Disclaimer: I don't own 'Twilight' or any of the characters. I do, however, own Nate (-smile-), Shadow, Emilee (actually, my BFF owns Emilee :D), Stassi, Brian, Ciel De Diamants, and Bella's Aviators hehehehe.

Mmkay, well, Cat97 said not to hold the chapters hostage (But, Cat, this hostage stuff is fun!) hahaha so I thought I'd update! I dedicate this chapter to Cat97 and E is for EMMETT.

Edward's POV

"Oh! Nate, these are the Cullens. Everyone, this is my husband, Nate." Bella said.

Husband!? She's married?!

Bella turned and glared at me. What did I do?

"It's nice to finally meet you all." Nate said with a smile.

"Nice to meet you!" Alice said happily.

"I've heard so much about you all." Nate said with a smile, "I could probably name you all." He laughed.

Everyone but me laughed, "Like, you're…Alice." He said pointing to Alice.

She smiled, "Yep!"

"And since you're holding her hand you must be Jasper."

Jasper nodded.

"And you two are Emmett and Rosalie…"

They nodded, too.

He turned to me, "And that makes you Edward."

I nodded.

He smiled, "Bella talks about you all so much I probably know more about you all then I know about her." He joked.

Bella rolled her eyes.

"Isabelle, please report to studio A. Nathaniel, please report to studio C." the intercom said.

"Shit! I totally forgot about my shoot!" Bella exclaimed.

"I'm sure you can get there before Brian throws a hissy fit." Nate told her.

"Yeah but I was supposed to give them a tour." She said nodding toward us.

"Oh. I would show them around but I have a shoot now, too." Nate said.

"What am I going to do?" she asked him.

"Take them with you." He suggested.

She grabbed his hand and was silent. I listened in on Nate's thoughts.

(A/N Bella's thoughts are in bold italics and Nate's are just italicized)

What's wrong? I thought they're like family to you. Nate thought.

I was startled to hear Bella's 'voice' in my mind, They were. But they didn't want me around then, why should they want me around now?

Maybe they've changed. You can't just avoid them, honey.

I know but—

No buts. They seem happy to see you.

They're good actors. They acted like they loved me before and they obviously didn't.

Bella, stop. You know that's not true.

Nate—

He put a finger to her lips as if to silence her, Just take them with you and if they're too much of a pain in your ass, pass them off to someone else. Stassi would be happy to do anything for you.

She mentally sighed, Okay.

Bella let go of his hand and her mental 'voice' disappeared.

"Okay, you're all going to come with me if you don't mind." Bella said.

"We'd love to!" Alice exclaimed.

Bella turned to Nate. She wrapped her arms around his neck and he wrapped his around her waist. He kissed her and then pulled back, "I'll come find you when I'm done with my shoot." He told her, "I love you." He whispered, kissing her.

"I love you, too." She murmured against his lips.



It stung to hear her say those words to him.

He kissed her again and then walked off.

Bella sighed, staring after him. She then turned to us, "Let's go before I get in any more trouble." She sighed.

She led us to studio A.

"ISABELLE!" A man yelled.

"I know, I know. I'm sorry I'm late." Bella said.

"Why are you late, Isabelle?" The man said.

"Nate just got back." She said with a smile.

"Ah. Well, then I excuse you for being late." The man said.

"Thanks, Brian." Bella said.

"Go!" he said, pushing her towards the set.

She walked up and put her aviators. She placed her hand on her hip and flipped her hair over her shoulder.

Brian started taking pictures as Bella struck different poses. She looked phenomenal. I could see now why she's an international super model.

A few minutes later she went to change and came out in a different top and her hair was straightened. It was a black halter top with a really low neck line. It had little black jewels.

Alice and Rosalie were obsessing over all the clothes in the area Bella had changed in. Jasper and Emmett were talking about the models. I was just blatantly staring at Bella.

"Wonderful!" Brian cried as he finished photographing.

Bella walked over to him and kissed him on both cheeks, "Ciao!" she said.

" Au revoir!" he said.

She walked over to us, "You guys ready to go take a tour?"

We all nodded and she led us out of studio A.

A girl walked up to Bella. She was a vampire, too. She was pretty but nowhere near Bella's beauty, "Isabelle?"

Bella turned, "Hey, Stassi. What's up?"

So this was the Stassi Nate was talking about. "Blair called. Emilee has a fever."

"Shit. She's probably teething again." Bella murmured, "Can you call Blair for me and tell her to call Emilee's doctor and make her an appointment for tomorrow."

Stassi nodded and walked away.

