Edward POV

I took the hand I held, and brought it to my lips. It was a moment we'd duplicated many times over our eighty years of marriage. Bella looked up and me and smirked.

"Aren't you lovey dovey today Cullen."

"Can't help it when you're around Swan." I gave her my crooked smile and we kept walking through the woods towards La Push. "Are you excited?"

"You have no idea. I can't believe it's been this long." She tugged me along eagerly and we ran, wanting to get there as soon as possible.

We'd moved from La Push right after we'd gotten back from Italy. Of course in the first few years we still went back for visits since everyone was still there. And a year after the Volturi family ended, the Black family expanded.

My daughter, strongest girl I knew, battled like a warrior to bring twin babies into the world. During the entire labor she screamed and cursed Jacob, then would laugh and tell him she loved him, only to start threatening his life again. The end result was my grandson, and granddaughter.

Cullen Thomas Black was the first baby born. He was the image of Revi, with the same hair color and hazel eyes. I was surprised to see his quiet ways were much like Teegan's. She had lived on in him, and it was good to see. Cullen ended up becoming an avid artist, like his mother, only took more interest in drawing rather than sculpting. At twenty four, he married a half vampire Alice met and took under her wing, named Maura.

My granddaughter was born a minute after brother, and was named Annabelle Teerah Black, Teerah after both Revi and Jake's mothers. Anna was the image of a tomboy. She was tall at six feet, with shoulder length, straight black hair and her father's eyes. She also took after Jake in having an interest for cars, and ended up eventually taking over his and the other boys business, with Angela and Embry's son, Jasper Wyatt Call, whom she later married.

Luckily for us, both Cullen and Anna ended up phasing, along with Jasper. Then some years later, Quil and Claire's daughter, Fiona, phased and years later imprinted on another pack member, Jess and Paul's son, Zachary.

The reining pack on La Push was now made up of Cullen, Anna, Jasper, Fiona, and Zachary. Maura also helped, and Jake still phased of course, but passed the roll of alpha down to his son, who flourished with the roll.

Of course our lives weren't all marriage and flourish, there was pain too.

Alice was never the same after losing Jasper. She picked herself up, and always kept involved with us, but for the most part she was only half of what she'd once been. She spent her time finding vampires who had been abandoned after creation, like she was, and teaching them how to live the best life possible. However her own life was not as full as it had once been, and our pixie had lost her bounce. Yet despite all odds, she continued to live on, and fifty years after Jasper's death, we saw a change. One of the vampires Alice assisted ended up coming back every few years to visit, and on one visit we noticed something changed between Riley Fields and Alice. A relationship had formed, and though Alice was still a shadow of what she'd once been, a familiar smile began to reappear on her face, and we welcomed a new member to the family.

Another hardship was the losses we suffered after a few years. Not everyone in the family could live forever. Some chose to age with their imprints, and eventually, with age they died.

We were lucky enough that just about everyone lived long lives. Billy went of a heart attack at the age of seventy three. After that we started realizing, soon we'd lose most of our family.

Sam and Emily went together in their sleep, amazingly. Paul died of cancer when he was in his late eighties, and Jess followed two years later. Claire died at ninety, and Quil lasted six months afterwards. Ren died in a car accident at eighty five, and Leah hung on for another six years, and then died of a stroke.

Losing each of them had been a stab to the heart. It ached often, and would never fade, just as Jasper never had. It was hard on us who stayed, unchanging and undying. Sometimes our lives seemed stuck and frozen. Other times they were deemed a thrill and remarkable.

As Bella and I reached the edge of La Push we continued on walking over to the cottage that still stood solitary, yet very much a part of the reservation. I felt a calm spread through me as I saw the cottage. It was, and would always be my sanctuary.

No matter where we had ended up in the world, and there had been many different homes, this one was always the first real and complete home I'd had.

Bella hung back as I walked up the front porch and used my key to get inside. I knew what I needed to see.

I made my way back to Revi's old room and there on the back of the door, were all her measurements. Along with them were Quil, Embry, and Jake's. Then years later we added Claire and Jess's, and some of the other kids. Over a hundred years of life was documented on this door. It always steadied me to come back and see it.

I raised a brow as one of the windows was thrown open, and a young woman in baggy jeans and my old Thin Lizzy t-shirt; threw herself inside. As she straightened she smiled crookedly.

"Hey Daddy." Revi said and ran over to jump on me as her husband climbed through the same window she had. "We couldn't wait for you to come over to the new house. You're going to love it though, I'm so pumped we get to live here again." She spoke a mile a minute and flicked my chin, then looked at her husband. "Just like old time's right Jacob?" She said as he closed the window.

