Chapter 2

P.O.V Carlisle

I was up all night with my children, two of the three caught fevers from other little devils in school. To make matters worse my nanny arrived late and told me that in two weeks she would no longer be working for me. She was sick of the long and sporadic hours and as she put it the obnoxious drive to my house in the middle of nowhere. She was so overdramatic sometimes. I sighed as I was walking out of the house after kissing each of the children. The nanny is going to have her hands full with the twins and the littlest member of our family Alice, who just turned a year old. Thinking of birthdays reminded me that the twins would be 5 next month with everything going on, I almost forgot.

On my way to work as I drove along the winding roads, I was lost in thought, but finally snapped out of it when something small and shiny caught my eye. I pulled over and stepped out, curious to know what it was. After all these years being alive even the small things still caught my eye. The road was empty since it was near my house on the outskirts of town. So I did not have to worry too much about being hit on the side of the road. The thing I spotted was a gold bracelet with green gems. I picked it up gently careful not to scratch it on the pavement. For some odd reason as I looked down at this bracelet in my hand everything seemed right.

"Ah, my lucky charm". I spoke aloud. I hooked the bracelet along my belt loop and got back on the road to head to work. My spot in the front of the smaller hospital was always a little embarrassing. I did not like having the attention, but as the head doctor who is above everyone else it was necessary or as the owner of the building said do not be ashamed of the talent you have.

I walked through the hospital doors smiling nicely at all the people I saw. As I entered my office, I hung my jacket on the coat hook and hurried to my desk quickly to open my laptop and see what doctors were on today. I worked Monday through Friday and on the weekend; I spent every second I could with my family only ever coming in for major emergencies. I thought back to the one time of the four-car wreck that led to 9 people being severely injured and I had to come in.

A knock on the door broke me from my thoughts. It was my own personal assistant nurse Emily Young. Although naturally wolves and vampires do not get along thankfully the local wolf pack or as I like to call them family, get along exceptionally, well with me. To the point of Emily and Sam being the godparents of the twins and second in command Jared and Kim being the godparents of Alice. We were all family and together nothing could come and disrupt the land.

"Carlisle Doctor Lightwood is taking in a patient now that was in a car accident and wanted to know if you could take over his other two patients."

I got up to follow Emily out of my office and down to the patient rooms. The hospital was not particularly busy but a decent amount of patients filled the beds. Most just being tended by nurses.

"Why am I taking over these two cases? Why not the new patient?"

"The new patient had her leg pretty damaged and they needed to do surgery pretty quickly because her leg was losing a lot of blood and they didn't think that you were even here yet."

I nodded "I only got here maybe two minutes before you came in."

"Mhm, would have been too late."

The door to our side opened and out came a hospital bed with a women on it. It must have been the girl in the accident. I looked briefly at her face and felt a small pull but ignored it, her eyes were looking elsewhere but when they met mine, the pull became stronger. Her eyes widened and she started becoming restless and making noises. I motioned for Emily to continue walking.

Did she realize I was a vampire? Did she sense it? Was I doomed and going to be forced to move. This would really ruin things that I was trying to get done.

I brushed my fingertips against my lucky charm and prayed it would work to keep everything on track.

Three broken arms from kids climbing trees at recess and falling, two people who thought they were dying with their head cold and one elderly man who fell and bruised his bum. Today could have been worse but it thankfully the work load did not become to heavy. As the time reached 4:30 I grabbed my bag and coat and practically ran out of the hospital and to my car to get home to my sick kiddos.

As I walked to the front door two little blond heads were sticking their faces against the glass and I looked at them and waved which made them start jumping around excitedly. I walked in quickly to squeals of daddy and the twins pulling on my dress pants trying to get all of my attention. I shrugged of my coat and threw it on the bench with my brief case, id deal with it later. I lifted Rosalie and Jasper into my arms and walked them too the living room couch and sat down with them on either side of me.

"Rose is Anna upstairs with Alice?"

"No daddy Anna left and said she hated us."

If blood was pumping through my body, my face would have been red. I ran upstairs to grab Alice and make sure she was okay. As I checked her over she was fine she must have just woken up and was actually changed from the clothes she had on this morning. I lifted her up gently as she rested her head on my shoulder.

I walked down the stairs to see the twins had managed to put on the wonder pets and were both singing alone. I laid Alice on her play mat on the floor in front of the tv so she could join her older siblings. I looked down and smiled happily at my little family. I walked towards the kitchen to call the chief of police.

"Hello Chief Swan, I just want to know what the protocol is for a baby sitter leaving children unattended for, saying she hates them and leaving without notifying the parent."

" Dr. Cullen I know exactly how much stress you've been under about the whole adoption situation after we met last week in the hospital because of Bella, do not worry let me do this for you. I will take care of everything."

"Thank you Chief."

I hung up the phone to only have my phone ring again instantly. I looked at the it was the lawyers office.

"Hello?"

"Hi Dr. Cullen, its Mary from the office. We have handed your case over to a different lawyer one we feel is better suited for you. Your meeting is scheduled for 11 am tomorrow morning. I have emailed over the lawyers contact information so you can get in touch with them to meet."

I said thank you and then hung up the phone feeling agitated that now I did not have a baby sitter.

I went back to the couch with laptop in hand ready to look up more information about the lawyer and figure out where we could meet because I would still have the kids unless the twins feel better and go to school tomorrow but that still left Alice.