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I don't know how long I had been lying there, it seemed like forever, I didn't even know where I was lying, but I could feel that it was hard and cold and very uncomfortable. My head was spinning, I felt like that time I got a really bad flu when I was human.
"Bella? Bella!" Someone was calling my name, it sounded like Edward, I wanted to open my eyes to see his godlike face and tell him everything would be okay. But I couldn't find the energy, what was wrong with me, vampires don't get sick!
"Carlisle, what's wrong with Bella?" The same velvet voice asked frantically.
I slowly lifted my heavy eyelids open, just a little, enough for me to see Edwards perfect face inches from mine, I think I tried to smile, but I couldn't
"Bella! Are you okay?" He asked me worried.
"Err." I tried to say something, but it came out like a croak.
Suddenly the floor beneath me disappeared and I was scooped up in the welcoming arms of my beloved. I couldn't move, it was like I was paralyzed, all I could do was stare at him blankly. He looked really concerned.
This was not what I wanted it to be like, I wanted to be held in his arms, cradling me, whispering sweet nothings to me, me telling him just how much I loved him, and how I had missed him all those years. Instead I was doomed to a life of 'vampire bacteria' paralyzed for the mean time.
He laid me down gently on the sofa; he lifted my head to rest it in his lap, while he rubbed circles at the nape of my neck with his thumb.
"Alice, she's freezing, can you get a blanket please" Edward murmured.
Alice nodded, swiftly made her way up the stairs and came back down carrying a comfy looking light blue blanket; she carefully draped it over me and stepped back.
Edward and Carlisle started talking, I tuned them out, and I tried concentrating on how to speak.
"Bella?" Edwards's velvety voice called to me, breaking me out of my thoughts.
"Yes" I croaked out, it sounded like I had just been strangled. Edwards's eyes tightened when he heard my voice sounding the way it did.
"Who did this to you?" He asked, obviously trying to not sound angry.
"Those... vampires…... they, injected me with……vampire bacteria…" I said battling to stay awake.
"Don't worry love, we will get them" He promised me.
Suddenly, I started shivering uncontrollably. Edward looked panicked and worried; Carlisle pushed him out of the way and knelt down beside my head.
"It looks like she's having a seizure" Carlisle informed my family, shining a very bright torch in my eyes; I pushed Carlisle out of the way, and coughed up some more venom.
"I'm…so…sorry" I stammered breathless.
"Don't worry about it sweetie." Esme assured me.
I was still shivering, but not as bad as before, I had a disgusting after taste in my mouth, like I had just eaten human food.
Suddenly an unbearable pain crippled my body to the extreme, I screamed in pain, numerous times, Carlisle and everyone else looked intensely worried, there were cold hands soothing me, but I couldn't see whose hands they were, and then everything went black.
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I opened my eyes, my head ached, and I was dizzy. I looked up weakly to a lovely pair of golden eyes, the exact pair I had fallen in love with.
"Bella?" Edward asked.
"Yes" I croaked out.
"Carlisle!" Edward called, suddenly Carlisle rushed through the door, followed closely by, Esme, Alice, Emmett, Jasper and Rosalie.
"She's awake" Edward informed them all. A look of relief swept over all of their beautiful faces.
"Bella, had anything else happened to you, that's unusual?" Carlisle asked professionally.
"Yes, I was about to sink my teeth into a lion's neck, then my head hurt, and I couldn't hunt, because my head hurt too much" I said rubbing my throat with my cold hand, trying to sooth the painful burn.
"You can't drink?" Carlisle asked concerned.
"No, is that bad for me?" I asked worried.
"Yes, not quenching a vampire's thirst for a long period of time, can deteriorate a vampire, and they disappear." Carlisle said looking worried, and thoughtful. Edwards arms wrapped around me protectively.
"Is that what's going to happen to me?" My voice was lower than a whisper.
"No, love we won't let that happen to you" Edward said a growl arising in his chest, He pulled me up onto his lap, playing with my hair, I hid my face in his chest, and wrapped my arms around him.
I cried tearless sobs into his chest; I didn't want my forever to end so quickly, I wanted more time to spend with Edward.
"I promise, I won't let anything happen to you…Bella" He whispered to me, and started kissing down the nape of my neck.
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