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Esme had fallen asleep, tired out from giving birth and after Carlisle had examined her thoroughly and given her a few stitches after she tore a little bit. Ava had already dressed the babies into their own clothes, they had on matching beanies that covered their little hair.

Ava was rocking William in her arms. He and Adeline had opened their little eyes a couple minutes after birth, excited and intrigued with the world around them. It was amazing that both babies looked so much like one parent. William looked like Ava and Esme the most while Adeline was all Carlisle and a bit of Esme. She turned to look at her sleeping mother and smiled, as she saw Esme put her hand over her belly out of instinct.

"Oh William, you're the most beautiful baby boy I've ever seen." Ava cooed as his little eyes opened slowly, his eyes a dark hazy grey. "You know, we had a brother who I'm assuming looked like you, but perhaps a bit different as we have different fathers. We have six siblings and one niece; we're a big family and we all love you and Adeline so much already." Ava sighed, smiling down at her baby brother.

Carlisle walked into the room carrying a sleeping Adeline in his arms. "The brady brunch is here." Carlisle smiled, looking over at his sleeping wife. "Eleazar said that it'd be normal for her to still have some of the traits after babies are born." He sounded convinced, even though he was trying to convince himself more than anything.

Ava nodded and motioned for them to switch babies. "So, Adeline is going to be a daddy's princess, huh?" Ava smirked as she watched how he kissed her forehead, his lips lingering slightly before he handed her off.

"Of course, she is, she's perfect."

"Ouch." Ava said quite dryly, even though she was joking. "Let me take AJ out to her siblings before they disturb the peace in here." Ava whispered, adjusting Adeline to cradle her closer to her body, while reaching to open the door in front of her.

"Ava?"

"Yes?"

"Thank you, thank you so much. You know I love you." Carlisle's voice soft; he looked up from William slightly, giving her a heartwarming smile.

Ava was only able to smile back before ducking out to greet the rest of the family. It was the first time he's ever told her that, and she's never felt more validated in her life.

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Ava walked down the hallway with Adeline in her arms and walked in to Nessie on Emmett's back trying to get the phone from his hands, Alice and Rosalie going through baby clothes from numerous bags, Edward and Bella were assembling another crib in the living room, while Jasper was reading them the instructions.

"Why do these cribs have to be so complicated?" Edward groaned screwing in the wheels at the bottom of the crib.

"Esme wants the best for her babies." Bella shrugged taking another part from the box that was next to her.

Ava cleared her throat, as she gently swung the baby in her arms. "Famille, I'd like to introduce to you Adeline." Ava introduced proudly to the rest of her siblings.

Alice and Rosalie quickly rushed to her sides, as they admired the now awake Adeline. "Oh, she's precious, just like I saw her!" Alice cooed proudly, knowing that her vision was correct.

"She's perfect! Where's the other baby?" Rosalie asked, quickly taking Adeline from Ava's arms, and cradling her. "She's so tiny, nothing like Renesmee." Rosalie said in awe, clearly taken by her new sister.

Ava smiled down at the baby in Rosalie's arms and looked to see Carlisle rounding the corner with the other twin in his arms. "He's right here, Nicolas or William, or Nico." Carlisle babbled one, his finger clasped in the babies lose grip.

"Wow, Esme really does make perfect looking babies." Bella peered over Carlisle's shoulder, which made Ava beam happily.

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Esme slowly eased herself off the bed, afraid of feeling any sort of pain, but surprised that she was feeling fine. Physically, she felt sore but mentally she felt tired. She looked over to the other side where her babies once were, and seeing them gone, she freaked out. She was glad that Carlisle had helped her ease into leggings and a long sleeve because she about just ran outside the door.

Running out to the family room, she saw only Edward and Bella sitting down by the piano.

"They're upstairs." Edward murmured without looking up from the keys of the piano.

Esme nodded and proceeded to ascend the stairs, taking one at a time trying to be careful.

Walking up to the nursery that they all had put together, she smiled when she saw that Carlisle had both babies quite effortlessly on each arm, sitting down in the rocking chair that the kids had gifted her.

Esme walked in slowly admiring the little group in front of her. "They look a little bigger than when they first came popped out of me." Esme tried to joke, as she looked at her babies. They were absolutely perfect in her eyes.

