#ness rc cullen

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Someone on twitter just tried to tell me Jake/Resume is like "an old scary story" and not an extremely racist and damaging story about grooming so uh... really need yall to start tweeting about this bc twilight twitter is getting real BOLD.

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your ness is GALAXY BRAIN some ness+alec+jane headcanons PLEASE

My Ness here. Ness/Alec/Jane coming up!

"Oh come ON. I look older but I'm 12! This is the only time we are at the same level! We HAVE to go out."

"STOP doing that weird twin telepathy and MOVE."

They hit the town. Ness refuses to let them go back to Volterra for a week. Aro has texted Carlisle increasingly panicked texts and endless strings of question marks.

When they come back, Alec has a scar shaved into his eyebrow and Jane has an entire new wardrobe.

Ness strolls in after them, wearing sunglasses in the brightly lit room and waving at the receptionist.

"Where were you?"

"Sleepovers and makeovers, duh. We watched Sleepover (2004) like 80 times and went to malls after dark."

Whenever they all see each other they do their secret handshake. It is complicated and fast, and if anyone else even thinks about doing it Jane uses her powers on them.

Ness has been a hybrid pain experiment a ton. She's like one of those youtubers who tase themselves for fun. She claims that it's all in the name of science.

Ness calls Alec her "sensory deprivation chamber". She lays down, has Jane lay next to her, and lets him do his thing.

She claims to everyone who will listen that ten minutes of this will clear your head and be good for your soul.

Once she's developmentally older than them she takes on the role of big sister.

Ness visits as often as she can and always brings cool clothes, new gadgets, and anything else she knows middle school kids from wherever they're at like.

Aro fucking hates her. He knows they'd like her more than him if it wasn't for Chelsea.

Ness is well aware, and so she gives zero fucks about him. Half the time she just sneaks into Jane and Alec's rooms and he finds out later because there are empty bags of blood everywhere and popcorn for Ness and trashy movies and glitter. Glitter everywhere.

Why do they even need glitter?! They glow in the sun?!

"Ness says we don't glow in the night. So we have to compensate."

"That's ludicrous."

"It's fun."

Sometimes she steals them and takes them home with her. Usually for a week. Once for a month.

"Mom! Dad! Jane and Alec are here!"

"Remember! Vegetarian house rules!"

"We know, Mrs. Swan-Cullen!"

She always tells her school friends that her little cousins are visiting, so she can't hang out. They want to meet said little cousins, but Ness tells them it's a bad idea.

"They'd rip you to shreds."

Her friends laugh, but Ness's face remains blank.

They always come home with golden eyes, a fact that annoys Aro to no end.

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Any Renesmee and Edward head canons? Maybe around her teenage years.

First things first, my Ness is always this one.

Second, I tried to keep it Edward-centric but uh, I have too many thots.

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The year is 2021. Ness is 15, and she is officially matriulating with the rest of the Cullens. (They would have started bringing her with them to school last year, but, uh, corona.)

She and Edward look so similar that they're going with twins as their cover story.

While she and Bella have a very fun, friendly, choatic relationship, and she considers her mom her best friend, it left Edward to be the disciplinarian.

Very loosely, however. Because "it takes a village" was practically written about Ness's childhood. Everyone in the entire clan parented her, and Bella and Edward didn't mind one bit. Discipline was never really that much of a problem. Ness does whatever she wants.

So while they're at school, she and her mom are basically chaos personified, and Edward tries to reign them in.

He's always bringing her snacks. Always. Their friends are so confused.

"Isn't your brother hungry? Why is he always piling food onto you?"

"He's just overprotective. Isn't that right, Dad?"

He's always just glaring at dudes who have the AUDACITY to think about his precious baby girl at all. Half of them think he's going to murder them.

He doesn't bother with the girls, unless they think something especially crude.

Ness is so tired by May. Can you imagine your dad in high school with you and he can read your thoughts? She can't even smile at a cute girl without Edward swooping in to tell her she's too young to date.

