3)An angel
Edward:
Carlisle isn't going to tell me anything through his thoughts or by saying it out loud.
So I just take my cell phone.
"I'll make sure everything at home will be ready for her," I tell Renee with a smile. She nods without looking away from her child as if she is afraid this will be the last time she sees her.
"You look alright," I assure her. "You'll get better." Honestly she didn't look alright at all, but I believed she would make it. She wasn't too long in the fire. If they come out alive, they mostly stay alive.
She smiles only, I know she hasn't even really heard me. She still keeps her eyes locked on her daughter. I look down on the little girl in my arms and realize that she is not just a girl.
When I look at her big, innocent, chocolate eyes, still wet of tears, looking into my golden eyes, I'm amazed with this little angel.
Somehow I feel like she knows I'm not human.
Babies listen to their instincts more than adults do.
She isn't afraid of me. Other babies are okay with me because their parents are always close. In this early stage of their life they know only one thing and that is that their parents are their protection.
But even thought I am holding her instead of her mother, and my face isn't hidden behind my helmet any more–Don't ask me when I took it off, because I don't know–so she can clearly see I'm inhuman and yet she doesn't cry or anything that makes me feel like she might not like that I'm holding her.
"You'll get a lot of attention the next few weeks. Everyone at home is going to be crazy about you. But don't be afraid, I'll protect you till your mommy gets better." I say in that ridiculous voice most humans (yeah males as well) use when they talk to a baby.
Right now I can't think of it as ridiculous. Suddenly my phone vibrates. Only then I realize what I wanted to do in the first place.
I check the screen to see who's calling.
"Alice?" I say with a sigh, knowing this is probably the only chance I'll get to speak the next five minutes.
"Edward! We're all so concerned about you! What the hell were you thinking?" she says.
I pass an apologetic smile to Carlisle and Renee and then head outside, since Renee isn't supposed to hear anything about having visions and other supernatural things that I might mention during the coming conversation.
I walk to Carlisle's car. He told me through his thoughts that he'll drive to the hospital with the ambulance and he'll probably 'walk' home, so it's okay for me to use it.
"Ed! What's up?"asks Jim.
"Bella's going to live with my family for a while. I'm going to bring her home." I explain to him, pressing my cell phone against my shoulder so Alice doesn't hear me, before I get in the car.
"Sorry Al you where saying?" I ask , putting her on speaker and placing my phone in the hand-free set. Driving a car, holding a baby and a cell phone at the same time is a little too much of multitasking for a Vampire too.
"I asked you what you were thinking by almost giving me a heart attack? When I saw you going in the house I almost went crazy even thought I knew you'd be okay!"
I smile. It's nice to know my family cares about me so much. "I know. There was a baby involved, I couldn't let her die." I defend myself
"Yes you're right. But don't do that ever again,"
"I won't I promise."
"Oh and by the way, everything will be ready for the princess. We've already got a crib and clothes and lots of other baby stuff." Alice hangs up with a squeal before I can scold her that Bella isn't a doll.
I shake my head and look at Bella once more. The little angel. It makes me almost sad that I'll have to give her back to her mother in a few weeks. She falls asleep in my arms and mumbles some things in her own baby language.
So sweet… sweet enough to eat…
Carlisle POV:
I sigh as I watch Edward leave the ambulance.
I wait till he gets in my car and then turn to face Renee Swan "Why didn't you tell him?" I ask.
"I could ask you the same. I have the feeling Bella likes your son and I want her to be with someone she likes. I didn't want to scare him with things he doesn't have to worry about."
I frown. "This is about the next 20 years of his life!" I shout and then immediately regret what I said.
She only wants a warm and good home for her daughter. Who was I to tell her what was wrong? Was it even wrong?
"Sorry." I mutter.
"No I'm sorry, it was selfish."
I shake my head. "You were thinking about your daughters happiness. How is that selfish?" I ask. "It's just… he thinks he'll have to play daddy for a few weeks, a few months in the worst case. He doesn't realize it'll be much longer…" My voice trails off.
"Tell him when you get home. Let him be happy with it for now." I nod. Edward seems indeed to be happy with his task as a guardian for Bella. Even more than whit his job. I hope it'll stay that way…
