Chapter 10

A/N: I'M SORRY!!!! I'm sorry I made you guys wait so long for this update!! Please say you forgive me!! *begs on knees*

I will try to update sooner next time, it'sjust that school is A LOT right now, so I don't have that much time.

Anyway, here goes chapter 10! Yay!

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The car came to a screeching halt in front of number 230. I jumped out of my seat, slamming the door shut behind me. Please be okay, please be okay... She had sounded so weak, like she'd given up hope, like she was... dying. God, Alice. My Alice. Please be okay...Please. If only I could get her out and to the hospital in time, if only we weren't too late.

We had reached the front door now. Emmett turned to me with a questioning look on his face, and I nodded curtly. Turned out it was quite useful at times to have Muscle Man as your best friend... His huge forn slammed into the door, once, twice. Then it finally burst open with the loud sound of splintering wood. Without a second thought, I ran into the house, over the pile of wood that had once been a front foor, along the hallway... I stopped apruptly. I didn't know for sure where she was, if she was even at home! I raced up the stairs, the sound of my feet hitting the wooden stairs the only noise in the deadly silence surrounding smell of alcohol was faint, but definitely present. I jolted the door of the first room open, nothing. The second door. The third door. And finally, the last one. But all there was were empty rooms with no sign of life. No sign of Alice.

What would I do now? I had come here, so sure that I would find her. Probably hurt, yes, I was worried out of my mind about her, but I had somehow assumed that she would be here and all I....

"JASPER! I FOUND HER!"

Without thinking, I turned around and sprinted back, taking four steps at a time. I turned left, entering a small living room. I was about to ask where the hell she was, when I saw her.

Her limp body was sprawled over the couch with Rose kneeling by her side. Her eyes were closed, an expression of immense pain on her motionless face. "Alice!" I was at her side at once, rudely pushing Rosalie away. "Alice! Can you hear me? Please..."

Her body remained still as stone. "Alice" My tone was pleading, my hands desperately caressing her abused face.

"We have to get her to the ER. Now."
Emmett and Rose exchanged a quick glance. "Actually..." Rose began.

"WHAT?" I yelled. What the hell were they thinking? I had to get her to the hospital at once, did they want her to die?

"Fine. I will go on my own then. If you have something better to do!" I jumped up, furious.

"Dude. Chill. I didn't say we shouldn't go. But... let me take care of something first.."
I was fuming by now. What could possibly be more important right now?

Emmett motioned for me to come closer. I walked over to the other side of the room reluctantly, hating to leave her side for even just a second.

"What?"

He only pointed to the opposite corner. A huddled up form was lying there, on the floor. Now that I thought about it, the smell of alcohol was much more concentrated here than it had been out in the hallway.

It was difficult to make out what it was at the room was dark with the curtains closed. I took a few steps forward.

I quickly put the pieces together.

A man. Lying in Alice's living room. On the floor. The smell of alcohol.

I flung myself onto him with a furious roar as I realized who he was. I couldn't think anymore, the only thing I could see was Alice's face. Her face, covered in blood. Bruises, travelling up her creamy, soft, ivory skin. The pain in her eyes.

I was going to kill him.

Alice. My angry fists pounded into him, again and again. I didn't care that I would get arrested for this, the only thing I cared about was my Alice. He had destroyed her life, and he was going to pay for it, no matter what the consequences might be.

"Jasper." I ignored the voice, simply tuning it out.

"Jasper!" Louder this time.

"WHAT?!" I snapped.

"Jasper, you have to stop." Emmett.
"No." I answered simply.

His hand caught me on the arm before I could even turn back around.

"I know you want to kill him, hell, if this was Rosalie lying there I would do he exact same thing" He shook his head. "God, I don't even wanna think of anything like that." He tightened his hold around Rosalie's waist.

"But... Think of Alice. She needs you right now. We need to get her to the ER. Now. I'll take care of..." His voice trailed off. "That."

I felt myself slowly coming to senses again. Alice. Hospital. Right.

How could I let myself get that distracted, how could I let my temper slip when she was in danger, when she needed me so bad?

I jogged back to the sofa and scooped her up in my arms.

"Rose, go with Jasper." Emmett commanded, gently pushing her away from him. "I'll be right with you guys."

"Alright." I swallowed. "Let's go."

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After about 10 minutes of much-too-fast driving we finally pulled into the hospital parking lot. I jumped out of my seat and sprinted over to the other side of the car. I jolted the door open and pulled Alice into my arms. She was still unconscious. She'd been out for God knows how long now, what if she wouldn't wake up? What if I was too late? I pressed my lips togerther in order to keep myself from screaming. Why Alice? Why her?!

I was completely winded by the time I reached the entry.

"I need a doctor. Right now." I croaked.

The receptionist looked up from her paper work. "Oh dear. Here, fill out these forms and a doctor will be right with you."
She hurried off into one of the rooms,

I took a shaky breath and started filling out the paper, answering as many of the questions as I could with what little I knew about her.

Please be okay, please...

When I was done I placed the forms on the desk in front of me and waited. Why was nobody coming?! Just when I was about to go and ask what was going on, the receptionist from a few minutes ago turned around the corner, a doctor coming right after her.

"This is him." She announced, pointing at me

"I see."

"May I ask what happened?" The doctor asked, turning to me now.

"I... I'm not sure. I got a call form her this morning. She sounded... so weak, like she was..." I swallowed. "Like she didn't have much strength left. I got to her house about 15 minutes later. We found her on the floor, unconscious and bleeding." My voice was shaking and I had to try really hard not to lose it right then and there. "I'm positive that her father" I huffed at the sound of that word "has been beating her up for a long time. It was him again, I'm sure of that. This monster. This digusting excuse of a man." I took a deep breath "Excuse my litttlw outbreak. My friend took care of him. I took her here at once." I loked at him pleadingly. "Please. Please, can you promise me she'll be okay?"

The doctor only looked at me apologetically. "I'm sorry. I'm afraid I can't promise anything. I will do everything in my power to save her though."

A lady in white with a big bed on rolls came around the corner.

"She will have to be examined first to see how big the damage is."

They took my Alice out of my arms and put on the bed. When I tried to get through the big glass door with them, a big hand stopped me.

"I'm sorry, son. I'm afraid you can come in there."

"Please." I protested. "Please. I have to. You don't know what she means to me, I have to... I need to go inside with her, please...."

"Sorry." And with that, they turned around, taking the reason for my existance with them.

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A/N: Oh. My Gosh. Seriously, it was totally nerve-wrecking to write this. Kinda pathetic, I know...

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