Hey everyone! Thanks for the awesome reviews. So this is more of a filler with sweet moments but I hope you like it. A lot of thought went into this one. So the Denali's are here and Tanya is a bitch. Just wait until the next chapter we'll see possessive Bella. Enjoy and review!

Chapter Twenty-Five

True Beauty

Bella was busy getting Nathan his breakfast. It was a good thing that she could cook. He was a patient boy. And he did not ask questions about why his family didn't eat with him. Bella assumed that he figured that they ate when he wasn't around. Alice promised to help Nathan pick out his clothes so Bella could go feed. Everyone could see that her eyes were darkening and was in great need of a good mountain lion. She hadn't gone yet because of the need to feed her son.

"Here, Love, I'll finish putting his breakfast together. You can go out now." Carlisle reassured his fiancé as he kissed her on the neck.

"Are you sure you can handle cooking?" Bella chuckled.

"The eggs and bacon are nearly done. All I have to do is take them out of the pan in three minutes." Carlisle chuckled. "I can handle that."

Bella kissed her fiancé chastely and then walked out of the room. She kept walking until she was out of the house and out of Nathan's sight. Then she took off at top speed into the forest in search for a mountain lion. She ran deep into the forest until she found one in a tree. She leapt onto a branch above it silently and watched her prey. She sought out its neck and the pulsing vein of life that she would have her meal from. She pounced on the creature and tumbled to the forest floor. She sunk her teeth into the beast and it let out a strangled cry. It's heart raced. She silenced it though and began to drink her fill. The warm blood of the great cat filled Bella and made her cold body temporarily heated. She sated herself with the carnivore and then slumped beside the king of this jungle.

The next thing she new she wasn't alone. Carlisle was suddenly lying on top of her. He had a mischievous smirk on his face. He kissed her lips and tasted the fresh blood.

"Mhm. You didn't save any from me, my sweet." He purred as he rubbed his lower self against her.

"I didn't know I had to." She laughed and then moaned.

"You look so damn sexy when you're sated with the blood of a lion." He growled as he lifted he lifted her skirt and pulled down his pants. He was in her in a moment and they moaned as their bodies slammed together. Bella couldn't speak. Carlisle had taken her by surprise and she loved it. She needed this. It felt like heaven. His balls slapped against her and she moaned even more. He was going balls deep. She fisted her hands in his hair and screamed in pleasure as she came hard. Carlisle echoed her exclamation as her name poured over his lips.

He pulled out and Bella pulled her panties back on as Carlisle pulled up his pants.

"I can't get enough of you." He panted as he laid on his back.

Bella buried her meal and then offered him her hand to get up.

"I can't get enough of you either, Love, but we have an impatient eight year old boy waiting for us. I can feel him wondering where we are." Then she smiled at him. "Have you fed?"

"No, Love, but I will now." He purred and then took off after a deer.

When he was finished Bella crouched down and wrapped her arms around his chest.

"I love you." She whispered sweetly as she nuzzled her head into his back.

He reached down and touched her arms.

"As I love you." He replied as he stood up.

He took her hand and they ran back to the house together. When they got inside Nathan looked up over the back of the couch and smiled at his parents. He waved The Magic Tree House book in the air and smiled. Bella ran at human pace to the couch and sat down beside him. She wrapped her arm around him and let him read to her. Nathan was a very good reader. At his age he should be a decent reader but he was better than decent. Carlisle chuckled and thought that Nathan was like his mother, she was very good at reading aloud. He was a storyteller like her. He knew when to emphasize.

Carlisle leaned over the back of the couch and listened to Nathan read. Every now again Nathan looked back up at his father and smiled. Carlisle ruffled his hair and kissed the top of his head. Emmett and Rosalie were picking up the Denali family at the airport. They were mere minutes away. Alice was jumping up and down with excitement due to Nathan's reading. She was so impressed that such a young boy could read so well.

"You never stop moving, Alice." Nathan chuckled.

"That's because she's a pixie." Jasper chuckled.

It was then that Nathan noticed Jasper's accent.

"Where are you from?" Nathan asked.

"Texas." Jasper replied.

