A/N: Thanks for the reviews.
Chapter Seven
BPOV
We had left the cabin in the morning when at least three people were stable enough to drive. Those three people happened to be Rose, Emmett, and myself, so we all split up and Edward rode with me and Lizzy. Every time he looked at her, his eyes would get a small glimmer of happiness, and I would slightly smile, and then he looked away and his eyes were watering once again. I couldn't bear to see him this sad. I was hoping that he would be able to cope well, and I knew that I would stay by his side until he coped well enough to return to school and…wait, shit! What about Lizzy? His parent's sat her during the day. I remembered him telling me that, and I had told him how lucky he was.
His parents did a lot more than I realized. Maybe Rose or someone would help him out.
Soon, we were back and it took us about thirty minutes to get everything in the Hale household. Edward said he wanted to go home, but somehow I knew better.
"Actually, we're all going to go see your mom and see how she is." Alice said cautiously.
He nodded his head, somewhat numbly.
I backed his Volvo out and he started to say something, but I couldn't hear him.
"What?" I asked.
"I said I'm sorry." He said.
"About what?" I asked.
"well, I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I was at home the whole time, and if Tanya had never called that day and…." He began but I cut him off.
"Number One: Not your fault. I promise you that you needed a break and your parents probably would've went to the movies anyways. Number Two: Tanya called? What? What did she say?" I said, quickly anxious for some reason.
"Well…." He began and he filled me in. I was seething with ager and Edward was just beginning to get used to the idea that what he was told was true. We pulled up to the hospital and I got Lizzy, and we walked up. I saw him biting back tears.
"You know it's okay to cry?" I said, whispering as I squeezed his hand. He squeezed my hand back, and nodded his head.
"Elizabeth Mason's Room?" I asked when we walked up to the reception desk.
She quickly typed in the name.
"Intensive Care Unit Room 201" She said, smacking her gum. I wanted to smack her face but I walked with Edward to the elevator. We walked to the room, surprised to see Rose and the others already standing outside.
"We came straight here. You stopped for gas." Alice reminded us.
We nodded.
"Edward...Do you want to go in?" Rose asked.
He nodded his head, looking at the door.
"Bella will you come with me?" He asked and I gave Rose Lizzy and I held his hand as he walked in. There was a doctor standing there taking down the vitals, and then there she was. Mrs. Mason, she was lying in a bed looking so small, so fragile, and she had tubes everywhere.
"How is she?" Edward asked, his voice hopeful.
"Well, basically, she's in a coma. There's a….a slight possibility that she will wake up, but it is a very slight possibility. And, the young lady that crashed into her is also in a coma." He said, and I saw Edward nod as the doctor walked out. He looked at his mom once and then at me.
"I don't know what to do without my mom. I never really realized how much she does for me. For Lizzy, too, I mean she's like Lizzy's mother." He said, and then laughed without humor. "And to think, Lizzy's mother put my mother in here. Tanya killed my dad and almost killed my mom…please don't let her die." He said, as he looked at her face. Then he pulled me tighter to him, and I held him close. I couldn't explain the need to comfort him. It was like…his pain was my pain, and that if I couldn't cease his pain, my own pain would never cease. I couldn't deal with him hurting, which therefore made me hurt.
The next few days flew by, and all too soon, I was attending a funeral, while comforting Edward. I held Lizzy for him while he made a speech about his dad.
"Hello everyone," he began, and his voice sounded…dead, emotionless, and hollow. "None of us ever expected to be here, gathered around a man who should have had a much longer life. He would've had a much longer life, if he had escaped that one fateful day that he was in a wreck. I want to talk about the happy days though. I remember the day that I brought home Elizabeth Michelle. She was so beautiful in his eyes, his first grandchild. I could barely believe that he and mom weren't furious with me. In fact, they seemed pretty pleased that I was handling everything so well. I remember when Lizzy looked up at him one day and he was saying well look at that she has her grand mamma's smile." He said his voice choked. "That was one of the happiest days of my life. Dad, I just wish that my last words to you weren't I'm gone; I'll talk to you later…… Every time I think of you, I will think of how I seem to have failed at saying the right thing at the right time. I will think of how you lived your life and how you made everything seem so easy when they weren't. Dad, I love you…and I miss you." He said, wiping his eyes before coming to sit next to me.
Edward had been staying at my house, however reluctantly Charlie had agreed, so long as he stayed downstairs. He did, but that doesn't mean I stayed upstairs. I couldn't let Lizzy wake him up.
Today was the funeral and today was a week from the day that his mom went into a coma. They told him that her chances decrease after this. He basically had no hope. He said she wasn't going to wake up and I hated to admit it but I agreed with him. I couldn't believe how two deserving people had gone through this all because of a ride to the movies? It made you think about life. Just then Edward's cell phone rang.
He talked to the person for a good five minutes, before coming back.
"Well?" I hedged.
"Tanya woke up." He said, stiffly. "And mom just…passed." He said. He had already cried over what he had been so sure was coming. There were no tears, just sadness in his voice. I sighed, and hugged him close.
A/N: Okay, so…maybe things will pick up a little bit from here? I'm not sure yet.
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