Hope you guys enjoy this chapter! I liked Jaspers gambling thing. I couldn't add it in the first version of this story, when it was Alice and Jasper in Bella and Edwards place so I was happy that I got to put it in!

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Chapter Seven: Eternity

"I expect you to find him, Henry." Charlie was saying to his deputy. "That's your job."

"I've already wired her description down the main line." Henry tried to calm his boss down. "They'll keep a lookout and we'll get up a search party come morning."

"My wife is certain that this man wearing a yellow suit, by the name of Aro, has something to do with Isabella's disappearance." Charlie told Henry. Any useful information would be helpful at this point.

"And Mrs. Swan says so based on…?" Henry prompted.

"Her instincts." Was the only explanation that Charlie Swan could give him.

"Well, maybe you better step in here, boss." Henry opened the door for Charlie Swan and showed him into the office. A man was sitting in the chair with his back to the door. Another blonde haired man was leaning against the window. Charlie Swan didn't recognize that one from his wife's description, but the other he knew.

Aro turned and smiled politely at the newcomer. "Am I whom you're looking for?" He inquired in a bright tone. "I do believe I fit the description." He offered Mr. Swan his hand. "My name is Aro Volturi."

"Mine is Charlie Swan pleased to meet you." Charlie Swan shook the man's hand and then let it go. "My wife said she saw you talking to my daughter."

"Yes, I did. She's a charming girl, full of fire." Aro remarked. "Perhaps too much."

His friend laughed quietly but stopped when Aro looked at him.

"She's gone, is she?" Aro asked, returning to Henry.

"Looks like she ran away." Henry informed Aro.

"Did she now?" Aro sighed. "Somehow I'm not surprised."

"My daughter did not run away." Charlie gave Henry a cold stare. Then he turned back to face Aro. "And I'm not interested in what surprises you, sir. I want to know if you know anything of her whereabouts."

"No, Mr. Swan. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I do not." Aro informed him softly. "I am quite coincidentally here in search of someone myself. I'm seeking a family that used to life in these environs." He looked at Charlie. "I thought the deputy could help me locate them, but ironically, Mr. Swan your daughter told me that you were the constable, that you could help." He pulled an old photo out of his breast-pocket. "Name of Cullen, long lost relatives of mine." The picture was of Jasper in a military uniform.

"I-I can't help you." Charlie told him giving the photo back to him.

"Nor I you." Aro responded unemotionally. He paused at the door. "At least not now. Come Demetri" Then he turned to leave again.

Demetri stopped at the door as well and addressed Charlie. "However, I'd be happy to search your woods for, you Mr. Swan. I'm rather talented at finding people. I just might meet with success." He turned to Henry. "Good evening, Deputy."

And with that the two strange men left the jail house.

"Find out what happened to her, Henry. Please." Charlie's face was twisted with sadness. "She's our only child."

. . .

Jasper and Alice went into the town to see what all had changed and to see if anyone had any news about their family or the girl's disappearance.

"Hold up a second Alice." Jasper said to his wife as they passed a salon. He could hear that they were playing cards.

She sighed. "Not again Jasper!" she groaned, Ever since their stay in Monaco Jasper had been hooked on gambling.

"Just one minute Alice, please?" He gave her the face she couldn't resist.

"Alright." She sighed letting him go.

"Stay out here."

It was five minutes into the game. Jasper had called the previous bet. The next man folded, the next called Jasper's bid, and the last man folded.

With a grin, Jasper showed his cards, a flush. He started to chuckle as he dragged the money back over to his side of the table.

"I don't like getting laughed at by a cheat." The man, whom lost all his money, replied. Apparently someone was a sore looser.

"Now 'cheat' is a nasty word, sir." Jasper told him. "I much prefer 'card sharp'." He shuffled the cards and cut them in half when he pulled up one stack, the six of hearts was on the bottom. The other man scoffed at this. But with his other hand, Jasper pulled the top card off the second stack to reveal the ace of hearts.

"You are looking for trouble, aren't you, mister?" The other man had lost his cool.

"Yes sir I sure am!" Jasper started going for the man but Alice was their before he could land a decent punch.

"Get outside!" She growled at him.

