Eternally Yours

Chapter 13

No matter how old she will get

Sometimes a girl just needs

Her dad

.

“What did you call me?” I asked, pulling away from him to look him in the eyes.

“Littlest wolf, I’ve been calling you that since you were born.” I spun around to see Jasper in the window of the living room looking at me stunned.

“How didn’t I figure that out before?” I asked myself, jumping up and running inside.

“Hey Hope, can I talk to you for a minute?” Bella asked as I passed her on the stairs.

“You’ll have to give me a minute.” I called back to her as I continued up the steps and into my studio, slamming the door behind me and spinning to look at the painting mounted on the wall. I sat down on the couch, continuing to stare at it as I felt tears slipping down my face.

“You might want to get in there, she’s about to have a breakdown.” I heard Jasper say from the hallway.

“Am I equipped to deal with that yet? I could comfort her as a baby, but as a teenager…”

“Better figure it out soon because it’s not me she needs this time. When she moved in with Renee she finally had that mom figure she had been missing for 12 years, but Renee was divorced at the time, and by the time she remarried, Hope had convinced herself she didn’t need a father in her life. She never got close to Bella’s dad, and even now, Carlisle can only do so much. You’ve loved her all her life and she’s just now figuring that out. Get in there and be the father she needs.” It wasn’t a demand, he wasn’t being mean, he was trying to encourage my father in his moment of doubt. I heard the door open but didn’t look up as I continued to stare at my painting.

“Wow. You’re very talented love.” He sat beside me and looked at me for a moment before following my line of sight. “That’s marvelous. How can you even remember that?” He asked, stunned and I shrugged.

“I saw it in a dream when I was about 8 I think. It’s been a reoccurring dream since then, I still have it to this day. I remember a man’s voice singing, saying goodnight to his littlest wolf. I was always so confused about how a man could love his daughter so much that you could hear it in his voice, yet my parents could throw me away like trash…I always wondered what it would be like to have someone love me that much…I never…I never thought…” I was trying to hard not to cry but at this point I couldn’t prevent it anymore, the flood gates broke open and tears poured down my face like crazy. I felt arms around my body and I clung to my father tightly, unable to comprehend how he wasn’t choking right now with how tight I was holding on. He pulled me off of the couch and into his lap as he leaned back against the arm of the couch, just letting me cry it all out and it wasn’t until I calmed down slightly that I heard him singing.

“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when the skies are gray, you’ll never know dear how much I love you, please don’t take my sunshine away.” He continued singing this until my sniffles and tears stopped completely.

“I’m sorry I ruined your shirt.” I joked and I heard him chuckle.

“It’s replaceable, you are not. Cry as much as you need to.” We stayed in that position for quite a while in silence before we began talking, and once we did we didn’t stop for hours. We stayed in that room all night, talking and painting, I didn’t even realize it was dark out until 2 in the morning when Jazz knocked on the door.

“Hey Jazzy.” I greeted, when he opened the door, he stood there with 2 plates of Chicken Alfredo. “Why?”

“Because you skipped dinner, you do realize it’s 2am right?” I shook my head, seeing him walk in. “Sorry to interrupt but she forgets to eat when she’s working on a new painting, sometimes it becomes worrying so I’ve been given a key for when she’s locked in here too long. She once went 5 days in here painting the one on the wall there, slept on the couch when she couldn’t stay awake anymore.”

“Do you know-“ My father asked pointing to the painting and Jasper nodded.

“She showed me the first one she had done which got ruined sadly, so she redid it. I’m the only one she really told about where it came from, I knew as soon as I heard you call her littlest wolf that she was going to have a breakdown. I told you, I can feel people’s emotions and Hopes are incredibly strong.” He nodded in understanding, taking one of the plates from him.

“Okay, just give me a minute, I need to finish one quick thing on-“

“Sit. Eat.” He demanded and I sighed, doing as he asked. “Make sure she eats, yeah?” My father nodded and Jasper walked back out, shutting the door behind him.

“You can finish after you eat. Don’t make me feed you like a toddler, because I will do it.” I rolled my eyes, taking a few bites of my food and finally feeling the tiredness hit me before hearing my dad laugh. “Love, please don’t fall asleep with that fork in your mouth?” I felt my eyes snap back into focus and realized I was falling asleep mid bite. “Where’s your room, I think you’re done for the night.” He put the plate down and lifted me from the couch, carrying me to the hall and allowing me to direct him to Jasper’s room. He opened the door and Jasper’s head snapped up from his book.

“She pass out while eating again?” He sighed, moving over and allowing my father to tuck me in, pulling off my shoes.

“You two share a room?” He asked and I could tell he was struggling with this.

“Yes, but only because she wanted to turn hers into a studio. I don’t sleep obviously and she feels safer with me here.”

“He’s lying, he sleeps, as close to it as a cold one can get.” I pointed out, pulling him to lay his head on my chest and began running my fingers through his hair.

“Darlin’, this is not-“

“Shh, sleep!” I demanded and he chuckled. I felt him begin to relax a moment later, as if he couldn’t help it even with someone else in the room. “See. Magic.” I told my father as my mate began purring like a common house cat. He chuckled, picking up the book on my bedside table and opening it. “For a person who hates their picture taken, I’m sure in there a lot.” I said as he looked through my yearbook.

“I love this.” He said, looking at my graduation photo that was taken at the beginning of the year.

“Human me? Yeah, I look different now for sure.”

“Most likely to be together for eternity. I didn’t know that was a category.” My father chuckled and I grinned.

“I didn’t either. The Cullen’s left in the beginning of the year like I told you, but apparently everyone loved the fact that we got back together.” I shrugged.

“Go to sleep love, you look exhausted.” I nodded, leaning back into the pillows.

“You can sleep on the couch in my studio if you want, or keep painting, you know where everything is.”

“I will. Sleep.” He insisted, kissing my head and turning out the lights, shutting the door behind him.

This is just kind of a filler chapter, I wanted to show Klaus and Hope’s relationship a little as I think it is pure and amazing, it brings me joy. Plz review and tell me if you liked it!