[The Twilight Saga·Carlyle] Hidden God

Dazedly, Edmund heard the bell ringing downstairs. ——Although the voice was relatively small, he was sure that it was not his hallucination.

The boy shivered and immediately jumped out of the bed.

He tiptoed down to the living room, knelt down on the floor, and opened the curtains of the floor-to-ceiling windows without a trace and looked out.

Definitely Carlisle.

"Edmund, open the door. It's me." Carlisle was only wearing a thin light blue turtleneck sweater and a pair of black trousers at this time, with a anxious expression on his face. "I know you're in there."

The boy suddenly felt a little sorry. —Is it inhumane to shut out such a kind and gentle doctor?After all, after the sun goes down, the temperature outside is no joke.

"Edmund," cried Carlisle again, "I know what happened. Open the door.—at least let me know you're all right."

he knows?

But how did he know?

Did he go to school?

Asked Mrs. Gray?

Or did he check the hospital records?

Wait, this is totally a foul!

"If you don't open it, I'll just break the window and come in."

The boy watched Carlisle walk quickly to the French windows of the living room. ——A seemingly large-scale anger was burning in those beautiful golden eyes at this moment.

Carlisle certainly walks the talk. —he had no doubts about it.

Edmund jumped up suddenly, stretched out his hand and opened the rotary lock closest to him, and pushed aside the French window that had just been repaired.

The air-conditioning outside took the opportunity to enter.

"Car... Dr. Cullen." The boy looked at his toes and muttered. "How did you come?"

"Let me make sure you are still alive." Carlisle walked into the room naturally, pushed the French window behind him back to its original place, and looked down at the blue-eyed boy with his head raised. "You avoided me today, and my sons."

"Yes.—I'm sorry."

It seems that Edward has already told Carlisle what happened this afternoon.

"I thought you should be very sensible and wouldn't believe other people's stupid remarks." Carlisle knelt down on one knee and lowered his gaze to the same height as the boy. "You are not wrong, Edmund."

"...you know everything?"

"I went to see you, but the nurse told me that you had already left.—But at that time I didn't realize that something was wrong." Carlisle patted the boy on the back lightly, "until I was lucky enough to meet Mrs. Gray who came to the hospital to see you, the director of your school. I asked her about you, and then I knew everything."

"She generally wouldn't tell a stranger about her students."

"At least not when facing me." Carlisle blinked.

"...I forgot that she is also a woman." The boy twitched the corners of his mouth, almost laughing.

"Glad you remembered that.—Oh, that's a long way off.—Then I got a call from Edward. He told me you seemed terrified.—We were all worried about you." Carlisle didn't know A white envelope appeared from somewhere, and he put it in Edmund's hand, "After knowing why you are bothered... I think I should do something to dispel your negative thoughts. Open it and see Look, my dear boy."

Edmund looked at Carlisle in a daze, who had stopped being angry for some time, then obediently lowered his head, and took out a piece of paper from the envelope.

To be precise, it is a completed adoption application form.

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"...You, you want to adopt me?" The boy felt his hands trembling.

"A home for you...a, real 'home.'—if you will."

"I...I...but...you shouldn't...actually...I don't want to give you...uh...damn it." Edmund frowned and hesitated for a long time but still couldn't express what he meant. ——He was so excited that he almost lost his original ability to express himself.

"I thought we had already discussed this, Edmund." Carlisle obviously guessed what the boy wanted to say, he frowned and raised his voice at the same time, "Those are nonsense. You won't got me in trouble."

"But bad things did happen to people around me.—the children in the orphanage, Peter, the Paces...and the man today...if I didn't happen to be there to delay his time, he We're home now." The boy looked away, not daring to meet Carlisle's eyes. —He was afraid that he would rush to agree to Carlisle's suggestion as soon as he saw those beautiful golden pupils.

He really wanted a home.

"It's the luck of the survivors, Edmund.——You can't put the blame on yourself." Carlisle pressed the boy's shoulders to make him turn his back to him, and then covered the boy with his right hand Those blue eyes.

"Doctor Cullen?" Edmund didn't understand what Carlisle wanted to do.

"Close your eyes and do as I say, boy." Carlisle hugged the small body from behind, resting his chin on Edmund's shoulder and said softly in his charming voice, "Clear your brain, and then take a few deep breaths."

