Chapter 2:Green Eggs and Ham

Jasper's POV

"Is she asleep?" I asked Alice. She nodded her head. I walked over to her and sat down by Karla. Alice stared at me, knowing that I was about to say something. But before I could speak, I turned my attention to the beautiful child that my wife was holding.

Alice's POV

I watched as Jasper struggled to speak. He looked at Karla for what seemed like for ever.

"Alice," he started, "What are we going to do with her?" his question brought me back to reality. This poor child had just lost her parents and we weren't sure if she had any other family members. But then that would have meant that they would take Karla away from me. It was even worse when I thought of the big "O" that I despised. "Do we have to put her in an orphanage?" I hissed involuntarily, he had said the "O" word .But I knew that it didn't hurt Jasper's feelings at all. He understood why I was so reluctant to let this child out of my hands. I loved her. I had fallen in love with her from the moment she took my hand in hers.

"We can't just abandon her in and orphanage." I sneered the last word. He continued to stare at her with a strange look in his eyes. Then what Jasper said next surprised me.

"Why don't we adopt her?" he looked up at me with a small smile on his face. I felt so happy. I would have jumped up and down on the couch if I wasn't holding a sleeping Karla at the moment. I wanted to kiss Jasper for suggesting that idea.

"Do you really mean it, Jazz? Would you be able to handle it?" I asked him.

"Yes, Alice I'm sure of it. I'll just need to get used to her scent more. Besides it wasn't very difficult to control myself when Carlisle was tending to her wounds. And I know that you want to keep her." I had a huge smile on my face. I imagined me bathing Karla, and taking her shopping with me.

"But Jasper, we have to ask Carlisle and Esme first." I wasn't sure how the others would react to Jasper and I adopting Karla. Well I guessed that Emmet would be ecstatic to have a niece, even though he doesn't know what ecstatic means. I had grown closer with Edward, but I still wasn't sure if he'd side with me. And I didn't even want to think of the fit that Rosalie would have.

"Let's go to the living room with everyone else." Jasper broke the silence. I was about to pick up Karla when Jasper beat me to it. "I'm sorry, did you want to carry her?" I smiled.

"It's okay Jasper. I think you look adorable carrying her." I kissed him on the cheek. I grabbed Jasper's right hand and he used his left to hold Karla against his chest. I turned around and saw that she was sucking her thumb.

I sat down on the couch and Jasper handed Karla over to me. I sat her on my lap and she leaned against me. Jasper put his arm around my shoulders and kissed the top of my head. I was about to call Carlisle and Esme when Edward walked in and sat on the couch opposite from us. Esme and Carlisle walked in after him.

"Alice, Edward said that you and Japser had something that you wanted to ask us." said Carlilse. Esme just stared at Karla with a loving look.

"Would you like to hold her, Esme?" I asked. She smiled and reached out for Karla. I handed her to Esme. Esme began whispering "I Love You"s to Karla. I turned back to Carlilse. "Carlise, Jasper and I would like to adopt Karla." I waited for his answer.

"Are you two sure about this?"

"Yes, Alice and I are both capable of taking care of Karla. And i know that Alice would make and excellent mother." Jasper squeezed me closer to him. I looked up at him and gave him a quick peck on the lips.

"It's alright with me. But if it starts to get hard for you, I'll need yo to tell me so that we can find another foster family." Carlisle began to walk out of the room. "I'm going to see if I can find out more about Karla and her parents. Meanwhile give her something to eat when she wakes up." I was so happy. I hugged Jasper tightly.

"Alice I can't breath." said Jasper.

"You silly vampire you don't need to breath," I giggled. I looked at Edward. "Are you okay with this?"

"It doesn't really matter to me, I would just like to see Karla happy." he said in a mo-tone voice.

"Well think that it's a lovely idea Alice." Esme was doing a rocking motion. She stopped when she saw that Karla was waking up. We all turned toward s Esme.

"Momma!" Karla called "Momma! Momma!" Esme walked over to with and placed her in my waiting arms. "Momma," squeaked Karla. She wrapped her arms around my neck and I hugged her.

"Looks like Karla's going to be okay with the adoption." Edward smiled. I felt bad though that she replaced her real mother with me. "You aren't replacing her Alice. She simply wants you to be her mother now. She understands what happened and wants to be with you. Even with you Jasper."

"Me? But I haven't even spoken a few word to her." Jasper was confused.

"Well she likes you know and wants you to her father."

"Oh, Jasper we're parents." I sighed happily. I looked down at Karla and her eyes were glowing. We heard a loud crash from upstairs.

"Crap!" said Emmet.

"Emmet, what did you do!?" yelled Esme.

"Nothing." he spoke like a little kid.

"He was jumping on his bed from being too excited about adding Karla to our family." answered Edward.

"Hey, tattle teller!" yelled Emmet. Then he was right in front of me and Jasper. "Can I hold it?"

"She is not an 'it'. Her name is Karla." hissed Jasper.

"Whoa. Looks like it's someones' time of the month." joked Emmet. "Please, Alice. Can I hold my new niece?" he begged. I handed Karla over to Emmet and he started jumping around making Karla laugh. Her laugh was like beautiful wind chimes.

"Don't even think about it, Emmet." said Edward.

"What's he thinking about?" I asked.

"He wants to see how high he can throw her up in the air." Before I could react, Jasper had Emmet pinned on the ground and he was sitting on his chest holding Karla.

"Jasper get of your brother. And Emmet don't you dare throw your niece in the air. I am going to go help Carlisle, so I expect that you will all behave maturely. Right Emmet."

"Why do I always get in trouble?" whined Emmet. Jasper got off of Emmet and walked over to Edward.

