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In the end, Charlie took it quite well, if you call yelling at everyone in the house for keeping him out of the loop for so long well, by the time he'd finished the entire Cullen Clan, and the werewolves in the house, had their ears ringing, but after that, he was just as supportive as Bella had been, something about not turning his daughter's death into a complete tragedy.
Suddenly Charlie was almost as permanent fixture as Seth was, between trying to put the man who murdered Bella behind bars, including having the Cullen's and Jacob as character witnesses, only if Jacob could travel of course, and looking after Jacob, he had his hands full.
Charlie had always been a father, even before Bella, according to Billy he was one of those men with a very strong paternal instinct, he for lack of a better word, mothered everyone who'd let him, and with the strange combination of Vampire and Werewolf genes, taking a toll on Jacob's body, nothing as bad as what happens with a Vampire-Human pregnancy, but enough to knock Jake of he's feet occasionally, he's instincts where going into overdrive.
Everything came to a head with an almost innocent comment from Emmett, just a bit of a joke.
"You keep coming over we'll need to give you a room."
The Big Vampire thought he was being funny, at least until Charlie replied.
"I'll take the empty one across from Jacob's room."
"But...."
"Don't worry Emmett will clear it for you, won't you dear."
"I....uh.....sure Esme, I'll get right on it."
And just like that, Charlie was part of the family, of course, it wasn't until later, that Charlie found out what being a part of the Cullen Family meant, It was the first time he had decided to pick some of his stuff up from his house to move it there, being the gentle person he was, he didn't say no when Alice decided to help.
Ten minutes after they'd left, Carlisle got a panicked phonecall from a slightly shellshocked Charlie.
"She's thrown out ALL of my clothes, Carlisle, what do I do, HOW do I make her stop."
"Charlie, when it comes to Alice and clothes, the best thing you can do is let her go, and hold on for the ride."
There was a slight gasp, and sounds of a slight struggle, finally Carlisle heard.
"Alice, I don't care if your taking me shopping, but I am not going to the mall naked because you don't like what I have on."
Free at last, Charlie got back on the phone.
"We've agreed to let me keep what I have on, until she's bought me new ones."
"So, you gave up."
"......Yes, I gave up."
"Good idea."
All in all, it took Charlie and Alice three hours to come home, in their defense, an hour of that was spent getting ingredients for recipes Esme wanted to try out, one of the things about having a pregnant werewolf in the house, was the sheer number of new recipes she got to try every day, werewolves where always hungry, pregnant ones were even worse.
The increasing family was getting along quite well, Charlie was practically living with the Cullen's, Seth was there more often than not, and Billy would visit his son every chance he got, the sheer force of so many people in the house, for some reason, kept Edward from falling into a deep depression, his only acknowledgment was the fact that he and Jasper, kept a keen eye on Jacob at all times, much to the young wolf's chagrin.
But, today was a big day, for everyone, Carlisle had managed to buy an ultrasound machine, for private use, the entire family had gathered around to see the baby.
Jacob was understandably nervous, he'd never been pregnant before, and it was making him feel very exposed, lying down, he gently lifted his shirt up, hissing slightly at the cool gel, he turned to look at the screen, Dr Cullen was talking him through the process.
"Ok, now that's your heartbeat, and that's your stomach, digesting Esme's latest creation."
This pulled a laugh from most of the room, gently, the doctor ran the scanner down Jacob's abdomen, searching until.
"There it is, one healthy heartbeat, as far as we know anyway, I still need to figure out just what's healthy for this kind of pregnancy.......wait a moment, there's something else, it's fainter, if I'd been human, I'd never have heard it, I thought it was just an echo at first."
"Will you just tell us what it is Carlisle."
"A second heartbeat, congratulations Jacob, it's twins."
All that could be heard was two loud thumps, and one small one, for the first time ever in the Cullen household, two vampires, and a werewolf, had passed out.
TBC
Suddenly Charlie was almost as permanent fixture as Seth was, between trying to put the man who murdered Bella behind bars, including having the Cullen's and Jacob as character witnesses, only if Jacob could travel of course, and looking after Jacob, he had his hands full.
Charlie had always been a father, even before Bella, according to Billy he was one of those men with a very strong paternal instinct, he for lack of a better word, mothered everyone who'd let him, and with the strange combination of Vampire and Werewolf genes, taking a toll on Jacob's body, nothing as bad as what happens with a Vampire-Human pregnancy, but enough to knock Jake of he's feet occasionally, he's instincts where going into overdrive.
Everything came to a head with an almost innocent comment from Emmett, just a bit of a joke.
"You keep coming over we'll need to give you a room."
The Big Vampire thought he was being funny, at least until Charlie replied.
"I'll take the empty one across from Jacob's room."
"But...."
"Don't worry Emmett will clear it for you, won't you dear."
"I....uh.....sure Esme, I'll get right on it."
And just like that, Charlie was part of the family, of course, it wasn't until later, that Charlie found out what being a part of the Cullen Family meant, It was the first time he had decided to pick some of his stuff up from his house to move it there, being the gentle person he was, he didn't say no when Alice decided to help.
Ten minutes after they'd left, Carlisle got a panicked phonecall from a slightly shellshocked Charlie.
"She's thrown out ALL of my clothes, Carlisle, what do I do, HOW do I make her stop."
"Charlie, when it comes to Alice and clothes, the best thing you can do is let her go, and hold on for the ride."
There was a slight gasp, and sounds of a slight struggle, finally Carlisle heard.
"Alice, I don't care if your taking me shopping, but I am not going to the mall naked because you don't like what I have on."
Free at last, Charlie got back on the phone.
"We've agreed to let me keep what I have on, until she's bought me new ones."
"So, you gave up."
"......Yes, I gave up."
"Good idea."
All in all, it took Charlie and Alice three hours to come home, in their defense, an hour of that was spent getting ingredients for recipes Esme wanted to try out, one of the things about having a pregnant werewolf in the house, was the sheer number of new recipes she got to try every day, werewolves where always hungry, pregnant ones were even worse.
The increasing family was getting along quite well, Charlie was practically living with the Cullen's, Seth was there more often than not, and Billy would visit his son every chance he got, the sheer force of so many people in the house, for some reason, kept Edward from falling into a deep depression, his only acknowledgment was the fact that he and Jasper, kept a keen eye on Jacob at all times, much to the young wolf's chagrin.
But, today was a big day, for everyone, Carlisle had managed to buy an ultrasound machine, for private use, the entire family had gathered around to see the baby.
Jacob was understandably nervous, he'd never been pregnant before, and it was making him feel very exposed, lying down, he gently lifted his shirt up, hissing slightly at the cool gel, he turned to look at the screen, Dr Cullen was talking him through the process.
"Ok, now that's your heartbeat, and that's your stomach, digesting Esme's latest creation."
This pulled a laugh from most of the room, gently, the doctor ran the scanner down Jacob's abdomen, searching until.
"There it is, one healthy heartbeat, as far as we know anyway, I still need to figure out just what's healthy for this kind of pregnancy.......wait a moment, there's something else, it's fainter, if I'd been human, I'd never have heard it, I thought it was just an echo at first."
"Will you just tell us what it is Carlisle."
"A second heartbeat, congratulations Jacob, it's twins."
All that could be heard was two loud thumps, and one small one, for the first time ever in the Cullen household, two vampires, and a werewolf, had passed out.
TBC