Jacob thinks it's fucking hilarious. "This is karma, leech," he tells Edward. "You had impure thoughts about your wife before the wedding, and now your kid is the most eligible bachelorette in the joint."

"Shut up, or I'll start telling you about what Jason Reeves thinks about you while he's in the bathroom during his free sixth."

"I'm actually extremely interested in that information."

Edward sits with her to do homework. This is technically her first year of high school. It will be the first of many, and he takes the opportunity to see her learning while the information is new.

She fucking hates Biology.

"DAD. I literally know that their information is wrong. I AM AN EXAMPLE. No one can explain THIS," she says, gesturing vaguely to herself.

"It's not humanity's fault that you're an inexplicable miracle."

"Oh my God, you corny bitch."

"Don't call your father a bitch, hun!"

"Thank you, my love."

"He's much more of a corny douche."

"... wow."

Edward learned to cook because he was tired of Bella being the only one making food for Ness. Esme had gotten pretty good, too, but she always preferred Bella's.

He finally expanded beyond eggs.

He's actually a pretty good baker. Ness's favorites of his are apple turnovers.

Emmett, Jake, and Ness are constantly pranking Edward. She forces Bella to use her shield to their advantage, so he never sees it coming.

When they filled the piano with shaving cream, he cried for two weeks. Ness got Carlisle to buy him a new one and then told him to shut up and get over it.

They bicker and he's too protective, but they have their own fun.

Ness plays cello to accompany him. She also plays bass and Emmett plays drums. They do jam sessions.

When she's sulking, Edward is the only one who can pull her out of it.

He likes to sneak up on her and scare her.

She likes being his twin.

"Ness, my guy, your brother is so fucking gorgeous."

"JESUS H ROOSEVELT MACY CHRIST GROSS. Thanks tho. That means I am too."

"I heard that!"

"You better run, Bella doesn't play."

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That fluff you just posted was the least cringiest Renesmee-related fic I’ve ever read.

(Ref) I think a lot of people would be more receptive to Ness if she had a personality, tbh. Like, smeyer did not provide anything except for "smart, ridiculously loveable" without giving us reasons for it???? So I tend to include her in stuff and try to make her like... an actual character. With characteristics. This one wasn't about her, so there's way less, but even then I made it clear that she's disgusted by her parents' over-the-top PDA lmao.

Anyway thank you for the praise I think??? Love you!

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Omg like can you just make your remember gay. That would be awesome

Oh hi helLO yes Ness "RC" Cullen is in fact a lesbian and here's the proof.

I wrote that post in 2018, that's how you know it's TRUE.

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"I think you were right," Edward said softly from his seat beside Bella.

They were in the music room, where Ness was practicing the cello. The music flowed around the room, washing over Bella in waves, filling her up with love and pride. The sunlight streamed in through the windows, and the scent of jasmine from the plants outside permeated the air. Her daughter was perched on a chair, the cello balanced perfectly, her skin glowing from the sun, lighting the red in her hair, her brow furrowed in concentration.

It was a bright, beautiful moment, and Bella was grateful for her enhanced memory, that she would never forget anything about it. Ever.

"About what?" she asked, keeping her voice low to keep from disrupting Ness.

Edward was focused entirely on their daughter as he spoke. "You and Carlisle, really. I think you were both right."

"You're not answering the question." Bella smiled as Ness blew a strand of her coppery red hair out of her face without making a single mistake.

"About souls."

"What?"

He couldn't possibly mean what she thought he meant. Bella had been arguing for the existence of their souls for the last five years. Edward remained adamant that he couldn't possibly still have one, even if he was just as sure that Bella's was intact. "I've killed so many, Bella," he'd say. "I can't have it both ways, I can't be that and be good. It doesn't make any sense."

But Bella knew it was there. His soul, good and honest, was there in him, shining through his love and devotion, his fierce protection of his family, and his constant care for his wife and daughter. She'd contented herself that even if he never believed it, at least Bella knew it was there.

