I love all the questions and theories you all have for how her shield is working, why she's trapped in the car, what will happen if she gets out, and why she's starting to feel her body. I want to answer you all but it'd give things away so mum's the word.

Quick note, next week and the week after, updates will probably not come just after midnight eastern time due to me and my beta and my boys driving halfway across the country (Georgia to south central Kansas and back). I'm going for a family reunion and bringing my bestie along for the ride. I will still update, just when I get settled in the hotel room for the night or when I get up in the morning.

Ok, have fun with this chapter!

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Hear Me Chapter 54

Charlie had been greeted by Esme and shown to Bella's room. She asked him if he wanted anything to eat or drink, but he declined, knowing that he wasn't there for nourishment, but to see his daughter instead. Charlie wondered if Bella even realized that he was there every day, but didn't dwell on the idea that she didn't feel his presence.

He started talking to her, telling her about his day at work, about the three hands of poker he won at the station when it was slow, and about how he and his best friend, Billy Black, were planning on going fishing the next weekend. He told her everything.

Charlie had even taken to looking at the gossip magazines at the grocery store so he could tell Bella about the movie stars, new scandals in Hollywood, and who was dating who. He was pretty sure that Bella didn't care about them, as she really hadn't before that he knew of, but it was something to tell her, something to try and keep her up to date on what was going on in the world around her while she lay there being a Sleeping Beauty or a Snow White.

Charlie glanced around the room she was being kept in and took in the accessories. The Cullen's had really gone above and beyond what was necessary to make the room look homey and lived in. When he was bringing his gaze back to Bella, he saw movement that made him freeze in place.

Watching closely, Charlie saw the movement again and jumped up out of his chair.

"Esme!" Charlie called out as he moved closer to Bella's bedside, grasping her hand in his as he began to talk to her.

"Bella, honey, it's your dad. Can you hear me? Are you there? Bella, honey, please wake up. I know you're there, I know you're fighting to get back to me, please, show me you're still with me," Charlie said to her, his voice thick with emotion as Esme and Carlisle entered the room, both wide eyed that something was wrong with Bella.

"Charlie? What happened?" Carlisle asked him.

Charlie pointed to Bella's right foot, about to tell him about her moving it when it happened again. They all bore witness to Bella's foot as it moved beneath the blanket. Carlisle quickly went to work, throwing back the blanket covering her as he felt along her legs, checking for muscle contractions. He felt nothing until he got to her ankle. Continuing his exam, he tested the reflexes in her right foot, pleased to see that Bella's body reacted. Carlisle tried her still unmoving left foot and got no response to the reflex tests, and Charlie looked at him nervously.

"What do you think, Dr. Cullen? What is it?" Charlie asked Carlisle.

"I think her body is finally repairing itself," Carlisle said, making Charlie smile wider than the day he first met his baby girl.


OOOOOO! Bella made more progress and Charlie saw it! Now, what can/will Edward do to increase it even more? See you tomorrow!