IITS ch60

A/n: THis is it...the last one...

One Year Later

EPOV

We were bringing home our son today. Our family was growing by leaps and bounds.

About three months after we were married we had gone through a vigorous round of fertility doctors, treatments and procedures but none of them worked. It was not medically possible for Bella to have a child so we agreed to try and adopt again.

I had officially adopted Kendall and then little Olivia came into our lives as a result of our registration with the adoption agency. Our little O was eight months old when we brought her home. She had curly red-hair and forest green eyes and if noone didn't know it, they'd think that she was biologically mine.

Kendall was thrilled to be a big sister and Bella was truly in her element as a mother. Because Charlie's death had caused her to miss so much of Kendall infancy we agreed that she would stay home and raise our newest child so that she didn't miss anything this go around.

So, we now had two and half year old, an eighteen month old and we were about to be parents to a newborn baby boy. Claire, the birth mother had picked us from the adoption agency about four months ago. She was a sweet young girl that got caught up in a bad situation. She knew that she couldn't provide the kind of life her child should have so she made the choice to give him up for adoption.

Our newest addition was going to be born by C-Section this morning and Bella nervously paced around the room gathering items to pack in our bag for the trip to Port Angeles.

Alice and Jasper had come to stay with the girls so we could spend the next few days at the hospital until little Charlie Carlisle Cullen was ready to come home.

"Bella, baby...you have to calm down. You're going to wear out the carpet." I said with a laugh as she stopped and turned to look at me.

"What?" She asked as she came out of her stupor.

"You need to calm down." I said as I walked towards her and pulled her into my arms. She looked up at me and smiled, it still melted my heart when she looked at me that way.

"Are we ready for another one?" Her eyes held the trepidation that she spoke with.

I smiled, "No one could be any more prepared than we are for a new baby." I leaned down to kiss her. I had to reassure her a lot over the past few months. It had been a tiny set back in her depression after we'd gone through all the fertility procedures. She felt as if she were defective and wasn't enough for me. Her inability to give me a child weighed heavy on her heart and mind.

So, I tried to show her in every way I could think of that it was her that I loved, not her ability to produce a child. Besides, our family was even more special because they were gifts each in their own right.

"Grab the bags, we have to get going." I said as I swatted her ass which earned me a giggle.

Jasper and Alice hugged us both and promised to bring the girls to the hospital the next day to meet their baby brother.

Alice was five months pregnant and glowing. It had been hard for Bella when they first told us, but, together we worked through it. And, again when Rosalie announced that she was pregnant a few months ago. Rosalie had even offered to be a surrogate for us before we were chosen to be Charlie's parents but both Bella and I agreed that without her already having children it would be to difficult to go through. However, we had agreed that later on, after her own children were born that if she still wanted too, we'd consider it.

"Go on, daddy. Get mommy to the hospital...your son is waiting to join the world." Jasper said as he hugged my neck.

The drive to the hospital we talked about what we thought he'd look like and how big we thought he'd be. Bella and I had gone to the past two months worth of doctor's appointments and seen all the sonograms and heard the heartbeat. All the technology was fabulous but none of it would compare to holding him for the first time.

Two hours later we stood in scrubs and watched our son get weighed and measured as they did all of the routine steps to thoroughly check out our little Charlie. Once they had him cleaned up he was placed in Bella's arms so we could walk down the hall to our own room.

The birth mother had agreed to turn him over to us upon birth, she didn't want to see him or hold him so he became ours with his first breath.

We sat in wonder and counted his fingers and toes.

We laughed and cried as he cooed and cried.

Later that night as we snuggled up on the small hospital bed I couldn't help but think back about how far we'd come in the past two years.

As I wiped a tear from my cheek I realized it really was that simple once we learned to let the past quit dragging us backwards.

Bella and I had everything we'd ever wanted with a family, a loving marriage and a life that we'd always dreamt of.

Life was finally perfect.

Simply perfect.

A/n: The End...

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