Chapter 35 – Bella POV
Alice, Debbie and I had been home for twenty four minutes when Edward came flying into the house. Esme was still holding onto Debbie and I really think Debbie didn't want her to let go. Debbie kept mumbling apologies to all of us and saying how she couldn't believe that she lost control like that. Renesmee was still right by me and Jacob had come and joined us on the couch. Jasper still was trying to make sure everything was ok with Alice and she kept assuring him that she was never in harms way.
We all stood up when Edward entered ready for whatever it was that we had to do. Emmett and Rosalie came in from the garage as well. "Edward, how bad is it? Where is Carlisle? What do we have to do?" I asked somewhat afraid of what the answers would be.
"Well Carlisle is still at Jay's house waiting for me to get back with a car. I am taking my Volvo and I would like it if Jacob could drive your truck Bella. We are going to bring Jay and Kelly back here and Dan and the two girls are coming for the rest of the night as well. Esme and Bella if you could make up the rooms for the three children that would be a great help. If Rosalie and Emmett, you set up Carlisle's study with the two hospital beds and other equipment that would help. Renesmee please go to bed, I know you are worried and want to know what is going on but you really need to sleep, your mom and I will update you when you get up and I am sure any of your aunts and uncles or even grandma and grandpa will do the same. Alice and Jasper maybe you two can go hunting with Debbie, I think it would be best if we kept her full while we have humans in the house." Edward said.
"Of course." Esme said getting up and heading up the stairs.
Rosalie and Emmett went up to Carlisle's office to start moving his desk and stuff out of there before they could take up all the medical equipment from the garage.
"Wait you are bringing them here? Why!?!?" Debbie exclaimed.
"Because there is no way that we can assure that they will stick with the lie that we feed to the emergency department so it will just be easier to take care of them here. If they decide to try to go to the police or anything then we can know right away with you and I reading their minds and we can bribe them, our over abundance of money can come in handy sometimes." Edward said.
"Oh God this sucks. I am so sorry you guys, this is all my fault I lost control." Debbie said while looking down to the floor.
"Listen honey, it is alright, we will get through this. This could have happened to anyone and we will handle this." I said as I walked over to her and pulled her into a hug.
"Debbie, don't worry we will protect you and everyone else in the family and if we have to we will move, we might just have to do that in stages. We will take care of everything." Edward said coming over to join us. He then turned to Jacob, "Come on Jacob Carlisle is waiting for us."
Jacob grunted and got off of the couch. "Come on I want to get back and go to bed it is rather late and some of us actually do need to sleep."
"I am sorry Jake, do you want me to go instead and you can sleep?" I asked him.
"No Bells I can do it. You know I just need to pick on your husband sometimes." Jacob said with his hundred watt smile. Jacob turned on his heels and went to the garage, I heard him grab my keys and then get in my truck. "Come on leech, let's go." He said and he honked the horn.
"Why did we let our daughter marry him?" Edward asked me with a sigh.
"Because he loves her and she loves him and we know that he won't ever hurt her. He wants to protect her just as much as you want to protect me." I said and then I pushed him towards the door that leads to the garage. "Go and help protect this family."
Edward and Jacob left and then Alice came to get Debbie. "Come on Deb we only have about forty five minutes before they return and you will need to get changed and hide in your bedroom to pretend that you are sleeping before they return." She said trying to pull Debbie with her.
"This is really going to suck. I really don't think I could tell you all just how sorry I am." Debbie said as she let Alice yank her from her place next to me.
I ran with Renesmee up to her room and tucked her in. "Mom is it going to be really bad? Are we going to have to move again so soon? If so Aunt Rose is going to be furious. What are we going to do?" She asked.
"Shh my beautiful Renesmee, don't worry about that tonight. I am sure it will all work out and we won't have to move. From what Debbie has told me I really think that they will take a bribe from us, they have less money then what her mom had and they are really struggling. Yes if we do have to move again, Rosalie will be mad but she will get over it and if it really affects her that much I am sure we can just live in two houses. Now go to sleep and don't worry. Sweet dreams my darling." I said to her and then I kissed her forehead. She was going to say more but I placed my finger over her mouth and then dashed out of her room in search of Esme.
Esme was just coming out of the huge linen closet that we have with the sheet sets for the two rooms. I took the one set while she took the other. From where I was standing in the room making the bed I saw Emmett carrying in the one medical bed while Rosalie was following him carrying some of the equipment to go along with it, like the IV stand and the heart monitor.
