" as he listen to his middle daughter tell him of her latest vision of a dyeing girl.
"It really bad Carlisle, she at the hospital you're going to start at tomorrow," Carlisle had every faith in his daughter's visions, so he asked for more information. "I didn't see a lot, just you meeting a girl, she way skinny, like bones and skin. Her eyes are deep set and dark. She looks like death." Alice was still confused why she had seen this girl, but thought she would pass on the info.