A/N: I need to thank the people that reviewed last chapter. I was feeling pretty crappy... but those reviews made me feel much better! This chapter goes out to Amy104... she gets the first chapter review award! And also to nisilein who is in Germany and has to wait until January to see the movie! So here we go peeps! In your honor!

Disclaimer: I am not awesome enough to own Twilight.

Choice

BPOV

We were all worried sick about Edward. We sat mostly in silence, pretending to watch TV. I finally couldn't take it anymore.

"I'm going over there to check on him." I stood up and went for the door but Alice blocked my way.

"NO! Things will be worse if you go." She said with eerie certainty.

"You make it sound like someone will die." Emmett said.

"If Bella goes, that will happen." Alice stared me down, her eyes willing me to sit.

"But, Alice I…"

"I know, Bella. I know. Me too. I wanna be there with him now too. I hate sitting here waiting… but it's what's best. Any of us going will make things worse."

I sat back down on the couch, fidgeting nervously. How much longer? Edward, where are you? I thought manically. Jasper was sitting with his eyes closed.

"We need to relax. You're all so tense and nervous right now. That's not going to make anything better. We need to be clam for when Edward gets here. He's going to need us."

Jasper was right. This tense environment was not going to help Edward and I almost instantly started to shake it off when a slight knock came at the door. I shot up to answer put Emmett put his hand up.

"I'll get it." He filled the doorway so I couldn't see. But I heard. "My God, Edward. What the hell…" Then I heard Edward's voice. It sounded broken and far away.

"I'm free, guys…" Then Emmett stepped back a bit.

"Shit! Outta the way! Move!" He turned around. He was carrying a very damaged Edward in his arms. He was cut, bruised, bleeding…broken. But he was smiling.

Rosalie screamed. I ran up to him.

"Edward! Edward!"

"I need to lay him down!"

"I'm calling Carlisle!" Rosalie began punching numbers on her phone.

"Take him up to my room!" I screamed, tears blurring my vision. I had never seen him look so hurt before. There was blood everywhere. He looked like a broken doll as Emmett flew up my stairs. I flew up behind him, not falling once. Alice and Jasper were close behind.

"I'll stay down here and wait for Carlisle. He says he'll be over ASAFP!" Rose called after us. Emmett let me get ahead of him and I cleared off my bed. Emmett set him down.

"I'll take that devil out myself!" Emmett's voice shook the walls of my room. He turned around to actually go do that.

"Em, no… it'll make things worse." Jasper said holding him back.

"Look at him, Jasper! Look at him!" Emmett was furious.

"Boys, settle down. This isn't helping!" Alice yelled.

"Edward! Please wake up! Open your eyes!" I shook him slightly. He didn't respond and the smile never left his bloody face. "His head is bleeding! Oh my God! He isn't breathing! He's dead! She killed him! Edward! Please answer me!" I was going hysterical.

"Bella don't say that! He's alive! Say it with me. Edward is alive." Alice said … nearly as hysterical as I was.

"Edward is alive. Edward is alive." We repeated together through teary voices.

"Edward, dude! Don't play this! Wake the hell up!" Emmett yelled.

"Is he really not breathing?" Jasper asked me.

"His chest isn't moving!" I bawled.

"Move aside." Jasper leaned in close to Edward. "No… he is breathing, but it's shallow. He's losing too much blood!"

"No shit! He's got a fucking head wound! Where is Carlisle?" Emmett seethed. As if on cue, Rosalie shouted from downstairs.

"He's here! Bring Edward down!"

Emmett scooped him up and bolted downstairs toward Carlisle.

"Good Lord… what happened?" He asked.

"No time… we need you look at him." Emmett said.

"He needs to go the hospital. Let's go." Carlisle somehow loaded us all into his Mercedes. And he drove at the speed of sound to the hospital. We jetted out of his car, Emmett carrying Edward the whole way.

"I can't take all of you with me. Emmett, since you're carrying him, come with me. The rest will have to wait here."

"But, Carlisle…" I started.

"I'm sorry, Bella." And with that, he and Emmett ran through the doors that only doctors and patients were allowed to go. The rest of us were left to wait.

We sat down on some chairs.

"What if he…"

"Don't, Bella. Don't think like that. He'll be fine." Jasper said.

"Emmett's so wonderful," Rosalie sighed randomly. We turned to look at her. There were black streaks running down her face. It looked as if she had cried black tears. "He didn't care that Edward was all bloody and he just took charge of the situation without thinking. He's a wonderful person." And she was right. Emmett was a wonderful person. "And I'm proud of you too, Jazz."

"What did I do?"

"You kept us calm. You kept us from losing our minds." She smiled at him. He smiled back. It was nice moment between them. But I felt that Rose meant a little something more when she said that Emmett was a wonderful person… but my mind was too afraid and worried to really think about that. Alice was just sitting there, motionless. Jasper went over to sit by her. He put his arm around her and she leaned into him and started crying silently.

Please let him be okay. I can't go on if something happens to him. After a while, Emmett emerged wearing scrubs. Carlisle probably made him change into non-bloody clothes. He walked over to us and sat in the empty chair next to Rosalie.

"He's going to be okay." He said. "Carlisle says if we had waited any longer in calling him, we probably would have lost Edward. So way to go, Rose. But they stopped the hemorrhaging. So we just have to wait now."

We seemed to wait for an eternity. Doctors ran in and out through the double doors. Carlisle hadn't been one of them. Alice and Jasper fell asleep leaning against each other. Emmett was up and down the whole time.

"What time is it?" Rose asked.

"We've only been here for half an hour." Emmett said plainly.