Esme and I finished at the same time and went to check on Rosalie and Emmett. They had every all set up and I had to control myself not to choke up with seeing all the equipment up. Last time I saw this all out like this was when I was pregnant and delivering Renesmee. Esme and Rosalie of course noticed my change in breathing while trying to control my emotions and they came and hugged me in turn, already knowing what was going through my mind.
I had to get out of my memories so I said, "Rose, if we have to move, I know you are going to be really mad and I understand, I don't want to either, but can you please not totally freak out or anything? First I think that could end badly with Debbie, probably leading to a physical fight, and second I think it would break Renesmee's heart to see you being mean and cruel to someone she loves so much. If you want you can ream me out for whatever happens when we aren't around Debbie or Nessie seeing as I was the one that brought Debbie into the family." I said.
"You know me Bella and you have seen how I react to the risk of having to move earlier than what we plan. This is even earlier than what it was for us with your risk. I can try my best but I can't make you any promises. But trust me you will hear about it. Edward always was hearing it from me the whole time you were human, until you got pregnant, about how ticked I was at him risking our exposure. At least you can't read minds so you won't hear it all the time." Rosalie said with total seriousness that I totally believed seeing as I witnessed some of her disapproval of me when Edward saved me from the van and when we were first a couple. Even though she stopped showing so much of her anger and feelings with me I knew that they were still there.
"That is all that I can ask for. Thank you for that Rosalie." I said.
"Ok well that is fantastic but the four of us should get changed into some appropriate night wear before the humans get here. You three should be in bed as well. By the sounds of it Alice, Jasper and Debbie are almost home and I know they will do the same as well. If you are going to fool around you must wait until all the humans are asleep and you must stay in enough control to not wake them." Esme said acting like the mother we all viewed her to be.
"Yes mom." The three of us said together.
We all went to our rooms to get changed. I heard Alice, Jasper, and Debbie all come in and they went to their rooms as well. I heard Esme go and give Alice and Jasper the same little lecture that Rosalie, Emmett and I got. I heard Alice sigh since she already saw this coming but she listened anyway. Then Esme went into Debbie's room, "Debbie my dear. Can I talk with you quickly before the rest get home?"
"Of course mom, what do you need?" Debbie responded.
"Well I just wanted to see how you were doing for one thing. Also I want to tell you that you are going to have to pretend to be sleeping and then after all the humans are asleep you can do whatever you like, just make sure that you keep the volume or noise level down so you don't wake any of them up." Esme said.
"Well besides for feeling extremely stupid for letting myself lose control like that and I feel really bad for risking the family and having to move I guess I feel alright, as good as I can. I really am sorry about this Esme I just can't believe I did that. I wasn't even thinking when it happened, it was like I was possessed and I had no control over my body or mouth." Debbie said with a sob at the end.
"Listen sweetie, we all make mistakes or lose control every once in a while and to be honest we are all very impressed that this was the first time and the fact that you didn't kill them nor did you bite them. For a newborn you have fabulous control and even though you say you had no control over what happened you still did have some or else every human in that house probably would have been dead before anyone could get you to see reason. I know it is hard for you to do this but you really need to stop beating yourself up over this. I am sure that someday someone else in our family will slip up and it will most likely be worse than this. Just let it go ok, for everyone, we love you and hate seeing you like this." Esme said.
I heard tires pull onto our driveway and went to lie down on my bed. I pulled the covers over me so Edward couldn't see my outfit and then pretended to sleep. Then Esme said, "They are back, come on I'll cover you up and then I will go and help them in. I'll see you in the morning Debbie." And then she closed Debbie's door.
Esme walked down the stairs at her normal human pace. She reached the door that leads to the garage at the same time that the boys closed the garage door. I heard several car doors open and then I heard Esme say, "Come on children I can show you where you are sleeping for the night at least, maybe longer."
"You really don't have to do this, I have watched them through the night before." I think that was Dan.
"I believe you have but we felt it would be better if you were here for now. Come on so you can put the little one down, she must be heavy." Esme said back to him. I heard three sets of footsteps come up the steps to the second floor. One was light so it was obviously Esme and the other two were heavier, the last set being the heaviest. When Esme got to the first open room she quietly said, "Here, this room is for the two girls, unfortunately you will have to share the bed with your little sister."
"Oh man, really? This sucks she kicks." I heard a girl say.
"Oh I don't think that will be a problem, it is a king size bed. We can do a wall of pillows in between you two if you would like." Esme said.
"Well in that case I can handle that. The wall of pillows will really help." The girl said again.
"Ok, come on Dan, right? You can put the little one down on this side and I'll get the pillows out of this closet to make the wall. What's your name sweetie?" Esme asked. Dan put the little on in the bed and I heard him cover her up.
