Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight, I am not Stephenie Meyer. So, I don't own those gorgeous Cullen boys or the fabulous Rosalie and Alice nor the ever falling Bella.
Author's Note: So I get it…you all love Edward and Bella. I mean I loved the two of them just as much as you do…but I have a special place in my heart for all of the Cullens and the pack and any other random characters that might pop like Peter and Charlotte. I love them all equally. Side characters need love too! :D
With that said…I present to you the next chapter of Nine Months in the Making. Full of Edward and Bella and Jasper and Alice. A brief cameo from our newlyweds Rosalie and Emmett and a few choice words from our resident doctor and his lovely wife, Dr. and Mrs. Cullen.
BPOV:
I'll be the first to admit…
The past weekend I spent with Edward was…phenomenal. We'd spent the weekend at his cabin on Mt. Rainier just being together. Making up for lost time, rekindling our love, whatever you wanted to call it. Either way, we spent the entire weekend alone.
The questions that whirled around in my head for a good forty-eight hours were answered. To be honest, I was thrilled at the answers. Surprised? I am.
"Edward, were you serious the other day?" I asked.
Ever since he mentioned the whole 'let's elope to Vegas' idea, I couldn't help but wonder if he was actually serious.
"Serious about what?" he asked as he stopped dancing.
"Thursday before you went to go save lives, you talked about Vegas, getting married."
The corners of his lips smirked up forming that gorgeous smile of his. Blushing, I immediately dropped my gaze from his eyes to the sparks of the fire.
"I did." Pausing, he placed his fingers under my chin, turning my head back to look at him. "-and I meant every single word. Bella, I love you, you know that. There's nothing more that I would want then to be with you forever. Although I do have to say, I wouldn't propose to you in the middle of an on call room without a ring. Not exactly how I would've planned it." he smirked.
"Other plans? Edward do you think about this a lot?"
"Truthfully, yes I do. I live for the moment I can wake up every morning, turn over and see your beautiful smile. I want to raise a family with you, grow old with you. In due time, it'll all happen. When the moment is right, it'll happen." He reassured me
And when that day would come I would be ready and waiting.
Edward unlocked the door to his parent's house and opened the door.
"Ladies first." he smirked, motioning for me to step into the house.
"Mommy!" Leilah exclaimed as her bare feet smacked against the wooden floors of the Cullen's hallway.
I bent down to pick her up and she ran straight into my arms.
"Hey, Leilah Anne. How was your weekend? Did you have fun with Grandpa Carlisle and Grandma Esme?" I asked standing back up next to Edward.
"Yeah! We watched movies and baked cookies. Grandpa Carlisle let me play with his st-st-eth-o-o…"
"Stethoscope?" Edward smiled as he helped Leilah out with the word.
"Yeah! Stethoscope! I heard his heart mommy!" she exclaimed.
"She's was an angel, Bella. You really do have a lovely daughter." Esme said as her and Carlisle walked into the foyer. "You did an amazing job raising her."
"Thank you. It was hard, but I wouldn't have been able to get through it without the support I have from everyone. She really is quite something though, isn't she?" I said, pulling Leilah tighter into my arms.
"Thanks for watching her this weekend, guys. I really do appreciate it." Edward added.
"Yes, thank you guys so, so much." I said.
"It was our pleasure Bella, anytime. With our children out of the house it does get a little quiet around here." Carlisle said.
"Leilah honey, why don't we go get those cookies we made this morning packed up so you can take them home with you?" Esme said.
"Okay!" Leilah exclaimed wiggling out of my arms and taking Esme's awaiting hand.
I turned to look at Edward who was quietly talking to Carlisle.
"Well, I'm glad to hear you two had a great weekend. I've got some work to do. I'll see you later, Bella." Carlisle said as he gave me a hug and walked away to his office.
Edward enveloped me in his arms and sighed.
"Thank you for this weekend." I said.
