A/N: Sorry this is late i am trying to make my chapters longer and nothing would come to me until late last night, so i have spent my spare time today proof reading and tweeking here and there. there is a quite detailed scene and i have marked the begining and end with ***** it is comletely upto you if you read it or not but it is rated M for a reason.
i own nothing but the plot
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CHAPTER 3
Bella pov
February 2006
Finally, I decided to get out of bed and get a shower. A bath would have been better but after last night 'session' I didn't think I could manage it.
Looking in the mirror I saw my face and neck were as usual unmarked but the rest of me was a mass of yellow, green, blue, black and purple. It was so bad that it was a struggle to see where one bruise ended and another began. I'm sure my back was just as bad.
I was so engrossed I almost missed the knock on the door, "Bella, its Rose. Em and I were wondering if you wanted to come watch a movie with us?" yeah the ice queen had thawed towards me over the last 4 years. Five times I'd fallen pregnant and five times I'd lost the baby, Rose's heart breaking with mine every time. I briefly wondered how she would react to this pregnancy.
"Yeah Rose that sounds great, let me just grab a shower and I'll be right out."
Hurrying through my shower, I turned off the water and went to step out only to slip and crash to the floor with a thud.
"BELLA! You ok?" Rose shouted. I was dazed and could only manage a grunt in response.
Before I had time to try again the door was ripped open and there stood Rose eyes blazing as she took in my broken body.
"Bella... god...your body is...what happened...I will kill him!"
"Rose, no, please, I can handle it, I have to." I cried
"Why, you don't have to put up with it. We can protect you."
"Rosie, I... I'm pregnant again" I started sobbing.
"Oh, sweetheart. Come here. It will be ok this time, you'll see. Does he know?"
"No not yet, I just found out this morning. Rose do you really think he'll let me keep this baby?"
"What do you mean let you?" Rose demanded. Shit I'd cocked up. Rosalie's eyes had turned pitch black and she was growling quietly. After a minute she still hadn't moved or said anything.
"I... well... he... Edward said I wasn't good enough to carry his child so..."
Rose sat there for a good five minutes unmoving whilst growling quietly. I was starting to worry.
"Rose?"
"Sorry Bella, I got a little upset. I'm under control now. I promise. Look Bella, I can help you but I need to know, do you want to stay with Edward? Do you love him?"
"No Rose, not anymore. In fact I hate him but I'm him too."
"Then you need to leave him."
"Rose, no I cant. Firstly, he would never stop looking for me, and secondly, I think he has help." I was pretty convinced that it was Alice who was helping Edward. She was never hostile towards me but on the very rare occasion that Edward had left a mark somewhere visible, she was always so smug and I just did not believe she hadn't seen any of the violence, especially the worst incidents.
"What do you mean? Who would do that... unless... but why would she... Bella, I'm going to help you to get away without either of them finding out. I wont say anything to anyone except Emmett but he knows how to hide things from those two. Right, now, I want you to have a nice soak in the bath and relax. I do not want you to make any decisions until can find help. I'm going to take Emmett hunting will you be okay here on your own?"
"Yes, I'll be fine thank you Rosie." I said thanking her for everything.
After a while in the bath, the water was almost completely cold. Getting out I noticed my injuries were slightly less achy, but not by much. As I opened the door there was a blur of light and I found myself pinned against the wall.
"So, what did you possible have to speak to Rosalie about that you don't want me to know about?" Edward growled in my Face.
"I have no idea what you mean Edward."
"Well, Alice saw you and Rosalie having what looked liked quite the cosy chat and when I returned from hunting Rose is blocking her thoughts. So I ask again, what did you and Rose talk about?"
"I don't know why Rose was blocking her thoughts from you Edward but I can assure you that it was nothing to do with me. I fell in bathroom and she came to check I wasn't hurt. Whatever Alice thought she saw, she was mistaken." I lied smoothly. I'd gotten better at lying. I suppose when lying badly became a very painful experience you learnt to lie better very quickly.
"Hmm so you're saying I misunderstood what I read in her head as she was having the vision?"
"Edward, you said yourself that Alice's visions are based on the decisions people make. Perhaps Rosalie wanted to talk to me about something but changed her mind at the last minute. Besides it's not like Alice is never wrong. She said she saw me with a beautiful little baby but it never happened, did it." Immediately I regretted saying it. Edward wouldn't tolerate any mention of the babies that I'd lost. As he put more pressure on my arms I knew it was going to be bad.
"Isabella, we both know who is responsible for the loses of those babies don't we? You refuse to learn your place therefore you are unfit to bare any child of mine."
