Driving through the familiar town was lovely. Although it was so different I forgot how comfortable it was. Some things never changed. The dark spread of clouds and the soft mist of rain. Placing my hand on his leg, I looked at husband. He was content in Forks. I knew out of all the places we had lived, this was a place he never hesitated to call home. The soft smile on his lips and the happiness in his eyes as he took in the familiar surroundings forced an open smile on my face. "What are you smiling at love?" He took the hand that was resting on his leg into his and kissed my knuckles. He looked at me, now love spread through his eyes.
"I am smiling at you dear." I cupped his face with the hand he just held and stared into his eyes. "You look so happy when you are in Forks."
"It is home." His smile grew more. "Our family is complete here. Edward found Bella, and that gave us Renesme. There is also Jacob. This is where our family became whole." He was right of course. Three years ago our family became whole. No loose ends. Everyone had someone and everyone was happy. That is until yesterday. Carlisle noticed my change in mood and placed his hand on my shoulder. "It will okay. We will go back to Alaska soon."
My voice was weak as I remembered the scent in the house, "I don't want to go back to Alaska Carlisle. I love Forks. It is just… what if whoever was in our house follows us here? What if he hurts the children?" I started to dry sob as we reached our house. "What if he hurts you Carlisle? I will not live with that. I can't live without you." He pulled me into an embrace and all the kids ran into the house. They loved it when we returned to a house. Returning the house to how we left it gave them something to do. Trimming the trees and uncovering all the furniture. Bedrooms were always left to last.
"Come one mum and dad!" Emmett was at the door and pulled me out of the car. Carlisle was chuckling as he followed us into the house. It was just as we left it. Except the followers had died and there was dust. Bella, Alice and Rosalie were already dealing with that. Edward and Jasper were removing the plastic from the furniture and Emmett was making sure the electricity was working. Carlisle put his hand on the small of my back.
"Home sweet home." He smiled as he watched our family work together. I pecked him on the lips and ran into the kitchen pulling Renesme with me.
"How about we make sure the kitchen is in order?"
"Definitely." Her voice rang of excitement. She was beautiful. Her hair sat like Bella's and her figure was similar. Though, her features were extremely similar to Edward's. She was almost a couple split of the two. I think Alice was grateful of her dress sense.
"She definitely is Esme." Edward was laughing. I bet Jake is too. A smirk crossed my lips. I could hear him stop what he was doing and rush towards me. "Now that is just cruel mum." He sat on the bench.
"What is cruel dad?" Renseme cheerfully pecked her father on his cheek. Her eyes were full of curiosity like Bella's always was.
"Nothing dear. Go help your mum. She is heading to the cottage." She turned and headed for the door.
"You know she will run off to see Jake right?" Edward looked at me. "You can't stop her. Plus they will always find their way back to each other. Face it Edward." I placed my head on his face "Love is love. I didn't object when you fell for Bella."
"Bella was human mum."
"And Jake was once. He can't stop his path." His crooked smile lit his face up.
"I know mum. He makes her happy. They are just friends anyway. He promised Bella. Plus I know Ness has a thing for a guy in Alaska." He laughed and ran before I could question him. You are a cheat dear. You know the name but I know who he is.
In two hours the house was restored and Carlisle had his job sorted. A lot of the staff had left which gave Carlisle partially a new start. Everyone had retired to their rooms and Nessie and Bella were visiting Charlie and Jake. Unfortunately, Billy had passed. Bella rang when she found out wanting to know what the disease was the killed him. Of course Carlisle knew everything about it. Turns out Forks had a break out of the Swine Flu. Most of the people we knew had actually passed. Bella's friends Angela, Mike and Eric had all moved for their careers. Jessica on the other hand stayed in Forks. I never really included her when I referred to Bella's friends. Edward had spoken to me about how she felt towards Bella. "She hates her mum. But Bella persist on staying friends with her. She didn't even talk to her until she noticed that the guys were interested in her. She used her." The door to my room opened and I was pulled out of my memory. Carlisle walked in and sat on the edge of the bed. "Esme, we need to talk." I sat up and moved next to him. His eyes were unreadable. He reached into his pocket, pulled out the letter and handed it to me. I looked at it, scared of its content. "Darling, there is nothing in this letter that suggests that our family is in danger. I searched his eyes than took the letter and opened it.
Dearest Esme,
It has been too long. I know why you left your life when we were married. I know that I was unworthy of you. I wish you the best for your future. Not that you need it, you obviously are well off and have a loving family. We should catch up.
Enjoy the clean-up.
Charles.
The letter dropped from my hands as I looked at Carlisle. "He wants to meet up. After everything he did to me. He acts like we are old friends!" I was furious. How dare he come into my home, no warning, uninvited and un-wanted? "I am never returning to Alaska. Carlisle…"
"In a way, you are old friends. I am not saying that you have to meet up with him," He pushed my hair behind my ear. "I prefer if you don't. I don't see this letter as a threat, but his trashing of our home I do. Alice has spoken to Edward and Edward has spoken to me about a vision Alice had. If we had not moved, we would have been in the line of danger. But after we left, Alice could only see joy in our family." I could see in his eyes that he was not telling me something as he turned and faced the door.
"Carlisle what are you not telling me?" I got off the bed and forced him to look at me. "My love, what?" He looked up at me, if he could have cried he would be.
"Esme you go missing in every way she looks and so does the family." I stood up and faced at the window.
"What does this mean Carlisle?" I turned and faced him, his face leaning on his arms. Walking over slowly I force him to stand. "We can't all die, she would see a threat. Is there a chance run into someone that makes her vision blurry?"
"It is quite possible. But it is not certain." I pulled him to the bed and got him to lie down. I made patterns on his chest as I felt him relax without Jasper's assistance. He had his eyes closed. I watched him rest to the extent he could. Thinking, that this would be a perfect moment, if he could sleep.