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The Return
It's been one hundred years since we left Forks but it's been decided that we will return today, I'm nervous to finally discover Bella's resting place knowing that it will be the goodbye.
"Edward I will come with you to her grave" Anna my wife and mate said causing me to stop thinking about Bella.
"Thank you but you really don't have to" I replied sitting her on my lap.
"I know and I want to if it wasn't for Bella we would never have found each other."
"Are you both ready? We are leaving now, Carlisle wants us to stop on the way and hunt" Alice asked coming into our room.
"Yes we are ready" Anna answered for us climbing off my lap and walking towards the door I got up and followed her.
Thirty six hours later we pulled in to the drive of our house in Forks, the grass was over grown as we expected it to be within ten minutes the grass was cut it was piled up in a corner. We drove around to the garage and walked around the porch steps; Carlisle opened the front door and stopped to check that there were no other scents before walking in.
"Nobody unpack until the sheets have been cleared away and the house has been dusted and cleaned." Esme told us before we all got to work.
"Edward please come in here, there is something for you here" Carlisle called I tried to read his thoughts but he had gotten good at hiding them over the last one hundred years.
I rushed from the library meeting Carlisle in the front room with Anna only seconds coming behind me.
"There is a letter here for you read it in the plastic wallet it's been hear a while"
I sat down on the uncovered couch and read the letter if I could cry I would have, Anna came to sit next to me so I passed her the letter and watched as she passed it on to Carlisle to read.
"Carlisle can you ring the chief of La Push?" I asked within seconds of saying that everybody else was in the room stood staring between Carlisle and me.
"I will ring them now and find out if Bella is still alive" he replied while passing the letter to Esme who quickly read it and passed it to the others, I blocked out Carlisle's conversation and Anna blocked his thoughts by using her shield.
"Thank you my love" I told her as I pulled her into my chest.
I watched Alice's eyes glaze over and saw the vision she was having.
"We are not staying" she stated coming out of her vision.
"Where are we going?" Rosalie asked
"I don't know but we will be having a family meeting in ten minutes" Alice answered her.
Ten minutes later Carlisle came down looking shocked Anna still had his thoughts blocked so I had no idea how the conversation between Carlisle and the chief of La Push.
"We need to have a family meeting in the dining room" Carlisle commanded.
"I have some good new and some very sad news" Carlisle began as we all sat down.
"Can we have the good news please?" Alice asked bouncing in her seat while hiding her thoughts.
"Well the good news is that Bella is still alive along with the whole pack and their mates" Carlisle continued looking directly at me.
"How is that possible?" Esme asked
"I don't know we all read in the letter how the wolf gene has slowed all their ages down however they are now over one hundred years old. This brings me to the sad news the chief explained that a few years ago the tribe got suspicious because of the packs aging, it was agreed that a house should be built on the out skirts of La Push so the pack and the imprints have been living there." Carlisle explained
"So the tribe has shunned them?" Anna asked sounding upset I took a hold of her hand and squeezed it.
"No but not many members remember them the chief his wife also Bella and Sam's great granddaughter and her husband are the only ones that know about them" Carlisle finished.
"That's so sad, how many people are they caring for?" Esme asked
"Eight wolves and eight imprints" Carlisle answered her.
"How are they managing to take care of them all?" I asked the thought of Bella being left to fend for herself at her age was heart breaking.
"They are not managing to care for them very well this brings me to the request that the chief has asked us to do."
"Please can we?" Alice asked cutting Carlisle off.
"Like I was saying they are not managing very well so he has asked if we could help them take care of the pack as we know their secrets, I want everybody to either agree or disagree we are a family and must decide to do this as a family" Carlisle finished ignoring Alice's question and turning to look at me to start the vote.
"Yes of course" I told him
"Yes" Anna responded next to me
"Yes I want to be there for Bella" Alice said
"I'm not sure" Jasper answered
"Yes of course Bella is still my sister" Emmett said
"Yes" Rosalie told Carlisle
"Of course you know I still see her as a daughter" Esme responded
"Jasper why are you not sure?" Carlisle asked
"Bella might be scared of me I don't want to upset her" Jasper answered while looking down at his hands, I could then see the replay of his memory of what happened at Bella's eighteenth birthday.
"Jazz I wouldn't be surprised if she forgave you straight away, how about if she gets scared then you can come back her to stay" Alice reassured him.
"Carlisle, what about activating the wolf gene again?" Anna asked
"Speaking to the chief he doesn't both the wolves and imprints don't have long left to live so hopefully we will be gone before it is activated" he responded to my mate.
"So we are not staying then?" Rosalie asked
"No we are not we will stay for Bella and then we will leaves and never return again" Carlisle replied.
Two hours later we met the Chief of La Push at the treaty line, William Black was the double of Jacob Black the only difference being his height and build.
"Thank you for helping us the house is on the edge of the treaty line about half a mile south" William spoke.
