Disclaimer: The characters in this story belong to Stephenie Meyer. The only thing that belongs to the author, Emily_007, is the plot. While everything else belongs to the rightful owner of the Twilight Saga, Stephenie Meyer.

Chapter 54

Family?

Bella's POV

I could see the outline of the doctors and nurses that stood hovering over my numb body. I couldn't make out their words they were saying; but I knew they were talking to me. It seemed as though my eyes closed five to six times before I could finally stay fully awake. I was confused. Was this all a dream? I tried to talk; but all that came out was a high pitch noise. I knew nothing made sense; but I continued to try and talk to the people around me.

My head began to pound more and more as I stayed awake longer. I took a deep breath; hoping to ease the pain. People continued to talk around me; yet nothing made sense to me.

"Isabella" A soft voice said. I let out another groan to let them know that I understand what they were saying. I internally sighed in relief as I finally started to understand what the people around me were saying to each other. "Isabella, if you can hear me can you squeeze my hand?" I tried my best to move my body. But nothing happened. The doctor let go of my hand a couple of seconds later before moving away from me.

I sat there for a couple minutes before someone else came over to me and picked up my hand. It was big and warm. I felt a kiss on my forehead before someone started to whisper to me. Once again; I didn't understand what they were saying. I could make out a few words every so often; but nothing was completely clear to me.

I closed my eyes while the person beside me continued to talk. The person continued to hold and kiss my hand while I fell into, another, peaceful sleep.

I woke up from my sleep and finally saw a clear picture. There was a nurse sitting in a chair watching my heart monitor while another nurse was checking something to my left. I'm guessing the person who was holding my hand before had left as none of the women would have had such a large hand. I continued to look around the room before the nurse started talking to me.

"You've had such crowd of people wanting to see you." The nurse informed me kindly. I stared at her for a while before looking over to the nurse who was still standing beside me. "I know this all must be quite a bit of a shock for you to wake up in a hospital; so I want you to take calm, deep breaths and relax."

I did as the nurse instructed and let my body relax. My head no longer hurt and I didn't feel tingly like I did last time I woke up.

"Can you tell me what you're name is?" The nurse asked me as sat up straighter in the chair. I swallowed a few times and licking my lips. "Take your time. It'll take you a while to adjust to things." I nodded and sat there for a few moments before opening my mouth to speak.

"Bella" I croaked out. The lady smiled and me and nodded. I don't know why she was asking me if I remembered my name? Did she think I was stupid of something?

"Do you prefer to be called Bella or Isabella?" The woman asked. I croaked out Bella and then tried my hardest to smile at her. It must have worked because she smiled in return. "Can you try and move your hands?" I looked down at my fingers and watched them slowly wriggle. I smile and continued to wriggle my fingers around.

"Very good, Bella" She smiled. "How about you close your eyes again and rest. You don't want to over work yourself." I reclosed my eyes as the lady walked out of the door. I sat there for a couple of minutes before I felt someone take my hand. I instantly opened my eyes as I remembered that same hand holding my hand earlier. I smiled when I saw that it was Emmett standing there. He smiled back and placed a soft kiss on my temple.

"How are you feeling?" He asked me. I shrugged and looked at his hands. I knew that they were something I was always going to treasure. Knowing that someone that I loved was with me while waking up made me feel stronger in so many ways.

"Fine, I guess" I croaked. "May I have some water?" Em looked at the nurse who nodded her head and mumbled 'small sips'. Emmett brought the cup to my lips and I took small sips of it. But after my first mouthful I found myself trying to drink more. He pulled the cup away and shook his head. I rolled my eyes and continued to sip slowly.

"Fuck, Bella." Emmett said as he let out a long, hard breath. I frowned and looked at my brother; not remembering ever hearing him swear before. "You scared the shit out of me. I thought I was going to lose you."

"Why?" I asked; still confused about why I was in hospital in the first place.

"Right, the nurse said that you might not remember what happened" Emmett mumbled. "Bells, you were shot." I froze and looked at Emmett hoping he was going to start laughing at any moment and tell me that he was just kidding. Maybe I had slipped over and hit my head on something?

"Do you remember being in your room with Jacob?" Emmett asked. I shook my head and asked him who Jacob was. He sighed and thought for a while. "Don't worry about him, Bells. You're safe now; he's gone. Do you want to see the rest of the family?" I smiled and was happy that I was going to see my mum and dad again. It felt like it had been years since the last time I had seen them.

Emmett went to the door and opened it. People instantly started flooding in. I looked around in fright when I suddenly noticed that I didn't know any of the people in front of me. A man suddenly ran through the door and stood there along with everyone else; watching me. He had wild, bronze hair that stuck up in all different places along with beautiful, green eyes.

"Did you miss them, Bells?" Emmett asked me as he sat on the side of my bed. I cuddled to his side and clung to his striped pinned suit. "What's wrong?"

"Em, I don't know these people"

~*~ Author's Notes ~*~

Hey guys, I apologise if I didn't do a very good job on waking Bella up from a coma. I did some research about other people waking up from coma's around the world; which I found really helpful. But since i've never actually been in a coma before; it made it hard for me to write about it. I hope I did ok, though. Review please and let me know what you thought of the chapter. :)

Another quick message is that I've recently started a Twilight Saga forum where you can enter writing competitions, suggest challenges and advertise your stories. I've already started a competition, a place where you can advertise your stories and where you can suggest challenges. So take a look and let me know what you think. I would love for you all to check it out If you're interested; please let me know in a review and I'll PM you the link.

Thanks, from emily007