Midnight Flower
Part 3 – Waking Up
I slowly woke up hearing a beeping in the background, the strong scent of bleach hit my nose first. It took a moment for my eyes to open seeing the stark white ceiling above me a slowly began to realise where I was immediately. I sighed slightly as I looked around and instantly I felt a pair of ice cold hands grasp mine tightly. My eyes feel on Edward who had a chair propped up to the edge of my bed and was leaning in very close to me. I smiled to him and he seemed to be relieved.
I tried to remember what had happened, the last thing I remember was sitting on the blanket with Edward then nothing. I wondered if Victoria had come and tried to attack me but I knew I would have remembered something like that.
"What happened?" I asked Edward as I grasped his hand tightly happy to see him. Edward's expression dropped and I felt my heart skip a beat, not in the way it does when he is close or when he kisses me, but in fear. He sighed and ran his fingers over the back of my hand as he remained quiet which just made me worry even more.
"What happened Edward." I repeated the question again my voice cracked slightly in worry and fear. It wasn't like him to hide something like this or avoid the question like this. Edward moved his eyes away from mine and I sat up quickly but he turns back and made me lie down.
"Bella… I'm not sure…" he said to me and I looked to him shocked.
"They are still running some tests Carlisle just left a few minutes ago to go get the results." He told me quickly seeming to know that I would have pressed for the reason why I was now in the Forks Memorial Hospital.
I settled down but only a bit, the look on Edwards face didn't disappear and I knew there was an equal look of worry on my face. I began to wonder what was wrong with me, what danger or crutch life would through at my next.
"Where is everyone?" I asked knowing that by now the other Cullens would have found out about what had happened. I even wondered if Charlie knew about what was going on, and what had happened.
"Alice, Jasper, Emmett, Esme and even Rosalie are waiting in the lobby. Carlisle didn't want you to get overexcited by seeing everyone when you first wake up." Edward explained and I was surprised to here that Rosalie was here too even though she wasn't fond of me.
"What about Charlie?" I asked remembering the look on his face the day I had left him after he found out about my motorcycle. I wondered what he must have thought happened to me, would he think Edward did something to me?
"We thought it best to wait until we knew what happened and why." He answered but I wondered if there was another reason for not calling Charlie yet. I nodded mutely and sighed feeling a small headache come on but I shook my head lightly to shake it off.
"What happened…. I mean after I passed out." I asked and looked to Edward moving in closer to him and inhaled his scent which made me calm down a bit. He sighed slightly as he looked to me and seemed to be thinking deeply.
"You really scared me…" Edward admitted after a long minute in a low voice that grabbed my full attention. "When you fainted… it scared me I never felt more powerless you weren't waking up at all. I ran you back to the jeep and Alice showed up with Jasper… she had seen what had happened but only once it was too late to warn us." Edward explained his eyes had been lowered as she stared at my hand each he held in his. I sighed knowing I had made him worry like that, of how he must have felt bringing me back here.
"And that's not the worst of it…" Edward added in and lifted the sleeve of my hospital gown to reveal bruises on my arms which hadn't been there yesterday. My eyes widened as I stared at them, sure I tripped and feel and was as clumsy as ever but never enough to do this much damage,
"There's more… all over your body…" He admitted and I lifted the blanket and could see more doting up my legs. I felt her heart pick up pace and the heart monitor beeped loudly with my hearts change in pace. Edward gripped my hand bring my attention back to him, he sighed and lifted one of his pale hands and brushed back some of my hair.
"What's happening to me?" I asked feeling the tears of fear creeping into my eyes. Edward seemed to flinch seeing my tears and leaned in and gently kissed me.
"I don't know… but I would do anything to fix it." He admitted lowly to me I was about to say something else when Carlisle came in and looked at us. He seemed to have a very serious look on his face, he made a nod to Edward and he nodded back quickly then turned back to me.
"I'll be right back okay Bella." He told me softly and I weakly nodded. I really didn't want him to go, I was so scared knowing Carlisle probably had the test results. Edward moved quickly to the door and stepped outside with him father. The door closed with a soft click, I didn't handle the suspense well. My hands clench the thin hospital blanket tightly and twisted it as I looked to the window out at the overcast sky.
The minutes they were talking seemed like hours and I felt myself become more nervous with every one that passed. I couldn't hear the murmuring of Edward's and Carlisle's voices anymore and I wondered where they had gone. Was it that bad or was it something else that I didn't know about, either way it didn't make me any calmer.
I began to think about the past few days, the other day in gym I had suddenly become light-headed and tired like I had when me and Edward were walking earlier. I had also noticed and only because Edward pointed this out that I had been eating less in the past few days. I clearly remembered that morning when I only ate one piece of toast, at first I thought nothing. I closed my eyes thinking back to that day.
