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Chapter Two

Reunion

EPOV

Looking at Bella walking through her old home place, watching her as she took in every picture, every article of furniture, looking and remember the place that had changed very little in the seven decades since we had left, as difficult as I saw the pain behind her topaz eyes. I had told Bella many times that once all your loved ones from your human life had passed away it would be easier, and it would have been but we had been able to keep Charlie in our lives as immortals so she didn't only have human memories and feelings, but she had immortal memories and feelings of those times. I knew that being able to have Charlie around made the transformation into immortality easier for Bella, the rest of us had not had to choose to give up all things human, we were forced. Bella on the other hand had chosen to give those things up. Choosing to leave someone is harder than being forced. Human memories became distant over time and the recollection of them harder, but it was different for Bella.

I tried to keep my distance while my love went on a walk down memory lane into her human past. I had tried it several occasions, visiting my home of my parents in Chicago, and it had been difficult, but I could not fathom the difference it would be if I had the immortal memories. I could vaguely remember what it was like to be with my family and to lose my human family but that was small in comparison to my immortal memories of the one time I had chose to leave Bella. As we stood in Bella's old room, she allowed me into her thoughts briefly, until she realized I knew how bad she missed her father. She brought her shield up almost instantaneously. Bella never wanted for me to share her suffering or worries while she was human and that carried over to her in immortality. Seeing that being in her old home, in her old room, was affecting her and causing my Bella feel sad, I thought it a good time to suggest we leave. Bella had agreed and she actually beat me to the car.

I rounded the bend, the familiarity of the roads of Forks whisking back into my mind. It was I had never left. The turn to the long driveway that would lead to our family's home had been clearer than when we had left so I mentally guessed that Esme had sent one of my siblings to take care of that. Probably Emmett as he was the strongest of us and would be easier for him to clear away seven decades of growth. The winding driveway was just as I had remembered it. I looked to Bella as I could see the comfort of being home settling in. I had known that taking Bella to her father's house first would be a hard thing for her to endure but I also knew that going there first would get the hardest part of the return out of the way so that she could enjoy arriving back at the Cullen Mystery House as it had always been referred to. I still had one more surprise for my Bella to welcome her home to Forks.

I parked the car in the garage and Bella and I made our way into the home we had missed for so long. Carlisle and Esme were seated in the living room, Carlisle with his head in a book as always, as Esme was steadfastly working on some sort of craft that I'm sure would be a decorative piece in the house before nightfall would occur again. Carlisle looked up as we came into the room, "Edward, Bella, my have we missed you, children," he greeted us. To most people if they had heard such a greeting in this day and time, Carlisle would be ridiculed and not believed, but this was Carlisle. He was truly the most selfless person I knew. He rose from his chair and hugged the both of us and returned to his seat. "Of course, Ness and Masen are missed as well."

Carlisle looked to Bella as to say that he felt the same way as we do. I could hear his thoughts and he did. Carlisle felt the same way that Bella and I felt without our children with us. He knew I was listening. The both of you feel much the way Esme and I felt when you left us during your uh rebellion, son. I grunted at the reminder. I hated any reminder that made the memories of hurting my loved ones return. "We missed you as well, Carlisle, Esme," I said. I walked across the room and hugged our mother just as Bella had.

Esme stopped her project to receive the hugs that Bella and I adorned her with. "I spoke with Masen earlier," she said. "He plans to visit in a month…of course, I prodded my grandson pretty hard about coming." Esme blushed a bit. Esme treated our children more like her own children than her grandchildren. In most senses, Renesmee and Masen belonged as children to all of us, although Bella and I were their biological parents. "I wish.." my mother's thoughts drifted. I raised one eyebrow to her to say, I heard that, and she blushed once again.

Bella sat down on the sofa as I looked around the home. It was much like Bella looking at her father's house I suppose. I had not been here but once in the seven decades and that had been when I came to fix the locks. I had only briefly came to this house but had not went inside. I looked around the room and most everything was there that had been before. Esme had replaced much of the sofas, tables, and decorative items with updated versions so that the house would not look so dated, but most of the wall hangings, the small ornaments sitting throughout the house remained the same. And there was my piano.

I went to the piano and sat down. I'm sure it would need tuning, having not been touched in so long. I brought my fingers to the first few keys. I was wrong. The piano sounded lovely. I looked over my shoulder to Bella and winked. My fingers moved quickly across the ivory keys. I began to play Esme's song. My son, you are wonderful. I love hearing you play, Esme thought. I continued to play several more compositions of mine. I slowly moved into the lullaby I had written for Bella. That is the symbolic music of the beginning of your existence, Edward, for you didn't existent as you do today until you met sweet Bella, Carlisle thought as he smiled at Bella. I continued playing for several more minutes until I could hear the thoughts of the others getting closer.

I stopped playing and joined my wife on the sofa. The front door flew open and in walked Alice and Jasper. Alice bounced gracefully through the living room and flung herself around Bella. Bella and Alice were not only sisters but the best of friends. The two of them spent much time together and having been apart for the past several weeks was hard on the both of them. "Bella, we were hunting and I had a vision of Edward playing," Alice said smiling at me. "I knew you were here then! I missed you so much!"

Jasper brought his arm down on my shoulder, "Brother, it's not quite the same without you and Bella," he started. "Alice has tried to get me to be her mannequin as she does to Bella."