"I think," he said, his eyes never leaving his daughter where she kept the music going, smiling softly now, "that if I can create her, that if she is half of me, that I couldn't possibly be damned." He shrugged lightly. "It wouldn't make sense for me to have you both, for her to be so perfectly good, for you both to love me, if I were soulless."

Bella took a shaky breath, grateful that she didn't actually need the oxygen. She wished she could still cry. She stared hard at her husband, and he finally turned to her, his expression earnest. Bella waited for him to crack, to say that he was only joking, that he was a killer who deserved whatever he got, but he didn't.

Edward just held her gaze with his own.

He smiled softly, and Bella broke into a grin so wide it must have been grotesque. Taking his face in her hands, she showered kisses across his cheeks, his nose, his jaw, before settling on his lips and staying there.

They broke apart when they heard Ness sigh loudly from her place at the cello.

Bella just chuckled and shrugged at her daughter, who rolled her eyes and kept playing.

She turned back to Edward, who looked like he'd be flushed if he could flush. She placed one last kiss on the tip of his nose, before winding her arm through his and resting her head onto his shoulder.

"Told you so," she said softly.

Edward chuckled and kissed the top of her head. "When am I ever going to learn that you're always right?"

They let the jasmine fill their noses and the music fill their hearts.

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i have that headcanon that bella kept improving her shield, and she managed to reach a point where she can maintain her shield around someones mind pretty much indefinitely without thinking too much about it. And she especially does it for renesmee because lets be honest, having your father be able to read your thoughts when you got through puberty would really be inconvenient to say the least. And so ive always pictured that.

(Reference) listen, I fully understand that Bella is a nice girl. She is also fucking hilarious and I can absolutely imagine her refusing to help her kid out with this because it is way more chaotic and fun to just... let her deal with it.

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(Based on @a-scientist-and-her-scalpel 's post here.)

Kenzie's first day of school wasn't going nearly as badly as she thought.

She'd made a few friends, and she wasn't too terribly behind in her classes, and she'd just gotten invited to a lunch table by the funny guy in her English class. When her family had moved to Alaska she was sure that her life was basically over, but some of the girls had managed to convince her that there was still fun to be had up here.

She made her way to the table that Antony was sitting at with her lunch, chuckling as he waved enthusiastically.

"Hey, guys," she said softly.

"Kenz! Sit! Guys, this is Kenzie." Antony waved her over to the seat by him, facing a girl she recognized from her calculus class, and another boy she didn't recognize.

"We know," the boy said. "There are sixty people in this school." He shot Kenzie a quick grin. "Nice to meet you. I'm Toby."

He put out his hand for a shake, and Kenzie took it. "Same here."

The girl smacked Toby's arm. "Be nice to Antony, he's awkward and desperate." She faced Kenzie and grinned. "I'm Liberty. You can call me Libby. Glad there's finally some more estrogen around here."

"Happy to up the quotient," Kenzie said, smirking.

"We were just discussing whether or not Dr. Cullen's kids are going to eat today."

"Who?"

"Oh, good, they're here," Liberty said, "you'll get the full visual."

Kenzie turned to face the direction Libby nodded in just in time to see a boy and a girl walk in.

The boy had to be well over six feet, and he had his arm resting on the head of the girl, who scowled and slapped it off roughly. Her hair was beautiful and shining copper, and her golden eyes flashed with anger at her companion, whose bulk was undercut by his wide, white smile.

"That's Jake and Ness," Libby whispered.

"I've never wanted to be a girl so badly as they day I found out she was into chicks," Toby muttered.

Libby slapped him across the back of the head. "You're disgusting and that's not how it works. One of these days I'm going to throw you into the Pacific."

"I'm kidding. But she is beautiful."

"They both are," Kenzie said as she watched them drift over to a table. "Those are Dr. Cullen's kids?"

"Two of them, anyway."

Another four people entered the cafeteria. They all had the same golden eyes as Ness, and were almost disturbingly gorgeous. The tall blonde girl (woman? Had to be a woman. High school girls didn't look like that.) had her arm wrapped around the bulky boy's waist. They were laughing at something the small, elvin girl with the short hair said, and the calm blonde boy was shaking his head. They were all exquisite. It kind of hurt Kenzie's eyes to look at them.