"Do you want to hold her?" Edward held his arms out and took Karla from Jasper. Jasper sat down next to me and we watched Edward.

"I wonder if she can talk yet." said Emmet while he leaned over to stare at Karla. "Say Emmet. E-mmet. Emmet."

"Emmie!" giggled Karla.

I guess she likes you too...Emmie," snickered Jasper.

"This sucks. You can't make Jasper sound like a girl name. I mean, even Eddie here has Edwina." pouted Emmet.

"Don't call me that," hissed Edward.

"Call you what? Eddie or Edwina?" asked Emmet.

"Neither of those,"

"Eddie!" squeaked Karla. I couldn't help but laugh as Edward had a playful glare on his face. Emmet was on floor laughing. Emmet stopped laughing when we all heard Karla's stomach grumble. I stood up and took her out of Edward's arms.

"Let's go get you something to eat. Come on Jasper." I walked into the kitchen and sat her on the counter. Then I gasped."Esme. We don't have any food!" I yelled. Esme walked into the kitchen with her keys in her hand.

"Will you boys be alright watching Karla for a bit?" asked Esme in a concerned voice. I knew she was worried about what Emmet would try to do once we left.

"Don't worry Esme. We'll keep here entertained." Emmet said with a goofy grin. I gave Jasper a short kiss and kissed Karla's forehead. Then I left, but not before giving a warning glare at Emmet.

Jasper's POV

I was a bit anxious with being in the house with Emmet while Esme was gone. I knew that he feared her. But now she wasn't here. I was glad that Carlisle was still home. That would keep Emmet under some control. He always went crazy when he was bored. Rosalie was in Paris for college and was going to graduate soon. She decided to go alone for a while just to make Emmet more excited when ever she visited.

I turned to my daughter and saw that she watched as Emmet was balancing some cups on his nose. She clapped her hands everytime he added another. At the moment he had four of Esme's special china.

"Emmet, Esme is going to kill you if you drop those." said Edward. He was leaning against the wall with his arms crossed.

"Well she's not going to because I'm an expert at this." he gloated. He then added a fifth cup and all of the cups crashed to the ground and shattered. Me and Edward were trying our hardest not to laugh. But Karla couldn't contain it.

"Emmie is in trouble! Emmie is in trouble!" she laughed. Emmet was as still as a statue. He just continued to stare at the pieces of glass with his mouth open.

"Emmet clean the glass up before Karla gets hurt." I ordered Emmet.

"Oh my Jesus juice!" He finally yelled, which scared Karla. "Esme is going to kill me. No. She's going to obliterate me."

"Wow Emmet, I didn't know that you knew that word." mocked Edward.

"Watch it, or I'll I shove my foot up your a-"

"Don't use profanity in front of my daughter." I covered Karla's ears and she just looked confused. I smiled at her and she smiled back. I could feel the love flowing off of her.

"Why don't you read her a book?" suggested Edward.

"I wanna read to her. I know the perfect book." said Emmet.

"First clean up the glass. I said.

"Yes sir." Emmet saluted me.

After Emmet cleaned up the glass, I took Karla back to the living room. I set her on my lap as we waited for Emmet to pick out a story to read.

"Jazz. Jazzy." giggled Karla. She sat up and gave me a kiss on my cheek.

"I found it!" Emmet ran appeared in front of us and scared Karla a bit.

"Emmet don't do that, you frightened her." I hugged h closer.

"Sorry munchkin." Emmet had given my daughter a nickname. He pulled out a book that was hidden behind his back.

"Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham?" I read. Emmet sat on the couch and began to read.

"I am I am. That Sam-I-am!Than Sam-I-am! I do not like that Sam-I-am!"He read in a high voice. "Do you like green eggs and ham? I do not like them Sam-I-am."

"Couldn't you have found a different book?" asked Edward.

"No! Not quit interrupting story time." said Emmet. "Would you like them here or there? I would not like them here or there. I would not like them anywhere. I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them Sam-I-am." Emmet stopped to think for a while. "I think this guy was pregnant or something."

"Men can't get pregnant Emmet. And why do you think that anyways?" I asked.

"Because this Seuss dude writes green eggs and ham like a lot. Plus what human would want to eat green ham. Besides pregnant woman. Hey what if this Dr. guy is a chick?" Emmet pondered. Yup, my brother was an idiot with the imagination a 5 year old.

"Now don't go and insult the 5 year olds Jasper." Edward said obviously hearing what I had thought. Emmet finally finnished the book after countless times of him asking us if we were sure that men couldn't become pregnant.

"Why don't you try it then Emmet?" I joked.

"I can't" he whined. "Rose isn't here and you can't have sex with yourself or else t just be called masturbating. And that's for people who can't get any. Right Edward?" grinned Emmet. Edward pounced on him and they wrestled on the ground knocking over lamps and furniture.

Just then Esme and my love walked in through the front door holding groceries.

"Emmet Cullen! What did I say about acting mature!" she yelled. I got up with Karla in my arms and walked over to Alice. I bent my head down and gave her a kiss. I would have pulled her closer, but we were preoccupied. I followed her into the kitchen while Esme was busy scolding Edward and Emmet for making a mess in the living room.

"Did you have a fun time?" Alice asked as she stocked our cabinets with food walking gracefully from cabinet to cabinet.

"Karla had fun." I tickled Karla side. She was wiggling in my arms full of laughter.

"What'd you do?"

"Emmet read a story to Karla."

"That was nice of him." She smiled. Esme walked into the room and I handed Karla to her.

"So Karla what would you like to eat?" Esme asked in a loving voice.

"Green eggs and ham!" announced Karla.

"Oh fudge crackers! Karla's pregnant!" exclaimed from the living room.