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Coming Home

Chapter Twenty Five

BPOV

Warmth. Softness. I roll on my side. Ugh. My head. Why does my head hurt? I try to open my eyes. My eyelids are very heavy, after several moments, I am able to open them a little. Things are blurry. I can vaguely see a faint light off in the distance.

I try to sit up and am hit immediately with dizziness and extreme pain. "Ugh." I groan. I am barely able to make out a door across the room before I have to lay back down. Wait. A room?

"Oh, thank goodness. Bella, you're awake." A voice says quietly.

I put my hand to my head. I feel something wrapped around it.

"Edward? Edward, is that you?" I ask.

"No. Bella, it's me, Jake."

I slowly turn my head towards Edward's voice. I see a shadow of him sitting next to me. I squint trying to concentrate on making out his gorgeous face. I need to see those emerald eyes. I reach out to try and to touch him. He grabs my hand and squeezes. "You're hurt. Don't move." I feel something being pulled over me. I touch it with my other hand. I feel material that runs the length of me keeping me warm. Whatever it is, it provides warmth that seems like forever since I've felt such a thing.

"I can't believe you're here, Edward. I love you so much" I try to squeeze his hand but I don't seem to have much strength but Edward seems to feel it anyway and squeezes back. "Where are we?" I ask.

"You're safe but Bella, it's me…Jake. Edward's not here." He says.

I hear a creaking noise of some sort coming from what seems to be across the room. From what I can make out, a shadow of a person comes closer.

"She's awake?" A voice asks.

"Yes, just a few minutes ago." My Edward responds.

"Edward, who are you talking to?" I ask.

I hear a sigh from my Adonis and he says, "Bella, this is Yuji (Yoogee). He and his brother found us. They brought us to their village and are trying to help us."

"Save us from what? Edward, I don't understand." My voice a low whisper. My head pulsating with every movement I made.

What I believe is Yuji's shadow turns and points his finger toward Edward. "You? Edward?"

"No, I'm Jake. She thinks I'm her Edward. I think her head injury is worst than we thought."

"Uncle and father have gone for help." Yuji says.

"Thank you, Yuji. I hope they can get it fast."

"I am so thirsty." I whisper to Edward .

I feel an arm behind my neck as to assist me in lifting my head. "Drink." Edward says bringing a wooden cup to my lips. I finish the drink and I lie back down.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

"Edward, why can't I see clearly? My eyes hurt? I'm so tired." I whisper.

"Bells, you've hurt your head, Sweetie. You hurt it when we fell down the mountain side."

"Edward, what would we be doing on a mountain? I don't understand? What's going on? Where are my babies? Where are my children? I want to see them? Where are my brothers?" I try moving my head side-to-side in confusion and hit with the onset of more pain. "Ahhhhhhh!" I cry out.

I feel someone's hands try to hold my head still. "Bells, you have to calm down. Keep your head still, please. Help will be here soon. You have to rest. Please."

"Edwar…." Pain and darkness over takes me.

JakePOV

"BELLS! BELLS!" I scream.

"Jake, I think she's passed out from the pain."

'Yuji, your family needs to hurry. This is seriously scaring the shit out of me, man."

Yuji walks over and feels her wrist. He closes his eyes for a moment then opens them, again. "What are you doing?"

"I was trying to take her pulse."

I look at him questionably. "I don't mean any disrespect, but how would you know how to do such things…coming from such an isolated area?"

"When I was small, I was sent to stay several months at a village, about a week or so journey from here. My family had been told of some people joining the villagers and wanted to help teach the children to read and write. My family had sent me and my brother wanting us to learn more than just how to farm. One of the people in this group was an American doctor and he and I became very good friends. I'm told I followed him around like a lost puppy." He slightly smiles. "He taught me how to speak English and some basic first aid tips. After a couple of years of staying at the village, my uncle came for us…to bring us home. My father had died suddenly and we had to come help my brother take care of our family and run the farm. My brother and I were actually coming back from visiting the village when we came upon you and Miss Bella."

