-1The Overdose

Disclaimer: Stephenie Meyers owns all Twilight and the Characters

I just wanted to see what would happen if Bella and Edward met later in life

Song(s) for the chapter:

Shooting the Moon By: OK Go

I'll Be Seeing You By: Billie Holiday

Till I Find You By: Yiruma

Moonlight By: Yiruma

BPOV

The next morning when I woke up the sun welcomed me. It was the first time, the sun had been out since moving back home. I sat up remembering that I was listening to my Ipod, but I couldn't find it. I threw my sheets off the bed before seeing it on my desk. Again I couldn't remember how it got there, like last night when I ended up in my bed. While I got ready for work I couldn't shake the feeling that my dream wasn't a dream at all. I couldn't let that be the only thing that I thought about. I had a plan for the day with two main objectives. I needed to talk to Dr. Cullen about Edward. I wanted to ask him about how I would be able to talk to him.

"Bells," I heard Charlie yell. "Are you almost ready. I have to go in early today."

"Yeah I'm coming," I told him. I threw my hair up into a ponytail and hurried down the stairs. When I made it outside, he was already in the cruiser waiting for me.

"Is everything ok," I asked as we pulled out of the driveway.

"Here it is," he said. I knew that he meant Forks. "We have a briefing with the state police this morning." It had to be something big for the state police wanting to have a briefing with Charlie.

"There's been some animal attacks up north," he continued to say. "They just want all departments to be on the lookout."

Animal attacks weren't uncommon here, but I guess that there have been more than they could handle.

"Be careful," I told him when we pulled in the hospital parking lot.

"Always am," I heard him say as I got out of the car.

I headed into the main hospital entrance, as he pulled out of the parking lot. I just knew that it was going to be a long day. I've learned that when the sun shines in Forks, the days are longer. I made it to my office and took a deep breath. I didn't know if I was ready to face what happened yesterday. I unlocked the door, went in, and flipped on the lights. It was the same old office, it just had a feeling of tension and unfinished business in the air. I had a seat and started my computer up. As it was starting up, I kept picturing Edward coming in. I kept seeing him grabbing Mike and throw him the hallway. Then I also kept seeing him leaning against the wall, looking at me, and then walking off afterwards. I had given up waiting for my computer to start up. I needed so desperately to talk to Edward and Carlisle was my only hope. I looked at my clock and saw that I had plenty of time to talk. I walked down to the emergency room, and couldn't find him at first. So I would have to ask a nurse, where to find him. Thankfully neither Jessica or Lauren were at the nurses station.

"Is Dr. Cullen here," I asked one the nurse's sitting there.

"No," she said. "His family and himself go hiking on his days off."

"Will he be here tomorrow or Friday," I asked one more question. I had tomorrow off, but maybe I could come in to talk to him tomorrow.

"The schedule says that he should be here at eight in the morning each day," she said looking at a schedule.

"Thanks," I told her.

"Your welcome Dr. Swan," I heard her say I as walked off.

I thought about my objectives for the day as I walked back to the pharmacy. My main objective would have to wait to at least tomorrow or Friday at the latest. The other objective I would make sure that happened today and the rest of days as long as I was working here. I had to avoid Mike and Jessica at all costs. For all I know Mike could have told her that I lead him on. I truly didn't need anymore problems.

When I made it to the pharmacy the morning delivery was just arriving. I was the first one here, so I decided that I would do the order myself. I separated the order into bays, and then put the stickers on the bottles. I've found out that this way was usually faster, and it was my own personal way of doing it. After I finished putting the stickers on Mary and Seth walked in.

"Morning Bella," Mary said.

"Morning guys," I responded. "I've already got the order separated and ready to put up. Could you guys put it up."

"Ok," they said. They grabbed the baskets and went to work.

While they were putting the order up. I grabbed the orders that were in the box. Nothing out of the ordinary I as looked through them. Just the usual lortab, amoxicillin, lopressor, and crestor. I put the orders in their own individual baskets and stacked them up for Mary and Seth. I made my way to the main computer, and noticed a notes sitting in front of the screen.

Dr. Swan,

Left early due to not doing any scripts for over four hours.

Dr. Cullen

I didn't have time to think about his note when Mary and Seth came over to start working. I shoved the note in my pocket putting in out of my mind.

