The lights were blinding me; everything was a sparkling shade of yellow or white. Something plastic was running under my nose and across my arm; a beeping sound somewhere to the left gave me a faint hope that I was still alive. I hoped so, death shouldn't be this painful.

'Someone get Carlisle, I think she's waking up!'

Slowly and groggily, I opened my eyes. I saw that I was in fact alive, and in a sturdy hospital bed. I was in a private room and not a ward, and I was still in Forks. The blinding light was coming from the lamps that were situated all around the room, and my eyes had been used to the dark for... well I have no idea how long I was out.

A tall, blonde man came into the room and over to my bed, he smiled in a reassuring way before checking the monitor next to me. He was very handsome, with the same golden eyes as the others. It took me a moment to remember that none of them were related, but they all looked strangely alike; including my brother...

'Well then Bella, you've been very lucky, you were found quite quickly.' He got out a small medical torch and began looking into my eyes 'how do you feel?' he checked my pulse without looking at his watch. But it must have been fine because he smiled up at me again, waiting for my answer.

'Just really ... strange. How long have I been out?'

'2 weeks. You were very lucky, the coma was very short.'

'I was in a coma?!' I half-shrieked, really starting to panic. What if I had never woken up? Even worse, what if I had never gotten to say sorry to Edward and most of all Emmett?

'It's okay Bella, you're safe now' I hadn't noticed that I had started to cry, but Emmett had. He came over and put his arms around me, gently rocking me backwards and forwards as he did so. I just sat there and let him hold me, he didn't seem to care that I was getting his shirt damp. I looked up and saw that the rest of the Cullen's were in the room including a woman I had never seen before, but I assumed she was Esme the mother. And, with his own tears running down his face in the corner was my dad.

It was unbelievable how he was divided between looking like me and Emmett. He had mine and Emmett's black hair, but with Emmett's distinctive curls; he had the exact same shade of brown eyes that I had, and he was wearing a police outfit, from his badge, I assumed he was the chief. He gave me a shaky smile as he caught my eye, but never came any closer.

'Do you remember what happened Bella?' Emmett turned me around to face him and was now looking me straight in the eyes, but one look around the room told me everyone already knew what happened.

The door was suddenly flung open, and a furious Brian was stood in the doorway, screaming at me and trying to get closer. Quick as a flash Jasper, Carlisle and Charlie restrained him whilst Edward, Emmett and everyone else stood braced in front of me. This was the strangest thing ever, why was Brian yelling at me?

'Brian, what's going on? What have I done wrong?'

'Oh she asks what she's done wrong! You've only gone and killed another one of my fiancées!' I could only stare at him in shock. Caroline was dead? But I never had a chance to ask him, because as I was about to, security came and dragged him away.

'What happened?' I asked again, this time looking directly at Charlie, who I knew would tell me. It didn't matter if I was his daughter or not, he had to as a cop.

'The driver of the other car was his fiancée Caroline, and he blames you for her death.' I felt my mouth drop; I didn't even know Caroline could drive.

'What do you remember about the accident? The only other witness was Caroline and ... well, you know.' He trailed off, obviously thinking that it would upset me. But I was much more angry than upset; I knew that stupid cow would make me pay eventually.

'I went around the corner, and I saw that the car was on the wrong side of the road. I went onto the other side when I saw that there was nothing coming the other way' what a lie 'but she swerved into me at the last minute. Then the last thing I remember is the sound of breaking glass.' As I looked around the room I saw that many people looked ... well guilty. I couldn't think why, but before I had a chance to persist Charlie butt in.

'Look, I don't think you'll be living with Brian anymore, so what do you say about moving in with me and Emmett? I mean only if you want to' he turned a deep shade of red, probably thinking I wouldn't want anything to do with him after all these years. He was as foolish as Emmett.

'Yeah I'd really like that dad.' He beamed at the word I had used, and after a quick mumbling about going to see Brian, he had left the room.

'He's dead excited Bella!' said Emmett, beaming.

'He was so worried about you Bella; he never once left your side. But I suppose there were a few other people who didn't leave you either.' Rosalie winked at me from the corner, but never said who had stayed with me. To avoid further mental arguments, I presumed it was Emmett.

'Anyway, I think Bella should get some rest, and you lot should come home' Esme smiled at me from the corner and went over to Carlisle's side; who put a tender arm around her and kissed her forehead.

'Aww mom come on!' Jasper whined

'Mom!' Rosalie and Alice said in unison

'Do I really have to leave?' Edwards last sentence made me burn with shame, remembering how I had yelled at him before the crash, and now he wanted to stay by my bedside. I truly didn't deserve him.

