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A few days after the debacle of April fools and misbehaving children, the mischied was finished, Carlisle Cullen found a sense of normality and tranquillity descending over the house. Edwards' relationship with Bella was becoming stronger with each day that past, to the point where he felt he only saw the boy when he came home to collect or deposit his car before returning to her side.

His other children were quickly adapting to their new member of the family, and he found that the missing link to the lengthy chain that assembled his family was present and stronger than ever.

Pulling in the driveway after a lengthy shift at the hospital, which saw the usual bumps, scrapes and old ladies out for their weekly visit, Carlisle was ready for his two days off and to spend some quality time with his wife and family, when he could get them in from the pool that was.

Strolling into the porchway and depositing his coat and bag in their relevant places, Carlisle allowed a smile to creep across his face. The usual obstacle course of bags, books and shoes was missing, highlighting to Carlisle, for once he had beaten his children home.

Greeting his wife in the kitchen, with a soft kiss to the nape of her neck, Carlisle revelled in the sense of security and happiness his wife's scent bought him.

"Hey honey, you beat the kids home, what did you do, fly down the highway?" Esme asked softly, whilst preparing the latest design for her pottery.

Chuckling softly, Carlisle rested his head on his wife's shoulder watching her heavenly hands work. "No angel, it was a clear road after an empty day, I slipped away early for a change.

Taking Esme's gentle nudge for what it was, Carlisle took a seat at the head of the kitchen table, smiling when he heard the familiar rumble of his children's cars coming along the driveway.

"The rat-pack is here" Carlisle noted whilst reading the days paper. All of a sudden the thunder of feet entered the hallway and a resounding clunk hit the wooden floor as bags were dropped.

Esme stopped what she was doing, just in time to see Tory almost launch herself into the fridge before retreating with two blood pint bags. Passing one to JJ, Tory wasted no time in launching herself onto the counter and biting away at the counter before slurping happily at the liquid.

Tsking softly, Esme passed two plastic beakers to her children before swiping at Tj with a dish towel as she dumped the contents –still in the bag- straight into the beaker. Giggling, TJ quickly poured it into the beaker before placing it on the coaster set in the counter.

A soft chuckle made her look round in surprise before launching herself into her father's arms, almost knocking her snack everywhere if it weren't for Esme's quick reactions.

"Your home!" Tj bounced excitedly in her father's lap before wrapping her arms around his neck and nuzzling into her little crook in her father's arms.

"It would appear so angel yes, unless of course you are just imagining it" Carlisle gently teased his young daughter, before looking over at his wife who had Josh snuggled in an identical position.

"Dang, the runts beat us again!" Emmett boomed as he entered the kitchen, followed by his other siblings.

"That's cos your too slow Em!" Alice fluttered as she placed loving kisses on each of her parents cheeks before enveloping in her husbands arms, who greeted his family formally with a swift nod.

"And they've even got a snack too! Where's my snack mummy" Emmett playfully pouted at his surrogate mother, before shrugging his shoulders at her glare and raiding the fridge.

"Elk, lion, moose, bobcat, ostrich..." Emmett blinked and did a double take before continuing on his hunt for his favourite blood snack. Esme and Carlisle tried to keep at least a week's stock of their children's' favourite animal blood for when they got home, should they require it.

"Where's the bear!" Emmett turned around and stared at his family members, until a soft giggling from his blonde haired beauty attracted his attention.

"It's under the Ostrich label, doofus! How could you not smell it!" Rosalie playfully rolled her eyes and winked conspiratorially at Tj, who had helped her with her plan last night.

Taking a tentative sniff, Emmett shrugged happily when his beloved bear scent came through. Giving it a quick whiz in the microwave, Emmett removed the packaging and downed the entire contents in one gulp, before throwing the packaging in the rubbish bin and departing the room, leaving his family looking stunned. Rosalie followed her beloved muttering a soft 'animal' lovingly.

"Wow…" Josh let out a soft word of bewilderment following his burly brother's departure. Smiling softly, Josh finished his own snack, before placing the cup in the sink.

"Thank you baby" Esme smiled lovingly, apart from Jasper, Josh was the most likely to clean up after himself, unlike her unruly youngest daughter.

'thank you baby' Tj mimicked her mother before shooting her a cheeky grin at her mother's raised eyebrow.

"Right, I think its about time I go and change into something more comfortable, then how about some time in the pool?" Carlisle asked whilst squeezing one last hug off of his daughter.

Cheers of agreement met his ears, so Carlisle stood with the terror in his arms and deposited her into her mother's arms where she was met with an onslaught of tickles, before racing up the stairs and capturing JJ.

Four hours later, Esme was wrapping towels around her children, to capture the droplets of water from spreading around her house before throwing one at her husband, who had been the victim of the games of all his children all night long.

"Upstairs, dry off and change of clothes please. Then maybe I will think about a movie night." Esme ordered the trio as she brought the mop out to tidy up the stray droplets already fallen onto the hardwood floor.

The next day, found the family preparing for the graduation party that evening. Tj sat watching in fear as her sister zipped around stringing lights from every crevice available.

"Scary isn't she?" Jasper commented quietly, placing himself next to Tj who was amusing herself with a sole game of chess.

