Chapter 4

Bewitched

"I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake."

~ Charlaine Harris

ISABELLA

"I…I…"

"Really, that's your defense? I…I… Come on Isadora, you can at least pretend like you have no idea what I'm talking about." The woman with the wavy brunette hair and bright green eyes sat up properly in her chair, her manicured hands folded on the table simply smiling at me as if I weren't lying to her family.

"I'm so sorry." was all I managed to whisper fighting back the tears that were building at the bottom of my eyes.

"You're not even going to ask me how I know?" She asked rubbing her pearls around her neck.

Glancing over at Edward, who stood at the far end of the sea of bright white tables that made up the cafeteria, I noticed he was talking to a cute nurse, in his hands was his mother's coffee. I took comfort in the fact that he looked like he was trying his best to escape her.

"Does it matter? You're going to tell him right."

"Oh it matters, which is why I'm not going to tell him a damn thing. He never listens to me anyway." My eyes met green ones and I looked for any hints that she was only messing with me. But she was completely serious and oddly calm.

"Really?"

"Really what?" Edward asked as he arrived at the edge of our table too quickly.

Esme frowned; "You came back faster than I thought."

"I'm so…" with a snap of her fingers he froze, he stood as motionless as a statue and it wasn't just him, looking up slowly I noticed it was everyone. People with spoons frozen only inches away from peoples' lips; others mid-drink or even blink.

"Oh this smells heavenly." Esme moaned taking the coffee from Edwards hands.

I poked his hand quickly before pulling back; "What did you do?"

"I stopped time." She said licking her lips.

"What?"

"Not permanently just enough time so that we can finish this conversation. Who would have thought hospitals had such good coffee. No wonder I can never get Carlisle to drink my mud…."

"I'm sorry can we rewind and stop at you stopping time." Holy shit what the fuck was going on. I couldn't believe it and yet I was living it.

"Would you like to? Or are you just being dramatic?" She tilted her head to the side; her wavy hair just falling off her shoulder. It must have been witchcraft keeping her looking like that.

Sighing I ran my hands through my hair; "What's going on? Is this like groundhog day? I stole my sister's life so now I'm going crazy?"

She grinned; "Crazy? No I don't think so. Just kept in the dark for far too long."

"So enlighten me please! Who are you? What are you? What is going on?" Before I break.

"Breathe for one. Two, I am Esme Cullen, your Godmother. I happen…"

"My godmother?" I wasn't sure how I should be feeling, "where the fuck have you been!"

Her eyes narrowed and she sat up straighter, her whole demeanor changed; "You would be wise not to curse at me, Isadora because I'm not afraid to take you over the knee.""Do it then because it's a valid question. You knew who I was so why didn't I know who you were? Why was I all alone? Who am I?" Why didn't anyone ever come for me?

Sighing she placed her cup on the table; "Isadora you're a witch…don't you dare interrupt me."

I opened my mouth to speak but she gave me the look. The look I saw mothers give their kids in the parks, the one that said shut up, or you will not like what happens.

"I'm a witch, my daughter Alice is a witch and your sister was a witch, though she didn't know it either. Your mother didn't want either of you to ever know."

"My… mother." I felt a knot in my throat build, and hope swarm all over my heart.

She nodded; "Renee Swan. She was a witch as well. We belonged to the same coven, she was a very strong witch and I knew any child she gave birth to would be powerful; twins equal power…that was until we found out you would be born on the last new moon of the year."

"Was? You refereed to her in the past tense." and just like that the hope was gone.

Once again she nodded spinning the cup in her hand; "Most fairytales are wrong but often have a stick of truth. For witches the full moon does give us power. You and Isabella were the first twins ever born on the last new moon. All the power lingering in the air would find its way to you two. Renee didn't make it through the birth…"

"We killed her?"

"No!" she grabbed my hand, "your mother loved you both and if it was you or her she would choose you both ten times over any day of the week."

This is insane.

"I don't get it. Why were Isabella and I separated?"

