Okay, you're getting another update at 11 pm Australia time because I need help. For my next FF which I have already started, I need new vampire ability/gift ideas. Please give me some suggestions? It's driving me insane!

I hope you're enjoying this one, though.

-A xx

Carlisle

"Home sweet home." Bella said as she walked in and lay on the couch, hugging a cushion.

"I thought you love that island…" Edward said.

"I do, in smaller doses." She smirked.

"Hey, Vi and Mason, you want to come out for dinner with us tonight?" Renesmee asked.

"You just got home…" Violetta said to her, dropping a bag, and herself onto the ground.

Mason smiled and sat down beside her.

"You know that I like to keep busy." Renesmee said.

"And expensive…" Jacob added.

"And adventurous." Seth contributed.

"And troublesome." Leah smirked.

"And irritating…" Mason rolled his eyes and lay backwards.

"Fight me." Renesmee said.

"Outside." Mason sat back up and raised his eyebrows.

"Fine. Let's go." Renesmee smirked and walked to the back door. Mason smiled and stood up, following her out.

"Children." Violetta shook her head.

Jacob looked outside, "Oh, they're actually doing it." He moved quickly and went outside. Leah and Seth followed behind him. I turned to see Mason in his wolf form.

"Control your puppy before he hurts my daughter, please?" Edward asked.

"Oh, imagine if Ness heard you say that. Don't think she can defend herself?" Violetta smirked.

His face remained unchanged, so Violetta groaned and rolled her eyes as she stood up. "I just want to sleep; it's all I ever want." She muttered to herself as she walked outside.

"It's a hard life." Kate said sarcastically.

"At least she's physically able to sleep." Esme said as she sat back on the couch.

"Carlisle, maybe you should tell us that thing while they're distracted." Edward said.

"And, here we go again. Just one problem after another." Bella said.

"It's not a problem." I shook my head.

"Yes it is." Esme said.

I sighed, "Esme, it's work."

"It's unnecessary work, and you're leaving for a month."

"You left for 3 months…"

"That was different. I asked you and everyone else and made sure it was 100 per cent okay. I didn't just decide to up and leave and tell everyone at the last minute. When are you going to tell Vi?"

"I'm going to tell her."

"No you're not. You're going to panic about her reaction and you're going to keep putting it off, and then you're going to leave and she is going to be a wreck."

"Can we get to what's going on? I'm sort of anxious now…" Rosalie said.

"I have to go away for work for a while." I said.

"Where are you going?" Alice asked.

"London, and then somewhere else that hasn't been decided yet. I leave on Friday."

"You're not even going to London for work…" Esme said quietly.

"No, I'm going to London to remove Vi's gravestone before someone realises she isn't dead."

"How long?" Bella asked.

"A month, at the most. I'll talk to you about that job before I leave."

"The job isn't really on my concerned list at the moment…" She said.

"Why is this such a big deal to all of you?" I asked.

"Do you remember how we reacted when Esme was gone and didn't return when she originally told us she would?" Jasper asked, "Because that's pretty much why."

"Not to mention Esme's temper over the last few months…I don't want to get my head ripped off…" Emmett said.

"Carmen and Eleazar will still be here."

"Ah…" I heard Carmen say quietly.

"Or maybe not…Either way, Esme is perfectly capable of keeping you all under control."

Esme snorted, "Whatever keeps you sane."

I looked at her with an obvious look.

"We're going to have to start a buddy system…" She smirked.

They all laughed.

"Wait, where are you going?" Tanya asked Carmen and Eleazar.

Carmen looked at Eleazar.

"I can't tell you right now, it's a surprise for Carmen." He said.

"Nice choice." Edward nodded.

The conversation ended as Violetta walked back in, pushing Mason in front of her. She pushed him to the couch. "Sit." She said. He obeyed and sat down. "Stay."

She walked around the couch and back towards the back door. Seth and Leah were both in their wolf forms and growling at each other.

"You're not my real mum…" Mason joked.

"Do not make me roll up a newspaper and hit you with it." She said as she exited the house.

"Oo, you pissed her off. What'd you do?" Emmett smirked at him.

"I bet Ness, and I sort of pissed off Leah, and Seth jumped to my rescue and now they're fighting…total misunderstanding."

I moved from standing behind Esme and walked outside quickly. She followed behind me. Violetta was standing beside Renesmee. Jacob was now phased and snarling at both of them, and I assumed he was trying to get them to calm down, or stand down at least.

Seth growled and snapped at Leah. I pulled him backwards and stood between them. "Stop. Now." I said sternly, looking them both in the eyes on either side of me. I don't think I have ever had to calm them down in their wolf forms before. Were their tempers and behaviour different? Are they more animalistic or vicious? I didn't know. Leah took a step backwards and turned around, running around the side of the house, and probably into the forest. That's where she calmed herself down in Forks. Seth dropped his head and looked down shamefully.