"They look a couple days old, not too drastic like Renesmee, but they're doing perfectly fine darling." Carlisle assured her, offering one of the babies to her. She quickly took Adeline in her arms, pulling down the blanket that was covering half of her little face. Her little plump baby lips formed into the tiniest smile she has seen. "Adeline looks like you." Esme stated content.

Carlisle nodded, admiring his son. "Yeah, I guess AJ does."

"AJ?"

"Ava gave her the nickname, it stuck." Carlisle shrugged, placing a pacifier in William's lips as he suckled on it eagerly.

Esme shook her head as she looked out the window to see Ava and the rest of her kids outside the summer sun shining down on them as they all as a family tended to Esme's flower beds, while the others brought down a couple of branches to make another swing for their other sibling. She imagined how when her babies were older, they could probably help out her in her garden or have them sitting in Carlisle's study reading their own books or perhaps Carlisle helping them out with their homework.

Adeline stirred a little bit in her arms, whimpering a bit and Esme quickly shushed her and bounced her a bit until Adeline fell back asleep. "Angel?" Carlisle asked as he stood up from his seat, walking towards Esme from her spot in the window.

Esme hummed in response unwrapping AJ from her tight swaddle, to look at the outfit that she was wearing. It was the onesie with foxes on them.

"Do you think we should check on Ava?" Carlisle asked, as he looked out the window to see Ava trimming the leaves that surrounded the arches with the fairy lights.

"Why do you say that?" Esme's brow furrowed, turning to look at Carlisle and then back outside to look at Ava.

With a sigh he placed William in his crib, tightening the swaddle he had done, they had the air conditioner on, so he didn't worry much about him sweating while he slept. "Alice told me she saw her running off." Carlisle admitted; watching as his wife's fell and it looked like she was about to cry.

"Why?" Esme managed to whisper swallowing a lump in her throat. Hugging Adeline closer to her body, careful not to hurt the baby. Her babies rarely cried; she was partly proud that they didn't cry all that much during their short hours of life.

"She said that she saw her draining a body in the woods and running off, perhaps because she was ashamed?"

"We could've helped her, Carlisle. Truly, we could have. What does Alice see now?" Esme was afraid to ask the question, not just for Ava but for the future of her babies.

Carlisle smiled softly and kissed her head as he remembered the conversation, he had with Alice a couple hours prior.

"I can see the babies turning eighteen both of them beautiful, oh Carlisle you should see them! AJ and William are heartbreakers! As far as I can see, they'll be with us for a long time." Alice confirmed, patting Carlisle's knee in comfort.

"Do you think the Volturi will find them?" Carlisle asked taking in a shaky breath, they barely made it out alive with Nessie. Albeit, they haven't been bothered since, but what if they find out about his children? He wanted them safe.

Alice shook her head with a tight smile. "I'll keep an eye out if anything changes, but I don't think that they will find out about these little beauties." Alice kissed the baby that was in Carlisle's arm before prancing out of the room.

"Our children will be with us for a long time." Carlisle assured her, taking the baby from her arms before walking the baby to the other crib to let her rest.

Esme sighed and nodded, forcing herself to walk out of the room, not wanting to leave them for more than a second. "Should we talk to Ava?"

"I believe we should."

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Ava was taken to her new siblings quite rapidly, as she bonded with her siblings within the couple hours that Esme was sleeping. AJ reminded her of the perfect combination between Carlisle and Esme, she had Carlisle's blonde hair, his facial structure. Adeline had Esme's big doe eyes that she shared with Ava and William, she also had Esme's dimples that made an appearance when she yawned or smiled. While William was all Esme. The hair, the face, everything. Perhaps he was Esme's first son coming back to her after all these years. It amazed her really, how much he looked like Esme. While most of the family told her she looked like Esme, she knew she had some of her fathers features. Esme's traits overpowered slightly, but they were still there.

Ava had just walked out of her room, closing the door behind her. She was dressed in a flowy floral dress with sandals on her feet, her hair pulled into a low messy bun. It was a couple weeks since the babies had been born, and everyone was being doting siblings and cousin, while the parents were just as loving if not even more.

Ava had her sketchpad and pencils in hand as she walked outside to her usual spot. Summer time was always her favorite time of the year. There was something about summer that had a different feeling in the air, the afternoons were crisp and fresh. The mornings and nights had the same feel to it. So, she always dressed accordingly; a way to feel normal.