With that Edward threw me straight towards the bed. The force of the impact made my brain wobble and I couldn't right myself in time to try and move away before he came towards me again. Grabbing me up by my hair he pulled me so we were face to face.
"I am so fucking sick of trying to correct your behaviour. You push me on every rule I put in place for your own protection."
This time Edward punched me straight in the face, whilst still holding me by my hair. I could tell he wasn't using his vampire strength cos his fist would have gone straight threw my head else. Blood was freely flowing from my nose and I was starting to worry. Edward had only once before drawn blood and had almost made me dinner. Surprisingly though as I watched his face closely I saw no hint of blood lust what so ever.
"I don't know how to deal with you anymore. Your behaviour is so unbecoming of a lady that it's disgusting. You act like a common dog. Perhaps if I treated you like a common dog you would respond better." Edward snarled. With those words he ripped my cami from me and started pushing me towards the bed.
I knew what was coming wed been here once or twice before. He was going to force himself on me and then pretend it was what I wanted to. I knew I couldn't stop him but I had to try.
"Edward, please don't do this to me, not again. I'd rather you killed u...me" with that Edward cocked his head to one side like he was concentrating and then roared with anger and started raining blow after blow down on my stomach. I knew this baby was not going to survive the night anyway but it was still breaking me anyway.
Once he deemed he'd done enough to end the pregnancy he went back to his earlier intentions and ripped of my shorts and underwear in one go.
Roughly he shoved his fingers into me pumping just once or twice before thrusting himself into me whilst fisting my breasts. My cry of pain did nothing but spur him on. He continued on for at least an hour before violently pushing away from me.
"Edward, Bella we're back." Esme called. Oh thank god I thought as I tried to roll to my side unsuccessfully.
"Edward, please I need help. It hurts to breath." I begged. I thought my ribs might be broken. I didn't care if I died at this point but I was in serious pain.
"Ok but one word and I will kill everyone you love. Do you understand?"
"Yes"
"Carlisle come please," Edward yelled putting on the panicked voice.
As Carlisle entered the room I tried to cover myself with the sheet but it caused a massive pain to shoot through my stomach. I couldn't stop the blood curdling scream that escaped me.
"ESME! My bag quickly" Carlisle shouted as his eyes fell on my battered body. "Edward how did this happen" Carlisle questioned, it amazed and disgusted me that no one ever asked ME how the bruises ended up on MY body.
"I lost control while we were making love. God Bella I am so sorry please say you forgive me." Edward had positioned himself so he sat on the bed with his back to Carlisle so the nasty threatening look Edward gave me went unnoticed.
"Of course Edward how could I not. It was an accident."
"Bella where does it hurt the most?" Carlisle asked
"Ribs and stomach" I gasped. The pain in my ribs was still bad but the pain in my stomach was getting worse. The cramping a sure sign that Edward had accompliced what he set out to do.
"I need to examine you. We'll start with your ribs and then move on. If you can just move the sheet to the side that should be sufficient". I did as I was told and held me breath as Carlisle examined them.
"No breaks as far as can tell they are just very , very bruised. I'll strap them before we move on ok?"
"I'd rather Rose tapped them if you don't mind Carlisle and I think Edward would prefer it as well," I gave Edward my own threatening look. He knew if Carlisle suspected that is was a case of me needing to not be touched by a man then things could get ugly.
"yes I agree, I would prefer rose to do it Carlisle." Edward sighed taking out his phone to contact her.#
"No need for that Edward I'm here already. Sorry I was so long Bella, I was hoping to be quicker. Perhaps once your all fixed up we could have a sleepover just you and me?" she was such a life saver.
"Thank you Rose that sounds like a awesome idea. Do you think we could persuade Emmett to wait on us like last time?" She knew what I was asking but from the look on Edwards face she was successfully blocking him.
"Sure thing belly-boo. I'll do whatever my sister wants!" Emmett called from his bedroom
"Thanks Emmy-bear." By this time Rose had finished tapping up my ribs without me hardly noticing and had told Carlisle he could come back in.
"Edward hold your breath now!" Alice shouted up the stairs.
The next second I could feel the reason for it start to flow from between my legs. "Rose, my baby" I sobbed.
"shush its ok sweetie I'm here. I've got you. Carlisle hurry up and examine her stomach so I can help her. Edward get out. I look after her for now" Rose started ordering.
"Rosalie if Bella is bleeding and pregnant then I need to examine her properly" Carlisle insisted while about to lift the sheet. I slapped his hand and although it hurt me more he did take notice.
"Carlisle can you heartbeat?" he shook his head, "then the baby is lost. Edward heard the heartbeat just an hour or so ago."