"Oh um it's Trish." She said.
"Ok well there you go Trish now sweet dreams and I'll see you in the morning. Sweet dreams." Esme said and then I heard her and Dan walk out of the room and she shut the door. "Here the room you will be staying in is right next to theirs. Since tomorrow is the Saturday you can sleep in as late as you want and we have tons of food in the kitchen though I will probably have a hot breakfast ready when you get up." Esme said to him.
"Thank you Mrs. Cullen but it really isn't needed, I could have taken care of them at home." He said back to her with a hit of shyness in his voice.
"It's not a problem and please call me Esme, being called Mrs. Cullen makes me feel old. Besides with the amount of teenagers in the house already it won't really make any difference. I just want to make sure that you three are eating well and are taken care of, it the mother instinct what can I say." Esme ended with a chuckle.
"You don't seem to be that much older than me. So how do you have so many teenagers? That is if you don't mind me asking." He said.
"You see I am unable to have children myself and when my sister and her husband died we adopted their children. Then some distant relatives of Carlisle's died leaving their twins parentless so we adopted them as well. We started taking in older foster children and would adopt the ones that no one else seemed to want. We have a wonderfully loving family now that I wouldn't give up for the world." She said with the hint of a smile in her voice. "Listen I have to go and see if I can help the boys bring in your parents. Goodnight and see you tomorrow morning."
"Goodnight and thank you Esme." Dan said. He went in the room and closed the door.
I heard Carlisle, Jacob, and Edward all were just starting to get Jay and Kelly out of the cars after hearing Dan go in his room and shut the door. Esme ran down to see if she could help, it took everything in me to stay in bed and not run to try and help my husband even though I know that there is no way that he could us my help right now, I would probably just get in the way.
"Do you three need any help?" I heard Esme asked.
"No thanks Esme, Doc already put them to sleep so we can just carry them by ourselves." Jacob said. Of course he still has to joke around.
"I would like to put you to sleep dog." I heard Rosalie mumble to low for them to hear downstairs. I held in my laughter and how they still go back and forth even though neither of them will hurt or do anything to the other because they don't want to upset Renesmee. Jasper, Alice, and Emmett all laughed to low for them to hear as well.
"Jacob be careful and must you always joke around, this is kind of a serious matter." She scolded him and I could help but giggle at this.
"Sorry ma." Jacob said but I could hear the hint of laughter in his voice.
"Yeah, uh-huh, get her up to the study before we risk one of the kids coming out of their room." She said back to him.
I heard Jacob come up the steps and go into Carlisle's study and then place Kelly down. Poor Jacob had to smell that disgusting human. I heard him yawn but it seemed like he was waiting for Carlisle and Edward to get up there before leaving the room.
"Edward get Jay up there, I didn't give him as much since his injuries weren't that bad. I do want to give him more to keep him asleep through the night." Carlisle said and then I heard Edward breeze up the stairs, into the study, and place Jay on the other bed.
Carlisle and Esme were right behind him and by the sounds of it Carlisle was quickly attaching Jay and Kelly to the medical equipment. "Jacob go to bed I can tell that you are about to fall asleep where you are. I can handle it from here." Carlisle said.
"Ok but I need you promise from you first. If things go south with their health you will not change them." Jacob said in his alpha voice which doesn't work on anyone in the family.
"I wouldn't do that to Debbie. Plus I don't think I could stand to be around them and make sure that they learn the rules and I do not want to give more reason for the Volturi to come after us." Carlisle said.
"Ok. Well with that I am going to bed. See you all tomorrow." Jacob said as he turned to leave.
"Jacob, Renesmee is asleep but I wouldn't be surprised if she wakes up in the middle of the night. She is really afraid of what will happen and what might unwind with the family, I think she is afraid that we will have to stay separated for a while." I said just above a whisper.
I heard him sigh and then I heard his footsteps approach my door along with his wet dog smell. He knocked on the door and I told him to come in. "Bells, nothing bad will happen to any of us. If the family does have to split up the four of us will stay together. I still feel the need to protect you and I know you guys feel the same about Nessie. I really don't think it will come to that though." He said as he came to sit on my bed.
"I know that Jacob and I already told her that I didn't think it would come to that but I don't think she fully believed me. I know she really won't fully believe you either but it will help hearing it from someone else, especially her husband." I said. "Jake, you should go to bed, you look like the walking dead."
"Oh you mean like you?" He joked.
"No, not the undead, the literal dead, if I meant the undead like me then you would actually be beautiful. Please go to bed, I have caused you enough sleepless night and I thought that was long over, we can talk more tomorrow after you have slept." I said with a smile in the beginning and ending with a frown as I remembered him doing all the patrols because of Victoria and then after he found out I was pregnant and that the pack wanted to kill me.