"You're welcome, Bella. It was all my pleasure. Believe me."
"We'll go back again some day?"
"Of course. You're welcome to it any time. What's mine is yours, Bella." he whispered, placing a kiss on my forehead.
"Hey, Edward?"
"Yes, love?"
"Do you think this time around we can take it slow? I mean don't get me wrong, I don't plan on going anywhere, but can we ease into everything?"
I took a step forward towards him. "You know take the time to reconnect and learn each other again." I cooed tracing my finger down his chest.
"Of course." he gulped. I noticed his breathing was heavier. "We'll take it one step at a time. You control the pace."
EPOV:
After dropping Bella and Leilah off at their house I made the dreaded trip home. After Bella had mentioned that Emmett and Rosalie were in Vegas getting married I had a feeling the return home would be different then usual.
I turned my key in the lock and pushed the door open.
"Hey Edward." Rosalie exclaimed from the couch in the living room as I walked in.
"Hey Rosalie. How are you doing?" I asked as I plopped down next to her.
"Um-well-I-actually-you see…" she stammered.
"Hey, Mrs. McCarty I got you those…" Emmett boomed as he walked into the living room carrying a bag of potato chips, nearly dropping the bag when he saw me.
"Mrs. McCarty, eh?" I smirked turning towards Rosalie.
"Well…" she sighed.
"No worries Rose, I'm not mad. Congratulations, you two." I exclaimed pulling Rosalie in for a hug.
"Edward, that's not all." Rosalie said. "We might as well tell you the whole thing. I mean you do live with us."
"What do you mean when you say us?" I asked.
"Well yeah I asked Rosie to move in with me, well us I guess. We're married, she's over here all the time anyways. So, I mean, it's only smart that she lives here. Besides the lease to her apartment is up next month anyways." Emmett explained.
"We thought that maybe if you wanted to, you could take over the lease at my apartment. It's just around the corner from the hospital, already furnished. That's if you want Edward." Rosalie offered.
"I'll think about it. I'd like to keep options open for now." I replied.
I wonder what Bella would think about me moving in with her?
"Just let us know." Rosalie said.
"But as we were saying." Emmett added.
"I'm pregnant!" Rosalie announced with a smile on her face.
"Wow, I'm surprised." I managed to lie through my teeth. "Congratulations you two."
"Well, it was a surprise to me too." Emmett chuckled. "Here we are walking arm in arm down the aisle, officially as Mr. and Mrs. McCarty and Rosalie blurts out, 'I'm pregnant.'"
"You're the one that fainted!" Rosalie joked.
"You took me by surprise, Rosie." He looked down at her. "Fact of the matter is, I couldn't be any more thrilled." Emmett admitted lovingly.
"Aw, Emmett…" Rosalie whispered.
"Alright, alright, hate to break up the love fest, but I'm beat. It's been a long weekend." I said a smirk appearing on my face as I remembered the amazing weekend I had with Bella.
"Oh? That's right Edward, you were off. What'd you do? Where'd you go?" Emmett asked.
"No where important, just out." I replied as I started to walk up the stairs.
"Uh huh, sure Edward. Nowhere important with someone very important!" Emmett yelled.
APOV:
"Alice, can we talk for a minute?" Jasper asked as he walked into the living room, one hand behind his back.
He was hiding something and I wasn't sure that I liked it.
"What's on your mind?" I said as I shifted on the couch setting my drawing pad on the coffee table.
Jasper sat down setting whatever he was hiding to the opposite side of him. Taking my hands into his he began to fidget with them. He was nervous. He couldn't look me in the eye, all he could focus on was my hands in his.
"Jas, just tell me. What's wrong?" I said. As I lifted my hand from his and tilted his chin so our eyes met.
"Alice…" he sighed. "I'm a little upset."
"Why? What's the matter? What happened?"
"It's just…" a smirk appeared on his face. "Our son doesn't have a name yet." He reached behind him to pull out the object he's been hiding…a baby name book.
