AN – Alright guys, here is what you asked for. This is the start to the sequel to The Unconventional Mates. It's amazing where things can go when something starts out as a simple one shot and yet has expanded into this. I hope this goes as well as the original and that it is what everyone hopes/expects. It's a short start, but I'm hoping to have the rest of the chapters be back to my normal length. Well, read on and enjoy!

As always, I do not own any part of Twilight, I'm just playing with the characters.

Chapter 1 –

"It's been almost twenty years. Why in the hell are they contacting you now?"

"Isabella, please calm down." Carlisle begged as he watched his beloved pace the living room. "We don't know if there is anything hidden in their messages other than the messages themselves. It could have nothing to do with you."

"I don't care, Carlisle." She stormed out the back door, growling.

Carlisle got up to follow her, but was held back by Jasper. "Carlisle, let her go."

"You know I can't do that, Jasper." Carlisle groaned as he sat down in a chair. "After all this time have you ever seen me be able to leave her alone when I've done something to upset her?"

"This technically wasn't your fault, Carlisle." Peter chimed in from the other side of the room. "You can't control what that shit family of yours does, only how you react to it. So yeah, I guess that does mean that you're at least partially at fault here. Damn, life's a bitch when you piss Bells off."

"Peter!" Char yelled from the other room. "I'll cut you off if you don't behave."

"But babe, I'm just pointing out the facts here." Peter pleaded. "Carlisle should have learned not to hide shit from Bella by now. Jasper learned. Why can't I give Carlisle a hard time for being an idiotic male?"

"He's right, Charlotte. I should have known better." Carlisle sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose. "I should have told her as soon as I got the message."

"You wouldn't be in the trouble you're in now with Bells if you had been upfront from the get go. Glad you accept that." Peter snarked as he flopped down on the couch. "But, we wouldn't be in this mess if you would have just ditched that phone a long fucking time ago. Bella's shield has blocked us successfully from that pixie witch and we were living the good life. Until you turned on that damned phone of yours."

Carlisle groaned into his hands, knowing just how badly he had screwed everything up for his family. They had moved from Texas five years ago to another large ranch just outside of Billings, MT and of course it was just as beautiful as the ranch in Texas. For some reason a few months ago, he went digging through some of his old boxes and came across his old phone. Without thinking, he had slipped it into his pocket and promptly forgot about it. A few days later he came across it again and decided to charge it, thinking only to see if Emmett and Rosalie had tried to find him.

What Carlisle didn't expect were the multiple messages left by Esme and Edward. He listened to their many messages laced with fake concern and apologies for leaving him behind. He had been on a hunt by himself when he listened to the messages and was able to deal with his feelings about them before returning to the house. When he got there, Jasper and Bella had dragged him into some crazy discussion and he forgot all about the messages. That was until his phone beeped in his pocket. Luckily it was like the phone he used for work so he played it off as a message from the hospital.

Stepping outside, he checked the message. He had to double check it to make sure that he had read it correctly. Turning the phone off, he stared out into space lost in thought over how they knew he had been in Texas. That was until a throat clearing from the other end of the porch got his attention.

"I don't know what you are pondering over there, old man, but I can promise you it ain't good and will only cause mountains worth of trouble for you and this coven." Peter said as he walked inside.

After that cryptic warning, Carlisle had put the matter from his mind until it was thrown back in his face thirty minutes ago when Bella had quite literally thrown his phone at him. Thinking back at that had him grimacing again.

"What the hell, Carlisle?" Bella yelled as she threw a phone at his head. "When were you going to tell us?"

Jasper looked from the seething Bella to the confused Carlisle. "Would one of you care to enlighten me about this newest argument?"

"Ask him, he's the one who has been hiding something from us for months." Bella growled out as she clenched her hands into fists. "What is it, Carlisle? Are we not good enough anymore?"

Jasper gasped as he felt the hurt and betrayal flowing off of her in waves. He normally tried to play the neutral party if his mates got into a fight, but this time he couldn't just stand by. The feelings he was picking up from Bella were too close to how she felt about Edward. Going to her, he took her hands in his and looked her in the eyes, fully aware his gift would be blocked right now. "Bella, love, calm down and tell me what's going on."

She closed her eyes and leaned her forehead against his. "Check his phone, Jasper. He has messages on there from them."

Jasper looked over his shoulder at Carlisle who hadn't moved an inch other than to catch the phone before it hit him. "What is she talking about, Carlisle?"

He sighed as he prepared for another angry mate, wondering just how this got so far out of hand. "They are just messages, Jasper. All they wanted to know was how I was doing and to apologize for leaving me all those years ago."

"Fuck!" Peter growled as he pulled Char closer to him. "I told you old man; I told you that you were playing with fire."

"I never responded to them." Carlisle pleaded for them to understand. "I only ever listened to the voicemails and checked the texts. But that was all months ago."

