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Warning: E&B are the only cannon couple, everyone else was put in a bag and thrown into the air! Bella is blonde!

**This chapter will contain reference to death.

All Edward POV

14 DAYS

Chapter 7

The shift is busy as all hell, and by the time we come in from our third call I crash on my usual cot. I dream of Bella, my lips are against hers, and I whisper 'I love you' repeatedly.

The alarm startles me awake, and I jump up, my body trained after years of being a firefighter.

I turn to find one of the guys, Eric, suiting up. "Apartment fire! Move your ass."

I jump into action throwing on my gear. Sliding down the pole, I rush to the truck, hoping on as we speed off in the early morning. It's four in the damn morning, which means these people are being caught unaware. When fires happen like this in the middle of the night, there are always casualties.

The truck speeds through the empty blocks, the blur of houses mundane until the truck takes a turn onto a familiar street.

Bella's street.

My heart plummets to my feet and time seems to stand still as we move closer to our destination. I can smell the smoke in the air; feel the heat that seems to be clawing its way through the night to let us know that it's in charge.

The truck stops and I look up, my heart knowing automatically that it is her building. I'm frozen in place as the rest of the team move around me. Fear grips my soul, and my only thought is that I've lost her.

The fire is primarily on the second floor. Bella is on the third. The good thing is Bella's apartment is in the back of the building, so I hope that the fire hasn't reached her yet. The bad thing is I'm sure she's asleep and unaware of what is happening around her.

Adrenaline runs through me, and I jump out of the truck with my gear. "I need the ladder now! Sam, get me the fucking crosslay hose! Move it!"

Sam grabs my shoulder. "Edward! What the fuck is going on?"

"My girlfriend's in there!" A couple of guys run past us, and the line is set as water aims at the top floor.

"Shit man! Maybe you should let us do it?" Eric says.

"I'm going after her!" I yell, unable to control my temper.

Once the ladder is set to the third floor, I climb up onto a balcony with my ax on my back and the hose in my hand. I've never been this fucking scared in my life when battling a fire. A few other guys follow behind.

Tears blur my eyes as I pull my shield down and put on my breathing apparatus. I break the patio door to the apartment. It's empty, and I quickly make my way to the door. I remove my gloves checking it. It's warm but not hot.

I open it, and we split up to different apartments. The smoke is so thick it's hard to see what's in front of me.

I press the portable radio. "Cullen, I'm on the third floor, dense smoke through the hall."

Reaching Bella's door, I press my hand against it, finding it cool. Using my ax, I knock off the doorknob and swing at the locks kicking the door open as I rush inside.

There's smoke everywhere, and I'm immediately afraid of what I'm going to find.

Rushing into her bedroom, I find Bella lying in bed, unmoving. A book lies next to her, her hand still holding it as if she just finished reading.

I rush over to her removing my mask. "Baby, wake up, please!"

I check her pulse. It's very faint. I remove my breathing apparatus attaching it to her. Picking her up, I quickly rush out of the apartment trying not to inhale the smoke.

"Edward! The fire is moving up from the second floor, we have to go back down the ladder!" Garrett yells, leading us back through the empty apartment.

A few guys are ushering people out as well. I swing Bella over my shoulder and carefully lead us down the ladder. Once we hit the bottom, I throw my helmet to the side and lay Bella flat on the ground.

"I need a medic!" I yell.

I start administering CPR, checking her pulse again. Where it was faint in the apartment, it's non-existent now.

"Come on, baby!" I start pumping her chest by placing the heel of my hand between her breastbone. Tears run down my face, and the feeling of loss crashes against my body.

I start to cry uncontrollably, the sobs taking over my body.

"Edward! She's gone!" Sam says behind me.

"No!" I say, continuing the chest compressions. "Come on, baby! Goddamn it!"

After doing thirty chest compressions, my tears fall on her beautiful face as I bend down to give her two rescue breaths. She's going to die without knowing how much I love her.

I can't live with that.

Bella starts coughing just as I'm about to start the process over again.

"Bella! Thank you, God! Thank you so much." I cry over and over, peppering her face with kisses.

A medic puts Bella on a gurney and an oxygen mask over her face.

Bella's wide eyes find mine. "Ed …" She tries to speak.

"Don't talk baby. God, I thought I lost you," I say, crying as she is lifted into an ambulance.

I jump in without thinking and find a space next to her, letting the EMTs work. She starts breathing, tears running down her face. One of her hands find mine, and she squeezes it.

Bending down, I kiss her forehead and look into her eyes. "I love you, Isabella Swan. I know it's only been fourteen days, but I love you."

Her wide eyes stare at me for a second before she removes her oxygen mask. "I love you, too," she rasps out, her voice barely there.

