It has been a while since I last wrote. I had a CPU problem and lost Chapters 10 and 11. This chapter is a re-write, and its not as long nor as good as the original was. Bare with me.

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Edward Chapter 10 - The call

Oh, Miss Swan I didn't realize." She hesitated, then continued with a empathetic tone, "It's about your father; he's been in an accident."

I could hear the female voice coming from the speaker of the cordless phone, but it wasn't so much the words that she spoke, but Bella's reaction that sent a flicker of pain across my chest.

Bella… she looked terrified, scared and guilty all at the same time. She let the receiver drop onto the dark brown carpet that covered the living room, and the little color her pale skin held drained from her face. I don't know what compelled me to embrace her but before I had time to process the thought I was at her side, with my cold arms around her petite body, keeping her from falling to the floor.

"Charlie…" she let out in a strained whisper, her eyes reminded me of how Alice looked when she was having one of her visions. Cold. Lost. Distant.

"Oh Bella I am so sorry." was all that I could say. I held her close to me, my hands tracing a pattern on her back. I had a million questions I wanted to ask. Questions about us, about why she left Forks, and about Charlie. I knew better than to burden her with the first two sets of them, right now was clearly not the time. As for the last, well I knew as much as she did at that point.

"Hello? Hello? Miss Swan are you still there?" the female voice came from the receiver. I wasn't sure what to do. I felt as if I let go of Bella she would collapse, but I needed to inquire about Charlie, clearly she was in some state of shock and couldn't speak.

Bella must have been thinking the same thing, or at least that was all I could deduct. She lifted her head from where it rested on my left shoulder blade and looked at me with pleading tear filled eyes. I knelt to pick up the cordless phone in one quick motion, not letting go of Bella at the same time.

"Hello, miss Swan is indisposed at the moment, I am sure you understand." I said sounding as polite as possible, I would try to get as much information, it was the least I could do for Bella.

"Yes I do, are you family? I can't release any information unless …"

I cut her off, I had to.

"No I am not family, could you just please tell me where you are calling from?

"Seattle Grace Hospital."

"Thank you, we will be in touch with you." I said into the receiver and pressed END. I took the small silver cell phone I carried with me and dialed a too familiar number. One ring, two rings, three, four. Voicemail. Damn it, c'mon! I hit the redial button and waited… On the third ring he answered.

"Edward, I am sorry I was in surgery."

"Carlisle, I need a favor."

Never letting go of Bella, I delivered the few details and requests to Carlisle in a little under five seconds, my voice I am sure sounding like one long slur to her human ears. Carlisle understood and promised to call me back soon with details. I hung up, and turned the cell phone from vibrate to loud setting and set it on the coffee table. Bella was shaking and I wasn't sure if it was from my body temperature or the turn of events. Perhaps it was a combination of both. I lifted her off her feet and carried her as if we were newlyweds walking across the threshold, I walked back to the spot I was seating at moments ago and sat down with her across my lap. She was still paler than I have ever seen her before.

"Carlisle will call me back with information." I said trying to sound reassuring, hopeful even. She simple nodded her head as she hid herself into my chest, quiet sobs escaping her tiny torso.

"Bella, everything will be ok. You'll see. Your dad, he is a cop. it's a very dangerous occupation, but he is a smart man and I am sure he took the necessary precautions. You'll see, everything will turn out ok." I repeated in a hushing voice, trying my best to soothe her, to calm her. I hated to see her in agony, I had already caused her so much pain. She did not deserve this. It was as if the universe had a goal of making this poor girl's life miserable. My words did not have the intended effect, in fact they seemed to have just the opposite, her sobs got louder, more uneven, uncontrolled.

My frozen heart went out to her, I hurt because she hurt and I couldn't do anything but sit here and wait. It was nerve racking.

"Shh… shhh…" I tried to sooth her again, this time rocking my body back and forth, my hands at the back rubbing her in circles.

"it's … all …. muuhhh… fault." she let out in between her pained sobs.

"No Bella, please don't think that way. Things like these, they come with the job." I stopped rocking her and lifted her up from how she sat across my legs and into a position where she was straddling me so that we could face each other.

I put both my hands at either side of her beautiful tear stained face, my thumbs at her cheek bones. I looked into her dark brown eyes, and couldn't help but smile at how angelic and stunning she looked right this second, with tears adorning the corners of her eyes, her damp eyelashes clumped together, her nose scarlet red.

She stared back at me, and I could hear her heart stop and skip a beat only to pick right back up and race at double the rate. Her lips slightly parted and she let out her enticing aroma in one breath. In that one second I lost control. I pulled her close to me inhaling her as she got closer and closer, my eyes never leaving her lips. I could feel my own breathing grow short and ragged, a low growl rested at my throat. I couldn't wait any longer I had to taste her again, it had been too long.

Ironic how a year can seem so long to an immortal like myself but any second spent away from her felt longer than my almost hundred years of life. I bent my head down, closed my eyes as I got within sixteenths of an inch for her. Her breath matched mine, and her arms were instantly around my neck, her slender fingers running through my disheveled hair, her heart creating a fast thumping rhythm that sounded like a melody to my ears. The sharp sound of my Clair de Lune ring tone broke the enchantment that had captured both of us. In an instant she was off me and at the table picking up my cell phone and throwing it at me.

"Carlisle?" I spoke onto the Blackberry Pearl, my eyes not leaving her.

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