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[ofthefamily]

Carlisle has been trying to stay more in Forks of late, with Bella still needing care, and Edward needing what little support he'd be willing to accept.

That being the case, his flowers were kept for him by the Bar, still fresh and bright when he arrives to see if he has any messages.

The note attached is read quickly:

...it confounds all notion of time:
effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

It puts a smile on Carlisle's face. The flowers will look great in the infirmary, pollen be damned for now.

[ooc: meeting in 30 minutes and general work-slow.]

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[sheisourheart]

"You, too?"


There's a quietly bemused tone from the door.

And a submerged set of orchids balanced easily in her hands.

[ofthefamily]

"Edward always shows me up. I completely forgot Valentine's here."

Carlisle doesn't sound too put-upon, smile for his wife.

[sheisourheart]

Esme's expression shifted to some surprise at the mention of the holiday, though it didn't stop her from crossing the room.

"I assumed it was gesture making up the last week." She leaned up and placed a kiss on Carlisle's cheek. All without displacing the delicate fixture. "Not that they couldn't still be."

[ofthefamily]

"I didn't even think about it like that."

Carlisle still feels badly about slapping Edward when they were in Phoenix.

"At least he's not skipping school to be with her?"

[sheisourheart]

Even when neither of them would need it, this wouldn't be a first with Edward.

"He'll calm one she's released." And he wasn't as bad as the worst they'd seen him.

[ofthefamily]

"Maybe."

Carlisle sounds a bit doubtful.

"He's going to blame himself for a long time for this."

[sheisourheart]

That isn't anything new either.

"We're all still here." Beat. "And she's staying. There's something the be said for that, even if he hasn't found a way to focus on it yet."

[ofthefamily]

Carlisle breathes outward, nodding.

"It may say that Bella is incredibly deluded?" Carlisle asks aloud, pulling gently at Esme's wrist to bring her closer to him.

[sheisourheart]

She shifted the underwater flowers to one hand, drawing close. Turning her wrist, so her fingers could slide into her husbands. "Or determined." Though of what would have to wait to be seen.

[insidethepalm.livejournal.com]

Emma's here really early for once. The bar decided to show up in her bathroom instead of...during a Cabal meeting or something more normal. So she's in a white silk robe, her hair pulled up...but still managing to look like Emma Frost.

"Lovely flowers," She murmurs to Carlisle. She remembers him from that one time they talked. Awkwardly out in the cold.

[ofthefamily]

"My son sent them to me," Carlisle replies softly. "I thought they would be well-positioned in the infirmary here. Hello, Emma."

[insidethepalm.livejournal.com]

"Carlisle," She lifts her cup of expensive coffee in a greeting. "How are you this morning?"

[ofthefamily]

"I'm well. I thought I would come in and catch up on anything I've missed here of late. How have you been faring at home?"

[insidethepalm.livejournal.com]

It's been hell at home. She keeps her smile on her face though and it even reaches her eyes. "Livable. I never mean to end up here. It just happens."

[ofthefamily]

"Would you come to Milliways if you chose to do so?"

Carlisle knows enough people who wouldn't.

[insidethepalm.livejournal.com]

Pursing her lips she shakes her head. "I don't know. Probably not unless...I truly wanted to get away from things for a while. But I don't like running away from problems."

She likes to create them. I mean--

[ofthefamily]

"Problems have a way of following you regardless," Carlisle advises, folding the note from the flowers into the pocket of his slacks.

"Would you walk to the infirmary with me? I want to put these down."

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah is, coincidentally at the bar as the flowers arrive, and she grins with natural pride.

"Do you like them?"

[ofthefamily]

"I do; they were quite a surprise. It isn't often that I receive flowers. Usually they are directed to my wife."

Canting a glance at the young woman, Carlisle examines the flowers again. "I was thinking about placing them in the infirmary. I don't know where I would have them at home."

[raptorcanaria]

"That's a good idea," Dinah agrees. "Hospitals and sick rooms could always use flowers."

[ofthefamily]

"Do you know what these flowers mean?" Carlisle offers, an introduction to sharing if she doesn't.

[raptorcanaria]

"In floriography?" Dinah replies promptly, with a smile. "Purple lilacs mean first love. Though I bet that specific arrangement means something else."

[ofthefamily]

"I learned its significance as learning how to love," Carlisle offers.

"Slightly different, I suppose. They're from my son."

[raptorcanaria]

She shrugs. "Meanings change. Even when the language was at its peak of popularity there were endless dictionaries with different meanings."

Then she smiles more brightly. "And that's definitely a lovely sentiment."

Not one she'd necessarily share with her Mom, but there's that.

[ofthefamily]

"Yes it is."

A light touch to one of the blossoms before clearing his head.

"I'm sorry; I haven't introduced myself. Carlisle Cullen."