Carlisle is bored. Caius has invited yet another harpsichord player to entertain them during the day. Carlisle doesn't have a vote in the matter.

Carlisle manages to excuse himself before Marcus' hunger unleashes itself.

The one problem with Carlisle's swift exit is this --

-- he doesn't know where he is now.

The escorting from his unusual cell back through the crowd of people was bizarre enough.

It made returning to the door Carlisle had entered to arrive here, opening it, seeing the utter quiet and dank of familiar tunnels, jarring.

He walks through the door expecting another cell.

Carlisle is standing in the hallway. Outside of his former ( Read more... )

Carlisle went back to work when Esme told him to do so, and the day after that, and the months after that. It helped to have a rhythm back in his life ( Read more... )

Rough day in Milliways.

It has nothing to do with planning the baseball game.

Carlisle makes his way pretty quickly to his office, shutting the door with a light click behind him.

Carlisle had been posting reminders all week, and this is his final one:

Team Meeting
Captain: Carlisle Cullen
The Baseball Diamond, Today, 3 pm

Please acquire a glove from home or the Bar if you haven't already.As everyone arrives, Carlisle clears his throat (all while wearing an extra-long billed baseball hat and skin-tone gloves to cover his ( Read more... )

Carlisle has appeared at the house after work.

With a small baseball glove, two bats and an entire bucket of baseballs.

Standing in the front entranceway, Carlisle waits for Esme and Edward to figure out that he is home.

Carlisle is still sitting here.

It is the strangest cell he's inhabited yet, but it's still a cell and he has no visitors.

But no tests.

Carlisle enjoys the reprieve.

Carlisle isn't working.

What the hell is he doing, then?

Carlisle would have thought that with Alice's particular talent that she would be far less interested than she appears to be in stories of the family's past.

"I see the future," Alice corrects him, "Not what's already happened. I want to know everything."The stories start out easy before getting embarrassing; Esme has a solid fifteen minutes of ( Read more... )

They never gave him a shirt again after Carlisle bandaged up the injured man that had been brought into his cell.

And then the door shifted, the voices growing louder ( Read more... )