Carlisle POV
I watch happily as my youngest daughter and her mate Jasper disappear, the others smiling after them, it's been around two months since Violet has been away, and we know that he has missed her terribly, even with Alice keeping him distracted he has missed her which is understandable.
"I imagine you have some questions Bella" I say, my eyes going to her now, I'm sure this is all very confusing for her,
"Y-yes, I'm not sure how this all works" she says looking at me with what I can see is confusion,
"Come along, we can sit and I can tell you. I'm sure Violet would tell you but she is otherwise engaged" I say, leading her and the others to the living room.
I wait until we are all sitting and until Bella has sat and her heartbeat has calmed slightly before beginning.
"Now Bella, your grandmother was Helen Swan, married to Geoffrey Swan, and her sister was Jasmine Nicole. I met them both when they were younger as their doctors. But one day Jasmine came to me in private, she was pregnant, but she told me that the father was different, he was as attractive as myself and my family and beyond strong. Her pregnancy was far from normal, her pregnancy lasted three months before she gave birth. But she didn't make the child's birth. She asked us to take care of her child" I say, watching her expression as I start my story, she seems to be taking it in well.
"Rosalie was with me along with Esme at the time of the birth, Jasmine saw how Rosalie looked at the baby, knew how much she wanted a child of her own, and she asked her to be her baby's mother. Rosalie accepted and kept the baby, we all raised her together, monitoring her growth, as we came to learn that she was not completely human, she is also part vampire, our strength, speed and as far as we can tell our immortality, nothing seems to harm her also apart from another vampire which we found out from a misunderstanding some years ago" I say, she nods at this, seeming to take it all in,
"But why has she then referred to my dad as her uncle, I've known her for years but I was just told that she was a friend of the family?" she asks, I nod in understanding that will have been her father's story of Violet,
"Jasmine and Helen were very close sisters, Helen knew about the baby as well as Geoffrey, Helen told us that she knew the truth about us, but she swore never to tell anyone as long as we cared for the child, she was her niece after all and loved her very much. When she had your father Charlie, he was told the secret too, we had moved a few times but we kept in touch. But as the child didn't age, we couldn't be around here for too long, too many questions, once or twice Charlie would have Violet come to Forks to see her and that was when they agreed on the story of being family friends. He had to keep up appearances and so Forks knows of Violet – marginally, but enough." I say, she nods slowly at this, she seems to be doing well to take this all in,
"Why don't I give you a tour Bella, give you time to process this information" Edward says, she looks to him and nods, they both stand up and Edward leads her upstairs.
I look to Esme then Rosalie, Emmett and Alice,
"I think we will be ok" I say wanting to reassure them all, I know Esme will have been a little worried but with Alice's reassurance that Bella will be fine with us it has eased her worries immensely, only Rosalie is more defensive,
"I still think it is far too risky for her to know, it's dangerous enough with Charlie knowing" Rosalie says, I smile gently at her, understanding her worry with the Volturi's rules, but the Swans have kept our secret and not once leaked it to others,
"I trust Charlie as do you Rosalie, Violet also trusts Charlie and he nor his mother have betrayed us, I don't believe Bella would either, if she did want to, she would have done it already" I say, she doesn't look convinced but I know she will be placid on the situation for now.
"Now then, why don't we finish dinner, I'm sure at least one of the girls will be hungry when they come back" I say, they all smile knowing whom I mainly mean and make our way to the kitchen, knowing this will likely be for Violet, Rosalie is a lot more into the cooking now as she was before, I do hope she gets used to the idea of Bella, it does seem like she and Edward are good to each other, but it is early, we need to at this moment just watch and see how it goes.
Hi everyone I hope you like this chapter, I have edited the previous chapters to fit in with this story, but I think this way will make more sense.
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