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After the events of last night, things were different in the morning, we didn't have to pretend anymore, which felt good and it felt as though Gemma had always been here,

we had decided we were leaving straight after the funeral, we had went up to Tanya's during the night and said our goodbyes, Gemma thought it was great running through the woods on Emmett's back,

We would head back to Forks but go to Clallam bay to the opposite end of Port Angles so we didn't run into anybody in town,

When Nessie had phoned Charlie last night he almost chocked with happiness, we had decided just to use it as a base till we sorted out KJ's wedding details,

We were assembled in the hallway our stuff packed and the cars ready to go, Esme and Carlisle had the Merc, jasper had his bike, Seth and Kj were in the Acura, Jake and Nessie were in his Ferrari, Emmett was in his Jeep, Alice was in her Porche, we were in the Vanquish and Rose now had company in her BMW with Gemma, the Volvo was being shipped over with our belongings,

we all pulled out the drive and headed to the cemetery, most of the town were there, we stood at the back and let Rose and Emmett stand at the front with Gemma, she kept a firm grip of Rose's hand, I wasn't sure if Emmett was just touching her back or if he was holding her up, the service finished,

Nessie headed over to say goodbye to Becky and the others, Gemma told them she was leaving to stay with family abroad but she hoped to keep in touch, we all got back into the cars and hit the road,

We were in Forks early next morning with the speed we all drove at, Jake, Seth and us all headed to the reservation the others headed home, We would stay in the same houses, but would use the other town instead of Forks and Port Angeles,

Charlie was out in the yard when we pulled in, nessie bounced out the car and ran to him, it always took me by surprise a little when I realised how old he was getting,

Edward got out and came round and opened my door, "you ok sweetheart?"

"Yeah im good" I stepped out and walked over to meet him,

"hey bells you look great" Charlie beamed as he pulled me into a hug, the smell of Charlie still took a bit of getting used to, I knew he was in no danger from me but it didn't stop it from hurting, I strained back a little "hey dad"

Sue came to the door, "Nessie how are you honey?" Nessie flitted to the door and hugged her,

Seth headed passed them and into the house, towing Kj "mum, Charlie im starved"

Charlie rolled his eyes "well there's a surprise"

He stepped round me and put his hand out to Edward "hi Edward how you doing son? Haven't seen you in ages,"

Edward took his hand, shaking it gently and smiling "hi Charlie, im good, being kept on my toes with these two though"

Charlie nodded "yeah one was bad enough, but mother and daughter now there's trouble"

I looked at the two of them "thanks dad"

Jake reappeared with Billy, "hey guys how you all doing?" Billy shouted,

Jacob wheeled him towards us, "hey Billy" I leaned down and kissed him on the cheek,

"Hey Bella, Edward," Edward shook Billy's hand,

"So, where are all of you staying?" Billy asked

"well, we will be in the cottage, Nessie also, think the rest will be at the house, not sure about Seth and Kj, we have a new member her name is Gemma, she's just 16 her brother was a werewolf and killed her family so she has adopted Rose and Emmett"

Billy looked at me then to Edward, Edward smiled "no, she's human Billy, don't worry we haven't touched her"

Billy smiled back "sorry Edward old habits die hard" Edward nodded to him,

"Well, we are going to head home, we'll be back over later, Nessie you coming or staying?" I asked

She looked at Jake, "we'll be along shortly want to speak to my dad first ok"

Nessie smiled "ok with me"

I hugged my dad again, and headed back to the car, Edward was already waiting with the door open,

"Our home or the house" he asked winking at me, "our home" I replied smiling at his wicked grin,

"Is Jake telling them about him and Nessie?" he nodded,

Billy already knows, he told him when they were last over, but he's going to use Billy as a buffer for Charlie"

I looked at him "maybe I should have stayed?"

he shook his head "they'll be fine, don't think anything would surprise Charlie anymore,"

we reached the house in no time and flitted across the river to our little cottage, it was a little over grown but that wouldn't take long for Edward to sort,

I opened the door and the sweet scent of home drifted out, I inhaled deeply, Edward swept me of my feet and carried me inside,

"Welcome home Mrs Cullen" I couldn't help the huge smile that spread across my face,

"I love this place nearly as much as I love you" I whispered, he carried me through to the bedroom and placed me gently on the bed, it seemed so long ago, we lay here in our little piece of heaven, he lay down beside me and turned to look at me,

"This is always going to feel like home no matter where we end up, we will always end up back here,"

I smiled at him, he leaned over and kissed me gently, the happiness I felt at being home over flowed and I twisted my fingers into his hair and pulled his face to mine, he reacted to my touch and jammed his lips to mine, I felt his hands in my hair and on my back lifting me slightly of the bed, we disappeared into our on little bit of bliss for most of the day,

We were just heading into the living room when Nessie and Jake came through the door,

Nessie looked at me then at Edward "do you two ever stop?"

