MUWAHAHAHA! (sorry just felt like doing that) Anyway welcome to the 12th chapter of "la belleza de la muerte (the beauty of death)." Thanks for all of the reviews/favorites/follows on this story and myself. I apologize for the extremely long wait ya'll have had while I tried to get inspiration to guide me with these next few chapters. Without further ado ENTER:
CHAPTER TWELVE
I managed to find the button and push it while keeping a very upset Bella and worried dad at arm's length. Having pushed the button to call the nurse I began to try and calm them down, "Listen we can talk about everything later however right now, I would just like to go home." I told them honestly. Bella's eyes lost some of their anger and her angry posture shifted before finally falling apart completely. "Honestly Gemma wha-" Charlie was interrupted when a nurse came into the room to check on me. Upon finding me awake her eyes almost popped out of her head and she exclaimed something in a language that I had never heard before and yet somehow I understood exactly what she said. I felt my face pinch in confusion as I stared at the women who was already running out of the hospital room hollering for the Doctor. I turned my attention back to Bella and Charlie and found Bella's face to be an almost mirror image of my confusion as she stared at the doorway the nurse had just exited. "You understood to?" I asked Bella in a hushed voice as Charlie went to the doorway not sure why the nurse had made such a ruckus.
Bella nodded, "Yes…I don't know how though." She replied with a low voice as well. I began to chew on my bottom lip as I pondered over it however a sudden sharp pain hit my temple and I yelped softly in surprise at the suddenness and the severity of it grabbing my head. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed Bella in the same position as me, she turned her head and our eyes met. Immediately we reached out and grasped hands and it felt like a mental shield dropped down, blocking my head from the terrible pain I had just been experiencing. "..Bells tell me you feel that to.." I asked her as I straightened back up turning my attention to her to find her standing straight up and looking pain free and very very confused. "What's going on?" Bella asked me confused, I shook my head and shrugged my shoulders in answer and we both plopped down on the hospital bed still holding hands tightly.
The nurse came back with two other nurses and a Doctor all who looked as surprised and in shock as she did. The Doctor wanted to do some test's however Bella and I refused to let go of each other and as he couldn't force me to do the test's he did started asking me questions and checking my vitals. He directed a question to Charlie and when no answer was forthcoming we all turned our attention to Charlie who was staring at Bella and me with complete shock his mouth hanging open slightly. Confused Bella and I gave each other a once over and finding nothing wrong we turned our attention back to Charlie, "Dad what's wrong?" I asked confused.
"You..how-when did you and Bella learn whatever the heck language it is that you are using to talk to them?" Charlie asked me finally closing his mouth and straightening up a bit. I felt my eyebrows raise in surprise and confusion as Bella and I spoke up at the same time, "What are you talking about dad/Charlie?" We asked in unison.
"Here I need your signature on this and I will need some of her information so if you wouldn't mind following me…" The Doctor said however when Charlie failed to respond to him besides giving him a blank look Bella and I exchanged another glance, as we began to realize what was happening. Somehow Bella and I knew Celtic and Charlie, who didn't speak anything other than English was at a complete loss as to what the Doctor was saying. My head was swirling with confusion and the pain that was beginning to catch up to me so I dropped my head onto Bella's shoulder and blocked out the world around me for a few minutes as I closed my eyes and tried to just focus on Bella and the present.
I heard the Doctor switch to speaking English with Charlie and telling him about what all was wrong with me, using medical terms that trying to figure out was giving me a small headache. After several minutes there was silence and I looked up to find Charlie the only other person besides Bella in the room with me. "Dad can we leave now? I feel fine and they can't force me to stay. If you want I'll get checked out at the hospital in Forks." I said feeling tired and just ready to let go of everything and have a good cry and a long sleep. "Okay, let me make sure everything's signed and the Doctor knows." Charlie said his voice softer then normal as he agreed before he left the room.
I sighed and fell backwards on the hospital bed my neck and head hanging off of the bed and I stared at the room from my upside down position which Bella joined me in after a few seconds. Wanting to get my mind off of everything I spoke up, "So what's happening with Edward?" I asked tiredly. "…he dumped me." Bella replied. I just nodded and blinked as I stared at the ceiling and then her words computed and I jerked upwards and turned towards her. "HE DID WHAT?!" I demanded. "He dumped me, it would have been the fourth day that you were missing." Bella replied not moving from where she was laying across the hospital bed. I laid back down beside her, "Start from the beginning?" I asked not wanting to push her if she wasn't ready to talk about it. I thought she wouldn't but after about a minute she began to talk.
