It is possible that some of you may need some tissues.

Previously....

"I am calling in regard to a Mr Edward Cullen. You are listed as his emergency contact."

Emergency? Edward?

"What happened?" I nearly screamed into the phone.

"I'm sorry Miss; there's been an accident..."


CHAPTER 28

BPOV

I nearly dropped the phone when she said this.

What? No! This couldn't be happening.

I fell into the nearest chair, still holding the phone, not able to say anything.

"Miss Swan?" The ladies voice asked after an immeasurable amount of time.

My voice was shaking as I answered her. "Y-y-yes! I'm still here."

"We need you to come in and fill out some forms for us." Her voice held no emotion at all. My world was slowly crashing down around me and she didn't seem to care.

"Is he okay?" I whispered, half not wanting to know that answer.

"You can find out more information when you speak to the doctors." She continued in her modulated voice. I nodded slowly in response until I realised she couldn't see me.

"I'll be right there." Was all I managed to say before the line was disconnected. It took me a few minutes to realise that I had hung up on her.

I spent the next few minutes just sitting there staring at the phone in my hands. Any minute now it was going to start ringing and someone was going to tell me this was all a big mistake. My Edward was going to be home any minute now. He was going to walk through that door and hold me in his arms and everything was going to be alright again.

Why wasn't the phone ringing?

As the reality of the situation slowly began to dawn on me the tears fell from my eyes. What if I never got to see him again? What would I do without him? He was my everything. We'd created a family together. What if he never got to see our babies?

The tears fell faster.

I lifted the phone into my shaky hands and dialled Esme's number. She would be able to help me. And Carlisle was a doctor, he could help Edward. I drummed my nails on the wooden arm of the chair as I waited for someone to pick up.

"Hello?" Carlisle answered.

"You need to help...Edward...he needs...please help." I begged.

"Bella? What's wrong?"

I started sobbing again, making my request even more incoherent than before. "The hospital...Edward....accident...help."

I heard a sharp intake of breath from Carlisle. "Okay Bella calm down. Well come and get you. Don't you dare try and drive in your condition." He told me sternly.

"No!" I yelled. "Go help Edward!"

"Bella?" It was Esme's voice this time. "We are going to come and pick you up, and then we will go to Edward. Now please try and calm down." She pleaded.

I tried to take some deep breaths to calm myself down but it didn't work, I was still sobbing uncontrollably. Why were they coming to get me? They should be going to their son. He needed them. I needed them to go to him.

I wrapped my arms around myself, in a pathetic attempt to hold myself together. It wasn't going to help anyone if I fell apart now; I needed to keep it together. However my efforts were unsuccessful and I ended up lying down and curling into myself on the couch. And that's how Carlisle and Esme found me ten minutes later when they came running into the living room.

"Oh Bella!" Esme had tears in her eyes as she pulled me up and into her arms. "It's okay. Come on lets go." She wrapped an arm around my waist and helped me out to the car.

The trip to the hospital was short and silent; the only sound was the rain as it hit the windshield. As soon as the car came to a stop outside the hospital doors I flung open the door and ran into the building. I could hear Esme calling me back but I didn't listen. I was scamming the faces in the waiting room hoping that maybe, just maybe, my Edward might be amongst them. Maybe it wasn't as bad as they made it sound. Maybe he was here.

He wasn't.

I rushed up to the vacant nurse's station and started madly ringing the bell on the counter. There was no time to be patient, I needed information and I needed it right now. I continued to ring until a young nurse appeared asking how she could help me. Her name tag read 'Georgia'.

"I need to see Edward Cullen." I pleaded. "Where is he?"

"I'll just check..." She said uncertainly, obviously she was a little put off by my tone and appearance. As she typed some information into the computer Esme reached my side and took my hand in her own.

"It's going to be okay Bella." She whispered. I just focused on the nurse.

"I'm afraid he's not in the system." Georgia informed me. I could tell she was lying. She just didn't want to tell the overemotional pregnant woman any bad news.

I glared at her. She was just making this a whole lot worse than it had to be. "Where is he?" I hissed again.

She opened her mouth to answer again but was cut off by the intercom. "Doctor West to trauma two!" The modulated voice called.

I don't know what it was but something told me that that was where I had to go. That was where my Edward was, and I needed to see him. I pulled my hand out from Esme's and rushed through the double doors and into the corridor beyond.

There were people everywhere, as I searched for the one room I needed. I knew it would be one of the busiest rooms so I made my way over to the room with the most medical personnel. No one seemed to know I wasn't supposed to be there and no one had come to find me yet so I was able to get quite close to the room.

The doors separating the corridor from the exam room were mostly glass so I was able to see almost everything going on inside. I was surprised at the number of people that they managed to fit in such a small area. I looked for any sign of Edward in the room but all I could see was the occasional glimpse of a shoe or hand. Then suddenly one of the doctors moved to the side and I was able to see that the person lying there on the gurney was indeed my Edward.

But he didn't look like the Edward I knew and loved. His beautiful bronze hair was darkened with semi-dried blood and there was a large, dark bruise blossoming over the left side of his forehead. His cheeks were covered in bruises and tiny scratches. Any skin that I could see that was not bloody or bruised was white as bone.

I was terrified.

Why wasn't he moving? What was going on?

It was all too much for me. I back up until I could feel the wall behind me and slid down to sit on the ground facing Edward's room. All the sounds from the exam room and others along the corridor all mixed together into one big hum of white noise. My sobbing was the only sound that I could distinguish.

