The Twilight Twenty-Five

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Prompt: 25

Pen Name: Glitterb1234

Pairing/Character(s): Bella+Edward

Rating: T

Word Count: 383

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I smiled down at my phone, once again open to the picture he'd sent me yesterday. Cheesy and stupid, but so completely him that I couldn't even think of complaining.

He crouched low to the ground, staring into the distance, wearing his favourite plaid shirt and worn out jeans. His suitcase was off to one side and there was a cardboard sign propped against his feet that said 'Be Home Soon' in bold, black Sharpie. I could imagine him trying to take it, wrestling with his phone's timer function and trying to keep it balanced against something so that he was all in frame.

The message attached was simple; Seattle Bus Station, 7:00PM, 4/16. I love you.

And so here I was at 6:58, shivering even in my thick coat, waiting impatiently for his bus to pull in so I could finally have him in my arms again. I couldn't wait.

As seven approached, I began craning my neck and tapping my foot impatiently, getting more and more agitated when the scheduled arrival time came and went without a change. Finally, at 7:08, the shiny silver tube of the Greyhound bus turned around the corner and slid to a stop in front of me.

I could see him before the doors even opened, standing waiting to get off, and I knew he'd gotten up before the bus even stopped. The last barrier between us parted with a pneumatic hiss, and in less than five seconds he had bounded down the steps and swept me into his arms.

Tears were running down my cheeks as he set me back on my feet and leaned down to kiss me like he was a starving man tasting food again. His kisses moved across my cheeks, my forehead, my chin and my nose, and I giggled as he came back to my lips.

"I missed you," he finally murmured, his voice thick with tears of his own. "Never again baby. Not for all the money in the world."

"We missed you too." I whispered shyly.

He frowned at me. "We?" Then his eyes popped open wide. "Does that mean what I think it means?"

I nodded, taking one of his big hands and laying it on my subtly rounded stomach. "Welcome home Daddy."