I realize I haven't given the traditional disclaimer, so here it is: I do not own Twilight, the world, or the characters. The only main character in this story that belongs to me is Jesse.

Chapter Twenty Four – Epilogue

20 years later

"Jess, come on! You are such a girl sometimes! We're gonna miss our flight!" Tanya called into the empty house.

"I'm coming, I'm coming," he grumbled in reply and came down the stairs carrying his suitcase and and a carry on slung over his shoulder.

Tanya grinned as she looped her arm through his free one, picking up her own carry on and slinging it over her shoulder and then her suitcase. They walked through the house to the garage, where they stowed all their bags in the back of Tanya's SUV. Then Jesse got into the drivers seat, and Tanya climbed in the passenger side. "Carmen and Eleazar will meet us at the airport?" Jesse asked as he backed out of the garage and pushed the button to lower the door again.

"Yeah, they'll meet us in London at Heathrow. Their flight should be getting in shortly before ours. Kate and Garrett said they'd meet us at baggage claim," Tanya replied.

For the first time in centuries, the Denali coven had split up about five years ago. They had left Denali before that, but the last time it had come time to pick a location, they couldn't agree. Carmen and Eleazar had moved to New Hampshire, where Eleazar was teaching at Darthmouth. Carmen was working in an art gallery, as a talent manager. Garrett and Kate had moved to Europe, because Garrett's wanderlust was in serious need of fueling. They had a house in the countryside of France, and they had been exploring all over Europe. Tanya and Jesse had moved back to Maine, where they had a house, and were currently graduate students at the University of Maine. Jesse was studying Art History, and Tanya was studying European History. She figured what better thing to do a thesis on, than something she had lived?

Of course they kept in contact, and visited every few months, but all of them were restless to get back together. They had split up to avoid suspicion, and had left the house in Denali empty. Tanya and Jesse, and Carmen and Eleazar took turns going back about once a year to air out the house and take care of any issues that might have arisen.

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The plane landed in London, and Tanya glanced at Jesse with a giggle. "You realize that Kate and Garrett have been over here for five years and she hasn't been able to talk him into coming to London yet?"

Jesse chuckled as well. "I figured as much. His patriotism is unmatched by anyone I've ever met."

They exited the plane and looked around. The scent hit them first, but a quick scan of the terminal revealed Carmen and Eleazar standing off to the side. Wide grins split their faces as they spotted Tanya and Jesse. Careful to be human paced, they made their way to Carmen and Eleazar and enveloped them in a hug.

"I've missed you," Tanya said to Carmen.

"I've missed you too mi querida," Carmen replied.

"Eleazar! Good to see you!" Jesse said, shaking his hand before giving him a one armed hug.

"It's been too long, Jess," Eleazar said as he returned the hug. Then, letting go of Jesse, he swung Tanya up into a hug while Carmen hugged Jesse and kissed his cheeks.

"Lets go get our bags and find Kate and Garrett. I'm sure Garrett is chomping at the bit to get out of this country," Tanya said with a laugh.

"Kate told me that this was the only way he'd come here, if we refused to go to their place in France," Carmen said before pitching her voice lower so the humans wouldn't overhear. "She tried to explain to him that it's been nearly 300 years, it's time to move on," she said with a laugh.

Tanya laughed with her. Jesse and Eleazar were walking a bit ahead of them, discussing Jesse's masters thesis that he was working on currently. When they reached the baggage claim, they were on their way to the carousel that Carmen and Eleazar's luggage was on when they heard a voice.

"Tanya! Carmen!" The girls turned to see Kate winding through the crowd, not touching anyone, and when she reached them, she grabbed each in an arm and hugged them both.

"Katie!" Tanya exclaimed as she hugged her back. "Oh Katie I've missed you!"

Kate laughed as she pulled back. "I've missed you too! And you, Carmen! Where are my two favorite brothers?"

As the women turned around they found Garrett shaking hands and getting hugs from Jesse and Eleazar.

They all gathered their luggage and filed out of the baggage claim area. Kate and Garrett went to get their car while the others got their rental cars.

-

They had rented a three bedroom penthouse suite, and they each went and stowed their belongings before meeting up in the living room. They all looked at each other for a moment, quiet, then all started talking at once. After a moment they all laughed, and then broke into smaller conversations. Kate was telling Carmen and Tanya about the travels her and Garrett had taken across the continent since they had last visited. Tanya listened quietly but she was rather reserved. It didn't take long for her sister to catch on.

"Tanya, what's wrong?" Kate asked.

Tanya smiled. "Nothing is wrong Kate. I just miss you guys. I miss all of this." She shot a glance to her husband, who, along with the others were all listening to her now. "Don't get me wrong, Jess and I get along, even if he does drive me insane sometimes," she said before blowing a kiss to him with a wink. "I was thinking it was time to get back together. Maybe we could all move in with Carmen and Eleazar."

Carmen laughed. "Well I certainly wouldn't mind, but don't you and Jesse have to finish up your degrees in Maine?"

The guys had all moved toward them, and Jesse reached out to wrap his arms around Tanya's waist, resting his chin on her head. "We could transfer to Dartmouth."

Garrett looked at Kate, and he could see the longing in her eyes. She wanted to be back with her family. "Kate and I can sell the house in France and move back whenever. We're not doing much except exploring Europe." Garrett smiled upon seeing the happiness in his wife's eyes when he said that.

"Honestly I want to go back to Denali, but Eleazar can't go back to Fairbanks to teach, it's only been a few years," Tanya said.

Eleazar smiled. "I don't have to teach. Or I could teach at the high school in Healy. We stayed enough to ourselves that they wouldn't realize anything. But it might be nice to just kick back and relax for awhile. We could travel."

Tanya looked around at her family and smiled. "Shall we meet up in New Hampshire, finish the school year and head back to Denali?"

A chorus of yeses greeted her. She lifted her face so she could kiss Jesse. When he released her lips she looked at the others. "I've missed you. Now lets go have some fun in London!"

As they all grabbed what they would need for an evening out, Tanya reflected to herself how lucky she was to have her family. And she was happy. She finally had everything she ever wanted.

A/N: I have some special thanks to hand out here at the end. I want to thank Kelli, Jessica, Mandy and Sophie for appearing in my story. A huge thanks to my partner in crime Nikky, AKA Sammy Winchester, for not only letting me kill her in and bury her, never to be found, but for letting me bounce my ideas off her and telling me when my ideas sucked, and when they didn't. She's been my biggest fan. I love you Sammy. Special thanks again to my Adamies for inspiring my other favorite vampire man, Jesse. A big shout out to my friend Angel, for telling me to write books, and knowing I could do it even before I knew it. And finally, a huge thanks to all my readers for sticking with me. I did this all for you.

Lots of Love,

Amy aka Nic aka Dean