A/n: Holy hell! I am back! SO SO SO sorry for the... obscene length of time since I last updated. I hope there are still people out there interested in reading this. I am not sure if I really am going to end this soon, I missed it. I read through all of Life and what I have of this story so far, and i got a renewed love for this group of people. When I originally started writing this chapter, it was a lot diferent than it ended up being this time around. I like this though. I hope ya'll enjoy it!
BPOV
As I lay in bed, listening to Carlisle telling me everything that happened, all I could do was stare at Edward. He has gone through hell this past week, waiting for me to wake up. After Carlisle assures both of us that I am making a good recovery, he steps outside to give us a few minutes alone together, promising to send everyone else in after a few minutes.
Edward and I just sat there staring at each other for a minute, neither of us speaking. I reach up and carefully wipe a couple tears that escaped his eyes, and smile at him.
"It's OK Edward, I am OK now. You heard Carlisle." I say softly.
"God Bella, I was so scared. The doctors told us that your body was just in shock and you should wake up, but there was a chance that you wouldn't. I… I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't woken up…" He trailed off and I saw the pain in his eyes. He leaned forward and kissed me softly.
"Shh, it's OK baby. Everything is OK now." I ran my hand through his hair and gave him a reassuring smile.
Before we could say anything else, the door opened again, and I looked up to see people walking quietly into my room. It seemed like everyone was there. Alice, Jazz, Rose, Em, Carlisle, and Esme. Renee and Phil were there, Charlie was there. Even Jake walked into the room. I smiled at them all, trying to let them all know I was OK, too. Edward slid his chair as close to my bed as possible, refusing to let go of my hand, but giving them all room to crowd around my bed.
"Oh Bella." Renee was standing next to my head; she leaned down and kissed my cheek.
"You gave us a good scare, kid. Your mom's gona hafta dye her hair now to get rid of all the new grays." Charlie joked, trying to lighten the mood. It worked, and made everyone laugh softly.
"I'm so sorry, Bells." Emmett looked so sad.
"Hey, don't worry about it Em."
"I should have done up the harness for you. It's all my fault you are in here." His eyes were full of tears.
I reached the hand Edward wasn't holding out towards him. "Don't blame yourself. You can't expect someone in the city to come flying down the road. It's OK."
He took my hand, but didn't look as though he felt any better about the situation.
"Bella, darling, if you ever do this to us again, I will hurt you." Rose sniffled a little while she said this, which ruined the effect of what she said.
"Yea. And we should kick your ass for what you were wearing when it happened, too." Alice sniffled out, too. Everyone laughed again.
After about a half hour, a nurse came in to give me some pain medicine and to check my bandages. She let everyone know the drugs would most likely knock me out again, so everyone said their goodbyes for now and headed out, except Edward. He refused to leave my side.
After a few days of constant doctor visits, I was feeling well enough that my pain medicines were lowered and the nurses started pestering me to try to get up and move around. I needed to be up and walking in the halls before they would let me leave. So, Edward started helping me get out of bed some. He was very nervous at first, not letting me walk more than from my bed to a chair in the room, then to the bathroom. But Alice was back at work, and she came up to see me every chance she could. Whenever Edward left to take a shower or get food, Alice got me out of the room. We laughed at Edwards's mother-hen ways, and when he came back carrying a sandwich one day, he almost freaked out when he walked into my room and I wasn't there. Alice and I turned a corner back to my room and saw Edward yelling at a nurse, wanting to know where I was.
"Yo, Eddie, your girl is right here!" Alice called down to him while I laughed.
"Bella!" He ran down to us, ignoring the name he hates being called.
"Edward, it's OK. I need more exercise than walking to the bathroom." I smiled and kept my feet moving back to my room.
Slowly, but surely, I got myself to the point of being released. And 2 weeks after I woke up, my doctors cleared me to go home.
EdPOV
After my Bella finally woke up, it was like a huge weight was lifted off me. I was so worried about her, so terrified that despite what all the doctors said, she was too injured to make it. There were so many bandages. She had been very lucky, and had only a broken arm and 2 broken ribs, but she had road rash on her arms, legs and head. I thought the doctors were a little hasty in telling her she needed to get up and start moving, so we started small with trips just to the chair and bathroom. I almost had a heart attack the day I came back with my lunch and Bella wasn't in her room. I had just gotten to the nurses station not far from her room to ask where she was when Alice was calling to me down the hall with her. I didn't even pay attention to the use of 'Eddie', I was just relieved to see Bella was OK. The guys were planning a welcome home party for Bella, so when I went home to shower before bringing her home, Rose made me take a bad full of clothes that she deemed party acceptable for Bella to wear home. Right now, she is in the bathroom changing into them before we leave. A nurse had just arrived with a wheelchair to take her down to the car. She made her way out of the bathroom with a pout on her face.
"I can't believe Alice and Rose are letting me go home in comfort." Bella cooed as she walked out of the bathroom wearing her pj's. "I expected to have to be fashionable even when getting out of the hospital."
She sat herself back into the wheelchair and I handed her a few of the stuffed animals that had been brought in to her, while I grabbed hold of the flowers, balloons and a couple bags of other things that had been given to her during her stay.
After piling everything into the trunk of Alice's car, I climbed into the front seat and looked back to be sure Bella was OK.
"Edward, stop worrying." She said then stuck her tongue out at me.
"Lookin' good Bells." Jazz smiled at her in the rearview mirror before pulling away from the hospital.
"If only these bruises would finish fading and be gone." She huffed.
It was a quick ride from the hospital to the apartment, and Jazz ran ahead up the stairs with all of Bella's things while I helped her make her way.
"Why the hell did we pick a building with no elevator?!" Bella yelled halfway up the stairs. I could see her starting to sweat with the effort it took to climb these.
"There is no rush, we can stop and rest for a minute if you want to." I gestured at the stairs for her to have a seat.
"No. I want to rest in my apartment, not dirty stairs. My nice cozy couch. Keep it moving!" She grabbed the next railing and kept pulling herself forward.
We slowly made our way and I opened the door to our dark apartment and let Bella shuffle inside before me.
"SURPRISE!" Came the loud shout from the apartment as Bella turned on the lights.
Bella screamed and lost her balance. I quickly grabbed her before she could fall down and hurt herself more. Everyone came forward and gave her hugs, and then ushered her forward to sit on the couch, while I got her a glass of water.
"Oh my god, guys!" I heard her saying in the living room and smirked. "Edward! Why didn't you tell me?"
I laughed at the glare she was giving me when I followed them into the room.
"I was forbidden from telling you."
"So? I'd have warned you." She pouted and took the glass from me.
I smiled around at the apartment. Alice and Rose had gotten a big Welcome Home banner, which was hanging along the wall above our balcony door. I was very happy my Bella was home again, the apartment just wasn't right without her.
