Title: Who is this?
Chapter 8: Why Me?
I fell to the bottom of the cliff as rock seemed to explode from around me. I coughed out the dust that filled my lungs. While oxygen wasn't needed to live, it was well more appreciated than dust.
I ached all over from the landing but tried to ignore it as I got up. If it hurt me to jump down, I could only imagine how much it must have hurt Bella. I had to find her.
I was standing as I looked around, "Bella?" I yelled. "Please be alive."
I turned around in circles trying to find my love.
"Bella?" No answer.
"Edward." I turned to the voice.
"Rosalie?" I questioned, I started to run toward the voice.
"Over here."
I ran toward her. I could smell three distinct smells. There was Rosalie, Emmett...and my love.
Well her blood at least.
I went into a small cave that was on the side of the cliff. "Where is she?" I asked before even seeing them.
I saw Rosalie kneeling over my love, she was cleaning her. I noticed Bella's clothes off to the side. She must have stripped Bella down to clean her cuts better. I didn't think anything of it, I just wanted Bella to be safe.
I knelt down beside Rosalie as she was cleaning a cut that was on Bella's side. "How is she?" I noticed Bella's labored breathing.
"I was able to catch her after she had hit the side of the cliff twice. She passed out right after I caught her, I think she has a few broken ribs and her left arm is shattered." We were the only two, other than Carlisle, who have been to medical school.
"We need to get her out of here. I need to bring her to Carlisle."
Rosalie shook her head, "No, she is too hurt to be moved at such a distance. Emmett already took off to get sutures and possibly Carlisle if he can find him at a decent time. We need to seal up her wounds as soon as possible."
I had never been so thankful for Rosalie's medical training. I have been through medical school but at the moment my mind was everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
"Thank you Rosalie." I muttered as I watched my Bella struggle to breath. I wanted to cry from seeing her in so much pain. This was all my fault.
"It's no problem. I heard you guys yelling. I ran to the bottom of the cliff and was about to jump up when I heard Bella's scream. I quickly jumped up to catch her." Rosalie turned over to me. "You already know my view on changing her, but I know she wants to be changed. You are happy when you are with her, I can't stop your happiness."
I knew she was referring to me changing Bella now. "Let's wait till Carlisle gets here. He will be able to tell if we can save her." I said to Rosalie. I didn't want to lose Bella but I didn't want to make her become something I hated. It wasn't fair.
Emmett came in with a stiff stretcher. "I called Carlisle. He is in an emergency surgery at the hospital right now. I found a ranger station not far off, it had a stiff stretcher, we can bring Bella to the house or the hospital on this."
Rosalie nodded, "Did you bring the suture kits?"
"Yes. They only had one at the station. Luckily no one was there so I just took them." He pulled it out of his back pocket.
Rosalie went to work suturing up the huge gash on Bella's side. "That should do until we can get to the house and clean it out and hopefully stop the bleeding fully." She said.
All three of us lifted Bella up together in hopes to not move her around too much. We gently placed Bella on the stretcher and strapped her in. Emmett grabbed the stretcher at Bella's feet as I grabbed it at her head. "Let's go." I said as we started to run through the trees.
We were running for about twenty minutes when I heard Bella moan. I didn't want her to wake up for this. "What's going on?" she mumbled. She looked around in a daze, "did I die?"
"No love, you are very much alive." I told her.
"Where am I?"
"In the woods, we are taking you to Carlisle."
"Am I going to die?" she asked.
"No, I will do everything to make sure you stay alive."
"Everything?"
"Yes and I mean everything love. Please rest, we will be there soon." I said, glad I couldn't cry at the moment. If I could, I was sure my face would be drenched with tear stains.
Rosalie ran ahead of us, in hopes that she could make sure Carlisle was ready for what he was about to deal with. If I knew I was strong enough, I would just change her but I wanted her to complete school, I wanted her to live as much like a human as possible.
I heard Rosalie on her phone. When she hung up, she came back around toward us. "You have to bring her to the hospital. Carlisle said from the sound of it he won't be able to work on her at home. He needs the medical supplies at the hospital."
"Alright." We veered our course toward the hospital instead of the house.
When we got close to the hospital we started to run slower at human speed. We got through the door; the secretary was staring at us as we made it look like we had been running a long distance. "She accidentally tripped on a rock and fell off a cliff. I need Dr. Cullen here now." Rosalie said before I could explain what happened. Carlisle already knew we were on our way so he probably made sure he wasn't going to be busy.
The secretary quickly grabbed the loud speaker, "Code blue, we have a code blue. Dr. All Come."
Dr. All Come was a reference to say any medical personnel not busy should come immediately to help. Carlisle was the first to come down the hall, already knowing that we were on our way.
