As always I'm sorry for being so late. This'll be the last chapter, there'll only be an epilogue to follow which I've already sent to my beta. However, we both got exams this week so it'll take some time. Also, I didn't realise until now that I didn't publish the actual chaptebut here it is.

Family time

The next day we went off to New York for the weekend, as Alice wanted to go shopping and dragged us all along. Nobody, not even Jasper, could stop her.

So now we were on a plane and there was nothing to do for me, so as always in such moments my mind wandered. Sometimes it wasn't easy for me to not live where I was born, in Greece on Mount Olympus. When we still lived across the Atlantic and near the Mediterranean it was great, I could see new countries and still visit my home, but now only a small part of me was in Greece. Still, after thousands of years, nobody knew how I really felt about it, I just couldn't bring myself to admit it.

So right then, I promised myself to visit with my family the next time there was a feast for my parents.

The rest of the flight I let my mind wander to all the places I'd seen, all the languages I knew. Something I was grateful for.

When we landed, all hell in form of Alice broke loose. She couldn't wait to get going and got impatient. I could only ignore it or I would've lost my mind.

We all felt lucky when we got to the shops that Alice wanted to go, however everyone knew that it was just the calm before the storm.

The next few hours everyone tried to stay away from Alice which surprisingly to Emmett and Jasper meant sitting in a little café, and sometime in between even Rosalie joined them. Carlisle and Esme were in some museum about art while Edward, Elizabeth and I had a quiet day in Central Park- as quiet as it could get. We had a picnic there and then played a little. After this, we walked around for a few hours and for the first time I saw New York as a tourist. The other few times I only saw it from above or only the outskirts.

Sometime later though, Alice found us and claimed that I needed a new wardrobe and dragged me to some shops I never knew existed. She talked me in about fifty new outfits while I let her do with me as she pleased.

In the evening, my husband came together with my daughter. They told me about what they did while Alice played Bella Barbie with me. Well, actually Elizabeth talked since Edward was too busy staring at me in different lingerie.

She told me about their visit to the zoo, seeing Lady Liberty and their trip up to the top of the Empire State Building. It seemed to have been a really exiting day.

In the end, I could convince Alice that enough was enough and that I needed time with my family.

So we went back to the house and played in the garden until Elizabeth needed to sleep. Edward carried her to her room and I changed her clothes, after that I told her a goodnight story until her eyelids dropped.

Then we went to our own room and watched a movie until we were sure that our daughter wouldn't wake up unexpectedly. Sometime later Edward began to kiss me, which pretty soon got very heated.

The next day everyone followed me up to the Empire State Building, where we would meet my family.

It went like expected. I should've never introduced Emmett to Apollo and Hermes. If you saw them together in action you'd think that they were ten-year olds in the body of about twenty-year olds.

They pulled prank after prank on us and only Elizabeth and my parents were excluded from their target list.

Until father threatened them with a day at the edge of Tartarus, they were uncontrolled jerks. However, after the threat they were like angels, but I had a feeling that it wouldn't last long, especially when they were nice to every woman in the room.

Later, my fears were proven right when the whole throne room was a mess. Even the thrones, which normally nobody but the one whom it belonged to could touch hadn't been left unharmed. How they made that happen was a mystery to me.

Of course, after this they had to clean up the mess and father made his words come true, only Emmett was allowed to stay with us, but Rosalie and Esme already had a punishment in mind, I was sure of that.

I was right, they had a plan. Rosalie gave him one month without sex which could always be extended and Esme confiscated his game consoles and told him that he wouldn't have access to the remote for the time being.

Naturally, he didn't like this in the least and he let us feel this with his foul mood. After that, Rosalie decided that she needed a room for herself.

In the evening, my sisters, my aunt and sisters-in-law made plans for the evening, but I only realized that when it was too late for me to back out. So now, I had to endure a whole evening of gossip and beautifying which was very unnerving since we didn't need it. I'd never say that I was perfect, but it was useless to deny that we didn't need beauty products.

Also, they cut me short on my time with my husband and my daughter and they accepted no protest. My sisters and my aunt didn't understand the urge to be with my family all the time, since they were always in love, just not with the same person, and there were rules they had to follow when it came to their children. They couldn't see them, ever.

But I had it all: A husband who was my soul mate and loved me as much as I loved him, also miraculously, we had a beautiful daughter. It was hard on me that my role as a goddess was a full- time job through which I had less time for Elizabeth than I wished for.

She could understand it, even if she was just about two months old, which made it hard for all of us to let her do things her own way.

Rosalie was the only one of my sisters-in-law and Eileithyia the only one of my sisters who knew how I felt, since Rosalie always wanted a child and Eileithyia was the goddess of childbirth.

Both tried to cheer me up as much as they could and after three or four hours, they spoke to the others and they let me go.

Now I could have a relaxed evening. Elizabeth was nearly asleep when I came into our house, however she came running to me and I swept her up in my arms. When I felt her head drop on my chest, I brought her to her room and laid her in her bed.

Then I talked to my lovely husband for a few hours about everything and nothing at all. It was one of the few times that we could do that.

The next morning we had to say goodbye, since Carlisle needed to go back to the hospital for his late night shift.

It was not a sad farewell because we'd see each other again in fall.

We'd move to New York permanently. Most of us'd go to College for a few years. What we wanted to do after this we didn't know, but surely it couldn't be that bad. We'd be together, and that was all that mattered.