"Well after waking up and finding the note from you, by the way I loved the necklace it was beautiful, I drove to school and went through the day, Alice with a little help from Jasper had me agreeing to go to a party at the Cullens house that weekend. Me being me got there and managed to cut my finger which led to Jasper feeling everyone's bloodlust and he looked like he was going to jump me then Edward shoved me away and into a glass table and Carlise had to stitch me up. On Monday when I got home Edward was there…he said he wanted to talk and walked into the forest. He proceeded to tell me that he didn't want me and left me in the middle of the forest I stupidly tried to follow him and I got lost. Dad had search parties out looking for me and not three hours later Renée called us and told us that you were missing and dad and I nearly went off on her especially when she told us about Andrew Gibbler and his fiancé. Then she went on to tell us about how the Police found five bodies but none of them were yours and one of them was the body of a female identified as Vivian Lewis, fiancé of Andrew Gibbler. And then she added the fact that you had been missing since the thirteenth, I lost it and cussed a streak that would have made you proud. After that everything is pretty much a repetitive blurr…. Renée did tell us that it was her decision not to let you tell anyone about him though." Bella said her voice beginning to crack with her emotions.
I gently squeezed her hand and we lay there in silence as we waited for dad to come back with the Doctor so we could finally go home. After what felt like forever but was probably only twenty minutes Charlie came back into the room and told us that we could leave. Bella got up and went to the bathroom to blow her nose and clean up her face and I struggled to sit up feeling my body strain against the stitches. "The Phoniex Police are going to want a statement whenever we get back to Forks they will have two of their people meet us at the hospital in Forks." Charlie told me rubbing the back of his neck. I gave him a small nod, having figured as much. It was with a strange feeling of regret mixed with joy I boarded the plane with Charlie and Bella and we left Ireland. Midway through the flight I fell asleep, barely registering the feeling of Bella resting her head on my shoulder as I laid my head against the window. My last thought was, "Finally going home."
My entire body tensed and I immediately grabbed the hand that was coming towards me in a tight grip as my eyes flew open, my body immediately trying to crouch but unable to move I started to panic until my surroundings came into focus. My breath which I had been holding as I started to panic came out in one loud whoosh and I began to breath normally again. "Sorry dad." I said as I let go of his wrist which I had been squeezing so tightly I wouldn't be surprised if it had a bruise in the form of my hand. "It's okay." Charlie replied awkwardly, Bella who had been sleeping woke up from our voices and yawned causing me to yawn as well. Rubbing my eyes and scrubbing my face I un-buckled my belt and waited for Bella to get out of her seat before I climbed out of mine to stand in the middle of the aisle.
Finally be free to stretch I did just that, wincing as my stitches pulled a bit before Charlie grabbed the backpack and we walked out of the airplane, which by the looks of it we were the last one's out. I felt my knees ready to give out just from walking out of the airport as my pain slowly grew worse from the bumpy ride in the Taxi that we took to the hospital. There was silence as we road to the hospital until a thought came to me and I turned towards Charlie, "Does anyone else know?" I asked curious and with a bit of dread at the thought of the possible number of people that would be giving me looks of pity and curiosity.
Bella who was sitting in the middle chewed on her lower lip looking at her hands like they were fascinating and I felt my eyes narrow a bit. "Bella..?" I asked softly but with a demanding note in it. "I was panicking and didn't know who else to call!" Bella said defending herself. I stared at her waiting for her to tell me who she had told although I had the faintest feeling that I knew who she had called. "I called Jasper and asked him if he or anyone else might know where you were at…." Bella said her voice trailing off as she picked at invisible lint on her jeans. "And it's a good thing she did to, Alice called around and a friend of hers told us about seeing you in Ireland. From there on it took the FBI only two weeks to narrow down your location." Charlie said defending Bella.
"Okay..anyone else?" I asked looking between Bella and Charlie. Charlie spoke up, "Well I told Billy and Harry since they are my closest friends. Jacob was with his dad and overheard us and then told those two other boys that your friends with. Quill and Embry? But other than that no-one else, we figured..well Bells figured you wouldn't want anyone else to know." Charlie said. I laid my head back on the headrest of the seat and began to chew my dry and cracked bottom lip as I tried to keep my feelings under wraps. "Do they all know that ya'll found me?" I asked my eyes closed as I tried to keep my mind focused on the present as black spots danced behind my eyelids. "Not yet, we got the call in the middle of the night and left immediately." Charlie said and then the car was filled once again with silence.
