(So I'm sorry I kind of forgot about this story for awhile, but I got some new inspiration for it so I hope you enjoy this next part. I'll try not to take so long for the next chapter. I own nothing but my OC.)

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"Dad! We're heading off to the school!" Dani called into the house before letting the door swing shut behind her and Bella as the two girls carefully made their way down the steps towards the driveway.

"All right! Just be careful of the-!" Charlie started to call back until Bella let out a squeak and flopped backwards onto her butt on the concrete.

Dani snorted a laugh and quickly covered her mouth with her hand to stifle the rest of her giggles as their Dad rushed to helped his fallen daughter up.

"...ice. You okay Darling?" He asked. Bella nodded and leveled a narrow eyed look at her twin. "Fine!...I'm fine Dad. Just...fell." She muttered, shaking her head as she reached to steady herself on the hood of the truck.

Dani pressed her lips together. "Yeah no kidding, Miss Graceful." She retorted sarcastically, shoving her hands into the pockets of her jacket to try to warm them.

"Hey! Lay off, Dani! It's slippery out here and ice doesn't exactly help with bad coordination." Bella protested, still lightly glaring at Danielle as she shuffled cautiously towards the driver's side door of the car.

Danielle shrugged and turned to move towards the other side of the car. "All right. Let's just hope you're more coordinated with your driving on this terrain. I'd like to get to school in one piece, if you don't mind." She joked, reaching to open the door.

Bella sighed. "I hate you." She muttered under her breath.

"You Girls should be fine. I chained the tires early this morning after I saw the ice and snow. Just remember to take it slow and take your foot completely off the brake if you start to skid." Charlie reassured as Bella clumsily pulled herself up into the driver's seat.

"Sure Dad." Bella nodded at her Dad before pulling the door shut and dropping her bag behind her.

"Oh! One more thing before you guys take off!" Charlie hurried over and put his hand on the window before Bella could close it.

"I'm going to be late for dinner tonight. A security guard down in Mason County got killed by some kind of animal last night and they've asked for additional back up." A slight frown crossed his expression then and both Bella and Dani matched it.

"An animal?" Bella asked, furrowing her brows in bewilderment.

Charlie nodded his head. "Yeah, you're not in Phoenix anymore Bells. This kind of thing does happen around here from time to time." He reached a hand to run through his hair while Dani chewed on her lip.

"Dad, that's awful. Don't worry, we'll save you enough dinner when you get back. Bella and I will take care of it." She said turning to glance at her sister in time to see her nod in agreement.

Letting out a sigh, Charlie nodded and moved away from the truck. "All right. Great! Have a good day at school then!" He waved.

Bella nodded. "Bye Dad! Thanks again for the tires!" She called after him before starting the engine of the truck with a deafening roar. Dani flinched then turned to snatch her seatbelt. "

"I hate that noise." She grumbled, making Bella chuckle a bit. "Well, it's not too late to ask Ch..Dad for a ride yet." She joked making Dani roll her eyes playfully.

"Har Har. Let's get going. We're going to be late." She folded her arms across her chest and sat back against the headrest. Bella reached for the gear shift and put the truck in the drive.

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"Um, hello." A soft slightly unsure voice spoke in her ear and Dani flinched, whirling around from her locker so fast she nearly hit her head on the door.

Edward neatly stepped back at her sudden movement, his eyebrow shifting upwards a bit. "Sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. I just wanted to apologize for what happened the other day after school. I was upset about something and wasn't really thinking about where I was going." He said without missing a beat.

A sincere smile curved a corner of his mouth, but Dani just stared at him. "Ummm...Thanks, but I'm not really the one you should be apologizing to." She said, reaching with one hand to grab a book from her locker before slamming it shut with a satisfactory bang.

Edward's smile fell and he nodded before falling into step beside her. "Right. I already plan on apologizing to your sister too...when we have Biology later today. She seems nice." He shrugged and Dani nodded.

"Good. And yeah, she is once you get to know her...and get past the 'I hate socializing and everything that's cold and wet' thing." She shrugged. Edward concealed a smirk.

"I see. Well what's it like readjusting with your sister back in town? I imagine it's...quite a change from what you've been used to." He tried to keep things at a friendly level.

Danielle shrugged and turned to face him as they neared her next class. "It's all right. Sure having to share my room is kind of a pain, but then again with Bella around I don't have to do all the cooking for Dad anymore. Plus we get to ride to school in her truck instead of the patrol car." She smiled a bit and Edward returned her smile.

"Yeah I bet that's nice. But you can't wait to get your own car, can you?" He asked, his smile turning a bit conspirational as Danielle turned away.

