A month: alternative ending

Chapter 9

I heard them before I saw them, I could hear the snuffles of their snouts and their high pitched whines as they neared. I smiled grimly as Embry stood to go to the back door and Paul crouched by my bed moving the scattered charts and files left by Charlie when he and Renee went to speak to a consultant. A hospital bed had been moved into my house for me to lie in, I was too weak to move up and down the stairs and for convenience I just stayed in one place at all times. Paul tensed and I was about to ask what was wrong when they walked in. Sam and Jake coming to hug me as I eyed the group following them in all of them with regret and sorrow in their eyes.

"Is this what you have been doing?" I questioned my eyes not leaving the family I thought I wished I had, crowd in reminding me of all the reason why I threw out my Dracula books and replaced them with ones on wolves. "Yeah it is" he spoke barley loud enough to hear, I felt like ringing his neck but there defiantly was more to this story. "They are here to change you" blurted out Sam and I turned furious to Jake. "What!"

"Please don't be mad! I just can't sit around and watch you while you die, Bella you are our most loved friend practically part of the pack. And if I can save my sister in any way I will." He pleaded and the Cullens crowded around cooing. "Bella we would love you to be part of our family again, we didn't want to leave but Edward lied, please you have to believe us." They begged "don't grovel it's unbecoming of you." They looked surprised at my cold tone and shut up.

"Bella come on…."

"No listen to me Jacob Black! I am not disappearing, think about Charlie. If I am changed than I won't die I will disappear, no closure for him. Renee will go back to her life with Phil travelling and grieving in her own way but Charlie he won't give up. He will totally isolate himself even if he does still have sue he doesn't know how to live without answers. At least if I die he will know where I am and there is no possible way I am still hurting." I cried and Jake pulled me in as I wept.

I felt a pair of cool hands cup my own. "we can fix this Bella, we can still save you" I looked him in the eye but remained silent so Carlisle continued I apologise in advanced but ever since you got bitten by James bit you I have been monitoring your health. Within two weeks of the accident you had healed but to keep up appearances I didn't tell you and kept the cast on as long as possible. The venom was able to heal you but it also changed you slowly. Not enough to become a fully grown vampire but enough to strength your immune system."

I looked at him amazed. "So what does that mean?"

"It means that if we get the ratio of venom right it will be enough to heal you, but with such a fatal condition I think the venom will change you after a course of time. You will have time to grow older in front of Charlie but it will stop after sometime."

"But what would we tell Charlie, I couldn't just miraculously recover" I know my hope was rising but this plan was full of flaws.

"That's the thing we would have to lie a tiny bit. We will tell him about this new drug which is already on the market which Bella just became eligible to have to kill of minimum damaged tissue. Meaning it's not meant to save you just make it less painful. If he buys that then we will make it seem as though it worked differently to you. Of course we will have to make this out as the most miraculous thing ever and right medical journals on you etc. But I have friends that will pose all that."

He explained it like it is the simplest thing in the world but it wasn't. It was totally insane. "Can I think about it please, with Sam and Jake?" everyone nodded and filed out leaving me with both of them perched on the end of my bed. "Will I be left out of the reservation Sam?"

"I promise I will do all in my power to convince the elders" he said sincerely.

"Does that mean you are going to do it?" asked Jake.

"I don't know, I'm scared Jake" he hugged me close and I closed my eyes. "We all are Bells, we all are."