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"Bella, Bella, can you hear me?" Carlisle's voice leaked through my conscience. My head started pounding and my senses returned to me one by one. Edwards warm breath was brushing against my cheek and Jasper's rough but smooth hands were holding one of mine and his thumb was rubbing against the back of it. Carlisle's hand was against my soar back and lightly stroking the two, still fresh, slits of when my wings were forced into my back. Was I sitting in an upright position?

"Yes, Bella?" Jasper asked as his hand stilled and I felt his hand go onto my shoulder and rub it soothingly. He had felt my questioning aura.

"Is she awake, Jasper?" Carlisle asked and his hands froze on my back and I heard his footsteps as he went around my audience and I smelt is doctoral scent right in front of my face- overriding Edward's sweet sent.

"Yes" Jasper sighed in relief as his hand retreated and continued to rub my hand softly. How long was I out? What happened to the wolves?

"Bella, love?" Edwards voice broke through the awkward silence. I had to stifle a giggle when I felt Jasper twitch at the nickname Edward got for me only for him. Jasper had found out about our relationship about a month ago and didn't take it well but accepted it.

"What…" I started to ask but stopped when my throat constricted and pushed the air out of my lunges. My throat was dry, I forgot I hadn't drunken any water today at all. "Water" I gasped out clutching Jasper's hand as my throat started itching making it uncomfortable for me.

It hadn't even been a full five seconds before a cool glass was being pressed against my lips and I slowly drank the cool liquid. It was relaxing and my throat opened up. Much better. I cracked one eye open cautiously and when no blinding light came into view I open the other.

Carlisle was the first person I saw and he gave a fatherly smile, I looked to my left and there was Jasper with a worried smile, squeezing my hand in comfort. I blinked once before looking to my right. Edward's face was millimeters from my own and I couldn't help but giggle, his answer was my favorite crooked smile and a chuckle of his own.

"How are you feeling, Bella?" Alice's voice asked, beating Carlisle to the question, and she came into my view after nudging Carlisle out of the way. She was smiling brightly but by the darkened circles under her eyes she hasn't been hunting at all from when I last saw her.

"How long was I out?" I asked my eyes roaming over everyone's face that I could now see. Rosalie was leaning against the stair case with a small welcoming smile to me which I smiled back to lightly, Emmett was sitting at her feet grinning at me in relief and I grinned back with all my might making him boom out in laughter. Esme was now helping Carlisle up from the floor and gave me a relieving smile which I once again returned.

"First answer my question, Bella, you worried the living-well dead- doo doo out of all of us" Alice giggled patting my head, only to make me once again remember the pounding pain coming from it. Ouch.

"I'm.." I contemplated it for a second, my back was soar a heck and my head was pounding, "I'm fine" I stated with a convincing smile. I knew everyone would let me be, all but one person who knew that when I said this I was avoiding the real answer. Edward.

I snuck a glance at him and saw him frowning disapprovingly and his eyes told me he wanted to talk alone later. I gave a slight nod in his direction and focused back to everyone else. "Now, how long was I out?" I asked again.

"Two days!" Emmett laughed out pulling Alice out of the way to ruffle my hair to the point where I actually think it knotted for the first time in a LONG while. Two days I have been out, two entire long days of pure darkness.

"Great" I grumbled rubbing my eyes in irritation. If it wasn't for Emmett I would have been knocked out for two days with wolves holding my in their home. Nothing good comes out of that.

"Now, I think you have something to tell us - what happened to your back? Did the wolves do this to you?" Carlisle asked as he gentle nudged Emmett out of the way to take his original position in front of me.

I froze any movement that would have been made from me.

Do I want to tell them about my god forsaken wings? Or just lie and say being my clumsy self fell and slid down on two very sharp rocks? I'm still a horrible liar so that might not go so well.

"More water, please?" I asked getting nervous and fidgety. My back muscle started to twitch and my fingers wouldn't stop fumbling with the top button of the tank top I just realized I had on. Must have been Alice's handy work. Need to thank her later.

"Here you go, Bella" Jasper's voice interrupted me from me inner chatter. I shakily grabbed the glass of water but I was shaking too much and the water started to splash over the edge of the glass, spilling every where. "Relax" Jasper instructed me as Edward's hand was placed above mine which was on the glass and guided it slowly to my mouth which I now greedily took into my mouth.

"It was an experiment" I sighed out pushing the glass away. I pulled my knee's up to my chest in order to try and protect myself from the soon to come rejection. I wasn't ready to lose my new family but it was a way to leave their time without hurting them. "I was a lab rat in a way of speaking, it was just something new- and it ended off as a success" I took in a shaky breath.

"You were a…. rat to them?!" Edward screamed standing up and snarled at me. God, Lord all mighty, I knew they would be disgusted by me but I didn't expect them -especially not Edward- to be aggressive towards me! I whimpered and dunked my head in between my knee's, clutching my legs desperately to found a sanctuary.

"Bella, he wasn't meaning to aim the anger towards you" Esme's voice came through to me but it wasn't her hand that came on my shoulder and it was her chest the I was pressed into.

"Please forgive me, Bella, I was just…. I wasn't expecting someone to do such a thing to someone as sweet as you" Edward whispered stroking my hair then started to kiss my neck repeatedly. Why is he apologizing to-

Wait. Back up a bit - did he just say all that and wasn't repulsed by me? No one was screaming at me to get away from them?

"You're not… repulsed?" I asked as I shakily raised my head to look at Edwards face in astonishment. He frowned at my choice of words and smoothed out my forehead.

"Why?" Edward asked kissing my lips softly then kissed my jugular tenderly. "Why, when it wasn't your intention?"

"You don't understand what they… what they put on me" I sobbed hiding my face in his chest thinking I could disappear from the world by doing so. "Their hideous, abnormal"

"What is, Bella? You know I love you, I won't reject you for something that was put on you against your will" Edward whispered and I felt him nod slightly- probably to some ones thoughts.

My wings twitched in anticipation and I couldn't deny them any longer- I had the intention of showing them off before running away. And well, I did, there was a ripping sound- the sound of my tank top ripping- and a couple of stray black feathers floated down to the floor. I dug my head deeper into Edward's chest and wrapped my arms around his torso hoping-praying, that he wouldn't run away like the past friends I had.

"Beautiful" Edward murmured and I heard a bunch of agreements as I felt hands stroke my stretched out wings as softly as possible….

I sobbed even harder and kissed Edwards collar bone. I wasn't going to be alone and I had no more secrets to keep from them…. But in the far corner of my mind, as Edward murmured reassuring things in my ear, I heard the slight frustration of the lone thought that would haunt me forever..

How was I going to leave them now?

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