But A Whisper on His Lips
Full Summary: It has been six long years since the Cullen family walked out of Bella's life. After having more heartbreak then one person should in a lifetime, Bella moves to a place she never thought any type of mythical world would be. Will she spiral into the darkness again when she runs in a blond vampire of her past? Or will she stand her ground and not let the ghosts from her past knock her down?
Disclaimer: I own Nothing of SM's Twilight Saga or any other references to other books/movies that are mentioned in this story.
Warning: This story is rated M for Mature Content. There will be lemons. There will also be strong language and violence. If you are under 18 or just don't like these things in a story; stop reading now.
Epilogue
Previously:
Bella gave me a teary smile and kissed me back once.
"Have you picked a name out?" Carlisle asked.
"We thought about a few but we never – ." Bella cut me off.
"Cora."
"What?" I breathed.
"Cora," she said again. "Cora Marie Whitlock."
I smiled down at Bella. She had picked my mother's name. "It's perfect."
Bella's POV
I was bouncing the tiny bundle in my arms as I watch Cora grab onto Gavin and drag him to the ground with her. At two years old she was already a tomboy and I wouldn't have it any other way. She has grown up around so many guys I wouldn't be surprised if she asked to wear combat boots and baggy jeans instead of dresses and heels when shes older. I winced when I noticed her grab a handful of Gavin's hair and squeal, "Gavvvvvvyyy!"
The poor boy rubbed the mop of brown curls where she had pulled with a groan. "Cor-Cor, remember mama told you no pullin' hair," he whispered to her in a hushed voice. I smiled and ducked my head when he looked to see if I had seen. We have been having trouble with Cora lately with pulling hair and biting people, Charlie called it the Terrible Two's; I believed him.
The happy coo of the child in my lap had me looking up, only to see Jasper smiling down at him. "Hey darlin'," he said with a kiss to my forehead. "Hello my little soldier. Are you being good for your mama, Johnny?" John cooed and blew a bubble with his mouth causing Jasper to chuckle. "Come 'ere little man." Jasper scooped him into his arms and started bouncing him around as he went over to were Cora and Gavin were currently rolling around the yard together.
A pair of thin arms wrapped around my shoulders and I felt a kiss to the crown of my head. "Hey sis!"
I would have known that voice anywhere. Turning, I wrapped my arms around Stefan's middle and hugged myself to him. "How was the flight last night? I know you didn't get in until late so I didn't want to call and bother you guys, cause I know how much you missed each other." I waggled my eyebrows at him. Good lord I've been hanging out with Emmett too much again. I wanted to slap my own forehead after that.
Stefan had gone to California for a shoot last week and he and Edward hadn't stopped calling me. They both were beside themselves without the other.
"Good as it could have been. Plus I wasn't exactly paying attention to anything on the plane, my mind was on the two people waiting on the other end." He had a dreamy look on his face and sighed happily. I snickered at his love-sick face and he swatted my shoulder. "Oh hush, you look the same when someone talks about Jasper and your kids."
It was my turn to sigh, "Yeah I know. Now where is my niece!?"
"Ed was getting her out of the car, calm down women." Stefan's laughed echoed behind him as he headed over to Jasper and the kids.
As if the child could read my mind, I felt the tiny arms wrap around my right leg. Looking down I was met with the midnight blue eyes of my niece Carly. She giggled as I tossed her in the air and caught her. The little girl was the sweetest and most polite child I had ever seen. Carlisle had gotten the call from the hospital the may after Cora was born. A women had abandoned her newborn the day after she gave birth and with Carlisle being so kind to 'adopt' all of his children; they thought he would be the best person to take her in. He and Esme were the best option to take care of her but it was Edward that was so taken with her.
It was like watching him fall in love with the child as soon as he saw her mess mop of red curls and the deepest blue eyes. Once he was officially eighteen come that June, Carlisle made some calls to allow Edward adopt her. Of course in December of this last year the poor girl got another name added to hers when Stefan and Edward had their partnership marriage and Stefan stepped in to legally adopt her as his as well. They had gone through all the steps as a real wedding. All of their friends and our family as well as Stefan's attended. The vows were said after Emmett led the service with that stupid little grin on his face. Once they kissed, we never thought they were going to break apart; Rose even went as far to cover Gavin's eyes because you could definitely see way more action from the two them at that moment then on a cable TV soft-core porn.
Edward was now; Edward Anthony Masen Mariano-Cullen and we were all happy that he got his happily ever after finally.
I sat Carly down as Edward stepped out the back kitchen door, "Hey Bells. Sorry about Carly, she got away from me; you know how she is about her Auntie Bella. I'm just glad she didn't know Esme here or she would have knocked me on my butt to get to her." He chuckled.
"It's okay, I love the little thing just as much as my own."
