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Thank you to my reviewers

I know the story has been going pretty fast. When the idea came to me I had a the beginning and how Bella and Edward met again. I didn't want to make a massive jump from the 20's so I included little moments. I have a lot of fun with Carlisle and Edward if it wasn't obvious. I don't want the story to suffer because of my laziness but at the same time...eh. There is absolutely nothing to do in this small town! The hot spots are like Dairy Queen and hanging outside of the gas station. We don't have a movie theatre!

Chapter 7,

Bella refused to stop glaring at Darius. He was sitting across from her pretending not to notice. He was pretty sure that Devon was glaring too.

"Poland stinks," Devon declared.

"It was prettier when I lived there," Darius sighed. "So sue me!"

"I will agree with you Dare, Poland was beautiful. Once you looked beyond all of the Hitler youth."

"Oh how was I supposed to know that that was gonna happen!?" Darius cried. "Fine. You know what we'll go to Hiroshima."

"Oh, no," Bella said, shaking her head, "you don't get to pick anymore. The last two places you chose nearly got us killed!"

"Oklahoma?" Devon asked.

"Fine, the last three places."

"Okay first off, Italy was no different than Wisconsin and I think the fact we almost died is totally erased by the fact that Dev was both conceived and born there. Oklahoma...well almost the entire country was in the dust bowl! And how was I supposed to know that a dictator had taken over or that he was rounding up everybody who he thought was jewish?!"

"Mommy what's jewish?"

"It's a religion sweetheart that you'll learn about when you're older."

"Oh."

"Come on Bells, Japan is nice."

Bella glared at him. "No."

"England?"

"If Germany is starting to go to war, which I'm sure that's where it'll end up, do you really want to be in Europe?!"

Darius shrugged. "Just a suggestion."

"Let's just go back to the states."

"Ooh let's go to Hawaii! Warm weather, the beach, palm trees."

Bella sighed. "I don't want to talk about this right now, I'm mad."

Darius laughed. "You're so cute when your mad. Isn't she Devon?"

"If you don't want to wake up off of this train I highly suggest you leave me alone."

Darius held up his hands. "Fair enough, Bells. C'mon Dev let's play some cards."

"Yay!" Devon cheered, jumping off of Bella's lap and going to his father. Bella sighed and left the compartment. She looked out of the window at the passing scenery. She knew exactly where she wanted to go but she didn't want to say it. She wanted to go to Chicago. She wanted to be where Edward used to be. It was almost as if she expected him to be there.

It had been a while since she really thought about Edward. She had, after all, tried to get over him. She had even tried to see Darius, the man she was very sexually attracted to and whom she had a child with, as someone she could love. She would admit to herself that it was Edward that kept her from falling in love with him.

"Mommy?"

She looked down at her son. He looked up at her with sweet eyes and a cherub face. She knelt down.

"What's wrong love?"

"You look so sad mommy. Are you really that angry with daddy?"

Bella sat down and he crawled into her lap. He rested his head on her chest as always and she kissed the top of his head.

"I was thinking about someone I lost a long time ago," she said.

"The human man that daddy sometimes asks you about?"

"Yes," Bella said quietly, "someone I loved very much."

"How much?"

"To the moon and back."

"Be happy mommy," Devon said reaching up and wiping her cheek with his hand. "Okay. Me and daddy love it when you're happy."

"Come on cutie," Bella sighed, standing up with her son in his arms. "Let's go see if your daddy needs to be annoyed."

---

Carlisle got up when he heard the doorbell. He looked at Esme and she shrugged. They weren't expecting anyone and whoever it was didn't smell human. He opened the door and saw two people standing on the porch. It was a young man and a young woman. The young man looked slightly confused, he had shoulder length blonde hair that had a bit of a curl, and red eyes. The woman was much shorter than her partner with cropped black hair and black eyes that were fixed on him.

"Hi," the woman said with a cheerful tone, "my name is Alice and this is my mate Jasper."

"Um, hello. I'm..."

"Carlisle Cullen," Alice said in the same cheery tone, "you and your wife Esme live with three other vampires and you have a special diet. You also have a big heart and like to spread your peaceful ways. Jasper and I are tired of wandering so when can we move in?"

