Hey all, it's been a while. Lots going on. Daddy got hurt and my wisdom tooth acted up and had to be pulled and well, sometimes I just take a step back and wallow in self misery for a while.
All done now. Let's get on with it.
Warning: Grey's alert. I've been re-watching it lately. *shrugs*
Oh and angst up ahead. *cringes* You know it was bound to happen.
"I'm just saying. There are procedures you could look into."
Bella looked at Edward, her expression livid.
"Yeah, and while I'm at it, I can look into halitosis cures for you." She spat. "If you don't like the fact that I snore… not that I am saying I do or anything… then tell me so I can go to my bedroom instead of you sneaking out and sleeping in the guest bedroom. I woke up alone. Alone, Edward. I thought being a couple meant honesty and communication and shit. How long have you been doing that?"
He looked sheepish.
"A month." He said.
"Our whole relationship? Are you fucking kidding me?"
Edward grabbed her arm before she could storm off. She looked like she was going to bite his hand so he pulled it away quickly.
"Bella. Baby… I was just… I didn't want to make you mad…" He paused. "Like you are now." He muttered. "Please don't be mad at me. You just sound like… a…trucker." He said louder, looking at her, his soft smile slightly condescending.
She opened her mouth and then closed it, took a deep breath.
"1...2...3...4..."
Edward frowned.
"Are you counting?" He asked.
"5...6..."
"Seriously, are you okay? Why are you counting?" He asked.
"7...8...9..."
Edward looked at her. Her face was struggling to stay calm but he had a feeling she was about to blow. And he was going to be a casualty. Time to make himself scarce.
"I am just going to go. Let you have some space. I will see you later? Love you? Yeah. Bye." He walked away quickly, his face and penis intact.
She was scary when she was angry.
Hot, but scary.
***TMAIA***
"Did you get any sleep last night?"
Edward looked at James and sighed.
"Yes, but my sleep was interrupted by Bella screeching at the top of her rather impressive lungs when she found me in the guest bedroom."
"That bad, huh?" James sympathized.
"She started counting."
"Oh, yeah... that's bad. She did that to me once in the OR when I made a flippant remark about a patient's sexuality. She almost stabbed me with a scalpel." He made a face. "Good luck with that."
"Yeah, thanks." Edward said sarcastically.
"Man, you fell for a spitfire. Now you have to deal with it." He patted Edward's face condescendingly and walked off.
He heard a chuckle behind him. He raised an eyebrow at Rose.
"Something you would like to add… Chief?" He asked.
"You're such a fool." She smirked.
"How so?"
"All you had to do was tell her that she snored and it kept you awake, but no, you chose to spare her feelings and sneak around. That makes you a fool in my book. You broke two cardinal rules: Number one, you pissed off the girlfriend."
"And the second one?" He asked.
"You pissed off the boss. So, here is your charts from the past month. She told me to tell you they were illegible and you needed to rewrite them. Have fun with that." She handed him his charts and walked off muttering. "When are these damn doctors going to learn to stop screwing the bosses?"
Edward looked at the charts.
"Fuck this." He muttered.
He was dealing with this now.
***TMAIA***
"Welcome to Seattle Pres. I think you will enjoy it here." Bella said, extending her hand.
Dr. Renata Caldwell stood up and took the offered limb.
"I guess I needed the change and Jake said it would be a positive step. I am just grateful for the chance to practice medicine in a place where it rains and there is no open fire or battlefields." She joked.
The door burst open and both women looked up, startled.
"I don't know what you problem is but you can't get mad at me at home and then punish me at work. If you want the charts redone, do them yourself." He slammed them down loudly on her desk and then stormed out.
Renata looked at Bella with wide eyes.
"Okay, I am glad to practice medicine where there is rain then. Forget the other stuff."
***TMAIA***
Edward dragged into the house and listened carefully. There was no sounds of life. He breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't want to fight with Bella. He loved her and he knew this would be an adjustment for both of them. He felt bad for interrupting what looked like a business meeting and probably embarrassing her. Though having Rose relay that message didn't help matters either. He would go upstairs and talk to her.
He reached their bedroom and he smiled unconsciously. Their bedroom. It sounded so right. Rose knew what she was talking about. He should have just communicated with her. He would make it right. Right now.
He slipped into the room and found her sleeping on her side. She looked so peaceful, though it didn't sound peaceful. He quietly dressed in his nightclothes and went to get into bed, stopping short at what he saw.
