Chapter 2 Hospital

Alice's POV

"Excuse me could you tell me what room Bella Swan is in?" I questioned the nurse with her feet up at the Nurses station. Ugh why can't I just see what room she's in? My vision has never been so incomplete; it's irritating to feel so normal.

"Intensive Care, room 315" she announced lazily, not bothering to look professional.

"Thank you" I started to make my way to the elevator then decided the stairs would be faster. Once the door shut I was free to move at top speed. I stopped at the top step, sucked in large amount of air preparing not to breathe for awhile. Knocked gently at the door and heard Charlie fumble to the door.

"Alice" He hugged me. "Why are you here? How'd you know?" suspicion thick in his voice.

"I decided to drop in and when no one was at your house I decided to visit another school friend, and they told me…" I couldn't finish my sentence as I had just looked over at Bella. She looked horrible. Hardly recognizable, suddenly the kid in the corner with the trembling hands caught my eye. I glared at him as I spoke "May I talk with you in the hall?"

The boy got up and followed me out. As soon as we were alone on the deserted hospital wing I turned and hissed "you better stop that you don't want to…"

"Don't worry about it, If I lose control it won't be hard to keep my focus" he growled back at me.

"Why don't you go home dog, you're stinking up the room, I don't blame Bella for not wanting to wake up with YOUR scent in the room"

"Can't" he said threw his teeth, "I have orders" He turned and walked back in the room. My hand immediately flew to my little silver cell phone.

"Carlisle it's bad, I can see it on Charlie's face, and nobody expects her to make it." I sobbed "I can't see anything, so I still don't know what to do about Edward."

"I don't think it would be wise to keep this from him, but I suggest not telling him why he's coming back" I whispered

"Okay I'll call Edward, don't worry about it Alice, just take care of Bella."

Sam's POV

Day three of Jacobs sobbing, he can't get enough control to phase back. He hasn't moved from the forest floor. I phase to my wolf form.

"Jacob, the leeches are back, I stationed Embry at the hospital, and he isn't supposed to move from Bella's side, I'll keep you updated." I thought

I immediately phased back, lately I have had the guys walking the forest in their human form only phasing if they found a trail… No one wants to be in Jacobs head right now, and he prefers the silence.

Edwards POV

The phone vibrated in my pocket continuously for the last 2 hours. I didn't want to be bothered I thought I'd made that clear. I pull the phone out and look at the missed call log, every number my family has… except… Alice's. The phone rings again, I fear something has happened to Alice so I flip the phone open and hit send. "Hello"

"Edward, finally, there's a family emergency in Forks, son. I need you to get here now." Carlisle said in a relieved but tense voice.

"What are you doing in Forks?" I growled

"I don't have time to explain just please, come home; I'll explain everything when you get here… I'll know more by then."

Click. Silence. What was that? If my family needs me I guess I better suck it up and go, sounded like there could be trouble.

Less than 20 minutes later I was on a plane on my way back to the one place that's been screaming my name since I left. I smiled at the thought of returning to the cloudy, small town that would always remain my only true home. Maybe I could check on Bella. NO NO NO. I promised. I will make sure Bella doesn't know I'm there, I'll see what is going on and then after whatever it is is taken care of I WILL leave… again.

Alice's POV

We sat in silence, Charlie's mind was years away probably in Bella's childhood. The mutt was pretending to sleep, Bella still in a coma, and me staring at Bella. Broken sobs coming from my chest when I couldn't control them. I hear footsteps and being that we're the only ones up here I can guess it's someone coming to check on Bella. Someone knocked and the door gently slid open. All three of Forks best doctors poked their heads in.

"Charlie can we speak to you in the hallway" Dr Gerandy said in a quiet controlled voice. Bad news. Just the look on his face was enough to tell me that. Charlie slowly stood up stiff from hours of sitting still and slowly paced out of the room.

"Charlie, I don't know how to say this… but we believe you should think about taking her…" he hesitated; something told me something in Charlie's expression had stopped him.

"Charlie we don't believe the time will help, there's been no improvement, and it's time to start thinking about taking her off of the life support. Even if she manages to maintain this condition she's trapped, she won't come out of it. There's no brain activity and it's time to start thinking about how long you want to prolong her… state using the machines" the doctor I didn't recognize blurted out.

Charlie turned and came back in and took his seat burying his face into the mattress next to Bella's hand. As I watched Charlie in horror, I was vaguely aware of the door opening again. Carlisle walked in and looked at Charlie; he knew instantly with all his years in the E.R how could he not?

I stood and walked out, Carlisle following.

"What happened?" he whispered with absolute pain and horror in his voice.

"I don't know, the story is a bear attack, but that doesn't explain the guard dog."

Just then Embry came through the door "Sam wants to talk to you guys" he hissed

Carlisle and I ran to the edge of the La Push line, it took seconds for Sam to find us. "What happened to her? Was it one of our kind?"