"I wondered how I woke up to my leg being in a make-shift brace and Bella's head wrapped up. I can't say how happy I am you had found us. We had been on our own barely making it for so long." I said.

"I only ever said you and Miss Bella were in accident, Mister Jake. What type of accident? How did you get so far from civilization?"

"Uh, we were in an airplane accident. I crashed and it seems as though we were the only ones to have survived."

"We heard about that crash while we were at the village. They have a truck they use to go to some of the larger villages with for trading and we hear news from those villages of what is going on after the return trips. That truck is our only means of keeping connected with the outside world. How amazing. You both are truly lucky. Everyone was believed to have died. That was months ago. You've both been on your own since then?" Yuji explained.

"I had been in the Army so I used my training to keep us going. We had a make shift tent, we've hunted, everything and anything to keep going." I pause and shake my head reliving in my mind what we've gone through to get just to this point. "How…how long ago was that, Yuji? We have no idea how long it's been. The days have run together."

"Jake, it's September 12th. The crash happened on Ju.."

"June 30th." I finished. Unbelievable. I watch Bella out cold. I look at the scratches on her face, the beautiful face now so much more thinner than several weeks ago. Her head now covered in bandages. I look to my leg bound to boards keeping it mobile put up on a chair keeping it elevated.

"Thank you for finding us, Yuji. I know that it was just by accident, but I don't think we would have made it much longer without you. Thank you for taking us in and helping us. You…you don't know what it…" I couldn't continue. Weeks….months of emotions pushed out of my mind start brought to the surface. I wipe my eyes. Take a deep breath. I look back at Bella. I start trying to push those feelings back down. I have to be strong for her. We still have a long road ahead of us….but now it seems we have a clock ticking away…Bella's health. I have the worst feeling that her injuries are much more serious than it looks like. It was certainly bad enough she thought I was her Edward.

"Mister Jake, I am glad that we were able to help. I hope that we can get more her for you and Miss Bella soon. In the meantime, you need your rest. Let's move your bed a little closer to Miss Bella's in case she wakes back up."

I nod in agreement starting to feel tired. Yuji pushes over the small mattress I've been laying in for the couple of days. He comes over and helps me out of the chair and onto the mattress. I get comfortable and reach over for Bella's hand. After saying a prayer to myself, I fall into a much needed deep sleep.

EPOV

0800 hours.

It couldn't come quickly enough. All I could do is toss and turn all night long. I was getting closer and closer to finding my Bella. One slow step at a time…but yet it was a step. Finally, after what felt like forever, Dad's alarm on is phone went off signaling our time to get ready to go to breakfast and the meeting. The meeting to finalize the plans for the search. The search that would commence rather soon. Charlie, Emmett, Dad and I got dressed and to the Mess Hall in record time. Each of us anxious for the day to start. Surprisingly, even Emmett didn't have too much of an appetite…and that is saying something…each of us only having a cup of what we believed to be coffee, putting extra sugar and creamer in our cups to get some sort of flavor from the hot beverage.

At 0750 hours, we made our way to the conference room. I sit a room full of various people with various different tasks. Stacks of folders with dozens of papers sit in front of each chair. It was probably best to wait to look over the information inside, but I couldn't help it. Each bit of information was more information needed to get to Bella and Jake. My heart starts to pound and my breathing gets more rapid. Anxiety starts to envelope me. I feel a hand on each of my shoulders. Dad on one side of me and Emmett on the other.

"Easy there, son. Take deep breaths. I know there is a lot of information here that they are going to share with us, but you've been strong up to this point. You need to hold it together a while longer. We'll get to them. Keep your chin up." Dad says.

I nod my head and look over at Em. He's a bit emotional as well, but is trying hard to fight it. We are on the cusp of finding Bella and bringing her home.

