Epilogue
I wake up on the bed in Carlisle's office.
Wait. I'm dead. Aro killed me.
"Mommy!" Emma cries.
She gets up on the bed and hugs me.
"You died. Aro killed you. I thought I would never see you again, but Carlisle fixed you," she says.
"Nanu?" Carlisle calls.
He comes in the door and says, "Good. It worked."
He opens the little refrigerator and hands me one of the water bottles.
I drink it down.
"Emma, are you ready?" Jasper calls.
"Hold on," she says.
"Ready for what?" I ask.
"We're going to see my birth parents," she explains.
"Is that safe?"
She shrugs and asks Carlisle, "Can momma come?"
"If she wants to."
"Wanna?"
"I'd love to see the people that hated you."
Emma chuckles.
"You comin' or not?" Jasper asks.
He sticks his head in the door.
"Oh, Nanu, you're awake. That's good. Emma refused to leave and hunt," he says.
"I've always refused to hunt," she says.
"Drink," Carlisle hands Emma a bottle.
When she finishes, we, me, Emma, and Jasper, run to her birth parents house.
We slow to a walk when we get within earshot.
"…gonna get you. I'm gonna get you!" the dad laughs.
He's chasing a little three year old around a table. He grabs her and swings her into the air. She starts laughing.
"Did he do that with you?" I ask.
"He'd make me run into the table."
The mother comes out with a plate of hotdog and mac and cheese. The dad sets the little girl down in a high chair. They both give her a kiss on the cheek.
"They sicken me. Can we go home now?" Emma asks.
"Of course," I say.

That night, I run into the house. I set a note on a pillow on the bed and climb into a tree to wait for them to find it.
The note reads:
Emma is still around. She absolutely hates you and could kill you before you even knew what hit you. Happy sleeping, knowing your daughter, the new little, could be dead in your arms without you seeing who did it.
Your worst nightmare,
Death
They find the note about half an hour later. They scream bloody murder.
I run home, laughing the whole way.
P. S. ~ they refuse to let their darling girl out of their sight.