Chapter 6:
Carlisle POV
As the bullet fired at Edward we knew he would be safe from harm, but the fact that Charlie shot him showed that he didn't care about anything until he found Bella. It was slightly concerning seeming how Edward wouldn't give him any kind of knowledge on where she is but she was changing. What are we meant to say to him and better yet what are we going to do about Bella?
She is going to be a complete newborn by the time she is finished changing and she will have uncontrollable thirst with no one there to consult her on what she should do. This day hopefully won't get any worse.
The bullet had made contact with Edward's skin and had to my surprise opened a small cut on Edward's skin before it healed up completely. I saw a small flash of green in his eyes before he collapsed to the ground. His body was quivering on the floor with his body completely limp.
"Get him in the car and put him with the rest of them," Charlie said. His eyes were hard and he started to walk away from us shouting orders at people that were directing to some sort of search and rescue for Bella. I hope Edward hid her well.
I moved forward to grab one of Edward's arms and slung it over my shoulders gripping it with my right arm to throw my left around his back and Jasper proceeded to do the same for Edward but on the other side of his body.
Edward made no move to try and get on his feet or even move them but simply let them drag along the floor as we made our way toward the marked police car with its blue and red lights shining in circles. Edward's body stopped quivering and his breathing stopped.
We had reached the car by this time and I moved to help Jasper place him in the middle of the seat before Jasper got in on Edward's left. I moved around the vehicle with officers watching my every move. I had removed my coat and had it slung over my shoulder. My clothing did not look that tattered but in some places there were holes and rips just like Edward's and Jasper's.
The officer standing outside his door glared at me and roughly pulled the door open. I entered the car with a sigh, ducking my head and folding my legs into the car with a scowl on my face at the officer's attitude. I saw Jasper look at me with worried eyes as he glanced toward Edward quickly and back to me. I made the small gesture of shaking my head and shrugging my shoulders in the sign that I didn't know what was happening.
The officer slammed the door loudly then opened his passenger door and stepped inside the police cruiser. He signalled for the other officer to drive to the police station. I looked at the cage they had between the front and back seat with a sigh. I felt like a caged animal with no chance of escape.
I looked toward Edward because I could not hear him make a sound. I moved my hand so it was just in front of his mouth; I only felt the slightest pressure of air hitting it. I wouldn't of noticed it if I wasn't looking for it.
Edward's body began to shake again, more violent then the last. A small sound emitted from his throat as if his air supply was cut off. His body shook violently in his seat and a small soft groan emitted from his throat from time to time.
"Carlisle?" Jasper asked. His voice was a whisper and he was staring down at Edward's hand that was sitting on the seat. I couldn't see anything on the hand but whatever it is sounded worrying. "Has anyone ever bitten Edward's hand before?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Just please answer the question, Carlisle." Jasper was still staring down at the hand with wide eyes.
"Jasper, no one has ever bitten Edward beside his throat when he was changed."
"Well it doesn't look like it..." Jasper trailed off. He raised Edward's hand to show a deep vampire bite. It was healed over but because of the venom in the teeth, the wound doesn't heal completely, but mares the skin leaving a mark on the person who received the bite.
But Edward, he has never been bitten anywhere, ever. His ability prevented from actually happen to himself. And by seeing how deep the bite is there would be no mistaking that bite for anything else. I had never seen a bite on his hand, even from today after the fight with the newborns. This mark looked old too, it wasn't fresh.
The smell of spilled blood began to fill the cruiser, and the officer did not have any wounds. The smell of this blood didn't match them either.
"Where is that...?" I trailed off as I saw some blood growing on the sleeve of Edward's shirt. What?
I ripped the sleeve off of the rest of the shirt exposing Edward's arms. All along his arm it was covered in claw marks and quite a few bite marks that could rival even Jasper's marks. Sure enough there was a large gash running along Edward's upper arm. It was bleeding blood and venom from the open wound. I stared at the wound in shock before my medical side started to kick in.
I got a hold of the bottom of my lab coat and tore a long and wide piece of material off. I wrapped the material around Edwards arm twice before tying it off.
What was happening to Edward?
I checked his body for more wounds and discovered more healed wounds covering his body. There was no way these wounds were here as a human, no way in the past as a vampire, and definitely not recent wounds. I looked over at Jasper to see him staring at his brother in shock, Edward definitely had more scars then Jasper hands down. But the question is how they got there in the first place.
"What is he feeling?" I asked Jasper. We were almost at the station and I knew that the family would be concerned as to what is going on.
The car came to a violent halt, making the seatbelts of the officers' strain in their safety mechanism. The lights and sirens stopped as the officer who was driving flicked the key to turn the engine off, and roughly pulled it out of the key hole before opening the door before scrambling out of the car.
The other officer was already out of the car and began to open Jasper's door. The officer who was driving opened my door before he proceeded to slam his door shut as well. The doors in the back were locked from the outside so Jasper had to stay put until the officer opened his side.
I stepped out of the car and saw the officer opening Jasper's door with his hand resting on his gun in its holster. I flashed over to the other side of the car shocking the officers and people watching us outside. Water droplets began to fall and fell heavier at a rapid rate.
Jasper stepped out the car and we pulled Edward out of the car dragging him in as he had at the school.
We followed the police up the stairs and into the building following them as they manoeuvred us toward the cells. I got smell the scents of coffee and food that were in the station, along with the combined smell of the police in the building. The retched smell of the wolves could be smelled along with the smell of my family.
The heavy heart beats of the wolves were a little frantic some were asleep with a steady one. I could faintly hear the whispers of my family as they spoke and the quiet ruffling of clothes as someone paced the floor.
The doorway to cells opened and I saw the wolves separated into two cells and my family in another. Just as we reached the cells of our family we waited outside it waiting for them to open it. I heard an officer tut at us. I looked up and he pointed to the only empty one, in the dark corner.
"He," the officer pointed toward Edward's limp body, "goes in there." The officer then pointed back to the empty one. "You two get to go in there once you do."
"He can't be alone! Not at a time like this!" I shouted at the officer, his badge read Sergeant Wills.
"Chief's orders. Now put him in there and then join your family. You can talk to him through the bars when he wakes up."
"But he shouldn't even be asleep in the first place!"
"Not my problem," the sergeant sighed.
I was about to argue when a gruff voice interrupted me. "Is there a problem?"
Everyone turned to look at Charlie as he stood in the open doorway, his hands sitting on the top of his belt, his fingers twitching toward his gun. His eyes were red, and his voice was raw and his appearance leaked lose and sorrow, but it was hidden behind an emotionless mask.
"No, nothing at all," the sergeant replied.
"Good," he looked toward us then. His eyes were hard as he looked at us. "Stuff it in the cell and get into your own, got it?" He didn't wait for a reply. His tone telling us not to answer back.
We moved toward the dark cell and lay Edward gently onto his side, and made our way back over to the family.
Edward's cell door rolled and slammed as the lock on it closed. We proceeded to our family and entered the cell. Immediately I hugged Esme and Jasper wondered over to Alice and pulled her into his arms.
"Is everything going to be okay?" I heard Esme whisper into my chest.
"I don't know Esme," I replied kissing her head. I laid my head on hers and looked over at Edward. "I really don't know."