"Who was that?" Alice asked.

"My assistant, Stassi." Bella said, pulling out her cell phone.

"Oh. Who's Emilee?" She asked.

Bella smiled and showed Alice her phone. Her wallpaper was of two little girls. One looked about two or three and the other was about one.

Bella pointed to the younger one, "That's Emilee," she pointed to the older girl, "and that's Shadow. They're my daughters."

Daughters?! She had DAUGHTERS?! WHAT THE HELL!? Is she really that insensitive that she got over me when I was dying without her?

"Awww! They're adorable!" Alice said with a smile.

Bella smiled. She then started dialing on her cell.

After a few seconds she spoke, "Hey, babe." She paused, waiting for the person to talk, "Yeah. Emilee has a fever." She paused again, "Blair is going to make her an appointment for tomorrow." Another pause, "How many shoots do you have tomorrow?" pause, "Oh. Okay, I'll take her." Pause, "No, its fine. I only have one shoot tomorrow anyway." Another pause, "Yes, I'm sure. I love you." Pause, "Bye."



She began to dial another number. "Tommy?" she asked, "I need to either cancel or postpone the Chanel shoot." Bella paused, waiting for Tommy to respond, "Emilee has a fever and I need to take her to the doctor." She replied, "Nate said he would but he has five shoots tomorrow and I only have the one." She paused then sighed, "Yes, I know." She almost growled, "Bye."

She hung up and started walking, "Un-Freaking-Believable!"

We just followed silently. We walked into a hall with two doors, a blue one and a black one. The blue one had 'Isabelle' on a gold plate on it and the black one said 'Nathaniel'.

Bella opened the black door with a key card, "This is Nate's lounge and dressing room. It's where we hang out between shoots."

The walls were covered in pictures of Bella and their two daughters. There was a tack board with pictures from coloring books. On the top of each was 'To: Daddy From: Shadow and Emilee' Written in Bella's handwriting. Then there was a wedding picture.

Bella looked amazing. Her hair was in an up do with ringlets hanging down. Her dress was strapless and had lace on it. The picture was of her kissing Nate but she was smiling against his lips.

There was a black leather couch and a coffee table. There was stereo and a flat screen TV.

"Okay, moving on." Bella sighed. She closed the door after we'd all filed out. She then opened the blue door with the same key card. "This is my lounge and dressing room."

The room was identical to Nate's but the walls were hyacinth blue and instead of pictures of Bella, the pictures were of Nate. Her tack board was covered in pictures. Pictures of her and Nate, her daughters, and then some random pictures of her and some of the models.

Before I looked away, I saw a picture that I didn't think I'd ever see again. It was the picture of me from Bella's eighteenth birthday. She'd decided to test her new camera on me. She'd later asked if I'd show up on film. Who knew that she'd need that info for her career?

Bella sat on the couch, "This has been the longest day ever."

Alice sat next to her, "Why?"

"Well, first, you guys show up. Then, Emilee is sick. And I have two more shoots today." She sighed, "The only highlight is that Nate is home."

"Our coming isn't a highlight?" Alice asked.

"Not exactly, no." Bella said, putting her feet up on the coffee table.

"Why not?" Emmett asked.

"Well, it's clear that you all didn't want me around when I was human. Why should you want me around now?" she asked, voicing her thoughts.

"Bella we can explain--" Alice started.

"No. I don't need explanations. I understand. Not a lot of people want me around so I don't blame you." She murmured, sounding like she was about to cry if she could.

"Bella, it's not that we didn't want you around." I said, speaking for the first time.

She looked to me, "What was it then? What does 'I don't want you' translate into for you?" she asked acidly.

"Bella, it wasn't safe for us to be together."

"I was safer with you than I was without. If you were there, I wouldn't be a vampire." She snapped.

"What do you mean?" I asked, "How did you change?"

"I went to our meadow. I wanted to ease some of the pain, bring back memories." She murmured, "Laurent showed up." She whispered.

"Laurent?" Alice, Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie, and I all asked in unison.

"Yes. Victoria wanted revenge. She sent him to see how hard it would be to get to me. And since you weren't here, he was going to kill me. Then the wolves came and crashed the party. It was too late, though. He'd already bit me. The wolves just left me there and three days later, I had a death to fake." She explained.

"I stole an old car from the junk yard and drove my truck into it in the middle of the night. I started it on fire too and spread blood all over so it looked like an accident." She said, "It was very convincing."

"Then I tracked down Tanya and her family and found out how to contact you all. I called and then… well you know the rest."

I was speechless. I'd left her to save her from this future but my absence only made it worse. "I'm so sorry, Bella."

