I own: Twilight Puzzle from Books-A-Million for 7 bucks, hell yeah!

I don't own : Twilight (any of it) or the music I make reference to (well, I do have it on iTunes and some on CDs, but I don't think that's what they're talking about…)

BPOV (Bella)

I nearly wanted to sleep; it would have made the trip that much faster. Once I had decided that my unfinished business in Forks was, well for lack of a better word, finished; I just wanted to go home with Edward to our family.

I don't know what I expected when I moved to Ohio months ago, but this wasn't it. I never expected to be with Edward again and I never expected for my daughter to become a scheming mastermind. I never thought that I missed them all so much; absence from them seemed to cloud those already fuzzy memories, I suppose.

I could find no part of me that regretted anything that had happened in my life. Nothing at all.

It was true that I missed time with Edward and the rest of them, and I couldn't deny that I wish they had been with me to watch Renesmee grow and help me with the change, but still…. There was no part of me that regretted how it played out because the end result was so beautiful and perfectly fitted to who we had all become.

I hadn't changed as much as I thought I had; Edward was right. I changed because I grew up, which would have happened with or without him, and with or without changing into a vampire. And just as I was wrong about that, I was wrong about Edward not changing at all. He changed by becoming the man I always knew he was. The man who believed he was a monster without a soul was gone and I couldn't be more thankful. He was truly Edward now.

I couldn't wipe the smile from my face for the entire time we rode back and I had a strong assumption that Edward was beaming because of that. Every now and then he would chuckle and kiss my hand or rub my thigh in comfort, not that I complained.

"What is so funny?" I leaned over to kiss his cheek.

He chuckled again. "Nothing, I just love to see you happy."

"Well, I love the fact that you're the one making me happy." I turned his face to kiss him quickly.

He sighed, turning back to face the road. "You can't keep doing that, as much I like it. I'll have to pull over before long and we're almost home."

I sighed. "Then maybe you should pull over." He turned and I winked. He groaned, before pulling off into a secluded spot. Good thing, it's dark out…

After not too long, we were resuming our trip after our brief, but fulfilling, detour.

It didn't take long to get to the Cullens' house. Before we even turned off the engine, Esme, Carlisle, Emmett, Rosalie, and Jasper were in the yard smiling. Edward smiled at me, before kissing me quickly and then speeding over to my door to help me out. I took his hand and brought him over to Esme and Carlisle. They both embraced us. "Thank you for taking care of Renesmee," I whispered to Esme.

She pulled back, sweeping the hair from my face. "You never have to thank me for taking care of my granddaughter, dear." I smiled, as she embraced me again. She then whispered in my ear. "After all, I expect to be doing it whenever you and Edward escape again. You may leave her with us whenever you need to, Bella." The way she spoke, I nearly wanted to blush at what I could have sworn she insinuated.

Carlisle hugged me as well, before Emmett grabbed me and swung me around as if I was a ragdoll. I heard Edward let a warning growl erupt, but I merely laughed. "It's nice not having to be careful, right Bella? No fear of breaking tends to make the sex better, am I right?" He raised his eyebrows up and down, and I nearly thought he was waiting for an answer.

"Whatever, Emmett." I shook my head, looking at Edward's smug expression. "Really? Not what I expected, Edward." I expected a verbal smack down if anything, but it seemed that Edward was proud of the assumption Emmett made.

"Ignore them. I'm glad this all worked out for you, Bella." I whispered a thanks as Rose swatted her husband away to embrace me quickly.

Jasper was standing off to the side. I walked over and smiled. "Don't I get a hug?" I asked, and before I could even pout, he had me in his arms.

"Of course you do." He whispered in my ear.

"Aww, Jazz, such an emotional homecoming…" I laughed. I looked to all of them as Jasper released me and Edward wrapped an arm around my waist. "I'm sorry."

While Emmett, Rose, and Jasper just nodded, Esme looked confused. "What for, dear?"

"For making most of you feel guilty about your interference at the dance, you were just trying to help. And I know you were up against a pair of masterminds. You didn't really have a choice."

"No kidding." Emmett muttered.

I laughed, but then I heard a tiny squeal of excitement. When I turned around, Renesmee was staring at Edward and me locked together. She looked thrilled, but hesitant. I sighed, looking at Edward, who only smiled back. "Oh, come here, baby."

