Various Ponderings...

I'm feeling pretty poorly today but I've been set a challenge to write a Carlisle/Esme one shot by my good friend and I definitely want to do this. This will take some time to plan and actually write as it is to be about their first kiss all those years ago. I want to make sure I do this justice so I'm putting down some rough bulletpoints and stuff just to give me something to work on.

•  Carlisle changed Esme in 1921. Now with a few C/E stories, they have Esme awake from her change and within a few days fall deeply in love with Carlisle. This is not believable to me, though I do feel that Esme would certainly have feelings for the good doctor, considering she had a small crush on him at sixteen. Carlisle however had no romantic feelings at the time they first met and rightly so. That would have been inappropriate and that is not within his character.  I would possibly set their first kiss after at least a year. I feel that Esme would have been out of her newborn stage by the time a true romance was developing between the two. That's not to say that feelings didn't develop before that but no actual action would have taken place in my view.
• I would ideally set it in Ashland, Wisconsin. I don't believe that Carlisle and Edward would have moved from there just yet, even though Esme became the new addition to the family. I don't really know why I feel this way. Ashland to me just feels like where the romance for Carlisle and Esme began. Or at least the first beginnings of it anyway.  I believe they would have moved elsewhere perhaps after Carlisle married Esme.  Then later on to Rochester where as we know the story of Rosalie begins.
• I feel that Carlisle would be quite shy in his approach with Esme. Carlisle is a gentleman to me and would not wish to force his affections on Esme, especially if he has just learnt of her past. Esme would obviously be reluctant in a sense given her history but I also feel that she would be slightly more open because of her feelings towards Carlisle. Neither of them would make any obvious moves though so I think that Edward would somehow be involved in bringing them together.  Again many C/E fics have written something similar but I think that is true to canon personally and I could imagine it very well. Edward the reluctant matchmaker!