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"Alice," I asked as we got home. "Did you notice Erin's bruises?"
"Yes, Bella, and I am trying to see her future, I'm a little nervous." Alice said sounding scared.
"I just hope the poor girl isn't hurt, she is such a close friend of Nessie's." Alice added.
"Maybe Edward could read her mind and figure something out?" I suggested.
"Oh my gosh Bella, why didn't I think of that, it's quite brilliant, really." Alice told me with a newfound excitement on her face.
"You think Alice!" I said happy I could help. "I'll go ask him, I can hear him playing his piano upstairs."
"Alright, I'll be in my room if you need me Bells." Alice added.
I knew something was up with Edward, because the song he was playing was sounding very sad. That was always a bad sign, and if he were happy he would be working on the song he is currently writing for Jacob and Renesmee.
"Umm, Edward, could I talk to you about something." I asked.
"Anything Love, you always know that." Edward said, nervous because he knew that I was a little afraid.
"I don't want to scare Ness, but I think something is wrong with Erin."
"I know what you're talking about, Love." Edward said very seriously. "I was kind of hoping you wouldn't notice, because I know how you panic."
"Have you read her mind yet, Edward?" I asked hoping he would say yes.
"Umm, yes, and I wanted to talk to you about that." Edward said. "I think that Erin isdefinatly hurt, but I don't know why, and how. We need to find a way to help her Bella; I don't think she is doing very well. Have you and Alice talked?"
"Yes, let's go ask her to try to see her future."I said to Edward.
"She heard our conversation, and she is on her way up, Bella." Edward told me trying to be calm.
He grabbed my hand and tried to calm me down, because he could tell I was very scared.
"Alice, have you seen anything yet?" Edward asked immediately as Alice walked towards the door.
"No Edward, I'm trying though, I think that we should talk with the rest of the family so they know what is going on." Alice said to Edward and me.
I was really frightened, and I didn't want anything to be wrong with poor Erin. She was such a nice girl, and probably Nessie's best friend, considering Jacob was probably now looked at as her boyfriend. I really wasn't to upset about that, because I knew it was going to happen soon. Erin was so kind to Nessie, and she slept over probably almost every weekend. Maybe that had bigger meaning. I had an Idea, I wasn't convinced I was right on my assumption, but my idea made sense. I think I was on to something, all the evidence was there.
Soon enough, the rest of the family was in Edwards, and my room waiting for us to start the story. We explained to them the mystery about Erin, and everyone had noticed, except Rosalie. That was her though, it's not that she isn't nice, but she is a little self absorbed. Even she was intrigued and nervous for poor Erin. Nessie was very upset, and decided that we all needed to help Erin. She said that one time she had brushed against Erin's back and saw her cringe, but she tried to hide the pain.
"I have an idea everyone." I said trying to sound sure of myself, which I certainly was not."I think I know what is wrong with Erin."
"Tell us Bella, we need ideas." Alice said anxiously.
"I think that Erin is being abused, and at home. I have noticed that she is over here a lot, and maybe it is because she doesn't want to be at home." I said, sounding very unsure of myself.
"Bella, your brilliant, and probably right!" Alice sounded excited. "How could I have missed that? Know that I have that to work with, it might be easier to see her make sense of her future. I have seen a few images, but they are all hard to comprehend." Alice proclaimed.
"You think Alice?" I asked her.
"Yes Bella, you may just be right." Alice said I return.
"I agree with Alice." Carlisle said to me. "I think that we should check out what is going on at her house, because she could get seriously hurt." Carlisle said sounding serious.
"I agree, whoever is hurting Erin is going down." Emmett said, well, being his usual self. He had actually had a lot of fun with Erin since her and Nessie had become friends. She had a competitive edge, which Emmett liked, so they always made bets and what not.
All of a sudden everyone noticed that Alice's attention was elsewhere. I knew that she was having a vision of the future, and I could tell that it was important. It was most likely about Erin.
