Chapter 2: Recovery

Lets continue on! I do not own these characters Stephanie Meyer does. I do wish I owned Jacob though! :)

Izzy

I woke up in a hospital I didn't recognize.

How did I get here?

I looked frantically at my body to see what damage I did. My eyes lay on my arm and everything came flooding back to me.

I was hurled to the other side of the room. I saw Jane running toward me and I put my hand up to my face as if to shield me. I closed my eyes ready for the impact but felt nothing. Then all I could feel was a burning sensation going up my arm.

Realization dawned on me. I'm a vampire.

Before Edward left me I would have wanted this so bad but now I didn't at all. My heart belonged to someone else. …. well all that I could give that person

Flashback

"Bella come on we have to go save Edward!" Alice called from the car.

I turned and looked at Jacob. I grabbed his face and pressed his lips to mine fast and hard.

I looked into his eyes and whispered "Wait for me." I ran to the car without looking back.

End of Flashback

Jake.

How was I going to explain this to him? He's going to hate me and he's never going to speak to me again! We are mortal enemies now and we can never be friends.

With all my panicking I heard a beeping sound that was erratic like a heartbeat.

Heartbeat?

"Bella, love, your finally awake!" Edward walked into my room.

I was going to ask him this question sooner or later so I decided to get it over with

"I'm not a vampire am I?"

"Hmm so you remember," Edward looked at me and smiled "No love you're not a vampire"

"B-but how? I always thought that once your start the transformation you can't go back?"

"Well..." Edward look thoughtful, "There one way you can stop it and that's to suck the venom out of the person, but you can only do that if you have enough control."

"So you sucked the venom out of me?" I looked at Edward shocked that he actually had enough power to stop. I thought my blood singed to him.

"Yes I indeed did. It was hard to stop but I found enough power to do it." He then looked deep into my eyes and confessed everything to me.

"Bella I love you. When I left you all I could think about is you. I thought I could get over you but I can't! I need to be by you at all times, I need to protect you and I need to love you!"

Anger surged through me. "Then why did you leave me Edward!" I shouted at him.

"I left you to protect you Bella!" he yelled at me like I did, "After Jasper almost killed you I didn't think I was safe for you! I wanted you to move on to someone who is safe, but Bella I can't do that. It killed me to leave you and I will never do it again…Never. Please take me back Bella."

"Edward I can't take you back. Not after what you did to me. I can't trust you anymore a-a-and I don't love you anymore Edward. I don't" I didn't want to tell him that I think I'm in love with someone else no matter how angry I was. I didn't want to crush him that much.

Edward looked sad and rejected. "Alice come in here."

"Oh, goody Bella's awake!" Alice came prancing into my hospital room.

"Hey Alice!" I said feeling happier that she was in here.

Alice looked at me and smiled then looked at Edward. Edwards face still held misery. Alice frowned as she looked at Edward and then back at me. Silence filled the whole room.

Edward broke the silence. "Alice, she does not want me back," If vampires could cry I think Edward would, "what are we going to do?"

"What are you guys talking about?" I was clearly out for a long time and I don't know the whole story.

"Well Bella," Alice began, "After our little fight with the Volturi, we promised that you would stay with Edward and marry him sometime. Then in a couple of years or after college you would become a vampire, but now that you don't want to be with Edward that plan is not going to work."

I had missed a lot while I was out. I couldn't believe that Edward was so sure of himself and that I would immediately jump in his arms and get back together with him. Boy is that not happening. Anger surged through me again just as Edward spoke.

"The Volturi are going to check on us often maybe and if they see I'm not with Bella that will kill her and all her family too." No not Charlie. "I don't know what to do. I'm sorry Bella that I did this to you. I can never forgive myself."

I couldn't let Charlie, or anyone else get involved in this. It's all my fault and I have to make it better. Then I had an idea.

"I'll pretend to date Edward. That way if the Volturi come they'll see that I'm with him. I don't know about the marrying or the turning into a vampire part but when we get there we will figure something out."

"That's a great idea!" Alice was happier than can be "I'm so glad to have you back Bella! I missed you so much! Let me go tell the nurse that you are awake." Then she left me alone with Edward.

There was a long silence until Edwards solemn voice broke it. "Maybe, Bella this pretend dating thing can be good. Maybe I can show you that I love you and then you can trust me again. I promise Bella tha-" I had to cut him off right there.

"Edward no! This is just pretend and I don't think I can ever love you the same way again." I sighed, "We'll just make everyone think we are dating but we're not…not at all. There's no lovey dovey stuff in private and we spend as little time alone together as we can." I had to set the rules before some line was blurred.

"Bel-" then the nurse walked in.

"Hello Miss Swan, I see that you're feeling better there. Just let me take the IV out and ya'll are free to go. Just make sure you don't do any sports or move to quickly so your ribs can all heal and set in place." She took the IV out of my hand and handed the paperwork to Edward. "Just fill these out and give them to the lady out front. Have a nice day!"

Wow I got out of the hospital faster than I thought. Edward filled out the paperwork and we walked in silence to the front desk.

I read the sign I realized that we were in South Carolina. That explains the ya'll.

Edward handed the lady the paperwork and Alice followed us to the car. She was busy pushing buttons on her phone.

"I just booked us a flight to Seattle. It leaves at 3" I looked at the clock and it was 2. Boy can she book a flight fast.

We drove to the airport and boarded our flight. All I could think about is going back home and telling Jake. I felt so scared and bad. My fears put me into a calm sleep.