Jasper had closed his eyes and sighed. Carlisle was absolutely stunned into silence and Esme was curious.

"Y-you know all about us?"

"Yes. I'm psychic."

"She really is," Jasper added, "it blew me away the first time I heard."

"After Jazz and I got on our way I had a vision of you and your family and it felt peaceful. I already saw that you'd have no problem but I figured it was polite to ask anyway."

"The more the merrier I guess," Carlisle shrugged. "Go up and pick a room."

"I'll help," Esme said happily. She and Alice promptly went upstairs babbling a mile a minute.

"I really appreciate this," Jasper said, "I know you must be startled."

"A little," Carlisle admitted. "Is she always so...forward?"

"And cryptic. I think it's cute."

Carlisle smiled. "So is she the one with the special talents or do you both have them?"

"I can manipulate emotions and sense them," Jasper said, "I think it's because I was so charismatic as a human."

"Your eyes are still red."

Jasper nodded and looked a bit ashamed. "I don't do very well. Alice somehow has. When she said she saw a family with an alternate diet...it made me happy. All I've known is fighting."

"When were you human?"

"Civil war."

"What about after?"

Jasper seemed to radiate his discomfort with his own past. "Vampire wars in the south. I was...was the one that killed the newborns when they weren't...useful."

"I'm sorry to hear that," Carlisle said sincerely.

"I couldn't take it anymore. I left and wound up in Philadelphia where I met Alice in a diner. She walked right up to me and said that I had kept her waiting."

"And that's when he tipped his hat and like a southern gentleman said I'm sorry ma'am," Alice said from the stairs. Jasper smiled up at her. "We both saw hope in the other's eyes. We've been together since."

"That's so sweet," Esme cooed. "Oh just wait until the boys get back."

"It will be interesting," Rosalie said walking in. She looked Alice over and smiled. "I'm Rosalie."

"I'm Alice," she chirped. "I can see we'll be good friends."

Rosalie smiled a bit. "Let's hope so."

"So Alice what's your story?" Carlisle asked.

"I don't know really," she shrugged, "I woke up a vampire with really no idea where I was before. I just remember being in the dark. When I woke up there was a dead vampire though. What are the boys like?"

"Emmett, Rosie's husband, is playful. Edward is more on the calculating side."

Carlisle was about to go on when he heard the familiar laughter of his sons. Emmett came in first in high spirits as usual.

"Carlisle you missed it! Edward got his butt kicked by a mountain lion! It totally out smarted him!"

"It didn't outsmart me I got bored."

"Whatever," Emmett snorted. "Hey! Whose the kid?"

"I'm Alice and I'm not a kid. I'm actually about fifty."

"Okay, whose the old lady baby?"

Carlisle rolled his eyes. "This is Alice and her mate Jasper. They'll be living with us."

"Lovely," Edward said with a shrug.

"Teapot," Emmett muttered.

"Keep talking Emmett and you'll find your foot in your mouth."

Edward went upstairs to get a book.

"WHAT HAPPENED TO MY ROOM?!"

Esme and Carlisle snorted and Rosalie flat out laughed. Edward rushed back down.

"Why is it every time I go out something bad happens to my sanctuary?!"

"I liked the view?" Alice shrugged.

Carlisle bit his lip to keep from laughing out loud. Emmett wasn't so kind. He was laughing so hard he had to sit down.

"Oh relax Edward we moved everything into the other room," Esme said.

"You guys are horrible! All of you!" Edward declared before storming up the stairs to his new room. He grumbled as he straightened everything to his liking.

He paused and looked at a picture of him and Bella. It was from their wedding. She was wearing a beautiful dress that he had loved. It was a bit fuller in the skirt than she liked but she put up with it for him. She had designed most of the dress. It had been off the shoulder satin and had a layer of lace that covered her arms and all the way up to her neck. She held a bouquet of roses because she wasn't allowed to put her arm around him. Her smile lit up the photograph and brought one to his lips.

"May I ask who she is?"

Edward looked back and saw Jasper.

"My wife," he answered quietly, "when I was human. We were married three months before I died."

"How did you die?" Jasper asked.

