Chapter 2 –

Next day was warm, dry and sunny. Bella's kind of day and she smiled as she brushed her teeth in the morning after showering.

"Do you want me to drive you to the hospital?"

Charlie asked her hiding his breakfast plates in the sink. Carlisle had told her to not eat or drink anything before she went to him, and Charlie didn't want to rub in her face that he had eaten. Bella replied resigned, losing her smile.

"Yes please"

They both knew she hated being carted around in a car that has red and blue lights on the top, but her truck had mysteriously died earlier that month. Edward had immediately, and smugly, bought her a car that was far too fast and expensive and that had deeply annoyed both father and daughter.

At least they hid it well.

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The operation had been scheduled for the first day of august. It fell on a Friday and it had been arranged that Bella would travel to California to donate the marrow at the same hospital as the baby was. After a month of daily tests and taking some drugs Carlisle had instructed her to take it was finally D-Day. As in Donation Day.

For the full month, Edward and Bella kept arguing. Neither was sure why but all they did was fight. Alice insisted that if Bella went through with it, it would destroy them and that the wedding would be over. Edward believed her. Bella rolled her eyes.

"I'm not going to be human forever Edward. If I can help someone why shouldn't I?"

With that one line she crossed her line in the sand. Edward didn't like it. Luckily Edward had no idea what time her flight was leaving...

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Jake Kane would be eternally grateful to Dr. Cullen.

As soon as Duncan had told him his first and (possibly only) grandchild was ill he had Clarence hire the best doctor he could find. Dr. Cullen was it. He came one weekend to Neptune, examined the baby, discovered Lily had aplastic anemia and was at a very dangerous level and figured out the cure. The baby, Lily, needed a bone marrow transplant.

He never asked for a second opinion. Why should he?

Dr. Cullen then examined him, Duncan and all of his Duncan's friends. No one was a match. His ex-wife, Celeste, had refused to be tested just as she had refused to believe that Lily was Duncan's baby after all. As if the baby didn't share the same nose as her father.

Dr. Cullen put Lily on the transplant list and Clarence pulled strings to send Lily near the very top. But according to the good doctor there was something unique about her HLA markers so she wasn't likely to find a donor from the list.

However Dr. Cullen found the perfect one. A young adult, about Duncan's age, that had donated before and was in the system. The plus? She lived in the same town as Dr. Cullen and he was sure he could persuade her to help Lily. The negative? She was engaged to his son and he was quite possessive.

"Don't worry"

He had told him

"Bella is honest and selfless. She will help your granddaughter, no matter the cost"

Jake believed him. He told Clarence to check the girl out, just in case they needed the extra pull to get her to donate (surprisingly Clarence found nothing at all) and here he was. At the airport, on the first day of August, after a month of grueling tests on both Lily and Bella to make sure the two were a perfect match, waiting for the savior to arrive.

If anyone had told him two years ago he'd be playing chauffer, he'd laugh out loud. But not now. He had lost his daughter and baby Lily was his only chance to make up for all his lack in parental skills. He would not lose the baby as well.

So when the speakers above his head announced the flight from Seattle had arrived, he stood like a good boy holding a cutout paper with the name 'Isabella Swan' on it. He was lost in his thoughts when a soft voice spoke

"Hello"

His eyes focused on a slender, far too pale girl. Was she with some kind of charity?

"Can I help you?"

he asked a wee bit rudely looking her behind her. He missed her eyes tightening and the way she pursed her lips as if she was holding back

"I'm Bella Swan"

She declared equally rudely. His blue eyes snapped to her deep brown ones and was startled to see them flicker in annoyance.

Crap!

"I'm sorry. I didn't recognize you. I'm Jake Kane, it's very nice to meet you miss Swan"

Her eyes softened slightly.

"Please call me Bella. It's very nice to meet you too"

She replied with a slight blush and a soft smile. He led her outside to his the parking lot that was being baked in the sun. He expected her to scurry to the car but she sighed softly as the hot rays hit her face and body and raised her face to the sun. When she realized he was staring at her, she blushed even more (was it healthy for someone to blush so much?) and got in the passenger seat muttering an apology. Smiling to himself Jake put her one and only bag int he trunk before joining her. As he drove them to Neptune and the hospital he only had one image burning in his mind.

A second grandchild with his Duncan's eyes and Bella's hair and blush.