"Oh no, we have to go see Erin!" Alice screamed.
"What Alice." I screamed back. "What did you see?"
"Bella, it was awful." Alice said nervously." Erin is getting really hurt, we need to help her, and we can't be too late. Bella I saw her future, and it stopped. She is going to die if we don't save her from getting hurt."
"Alright, let's go." I told Alice. If I could cry, then I would. I was sobbing, but no tears could come out.
"Carlisle, we can't all go." Alice said. "Nobody can know we are there. I'm not even sure if it was the girl's house, but it looked like it."
"I know, Alice, we know that we need You, Edward, and Jasper, for your talents." Carlisle said. "In case Erin loses it, Jasper will calm her down."
"There may be blood, Carlisle, Jasper should stay." Alice told him.
"I'm coming." I told Alice. "I need to, and I won't be away from Edward, and I think Carlisle should come as well, he is a doctor."
"Yes, defiantly," Alice agreed. "Bella, Edward, Carlisle, and I will go. We need to leave know, I don't know how much time there is. Esme, you are in charge of staying by the phone, in case we call."
I was very afraid, so I hurried into the Alice's Porsh because it was defiantly the fastest. Alice and Edward sat in the front, and I immediately hoped in the back with Carlisle. While we drove we formulated a plan.
"Alright, we don't know when Erin is going to be hurt, how bad, and where. I only now that it is soon, and that it will be near her house, and that is if my predictions are correct." Alice said.
"Ok, so, Edward, you are going to have to read her mind, and try to figure out where she is. We will park close enough so that you can do so, but not close enough for anyone to notice. Alice, you have to concentrate on trying to see anymore glimpses of her future that might give us a clue. Bella and I will try to find her, everyone have your phones on just in case." Carlisle told us in a directing tone.
Then we finally arrived, and had to split up.
"Edward, I love you." I told him caringly, just in case.
"As I love you, My Bella." Edward told me back. Then he lifted me onto my toes and gently kissed me.
"Come on Edward, we have to go." Alice said to Edward, trying to get him and me to let go of each other.
We parked the car about five minute down the road. Edward and Alice stayed back getting clues from Erin's thoughts and future, Carlisle and I ran towards the house to try to find Erin. We sneaked in to her house through in open window I her bedroom.
"Carlisle, she's not here." I told him sounding very worried.
"I know Bella." Carlisle said sounding disappointed. "I'm not sure she's even in the house, I think we might be too late."
All of a sudden, I smelt blood. Human blood. I instantly knew that it was Erin.
"Carlisle," I screamed. "Do you smell that? "The blood, Erin's blood."
"Bella, we need to get Edward and Alice." Carlisle said. It hadn't been ten seconds before I saw Alice and Edward coming through the door.
"We need to find her." I said. "Let's go."
Erin's Point of View
This was the most pain I have ever been in. I was dying, and I knew it. He had never hurt me so bad, and been so cruel in my life. I knew that I had already lost too much blood, and I needed help, but I didn't have the strength to reach my phone. I didn't want to die. I wasn't ready yet. Besides the abuse, I loved my life. I loved Nessie and Jacob, as my very best friends. I didn't want to leave just yet. I loved the Cullen's as my family, and I loved them much more than my own family. I loved Alice and Bella like sisters. I loved Emmett and Edward as brothers. I loved Carlisle and Esme like they were my parents. Why did I have to die, and why did I have to be abused. "Why me?" I asked myself. I had never hurt anyone, or done anything mean, or cruel hearted. I didn't want to die, but I didn't want to continue living the way I was either. I was in misery, and I wanted it to end.
I struggled to keep my eyes open. I fought against the darkness, but it was taking me over. I knew that these were my last moments. I knew my death would upset Ness, and the Cullen's, but I also knew that my death meant my father's success. He would get away with abusing me for so many years. He would never get caught.
