A/N: Thanks again to my Beta ACEMCKEAN. Read her stories Marital Bliss? and The Cullen Brothers.

CHAPTER 39

CPOV

We all laughed as Edward went up to the bathroom to shower, followed quickly by Bella with Jace in her arms.

Shortly after they left, Alice handed little Arriel over to her waiting grandmother. I loved watching Esme with little Arriel in her arms. Her face lit up in ways I never imagined. I knew she missed her baby, her little son.

Esme took Arriel to the picture window and they stared out as dawn was breaking. Bella and Edward were back with Jace and Rosalie quickly took him in her arms, sitting on the couch with Emmett as they fawned over him. Edward had gathered Bella to him and took her to the grand piano in the corner, playing softly. A new tune, by the sounds of it; a lullaby for the twins. Alice and Jasper sat close, it looked like Jasper was just drinking in the calm and joy that surrounded my family, while Alice read a new fashion magazine. I smiled at my family and wrapped my arms around my wife's waist.

"A penny for your thoughts," I whispered into her ear.

She rested her head back on my shoulder. "Just thinking back. I can't even remember his face."

I knew she was talking about her son. He hadn't even lived a week and his death nearly killed her. I wrapped my arms tighter around her and little Arriel opened her dazzling green eyes and looked at us. She reached her tiny hand up to touch Esme's cheek, suddenly Esme gasped.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and glanced at Esme. Arriel was obviously showing her something. Edward gasped a little too, watching what Arriel was showing Esme.

"What is she showing her?" Rosalie asked him.

"Apparently Arriel can see the past," Edward choked out. "She just showed Esme herself as a human, with her baby cuddled to her chest. She is showing her her son!"

As Arriel removed her hand, Esme started crying broken tearless sobs. I hugged her to me tighter and motioned to Alice to come take Arriel.

"No," sobbed my wife, clutching Arriel to her gently. "I had never seen him with these eyes. I had forgotten what he really looked like."

She looked down at little Arriel and stroked her cheek, "Thank you little one. That gift you gave to me is worth everything." She leaned her head down and kissed her little head. Finally, she surrendered Arriel to Alice after that and wrapped her arms around my neck, while I held her.

I held her to me for hours, long after the sun had risen. I doubt that I would have moved at all if it hadn't been for the delivery trucks pulling up the driveway.

"Oh good!" Rosalie said, thrilled. "Everything is here!"

"What did you order Rose?" Esme asked from the security of my arms.

"Well we had only had one bedroom set up and that one needed new furniture," she said, looking at Emmett.

"I don't even want to know," Alice said.

"I just figured since there were six bedrooms here, we could stay here until we know where to go from here. And since you guys weren't here yet, I took the liberty of ordering furniture," Rosalie said.

"So where do you have everyone Rose?" I asked her.

"Well there are only two bedrooms on the top floor. I thought Edward and Bella could have one and the twins could share the other. You guys can each pick a room on the middle floor and Emmett and I will keep our bedroom down here."

"That sounds great Rosalie. Thank you for having us all here," Edward said from his position on the couch with Bella. I could tell he was looking forward to some alone time with Bella.

The movers arrived with the furniture and Rosalie convinced them just to unload it on the front porch, assuring them that we had more than enough bodies to put everything in place. They tried to argue, taken I am sure, with Rosalie's beauty. However, they were more than happy to oblige when Emmett showed up at her side.

"I love being a man," Emmett said after they left, an obvious play on Rosalie's earlier comment about being a girl.

Rosalie and Esme set everyone to work after that, except for Bella. She protested, but we all insisted that she stay here and concentrate on the babies. Within an hour we had the place set requiring just finishing touches.

Edward decided it was time to bring her up to their room. She had both babies securely in her arms and he swept her into his arms and dashed up the stairs, his and Bella's laughter reverberated off the walls of the house. The other ladies were busy planning a shopping trip and Emmett and Jasper were planning a games and TV room downstairs that would put any modern arcade to shame. I sat back and started figuring out what I would need to study Bella and the babies.

It wasn't long before everyone was leaving, going in three separate directions.
The ladies to a mall, Jasper and Emmett to some giant arcade and myself to a medical supply center. Rosalie had been kind enough to let me use the last bedroom as my office and I needed to stock it as soon as possible, so that I could begin my studies of the three newest members of our family.

"Don't do anything I wouldn't do!" Emmett called out.

"Emmett the last time you said that, he got her pregnant and we spent the next three weeks searching for them. Honestly!" Rosalie said.

"Okay then..." Emmett said, thinking hard. "Just have fuuuun." Only he could find a way to make fun sound like a scary thing.

"Bye Guys," Rose and Alice called out in unison.

"See you later!" Esme added. "Take good care of my grandchildren."

"Bella? Are you sure you don't want to join us?" Alice called.

"Very, very, very sure!" We heard Bella exclaim from the third floor, causing us all to laugh.

After a few more final goodbyes we were off, leaving Edward and his little family alone.

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EPOV

I had just finished putting our bedroom together and promising Alice through our little silent conversations that I would not let Bella or the twins in the nursery until she got back and finished it. In the meantime there were two new bassinets set up in our room next to the bed. As I returned to the living room I saw Bella on the couch with our sleeping children protected in her arms.

