A little milder today, hehe. Daddyward always makes me warm and fuzzy inside. Enjoy.

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Penname: Jburdick

Original or Derivative (fanfiction): Derivative

Rating/Warning(s)/Note(s): M, for language

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Prompt: Dialogue Flex: "But how can that be?" she asked.

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"Whoa! Lily, calm yourself child!" I held my hands out in front of me to block the assault of bubbles and water coming at me. She was a five year old spitfire ball of energy and wits…and however much we tried to deny it, she was a spitting image of my wife and I.

"NO! NO! NO!" Lily shouted through a peel of giggles and splashing. "Daaaaddddyyyyy! Where's Mommy? I want Mommy to wash me!" She whined, throwing her hands down into the tub causing another tidal wave of water to cover my lap. Lovely.

"She'll be home soon, Sweetheart." I mumbled, wiping a towel across my jeans.

"Alright. Now, let's wash your hair, doll face." I said, grabbing the baby shampoo from the ledge of the tub.

"No! I don't wanna. I want my ducky!"

"You have your ducky."

"Want the pink one!"

"Honey, you have the purple one…and the blue one, you'll be fine with those."

"NO! NO! NO!"

"Yes! Yes! Ye-" A stream of water hit me in the face mid-sentence, followed by yet another peel of laughter. No matter what she did I swear that sound always made me smile.

Bella chose that moment to make her appearance. Shock and amusement took over her face as she took in the scene in front of her. "What the heck happened in here?" She asked, the corner of her mouth lifting slightly.

"Mommy! Me and Daddy played…I won! Wanna wash my hair?" She grabbed the bottle of shampoo from me and held it out to her mother with a sweet smile on her face. Devil Child.

I heard the phone ringing in the distance and excused myself to get it while my girls finished up. I wasn't at all surprised to find out it was my mom on the line…but what she had to say completely shocked me.

"Who was that?" Bella asked, rinsing the suds from Lily's hair with a cup.

"My mother." I responded almost robotically, staring past Bella, focusing on a spot on the wall. My head felt a bit befuddled and I was finding it hard to focus.

"Is everything okay?" She asked, sounded more than slightly worried.

"Um…She's pregnant." I muttered, the words sounded so wrong in my head. I mean come one…I'm thirty two…my Mother is in her mid fifties, that may be young in general but too old to have a baby!

"But…How can that be?" She asked, the same shock on her face now as well. "I thought your father had a vasectomy. Didn't he?" She pulled the plug in the tub, standing Lily up to dry her; who was being surprisingly quiet to be honest.

I shrugged and rubbed my jaw roughly. "I thought so too. Fuck, how did this happen? I think I am a little too old to have a baby sibling…Jesus Christ, what are they thinking?"

Bella stood with Lily in her arms, wrapped in a towel. "Language, please." She hissed, eyeballing our daughter.

"So what, are they gonna actually have it?"

I nodded. "From what I gathered, yea. I seriously cannot fuc- frigging believe this!" I ground out, shock turning to anger, that frankly I didn't really understand, I mean, what was there to even be mad about? It wasn't my kid. But still I couldn't shake the uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach.

Bella grinned at my word save and touched my face gently. "It'll be alright, baby."

I shrugged again and followed her out of the bathroom towards Lily's room to put her to bed.

Once she was tucked in and snoring, Bella and I made our way out of the room. I shut the light, hopefully shutting my brain off for the night too.

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