Carlisle Cullen and Esme Cullen

Carlisle and Esme Cullen are one of the secondary couples in the Twilight Saga. They are vampires and are members of the Olympic Coven.

Carlisle
Carlisle was the son of an Anglican pastor in the late 1600s in London. His father was responsible for leading the hunts for the beings of evil such as witches, werewolves and vampires. When he became too old to continue them, he put his son in charge of the hunts. Although originally Carlisle was a disappointment, he eventually discovered a coven of true vampires living in the sewers. During a chase with them, Carlisle was bitten and was changed them into a vampire. He was repulsed by himself and attempted to kill himself many times but instead hid deep in the woods, away from humans as he could not justify the fact that he could murder an innocent person. But when a herd of deer passed by him, he attacked without remorse and discovered that he could survive on animals.

Carlisle was able to perfect his blood lust over the course of two centuries and began to study medicine, soon becoming a brilliant doctor. He travelled to Italy where he met the Volturi who attempted to reunite him with his real food source. He refused and instead went to the New World -- America.

He began to work night shifts in Chicago, during the time of the Spanish Influenza, in 1918. There he met Elizabeth Masen who demanded that he do everything she can to save her son, Edward. Carlisle did so and curbed his loneliness by turning Edward.

Not long after that, in 1921, Carlisle met a young women called Esme who attempted suicide after the loss of her child. Recognising her after he had treated her for a broken leg at 16, Carlisle turned her and she became Esme Cullen after they fell in love and married.

Carlisle continued to extend his family by turning several others such as Rosalie, a young women who had been beaten and raped, and who he hoped could have been a mate for Edward, but instead fell in love with Emmett, after she found him mauled by a bear in Tennessee, and Alice and Jasper a mated pair who wanted nothing more to be part of the family.

Esme
Esme first met Carlisle when she was 16, she had broken her leg and he treated her. She never forgot about him and was forver in love with him, even when she married one Charles Evenson. He abused her greatly until he was drafted for war, whuich greatky pleased Esme until he returned. When she discovered she was pregnent, she ran away from him but unfortunatly, her baby dies. Esme tried to commit suicide but when she was mistakenly brought to the hospital mourgue, her heat was still beating. Carlisle recognised her as Esme Platt from when he treated her, and he changed her. After explaining the rules of being a vampire to her, they fell in love shortly afterwards and were married.

Esme gained the ability to love passionatly and this was shown through her ability to adopt everyone of the Cullens into the family: Edward, Rosalie, Emmett, Alice and Jasper. She has a special place for Edward in her heart as he was the first of her "children".