Author's Notes: Well, I'm back again. I was actually hoping to get a chapter done every day over the weekend but things never seem to go as planned. Aw well, here you go anyway! A big thanks to JenJenSon for her help as always and she's just started her own Twilight fic, which is Bella/Emmett so you should all check it out. So without further waffling from me here you go!

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or the characters, and I make no money from this story whatsoever!

I'm Just Addicted

History

Carlisle POV

It was later than usual when I arrived home and found Bella in the library. She had been accepted to the university in Basingstoke town centre and was studying several sciences and mathematics. Things had been easier these past two weeks, seeing my mark on Bella's skin made it easier to keep my possessive needs in check. Now I had a long weekend and planned to take Bella to the castle that I think would be perfect for our wedding. Actually castle wasn't exactly accurate but I was fairly certain it would still have the effect that Bella had wanted.

"You look tired." I commented, closing Bella's book. She sighed and leant back in her chair to look up at me.

"That's probably because I am tired." She replied. "Emmett woke me up with a prank this morning."

"What did you do this time?" I asked her, this prank war had been going on far too long for my liking. Both Bella and Emmett were being incredibly stubborn about the whole thing.

"Me?" she protested. "He rigged a bucket of cold water to fall on me when I rolled over in bed! It was six in the morning!"

"Yes, but what did you do to get him back?" I asked.

"I haven't thought of anything yet." She pouted. "I'm running out of ideas."

"Thanks goodness."

"So Rosalie is going to help me tomorrow." She grinned. I dropped my head in frustration.

"Well I hope you have remembered that we will be leaving at around ten in the morning so that doesn't leave you much time to play Emmett's childish games." I told her.

"Would you rather I played childish games with you?" she asked. I smirked at her but said nothing, not until I get her back to our cottage of course. We had been at the cottage most nights between Bella constantly touching my now back to normal hair and therefore causing me to carry her off and my possessive streak also causing me to carry her off. To be honest I had thought about finding another property somewhere just for us that was close enough to see the others but further away. However to Bella the cottage was far enough away from the house because to her it was a good ten-minute walk unless one of us carried her.

Perhaps I could build another house all the way at the other end of the property...

"Are you coming with me?" Bella's voice chimed, she had stood and was heading to the door now.

"Of course." I replied. "I'll just say a quick 'hello' to everyone else and then I'll join you." I headed back downstairs to the others. I didn't reach them though before I heard Alice gasp loudly. She was seeing something, something important, good or bad. When I reached them she was clinging to Jasper's arm, her eyes still clouded over.

"They're coming." Alice said finally; then her face broke out into a smile. "Esme's coming to visit us."

"I assume then that you have informed her that we are here?" I enquired.

"Of course, I told her weeks ago!" Alice beamed. "She was thrilled that you were so happy and she's very eager to see Bella again."

"You are aware that Bella and I are going venue hunting this weekend."

"I know, but you aren't going to be gone all weekend. Only one day right?" Alice asked, I didn't reply. "Well Esme and Kale won't be arriving until Sunday so you'll be back by then and we'll have all Sunday and Monday to play big happy families."

"I was planning on spending this weekend with my future wife." I frowned. "Alone."

"Carlisle, you really are going to have to learn to share." Alice chided. "How are we all going to live to...gether..." Her face fell towards the end of the sentence as her eyes flashed again. "You aren't planning on us all living together are you?"

"What?" Emmett asked, suddenly taking interest in the conversation.

"Is that true?" Rosalie asked.

"I haven't decided anything for definite." I told them all. "I still want us all to be a family and be close but I need to have my...privacy with Bella as well. We all know that won't happen in one house."

"He has a point." Jasper nodded. "We've all had time to ourselves over the decades we've been a family, besides it might take a little while for Carlisle to stop wanting to rip our arms off for talking to his wife."

"But Jazz..." Alice pouted.

