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EPOV

#We decided that the safest thing to do was to renew the treaty. We had enough trouble trying to get them to agree to the treaty in the first place we would be stupid to try and double cross them now.

The next question was how we greeted them. Not many people need to know how to greet people who A) were the grandchildren of who you had previously known 90 years ago, despite B) the fact you hadn't changed in your appearance over the time-span & C) the people you were greeting wouldn't mind killing you.

We settled for a casual look. Emmet & Jasper had decided to amuse themselves with the new Nintendo Wii which was keeping them captivated. Occasionally thought of the cool aspects of having shape shifters next door although when they got to 25 I decided to burst their bubble and tell them that we had barely been able to stop them planning killing us so the '10 ways to annoy them' options weren't going to happen in the foreseeable future.

Carlisle decided to look at one of his medical textbooks. Rose & Alice disappeared upstairs to do some make up or something. As I had nothing better to do I zoned out and started playing the piano. 2 minutes later I was aware of some new thoughts in my head. Thankfully they were peaceful. The Quileutes had finally got themselves a brain.

I quickly passed this information on to Carlisle and resumed playing. 3 minutes later we heard a noise outside the front door it sounded as if they were debating whether or not they should ring the doorbell. After 30 seconds in which we enjoyed listening to their debate which was rather interesting for me as I could hear what they were thinking and through Jasper I had an accurate idea of their emotions.

It seemed Billy wanted to do this peacefully, Harry wanted to barge in & Quill was remembering that we could probably hear the argument and was silently pleading for us to just open the door. I told Carlisle to give in to Quill's request. The shock Billy & Harry had when Carlisle opened the door and asked them would they rather meet the family and then go over the treaty or go over the treaty then meet the family was funny to say the least.

They had forgotten much about us. After the first 10 seconds whilst they gathered their thoughts they decided to meet the family first. By that time we were all reconvened in the living room as Rose had pointed out the last thing we wanted was them to think they were lunch by us all convening in the dining room.

They didn't actually smell that bad it was more a muted form of their ancestors stink. Carlisle introduced us individually starting with me then going on to Rose & Emmet and then Alice & Jasper who all politely shook the hands of the 3 'men'.

Whilst he was doing the introductions Carlisle asked me whether we should tell them of our gifts. I decided that he might as well as they can do nothing about it. So after the introductions Carlisle mentioned our specific gifts.

As expected it came as a shock to them and it took them time to regain coherent thoughts. After that episode they then decided to move on to the treaty immediately accusing us of breaking it which we had to get Jasper to defuse the situation and make them see reason.

After 2 hours of negotiating they told us the treaty was still valid and if we had any reason not to follow it we must check in with them. With that sorted they left and we went back to our activities. Carlisle had signed up to the local hospital as the new deputy manager and he had enrolled the rest of us in at school.

I still don't get why that was necessary as we knew everything that was being taught and we could just go straight to college or at the very least say we were home tutored. For the first time ever Carlisle gave in and said we could do the lessons outside of school just as long as we went in for 1 lesson a week for every subject. Between the 5 of us we decided a compromise was better than nothing so we agreed.

This left me with 9 subjects; Advanced maths (it was mandatory, even for us), English media, new science, Music, current affairs, computer technology, history, Spanish & Physiology (as it was a new speciality).

I chose the ones that were the least likely to be identical to the last 15 schools I've been to. Spanish was the only one I did not like in the line up but I had to take a language so I picked the one I was the most fluent in with the idea of being able to study my own languages in the lesson.

When all of it was taken care of and it was organised that we would start in 2 weeks Rose & Emmet & Alice & Jasper went on another honeymoon which included shopping and hunting.

Carlisle & I decided to go to the local haunts to make ourselves known. It was amusing how many women were interested in US and how many were interested in our history. I can't wait to see what rumours have gone around by the time we go to school.

It seemed before we came in all the conversation centred on the gossip that there was a new head of school that had come down from Arizona with her 17 year old daughter. Apparently her husband died in a train accident whilst being on parole for assault which carried a 6 year sentence because he had already abused her.