She ran right into my arms. No one would ever believe she was my daughter, sisters maybe, but we looked the same age and size. "I'm sorry, but…" she whispered quietly.

"I know." I stroked her hair before pulling her back to look at me. I lifted her chin to look into her eyes. "I'm sorry, too. But you understand why I left, right?" She nodded. "I'm the mother, Renesmee, and you don't get to manipulate me because things aren't going your way, but I won't leave you again like that. I'm sorry, baby."

"Yeah, me too." She nodded again, clearly embarrassed.

Edward leaned into me. "You never lied to her before. That left an impression apparently." I sighed, still stroking her hair.

"I see." Renesmee evaded my eye contact after that. I looked around to see that everyone else had disappeared, leaving us alone, as a family. "I'm sorry I lied, Renesmee. I won't do that again, ever, but neither can you. Things worked out this time, but not because of what you did, but because your father and I wanted it that way. There's a difference between helping and coercion." I smiled, trying to stay light.

Edward tilted Renesmee's chin so he could look at her. "Your aunt isn't always the best role model and you're old enough to know the difference." She nodded looking down. "With that being said, I'm not upset." He smirked while we both looked up in disbelief. He laughed. "I'm sorry, Bella, but her heart was in the right place, and that does count for something. She just wanted all of us to be a family…" He looked into Renesmee's eyes again. "And now we will be, forever." He pulled us both into his arms and I kissed him while Renesmee buried her head into his chest.

I whispered over her head. "You're a good father." He beamed with pride and kissed me again.

We sat outside for a bit, just the three of us, telling Renesmee about what we did during our trip. Well, the majority of our trip… She was happy we were able to talk through everything, at least the important things, the immediate things. The things that would tear us apart from each other. All that was behind us.

She wasn't thrilled that she missed out on seeing Angela again, but Edward told her about his masterful plan to support her children in college. Maybe Renesmee didn't get her scheming ways from Alice after all… Of course, Renesmee was thrilled and offered to help setting up anything he needed help with.

I hesitated telling Renesmee about Charlie, simply because I wasn't sure how I felt about it yet. I felt like I still needed to see him. And I longed to be honest with him, just enough to let him know I was taken care of and that I was loved. And I really, really wished I could have told him that he was a grandfather.

While I over thought the situation, Edward admitted to it all. "We also went to see Charlie…" He trailed off, seeing my face freeze. He looked like a deer caught in the headlights, or caught by a Cullen…

I sighed, shaking my head. "Grandpa Charlie?" Renesmee asked, staring into my eyes.

I nodded, sitting her in between Edward and me on the hood of the Volvo. He looked horrified as Renesmee and I both pulled our feet up, but I quickly rid our shoes before Edward had a vampire version of a heart attack. "We just saw him from afar. He wouldn't be able… I can't bring him into this." I moved some of her curls back behind her ear. "You've always known that, right? That we can't have Charlie in on any of this?"

Renesmee nodded. "But you miss him so much, Mom. How could you go so close and not see him."

I shook my head, knowing if he had been alone and had Edward not been with me, I probably would have approached Charlie… and he would have probably had a heart attack. "It's not fair to my dad to let him get close to me again and then put him in danger or just up and leave…"

Edward reached over to clasp my hand in his. Renesmee looked at our hands over her lap and smiled. Edward squeezed my hand and I looked up. "Bella, maybe… maybe we can find a way…" I shook my head.

"No, it's not right to tempt fate, or the wolves." I smiled, trying desperately to assure him, but it seemed that I was failing.

"Wolves?" Renesmee asked, trying to hide her smile.

Edward explained the situation to her and hearing it from his point of view, seeing as how he knew that history better than me, made me feel a bit better about having my step siblings be werewolves. Or at least it made me feel better knowing that they could take care of Charlie…

"Wow." Renesmee looked completely shocked, but intrigued. Great, she always had a thing for the mythical… "I gotta go talk to Rose about this…"

As Renesmee ran inside, Edward pulled me over and onto his lap. I rested my head on his shoulder as he played with my fingers. After a few moments of silence, comfortable silence, he spoke. "You know, we could figure something out… Maybe we could figure out a way for Charlie to be in your life more without seeing you in person. There's technology now that could-"

I interrupted him by pulling his lips to mine. After I pulled away, I turned in his arms to hold his face with both hands. "You… are wonderful," I sighed, and he smiled. "But I don't think so, at least, not yet. I need to just talk to him more first, see if he can handle anything more than that. I want to tell him about you and Renesmee, but I'm not sure if he can handle either of those bombshells." I laughed.

