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Fourteenth Chapter…

…where everyone gets a little break

"This is not good," Bella said, neatly summing up what everyone else was thinking. Alice, Rosalie, Jasper, Emmett and Edward were standing around Bella's narrow bed in the ER, trying to be inconspicuous about it, but people were starting to shoot curious looks their way. Edward didn't notice (he was too busy cooling Bella's fractured elbow with the ice pack a nurse had dropped off earlier), but Alice did and she was slightly worried. They had attracted too much attention today already. Of course they'd destroyed every single video camera inside the bank along, but there was nothing to be done about the recording that showed Alice, Bella and Rosalie entering the bank.

Well, Alice thought. We'll have a few months before someone notices. Plenty of time to have the wedding! It's a shame Bella will have to wear a cast…

Edward glared at her in response. He didn't share her opinion. Bella had a broken arm, they'd have to leave Forks and disappear sooner than they'd planned and all of that because Alice had insisted on dragging Bella to New York! If she hadn't, they wouldn't be in this mess.

Granted, then they probably wouldn't know about the planned break-in either.

"What about the robbers?" Jasper asked tensely. His tension had nothing to do with the matter at hand but with the fact that they were inside an ER. Alice had picked this hospital because she'd known that it would be safe for Jasper to go inside (no bleeding patients), but there was only so much he could do about the emotions assaulting him. Fortunately his empathic sense didn't enable him to feel other people's physical pain. Unfortunately he felt the emotions usually associated with pain and the emotional climate he was currently forced to endure was decidedly unpleasant. As he wanted to be part of this discussion though, he didn't have much choice.

"They won't remember much when—or in some cases if—they wake up," Alice replied confidently. "Rose and I hit their heads pretty hard and the ones in the main office never saw Jasper's face. That's not our biggest problem. The break-in in the bio lab is."

"You actually want to do something about it?" Bella asked, frowning a little. She was no longer in pain, thanks to the meds she'd been given. It didn't look like she was getting out here anytime soon because the ER was understaffed and a broken arm was hardly what one would call a critical case. "Isn't that against, um, the law?" She hadn't forgotten her visit to Italy and probably never would.

"Not if we're careful," Jasper said thoughtfully. "Alice says there's an eighty per cent change we'll get in and out unseen, but–"

"Seventy-eight point three," Alice piped in, grinning.

Ignoring her, Jasper continued, "But we're going to have to kill the terrorists."

"Terrorists?" Rosalie asked incredulously.

"Well, what would you call them?" Jasper asked, his voice very, very serious. "They want to steal a deadly virus and release it if the government doesn't comply with their demands."

"Only that's not what's going to happen if we do nothing," Alice added, the grin gone now. "There's going to be an accident, meaning the virus is going to be set free in," she briefly checked her watch, "precisely one hour and twenty-one minutes. That's not a lot of time, so we'd better get started."

Just as Emmett was about to open his mouth (probably to suggest something very unhelpful; strategising wasn't Emmett's strong suit) Alice raised her hand, cutting him off. She made a face and Edward growled in response to what he'd seen in her mind, causing Bella to sigh.

What now?

"I'm not leaving!" Edward snarled hotly, wrapping his arms around Bella and almost crushing her other elbow in the process. "I almost lost her today. I'm not leaving her alone!" The thought of him deliberately hurting Bella was preposterous!

"Yes, you are," Alice replied, in a voice tolerating no dissent. "In fact, all of you are going to step outside for a moment. We don't want the doctor to think one of you broke Bella's arm and call the police because she suspects a case of domestic violence, now do we? Besides, you didn't even come close to losing her today. I never saw anything of the sort." That was a blatant lie, but Alice had mastered the art of shutting Edward out ages ago and he never saw that thought cross her mind.

Grumbling, he softly kissed Bella on the forehead and then left, Emmett and Jasper right behind to keep him from turning around in case he changed his mind. When it came to Bella, the part of Edward's brain responsible for rational thought didn't seem to function properly.

"Call Carlisle and bring him up to speed," Jasper suggested, handing Edward his cell phone and narrowing his eyes when he didn't dial immediately.

"Fine!" Edward snapped eventually. For a moment he looked like the seventeen-year-old teenager that he was as he stomped into a corner to talk to Carlisle without interruption. Jasper had texted him on the way to the hospital after Alice had informed the police, anonymously of course, that the robbers had been taken care off (Alice had had to throw her cell phone away afterwards so that it couldn't be traced), but all he'd written was 'We're okay. Don't worry. Everything under control.' There was just no way to fit everything that had happened in a single text message!

Carlisle answered on the first ring. "Are you alright?" he demanded.

"Yes, we are," Edward said. "Bella broke her arm, but we're at the hospital right now and we'll go to the bio lab directly from here."

"Bio lab?" Carlisle asked, clearly confused. "What bio lab?"

In the background I heard Esme ask, "How did Bella break her arm?"

"I thought Jasper explained everything?" Edward asked, now confused as well.

"He texted, yes, but I wouldn't exactly call it an explanation."

Edward glared at Jasper, who pretended to be fascinated by one of the posters that covered every inch of the wall. Unfortunately for Jasper the one he'd picked was about PMS. Edward snickered. He was never going to let him forget that!

"Are you still there?" Carlisle sounded decidedly displeased. "Would you please tell me what the hell is going on?" As Edward couldn't remember Carlisle ever using that kind of language, he quickly filled him in. The last thing he wanted was to be welcomed home by an angry Carlisle. True, he also couldn't remember Carlisle ever getting angry, but there was a first time for everything.

"…so we drove to the hospital because Bella broke her elbow on Rosalie's back," he concluded.

"Bella broke her arm on Rosalie's back?" Carlisle asked very slowly, as if he wasn't certain he'd heard Edward correctly. "Is she alright?"

"Yes, she did and yes, she's fine. The doctor is with her right now and Rose has offered to stay with her while we're at the lab, assuming we figure out how to get in. Alice has a few ideas, though. And here I thought talking to you about sex was going to be difficult," Edward added absently, only realising what he'd said when he was met with total silence.

Oh…

"You wanted to talk to me about sex?" Carlisle asked even more slowly than before. "About what exactly? Surely you know how it works."

"Yes, of course I know how it works," Edward replied crossly, silently cursing every single human that happened to walk along the hallway he, Jasper and Emmett were standing in right now. He wanted to knock that smirk off Emmett's face! "That's not what I wanted to talk to you about. Look, we can discuss this when I get home. I don't–"

"You want to make love to her while she's still human, don't you?" Esme suddenly exclaimed.

"It wasn't my idea!" he said defensively. "You both know how she gets when she sets her mind to something. She's so… unreasonable, determined, obstinate. Take your pick!"

"I think he's right, Esme," Edward heard Carlisle say softly. "We can talk about this later. We'll see you when you get home. Good luck." With that he hung up.

Emmett and Jasper were howling with laughter. Edward sent the phone flying at Emmett's head and it connected with a distinct crack!

"That was brand new!" Jasper complained as he picked up the tiny pieces. "I'd just finished reprogramming it."

"Bite me!" Edward snapped back. "Both of you." He stalked past them to return to Bella's bedside.