"Oh, thanks so now you think I am ugly, thanks a lot Bella. It's ok Bells but I will go to bed. Goodnight." He said as he got up and left, closing the door behind him.
I heard Carlisle and Edward talking while I was talking with Jacob. "So what is the extent of their injuries Carlisle?" Edward asked.
"Well Jay just seems to have a broken wrist and arm. I believe it is broken in three places. Kelly on the other hand seems to have had a previous neck injury that has gotten worse with the force that she hit the floor. I think I am going to have to replace the plates that I can already feel are in there. The one is broken, and I am not positive without taking and x-ray but the other one might be as well. Emmett is going to have to go to storage and get the x-ray machine." Carlisle said back.
"Can you do the surgery here if Rosalie and I help you? Or do you want them to wake up and we can talk with them, try to bribe them and then come up with a story and take at least her to the hospital to do it there?" Edward asked.
"I don't see why we couldn't do it here if need be but I think I would like to talk to them and see if we can work something out and take her to the hospital." Carlisle said.
Debbie was humming to herself the whole time, I think trying to block out all the discussions that were going on throughout the house. I could hear that Alice and Jasper were having a quite conversation about her visions, they seem to be changing a lot and she can't figure out if we will have to leave or not. Rosalie and Emmett were having a little argument about what to do through the night.
Carlisle finished hooking Kelly and Jay up to the monitors and IV along with Edwards help. "Carlisle, I will see you in the morning and help you then when they are awake. If I am not in here please come and get me when they wake up, I think it would be best if we had a mind reader in the room when you talk to them." Edward said.
"I think that is a good idea as well. See you in the morning." Carlisle said back.
I heard Edward exit the study and come down the hall to our room. He opened the door slowly. "I didn't wake you did I?" He asked with a cheeky grin on his face.
"Ha-ha-ha. Very funny." I said trying to sound annoyed.
"Why are you under the covers?" He asked as he closed the door.
"Well I am supposed to be sleeping but how can I do that when someone sneaks into my room?" I asked.
"Do you want me to leave? Do I have to sleep on the couch? I thought we could fool around some." He said inching closer to the bed. His eyes had turned black with desire and lust and I am sure mine were as well.
"Well since you already snuck in here why not make use of it." I said.
Edward reached the bed and quickly lost all of his clothing except his boxers, when he lifted the covers to get in the bed with me he caught a glance at what I was wearing. "Are you trying to kill me?" He asked. I was wearing a black outfit just like the one I wore the night of our honeymoon when I was finally able to get Edward to give in to me. I just giggled and then he said. "I know I ripped that one, do you have another gift that I don't know about?"
"No I have a terrific sister that told me where she bought it and I ordered a whole bunch just in case. I thought it would be nice to have the nice reminders of our fun on our honeymoon. Maybe we can relive the night." I said with a sly smile.
Before I knew what was happening he ripped it off me and the night went almost exactly like our honeymoon night except for the fact that I didn't need to sleep so we had longer and he didn't have to worry about breaking me.
The next morning we all "got up" before the children and Renesmee and Jacob woke up. When Edward and I walked out of our room Carlisle came up to us and said, "Edward I haven't given Jay of Kelly any more medicine and Alice said that Jay will wake up in 6 minutes."
"Ok Carlisle I will be right there." He said to Carlisle and then he turned to me. "Bella why don't you go down and hangout with Debbie, she can use some distraction and cheering up."
"She really shouldn't beat herself up over this." I sighed.
"Bell, imagine if it was you who did all that, how would you feel? I know you have had little slips and have sometimes not fully acted human and after you realized you felt horrible and worried about us having to move have you not? This is the same for her and she is newer to the family, she feels that she has already messed up and is afraid that we won't want her anymore." Edward said looking me in the eyes.
"Son of a bitch Edward, stay the fuck out of my head. I swear to God I am going to shield myself all the time and then you will be sorry." Debbie screamed.
"Sorry Debbie, I wasn't going to say anything but Bella needed to know in order to understand why you feel the way you do. Please forgive me." Edward said turning his head towards the stairs since Debbie was downstairs.
I gave Edward a kiss and headed downstairs while Edward went to Carlisle's study. "So Debbie what would you like to do? We could go for a drive in your car, you can test it out. We could go shopping. It is totally up to you." I said as I hit the bottom of the stairs. Debbie was sitting on the bottom one sulking.
"I would love to actually get to drive my Range Rover!" She said excitedly. "Wait a minute you think I can actually handle being out with the human race and go shopping in the mall?" She then asked me.
