A/n: Sorry it took a little while to get this next chapter posted. I hope that you all enjoy it, and please review and tell me what you thought!! In the next chapter all the questions should be answered that may have seemed unclear up to this point, the main one being as to why Edward wouldn't change Bella once he found out about her cancer. Promise that you will all read through to the end of the next chapter…otherwise you will be mad if you stop reading at the beginning and I don't want to be hunted down in my sleep.
Epov
Bella and I stayed at our prom until the early hours of the morning dancing the night away. It was absolutely perfect and by far the best day of my entire existence. After the dance I headed back to my house with my new wife by my side. She seemed extremely tired so I carried her up the stairs and tucked her.
"Good night my love, and sweet dreams." I told her once she was safely in bed.
"Good night Edward." She replied with a yawn and then was instantly asleep.
She slept all morning and into the afternoon. Around three o'clock I decided I would go check on her since she usually didn't sleep this long.
"Bella, are you awake." I asked as I quietly entered the room.
"No, I am still tired. Let me sleep for a little while longer." She replied weakly.
"Sure thing." I bent down and kissed her forehead. Her skin against my lips felt like she was on fire.
"Bella are feeling okay." I asked wanting to make sure she wasn't sick.
"Yes, just tired." Was all she said before falling back asleep.
I left the room and waited in the family room for Carlisle to get back from work. After about two hours I decided to go check back on Bella and see how she was doing. Once I entered the room I could tell that she was not all right. Her skin had gone real pale and her breathing was rather shallow.
"Bella, hunny, I need you to wake up for me okay." I pleaded with her.
"No Edward, I am still tired…please…just let me sleep." She said
"Bella, come on lets go downstairs okay." I picked her up and carried her down into the living room and laid her on the couch.
"Alice" I called out starting to panic. Alice was there at once with a cold washcloth putting it against Bella's head to try to get her fever to break.
"Edward…you need to call Carlisle right now." Alice said quietly not wanting to wakeup Bella.
I ran over to the phone and dialed his number at work. As soon as I explained everything that was going on he said he would be leaving right away. I know it didn't take more than ten minutes for him to get to the house but it felt like ten hours.
"Where is she?" Carlisle asked the second he walked through the door. He immediately saw her lying on the couch and was by her side in a second.
"Bella…can you wake up for me." Carlisle asked calmly.
"No…please just let me sleep." Bella pleaded.
"Bella you are running a really high temperature and we need to get you to the hospital okay?" Carlisle told her before turning to me. "Edward, you need to call Charlie and tell him that we are taking Bella to the hospital okay." Carlisle stated with urgency.
I called Charlie and told him that we were taking Bella to the hospital and that he should meet us there. After I got off of the phone, I picked Bella up and carried her outside. Alice sat in the back seat and I laid Bella down so that her head was resting on Alice's lap. As soon as she was safely in place I was speeding out of the driveway and to the hospital. The rest of my family arrived a few seconds after I did. I carried her inside and to her hospital bedroom that Carlisle had gotten for her. After about twenty minutes Charlie had arrived at the hospital in a state of panic.
"What happened…did she get hurt?" he called out when he saw Carlisle and I in the hallway.
"Mr. Swan, Bella as a high temperature right now, and I gave her and I V to keep her hydrated. We are waiting for some test results to come back, but until they do there is not much more we can do right now." Carlisle told him.
"Can I go see her?" Charlie asked right away.
"Yes, she's sleeping right now, but you are more than welcomed to go in and see her." Carlisle said as he watched Charlie walk away.
I stood waiting out in the hall, wanting to give Charlie some time with his daughter. It wasn't until Carlisle came back with the test results that I walked into the room. Everyone stood in the room waiting to hear what Carlisle was going to say, I was pretty sure Charlie had even stopped breathing to make sure he caught everything. I stood there waiting to for Carlisle to start talking, to tell us what was wrong, but he just stood there staring at the piece of paper.
"Carlisle, please what's wrong?" I asked quietly.
"Her immune system had been weakened by her last treatment, and with the wedding, prom, and the late night she had she wasn't able to fight off viruses that healthy people can…"he trailed off.
"So…what…what can we do?" Charlie asked.
"We can try to give her some antibiotics and see if they help, but I am afraid that they won't do much good." He said looking sorrowfully at Charlie.
"What do you mean they won't do much?" I asked not wanting to think about what he was referring to.
