Chapter SONG: If I didn't have you - From the film quest for Camelot

Chapter Summary:

More humour from the Cullen family as Anthony expresses his views on what the meaning of life actually is.

Original book: Tainted Dawn

Edward POV

"Do you ever think about Space?" Anthony asked me abruptly where we had all been sat around watching the television, each of us discretely fondling our partners, apart from Chris, who was keeping his hands to himself. It was the fact that he wanted to keep his limbs I think, that was restring him from groping my daughter in front of me.

I blinked and looked at me son, "Pardon?"

Anthony sat up straighter "Does space have an end, I mean, or does it just keep going on forever and ever. I mean, if you had a spaceship, could you just go for infinity and never find the end?"

I frowned at him, "Why don't you try it and find out?"

For once my sarcastic tone did nothing to deter my son, who stopped feeling his wife to address me properly, like he thought I might start caring where this conversation went if he did so.

"I'm serious dad, and what if it does have an end, what's there, what's happening?" He breathed.

Bella moaned from where I was kissing her neck, sensing that I was too occupied to reply, "Oh shut up Anthony you'll give yourself a migraine."

"Mum!" He gasped, "But what about the beginning of time, what was there before that, was there no time, was there nothing, come on this doesn't bother anyone see, this doesn't keep you all up at night!" He shouted and looked around to see everyone else kind enough to pretend to be watching the TV rather than him or me and his mother practically dry humping one another on the couch.

He turned around to look at me again, "Dad?"

I sighed and pulled my wife over my shoulder, her giggling and slipping her hands under the seat of my jeans.

"I'm busy doing other things at night." I said firmly and made a mad dash up the stair as my children cringed and groaned.