A/M: Okay, I'm sorry this is horrifically late. I was at camp and then I had a brain block…grawr...And this could have been much shorter, but I'm really happy with it so you can't make me make it longer!
Disclaimer: If I owned The Twilight Saga, I'd be terribly embarrassed because of Breaking Dawn so…I'm not feeling utterly stupid at my suddenly vanished writing skills…so therefore…Twilight Saga and shit that goes along with it is not mine!!
Chapter Three
Anna did not return the next weekend or the one after that, in fact for two months Anna didn't step foot or come near the La Push reservation. This upset Jacob very much. Mostly because no one would tell him why or give him a hint as to why she hadn't returned.
When she finally did come back she looked terrible. Her green eyes had become sunken into her face like she was un-endingly tired. Her already petite form had shrunk to a scary size, Jacob was afraid to touch her let alone hug her like he wanted. She, however, was free to hug him all she wanted.
She had stayed the rest of the week and the week after that, halfway through the second week Jacob took her to the cliff again so they could be away from everyone else. He knew he couldn't rush things with her romantically but, despite that, he wanted to spend time with her.
"So, are you ever going to tell me why you were gone for so long?" Jacob asked popping a grape into his mouth. He was trying to make light of the situation.
"It's really hard for me to talk about it…" Anna trailed off.
"Don't worry, I'm not pushing you," Jacob smiled. "I just want to know."
"When I'm comfortable, I'll tell you, I promise." She said, he smiled and nodded acceptingly.
Hearts racing, her fingers knotted in his long, shaggy hair. Their lips pushing for more, while hers were still hesitant. He felt her cold breath on his always warm lips his whole heat radiating her chilled body. Her lips begged for more though her body was always hesitant and –
"JACOB!" Megan shrieked, Jacob's eyes snapped open and he fell out of bed immediately. "Care to explain why you were making out with your pillow?" Jacob groaned pulling himself to his feet. He hated that dream these days. He didn't understand why he still had it. It could be because he felt like he was betraying his love for Bella by imprinting on Anna but there wasn't much he could physically do about it.
"No." He answered in a growling, tired voice. "Care to explain why you're at my house, shrieking for me to wake up at 7:30 in the morning?"
"Well…I thought you'd wanna know if Anna got taken away in an ambulance at 5:46 this morning, but, if you're going to be a jerk, you can just stay in the dark for all I care."
Anna.
Ambulance.
Anna.
"What happened?" Jacob jumped up and pinned her against the wall. She was scared, but he knew she was strong enough to handle it.
"I don't actually know, there was coughing, shouting, calling, flashing lights…" she started to cry and Jacob released her from the wall and she slid down into a crouched position. "I'm so confused, Jake. I'm so scared."
"Who went with her?" Jacob asked, a sob escaped but she couldn't say anything. "Megan, look at me." She did. "Did your dad go?" She shook her head. "Did your mom go?" she shook her head again. "Did Embry go?" She nodded wildly.
he helped her up, strapped her across my back so he was carrying her and ran down the stairs. "Let's go find out what's going on."
Jacob had never been partial to hospitals and the fact that the person he was genetically sworn to protect was in one did not help his hatred for them.
Embry had in fact gone with the ambulance but Sam had driven up not long afterwards, Emily wanted to stay at home to see who she could contact so Jacob had ended up driving Quil, Claire, Megan and Katy up to the hospital in Seattle.
"Anna Emmerson is…" The secretary checked her listings. "Hm," she said unhappy with her findings. "Elliya, could you get Anna Emmerson's doctor on the phone?" The other nurse named Elliya tapped the appropriate number in and handed the phone to the nurse named Pam.
"Hi there, - This is Pam from pediatrics, you're Anna Emmerson's doctor correct?" She waited for the reply. "Alright, do you know what room number she's in right now? – Uh, huh. Yes, I just wasn't sure because – Yes, alright. – Oh she has lots of visitors! – Yes, I'm sure they'll be glad to meet you."
Pam hung up the phone and wrote a number down and handed it to Jacob. "Room 121 on the right hand corridor, Pediatric Emergencies, I'm sorry you had to wait but I had two different rooms for her."
"S'alright." Jacob allowed before bolting toward down the right hallway, behind him the other members of his parties thanked the nurse.
"Sorry about Jacob," he heard Claire say. "He's just anxious about Anna."
When the group made it to room Jacob knocked and Embry answered the door looking tired. "Two hours of bloody sleep. I'm going home." He stumbled out the door and down the hallway. Sam was behind him, a little more coherent.
"I have to go drive him home, I'll be back later. I was hoping to meet Anna's doctor, but that'll have to wait I guess." He excused himself and went the same way Embry had.
Megan and Katy went in first, and were at Anna's side peppering her with questions in seconds. Well, Megan bombarded her while Katy jumped up and down anxiously. Claire was next, calming the two younger girls but eyeing Anna warily then Jacob and Quil went through.
Anna didn't look much worse, not like Jacob had expected. He had imagined her unconscious strapped to every machine invented and then he had seen Doctor "Fang" telling us she'd never wake up. Wow, he thought to himself. When did I become such a pessimist?