We all laughed, myself harder than the others as I could see Jasper standing as still as a statue while Alice continuously handed him different clothing to try on. Jasper had come a long way in the past seventy years. When he had joined our family, he had been the only one of us who had routinely hunted humans up until that point. Carlisle and Rose had never killed a human and Emmett had only slipped a few times. I had went through a rebellious streak and had hunted sadists of humanity but I still had regret for doing such. Jasper now was able to control his thirst as well as Carlisle, which was quite a feat. I myself had unrelenting control on my thirst now and had ever since meeting Bella, for if I had not, Bella would not be with me today. I cringed at the thoughts but I had known it to be true. Jasper had once tried to attack Bella because of a small paper cut…and it was that mere accident that I had decided to flee from Bella, hoping that she would be able to live without my inference in her life even though that was not possible for either of us. Our love and our bond was way too strong

Jasper sensed that I had thought of something upsetting and looked slightly confused as today was a joyous occasion and everything in our existence was as close to perfect as could be. I brought myself out of the thinking of unsettling things. Jasper relaxed and smiled at me as he felt my happiness seeping through. Jasper's mood control worked both ways. He could control the moods of those whose presence he was in but it worked in vice versa in that he felt the moods of all the others around him. I smacked Jasper lightly, for immortals, on his back and walked past him as I ruffled my little pixie sister's hair. "Alice, why do you do Jasper like that? Ya know, Bella doesn't care for all that dress up either."

Alice's bottom lip pouted momentarily and then she smiled her big Alice smile, "But she tolerates it because she loves me!" Alice giggled as Bella rolled her eyes. I flashed my crooked smile at my wife and she winked. Bella always wanted everyone around her happy before she would even think of being happy herself and as a result, she played dress up with Alice.

Just as our reunion began, it wouldn't have been complete until Rosalie and Emmett showed up. Rosalie crossed the room and gave Bella a hug, kissing her cheek. "Bella, you and Edward mustn't take so long in the future," she demanded. She pointed to Alice, "our sister here was driving us all crazy waiting for you. Rosalie's remark would have came off as tolerating Bella earlier in our relationship, but after all that Rose had done for Bella during her pregnancy with Renesmee, Bella and Rosalie had forged a friendship that none of us could have foresaw coming. Bella and Rose were almost as close as Bella and Alice and that is quite the extreme. I had once worried that Rose would forever be ugly to my Bella, and I had worried what that would result in for my relationship with my sister as I would not always be able to overlook her actions to my wife, to my reason for existing. "Seriously, Bella, I missed you."

Rose smiled at me as she walked past, she was going to take a shower, I could hear her thoughts, for she had been working on Emmett's newest gift to her, another car of some sort that I hadn't taken the time to pick the type out of her mind. Emmett crossed the room and threw a grin in Bella's direction, then to mine. "Hey little sister," he said proudly. "Welcome home!"

Bella looked at Emmett and grinned, "Thanks my big bear. Its nice to be back here."

Emmett looked to Bella then to the rest of the family. "And think, you get to redo all that high school here. Bella Swan the klutz will be out…" His booming voice roared with laughter. "Think you will enjoy P.E. in Forks this time around."

Bella shot Emmett a death stare as he guffawed about her human instability when she attend school in Forks before. "Emmett, I hope I have P.E. with you!"

Emmett chuckled at the prospect. Bella's inability to walk on a flat surface as a human had been the go to line for many of Emmett's jokes. Now Bella was as graceful as the rest of us, possibly even more than the rest of us. "Well, Bella, we'll see about that. Enter Bella Cullen."

Emmett stalked off to find Rose as Carlisle and Esme stood. Carlisle needed to be off, his shift at the hospital would began in less than an hour. "I'm so glad we all got to be here for the reunion of our family," he said. "but children, I must go. I'm sure you will have a pleasant rest of the morning. Don't forget to go over our cover story here. There still may be some descendants of those we knew around town. We need to have our stories ready. Okay?"

I nodded at Carlisle and assured him that we would have our stories straight. Bella and I would go over ours tonight, after I present her with her new surprise. Son, make sure that Bella understands that here, since we have been here before, she will have to be extra careful. No slips allowed here. I once again nodded to let Carlisle knew that I had everything under control and that Bella would too. Bella was the only one of the family that had not lived in the same place twice. This would be her first time. She would see how much more difficult it is to return to a place that had once been your home. I had knew Jacob Black's ancestors when they had just been another name on his family tree to him.

Carlisle excused himself and left the house. "Mother," I addressed Esme with a wink, "I have a surprise for Bella. Would you please excuse us?"

Esme smiled her kindest smile. Of course, Edward. Give Bella this. She will be so happy. Of course, Esme knew my surprise, but I had not wanted Bella to know there was any help involved until after I had given it to her. "Of course, Edward. I'm going to retire to the room and finish working on some ideas for this house. Have fun you, two."

Esme bounded up the stairs as I turned to my Bella. I took her hands in mind. "How about a surprise, Mrs. Cullen?" I asked.

Bella gave me a slight smile. It had taken several decades to get Bella to like surprises just a tiny bit. She still wasn't crazy about them but agreed to them more easily than she had once. "Well, Mr. Cullen," she spoke, "if you must." I guided Bella out the door of our home and into the morning light. It was still quite early and we still had some time before we joined the realms of high school once more.