Half Moon

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Chapter 14: MIA

-Edward's POV-

"BELLA," I was outside screaming as loud as I could. People were coming out of their houses and looking at me. "BELLA." I screamed again. Blood was coming down my arm and falling onto the floor.

Renee came outside. "Edward, calm down. She'll come back." She looked at my arm. "How did this happen?"

"I fell and cut myself." It was an easy lie. I do trip a lot. "It's just a cut. It doesn't matter. I need to find Bella." I tried running down the block, but Renee held onto my arm. "Edward, this looks bad. Go inside and clean it up." I looked at her. "Bella will come back. Go inside now." I followed my mom's orders and went into the bathroom. The cut was deep. Really deep! I cleaned the cut and put bandages around it. I ran downstairs almost falling down the stairs. Bella still wasn't here.

After a few hours of waiting Renee went out to see if any of the neighbors saw her. When she came back she looked upset. "That women is so…" I knew whom she was talking about. Bella's understudy! The women who had yelled that Bella was a murderer. "She just started yelling the murderer ran again." We sat down and waited for a few more hours. Still no Bella. "Maybe you should call her family." Phil handed me the phone and I dialed.

-Rosalie's POV-

I was sitting in the kitchen doing my nails in a nice red color. It almost looked like the color of blood. The house was completely quiet. I was the only one home. Esme and Alice had gone shopping, Emmett and Jasper went hunting, and Carlisle was at the hospital. I always enjoyed some alone time, but never really got it. Bella was usually around, but we knew how to give each other space when we needed it. Bella was of course in Florida right now, so the house had never been this quiet before. I actually jumped when the phone rang.

'Who the hell would be calling,' I thought as I answered the phone. "Hello, Cullen resident."

"Rosalie," I heard Bella's human say. Yes I was supportive of Bella finding love, but that doesn't mean I have to automatically like the boy.

"What do you want?" I asked in a rather harsh tone. Better be nicer. Bella gave me a fit when I had warned him not to hurt her.

"Have you heard from Bella?"

"Isn't she supposed to be with you?"

"Well… um…" he was being nervous. "We had a bit of um… a fight. She ran out and has been missing for hours." I growled and I knew I freaked him out. I warned him not to hurt her. "Rosalie, you can scream at me later, but I'm really worried."

I stopped myself from saying 'you should be'. It was time to be nice to the human. "Fine, I'm going to call Bella's cell." I hung up the phone before he could say another word. I dialed Bella's number at vampire's speed. 'Please be okay' I thought as the phone rang. It picked up, but it was once again Edward's voice I was hearing. Of course I was being an idiot. Edward would have called Bella's cell if he knew she had it. I growled again.

"What should we do?" Edward said.

"You do nothing. I'm going to get the rest of the family." I hung up on him without a goodbye or it will be fine. For all I know it wouldn't be fine. I'm not the future telling pixie, and even Alice couldn't tell Edward that about Bella.

-Bella's POV-

When I got outside I turned invisible and just continued to run. I ran and I ran for what must have been days without eating or sleeping. I was cold. I've never been this cold before. It was snowing where I was now. How did I end up where it was snowing? I know I was running north, but where did I go? I was weak. I couldn't run anymore. I jumped up a tree, turned visible, and put my shield around me. It didn't protect me from the cold. I started to cry and then I heard, "Bella, is that you?" It was Tanya speaking. How did I end up here?

-Alice's POV-

I was really starting to get worried about Bella. Edward had come home and Carlisle had taken care of Bella's bite marks. It had happened so similar to what happened to Richard. Thank god she didn't kill Edward. If she had I would doubt we would ever see her again. We explained to Edward exactly what happened between Bella and Richard. Edward felt bad about yelling at Bella without getting the full story.

Carlisle answered the phone when it rang. "Tanya, we're kind of … what? That made me pay attention to the call.

"Bella's here." I heard Tanya's voice. Thank god!

"Is she okay?" Carlisle asked relieved that we finally found Bella.

