Hello Everyone!
Well it looks like FFN is at it again! Over the last few weeks a couple of weeks a few of my favourite stories have been removed for being in breach of the sites ratings. honestly I think the whole thing is ridiculous.
Here in Australia, books aren't rated. Basically we have a read whatever you want policy, and whether or not a story is too mature for a certain age group is up to the reader to decide. It's pretty much the same for movies and TV shows.
Over here, M is for mature audiences but no-one would bat an eyelid at selling a ticket for an M rated movie to a 10 year old, and MA is for 15 years+ but, again, it's really at the discretion of the viewer or their parents. I've let my son watch MA movies since he was 8 because he was old enough to decide whether or not the content was too much for him based on why it was given the rating (i.e. drug use, violence, sex scenes).
We're not idiots! So I think we should be given the right to decide for ourselves if a story is outside our maturity levels. Whoever imposed this rating system is completely out of touch with reality is they think that young teens don't know about sex and swear words.
Phew...now that I've got that off my chest...
Thanks to all of you loyal readers who've stuck with this story to the very end, I'm incredibly grateful for all of your support and I'll be so so sad to say goodbye to you all.
Super special thanks to Deanna08, royalhiness & 18blueberries for fav'ing, nikkistew2, Deanna08, lyryc69, 18blueberries, Najeyo & danidangerbear for following, and Sarah Amin, jansails, JXB Addicted, leegee123, siren of titan & "Guest" for reviewing. I'm really going to miss opening my email to find all of your alerts waiting for me. They, and you, absolutely made my days and I'm so happy that I got to share this story with all of you.
Okay...time to say goodbye to these crazy kids...
:-D
EPOV
"I caught one! Look, look I caught one all by myself!"
"Well...no. I set the trap, all you did was wait for the poor unsuspecting bunny to jump into it," I think to myself.
Of course, I'd never say that to her face. With her excitedly wide brown eyes looking up at me, there's no way I could ever do anything but agree with her.
"Yeah you did," I say, attempting to match her enthusiasm. "Well done!"
"I'm gonna go show Mommy," she yells, running back through the trees towards the house.
Uh-oh...
"Anna, stop!" I shout at her retreating figure before jogging after her. I break through the tree line just in time to see her disappearing through the back door.
Bella is not going to be happy about this...
"Edward!"
Yep, definitely not happy...
I can understand her anger though. One big rule Bella had was no dead animals in the house unless they were skinned, cleaned and ready for cooking. It was just another way for her to maintain a sense of normality, I guess.
I don't blame her.
If we could've lived in my childhood home, we would have. But it was just too far out of town and much closer to the treaty line than either side was comfortable with. They didn't want to be near us, and after the betrayal we'd endured, we didn't want to be near them either.
We had waited at the camp-site for weeks, surviving on apples and fish from a nearby stream when our food had run out, but we never saw Jacob again. Even though it was obvious that we weren't going home, I was still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe something had happened to him and that's why he didn't return.
And then we encountered the others...
Relocating to the centre of Forks had provided us with access to the stores and everything in them, but we still needed to hunt for food. With a little bit of practice, a few of us guys had become quite adept at using the bows and arrows that we had...borrowed from the sporting goods store, and we had taken to hunting in the nearby forest. Gradually, as the animals become accustomed to our presence, we had to expand our expeditions to cover a larger area.
It was on one of these expeditions that we first saw them.
Initially, despite the fact that they were all holding guns, we were all happy and more than a little surprised to see them, but that feeling quickly vanished when they turned their attention on us. They were definitely from Jacob's tribe, and none of them seemed surprised to see us.
It was then that I knew for sure that Jacob had deliberately betrayed us. Not only did he leave us here, but when he had the opportunity to use his knowledge of the future to save the entire human race from extinction, he had chosen to only save his own people.
"Edward Cullen," an older man at the front of the group said, looking directly at me. "Take your people, leave our land and we won't give you any trouble."
"Won't give us any trouble?" Emmett asked incredulously. "All you people have ever given us is trouble. Why stop-"
The sound of their guns being cocked echoed through the air around us, stopping Emmett's rant. It was pretty clear that these guys were serious.
"What about the town?" I asked calmly. "It's not on your land. Can we stay there?"
