(Inspired by Red Band Society/Twilight. No copyright intended.)
The bright lights were distracting yet Bella was trying to stay focused at the passing people in the hospital. She was waiting for Dr. Cullen yet she knew it was very likely that she would be refused to see him. She knew what he looked like from the news articles and media coverage of his hospital and the paediatric ward at Forks Hospital. Every blonde person that passed her seat made her heart surge with the belief that maybe Dr. Cullen could actually see her.
"Isabella?" She turned to face where the voice was coming from, there was Dr. Cullen. He was more attractive in real life than in the media but that wasn't why she was here. "I heard you asked to see me, where is your family?"
"Call me Bella. I came from Florida, my dad works here in Forks but I didn't tell him I was here yet," She admitted to the young doctor. Carlisle commonly had kids like this, there were already 5 other kids in the Paediatric ward that didn't have their parents around, at least not often around.
"Why are you here Bella?" Carlisle asked her, calling her by her preferred name. The nervous girl shifted in her seat, struggling the find the words she want to say to the Doctor.
"I have Cystic Fibrosis, the doctor in Florida wouldn't ever consider the idea of a lung transplant and I believe I will one day need one and I didn't want the doctor to compromise my health for his views on organ transplants," Bella rattled off to Dr. Cullen. "So I came out here to where I knew you were and where it just happened that my father lived so you could treat me,"
"I will need to review your file before I can consider treating you Bella," Carlisle gently reminded the teenager, Bella smiled at this small fact that she had all planned out.
"I know, that's why I got the doctor in Florida to fax you over my file, it should've been here by now," Bella smiled, Carlisle did have to be impressed by Bella's courage at showing up here at the hospital to ask for help. Bella then began to cough, much like the cystic fibrosis patients that Carlisle normally sees the coughing began to turn into hacking. Dr. Cullen began to worry for the young girl and called one of his nurses to grab a pulmozyme nebulizer to help Bella breathe. Dr. Cullen quickly sets up the nebulizer for her and gives her a dose of the medicine mist, her coughing begins to subside, her breathing returning to normal.
"Feeling better Bella?" Carlisle ask her, she nodded her body tired from the coughing. "Do you need to put on oxygen tonight? We easily set a room up for you for the night,"
"Yes please," Bella rasped out to the doctor. It was getting late anyway and Bella wasn't in the mood to call her father and explain the situation to him tonight. Carlisle led her to a room where nurses were already setting up the tank for her. As the oxygen began running they left her to sleep and that was what she did.
"How could you treat my daughter without calling me for permission first?" Bella awoke to an angry voice yelling in the hallway. She could just see Dr. Cullen across the hall from her room.
"Chief Swan she came to me and I didn't treat her, she had a coughing attack in my hospital while asking for me to treat her, she need an oxygen tank to sleep and I had to allow her to stay. She was going to call you this morning, I would've made sure of it," She could see Dr. Cullen calmly rebutting who she now realised was her fathers argument.
"Why didn't you just call me Carlisle, I had no idea Bella was even in the state," Charlie seemed to have given up now with arguing, his voice quieter now.
"In all honest Charlie I had no idea she was your daughter, she never did tell me a last name. She really wants my help Charlie, and I reviewed her file and she is viable for treatment here. So far her disease has not been carefully monitored or treated therefore we will have to administer antibiotics, bronchodilators, as well as guaifensin for her lungs and monitor to make sure she does not contract any lung infections from how her lungs have weakened from the fibrosis," Dr. Cullen informed Bella's father. Chief Swan seemed to finally calm down and agreed for Carlisle to treat Bella. "Bella how are you feeling?" Carlisle asked as he looked over realising that she was awake. She pulled the mask off but nodded to his question. Charlie was never the best with talking but he really didn't know what to say his daughter.
"Bella, you have gotten so big," Bella blushed at her dad's reaction to her. Dr. Cullen laughed softly at the reactions of the two of them.
"Bella did you hear my course of action for your Fibrosis?" Bella admitted to eavesdropping on the conversation. "Are you okay with these actions? I believe it is the best for now and we will see which why your disease will go. I will leave you with your dad for now. If you ever have questions just ask," Carlisle then left the small hospital room, Charlie paused unsure of what to say to his daughter.
"I'm sorry for not telling you but I needed to make sure Dr. Cullen would treat me," Bella admitted quietly to her father.
"What happened to your doctor in Florida? I know what you told your mom because I got a call asking about you this morning," Charlie while earlier seemed angry was now almost laughing at his daughter's antics.
"I told him I was suddenly moving to live with my father so he faxed over my file to the Fork's Paediatric ward, he never questioned it since mom thought the same,"
"I'm impressed Bella, very impressed," Charlie laughed, and it made Bella chuckle a little but that sent her into another coughing fit and she took a breath into the oxygen mask and that stabilised her breathing for awhile. Charlie cringed at her coughing, saddened by his daughter's illness. "How have you been Bella?" He finally asked her.
"I'm fine Dad. Don't worry and don't feel you have stop by everyday, just when you can okay?" Bella reminded him, not wanting her dad to over-worry much like her mom did sometimes. Charlie nodded, getting a message on his police phone right as she said that.
"I have to go, I'll stop by later," He paused then, looking at her smiling. "I'm glad you came,"
After getting all the medication Dr. Cullen prescribed, which took over an hour, Bella now had free time. They gave her directions to the small garden that the hospital owned as well as the library, they said they had other kids around as well but they weren't sure where they all were. So Bella got up, they gave her the option of bringing her tank with her but mostly she needed it only at night, she felt much better than last night so she left it behind. She followed the dull signs to the library, when she entered there appeared no one there and that didn't surprise her, it wasn't very big either. Only a classroom-sized room with 8 shelves, not like she was complaining since she loved to read. Bella scanned through the fiction section stopping at her favourite book, Wuthering Heights. There was a small book near the door where she presumed you were meant to sign-out the books you took. Only a few names were above hers but what interested her was the boy who took out a different Jane Austen book just a day before her.
She lazed around the 'cafe' section of the hospital that had couches, she wasn't advised to drink coffee but after questioning the nurses they said tea was alright. With a creative design on a coffee cup on the front, a bit ironic. She sat there for almost an hour, only doctors and nurses seemed to pass by her little spot and she read through the book.
Then she saw a girl, probably only around Bella's age but she was super thin, either from medication or her own accord. The girl seemed to bounce as she walked, a contrast to Bella's shuffling walk that she commonly did. Bella could hear her high voice laughing and joking with the barista, but she didn't get anything, she grabbed a cup of water. Bella hid her face in a book as the girl went to sit down somewhere.
"Hi," The girl chirped as she set down next to Bella, Bella's lungs picked that moment to let out a cough and Alice didn't seemed fazed by the coughing. "Are you new I haven't seen you around before? I'm Alice Brandon," The girl introduced herself and Bella was shocked with her forwardness.
"Bella, Swan," Bella croaked out her voice crackly from coughing.
"Have you met the other kids?" Alice asked her and Bella shook her head, she had only seen her so far. Just then Bella was paged for her lunch.
"I have to go to lunch, I'll see you around," Bella said to the girl and Alice nodded enthusiastically.
(Side note I am sorry if there is any medical inaccuracies if you have a broader knowledge of these types of diseases and illnesses please give me a inbox or a comment.)