There, lying on his pillow, was a package of wax earplugs. He smiled and chuckled softly. He got into bed and slipped them in his ears. He laid back and smiled when he realized he couldn't hear her snoring.
This was her compromise.
He loved her then more than he did this morning, if that was even possible.
He leaned over her and kissed her cheek softly and cuddled into her. She leaned back into him and grasped his hand, placing it with hers under her silken cheek.
Neither moved until morning.
***TMAIA***
"You will be fine, Mr. Davis. Just take this antibiotic and come back next Sunday." Bella said, as she escorted the patient out of the makeshift clinic in the back of the Immanuel Catholic Church. She was here for the sixth Sunday in a row, working with Edward.
"Thank you, Dr. Bella." Mr. Davis, a kind black man, said. "And please call me Harold."
"Okay then, Harold, this should clear your infection right up." Bella walked him out and looked at her list and called out the next name.
"Emmett?" She called out.
"Hey."
Bella looked up at the husky English accented voice and almost swooned.
"Are you Emmett?" She asked.
"Yeah." He replied, grinning boyishly. He looked at her expectantly. "Are you going to treat me in the waiting room?" He asked.
Bella blinked and dragged herself out of her trance.
"No! Sorry, come this way Mr..." She said.
"I answer to just Emmett." He told her.
"Okay then, Just Emmett." She laughed. She led him into the examination room and placed him in the curtained off area next to the patient Edward was treating. She could hear his sexy voice through the thin curtain.
"What can I do for you today?" She asked.
"You can do anything you want." He flirted.
She raised her eyebrow. Yes, the guy was cute but was flirting really necessary?
"What are you here for?" She tried again.
"I originally came here for this wicked road burn." He lifted his shirt for her to see the deep scrape across his abdomen. She winced looking at it. That shit looked like it hurt. "But now I am just here to see you."
"What is it with you guys and your need to dirty everything up?" She asked, exasperated. Edward and James had both been in rare form this week making everything perverted. Even Jake joined in once or twice. It was getting rather annoying.
"I don't know. Maybe I should get that checked out too, huh?" He suggested.
"Maybe you should. Now lift up your shirt so I can exam you." She demanded, getting her supplies together.
"You want my pants off, too? Something was 'up' earlier down there." Emmett joked.
Bella was too busy coughing up the coffee she had just taken a drink of that she didn't hear Edward abruptly stop talking.
"Your shirt will be fine. How did this happen?"
"I am a bike messenger and we were in a race yesterday…"
"You were in the Dead Baby Bike Race?" She asked, fighting the urge to hit him.
"Yeah, you've heard of it?" He asked proudly.
"Yes, my whole hospital was filled with your stupid ass friends yesterday and I imagine most of today. You all are fucking idiots." She fumed.
"You are a rockin' babe when you are angry. I bet you a spitfire in bed, am I right?" He asked, grinning.
She rolled her eyes at his blatant interest and continued dressing his wound. She finished quickly and told him to return next week for her to check it.
"No, can do." He said, hopping down from the table. "I have another race that day." He joked, winking at her.
"Fine, whatever, just don't kill yourself." She said, turning her back to him and cleaning up. She squealed when he spun her around, pulled her close to him and kissed her soundly.
"That's for luck." He told her, walking out whistling. She watched him leave, still stunned. She was all for shock value but damn…
She heard the curtain fly back and looked up to find Edward glaring at her.
"You make out with patients now?" He asked incredulously.
Bella blushed.
"What? Are you jealous?" She asked, her tone sheepish.
"I don't get jealous." He defended.
His patient, a thirty-something mother of three named Danielle, raised her eyebrow.
Bella stifled a laugh and schooled her expression.
"Really? Cause you sound like you might be." She told him.
"I do not!" Edward ranted.
"You kinda do." Danielle told him quietly.
He looked at her.
"I don't get jealous." He said firmly, stalking away from both of them and slamming the door.
"He so is." Bella said.
"Oh yeah." Danielle agreed.
***TMAIA***
"I can't believe you kissed him." Edward fumed, shaking his head as he threw the car in park and got out.
Bella threw her head back against the seat and groaned. She got out of the car and met him at the door.
"I didn't kiss him. He kissed me." She hissed.
"Same thing." He said, looking straight ahead at the door.