Instead, she was sitting up with only a few tubes, the most disturbing was the one sticking up her nose to help her breath, she had an IV but it was a slow drip. She smiled at everyone and answered Megan's yes or no questions with nods and shakes and shrugs. Claire then exclaimed that she had brought nail polish and makeup.
Katy apparently called dibs on Anna's hair and Megan got eye-makeup, Claire would assist Katy and do everything else – including giving Megan a manicuring lesson. Anna pretended to hate the idea but it was plain that she was excited they were there and not overly worried. When she voiced this opinion Claire laughed.
"I've been in the hospital before," She exclaimed. "Getting Quil to do my nails and makeup was the only thing that kept him sane from worry about how I was." Anna had nodded and smiled.
Jacob and Quil laughed at their shared memory of when Claire had gotten her appendix taken out due to a bad case of appendicitis and she had been hospitalized for a week, she had been 12 and had begged Quil to bring her makeup and nail polish. I remember laughing at his memory of the nurses' reaction when she walked in with her breakfast and she was having her nails done by a huge, burly, unrealistically handsome young man.
"No, Alice you may not do rounds with me!" A voice insisted from outside the door. "Fine, but stay in the back and shut up!" The door opened. "How's my favorite patient?" the doctor said looking at her charts, a small young woman flitted in behind her. The doctor looked up and Jacob almost fainted.
Bella.
"I'm good, I'm apparently getting a full-blown makeover!" She motioned to the makeup and such on her moving bedside.
Bella's laugh trilled the air, in her new vampire-voice. If she recognized Jacob and Quil she didn't make it known. "I know how you feel!" she clicked her pen and began writing. "Isn't it so nice to have a big family?" She asked genuinely.
"Yah!" Anna agreed. "I knew Embry had a lot of friends, but this is crazy! I mean, this is only one part of the family basically. I mean I've got Embry's best friends – and mine, Quil and Jacob," Bella let an unknown emotion brush her face slightly before putting on her airy, doctor mask again. "And then I've got Quil's girlfriend, Claire. And Embry's Uncle-ish person – Sam – he's married to Claire's aunt and they've got two girls," She pointed to them as she said their names. "Megan and Katy, Katy's taken a vow of silence for some unexplained reason but…yah…it is nice to have so many people supporting you."
"I bet it's different from just a month ago, huh?" Bella asked, now gliding over to check Anna's stats. "Can you believe it was just a month ago that no one but your mom, dad and brother knew you were here? And now you've got groups of people running down the halls looking for you so they can play Anna Barbie!"
"It's crazy!" Anna exclaimed. "My life changed in one afternoon! Suddenly, I'm surrounded by people who care!" She let her hand be seized by Claire, Megan was taking obvious mental notes. "I mean you have that every day, you're freakin' husband works in the same hospital as you do!"
Bella chuckled and so did the figure from the doorway. It was the small one, what was her name? Allison, Ally?
"Oh, Anna, this is my sister-in-law, Alice." Alice, Jacob remembered. Of course. Alice.
"Hi, Anna!" She sang from where she stood, watching Bella intently as she worked.
"Well, I'll leave you to your torture – I mean makeover," All the girls laughed. "I'll come back in and check on you in a little while."
The second the door closed behind the two vampires Quil began searching for something. "Anna," He said in a pleading voice. "Please tell me you have air freshener!"
"What? Why?" Anna asked uncomprehendingly, Megan and Katy stared confused at Quil who was trying not to breath and look for air freshener and Jacob who as gagging and staring disbelievingly at the door.
"Never mind, we're safe!" Quil exclaimed as he thrust open the window and leaned his body out of it. Once he thought he could breath steadily again, he turned to Jacob and laughed loudly "I guess there's three Doctor Fangs now!" Jacob gave a small, defeated laugh.
"Oh." Claire said quickly with realization then she blew on Anna's hand lightly. "I'll let that dry. Hey girls, want some brunch? We didn't get to eat too well." Megan and Katy agreed that Brunch was the way to go for the moment. "Quil, why don't you join us?" Jacob knew where she was going with this, Quil turned from the window and nodded, following them out.
When the door clicked behind them Jacob sat his too-big frame into one of the uncomfortable plastic, hospital chairs and sat next to her. "You have tubes in you." He toyed very gently with the tubing on her face that led to her nose.
"Oh, you mean the nasal cannula?" She gave it a light, playful tug. "I was thinking about wearing it all the time, you know…a fashion statement!"
"Ah, yes, and Anna Emmerson modeling the Hospitalized Fille from Paris in a gown and nasal…whatever you said!" Jacob tried to sound like a runway announcer, even putting a flourish on Paris.
Anna laughed out loud and tapped the tip of his nose, "Nasal can-u-lah." He repeated her, his huge finger tapping her dainty, button nose. They laughed lightly and then Anna sighed. "I guess we should talk about why I'm so screwed up."
A/M: Oh…I'm so mean…HOWEVER! There were so many other places I could have left you hanging! Bella did notice Jacob's presence, but she's pushing 26 in her 18 year old body so she had to pretend like she didn't know him, especially because she's supposed to be a professional doctor, and a vampire…they've broken the treaty and there should – in theory – be hell to pay so she ignored him.
Oh and also, that is what those things are called, the ones wrapped around your head and sticking up your nose…those are called Nasal Cannulas…I'd know my brother had one, I had one and it's in my book :D
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