He pulled my hand away and concentrated on playing with my fingers again. "Because I left you twenty years ago, knocked up, even though I had no idea. And you never told him you had a twenty year old daughter, who's immortal, even though he probably doesn't need to know that." I nodded, laughing. "Why are you laughing?" He began to laugh, too.

"Because, who the hell could even make this stuff up?" He continued to laugh, pulling me closer. "We have such a ridiculous life… but I love it."

Edward whispered in my hair. "Good, because it's never going to change."I sighed. Good, I thought for him to hear. "Hmmm," he sighed, nuzzling my neck.

"What?" I muttered, running my fingers through his silky hair.

He pulled his face back from my hair and smirked. "I really want to stay like this, but someone is waiting for us to make an appearance." He looked to the house.

"Alice."

"Alice." He agreed, while I shook my head. "She expects us to apologize."

I felt my mouth drop. "Excuse me?"

"Apparently, she believes that we were more deceitful than her, and now she's pouting." He shook his head.

"No, I'm not!" We both turned to see Alice looking at us with her hands on her hips. I looked up to see Jasper shaking his head while looking at the open window that she must have jumped from. He looked away, but I saw the hint of a smile on his face.

I sighed, knowing this could either go one of two ways and I was all for the easiest and quickest route. "Hi Alice, I missed you, too." I smiled.

"Don't you dare. I know that you hid from my visions and lied. How'd you do it?" She threw her hands up in defeat, and both Edward and I attempted not to chuckle at her behavior. "Don't you dare laugh at me," she pointed a finger at the both of us.

I looked to Edward. Just go with it, okay? I thought and he nodded. "Alice, we're sorry. We may have been a bit… bitter for your liking, but being manipulated isn't something either of us accepts well, especially when you involve our daughter." Alice started to smirk, as Edward wrapped his arms tight around my waist, nodding into my shoulder. "Can you see where we were coming from? You weren't even going off a vision, you were scheming blind, Alice."

Alice continued to stare, while I traced Edward's knuckles with my finger tips. "Oh fine, I get it." I laughed, pulling away from Edward so I could go hug Alice. "I'm sorry," she said with maybe the least bit of remorse she could muster.

"It's okay, Alice." I pulled back to look into her face. "But if you do it again, whether you involve our daughter or not, I will kick your tiny, pixie butt."

I think I may have finally caught her by surprise as she looked disbelievingly at me. She collected herself quickly, smiling slowly. We began to walk inside, until she turned around. "You know, I wasn't completely blind." I shook my head, trying to drop the subject, but she continued. "I saw all of us living together in the next town we move to, and the next, and the next, and eventually we'll get back to Forks…" She trailed off, flitting back into the house.

Edward pulled me back and wrapped his arms around me. I stood on the first step of the porch so I was eye level with him. "Where it all began…" He whispered.

"Seems fitting," I sighed, running my hands up his arms to his shoulders.

He pulled me in for a kiss, before we walked in to be with our family, together.

A/N: Wow. It's done… I got to say, I'm rather sad it's over. This is my first fan fiction and even though it has grown by leaps and bounds considering the expectations I had for it… I just can't say how proud I am of it.

I cannot thank you all enough for the support you all have given me. There are too many of you to name here and I would hate to forget a single person. But…

Those of you that have followed and favorited, I can't thank you enough.

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I hope you continue to read my stories, especially And I Need You Now because it needs some love. I'm starting to get really inspired with that one and plan on it being a bit more sarcastic, but of course drama-heavy.

Sequel News: I know I leave it open for a sequel, but I have no plans for a sequel at this time, but I'm not saying that I never will, so keep checking back. I loved this story and even if I don't do a sequel, I may do an outtake or two from their lives in the future so make sure you follow or favorite both this story and the outtakes. I will be posted the playlist as a new chapter, so don't get too excited… sorry ;)

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