Chapter Three: The Diagnosis
(Jacobs P.O.V.)
Once we arrived at the hospital they rushed both Bella and I in to the ER and started assessing the damage done. I was (of course) fine and more worried about Bella than my self. Bella was still unconscious and now had stitches in her head. No one would tell me anything about her condition because I wasn't family, I was about to loose it when Charlie, Billy, and Sam arrived and the doctors finally started talking.
"Officer Swan I hate to have to say this but we wont really know whats wrong until she wakes up, we know she does however have a mild concussion, and that could cause some memory loss possibly permanent or not, but like I said we wont know until she wakes up." he said looking at Charlie.
"and how will we know if she has memory loss or not?" Charlie asked.
"well a lot of times it comes from mentioning something she would normally recognize right away and she doesn't remember it all, or she could not even know you, it just really depends, but if she does suffer from memory loss she shouldn't be forced in to remembering it, it could cause more damage that way." the doctor continued.
"So if she forgets something we should just work around it, and warn everyone else to do so as well?" Charlie asked confused.
"honestly yes, her memory could have blocked it out for a reason, it could have been a painful memory that her subconscious blocked out trying to protect her from herself. Has Bella recently suffered from any traumatic experiences?" the doctor asked while writing on Bella's chart.
"um well you know the Cullen's left right?" Charlie stammered out uncomfortably.
"Yes why?" looking as if he didn't seem to get the relevance of this.
"Well Bella was dating Doctor Cullen's boy Edward, and well he broke up with her while they were in the woods, and he kind of said somethings to her that hurt her really badly and she really hasn't been the same since then." Charlie explained.
"that's actually what she was upset about when she had the accident. This girl at school brought it up and said some stuff about it and she got really upset and was crying, I tried to get her to let me drive but she wouldn't." I said looking down at my feet.
"Well with that kind of stress it could cause some pretty bad repercussions but as I said earlier we'll just have to wait till she wakes up. You all can go in and sit with her just have a nurse page me when she wakes up." The doctor said as he walked away.
We all walked in to Bella's room and waited, after a few hours my dad and Sam left and it was just my self and Charlie. It was kind of tense. I couldn't tell if he blamed me for the accident or not. I was honestly afraid to ask, but I knew I had to.
"um Charlie, I really am sorry, and I really did try to get the wheel away from her, you know I love Bella and I would never want this for her." I said looking at Bella and avoiding his gaze.
"Jacob I don't blame you for this, I know it's not your fault. Honestly in my opinion it's Edwards, he's to blame for all of this." Charlie said. And then we both saw it, Bella's eyes flickered. She was waking up.
"Bells?" Charlie said.
"Bella hunny?" I said hoping she was okay.
"Hey? Why am I at the hospital? What happened?" she said confused.
"Bella we got in a car accident remember?" I said hoping she did.
"oh yeah I was upset because of Loren saying something. What'd she say to get me so upset?" Bella asked.
"Some crap about Edward." I said kind of tensely.
"About who?" Bella asked confused.
"Edward? Edward Cullen?" I said.
"Who's that? Wait isn't he that doctors kid we use to go to school with, and your family had that strange legend about them?" Bella said looking kind of confused about why we were looking at her strangely.
"um Jacob I need to talk to you outside for a moment, then one of use needs to go get the doctor to let him know shes awake", Charlie said while walking to the door, "Be right back Bella,"
"it's a miracle!" Charlie said once we were out of the room.
"yeah now lets just hope it's permanent. Okay how about I talk to her, she'll open up to me more, while you go talk to the doctor?" I said wanting to see what exactly she did remember.
"okay."
"Bells", I said as I walked in and sat beside her bed, "are you okay? You remember everything okay?"
"yeah, oh you mean because I said that about the strange legends? I said that for Charlie's benefit, I know its not just some silly legend don't worry my memories fine." she said smiling and then reached over and held my hand. "are you okay? I'm sorry we got in the accident, I really shouldn't let Loren get to me like that."
"Bells I'm fine, remember it takes a lot to injure me now, I've just been worried about you, I'm sorry I couldn't protect you." I said holding her hand.
"Jacob, I'm fine, there was nothing you could do." she said then leaned over and kissed me right on the lips, it was amazing, it felt as if the earth had stopped spinning and all there was, was Bella and I.
"wow." we both said starring right at each other.
"Bells I think we just -"
"i know I felt it too."
"so you're okay with it?"
"yes. Jacob I love you I know I have for a long time I don't know why it took all of this to show me that I did." Bella said as she leaned over and kissed me again. We jumped apart as her dad leaned in and told me to come out in to the hall.
"okay so the doctor says he'll alert the school to whats happened, as of tomorrow morning it will be as if Edward and Bella's relationship didn't exist. Can you go let everyone on the reservation know?" Charlie said looking at me curiously.
"yeah that's fine. I'll just say goodbye to Belles then go."
"okay good, I'm just going to go check her out and we'll leave, oh if you want you and your dad should stop by for dinner there's a game on tonight." Charlie said walking off.
"I'll ask him." I said walking back in to the room.
"what was that about?" Bella asked as I came back in to the room.
"oh your dad wants me to go let everyone on the reservation know you're okay and ask my dad to come up for dinner and watch the game with him." I said sitting beside her on the bed.
"are you going to be staying for the game too?" she asked looking up at me.
"not for the game no", I said smiling at her, " for you yes." I said leaning down to kiss her.
"good." she said before kissing me back.
"okay I've got to get going but I'll see you in a little bit I promise, I love you." I said giving her a quick kiss then leaving.
"i love you too" she said as I walked out.