Thank you so much for all your kind words. I appreciate it very much and hope you'll like what I write the following one is a bit shorter than the last, but I found the end quite fitting.

Carlisle slowed down his speed when the road to their home came in view. Something wasn't right, but how could it, really? He didn't know what had brought him to think such a thing in front of Edward. He had always been good to conceal every thought he didn't want him to know. What had happened at that airport?
But Carlisle wouldn't be Carlisle if he didn't know deep down, what this meant. But it couldn't be! It was very unusual to play out as it had and why hadn't Alice seen any of it happening?
He had first felt the pull after stitching her up on her birthday, but hadn't thought anything of it, since they had had a pretty emotional conversation then and he had thought that to be the reason for his momentary affection towards her. But it had only gotten worse the following months, so that he very nearly did run to Forks to check on her. He was going to make that decision the very moment Alice had stormed into his office, telling him Bella had jumped off that cliff and now was dead or would be any moment.
He remembered his world crumbling to a pile of ashes. The searing pain where his unbeating heart was located in his chest brought him to his knees and Alice had knelt down beside him, scared.
When she told him she wanted to go and check on Charlie, he agreed and gave her the keys to his car. Only wanting to be alone as fast as possible.
He remembered the following hours as if they had actually been years. When Alice called and told him Bella was alive and they were going to Voltera to save Edward, he hadn't known if he should laugh or cry. Of course he cared very much for Edward, his companion, his friend and son, but the Volturi were death bringing and Bella was a human who knew about vampires! How big had the odds been that they didn't find out about that fact immediately?
When they actually made it out of Voltera with Edward and Bella still alive, it was like heaven did in fact exist. How could it be that they were so lucky? That he was so lucky? His thoughts turned around Bella from that second on until they stood in the airport hall, waiting for them.

Bella, Bella, Bella, Bella…

"You! I'll kill you!" Suddenly Edward was on Carlisle again who was smashed backwards against a large oak tree. Jasper and Emmett came rushing after them, but Carlisle held a hand up to stop them from interfering. In some way he was at fault and Edward was right to be outraged, so he let him have a moment.

When he felt it was enough, he growled and pushed Edward off, pinning him to the ground beneath him. Edward was no more a fighter than Carlisle himself, who was much older and somewhat stronger. Besides, he was the leader of their coven and even when they called it family and Carlisle usually never took that fact as an advantage, it still counted a great deal.
"You can not kill me and you won't," he spat and held the struggling boy down.

"You have no right…"

"YOU have no right, Edward! You had your fun, but you must know, that I can't change what happened!"

"I will not give her to you!" Edward growled, when Carlisle allowed him to get up.

"You can't give her to me, anyway! But I will go, because you are right when you mean it's not fair!"

"What?" Alice and Esme came running now, too. All six of them standing in a circle in front of the house.

"You won't leave," cried Esme, "what is going on?"

Edward, still seeing red in his madness, chuckled: "Oh yeah, Carlisle. Tell her, please, I want to hear it, too!"

Carlisle froze on the spot, he needed to tell her, but he couldn't form the words. Esme had never been his true mate, he knew that now, but that didn't mean he hadn't loved her. She had been his wife for a humanly lifetime, but he had felt their connection changing ever so slightly, since Bella had come into their lives. He hadn't realized it then, but after that incident a few months ago, it became clear to him that he couldn't live with Esme anymore. Not as a married couple, that is. Only she didn't know…

"Carlisle?" Her eyes met his and he knew then, that she had come to the right conclusion.

Doors banging, so much distress, only three of them sitting in the house, Bella next to Edward, with a confused look on her face, not quite getting what's going on.
Alice let out a pained cry, still half into her vision and Jasper grabbed her, pulling her softly into his arms, shaking from all the emotions around him. Anger, Guilt, Betrayal, Grief… he closed his eyes and tried hard to lighten the mood, but it was impossible.
Alice looked at Esme now, desperate: "Don't go!" But Esme didn't wait to hear any of it. She had sped into the house and started packing her bags.

"Carlisle! You must stop her," cried Emmett.

"I can't. She will do what she thinks is best for her," he told them and turned around, leaving.

"NO! We are a family! I told Bella we wouldn't leave her again!" Alice started to go after him, but Edward blocked her.

"Then don't! He can go!"

"You don't know what you're saying! Do you think she won't find out eventually? Her pull is not as prominent as it is for him, but she will become a vampire. She must!"

"And Carlisle will be gone by then. Problem solved!" Edwards eyes were glaring daggers at his sister now. It was not as if he didn't know that he could still loose her without Carlisle there, but he had to try. She was his first and only love and he wouldn't give up on that.

Then Rosalie stormed after Esme, Emmett on her heels, and Alice knew that they would follow their mother. Who was going to keep Carlisle company? She couldn't, she promised and she hadn't the power to send Jasper away after him. He needed her and she needed him, especially after what they had just lived through. With a forlorn look, she sat down on the dry forest floor and covered her face with her hands.