Tanya paused. "I don't think so." WHAT? "She's up in a tree. There's some type of shield around her. She looks like she's freezing." I remembered Bella saying something about her shield being a physical shield too. Everyone was listening to the phone conversation. "She's crying. I think she's depressed."

"We'll be right there." Carlisle said and hung up, but I stopped him from leaving right away.

"Carlisle, I think Bella needs a little talk with her sisters." I looked at Rose and she agreed. "We'll calm her down and bring her home." Everyone looked like they wanted to come, but they understood why Bella needed us. Sisters have a weird bond sometimes, and I knew Rose and I together could talk some sense into Bella.

They all nodded knowing someone had to stay here anyway. Edward comes around everyday to see if Bella came back and he would get worried if no one was here. Rosalie and I started running figuring it would be faster, not even thinking about taking a car. That was mistake number 2. The first mistake was not even thinking about bringing something warm for Bella to wear.

When we got to the Denali Coven house we found Tanya and Kate waiting outside for us. I wondered where Eleazar, Carmen, and Irina were for a second, but only a second. This was about my sister. "Where's Bella" Rosalie asked and Tanya pointed in the direction. As soon as we started running it didn't take long to pick up Bella's scent. We found her in a big tree crying softly to herself.

"Bella," I said softly so not to scare her. The last thing we needed was for Bella to attack. "What are you doing here?"

Bella looked down at us and my heart nearly broke. Her brown eyes were so full of pain and sadness. How could she stand it? "Bells, Edward is fine." Rosalie talked as though she were talking to a baby. "He's not hurt anymore. Just worried about you."

"I hurt him. I didn't want to, but he started to bleed and I just…" Bella just continued to cry. 'I'm not strong. I never was."

"Bella, he was bleeding all over you when he crashed his car and you did nothing. You saved his life." I tried to remind her.

"I drank from him then too." She screamed shocking both Rose and I. There had been no bite marks on Edward, but of course it would have been easy for Bella to drink some of the blood that was coming out of him.

"Then you are strong." Rosalie said. "You stopped both times." I could hear her doubt though. The two times Edward bleed in front of Bella she drank from him. Bella cried harder and I looked at Rosalie.

"It's hard not drinking from a human who smells that good for you. You are strong." I knew my sister was strong. She could handle anything. "Edward's not angry at you. He understands." Bella was looking at me. "Come down." Tanya was right; Bella looks like she was freezing. She was only wearing a tee shirt and a pair of shorts.

Bella didn't really jump down. She sort of rolled down from the tree and Rosalie caught her. She had no more energy and I don't know if she came down because she believed me or she was too tired to continue refusing. Rosalie looked really worried so I took a hold of one of Bella's hand and realized why. She was as cold as me.

We ran her back to Tanya's house, but when went inside it was a cold in as it was out. "Put on the heat," Rosalie ordered.

Tanya looked guilty. "We didn't pay the bill." I actually hissed at her. Bella was sleeping in Rose's arms freezing and they couldn't have just paid a simple heating bill. Kate came down with a bunch of clothes. Bella and Kate were around the same size so they should fit nicely. With a little help we were able to get the cloths on Bella without waking her up. She needed her sleep and most likely blood and food.

"Let us borrow your car," Rosalie said as we realized our mistake of not taking a car with us.

"Carmen and Eleazar took one car and Irina and Laurent have the other." Laurent was an unfamiliar name. Probably was Irina new mate. Rosalie and I looked at each other.

"We'll have to run her home." It was that simple. There were no other opinions I could see. Rosalie agreed and picked Bella up again. Carrying someone makes our fast pace a little slower. Rosalie was faster then me so it made sense for her to be the one to carry Bella. "Thank you Tanya."

"You are family. I'm sorry we can't be more helpful." I could see she was. She wanted to be able to help us and was sorry she didn't pay the heating bills or have as many cars as we do. We couldn't blame them though. They weren't as into cars as we were and they didn't have someone who was half human to take care of. Bella needed heat sometimes so we always remembered to pay.

