AN- Thanks to everyone who has reviewed, I'm into double figures now so can't thank everyone enough. This chapters a little different to the rest so far, but will allow the Cullens to start to become a part of Bella's life, this is just the first step and wanted to include it.

Chapter 7

Carlisle's plan (CaPOV)

The conversation I just had with my son was most disturbing and I had no idea how I was going to help him, or this poor girl he has been become so attached to. I sat in the office mulling over various ideas and plans but until I knew who was hurting Bella I would have to tread very carefully so as not to put anyone especially Bella in any more danger.

Over the intercom I heard my name being called:

"Dr Cullen to the ER, Dr Cullen to the ER" a female nurse called

Sighing I left my office at a jog three minutes later I arrived in the ER to complete chaos doctors, nurses and police all over the place, I thought I'd moved to Forks not New York, sighing I tried to work out what was going on.

"OK OK everyone settle down please, were not going to achieve anything at this rate" I screamed at the group of people.

Everyone looked at me and started screaming all at the same time.

"OK nurse calmly tell me what's going on?" I asked as patiently as possible.

"This patient has been brought in doctor, and I was trying to explain to the officer that we can't examine him with cuffs on and he is refusing to take them off!" the nurse replied exasperated by the whole situation.

Turning to the officer I asked calmly "Officer is this really necessary? He doesn't look well enough to cause anyone any real harm, you can stay with him the whole time, but my staff need to be able to do their jobs effectively."

"Look doctor I'm sorry but it's not me who makes the choices, the chief says once we have arrested somebody then they stay in cuffs until they are in the cells there's nothing I can do, I'm not trying to be awkward." He said sighing as he finished his sentence.

"Ok, nurse take the patient and the officer to cubicle three, and do what you can with the cuffs still on…"

"But doctor…" the nurse began

I held up my hand up to cut the nurse off "do what you can, I'm going to ring the police station and speak to the chief and get his advice and possibly get him to come down himself, now please just do as I've asked without anymore arguing, your all worse than my kids" I said with a grin as everyone headed to cubicle three.

I asked the receptionist for the police stations number, assuring her that I could ring the chief myself and slowly walked back to my office, I wonder if he'd heard anything about a child being abused surely in such a small town someone would have heard something although I'm not sure now is the best time to discuss this.

Dialling the stations number I waited for someone to answer the phone.

"Hello forks police station" a female voice stated sounding as if she'd rather be anywhere else.

"Hello I'm Doctor Cullen in Forks general ER could I please speak with the cheif straight away" I stated with as much authority as possible.

"Urm sure ok give me a second" The woman replied a little hesitantly

She put me on hold to some awful classical music and I had to wait about 2 minutes before the line was picked up again.

"Hello Chief Swan speaking how may I help you Doctor Cullen?" he asked in an overly sickly sweet voice

"Hello Chief Swan, we have a bit of a situation in my ER and I'd greatly appreciate your expertise is there any chance that you could come down?" I tried to ask in a way that boosted his ego especially as I am new in town

"May I ask what this is referring to?" he asked a little wary now.

I quickly ran through what had happened in the ER between my and his staff hoping that I sounded convincing enough to need his help rather than bored and annoyed which is what I am really feeling. After pausing for a few seconds he replied.

"Ok Doctor Cullen I'll be there in a few minutes, but please keep your patient handcuffed until I get there and assess the situation" he stated rather than asked.

"Ok chief Swan I think that we can do that easily, thank you for your co-operation in this matter" I stated before hanging up.

Swan is not an overly common name I wonder if he's any relation to Edwards Bella Swan I suppose now is the perfect opportunity to find out.

(Charlie POV)

Shit I was hoping for a quiet shift so much for that happening now, god damn the ER they will be the death of me.

"I'm heading to the ER, to sort out a problem, call me if you need anything" I grumbled at the receptionist hoping nothing else would happen today.

"yes sir" she replied with a cheery smile.

I headed out towards my car, and drove the five minutes towards forks hospital parking outside the front of the hospital, not bothering to check where I parked after all who was going to arrest me for parking illegally. I walked up to the front desk asking for Dr Cullen, the receptionist told me to head through to room 3 where he was waiting. Heading down the hall way I knocked on the door and entered wondering what the new Dr was going to be like hoping he was better than the last idiot they had there.
AN- I really struggle to write in his POV

Carlisle (POV)

A knock at the door brought me away from the patient's bed this I hoped would be chief Swan.

