Disclaimer: As much as I would love to dream about owning it, sadly 'Twilight' belongs to the wonderful Stephanie Meyer.

Okay, this is my first fan fiction guys so apologies in advance!! All helpful and constructive criticism welcomed - and if you have chocolate brownies you will soar to my top 10 list!!

Apologies for any mistakes, it's the early hours of the morning here and I'm tired but wide awake and my blonde brain isn't really processing much!!!

Plot: Edward is adopted by Carlisle and Esme and this is his story growing up until meeting Bella. All human and all key characters included!

Carlisle POV

I sighed to myself as I entered the final ninety minutes of my shift. It has begun quietly enough but soon picked up when the victims of the house fire were brought in. Sadly there was three fatalities and only one survivor. A 9 month old baby boy, who was now orphaned and was due a visit from social services in the morning.

"Doctor, I got this feeling inside my heart". A small growl escaped Carlisle's lips as his phone began to ring with a strange ring tone. Looking at the caller ID, Carlisle was easily able to identify the culprit.

"Yes Emmett?" Carlisle asked his eldest son, whom he and his wife, Esme had adopted as a 5 year old, like all of their children. Now turning 15, Carlisle was never ceased to be amazed by his jokes and pranks. Their next son Jasper who was recently 13 was the complete contrast of Emmett. He was laid back but very sensitive to the feelings of others. He was always able to perceive what somebody near to him was feeling. He always had the right idea to help them change that emotion.

After Jasper came Rosalie who at 8 years old was turning out to be a very independent young women. She had natural blonde hair and supermodel looks and was heavily into her fashion. She was very self-centered and on more than one occassion Carlisle and Esme had been called into her school because Rosalie had decided that she wanted to eat her snack in the comfort of the reading corner rather than at her lunch table. She often gave Esme a run for her money and often it was left to Carlisle to sort out ehr attitude. In his eyes Rosalie in her teenage years could stay away forever!

Their final adopted child was 2 and a half year old Alice. She suffered from ADHD and was often found doing some sort of unimaginable form of mischief. She was a true daddy's girl and knew exactly how to manipulate her parents. She was into clothes and often loved dressing up in her siblings clothes and smearing make up across them.

"Daaad!, Can I go out tonight? Please? Please?" Emmett's voice - which had just began to drop - boomed across the telephone distractng Carlisle from his daydream.

"No Emmett, tonight is a school night. Tomorrow yes by all means" Carlisle responded firmly,

"But…" Carlisle could hear him about to plead his case using the infamous mummy's boy tone.

"Tomorrow or not at all young man" He repeated firmly, emphasising the point.

"Yes dad" Carlisle couldn't help but hear the sadness radiate across the conversation.

"Look, speak to Marcus over MSN. It does the two of you no harm what so ever to be with your respective families for one night."

"YEES!!! THANKS DAD!!" Emmett shouted through the phone causing Carlisle to grimace and pull the phone away from his ear.

"Oh and Emmett…"

"Yes dad?"

"Stop changing my ring tone. Good night and see you soon!" With that Carlisle left to check on the baby that had caught his attention.

Smiling softly to himself, Carlisle went to check on the other patients before returning to the little baby again. Upon arrival at his room, he noticed a small shrill cry coming through the closed door. Slipping in quietly, Carlisle was met by a upset baby and a very stressed looking nurse trying to comfort him.

"Dr Cullen, I was just coming to find you. I tried to take his obs and he got upset and won't quieten down". The young nurse looked flustered and panic stricken as she held the screaming child in her arms trying to no avail to calm his screams.

"Not to worry Jessica, pass him here. Your just a bit confused, irritable and probably hungry hey little guy?" The doctor cajoled him as he tickled under his chin softly, gazing into his deep green eyes.

The baby gurgled and began to reduce his cries to a whimper, happily clasping onto the doctor's pen light in his pocket. A small smile crept onto his lips.

Feeling very paternal all of a sudden, Carlisle turned to the young nurse with a smile.

"try giving him a small feed. There is formula milk waiting in the kitchen. If you have no luck come and find me I'll be in my office catching up on the paperwork you girls seem to love giving to me."

With a small chuckle and a light kiss to the baby's head, Carlisle handed him back to the nurse and proceeded to his office, trying to remove the image of those green eyes.

