- May 26th, 12:01 am -
The bright lights wheeled sharply around me. I was moving.
There was the sound of the steady drip-drip-drip of my blood, dropping in small dots from my hand onto the white floor.
I blinked, feeling blackness pressing in on me.
How did I get here from the road?
Where was my car?
Did they know about the knife?
My dad would find out about me...
"Bella?" The clarion voice broke through the haze. Focusing on the beautiful face above me was like fighting my way through a slab of wet cement.
"Carlisle." I didn't know if he could hear me.
"Operating Room seven is open, Dr. Cullen!"
"We're prepped and ready to go, Carlisle-"
"Bella-"
"Carlisle," I said again, trying to raise my voice. "Carlisle..."
"Bella, what happened to you?" Carlisle's voice was taut. I had only heard him sound like that once before.
In a dark ballet studio...
I had bled, then, too.
More people were talking, their voices bouncing around me. I squeezed my eyes shut.
"Dr. Cullen, I think you should leave-"
"Careful with her head, it looks like a concussion-"
"-hand needs-"
"It's a surgical-"
"Carlisle, seriously, we've got this!"
"Bella-"
"Someone get him out of here!"
"What happened to you, Bella?" Carlisle asked me again, as people rushed around us. I felt his cold hand on top of my own, the one that was bleeding. I faded in and out. Carlisle's hand tightened on my knuckles. "Bella, who did this to you?"
I rolled my head to the side. The lights were hurting my eyes...
"Bella," Carlisle said desperately, "please, tell me: who did this?"
I felt the paramedics lift me onto a table. I closed my eyes and turned my hand over, my fingers gripping Carlisle's. "I did..."
Author's Note: Well, this is the beginning of a story that has been circulating in my head for about two years, now. I first dreamed up the idea not too soon after I finished reading the series. Not to build up any anticipation; I don't expect this story to be very long or very deep. But the concept struck me as intriguing...
I hope the opening sequence sucked you in like a vampire-well, you know...
Song for this (brief) chapter: .com/watch?v=bGF74I57F6A&feature=related [One Simple Idea from the Inception soundtrack]