The guest

Carlisle Pov

I stood outside the large wooden doors to the throne room, pacing. I was anxious about hopefully meeting Bella after Aro sent me a letter about her and her children though he wrote very little about them. I just hoped that maybe I would be able to see Bella since our leaving caused a lot of grief through our family — Jasper was one of the worst cases after Esme and Alice and Edward; at one point I actually thought Jasper was going to throw himself off a bridge because of all the emotions. "Carlisle, you may come in." Felix told me. I nodded and followed him through to the throne room.

It hasn't changed. Not one bit since I was here. The whole of the Volturi guard were lining the walls, I could hear three fluttering hearts beat just outside another one of the doors. "Carlisle?" Aro asked, drawing my attention back to him.

"Aro, it's good to see you."

"And you my friend." Aro put his hand forward. "Are you sure?" I asked him. He shrugged and changed his mind, "Tilly!" someone shouted.

"Sorry, sorry but the guest was going to show grandpa some seriously disturbing things!" the twinkly bell voice reasoned.

"Who are they?" I questioned.

"Bella and her children," Caius answered as he glanced towards the door. I nodded. Bella and her children, it sounded so odd to me and yet here Bella was also a vampire. "Since we don't have a mind reader and Bella's daughter says you're going to show me something disturbing — I think the meeting can go on yet it'll be overheard by all guard members positioned outside the doors." Aro acknowledged. I nodded and so did the rest of the guard and they turned to file out along with Aro, Caius and Marcus who had been positioned in their thrones sitting quietly. The door to the west of me opened and Bella walked out.

"Carlisle, what are you doing here?" she asked me, not the best of conversion starters — I thought to myself.

"And how are you?" I replied by completely ignoring her question.

"You didn't answer me, what are you doing here?" she asked again. Her eyes grew steadily darker.

"Aro wrote to me...about you and err, your children." I finished, it felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my chest.

"Why?" Bella questioned, I shrugged my shoulders because I didn't have a clue. "Mommy, can we come in?" called the twinkly voice.

"Yes. Yes, you can."

After Bella's words had left her mouth three children walked in, one about the size of a 2 year old, two of them the size of 4 year olds — the little girl was walking towards Bella squashed between her brother and sister. "Who's he?" asked the little boy slightly rudely. The little girl slapped him arm and his sister grinned at him whilst he rolled his eyes — damn he looked so like Edward doing that!

"My name is Carlisle Cullen and who are you I might ask?" I told the children.

"I'm E.J or Edward; this is Renesmee or Nessie and Elisabeth or Tilly." The tallest child pointed out. I nodded and smiled at him. Elisabeth looked so like Edward when he was human, her bright green eyes bore into my gold ones — "Mommy, Mr. Cullen is like you..." Elisabeth whispered to her mother whilst she gripped Bella's leg. Bella looked down and smiled at Elisabeth, "will you get off my leg?" she asked the little girl. Elisabeth shook her head and pulled Bella's hair down to cover her face. I hadn't noticed Nessie and E.J who were standing around awkwardly suddenly they however turned to each other and grinned before racing each other around the throne room — I was shocked to see that they ran so fast.

"They're fast," I complimented, Bella smiled acknowledging my compliment.

"So what happened?"

"After you left, I found out that I was pregnant and ran away from home because I was scared that what I would have would be half vampire and anyway it would have been gossip in a town as small as Forks."

"What's Forks, Mommy?" asked Elisabeth.

"It's where I used to live, sweetie..."

"I thought you always lived here like Auntie Jane and Grandma." The little girl stated her pools of emeralds were heartbreaking.

"So I ran away...I didn't know where I was running to exactly but I knew that the best place would be somewhere with a vampire that could help me so I had two choices; try find you or go to the Volturi which is where I went. Aro thought it would be interesting to see how they would turn out so they left me alive after some debating. The birth was hard since they all drank human blood but they managed barely and Jane turned me. They looked after Nessie, E.J and Elisabeth whilst I was out which was for only a short period of time — they fed them bottles of animal blood." Bella paused and looked at Elisabeth who in turn was watching her brother and sister eagerly but was still glued to her mother's leg.

"Why doesn't Elisabeth go play with them?" I questioned Bella.

"She's very clumsy like me when I was human but on the other hand she is much, much smarter than I'll ever be." Bella laughed.

"Oh," I muttered, poor child to be blessed with Bella's balance.

"So I turned and there were goats and a lion ready for me to drain since I'd already told them I wanted to drink animal blood instead of human blood. We discovered E.J's ability first — if he was angry or upset you couldn't get within three feet of him — so you'd stand three feet from him staring at him whilst people laughed at you. We found Tiny's next as she always seemed to zone out when she was a baby and sometimes people would start doing random things like hop like bunnies..." Bella continued. I suddenly felt the urge to hop like a bunny and I did — Elisabeth giggled at me and Bella and her son and daughter laughed.

"Wow, that's amazing...she sees visions like Alice but has influence over decisions as well, wow," I gasped.

"Who's Alice," asked E.J.

"My daughter,"

"Vampire can't have kids." Said Nessie rather arrogantly, her brother nodded his head furiously to agree with her.

"I think of her as my daughter,"

"Oh," muttered the brown eyed triplets in unison. Goodness that was scary.

"Renesmee found her ability roundabout the same time as E.J, she would touch you and you could see what she was thinking about." Bella laughed.

"Wow, you have one talented bunch of kids." I laughed.

"So will you tell them about us?" I asked her.

"Yes, I suppose so —Tilly is bound to know something already so might as well as explain what I can." Bella signed in defeat; I could tell she hadn't originally planned to tell them anything. "Nessie, E.J, Tilly, Carlisle is your grandfather...he is your father's adopted dad and you've got lots of aunts and uncles in America that are part of Carlisle's coven," Bella finished. Elisabeth unlatched herself from Bella's leg and stared me in the face. "Do you mind?" Elisabeth asked suddenly.

"About what my dear," I questioned back to her. Elisabeth smiled at me and hugged me; I smiled too and hugged her back lifting Elisabeth up with me as I straightened up. She giggled and buried her head into my shoulders. "I don't like new people very much," she whispered into my ear, "but you're okay, I guess."

Bella's two other children ran over to me and hugged my legs. "Welcome to Volterra, grandpa..." E.J welcomed.

"We've got too many grandparents now," signed Nessie.

"Christmas will be amazing!" Tilly promised looking down at her siblings. "How do you know?" E.J questioned.

"Edward! I've been here long enough for you to know that I see the future, can make you hop like a rabbit and see your past!" Elisabeth pointed out. I looked at Bella confused whilst Bella looked at Elisabeth "Don't look at me!" Elisabeth cried and she buried her head in my shirt, "it's scary," she added from the safety of my shirt.