"Because one of you carried positive power and the other negative. When you two were together you both literally pushed the other away. The walls would shake and with each passing day the energies at war with each other made it harder and harder to hide who you really were. I dropped Isabella at the church and you at the state. When you two met on the bus again, all of the power you've both buried exploded. I felt it, any witch in the area should have felt…"

"Wait…you're telling me I killed my mother and I killed my sister?" I laughed through the tears grabbing the side of my head. "I murdered the only family I had?"

"Isadora…"

"No! I don't want to hear it go away." I whispered it was like the world around me was caving in.

"Isadora I need you to calm down okay..."

"No! You don't get to tell me to calm down! You just told me I was a witch. Not just any witch but a mother and sister killing witch! Did I kill my father too?"

"I didn't know who he was." She sighed.

"Great."

"Isadora. I know this is a lot. But there is a reason why you are here, Isabella found herself back in Seattle years ago and so have you…"

"Yea, so I can hurt someone else."

"Or maybe to find happiness in the midst of tragedy. What happened to Isabella was an accident but you have a second chance, I swear I won't leave you again. Witches are…"

"Stop it. I don't want to hear anymore of your voodoo crap! I'm done. I'm telling Edward the truth and I'm leaving!" I yelled slamming my hand on the table which caused the whole room to shake and the cafeteria full of statues to come alive.

They didn't just move, they shook just as violently as the table I slammed, the windows around us shattering, men, woman, children who were once all frozen, slid under tables for cover. The lights flickered like angry lightening bugs before a few shattered.

"Earthquake!"

"It's an Earthquake!"

"Earthquake!"

Grabbing hold of the both of us Edward pulled me out of my chair into his arms and under the table holding onto me everything fell over. Esme looked at me quickly before grabbing my hand.

'Stop.' She mouthed over to me.

I didn't know how. I didn't want any of this I just want to wake up from this nightmare.

Please stop. Please Stop. And it did the shaking under us just stopped.

"Are you okay?" Edward asked, still not letting go.

I wasn't sure how to respond though.

"Help! Someone please help."

"Please Help."

The voices around us cried out as Edward helped me out from underneath the gum infested table and helped his mother back into her seat.

"Are you alright?" He asked her, she could only smile and nod brushing her hair back.

"Yes, go help them."

He looked to me and I found the will to smile nodding for him to go. "I'll call Xavier and Sasha go and help."

"I will be back as soon as I can and mom can help get you back to your room. The hospital is still structurally sound so just stay there unless told otherwise alright?" he replied quickly then he leaned down to kiss me but froze, cupping my cheek instead; "I promise I will be there as soon as I can, okay? Be safe."

Maneuvering through the small wreckage, he transformed in a split second into a doctor; taking off his white coat and using it as a make shift pillow for a woman to lay her head on. He just hovered over her barking orders at anyone that was not stunned too much to make a move.

"We need to get you back to your room." Esme whispered taking ahold of the back of my chair.

Everywhere I looked there were doctor's, all of them relatively calm rushing to the side of anyone who needed them…and there were those who did, badly.

"I didn't…"

"Shh. Dora it's alright. I shouldn't have told you so much so soon. The hospital is going to make sure everyone is okay and stable before we are allowed to leave. This is not your fault worst has happen to people like us. I promise I will help you, I won't leave you again." I wasn't sure what she wanted me to say to that but all I could do was nod.

I hurt people. It's what I did. I always knew it and now this was proof…my head hurt so badly all I wanted was to close my eyes and sleep.

I need to go…

"Mommy!" yelled Sasha once we had gotten to my room. Beside her sat Alice, her blue and black hair held high in a ponytail and her sleeves rolled.

Before she or Esme could stop her, the small bundle charged my chair and hopped on top of me.

"Mommy did you feel it? The ground kept shaking Vier was scared." Sasha grinned brightly, she didn't seem fazed at all.

"I was not." Xavier pouted, "I just didn't like it."

"I'm sorry sweetheart but it's over now and it won't happen again. What are you both doing back so soon? Were you here the whole time?"

"They demanded to be brought back here. Luckily, we weren't on the road when it hit. They missed you and Edward." Alice smiled folding a small jacket on the bed.

"Yes mommy we missed you, did you miss us?" Xavier asked while playing with my hair.

Kissing his hands I tried not to cry, I hadn't ever really been missed before; "Of course. I missed you both. Who wants to push me to the bed?"

