Still here, sorry for the long delay got stuck on Noel's story will post 2 chapters today.

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Chapter 36

The cleanup was rough we were wrong there was still 20 humans left it seems one of the older women was still of child bearing years and gave birth to a young girl. While everyone was dying out a small family thrived. There were now three women of child bearing years.

"Michael what do you wish to do?" Lil asks with a sad look on her face.

I look at them huddled holding each other. "Fuck" I whisper, "I can't just kill them Lil."

She pats my arm "I know Michael, but we have to do something otherwise we will have a city full before a hundred years." She looks thoughtful "maybe you could fix them like in your time, what's it called a vasectomy?"

We round up the men and I take the first one in, using the gift I used to change our skin I block the tube allowing sperm to flow it takes only minutes then Lil brings me the next taking away the male. There are ten of them and I try not to look at their faces we must not become attached to them. Kat wanted to bring them to the tribe but Peter was the voice of reason, "they know we fed them to the red eyes how will the tribe take that? I'll tell you, they will think they are next!" That ended the discussion right there forced sterilization or death it was a no brainer. We made a small home for them then proceeded to remove all traces of the city. We tried we really did to stay out of their lives but slowly they wormed their way in. First with Lil each family had a small boy only 4-5 thank god no girls I will have to fix them at puberty. She could not help it all those years of taking care of all those orphans then seeing them running around in their new home. Kat was the next to fall helping them to plant a crop rounding up some livestock things like that, she was determined to give them the best life possible.

Peter called a family meeting, this was a first. We met in my office "Dad you have to talk some sense into these two. We are breaking the rules again."

Kat looked at him with a hurt expression "Petty it will be over in 70-80 years."

"I know Kat, and after you and Lil will be wrecked, I see it with the tribe and you only see them 3-4 times a year when we are here." He looks right at me "Dad we have to leave and let them die out."

I look at my son and know he is right something will die in Kat when the humans die if she interacts with them on a daily bases. "He's right girls we should go."

Kat looks at me "But dad"

I give her the look the one that lets her know I've made up my mind.

Lil looks a little disappointed "you are our leader Michael if you think its best than that is what we will do"

I give her a grateful look "we will live in the human's lives but only for a short while 8-10 years at a time moving on so they don't see us not ageing. This will be a good first run."

We file out to work on the cleanup and Peter slides up to Kat she gives him a dirty look "I'm not very happy with you right now Peter you should keep your distance for a while."

He looks down at the floor "for how long Kat?"

"I'll let you know" then zips off to rip a few buildings down.

I watch the whole thing then walk over and put my arm around his shoulder "you did the right thing Peter she will see that the first time we live in the human world and she loses someone she became close to."

After that we all kept our distance from the family it took 3 years to remove all traces of the human's, plant trees around our home that would grow to cover and hide it from the air. We planted ivy that would grow to cover the wall we had made so in a hundred years all you would see is a wall of green. When done I didn't recognize my home. Kat finale let her grudge against Peter go it only took a little over a year of his groveling and agreeing with almost everything she said. The girls rounded up a few dozen dears to let loose in the valley the humans had killed them all over the years after we put up the walls. It was nice to see the wild life return where the city had been.

Before we knew it 8 years had passed you could time it by the yearly visits of Demetri going to Orrif's to pick up Aro's yearly supply of ground up vampire bone. After the first year that Aro tried to sneak more than one body in I was careful to check, now he just changed the biggest human he could find and if ungifted he ripped apart and de-boned them. Kat was always bringing him over to the tribe to trip the gen in the young shifters. The pack was 14 strong the new alpha was stiff and formal with her and Peter but she was close with the youngest pair Torance and Qurstove. Over the last 8 years they were the only ones to shift Peter and she would spend 2-3 days a week with them. After coming back from his forced visit to the tribe he always sat down with me and discussed what is happening in Aro's part of the world.

"So what's new on the other side?" I ask him after he sits down.