"Speaking of which, how is John? Is he doing better, I heard you had to take him back to the hospital the night before last and I didn't get to call you yesterday.."
I waved my hand, "It was nothing but a little cough. I was just being overly worried about him but Jasper told me that we would take him in if I thought it would make me feel better. Doctor Jones said that John is perfectly healthy and that he must have just gotten a dry throat."
Edward nodded his head. The family had been worried about both me and John since I was in my last few months with him. I had gone into so many false labors that I was starting to think that he was maybe trying to tell me something. Then when my water broke a month early and Carlisle had rushed me straight to a surgery room, I knew. Of course I had blacked out at that point. John had nearly suffocated because the cord was wrapped around his neck and I had bleed out so much that I started to hemorrhage. They found out one of my medications had an extra large amount of aspirin in it which caused my blood to thin out. I was just happy that I was here now and that both john and I were healthy.
"Good to hear. I had better go help mom get stuff brought out..." Edward started. "Your parents are coming over right? They got in yesterday?"
"Yeah," I nodded. "Seth and Leah came with Charlie and Sue, but Renee and Phil called and said they wouldn't be able to make it this holiday. And Embry and Angela will be over a little later today. They got in on Sunday because Mr. Weber was had a birthday party for Micah Friday otherwise they would have been in earlier." Edward had become friends with most of the pack now, except for Jacob of course. I don't think those two will ever get along. Besides he never comes around to visit like the other guys do, he spends all of his time with her. Even Collin came to visit a few months after his son was born. He was the proudest papa and the little guy was a spitting image of his daddy.
Edward gave me a bright smile, "Happy Fourth of July, Bells." With a kiss to my temple he headed into the house.
***
I was completely wiped out by the end of the day. It was getting dark and the guys had all gone out to the field with the huge box of fireworks that they just had to buy from the Sam's Club earlier this week. I swear Emmett was worse than a kid when Rose told him he had to wait until tonight to play with them. He pouted for days.
Sitting beside Rose as she bounced little Lily in her arms, I watched as Gavin and Cora cuddled up together on a blanket in front of us that I had spread out in the grass. Gavin had his left arm wrapped tightly around Cora and was saying something quiet to her, making her giggle. Rose laughed quietly when she noticed the fatherly glare Jasper was sending her son. Cora loved her 'Gavy' and Gavin just adored his 'Cor-Cor'. Everyone thought it was cute and that the two of them would end up together when they were older, that is, except for Jasper. He seemed to get upset about how she was too young for anyone to be thinking about her future in that way. Let's just say, Papa Jasper is a bit overprotective of his baby girl.
The first of the fireworks were set off and the kids screamed and cheered, Cora was yelling to ask if I had seen the 'pwetty' colors. Smiling I nodded my head at her and looked up at the guys. Jasper was standing with Stefan beside one of the tiki torches that we had set out there earlier tonight. Stefan had nudged Jasper's shoulder when he saw me watching them and Jasper turned and smiled mouthing 'I love you'.
"I love you too, Jazz, I love you too."
The End
AN: Yep, that's it. I almost just didn't even do this chapter because I could have ended the story with the birth of Cora but I didn't want to.. besides, I wanted to get in some extra info of other characters and I couldn't leave John out. Jasper needed his little soldier for the family to be perfectly complete.
I'm working on some outtakes for this story and on the Jasper prequel story to this. The Fire Burning is going to be put off for a bit I think because I honest to god cannot get into writing it. I have like half chapter for it done right now and I'm just.. stuck. So let's all pray to the muse god to come help me on that.
I am also going to start posting my original story on FictionPress. It will be based on a person I know and it is about their struggle through high school and dealing with death, being a teen mom and also being a complete outcast of the school. The girl it is based on had a really hard time until just recently and being close to her, she gave me the okay to write about her. So if anyone would like to read it, I will be putting a link to it on my profile or you can just message me and I will send you the link when it is posted.
So just as always, tell me what you thought of the chapter and the story. I want to thank everyone that has stuck with me through the entire thing and all of your comments have really helped me keep wanting to write this. So, thanks.
XoXo – Jenn
P.S. An extra
But A Whisper on His Lips Bio Extra
These are ages and the mini bio for the main characters that appeared or were mentioned in the Epilogue of this story. Some people asked about how old they all were so I am just clarifying it for everyone. And I know not everyone is in this because I got pretty lazy but most of the important people are there. I went by the Twilight time line. Starting in 2005 when New Moon started and ending in 2015, the time of the Epilogue.
