Only Time Will Tell

Chapter 7

A/N: So its a bit of a time skip but we have a lot more coming with this story and I know I can drag things out too much if allowed so here you go.

Something was clearly wrong with Elizabeth.

Edward Senior was sure of this because when got to his bedroom from his office he found her staring at the ceiling in deep thought with her lamp still on. Even though it was significantly late she didn't seem tried at all. Her racing mind keeping her alert.

"I'm beginning to feel like this is a pattern." He said just loud enough for her to hear but not so much it disturbed the previous silence too much.

"Hello dear." Was the only thing he got in reply. The man sighed as he began getting undressed.

"Penny for your thoughts?" he asked real concern in his voice. He never had to pretend with his wife.

"I've just been thinking about what Jacob said earlier." She said casually her voice not giving way to how she was really feeling.

Her husband gave a light chuckle.

"Which part? The one about his tribe branding and making young boys and girls into soldiers or the fact they're made to jump off cliffs as an entry level activity?" He said trying to laugh at the outrageousness. That was the only way he could keep him self from feeling bothered by it.

His wife wasn't too pleased by that though if the look she was sending him was anything to go by. If looks could kill his body would be cold on the ground by now.

"That's not funny and you know it." She said with a huff looking away from him and glaring up at the ceiling. He gave a small sigh.

"Honey, you saw just as much as I did the pride that boy took in his tribe's ways and his part in them. It would close-minded not to at least try and consider it the way he does. Even if you can't condone their ways at least respect them." He said and rolled her eyes.

"It's not that I don't respect it. I guess I can see why it may have been necessary a century ago or whatever when surviving wasn't all that easy and you had to depend a lot on the youthful and strong but in this day and age we've risen above that. There's no longer a need to make such young people through away their youth's and be forced to do things so dangerous." She said clearly working herself up. He put a calming hand on her shoulder giving it a gentle squeeze.

"You are right." He started calmly continuing to try and rub out the tightness in her shoulders.

"There is no need for things like warriors and such these days which probably means the most those children go through is a little training and maybe catching the occasional thief or something. I'm sure they're not going through half of what your imagining." He said and she nodded accepting that logic.

"I guess your right. It's not like there fighting in wars or anything."

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"Your ridiculously tense." Jacob said as he absentmindedly rubbed his thumbs into Edward's shoulders. The man laying in bed with him. Resting his head on his chest, listening to the stead beat of his heart.

Edward chuckled humorlessly at that.

"Well I just had a tense dinner with my Father I rarely see and I found out the man I care about had a much more... brutal position in his tribe then I first thought." Edward said.

'Also he may have a fiancé back home too.'

Jacob gave his own chuckle at the sarcasm.