It opened and Elizabeth looked at them in confusion.
"Why are you two standing outside in the rain?" She asked. "Come in and get warm." She demanded, ushering them in the warm house.
Bella slipped off her coat and turned to say something to Edward but he just brushed past her without a word.
Elizabeth looked at him in speculation.
"Don't ask." Bella begged, hoping this day was over quickly.
***TMAIA***
"Hey, can you please pass the potatoes?" Bella asked Edward gently.
He ignored her.
Bella noticed everyone glancing at each other and she sighed.
"Here, Bella." Esme said, reaching over Edward and handing her the bowl.
Bella smiled at Esme.
"Thank you." She said softly. She spooned them on her plate but just pushed them around suddenly without an appetite. How could she make this better when she didn't know whether she had done anything wrong?
"Edward." She started, tugging at his shirt sleeve.
He jerked his arm away from her and resumed his conversation with Esme's husband.
Okay, that's it.
She stood up, placed her hands on the table and announced loudly, "I didn't kiss him. He kissed me. It's not the same thing. I didn't kiss him back, I didn't ask him to kiss me, I didn't want him to kiss me. The only person I want to kiss is acting like a giant dick right now and I am not going to put up with it. Either you trust me or you don't. Right now, I don't give a crap because you are like a big ass baby."
Everyone looked at her and back at Edward, who was leaning back in his seat and glaring at her.
"How would you know what a baby acts like, considering you can't have any?" He said.
Bella froze. She felt tears well up in her eyes.
Edward stood up quickly, his hand reaching out to her.
"Oh Bella, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean that." He said to her, his eyes pleading.
She backed quickly away from him. She glanced quickly at his family who all sat in stunned silence.
"Yeah, so much for it being alright with you, huh?" She nodded listlessly. "Mrs. Cullen, it was a pleasure. Everyone, I am not feeling so good right now. Esme, can you please take me... away?" She asked, her voice calm.
Esme nodded and got up, squeezing Edward's arm on her way to Bella.
"Bella, I'll take you home." Edward said, his voice shaky.
Bella looked at him and saw the remorse in his eyes but she couldn't bring herself to care right now.
"I'm not going home," was all she said, as she walked out the door and leaving him crestfallen behind her.
"Edward, what just happened?" Elizabeth asked.
"I think I just broke her heart." He whispered.
"Well, what the hell are you waiting for? Go fix it!" She exclaimed.
"She can't have kids?" Irina asked.
"Shut up, Irina." Edward said.
"Nice of you to throw it up in her face, Edward." Maggie said snarkily.
"Oh god. What am I going to do?" He asked.
"Apparently stand here all night, not doing shit to fix it." Kate said, rolling her eyes.
Elizabeth got up and walked over to him, placing her hands on either side of his face, gripping hard.
"You need to get your ass in gear and go after that girl. She is the best thing to ever happen to you and I will be pissed if you mess this up. Now, go!"
"I have to go find her.' He said, finally able to move from his frozen state.
"Good idea. Why didn't I think of that?" Elizabeth said, watching him rush out the door.
***TMAIA***
Esme looked sideways at Bella, who had her arms wrapped around her knees and was rocking back and forth staring at nothing, her eyes glazed over.
"Bella? Where are we going?" She asked softly.
"Take me to a hotel. The Hilton is fine." She said.
Esme nodded.
"You know, my brother doesn't mean to be a dickhead. He just… he got jealous and Edward runs off at the mouth when he feels threatened. He didn't mean it. He loves you."
Bella laughed harshly.
"He certainly has a way of showing it." She said.
"He…"
"Please, Esme. Just drop it."
Silence filled the car until the arrived at their destination. Bella got out and shut the door. Esme rolled down the window.
"Bella, do you want me to come up with you?" She asked.
"I just want to be alone. But thanks for offering. I'll see you later." She said.
"You'd better." Esme told her.
Esme watched Bella walk away.
"Oh Edward, what did you do." She whispered to herself.
So, one of the reasons this was late was because of this update. I was frankly scared to post it with Edward saying such a heartless thing but people say heartless things all the time to people that they love. This is something that was written several years ago and I wondered if I should somehow rewrite it. But when editing out the rest of the story, I saw this needed to happen. That and I decided I wrote it this way for a reason and I will stay true to myself as a writer (I use that word lightly...lol) So here it is. Love it or hate it.
Lay it on me.