"Spanish flu," he sighed. Jasper winced.

"Sorry to hear that. Sounds painful."

Edward nodded. "But she stayed with me the whole time. She and Katie."

"Katie?"

"Our cat. Sweet thing passed away back in the twenties. We found her as a kitten. Only one of her kittens is still alive and that's barely. Flo is very shy though so you won't meet her for a while. She has kittens though. They're still young but you'll see them...ah speak of the devil."

Jasper looked over when Edward spoke. A tiny calico had wandered in. She immediately went up to Jasper and sniffed him.

"That's Piko," Edward said, "she's the boldest and the youngest. Flo had a litter earlier this month but the other three didn't make it. She has two older brothers but one ran away and the other is probably hiding. He's as skittish as his mother."

Jasper held his hand out and the kitten mewed. She jumped up into his lap and purred. "She's friendly."

"Yeah. She's a lot like her uncle. Dracula was a good boy."

"You named a cat Dracula?"

"Carlisle said I was immature," Edward laughed, "oh boy that cat used to ambush him all the time!"

Edward smiled vaguely and grabbed a picture. He handed it to Jasper. It had been hard to get all of the cats to behave to get a picture taken.

"They look sweet."

"Sorry I'm boring you."

"It's no problem," Jasper assured him, "it's a nice change of pace."

"So is there a reason the tiny one took my room?"

"I think something about the view."

Edward sighed. That was why he liked the room.

"You'll soon find that whatever Alice wants she gets," Jasper said with a smile, "she's relentless."

"You'll have fun at school then."

"School?" Jasper asked. "You actually go?"

Edward nodded. "We play Carlisle's foster kids. He works at the hospital."

Jasper's eyes widened. "A vampire doctor?"

"Yep. He's been a vampire for about three hundred years and a doctor for almost as long."

"Impressive. I don't think I can handle daily fresh blood around me right now. I was kind of hoping Dr. Cullen would help me."

"Oh he will," Edward sighed, "even if you don't want him to."

"Oh Edward be nice!" Carlisle called up.

"Football outside in two minutes!" Emmett called.

"I'm game," Jasper shrugged. He and Edward went downstairs and out into the massive back yard.

---

Edward sat on a snow mound and looked up at the northern lights. Alaska was certainly beautiful. Carlisle's friends had welcomed them like family and it was nice to be around vampires for a change. He looked at the lights and thought of Bella. It was the first time in years that he really thought about her. He knew that she was probably long passed by now. After all it had been almost a century. He wondered what her life had been like. He imagined she found someone to settle down with and died surrounded by her children.

"Hey Edward," Tanya said. "Do you mind if I sit with you?"

"My mound is your mound."

"Ooh I like the sound of that," she purred.

"I didn't mean that way!"

Tanya laughed. "I'm just kidding. Calm down Edward!"

"Sorry, just a bit wound up," he mumbled. "It's beautiful here."

"Yeah, it really is," she agreed. "So how is it that you are the odd man out?"

"What do you mean?"

Tanya smiled at him. "Carlisle and Esme, Alice and Jasper, Rosalie and Emmett. Then there's you."

"I just haven't found that vampire yet I guess."

"Pining for someone?"

"Pointlessly yes, she would have died by now."

"I know how that goes. Humans are so fragile. But this is me asking you out to dinner. Or in our case a hunt."

Edward looked at her. She was pretty with strawberry blonde hair and buttery gold eyes. He deserved to be happy with someone. He knew he would probably never love someone like he loved Bella, but that didn't mean he couldn't love someone else. Tanya was fun to talk to, high spirited and intelligent. They got along wonderfully.

"Why not," he said.

"Great. Pick me up tomorrow at eight," she said, kissing his cheek. She jumped up and left to help Carmen with the laundry.

Edward had barely laid back in the snow again before he was joined by Carlisle.

"Edward's got a daaaate," he sang. "Maybe now someone will, as Emmett would say, juggle your balls."

"Seventy odd years is nothing compared to your dry spell."

"I miss the cats."

Edward nodded. Piko, the last of Katie's ancestors died just before they came up north before she could have kittens of her own. They kept all of their collars and tags in a golden frame that hung over the fireplace. Esme had painted a family tree for their dear felines and used it as the background for the collars.

