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CPV
"This is a joke right?" Anthony walked in, "They can't be separated that long."
"Actually you guys can't be here either," Edward elaborated.
"Then she'll have no one when she wakes up," Eli responded. Then they just came streaming in. jasper gave a lecture on new born madness.
"This too will pass," Eli put his hand on my shoulder.
"Dress her in something familiar, okay? She needs some connection to her life." I told them heading for the door, "Call me when she wakes up." Then I remembered something, "Is she supposed to be this quiet?" I directed my question at Jasper.
"The venom probably hasn't made it to her brain yet. She'll be fine," he assured me. It's not the easiest thing to be easy about, the healing power of poison.
"There will be some changes," Carlisle told me.
"Changes?" what more could change?
"Her eyes will start out red," he paused as if considering if he should tell me the next thing.
"She won't be able to bear children," Edward continued for him. That's not a change. He suddenly stood up straight when he heard this.
"What else?" I prompted when no one talked.
"The scars will be gone," Rosalie told me, "But the tattoo will be gone as well." She got the tattoos because of the scars so that shouldn't be a problem.
"Her memories will come back," Edward said after the room had been silent for a while. I just put my hand on my forehead. Maybe she'd do better this time. She'll have more time to adjust and she'll be virtually indestructible.
"What could be that bad?" Edward truly didn't see what it could be but it wasn't my place to tell him. "I understand," he said.
"She won't age," Rosalie felt the need to point out. I had children that had been the same for three years. This didn't shock me either. "She can't stay in the same place for long but she'll sparkle in the sunlight so she can't go out during the day if she lives in a sunny place." She'd told me about this too and had worried it would be the same for the boys. Fortunately it hadn't turned out that way.
When we'd heard all there was to say we left to begin what would be the longest 39 hours of our lives.
EPV
Bella had been still and quiet the entire time. We stood in front of her and heard her heart go silent. No one said anything. No one moved. No one even breathed. She clenched her fists. Her next movement was the opening of her eyes. She sat up and looked at herself then at us. She got off the bed in a lightning fast move and touched the place where Charles had been sitting. Her attention went from herself to us every few seconds.
"I know it can be a little overwhelming," Carlisle took a slow measured step forward. Bella stood straight and still.
"A little overwhelming. Really? That's how you want to describe this?" she raised and eyebrow. Jasper was doing his best to keep her calm. "Phone," she held out her hand.
Give it to her, Jasper thought at me, feeling her rising emotions. I slowly pulled a phone out of my pocket and passed it to her. She dialled a number I didn't quite catch and put the phone to her ear. This was strange to say the least.
"So this is it?" she said in a raised voice when the phone was picked up.
"Izzy?" a confused Charles tried to confirm.
"It's the count of Monte Cristo. Who the fuck else did you expect?" Jasper was getting more nervous with each passing second. I could see why.
"This is how things have to be. I'm sorry," he replied.
"You unfeeling bastard. That's all I get. I'm sorry?" her pitch started to frighten even those who couldn't feel what she was feeling. Jasper moved a fraction closer and Bella raised her hand in warning. This was not going well at all.
"The least you could do is let me keep the damn ring," She calmed down a fraction. A sad, disappointed fraction.
"Edward has the ring," Charles said in a low voice, "I didn't want you to damage it. They said you'd be… a little out of character."
"So that's it?" She suddenly laughed.
"You're confusing me," Charles sighed.
"I didn't have my ring when I woke up and I thought…" she sighed.
"They were right about being crazy for the first year. You know I'd never do that," he sounded relieved as well.
"Things have changed. I don't know what's the same," she sat down. Needless to say, we were a little perplexed.
"My love for you will never change. As long as you love me then we can work something out. We'll find a way," he reassured her. She lay back on her back in bed.
"Tell the kids to call me in a bit. I've got an audience of seven and I think they expect something from me." She looked up at the roof like she had never seen one before.
"I'll tell them. We all miss you." He told her sadly.
"I miss you guys too. I'll see you soon, okay?" she said. Charles, wisely, agreed and didn't tell her that soon would be in a year's time.
"And Iz?" he paused, "You did the right thing."
She put the phone on her chest and lay still.
"Aren't you in pain?" Jasper couldn't contain himself any longer.
"The part of my life that I've risked life itself to avoid has just come crashing in and my throat feels like death valley in June," she said in an agitated tone, "I'm just peachy." she said angrily.
"Would you like to go hunting?" Alice asked like she wasn't sure of the request.
"Will my throat stop feeling like summer in the Sahara Desert if I do?" she was getting angrier by the second. This was to be expected.
"Yes," Rosalie said more firmly than was true.
She got up faster than the speed of light and said, "You should have opened with that."
Rosalie and Emmett took Bella hunting. She came back a glorious mess. Emmett was one as well. She seemed perfectly fine until we found her sobbing under the stairs in the middle of the night. We tried everything to calm her down but it just wouldn't be done. Charles said we should let her cry it out. One of us should sit with her and just let her cry. There wasn't much else that could be done.
We were relieved when she stopped crying but that relief disappeared soon afterwards. She sat and stared into space and would not move. "You did the right thing," I said to her. That sentence had no business in the phone conversation so Charles must have been talking about something she'd remember.
She continued to stare into space and said, "Just because it was the right thing doesn't mean it's easy to live with."
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