Hello again! Wow I actually updated really fast this time! Thanks to all the people who took the time to review: amobutterfly25, bitebella, twilightlady189, o;pbr, Amy Pau, MulanHua, and c.w.

Thanks for giving me the idea of appendicitis, I'll use it.

On with chapter 8!

BPOV

I screamed.

I screamed so loud that I felt like I was making myself deaf.

But I didn't care. I just wanted the pain to go away.

"Bella? Oh God, Bella?!" Edward's panic-stricken voice came from above me, and I wondered if I had fallen. His strong arms were wrapped around me securely, and I didn't feel any pain other than the pain in my abdomen. But it wasn't just pain, it was like I knife being plunged through my mid-section. I writhed and screamed some more until I felt ground moving under me. Or under Edward and I, rather. He was running, I assumed, to get me help.

EPOV

I looked around wildly as I searched for the nearest hospital. As I passed some beat up, old house, I heard somebody's thoughts coming from it:

'Oh god, I hope Dad's okay. I hope the nurses at the hospital are treating him well. Well, the hospital's just around the corner, I guess I could go there and check on him whenever I want.'

Taking the directions of the person's thoughts, I kept running until I arrived at the hospital's front door. I slowed to a normal human run and charged through the door.

"I need to get this girl some medical attention," I said urgently to the nurse at the front desk.

Immediately, several doctors arrived with a cot and they took Bella from my arms and laid her gently into it. We rushed off to the emergency room while Bella kept screaming, making me terrified. If anything happened to her, I don't know what I would do. I shuddered to think that anything bad would happen to her.

"We're going to have to give her some surgery; it looks like she's got appendicitis," said a doctor with smooth brunette hair slicked back into a ponytail.

"Do whatever you have to. I just want her to be okay." My voice choked at the end, and I hated myself for letting my weakness show.

I paced impatiently up and down the hall, waiting for the doctors to let me in. The putrid smell of antibacterial cleaning supplies and antibiotics covered up the smell of the doctors' blood, and it was starting to irritate me. The smell reminded me too much of surgery. People who needed surgery. People who were sick or injured. Like my Bella.

I recalled briefly the relief I had felt when her screaming come to an end. Putting her to sleep, I assumed. I tried to block out the doctors' thoughts as much as I could. I didn't want to know what was going on there.

It seemed like an eternity before the brunette doctor came out once again, with an exhausted expression on his face.

"You can come in now. She's all fixed up."

I walked calmly into Bella's room, not wanting to startle her. As soon as I saw her, I had to resist the urge to run across the room and suffocate her with a hug. I breathed a sigh of relief as I saw that she was no longer in pain.

She smiled when she saw me, and my eyes almost filled with tears. I walked over to her bedside and stroked her cheek gently. She shivered at my touch, and I pulled the synthetic blanket up to her chin to keep her warm.

"You scared me witless, Bella. I didn't what to do! If I had made the wrong, I could've caused you more pain than you needed to endure," I murmured, still stroking her cheek.

"You would've done what's best for me, and you did. So don't worry, none of that pain had anything to do with you. Promise." she smiled weakly at me, and I realized that she looked very tired. Her face was pale, and dark circles had formed under her eyes.

"You're such a danger magnet," I laughed. She laughed as well, but it was feeble. "Come on, lets get you back to the cottage and you can get some rest. You look dead tired."

She nodded in agreement.

"May carry her home? Would it injure her more?" I asked the brunette doctor, standing patiently in a corner.

"It you are extremely careful, then it won't hurt her," he replied simply.

I turned back to Bella. "Alright, Bella, I'm allowed to carry you back. I'll go slow, though. I don't want to hurt you."

So, there you have it! Chapter 8! I know my chapters are short, and I'm sorry, it's just that I don't have much time these days to write lengthy ones. Again, please tell me what you liked, what I could improve on, etc. All new reviewers will be thanked in my next chapter! :D