Katherine's POV

"Dad," the girl named Bella shouts, sounding exasperated. The man named Charlie automatically puts his hands up, grinning sheepishly at the storming vampire with her hands on her hips.

Edward, who I know only because Bella wouldn't stop talk about him when he had gone hunting and she stayed behind, tried to put his arms around her waist, trying to calm her down. Even as she brushes him off, I can tell how different they are then the vampire couples around them.

Bella hadn't felt comfortable saying so much about her human life, so Esme told me what she knew. Edward and Bella never lose the connection of even a look, always subconsciously inseparable like they were joined at the hip all this time and they only now got separated and they're not use to it. They have that kind of desperately caring love that doesn't seem to ever fade.

Something deep inside me aches when I look at them holding each other, at all of the happy pairs smiling at me. I didn't know I could feel like that anymore, not after all that I've been through. I thought there was no room for human emotions anymore.

Edward's head lifts from Bella's hair, and his smile is sympathetic. My mind flashes to the short conversation about vampire powers, and I panic. I don't need someone reading my thoughts, I think as I watch Edward lower his head.

I see Charlie sneaking past everyone while they're all distracted by me, but Bella won't have it.

"Charlie, don't you dare try to escape," Bella thunders as she tears out of Edward's stubborn grasp. She arrives in front of Charlie, looking upset.

"What were you thinking, running off like that? I don't blame you for trying to help Katherine, but really, did you really have to do it alone?" She chokes out, hugging herself and shooting daggers at Charlie through her topaz eyes.

"He had to go alone, Bella. It wouldn't have worked any other way. I already told you this." A short girl with short hair speaks up, but the expression on her face is anything but timid. This must me Alice, the vampire who has visions and can see the future.

I gnaw my lip, this really is too much to take in. I feel like running again. I sit down wearily right where I'm standing, the concrete of the deck seeming so inviting. Everyone's eyes flash to me, and Bella's worried anger is forgotten.

"Katherine?" Esme crouches down next to me, her eyes so sincere I feel guilty. How can I waltz into these people's lives, there's no room for me. The only person that isn't clearly infatuated with someone is Charlie. Even Bella's daughter has that smelly boy.

I curl up into my customary ball of pain, not caring about the hard ground or the soft voices that tell me that I'm okay. I'm not okay, I'm a monster, and I don't deserve this beautiful family I happened upon.

Charlie's POV

Katherine's shivers are sad to the point of pain, and I'm overwhelmed with the need to scoop her up into my arms to make it better.

"She feels like she's not good enough for us," Edward whispers to me, his forehead creased.

I laugh as I trade places with Esme, kneeling by this beautifully naïve girl's head. Katherine peeks out of her hair, curiosity encouraging her to see why I was laughing.

"Silly Katherine, you're perfect for us," for me. I'm cooing to her, and I never though I'd be so affectionate towards someone, I don't even get mushy with my own daughter. Well, not really. Yet here I am, whispering assurances in this women's ear just because I want her to feel better, and see herself more clearly.

She's not my charity case, and I don't think she ever was. Eventually, I have her smiling and laughing at my corny jokes, and we sit together on the patio. Everyone has disappeared inside, giving us privacy.

She blinks up at me shyly, and my grin has never been more goofy.

Edward's POV

I move the shade back, feeling guilty about spying on them, and I can't even give them real privacy, not with their minds open like they are. I block them out and Bella circles his hands around my waist.

She presses a kiss to my shoulder, "how are they?"

"She's Charlie's Bella,"

I turn around in her arms, kissing her forehead and finding her rolling her eyes dramatically. I sit with her on the bed. I smile at my wife, they really are doing good.

"Katherine's taking in a lot, but Charlie is just so caring. Katherine is so grateful of him, and she can't understand why she feels so happy when she's with him," I laugh again. Bella's face drops, and I can tell she's missing our personal sun.

"Call Nessie?" Her voice is high and pleading, like she needed to convince me to talk to my adorable daughter.

"Deer-Carcases-R-Us, you drain 'em we sell 'em," Bella and I both laugh.

"We also just got in a recent shipment of bobcats," Nessie continues in a high-pitched sales voice, and Bella and I are rolling around on the floor with laughter.

"What is so funny, you can't even see me to laugh at me," well I certainly think someone inherited their mother's snarkiness.

"Ok, in all seriousness. I have a question." Bella and I manage to swallow our laughs and sound somewhat serious.

"Sure sweety."

"Of course, go ahead." Nessie takes a deep, hesitant breath at my prompt.

"Why did Carlisle not go into work today, and why did I see him throw out his beeper? Grandpa's not quitting, is he?" Her voice got higher and higher as she spoke, so at the end she sounded like a toddler again. It broke my heart.

"He's not quitting, we're..." Bella gnaws at her lip.

"She knows it was going to happen someday," I whisper, rubbing Bella's arm and trying to calm her.

Bella nods, "we're... Honey we're moving." It hangs in the air, and our daughter's sharp intakes of breath are painfully echoing in my ears.

"What?" She whispers brokenly.

"What?!" Jacob shouts. Bella and I both cringe. This is going to be difficult.

A/N: Hey everyone, I'm throwing out a book suggestion here, it's been previously mentioned in my Percy Jackson story, Immortality as well as my other PJ story, The Battle of Light and Dark. STUNG BY BETHANY WIGGINS is a book I highly recommended, two out of my three closest friends have read it, and they both loved it (and so did I, obviously) I've just learned that there's a sequel called CURED BY BETHANY WIGGINS so I'm super excited about that. Neither book as a place on this website, and I'm hoping me and you (you, yes you, my fellow reader) can change that.

A/N#2: I did this chapter in only a half hour after starting it! That's saying something for me.