Chapter 37.

BPOV

"Edward, I'm so sorry" I ran over to him, flinging my arms around his shoulders. I don't know who the hug was for, him or me. There was so much blood, it was everywhere, my white top was now smeared red. I'm amazed that I hadn't blacked out, I had never seen so much blood before. Edward took a step away from me and looked me over.

"Bella are you hurt?" he said, his voice cracking as he spoke.

"No, I'm fine"

"But what about all the blood on you?" he inquired.

"It's all Alice's" I saw the water filling in his eyes. "Edward, I told her to just hand over the bags but she wouldn't listen to me, I begged her" I sobbed. He walked away and over to his sister.

"Let's get her straight into Trauma 1" he barked orders at Rosalie and the rest of his team.

I followed them like a lost little puppy dog. "Bella, you need to wait outside" he snapped at me, his voice as cold as ice. I had never seen Edward like this before, I put it down to the emotion of seeing his sister like this. I could only imagine what he was going through, I felt horrible and Alice wasn't even my sister!

Rosalie came outside "Come on Bella, I'm going to take you to the family room. You don't need to be watching this" her hand on my shoulder, she turned me away from the sight of Alice being worked on, tubes being put in her and the like.

"No, I want to stay" I replied vehemently.

"Bella, in your condition the stress could be too much for you. For your safety and the baby's I really must insist that you come with me" her voice was soft and silky, full of compassion.

"Has someone called Jasper? He should know what's happened, he would want to be by her side" Silent tears rolled down my cheek as I spoke. I don't think I had stopped crying since the mugger had first stabbed Alice. I dread to think what may have happened if the guy who had risked his life wrestling with the mugger hadn't turned up when he did.

"I'll go call him now" Rosalie said. As she left my side I travelled back to my spot outside where they were working on Alice. Edward looked as if he was barely holding things together. As accomplished a Doctor I knew him to be he shouldn't be involved in this case he would only do more harm than good. He was too close to Alice and couldn't remain impartial.

Rosalie came back from having called Jasper. "Rosalie, I think you need to go and get Mike" I said. After one quick look into the room she understood without me needing to explain.

Mike and Rosalie came running down the corridor and into the trauma room. After a heated exchange Edward came outside and grasped my hand so tightly that he was hurting me a little bit. Seeing the expression on his face as he watched them work on his sister I didn't have the heart to tell him. We stood there in silence, neither of us knowing what to say to the other.

"Coming through" Emmett hollered as he rushed past us and through the door.

"Edward, what's that?" I asked. Emmett had some sort of instrument in his hand and whatever it was, it didn't look good.

"That's so they can cut through her breastbone. Their going to crack her chest" a tear rolled down both his cheeks as he continued looking on, through the door. Whilst I didn't understand the medical expression it sounded like this was only done as a last resort, as if to confirm my thoughts as the door swung open when a nurse came rushing out the machine that monitored Alice's heart rate started going haywire and Mike had something that Edward called "internal paddles" in his hand and was trying to shock Alice's heart back into a stable rhythm.

That's when it happened, I felt a sharp pain in my stomach, the pain was so excruciating that I was doubled over.

"Bella what's wrong?" Edward asked.

"Ahh" I winced, moving my hand down to where I felt the pain. I felt something wet trickle onto my hand and sure enough when I brought my hand back up in view of my face there was blood on it, my blood!

"Oh god, Bella you're bleeding" Edward focused all his attention on me now, turning away from his sister. I came over all dizzy and knew it wouldn't be long before I blacked out.

"Bella, Bella stay with me" Edward was holding onto me, guiding me to the floor so that I wouldn't hurt myself. "Bella I need you to stay awake. Please God let them be okay" Edward's voice was muffled through his sobs. The last thing I remember hearing besides Edward's voice was the beeps of the machine merge into one. Then everything went black.