"How was your night," Mary asked while she was logging in.

"Just the usual uneventful night in Forks," I told her. "How was yours?"

"Good," she said. "Myself and a bunch of friends went to see a movie before they leave for school."

"Was it any good," I asked.

"It was ok," she said working another script.

As I listened to her talk about her night, some fond memories come to my mind. I remembered being in high school and going to the movies with friends. The laughter, the nonstop jokes, and the epic popcorn fights between Tyler and Eric.

"Morning everyone," Mr. Webber said when he came in.

"Morning," we responded.

"Bella," he said. "Can you stop for a minute?"

"Of course," I told him looking around. "We're all caught up."

"Good," he said. "I want to show you how to do payroll."

"Okay," I told him. Something new, something that I didn't know to how to do. I went over to his desk.

"Every Wednesday each one of you will print off a time sheet," he said pulling the file up on the computer. "After there are signed, place them in this file folder. Then on Thursday evening before you leave you need to fax them to Connie."

"Okay," I told him.

"Well that's all," he told me. "You can go back to work on the computer. Wait! One more thing the IV bags need to finished early today, because the residents are setting them up."

"Right on it," I told him. I went right over to the compounding station and pulled the charts. It said that a total of seven IV's were needed for the day and they were rather simple. Some just needed me to add a medication or two while the rest just needed labels.

The rest of the morning went by fast. There was no talking except that of asking questions and listening to Mr. Webber. He was trying to show me more things to do, but I wasn't all there. My wind was wondering and it kept going back to Edward. Finally when it was time for lunch, I asked Mary if she wanted to join me. Of course she said agreed, but I wanted to go somewhere different.

"Mr. Webber," I said to get his attention. "Would it be ok, if we went to lunch."

"Sure," he said knowing that Mary was included. "What's on the menu for the day?"

"I was thinking about walking down to Cora's Café," I said. "Would you like anything?"

"No thanks," he said.

Before we left, I stopped by my office to put my jacket up. It wasn't a far walk to Cora's from the hospital just a couple of blocks. It was so nice and sunny outside that I wanted to get out and enjoy it as much as I could. As we walked we talked about how things in Forks hadn't changed so much. We were just about to Cora's when I noticed a new shop right beside of it. I stopped by to look at the window display. There were twinkle lights all over the place, along with flowers in an elegant display. This shop hadn't been here to long, I was in for a couple days over Christmas it wasn't here yet. I found the name of the store and just it.

Alice's Party

I should've known, I remembered Mary telling me that Edward's sister planned parties. As we walked by the door there was a sign hanging up:

Closed for the day

Gone Hiking with the Family

Dr. Cullen must be so lucky to have his whole family take the same day off and go hiking I thought. We finally made it into Cora's before the busy lunch hour.

"Bella," I heard someone yell. Oh great who could this be I thought. I turned around and saw a lady with short black curly hair at the bar.

"Cora," I said.

"How are you," she said coming to hug me.

"I'm good," I said. "Just on my lunch break and wanted to come down."

"Wonderful," she said. "Why don't you two take a seat? Do you want your usual?"

"Sure," we both said. We took the table in the corner that overlooked the parking lot.

"Do all the Cullen's take the same day off," I asked taking a seat.

"Yeah," she said. "Dr. Cullen likes for them all to go hiking and camping together."

"That's great that they do it all together as a family," I said.

"One spinach salad, and one hamburger with fries," Cora said placing the plates on the table.

"Thanks Cora," I told her.

"Bella," she said smiling. "I still have your favorite berry cobbler."

"That would be great," I told her as she went back to the kitchen.

"You actually eat that," Mary said.

"Yeah," I told her. "I've been eating it since I was little and coming up here to visit Charlie. Why is something wrong with it?"

"No," she said. "That's just an old timers dessert."

"Well, I guess I'm an old timer then," I said laughing.

"You certainly are different then all the other girls here," she said. "That's actually a good thing."

"Thanks," I told her. We had finished eating and Cora had brought me my dessert. That's when I heard another voice call out my name. A voice that I recognized and knew very well.

"Bella," the voice said. "I bet Charlie is glad to have you back home."

"Waylon," I said getting up to hug him. He was one of Charlie's friends and they always go fishing when he can't go to La Push. "How are you?"