"Old times?" I deliberately tried to sound fearsome. "What other times did you climb through my daughter's bedroom window Jacob?"

Jake grinned and looked at the floor. "Never, I'm respectful." He walked over and hugged me. "Good to see you man. Where's Bells?"

As he said the nickname, Revi shot out of the room and I heard two matching screams as the two women were reunited. "Christ we've only been separated six months." I smiled though. "I am excited to see the kids though. How are they?"

Though Jake's face was still young, his eyes reflected his hundred and four years of life. "Cullen is so serious it's odd to know he's ours. He's doing well though, and Anna's still as crazy as ever. Her and Rev already got into a swearing match."

"Over what now?"

"Anna and Jasper are going to have a baby."

I was shocked as I stared at Jake. Cullen and Maura never had children, but that was because they didn't want any. Jasper and Anna however, though they wanted them, had never been able to have a child. Now years later, I was going to be a great grandfather. It seemed unreal. "Annabelle's pregnant?"

Jake nodded his expression bright. "We couldn't believe it either, we get back here and there's Anna, big as a watermelon. She's nine months along, and she didn't tell us, so naturally Revi was pissed. Me too, but I was just so happy to see her this…" He trailed off, searching for the word. "Bright. But yea she explained to us that she was nervous she'd miscarry or something would go wrong so she just waited until now."

"Wow. Well come on let's get over there. I want to see my grandchildren."

Jake, Revi, Bella, and I went over to the new house Revi and Jake would be living in. Anna and Jasper had just returned to La Push a year before and the others a few years before them.

We had only made it through the front door when a scream and a curse echoed throughout the unfurnished home.

"Mother I fucking hate you, you never told me how bad it is." I heard my granddaughter call and Revi suddenly darted into the living room where the sounds came from. "Oh sure now you fucking show up, when the kid's probably already halfway out." She panted then looked over at the rest of us. "Oh hey Grandpa and Grandma are here."

"We noticed." Revi snapped out. "Are you fucking kidding me?" She asked as she checked Anna over. "You're in labor!"

Anna looked away from us and at her mother and scowled. "No shit."

"Why didn't you call us?" Jake said immediately sounding panicked.

"Because the phones over there and moving wasn't working. Jasper went over to round up Cullen and the pack so everyone would be here when you got back. About five minutes after he left, Junior here decided he wanted to show up." She looked back at Revi and pouted. "I'm sorry I swore at you Mama."

"Oh that's fine. You'll do it again, considering you have to start pushing soon. Bella can you carry her over to the bedroom, there's a bed set up in there. Jacob get towels. Daddy call, well everyone." She gave orders and darted after Bella and Anna.

Jasper and the others arrived on time, and Jasper gave me a quick hug before running into the bedroom, along with Alice, who would be delivering the baby.

Bella walked into the hallway where we were all sitting and chatting, waiting for the newest addition to be born. Bella turned and smiled at me.

"What are you thinking about Cullen?" She said and swore when Cullen answered her. "Oh no sweets I meant the old man here." She grinned as I pulled her closer.

"Just about how fast everything's moved. It seems like yesterday we were crowded around the hospital waiting for Jess to be born. You know that was one of the last times we were all together. It's so weird now without them." I looked down at Bella and smiled when she looked sad and thoughtful. "We've done well though haven't we? We have an amazing family. This is the family I was running towards all my life you know. Teegan and I waited years to feel like we were a part of something. And it might not have happened the way I expected, but I'm grateful for it. I'm grateful I ran to one day be here, and now I'm whole."

Bella smiled and kissed my shoulder, and three hours later a new sound filled the house. The sound of a baby crying.

A few moments later, after Anna and Jasper shared their moment, and Revi and Jake reveled in their first minutes of being grandparents, Alice came out into the hallway, with a tiny baby in her arms.

Her eyes met mine as we shared a moment ourselves. A moment of all the years we spent waiting for this moment of completion. A moment that told us with all certainty, that we had made it. Alice handed the baby to me, and I felt déjà vu wash over me as I smiled at her and she smiled back.

"They decided to name him Edward." Alice said with a knowing smile on her face, and I wondered if this was moment she'd seen before.

I looked down at the baby boy in my arms, his eyes squinting as he considered me, and as I studied him, he laid his hand on my chin, and I laughed as I looked over at Revi in the bedroom, her smile bright and full.

Yes, I thought. I had run away for this moment. This moment to be made whole.

Thus ends my second fanfiction. Review!