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Chapter 1

Carlisle and Esme sat across from each other in the office. Papers were scattered in an order they were familiar with across the desk. The two of them had spent nearly two hours discussing the best options for their family in regards to where they would live in the near future.

"Let's go with just the option of moving right now," Carlisle said to Esme, "There's still a chance we could stay here for a little while, but just for arguments sake let's say we're definitely moving. Which option do you feel would be the best?"

Esme looked at the different rows of paper they'd printed with houses and their corresponding information. Each row was labeled by state and were ordered according to price. She looked around, finding pros and cons in each of the choices they had discussed. They had narrowed it down to Oregon, Alaska, different parts of Canada, several states in New England and Michigan.

"I'd like to stay close," she told him, "Masen and Renesme are going to stay. Cassandra will be here. Charlie and Sue will be here, not to mention Lucy and Seth."

Carlisle nodded, "If we move to Oregon, it will pose a higher risk for being seen, but we should be far enough away where we can get away with being there for awhile. I could always, like I've said, not work for awhile."

"You don't have to give that up, Carlisle," she insisted, "I mean, selfishly, I'd love to have you to myself all day, every day."

He snickered and shrugged with a nod.

"But I'd never ask you to do that."

"I've worked for a couple hundred years without taking a break," he told her, "What's five years off? Or ten?"

Esme grinned, "You do deserve it."

"Things have completely changed," Carlisle went on, "We never had to think of what effect it would have on kids and grandkids, or the other way around what effect it would have on us having to be apart from them. I mean, we've barely had a chance to have Masen to ourselves because of how rapidly he's aged, and the same thing with Alex. At least she would be going with us, but Masen would stay here. I'd imagine he'd stay forever with Leah. She won't age as long as they're together, and I can't see her wanting to leave the reservation."

"I'm curious as to when Cassie will stop aging," Esme said, "We never found that out for sure."

He nodded, "I could probably go back and forth with my theories on that with you all day." He smiled as Esme chuckled with an agreeing nod. She then sighed and leaned back in her chair, "It's never been this difficult."

Carlisle looked across the way as she put her hand by her mouth as she was thinking. Her eyes drifted out into the darkness that accompanied the window. He gave a closed mouth smile and knew Esme was having a difficult time thinking about having to be away from Masen, Renesme and Cassandra. Leah, too, she viewed as a daughter and moving would prevent her from being able to spend time with them at her leisure.

"Esme," he said, continuing his half smile.

She turned to him without changing her expression much. She still looked thoughtfully torn because of the decision at hand.

"I'm going to stop working at the hospital after this year. I'll give it until New Years and that'll be it."

"Then what?" she asked him.

"Then we'll stay here. It doesn't matter if we're seen on occasion. It's like we're pretending I'm dying, or anything. I can be seen here and there around town."

Esme put up her hand, "Please don't even say that."

"I'm just saying," Carlisle assured her.

"I know, but... knock on wood."

He grinned, but obliged to her requests and let his fist tap the desk a few times to please her. He smiled and she slowly let a grin spread across her face.

"You don't want to be away from the kids," he told her.

Esme shrugged, "I know it's not right, but-"

"We're staying," he told her, "Who do we see besides Charlie and Sue, really? No one. Unless they're our kind anyway. What will we be missing?"

She knew he had a point, but still felt as if her needs to be with her children were selfish. Her thoughts drifted to Michael and how he had to endure the next thirty or forty years knowing his mother and father were alive and well on the other side of the world with no chance to communicate with them. Regardless of where Esme, Carlisle and the rest of them ended up, Masen, Renesme, Cassandra and Leah would still be here to visit at any time.

"You haven't been given the proper time to be with Masen," Carlisle told her, breaking her thoughts, "I want us to stay."

"I know I sound like a broken record, but you won't have any issues giving up your career for now? Not even a little bit?"

Carlisle stood up and rounded the desk. He held his hands out and pulled Esme to her feet so they were face to face before he kissed her once, "You and Masen and Alex and Cassie and Caleb... and everyone else for that matter... you're my priorities. The hospital comes second. The profession will still be there when I decided to go back. And you know I won't be able to help myself from reading and keeping up with all the new developments in medical science."

Esme laughed and hugged him. She sighed and ran her hands along his back. "Are you sure?"

Carlisle kissed her forehead and leaned back to face her, "Positive."

Esme nodded and let out a long sigh, "Okay." She couldn't keep a smile from forming on her face.

He grinned, glad to make her happy and looked at their collection of papers and different houses, "By the next time we look, these houses won't be on the market anymore, so I guess we can throw them out."

Esme helped him collect everything and placed her stack of papers onto his, "Last chance," she told him.

Carlisle grinned and gave her a little wink as he tore the stack in half before tossing them into the small garbage pail on the side of the desk.

"This is home," she told him.

He kissed her again, "Anywhere with you is home."