Nathan smiled and then returned to reading. Nathan realized now that he really liked Texas because his big brother was from there. His siblings were all adopted like he was even though he understood that some of them had married into the family. He understood a lot for an eight-year-old boy. He liked sitting and reading with his new mother. She helped him with words he didn't know and she listened intently as he read to her. He had loved it when she read Ferdinand the Bull to him. Bella read beautifully and she was a born storyteller. Carlisle had sat with them and commented slightly. Nathan very much enjoyed his father's company. He knew that his family was different. He felt that they weren't exactly human. He wouldn't say anything to anyone. He didn't mind them not being completely human either. He wondered why they didn't eat when he did but he chalked it up to the whole not completely human thing.

Edward and Olivia walked into the room and Edward raised an eyebrow at him, but Nathan didn't notice. He just kept on reading to his parents. Edward saw how happy his parents were with the new addition to the family. Just then the Denali family came through the door with Rosalie and Emmett. Carlisle got up and walked to the door. Bella stayed with Nathan to keep him company.

"Carlisle!" Eleazar exclaimed.

The two men embraced in a manly hug with shoulder clapping and all that back patting and manly stuff that men do when they hug. Then Carlisle went on to hugging Carmen.

Bella got up from the couch when Eleazar walked towards her. They hugged and Eleazar pulled back to look at her.

"Well look at you, Bella. It's no wonder that Carlisle picked you. You are beautiful." She smiled in reply. "We have heard so much about you."

Just then Carmen ran over and squeezed Bella.

"Yes, and we have been dying to meet you. Carlisle talks endlessly about you. When we call you're all he can talk about. We have to ask about his work and the family because all he can talk about is Isabella this and Isabella that."

If Carlisle could blush he would be red right now.

"Aw, Love. That's cute that you talk about me all the time. I adore you." Bella chimed as she smiled sweetly at her fiancé.

Carlisle ran to her and picked her up and spun her around as he kissed her.

"Oh, you." He chimed as Bella giggled.

The Denali sisters weren't too happy to see this display of affection. Carlisle put her down.

"Oh and let us introduce you to the newest additions to our family, Olivia and Nathan." Carlisle spoke up as he pointed to each of his new children.

"Hi, people." Nathan said with an enthusiastic smile.

Nathan saw that these people looked a lot liked his family. The girls all swooned over him especially Carmen.

"Aw, he's so cute."

Bella bounced over and swooped Nathan into her arms. He was too big for this but she loved to do it.

"And he's all mine." She kissed him on the top of his head and he laughed.

"Hey, he's mine, too." Carlisle laughed as he wrapped his arms around his fiancé and kissed his son on top of his head.

"Nathan, why don't we go upstairs and look at the planetarium your mom and I put together yesterday for you in your room?" Rosalie asked her little brother as she held a hand out to him. "You could teach me about the planets."

Nathan smiled widely and jumped out of his parents' arms, but not without kissing them both on the cheek. He ran to Rosalie and they rushed upstairs to his room.

"Rosie sure loves Nathan." Emmett chuckled.

"He's a child. It's what she's always wanted." Bella replied.

Jasper and Edward took the bags upstairs and put them in their respective rooms. This was like a mansion basically. There was room for both families. They all sat down on the couches in the living room. Carlisle kept an arm around his fiancé and nuzzled her face with his for a moment until Tanya made a sound of disgust.

"Something wrong, Tanya?" Carlisle asked.

"Nothing." She huffed.

Bella just smiled at Eleazar as they talked about Carlisle. He had quite a few embarrassing stories about Carlisle.

"And that's why Carlisle doesn't wrestle with the boys anymore." Eleazar laughed.

"I rip Jasper's arm off one time." Carlisle groaned. "Sorry, Son."

"It was funny, Dad, now that I look back on it." Jasper laughed. "Besides, you put it back on."

"I know, but still. I felt terrible."

"Let's wrestle now." Emmett chuckled.

"I'm in." Jasper chuckled.

"So am I." Edward laughed.

"I'm in." Laurent added. Bella couldn't get use to the idea that Laurent was with Irina. She still associated him with Victoria. When he walked through the door she had to stop herself from killing him.

"Count me in." Eleazar added. "Carlisle, come on."

Carlisle smiled and got up with the boys.

"I guess that leaves you ladies to talk, save Rosalie with our little boy upstairs."

Carlisle bent down and chastely kissed his fiancé.

"I love you." He murmured.

"I love you, too." She replied and then sent him on his way.

Alice and Olivia moved onto the couch beside their mother.

