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It was the next day, and everyone was taking the day off to help me move. Edward was always somewhere near by, and Dad never even left the same room as me. He was actually watching me, amused, while I fussed over what they were doing with my stuff. Alice was throwing out practically everything telling me I didn't need it, or that it was hideous. Rosalie was preventing me from doing anything to Alice, or fetching my stuff myself. Jasper sat with Dad with the exact same expression, like he was suppressing laughter, while Emmett didn't even try to hide it. As for Esme, when Alice couldn't throw something out or move it to my 'room', it became Esme's job.
When Alice found my old dress from when I was human she was almost laughing and telling me that it was definitely garbage. Finally when I had enough I did something I hadn't in hundreds of years. "Dad!" I whined and when he noticed he had to get between me and Alice his eyes widened.
"Yes Bella?" he responded after composing himself and I pointedly looked over at Alice holding my dress. "Alice, Bella tends to be a tad nostalgic, can you let her keep that one dress?" he tried and Alice huffed, but then smiled.
"Fine, but only if you and Bella go spend some father daughter time to get her out of here," Alice bargained and Dad looked at me and then nodded.
When I looked at him slack jawed he answered "I saved your dress dear." He grabbed me from Rosalie and placed his arm around me leading me upstairs. "I've been meaning to talk to you anyways," he sighed and I finally just relaxed into his side.
"Fine, but if Alice throws out anything else valuable it's on your conscious," I threatened, his response was merely a chuckle. He led me into his study. As we entered I closed my eyes, pushing back the memories of the last time I was here. Even though I had my father back I still found myself wrestling with my human memories. It didn't make sense, I was aware, but I was working hard and I was finally beginning to make some success.
"Bella, dear, are you alright?" Dad asked. I watched as he sat down on a couch by the door. I hadn't noticed the couch when I first came in here. I settled down next to him curling my legs under me.
"Of course, why would you think otherwise?" I asked looking at him innocently.
"Well you're making a big deal out of moving here. We had to fight with you to get you to even think of agreeing," he explained. I adverted my eyes down to my hands as I clasped and unclasped them in my lap.
"It just seems strange, I spent the whole time in this town trying to hide my existence from you, and now it just feel odd," I told him as I began to fiddle with my necklace.
"Why did you do that?" he inquired looking at me pleadingly.
"I don't know," I sighed after a moment of silence. "I guess it was just, when I saw your new family, I felt as though you didn't need me anymore and my being here would be an unnecessary difficulty to your new life. You had successfully replaced me an-" I was rambling when he cut me off.
"Replaced you?" he demanded looking utterly confused. "Why on earth would you think I could replace you?" he asked, hurt was reflecting in his eyes, making me feel bad about my assumptions.
"W-Well, with Alice and Rosalie, I just thought... even the boys. Especially today, with Alice, you see her as your daughter," I tried and failed to explain my reasoning.
"Alice and Rosalie are my daughters, but you, Bella, are my little girl. I didn't raise Alice or Rosalie, and replacing your memory was never my intent. I was hoping to find Edward a mate, and that's where Rosalie came in-" I giggled at that, Rosalie and Edward seemed to always be butting heads and the image of them being together was just too funny "-and Alice came here looking for a family she couldn't remember," he finished explaining and pulled me into a hug. "Bella, never a day went by that I didn't wonder how you were doing, where any children of yours may be, if you died peacefully, if you had a happy life," he whispered. I closed my eyes feeling ashamed of my thoughts, I should have known my father wouldn't try to replace me.
Suddenly he disappeared from my side. I watched as he quickly scanned his bookshelf, picked out a particularly old and worn looking book, before coming back to my side. "I scan through this book often," he told me before opening the cover, revealing a picture of me around the age of 4. I watched, amazed, as he flipped through a couple of pages revealing many picture of him, my grandfather, and I up until I was 10. Part of my amazement was due to the fact that these images were perfectly intact wet plate collodion's. That was the type of photography we used when I was human as they had yet to develop modern photography, but I hadn't seen one since I was changed.