Although as this was 15 years ago most of the single men in the small town think they had a hope. My thoughts quickly flashed towards Carlisle but I stopped myself quickly as reality set it. Who would want to date a vampire? Even one as humane as Carlisle was still an immortal vampire.

Whilst I was thinking that through I caught the end of Carlisle's train of thought. He was thinking about the girls in Forks and was wondering if anyone would stand out to me this time around. As soon as he saw I had noticed he added an apology to the end of it. This had all taken a second so nobody noticed we had even paused in greeting the people of Forks. Their minds weren't that original.

They got excited about the littlest of things and lo and behold that 2 new families had arrived made us and the new head the centre of gossip in the small town. Only 1 person was not focusing on us and was instead concentrating on the homework she had to hand in at the beginning of term and whether or not it would get an A or an A*.

I made a note to get to know her as although we are vampires we had decided to at least be sociable this time around. Predictably when word got around that Carlisle was single a lot of the single, and a few married, woman instantly made themselves known to Carlisle and persuading him that he does not need 'the children' if they were there.

Even without my help Carlisle knew the intentions of the woman and stated as publicity you could get that he was not interested in a relationship. I know the person he ever loved was Esme Platt from Dartmouth and he refused to check up on her or even make contact.

That reminded me of the other new family, Erica & Bella Phillaps. According to the people in the diner they pronounced it Tll-lap and they had moved from the Dartmouth area. Erica had a fully-fledged physiology degree and was hoping to bring that in to action in our small school.

Bella was going to be in the same year as me as I was 'pretending' to be 17. Still at least we wouldn't be in school the whole time. Maybe I'll get a chance to do some more charity work out of state. At the moment I had just started working in liaison with the Seattle area.

Charlie Swan was my boss but he wanted me to do my work interviewing criminals as I was good at it. It only mildly helpful that I could read their minds I had enough experience to know what to look for.

And I had only been doing this for 6 weeks. I suppose I should teach the rest of the officers so that when I disappear off the face of the Earth they can continue the good work. Thanks to my help they have got 13 people behind bars and 20 more cautioned.

I have also helped free 10 prisoners that were wrongly held. I had used one of my aliases Antony Masen to get the job but as I had proved myself helpful no one cared about any paperwork other than my birth certificate that Jasper had got from J.

The fact that I refused to be paid also made me popular and when people asked me how I coped I just replied vaguely about a trust fund in Die Schweitz which was actually true.

Back to the present, I decided that I would go to MY meadow to just relax and to get away from the house. Carlisle was on an out of town visit doing charity work at an orphanage in Seattle.

Bored I went for a quick hunt and was it was just after I had finished draining a deer I got a text from Alice telling me to rush to the Quileute border on the main road.

Surprised I did as she asked and did not expect what I saw. I smelled it first, a woman was having a panic attack and they were taking her to hospital. From Quill's head I saw that they had just telling her about us though not telling her we were vampires for some reason this sent her in to the panic attack. With a shock I realised that this was Erica Phillaps but the scent was telling me something else. How could this happen? This was not an Erica Phillaps this was Esme Platt from Dartmouth University and the woman who Carlisle was in love with.

I then remembered why I was here. Alice must have seen something happen and wanted me to intercede. I was careful not to breathe in case there was any blood or that that would alert Esme to the fact that she was being carried by me.

It wasn't until I had got to the house and Rose had taken over that I breathed and then wished I hadn't, there was an absolutely delicious scent on her body but as it wasn't hers it must be Bella's.

Before I had time to think I had rushed outside going back the way I came until I heard Emmet following me. He was pleading for me to stop and pointed out that she was over the border and it wasn't worth breaking the treaty as much as I disagreed, the scent was the most mouth watering thing I had ever smelt, it gave me a small amount of time to think and I started heading to Canada.

I noted that Emmet was still following but all I knew was that I had to get away. At the Canada border though I slowed down and Emmet caught up with me.

We then went hunting in the local forest and to my satisfaction I found a mountain lion. Emmet was still being extremely cautious around me but had decided that I wasn't going to kill him if he talked. He then drew my attention to the other problem. Carlisle's love was at our house.