"ME!" They yelled sliding down off me in order to push Esme out of the way and take control of the chair.

"Slowly," I laughed as they both grabbed a handle and tried to push.

Both Esme and Alice gave me looks. I figured Esme must have already filled her in but I didn't want anything to do with either of them. So when Alice tried to reach for me, in order to help me onto the bed I pulled away. I'd rather walk on a broken foot than think of the massive amounts of paranormal shit going on around them…around all of us.

"So guys, tell me everything that's on your mind." I'd rather listen to a child ramble for hours than deal with what just happened today. I really hoped everyone was all right and I didn't have any more blood on my hands.

This was not what I planned and yet watching their little faces as they babble had to be the most relaxing thing I had ever experienced. Sasha was the talker while Xavier seemed more content to just listen. He liked my hair though, he sat in my lap relaxing against my chest and playing with the ends of my hair. Everything would have been perfect if it weren't for witch one and witch two hovering in the corner and Edward.

EDWARD

"Edward how bad?" My father, Dr. Carlisle Cullen, aka the chief, asked glancing around the ER; which was thankfully less bloody then I was expecting.

"So far reports are saying it was only a Magnitude 4. Beds one, two and five all have blows to the head I'm ordering cat scans, but we're backlogged. I have eight people with serious glass damage to their eyes and head in line for surgery. The rest have minor cuts and bruises. We just got a call that four ambulances are on their way with caution that there will most likely be more…all in all, it's a good day to be a trauma surgeon and a bad day to be a husband." I sighed grabbing my gloves, as did he, following me out to wait for the incoming ambulances.

"How is she?" He asked.

"This is not the best time to have small talk dad."

"Yea it is. Get it off your chest before you carry it into surgery. I need you focused." I've been a doctor for about seven years now; you would think he would stop treating as though I just got out of medical school.

"Well Dr. Cullen?"

For the sake of fuck; "Other than the fact that she was in a bus accident, suppressing almost all of her past memories, and experienced an earthquake all in the same week she's good chief; thanks for asking."

"What are we talking about?" Emmett asked stepping out into the cold with us.

"Isabella."

"Oh…"

"I'm sorry, were you both somewhere else when the earthquake hit?" Why oh why, out of all the damn hospitals I could have worked in, did I choose to work with my brother and father?

Luckily, before he could add another word, the first ambulance pulled up and never was I so happy to see Tanya Denali's blonde head as she open the doors to the back.

"What do we got?" I asked her helping the gurney down.

"GSW to the back." She replied.

"GSW?" There was too much blood to see where it was all coming from but a gun shot wound to the back was not what I was expecting.

"Jack here was shooting with his wife when the quake hit and the gun went off and hit him." She explained.

"Emmett he's all yours, so make him pretty too." I could tell he wanted to flip me off but instead he just took his patient like a good little plastic surgeon.

"So are we sure she accidently hit him?" An earthquake was a good excuse.

She laughed; "I bet you $100 she did it on purpose."

"Deal." I grinned just as the next one pulled up. This was going to be a long mother fucking day…and I wasn't even supposed to be in.

Two lost kids, three back to back surgeries, and four newborns later, I was more than ready to die. I hadn't even realized how much time had passed until the revolving doors of the ER finally stopped spinning. I wasn't even sure if I still had the soles on the bottom of my heels anymore. The hall to Bella's room never felt so far away. I was half tempted to steal the wheelchair off of the older woman passing me.

"Edward…"

Oh dear god no!

Sighing, I turned back around to find Tanya with a coffee in hand.

"You look like crap." She laughed handing it to me.

"Thanks, but I'm going to lay off of the coffee until I can get some shut eye."

Brushing her hair behind her head she tucked the coffee to her chest; "How's your wife? She was in pretty bad shape when I brought her in."

I thought about it for a moment and I didn't even remember seeing her when I got that call. All I saw was her bleeding, not moving.

"Edward?"

"Huh? Oh I'm sorry. Bella is fine. She's beat up, as you can imagine, but she's slowly healing."

"That's great! If you ever need anything, please call me. I'm great with kids too." She smiled biting her lip.

"Thanks Tanya we will keep that in mind, I really should go. Thanks for all your hard work today."