"Good," he said. "Don't forget to tell Charlie to come by the boat and fish on Sunday."

"I won't," I told him.

"I gotta go, the fish are calling," he said. "See ya later."

"Bye Waylon," I told him as he left.

"How do you know old man Waylon," Mary asked.

"He and Charlie have been friends for about thirty years or longer," I said taking a bite out of my cobbler.

"Ok," she said.

When we were finished I tried to pay Cora but she wouldn't let me. She kept telling me to think of it as a welcome home gift. After telling her goodbye, we started our walk back to the hospital.

"It's so pretty," Mary said. "I don't want to go back." I knew how she felt, I didn't want to back either.

"It is gorgeous out, but you know we have to get back," I said nudging her.

I stopped by my office and picked up my lab coat when we got back to the hospital. When we got back in the pharmacy there was plenty of work to do. I wouldn't say that it was Knoxville busy. What I would consider slow in Knoxville was busy here.

"Bella," Mr. Webber said while I was working on verifying the scripts. "I'm leaving for the day. I trust that you can handle the rest of the day."

"Yes Mr. Webber," I told him. I wouldn't stress out about this. I had it under control and at my tempo. Not to fast and not to slow, it was just right so that there were no mistakes made.

"Enjoy your day off tomorrow," he said.

"Okay," I said going back to work.

The rest of the afternoon was rather quiet. Since we were busy the only talking was once again limited to just scripts. I was somewhat happy when Eric bounced into the pharmacy. Mary and Seth were just about to walk out the door when, he sat his bag down.

"Bella," he said. "How was your day?"

"Pretty good and steady," I told him.

"So I was wondering if you would switch shifts for me tomorrow," he started saying looking at the floor. "I'm kind of taking Angela out to dinner in Port Angles."

"Really," I said shocked.

"Yeah," he said. "We kind of got back together last month."

"Tomorrow is my day off," I said. "Since its for you and Angela I'll do it."

"Great," he said "I'll call Mr. Webber tonight."

"Okay," I said. "I hope that you have a great time and I'll see you later."

"Bye Bella," he said. "Thanks again."

"No problem," I said leaving.

I went to my office and just sat there for a little while. I didn't turn on any lights except the lamp sitting on my desk. I just want to sit and think about what I just agreed to. I could forget about talking to Dr. Cullen now that I would be seeing Edward tomorrow night. As I sat there I heard Eric crank up his music loud enough that I could hear the lyrics. No wonder no one heard me scream last night. I called the station for Charlie to pick me up, but they said that he was already on his way to the hospital to pick me up. I packed my laptop up, hung my jacket up, and locked the door. When I made it out to the parking lot, Charlie was waiting for me.

"How was your day," Charlie asked when I got in car.

"Pretty good," I said as we took off. "How was the briefing?"

"Alright," he said. "Jacob called your truck is ready."

"Really," I said astonished. "He finished it awfully fast."

"He knows his stuff," Charlie said laughing. "We'll go down in the morning before I go to work."

"Ok," I told him. "It'll be good to have my truck back before work tomorrow."

"I thought you had the day off," he asked curiously.

"I did," I said. "Eric wants to take Angela out to dinner. I agreed to work for him tomorrow night."

"Well ok," he said.

The rest of the night was just like the night before except for the fact I knew where I fell asleep this time. I was dreamt of Edward once again and how I wanted him to stay with me. He was within my grasp but it was if I could never grab his hand.

EPOV

On the way to the hospital I couldn't stop thinking about Bella. I was still in shock when she said name several times. Alice said that she saw me outside her house but nothing more. What was Alice keeping from me? I was already in the parking lot, so I had to forget about it for a while. Before I made it to the pharmacy, I could hear Eric's music blaring. When I opened the door I saw Eric jamming to his music. I couldn't help but laugh at him.

"Wow," he said coming to a halt. "You could give a man a heart attack."

Where did he come from he thought.

"Sorry," I said trying to stop laughing.

"It's cool," he said.

"How was it," I asked.

"Slow as all get out," he said.

"Thanks again for switching shifts," I said while he got his things.

"It's okay," he said. "See ya later."

"Bye," I told him as he was leaving.