He saw two nurses coming out, "We need a stretcher, IV, X-ray machine, and morphine now." He yelled at the nurses as they ran off. He had already gotten the story from Rosalie but to play along he had to ask, "What happened?"
"She tripped while we were hiking and fell off a cliff. We couldn't get to her right away." Rosalie said again.
The nurses came out with a stretcher as Emmett and I placed Bella's flat stretcher on it.
He looked over at me, 'How far are you willing to go to save her?' he thought, knowing my views on changing her.
I looked down at the nearly dead girl, "Do whatever it takes to get her back to me. No matter the cost."
Carlisle nodded, "Get her down to room 142, we are going to start full body x-rays and clean up her cuts. We will go into emergency surgery as soon as the x-rays are developed and we know what we are dealing with. Make sure she isn't bleeding internally." His medical side was taking over as he demanded orders to all his nurses.
They started to run down the hall as other nurses and another doctor quickly joined them.
I knew she was in good hands but it still hurt me to not be able to see her right now. I sat down in the waiting room with Rosalie and Emmett on either side of me. I ran my fingers through my hair as I started to whine, "Why me? I tried so hard. I should have been able to control myself."
"It isn't your fault man. She's with Carlisle now, you know she will live."
I looked over at him, "How can I be sure?" I asked.
"Do you think Carlisle will let her die easily?" Rosalie asked. "He found us all when we were dying and he tried everything and look at us now."
I nodded, I knew Carlisle wouldn't let her die.
"I just don't get one thing." Emmett said. "Alice and Jasper had found you. They text us saying they did. Why didn't they stop you?"
"I…Jasper…" I couldn't say it. "Jasper told me that I can fight it myself. I had to gain control. He held Alice back from saving Bella; she said Bella would die if she didn't help. I think she's right." I wrapped my hand around the arm of the chair, we started to hear the arm cracking. "I am going to kill Jasper if Bella dies."
"Let go of the chair, we don't need to give anymore explanations." Emmett said to me as I tried to relax.
Rosalie pat my back, "Don't listen to Alice, the future can change. We all know her visions aren't exact."
I looked up when I heard the sliding door open to the emergency room. Alice and Jasper stood at the door. Emmett started to hold my arm in case I got up.
What we didn't expect was Rosalie to stand up for me. "You." She yelled making everyone in the waiting room look up. "You ass." She yelled pushing Jasper back. He took it without looking at her. He kept his eyes to the ground, guilt was pouring off of him.
"Be nice." Alice said coming between the two. "Bella's getting help now."
"That doesn't stop it from being right. We are supposed to help each other not let another get killed."
"Excuse me." The cop that worked at the hospital came between them. He must have been called down by the secretary. "I am going to have to ask you two to step outside and talk about this quietly.
Rosalie nodded, "Oh yeah, we are taking this up outside." She said grabbing Jasper's collar. Emmett got up and ran over and released his wife's grasp on Jasper.
"Babe, we aren't going to solve anything by getting arrested for fighting." He said trying to calm his wife down. "Carlisle is going through enough, he doesn't need to worry about us being in jail."
"I'm sorry." Jasper let out, looking up for the first time. "I really am. I thought Edward was strong enough. I honestly thought he could control himself."
I couldn't take his apology, not now. I went back to my seat and sat. If I had stayed any closer to Jasper, I would have gone after him.
"Just leave." I heard Rosalie say to him. "I don't want to see you ever again."
"Rose, babe, don't say things out of anger." Emmett said, still holding her.
"I'm not saying it out of anger, I mean it."
Alice pulled Jasper to the doors, "We will be at the house." She said as they walked out. I heard Alice's thought, He really is sorry. I felt guilty for being so harsh on him after they left. Although, I don't know if I could ever forgive him.
Three hours had passed when Carlisle came out of the huge double doors looking down to the ground. "Edward." He muttered. He sound so melancholy. I didn't like this. He was blocking his thoughts from me.
"What?" I asked walking over to him the best human pace I could.
"Come with me." He said. "You guys, can you call Charlie and ask him to come to the hospital?" He asked looking to Rosalie and Emmett.
I had been so distraught that I had forgotten to call Charlie, her father, to the hospital.
"Yes we can." Rosalie said.
"Thank you guys. Edward come with me." Carlisle said, turning around and walking through the doors. I followed suit. I was trying to figure out what he was about to tell me. "She's in here, but you aren't going to like it." Carlisle warned.
I held my breath expecting the worse but still praying for the best.
Sooooo…I kinda don't have anything written beyond this. I thought I had finished the whole story but I stopped it here for some reason. So I will let my reader's decide. What will happen next?
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