I hold her hand all the way to the hospital basking in our love. It doesn't matter how long we've been together, what matters is that from this day on I'm not letting another day go by without her knowing how much she means to me.

I'm in love with this beautiful girl.

~14~

It's pure madness when we arrive at the hospital. Bella is intubated because she shows signs of respiratory distress. They're going to keep her for a few days.

I never leave her side, our hands staying intertwined.

Her family bombards the room; Renee is beside herself as I take a step back to allow them all to surround her.

"My poor baby!" Renee cries, rushing over to Bella.

Charlie comes over to me placing a hand on my shoulder, his eyes red. "Edward, … If you hadn't been there …" He breaks down, and I awkwardly pat his back.

Tears threaten to overtake me, knowing that Bella's heart stopped beating. The pain in my chest is still present at the thought that I could've lost her forever.

Bella raises her hand reaching out towards me. I take it, kissing it, the tears now falling freely.

"Jasper and I drove past the apartment on our way. God, Bella, you could've died!" Esme cries in Jasper's arms.

"Yeah, thank God you lived in the back; the entire front is completely ruined." Jasper shakes his head, rubbing Esme's back.

"Did you know before you got there, Edward?" Renee asks through teary eyes.

"No. Not until we turned down her street." My voice is grave and full of emotion as I recall the dread of seeing Bella's building up in smoke.

We sit there quietly talking as the sun comes up, Bella sleeping peacefully, the color coming back to her beautiful face.

Charlie and Renee are the last to leave, and he has to practically drag her away to get some rest. I'm left alone with my hand holding hers, my heart finally beating regularly.

"I love you so much," I whisper, kissing her hand.

The tears fall freely again now that we're alone and the adrenaline has left my body. I pull myself together, calming my nerves and making a promise to love Bella for as long as she'll have me.

There will never be another day that she doesn't know how I feel.

Warm fingers run through my hair, and I hear voices around me. I fell asleep by Bella's bedside, her hand protectively clasped in mine. Sitting up, I rub the sleep out of my eyes finding Emmett and Angela.

"Good morning, sleepy head," Angela says, smiling at me.

I sit, stretching my long limbs, my eyes finding my girl. She looks happy. The color is back in her cheeks, and the usual twinkle in her eye when she looks at me is there.

"Sam called me this morning and told me what happened. We got here as fast as we could," Emmett says, squeezing Angela's shoulder.

Angela is holding Bella's free hand, a fresh round of tears falling from her eyes. She gives me a watery smile as I stand and stretch.

Bending down, I kiss Bella's forehead. "How are you feeling today, beautiful?" I ask.

Bella gives my hand a squeeze not able to speak with the tube. Her eyes so full of love for me.

Just for me.

~14~

Bella is released a few days later, surrounded by those who love her. I called my mother to let her know what had happened since she hadn't heard from me. They all swarmed in mixing the two families together effortlessly.

"Now, Edward, she can always come home with us. I know you two have only been dating a few weeks," Charlie says for what seems to be the hundredth time.

"Dad …" Bella warns, her voice still raspy and a little sore.

"Sorry, Charlie, but she's coming home with me," I say firmly, not wanting to ever be apart from her again.

Bella thinks she's going to be looking for an apartment, promising not to be in my hair long. Little does she know that I'm planning to ask her to stay indefinitely.

"We've packed your fridge with enough food to cover you for weeks," my mother says, smiling as we wait in the hospital lobby for our cars.

"And we've made a schedule to come over so when Edward goes back to work Bella will not be alone." Renee squeezes my shoulder.

"We'll be fine. I spoke to my Lieutenant, and I'm not going back for two weeks." I push Bella's wheelchair out the doors as I see the valet pull up in my truck.

"I'm fine, it was just a little smoke," Bella says, trying to calm everyone.

"And you died. So please allow your family to hover," Esme says, looking at her sister.

"Bella, are you sure you don't want me to come by?" Renee asks for the thousandth time.

"I'm sure, Mom. I'll see you and Dad tomorrow." Bella gives her mother a gentle smile.

I hold her hand, helping her out of the wheelchair and into the truck. Our family stands around watching.

"Hurry up before they follow us!" Bella says, smiling at me.

"They are a little overbearing altogether." I pull out of the lot, wondering how we managed to convince them to let us go back to my place alone.

The drive home is filled with me doing most of the talking and holding Bella's hand. She stares at me as I drive and I look over to her once I reach a red light.

"What?" I ask, giving her a sexy smirk.

"I love you," she whispers.

"Good, because I love you, too, and I'm not letting you go."

A/N: Here we are! If you blinked you missed it! Also, this is the last regular chapter. The O/S always ended at her opening her eyes. Do not fret you get an epi! Thanks for letting me extend this little O/S! I cried this chapter, man it was rough!