"The blonde girl and boy are Rosalie and Jasper. They're twins. And the little one is Alice. Kinda weird, but nice. The giant one's Emmett. He and Jake tend to tussle all over the place." Antony subtly pointed out each one as he described them. "They keep to themselves mostly, but they all do a couple of extracurriculars, and they host kick ass study groups."

Kenzie nodded absently as she watched another couple wander in. They were hand in hand, gazing into each other's eyes with an intensity that made Kenzie blush. The boy's hair matched Ness's exactly, and the girl had the sweetest face Kenzie had ever seen.

"Who are they?" Kenzie asked.

Toby chuckled. "Edward and Bella. He's Ness's brother and she's Emmett's sister. They are disgusting."

"I think they're cute," Libby said, smiling softly at them. "Plus he's the best pianist jazz band's ever had."

"He calls her his wife, it's unnatural!"

"It's sweet!"

"So they're all related?" Kenzie quirked a brow in Libby's direction.

"Some of them. They're all in relationships. I heard they were all in the same group home when they fell in love. Dr. and Mrs. Cullen didn't want to separate them, so they took all of them in." She sighed. "It is really sweet."

"They're all in relationships?"

"Jake and Ness are both single."

Kenzie had been staring at them the entire time, finding herself unable to look away from their wondrous faces, when Ness, the copper-haired girl leaned toward her brother. He whispered in her ear, and then she was facing Kenzie.

And she winked.

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The McCarty Twins:

Inspired by @emmettmccartycullen 's post!

"B."

"Em."

"Edward went hunting with Jas and Ali."

"I'm aware."

"You thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Almost exclusively."

They roll up to school in Rosalie's flashiest car which they spent an hour convincing her to drive them in.

They are both hanging out of the convertable top like labradors.

Emmett screams "PARKOUR" at the top of his lungs and they both take off running just slightly too fast to be human, but not fast enough to expose them.

After a series of gravity-defying stunts that causes half of the student body to applaud and the rest to feel the first genuine fright they've ever experienced they end up in their joint homeroom.

They answer for each other during roll and then spend the entire class period making crude carvings in the desks with their nails.

At break they make their way up to the roof.

Rosalie's sitting with Ness at the lunch table when they hear a loud thump. They both know it was Bella and Emmett. They both keep their expressions deeply innocent.

(The only reason Ness isn't with them is because Edward told her he'd let her fly out for a visit with the Amazons if she stayed out of trouble and she really wants to go.)

There is a noticeable dent in the lawn where they landed. It is actually four foot-sized dents inside a larger dent.

They burst into the cafeteria with armloads of McDonald's bags and just start throwing them to the students. Emmett is shouting like Oprah.

"You get a burger! You get a McChicken! Everybody gets heart diseeeeeeease!!!"

"Who wants to bet five bucks that I can take the quarterback in an arm-wrestling match?!"

Bella is extra keen on this because last week he called Alice "sweetheart" and told her to smile more.

He steps up and slaps a twenty on the table, laughing all the while.

"Let's do this, princess."

Emmett is visibly straining to hold in his laughter.

She beats him, naturally, in about .67 seconds.

Emmett hoists her onto his shoulders

"Anyone else man enough to take on my lil sis?!"

The cafeteria is buzzing with gossip and idle praise.

Four distinct ringtones ("Sexy Back", "I Am Woman", R2-D2 screaming, and the Friends theme) all go off to alert the owners of a text.

Three turn off as they look at the group message, but the Friends theme keeps playing because Emmett refuses to check.

"I. Saw. Everything. 👀" it says.

"Fuck."

"Welp, I can just kiss the rainforest goodbye, can't I?"

"I knew you were going to get in trouble."

"We're not in trouble until they get back! And you, RC, have another parent who can send you to the Amazon."

"Oh yeah."

"Now, let's keep going."

Emmett holds out his pinky to Bella, who locks hers with his.

"McCarty party?"

