ofthefamily | Carlisle and Edward.

Carlisle and Edward.

A couple of days have passed since the incident in Milliways. Rosalie is furious at the recklessness of everyone involved, while Emmett is more aggravated that he wasn't called upon to help, though voicing that opinion gets him smacked in the back of the head by Esme.

Carlisle has been quiet in the meantime, but he comes home from a shift after the children are home from school and waits until dusk to ask Edward to come for a run with him.

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"No more than your meeting my earlier self didn't effect mine?" Edward parodied the question, even though his opinion on the place was still in debate by the events.

It was already not one of the most positive ones. Resigned, but not positively.

"I'm sure they both expect you will at some point."

Carlisle is most curious about Mel's reaction to everything. What with the Slayer business.

With a note of finality, Carlisle shoves his hands in his pockets. "How would you feel if I had run into you from when you were traveling on your own? Does the comparison make any sense?"

"It already made sense without that."

There's a flick of annoyance in it.

Especially since there was no way he'd run into Carlisle then. And what Edward had of either Alice or Carlisle's experiences with himself were what they gave him.

If Carlisle's memory was evolving in a retrospect capacity of the situation around it's preconceived notions, it was at the very least still his own, still his known self, something he could look at and redefine.

A grunt at Edward's tone. "I was asking because eventually I'm going to have a similar conversation with both Jasper and Alice. I need to make sure I make sense."

Because comparing a half century of forced incarceration with a five year psychopathic killing spree worked so well on that front.

Edward didn't breathe or move.

He studied the lines in tree bark far from him.

"You'll do fine."