I apologize about the last chapter, those of you who get the story alerts. was just malfunctioning for a while, and it's supposed to be fixed now. So, if it's not, and this doesn't appear as the ninth chapter, send me a PM and I'll try to fix it. Also let me know if it still shows as being K+. I've been trying to change it to T for obvious reasons, but it wasn't sticking. Anyway, let's get to the story.

"Rose, Emmett, are you two ready to become parents?" Alice asked excitedly the day Damon was due.

Rose grinned, her eyes bright. "Yeah. I mean, I got a small taste of motherhood many years ago when the baby's birth mother was unable to take care of her due to some powerful transformations." She eyed my mom. "But this is for real. I'm really excited. But I wanna see him be born." Rosalie turned to me. "Is there any way we could be there?"

"Well, it depends who's gonna be there. Obviously, Jake and I need to be there, and Edward should be there. Jasper and Alice don't need to be, but they could if they wanted to. Esme can't because everyone at the hospital knows who she is. The age disguises work for the rest of us, but unfortunately, we can't do anything for Esme. My mom could be there, but we'd need a character for her. If she's there as my mom, Karen and Dave may wonder why she didn't come before. So she can stay home and watch her real grandkids." I tilted my head to the door to make sure they were sleeping. They were. "We can pretend she's dead, but you two can be the proud great-grandparents. Make you in your fifties or something." I giggled.

Emmett nodded. "Yeah, that sounds good."

The call came at about nine AM, and after we were dressed and aged appropriately, we all piled into my Dad's Volvo for the ride to the hospital. It was a little cramped with the five of us, but it worked. They brought us in immediately.

"Push!" Carlisle was saying. "We have the top of a head. Push, Karen, push."

After the nurses took him away to do what they did and returned him, Karen handed the blue blanketed monster to me. I rocked him gently, smiling as if he were Conan in my arms.

I didn't need the other part of Jasper's ability to feel Rosalie's longing for her son. "Maybe Damon's great-grandma wants to hold him." I had never seen such gratitude in Rose's wrinkled eyes as I gave her her son.

As much as I saw the adoration in everyone's eyes when I was a baby, my parents hadn't wanted a child for many decades before I was born. Rosalie had and the adoration was immense.

Dave laughed. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say this baby was loved more by his great-granny than his own ma."

We all laughed at his poor joke, a single "ha."

One of the nurses peeked her head in. "Dr. Cullen? Can I speak to you?"

Carlisle turned. "Yeah, of course. Come on in."

"Privately?"

I looked at my dad, who tipped his head in the direction of the door, telling me to follow Carlisle.

"I'm sorry, miss, but I really need to speak to Dr. Cullen privately. I would like it if I could speak to Mrs. Baker also, but I can't."

"He's my son. I may not have given birth to him, but he's still my son with half of my genetics. Karen was just a surrogate of a sort. He's my son. I need to know what's so important about him."

She glanced at Carlisle for permission.

"Miss Masen may come with us. It is her right to know."

I followed him out into a room that resembled a lab.

"His temperature is running at 100.1. Too high. It's unsafe. Also, he has teeth and he bit me. I bled quite severely. That's very alarming."

Carlisle lowered his eyes. "Shit," he mumbled under his breath, low enough to where the nurse wouldn't be able to hear. He shifted his expression into thought and looked up. "I don't know. That is very bizarre, but it's very warm where he just came from. I'll take his temperature myself when most of the crowd has cleared. As for the teeth, he may have teeth, but I doubt he could bite through skin. You probably cut yourself on something." He turned to me. "Go get him."

I brought him to Carlisle, who picked him up and pressed his finger to Damon's front teeth, which did exist. As we knew, his teeth made no purchase at Carlisle's skin.

"It's fine. I'll allow the Masens to take the baby home today while Karen recovers. Maybe you should take the rest of the day off, Giselle. Gather your mind."

When we got home, Jacob aged us back to where we were supposed to be.

Rose was still holding Damon, and Emmett was standing over her. "Aw, a baby of my own with my own genetics. Look, he has your eyes and mouth, and my hands, and that perfect skin tone. And- what is that in the center of his face?"

"That would be a nose," Jasmine interjected. She and Conan greeted me with hugs.

"Yes, I know it's a nose, but it's not normal. It's all big and strange-shaped. Not mine. Not Emmett's. Whose?"

"Karen. She had a nose job. I remember because when I met her I noticed the skin on her nose looked different, like she had had a nose job. Something in his genetics probably got messed up and he ended up with her nose."

Rosalie looked at Carlisle, who had just walked in the door. He was supposed to be taking the afternoon off anyway, but the birth took longer than expected. "The genetics were faulty. They got mixed with the surrogate's. He has the biggest, most hideous nose I've ever seen in my life."

Edward cut in. "Rose, you may want to be careful what you say around him. He's very smart. He understands what you're saying."

"He's a baby. He may be smart, but I have a week yet before he really knows."

My dad shook his head. "Fine, have it your way."