"McCarty party!"

Miraculously the entire lawn gets forked ("get it sis?! FORKS!") in the span of five minutes while a teacher visits the bathroom. No one has any idea how it could have gotten done so quickly.

Bella puts on Emmett's clothes and attends his geometry class and Emmett dons Bella's flannel and leggings and goes to her French class.

The worst part for the teachers is that despite the other not being enrolled in that subject at all, they both know all the answers.

They hold a moonwalk contest in PE because "C'mon teach! Basketball is so blasé! Let's do a REAL sport."

It is unclear how they keep getting the teachers to go along with everything but they just... do. Even the teachers in question can not recall why they allowed it.

After school they pop the trunk on Rosalie's car and reveal two coolers full of sodas.

They start passing them out and then they start a giant game of "Concentration" in which the students are all sitting in a giant circle in the middle of the parking lot.

Bella catches a whiff of Edward's scent approaching and shouts "SHIT. FIVE-OH!"

They take off running far too fast for humans, leaving Rosalie and Ness to take the car home

When they get there Bella and Emmett are sitting on the couch with branches stuck to their clothes and hair.

They're both giggling like idiots and trying to school their faces into expressions of innocence.

"Shut UP, you're going to blow this for us!"

"Me?! What about you, Mr. Giggle Pants?!"

In the end, it's decided that they don't have to move away, but that McCarty Parties are strictly prohibited from school grounds.

Good thing they didn't say anything about the empty field where the kegger is happening.

That would have been a real buzzkill.

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Ness Cullen once hit the whip so hard at school that the ground cracked and she claimed it was an adrenaline rush google send post

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Let's talk about Ness's powers bc we should be discussing the POSSIBILITIES

As she ages she starts to discover that she can put not only memories, but whatever she wants into people's heads.

It's an excellent manipulation tool for when she's in trouble. Because all she has to do is hold your hand and make you remember something completely different, like that she didn't blow up Enmett's favorite vintage Nintendo on a dare.

She can also use her influence for good.

At the beginning of every new semester with new teachers, she shakes their hand and says "I'm Ness. That's what it should say on the roll," and projects a new image of the roll sheet into their brain so no one ever knows her name is Renesmee.

She uses it on people who dead name. Now they can't remember that person ever having a different name other than their chosen one.

As she gets even more adept at controlling it, she begins to be able to throw it without touching, like Bella's shield.

She projects gay weddings into the homophobe's head on a loop.

She makes teachers forget homework when her dad tells her that someone has anxiety over not finishing it.

Ness gets so good at controlling it that she's neigh unstoppable.

In fact, most other vampires are terrified of her.

She, however, was raised with a very important moral code, and sticks to it. She wouldn't use it to cause any harm, and she only uses it with malicious intent on people who truly deserve it.

Edward serves as her moral checks and balances.

He's able to tell when it's too much, or too intense, and Ness trusts her father's judgement implicitly.

Despite being a terrible prankster with zero regard for the Volturi's rules, she loves and respects her family too much to abuse her gifts.

Carlisle talks to her one day about situations she might seem appropriate usage. He explains that she cannot alter major life decisions or force people to feel a certain way.

Despite her propensity for getting out of trouble, it never lasts. The truth of the matter comes to light eventually. (She has to buy Emmett a new Nintendo and proclaim him as #1 Vampire and Uncle for a week straight.)

She is truly tested when she meets the first girl she really likes.

The girl is straight, and while it may be easy for Ness to sway her, it wouldn't be real. So she stays out of it.

In short, the ability to fuck with minds and plant images in them is incredibly powerful and is also the entire plot to inception.

Renesmee Carlie Cullen could take over the world, but says it would be far too much effort.

Also her grandfather would probably cry if she did.

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"Bella, my love," Edward said from the other room, confusion coloring his tone. "Could you join me a moment?"

Bella was already grinning as she placed her bookmark (old habit) into her worn copy of War and Peace and stood. She was beside Edward in an instant, gazing fondly down at the object of his curiosity.

