Yay! My brother got a new laptop and he gave me his old one so now I can type uninterrupted for hours on end. Hooray!
Previously "Well then I guess you'll just have to trust me now won't you?" Edward asked slyly.
"I guess I will."
Edward smirked and started the Volvo, speeding out of Bella's driveway. Bella stared at him with wide eyes.
"Hold on tight..."
"So." Bella began "This is one of the strangest dates I've ever been on."
Edward laughed as he finished wrapping the end of Bella's new cast. Bright green this time.
"Yeah I can't say that I've ever spent more time in the Emergency Room, than out with a date before either"
"Sorry." Bella said sheepishly.
"It's okay, I kinda like taking care of you like this."
Abruptly the handle on the exam room door jiggled and turned, the door pushing open to reveal a handsome, pale, blond man in a pristine white coat who looked to be in his mid 30's, and an equally beautiful, pale, blond woman in scrubs who looked like she was in her early 20's.
"Hello Edward." the man said. "I didn't think that you were working today. What are you doing in here?"
"Hello Carlisle. Bella here had a bit of an accident, and needed to have her arm recast. Everyone else was busy so I came back here and just did it myself."
Carlisle turned to the woman standing next to him. "Rosalie, could you leave us alone for a few minutes?"
Rosalie nodded. "Sure. I'll just be down the hall."
"Once she was gone, Carlisle stepped into the room and shut the door behind him. Turning around, both Bella and Edward could see the ill disguised fury in his eyes.
"Edward." Carlisle growled "You know that you cannot come back here when you are not on the clock. It's against hospital regulations. This is the second time that you've been caught back here off your shifts! Goddamnit Edward!" he said rubbing his hand through his hair. "What am I supposed to do with you?"
Edward stared at the ground not saying anything.
Carlisle took a deep breath, and looked over to Bella. "Ma'am your free to go, Alice will have your discharge papers ready for you."
Bella looked over to Edward for some kind of signal that it was okay for her to go. He nodded slightly at her, telling her with his eyes that she should go, Bella gathered up her coat, and left quickly, letting the door slam shut behind her. After taking a few steps away from the exam room, she could hear Carlisle's muffled voice yelling at Edward.
"This is...last time...if I catch you here again...no choice...suspend your license..." Bella winced at his harsh words. Things sounded bad for Edward.
"This is all your fault. I hope you know that." someone sneered behind Bella.
She whipped around to find a fuming Rosalie behind her.
"Edward doesn't deserve this you hag. And now he's going to be put on parole if not suspended because of your sorry ass. I hope your happy." and with that Rosalie spun on her heel and left before Bella could say anything.
Grimly Bella made her way up to the front desks and Alice. When she got there Alice smiled up at her brightly.
"Hello again Bella! I've got your papers right here " she handed over the clipboard with Bella's discharge papers on it. "I just need your signature on the bottom and then Edward can finish them up before you two leave."
Bella nodded silently and offered Alice a small smile before going to the uncomfortable waiting room chairs and slowly signing her messy signature across the bottom of the crisp white page. Edward emerged from behind the hospital's frosted glass door just as she was putting the last flourish on her 'N'.
"Hey." she greeted him. " Is everything okay?"
Edward sighed and ran his hand through his hair, mussing it up even more than it already was. "Yeah, I'm kinda treading on thin ice with Carlisle right now but I'm not going to get fired or anything."
A very upset Carlisle then burst through the door Edward had just come out of, followed closely by Rosalie.
Edward had the guile to look ashamed at the look that Carlisle shot him.
"Dr. Carlisle Cullen will be taking over your medical needs from now on. I'll explain later."
Carlisle swept up the clipboard holding Bella's papers without introduction or acknowledgement of anything but the papers before him as he signed and checked. Just off to the side Rosalie sneered at Bella, and glared daggers at her until Edward finally looked up. At which point she smiled sweetly and 'accidentally' dropped her pen, bending over in an ill disguised attempt to Edward a view down the front of her scrubs. Not that he cared enough to look.
When Rosalie straightened up again to find that Edward had completely ignored her, she fumed visibly and once again glared at Bella, as if the harshness of her stare would remove her from the face of the earth.
Carlisle tossed the clipboard to Alice, who only just managed to catch it before it crashed to the ground. He turned sharply on his heel, his white lab coat swishing out behind him, and Rosalie following closely behind.
Once they were gone Edward hugged Bella close to him.
"I'm sorry that you had to see that." he apologized.
"Why am I being turned over to Carlisle for a patient?'
Edward released her and looked down at his feet, not wanting to look at Bella when he answered.
"It's one of those rules that you can't do anything about but have to follow regardless. No doctor patient relationships. If we continued to pursue this relationship while you were under my care, I would lose my license to practice medicine. Really I should have turned your care over to someone else once I realized that I would be unable to realize that I wouldn't be able to stay away from you."
"And when did you realize that?"
Edward looked up and smiled wickedly. "About two minutes after you were brought into the exam room."
"As sweet as this moment is." Alice interrupted. "If you two don't get out of here and continue elsewhere, Rosalie is going to kill Bella, and I won't be able to leave."