I expected the photos to end as his human life did, but they continued until my wedding. I raised an eyebrow and asked "Taking hidden pictures?" He smiled sheepishly but nodded, looking unashamed. "You know, some people would consider that very stalker like of you," I commented offhandedly and he laughed.
"Considering you're my daughter, I hope you won't call the cops on my behaviour, though it'd be interesting how you would explain that with these photos," he gestured to the book of old wet plate collodions. "I don't imagine it would help my doctor career if people thought I had stalker tendencies," he joked, causing me to laugh.
He became serious as he assured me "Bella, I would never replace you. I could never replace you, there is no one like you." I wrapped my arms around his neck.
"I get that from you," I whispered before pulling away to take a better look at the pictures he had taken. We spent majority of that day in his office catching up, spending some father-daughter bonding time. When we finally emerged from his study in the late afternoon everything appeared to have calmed down, signaling that they must have finished moving things into my room. I was still upset they wouldn't let me help, yet relieved at the same time as I had the chance to reconnect with my father.
Dad led me downstairs and I noticed Edward sitting in the living room flipping through a book, looking far too innocent. "Edward, what are you doing?" I asked suspiciously. He looked up with an innocent expression motioning to the book.
"Seriously bro, you've been sitting there all afternoon flipping through that book. Vampire or not, you cannot read that fast," Jasper scoffed, entering the room with Alice by his side. Edward's eyes lost the innocent look, but he merely shrugged not seeming to be bothered by the information.
"Well, either way, put that dreadful book down, Esme has news!" Alice instructed with a smile when Esme entered the living room and went over to Dad.
"The Denali's just called, they asked if it was alright if they came to visit us seeing as we haven't seen them since we moved from Alaska. I thought it was an excellent idea, I love talking with Carmen and I know you enjoy having conversations with Eleazar, so I agreed. I also told them they could meet the newest addition to our family," she smiled warmly at me, and it was hard not to return the gesture.
"Sounds excellent Esme," Dad agreed, however I didn't miss the groan that came from Edward and the following snicker from Alice.
"Come on Edward, it'll be fun!" she giggled and sat down next to him. I was confused, something Jasper quickly picked up on.
"One of the Denali members has taken quite the interest in Eddie," he chuckled, earning a growl from Edward at the name, or the information, possibly both I wasn't sure.
"And Edward will be a gentlemen, as he always is," Esme responded waving off Alice and Jasper in an attempt to help her oldest son. I smiled at the gesture, watching how my father held her close as she returned to their hushed conversation.
"They'll be arriving tomorrow," Alice told us after we fell into a comfortable silence. I had left my Dad with Esme and went to sit with Alice and Edward on the couch.
I started chewing on my lip, I was afraid of what they would think of me. I decided I should at least know who they were, so I asked "Who are the Denali's?"
"They're a group of vegetarians like us; it's made up of Irina, Kate, Tanya, Carmen and Eleazar. We consider them sort of extended family that we don't see often. In a way they're like... cousins'," Alice explained, at first having trouble finding a proper word to describe their relation.
"Didn't anyone tell Tanya you don't date your cousins," Edward grumbled between us, and the room was filled with Alice's bell like laugh.
"Not by blood," she sang before getting up and skipping over to Jasper. I started to think, the Denali's were like cousins' to my father, that being the case I knew I had to make a good first impression. I was getting nervous about they're arrival, and Edward seemed to notice.
"Don't worry Bella, they'll love you," he assured me, and I tried to believe him. Surely he would know if they'd like me or not.
Despite his assurances, I couldn't shake the feeling that something bad was going to happen.
A/N: So, there it is. Some father daughter bonding there. It took me awhile to figure out what kind of photography they used then, I looked up the history and it just kept telling me the how, not the what. Do you guys want to see something CREEPY? Go look up "Wet Plate Collodions" on google images, it's so creepy, did they never hear of smiling a little?
Well, hope the chapter was good, this one was a little hard to write. Please drop a review, I love the feedback. Till next time my pretties!