"Yea of course." She smiled before backing down the hall and turning to leave. I watched her disappear around the corner before turning, only to find Emmett standing at the nurses' station biting into his apple.

"How is it possible that you're my younger brother and you have no game?" He shook his head at me.

"I have no clue what you're talking about but I'm too tired to care, so…"

"Bro she was hitting on you!"

"Bro I'm married."

He snorted and I wanted to beat the shit out of his face. Yea he knew in the past my marriage was crap but he didn't have to be an ass.

"You haven't seen her, she's different."

Again he snorted and again my eyebrow twitched. Why I ever bothered talking to him or how he had so much energy was beyond me.

"You've been down this road before and she never changes…"

"You know Emmett, I've had a long fucking day. I just want to rest and have my time off. So we can continue this conversation in two weeks." I couldn't get away from him quick enough. The moment I reached her door I closed it behind me, leaning against it…finally peace.

"Are you okay?"

Damn it!

Turning around, there, on a separate bed next to her, were Sasha and Xavier curled up and snoring. It was the most beautiful sound I had ever heard. Just being near them made me smile.

"Yea I'm perfect." I whispered walking over to them. Like always, Sasha had her thumb in her mouth while Xavier was holding onto the bear in his hands. Brushing back their hair I listened to them breathe for a moment. I watched their chest rise and fall. After a day like today, they had no idea how much that meant to me.

"Would you like to lay down? I have space." she whispered and for the first time in so long, I turned to her and once again I was hit with that feeling…feelings. I stared at the spot she had made for me and I wanted so badly to lay next to her.

"Or you can place them with me, I know today was really rough. I'm so sorry." She whispered but I had no clue why.

Taking off my coat, I dropped it at the edge of the bed before laying down next to her. It felt odd. She and I hadn't shared a bed over a year. Leaning back slowly she didn't breathe, just stayed completely still. It was like she was afraid to make any sudden movements. If it weren't so funny I would have thought she lost it.

"What are you doing?" I smiled shifting slightly in order to see her.

"You're putting off awkward vibes and I don't know what to do so I'm just trying not to make any sudden movements."

"I'm awkward because this is the first time we've been in bed, especially a bed this small, together for months."

"Never mind I'm just going to be quiet and hope I don't face a tornado next. "

"From your lips to god's ears. How are you? I haven't…"

"I'm fine Edward, please don't worry about me. I don't deserve it. The people you helped today deserved it." The sadness in her eyes hurt me, it reminded me too much of the girl I had taken and broken.

"I worry about you because you're my wife. Despite everything, you're still my wife and that alone is enough for you to deserve it. So again how are you really?"

She looked at me for the longest time before she grabbed me by the hair and pulled me to her lips. I take it back, now I was ready to die. Moaning into her mouth I kissed her lips dying for more of her. She tasted like fresh strawberries on the hottest day of summer and the more I had of her, the more I wanted. Any thought of sleep was far from my mind the moment her tongue was battling with mine. I cursed the fact that we had to breathe which forced us to break apart but I wouldn't let her more than an inch away from me.

"Holy shit, what did I do and how can I do it again?" Was all I could get out as I sucked in air. She blushed shrugging as she pulled away and I fought hard with myself to let go of her.

"You're kind to me even though I feel as though I don't deserve it. I wasn't sure how else to say thank you so I just rolled with it." She laughed lying back down.

Lying next to her we both just stared at the lights above.

"This is the most confusing week of my life." She whispered.

"You and me both." I replied trying to ignore her hand in mine. "Tomorrow I was thinking we should drop by the house, pick up some things and just head up to the cabin. Have some time away; you, me and the kids, is that okay?"

"I'm a horrible camper, is that okay?"

"As long as you're…as long as you're with us it's okay."

"Okay and Edward?"

"Yea?"

"You're a really great kisser."

"I'm only as good as my partner."

I didn't need to look at her to know she was blushing. Taking her hand, we both lay there listening to Sasha and Xavier snore as though it was our own personal lullaby. In an odd way I felt like a teenager again.

So what do you guys think? next chapter will be more about Dora/Bella, Edward and their "kids" I'm excited to write that.

I'm super nervous and I hope you all like it.

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