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Hear Me Chapter 14
"Carlisle?" Edward called out when he heard his thoughts approaching.
Carlisle appeared in the room a minute later and Edward immediately told him what had happened and what he thought he had seen. Checking the readout of the heart monitor, Carlisle confirmed the accelerated two beats that didn't match the rhythm that Bella's heart normally beat.
He pulled out his penlight and checked Bella's pupils, which were reactive, but there was no movement or any hint of acknowledgement that Carlisle was there in front of her.
Edward tried to hear Bella again and he couldn't pick up anything at all.
"You haven't ever come across anyone before that you couldn't hear, right?" Carlisle asked as he continued to look over Bella.
"Not a one…until her. But I think…no, I know that I'm hearing her. The voice is the same, Carlisle. It has to be her," Edward replied.
"And before you only heard 'hear me,' and you heard 'anyone hear me' tonight, right?" Carlisle asked to make sure he had heard correctly, which he had. But he wanted to ensure that Edward was sure of what he had heard.
"I'm telling you, Carlisle. I heard 'anyone hear me' in the same voice I heard before. And remember what the accident reports said? All she would say was 'can anyone hear me,' when they found the vehicle and pulled her out.
"Can you repeat what you did before?" Carlisle asked, and if Edward could have blushed, he would have at that moment because he was embarrassed to mention that he had caressed the most beautiful face in the world. It wouldn't have been so embarrassing but the girl he had touched didn't even know he existed.
"I leaned over her, looked her in the eye, and spoke to her," Edward explained.
"But you touched her, too," Carlisle reminded him and Edward cut his eyes to the floor, humiliated that he had confessed that to Carlisle due to his excitement that she had done something.
"Yeah," Edward mumbled.
"Will you repeat it for me?"
Edward nodded and, under the watchful eye of Carlisle, leaned back over Bella, looked her in the eye, gently touched her face, and spoke to her once more. But this time there was nothing. No flicker of recognition, no acceleration of the heart, no eye movement, and no voice.
"Give me a day to look some things up and I'll see what I can figure out as to the reaction and your inability to hear her," Carlisle said and then escorted Edward out of the room because Charlie was due for a visit.
As Edward drove back home, all he could think of was the flash of life in Bella's eyes, and how he wanted to see more of it.
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