I nodded at them as we ran back. It took longer going home then it did coming, but when we finally saw our house we ran inside with Bella who hadn't even woken once. She really outdid herself. Everyone was waiting around for us and was so happy to see that Bella was with us. We didn't stop to talk though. We ran Bella up to her room and put the covers over her.

"Will she be okay?" Emmett asked. I didn't have an answer for him. Carlisle was checking Bella over, but made sure to be careful not to touch her when he realized how very cold she still was.

"We're going to have to wait to see what happens." Carlisle informed us.

-Esme POV- next day

I watched as my daughter suffered. Somehow over the night she didn't just warm up, she had gotten a fever. It was the first time in her whole life that she was sick. Carlisle was worried. He didn't know if Bella could fight whatever virus she had gotten and he didn't dare bring her to the hospital or give her medicine. One because Bella was normally hotter then a normal human, her with a fever would be way too hot for a normal human and two he had no idea what medicine would do to her. Everyone had wanted to stay home, but I made them all go to school and work. I could take care of my daughter.

Bella opened her eyes and looked at me. It was the first time she had woken up since Alice and Rosalie had brought her home. "Hey baby, how are you feeling?" She looked at me probably wondering how he got here. "Rose and Alice brought you home." I put my hand on her forehead to help cool her down. "Don't ever do that again. Do you understand?"

"Yes," Bella whispered. She sounded horrible. I had to make her feel better.

"Edward forgives you and he loves you. Everyone knows it was an accident and you would never hurt him. You couldn't kill him." She gave me a confused look. "Maybe I should say wouldn't. Of course you could, but you won't. You love him too much." A small smile came across Bella face, but then she started to cough. I wished I could take away her pain.

"Do you need something?"

"Blood," Bella whispered once again closing her eyes. I think she was falling asleep again.

"I'll be right back." I went downstairs and poured a glass of blood. I was heating it up when the doorbell rang. I answered the door to find Edward's dad out front. "Chief Swan, can I do something for you?"

"Please call me Charlie and I wanted to talk to you about the Volvo."

I was confused for a minute. "Oh, yes. The car. Edward likes it right?"

"He loves it, but Bella just out right gave it away. I wanted to make sure it was okay, and maybe give you something for it. May I come in?" He tried walking in, but I blocked the door. I didn't need Charlie catching whatever Bella got.

"Bella is very sick. I don't think it would be a good idea." We had informed Edward that Bella was back, but we warned him against coming over. We didn't need the humans to catch whatever Bella has got. "How about you come back another…" before I could finish I heard Bella screaming and ran up the stairs. Charlie followed. Bella was in bed, but she was clearly having a nightmare. I held her not wanting her to break the bed in front of Charlie. She tried getting me off of her, but she stopped. "It's okay, Bella. It was just a dream."

Charlie went to put his hand on her back, but took it away when he realized how hot Bella was. Bella opened her eyes again and looked at my face and then at Charlie. "What are you doing here?"

"Just making sure you were okay." Charlie lied. He knew how hurt Bella would be if he said he was trying to give back her gift. "Don't do that to us again. You're like a daughter to me too." Bella eyes widen, but she slowly nodded. "I better get going." Charlie kissed the top of Bella's head and showed himself out. I heard his car leaving and kissed Bella right where he did.

"Do me a favor and say awake for a bit, okay?" Bella nodded and I went downstairs to get her blood. I brought it up to her and after she drank it she looked a little better. "Does your stomach hurt?" Bella nodded. "Think you can handle some soup?" Bella was already lying down on her pillow, but I knew how important it was that she got something to eat. "I'll make you your favorite soup."

Bella nodded once again, but I could see she was once again going back to sleep. Poor thing was still really tired even after about a day of sleeping. I would have to wake her up when the soup was ready. This was going to be an interesting couple of days.

AN: okay, that's it for now, but at least it didn't take me months to update this time. New Moon put me in the writing mood, but I liked Twilight better. Also does anyone realize that they made things between Bella and Jacob more romantic in the movie then in the book? I'm totally Team Edward. Okay enough of my ranting. Can't wait for Eclipse to come out in the movies and can't wait for your reviews so REVIEW.