Sams face grimaced, and then he managed to choke out "No, it was one of us. I thought he could handle it, he was just supposed to tell her she couldn't be near him anymore. He said more than he should and she screamed something at him and he lost it. There was nothing I could do, it was all too quick, he phased practically on top of her, that would be enough to kill anyone but then he started to attack too. I phased but by that point he had already hurled himself into the woods."

"Who? I'll kill him" I shouted.

"You don't have to, stupid leech. He's laying in the woods suffering a fate worse than death at the moment. Knowing he killed the girl he loved, knowing he is a monster, worse than a stupid bloodsucker, I don't think so but that's what he's convincing himself right now" Sam hissed.

"Alice, go meet Edward at the house, Emmett and Jasper are waiting for him but they can only restrain him, I doubt they'll be able to reason with him the way you do." Carlisle ordered.

Back at the house Edward was already there, I could see Emmett and Jasper were shielding their thoughts, not letting Edward know why we were all suddenly back in Forks, the one place he had forbidden the whole family from coming back to.

Edwards POV

Everyone including Esme were shielding their thoughts, Alice walks through the door searching for my future, but why? She nods at Jasper and then Emmett and Jasper are on each side of me holding my arms.

"Alice what is going on?"

"Edward, it's Bella" Alice grimaced as my future shifted and she saw me in Italy.

My words came out strangled, every word with immense pain "What happened? Is she alive?"

"I didn't tell you this because I still don't know what it means, but a few months after we left I was still watching for Bella's future just to make sure nothing happened and she would disappear, the first time it happened it scared the hell out of me, but then a few hours later her future would come back to me so I didn't worry about it… then 4 days ago she disappeared from my sight, I waited a full day for her to reappear but she didn't so I came to Forks to look for her."

"Alice, please cut to the chase" She was still shielding her thoughts not thinking ahead at all.

"Edward, she's in the hospital, in a coma. The hospital staff doesn't believe Bella will recover, they're preparing Charlie to pull the plug" pain shot through Alice's expression as her memory of Bella in the hospital bed slipped through her control. I winced and dropped to my knees.

"How?" I mouthed

"She was hanging around the La push kids one had recently gone through the change and he was telling her they couldn't be friends anymore, and he lost control, phased on top of her and started to attack. Most of the damage was done by him phasing, but regardless the damage was done, there's nothing the hospital can do for her. They are keeping her alive with machines pretty much just keeping her breathing and her heart beating other than that they assume she's gone…"

Had it not been Bella, my Bella I would have found it ironically funny. The treaty prevented us from killing humans and this time it wasn't us.

"What room Alice?"

"3rd floor, room 315" she thought.

Within minutes I was standing outside Bella's hospital room afraid to move forward, afraid of what I would see. I inhaled deeply knocked and went in. Carlisle was already there sitting with Charlie. The look on my father's face told me all I needed to know; she was as good as dead. I spun on my heels and walked right back out; I would be back after I killed the dog that did this.

Sam's POV

We knew once we heard one of the Cullens was back they all would be, there was one in particular that we all knew would be here sooner or later.

"Sam where is he? It's only fair, either step aside or I will go through you."

"I can't allow that"

I wish Jacob was up and moving by now it had been 5 days since the accident, but remembering my pain from Emily I was only able to survive when word came back that she would survive. This is different though, Bella was not Jacobs and Bella was never coming back.

"go get your coven, I want to hold a meeting, never thought I'd say this but I think it would be wise to get together and talk things out. Meet back here in 20 minutes" I needed to get the pack together; I took my shorts off and let the heat take me. Then threw my head back and let out a loud howl.

"Jacob, I know how you feel all too well, but we need to talk." I started loping towards him.

"LEAVE ME ALONE SAM" he thought.

"No, Jacob we need to talk now… It's about Bella" I added in the double timbre of the alpha, "get up and start coming towards me" and watched as he was forced to listen. I wanted our conversation to be private so I phased back. About a minute later I heard Jacobs footsteps.

"What?" he sneered.

"Jacob you made a mistake considering your… age it's not completely unexpected, but now you have a problem. You need to decide what you're going to do and get on with it. I understand the pain and the agony, and yes I know you think it's worse for you and that may be but it's time to not get over it but live with it."

"how!? Sam I killed her, I'm no better than the stupid bloodsuckers, Bella's last words were right."

"She's not dead… yet, I'm giving you permission to ask them to change her if you think that's best for Bella. Think about her and what she would want Jacob, don't think about your prejudices and wants."

"You're suggesting I ask them to make the girl I love a stupid sick, bloodsucking, monster?"

"I'm suggesting you think about it Jacob… I don't think you would really handle her actually dying any better than… well think about Bella and what she would want. After what you did considering her thoughts and feelings is the LEAST you could do. Think about it, were meeting the bloodsuckers in 10 minutes, be there. Just remember your not the only guy who loves her, as much as I hate them and as little as I would care if he dropped off the face of the planet you need to consider the fact that it's not just about you"