"I haven't asked Bella what she wants to do yet Alice. I go where she goes." I told them. "Nothing is certain."

Bella POV

I groaned to myself as I felt someone kissing my neck. I laughed as his breath tickled my skin and rubbed me eyes.

"Ah, good morning." Carlisle's voice called. I opened my eyes to find him leant over me, I felt my gaze drifting to his chest. "We have a venue to see."

"Sorry what?" I asked, blinking and turning my attention back to him. He leant down and pressed his lips to mine before climbing off of the bed.

"I'll expect you in the car in twenty minutes." He said, turning and leaving the room.

"Hey! You can't wake me up like that and then just leave me here!" I shouted after him. He didn't come back but I could hear his chuckle from the kitchen.

I huffed to myself before getting up and heading to the bathroom. I think twenty minutes was a bit ambitious to get me from in bed to the car; after all I did want breakfast at some point. I dried myself off and got dressed with only five minutes left.

"Now, I've got everything we need for the day in the car already so we're ready to leave." He informed me. "We'll stop for breakfast on the way."

"I didn't know you were this eager." I commented.

"I think you will really like this place." He said, opening the car door for me. "I am eager to see your reaction."

We set off around eight in the morning, Carlisle said even with his driving it would probably take an hour, after all we didn't want to get arrested on the way. We stopped halfway at the cafe and Carlisle, true to his promise, brought me breakfast. It was a surprisingly nice day for England; we had had very few nice days since we'd been here. Most of the time it had been cold and it rained probably as much as Forks. In fact the warmest it had been since I'd been here was about sixty degrees Fahrenheit, it's late November now and the weather was only going to get worse. The house keeper, Harriet was insisting that it was going to snow in the next few weeks. I suppose it might get everyone in the Christmas mood as it's going to be December next week.

"We timed this visit very well didn't we? This might be the last decent day for weather we get for months." I commented.

"It's not that bad." Carlisle replied, a small smile crossing his lips. "There are dry days in winter here and even some sunshine, it's just rather cold."

"No kidding, I'm freezing." I grinned, hugging myself.

"You should have said something sooner." He murmured, leaning forward to turn the car's heater on.

A short while later Carlisle gestured to a signpost, 'Glastonbury'. This didn't mean anything to me though.

"We're here?" I asked.

"Very nearly." He smiled. "The place I want to take you to is only minutes away."

He parked the car minutes later and we both got out, he took my hand in his and led the way to the ticket office before paying and continuing to lead the way. It was beautiful.

Carlisle stopped walking when he realised that my feet were still glued to the ground. I stared at the ruins for some time. They were beautiful.

"I know it isn't a castle exactly but...I thought it would still have the same feel to it." Carlisle spoke next to me.

"It's perfect." I nodded. We continued to walk, looking around and admiring the whole of the abbey ruins.

"The original church on this site dated back as far as 63AD before the stone church in 712, it was later added to in 940, this was then demolished in 1077 and replaced by a larger church only to be demolished and replaced again in 1100 for an even grander one which was destroyed by a fire in 1184, they began rebuilding this one in 1191 but it took years before it was completed." Carlisle told me as we walked around the site. I had to wonder whether he had already known this or if he had done his homework before coming. "I came here once, when I was still human. It is one of my few human memories. My father and I were completing a pilgrimage and this was one of the places we visited along the way. It wasn't quite the ruin it is now but was already damaged and no longer used."

"It's just so beautiful." I murmured, reaching out to place my hand on the stone. "The archways...they're so perfect."

"Did you want to know something else fascinating?" he asked, "Apparently in 1191 was they began rebuilding, they discovered the legendary King Arthur's tomb. Of course it can't be proven, who knows after all whether King Arthur was even real."

"But who's to say he wasn't either." I shrugged.

"Exactly, any record of King Arthur puts his lifetime around the late fifth and early sixth century so the chances of proving anything are very slim." Carlisle nodded.