We got back into our cars and followed William to a large brown house in the middle of the forest, as we got out or cars we all noticed the three humans stood by the front door we all made our way towards them.
"I want to introduce you to my wife Meagan, Isabella and Joshua Call" William said pointing to each person.
We all gasped in surprise when we saw Isabella she looked just like Bella but with tanned skin, she had Bella's brown eyes and her thoughts were just like Bella's silent.
"Hi I am Isabella but please call me Bella" Isabella requested.
"Well that is going to get confusing" Emmett chuckled
"Fine then call me Little Bella" she said raising her right eyebrow at us, we all quietly laughed at her at how similar she is to Bella.
"Is Edward, Anna and Jasper here?" She asked
Each of us took a slow step forward together.
"My great grandmother would like to speak to each of you at some point; right now both her and my great grandfather is asleep."
I could see Jasper getting nervous and both Esme and Alice looked disappointed, I read their thoughts and they both felt sad that Bella did not want to speak to them.
"I presume Esme and Alice is also here, I need to speak to you in private later, my great grandmother has requested your help with planning something" Little Bella said,
The next few days were spent at the packs house helping to take care of them with their basic needs, Bella and Sam needs were solely met by Little Bella and Joshua as both Bella and Sam refused anybody else to enter their room. I wondered when I would get to speak to Bella, Jasper spoke to Bella the second day we were here he hid the conversation they had but he came out of the room grinning before throwing himself into taking care of the other pack members and their mates.
"Edward my great grandfather would like to speak to you while my great grandmother is asleep" Little Bella said coming into the room I was sat in getting my attention.
I got up and walked in the bedroom I could see Bella asleep and was surprised that even though she was over one hundred years old she only looked to be about eighty.
"Hi Sam you wanted to see me?" I asked sitting a chair next to the side of his bed.
"Yes I did I want to thank you for giving me Bella"
"Sam don't thank me she was always yours I was just keeping her from you" I told him honestly.
"I kept my promise to you and gave her the letters" he said changing the conversation.
"Thank you for that I hoped it helped her."
"I did at one point nearly destroy them and break my promise to you when I would see her in pain after reading some of them" he replied.
"I sorry about that" I replied
"Well you better leave before Bella wakes up I only wanted to thank you."
I got up and walked out the room and headed towards the front room to sit down and replay Sam's words over again about what some of the letters did to Bella and maybe I should never had written them, also remembering how Bella looked I could never imagine her looking old.
"You ok there Edward?" Anna asked coming to sit beside me.
"Yeah just a bit shocked seeing Bella looking old"
"Its life Edward humans are born they age and then die, it's what they do while aging that matters" Anna said this is what I love about Anna she always knows what to tell me and how to say it.
"Come on lets hunt and spend some time together" I said grabbing Anna's hand I needed time with my mate alone right now.
A few days later Bella finally asked to see me and Anna but she wanted to see me alone first, I walked into her room to find Sam asleep.
"Hello Edward Sam always said you would return, you would think after all these years I would believe him" Bella chuckled.
"How has life been Bella?" I asked curious if I did make the right choice all those years ago and push her towards Sam.
"It's been great Sam is my world and we have had some great experiences while raising our family but I miss my four boys a mother should never have to watch her children die and bury them" Bella answered wiping away her tears as they fell down her cheeks.
"I'm sorry about that" I really didn't know what else to say having never had to experience that kind of pain.
"I will see them soon it was just a very hard time watching them leave us."
I nodded in agreement remembering what it was like when my parents had died.
"Edward I want to thank you for loving me enough to leave me"
"Bella please don't thank me for that you were not my mate I had to leave you so you could be with Sam."
"I know" she responded.
"Bella I want to thank you for teaching me how to love without you I would never have found Anna you taught me to open my heart" I told her.
"Your heart was always open you just had to open your eyes to see the love."
"Well thank you for opening my eyes then" I chuckled.
"Can you call Anna please?" Bella asked
Seconds later Anna came into the room and pulled a chair from the corner of the room and put it next to mine sitting on it before I could call her.
"You both look so good together" Bella commented I saw the shock on her face from Anna's rapid movements she had clearly forgot about vampire speed.
"Thank you" we both said together causing Bella to laugh at us.
"Anna thank you for making Anna so happy I'm glad that he found you" Bella said looking at my mate.
"Thank- "Anna try to say
"Don't thank me for anything" Bella cut her off.
We spent the next twenty minutes talking about what we had been up to over the years, she spoke fondly of her four sons and her first granddaughter who was also called Isabella and was Little Bella's mother. Bella fell asleep so after so we got up and left her with Sam, I was not able to see that I done the right thing all those years ago Bella did have a good life remaining human and she was been happy.
That was the last time I spoke to Bella the next day her and Sam passed away in their sleep, the rest of the pack and their imprints passed away a few minutes later it was as if they were waiting for one final command from their Alpha.
Only one more short chapter left to this story