Broken Light

Family Together

I DO NOT OWN TWILIGHT OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS FROM THAT SERIES BECAUSE THEY ALL BELONG TO STEPHANIE MEYER!

CHAPTER THIRTEEN:

FAMILY TOGETHER

Justin woke up and when he saw that he was the only one in the bed, he quickly looked at the washroom to see if she was there, but he found that the door was open, but no one was there. He quickly tried to sniff for her scent, and when he found it lingering just from another room extremely close by, he relaxed. Seeing through the curtains that the sun was up for only a little bit, maybe an hour or so.

Knowing that he wasn’t going to go back to sleep, he carefully got up and walked to the doorway leading to the room that his children were in. He opened the door slowly and as silently as he could before he then looked around the room. He saw that Chelsea was sleeping in the bed alone while Colton and Carita were laying together in the bed, whispering to each other so silently that not even Justin could hear him.

They stopped and looked at their father though when his head came into view.

“How long have you two been up?” Justin asked them.

“For about a half-hour. Carita couldn’t sleep and I heard her walking around because she wanted to see you, but I just told her to stay here and we can talk.” Colton answered.

Justin looked at his son and said, “you look tired.”

“Yeah, I was up for a little bit of the night.” Colton answered, trying to hide his annoyance.

Though Justin was curious, he didn’t ask. Colton just unwrapped his arm around his sister. Carita then got off the bed and ran to her father. He smiled and picked her up, her blonde hair in a braid that Chelsea must’ve done before they went to bed. Colton smiled as well.

“Carita sweetheart, if you want to get dressed, then we can walk around the castle for a little bit.” Justin offered.

Carita nodded and he then set her down. Justin then told his son, “you stay here and sleep. We will not be too far.”

Colton nodded.

In the time that he was talking to Colton, Carita had changed into the dress that the Volturi left her. Justin picked her up and though he was only in his jeans, he was sure that was going to be okay for the Volturi. If not, he would just come back up to change.

Justin waved to Colton before he walked out of the rom, closing the door silently behind him. Justin then asked Carita if she needed to go to the washroom. When she said no, he walked outside to the hallway.

“Daddy, where’s mommy?” Carita asked her.

“She’s sleeping a little bit away. I’m guessing that it is with your grandparents.” Justin told her in a whisper.

A door then opened. Justin turned his head to see that in the room right beside his children’s, his parents came out. He smiled at them and they smiled back. They looked at each of the pair and smiled. Even Carita smiled.

“Hi grandma and grandpa!” Carita whispered.

Both Benjamin and Tia’s smile widened so far that they didn’t even sound like themselves.

“Good morning. I see that you are an early riser.” Tia said jokingly.

“We heard you talking and we thought that we would come out and say hello.” Benjamin said.

“You can come join us.” Justin offered.

“We’d love that.” Benjamin told his son as he then wrapped his arm around Tia.

Justin smiled and Tia kept her eyes on Carita as they walked down the staircase. Carita was hugging her father’s neck and had her head against the base of his neck. Once they reached the next floor, Justin saw Demetri with Alec. They stopped talking before they then looked up at the four. Carita smiled at them and they gave her a soft smile back.

“Sorry, we were just walking around.” Justin said.

“It’s alright. We weren’t expecting you to be up yet. Is it just you?” Alec asked.

“Yes.” Justin answered.

“We will start making the food.” Demetri said and both then disappeared.

Carita looked over her shoulder as Justin then said, “how about we just go to the wreck room.”

“Okay daddy.” Carita said.

She then looked at Benjamin and Tia and smiled at them. They smiled back too and Tia gave a sigh. She could see very small parts of Benjamin in her, but she saw a lot of Justin and Renesmee. Carita couldn’t be more perfect.

When they got into the room, Justin set his daughter down and she quickly went to turn on the television to watch something. Carita sat on her father’s lap as him and his parents sat on the couch. Tia was staring at the innocent child and wondered what she had seen while she was born into her son’s kidnapped world.

“She’s darling, Justin.” Tia told him.

Justin looked down at his youngest daughter and smiled. Carita was too concentrated on the television to notice the compliment. Benjamin just smiled and asked, “how old is she?”

“She’s almost a year old.” Justin answered, “her birthday is July 14, so in a month and two days.”

Both his parents nodded.

“She looks so big.” Benjamin said.

Justin nodded.

“You should’ve seen Colton at her age. He was always tall, but he looked almost ten years old. He grew the fastest. Chelsea grows the slowest. She was born a year after Colton, but she looks to be twelve, maybe thirteen while Colton looks almost twenty.” Justin told them, “Carita seems to be between them.”

Tia nodded.

“Do you know why that is? Why Chelsea grows so slowly compared to the other two?” Tia asked.

“Renesmee had a hard time that year. She was still a little getting used to motherhood with Colton and she was really weak during the birth. She had to get a C-section. Chelsea also isn’t as smart as the usual newborn of two hybrids are and she has asthma.” Justin answered.

Tia nodded.

“Is that why you waited a couple of years again before trying to have another child?” Tia asked.

“No, Joham wanted as many people as he could. We were forced to try, but nothing came until a couple of years later.” Justin told his mother.

Both of them nodded and Benjamin then asked, “what happened to you?”

Justin sighed and said, “I don’t want to tell you yet. I think Renesmee should tell her parents first just so that Edward won’t read your mind. It’s very personal and hard.” Justin told them.

They both nodded, though curious and disappointed. Justin just then looked at Carita and kissed her head.