The older man contemplated this for a minute before agreeing to allow us to live in the town, and provided we did not set foot on their land again, they would leave us in peace. But as stupid as it may have been to question them, my curious mind couldn't help but wonder one thing.
"How did you do it? How did you survive when everyone else died?"
"There is an island off First Beach," one explained smugly. "It is a sacred place for our people, but outsiders are scared of it so they stayed away. We moved our tribe to the island long before all the trouble started and we just sat back and watched the rest of the destroy itself."
"But why didn't you help them?" I asked, unable to understand how anyone could be so heartless.
"Why should we have helped them?" he asked defiantly. "This was our land first. The way I see it, it was just the natural order being restored."
I just shook my head and walked away.
During the months that followed our encounter with the Quileute, we had entertained the idea of leaving Forks and settling in another town much further away, but in the end we decided to stay. Forks was our home and at least we knew what to expect here. There was no way of knowing what we might have discovered elsewhere. So for better or worse, we were staying.
Now, I could say that it was smooth sailing from then on, but that would be a big fat lie.
It was horrible.
Animals and insects had taken over most of the houses, and the ones that they hadn't were too dilapidated to possibly live in. It took a lot of hard work, using supplies scavenged from other houses and mouldy, moth-eaten guides from the library, to rebuild the houses that we had chosen to call home. Vegetable gardens were planted and rules were established, and for a little while everything was great.
But without electricity and technology to entertain us, boredom soon set in.
And with the boredom came the babies...
For some strange reason, the group thought that because my father was a doctor, that qualified me to deliver babies. And if by deliver they meant huddle in a corner crying and gagging while Rosalie shouted abuse at me, then yes, I was more than qualified.
Needless to say the job was given to someone else after that.
And it was a week before I could even touch Bella's pussy without dry-heaving, but thankfully I got over it, and eventually it was our turn.
Anna Elizabeth Cullen.
With her deep chocolate eyes and wavy chestnut hair, she's the perfect miniature replica of her mother and the most beautiful little girl in the whole wide world.
That's a completely unbiased opinion of course.
But at least I knew she was mine. The same couldn't be said for James.
When Victoria gave birth to a baby soon after Rosalie, we were all expecting it to look like James, but when the baby appeared with its dark skin and black hair, the only people who weren't surprised were Victoria and Laurent.
James, on the other hand was livid. He lashed out at not only Victoria and Laurent, but everyone else around him as well. He became a danger to himself and others, and after an emergency group meeting, we decided that our only option was to banish him. Breaking the news to James had been an complete eye opener.
"You want me to leave, then I'll leave," he laughed, as he walked towards the town limits. "Unlike you losers, I actually have somewhere else to go."
"What do you mean?" I shouted after him.
"I mean that you weren't the only one that our buddy Jacob visited," he smiled. When he saw my confused expression, he laughed again and continued. "Oh yeah, me and Jacob struck a deal one night when Emmett and the girls were asleep. He said if I convinced you guys to stay here, he'd make me an honorary member of his tribe. And here you are. So screw all you fuckers, I'm outta here."
He seemed so confident as he walked away, but when his lifeless body was dumped by the "Welcome to Forks" sign a few days later, we knew he'd learnt the hard was that Jacob's word could not be trusted.
Without James' toxic presence, things began to settle down in our little community and, at last, life was pretty great for all of us.
"EDWARD!"
Except for moments like this...
"Edward," Bella yells again as she comes bursting out the back door, protectively clutching her swollen stomach.
Yeah, that's right...my swimmers did it again.
"Yes?" I ask innocently, hoping that if I just play dumb she won't rip my head off.
"How many times have I told you not to let her bring dead animals into the house?" she seethes.
Seventeen times...but I don't think she'd appreciate my meticulous memory right now.
"I don't know," I lie, before deciding that the only way to diffuse this argument is to grovel. "I'm really sorry, baby. It won't happen again, okay?"
"It better not," she says, but she doesn't sound angry any more.
"It won't," I say, wrapping my arms around her. "I'll make it up to you."
"Promise?" she pouts. I'm a sucker for that pout and unfortunately for me, it's just another thing our daughter inherited from Bella.
"Promise," I sigh, kissing her softly. "I love you, Bella."
"I love you, too," she whispers, pushing her lips firmly against mine.
Yeah...life's pretty great.