"Well you handled yourself rather well at the viewing and funeral. Besides if you want to go shopping, or something else, Alice and Rosalie can come along. If you were to lose control then we should be able to stop you." I said knowing that I was making her forget about what happened last night. Or at least that is what I thought.
"But what about what happened last night?" She asked.
"Did you go to bite them? No. You didn't have any blood lust, you just lost control of your emotions. I think that you will be perfectly fine to go out." I said extremely confident with her control.
By this time Alice and Rose came in and stood in front of us. "So what would you like to do?" Alice asked bouncing in her spot.
"Um well can we maybe do something with Dan, Trish, and Morgan? I haven't seen them in so long and it would be nice to spend time with them." Debbie said avoiding all of our eyes, I think she was afraid of what our reactions would be.
"Well what would you like to do with them?" I asked.
"I love to bowl and I know that Dan and Trish were getting into it as well since I did a league with my father for a couple years. So maybe go bowling?" She asked.
I looked to Alice and she went blank faced to look into our future. When she came back to the present she nodded to me.
"Sure we can, you just need to control yourself when you through the ball ok. We don't want to break anything or bring unwanted attention to us." I said.
"Ok. I think I can do that." Debbie said with a confident and determined nod of her head.
"So when will they be up? And when will we be going?" Rosalie asked looking a little excited and a little nervous at the same time. We haven't bowled in about thirty five years and we only did it because Emmett whined until we gave in after a bowling tournament came on when one of his baseball games went off on ESPN. We all enjoyed ourselves but I know she is nervous about how Debbie will handle it with her new vampire strength.
"Well Trish and Morgan are going to wake up in an hour. Morgan will be first and then she will wake Trish up. Dan will wake up in two and a half hours. The bowling alley opens in three hours and forty five minutes." Alice said coming out of a vision.
"Well do you want to go for a test drive then before they wake up? We will have to take two vehicles when we go to the bowling alley, you can drive then too but I think you should get used to driving as a vampire first." I said turning to Debbie again.
Debbie's face lit up again and she started to bounce on the step like Alice does. "Yes! Definitely! I have missed driving so much." She exclaimed as she shot up in a blur. She took off full speed for the door to the garage while the three of us stood where we were chuckling. When Debbie reached the door she realized no one was following her. She turned to us and then said, "Are you coming?"
"Yes I am." I said still chuckling.
Rosalie and Alice turned towards the kitchen to help Esme with breakfast when Debbie said, "Rose, are you coming too? You should since you worked on it, you know enjoy the fruit of your labor. Alice you can come too."
"Are you sure?" Rosalie asked. Debbie nodded her head. "Thank you, I would love too." Rosalie said.
"Thanks for the offer but I think I should stay and help Esme, I will be with you for bowling though." Alice said.
"Are you sure Alice?" Debbie asked.
"Yes, now go have some fun." Alice responded as she walked off to join Esme in the kitchen.
Rosalie and I followed Debbie to the garage and I grabbed her key off the wall and I walked past. Debbie hopped into the driver's seat. I looked to Rosalie and said, "You can sit up front, I already have."
"That's nice of you Bella but I am perfectly fine in the back. You're closer to her so you sit up front with her." She said.
"In time Pose, you will get close to her like e too you know. You have the whole car thing in common." I said as I got in the passenger seat. Rosalie climbed in and then slid into the middle seat. "Here I think you forgot something." I said to Debbie while I handed her the key.
"Oh yeah, that would be helpful wouldn't it." Debbie chuckled as she took it and put it in the ignition.
I hit the button to open the garage door while Debbie turned on the car. Debbie took off and quickly came off of the accelerator. "Wow." She breathed. Rosalie and I both chuckled.
"Go easy on our driveway since it has tons of turns. Once we get on the road you can go faster and then on the highway you can let loose." I told her.
"Since I fixed it up you just want to ease onto the gas very carefully, it is much faster than what you are used to and it accelerates a lot faster as well." Rosalie said leaning up in between the seats. Debbie was looking at her paying close attention to what she was saying.
"Ok, I think I can handle that, it's like when I first starting driving stick, learning to ease onto the accelerator minus the clutch." Debbie said.
Debbie handled the driveway well along with all the other areas that she drove. When we got back to the house Trish and Morgan were already fed and dressed, they were playing Wii with Emmett and Jasper. Dan was in the kitchen eating his breakfast while talking with Alice and Esme. Edward and Carlisle were still up with Kelly and Jay. I didn't hear Renesmee or Jacob's heart beats so I assume they were out hunting or something.