"Maybe, but..for now I don't mind bumping rides off my sister." She joked, adjusting the straps of her backpack a little as she continued to walk towards class.

Edward chuckled softly. "Well, personally I think a volkswagon beetle will suit you. More than your sister's truck anyway." He replied teasingly.

Dani started to laugh a little at that until she fully realized what Edward had said and froze in the middle of the hallway.

Edward stopped and gave her a strange look. "What?" Without replying Danielle gaped at him for a moment before finally shaking her head.

"Nothing. I just thought you said something weird, but maybe I imagined it." She shrugged and started to walk again. She turned to look over her left shoulder when Edward remained rooted to his spot.

"Are you okay?" She asked, feeling a little concerned at the deer-in-headlights look that had come across Edward's face.

Edward quickly snapped out of it. "Uh...yeah, sorry I just remembered I forgot something at my locker uh..."

"Wait!...What's with your eye color? Aren't they normally...like dark brown or something?" Dani cut him off. Edward grimaced as if getting an awful taste in his mouth and shook his head.

"No I...sorry I have to go!" He apologized again before turning gracefully on his heel and speed walking down the opposite direction of the hall, leaving Dani to stare after him with a stunned look on her face.

What the heck was that about?

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"Hello? Earth to Dani! Did you hear what I said?" Angela asked, snapping her fingers in front of her friend's face as they walked out from the gym together towards the student parking lot.

Bella had walked out ahead to start the truck and get it warmed up.

Blinking rapidly, Dani turned her head rapildy in Angela's direction giving her a quick apologetic look. "Sorry Ange, what did you say?" She asked, embarrassedly running a hand through her hair as her friend chuckled and shook her head dismissively at her.

"Forget it. You're obviously not in the mood to talk about Prom today. What's up? Why are you so distracted?" Angela asked as they got down the steps from the school down to the parking lot.

Danielle sighed. "First of all I'm never in the mood to talk about Prom and second, it's about Edward and Bella." She confessed, knowing she didn't need to hide anything from Angela.

"What do you mean?" Angela asked furrowing her brows slightly. "Are Edward and Bella...?" She trailed off and Dani quickly shook her head.

"No!...No, it's just last week Edward couldn't stand her for no reason and today according to Bella, he acted like a complete sweetheart to her in Biology. He acted weird around me too earlier. I don't get it." She sighed, grabbing onto a pole when her foot slipped on a patch of ice.

Angela shrugged and tucked a loose piece of hair behind her ear. "Well Edward's always been weird. You know that. I wouldn't think too much on it, Dani." She advised, but Danielle shook her head.

"No, but..." She started to argue and trailed off when she heard the unmistakable sound of tires screeching.

Turning their heads towards the sound, Danielle and Angela gasped when they saw a van skidding out of control as the driver attempted to steer it towards the exit of the school.

The car swerved again to the left and Dani blanched when she realized it was headed straight for Bella and the truck.

"Bella look out!" She shrieked, forgetting about the icy ground as she made a mad dash towards her sister.

Bella turned and her eyes widened to the size of dinner plates when she saw the out of control van getting closer to her location.

Danielle started to run faster, vaguely hearing Angela screaming her name when a cold hard hand shoved her violently away to the side, sending her crashing across the parking lot just before the sounds of metal crunching and brakes squealing rung through her ears.

"Oh my God! Dani! Are you okay?" "Holy Crap! Bella is still stuck between the cars!" "Someone call an ambulance!" "Make that two ambulances!"

Danielle let out a soft groan as frantic voices of the other students who had witnessed the incident floated around the area and through her ears which were still ringing from the fall and from the sound of the cars colliding.

Gritting her teeth, Danielle tried to get up only to halt any attempt at moving when a shooting pain raced up her shoulder.

"Dani?" Danielle tried to crane her neck to see who was speaking to her as a few figures began to surround her. "Ow..." She croaked, wincing when her shoulder continued to throb.

Angela quickly appeared in her line of sight and laid a gentle hand on her opposite shoulder before speaking again. "Don't move Dani. Jess is calling 911. The ambulances will be here soon!" She tried to be comforting, but Dani shook her head.

"Ange, Bella's still between the cars! You have to go check-!"

"Bella's fine!" It was Eric's turn to cut her off. "Cullen saved her. You can rest easy, Danielle. It looks like your shoulder might be broken anyway." He winced as his eyes fell on the slightly unnatural position of his friend's right shoulder.

Danielle let out a shaky breath of relief. "Thank God!..Thank God!" She shut her eyes briefly, opening them again when she heard the tell tale sound of sirens getting closer to the school.