In the room across from where I sat, the love of my life was fighting for his life and I could do nothing to help. All I could do was sit here and hope for the best.

Hope! That was it.

I felt someone come and sit down next to me but I couldn't bring myself to look away from the doors. After a few more minutes of my pathetic sniffling my companion wrapped and arm around my shoulder and pulled me closer. This caused me to finally look away and survey my surroundings.

Sitting on the floor next to me was Carlisle.

I was so glad he just let me stay where I was. I don't think I could have coped with anyone trying to take me away from Edward right now. I needed to be close to him, even if it meant sitting for hours on the floor outside a hospital room.

Suddenly the corridor was filled with the sound of alarm bells and doctors shouting. My head snapped up to see several doctors running into Edward's room with all kind of extra medical equipment. I quickly pulled myself to my feet to get a better look at what was going on inside, but the swarm of people made it hard to tell one person from the next.

"Bella we should go now." Carlisle whispered urgently as he tried to pull me down the corridor.

"NO!" I screamed pulling away from him. "We need to help him. I need to...we need to...just help him." I pleaded desperately.

"I'm not allowed to Bella. Doctors aren't allowed to assist in procedures conducted on relations. It's hospital policy." He was trying to reason with me, but there was no point. I was beyond reason, I needed my Edward back and I needed him now; there was nothing that was going to stop me from trying to make that happen.

"Please Carlisle?! He nee-" Suddenly the doors were flung open and Edward was being wheeled down the corridor by a legion of medical staff. I raced after them determined to get some answers of someone. But no one noticed me following; they simply continued to shout orders at each other.

"Edward?" I yelled when I couldn't catch up.

I needed them to stop. Why wouldn't someone stop?

Then I lost them.

Somewhere in the rabbit warren of corridors I had lost my Edward. He was gone and I didn't know if I was ever going to see him again. I sagged against the wall and let the tears flow once more. I was too worn out to really cry so they merely leaked out and cascaded down my cheeks.

Carlisle found me after a few more minutes and gently guided me back to the waiting room where Esme, Alice and Jasper were now waiting for us.

"Bella! Are you alright?" Alice yelled when she saw me. I just shook my head and took a seat next to Esme. I wasn't in a mood to talk to anyone right now, and until someone brought me news about Edward I wasn't even going to try.

"Do you know how bad it is?" Esme whispered to Carlisle, probably thinking I couldn't hear her.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Carlisle shake his head. "Mark said that the other car was speeding. It collided with the Edward's side of the Volvo. He didn't get a chance to tell me much else, only that it took them close to an hour to get him out." I heard a sharp intake of breath from Esme.

I felt like someone had taken a knife and twisted it into my chest.

While I'd been sitting at home being angry with Edward for being late and missing dinner he'd been trapped in his car injured and alone. I was a horrible person. This was all my fault. If I hadn't made such a big deal out of dinner he wouldn't have been rushing home and none of this would have ever happened.

"Bella?" Alice whispered as she sat down in the chair next to mine. "Do you need me to get you anything?"

I shook my head and turned to face the clock, too scared to look her in the eye.

Nine thirty! Had it really only been an hour and a half? It seemed like so much longer.

"Do you want us to call someone? Charlie perhaps?" Alice offered again.

Again I shook my head. I didn't want Charlie worrying about this just yet.

It was only then that I realised two people were missing. "Did anyone call Emmett?" I squeaked, causing everyone to look at me.

Alice shook her head. "No Bella, we don't have a contact number. He-"

"Can I borrow your phone? I asked cutting her off, mine was still back at the house.

She handed it over and I immediately started to type in the hotel number he had given me before he left. To make it special Emmett decided to almost completely cut Rose and himself off from everyone else. But for emergency purposes he decided to give someone a number, and that someone just happened to be me.

The phone rang twice before being picked up by a very sleepy Rose. "Hello?"

"Hi Rose." I whispered hoping to disguise the strain in my voice.

"Bella? What's wrong?" She sounded really worried so I must have sounded worse than I thought.

I had to take a deep breath before I was able to continue. "It's Edward." I mumbled. "There's been an accident an-"

"Oh my god Bella! Are you okay? We're coming home right now. Emmett! EMMETT get up NOW!" She yelled.

"Rose?" I called trying to get her attention. "ROSE!"

"Yes?" She asked sounding more worried. I simply relayed the hospital details to her and hung up so she could pack. I felt guilty about cutting their holiday short but I knew they would have killed us if we didn't tell them.

Two and a half hours later and we were still waiting for news on Edward's condition.

The whole family was now present, since Emmett and Rose's arrival about twenty minutes ago. Esme and Carlisle were deep in a whispered conversation about who knows what, Alice was asleep across Jasper's lap and Rose was trying to calm down an extremely stressed out Emmett.

I knew that everyone was sneaking glances at me out of the corner of their eyes but I didn't care. I hadn't moved much at all in the three hours that we'd been in the waiting room. My eyes were either trained on the clock or the doors just below the clock on the other side of the room.

For three hours I'd been waiting for someone to walk through those doors and tell me everything was going to be okay. Waiting, waiting, waiting. It was killing me. According to Carlisle in a case like this 'no news is good news' but it still wasn't comforting.

Another half an hour later and the doors finally opened to reveal one of the many doctors who I'd seen around Edward in the exam room.

My heart almost stopped when I took in his almost blank expression.

Here was our news.

The only question was is it good news...

Or bad news.


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