"So getting back to you not getting any," Carlisle said looking at him, "does it even work anymore?"

"I don't know," Edward sighed rolling onto his side. "You're a doctor, is it possible for a man's penis to stop working?"

"Well you are a vampire and you probably haven't used it since you were human. Muscles do die when they aren't used for a long long emphasis on long time."

"Well you got it up so I think I'm fine. But Carlisle..."

"Yes?" Carlisle asked.

"Help me," Edward whispered.

"Help you with what?" Carlisle asked.

Edward rolled onto Carlisle and cupped his face. "Help me feel like a man again!"

"W-what?!"

"Make me feel like a man again Carlisle. Help me make it work again!"

"GET THE HELL OFF OF ME!" Carlisle near screamed, kicking Edward off and sending him flying. He was on his feet like a cat and ran back to the cabin. Edward landed in the snow laughing harder than he had in a long time and ran after his father figure. They got back to their cabin and the girls looked up.

"Esme, something is wrong with that demon child!"

"What are you talking about?" Esme asked.

"What indeed?" Edward asked as he walked in.

"Edward was playing gay chicken," Alice sighed, "step into the nineties, Carlisle. Edward congratulations on getting asked out."

Carlisle grumbled and walked out. Edward laid on the sofa and sighed.

---

Bella was irritated. The new millennium found her family in the northwestern states. She hated the cold. She hated the snow and she hated everything she saw when she was in that mood. She especially hated the man that was sitting casually on the sofa with her son.

"If I'm pregnant I swear I will knife you!"

"It just isn't a year when I don't hear mom threatening to knife you," Devon sighed, "I would think it's an endearment."

"I love that boy to pieces but I am not popping out another one!"

"Again, you say that every year when you think you might be pregnant."

Human pregnancy tests didn't work with her because her hormones were slightly different. They learned that the hard way when they had gotten a negative and a few weeks later she was certainly showing. Unfortunately a vampire attack took the baby from her shortly after and ever since she had been angry with Darius. Especially since she kept wanting to have sex with him. She was supposed to be mad dammit! Not horny!

"Devon one day you will find a woman that you dearly love and you will want to mate with her. Hopefully you actually do find your soul mate. As much as I love your crazy mother and she loves me, a casual sex relationship just doesn't work."

"Telling me about your casual sex relationship is just wrong."

"And make sure she is your soul mate so she doesn't threaten you every single time she has a scare."

Darius ducked as a kitchen knife went whizzing by his head.

"And don't buy her knives for her brand new kitchen as a birthday present."

"Duly noted," Devon sighed, not looking up from his video game.

"How is school going sweetheart?" Bella asked.

"I hate high school. It hasn't changed in years! And congrats you aren't pregnant, I can smell you from here," Devon added, wrinkling his nose. Darius, on the other hand, had a dreamy look on his face.

"Not going to happen."

"That may be," he sighed, "but I love the way you smell in heat."

"Perv," Bella sighed, "anyway I have a big catering event this weekend in some small town. Two of my workers dropped out so guess who is replacing them."

"Got nothin better to do," Devon shrugged. "You gonna pay me this time?"

"Probably not," Bella shrugged. "That's one of the perks of parenthood."

"One of my favorites," Darius agreed.

"I hate this place."

---

Bella had already set everything up in the dance hall before the wedding coordinator showed up. She was finishing putting the spun sugar decorations on the top of the cake when she picked up the scent. She whirled around and found a tiny vampire with cropped hair behind her.

"Hi! I'm Alice Cullen. You must be Bella!"

"Yes," Bella said quietly. She was on edge. The girl smelled like a vampire and looked like a vampire but she had the same strange golden eyes that the doctor had over a century ago.

"Great. Now I'm the only one who was allowed to see all of this. So if any of my family members try to sneak a peek let me know. I want everyone to get the full surprise! The cake looks amazing by the way! You really are talented!"

She spoke very quickly in a sincere cheerful voice.

"Don't be so uptight! Everyone will love it!"

"That's what I'm hoping for," Bella said with a forced smile. Alice smiled back and walked out.