Slowly, the room starts to fill with different ranked officers. Each with a specific task, with specific information essential in finding my life, my love. I'm overwhelmed with all the information shared…a breakdown of the flight from start to finish…well..crash. Were exactly the site is with maps and grids showing details of the mountainous terrain. The weather report of then until now. It seems that a huge storm blew through the mountainous area the crash was located at. What type of personnel, equipment, vehicles would be assigned to the search or 'training exercise' as far as the Japanese Government was concerned.

"Well, ladies and gentlemen, I think that every possible piece of information has been looked at and compiled. This search and rescue will commence in three days from now with personnel and equipment due to arrive and start setting up the command center at he crash site in 24 hours. I would like to introduce Captain James McBride at this time. He will be the commanding officer on site for the search. He and his team are more than qualified and trained for this situation." Commander North explained.

A tall, lean, blonde headed man took Commander North's place at the podium. "I am Captain James McBride. I'd like to introduce my other two team members, Lieutenants Victoria Parsons and Laurent Marchand. We are the head commanders for the SAR (Search and Rescue) Division in the quadrant. You may also hear us called the term of trackers. We have been specially trained for this type of terrain. Mr. Cullen, I want to let you know that my team and every other officer on this search will do everything possible in recovering Mrs. Cullen and Lieutenant Black."

"Recover? Recover? What do you mean recover? This is supposed to be a rescue operation? Isn't it? What the hell is going on here? Commander North?" Emmett questioned very irritated. All four of us looking for answers from Commander North.

"Now, Mr. Swan. I do hope that we can find both Mrs. Cullen and Lieutenant Black in good condition, but in all honesty, you really can't expect to find them alive at this point. Don't get me wrong, we will do everything possible, but you shouldn't…" Commander North interrupts.

"Captain McBride, have you been completely briefed on the situation and all that has led up to this point?"

"Yes, Sir."

"I should hope so, because then you would be fully aware that THIS IS a search and rescue operation and that there is every reason to believe that we will find both Mrs. Cullen and Lieutenant Black alive. We all know what other possibilities we may come across, but from this point on there will be no further talk of recovery. Is that understood?" Commander North stated.

"Yes, Sir." Captain McBride stated looking none to happy about being put in his place.

"Good. So unless anything else unforeseen happens, this operation will be underway tomorrow at 0600 hours. Gentlemen" (motioning to myself, Dad, Charlie and Emmett) "your transportation to the command center will be at 1200 tomorrow."

"We…we won't be staying here?" Charlie asks.

"I assumed you would want to be closer to the search. If you'd like, your more than welcome to stay here, by all means…"

"No, no. Thank you but you are correct in your assumption. Thank you, Commander. We will be ready to leave at noon tomorrow." I said.

"Good. I think that will wrap this meeting up. Good luck to you and your team, Captain McBride. I expect an update every 12 hours as to any and all progress made, personally."

"Yes, sir."

Commander North stands, as we do as well, and approaches us. He shakes each of our hands and wishes us the best of luck. We thank him for his kindness and generosity. Lieutenant Attera escorts us back to our room. He hands us each a folder with all the information we need for our trip to the command center.

The rest of the day and night, we all just muddle through. We are all antsy just to get to our transportation to the crash site. I'm really weary in seeing the site personally. I don't know how I am going to react to being actually there. We've been told that the debris has been removed but the damage to the landscape will not leave anything to the imagination as to how bad the damage really was.

Again, we all toss and turn throughout the night. Anxiety radiating off all of us. We each eat just enough to get us through the morning and the next thing we know it is time. It is time for our transportation via helicopter to the site. We each just stand just outside the helicopter looking at it…knowing that our lives will change for the good…and hopefully, not the worse. This is the moment we've been working for….the search for a daughter, a sister, a wife….God, please, let me finally find my wife, my love.

With a deep breath, I take the first step onto the helicopter. Slowly, Dad, Emmett and Charlie do the same. Moments later, we take off.