Carlisle was sitting on the love seat in the lounge, Esme resting at his side. Alice was wrapped in Jaspers arms on the floor and Bella was snuggled in Edwards lap on the couch. Emmett and Rosalie were sitting together in the armchair to his left. They were watching Marie Antoinette, at Alice's insistence of course. He suppressed the urge to laugh at the Irony of the movie choice. That's when he heard it. The definite purr of a car engine coming up the driveway at terrifying speed filled his ears.

"They're here." Alice stated eerily, mocking the movie "Poltergeist".

"Who are? The T.V. people?" Emmett retorted, somewhat wittily considering this was Emmett.

"Touché." Alice answered as she watched Carlisle and Esme walk to the door. The purr of the engine died down as the vehicle parked. The rest of the Cullen's got up, some more eagerly than others, and walked [danced in Alice's case] towards the door. Sitting in the driveway was a grey Aston Martin Vanquish. It was nothing special by Vampire standards but a beautiful car all the same. A woman was leaning on the side of the car taking in her surroundings. She had a strange look on her face, something between a grin and a grimace. Her blonde hair was swept back into a bun with loose curls on her neck, a fringe obscuring her golden eyes.

"PAPA!" she squealed as she hurtled herself into Carlisle's arms. He enveloped her in a hug and was about to respond before William decided to make his presence known. His brown hair was cut short. Very neat. Very him.

"Really, Marie. Some decorum please." He drawled from the car.

"Really, William. Some excitement please." She drawled back imitating him perfectly. She rolled her eyes.

"So! Introduce us to your new family!" She commanded. Carlisle noticed that said family exchanged looks.

"Alice... You may have competition." Edward muttered. Alice growled and Carlisle wasn't sure if it was directed towards Edward or Marie. William shot Carlisle an apologetic glance.

"As you can see, she hasn't really gotten over the 'I'm Queen, obey me' stage." He remarked. Carlisle nodded. The rest of the Cullen's exchanged a curious glance.

"I'll explain later." Carlisle murmured to them. Marie sent an annoyed look at her father and brother.

"I'd appreciate it immensely if you didn't talk about me as if I'm not here." She growled.

"Sorry... you're Majesty." William replied, bowing slightly in jest. Marie nodded haughtily.

"It's about time I was shown the respect someone of my station deserves." Ignoring his children's antics, Carlisle began to introduce them to his family.

"Marie, William, this is Emmett and his wife Rosalie." He gestured to where the couple were standing. Emmett scooped her in to a bear hug - much to her utter surprise. Rosalie just looked at her coolly, obviously threatened by her beauty.

"And this is Alice and her husband Jasper." Jasper nodded his head and Alice squeled violently and hugged them both.

"And this is Edward and his Girlfriend Bella." Edward looked at the pair, body tense. Bella smiled shyly. William raised an eyebrow.

"A human, Father?" He asked, regarding Bella with interest. Edward growled.

"Have anything against that, Pretty boy?" William laughed.

"Not at all. It's just unusual. Marie, have anything against the human?" She shook her head.

"William! You must be joking. I've had more Human Lovers than Hugh Hefner." William looked at her.

"Hugh Hefner is a Human, Marie."

"I know.... But he's had a hell of a lot of lovers."

'Point taken." William nodded. Carlisle decided to move on.

"And this... This is my wife Esme." He said, gesturing to his wife. He wrapped his arm around her waist. Marie gasped.

"Oh, Papa! She's beautiful! Oh! Sorry! I do that sometimes. Talk about people as if they're puppies or something. I really am glad that you found someone Papa!" She announced.

"Yep... you definitely have competition Alice." Edward murmured. Carlisle turned to William.

"Son?" He asked. William examined Esme for a moment. A hurt expression flickered across his face but was replaced by a stone mask. He looked once again to his father and back to Esme. Marie was looking at him, worry evident in her eyes.

'Will? Are you okay?" Swallowing he forced a smile and nodded.

'I'm glad you found someone father." He said, somewhat stiffly but Carlisle didn't take offense. Emmatt, however, did.

"Do you have something against her, pretty boy?" He growled. William looked to nwhere Emmet was standing, his emotionless mask still in place.

"Emmett!" Esme and Carlisle hissed at the same time.

"Well? Do you?"He growled again.

"No.... I have nothing against Esme." William stated evenly, looking Emmett in the eyes. "However it will take me a while before I fully accept her. But you know what?"

"What?"

"It's Okay. Because even though I know he loves her with all his heart, I know he still loves my mother. Not more, and not less, but he still loves her. And I'm sorry, but I'll always and I do mean always, think of my mother as his wife." He whispered. Emmett went to lunge at him, but William was gone. There was silence and Carlisle looked sadly between Esme and the woods in which his son had run in to.

"Well... That went better than I expected it to!" Marie announced. "I was half expecting him to rip Papa to shreds and half expecting him to rip Esme to shreds." She smiled. The family looked at her.

"Should someone go after him? Esme asked sweetly.

"Oh, No! Just let him sulk for a while. He'll be fine. He needs to hunt anyway. As long as he doesn't try to burn himself again, he'll be fine."

"Burn himself, dear?" Carlisle asked faintly.

"I didn't tell you about that? I thought I had. Well about... oh, it would have to be... well, It was around the time second world war... so, it was roughly nineteen forty-three.... Or some such year, He met a girl. She looked exactly like mama Carlisle, right down to eye colour. But she was human. When they bombed her house, it was like he was losing Mama again. And he didn't... he didn't handle it so well. I came home from hunting one day and there he was match in hand, staring at the flame." She whispered.

"I was so scared. I know it's silly, but it was exactly like losing mama. And so... I think, that when he saw Esme... Well, I don't think he thinks of her as replacing mama. I think he's petrified that you're going to lose somebody else. That we're going to lose someone else." She stared at Carlisle for a moment and it was clear that they were having a silent conversation. When it was apparent that they were done, Alice jumped to take her hand and pulled her in to the house. Marie's bell like laughter echoed as she talked to Alice. Alice led her to the living room where Marie Antoinette was still playing on the T.V. screen. Glancing at the screen, to her father and back to the screen, Marie remarked disdainfully,

"Oh, Please, I shopped so much more than that."

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