The Twilight Twenty-Five
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Prompt: #2
Pen Name: Cathy9
Pairing/Character(s): Esme/Carlisle
Rating: M
Word Count: 457

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The last time I saw my wife she was heading over to the cottage to bring over the batch of chocolate chip cookies she made for our granddaughter Renesmee. Nessie was on a cookie kick lately and she wouldn't eat a proper human breakfast without some cookies for dessert. She only liked her mother's oatmeal raisin cookies and Esme's chocolate chips. Much to Alice's chagrin she turned her nose up to the gourmet cookies Alice had ordered. I'd gone to my study to read the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. I looked at my watch and realized Esme had been gone for several hours. I was going to see if she was still at the cottage and headed downstairs when I heard soft jazz music playing in the living room. Esme was sitting on the floor with a hundred pictures covering the coffee table.

"Darling, what are you doing?"

"Bella was putting the latest pictures she took of Renesmee in an album and it made me think of the shoe boxes I have with pictures in them. I grabbed two and I'm organizing them. Look, it's Rose and Emmett's first wedding. They both look so young even though they haven't changed a bit."

"It's the clothing styles that date them. Emmett sure has grinned his way out of several mishaps," Carlisle chuckled.

"It's so hard to stay mad at Em, he's just a big kid with the kindest heart."

"Rose's fierce loyalty has always impressed me. She can be too intense sometimes but she balances Emmett's goofiness."

"Edward at his piano, he's smiling but his eyes are so dull. Bella put the sparkle in his eyes. It hurt me so much to see him lonely all those years," Esme sighed.

"I know Darling, but look how happy he is now. Never thought we could have a grandbaby but leave it to Edward to have super sperm."

Esme started laughing and went back to sorting more pictures. Carlisle figured out her system and started helping her out. He found a picture of them standing in front of the pyramids in Egypt and smiled softly as he handed it to his wife. "You know we've never taken a trip on the Orient Express. I think we should start planning it tomorrow."

"You are such a romantic."

"Where is our pile of pictures?"

"Right here," Esme responded kissing his hand as he held it out.

"My beautiful wife, I think you should finish this later. We've got a date in our bedroom."

" Let's see if we can chase Rose and Emmett out of the house," she replied before perfectly arching one eyebrow.

"Better yet, let's see if we can get Alice and Jasper out too."