"Hang tight, Girl. They're pulling in. How bad does it hurt?" Angela asked, looking up as one of the ambulances pulled over by the wrecked van and the other moved towards their location.

Danielle shrugged her good shoulder. "It's...about a six on a 1-10 scale." She bit her lip as two paramedics rushed towards her with a stretcher between them.

Suddenly remember that their Dad was taking out an out county call at the moment, Dani quickly shoved her hand into the pocket of her coat and held her cell phone out to Angela just as the medics knelt down at her side.

Eric immediately jumped in and explained about how she fell and likely fractured her shoulder.

"Ange, call my Dad and tell him what happened! Tell him to meet us at the hospital!" She pleaded as one of the paramedics began to ask her a series of questions while the other gently fitted a neck brace on her.

Angela took the phone and earnestly nodded her head. "I will! And I'll meet you at the hospital too!" She promised, opening the phone and hitting Chief Swan's speed dial before putting the receiver to her ear.

Smiling gratefully, Dani winced again when the medics gently tried to lift her onto the stretcher. As they started to lift her up to carry her into the ambulance, her eyes fell on the Cullen siblings.

They were standing close by, casting disapproving glances in Edward's direction as he gave instructions to the paramedics while refusing a stretcher of his own. Almost as if they were angry that Edward had tried to save someone from being hit by a car.

Despite her pain and the anxiety that still raced through her due to the shock of the accident, Danielle managed to feel confused before she was shut into the back of the ambulance where the increasing pain in her shoulder and the piercing wail of the siren blocked all other thoughts from her consciousness.

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"Well, it looks like your shoulder is in fact broken, but it's a hairline fracture so it should heal fairly easily. Just make sure to keep your arm in that sling and don't try to carry anything too heavy for the next few weeks. I'll write you up a prescription for ibuprofen to help with the pain." Dr. Cullen smiled kindly at Danielle as he finished examining her and inspecting her cast.

Danielle smiled weakly at him return. "Thanks so much, Doc." She said gratefully as she looked down at the sling her right arm was now cradled in.

"Of course. You're actually pretty fortunate you took the brunt of your fall with your shoulder. You might be in worse shape if you'd hit your head instead." Dr. Cullen responded with a slight frown crossing his handsome features as he wrote something down on his clipboard.

Biting her lip, Dani nodded until she heard the sound of the doors flying open followed by a set of frantic heavy footsteps entering the ward where she, Bella and Tyler, the driver of the van that caused their accident were being tended to.

"Dani! Bella!" Charlie called in a panicky voice as he searched frantically for his daughters.

Spotting Tyler sitting on a bed with blood stained bandages wrapped around his head while a nurse tended to him, the police chief quickly jabbed a finger in his direction.

"You and I are going to talk later! Bella?..Dani?"

"I'm over here, Dad!" Dani called over to her Dad, frowning a bit at his hostility towards Tyler.

Charlie breathed visibly in relief upon seeing her. "Thank God! Are you okay? What happened? Your friends said you broke your shoulder! Is Bella-?"

"I'm fine Dad!" Dani gently cut him off, trying not to wince again as Dr. Cullen moved to greet her frantic father. "I'm a little banged up, but I'm okay. As far as I know, Bella's fine too." She tried to be comforting.

"Dani!" Tyler called over, leaning a little towards her from his bed. "I'm really sorry! I tried to stop! I really did!"

"Yeah I know." Dani nodded reassuringly, only too aware of the daggers her Dad was shooting in the boy's direction. "It's okay. Are you hurt much?" She asked before Charlie cut back in.

"It most certainly is not okay! How fast did you think you were going? Did you even chain your tires this morning?"

"Dad!" Dani reached out with her good arm to stop his yelling. "Stop, it was an accident." She protested.

Charlie took in another shaky breath. "You two could have been killed today. You know that?" He asked, tensely as he pinched the bridge of his nose between his fingers.

Dani nodded her head. "Yeah, but we didn't. Please don't yell at Tyler anymore. I think he knows it could have been much worse than it was." She said quietly.

Charlie sighed and took her hand carefully in his. "All right, but you scared me today. Both of you. When I got that call from your friend..." He trailed off and shook his head.

Dani gave him an understanding look. "I know. Sorry we scared you, Dad." She squeezed his hand. Charlie squeezed back then turned his attention to the doctor who had been quietly standing by for the past few minutes.

"So uh, what's the full diagnosis Dr. Cullen?" He asked as casually as he could manage. Dr. Cullen offered him a kind smile.

