ENJOY It's nice and long and the FINAL CHAPTER! MUAHAHAHA!
"What?" Ellie gasped.
"She fell." Her father whispered, a tear slid down his face. "Sarah was helping her wash and she turned away for just a second, just long enough for her to fall."
"Is she going to be okay?" Ellie gasped.
"I don't know."
"We're going to see her, aren't we?"
"Of course" Her father told her.
Ellie turned herself and leaned against the window, only now did she realize it was raining.
She pulled out her sketch book, traffic was bad and it was getting darker. She gasped when she realized who was looking at her from the paper. It was her Maw Maw Bell's eyes. She quickly turned the page, preparing to draw she sat down her pencil…But nothing came, her mind was blank, she had nothing to draw. So she put her things away.
Hours later she sat in a waiting room with her father. The too clean smell of the hospital made her twitchty, but somehow she still fell asleep.
Time drifted slowly by, and eventually Ellie was reunited with her mother and a sleeping Bella.
"She fractured her hip and her wrist; her bones are so frail and bruised her ribs."
"Will she be okay?" Ellie asked.
Her mother put her hands on Ellie shoulders. "She's ninety-eight years old, and her birthday is coming up in just a few days, as is yours. She's very old. We didn't even think that she'd live this long."
Ellie looked away tears in her eyes. But she knew that her great grandmother wouldn't die. Edward wouldn't let her die…would he? No.
"Here, take my cell phone, in case anyone calls. Go and get yourself something to eat. Ellie walked with her father down to the Cafeteria and got some supper, but it tasted bad.
Her parents rented a room from the hospital hotel. And Ellie sat on her bed staring at the drawing she drew of her Maw Maw Bell.
She fell asleep on the bed, she didn't wake up until 7:30 a.m., the next day. The phone was what awoke her. It played an annoying tune from Lord of the Rings. Ellie sat up and answered the phone, her voice croaky from sleep.
"Hello?"
"Hello, this Amanda Whellings from the First Bank of-" Ellie rolled her eyes, she didn't know how anyone could mistake her voice for her mother's.
"Listen, can I take a message? This is Ellie Black, not Sarah Black, my Mom."
"Ellie?" The voice changed suddenly. "Where the heck are you?" The voice demanded.
"You reached Ellie?" A voice in the background asked. Ellie instantly recognized it to be Zephen. And the voice she was talking to now must have been-. "Give me the phone!" Zephen ordered Alice. "Ellie!" Zephen gasped. "Where are you, Edward and I came to check on you and Bella, but no one was home! Edward is going crazy!"
Ellie sniffled. "Don't let Edward know."
"Know what Ellie?"
"He's not there is he?"
"No, he's at your house looking for clues."
"We're at the hospital; Maw Maw Bell fell and got hurt!" Ellie said all at once.
It was quiet on the other line. "What hospital?" Zephen asked.
Ellie was allowed to walk down the halls of the hospital. She paced waiting for Zephen to arrive. Then she saw him, and his family. Edward looked furious. Very settlely Carlisle and Emmett held Edward back. Carlisle had one arm, Emmett the other.
Then Zephen was holding Ellie. "It's okay, I'm here" He murmured to her.
"Bella's room number is 103." Ellie muttered to Edward, but Carlisle nodded. They took Edward to her.
It was hard making Edward leave Ellie's Maw Maw Bell's room. She wasn't doing well. She had been in much pain, and her sleep was not peaceful.
Edward's face had broken to pieces when he saw Bella in such a state and he almost tore Emmett's arm off.
Jasper, Alice, Edward, Zephen and Ellie sat in Ellie's room. The other four were out doing other things. Edward sat in the corner, muttering to himself, "I'm going to change her, I'm going to change her, I'm going to change her!"
"Jordon and the rest of my family are coming to visit Maw Maw Bell." Ellie told them.
Alice and Jasper only looked away. But Edward stood up. "We'll let her say good bye to her family, the last goodbye, then I will change her."
Ellie looked up to him. He looked down at her. "I won't let her die!" He told Ellie. Ellie nodded, understanding, somehow.
That day was cloudy all day and then the next day it stormed so bad that there was hail. Then the next day Zephen and his family left. And Jordon and the rest of the family came to visit Bella.
She wasn't getting any better. She had developed pneumonia.