Sitting down on one of the swings, she moved her legs slightly to swing herself as she sharpened her pencils with her sketchpad on her lap. Letting the light breeze hit her face, she looked up to see Esme coming out with AJ in her arms, dressed for the weather as well.

Esme and Ava smiled at each other in greeting, as Ava looked down to see a cooing Adeline, as she looked up at the trees in awe and wonder at the world above her. "How are the babies today?" Ava asked, studying Adeline's face slightly, as she began to sketch.

Esme smiled and sat down next to the swing, spreading her legs in front of her, laying Adeline on her lap. "They're doing perfect, Carlisle has William with him in his study, checking him before he brings him out." Esme informed Ava as she heard the pencil going hard on the sketch that Ava was drawing.

"William is too long of a name for such a cute and cuddly baby, and Nicolas is too much for a baby. Can I nickname his Iam?" Ava asked abruptly, stopping her sketches; checking her phone for the time.

Esme pondered the thought of giving her baby a completely different name rather his two given names. "I like Iam. It's cute. Fitting for a cute and cuddly baby."

"Are you going to parade them around at the hospital soon?" Ava mumbled, looking down at AJ's little face hoping to catch a glimpse of her dimples.

Esme shook her head and sighed as she took of AJ's socks and watched them wiggle free. "No, not anytime soon. Everyone is over the moon that we have children of our own now."

"Now." Ava repeated with a scoff, and a slight eyeroll.

"Ava, what's wrong?"

Ava shook her head, shutting her sketchpad and lightly tossing it to the side. "I really don't like pretending I'm your sister. I understand that it'd set off some alarms, but it feels like I'm a bit out of place now that the babies are here. I've been feeling like that for a while." Ava shrugged, swinging herself a little harder on the swing.

With a sigh, Esme reached up to hold Ava's hand trying to ease her. "We can say that I had you at the age of fifteen darling. Also, I'm really sorry that you feel that way. We never wanted you to feel left out."

"I know you didn't; but I do feel this way." Ava shrugged. "I love the babies and all, but is it bad to say that I wanted to be selfish and have you for myself for a while longer?"

Esme shook her head and watched Carlisle pace back and forth in front of the window with her son in his arms, as she read his lips. He was going on about his family. "I want you to myself Ava, but, I'm so lucky I found you and got to know you. I'm proud of you, my love. You're an amazing and remarkable young woman, and I'm proud that you are my daughter."

Ava smiled softly with a sigh. "Is Carlisle proud of me?"

"Of course, he is. Ava, he thinks of you as his daughter as much as Adeline and William, and as much as our other kids."

Ava nodded and slid off the slide to sit next to Esme and her sister, reaching her arms out to have her turn with her new sister. "Ava, I know."

"You know?"

"I do. Carlisle told me. Alice had told him—"

Ava rolled her eyes, putting her index finger on AJ's palm, as she watched her little fingers wrap around her finger, while she cooed as she looked up at her older sister. "Of course. She can't keep anything to herself."

"She doesn't. However, she has our best interest in mind. Ava, why did you think it was best to run off?"

Ava shrugged as she watched Carlisle walk out with another bundle in his arms. "Nothing you did could have made us not want you anymore?" Carlisle added, knowing well what they were talking about.

"Maybe, because I thought that you guys weren't going to miss me much now that you guys were expecting these two beauties. Also, that I wasn't in your life for much. I also felt like you guys only wanted me for your own personal gain." Ava admitted all in one breath.

Esme's face contorted as she fumbled with her fingers, picking her nails while Carlisle sighed and shook his hand, unwrapping William from his blanket, to let him soak up some of the fresh air. "Darling, you really think that we weren't going to miss you? Ava, you have changed our lives in so many different ways." Carlisle's accent slipping just a tad, which caused Ava to smile. She liked when it made an appearance, it made his voice more soothing and it made her feel at ease, safe.

Esme nodded, as she saw the wind playing with all of their hair. She instinctively reached over to bring down the baby's beanies. "You've impacted our lives so much, honey. We love you so much."

"I love you guys too, and I love these little nuggets." Ava laughed, gently wiggling her little sister hands. "I love this family."

They found out what Ava was thinking and planning, she got it out of her chest.

It's a bit shorter, but really I feel like the length is just perfect for the chapter.

Thank you all for the support this story has gotten within its course. Thank you to all my reviewers, all your input has been incorporated somehow and I'm truly thankful.