I looked at her and Jake "hope you two aren't planning on starting" they both blushed,

"NO" Jake said firmly,

"Jake are you staying here?" Edward asked

"Is that ok?"

Edward looked at me "yes it's ok but we need to get you a bed" I said

Jake smiled "cool thanks bells"

"How did Charlie take it"

Jake laughed, well after he threatened me, fell out with me he was pretty cool with it, Sue had already explained the imprinting thing when he had asked why Seth ended up with Kj, so he pretty much expected it" I nodded "well that's good, we are just heading to the house ok"

Ness nodded "yip, see you there"

Edward and I jumped the stream and headed into the house, I even felt good just to be here,

Esme was busy packing away food for Gemma, Seth and Jake,

Emmett was cleaning his jeep and the other cars with the high powered hose,

Alice and Rose were helping Gemma sort her new room and pick out the stuff she wanted in it,

Jasper was polishing his bike along with ducking out of the way of Emmett's hose and Carlisle was in his study re arranging his books again,

We went into the music room and Edward started playing my lullaby, we could hear everyone stop and listen,

"I don't think we will go back to Alaska for a while, we kind of had a crap time there" he whispered in my ear as he started playing Esme's tune,

She was instantly behind him wrapping her arms around his neck and resting her chin on his head,

She smiled down at me "you ok mum" I whispered

"Yeah im fine sweetheart this is my favourite home, how was the cottage?"

I looked at Edward "it was amazing" she kissed the top of his head and wandered out in to the hall

"Gemma honey dinner is out"

Edward laughed "you didn't hear that often in here"

We heard Gemma thumping down the stairs "or that" I said, listening to the footsteps thump into the kitchen, "thanks Esme" we heard her say as she sat down at the table,

It was strange everything she did seemed so noisy even the two hulking great wolves that clambered about didn't make a sound when they moved,

We heard shouting and laughing coming from the back door, Jasper was standing soaked through and Emmett was laughing his head off,

Alice flitted to Jaspers side "what happened? Jasper just looked at Emmett "him" was all he said,

Emmett started laughing again, Jasper growled at him and crouched to jump, I pushed Edward in between them,

"Stop it Jasper" Edward said, Jasper looked at Edward "we'll get him sooner or later brother" Edward whispered,

The three of them disappeared back out the door into the garage with Alice following shouting abuse at Emmett,

Gemma was sitting at the breakfast bar with her dinner in front of her, I smiled and sat down across from her, "how you doing Gemma?" she smiled,

"I'm good thanks Bella, how about you? Glad to be back," I nodded my head,

"Yeah, still feels a little strange sometimes though" she looked at me a little puzzled "How come?"

"So much happened in this house, did Renesmee not fill you in?" "Renesmee," I started laughing

"Nessie is just her nick name, Renesmee Carlie Cullen is her proper name, but no one seems to use it unless she in trouble"

"Renesmee is nicer than nessie, yeah she filled me in on some of it, she said when I felt more comfortable with this whole thing she could show me, but I don't know how she is going to do that"

I smiled at her Nessie has a few family secrets of her own, but you'll work those out as you go, Edward, jasper, Alice and myself are not what you would call normal vampires, well I don't even know if we didn't have extra abilities if you would call us normal" I laughed to myself "I know better than anyone what your probably feeling and thinking right now, well besides Edward but that's another story, if you need to talk or if something freaks you out just come ask me, I think I spent a good bit of my time with Edward freaked, puzzled or just out cold,"

I touched her arm as I got up, I noticed she didn't wince away from my chill, she just put her other hand on top of mine "thanks Bella"

Edward came running into the house and grabbed me in front of him, just as Emmett came in at the back of him, he stopped and looked at me,

"You are using your wife as a shield!" he roared at Edward,

I looked back at Edward, he was grinning like a Cheshire cat, "no she was just standing there I happened to be behind her that's all"

Rose appeared at the door "what the hell is going on down here? they can hear you in forks the noise your making," before she could finish her sentence, Edward had picked her up "now im using your wife as a shield"

