Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or its characters…they belong to Stephenie Meyer
Summary: Edward is finally a dad after nine months. How will he fair through Elizabeth's stages of development?
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Life as a Father
A month has passed since Elizabeth's birth and we couldn't be happier. As Bella and I sit in the Volvo with Elizabeth in the back seat Bella begins to hum to the song softly playing on the radio. Bella looks over at the speedometer. I was going 70mph.
"Why so slow?" she asks curiously. I glance at Elizabeth in the rearview mirror and Bella grins and grabs my hand in hers. "You're being careful for the baby? That's so sweet!" she says happily. I smile and continue to drive.
"You always say I drive too fast, but I'm not going any slower," I warn and Bella giggles. I sigh heavily as I drive towards Washington. We were going to visit Charlie and Bella wanted to keep her promise of visiting Jacob before she gets turned into a vampire like my family and me.
"I think you're doing a great job, but I trust you if you want to go faster," says Bella. I laugh as I speed up to 85mph.
"You're just impatient to get to Charlie's and see Jacob in La Push," I state. Bella laughs and then I hear a strange sound in the back seat. I quickly look at Elizabeth and she was smiling and a soft giggle escapes her mouth; I chuckle and Bella about chokes with pride.
"Aw…that's so cute! Where's the camera?" asks Bella. I point to the glove box and she opens it and pulls out the camera and takes a picture. Elizabeth looks at Bella like she was strange and Bella laughs. Then Elizabeth giggles again. She had a beautiful laugh and I couldn't be happier to hear her newest sound.
Soon we stop at a hotel-that was on the way-for the night. Bella picks up Elizabeth's car seat and we go inside. Once we sign in we go up to our room and lay Elizabeth on the bed. Bella gets out her diaper bag and proceeds to clean her up before deciding she needed a bath. Elizabeth does not like baths and we quickly discovered this the first time we tried to bathe her and she cried and we panicked. Bella picks up the naked baby and carries her into the bathroom and orns on the water in the tub. Once there was a little bit of water in the tub Bella puts her in the water and the crying begins.
"It's okay Sweet-pea. It's just a bath. Shh…" she says in an attempt to comfort her. I begin to hum and she immediately calms down. Bella smiles in thanks and continues to bathe Elizabeth and she was soon clean. We take her back out to the bedroom and lay her down in her car seat to sleep for the night.
"I don't see how this is comfortable for her," I say. Bella sighs heavily and covers Elizabeth with a blanket.
"She'll be okay. It's just for the night. When we get to Charlie's we can set up my old cradle from the attic. Charlie was supposed to make sure it was cleaned up and ready for her," says Bella as she tucks Elizabeth in and kisses her cheek. I gently caress Elizabeth's cheek and kiss her forehead before humming to her. She quickly falls asleep and Bella begins to get ready for bed so I watch Elizabeth for her. Elizabeth was sleeping peacefully and I was glad because the car seat didn't look very comfortable.
I could hear Bella getting ready to take a shower so I wait while she showers and brushes her hair and teeth and gets dressed before coming out. She looks at me and smiles before sitting next to me on the bed. I wrap my arms around her and take in her scent savoring the smell of freesia and lavender that radiated off of her. I loved her scent and I noticed that Elizabeth had inherited that scent, but her scent didn't appeal to me in a food kind of way, and for this I was glad. I noticed that even Jasper seemed immune to the scent of her blood running through her veins and I knew it was there because Carlisle did some blood tests on her to make sure she was okay, and she was. Bella giggles then her heart goes into overdrive when I begin to kiss her neck and along her jaw up to her ear where I gently nibble her earlobe.
"Do you realize all the things I want to do to you right now?' I whisper causing her face to turn the most delicious shade of scarlet.
"Why don't you show me a few of the things you want to show me," she suggests. I grin and kiss her passionately. Bella kisses me back and her hand knots itself into my hair. I break the kiss and lay Bella on her back then I hover over her and begin to kiss her neck. Bella was already having trouble breathing. I chuckle and continue to kiss her. Soon Bella goes to sleep and as I hold her in my arms she begins to say my name and sigh. I grin as the talking begins. Suddenly Elizabeth begins to cry and Bella immediately wakes up and looks around disoriented.
"It's okay, Love. I'll take care of her, you go back to sleep," I whisper.
"That's not fair, Edward. You always take care of her at night, you should let me once in a while," says Bella. I sigh heavily.
"Unlike you I do not need to sleep therefore I can care for her at night and you can care for her all day, besides, soon you won't need sleep so we can take turns," I whisper as Elizabeth continues to cry. Bella nods in agreement and I get up to take car of Elizabeth. She was hungry so I make her a bottle and feed her while I hum the lullaby I had composed for Bella soon after I had met her.
The next morning we were back in the Volvo and headed to Charlie's house. Once there I pull up where Bella used to park her truck and we go up to the door and knock. Charlie answers the door and we go inside and sit down on the couch. Charlie sits in his chair.
"What have you kids been up to lately?" Asks Charlie conversationally.
"Just taking care of Elizabeth and getting used to not being pregnant," says Bella happily. "Do you want to hold your new granddaughter?" Charlie's face lights up and he nods so Bella hands Elizabeth to him carefully. He looks at Elizabeth and smiles.
"She's beautiful, looks a lot like you, Bella," says Charlie proudly.
"I think she takes after Edward more actually," says Bella as she looks at me and smiles.
"Oh, before I forget, I went up to the attic to look for your cradle when I realize I sold it a long time ago, so I called Billy and he still has Jacob's old cradle from when he was a baby and he's sending Jacob over with it after they get it cleaned up. Sorry, about that," says Charlie in embarrassment. Bella smiles and looks at me. I could tell she thought that luck was on her side today, but I personally thought it would be better if I wasn't around. I sigh heavily at the thought of Jacob and Bella seeing each other for what could be the last time and the sadness involved in that.
About two hours later we were at the kitchen table eating dinner. Bella knew what would happen if I ate but asked me to try for Charlie so he didn't get suspicious, so here I was with a steak, scalloped potatoes, and corn on a plate in front of me and Charlie was watching me and Bella. Bella was feeding Elizabeth her bottle while her food cooled a little.
"Aren't you going to eat, Edward?" asks Charlie. I groan too quietly for Charlie's ears and cut a piece of the steak grateful that Bella cooked it rare for me. I take a bite of the steak and chew. The blood part was okay, but I wasn't one for cow then there was the fact that it was still human food no matter how you cook it. My stomach was already upset. I swallow and look over at Bella who was watching me with an apologetic expression on her face. "Keep eating, no point in wasting such a good meal," says Charlie happily as he goes back to eating. I would swear he was trying to torture me, but knew that couldn't be the case since he didn't know the side-effects of my eating food. Bella goes back to feeding Elizabeth and Charlie continues to glance at me out of the corner of his eye which didn't give me a chance to throw the food away like I wanted to. Soon my stomach was full of human food and I felt terrible. After dinner I go upstairs with Bella not far behind. I go into the restroom and vomit the contents of tonight's supper while Bella rubs my back.
"I'm sorry, Edward. I'll make it up to you somehow. I thought Charlie would be engrossed in his meal like he always is and you'd only have to take one bite," says Bella apologetically. I get up and rinse my mouth out and get myself cleaned up. Then there's a knock at the door.
End Chapter
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(A/N: Chapter one, of the sequel to Consequences is complete!! I hope it met your expectations and that you enjoy it. Once again constructive criticism is nice and nice comments are great!!Thanks!)