'Yes, Bella needs rest and she's not going to get it with you noisy lot! Now come on, you all need some dinner, especially after being in a hospital for so long.' Edward shot her some kind of warning glance, but either she didn't notice, or she was ignoring him.

'See you later Bella' Alice said as everyone except Emmett left the room. I decided now would be the best time to tell him.

'Emmett I'm so sorry for what I said, I can't believe I had a go at you for something as stupid as that!'

'Stop! Okay look, I was upset by what you said, but I felt even worse when they told me what happened. I mean I went back to Rose's place and we were all talking about how we couldn't believe you were gone, and then Edward came running in saying you'd been in a car crash. We all went straight down to the hospital where you were in theatre. There was a glimmer of hope when Carlisle said the surgery had gone well, but then they came and told us you'd gone into a coma!' he buried his face in my pajama top, and for the moment nothing mattered except him. Me and the brother that I had been apart from for 11 years. I needed him to know that I loved him, and that we could now have a new start.

'Emmett, do you really want me around?'

'Of course I do stupid! I've missed you for so long; you don't know what it was like being away from my little sister not to mention my mom. I missed you both so much it hurt. Then we found out she'd died, and dad wanted you to come back and live with us, but you had been given to Brian in mom's will, and loads of his solicitors told dad that there was no way he was going to get you back. That was one of the worst days of my life.' He stared up at the ceiling, trying to suppress the emotion that he didn't want me to see.

'One of the worst.'

'2 weeks yesterday was the official worst day of my life. I mean I'd only just got you back and then I thought you were going to die! It wasn't nice Bella.'

I never said anything more, I just spent the whole afternoon getting to know Emmett better; even in that one little insight I felt I knew much more about him. But now that I'm going to move in with him, I'm sure I can get to know the burly brother that I used to adore better.

*

'So, what do you think?' Emmett released his hand which was covering my face, and I looked into my new bedroom. It was just like the one in Brian's house, except this one had lots of photographs. Me and Emmett when we were little, mom and dad, me and mom, me and dad, Emmett and dad, Emmett and mom. It was like a gothic shrine to the once whole family, yet one was a spy, one was definitely hiding something, one was dead and the other was clueless as to the others predicaments.

'It's great thanks Emmett!' I gave him a big hug, and then he left me to get changed and to unpack my hospital bag. I had persuaded Carlisle to let me out as soon as possible.

I had come to the conclusion that Emmett was hiding something last night, when he hurriedly left the hospital. It was at the same time a woman came in, heavily bleeding from her head. It seemed as though he held his breath, and then ran out of the hospital, making sure he was as far away from the woman as possible. I didn't bother asking Emmett about it a) because he would just deny it and/or make up a pathetic excuse, and b) I wanted to figure this one out for myself.

Charlie was oblivious of course, he just casually asked me where Emmett had gone, and when I told him how strange he acted, he just said.

'Emmett's a strange boy' and led me to the car! I mean what good is that, I already know he's a strange boy!

I shook my head to dispel the thoughts, and then ran downstairs and into the kitchen, where Emmett and dad were waiting for me.

'Hungry Bella?' dad turned around as I nodded and began fiddling with something I front of him. I hoped he wasn't trying to cook, my mom had told me plenty of stories about his attempts. Emmett grinned and winked at me, obviously thinking along the same lines as me; but when dad turned round there was a pizza an a cake behind him, both with things on it that spelt out "welcome home".

'Thanks dad!' I had never felt this welcome anywhere, and the fact that my family wanted me back after 11 years of living away made me feel happier than I had ever been.

'Sit down and eat, Jesus you're so skinny!' dad said, whilst Emmett's laughter shook the entire house.

'Okay okay funny boy, aren't you eating?' I looked towards Emmett. Me and dad had already stared eating, but he made no move to grab anything.

'Nah I already ate. Anyway I'm off to Rose's, I was gonna take you Al, but you need some sleep.' He grinned at me one last time, and then he was gone. I turned towards Charlie; surely he had noticed something was off this time? His head was titled to one side, like he was trying to remember something, but he just shook his head and went back to his pizza.

'I don't remember him going to get something to eat.' I looked at dad full of accusation – he was going to tell me something worthwhile this time.

He sighed and put down his pizza 'neither did I, anyway as soon as you're done you should go straight to bed, you heard what Carlisle said.' I sat there in a daze, if there was something going on with Emmett; I'm sure as hell going to find out about it.