"Uh huh…thats one word for it!" Tj moved a pawn quietly before going to spin the board around to play as the opponent. Smoothly, Jasper moved his piece before shooting a rueful grin at his sister.

Chuckling at his face, Tj made another move, and stuck her tongue out defying her brother to make another move and figure out her strategy.

"When you two are done playing charades, I need some help here!" Alice called crossly, managing to bristle the feathers of the corner's occupants.

Rolling his eyes, Jasper leapt to his feet, and smothered a laugh as Tj pulled a face at her retreating sisters back and slouched back down

"Its Chess, Alice, not charades!" Tj grinned smugly as her brother grabbed another set of lights.

"Don't care, and don't think I didn't notice that face!" Alice smugly called out.

Shrugging her shoulders, Tj turned back to her game and froze in amazement, Jasper had put her into checkmate in two moves. Giggling at her brother's skills, Tj cleared the game away and trotted off to find something else to amuse her.

Picking her Wii remote up, Tj powered the television, and was in the middle of a tennis match, against the computer when Alice zipped in and powered the game off.

"Hey!" a disgruntled Tj fumed. "I was playing that!"

"Don't care!" the pixie fluttered.

"You were in my way, now make yourself useful and help set up for the party, not play stupid games!"

Snatching the remote from Tj's hands, Alice thrust a selection of CDs into her sisters hands, before picking up the stereo herself.

"Stick your stupid party!" Tj fumed and dropped the CDs on the sofa before going to storm off.

Stopped by her sisters arms, Tj struggled to free herself from Alice's vice grip.

Carlisle, who was helping his wife prepare the snacks, had been listening to his pixie daughter order the family around since sunrise. Luckily, Edward was with Bella, and JJ had hid in Rose and Emmett's bedroom under the pretence they were tidying, leaving only Tj, who up until this point had kept out of her sister's way.

Dropping the potato chips into their bowl, Carlisle strolled in to break the fight up before it truly escalated and caused a vicious argument.

"Girls! Enough! Alice let go off your sister this instance." Alice immediately complied, and a flustered Tj rushed into her dad's arms where she stood glaring daggers. Feeling the heat and anger tremble through his youngest daughter's body, Carlisle quickly bent down and muttered a soft comment into her ear, which soon saw Tj complying with his request and leaving the room, with the CDs in her hands.

Turning to face his pixie daughter, Carlisle offered a small come hither motion with his index finger, before turning the girl (once in the space he requested) and offering a sharp smack to her backside. Inhaling sharply at the unexpected shock, Alice bit her lip, realising she had gone too far.

"That's enough Mary Alice, I know you want to get everything ready for the party, but fighting with your siblings is not allowed under any circumstances. Are we understood?"

Offering a small nod in agreement, Alice quickly hugged her father, before continuing the preparations, albeit a lot calmer and less bossy than before her father's reminder.

Setting out her piano booklet, Tj sat at her brother's piano and indulged herself. It had been a long time since she had had the opportunity to just lose herself in her music. Pressing the last few notes out of her mother's lullaby, TJ felt a presence stand behind her.

Turning and seeing her mum, who's lips her trembling in unshed tears, Tj swallowed the imaginary lump in her throat and quickly hugged her mother tight, fearing she had overstepped the mark.

"Oh darling, I forgot how beautifully you play the piano, thank you!"

Pressing a soft kiss to the crown of her head and offering a tight hug once more, Esme settled and allowed herself to be lost from reality whilst holding onto her baby girl.

"try not to let your sister annoy you, she just got a bit carried away" brushing her hand down TJs hair, Esme relinquished her hold and allowed the girl to return to her piano.

"Eurgh! What is that stench!" TJ complained, whilst holding her nose. Jj and herself had decided to venture onto the veranda, where the stench of humans and now wolf could be dissolved in the night air.

Giggling JJ slouched in his chair and looked over his shoulder. "Its either Emmett hasn't washed, or someone lets some stray dogs in."

Tsking at her son's cheeky comments, Esme tried not to laugh herself, like her children she had done her best to avoid the party which was now in full swing, under the pretence, her two youngest children were in requirement of supervision.

However, that plan would only work for so long, as the two children easily got bored, and with the presence of so many humans (and now werewolves') there was a restriction on what activities the two youngest Cullens could do.

Smelling the old spice fragrance of her mate coming closer, Esme straightened up the patio, where pieces of hungry hippo lay haphazardly. Apparently it wasn't as fun playing it on the boardgame, when you could play the real thing.

"Darling, there is going to be a meeting regarding the situation. Children, can you please go up to your rooms for now?"

"Wha'? Oh no fair! Come on Dad!" Whines of protest met Carlisle's ears, but he remained firm in his order and became immune to the puppy eyes from his children, sending them upstairs with a gentle nudge.

Unfortunately for Carlisle, he didn't bargain on his two little mischief makers hitting the intercom button on the phone in the hallway as they passed. A quick pick up of the handset and both children were able to enjoy the conversation as if they were there in physical presence.

Soon the topics got boring and both children immersed themselves in a battleships game. The topic of conversation in the Cullen house recently had been like a revolving door, both children were waiting for a breath of fresh air and a change of discussion.

"Hold on, What damn Army!"

And the 'dog' had just brought that change in topic.