Baby Fever [Jacob & Edward]

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a/n: I sorta proofread this.

Jacob is a man who needs evidence to back up his theories no matter how insignificant they may seem. He could speculate all he wanted, but he'd feel a whole lot better if he had something concrete to verify what he was thinking. 

That's how he finds himself standing in front of Angela and Eric as they crowd back into the same room to debrief. He doesn't even bother with pleasantries, leaning down to whisper in Angela's ear.

"Do you have a recording of the Christmas party from last year?" he mutters and watches as she processes the question before nodding quickly. 

"Get it to me by the end of the day." 

Then, he's plopping down in his seat while Eric looks over at Angela, hoping to find out whatever she knows.

Angela ignores him in favor of handing each of her team members the list of previous members from the Uley pack. They'd have some kind of answers by tomorrow.

Edward's got his hands full with a disgruntled Bear who's clearly ready for the day to be over so Jacob unlocks the car before they can even get to it. While Edward attends to her, he heads around to Angela's window to get the footage. She rolls down her window when she spots him and as he leans down to get the USB, he's greeted by Eric on the passenger's seat. 

"Trying to relive your youth, Boss?" Eric asks, teasing smirk in place, clearly happy to know what Jacob's up to. 

Jacob scowls at him before grabbing for the USB, thanking Angela. He's about to head back to his car when a thought strikes him and has him leaning back into Angela's window.

"Do you have the footage from the Edward's neighbor's cameras?" They would've gotten a warrant after his house got broken into.

Angela nods her head, fishing around in one of her bags for another one of her USBs. She fishes out two separate USBs and hands them over. One of them is labeled "pre-break in" and the other is labeled "break in". 

He heads over to his car, peeking inside and sees Edward slouching in the passenger's seat with his eyes closed.

"You better not be dead." Jacob hisses as he tugs the door open.

Edward opens one eye before rolling both of them. 

"I've been dead for over a hundred years." 

"Yeah, whatever, old man. Drink your sippy cup."

When they make it home, Edward fixes Bear a bottle and takes her directly upstairs. Jacob plops down at the island, tugs his laptop out of his bag, and shoves the USB into the port. He scans over the five files that Angela had left for him before clicking on the first one in the lineup. The video starts playing and at first, it's just Angela, Jessica, Eric, and Mike talking loudly at one another. Then, Jacob crosses in front of the camera and the frame pans with him to show him standing in front of the refreshments table. He sees himself look down, then he looks over his shoulder for a moment, eyes just to the left of where the camera is. In those couple of seconds, Edward sidles up to the table. 

Jacob expects to grab for the drink like he remembers doing. Instead, he watches himself turn to look at Edward. Jacob watches him as he reaches for whatever he intends to get off of the table, their hands brush, Edward looks over like he intends to apologize, but they just end up staring at one another. So long, that he hears an audible wolf whistle from someone surrounding the camera. 

Something must snap him out of the trance because he picks the drink up and moves back to his group like nothing had happened. The camera doesn't pan over to follow him though, instead it captures Edward looking confused by the entire interaction. The camera then decides to pan back to where Jacob's standing, sipping at his drink as if nothing's happened, and Mike's looking his way before looks back towards the people holding the camera.