Sitting down to complete his paperwork which had begun to make the desk drop under its weight, Carlisle thought about the possibility of bringing another child into his family. "Knock Knock". Carlisle silently slid away from his paperwork and opened the door where he found Chief Swan standing uncomfortably behin a nurse.

"Charlie! What a pleasant surprise do come in. It's not Bella again is it?" The Chief's daughter was a regular in the ER and a regular patient of Carlisle's due to her insane ability to trip over thin air.

"Carlisle no no she's tucked up at home asleep in her bed I hope! I've come regarding the survivor from the fire. We've found identity records, his name is Edward, Anthony Masen, born 15th July 2008. All relatives have perished in the fire or previous incidents sadly making him a orphan. I have phoned the relative authorities but the earliest they can collect him is Monday morning I'm afraid.." The Chief's radio began to crackle. With a brief apologetic glance at the Doctor, he left to respond to the call that had come through, leaving the doctor to his own thoughts.

Orphaned at such as young age. Carlisle was still unable to shake that feeling of love and adoration towards the boy, the clarity of his clear green eyes left him speechless. Clearing his mind quickly, Carlisle signed off all of the relevant charts and sat back and phoned home.

"hello?" a young voice answered sounding very mature.

"Rosalie, it's daddy, is mummy there?" Carlisle asked his eldest daughter. A brief scuffle was heard at the phone and a very uptight message of "it's dad" was given before his wife's voice came over the phone.

"Carlisle, what's the matter is everything ok?" Esme's voice came overthe line. Carlisle chuckled to himself before answering.

"Yes dear everything is fine. Little busy but sound better than things are at your end! I was phoning to talk to you about the possibility of gaining another child. A baby 9 months old" Carlisle quickly gave over the situation regarding Edward but before he had even finished his wife was practically screaming down the phone expressing her desire to meet the child.

"Dr Cullen to room four, Dr Cullen to room four". Carlisle sighed "Listen darlingI have to go but why not bring the kids down to meet him after you get back from the dentist?"

"Sure honey, I'll talk to you later. Love you, bye" Carlisle hung up and picked up his stephoscope before returning into the chaos of the ER and headed to Room 4...Edward's room. Quickening his pace a little Carlisle entered to a sea of nurses and a very distressed baby.

"Dr Cuelln ,thank goodness your here. We've tried feeding him a number of times now but everytime he wants too but something is stopping him and he's becoming quite irate and testy and we remembered your comment before so we decided to page you".

Carlisle was barely able to keep up with the words coming from Jessica's mouth but he gathered the relevant information, took the baby in his arms and placed him on the cot. "It's probably some smoke inhallation Jessica" The doctor spoke calmly whilst examining the boy. "His breath sounds are good what about his obs?"

"Normal" Another nurse replied looking at his chart.

"Okay how long since he last fed?" Carlisle asked whilst gently persuading Edward to open his mouth so he could look around. "aha, here we go, there's some sweling in the root of his mouth. For now we'll put an IV in to help him feed and to treat the swelling then we'll see how he goes after that ok?" A series of "yes and uh huhs" came from the nurses. Whilst Carlisle gently prepared an IV kit. Edward watched warily as if he knew what was coming. Looking over Carlisle was met by a deep frown from the baby which caused him to laugh softly.

"It will make you feel better I promise". He gently tickled his stomach whilst he passed Edward to Jessica to hold. "ok hold him still Jess as he is not going to like this I'm afraid" Carlisle gently took his hand and wiped it clean before inserting the needle into his vein. A chorus of screaming, wailing, crying and thrashing about came from Edward as he made his disgust known. Jessica gently bounced him as Carlisle set the IV up before taking him back to comfort him. Edward watched him warily before finally relaxing andonly whimpering occassionally.

Sitting down on the bed with him, Carlisle was easily able to calm him down and spend time with the boy who was as nosy as can be. Chuckling to himself as Edward yawned, Carlisle laid back and cradled him in his arms as Edward dozed off clutching his blanket tightly. It was in this position that the remainder of Carlisle's family found him.

Okay that's chapter one. I'll probably write more soon as it's driving me crazy as it's floating around my brain. Thanks to anyone that reads and reviews.

Cheeky