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After talking for sometime outside the hospital, Bella suddenly felt an arm going around her waist and a kiss in her neck. She turned her head and saw that Carlisle was standing behind her.

"I just came from Edward, they have giving him some painkillers for the pain in his arm so for now he's sleeping," he said.

"Good, he needs his rest. Shall we go home then?" Bella asked.

Carlisle nodded and he took her hand, she walked away but Alice remained standing.

"I'd rather stay close to Edward," she explained.

"Of course, I understand," Bella said and she quickly gave her a kiss before she walked away with Carlisle.

During the ride home Bella stared out the window and let everything that happened that day passed in her mind, Carlisle kept an eye on her and took her hand. That caught her attention and she looked at him. He smiled gently at her and she smiled to him, too.

"We've got company," he said while he drove the car into the driveway.

"Amun, I totally forgot about him," Bella said softly.

Amun had his car parked in the street in front of the house and stood leaning against it with his arms crossed, he looked rather reserved in spite of everything that happened. Bella got out and walked towards him.

"Amun, I am so sorry for what happened," she began.

"This is not your fault, Bella," he said reassuringly.

"No, I know but still ..."

"Without you, this would never have been revealed," he stopped and laughed wryly, "my sister was smuggling drugs for years through our collection and I noticed nothing."

"You shouldn't blame yourself about this, Amun," Carlisle said while he came standing next to them.

"Why not? It happened right under my nose."

"If you only knew how often such things happen and people always say afterwards 'I should have known'-that's nonsense," said Carlisle.

"I know, I am only concerned about how we display the collection and I arrange for the transport. The other things like packing it and loading it into the boat or the aircraft, that things Kebi always did. Now I know why." He said dryly.

"Will you come inside?" Bella asked.

"If it's not to much trouble," Amun asked.

"No, of course not." Bella said.

Bella led him to the door and opened it for the men. Amun walked to the room and sat down on the couch.

"Will you make some coffee?" She asked Carlisle.

He nodded and walked into the kitchen. Bella walked over to Amun and sat down beside him. After some time in silence she looked at him.

"May I ask you something?" She asked.

"Yes, of course." Amun said and looked at her.

"The collection ... will it still stay in the museum? I mean, I would understand if you would want to leave as quickly as possible and I would not blame you but ..."

"Bella," Amun interrupted her, "I'm still planning to go ahead with displaying, but that will still have to wait."

Bella looked at him, not understanding what he meant.

"The police will have to investigate it." They heard Carlisle say.

He gave Amun a cup of coffee and also gave one to Bella. He sat in the chair on the other side of the table and careful blew in his.

"Are they going to take it to the police station?" Bella asked in disbelieve.

"No, Aro and I managed to convince the police that this is the most valuable collection about the history of Egypt, the police is going to investigate it in the warehouse."

"It must be hard for you, that there will be many people touching it with attributes." said Carlisle.

"You're right, but Aro put two guards on it to make sure that they don't break anything."

Amun took a sip of his coffee and then looked at Bella.

"Now may I ask you something?" he asked.

"Everything."

"The men that where arrested with Kebi, where they the same that ..." he couldn't even finish the sentence and looked at the steam coming from his coffee.

"They're not sure but probably." said Carlisle.

"But when our parents ... we were still children." Amun said incredulously.

"What kind of student was Kebi at school?" Carlisle asked suddenly.

"What has that got to do with this?" Amun said surprised.

"Was she the smartest, always sitting on the front row, always the best grades, always doing her homework while other children were playing outside ..."

"You're right, she was always busy with homework and often she did more than we had been given." Amun looked at Carlisle and it began to dawn.

"She knew she could get a lot of money in a short period of time." Bella said.

"I don't think it was her intention to do it this long." Carlisle said.

"But she got greedy." Bella said.

Carlisle nodded.

"I still can not believe it," Amun said.

"Are you going to do it alone now? The collection?" Bella asked.

"I would if I could but the collection is much too big for that," Amun said, "I really need help with it."

"Do you want me to ask around in the museum?" Bella asked.

"That would be great, Bella." Amun said.

Bella smiled and watched while Amun drank his coffee.

"I have to go." he said and stood up.

Bella and Carlisle also got up and walked with him to the door. Before he got in his car he looked at them and waved for a moment.

"Thanks for the coffee!" he yelled.

Bella laughed along with Carlisle and they went inside. She wanted to walk back into the room for the cups but Carlisle grabbed her arm and turned her into his arms. Bella smiled as she felt his lips on her neck.

"What are you doing?" She asked.

"Having some fun," he answered.

"Not that you hear me complain, but we need to talk," Bella said.

Carlisle let her go and looked at her.

"About what?" He asked.

"About us," Bella said.

"Okay, that sounds serious."

"It is, I want to know where I stand."

Carlisle looked at her puzzled.

"I mean, now that we are together, I want to know if we are now only reserved for each other or..." she said softly.

"Or what?" asked Carlisle who already had an idea what she was talking about.

"Well, you've had fun with Edward, didn't you?" She asked.

"Yes I did, but you did, too. Right?" He said laughing.

"Yes, but now that we are a couple..."

"Are you afraid you'll get bored with me?" Carlisle said teasingly.

"No, that's not what I mean," Bella said quickly, unaware of the fact that Carlisle was teasing her.

"On one condition," he said.

"What?" Bella asked.

"If I can be there," he said with a smile on his lips.

"As a spectator, or ...?"

Carlisle laughed and got up, took her hand and kissed it. At that moment the door opened and in came Alice and Edward.

"Edward what are you doing here? You belong in the hospital!" cried Bella.

She ran to him and supported his right, Alice was supporting his left.

"I've done my best to stop him but he is so stubborn." Alice gasped.

The girls walked to the couch and laid him on it. Edward wanted to get up but Alice held him back.

"Go lie down, please, you need to rest now," she said.

"Alice sweetie, I feel fine," he said a bit annoyed

"Okay, I'm just worried about you." said Alice a little shocked.

Edward looked at Alice and then took her hand and pulled her beside him on the couch.

"Honey, I know you're worried about me but I'm fine as long as I don't put to much pressure on my arm."

He gave her a kiss to convince her that he really was doing fine.