"I smell a vamp," Darius said as he came out of the catering kitchen. "Do we need to leave?"

"I don't know," Bella said slowly, "she didn't make any threatening moves towards me or anything. She was actually really nice."

Darius looked unsettled and very cautious. Devon was munching on an apple and didn't seem to care either way. Unlike his mother, who would much rather fly than fight, Devon thought himself to be much stronger than any vampire and would rather take them out.

"I say we take 'em out," he said, "preemptive strike."

"No more video games for you," Darius told him, "we aren't violent people. They are."

"Yeah and look where passive aggression got us," Devon snorted

Bella gave him a harsh look before sending him off to make sure that the plates were warming and the real cake was ready.

"I'll never understand the purpose of two cakes," Darius sighed looking at Bella's masterpiece.

"Um, hello?! Would you cut this?! It's for decoration!"

"Such a waste. You know there are starving kids in Africa."

"I know, you dragged me there remember?"

Darius smiled. "Did we get attacked by vamps?"

"No."

"I think it's because vampires are racist."

Bella sighed. "You would."

---

The wedding was supposedly beautiful. Bella hadn't seen any of it but she could hear the murmur of the guests as they began to arrive at the hall. From what she had been told the party was going to start while photographs were taken before the bride changed into her reception dress.

"Rich people?" Devon asked.

"Apparently the bride couldn't choose between two designers," Bella sighed, "oh you should have seen my wedding dress. It was beautiful. Way ahead of it's time."

Devon rolled his eyes and Darius shrugged. Bella sighed and watched the guests come in. Finally the wedding party arrived. Bella blanched when she saw they were all vampires. How did the humans not notice?! Her eyes locked on a familiar vampire. Golden hair and a gentle smile. On his arm was a beautiful caramel haired woman with a kind face.

"It's Dr. Fang," she muttered.

"I must say that cake is remarkable," the vampire said with a smile, "I'm Esme."

"Oh, yes we spoke on the phone," Bella said with a very forced smile. Esme seemed to notice.

"Carlisle you must see this!" she called.

Carlisle came up and looked at the cake. "Yes, very well done, much better then the one Rose had at her wedding."

Bella stopped breathing and Darius looked at her. He grabbed her balled fist. She looked about ready to dive over the table and attack the vampire.

"Hi," Devon said with a smile, "so are you siblings?"

"Oh no, my foster son is the groom," Esme said with a smile. "So you must be helping your parents. Summer job?"

"If they paid me," Devon sighed, "mom says it's the joys of parenthood."

Esme laughed. "You'll know it some day I'm sure."

Carlisle looked at Bella and was about to say something when he stopped. Esme seemed to have noticed and looked strangely at Bella. A few people in the background were starting to notice. It was as if a chill was settling over everyone. Bella's glare was so intense Darius was sure that she was going to set fire to something.

"Sweetheart I think the roast is done," he said dragging her off into the kitchen. "What is wrong with you?!"

"That's him. The doctor from Chicago."

"Are you sure?"

Bella glared angrily at him. Darius tightened his hold on her arm and grabbed the other one for good measure.

"Okay honey calm down."

"He killed him. I know he did! I just want to return the favor!"

"Bella, Bella calm down," Darius urged, "they are peaceful and we would like them to remain so. Think of Devon and all of the humans out there. Vamps are known to be irrational and we don't need to provoke them."

"You want me to put on a smile for the bastard that destroyed my life?! Darius not a day goes by where I don't miss Edward! He killed my husband and my cat!"

"Oh come on don't be so dramatic! Face it, Bella, Edward is dead and killing that doctor won't do any good."

"You guys know they can hear you right? In fact I think every vampire in there has gone on alert," Devon said.

"That's just great. Do what you want Bella, I'm not going to stop you."

Bella glared at him and stormed out. She was at least going to scream her lungs out at Carlisle if she couldn't kill him. There was applause as she turned into the dance hall and she figured the happy couple was there. She saw Carlisle near where he had been. Her eyes were fixed on him. But she saw beyond him and her heart stopped.

TBC

Yay cliffy! But not really because everybody knows what she saw.