Jordon, Pa, Aunt Ki and her children, Great Aunt Cassandra (Bella's little half sister about 15 years younger than Bella) and her children and then Sarah's Parents came too. They all loved Maw Maw Bell very much, even though most of them thought she was crazy.
Then most of them left again, saying goodbye to Bella and Bella telling them all that she loved them too. But Jordon, Pa, Aunt Ki, and Great Aunt Cassandra didn't leave, they stayed, for a long time. And Bella got sicker and sicker and sicker. And everyone knew that she was going to die, very soon.
Ellie was on her way to say goodbye, Zephen and Edward were with her, Edward wasn't going to tell Bella goodbye, thogh. However, they stopped behind her and Jordon and Pa suddenly appeared in front of them.
"Ellie, get away, now!" Pa ordered.
"Please don't fight." She begged.
"You have no idea of what is going on!" Jordon told her.
"That parasite isn't going to just kill my mother, but he is going to damn her to that parasitic life!"
"I WON'T LET HER DIE!" Edward roared. Jordon cringed back a step, but Pa stood his ground.
"You will be keeping her on this earth, why can't you let her go on to a better place? Even after you damn her she'll still feel pain! There is no Heaven on Earth, it doesn't exist!" Pa yelled back.
Edward was furious, Zephen had to whisper a quick order to stop Edward from lunging forward, "I can't let her die, I've thought she was dead too many times. And I know she wants this too, I wouldn't do it if I knew she didn't want this."
"She doesn't know what's best for her, her mind is failing her just as her body, you're just a fantasy she's created, something to take her mind off of Dad."
"That's not true." Edward snarled.
"It is, she didn't mention your family not even once in all those years. Not until after Dad passed away. We knew her mind was failing when she went out into the night while it was storming, looking for you in the forest, calling your name. It happened not even a week after Dad left us."
Edward glared hard, but his eyes showed pain and sadness. Ellie took a look to Zephen. He was glaring too.
"Stop it, Pa!" Ellie cried.
"Shut up child, you don't know you're place!" Pa told her.
Zephen pulled Ellie back behind him, "Don't talk to her like that!" Zephen ordered.
"You're powers don't work on me, didn't you know? Mom's blood flows through my veins. Edward's mind tricks didn't work on her, and so it doesn't work on me." Edward glanced to Ellie, then away. "You can't read her mind either, can you?"
"Where did you learn all of this?" Zephen asked. He took a glance at Ellie.
Pa laughed, "You think Ellie told us?"
Then Zephen looked to Edward, he narrowed his eyes. "Bella wouldn't have told her children about us." Edward told Zephen.
"But she did tell my father, didn't she? You know I heard about what you did to her, all those years ago. I heard that you left her alone in a forest. Didn't come back for her, she had to stop you from destroying yourself, and then you almost caused her death. There was that parasite who found her in a meadow. And then another who led an army to kill her. You just love to put her in danger, and now you are threatening her pure soul. I won't let you do it."
Edward's face was crumpled in pain. And Ellie shivered. She knew she had to say something. "But it's not up to him." She said quietly. Everyone's gaze turned upon her.
"What nonsense are you spouting now?" Pa asked her.
"It's not your choice either." She said a little louder.
"Ellie?" Jordon and Zephen asked at the same time, then they glared at each other.
"Doesn't Maw Maw Bell get a say in all of this?" Ellie asked. "This is after all about her. No one should be allowed to force her into this, or to fore her out. If it is what she wants she should get it, last wishes, or rights…isn't it?"
Edward looked at her, understanding. Ellie looked at her grandfather. "Maw Maw Bell still has the choice between which love. The love for great grandpa Jake or for Edward. Maw Maw Bell told me that the part of her that loved great grandpa Jake had died when he died and that all was left was the part of her that loved Edward. So in a sense the Maw Maw Bell we know is already dead, she died with grandpa Jake. And all that is left is the eighteen-year old girl who fell in love with Edward Eighty-one years ago."
"Eighty-one, I thought it was eighty?" Jordon asked.
"Today's Maw Maw Bell's birthday…her 99th birthday." Ellie looked to her grandfather. "Please let Maw Maw Bell chose, it'll be her birthday present from you. Her most treasured and most important gift from forever. She disserves it!"