Rose stared at Edward then at Emmett "put me down Edward! I don't want to hurt you" Edward laughed "not till you call of the bear"

Jasper flew in and landed on Emmett's back, Edward dropped Rose and jumped to grab Emmett, the three of them fell out the door, Rose walked over kicked out Emmett's feet and closed the door, she turned and looked at me,

"Do you think there will be enough nursery places for them?" I started laughing,

We looked round at Gemma she was sitting with her mouth open

"You ok honey?" she nodded, "are they always like that?" "Pretty much so im afraid" Rose answered smiling at her,

Alice appeared at the back door stepping over the bodies sprawled across it "Jesus guys take it outside!" she closed the door behind her, spun round and looked at us "guess what?"

Rose shrugged her shoulders "what" Alice's face lit up, "it's going to be a thunder storm tonight"

Rose smiled at her "good they can do with loosing some energy"

Gemma looked at Rose "what happens in the thunder?" "We play baseball, Bella will explain to you and you can be the position Bella used to be"

I smiled at her "umpire, but don't tell Rose she is out, she gets a bit hostile" Rose laughed

"Only to you little sister" she said hugging me,

"Right now we have settled that, have we worked out what we're wearing?" Alice asked,

Gemma looked kind of down, "what's wrong sweetheart?" Alice asked flitting to her side and putting her arm around her "I don't have much in clothes" she whispered back

Alice looked at Rose "well I will show you my closet you can pick something form it, then tomorrow we will go get you kitted out, do you like shopping?"

Gemma shrugged "I used to go with my mum but that was when I was little, not really bought much since then my dad just picked things up for me"

I looked at Alice then at Gemma "well you're in for a treat tomorrow then, wear flat shoes and you will need to mind her you eat, she almost starved me the time she took me out"

Alice smiled "I forgot ok, and it was worth it remember, you looked lovely for a change"

"Huh that's cheek tiny" I squeezed her arm,

Nessie and Jake finally appeared about half an hour later, Kj and Seth at the back of them, the three children had stopped trying to kill each other, and were now sitting, well behaved in the sitting room.

We were just waiting on Carlisle coming home; he had been to see about his new job at the hospital in Clallum bay, we were all kitted out in our baseball outfit's,

"Are you going with Emmett?" Rose asked Gemma,

Gemma looked at Emmett, "not sure, haven't asked him"

Rose smiled "you don't need to ask him you just stand beside him" Gemma smiled and walked over to Emmett he was talking to Edward about team strategy,

"Right are we all good to go?" Esme asked smiling at us all, jasper holding the bats and Alice with the little bag of balls, everyone looked round and nodded,

Rose and I were watching to see if Emmett would remember Gemma,

we looked away when he looked over and smiled at us, "right honey lets go, he carefully lifted Gemma up and placed her on his back "when you two are ready" he called at us,

We all flew across the river, I could hear Gemma gasp as Emmett lunged up into the air and then gracefully landed back into the trees,

Nessie caught up with him "Gemma mind me to show you were I live, its back there" we didn't hear Gemma's reply,

Edward was already at the field when we arrived, Gemma looked at him, "how did you do that?"

Edward tilted his head to one side "do what?" "get here so quick" "oh that im faster than everyone,

Emmett is stronger than everyone" Kj burst out laughing "well almost everyone" Edward said winking at her,

We split into our usual teams boys versus girls and I showed Gemma were to stand to be the umpire, we waited and then the sky clouded over,

Jake walked over towards us, "hey the pack are out tonight so don't worry if you see a wolf ok they wont touched you" he whispered to Gemma, she swallowed hard and nodded

"Don't worry, if they do come here they make great heated blankets" I whispered to her,

Jake laughed "yeah I don't know how many times you cuddled in to me in the night chill"

I slapped his arm "shut up Jake your girlfriend will get jealous" he looked over at Nessie,

She put her hands on her lips and scowled at him, he smiled "sorry honey,"

The first crack of thunder came and then the sky lit up, the air was filled with howls from the woods,

"You'll be fine honey" I whispered taking the bat and standing in front of her,

"Bella, shield," Alice shouted, "I nearly forgot"

Edward flicked a stone at Alice "big mouth"

We started the game, I was up first and batted it, in to the forest, I only made it to 2nd place before Edward appeared with the ball,

we only managed 3 home runs before we were out, Edwards team did much better considering Edward made a home run every time it was his turn,

the rain only came down lightly in the clearing and we played for a while, then we saw them coming out of the forest 3 huge wolfs, they came over to where we were playing,