"Jasper, you had me worried there for a second." I giggled snuggling up to his chest. "Let's fix that problem."
He wrapped his arms around me opening the baby name book up so we could both see.
"Oh, what about this one Jas?" I said pointing to the page.
"Adam?" Jasper asked scrunching his face up.
"It's biblical." I added. "Adam and Ev-."
I paused, smirking.
"Alice, we're not naming our son Adam. Just so you can live some fantasy of finding him the perfect girl to marry whose name is Eve."
Damn! He knew me too well.
"But Jasper…" I whimpered.
"Um, how about we just keep looking?" he said frantically flipping through pages.
"Oh! Damien!" I exclaimed sticking my finger on the page as Jasper flipped.
"Alice, I don't want my child named after some demon child from The Omen." Jasper said rolling his eyes.
"You know Damien wasn't always a name with such bad connotation." I explained. "Father Damien became a saint! He helped the lepers in Hawaii on Molokai. It's a good name!"
"Whatever, Alice." Jasper sighed.
"What about Marcus?" He suggested pointing to the name on the page.
"Marcus, it's Latin, meaning from the God Mars. As much as I like the name it just seems like it would belong to some century old man that lives in some ancient city in Italy and thinks he's better than everyone." I commented.
"If you say so, Ali." Jasper laughed as he flipped through a few more pages.
"Oh, what about Eli?" I questioned.
It was a name I'd been throwing around in my head for a couple days now.
"Alice, where did you get Eli from? We're not even in the E section."
"My head, silly." I said playfully slapping him on the arm. "I like the name Eli."
"Well, it doesn't sound right with Whitlock." he paused, "Eli Whitlock. Not too sure about that one Alice. Sorry."
"Oh! What about Sebastian?" I suggested as I stopped his flipping and pointed to the name on the page.
"And you called Marcus an old name?" Jasper scoffed brushing my name suggestion off, flipping a few more pages.
"Taylor?" he suggested.
"Aw! Then we can call him Tay-Tay!" I squealed.
"Never mind." he shrugged.
Serves him right to shoot down my suggestion of Adam.
Jasper continued to flip through the book and we suggested a few other names here and there. Continuing to disagree with every name that each other suggested.
We ended up back at the beginning of the book.
"What about Austin?" Jasper asked. I could help but giggle when he said "Austin". His southern drawl snuck up on him as he spoke.
Hot damn, I could listen to him say "Austin" all night. Add in "Darlin" and "Ma'am", I'd be set.
"Austin Anthony Whitlock." I repeated. It had a nice ring to it.
"Anthony?" Jasper questioned.
I turned to him and smiled. "Anthony." I stated. "It's my brother's middle name. I've always wanted my son's middle name to be his. For some reason I never knew why."
"It works. Austin Anthony." he whispered. If I could read minds I'm sure he'd be chanting the name over and over in his head.
"I'm not sure Emmett will like it though." Jasper added.
"Of course, he wouldn't. Let's keep Austin open as an option. Let's keep looking."
I turned my focus back to the book and Jasper kept flipping through the pages.
"Wait!" I exclaimed. "Go back a page."
His fingers flipped back to the previous page and I smiled.
"What about that one?" I asked pointing to a name on the page. "I like it. It's unique enough, not common."
"It's perfect." Jasper smiled.
Love it? Hate it?
Now that we've caught up with everyone else I believe it's time to move on. I've got some great stuff planned for the last couple of months of nine months. Sad, tragic if I do say so myself.
But if all goes well, which it should, I'm looking to get another chapter out to you guys by Saturday night..Sunday morning. Hopefully..if not well, then it'll be a delayed chapter posted by the beta katiemcullen as she hacks into my computer while I'm on my mini vacation. BUT I want to be the one to post the chapter..cause when she does it she tends to add her two cents into the author's note..so we'll see. Hope...pray...that she hurries her butt up and edits..
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