Written up in Portsea: I had seen the movie 4 times and read the books once. Twilight 3 times. 19/01/2009
Beep Beep Beep
I heard the sound of a heart monitor near my ear. I groaned it was so loud and constant. I didn't understand why I would be waking to this sound, it wasn't right. Slowly I took inventory of my surroundings without opening my eyes. I was lying on an uncomfortable hospital bed, a thin blanket and sheet coming up to my waist. I was able to feel the cold metal of an IV in my arm and a clip on my finger, which I assumed was what was keeping track of my heart beat. I also felt an oxygen tube under my nose.
At this point I tried to open my eyes to confirm my findings but they felt like lead and it took several attempts to get them to open fully. As I had suspected I was in a hospital bed. I tried in vain to remember what had happened my eyes darted around the room looking for my mother who was always with me when I was sick or injured which happened a lot more frequently then I was willing to admit.
I looked down at my wrist and instantly began to slowly take it out, hating the idea of having it in my veins. As I finished taking it from my skin a nurse bustled in the door and gasped as she took in what I was doing.
"What do you think you are doing? Do you have any idea how bad your condition is?" She chastised sternly as she hit a button above my head and took the needle from me, turning the IV off and then cleaning up the mess I had made, also taking a piece of gauze to the small amount of blood I'd managed to draw.
"What's going on in here?" I heard a male voice ask and my eyes flickered towards the door where a beautiful male stood, he couldn't have been older then 30. He was tall and blonde haired, his eyes a warm brown colour. He was dressed in a doctors coat and had a stethoscope around his neck.
"She took the IV out of her own wrist." The nurse sounded horrified. The doctor nodded, crossing the threshold and coming to the side of the bed. "I came to check on her because of her accelerated heart rate and found her digging into her own wrist."
"Hmm well Miss Eagle you are still in a critical condition and require IV fluids. Nurse could you please get a new needle and some morphine." She nodded and moved from the room.
"Wha…What happened?" I asked with a cracked voice. "Where's mum?" The doctor came to my side and shone a light in my eyes to check they're responsiveness. I winced away.
"You were in a head on collision with a semi trailer. It was a miracle that you survived." He said, now feeling around the back of my skull. I winced at that point "Hmm" He muttered. He walked to the end of my bed, pulled out the chart and wrote something on it.
"Mum?" I asked truly afraid of the answer now. The doctor sighed and he looked me straight in the eyes.
"We did everything we could to save her but she didn't make it, I'm so sorry, her spinal cord was shattered and her brain barely functioning. She died when she got here. He told me all the while watching as my eyes started to cry and I became distressed.
The nurse entered once again holding a fresh needle and a gauze bandage. I continued to cry, lifting my hands to wipe at my eyes. The nurse set up the IV implements and took hold of my wrist I pulled back away from her, tears becoming sobs. The doctor was on the opposite side to the nurse and easily took hold of my hand to allow her to insert the needle.
"Its ok honey, I've done this numerous times, it won't hurt." I pulled back but the doctor held my arm gently in place as if I hadn't even slightly pulled.
"I want you to give her some morphine and a sedative. She needs to rest and it's only a matter of time before post traumatic stress becomes apparent." The nurse nodded and once again left the room.
"I don't want it." I got out through my tears. The doctor gave me a sad look.
"You need your rest, Miss Eagle and as I am your doctor and thus your guardian in this hospital you will follow my instructions." The nurse shuffled back in holding a syringe which she passed to the doctor who immediately emptied it into the saline bag. Almost instantaneously I felt drowsy. I fought it off as best I could.
"You can rest now, no one will hurt you here." At that I fell in to darkness.
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It felt like a week had passed before I awoke again. I was drowsy and it was once again difficult to open my eyes.
"-she'll wake soon, I need you to make the final arrangements Jasper. She has no one left." I heard a voice say. I groaned in waking, feeling the IV in my wrist my other hand flew to it feeling the gauze wrapped loosely around my wrist. I began fidgeting with it, when a cold hand took my hands apart and held the one which wasn't hooked up to the machinery.
"Now, now we can't have any of that, now can we?" I heard the doctor ask, his voice directly above me. I growled and I heard him chuckle. I opened my eyes to the brilliantly white hospital room. The doctor stood on my left his hand still holding on to mine. "You need to rest," He told me and I just stared at him uncomprehending. He took a syringe from his pocket, my heart monitor sky rocketed and I felt panicked. The doctor gave me an apologetic smile and injected the contents into the saline bag. Immediately I felt sleepy but still panicky. I fought the medicine that was pumping through my veins as my heart accelerated so did the medicines travel. The doctor's hand gently rubbed the back of my hand in a calming motion. I kept my eyes open as long as possible before the medicine took over and my eyes fluttered shut and my mind became hazy, I heard the door open and another person entered.
"Carlisle." His hand left mine and I lost track of where they stood in the room just listening to the quite conversation was hard enough. "She's yours, you're officially her guardian. The story that has been matriculated is that they were coming to visit, she's my youngest cousin from Australia and we've never met. If she resists the story just state that it is in her mothers will and it was her plan from the beginning. Her documents have been altered to include us in her family tree. She-" This voice suddenly stopped abruptly when my heart monitor alerted them to my awareness of their conversation. Suddenly the doctor's cool hand was on my wrist checking my pulse.
"She's strong, should be out by now." I heard him mutter. "Jasper." I heard him question through my haze suddenly there was another hand near my face and I flinched away instinctively. The hand fell on my cheek, the same coldness as the doctors. Immediately I felt a deep sense of calm and then even more lethargy and I was out.
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