"I'm sorry for your loss Bella." he said as he examined my stomach. "threes just extensive bruising no internal injuries other than… again I'm sorry Bella. Perhaps when your better I could run some test to see why this keeps happening if that's what you want? Regardless I'll send some pain medication in and you'll need to keep off your feet as much as possible. Rose, you know what to look out for, call me if there's anything you cant handle. Goodnight ladies." as he closed the door I began to sob again. Rose just sat and held me for a while before going into the bathroom to run the bath and coming back for me.
Rose let me sit in the bath for as long as I needed and stopped me several times from scrubbing myself to hard. She gently washed the blood away from my body and then washed my hair. Once she was finished she wrapped me in a towel and carried me to the armchair. "can you manage dressing while I sort the bed sheets?" I simply nodded. "Ok here's your pyjamas and then once I've done the sheets we'll get Em to come up and pamper us."
"Maybe you should open the window Rose I don't want you to be suffering because of my blood." I said quietly as I pulled on my shorts.
"Bella it doesn't bother me and it wont bother Em either. Just the thought of why there is blood is more than enough for it to not be a problem. Right now do you want to be in the bed or on top?"
"Um, on top please if I get cold I can use the comforter. I just wanted to say thank you again Rosie. I really don't know what I would do without you at the moment."
"its fine, its what sisters do," she said as she picked me up and placed me on the bed, "Now where is that man of mine?" not a moment later Emmett appeared in front of me with what could only be described as a loot bag.
"so we've got a bundle of movies. I didn't think you'd want soppy so I bought a few action and a few comedy. Then we have an assortment of foul smelling goodies from the cupboard that I've seen girls eating and drinking by the boat load at school, and finally a bumper pack of tablets that Carlisle asked me to bring up to you." he emptied the loot bag out on the bed beside me and handed the tablets to Rosalie, she examined them quickly and then popped out 2 which she dropped into my waiting hand.
"there's a mild sedative here as well Bella, do you want it now or see how you go?" she asked with a frown.
"I'll wait and see. I don't really want to go to sleep right now."
A few hours later our movie marathon Alice appeared in the door way. "Rose, why are you blocking Edward it's making him really angry. We were lucky things weren't a lot worse."
"Alice, how do you know why Edward was angry when he came back here tonight?" I had a suspicion but the fact that it seemed I was right made me feel sick. I had done nothing to this girl.
"I saw it Bella, like I see everything. Everything except you, rose and Em for some reason. Ever since you slipped in the shower and rose barged in it just went blank." Alice seemed more upset at he loss of her visions than what I had gone through.
"Yeah, that would be my shield Alice, I'd been practising with it for a few weeks. Now I have a little control over it however it seems I can turn it on but I cant turn it off just down. So until I gain full control over it, possibly when I finally go through the change, you wont be getting nothing but flicker static, so sorry bout that. Now if you don't mind your interrupting our girl time." I had tried to be nice to Alice for the last 4 years despite my fears of her helping Edward but now knowing for definite I just didn't care.
As Alice huffed and left my room I chanced a look at Rose and Emmett. Both looked proud of me and I even received a high five from rose.
We ended up watching 5 movies before I unwillingly drifted off to sleep.
The next day I woke to find both Emmett and Rosalie still by my side. Emmett playing video games and Rosalie reading a new car magazine.
"hey, what time is it?" I asked groggily. I tried to sit up but it was too painful.
"Half past one, in the afternoon, I was beginning to worry" Rose mused as she handed me 2 more pain killers, "are you hungry? I could take you to the bathroom and then make something."
"Bathroom would be great Rose but I'm not really that hungry, besides I still have all of this yummy junk food from last night to get through yet."
The day seemed to go really slowly. There was a nagging ache in my chest that wouldn't go away even with the pain killers.
At about 3pm Rosalie agreed it would be ok for me to go down stairs as long as I promised to sit. She also warned me that Edward would probably fuss a lot. Nodding my understanding, she picked me up and carried me down the stairs to the family room. Almost immediately, I regretted my decision to come down stairs as simultaneously, Edward flashed towards me taking my hand, Carlisle took my other hand checking my pulse and Esme shoved a tray of food under my nose.
For the next few hours they all went about their business with the exception of Edward and Rosalie, even Emmett stayed close playing video games although on closer inspection I could tell he was monitoring the situation in the room.
Nobody tried to engage me in conversation although Rosalie did put on another movie, so I could wallow in peace while absently rubbing my still aching chest.
A/N: chapter 4 will be multi pov so if anyone notices any pov jumps without notification please do let me know. i have chapter 5 written already as it just flowed from my mind on thursday so i will post chapter 4 and 5 together.
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