I had thought that Bella had become suspicious of my bruises at the dance, and I could only wish that that was true, and that they would have questioned me, and I could tell them everything that was going on. I would tell them about my father, and how he beat me every night, I would also tell them about my brother, and how he stole from me, and hit me when I tried to stand up to him. I would tell them about my whole life, starting with my poor mother's death. She was the best thing that ever happened to me, and she reminded me a lot of Esme. Her death was hard on many people, and my dad blamed it on me. My entire family blamed her death on me. I wished that the Cullen's would find me, and rescue me. They would take me in, and I could be part of their family. I could only hope.
I was so close to death, but I couldn't stop crying. I didn't want my life to end, not like this at least. I knew there was little time left, and I had no hope that I would live. I screamed and thrashed against the cold sand and rocks near the river. I felt the sand rubbing against the warm blood rushing out of my leg. I also felt myself rub up against the sharp knife that was recently used to cut through my delicate skin.
This was it. This was how my life was going to end. I was about to die, but I didn't have any strength to do anything about it.
Then I heard a sound. It was distant, but I instantly knew who it was. I screamed louder, hoping she would hear. If Bella heard me, she would save me, and do all she could to keep me from dying. I needed her. I screamed the top of my lungs, and I could feel my throat burning with the pain from screaming. She was coming closer, I could hear it. I heard her gasp, and I knew she had seen me, but then the darkness took over, and I slipped into what I couldn't distinguish from death or sleeping.
Bella's Point of View
(This is before Erin hears Bella.)
We jumped out the window and started to run, fast. I couldn't find her anywhere. I was crying, but nothing would come out. I was sobbing, and I wanted Edward to comfort me.
"Edward, I need you." I called out knowing he would hear me.
"Bella, I'm here, and I think I found a trail." Edward said.
"Really," I said. "Then what are we waiting for. Let's go, now."
I grabbed Edward's hand and ran following the trail of Erin's scent. The trail stopped at a wide river covered in bushes, and shrubs. If the moon didn't light the sky then any human would not have been able to see anything. Then, I heard crying. No, not crying, sobbing, and screaming. It was Erin, I knew that much. I knew there was blood, too. It was a good thing that Jasper didn't come, because the blood was very strong. I looked across the river, and that's when I saw her. She was a mess, and probably dying, as well.
"Edward, do you see her, we need to go help her." I said, and then I instantly saw Carlisle and Alice coming from the other direction, and we meet up right in front of Erin.
"Edward, call Esme and tell her to bring my supplies down." Carlisle ordered.
"Yes, Carlisle." Edward said immediately dialing Esme's cell phone number.
"Alice how much time do we have?" Carlisle asked.
"Not much, but I don't think she will survive, unless me change her." Alice said sadly.
"Alright, I'll do it." I said. "We all know how close Erin has become to our family, and I don't thin k that I can live through the pain of not having her here."
"Bella," Edward gasped. "You haven't even been one of us for ten years, you might kill her."
"I can do it Edward." I told him sternly. "I have good self control, and I wouldn't be able to live with m
"Not much, but I don't think she will survive, unless me change her." Alice said sadly.
"Alright, I'll do it." I said. "We all know how close Erin has become to our family, and I don't think that I can live through the pain of not having her here."
"Bella," Edward gasped. "You haven't even been one of us for ten years, you might kill her."
"I can do it Edward." I told him sternly. "I have good self control, and I wouldn't be able to live with m self if I hurt her."
"Is it too late, Carlisle?" Edward asked.
"I am going to sneak her into the hospital, but I'm not sure if she will make it." Carlisle said sounding disappointed.