"So you're with Carlisle now." Tanya huffed at Bella. "And you're with Edward." She scoffed at Olivia. "I'd think they'd have better taste than that." Her voice was full of disgust.

"Now don't you talk about my mother and sister like that you whore!" Alice yelled as she shot up off the couch. "They are far better than scum like you. I may have put up with you over the years but that doesn't mean that I like you. You're a slut, Tanya. So don't you go around talking about who is better than whom. My brother nor father would ever go after you. They wouldn't stoop to that level." Bella stood up and put her hand on her daughter's shoulders. Just then Rosalie came down the stairs.

"Bella, why don't you go up with Nathan? I think he wants to spend time with his mother. Olivia you should go out and keep an eye on the boys. Alice and I will entertain the girls."

Bella hugged Rosalie and then her daughter whispered to her.

"I think he knows."

Bella froze.

Bella hurried up the stairs to find Nathan sitting in his rocket chair. It closed almost all the way around except a bit of room in the front to enter and sit down in. It was like a beanbag chair. Then it closed around the top with a hole to look up at his planetarium hanging from his ceiling.

"Hey, Buddy." She chimed and sat down beside him.

"Did you know that Jupiter has the most moons?" He asked as he smiled at his mom.

"I didn't know that. Why are you so smart?"

"I like to read."

"So do I." Bella smiled as she laid back with her head next to the entrance of the space ship.

"Mom, I know that you, Dad, and the rest of the family aren't human." He spoke up.

She turned her head and looked at him anxiously.

"Is it that obvious or are you just that smart?" Bella smiled though she was shocked.

"It isn't obvious, I don't know. I just realized it. I didn't know right away."

"You're so mature for your age. Though I think at your age you notice everything." She gave her son her hand and he took it. He played with her fingers and her engagement ring. His warm hands felt good on her cold one.

"You're cold, too. But I don't mind." He murmured and then laughed. "I know that you're a vampire."

"Are you scared of me?" She asked.

He shook his head and smiled.

"I think it's cool."

"You can't tell anyone, Nathan. If you do you will put us in danger and then we can't keep you."

Nathan crawled off the beanbag and onto his mother's chest. He laid on top of her and smiled. She brushed back his hair with her hand and smiled at him.

"Do you like it here?" She asked.

"I love it. I love you, Mom."

Her heart swelled at the words.

"I love you, too, Nathan."

She had never wanted a family until Carlisle. Now despite her older children she had the best son that a mother could ask for.

"So if there are vampires, are there aliens?" Nathan asked.

"I honestly don't know. That's something you might want to take up with your father or Edward. They spent the most time studying science."

"Dad's a doctor."

"That he is. He spends his time healing people and saving people's lives."

"How can he do that as a vampire?" Nathan asked.

"Carlisle has very good self control. He never wanted to hurt humans just like the rest of us. Though Carlisle and I are the only ones that have never slipped up before. We don't drink human blood. We drink the blood of animals, which is why our eyes are golden. Mine were brown like yours before I changed."

"How did you become a vampire?"

"Carlisle bit me. It was to save my life because a group of royal vampires gave me an ultimatum because I had known about them for too long as a human. Though if they hadn't showed up I would have turned anyway because we had it all planned. So I still consider my turning my choice. The date was just strained, that's all."

"How long have you known Dad?"

"Eight years. But we weren't together then. He was married to another woman who left him. He found me this year at the end of the summer and we have been together ever since. But we have always loved each other."

"So you're young for a vampire?"

Bella nodded in reply.

"I'm not suppose to have the kind of control that I do. But my control envies that of your father. I love your dad very much and sometimes when I get angry I loose a little control but he always brings me back to Earth. We are very strong and we sparkle in the sunlight. The sun doesn't hurt us. That's why we tend to live in cloudy places."

"How old is everyone?"

"Your dad will be turning three hundred and seventy one in February. Edward will be turning 116 this year but not till June. The others are all around one hundred now. Though Jasper is the second oldest so he's older than Edward. You loose count after a while. I recently turned this year and so I'm only twenty-six. I'll be twenty-seven in September. Everyone but Carlisle and I are pretending to be in their early twenties. Carlisle is pretending to be twenty-seven going on twenty-eight. Because we don't age we have to move a lot. But they tell me you never get use to it but it gets easier. We don't hunt people so that we can stay in one place for a while. The younger we start out the longer we can stay."

"Will I become one when I'm older?"

