Disclaimer: I own Martha and the idea behind this story. That is it.

Warning: This One-shot contains a spanking.


Welcome, Edward

1918-Chicago, Illinois

Martha looked up as she heard the sound of someone opening the front door to the house.

"Martha, can you come down here for a moment?"

Martha smiled. It was her father, for all intents and purposes, Carlisle Cullen.

"Of course, father, I will be right there!" Martha called. She got up from the table she had been sitting at. Her father had a lot of explaining to do. Without even a word to her, he had disappeared for three days, leaving her to come up with excuses out of thin air.

"Father, where on this earth have you-" Martha was cut off abruptly when she noticed Carlisle was not alone. With him was a person-a vampire-with bright red eyes and bronze, messy hair.

"Father?" Martha asked, looking at Carlisle confused

"Martha, I would like you to meet Edward. He will be your new brother." Carlisle said with a soft smile.

"Excuse me?!" Martha demanded in a harsh tone, "Brother?"

Carlisle smile faded with Martha's tone. "Yes, Martha, your brother."

"Carlisle, how could you?" Martha said, and then turned and fled upstairs

Carlisle looked up at Martha's fleeing back, confused and slightly angry she would be so rude to the new member of their family.

Edward didn't look confused in the least.

"Excuse me, Edward. Please feel free to go sit down in the lounge" Carlisle said, motioning into the closest room. He quietly went upstairs to Martha's room and closed the door.

"Would you care to explain your behavior?"

"What behavior?" Martha snapped

Carlisle was taken aback for a moment. Martha had never snapped at him before

He recovered quickly. "You are right, thank you for the correction, since what you displayed downstairs was not behavior in even the loosest definition. Allow me to rephrase, Martha. Would you care to explain your misbehavior to me?"

Martha refused to speak

"I am waiting, Martha Cullen."

For a minute it looked like Martha would continue to refuse to speak to Carlisle, but she suddenly rounded on him

"How could you do this? Why in the name of everything on God's green earth did you change him?!"

"He was dying, and I had a chance to save him. The same thing as I did with you over a century ago."

"Sometimes people need to die, Carlisle! You can not save everyone!"

"However, I could save Edward" Carlisle said, "Now explain to me why you were so rude to Edward downstairs. There was no need for your behavior."

"Our family was fine the way it was, without you bringing someone else into this life. It has been the two of us for over a hundred years, and we have not had any problems."

So that was it Carlisle thought. "Martha, you are jealous of Edward?"

"Not jealous, no!" Martha snapped

"Are you sure?" Carlisle asked, "Because it sounds to me that you are acting this way because I am changing something and you will have to share me now."

Martha turned her back to Carlisle

"Martha, my love does not diminish just because there is another member of our family."

"He is not part of our family!"

Carlisle's eyes narrowed, and at the speed only a vampire can reach, he grabbed Martha's arm and pulled her across his knee. He pulled up the hem of her dress and proceeded to bare her bottom.

"Carlisle! What are you doing?!"

"I am giving you a spanking" Carlisle said, bringing his hand down on Martha's bared backside with a hard smack.

"Ow!"

Carlisle rained smack after smack down on Martha's upturned bottom. The burning pain quickly built up, and she was wiggling around, trying in vain to get away from Carlisle's punishing hand

"C-Carilllllle!" Martha whined, kicking her legs

"Hush" Carlisle said firmly as he continued to spank Martha's backside

"I am sorry! I will apologize to Edward!" Martha said.

"Yes, you will" Carlisle said, "You will also welcome him in as a member of this family and begin treating him as a brother."

"I will! I promise!"

Carlisle continued to spank Martha until she finally gave up the fight and lay across his lap, dry sobs shaking her body.

When she gave up, Carlisle stopped and helped Martha pull herself back together, then held her lovingly as she sobbed into his chest

"I am sorry" Martha said, "You welcomed me in to your home and showed me how to live this life as easily as possible, and I should extend the same courtesy to Edward."

"Then I suggest you go downstairs and extend that courtesy."

Martha nodded, and headed downstairs. She found Edward sitting in the lounge

"Edward?"

Edward turned and looked around, "Hello"

"Hello. I am Martha" she walked over and held out a hand. Edward took it and shook it. "I am sorry about my rude behavior towards you."

"It is fine."

Martha smiled, "No, it is not fine, but thank you for your forgiveness."

Martha turned around at the sound of Carlisle's footsteps coming into the room.

"Now, let us try this again" Carlisle said, and went to stand next to Edward. "Martha, I would like you to meet Edward. He will be your new brother."

Martha smiled, and gave Edward a small hug, which became stronger as Edward returned it. "Welcome, Edward."


Author's Note: Please review, this is my first spanking story, so I wouldn't mind some constructive criticism....please do not Flame me! While my house could use the heat, it is a waste of your time and mine since I ignore flames. I understand that not everyone thinks spankings are an appropriate punishment, and that it is child abuse, but two things. 1) This takes place in 1918, when corporal punishment was done at home and in schools. and 2) If you don't like spanking stories, why are you reading this, since I clearly stated in my Summary and then again at the beginning of this chapter that this contained a spanking