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There In The Disappearing Light

Chapter 25-Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

As this story comes to a close the Cullen's move on and Rosalie, Emmett and Lena move on with them stepping forwards into a different kind of perfect forever. (Potentially shorter, final chapter)

They stayed until the end of the school year. They didn't stay until Lena graduated. Too much time had passed and if Lena was being honest with herself the more she thought about it, the more she wanted a clean break away from the school where she had been a misfit and an outcast, away from the makeshift gym and the car park and away from the memorial of the two girls she had killed that day it had felt like the weight of both the mortal and the immortal worlds were crashing down upon her.

She had voiced this quietly to Rosalie one morning and the next thing she had known about there was a plan put in place.

"Now it would look too suspicious if we all disappeared at once" Rosalie said firmly, they were in Lena's room going through her clothes to see what could be replaced with the new move. Lena personally thought there was nothing wrong with them and that was why she was sat cross legged on the bed and watching Rosalie but she had learnt during that mammoth shopping trip that it was best not to get in between Alice and clothes.

"So Carlisle and I have agreed, that it's best the family take three months and then regroup when he and Esme have the new house set up. And don't look like that Lena—" As Lena had looked alarmed at that news. "We've done it before. Usually during the war but…anyway sometimes we need a break. You'll looking at eternity with one family trust me you'll want a holiday after a decade or so"

Lena considered this and conceded the point.

"So how does it work? I mean?"

"Well" Rosalie said folding up a pair of jeans that despite being ancient (three weeks old) were apparently still decent enough to wear into a box labelled 'Keep'.

"We all have different spots in the world partial to us. I assume Bella and Edward will take Nessie and go back to Washington where Bella's father lives which means the dog will go and spend time with his admittedly not terrible father. Alice and Jasper might go South to check up on Peter and Charlotte, Jasper's friends and then they tend to go colder for their honeymoon periods, Alice likes Alaska and she tends to enjoy Paris for the fashion season so who knows. Esme and Carlisle will finalise plans on her island—"

"Hold up her what?"

"Carlisle bought her an island for an anniversary…or was it the end of the war? Either way he bought her an island"

Lena blinked, she had known the Cullen's were rich, after all they had, had a lifetime to plan ahead on the stock market and she wouldn't put it past Alice to be helping Apple prop up their revenues or the fact that they had more money than most countries but she had never even heard of people buying islands.

"Did Emmett get you an Island when we won the war?"

"Oh no, he got me a beaten up Jag. Classic in red, took me three years to scrounge together the parts to put it back together but Emmett knows I enjoy a good challenge."

Lena did not know what to say too that. She personally would rather have the island than the car though she supposed Embry might have had something to say about that. She changed the subject to distract herself. She had not spoken to Embry in a week or so—she didn't even know if he knew she was moving.

"So where do we go?"

"Well that depends. Emmett has always preferred to go to places with a rather unique hunting range, Africa is always a favourite, it gets tricky because of course a lot of the more exotic animals are in countries that we cannot easily live in because of the sun. Emmett and I have homes scattered across the world but we wondered if there was a place you wanted to go?"

Lena paused thinking. If she was being honest with herself she wanted to go back to Mexico but while she had gotten away with a hotel room somehow she didn't think that Rosalie would cope in a rickety room swarming with mosquito's unable to go outside. After all she couldn't even eat the food.

That alone was a tragedy in itself.

"I've never been to Africa" she said finally. "And…and…how opposed are you to a cruise?"

"Very" Rosalie said shuddering "All those people on a boat and all that grease dripping off the bacon. Ugh. Better you do that with your werewolf. So Africa? And then were? We could do a month in Africa and then Greece perhaps? We could meet up with Carlisle and Esme up there, they like travelling and I imagine that even if they don't go to the island they like to travel and Carlisle I imagine can get lost within the walls of a good historical site"

"You don't mind the sun?"

"Oh there are plenty of ways around that. Don't worry sweetheart we've been used to things like the sun for a long time. Sometimes though you need a break from the constant repetition of High School even if it is a kick to graduate over and over again and finally crack Math and Science"

"Math, Algebra. Trig and Chem all were invented to torture people" Lena said cracking one eye open. "And reading my report card was not cool Mom"

It came out before she could stop herself and Rosalie who had turned to go through the clothes she tended to slum around the house in paused. Lena dithered for a second and then decided to plough on nonetheless.

"So what does Africa have to offer in terms of hunting?" she said quickly.

Rosalie turned her perfect face serene and carried on the conversation as if nothing had happened. Lena decided not to push. After all there was an eternity for both of them ahead where they could get use to the moniker of mother and daughter.

And they carried on like that for a while longer until the chicken that Esme had put in the oven (she had refused to get store bought fried chicken claiming the fat content was horrific and either way she did a pretty good job of coating it herself) made Lena's stomach rumble for food in the same way that Nessie's would rumble for blood.

Rosalie was packing their stuff into carboard boxes while Emmett had been exiled to the window seat. Experience had told the men of the Cullen family that it was best to let the woman take over whenever they were in the process of moving especially after Jasper had accidently donated Alice's Spring/Summer Gucci collection to charity three years before they came to Forks and had been banished from his room for a resounding weak (and God hadn't that been depressing for all of them). So now he was perched on the window seat with a stolen copy of Harry Potter because it didn't matter at what stage of the immortal life you were at, Harry Potter was a masterpiece.

He had mentioned that once in passing and Edward the consummate literary genius in the family had smacked his head through a wall miscalculated and had taken out most of Carlisle's study in the process. Emmett didn't care, he liked what he liked. Case in point was his wife who was going through their clothes with more precision than most armed forces did when finalising their invasion plans.