"That's something I have to talk about with your dad. If the Volturi, the royal vampires, find out, then yes. Also if you want to be, then yes. It's something that you have to want. I wouldn't want to force this life on you if you had a choice. I chose it for myself so that I could be with my family and my fiancé forever."

"I want to be with you and dad and my brothers and sisters forever."

"We'll talk about this when you're older. Right now I just want you to live your life as a kid and have fun."

"I promise I wont tell anyone about you all being vampires. Pinky promise."

Nathan held out his pinky. Bella smiled and wrapped her pinky around his.

"Pinky promise." She replied. "You're a smart kid and keep getting smarter."

Nathan smiled proudly.

"Will you take me to the Planetarium someday?" Nathan asked.

"Of course, Sweetie. After we get you enrolled in school maybe we could take one of your friends that you make with us."

He shook his head.

"I just want you to take me. Maybe Dad can come with us another time, but I just want to go with you."

Bella smiled.

"Whatever you want, Sweetie."

"Do you think that Dad would take me to work with him one day? I want to be a doctor or an astronaut."

"I'm sure that he'd love that. It would give you time to bond. You know you could be both."

"I can't be both at once."

"Yes you can. You can be anything you want to be if you put your mind to it."

"Really?" He asked with a rather large smile.

"Really." Bella replied.

He nuzzled his head against her chest and sighed happily.

"You know your siblings all want to spend time with you as well. I know they all want to teach you things. Rosalie wants to teach you about cars. Emmett wants to teach you sports. Jasper wants to teach you history. Edward wants to teach you piano. Heaven forbid that Alice wants to teach you how to shop. Olivia wants to teach you about the theatre, which I think is a splendid idea because your father and I love the theatre. Your father wants to teach you about medicine."

"What do you want to teach me?"

"Well we already share a passion about reading. I might teach you how to write a story. Or I might teach you how to paint and draw."

Nathan smiled at her.

"Why don't we go back downstairs and see what the girls are doing. Your brothers are wrestling with your dad, Uncle Eleazar, and cousin Laurent."

Nathan got up off Bella and waited for his mom to get up.

She took him by surprise by throwing him onto her back. He wrapped his arms and legs around her and laughed. She loved the sound of his laughter. When they got down to the living room Bella laughed.

"Look who I found."

"Nathan!" Alice squealed.

"Alice!" Nathan squealed in reply.

Nathan scrambled off of Bella's back and onto the couch beside Alice who had one of his comic books in her hands. She gave it to him and he occupied himself with the Spiderman comic.

"The boys still going at it?" Bella asked.

"Yep. Carlisle hasn't ripped any ligaments off yet." Rosalie teased.

"So you all know that Nathan knows?" Bella asked.

"Yep and so do the boys."

"I'm not going to tell anybody!" Nathan sighed heavily.

All the girls even Tanya laughed.

"You're a cutie." Tanya chimed.

"You're pretty." Nathan blushed.

Bella almost growled. She didn't want Tanya thinking of her son in a gross way.

"Relax, Bella. He's a kid. I'm not like that."

Bella smiled and ruffled her son's hair.

"Mom." Nathan complained.

"Sorry, Baby. You're just too cute for your own good."

With that Nathan cuddled up into Bella's side and continued to read the comic book.

Bella watched Tanya as the girls talked. Part of her felt sorry for the girl. She spent decades chasing Edward and then eight years pawning after a somber Carlisle. Now Tanya walked into a reality that she had not believed was true until her arrival. Bella knew the look on Tanya's face as disbelief. Tanya struggled to comprehend that Carlisle was happy after seeing him depressed for so many years. Carlisle had told Bella the stories of Tanya's pursuits. Bella was quite happy that she had claim on Carlisle.

Tanya was obviously examining Bella and trying to understand why Carlisle had picked her. Of course, now that Bella was a vampire, she was beautiful. Though she was beautiful because of simplicity. Tanya was vein and knew she was sexy as hell. Well if hell were sexy that is. Carlisle was drop dead gorgeous and he had chosen a simple girl, though she hated to admit that they looked good together. Where Carlisle was hard and sharp in his features Bella was soft and smooth. Edward was quite a sight as well. He was very easy on the eyes. He had chosen a girl that was merely pretty and had the enthusiasm of a child on a sugar rush. They were polar opposites. The clan had expanded and now they possessed a human child. It all seemed so strange to Tanya.

