The meeting
BELLA POV
"Dr. Cullen?" I asked quietly as I peaked my head into the labor room door. I knew my face was a bright shade of pink.
I saw him standing next to the window with a pink bundle in his arms. "Yes." I heard a soft coo answer coming from him.
"I am so sorry to bother you." I was so ashamed of myself. But I couldn't help myself. I was so excited Last week when I heard that he was being transfer to my hospital. To make it even better that he was here today of all days when I needed his expertise the most. I had to ask him a few questions about my latest patient. She was due any time now and was having so many complications and unknown blood loss; I was just at a loss of what to do. "But Susie said you would be here. And I really need your professional advice." I finished keeping my post at the door, not wanting to barge into the room anymore than I already was.
"Why do I know that voice?" He said quietly as he lifted his head from the bundle in his arms looking me straight in the eyes. "Isabella Swan.. Is that really you? I haven't seen you for what now 2 years." He was walking back to the middle of the room as he was talking, and was gone out of my sight by the curtain behind the door. I smiled my brightest smile and blushed even more, thank God for this awful green privacy curtain. Carlisle Cullen was still the most spectacular man I have ever set my eyes on. And it made my stomach do flip flops that he even remembered me out of all the other interns he has worked with in the last 2 years. "Alice, here is my granddaughter, you better be careful, I am intrusting her to you." I could hear the laughter in his voice.
"Yes Dad, I will be sure to treat her like the little piece of crystal that she is." I heard a sarcastic little voice say, and then a gasp. I was so worried that I flew into the room, my doctoral instincts kicking in with a little bit of curiosity mixed in. I saw the… well I guess prettiest little woman sitting in the bed holding the baby this time. She was so tiny, bright green eyes, alabaster color skin with the glow of a loving mother, and she had the cutest hair cut I have ever seen, he pitch black hair was cut in a short boyish cut that spiked in every direction, probably due to natural curl. Some girls have all the luck, I'm here stuck with dull brown hair that was as straight as a stick, and she sits there just out of child birth looking like a beautiful little pixie. "Jasper, that's it. Let's name her Crystal..." she closed her tiny green eyes as if she were thinking. "Crystal Rose Hale. What do you think Jazz?" She asked looking at, I am guessing, her husband. He was a tall, slight built man with wavy blond hair and penetrating blue eyes.
"I love it Darlin', and you know that Rosalie is going to go ballistic, she will be in heaven." He said with a deep southern drawl, he was staring her in the eyes and looking at her like she was the only woman on the planet, right before he bent down and kissed her and his new daughter on the foreheads.
I felt like I was intruding on a family moment, and tried to back out of the room without getting caught. "Isabella, come here and meet my brand new Granddaughter, Crystal Rose." Dr. Cullen chimed with pride in his voice, as he held his hand out to me. I took a deep breath and walked up to the happy couple. "Alice, Jasper and Crystal, This is Dr. Isabella Swan, She was one of the most intelligent and aspiring interns that I have ever had the luck to work with." There I go again blushing like a little school girl.
"You are being way to nice, don't you remember how many times I ended up on the floor when I was trying to run and get something that you have asked for." I laughed at myself; I was the biggest cults in the world. "Hello Alice and Jasper it is so great to meet you." I extended my hand to Jasper. "And congratulations on the bundle of joy, she is so beautiful." I said as I got my first look at baby Crystal.
"Thank you Dr. Swan." Alice said with pride in her voice that could only come from a mother.
'It's Bella." I said right before I heard the door slam open, and heard a voice that I knew I would never be able to, or even want to forget.
EDWARD POV
"Where is she…? Where is the most beautiful baby in the world?" I called as I burst into the room; the balloons were abstracting my view, and I got caught in the damn green curtain. "You knew I was coming, why you had to put this dang curtain in the way I will never know." I said in a joking tone, as I throw the curtain to the side, put the balloons down by the couch, pushed Jasper put of the way and made my way to the bed where Alice was sitting with my new baby niece in her loving arms. I could see the love dripping off her as she was looking at the baby; I knew the moment she told me she was having a baby that she was going to make a great mom, and now looking at the love in her eyes just proved my assumption. "Hello my beautiful sister, how are you feeling?" I asked as I dropped a kiss on her check, but never moved my eyes form my niece's face. She was about so answer and I cut her off." Ok you know I really don't care, just hand over my niece." I smiled as I saw the anger hit her eyes and then melt when she handed me her daughter. I could hear Jasper trying to hide a laugh to my right.
"Crystal, this is your annoying uncle Edward. But you can call him Eddie." Alice said with a ting of laughter in her voice.
"You know I hate that nick name, you will just have to find another one." I tried to look angry, but how could you when you held an angle in your arms. I lowered my head to Crystal's ear and whispered. "But for you I might just allow it." I took in a deep breath to get the full effect of her baby sent, and kissed the top of her head. When I looked up I was taken aback by a pair of chocolate brown eyes watching me. WOW, Look at those eyes, you could lose yourself in them. I thought as I blinked a few times to clear my vision. I stood up straight and walked back to Alice. "Am I interrupting something?" I asked, I wonder if this brown eye woman was Alice's doctor. I mean she had on the non to flattering green scrubs that most of the doctors I have seen in this hospital wear. But on her they looked great. She had curves in all the right places, and this amazingly silky brown hair hanging from a messy ponytail to the middle of the back, with wisps of unruly hair framing her heart shaped face. I looked down at her hands and didn't see a ring on any of her fingers. You know better than that Edward, most doctors don't wear rings when they are at work.
"Edward, this is Dr. Isabella Swan. She was one of my interns at Emanuel around 2 years ago." Dr. Cullen introduced us, as she brought her hand out to shake mine.
"It's nice to meet you Dr. Swan." I said with a smile on my face as I extended my hand to hers. Her hand was so small and soft as she dropped it into my hand. We looked into each other's eyes and I became completely lost. I knew I was making small little circles on the top of her hand but I just couldn't help myself. She was so soft, most of the doctors that my father has introduced me to have such dry hands that I always want to offer the hand lotion, but this one.. Isabella Swan.. Her hands were so soft, I wonder if the rest of her was this silky soft. Ok now Edward, get your mind out of the gutter, she may be a married women, or even have a boyfriend. A boyfriend I could handle; people break up all the time, a husband is a little more permanent. I knew a smile sweep across my face at that thought.
"As I was telling your sister,,,,, I prefer Bell. It's nice to meet you too, Edward." She stammered as she turned to look at my father. "I am still so sorry Dr. Cullen but I do have an important case that I just can't figure out and I know it is right down your isle." She smiled at my father, with a slight bit if embarrassment in her voice.
"Oh yes. Well let's go take a look shall we." My father said as he dropped down and placed a kiss on the top of Crystals head. "Grandpa will be right back, I promise." He said with a smile on his face. "Tell your mother when she gets back where I went, will you Edward?"He asked before he left to room right behind Bella.
"Yeah dad no problem." I said as I turned back to see Alice and Jasper looking at me with the biggest smiles on their faces. "She is the most beautiful angle in the world." I said as I handed Crystal to Jasper, setting my hand on his shoulder and gave it a slight squeeze.
'So do you mean Crystal or our dear Dr. Isabella Swan?" Jasper said in a coy voice. I wanted to just punch that sly look off his face, but Alice would kill me if I laid one hand one her husband, so I just gave my hand a little more purser on his shoulder. I could hear Alice's laugh and then had to laugh myself, I guess I still couldn't hide my feelings to well from them.
"Would I get hit to hard if I said both?" I winced when I saw Alice's hand reach out to slap my arm. Ok well I deserve that. I thought to myself.