He smirks at me "you know same old same old, Aro working to rule the world. We did find something interesting though, a coven on some island they call Japan. Seem an ancient 6-7 thousand years old went there and started a coven during all that plague stuff. Would you believe there are 15 of them running around on that small an area? We had to go remind them of the rules, the old one lost his head to one of his kids seems he was a real prick, Aro got the whole story from there new leader. Gave them the two laws and we left told them we would be checking up on them, like we don't have better things to do." He gives me a smile as he says this.

I give him a smile "we have been looking for a trip tell Aro I'll look in on them see how there doing."

With that he left to go home with his bag of dust. I called a family meeting after he cleared the wall. "Were going on a trip someplace I always wanted to go. The land of the rising sun, Japan."

Peter as always was out of the loop looks at the girls, he asks in a pissy voice "where the hell is that"

Lil always helpful smiles "off the china coast it's an island the humans are fierce warriors."

I smiled at my family "I got the language from Demetri we will go over it before we leave."

What followed was a week of teaching and bitching from Kat and Peter. Kat wanted to cheat and get it the easy way using Aro gift I was quick to point out it wasn't fair to Peter. That shut up Peter with a big smile he thought I would cave and give Kat the easy out like I do most times. Lil just sat and learned without a complaint turning to her two bickering siblings "will you two give it a rest we are doing this as a family think of it as quality time." She turns back to me "continue Michael."

Once we had the language down pat we loaded up our back packs and ran north we planned to spend a few months in Alaska I love that state my uncle had a place up by Denali National Park in my time on my world. Mom sent me to her brother every summer since I was 12 for one month I fished, hunted, and screwed around with my cousin Paul. Uncle Steve had a place on the edge of the park right on a lake the only house for a hundred miles in any direction; dad thought he had a few screws loose. I looked up from my daydream almost seeing there log cabin. Right then and there I came to a decision "I'm building a log cabin here on the lake." I blurt out as my family looks on in surprise.

Kat looks around "well all right then" and moves out looking for dried out logs.

Peter looks stunned for a second then heads over to the mountain range to quarry stone for a fire place.

Lil clears a hill overlooking the lake "don't just stand there Michael start making the glass for the windows and find some hardwood for the doors."

Kat has already made 5 trips before Lil finished giving me my job I shake off my daze and with a smile I get to work. You would be surprised how much 4 vampires can get done that has had building experience. I went to the beach and used my gift to bind with my gift of Orrif's shield to make 10'x10' sheets of glass 2" thick. After 12 hours we take a break to hunt I have 20 sheets I look at the pile of loge Kat got she is just starting to strip them and Peter has a large pile of stones. Lil has taken some of the rock and laid them to make a floor on top of the bedrock of the hill. A lot of the work will fall to me binding things together the grunt work falls to my family.

We run out and find a bunch of moose Kat and I get bucks while Lil and Peter each snag a doe. We leave the meat to feed the wolves and bears in their area. We head back with Peter running to his quarry for more stone. Lil and Kat are stripping logs of their bark as I start to look for some hard wood for my doors.

We are into day 5 and we are putting the slate Peter had found for the roof I have bound every piece of our cabin, who am I kidding our mansion by the lake. The wall to the lake was almost all glass with the mountains on the other side the view was spectacular. This place will stand for thousands of year's hell I think it could take a direct nuke and not get a scratch. Eight bedroom sweets all with walk-in closet, lounge, and vampire in-sweet baths. I had used my gift to drill down and create a natural hot spring coming up inside the house right to the sinks that drain into the tubs twice the size of soaker tubs, all one piece of hollowed out stone which run to drains that run to the lake. No needs for toilets in our homes. All four of us could stand in the fireplace, hell we can burn trees in that thing. While I was binding the roof the girls and Peter have been making chairs, beds, tables, games boards and pieces. Lil was making book cases I just know we will be hauling another box back full of things for our new home. We settle in and stay in our new home for ten years before we get itchy feet and resume our trip.

the second family home almost time to meet the first cullen