"It's cool." She murmured with a smile, "If you didn't leave and I wasn't changed, I wouldn't've met Nate."

"How did you meet him?" Rosalie asked.

"I was thirty one and I was in a bar." Bella said.

"And she was randomly striking poses on top of a table in her drunken state." A voice said.

A smile broke across Bella's face, "Nate!" she said, running to hug him.

"Hey, baby." He murmured with a smile.

"I thought you had another shoot."

"Nope. Drew canceled it because he's prepping for the show tonight." He explained.

"Oh. Well, you can help me tell them how we met." Bella smiled.

Nate smiled and walked over to the couch, pulling Bella into his lap. She snuggled into him. I ground my teeth together.

"Okay, so she was striking random poses on top of the table because she was so drunk she could barely walk." He chuckled.

"And then I passed out…" Bella said.

"So I took her home with me, worried that someone would take her and rape her or something." Nate murmured.

"And I woke up and had no clue where I was. So he explained and then he offered me a modeling contract."

"You can just hand out contracts when you work here?" Jasper asked.

"You didn't tell them?" he asked.

"No." Bella said.

"Oh. Well, I own 'Ciel De Diamants'. No one knows but Bella and I because I use an alias." He said.

"Cool!" Alice exclaimed.

Nate chuckled, "So she agreed and started to work here. After about three weeks, I got up the nerve to ask her out."

"I agreed because I'd had a huge crush on him since he'd saved me from the bar." Bella said.

"So we started dating and a year later, I proposed." Nate said with an adoring smile for Bella.

Bella smiled, too, "Then eighty four years later, I got pregnant with Shadow and then two years later, Emilee came."

"And that's it." Nate said.

"How'd you propose?" Alice asked. Of course she would be the one to ask for the romantic details. Insert eye roll here.

"I had a huge party here for her birthday and I walked up to her in front of everyone and said, 'I love you so much. You're my everything. I don't know what I'd do without you. It's hard to believe that I survived so long without you. I know you've been hurt in the past, but I will never, ever hurt you.' And then I got down on one knee and pulled out the ring and said, 'So, Isabella Marie Swan, will you marry me?'" Nate said.



"And I said yes." Bella said, with a smile.

"And I've been the happiest man on earth ever since." Nate said.

"Awwww!"Alice and Rose said.

Bella smiled. There was a knock on the door, "Come in." Bella said.

Stassi opened the door, "Um, Bella? Blair called back. Her sister just went into labor and she can't watch the girls."

Bella smiled, "Thanks." Stassi closed the door.

Bella pulled out her phone, "Blair?" she asked, "Yeah, I heard." Pause, " I totally understand," another pause, "Thank you so much, Blair. And tell your sister I said 'congratulations'" She paused again, "Bye."

"What's up?" Nate asked.

"She's going to drop the girls off here on her way." Bella said.

"Oh." Nate said. He then turned to us, "So, what brings you all here?"

"Vacation." Jasper said.

"That's cool." Nate said.

"You said you heard a lot about us?" Alice asked.

He grinned, "Yeah, Bella talks about you all so much I should know tons about you."

"Really?" Alice asked.

He chuckled, "Yes. I hear you're a psychic shopaholic?" he asked Alice.

She nodded with a smile, "Yup."

"And you're her husband, the empath." He said to Jasper.

Jasper smiled, "Yup, that's me."

"You're Emmett, Bella's brother she never had. And you're really strong."

Emmett smiled, "That's me."

"You're his wife, Rosalie. Bella's always liked you but you've never liked her."

"I didn't used to but I do now." Rose replied.

Nate turned to look at me, "And you're Edward, Bella's mind reading ex."

I nodded. There was an edge to his voice. Almost like he was trying to control his temper. When I heard his mind I understood why.

How could he leave her? She was a mess when I found her and it's all his fault! He shouldn't have said he loved her if he didn't. He shows up here and probably expects her to take him back. I know she would but she can't. Bella can't leave me. I'll die without her.

He thought Bella was going to leave him for me. Like that would ever happen.

Bella placed her hand on his cheek, "Never." She whispered.

He looked at her and calmed down. He kissed her sweetly.

"Bella, do you have an extra sense?" I asked quietly.

She smiled, "I have mind control. I can read and control them. Oh! And I'm a shield."

"And you?" I asked Nate.

"Mind reader." He said curtly.

"Cool!" Alice said happily.

Emmett laughed, "Looks like Bella's got a thing for telepaths."

Everyone laughed but me.

This was going to be a long three weeks.

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