Chapter Two – Foundations of Family

JPOV

"Daddy," his little angel squealed running over to where he was standing.

"Hey Violet," he said, picking her up and spinning her around, listening to her giggles. "Did you have a good day at school with grandma and Jake?" gently placing her back down on the ground.

Violet nodded "Yeah, there was a new boy his name's Ollie. He just moved here, but he's really nice and funny" she said in a rush. He smiled at his little girl.

"It's good you're making new friends", trying to hide his complete joy, she always seemed really withdrawn and would only talk to her cousin or older family.

"Go and grab your things" he advised, watching as she raced off, her black curly hair bouncing behind her.

"Hey mom" he said hugging his mother tightly giving her a quick kiss on the cheek "was she good?" Looking back over to where she was walking around the room making sure she had everything.

"Of course she's my most well behaved student, well apart from Jake but she was really taken with little Oliver today, made friends with him as soon as he walked through the door," she smiled.

He nodded glad his little girl had made a new friend "Sorry I'm late, one of the students wanted to ask a question about their project I hope I didn't keep you here?" he said feeling bad about always being late.

"Nonsense Jasper you know I love looking after Violet, and besides Ollie's mom was late picking him up, lost track of time" she said.

He smiled glad he hadn't been the only one.

"Are you coming over for dinner tonight?" asked Esme looking up at her son "Rosalie said she might pop by with her latest boyfriend"

He cringed "I think I'll pass, anyway Ed wants me to come by and look at his car he swears he hears a clunking noise when he starts her up" he replied, Esme raised an eyebrow

"Bella says it's his sanity finally becoming un-stuck but I better check it out just in case" he said laughing; Esme laughed as well. It wasn't news to her about her son's obsessive nature with his car.

"OK well if you finish early you're more than welcome to pop over with my darling granddaughter," she said watching the little girl walking over to them.

"OK mom, if not we'll see you tomorrow bright and early as usual. Come on Miss Violet, let's be heading home".

"Bye Grandma" said Violet hugging her tight and kissing her cheek, before running to him, he quickly lifted her up even though she really was too old for it.

"Hey Jasper" said a beautiful brunette women opening the front door with a bulging stomach.

"Hey Bell's" he greeted stepping into the house, removing his jacket and taking Violet's off as well, placing them on the coat rack.

"Is the crazy one home yet?" he looked around Bella laughing.

"I heard that" said Edward a mock scowl on his face as he walked into the hallway "Hey Violet, when will you see sense and leave him for us" he said kneeling down to his niece and hugging her.

"Silly Uncle Edward" said Violet laughing at him "Aunt Bella is Jake around?" she asked hugging her aunt quickly.

"Of course, he's in the living room. Why don't you head in and I'll bring you some juice in a bit" said Bella ushering the girl towards the door on the right.

"OK" said Violet skipping over to the room "Jakeeeey" she sang.

He smiled as he watched her go before turning back to his brother "So let's take a look at the car and this so called 'clanking noise'" he said with inverted comma's Bella laughed.

"There is a noise I know there is," said Edward huffing slightly.

"Of course there is, dear" said Bella, waddling off to the kitchen.

"Come on dearest brother of mine" said Edward, walking with him into the attached garage and heading to the silver Volvo in the corner.

"How's Bella doing?" he asked as he popped the hood.

"Better," said Edward "She's feeling less tired and sick, which is good so she can walk about a little more but I'm keeping a close eye on her".

He nodded as he bent over the engine taking a closer look "How long before the big day?" knowing Edward probably had it timed down to the last second.

"Two week's, give or take a minute" Edward replied a smile in his voice.

He snorted a little, control freak he thought.

"OK turn her on for me?" he asked watching the engine carefully as Edward started her up, the clanking noise probably wouldn't have been heard by anyone except someone who knows a bit about them or by an obsessive control freak like his brother.

"Your fan belts a little loose, nothing major we can take it over to the garage at the weekend" he said, grabbing a spare rag from the bench top and wiping his hands.

Edward was scowling down at the car "Come on then" he said smacking his brother in the stomach with the rag "Let's see if Bella is giving out cookies with that juice" he chucked the rag onto the bench top and ran out of the garage before Edward could retaliate.

"Thanks again for dinner Bella" he said as he helped a very sleepy Violet put her coat on, kissing his sister-in-law on the cheek and hugging his brother.

"Not a problem Jasper, you know you and Violet are more than welcome over any time" he smiled.

Carefully he picked up Violet, who already falling asleep "Edward, don't forget tomorrow" turning back to his brother.

"I know you've got parents evening, and I'm picking up Violet and Jake. They can have a sleep over and I'll drop them both at school on Friday morning" said Edward.

Jasper nodded "night guys and thanks again".

He carefully placed Violet in the back and quickly did up her seatbelt before hopping into the driver's seat and started the engine, waving to his family before pulling off into the night, his thoughts already turning to the painful evening that awaited him the next day.

He looked around at the full room of expectant parents and nervous children, what he wouldn't give to be at home with Violet and listening to her talk about her day instead of sat behind his desk and desperately trying to convince the parents that he had to teach all the children in his class equally and no he couldn't forget them and give some one-on-one teaching to their special child.

He sighed as another set of parents left his table to look around the room at some of the completed projects while he tried to gather another smile for the next family slowly making their way over, quickly glancing at the clock seeing that he still had three hours left of torture.

Waving as the last parents left, he breathed a sigh of relief and looked around at the now empty room, he filed the last reports and locked up, waving and nodding to fellow teachers as he past through the dark halls and out into the parking lot.

He finally made it home at eleven, quickly brushing his teeth and discarding his clothing before crawling into bed at least I can have a lie in tomorrow he thought as he gently drifted off to sleep.

Authors Note: I would like to say a big thanks to my beta brokenfromthepast for taking on this task and working so diligently and quickly and for sticking around to look at some one-shots.

So this is the second chapter down and there is still more to come. This fic is completely finished and I will be posting two chapters a week depending on time constraints.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to read and review the first chapter I hope you like what's to come