Erin's Point of View
My eyes didn't open, but I felt a pair of ice cold, and rock hard arms wrap underneath my body, and I screamed at the pain as they brushed against the gashes cover in dirt and sand on the back of my legs. My eyes shot open, and I saw Carlisle above me running at inhuman speed. I was scared, but I thought that I might be dead. He had always resembled more of an angel than a human, but I couldn't possibly have lived through that pain I had just gone under. I tried to form a question, but I couldn't get the words out. I must be dead. How would they have found me, they live more than twenty miles away from my house, let alone the river I was almost killed near? I was had a bandage around my arm, and my neck, and on the back of my leg, but they did find me. They must have. I wasn't dead, I couldn't be, besides, there shouldn't be pain in heaven, and I certainly felt pain. I loved the Cullen's, more than they would ever know, but I still wasn't sure I would live. I then slipped back into sleep.
Carlisle's cold, hard arms carried me into a bright room. The walls were white, so was the floor, and the bed I was laid on. Where was I? I needed to know, but I couldn't form any real coherent thought in my head. All I could remember was pain, and that was certainly gone now. I didn't know why I was with the Cullen's.
Then it came back to me as I opened my eyes and saw Carlisle examining the knife that was very recently used in attempt to kill me. I had been abused, again. Did the Cullen's save me? Of that, I wasn't entirely sure. I knew that Carlisle was a doctor, so maybe he was just taking care of me. Then, he touched me to change my bandage.
I felt his cool hard hands, and then remembered the same feeling as I was being picked up at the river. It must have been him. Nobody's hands were that impossibly cold, and hard. I had to talk, but every time I tried nothing came out. Why couldn't I ask what was going on? I needed to know. I wanted to explain how my father had tricked me to going down to the river, where he threatened to drown me. He had used his pocket knife to slash open my leg, and then my throat, and my arm, when I didn't do as he had told me to do. I was hit, and beaten until I fell to the sandy ground where I was no longer able to get up, and the he stood up, and walked away. For one thing I was sure, If I ever made it out of this place, I wasn't going back home. Why would I?
I decided to put all my energy into forming a coherent thought that I could say out loud, but then remembered that that would be nearly impossible. I was starting to feel some of the sharp, throbbing pain come back in my leg, and then I felt a needle slip into my arm, that soothed the pain shortly after that. I couldn't stand just laying here, unable to do or say anything. I didn't know how long it had been, or when I would be out of this room. It was becoming harder for me to breath, and even harder for me to think straightly. The pain had significantly worsened, and I couldn't help but thrash and scream every time somebody touched one of my many gashes. My chest hurt after every breath I took in, and every time I breathed out as well. This was death. If I wasn't already dead, then I was going to be soon. I was in so much pain and misery, death seemed like a pretty good idea to me. I wished they would talk so I knew what was going on, at least.
Bella's Point of View
"Carlisle," I called. "How is she?"
"Unfortunately," Carlisle started. "She has gotten significantly worse. She is too weak to recover. Her body isn't able to maintain a stable condition. She stopped responding to the pain medications, and I don't know why. I am sure she is in a large amount of pain right now."
"Carlisle, Is it time?" I asked him, hoping he knew exactly what I meant.
"Soon, Bella, if she stays in this state then it might be tonight." Carlisle added sadly.
I knew he didn't want to have to change anybody else, but this was fatal. I was one ninety nine percent positive that I had the will to back away from her blood when I needed to. Just in case, I would have Jacob and Emmett, two of the strongest people I know, behind me to pull me off. I also needed to tell Carlisle that the morphine made my change worse, and since Edward was at home, now was the time. I didn't want him to hear that I was in pain.
"Hey, umm, Carlisle, can I talk to you for a second?" I asked.
"Anything Bella."Carlisle told me.
"Well, I wanted to let you know that the morphine before venom isn't the best idea. It actually made the transformation much worse. I know Edward would hate to hear that, so please don't tell him I told you." I said.
"Bells, you're not very hard to read." Carlisle told me. "I could tell that you were lying when you had become a vampire. I am very sorry about the pain that it caused you, I hope you understand that I meant well."
"Of course, Carlisle, I just thought you should know." I told him in return.
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