Bella (Swan)Whitlock -
Born on: September 10th 1987
Parents: Charlie Swan and Renee Dwyer
Age of first Appearance: 24 years
Age in Epilogue: 28 years
Jasper (Hale)Whitlock -
Born on: 1843
Parents: Cora and Lucas Whitlock [birth](Not real, I don't know the real names. These are just what I used in the story), Carlisle and Esme Cullen [Adoptive]
Age of first Appearance: 26 years [physical], 168 years [true age]
Age in Epilogue: 31 years [physical], 172 years [true age]
Emmett McCarty(Cullen) -
Born on: 1915
Parents: birth parents are unknown, Carlisle and Esme Cullen [Adoptive]
Age of first Appearance: 26 years [physical], 96 years [true age]
Age in Epilogue: 31 years [physical], 100 years [true age]
Rosalie Lillian (Hale)McCarty -
Born on: 1915
Parents: birth parents are unknown, Carlisle and Esme Cullen [Adoptive]
Age of first Appearance: 24 years [physical], 96 years [true age]
Age in Epilogue: 28 years [physical], 100 years [true age]
Carlisle Cullen -
Born on: 1643
Parents: unknown
Age of first Appearance: 29 years [physical], 368 years [true]
Age in Epilogue: 33 years [physical], 372 years [true age]
Esme Anne (Platt)Cullen -
Born on: 1895
Parents: unknown
Age of first Appearance: 32 years [physical], years [true age]
Age in Epilogue: 36 years [physical], years [true age]
Edward Anthony (Masen)Cullen -
Born on: June 20th 1901
Parents: Edward Sr. and Elizabeth Masen [birth], Carlisle and Esme Cullen [Adoptive]
Age of first Appearance: 17 years [physical], 110 years [true age]
Age in Epilogue: 21 years [physical], 114 years [true age]
Stefan Mariano -
Born on: 1992
Parents: unknown
Age of first Appearance: 19 years
Age in Epilogue: 23 years
Charlie Swan -
Born on: 1963
Parents: Geoffrey and Helen Swan
Age of first Appearance: 48 years
Age in Epilogue: 52 years
Sue (Clearwater)Swan -
Born on: unknown
Parents: unknown
Age of first Appearance: early forties
Age in Epilogue: late forties
Seth Clearwater -
Born on: 1992
Parents: Harry and Sue Clearwater
Age of first Appearance: 19 years
Age in Epilogue: 23 years
Leah Clearwater -
Born on: 1986
Parents: Harry and Sue Clearwater
Age of first Appearance: 25 years
Age in Epilogue: 29 years
Peter Whitlock -
Born on: unknown
Parents: unknown
Age of first Appearance: early 20s [physically], unknown [true age]
Age in Epilogue: mid-twenties or early thirties [physically], unknown [true age]
Charlotte Whitlock -
Born on: unknown
Parents: unknown
Age of first Appearance: late teens or early twenties [physical], unknown [true age]
Age in Epilogue: late twenties [physical], unknown [true age]
Gavin McCarty -
Born on: February 2nd 2011
Parents: Emmett and Rosalie McCarty
Age of first Appearance: 7 months
Age in Epilogue: 4 years
Cora Marie Whitlock -
Born on: January 10th 2013
Parents: Bella and Jasper Whitlock
Age of first Appearance: newborn
Age in Epilogue: 2 years
Lillian McCarty -
Born on: November 13th 2014
Parents: Emmett and Rosalie McCarty
Age of first Appearance: 5 months
Age in Epilogue: 5 months
John Lucas Whitlock -
Born on: April 27th 2015
Parents: Bella and Jasper Whitlock
Age of first Appearance: 1 month
Age in Epilogue: 1 month
Jacob Black -
Born on: January-February 1990
Parents: Billy and Sarah Black
Age of first Appearance: 21 years
Age in Epilogue: 25 years
Paul Locks -
Born on: 1990
Parents: unknown
Age of first Appearance: 21 years
Age in Epilogue: 25 years
Collin -
Born on: 1993
Parents: unknown
Age of first Appearance: 18 years
Age in Epilogue: 22 years
Brady -
Born on: 1993
Parents: unknown
Age of first Appearance: 18 years
Age in Epilogue: 22 years
Andrew -
Born on: 2014
Parents: Collin and Allison(a girl from La Push, not Collin's imprint)
Age of first Appearance: 1 year
Age in Epilogue: 1 year
Embry Call -
Born on: 1990
Parents: unknown
Age of first Appearance: 21 years
Age in Epilogue: 25 years
Angela (Weber)Call -
Born on: 1988
Parents: Mr and Mrs Weber
Age of first Appearance: 27 years
Age in Epilogue: 27 years
Micah Call -
Born on: 2013
Parents: Angela and Embry Call
Age of first Appearance: 2 years
Age in Epilogue: 2 years
Carly Mariano-Cullen -
Born on: May 2013
Parents: birth parents unknown, Edward Cullen and Stefan Mariano [adopted]
Age of first Appearance: 2 years
Age in Epilogue: 2 years