"Edward, with the cancer, lack of sleep, and all of the excitement…I just don't think she will be able to pull through this." He said sadly.
"What do you mean I won't be able to pull through this?" I was shocked when I heard Bella's voice.
"Bella, you should be sleeping." I said going to her side.
'No, I want to know what is going on!" she demanded.
Carlisle told her everything he had just finished explaining to us. I watched Charlie out of the corner of my eye. The longer the information seemed to sink into him the more closed off he became, almost as though he couldn't deal with it. After a few minutes he walked across the room and began to cry as he sank down into a chair. I then looked back over at Bella and noticed that she had gone extremely quiet, and that the rest of the color in her face had drained away.
I grabbed her hand and held it securely in mine. We all stood there for what seemed like hours before anyone said anything. Bella had sat quietly in bed trying to grasp that she had been told there was nothing Carlisle could give her that would make her healthy. Suddenly out of no where she began to cry uncontrollably.
"Bella, it's going to be okay…I promise everything will be okay." I said trying to comfort her. She looked up at me and suddenly stopped crying.
"Edward…please do something…I am not ready, I don't want to die…you have to do something." She pleaded desperately with me.
"Bella, Carlisle said all he could do was try some antibiotics." I said trying to get her to calm down. Soon the tears started to build up in her eyes and panic ran across her face as she looked around the room.
"No that's not what I mean…please…change me….Edward please do it, I can't die, not yet, I am not ready to go." She yelled out in panicked breaths.
"Bella…please you have to calm down." I tried to tell her.
I looked across the room at Charlie, who seemed like he hadn't heard anything Bella had just said. I noticed that Carlisle had left the room, and was walking back in with a syringe.
"Bella, I am going to give you some medicine to help you sleep okay." Carlisle said trying to explain to her.
"Yes…help her sleep." Charlie mumbled out of nowhere, as he stood up. "Bella I am going to go call your mother okay." Charlie said as an excuse to leave to room.
"No dad…don't go, please stay." Bella pleaded with him, but he had left the room before she could finish talking.
"Please…don't give that to me…I don't want to sleep, I want to stay awake." Bella said between forced breaths of air.
"Bella, things are only going to get worse if I can't get you to calm down. This is better you won't feel anything this way." Carlisle told her.
"Please, I'm scared." She said.
"Bella, what are you scared of, nothing is going to happen except that you will be asleep." I asked her not understanding what there was to be scared of.
"I won't wake up…I know it, if you give me that I will never see your face again!" She cried out in sobs.
Watching her like this broke my heart. But at this time, however, there was nothing I could do. I saw her eyes grow wide with fear as she saw Carlisle put the sleeping medication into the I V drip. She looked at me with sad watery eyes. I could feel my heart breaking. I wanted to comfort her and tell her that she would see me again, that everything would be okay. Before I had a chance to say anything though, her eyes were already starting to close.
Bpov
I was getting weaker, and I knew it. Why won't he change me? I thought he wanted to spend the rest of eternity with me. I was getting weaker and his desperate pleas for me to believe that everything would be fine were slowly taking their toll. I couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't fight off this pain, and the sleepiness that was slowly starting to wash over me. I loved him, I loved them all…I knew as I looked around the room there was something they all wanted to tell me but they weren't. So I gave up, I let in to the sleep that was now taking over my entire body.
Epov
"Edward…I love you, always know that." She said before she was forced to sleep.
"Bella…BELLA NO!!" I screamed out in hysterical sobs.
I should have said something before…long before, but now it was too late. My wife, my Bella…my one and only true love fell asleep thinking that she was never going to see me again. How, could I have done this? Why hadn't I said anything? I looked around the room at my family and saw them all staring at me.
"Edward…you couldn't have said anything…not with Charlie in the room." Carlisle said trying to make me feel better.
"That still doesn't make me feel better…we all should have told her a long time ago…long before it got to this." I lashed out angrily at them all.
"Please…just let me be." I said and watched them all leave the room.
"Edward…we will be right outside incase you need anything." Alice said right before she left.
After they left, I sat next to Bella and laid my head on her chest. As the night slowly crept by, I stayed there listening to the sound of her beating heart.
A/n: I changed my mind about doing three chapters and decided to combine them into two. I promise that everything will make sense when the story is done and all previous questions will be answered and any new ones you may have. If something new comes up, please review and tell me about it so I make sure I get it answered in the last chapter! Thanks for the patience…and the last chapter will be up soon! Please Review.
