There are three major points I want to hit down at the bottom of this chapter so please, read, enjoy, look over my authors note at the bottom and review.

Previously

Esme POV

I pushed the door to Bella's room open and laid her down on her bed. I tucked her dark gold comforter snugly around her.

"Goodnight Bella," I whispered, kissing her forehead softly. I turned to leave.

"Goodnight Mommy."

Esme POV

I gasped quietly, a smile touching my lips, then growing to a wide grin.

My phone beeped. I whipped it out from my coat pocket and clicked it to open the new text.

Family meeting. Now. It read from Edward's phone.

Oh dear, I sighed mentally. I stowed my phone back in my pocket and flew down the stairs at vampire speed. All of Bella's presents were stacked on the table by the front door, Emmett and Rosalie's scents all over them.

As I loped through the forest Bella's words rang in my head. Goodnight Mommy. I turned my head the night sky and laughed a bell like sound. Warmth spread through me as I thought of her, my little human daughter. So sweet, so shy.

Edward was pacing back and forth in the living room when I arrived. I was the last one in. Everyone else was sitting, Emmett and Rosalie on the loveseat, Jasper in the armchair with Alice leaning against his legs, and Carlisle waiting for me on the couch.

I glided over to him and sat, taking his hand in mine. He squeezed my hand comfortingly, smiling slightly at me.

"We are too dangerous," Edward's voice was low, quiet, and broken.

"No!" Alice wailed. "No we can't! Edward! Do you have any idea what that'll do to her?"

My gaze flickered from Edward to Alice and back again.

"Can't do what?" Emmett asked, bemusedly.

"We can't stay here. Tonight is a perfect example of why we are too dangerous to be around her. We could kill her so easily. If I had caught Jasper's thoughts just a second after… If I had been too late… We aren't safe for her."

I could see the pain in my son's face as he pondered what could have happened if he hadn't heard Jasper's thoughts, if he hadn't saved Bella.

Jasper groaned quietly. "No. You all stay. I'm the only that should leave. No one else should suffer for my… inability."

Alice switched her harsh glare from Edward to him. "No! You'll get over it. Edward it was only a mistake. It won't happen again."

"Can you look me in the eyes and tell me, swear to me that you know for a fact that any of these mistakes won't happen again?" Edward hissed, his eyes narrowing. "These mistakes, there isn't anything we can do about it. Jasper you can't go off on your own. We are a family. We can't split up and we can't stay. We'll kill her if we do!"

"Bella is part of the family too!" I cried indignantly. "How can you say we can just leave her?" Her words this evening echoed in my mind. "She needs us." Edward flinched visibly as he read my thoughts.

Goodnight Mommy. Words I had heard all of my existence but words that were never before said to me. "She thinks of us as the only family she has left," I said desperately, my voice dropping to a whisper, cracking. "Who else does she have but us?"

"She's seven," he said finally. "Soon she will forget about us all."

I didn't miss the fact that he avoided my other questions.

"Bella remembers everything from the day her mother and father were murdered. She remembers every cut, every bruise, every beating her Uncle burned into her memory. You of all people should understand that. Nights that she stays here, when you're around? You sing her to sleep and comfort her every whim. She sleeps soundly. Nights that she stays here, while your out hunting, we all sit up and listen to her screaming even in sleep. She screams and cries for her mother and father. She says they left her, she says thinks abandoned her. Bella begs them to come back, saying she can change, she pleads with them just to love her. Everyone but you has heard that. Do you honestly believe that she won't remember us?" Emmett snarled angrily.

"She's a human," Edward choked out. "Human memories fade."

Rosalie was out of her seat in flash, standing at the window. Loosing a loud, infuriated scream, she threw her fist into the glass. Shards of shimmering, glittering glass flew in every direction. Broken. Shattered like our family. I stared at the pieces of glass littering the floor, watching the light from the fireplace reflect across them, dance upon them, roll back and forth, strangely reminiscent of blood.

She whirled heatedly to face Edward. Her face screamed accusations at him. All her life, Rosalie wanted a child. She had wanted a little baby to care for. She wanted a life that as a vampire was a life she could never have. Here she was given a child to care for, to nurture. A broken child but a child that she loved and healed so carefully, nurturing her like only a mother could.

Then in a flash, with just one word, Edward could take all of that away. A daughter to me, to Carlisle, and Rosalie. A clumsy, human sister to Emmett and Jasper. A best friend to Alice. A love to Edward.

Emmett rose cautiously approaching his wife, wrapping one arm around her waist. With the other, he stroked her soft blonde hair, whispered words too low for the rest of us to hear. Tentatively, he guided her back to the loveseat, allowing her to sob into his chest.

Our family is so closed off. I realized dismally. So closed off and lonely. We are finally given a chance, just one chance, to have friends and you're turning them away.

Edward looked away from my searching gaze. "I'm sorry, mom. Really I am but I can't let us do this to her. One day, one of us will slip up and Bella will die if we stay. I can't let that happen to her of all people. You have to understand that." By the end of his little speech he was speaking, not only to me, but also to the entire room.

"But I don't understand!" Alice shouted. "I don't understand how you can love her and leave her! I've seen what happens to her when we leave."

Her small hand snapped out to clamp around Edward's wrist, forcing her vision upon him. Edward flinched as though burned but he would not, could not cave. Or so he believed.