"Hello chief Swan thanks for coming so quickly, I'm doctor Carlisle Cullen we spoke on the phone" I held my hand out towards the man who had just worked in.

"Ah yes Dr Cullen, a pleasure to meet you, what can I do to help?" He replied in an overly sickly sweet way, automatically putting me on guard.

"Your officers are insisting that they are unable to un-cuff my patient while we treat him, now obviously we are not expecting your officers to leave the room, but we are unable to do our job while his hands are cuffed together. What do you suggest?" I put the ball in his court curious to see what he was going to do.

"yes I did tell my officers not to un-cuff a suspect once they had been arrested to ensure that there is less chance of an escape attempt being made whilst handcuffed, however I think an exception to the rule can be made when they are in the hospital being treated, lets face it he's not going anywhere" He replied looking at his officers as if they were stupid for not working this part out themselves, so he was likely to blame others for things he started in the first place perhaps this is the person hurting Bella?

"Thanks Chief Swan for sorting this out for me, I didn't want to stand on anyone toes especially since I'm still relatively new to town." I stated back making sure that I was indebted to him.

"No worries Dr Cullen any time I don't mind in the slightest, now take those cuffs of so these people can do their jobs properly" he stated towards his officer.

"Yes Sir" came his reply although what seemed in a slightly surprised way, he then proceeded to remove the cuffs and stand by door keeping guard in case he tries to make a run for it.

"Nurse Jackson, please take his vitals and assess that wrist of his and I'll be back shortly" I spoke to the nurse with a friendly smile before motioning towards the door for the Chief to follow me out.

"Thanks again Chief Swan I will have to do you a favour some time, it always takes a while to find your feet in a new job and town." I replied smiling towards the Chief.

"No probs Doc, like I said its part of the job, so how do you like Forks so far?" He asked full of curiosity in his voice.

"It's great a lot quieter than the city and my family seem to really like it to, my kids have started to settle into school and my wife is having a field day redecorating the house especially with my credit card" I replied with a laugh.

"Sounds like lots of fun to me glad you have settled in well, I didn't realise you had kids how old are they, my girl Bella goes to Forks high she's a Sophomore and didn't mention any new kids" he said with a curious glance. So he was Bella's father I wonder if he has anything to do with her being so upset at school today.

"We've got five kids, Emmett, and Rosalie are seniors, then Edward, Alice and Jasper are sophomores' like Bella, we adopted all five children throughout the years, and we could never have kids of our own." I was hoping that a bit of honesty would allow a bit of trust so that I can find out a bit more about him.

"Oh wow you have your hands full, I have a hard enough time with just the one teenager let alone five, you must be mad I can never keep Bella occupied and from moping around the house more often than not." He laughed back.

"We enjoy it; it feels good to be making a difference if even it is in only a small way with just these five kids, how do you feel about letting Bella come over and they can all get to know each other a bit better, it will give Alice someone else to talk to, I know her brothers would love a brake from her constant chatter!" I asked hoping he'd agree to it, it already sounded like he wanted to get Bella off his hands for a bit.

"I don't know I'm working late this week and I don't like Bella going anywhere when I can't pick her up or take her, a little over protective I know but in my line of work you see to many horrors not to be" he replied sounding like the most protective father in the world.

"I completely agree I've seen my fair share as a doctor as well, as your working late how about I pick Bella up from your house on my way home from work I finish at five tonight, she can come and have tea with my family and then I'll drop her back off at your house no later than 10pm she'll be as safe as houses" I asked hoping to sound convincing.

"Urm sounds like a plan to me I'll give her a ring once I get back to the station letting her know of the plans for tonight it'll do her good to get out of the house. Thanks doc it looks like we've done each other a favour today, see you soon." He waved as he worked towards his car and drove back towards the police station.

I quickly sent Edward a text telling him that I'd met Bella's father and that she would be coming over for dinner tonight so hopefully he'll be able to get some more information out of her about what's going on.

AN- Thanks for reading, let me know what you think.