After he left I put my own type of music in. Tonight I played a little Billie Holiday. But as I sat there and listened I knew that I should have played something different. There was a problem I had no scripts to run so all I could do was think about Bella. The worst part the music wasn't helping either. I needed something else to think about, so I thought about Alice. What was she not telling me? This wasn't like her and it surprised me. I remembered her saying that my future was cloudy again. Was I on the verge of killing her? Was there something more?

*******Buzzzzz, Buzzzzzz********

"Yes Alice," I said when I answered the phone.

"Don't forget to you have to leave by six o'clock in the morning," she started saying. "The sun is going to be out all day."

"I know," I told her. "Alice we need to talk."

"You will know everything," she said. So I was going to find the truth out finally.

"Bye," I told her as I hung up the phone.

Bella was a mystery to me. First of all she didn't act like all the other girls that work here. Secondly I couldn't read her mind and that was different for me. In a way it was good because I got a break from all the fantasies. In the other way she was like a puzzle to me. I wanted to more about her. What she was scared of? What she loves? It was almost six and I knew that I needed to leave. So I wrote a note and placed it in front of her computer:

Dr. Swan,

Left early due to not doing any scripts for over four hours.

Dr. Cullen

I wondered if she would cover for me again. I knew that I was being a pain, but I needed it to be that why for a little while longer. I needed her to think that hated her until I decided otherwise. I locked the door and out of the hospital on my way home.

When I got home I found Alice working on some arrangements for a party that she was throwing tomorrow. I stared at Alice and she looked at me in return. We could have conversations like this for hours.

Like I said before, don't screw this up. she was thinking. I looked at her with a puzzled expression.

"I can't believe you never figured it out," she said laughing. "You're in love with her you crazy guy."

What had just come out her mouth. It can't be true, there was no possible was that I could be in love with Bella. She was human first of all and would never make it a day in my world. I dropped my bag on the ground and looked at her in shock.

"It's not true," I told her.

"I told you that your future was cloudy," she said working on her arrangement.

"You're wrong about this Alice," I said yelling at her before going into the house. I knew that she ignored me, and continued to work.

I didn't talk to anyone else when I got in. They didn't even ask, so I'm sure Alice had already warned them. I went to my room and drew the shades. I knew that being at hoe meant that we didn't have to hide. Today was different I wanted to hide from everyone. More importantly I wanted to hide from the truth. I couldn't help but to turn my music on and sit back.

As I sat there in the somewhat dark room, I thought about Bella nonstop. This time I wanted to think about her and her milky chocolate brown eyes. I thought back to the first time I saw her. When her scent hit me, it hit hard, and it smelled so sweet each time I was around her. I thought that the reasoning behind that was because I wasn't feed well enough. Then what about the whole Mike Newton situation. How was I going to explain to her why I was there. At that time I would've done it for anyone that Mike Newton was "attacking". He should be dead and buried about twelve feet under. Then there was last night when she said my name. Could I actually be in love with Bella Swan?

"Edward are you okay," Esme asked coming into my room.

"Yes I'm fine," I told her.

"Alice told me," she said taking a seat beside me.

"I don't know what to do," I told her.

"You'll make the right choice," she said taking my hand.

"I don't know if I can," I said looking at her.

"You will," she started saying. "Carlisle and I just want you to be happy. If being with Bella does the trick then you'll find a way for it to work."

"Thanks," I told her. She leaned over a gave me a hug before getting up and leaving.

I thought about what she said and it sank in. Ever since Esme joined the family as Carlisle's wife, she has wanted me to be happy. The idea of being in love with Bella slowly sank in. Could that be the something more that I felt in her room? Could it be me falling in love with Bella? I didn't know but I'm sure Alice won't let me screw it up. I laughed thinking about Alice and what she would do if I did.

I got up and lifted the shades. It was evening and the sun was setting over the mountains. I went downstairs and played the piano before getting ready for work. I could tell that Esme was happy, because she came and sat in the chair to listen. As I played the piano I thought about Bella and those eyes again. I decided not to go to her house tonight. I would let her have some peace.

"It's all going be alright," Esme said when I finished playing.

"I hope so," I told her leaving.

I went upstairs to get ready for work knowing the truth or was that all of it. Was Alice telling me the whole truth?

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