Hey everyone, I am so glad that chapter 10 was so nicely received

Hey everyone, I am so glad that chapter 10 was so well received. I adore your reviews! I want to give a shout out to Riley Grant who always provides a nice lengthy review. I enjoy reading your feedback, so keep it coming

Edward's POV

I don't want to leave Bella too long by herself but everyone is taking forever to hunt this morning! I think that they're trying to wean me off of my small obsession. I have to admit that I have been listening a lot to every move that Bella has been making. Esme has scolded me several times for that. Apparently she thinks it's rude—if it wasn't for Alice I'd be watching my angel sleep every night but Alice has categorized me as a stalker and has been keeping me busy all night with card games and chess. A waste of time seeing that we're both so predictably predictable; Jasper doesn't seem too fond either of Alice spending all night trying to keep me busy.

I glace over at my family, excluding Rosalie of course, Japer is chasing Alice about with snow balls but she is far too fast and dodges them every time he chucks one. Emmett is off finding himself a snack while Carlisle and Esme sit on a tree branch holding hands. Ugh.

I can just imagine Carlisle and Esme as a young 1950's couple with two straws and one milkshake… Wait; change that—two straws and one animal carcass.

"We've all eaten can we go now?" I ask impatiently.

"Patience, my brother," Emmett laughs as he returns from his hunt. Jasper gets pounced on by Alice and falls onto the frozen ground with a thud.

"Gotcha!" Alice giggles and smiles down at her catch.

"Perfect, now lets get to work—we'll saw off his head and mount him in the dining room!" I pitch in and then roll my eyes when Jasper pulls Alice down into a kiss. Ugh, Alice better get off my case, at night, or else we're going to have one horny vampire on our hands.

Emmett clears his throat loudly when the make-out session does not die down. They don't seem to be paying attention. Emmett catches my eye and nods, on the count of three we pelt them with snow balls!.

I grin and give him a nod, haha.

One… two…

"Three!" Alice jumps up and starts to chuck snow balls at me and Emmett. Damnit!

I laugh and jump into a near by tree with Emmett as the twosome below us throw globs of snow. Jasper is quick but not that quick!

"You'll never get me!" Alice taunted and jumped up onto a tree branch much high then the one Emmett and I are on. She stops, freezes, her eyes unfocus and then she drops from her branch falling to the frozen ground with a loud thud. The ground trembles and I hear somewhere off in the distance a small avalanche slide down a mountain side.

"Alice!" Jasper is by her side in an instant, "what did you see?"

"I… I don't know!"

I frown a little trying to tap into her thoughts. What is it?

Darkness, something swooshing like water… Bella's voice 'EDWARD!'

I feel something hot inside of me and a roar rips through chest. I'm run back towards the house, my feat stir up snow into a cloud. Small ice crystals form a haze. I get to the house and stop at the door listening for Bella. Where is she?

Water, swoosh, and cough.

I snarl over at Rosalie who is sitting outside with a book, completely oblivious to Bella's distress. I scale the wall up to Bella's room where the sound gets louder, I gouge out bits of stone on my way up, parts of the wall crumble, and I don't care. I swing open the French doors and halt quietly for half a second and look around the room. The swooshing is louder. The pool? I burst through the locker room door and into the pool. The lights are out, my eyes quickly adjust to the darkness and I see the cover is drawn. How did this happen? Who did this?

A pang of fear forces a growl out of my chest and I throw myself into the centre of the pool, ripping through the cover with my razor claws and submerge myself in the water. I look through the water to find Bella struggling for the little bit of air left underneath the covering. I swim over to her and grab onto her waist forcing her down to the bottom on the pool with me. In one quick motion I can kick off the ground and tear through the cover carrying her back to her room, into the light.

Her heart is hammering in her chest but she's not breathing.

"Come on, Bella, breath for me, love," I whisper and pat her back gently, forcing her to cough up the water in her lungs.

"Edward," she shivers, at first I think that I'm too cold for her but then realize the fire has gone out in her room and a gust of icy air has blown in through the French doors. She's shaking violently now.

"It's okay; it's going to be okay. Come on," I pick her up and take her into the locker room, turning on the hot water and I settle down under the shower with her in my arms. My clothing is soaked. I don't care; I kiss her forehead over and over, running my hand along her cheek.

Her shivering continues but starts to fade enough for her water logged arms to slide around my neck. I pull her closer to me and burry my head into her shoulder. I hear her breath shudder and sobs break the silence, I can tell that she was really scared.

"It's alright," I tell her again, hoping she'll believe it, "it's alright, I'm here, you're fine," I promise her.

I sit with her in my arms under the hot shower until she stops shaking completely. I slide out from under her, grab a towel before I turn off the water.

"Come here," I whisper to her opening a towel for her, she moves into my arms, letting me wrap her up, "wait here I'll get you something dry to wear."

I go back into her room; it looks like Alice has restored the fire. On the foot of Bella's bed are four extra blankets. I rummage through Bella's dresser until I find her favorite pair of sweats and her old t-shirt that she loves to wear to bed.

Once I make sure that she has her cloths, I run to my room change out of my wet clothing then come back just in time to find her sitting down on the bed. She just looks at me.

"Bella, please say something," I'm worried; I just realized that she hasn't spoken a single sentence since I pulled her out of the pool.

"Uh… say what?"

"Maybe you can start with what happened?" I offer walking over to the bed slowly so I don't scare her with any sudden movements. I pull back the covers for her to get in.

"I don't know, everything was fine and then the lights flickered and—it all just happened so fast," her voice shudders a little. She gets under the covers; I unfold the four extra blankets and lay them over her so she doesn't get cold.

I sit down on the edge of the bed and run my hand over her cheek again. Her skin is warmer; at least she's not cold anymore.

"It's still early," Bella says looking out the window, a thick blanket of clouds has covered the sky and snow is coming down everywhere.

"You don't have to sleep," I smile at her and watch her cheeks turn pink, "… what?" I ask, running my finger over her blushing cheek.

"Nothing."

"No, tell me," I can't help but grin at her sheepish look.

"Will you play for me?" she asks and glances over at the piano.

I chuckle a little, "of course."

I walk over to the bench, sit down and start to play her lullaby for her and I don't stop. Over the course of time I switch in and out of different melodies but every now and then return to her lullaby I will play until she asks me to stop.

So I go on.

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