"Don't you see!" she screamed. "Can't you see what you'll be doing to her? And yet you continue as if there is nothing wrong. After everything Bella's been through…"

"Alice, be quiet!" Carlisle ordered suddenly. His voice was quiet but a command. Silence fell as he stood up, straightening to his full height.

"This isn't our decision," he said to Alice, Emmett, Rosalie, Jasper and I. He ran a hand through his hair, distressed. "Bella is Edward's soul mate. This quarrel is his choice. We will accept his decision."

"But dad!" Alice shrieked.

"We can't leave her!" Rosalie added hysterically.

"I said be quiet," Carlisle said firmly. "Alice would you leave a decision concerning Jasper's safety up to us? Rosalie, would you Emmett?"

Neither could find the words to answer, knowing full well, they would never be able to give the answer they so desperately wanted to lie.

Edward couldn't tear his eyes from the floor as he spoke. "You'll all leave tonight. I'm going to say… say goodbye to her… tomorrow."

Alice stood up, looking from Carlisle to me to Edward before running from the house. We all heard her sob as the door slammed shut.

Jasper stood. "This is wrong Edward. This will hurt you both and you know it. Bella's been through a lot. You're only making it worse." And with that he followed his wife from the room.

Rosalie was curled into Emmett's chest crying tearlessly. He glared furiously at Edward, scooping Rose off the loveseat and disappearing up the stairs.

I just sat on the couch staring blindly out of the window to the dark, moonless sky. My eyes stung with tears I knew would never fall. Carlisle took my hand, helping me to rise from the couch.

"We best get going then. The house in Maine, we haven't been there for a couple decades. We'll meet you there," he said quietly, pained.

My husband. My dear, dear Carlisle, looked lost and desolate for the loss of a daughter, human or not, a daughter still.

I couldn't bring myself to look at my son, knowing if I hurt, I could never even guess at the pain, the agony he must feel.

I couldn't imagine a life without Carlisle, a life without love. Carlisle was the air that I breathed, the sun that I waited for, the very force that kept me going in this dark world.

Edward was so shadowy before Bella now he would loose that light.

You can't miss something you never had, I thought bitterly as I stepped into Carlisle's car. And he had been so sad before. How lost will he be now? And Bella. Prophesized than orphaned because of it, abused, tortured and hunted. To add abandoned to that list of grievances would be too much for anyone, especially a young witch.

"Mom please, please stop," Edward whispered desolately.

I looked away, guilt filling my heart. "We'll see you in Maine. I love you."

Carlisle squeezed my hand gently, already speeding down the highway. "I'm sorry love. You have no idea how sorry I am. With your first son… now we lose Bella."

"This time is different," I sobbed. "I didn't know my son at all. This time… this time I've watched her grow up… For three years… We saw her go through everything… And… And when she was being hunted… I was scared… I was so scared… I can't lose my little daughter… human or not she is my daughter."

Carlisle steered the car off the road, pulling me into his arms.

I pressed my face into his chest, my shoulders shaking violently. I gasped at his scent, his sweet scent, inhaling deeply the refreshing smell of fresh pine on a rainy morning. (A/N. It might have said what Carlisle smelled like, but I don't remember that. This is what I imagined a Carlisle like vampire to smell like.)

His hands rubbed gentle circles on my back, his fingers stroking through my caramel colored curls. "Shh, shh," he soothed. "This isn't the end. We'll see her again. We will get our daughter back. Audrianna is family and in our family, no one gets left behind." (A/N. That line is so cute. It's from Lilo and Stitch the movie. I love that movie. It's adorable! Ohana means family. Family means no one is left behind.)

Eventually my cries calmed and buried my face in my hands.

"Will you be alright for the rest of the ride?" Carlisle questioned, lifting my chin with one finger and stroking my cheek. His warm golden eyes were filled with concern and remorse.

My hand reached up involuntarily and caught his, holding it against my face. I closed my eyes, nuzzling his hand affectionately. "I'll always be alright as long as I have you. Our son however, because of his choices, he may never be all right again and that thought haunts me to no end. And what of Bella? What will happen to her when we are gone? The prophecy has said that…"

"Two children be cursed

Forever to be

So lost among men

Confused and lonely.

Together they stand

And together they fight

To save us all

From the Dark Lords plight.

Though compassion is short

And to each other

They must resort.

To remain alive

Only one heart can thrive."

So how did you like it? This is my first full chapter in a POV that isn't Edward or Bella! Carlisle and Esme's relationship is always pushed into the back round because they are the parents. They are never really given a good amount of time to share a bit of what they are like together. They are hardly older than their children. I really like this chapter because it gives you insight on their relationship and a bit of how Esme thinks of her family. I find Carlisle and Esme one of the cutest and most enamored couples out there and I think it's very endearing to read about.

The poem at the end is my version of the prophecy. It is 100% original written entirely by yours truly. I'm not the best at poetry so that's really the best I can do. I know to all of you Harry Potter crazed fans, this is nothing like the real prophecy but come on. My story is nothing like the real book. I had to have Audra some where in the prophecy and why not add that one will die?

On the matter of emotional conversations, I will be the first to admit that I'm not the best at writing them. I must say, that I find my own work somewhat dry and lacking the needed amount of emotion. I taught myself never to cry and so I don't know what is sad and what isn't. I tried my best and that's all I can do. If you have any complaints, please tell me because the next chapter is going to need plenty of emotion and I need to know if this chapter is strong enough or if I should mull things over for a while.

Thanks again for reading and love to you all,

Happy Thanksgiving,

Sea of Topaz