"Yes, honey?" She coated her voice in sugar, hoping the sweetness may detract from any ill-tempered reactions from her husband.

"Love," he said, shaking his head slightly and pinching the bridge of his nose between his thumb and forefinger, "what is this?" He gestured down with his free hand.

"Well..." Bella said, hesitating. "It seems pretty obvious what it is."

Edward's head snapped up and his hand dropped from his face. He gave Bella a sardonic glance. "Of course I can see what it is, my love, but more importantly- what are the particulars surrounding its existence here?"

Bella pursed her lips tightly before answering. "Ness asked if she-"

"Merciful God, you indulged Ness?! You know she has zero sense of self-preservation or foresight." Edward threw his hands in the air, exasperated. "Last week she asked to fly to Italy because she wanted to have Jane test her pain thresholds. Said it would be some sort of experiment and that Jane was 'super down'." He made air-quotes with his fingers, and the gesture looked incredibly odd coming from prim, proper Edward.

"Look, existential crises are your department, and I'm the minister of fun. This is fun!" Bella reached down to lightly touch the source of her husband's brooding.

"This is not fun. Emmett is going to eat this. He will laugh. Ness will cry. She will force Uncle Jake to get into a fight with Emmett. Emmett will lose a limb. Esme will lose her mind. Carlisle will lose his patience. And I will lose two to three weeks of peace." Edward's voice was deadpan during his little monologue, and Bella rolled her eyes at his dramatics.

"This girl she likes at school is obsessed with them," Bella said, running her hand down Edward's arm. "I seem to recall you doing much more dramatic things to get my attention. You even sparkled."

"Refracted."

"Ah, yes, much better."

"Bella..."

"Edward."

Bella reached down and scooped the calico kitten into her arms, bringing it up to Edward's eye level.

"You're going to deny this face?" she asked, pouting ever so slightly. "Or the face of your one and only miracle daughter?" She was pulling out the big guns and she knew it. Despite his constant complaints about Ness's behavior, Edward doted on that deviant, delinquent dilettante more than anyone else.

He'd almost let her fly to Italy to get tortured by her pal, Jane.

Several emotions flickered across Edward's face in the span of a second: conflict, annoyance, thoughtfulness, and finally acceptance.

"Okay," he said. "But if Emmett eats it I'm spending the week in Alaska with the sane vegetarian vampires."

"Well when you put it that way," Bella said, grinning.

Edward smiled his crooked grin back at her, before leaning down to kiss her softly, careful not to crush the mewling mass of fur in her arms.

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They were in the meadow, again. Escaping their family, again.

For Edward the meadow meant peace and quiet. He heard no one's thoughts but his own, but he still had Bella beside him. The perfect place, time, and muse to compose.

For Bella, the meadow meant her most forbidden pleasure: the sunlight. She could feel the heat from the rays dancing across her skin, and though she didn't absorb it, it delighted her. Now that she and Edward were the same temperature, she wore shorter sleeves and higher hems, the better to enjoy both the dazzling effect her skin was making and the no-longer-cold contact between hers and Edward's legs where they twined together.

Bella was laying back with a novel, one leg draped over Edward's crossed ones, his keyboard on top. She didn't mind being used as a table, and she knew it was easier for him to reach the keys this way. Her other leg was tucked under the first, and every so often Edward reached down and stroked lightly from her thigh to her knee and back again, before his fingers took their places on the keys once more.

He was working on something beautiful, as usual, and it was the perfect underscore to the story on her pages, setting off the tone and plot wonderfully.

It was all so perfect, so peaceful-

"MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOTHER BELLA MOM MOTHER MOM."

And yet.

"Ness! What? What is it?!" She was up in a flash of movement, upsetting Edward's keyboard and sending her husband sprawling. "Oh! Sorry honey!"

Edward just grimaced and shook his head slightly before frowning at his keyboard, a good twenty feet away. "Alright then," he said, his tone defeated, "guess we're done with that piece for the day."

"Hey, forget the stupid keyboard, Dad, your daughter is here and there isn't enough focus happening as to why." Ness was impatient, tapping her toe and crossing her arms snugly across her chest.