"Well Danielle's shoulder is broken, Chief Swan, but as long as she keeps it in the sling and doesn't try to use it too much, it should heal in no time." Dr. Cullen smiled reassuringly at Charlie while tearing a page from his notepad.

"No sign of head trauma, but she might experience some post-traumatic anxiety later on in the day. I'll send your painkiller prescription off with a nurse and check on Bella. Take care of yourself now, Danielle." He patted Danielle on the knee before leaving her bedside. Dani nodded at him.

"I will." Charlie took another deep breath and started to follow the Doctor, turning back towards Danielle briefly.

"Are you going to be okay for a while? I want to follow Dr. Cullen and check on Bella. If you need me to stay, I can-."

"I'll be okay." Dani was quick to reassure him. "Go on Dad." She smiled and Charlie nodded, patting her good arm one more time before shuffling off after the Doctor to another bed across the ward.

With a soft sigh, Danielle started to settle in on the slightly uncomfortable bed when the ward doors swung open again and she heard another familiar voice.

"Danielle! Hey, are you okay? What did Dr. Cullen say?" Angela scurried to her bedside, looking slightly disheveled as her eyes briefly fell on arm sling.

Dani grinned seeing her best friend. "I'm fine. My shoulder's broken, but the doctor said it should heal quickly." Angela smiled back.

"That's a relief. Everyone was freaking out about you and Bella since you went flying and Bella got trapped between her truck and Tyler's van. I thought I was going to have a panic attack really!" She dramatized and Dani laughed.

"So was I, actually. I don't even remember how I ended up falling across the parking lot." She frowned slightly. "I mean, I remember I was running to try to push Bella out of the way and then it was like something pushed me to the side." She fiddled with the strap of her sling.

Angela shrugged. "Well, the important thing is, you're okay and so is Bella. Although, not to be that person, but I think this is going to put a damper on our shopping plans this weekend." She gave a slightly apologetic smile, but Dani laughed it off.

"Nah, I'll still go. You just won't be able to make me try on anything." She joked and Angela laughed with her before suddenly remembering something.

"Oh! I almost forgot!" She shoved her hand into her coat pocket and pulled out Danielle's cellphone. "Here! Your phone. I was going to give it to your Dad when he arrived, but he didn't really stop in the waiting room." Angela shrugged and held out the device.

Dani gratefully took it from her. "Thanks Ange and you should have seen him when he came in here a minute ago. I thought he was going to rip Tyler out of that bed and take him straight to court." She rolled her eyes and Angela snorted a laugh.

"Yeah I can picture that. So when can you go? You don't have to stay overnight, do you?" She asked. Danielle started to shake her head when she heard the door to the ward slam again.

She and Angela both turned their heads just in time to see Edward Cullen fleeing the ward, the same angry scowl from last week on his face.

Angela let out a scoff. "Geez, what flew up his very expensive pants and died?" She laughed. Danielle narrowed her eyes. Then her gaze fell on the bed across from her where Dr. Cullen was bent over a clearly annoyed Bella.

"I have no idea." She looked down at her arm in the sling again and began wiggling towards the side of the bed.

"Whoa! Are you sure you should be getting up so soon? I mean you did just go smashing into the school parking lot earlier." Angela held up a hand in caution as Danielle slowly got to a standing position next to the bed.

"I'm fine, Angela." She gave her friend a reassuring look. "I broke my shoulder not my leg." Carefully, Danielle pressed her right hand against her stomach then and slowly turned to make her way across the ward.

"Okay, if you're sure. I'm going to get going now, if that's okay. My Mom's blowing up my phone and if I don't call her back now, I'll be in trouble." Angela gave Danielle a weak smile as she moved towards the exit and Danielle nodded understandingly.

"Okay. Text me whenever you get a chance and thanks again for calling my Dad and coming over to check on me and my sister." Angela shrugged. "No problem. Feel better soon okay?" She waved before skipping out of the ward.

Danielle returned the wave with her good arm before turning to join her Dad and Bella on the other side of the emergency ward.

"Well, everything looks good. You may experience some ptsd later on, but I think you're good to go Bella. You and your sister just take it easy for the rest of the day, all right?" Dr. Cullen smiled at the younger Swan Twin as he finished his examination and nodded up at Danielle as he noticed her inching over.

Bella gave him a half smile then met Danielle's eyes briefly before nodding her head. "I will. You okay Dani?" She addressed her sister, making Charlie turn to look over his shoulder at her.

Danielle nodded. "Yeah, you?"

"Yeah." Bella nodded back, casting her gaze downwards for a second before continuing. "But I guess it probably would have been a whole lot worse if Edward had gotten there when he did."

Danielle furrowed her brow in confusion. "Edward?"

