"Edward!" Edward groaned as he heard the feet running towards his room.
"What?" he asked stepping out into the hallway.
" Annuli's stuck!" Rachel said breathless. Edward stared at her for a second and he could here the quiet cries coming from the stairs. He ran towards them and froze staring at the sight in front of him. Annali's head was stuck thru the bars of the stairs.
"Annali, why do you do this? Your parents are going to be here in a few minutes and they'll see you and kill me!" He said making his way towards the stuck child and kneeling down on the stairs beside her.
"R-Rachel and Jill t-t-told me to do it!" She wailed trying to wrench herself free.
"Oh for the love of- Jillian and Rachel get your butts down here!" He yelled grabbing hold of Annali's shoulders to try and get her to be still so she didn't hurt herself.
"We didn't do it." Rachel said innocently from the top of the stairs. Edward glared and pointed at them both.
"I want you both to go to Jill's room and wait there for me." He hissed. The girls didn't move.
"Now!" He yelled. They shrieked and ran down the hallway as Edward rolled his eyes.
"I want daddy!" Annali screamed.
"I know he will be here in any moment." Edward said wincing at her high pitched screams.
"Daddy! Daddy!" Annali screamed getting louder. Edward got up and walked down the stairs so he could be facing her. He grabbed her face between his hands and held her still.
" Shh, baby. He will be home soon but we have to get you out of here before you hurt yourself." He said trying to sooth her.
"When I say now I want you to try and pull yourself out okay?" Edward said grabbing the bars her head was between.
"Now." He said pulling the apart and she yanked her head out and into the wall. She screamed and held her head in her hands. Edward groaned and walked back up the stairs and gathered the child in his arms. She clung to him and he sat down on the stairs rocking her back and forth. Her sobs soon turned to sniffles and Edward sighed in relief. Then there was another scream and he looked behind him just as there was a crash and all went silent before there were loud screams of fury and pain. Edward got up and ran to Jill's room and almost screamed in frustration when he saw shattered glass and Jill on top of Rachel. He sat Annali down and tried to pull the two girls apart.
"Why can't you two just sit down and be good?" He hissed.
"Daddy!" Jill wrenched herself free from his grip and ran to Jasper who stood in the doorway. He reached down and picked her up
"What's going on?" He asked looking at Edward. Edward let go of Rachel and stood up.
"I'm never doing this again! You're all raising three demons! Jill and Rachel told Annali to stick her head between the bars in the stairs and she got her head stuck. I told them to come in here while I got Annali unstuck and I came in here and found Jill on top of Rachel trying to crush her skull!" He yelled stomping out of the room.
"Jillian!" Jasper set Jill down and knelt down.
"Why were you doing that?" He asked grabbing her shoulders when she tried to back away.
"She broke my picture!" She screamed pointing at a broken picture frame beside her bedside table.
"You don't have to scream Jill." He said standing up and walking over to the broken glass. Jill knelt down beside it and poked a piece of glass. Jasper knelt down and pulled her away from the glass.
"I liked that." She whined and tears glistened in her eyes.
"The picture is fine Jill. It's just the glass that's broken." He sighed pulling the picture of Alice, Jasper and Jill out from under the shards of glass. Jill reached her hand out for the picture and Jasper handed it to her.
"I want you to apologize to Rachel." He said sternly. She stuck her bottom lip out.
"Why?" She whined.
"Because you hit her." Jasper said.
"But she broke my picture!" Jill cried. Jasper sighed and covered his face with one of his hands.
"Please?" He asked trying to stay calm.
"No!" Jill cried diving under the bed. Jasper sighed and grabbed hold of her ankle and pulled her out from under the bed.
"No!" She screamed. "I don't want to die!" Jasper froze and looked down at his sobbing child with a raised brow.
"What?" He asked.
"Your gonna kill me!" She screamed trying to kick his hand away.
"I am not going to kill you." He said shaking his head. Where did she get that idea? He asked himself.
"Yes you are!" She screamed louder.
"Oh for the love of- come here." He stood up and grabbed her before she could dart under the bed again and carried her across the room, grabbing a chair from the little tea party set Esme had bought. Jasper set the chair down in the corner and put Jill down in it. She immediately tried to dart away but Jasper grabbed her around the waist and knelt down beside her.
"No Jill! Now are you going to apologize to Rachel?" He asked making her look him in the eye.
"No!" She screamed in his face before spitting at him. He wiped his face and turned her around before giving her a hard slap across the rear.
"You do not do that Jillian. Now until you decide to say you're sorry to Rachel and me you're going to sit here." He hissed placing her in the chair. She kicked the wall and got up. Jasper pushed her down and held her there.
"I can stay here all day Jill." He hisses at her. She finally stopped struggling and went limp and in the chair and cried. Jasper let go and sat against the wall. He sat there for ten minutes before Jill stopped crying.
"I-I'm s-s-s-sorry!" She whimpered. Jasper smiled in triumph and sat on his knees and beside her.
"I forgive you. Now will you apologize to Rachel?" He asked.
"Y-yes." She whimpered. Jasper held his arms out and she lunged herself at him. He chuckled, stood up and walked to the bathroom so he clean the dry tears off her face.
"See you always have these fits but they never last more than a few minutes." He said whiled running a rag under the facet while she sniffed and sucked her thumb. Jasper knelt down beside the toilet where Jill had her knees up to her chest watching him with red eyes. He pulled her thumb out of her mouth and wiped her face off. When he finished he threw the rag into the sink and wrapped his arms around her again.
"I love you, you know that right?" He asked her softly. She sniffed and nodded against his shoulder.
"I get mad at you but never forget that I love you okay?" He said pushing her away so he could look her in the face. She nodded and he smiled before kissing her cheek. She giggled when he blew a raspberry against her cheek.
"Now let's go apologize to Rachel okay?" He said and she nodded.
( Okay I know I leave alice out a lot but I really really really like writing Jasper and Jill scenes! ^_^)