"Darling sister, you need to calm down before you give yourself an aneurysm, and if you do that poor Jasper will never be able to leave this waiting room."
Alice glowered at Edward then turned her head towards the corner of the waiting room where a tall, muscular, blond man with blue eyes sat reading the latest edition of 'Country Music Weekly'.
"Jasper sweetie." she called softly.
Jasper looked up from his magazine with a smile on his face. "Yes darling?" he drawled with a barely there southern accent.
"Could you make them leave so we can get out of here?"
"Heaven forbid that we should keep you two here, I fail to see why you can't leave until \we do." Edward pointed out.
Alice shot him a dirty look. "There's a note here from Carlisle. I'm not allowed to go anywhere until you and Bella have left. But if you two keep standing there making goo goo eyes at each other we're never going to be able to leave."
Jasper lifted his magazine up to cover his face, from what Bella could see it looked like he was trying to hide his laughter from Alice. As it turned out the magazine did little to hide his emotions from her, and Alice yelled at him to get rid of Edward and Bella or she wouldn't let him touch her for a month. Jasper's face paled and he leaped up to push Edward out the door.
"Jasper get your hands off of me!" he cried indignantly.
Jasper shook his head. "Nope. Not going to happen. You heard what she said and you know that she meant it. I'm not letting you go until we get to your car."
Jasper kept pushing Edward, followed by a giggling Bella until he reached Edward's silver Volvo, covered in a half inch of snow.
"Pushy." Edward grumbled at Jasper. Jasper merely smiled and waved before heading back into the hospital to retrieve Alice.
Edward stood for a moment, digging in his pocket, grumbling about his sister's blond haired boyfriend.
"Um Edward?" Bella asked timidly.
"Yeah?"
"Could we go into the car? It's kind of cold out here."
"Oh! Yeah of course." Edward quickly unlocked the doors to his car, and rushed around to the passenger side, to open Bella's door for her.
Once they were both safely inside with the heater on full blast, Edward ran his hands up his face, and dug his fingers in his unruly hair.
"Well that was interesting." he smiled slightly.
Bella laughed nervously. "Yeah. Interesting... Why was that doctor so angry? Carl something or other?"
"Carlisle." Edward corrected. "Was upset because he's caught me at the hospital off duty before. Moonlighting. It's against hospital regulations and since he's the chief of medicine he can't really ignore it once he's already caught you."
"What do you mean 'if' he's already caught you?"
"If he doesn't see you moonlighting, it didn't happen." Edward said with a grin.
:"He can't be that verbal with everyone that he finds moonlighting can he?" she questioned.
"No he can't, and he isn't. He's only that hard on me because he's my uncle. He raised me after my parents died." his voice cracked slightly at the end "Carlisle has been the only father that Alice and I have known since we were eight. He was so happy when I decided to follow him into medicine."
"And Alice?"
"Alice is only working as the secretary right now to pay the bills for her apartment. She's applied for a job with Marie Clare – making Carlisle's wife Esme happy - and refuses to let anyone else help her out until then." Edward chuckled "She even refused to move in with Jasper – the blond that you saw back there – because she thought that he was just trying to be sneaky about what she saw as lending her money."
"But she's living with him now?"
"Yes thank god." He grimanced at what appeared to be some disturbing memories. "There are some sounds that you never want to hear coming from your sister's room. Ever."
Bella laughed at the expression on his face until she remembered the cold piercing glare of the beautiful blond that followed Carlisle.
"What about that woman that was with Carlisle?" a chill ran up Bella's spine just thinking about the glare that she had received.
"Rosalie? I don't know much about her. She's our new intern. And if I'm being truly honest, she terrifies me. Every now and than I catch her staring at me."
"Creepy." Bella commented.
Edward nodded his assent. "Yeah you're telling me."
"Don't worry she scares me to." Bella said patting his arm in an oddly motherly gesture.
"You shouldn't be so scared. I'll protect you from the crazy interns."
"Will you now?"
"Yes I will." Edward puffed out his chest and flexed his muscles a little. Bella laughed and slapped him with her good arm.
"Stop!" she giggled.
"Fine." Edward said rolling his eyes and rubbing his arm in mock hurt.
Bella's stomach growled loudly, and her face flushed a deep red.
"Hungry?" Edward asked barely suppressing his laughter.
"A little."
"Okay. Your options are Bella Italia" he shot her a meaningful look "or McDonalds. Your choice."
As much as Bella hated people spending money on her, Edward's look earlier had told her that he wanted her to pick, Bella Italia. A small romantic Italian restaurant on the outskirts of town. With it's dim dining area and cozy quarters, it was the perfect location for a date.
"Bella Italia."
"I was hoping you would say that."
So that took a while for me to get chapter 3 written but its here now and I need your honest opinions, should I write the scene for Bella Italia, or would that be to cliché? Just tell me what you think in a review hinthint so I can get the next chapter up quicker.
And no. Tanya will not be given a role in this fic. The evil role normally played by Tanya has been given over to Rosalie. And trust me, she has some EVIL things planned for Bella and Edward, stick with me to find out.
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