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Jake's POV
"I love you." It was the three sweetest words I had heard in my entire life, I let out the breath I had held. Bella was awake, even if for a short time, and she was talking to me. She was going to be ok, and I wouldn't have to kill Edward. At least, not for the accident.
I held her hand as she drifted back into her deep drug induced slumber, staying with her for a few minutes to make sure she was settled. I had to go find Alice and let her know Bella had woken up, even if it was just for a few minutes. I owed Alice that much for staying with her while Edward was here.
Leaning down I placed a gentle kiss on Bella's forehead, "I'll be back before you wake up." I turned and started out the door, glancing over to my sweet Bella one last time. That's when I felt something small and soft run smack into me.
"Oh sorry! I wasn't watching where I was going." I reached down to see who I had knocked on their ass, "Emily?" Quickly I helped her back on her feet, "Are you ok?"
Emily's eyes glared at me.
Well I guess the story still isn't out yet.
"Is this Bella's room? Jake why are you here?" She angrily crossed her arms. "You know, Vanessa is here right? She was in the accident. Maybe you should go check on her and the baby."
Anger rippled through my body. I could only imagine what the story was now since Edward's presence was known. I would have loved to hear how they explained that one.
I didn't say a word not to Emily; it wasn't her fault she was mixed up in a bunch of lies. First stop Alice, second stop Edward. Following the sign that would lead to the waiting area, I kept my lookout for Edward. This time, I wasn't about to let him out of my sight.
I saw Alice sitting there talking to Seth, their eyes looked up at me when I entered the room. "She was awake, for a few minutes." I shoved my hands in my pockets nervously, "Emily is visiting with her now." Seth's eyes grew wide as saucers, but he didn't say anything.
"I think I'm going to go to the cafeteria and grab something before they close. You guys want anything?"
Alice and Seth both shook their heads no, Seth's expression pleading with me not to go. Almost as if he had something desperate to talk to me about.
Little did he know, I had other very desperate pressing matters. Turning down the hallway, my eyes kept a lookout for the one person I needed to have some words with.
Bella's POV
The blackness began to lift; I noticed that the warmth and pressure on my hand were gone. In fact, the room felt oddly cold.
I squeezed my eyes tightly shut before they fluttered open, "Bells. Thank god. You gave us quite a scare kiddo." Turning my head to the left I saw Charlie and standing next to him was Emily. I was grateful to see them, but I wanted Jacob.
"Where's Ja…" I stopped myself. Emily was here. Emily couldn't know. I figured Leah had for sure told her by now she had seen me coming out of Jake's house this morning.
"What Bells? Who?" Charlie leaned down closer.
"Nothing, nevermind." My eyes caught Emily's curious look. Pushing myself up with my elbows, I looked around the room hoping to see him somewhere just waiting till they left to come and hold me.
Nothing.
Almost as if on cue, Alice came bouncing into the room. "Ah, good. She's awake now." She pulled me into a tight hug, "You had us worried Bella. They had to cut you out of the truck.."
"Alice!" Emily's voice was sharp. "We can give Bella the details later."
"Sorry." Alice glared at Emily, which made me wonder what the hell was going on. Emily seemed slightly irritated at the world and that wasn't like her in the least.
"I'm going to let you and Alice talk; I need to go check on someone else right now." Emily slightly waved at me before beating a hasty retreat from the room. She knows. Oh god. She thinks I'm a home wrecker. I felt the wave of nausea rush through me, luckily there was nothing in my stomach or Alice wouldn't be too happy right about now.
"And I'll let you two do your girl talk. The doctor said you'd be getting out of here first thing in the morning Bells. I'll be here to pick you up." Charlie leaned down and placed a kiss on my forehead, which was really un-Charlie like, I guess I really did give everyone a scare.
As soon as Charlie disappeared from my sight I turned to Alice, "What the hell is going on?"
Alice's expression went blank. "What are you talking about Bella?"
"With Emily. Why is she upset? Edward is here, right?"
Alice nodded, "You know Edward was the one who hit you right?" I nodded, my eyes not leaving Alice's I wanted answers. "Vanessa was with him."
Cue wave two of nausea. Did Jake go to her? The nausea was soon replaced by anxiety, I needed to unhook myself from these IVs and find him. It was the only thing that was going to give me any type of peace of mind at the moment.
"They have her in a room, monitoring her and the baby. Edward feels really bad about what happened, you know. Not that I'm sticking up for him, but he was almost crying over you when he came to see you."
Flashes of my time in the blackness popped into my mind, Edward's voice was among them. Edward should win an award for that performance, so unlike him. But I really didn't give a shit about Edward; I wanted to know where Jake was."Where's Jake? Have you seen him?" The expression on my face had to be nothing but worry.
"Calm down Bella. He just went to the cafeteria to grab a bite to eat." Alice gently pushed me back down into softness of the bed. I knew I could over power her, if I had to.
Jake's POV
I found her room, but I wasn't about to step foot inside. I wasn't going to give her the pleasure of seeing my face again, I wanted things with her left the way they were. However, I needed to have some words with Edward Cullen and let him know that either one of two things were going to happen.
The truth was going to be told to Emily and Leah and the rest of the rez, or he was going to take Vanessa and leave and never look back. Leaning against the wall trying to control my anger, I waited listening to the mumble of their voices in the room.
Finally, after waiting what seemed like years I heard Edward's voice grow louder. "I'll be right back, love. I'll go fill up your water pitcher."
Immediately I was ready, almost in attack stance I waited for the pretty boy to emerge from the doorway.
He didn't see me; he turned the opposite direction out of the door to where I was standing. I took one step forward, "Edward. We need to talk."
Edward quickly turned on his heel and was facing me; I had to give him credit he was pretty fucking fast. "Jacob Black. I knew you'd be here sooner or later." He closed the distance between us so we could talk without attracting too much attention.
"I might not be the perfect man in the world, but I have decided to take responsibility for my actions. I'm not going to let Vanessa go back to the likes of you."
I wanted to die of laughter, "What? Seriously? You think I want her back? Please." My serious face then made its reappearance, "You two need to tell the truth, or get the hell out of La Push. Why are the two even here anyways?"
Edward was growing more and more tense, "I came here to stop Vanessa from trying to win you back, why she would want to do that I have no idea. But I see that you've already got your hands full anyways, with my sloppy seconds."
Red. Everything turned red. I was no longer able to keep myself in check with Edward's insult on Bella, and my arm drew back and my fist connected with Edward's face. I heard the slight crunch of his noise before the thud of his body hitting the floor.
A nurse happened to be walking by, and she let out a scream. "Oh my god! Someone call the police!"
I sighed. Well, I wasn't going to be making it back to Bella's room any time soon. But damn that felt good.
A/N – So who has seen Eclipse? More than once? I went to the midnight showing.. AWESOME! It was crazy though, and I was in my Twilight coma all day Wednesday. I've been meaning to get this update done, but then I tried my hand at making a Twilight video for YouTube and have been glued to Windows Movie Maker for the last two days!
Anyways, hope you enjoy this update! Thanks to all of you who have been leaving feedback, I really appreciate it! *hugs*