"Alright, so maybe Carlisle's their alpha…" Violetta said quietly.

"That could have been a disaster. Why weren't they listening to Jacob?" Renesmee asked just as quiet.

"They're just independent, I think. And angry…"

"Hmm, well, I better go get new outfits for them…Apparently Mason was the only one who decided to hide in the trees to undress before he phased."

"You lost?"

"No, he was—yeah, I lost."

Violetta laughed before she turned and walked inside. Renesmee followed her.

"See, when you're gone, I'm not going to be able to do that." Esme said as I turned to her, and the house.

"All I did was talk harshly…"

"I can't do what you just did, Carlisle. I don't know how you expect me to care for 16 children on my own."

"Jasper and Edward have matured a lot since Vi came, and Bella has always been mature. They can handle some of it too."

"Carlisle, do you remember when you made me angry, and Vi upset, and I left with her and Mason? Do you remember how all of them were involved in that huge fight at some point?"

"That was different, that was because of me."

"…If you are not back in a month from Friday, I'm leaving my children, and I'm going to get you."

"I never went to get you, you wouldn't let me."

"Different circumstances."

"No, it wasn't." He shook his head.

She decided to try a different approach to try and get me to stay, "How will I last a month without being able to…have you." She looked behind her and back at me.

I smiled and dropped my head to the side, "Nice try, but again, I went 3 months."

She groaned and rolled her eyes, "Please stay? Don't make me get on my knees and beg."

"You can get on your knees, but you don't need to beg." I winked.

"Carlisle!" Her eyes widened and she looked behind her again.

I laughed, "Relax my love. I will be back before you know it."

"Fine, but I need you to go inside and tell Vi right now."

I sighed and nodded, "Okay."

She smiled appreciatively and we walked inside. Renesmee passed us, carrying 3 sets of outfits. She walked through the gate at the back and put them in the trees before holding the gate open for Jacob and Seth.

"Vi, can I talk to you?" I asked as we walked back in.

"I know." She said.

"What?" I asked.

"That you're leaving. I know."

My eyes went to Mason.

"Hey, I didn't tell her." He raised his hands in defence.

"I wasn't asleep in the car." She rolled her eyes.

I nodded, "Okay…"

"When you go to London, can you check on our old house and make sure no one is in it?"

"Why?" I asked.

"Because I own it, and I do not appreciate trespassers who might ruin it. It should be well kept, but if it's not, please call me."

"You know, owning that house isn't going to help you let go of your past…" Jasper said.

I looked up at him, "Tough."

"Why do you own it?" I asked her.

"I didn't want anyone else living in it, I didn't want it to get ruined, and I didn't want it to become a place for underage parties or graffiti. I lived in it for a while, but I had to keep moving at the time. Running from the law and the Volturi."

"You were running from the law?" Alistair asked.

"Uh, yeah. I think, at that time, it was because I ran away from a foster home. I'm not positive though. It could have been after I burnt down a whore house. I made sure no one was inside first."

"They let you inside a whore house?" Rosalie asked.

"I was sort of working there at the time. As a receptionist, not a whore, I promise."

"Wait, wait. You look 15. I don't think that's legal…" Emmett said.

"I think you've known me long enough that human law means absolutely nothing to me. I don't have much respect for law enforcement anymore, to be honest. They knew about my abusive homes several times, but they never did anything about it."

"This conversation has not taken the turn that I had expected…" Mason said.

I started wondering now how long it would be before Violetta remembered that we got her a car, or the piano in her room, or how long before she discovered the easel in there, too.

Now that I knew that she was aware of my leaving, I was able to relax more.

Seth and Jacob walked inside with Renesmee.

"Where's Leah?" Rosalie asked.

"Um, she sort of left…" Seth said.

"She'll be back soon, though. Just went to calm down a bit." Jacob said.

"Wait, so you're not at all affected by Carlisle's soon absence?" Esme asked Violetta.

She shook her head, "No…"

Edward looked at her, "Are you serious right now? I thought that had all changed…"

"Well, you thought wrong, didn't you? It's normal." Violetta shrugged her shoulders.

"Refusing to let yourself get attached to people is not normal."

"It's normal for me…" She raised her eyebrows.

"I don't know, you looked pretty attached when Esme was angry with you about destroying the room, and when you got back from that incident in Rio…" Kate said.

"Putting yourself in someone else's hands is not the same as being attached." Violetta said.

"I think you're pretty attached…" Bella said.

"I'm not attached to him!" She denied.

"You're getting defensive." Tanya smiled.

"The more I tell myself and believe that I am not attached, the easier my life is. Stop."

"This is completely different to where I thought we would end up." Mason said.

"And this is where we will end up." She said, looking at them.

"You're totally attached." Emmett smirked.

"Sorry sweetheart, but they're right." Rosalie nodded in agreement.

Violetta shook her head and stood up, walking upstairs. Now she would see the piano and easel.