"Well, then dear, by all means," Edward said, gesturing for Ness to go on.

"Okay, now that I'm standing here I don't really want to say this in front of Dad."

Edward let out a snort before standing. "Should have had that thought before you came over here."

Ness rolled her eyes before striding over to where Bella stood. "Whatever," she said, placing her palm against Bella's cheek to show her the so-called problem.

Oh. Oh.

Bella let out a giggle.

"It's not funny!" Ness said, stomping her foot and storming over toward the center of the clearing, practically fuming.

"You're right," Bella said, before bursting into hysterics. "It's... hilarious," she managed to wheeze out between chuckles.

"What?" Edward said, glancing between his wife and his daughter in confusion.

"Ch-Charlie... gave Ness..." Bella had to pause just to laugh, she couldn't contain herself, "a... sex talk!" And she relapsed into her giggle fit, actually falling over onto the ground.

Edward joined her a moment later in his own giggle fit, both of them clutching at each other and occasionally bursting out with "Charlie!" or "Sex talk!" or "Oh my God!" and once "remember when he did it to me?!"

"It! Isn't! Funny!" Ness screamed, before walking over and giving her father a swift kick to the ribs. "He even insinuated that it was because of Uncle Jake!"

Bella sat up straight, her giggles fading. "Ness, don't give your father a heart attack. You know it was because Uncle Jake let slip that you might need to have a talk with Charlie about some important things," she said, giving Ness a hard look before turning to Edward. "Which she does."

Edward, who was indeed clutching his chest like he could actually go into an arrest, let out a breath before nodding. "You really do need to tell him, darling."

He reached out for Ness, who allowed herself to be pulled to the ground and settled between her parents, her head on Bella's shoulder and her hand still clasped in Edward's. Bella ran her fingers through Ness's auburn waves.

"But," Ness began, before taking a shuddering breath, "what if he doesn't love me anymore?" Her voice was so small, so unlike herself. She was bright and bold and colorful, and she sounded so timid and afraid. It broke Bella's heart.

Bella kept her fingers moving through her daughter's hair, gentle and soothing, but her voice was hard. "Ness Carlie Cullen. Don't you dare be worried about something so ridiculous. You could drain one of his deputies in front of him and he'd still love you. This is nothing."

"But, I'm so scared, Mom. I couldn't have hidden it from you guys if I tried, because Dad can hear my thoughts, and I love you both for being so supportive..." Bella felt something wet touch her shoulder and she knew that Ness was crying. "But grandpa... I need him. And he won't be here forever and I want to have all of our time together. I don't want to lose any of it. What if this makes us lose time?"

"Darling," Edward said, squeezing Ness's hand tightly, "you won't lose any time. He's going to support you. You know that."

"But, what if-"

"Cupcake, 'what if' is the dirtiest thought in this world, because it's keeping you from imagining spending all of your time with grandpa without having to hide!" Bella swiped her thumbs under Ness's eyes, turning her face to hold it close. "Charlie deserves to love all of you. Even this."

"Yeah..." Ness said, her eyes still watery but her mouth turning upwards in a small smile. "Who knows, maybe we can talk about girls together!"

"That's the spirit," said Edward, while Bella rolled her eyes.

"Thanks, Mom and Dad. I love you."

"We love you too, kiddo. Go get em!"

They watched her as she left, probably heading back to her grandfather's, Bella's head on Edward's shoulder and their hands clasped between them.

"She's the best thing I ever composed."

"You're such a nerd."

"Yes, but I'm your nerd."

"That you are, hon. That you are."

And it was all so peaceful, and so perfect.

[cullen-collective]

Ness "RC" Cullen, rolling into Auntie Rose's garage on her hoverboard, blasting Bodak Yellow and sucking up a cup of mountain lion through a crazy straw: hey, wanna help me strategically break some of the CDs Dad rarely listens to so that two years from now we can hear him scream when he finds it and remind him that grounding me is a very bad idea?

Rose: uh. YEAH.