"Emmett didn't we have a conversation about plaid in the 1950s? And flower print in the 1960s? How you've managed to keep these past Alice I do not know"

"Says the woman who has a silk night thingy in every colour under the sun even though she doesn't sleep?"

"I thought you liked them?"

Emmett grinned taking a moment to remember and appreciate the memory of Rosalie in purple silk.

"Oh I did" he said grinning.

Rosalie smiled and went back to sorting through the clothes with a rather serene, almost smug expression. The last time Emmett had seen that expression etched on her face Nessie had been a newborn and Rosalie had been cooing about the fact that she had been right all alone and the baby did not kill Bella and that it was a baby—which granted at the time even Emmett had, had a hard time believing.

"So?" he asked because Rosalie was as good as keeping a piece of gossip to herself as Alice was at controlling her credit card during the January sales.

"So what?"

"So you've got that look on your face." He dropped the book and sped across the room so that his chest was flush against her back and his chin was resting on her shoulder. "That's the look that means somethings made you so pleased that your being forgiving about plaid and flower print" he dropped a kiss on her neck and she leaned backwards, reaching up to grab Emmett's face her fingers curling in the back of his head and hair making him almost purr with pleasure.

"She called me Mom"

Emmett stiffened for a heartbeat of a second and then relaxed grinning. He knew exactly who Rosalie was referring too and he knew how much it had meant to her to wait to hear that moniker. She had lived through Bella during her pregnancy and while she had been granted the name of aunt and a role in Nessie's life she had been robbed of the title that she had so dearly desired. Had Bella perished in childbirth and Edward at his own means then Emmett despite it all was under no illusions who would have protected that baby and who would have stepped in to call herself mother.

It did nothing to diminish the love that he felt for her. He had known the desire that Rosalie felt to be a mother. He knew how much Lena calling her Mom would mean to her.

"And your gonna be the best Mom to her that you can be" he whispered.

Rosalie smiled her whole body radiating happiness, the kind that Emmett wanted nothing more to do than to bask within. He adored this side of his wife who had gotten all that she had wanted. And if he had played a small part of getting her what she wanted then he was nothing short of thrilled that he had done that. He worshiped the ground that she walked on and while Lena had been the final piece to his happy ending he wouldn't lie and say that it had not been complete when it had just been him and Rosalie. But now as a father he found that even though he had thought a simple poor lad from Tennessee couldn't get more than what he had now he found he was surprised. Carlisle was right. If he was able to get away with being a husband, a father and to never lose either one of the girls he had come to depend on then…perhaps heaven for immortals like him did exist.

"I'm glad" was all he said finally and Rosalie nodded before elbowing him backwards.

"I suppose I have a cross to bear for my vanity thought" she said though there was a teasing lilt to her voice.

"Oh?"

"Yes, can you imagine trying to get werewolf stink out the carpet?"

Emmett laughed.

Rosalie smiled.

Somewhere upstairs he could here Lena pottering around in her room as the Imperial March from Star Wars played in the background. He could hear Alice and Jasper having a conversation over what to give Peter and Charlotte as a homestead gift (Charlotte partial to candle and Peter not stomaching the scent) and Carlisle and Esme alone in the study discussing designs over the house. He could hear Bella and Edward with Nessie over the river, his niece asleep and his brother reading to his wife (Shakespeare—God Emmett hoped that was code because if not it was just embarrassing). And even Jacob was in his little apartment Esme had seen to when he had come with them to Canada, half asleep listening some kind of cooking show rerun.

Life was perfect.

And life carried on.

They had been in Africa a month when Carlisle called and told Rosalie that the island was free. Lena who had been sat with Emmett on the beach chatting animatedly about wanting to go back to school when the fall came around had looked thrilled about the fact that she was part of a family that owned their very own private island and though Rosalie was loath to admit it she knew that there was one thing that her daughter had struggled to come to terms with when she had left Canada.

She told Carlisle they would be grateful to accept and then when she had some privacy she stared at the number that Edward had insisted she program into her phone.

She did not want to do this.

Oh did she not want to do this.

But she did it anyway because she had learnt from watching Bella and from watching Esme that a mother's love was concreate in the way that they put the needs of their children above their own needs. Or their wants.

"Lo?"

Ugh.

"Dog. I need you to do me a favour"

Lena had arrived at the island in awe. She had all be prepared to crash in her room but she saw someone sitting there waiting, clearly for the boat that they had carried them and her heart stopped a little.

"You did this for me?" she asked speaking instead of thinking.

"Yes" Rosalie…no Mom said. "But if you think that I am letting the two of you share a bedroom then you are pissing in the wind sweetheart. He gets the shed out back and he can cook his own food. I'll be damned if I am cooking him anything—" but she was cut off when Lena turned and hugged her. She felt Emmett press a hand down on her head and she could hear her thoughts enough to know that they were for once all on the same page.

Love. Respect. Family.

And she ran off to join Embry who was standing with his shy smile.

"That was nice" Emmett said finally his hand finding hers and giving it a squeeze.

"Yes I know" Rosalie said smiling and squeezing back.

"Hey look" Emmett said softly. "Our daughter is happy"

"Yeah I know…well done Dad"

"Thank you Mom"

They stared at each other for a moment and Emmett kissed her softly. Despite the lack of intensity he tried to say a lot of things in that kiss to Rosalie and judging by her smile he knew that he had gotten the point across.

Lena grinned at them and Emmett squeezed his wife's hand, she grinned back at him and then they crossed the beach to join their daughter in their small, slightly unusual but nonetheless perfect piece of their happy ever after.

And there you go, I hope you enjoyed this story and the character of Lena as much as i enjoyed writing her. I will hopefully see you all the next time i return to this fandom. I wish you all the health and happiness in the world and once again a massive thank you to everyone who has given this story your support.

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