"It feels like we've been sitting here for years." I said, my voice still shaking.

"Feels that way doesn't it?"

I nodded slightly and went back to my task of memorizing the pattern of cracks in the walls. That one looks like the scar on Edward's face. That one looks like the bruise on Edward's face. Those other there come together to look the blood that was trickling down his face.

"My God! What's taking so long?" I finally shouted.

"I don't know, Bella. We just have to wait."

"I don't want to wait! I have to see Edward now!"

"I have a better job for you."

"And what would that be, Emmett?"

"Call Charlie. Report this and get that crazy lady locked up where she belongs." He looked at me. "I know you're worried about him. I know you want Edward to be okay. I do too, we all do."

I stared at him in awe.

"Emmett, when did you get so…" then he laughed.

"I'm the protector, Bells. I've always been this way." I was sure I didn't imagine the flutter of Rosalie's eyes, or the big big sigh she let go. But I was pretty impressed with Emmett myself.

"I'll call Dad. We'll get her put away."

EPOV

It hurt. Everything hurt and it was all different kinds of pain. I felt heavy, like I was being buried in sand… sand with nails in it. I wanted to let go of it. I wanted to detach myself from it, and not feel anything anymore. Because the pain was beyond physical.

I didn't know where I was. I couldn't hear anything, but I saw something. How cliché. I was in a tunnel. What was it that everyone said about tunnels? Not go towards the light, or something like that. Now that would been have easy, but there was light on both sides of this tunnel. So which way did I go? Both lights were the same. They were both warm… and both were talking to me. I knew that going one way would kill me. So which way was life? I didn't want to die… not anymore.

Edward…. Edward…. I heard an unfamiliar female voice calling to me.

"Who is that? Who is calling me?

Edward… Edward... Edward baby… My baby…

"Mother? Mom? Is that you?"

Edward… my son… This time it is was a male voice calling me.

"Dad?" I ran towards the voices.

The light got brighter, the pain started to disappear, and the voices got louder and then I could see them. She was beautiful. Her long bronze hair flowed all around her fair skinned face. Her green eyes were pale, but they sparkled. And he was a handsome man. He had brown hair and hazel eyes. He was big like Emmett but tall like Jasper. He was the kind of father everyone wanted. Both were shimmering, sheathed in white, with an angelic light surrounding them. They smiled at me. I held out my arms to them…

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CPOV (Carlisle POV)

I was losing him… Edward wasn't responding to anything. I had stopped the hemorrhaging. And the wounds were cleaned and disinfected. He was all stitched up. His vitals were stable a few minutes ago…. But then the heart monitor started doing something no doctor likes. It was a madhouse.

"WE'RE LOSING HIM!" I yelled. A nurse set up the defibrillator for me. "Clear!" His body jumped, but no response. "Damn it, Edward! Don't leave us!" Right then, Bella and the others burst into the room. Esme was with them.

EPOV

"Mom! Dad! It's me!"

"My baby… look at how you've grown!" My mother's whispery voice said. "You're so handsome."

"Dad! She lied to you! I didn't die! Look! I'm here!"

"That's my boy! Just look at you! I bet you have to beat the girls away with a stick!" He laughed. I love them so much already.

"I'm sorry, Mom… I hated you… but I didn't know…"

"Shhh… I'm not mad baby. Not at all. My mother… she was very cruel to you. I'm the one who should be sorry."

"No, Mom… I love you."

"I love you too, my Edward."

"I love you too, Dad!"

"Love ya, son." They smiled at me and I went to take a few steps closer to them. "Hold on there. You don't want to die, do you? You made your mother here a promise. You've got a life to live."

"But, I want to be with you. There's so much I missed." I said with tears in my eyes.

"Honey, if we touch you, you'll die. You can't come with us. But we'll meet again someday. Now is just not your time. Can't you hear them?" My mother pointed toward the other end of the tunnel, and I did hear voices.

Damn it, Edward. Don't leave us! Carlisle?

NO! NO!!! I didn't want to be right!! Alice?

Edward! Remember your promise! You can't die on me man! Emmett?

Dude! This isn't funny! Wake the hell up! Jasper?

I swear, if you die… I'll bring you back to life and kill you myself! Rose?

Edward, sweetie… don't leave us! Esme, too?

Please don't leave me, Edward. Please don't me leave! Bella… all the people I loved… they were calling me. But… I looked back at my parents. They loved me too… and I loved them. Which way did I go?

"This isn't a hard choice, son. You know where you want to go." My father said.

"But I don't want to leave you."

"We're always with you, baby. Now go… they're waiting for you. You promised me… and there is something there that you love very deeply. Don't keep her waiting."

"Bella… I love her…"

Edward! Please wake up! Don't leave me! I heard Bella's voice scream.

I'm sorry, but I need you all out of here! Carlisle yelled.

NO! I'm not leaving him! EDWARD!!!

"You have to go back." My father said. I nodded, and turned around to run the other way. I looked back to have one last look at my parents.

"I love you both!" My mother blew a kiss at me and my father gave me a sly wink.

"Go get her, tiger!"

I ran as fast as I could. My family was waiting for me. Bella was waiting for me. The other light was getting warmer and the voices were getting clearer.

He's coming back! We're getting him back!

EDWARD!!

"Bella! I'm coming!" I ran closer and I started to feel the pain again. It crushed against my body, knocking me over. It was hard to stand… but I had to. They were waiting for me; she was waiting for me.

A/N: Don't throw stuff at me!!! The next chapter is nearly finished. I'm going to hustle and finish... but when I post it is up to you! So review homesicles! I may even put it up tonight! My visitors from last night left... so I'm in a much better mood!