"Edward?" Charlie repeated, his gaze flickering back to Dr. Cullen who frowned a little at the uttering of the name. "Your boy, Edward?"

Bella nodded enthusiastically. "Yeah it was amazing! He got to me so fast and he wasn't even anywhere near me." She explained.

Danielle tilted her head to the side in thought. "Adrenaline rush maybe?" She suggested, remembering she felt someone shove her to the side when she fell.

Did Edward push me out of the way before getting to Bella?

"Maybe." Bella shrugged though she didn't look sure. Dr. Cullen finally looked up from his records. "Well sounds to me like you were extremely lucky. Make sure to pick up Danielle's prescription for her pain medication at the receptionist's desk before you all leave. Charlie?" He nodded at the Police Chief who nodded back in return.

"Thank you again, Dr. Cullen."

"It was my pleasure." Dr. Cullen's smile turned warm and friendly again before he weaved back through the crowd of nurses to the door of the ward.

Huffing out a soft sigh, Bella turned to slide off her bed. "I am so ready to get home." She groaned. Charlie nodded.

"Well, I'll go sign off the paper work, get Dani's prescription up and then pull the car around. You girls come slowly okay? Especially you." He pointed at Dani.

Bella started to protest. "Dad, what about my truck?"

"Already had it moved back to the house. Oh! And one of you might want to give your Mother a call." Charlie gestured at his two daughters just as Bella's face fell.

"You told her?"

Danielle winced, imagining the panicky state their Mother was likely in at the moment.

Charlie gave an apologetic shrug. "I'm sorry. She's your Mother. She deserves to know what's going on."

Bella let out a groan and ran a hand through her long hair while Danielle shook her head. "Don't worry about it, Dad. We'll call her." She glanced at her sister and Charlie nodded in satisfaction.

"Good. I'll see you two in a bit." He strolled from the ward. Danielle chewed on her bottom lip as she watched the door swing shut after him.

"You're calling Mom." She deadpanned to Bella, making her twin whirl around on the spot to face her.

"What? Why?" She demanded, crossing her arms. Danielle inclined her head to the side. "Because you've lived with her more and therefore know how to make her stop wigging out faster than I do."

A slight grin quirked the side of her mouth and Danielle turned satisfied to walk towards the door.

Bella sighed and followed after her. "Fine! But dinner's on you then." She pointed at her sister.

Dani calmly motioned to her immobolized arm. "Broken shoulder?"

Bella groaned again and stalked out of the ward. Chuckling, Dani followed at a much slower pace, coming to a stop only when she spotted Bella in the middle of the hall face to face with a still scowling Edward Cullen.

Danielle frowned and peered around them just in time to see Dr. Cullen and one of his daughters hurrying away through the corridor.

"Yes you were!" Bella snapped in an insistent tone, making Edward narrow his eyes irritably. Danielle frowned at the confrontation, about to step in when Edward responded.

"Bella, you hit your head when you fell back there. It's possible the disorientation made you think you saw what you think you saw." He said evenly.

Bella's eyes narrowed. "No, I know what I saw!" She fired back and Danielle winced for the first time since the accident not in pain.

"Really? And what exactly is that?" Edward asked calmly.

Bella scowled at him. "You stopped the van! You pushed it with your hand and knocked my sister out of the way!" Danielle felt her breath catch in her throat at this accusation.

So Edward was the one who shoved me over? But how? I didn't see him there and the ground was so slippery he would have fallen trying to get to me from wherever he was...Right?

"Is that so?" Edward sniffered, his eyes briefly flickering up at Danielle before he returned their focus to Bella.

"Well no one will you believe you even if you told them." He said as if that ended the discussion. Danielle furrowed her brows a bit as Bella continued to be persistent.

"I wasn't going to tell anyone if that's what you're worried about!" She called after him. "I just wanted to know the truth."

Edward turned back to face her with an aggravated sigh. "Can't you just thank me and get over it?" He retorted.

Danielle shook her head and stepped up next to Bella. "Bella, come on. We're supposed to be meeting Dad in the lobby." She reached to grab her arm with her good hand.

Biting her lip, Bella ignored her. "Thank you Edward." She said stiffly, her eyes still set in a scowl.

Edward matched her expression. "You're not planning on letting this go, are you?" He asked and Bella shook her head.

"Well in that case I hope you enjoy disappointment." Edward finished calmly, turning on his heel and strolling off after his family.

Bella stared after him, clenching her jaw in frustration until Dani nudged her again. "Bella leave it alone. Come on." She urged. This time Bella nodded and turned to head off down in other direction.

"Fine."

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