Like always, characters used or mentioned are not mine.

Warnings are all the same: daddy!kink and daddy relationship. Carlisle and Edward are NOT related.

Again, huge thanks and hugs to vampireisthenewblack for beta-ing this for me.

**Super important author's note at the bottom.**


Edward almost regretted bringing Alice along. He loved her but she was getting on his last nerve. "Just chill out. We're not going to get kicked out."

She sighed again. They had fake IDs but they were there just in case. Alice, who was claiming to be twenty-one, couldn't pass as her real age of nineteen due her size and her fairy-like features. Edward, who was also passing himself off as twenty-one, was more believable only because he was taller than she was. He was still too boyish looking to look his real age of eighteen.

Edward felt Alice tense next to him as they got closer and closer to the small bar. "They're going to kick us out as soon as we walk in."

He rolled his eyes. "Maybe you," he joked before telling her to just relax as they walked through the door.

No one seemed to pay attention as they awkwardly walked through the small bar, unsure of what to do, where to go, or where to sit.

"This place is creepy," Alice whispered through her clenched teeth. "There's only old men here."

Exactly, Edward thought.

It wasn't until his third time visiting the establishment, alone this time, that he finally found what he was looking for.

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Edward sat on the table, the paper crinkling every time he made the slightest move. The nurse checked his blood pressure and asked some basic questions, then after she figured out Edward wasn't going to be a particularly easy patient to deal with, she went and got the doctor.

After a few short moments of waiting, there was three short taps at the door before it opened to reveal a handsome man with blond hair and blue eyes.

"Hello, Edward. I'm Dr. Cullen." The doctor stuck his hand out for a handshake, but pulled it back after realizing Edward wasn't going to take it.

Edward watched the doctor as he read the boy's file. He studied his handsome face but quickly stopped feeling almost panicked and guilty for looking at another man.

"Well, you didn't give the nurse much information. Want to tell me why you're in here today?"

Edward shifted on the table, and the crinkling of the paper was loud in his ears.

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Just in case, he told the boy as he handed him a yellow sticky note.

The doctor watched as Edward walked away with the yellow piece of paper crumpled in his fist.

Doctor Cullen had seen many cases like Edward's, but mostly in women and children. He knew the signs and he knew the bruise on his ribs was not from falling.

He hated letting the boy go but he had to.


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