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Edward's POV

I nearly crushed her face with my hand when those words came out of her mouth, but I wasn't mad at her, I was seriously mad with Robert. I even loathed to think his name.

"Did he hurt you Bella?" I asked her; obviously the proof of the rape was all over her. Her body and her face.

"Yes." She broke down and began to cry again.

"I'm so sorry Bella, I was meant to protect you from him, but I led him to you." I apologised.

"It's ok." She said, with a plain, white face. It looked even paler than before which had worried me a lot.

"I will kill him for this, you do know." I said very lowly and as a matter of fact.

"Please." She answered.

"Can I check you over to make sure you are ok?" I asked her. I wouldn't want to if a man just raped me, but I was sure that deep down inside her, she did trust me still.

"Mmhmm." She replied in a short breath. She was still looking forward to the door, as if she was waiting for him to come back.
"He won't come back Bells. If he does I'll kill him right there, right then." I told her sweetly.

I held up her arm, and got more blood on my white skin. I jumped up onto my feet again.

"Sorry Bella. I need to get a doctor." I couldn't help Bella when she was in this state.

"No. Don't, help me to the bath and run it for me please." She said calmly.

"Ok, go into your room and get changed and I'll run it for you." I ordered her nicely.

"No, I need you to be there with me so you are helping me get changed." She ordered me. She finally lifted her brown eyes off of the door and looked up at me, with a tear streaked face, still crying.

"Ok then. Do you need help getting up?" I asked her quietly. I was sure that in normal circumstances, I would love this, but right now, I felt only sympathy towards her.

"Yes." She raised her arms up like a small, young child who signified with this move to be picked up. I bent down and scooped her up into my arms. She moaned in pain for a split second and I rushed into the bathroom, where I set her down on a towel on the bathroom floor. Her legs looked like they could give way at any time.

I gave her my hands to help her keep her balance, as she held onto her towel rail, I drew her bath. I looked back around and she was stripped of all her clothes. She was leaning off of the rail and she turned back around, I nearly couldn't control my emotions as I saw the slices of her skin and the scratch marks like those of a dog covering her chest area, and the blood was dripping down from her breast area down to her stomach. I handed her a towel and looked away, as she slid with ease into the bathtub, which was steamy hot, just as she liked it.

"Thanks. You can go now." She told me. I was sort of shocked that she just asked me of that.

"Well, ok then." I said back, slightly hurt.

I turned away, and began to walk towards the bathroom door.

"No. You've not to leave the house. Go to my room please." She begged of me. I smiled and nodded slowly. I was happier now that she still trusted me to stay a bit longer. I liked it how she didn't want me to leave her.

I walked into her bedroom slowly, and picked up a trashy magazine that Bella never usually read.

When I sat down on her bed, I smelt wet dog, which was very strange, seeing as Bella didn't own a dog at all.

It was even more disgusting to me now as a vampire that I felt like vomiting.

I stopped breathing. It was kind of uncomfortable to do that. Like a teenager who can't stop biting their nails and stopping dead like that.

I lay down on her bed, which smelt amazing of Bella. Her sweet, strawberry shampoo imprinted its scent on her pillow, which my mouth dribbled over.

About ten minutes more passed and I was beginning to get impatient.

I was about to walk out of the room and to the bathroom to make sure she was ok.

"Bella?" I asked softly, still lying on her bed.

"Yes?" She asked back, slightly fearful.

"Are you going to take much longer in there love?"

"I'm out now." She replied tiredly.

"Ok, do you need help to get back to bed?" I asked her quietly. It was surprising that her Gran was snug in her bed throughout this whole ordeal.

"No, I'm coming now." She called back.

She entered in the bedroom, looking shattered, but she smelt less edible now.

To that I was seriously thankful. Her hair was wet and it was hanging down over her shoulder. She was very quiet, as she lay down beside me on her double bed.

She looked so still and statue like that she was beautifully carved into a solitary state.

She was thinking a lot, and I could tell as this was what she did if she needed time out to think about herself.

"Bella, what are you thinking of?" I asked her softly and calmly, gently moving a strand of hair that was out of place to the back of her head. She looked over to me.

"It was my fault he did it." She confessed.

I sat up and leant on one of my arms.

"No Bella, you didn't." I told her.

"Yes, I did. He told me that I asked for it." She looked so annoyed with herself for supposedly asking him of this.

"No Bella! He was trying to seem in control of you, you didn't ask him of it! Why would you put this on yourself?" I questioned in haste.

She remained quiet from then. I moved around in her bed, trying to get into a more comfortable shape, and every time I pulled myself up with my arms, she pushed me back down with her arm, making sure I wasn't going anywhere.

"Sleep with me tonight Edward." It was more of an order than a question, but if it made her happy then I would.

"Sure Bella." I answered.