The boy, completely snared by the vampire, did so at once.

"I'm a surgeon, Edmund." It seemed like a long time before Carlisle said. "Because of my profession, I've seen more deaths than I can count."

"During the period when I first became a doctor, I treated many patients. But because of my lack of experience, some of them died on the operating table. ——My task is to practice medicine to save people, but when the In the end, I could only watch them leave. I gave hope to their families, but in the end I had to let them accept the crueler truth. I was thinking at that time—this is probably my fault. If I can be better A little bit, and they might not leave early."

"That's not your fault, Dr. Cullen." The boy said hastily, clutching Carlisle's arm around his chest tightly, "fate is fair, everyone has a time of birth, old age, sickness and death.——even if You are a doctor, and it is impossible to prevent a person from escaping the death he deserves. You try your best. There is no way."

"Look, Edmund. It's almost the same thing, you can understand it immediately when it happens to me, but why can't you see it through when it happened to you?" Carlisle smiled softly, "None of us can stop a person from dying. The difference is, I'm a doctor and you, an innocent boy. People don't say 'doctors bring misfortune' .”

Edmund closed his mouth, thinking about Carlisle's words seriously.

"I think I understand, Dr. Cullen." The boy tilted his head, showing an expression of sudden realization, "You want me to take responsibility for the life I live."

"Especially your own life. Don't doubt yourself or even deny yourself just because of a few words from others." Carlisle added with a smile. ——The boy's thinking is more active than he imagined, and after a little enlightenment, he understood what he wanted to tell him.

"...are you really just a surgeon?"

"Huh?" Carlisle could feel the boy's slender eyelashes rubbing against his palm. ——The soft touch made him a little distracted.

"I mean, you've been a psychiatrist, haven't you?"

"Psychiatrist? Oh——I remember that I did have a psychiatrist's qualification certificate." Carlisle touched his chin, then picked up the boy and put him on the sofa, while he sat next to him. "It doesn't matter though.—May I assume you've passed my proposal?"

"Well...Actually, I have a question. - After being adopted, do I have to live with you?" Edmund regretted after saying this. —Look at what he asked!Should we send him to California if we don't live together?What did Carlisle think of this?It's like being disgusted by him!

"Do you want to continue living here?" Carlisle touched the boy's head reassuringly, signaling him not to care.

"Well... I'm just afraid that Peter will come back suddenly... No, ignore the stupid things I just said. - I like staying with you very much." Edmund looked a little anxious. —He didn't want Carlisle to misunderstand anything.

"Oh, why not?"

"Huh?" Edmund was stunned.

"If you want, you can continue to live here." Carlisle said softly, "However, you must stay with your family during the holidays. Is that okay?"

"Really?—can it be done?—well, I mean—Esme, Edward, Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie, Alice . . . do they really have no objection?"

"I'll tell them. Don't worry, they'll understand you." Carlisle lowered his head slightly, and his pair of golden pupils were shining with pleasure, so beautiful that people couldn't take their eyes off them.

"Oh! That's great! You are the most enlightened parent in the world, Dr. Karen!"

Carlisle raised an eyebrow.

"Cough...maybe—father? dad? Or would you prefer to hear me call you—daddy?" The boy scratched his hair, trying to ignore the weird feeling deep inside him. ——He actually called Carlisle Cullen "Dad" in his lifetime, and he always felt that something was wrong.

The author has something to say: So... Carlisle finally adopted Edmund~~~ Otherwise, poor little Ed would definitely get into a dead end~~~ At that time, all kinds of "crying, making trouble, and hanging himself" are possible.

Katie is the wisest man! ! !

About the part about Kaddy calling the door...

My mind is full of Aunt Xue's lines, so - it collapsed as soon as I wrote it.Please bear with me, folks——

In addition, let me make up for Carlisle's Aunt Xue's body——

(Carlisle: "Edmund!!! Don't hide in there and don't make a sound!!! I know you're home!!! You can hide from men but you can't open the door!!! Open the door, open the door, open the door Open the door!!! The water rushed into the Dragon King Temple, and my family beat my own family, hahaha!!! What a good show!!!”)

Help I'm dying laughing——

watch kill me...

PS: The reason why Katie came so late is because he went to fill out the form first~~~ Oh, by the way, there is also a family meeting to vote. ——This is necessary, the Karen family is very democratic.