"Unless of course there happened to be any vampires around at the time." I smirked.

"I'm not that old." He grinned back.

"I know you aren't but...who knows maybe someone out there is." I sighed.

"Certainly; Aro, Marcus and Caius all date back as far as 1300BC perhaps further. There are bound to be others also, however our kind tend not to get involved with the lives of humans so just because they were around does not mean they would have all the answers." Carlisle replied.

We spent most of the morning wandering around the ruined abbey and its grounds taking in the peacefulness and the beauty of it. I spent a great deal of time pondering all of the major events in history that vampires had lived through, all of those questions of our history that they could have the answers to. In a century's time would I not be bothered by the changes happening in the human world? What is it likely to have lived for that long? To have been around to see entire kingdoms rise and fall, the invention of electricity, the telephone and the car, all the way up to now where mobile phones and laptops are the norm? If some of the vampires still around today were around in 1300BC then they could know so much...what if there were some out there even older? 1500BC may make someone old enough to know if the city of Atlantis ever really existed!

This gave me a lot to ponder on our way home. Carlisle seemed happy enough to leave me to think in peace the whole drive back. It just felt too strange to comprehend that someone could be that old.

"So, what do you think?" Carlisle asked, as we pulled into the driveway.

"Definitely, I loved it." I replied.

"I thought you would, of course if you do find something else you prefer in the meantime all you have to do is say so." He said, stopping the car at the cottage. He saw my confusion because he added. "I just want to talk about a few things before Alice gets hold of you."

He helped me out of the car and we went inside as I asked, "So what are we talking about?"

"A few things." He replied, sitting on the couch and tugging me with him. "Firstly, I wanted to warn you that Esme is coming to see us all this weekend, along with Kale and Rina."

"This weekend?" I asked. I felt slightly panicked, what would Esme think of me marrying her ex-husband? I cringed to myself; this was going to be weird.

"This is no need for that face Bella." Carlisle chucked, dropping his arm over my shoulders. "She is very eager to see you again and according to Alice very happy for us. It's just a visit."

"Alright." I replied, still slightly unsure.

"Secondly, I wanted to discuss what our plans are for after the wedding." He continued. I hadn't actually thought much about it before. It wasn't like we could have a nice hot and sunny honeymoon...what did he expect? "I have grown very selfish in the time we have been living together Bella, I'm afraid I rather enjoy having you all to myself and don't much like sharing." I laughed at that, I couldn't picture Carlisle being selfish about anything. "I was hoping that we could spend some time with just the two of us, even just for the first year or so."

"But the others could visit right?" I asked.

"Of course, you silly beautiful girl! Did you expect me to just lock you in a house for a year or so that I could keep you to myself?" he asked. "I just wanted to know your thoughts on the matter, where you wanted to live and whilst there is no rush if and when you decide to become one of us."

"Carlisle I keep asking you and you keep saying no." I frowned.

"That may have something to do with the fact that you are always naked when you ask me and probably not thinking clearly." He murmured, leaning down to kiss me.

"and here I was thinking that I was so very persuasive when I'm naked..." I grinned.

"You are." He said bluntly, glancing to the mark on my neck.

"Carlisle, I want you, forever. I don't really mind where we end up as long as we're together. I love your whole family but you...you I can't live without." I told him. "I go where you go, and one day...I want you to change me, preferably soon and then we can really start our lives together."

"Bella our lives together started that day I tried to stop you discharging yourself from the hospital." He replied. "I haven't been able to get you out of my head since."

"I thought about you too." I told him honestly. "It was strange...I shouldn't have thought about you that way, you were Edward's dad but I just couldn't help it."

"It's a vampire thing." He told me, I burst out laughing, I couldn't help it.

"That line really doesn't suit you." I chortled. I saw his eyes darken slightly and then he smirked before pulling me into his arms and onto his lap. My laughter died quickly on my lips. Then he kissed me.