I grabbed the toast from the toaster as it popped out and placed it on my plate and lazily spread some butter over it. I was constantly aware of Edward's piercing stare on my back, ever since we had come home from Italy he had barely left me alone, not that he didn't do that before, but not if did it more. He even insisted to stand outside the bathroom when I used it as long as Charlie wasn't around to see him.
I turned back to the table seeing Edward easily leaning back in his chair and watching me with his intent gold eyes. I sat down in the chair beside him and started to nibble my breakfast. He started to lean in and placed his hand on my cheek as I was chewing and smiled his crooked smile at me. I felt the blood rush to my cheeks and I placed what was left of my toast down on my plate.
Edward looked from me to my plate but my eyes stayed on him. I saw his brows furrow and he looked back to me I was confused by his look, wondering what I had done to make him have that look on his face.
"Bella you barely ate." Edward pointed out and I looked down seeing at least one fourth of my toast laying discarded on my plate. I started down at it I had never thought about it before and raised my eyes back to his the question I wanted to ask seemed to have been in my eyes since Edwards sighed and shook his head.
"No… It's not just today. He past few days you haven't eaten much and everyday…" He said and paused for a moment seeming to consider what he was going to say.
"Everyday… I've been seeing you eat less and less." He continued and his thumb absently stroked my cheek, I looked down not having had noticed this but knew Edward was probably right.
"Bella… is something the matter?" he asked and becoming more serious as worry entered his voice. I looked back up at his and looked at his golden eyes which were rippling with worry that matched his tone.
"I'm fine… really I am." I assured him and Edward nodded not saying anything else about it since then.
Bella opened her eyes and wondered if that had to do with anything that had happened, or maybe I was just getting over worried about it. It was another two minutes before the door opened and my head snapped to see Carlisle re-enter Edward trailing along beside him with a very sullen look on his face as his eyes came to meet mine. Carlisle came to the side of my bed and smiled to me warmly but it didn't comfort me or calm me down any.
"How are you feeling Bella?" he asked politely as Edward returned to his chair beside my bedside and took my hand into his hand and leaned over and kissed my forehead, he held the kiss there for a long moment unlike what he normally did.
"I'm okay… I just want to know what happened." I said and looked between Carlisle and Edward the same worried look spread across my face. Edward sucked in a breath as he turned his eyes to look at Carlisle and I now knew something was very, very wrong.
Carlisle's expression changed into one of sadness, I could see the pain and I knew it was bad and he probably didn't want to tell me. But I needed to know what was happening to me.
Carlisle became more serious realizing that I would keep asking what was wrong with me until he did tell me. He sighed and nodded and glanced to Edward who gripping my hand even tighter, I gripped his hand back as I forced myself to breathe in.
"Bella before I tell you I called Charlie a few minutes ago, I felt that he should be here too." He told me and I was surprised, I wasn't so sure what would happen if Charlie came now but I knew it was probably the right thing to do. But I also realised that what Carlisle has to say is so serious that he would want to bring Charlie here knowing the fight we had, had.
Only seconds after he had told me the my father was coming that the door burst open and a pale faced Charlie came into the room. His eyes fell of me instantly and he rushed over to my beside, walking past Carlisle to stand on the other side of my bed.
"Oh Bella." He said and leaned down and hugged me tightly, I let go of Edward's hand for a brief second and hugged him back. I had seen the shimmer in Charlie's eyes that told me he was ready to cry, it was a moment before he let me go. He smiled to me and I knew I had probably been forgiven for our fight the other day, his eyes then turned to Edward and I felt my stomach tense wondering what he would say.
"Edward…" he stated, Edward looked at him waiting as well to hear what Charlie would say ever though he could read his thoughts and know what Charlie wanted to say.
"Thank you… for taking care or her." Charlie said and I looked to Carlisle and smiled knowing it would have been him that told Charlie that it was Edward how had brought me in and taken care of me.
Edward nodded with a smile, "I always will." He said after, and then Carlisle coughed to get our attention. My stomach clenched again and Edward re-took my hand into his and gave it a reassuring squeeze I looked to him and saw his eyes filled with endless sadness and despair and I wished that I could take it all away.
"Now… when Edward brought you in Bella it gave us all a scare. It was hard to tell exactly what was wrong since you had never shown signs that something was wrong, or at least nothing major that would have set off any warning signs until today." Carlisle started and gripped the clipboard in his hands and I bit the inside of my lip to try and keep myself as calm as I could.
"I ran quite a few blood tests to try and get an idea of what was wrong with you… but I even wasn't ready for what the tests said." Carlisle said and paused his eyes staring into mine and then he continued,
"Bella I'm very sorry to tell you this… but you have leukemia." And that was when my world came to a stop.
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