Bella had finally calmed down enough for Jasper to let go of her hands, but he still kept his arm around her waist for support and to keep her anchored to his side. After the time they had been mated, he understood her moods and especially her anger. "How about you start from the beginning, Carlisle."

Carlisle nodded and then told them how he found the phone and everything that happened since. Told them about the voicemails from Esme and Edward and tossed the phone to Jasper so that he could read the text messages. "Now everyone knows everything. I never responded to either of them as they are no longer a part of my life. I am sorry that you two found out this way, I really am. I thought they would stop trying to reach out to me if I just kept ignoring them."

"Apparently you thought wrong, Carlisle." Bella snarled.

"Bella, darlin', what made you look at his phone?" Jasper asked, trying to keep them on track.

Bella looked at Jasper with venom tears in her eyes. "I was getting dressed after my shower and heard his phone go off. Thinking it was from the hospital, I went to grab it out of his drawer only to find two phones in there. Picking up the phone I hit the button to see what the hospital needed, I was quite shocked to learn that someone is apparently pining away for Carlisle."

"What?" Carlisle turned to look at her. "Who?"

"My dearest Carlisle. I want to tell you again how sorry I am for leaving you to go take care of Edward. I didn't realize that it would cause the family to fall apart. Please call me so we can get back to where we were before Edward's human came into our lives. I love you and I want my mate back."

Everyone had sat in shocked silence after Bella finished reciting the message that Esme had sent to Carlisle. The tension was so thick that it could have been cut with a knife as they all waited to see how Carlisle was going to react.

"I don't know what to say." Carlisle whispered into the silent room. He had no excuse for his behavior and he had no idea how to handle Esme's message.

"After all this time, I…" Bella stopped as she was choked by a sob. "I trusted you."

Jasper's heart broke for the pain that Bella was feeling. He understood her feelings better than anyone else and not because of his empathy, but because as they had gotten to know each other they had found that they were quite similar to each other. Even understanding her pain, he knew that Carlisle was not doing anything wrong other than keeping the messages a secret. It was going to be a long night of trying to get Bella to listen to Carlisle and for Carlisle to find a way to apologize to them both for the lies. "How did they know we were in Texas?"

"What?" Peter yelled. "Please tell me they have not gone and ruined the Texas ranch. I don't know if I can live there again knowing they even thought about the place."

"Oh, Peter, stopping being so melodramatic." Char swatted him on the back of the head. "The place can be cleaned or gutted if need be. It is still our home."

"I don't know, Jasper." Carlisle responded after a pause. "Maybe Alice saw us there, I don't know, honestly. You can see on the phone that no calls have been made and I haven't replied to any of their texts."

Bella broke away from Jasper's hold and began pacing, her anger replacing her pain. She would growl low in her chest every time she caught sight of Carlisle, growing more and more angry as she kept replaying that text in her mind. "Why Carlisle? Why didn't you tell us?"

Carlisle looked up to find Bella standing right in front of him, glaring at him out of her pitch black eyes. He flinched back from her as he knew just how hurt she had to be to be that angry with him. "I truly meant to, but every time something else came up and I forgot."

"You forgot." Bella began pacing again to keep her distracted from her thoughts of dismemberment. "How in the hell can you forget that your ex-family is reaching out to you? How does one forget to tell his mates about his old mate and son asking for him to take them back?"

"I have no excuse for you, Isabella." Carlisle looked down at his hands. "I can only say that I am sorry for not telling the both of you sooner."

"Why now?" Jasper asked causing Bella to stop in her tracks to stare at him. "Why are they reaching out to you now?"

"I don't know, Jasper. That would be something only they can answer, I imagine."

Carlisle was brought out of his thoughts as they heard Bella roar off in the distance. "I should go talk to her, get her to understand…"

"Understand what, old man?" Peter asked. "That you royally fucked us over or that you tore her unbeating heart out of her chest via your ex?"

"Harsh, Peter, too harsh." Jasper snarled in his mate's defense. "Yes he screwed up, but I don't believe that he did it intentionally."

"Jasper, my man, you need to get your head out of your ass and see this for what it is." Peter begged as he moved to leave the room. "Carlisle has set something in motion with that damned phone that could very well tear this coven apart."

Jasper watched him leave the room and sighed. "Damnit, I really hate that dramatic fucker and his knower."

"He's right, Jasper." Carlisle said into his hands. "Somehow I need to make this right."

To be continued….

AN – And we are off to a dramatic start. I don't expect this to be a long story, maybe around the same length as the original or a bit longer. We will see where the muse takes us though. As always, let me know what you thought and I will hope to have the next chapter up as quickly as possible.

Reminder, there is the FB page for updates and discussions. Just search for Bella & Jasper – Love Under a Blood Moon and you should be able to find it easily. It will be the hub for all Twilight fanfic discussions as I have Darkness and Love Under a Blood Moon as well as one shots that are in the works. If you aren't reading the other two Twilight stories…I highly recommend them, lol, but I may be a bit biased.