Disclaimer: Though I wish wholeheartedly that I owned the rights to Twilight; I do not. These lovely characters do though belong to S.M. That lucky ducky!
Epilogue
7 years later…
"Daddy! Daddy!" Casey called running to me with her older brother fast on her heels.
"She's lying!" Darren yelped panicked.
I scoped up my little girl as she glared daggers at her brother. He looked at me sheepishly as his sister began rambling.
"Slow down sweetheart. I can't understand you." I laughed brushing a chocolate brown curl from my 5 year old's face.
Bella and I had Darren, Casey, and Alison. Casey and Ally were our 5 year old twins. They both look exactly like Bella, except for the tanned skin. All three of our kids got sun-kissed skin. Not as dark as me, but not as pale as Bella.
"He ruined Ally and I's sand castle!" She whimpered.
"Where's Ally?" I asked looking around the beach.
She was sitting with Brady of course.
The day the girls were born, Collin and Brady imprinted on them. Brady on Ally, Collin on Casey.
I was honestly just happy they had someone I knew and trusted. The boys were never blood related to us.
Bella was ecstatic that they boys were going to not only be legal kids of hers but marriage related in the future. The girls had the boys wrapped around their fingers.
"Why'd you break their castle?" I asked my 7 year old son. He was my pride and joy.
"I didn't do it on purpose! I was playing with Claire and I ran into the castle when I didn't see it! I said I was sorry." He rushed.
Darren Jasper Lahote was my first born son and he was a little clone of me. Bella loved the resemblance. She thought it was cute that I had a mini me. She stopped laughing when we got the girls. She has two mini me's.
"He said he was sorry sweetheart, go play with Colin. I bet he misses you." I smiled setting her down.
She ran off to find Collin while Darren ran back to play with Claire, Scotty, Jeremy, and Todd.
Collin and Brady were in the pack still with Quil and Embry. The sorry bunch had all imprinted on children. The rest of us hadn't phased in years.
Embry imprinted on Emily's 3rd child, Dakota. She was just like her father. Sam wasn't too happy. Emily thought it was cute.
"There's my strong man." My wife purred walking up to me.
"Hey there sexy." I smirked pulling her against my chest.
We kissed a bit before we heard someone cleared their throat.
"Nice of you to join us in the real world." Taylor smirked.
"Hey Taylor, how are the kids?" Bella asked leaning back into my chest.
When you stop phasing, you lose every sense and the healing the hunger the anger. But the imprint pull is still strong. I can still feel Bella wherever she is.
The girls caught up as I observed the old pack. The vampires were still nonexistent in the area. The last of the pack only keep phasing to stay as young as they are for their imprints.
I noticed Sam trying to motion me over. I kissed Bella's head and jogged over.
"Hey there Lahote. How are your twins? Still got Brady and Collin practically living with you?" He snickered.
"You would know how I feel wouldn't you Sam? Embry practically lives at your house." I countered.
My old alpha grumbled at the comment. I laughed and took the beer Jared had held out to me.
"The twins are good. How's Emily and the kids?" I smiled.
"Emily is at home with Anna. The others are good." Sam smiled.
We caught up on guy talk. I filled them in on the boys and the pack. Charlie and his fiancée, Beth were just getting back from a vacation in the Caribbean.
We talked about the next pack pup and discussed how large our 'family' was. Sam had 4 kids, Jared had 4, Leah had 2, Seth had 2, Jacob had 2, I had 3.
The afternoon began turning to dusk. We all gathered our kids and brought them home.
"I love you Bella." I smiled after putting the kids to sleep.
"I love you Paul." She smiled wrapping her arms around my waist.
I kissed her head and began the exploration of my wife's body as I do every night.
BPOV
Charlie and his fiancée were getting married today. My kids, Colin & Brady included, were all dressed up and waiting in the living room for me.
"Is Grandpa going to cry?" Ally asked snuggling into Brady's chest.
"I don't know sweetpea." I giggled. It was funny to think about my father crying.
He cried when I made him a grandpa though, I'm not sure if he was happy for sad to be honest.
Paul came down looking amazing in a suit. He got a goofy grin on his face as he looked at my outfit.
Paul had bought me a beautiful black lace dress. The neck was sweetheart line with a halter strap. It went down to my knees in a pencil style skirt. I wore peep toe, black heels with it too. My chocolate brown hair hung in loose curls and beachy waves to my butt.
I grew my hair out on accident after Darren was born.
Casey was tracing her little fingers up and down my scared hands.