Nathan put the comic down and asked if he could play a video game. Bella smiled and got off the couch with her son to help him set up the Play Station. That would keep him busy for a while.

"So Bella, I still can't understand why Carlisle chose you of all people." Tanya scoffed.

Bella rolled her eyes as she sat down.

"If you must know, Tanya, it's because he loves me. I know it seems unbelievable to someone like yourself, but love has nothing to do with looks. I am a girl of simple beauty. The transformation only enhanced what was beautiful about me. Though when I was human I refused to believe that I was attractive no matter how much men told me I was. Carlisle was the first man to make me feel beautiful even when I was still human. With him I feel wanted and worthy. You are a beautiful woman, Tanya. As a human I envied women like you. I thought my love life would be easier if I could not only appear confident about my looks to others but feel that way as well. You're stunning just like a siren. But I always knew that looks don't find you love, even if Carlisle claims I am the most beautiful woman on earth. I just tell him that he's biased. Love is built on trust, communication, and the will to be open with one another. It's about sharing your life with someone else. I realized after several failed relationships that you didn't need looks to gain that. At that time Carlisle re entered my life and he and I are living examples of that. Rosalie can tell you that because all she ever wanted was someone to love her unconditionally and not because she's beautiful. To sum things up for you, Tanya Carlisle chose me because I'm beautiful on the inside. When I accepted I that and loved him the same way I was able to learn I'm beautiful on the outside to."

Bella got up from her seat and walked outside to where Olivia stood.

She laughed as watched the boys roll around on the ground wrestling and trying to trump the others. She cheered for Carlisle and he responded by looking up and smiling at her only to be tackled to the ground by Emmett.

"Don't hurt him too much, Emmett. I'd like my fiancé in perfect condition." Bella giggled.

"Wouldn't dream of it, Mom." Emmett chuckled as he pinned Carlisle to the ground with his arms behind his back.

"Are you really going to humiliate me in front of your mother?" Carlisle groaned to his son.

"Hell, yes!" Emmett boomed and all the men laughed.

Carlisle groaned again and then took his son by surprise. He threw Emmett off him like a bucking bronco and dashed towards his lover. He took Isabella in his arms and held her tight. He devoured her mouth and kissed her slowly but passionately. Their lips met meaningfully. Carlisle had heard everything she had said to Tanya. He wanted to prove to her the best he could in their current situation with others around that he thought she was beyond gorgeous and that he adored her. He breathed into her and she moaned due to the sensation. He gave her life and reason for living. He gave her purpose just as she gave him. His hands roamed her back gently and moved in gentle rubbing motions. She laced her fingers of one hand in his hair and worshiped him with her lips.

Tanya looked out the window and saw Carlisle and Bella kissing. She had never been kissed as she saw Bella was right now. No man had ever poured love and affection into her like that. They pulled back from the kiss and much to Tanya's surprise they did not let go of each other and go their separate ways. They held on to one another and did nothing but stare endlessly into each other's eyes. Carlisle smiled gently at his lover and pushed a strand of fallen hair out of face. Then he leaned in and kissed her forehead.

The guys then came back inside and Bella and Carlisle walked hand in hand. He watched her in adoration as if every step that she made was a miracle. Tanya had never seen a love like theirs. It was obvious to even the untrained eye that they were bound. Tanya refused to accept it as true. Bella went to begin making lunch for Nathan. Carlisle followed her into the kitchen and whispered something that Tanya couldn't hear. Bella smiled sweetly and then sighed as Carlisle wrapped his arms around her from behind and buried his face in the crook of her neck. Tanya was at loss for words. She was disgusted.

Later on in the day the two families shared stories. Emmett kept Nathan entertained with more video games. Carlisle was sitting very close to his mate and was a bit on edge due to Tanya's attempts to pursue him after lunch.

"Why don't we go shopping tomorrow? There will be major sales." Alice squealed.

Bella rolled her eyes.

"Come on, Bella. Just the girls. The guys can do what they want and watch Nathan."

"Fine, but I'm not buying anything. I've bought too much lately."

"Love." Carlisle teased. "You can buy whatever you like."

"I feel guilty whenever I swipe that little black card."

"You shouldn't. Once we're married you're getting one that says Isabella Cullen."

Bella groaned. Carlisle couldn't help but laugh. Some things never change.

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