Nessie ran to them and hugged there wet fur, "hey guys"

We looked over at Gemma she was standing upright staring at them, Rose flitted to her side, one of the smallest wolfs quill, walked over slowly, Nessie still holding his fur,

Gemma stood a little behind Rose

"Its cool Gemma this is Quill and the others are Embry and the big one is Sam,"

Gemma put her hand out to touch Quill's fur, Quill bowed his head and she ran her hand over his head, Nessie smiled and went to walk away, Quill turned and nudged her with his head, pushing her forward, Nessie turned and smacked him, "don't start Quill, I will take you down," Quill made a husky laughing sound, Gemma smiled at Nessie's angry expression, she punched him in the side and he lifted his back leg and kicked her backside as she stormed away, Quill bowed again at Gemma and turned to follow Nessie pushing her all the way back with his head, Nessie kept hitting him,

we were all standing laughing at them, she jumped up on to his back and he reared as if to throw her but Nessie kept hold "good doggy" she patted his head, Embry walked over and started nudging her with his head till she finally lost her grip and fell off,

Gemma let out a gasp as Nessie hit the ground with a thump, Quill turned round and pretended to sit down on her, Nessie was squealing and trying to push the huge horse shape from her,

Jake walked over and kicked Quill in the backside, he got up off her, Jake lifted Nessie up and put her on his shoulders

"Why don't you pick on someone your own size?" Jake said hitting Quill again,

I looked over at Gemma she was laughing and had came out from behind Rose,

"Are you staying to play?" Edward asked, Sam shook his head, "what did he say?" Esme asked

"No they were out on patrol; they heard about Gemma and wanted to meet her,

Gemma had crossed the main field and was now standing beside Edward, "Gemma this is Sam, he is the pack leader" Sam bowed his head and nudged Gemma, she stroked his hair,

Edward nodded "Gemma Sam wants to know if you want to meet his wife Emily, she seemingly makes great muffins," Edward smiled,

Gemma looked round at us, "Nessie will you come to?"

Nessie looked down from Jake's shoulders, she had been busy pulling Quill's ears, "yeah sure, the now?" Sam nodded, "ok cool," Nessie looked down at Jake, he lifted her down, then pulled of his t shirt and trainers, handing them to Nessie then ran into the trees, he appeared a minute later holding his jeans in his mouth, she stuck them into the back pack she took everywhere,

Gemma looked at Ness then Jake "I wondered why you always took that with you?"

Nessie laughed "got to be prepared cant have him running about naked" Jake nudged her

Are you running or riding he wants to know" Edward said to Nessie

"I'll ride, thank you very much" she jumped up on to Jakes back and cuddled into his fur,

Gemma looked up at her, Edward looked at Sam "yeah probably for the best, Gemma Sam says he'll take you since Quill and Embryie's head's are full of air"

Quill let out a loud huff, Emmett lifted Gemma up and place her on Sam's back, she grabbed the fur and pulled herself on,

"Now hold tight honey, don't let go" Rose said, smiling at her,

Seth huffed at the back of us "what's up with you?" Kj asked

"They better bring muffins back with them" she smiled, "do you want to go?" he grinned, "well come on then guys see you later" they shouted as they ran into the woods,

We returned to our game and carried on till the thunder stopped and the rain started,

It was well into the night when we heard Nessie and Jake coming into the house, they were followed by Seth and Kj,

Kj had Gemma in her arms; Emmett flitted to her side, "is she ok?" Kj nodded

"Yeah fell asleep in Emily's kitchen to many muffins probably, didn't want to leave her so I thought I would just carry her, she slept the full way"

Kj handed Gemma to him; she stirred a little and opened her eyes, "you ok honey?" Emmett whispered,

She let out a loud yawn and closed her eyes again; Rose flitted upstairs at the back of Emmett,

Esme smiled "they are like a little family" she looked over at Edward "is she ok with all this?"

Edward nodded "she's taken to it like Bella did, nothing seems to phase her and she always has either Rose or Emmett in her thoughts"

Nessie bounced down beside him "seriously dad, ask Seth how many muffins he ate,"

Seth looked at her "I had 4, I told you that already"

Edward looked at him Seth smiled "what" Seth said trying to hide his smile

Nessie looked at him. then back to Edward "its double figures isn't it?" Edward smiled

"I knew it Seth you eat like a horse" she said scowling at him, Seth laughed "well im nearly a horse"