Previously-

I lifted her face and waited for her eyes to meet mine. She sighed and finally looked at me.

"I would never abandon you. I always have and always will love you. When I got done on the southern wars I was in a dark place, and that's when Alice found me and we found the Cullen's."

"Alice?" She said, and I felt a spike of jealousy come through her. I just tucked a piece of hair behind her ear.

"Alice is like a sister to me. She has always wanted more, but I made it clear from the beginning that my heart was not mine to give. I had already given it away when I was human. To you."

Now- JazzPOV-

Eventually she agreed to come and meet the family with me. I wanted to meet my daughter, more than I've wanted almost anything. What I wanted was to have been able to raise my daughter with Iz as a human but since that didn't happen, I will take what I can get. I interlaced our fingers and started running back to the Cullen's house. Now that I know my family is alive, I will find a way to make up all the time that I missed. She was quiet for most of the run back to Washington, and for once I wished that I had Edward's power so that I knew what she was thinking.

"What are you thinking Nugget?" She looked at me with a look I had never seen before.

"What are they like, your new family?" She asked, and I pulled her to a stop. I tilted her head with my finger until her eyes met mine.

"They are nice, but if I knew you and Alexia were alive, I would have given them up to have you in my life again in a human heartbeat. I have felt so empty this past century and a half and I know now that I should've come back sooner, but I knew I couldn't handle seeing your headstone when I got out of Maria's…." I growled out her name, the next time I see her she will die by my hand. "When I got out of HER army, I needed time to get back to me. I needed time to heal from the things that I had done and the family I thought I had lost." I pulled her into my arms.

"Having you here in my arms is the best feeling in the world. Nothing will ever top this feeling." I said and pulled back enough to look in her eyes and brush the hair from her face. There were tears trailing down her cheeks. Using the pads of my thumbs I wiped them away.

"I promise you, from now on I will never abandon you or make you feel like you don't matter. You are my world and I will never want to make you feel like you don't matter, because you do. You and Alexia, and my family, are the only things that matters to me now." She nodded and took a breath and interlaced our fingers again. We began running again and we were just walking into the yard of the Cullen house when I felt a force that would have made me stumble backward had I been human. I looked behind me and saw Iz and Alice facing off. I was about to step in when I heard Alice say,

"What are you doing following my Jazzy back, and holding his hand?" Iz just started laughing.

"Jazzy? No wonder he doesn't want to be with you. He hates that nick name." Alice growled and went to attack Iz. Iz didn't move and I almost stepped in when Alice bounced backward, like a bouncy ball off a hardwood floor. I looked at Iz confused as she just shook her head, before turning to the rest of the Cullen's.

"I apologize if my appearance has cause turmoil in your family. My name is Izabell Joy Camden Whitlock, but please call me Iz." She said and walked back over to me. Alice had brushed herself off and stood with the Cullen's all the while grumbling that the newbie had ruined her outfit.

"Nice to meet you Iz my name is Carlisle Cullen, and this is my wife and mate Esme. These are our children Edward, Emmett and his wife/mate Rosalie, and you have already met Alice. I promise our family is usually more hospitable." He said, all the while looking at Alice with a pointed look.

"So how do you know Jazzy? You said Whitlock so that means that you're his sister?" Alice asked, and I almost cringed until I heard Iz's laugh again.

"Again, he hates the name Jazzy, and I know JASPER because I'm his wife." She said while grabbing my hand. I squeezed her hand as the most of the Cullen's mouths went slack except for Carlisle's. I had talked to him in depth about my human life while the others had been hunting, multiple times. I had enjoyed talking about them with someone who didn't judge. I had thought I had been keeping them alive, if I had only known they were alive this whole time.

"So, you're the one who he wanted to go back for." Carlisle said, a Iz looked at me before releasing my hand and reaching for his hand that he had outstretched.

"I'm sorry?" Her accent, which I thought she had lost, coming out thick.

"He talked to me on multiple occasions about the wife he lost, and how he wished he could go back in time and not join the confederacy. All he has wanted is to be with you." Iz smiled at him, and went on to greet everyone else, except Alice.

Once everyone had greeted her, we followed Carlisle and Esme inside and all sat down in the living room. I pulled Iz into my lap and, after a pause, Esme asked her a question.

"If you don't mind me asking dear, how do you have brown eyes?"

A/N: Merry Christmas everyone. Hope you have a great Christmas and get to spend time with your loved ones.