𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 | 𝐉𝐀𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐑 𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐄

𝟏𝟕 | 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘

THE FOREST WAS QUIET TONIGHT. Even the wind moved softly, as if the trees themselves understood the gravity of what was happening. Moonlight spilled through the glass walls of our home, painting silver streaks across the hardwood floor. The world outside was drenched in mist, but inside, everything felt warm. Alive.

For the first time in decades, Jasper and I weren't waiting for something to change.
It already had.

I heard the gentle hum of an approaching car long before the headlights appeared at the end of the drive. Jasper's hand slipped into mine. His skin, cool as ever, still sent a current through me even after all these years. His golden eyes met mine, and I saw something there I hadn't seen in centuries.

Hope.

"She's here," I whispered.

He nodded once, his voice low and calm. "Let's go meet our daughter."

When we stepped outside, the rain had slowed to a fine drizzle, catching the light like falling stars. Carlisle's car came to a stop beside the porch, and a moment later, Esme stepped out, cradling a small bundle wrapped in a pale blanket.

My breath caught though I hadn't needed air for a long time.

She was so small. So impossibly fragile. Her heartbeat fluttered like the wings of a bird, steady and human, and yet there was something about her that felt...meant.

Esme smiled gently as she placed the baby in my arms. "Her name is Ava. She's healthy. And she's yours now."

Jasper stood close behind me, his hand brushing against my back. I felt the wave of emotion he sent not by accident, but deliberately. Warmth. Calm. Love that felt eternal. It filled the room until my chest ached with it.

I looked down at Ava, her tiny fingers curling around mine. Her heartbeat echoed faintly in my ears, the only sound in the vast stillness.

"She's perfect," I whispered.

"She's ours," Jasper said, his voice soft, reverent.

For a long moment, we just stood there two immortals, holding something we never thought we'd have. Something living. Something pure.

Later, after Esme and Carlisle left, Jasper and I carried Ava upstairs. Her nursery was quiet and filled with soft light, painted in shades of cream and pastel pink. We laid her gently in the crib, and for a moment, neither of us moved.

"She doesn't know what we are," I murmured.

Jasper's arm slipped around my waist. "She doesn't need to. Not yet. All she needs to know is that she's loved. And that she's safe."

I leaned against him, feeling his presence steady, grounding, unchanging. His lips brushed the top of my head, a whisper of a kiss that carried centuries of meaning.

Outside, the rain picked up again, steady and rhythmic, like the heartbeat we both missed.

I looked at Ava, at the soft rise and fall of her tiny chest. "Do you think... she'll ever understand us? What we are?"

Jasper smiled faintly, his eyes glinting gold in the dim light. "Maybe someday. But for now, I think she'll just see us as two people who love her more than the world itself."

I turned toward him, studying his face the one constant through every storm, every quiet night just like this.

And in that moment, surrounded by the scent of rain and the sound of our daughter's heartbeat, I realized something I'd never dared believe before.

Even eternity can change.

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