"Why do you and Collin have bad boo-boos mommy?" Casey asked when she began to understand we had gotten hurt at one point in time.
I stared at her for a moment, unsure of what to tell her.
"Uh, well honey, Colin and I got hurt by a big animal when we went into the woods without daddy." I scrapped up.
"Big animal?" She asked tilting her head making the curls she got from me to tumble over her little shoulder.
"You know that big kitty they showed you pictures of at Uncle Billy's?" I asked
"Mowtin kitty?" She said.
"Yeah, they aren't very nice and they scratched Collin and I when I was a girl." I said picking her up.
She always ran her hands up and down the scars now. Collin said she did it a lot when she was thinking about something.
"What's up sweetheart?" I asked looking down at her.
"Why does daddy look like he got hit on the head?" She asked looking up at me.
I tried my best not to laugh. Paul chuckled lightly though, "Because mommy looks very pretty today."
Casey smiled and nodded looking up at me again. I scooped her up and nuzzled her face.
"You and your sister look like little princesses." I cooed.
Ally giggled and blushed the Swan blush, burying her face in Brady's chest.
"Come on, to grandpa's wedding!" Brady laughed picking up his imprint.
The girls were the flower girls for the service. Charlie asked Darren to be the ring bearer. My kids were so excited to be in the wedding.
The ceremony was beautiful and the couple was adorable. I was happy that my father was finally moving on from Renee.
Beth had been a random reporter stumbling into Forks for a vacation about 4 years ago. They have been together ever since.
He and Sue were still amazing friends. They had a thing for a short time.
I was a bride's maid for the wedding. Paul was one of my Dad's groom's men.
The pack was all present. They loved my dad a lot and loved that he was so casual to admit one day that not only did he know they were shifters but that he knew I was some kind of soul mate.
He brought it up one day and never brought it up again. Said it made him queasy the one time I asked him about it.
Beth would never know; it was better that way.
They said their "I Do's" and walked back down the aisle as man and wife.
"Grandpa did cry mommy!" Ally whispered to me giggling.
"Yes he did baby." I snickered.
"I love you girls! Behave!" I called after the twins. Today was their first day of kindergarten.
Paul and I watched them walk away as I began to tear up. I was still getting use to them growing up so fast.
Just yesterday, it feels like Edward left me in the woods sobbing. Today, I'm walking my 5 year olds to kindergarten as my 7 year old waits for us to go to the building for 2nd graders.
Paul smiled softly at me, "It gets easier babe. Emily and Kim just send them on their way now."
It made me laugh lightly. Paul and I were adamant on no more kids. I was on birth control and didn't want any more kids.
"I love you, Bella." Paul sighed kissing away my tears.
"Paul, you changed my whole life. I don't know what I would have done without you. You are my world, my other half, my soul mate. Thank you so much for looking me in the eyes all those years ago. I wouldn't want to live life any other way." I nuzzled into his chest.
"You were my savior Bella." He murmured into my hair.
"You were my angel, Paul. My hot-headed Angel." I smirked kissing him deeply.
Author's Note: Well after several months. This story; my first story, is complete. Thank you everyone who read and reviewed. Thank you to those who gave me criticism and helped me better my story. I knew this story wouldn't be too long since it was my very first. I don't think I will write a sequel. This story has been told and I think it's all that calls to be done.
I did upload the last 2 chapters only a day apart so they may be too soon for some readers but oh well, they will have to do the chapter Dance.
I couldn't have done this without my lovely readers so I thank you wholeheartedly.
I do have several other stories, they are not complete but I am working on completing one story at a time before continuing another. Currently I will be working on Wolf In Sheep's Clothing before continuing anything else for a while.
Go check out my other stories! I tend to be a bit stuck on Paul/Bella pairings but I do venture to other wolves and into vampires!
Hope you enjoyed the story!
The Pack at the end:
Sam & Emily (30 & 28): Scotty 7 years
Kyle 6 years
Dakota 3 years
Anna 2 months
Jared & Kim (27 & 27): Todd 7 years
Jeremy 7 years
Violet 4 years
Amanda 4years
Leah & Adam (28 & 30): Tori 5 years
Zack 2 years
Jacob & Taylor (24 & 27): Indio 3 years
Will 2 years
Seth & Angela (24 & 24): Aaron 5 years
Corey 1 year
Paul & Bella (27 & 26): Darren 7 years
Casey 5 years
Allison 5 years
Quil & Claire (24 & 11)
Embry & Dakota (24 & 3)
Collin & Casey (21 & 5)
Brady & Allison (21 & 5)