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The ringing phone broke the calm night air. "Hello." Esme reached out for the phone blindly in the darkness of the room. She glanced at the clock that read 3:00 Am. Her hands start to shake as she listens to the voice on the other end of the phone. She felt hot tears press against her eye lids. No this had to be a horrible nightmare. She let the phone fall from her grasp onto the carpeted floor. She barely heard the impact it made before she turned towards her husband.

She laid her hand on his arm, she shook it and then as the tears poured down her face she shook him harder as she frantically called out his name. "Carlisle, Carlisle. She could barely hear herself through the rushing blood that was pounding in her head but she was sure she was shouting. She heard feet rushing towards her door and someone banging on it. She called his name one more time. He jerked awake and looked at her.

"Esme what…" He looked at her tear streaked face. "What is wrong?" He tried to gather her into his arms but she fought him off. She wouldn't allow him to comfort her.

"NO…No." she shouted it can't be true it just can't." she jumped out of the bed and raced towards her closet. She started to tear through it and pulled out her suitcase and started to throw clothes into it.

"Esme." Carlisle scrambled out of bed confused and scared. "What are you doing?" He tried to grab her hands and turn her towards him. "Talk to me Esme please talk to me."

"She's dead, she's dead." Esme collapsed against his chest sobs racking her body.

"Who is dead?"

"Renee she was murdered. This can't be happening not again."

Carlisle wouldn't believe it he couldn't believe it. "Who was on the phone?"

"The Phoenix police. Phil killed her. The neighbors called the cops he's in custody but she's gone."

"Bella, Esme what did they say about Bella?" His heart was beating a mile a minute as he thought of their god daughter. He couldn't lose her to.

"She's alive I don't know how she survived I just know she's alive."

"Thank god." Carlisle whispered.

"We have to go to her Carlisle we have to."

"Of course we do where is she now did they say?"

"She's at the hospital being checked out though the police say she's going to be okay." The words are a whisper a whisper on a prayer. The pounding on the door is louder and frantic. Carlisle jumped up and opened the door almost having his three children falling in on top of him.

"What's going on?" those words spoken by his eldest son well his middle son and daughter hold onto each other's hands like they are their life lines and maybe in a way they are. He took a shaky breath and closed his eyes.

"Kids sit down." He glanced at his wife sitting on the floor buried in her clothes.

"Dad you're scaring us." Emmett cut a look at his mother as he sat down on the bed. Edward agreed nodding his head.

"Yeah dad what's going on?"

He pressed his eyes closed before opening them looking at his three precious children. "Renee is dead she was murdered by her boyfriend." He couldn't believe those words were even coming out of his mouth.

Alice's hand flew to her mouth as she tried to stifle a scream. "Bella."

"Bella's okay." He rushed to assure them. He rubbed his hands over his legs and looked back up at them. "We're going to have to head out go to Phoenix. A funeral has to be planned Bella needs to come back with us."

He noticed that Edward had been mostly quite throughout the whole exchange his hand still in a seeming death grip with Alice's. "Edward are you okay?"

Edward let out a breath he wasn't even fully aware he'd been holding as he looked at his father. "I'm going to pack." Before Carlisle could say anything else Edward was out of the room. Alice and Emmett soon followed and Carlisle shook his head. Their life was about to turn upside down once again.

Edward went into his room locking the door behind him he slid down the door and buried his head in his knees. He let the tears run down his face. He didn't even notice he'd been shaking. He had to keep reminding himself that she was okay, that she was alive. Her face kept flashing though his mind. His childhood friend who had been torn away from him when her father had been killed when she was only ten. It had sent both families fleeing their little town of Forks Renee Swan went to Arizona and the Cullens had moved to Seattle. He couldn't believe it had happened again though. Bella was now officially an orphan. He couldn't wrap his mind around that as he stood up and started to shove things into his suitcase. He felt a rage go through his whole body. How was it fair both his parents were still here still whole and healthy and Bella, He stopped and shook his head. Bella had lost both of her parents to murder. One to a gunshot wound by a suspect and another to a man that should have protected her. He wanted to hit something. He wanted to hit something really bad. He heard a knock on his door and turned around.

Alice poked her head inside. "Hey you ready to go dad already booked the flight and he's trying to get mom into her coat. Emmett's in the car."

"Yeah I'm coming He swallowed the lump in his throat or at least tried to as he walked past her he felt her tiny hand on his arm.

"She's alive Edward just focus on that."

Yes she was alive he thought but she shouldn't have been put in that situation. And even though it was irrational and he knew it he felt that he should have been there to protect her. He'd promised to protect her after her father died but he'd failed. He'd failed her. And he knew logically that it wasn't his fault that he was only sixteen and that there was nothing he himself could have done but his mind kept whispering you should have saved her. He grabbed his suitcase and slowly made it down the stairs. The ride to the airport was silence punctured by sobbing jags by his mother. He balled his hand into a fist trying to keep his own feelings inside. The plane ride was much the same and the Car ride to the hospital made him want to throw up. Though the moment he saw her sitting in that hospital bed he let out a relieved breath so big he feared he'd pass out. He wanted so badly to reach out to assure her that she was safe but he couldn't he could see the fear in her eyes. The stain on her face. The tearstains mixed in. she looked so fragile.

"Hi." She whispered before she burst into tears of her own. Tears he was sure she'd hadn't allowed herself to cry until that moment.

A/N I don't know why I wrote this story but if you like it and want more please send me a review. Bella's side will be talked about in the next chapter.