Watching her with them was probably the most beautiful and intimate thing I had ever seen. If it was even possible, I fell more in love with her, as I watched her with our babies. Suddenly I knew I wanted her all to myself, even for a little while and I dashed to her side, surprising her. She smiled up at me quickly and I responded by scooping her up in my arms, the twins still held against her chest and carrying her up the stairs to our room.

"Edward," she gasped and then giggled, holding the babies a little tighter to her chest.

Her laughter was so infectious that I joined in and we laughed our way up the stairs. The family was all planning trips to different locations to prep the house. This was usually the time that I would find the closest music store to replenish my music and sound system, but a few hours alone with Bella and the babies was far more inviting.

I opened the door to our room with Bella still cradled in my arms. She gasped at the sight of the room.

"How is this even possible?" she asked, stunned.

"Rosalie figured you'd be attached so..." I said, trailing off at the end. You see my sister had chosen this room for us for a few reasons. The carpet in here was a rich gold and the windows looked over the tree tops towards the ocean in the distance. The bed and bedding she chose were exact replicas of the ones that were in my room in our Forks home. The bed where our twins were created in and the room where she agreed to be my wife.

"It's perfect Edward," Bella sighed, tears springing to her eyes. I kissed her gently and carried her to our bed. After setting her down gently, I took the twins one at a time from her arms and placed them in their matching basinets. They were sound asleep, Arriel was even too asleep to dream. Bella watched me with tears streaming down her cheeks.

"My Love," I said, worried that something was wrong. I returned to the bed quickly, so I could be at her side and brushed her tears away.

She threw her arms around my neck and cuddled into my arms. I held her silently for a minute.

"Bella why are you crying? Have I done something wrong?" I asked her.

"Oh Edward," she sniffled, holding me tighter.

"Please tell me how I can make this better?" I begged her.

"If you make this any better I'll never stop crying," she answered. "These are happy tears, silly."

I laughed at her logic and held her in my arms. I could hold her like this for days and never move.

The family started calling out their goodbyes from downstairs. We listened contently from our position on our bed, wrapped in a tight embrace.

Then we heard Alice say, "Bella? Are you sure you don't want to join us?"

Bella pulled away in shock and the fear was evident in her eyes. I smiled as she answered, "Very, very, very sure!"

With a lot of laughter and a few more goodbyes the family left, leaving us alone. I pulled Bella back into my arms, her back to my chest, and she came willingly. I laid back against the pillows pulling her with me and she wiggled to turn around, so we were face to face. I started kissing her beautiful face. Her beautiful little nose, her forehead, cheeks, jawline, neck, chin and finally her lips.

The electricity of our kiss was shocking and we both gasped, although not enough to stop the kiss. Her tongue traced the line of my bottom lip while mine begged for entry into her mouth. The electric current between us just seemed to grow as the minutes passed, lost in our love. She opened my shirt roughly and I heard the buttons scatter. Her little top and cami followed suit and I pressed my chest against hers, separated by only her bra. Our pants hit the ground next and I felt like the room was ablaze from all the electricity between us. The last of our clothes fell away and as we were about to fulfill ourselves, two tiny little wails simultaneously filled the air. Our children were up.

I took a deep breath, grabbed some boxers from the drawer on my side of the bed and went to see our children in their basinets. Bella pulled herself under the covers, her cheeks a lovely shade of pink. As I reached down to soothe my children, Arriel reached her hand up and caught my finger. She showed me an image of her and Jace nursing in the big bed with Bella in my arms. My bare chest and Bella's were very evident in her vision.

"Are they hungry again?" Bella asked, still a little breathless.

"It would appear so," I said, gathering both of them in my arms and carrying them to her.

"I think she got Emmett's sense of timing," I muttered.

She giggled as I joined her on the bed with our children. As soon as they were in position, they set right to work on their meal.

"Ummm they aren't going to need fresh diapers anytime soon are they?" I asked, the horror of the earlier events still etched in my mind.

"Probably," she said, smiling at me. "But don't worry Love. I'll deal with him this time."

We laughed and I held her a little tighter, marveling again at the two miracles in her arms. We couldn't finished what we had started now, but we would. I just thanked God that this beautiful woman in my arms loved me and wanted me as much as I wanted her. She gave me the greatest gift ever, our two children, and I was going to spend the rest of eternity making sure she knew just how much I loved her.

"I love you Bella. With all my heart and all my soul," I said, kissing her bare shoulder.

"You said soul. Does that mean you finally agree that vampires have souls?" she asked quietly, looking up at me.

"Yes Love. We have souls. I fought that fact for so long... refusing to see myself as anything but a monster. But you, the way you loved me, changed that. I still fought it though, not wanting to damn you to a life or perpetual night, but then these two came along," I said, stroking their hair. "And I knew a monster could never have had a hand in creating these little angels."

She turned her head and kissed me passionately, then pulled back and kissed my nose. "I told you so," she said.

I didn't have an argument for that one. I was thrilled that she was right on that account. I sat back and enjoyed the sounds that filled our room. Bella's soft breathing, the twin's rapid heartbeats, the sound of them suckling their milk, their breathing, even the creek that ran a little ways from the house. This must be what heaven sounds like.

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