"You can't hurt me!" Jasper egged the man on.

"Come on!" Alice yanked him with all her force.

"Oh yea, your pretty tough!" one man jeered. "Got your woman to do all the fighting for you!" they all laughed.

"Shut up!" Alice yelled at them before going out the door behind Jasper.

"Thank you!" Jasper told her in a sarcastic voice as they walked down the street. "Thank you very much!"

"Your welcome." Alice replied in the same tone.

In the back of the Saloon, where no one bothered them were three men who had seen the whole thing, the one wearing a yellow suit smiled, they had found who they were looking for.

. . .

"There you go." Esme said as she made up a bed for Bella on the couch. "The breeze off the lake should keep you cool." She opened the window just a crack. "The children sleep up in the loft when they're home, when they ever sleep those night owls, so you'll have your privacy. It's a bit cramped up there with five of them up there but they manage."

They stared at each other for a while before Esme spoke again.

"It's nice having another child here." She replied as she gently patted her hand. "My other children are so grown up. It's a nice feeling, being needed."

"Thank you Mrs. Cullen." Bella smiled.

"You're welcome Miss Swan." Esme gave him a small half-smile. "Can I call you Bella?" She asked. Bella nodded and Esme smiled again. "Do you have brothers and sisters?"

"No it's just me." Bella replied. "I wish I had brothers and sisters like Edward have. Where do they go?"

"Oh, they go different places, do different things." Esme said casually. "Emmett can do carpentry and he's good with his hands. Rosalie mostly goes with him just to be with him. Alice and Jasper go wherever they are needed. Jasper is in the military and Alice is trained as a nurse. They go into combat together. Edward is musically inclined. He travels the world so he can play in different symphonies." Esme smiled at the end. "Well I hope you will be comfortable here." Esme said as her departing remarks. "Try and get some sleep now. Carlisle and I will be in the other room if you need anything just give us a holler."

. . .

Aro, Caius, and Marcus were all standing in a grave yard. The church bell timed the hour.

"Pity," Caius remarked to his brothers. "all this blood gone to waste."

"Hello?" they heard a man's voice call. They turned to see the reverend of the church striding towards them carrying a lantern. "Have you lost your way, friends?" he said when he got closer.

"Not hardly, Reverend." Caius spoke before Aro could. "We're looking for a family name, Cullen. Are you familiar with it?"

"Cullen…." The reverend thought about it for a second. "Cullen… I'm afraid I can't help you. There are no Cullen's in this cemetery that I know of."

"I wouldn't think so." Caius said with a short laugh at the end. "Or in any other." He gave a small giggle.

"Caution brother." Marcus rasped. Caius ignored him.

"Tell me, Reverend you who have attended so many deathbeds… what is it people most desire as they face the end of their lives?" Caius paused for a moment. "More time?"

"Well, I-I suppose." The reverend stuttered.

"Exactly. They'd give almost anything, I imagine, for one more year." Caius speculated. "Imagine what they'd give for all eternity."

"Sir, I don't quite understand what–"

"You will." Caius stared at him with hungry eyes. "Reverend, are you prepared to die right now, this instant?"

"If its God's will." The reverend said with conviction.

"What if it is my will?" Caius demanded.

"Brother, calm yourself!" Aro grabbed his brother's arm before he could take another step towards the reverend.

"What if you could be eternal?" Caius whispered with ferocity, shaking off Aro's restraint. "Right now, this instant? Without having to face the uncertainty of death? You'd like that, wouldn't you? No muss, no fuss, invincible to disease, never having to suffer the stench and rot of old age. Forever young." He finished with a light smile on his face.

"You speak blasphemy, sir." The reverend whispered in a terrified voice.

"Fluently." Caius whispered before he lunged.

"I told you this would happen." Marcus rasped to Aro over the screams of the terrified man. Aro just sighed as he watched the madness unfold.

Once he was done with the man he looked at his brothers. "Help me dispose of the body."

"What are brothers for?" Marcus's rhetorical question went unanswered as they carried the body off towards the lake. Marcus whistled the same melancholy tune as before as they left.

I love how this ended! Its creepy but at the same time, Marcus's comments just make me laugh! XD Please Read and review!