Pa was in a terrible state. He knew that somehow Ellie was right. But he knew that he would hate himself forever if he ever saw his mother again, as a blood sucker. Pa bowed his head. His face crumpled in pain, but he backed away from his stand and pulled Jordon with him. He took Jordon towards his mother's room and his grand daughter Ellie and her parasitic friends followed him.
He pushed her door open gently. Edward cringed as he saw her but rushed to her side. Pa and the others stayed back. Edward knelt next to her and he brushed her snow white hair out of her face with the gentlest brush of his hand. Bella's eyes opened heavily as if they weighed terribly. "Edward" She croaked. "I haven't got long now." She told him. He held her hand.
"I won't let you die." Was all he said.
Bella nodded. "Let me say goodbye to my faithful son." She told him. Edward nodded his head only once. He let go of her hand and moved aside. Pa took Edward's place and took his mother's hand.
"Mom, please don't let him do it to you, you'll go to such a better place than this Earth." Pa begged.
"This may seem harsh, my son, but long ago I said that without Edward, heaven would not be heaven and I still believe that….even now."
"You never stopped loving him, even after all the things he put you through, not even after you married dad?"
Bella smiled. "Alex you must understand that I loved your father very much. Not only that but also you must understand that I was split into two people. Edward's Bella and Jacob's Bella. Jacob's Bella took control and I lived life with her, in a sense, then Jacob died, and Jacob's Bella died too. And now Edward's Bella is back."
"Are you trying to tell me that my mother died 19 years ago?"
"In a sense…yes." Bella told her son. Alex's forehead crinkled, but he nodded. "Alex, I'm going to miss you very much, but this is a choice I have made for myself, and this time I'm going to stick with it….understand?"
"Yes, mom." He said. Bella put her hand on his cheek and pulled him forward and kissed him on his forehead. Goodbye, my son."
"Goodbye mom." Pa pulled away and broke into tears. "Come along, Jordon, Ellie, say goodbye, your Maw Maw Bell is dead." He cried as he walked away.
"Goodbye Maw Maw Bell" Jordon said before leaving.
"Goodbye, my boys."
"See you soon, Maw Maw Bell…I guess."
"We'll see," Edward said, a smile flashing.
She and Zephen left too, just as Carlisle came in.
"Aren't we staying?" Ellie asked Zephen.
"I don't want you to watch." Zephen whispered.
"Oh."
Suddenly Ellie and Zephen froze. Her great grandmother's voice screamed and agonizing scream. Ellie ran back before Zephen could stop her. Ellie couldn't open the door so she peered in.
"Oh, no, oh Bella no!" Edward was crying.
"What's going on?" Ellie asked Zephen.
"I don't know, but a nurse is coming. And none of us want to be caught."
"Can't you hold them off for a bit?" Ellie asked.
"I suppose…"
Zephen turned to leave and Ellie tried the door again. (P U L L push….) She opened the door and ran in. "What's happening?" Ellie asked. She looked at the heart monitor, Bella's pulse was gone.
"The venom is killing her!" Alice gasped.
Ellie turned to see her there with her eyes wide. Ellie didn't know when, or how she got there. Ellie's gaze went back to Bella. Bella's eyes were wide and her breath was gone.
"Edward we must leave now!" Carlisle told him.
"NO!" Edward yelled. He held the limp Bella close to him.
"She was just too old, there wasn't anything you could have done." Carlisle was telling him.
"No" Edward said quieter.
"Edward leave with Carlisle" Zephen's voice demanded. Edward struggled against the order, but failed. He stood up, shaking and followed in a swift motion away from Bella's dead body.
"Zeph-" Ellie started. But he picked her up and ran away as well.
GASP GASP!!! CRY SOB CHOKE! OMGOSH! (Actually I a little amused...all of you thought that I wouldn't actually send her to the hospital...) So...What do you think now? So...with this new twist is anyone have even the slightest clue of what possibly on Earth could happen now...
Oh and I lied at the top this is not the final chapter...let me repeat THE MESSAGE BEFORE AT THE TOP WAS A JOKE IT'S NOT OVER YET THERE IS STILL MORE TO COME!!!!
Sorry...couldn't help myself please don't hate me and please review...remember the more reviews I get the fast I get the chaps out...
