Title:
Never too late
Author:
Zee
Characters/Pairings:
Edward/Bella, Renesmee, Alice/Jasper, Rose/Emmett, Jacob/Leah
Rating:
General Readers (GR)
Category:
Drama
Spoilers:
None but it would be better if you've read the Twilight series to
get an idea of the characters. This is Alternate Universe (AU) and is
All Human (AH).
Summary:
A horrible accident left Edward broken and empty. When he wakes up to
the world and finds he doesn't remember anything, Bella does
everything she can to bring back her Edward.
Disclaimer:
I don't own any of these characters. They all belong to Stephenie
Meyer – the genius
EPOV
My heart continued to pound loudly against my chest. For a second I thought that the angel who thought I was her.. father.. heard my heart because she put her tiny hand on my chest and frowned slightly at me.
She turned away and I so wanted to make her look at me again when I realized what, or more precisely -- who she had turned to right then.
Someone, a woman, with long brown hair, was sleeping with her face buried in her arms near the foot of the king-sized bed that I was lying on. The angel touched the woman's hair, trying to wake her, whispering something I could barely hear.
The woman stirred and reached out reflexively as though trying to touch me... her hand reached out to where my leg should have been before I moved. She looked up at the angel who was smiling at her when the angel pointed and crawled towards me, resting her hand on my chest once again.
I
sat up and the angel said, "See momma. He woke up. I was singing
to him."
The woman gasped
and my eyes flew to her face. In a few seconds I took her face in.
Her eyes were brown -- they struck me the most. They were very
similar to the angel's eyes . If she were not a grown woman, I would
have thought that she and the angel were one and the same. But her
eyes were tired, with dark circles around them. She must not have
slept for days. Her hair was like a haystack on her head but she
looked beautiful just the same. Her lips were not perfect. I saw how
her lower lip was too full for her upper lip but it looked right on
her.
Once again, like a heavy load dumped instantly on my shoulders, the little angel's words sunk in. She called this beautiful but awfully sad woman, "momma." Can this woman, an image of perfection possibly be...?
No. I pushed the thought to the back of my mind but I still wanted to know who she was. I wanted so badly to know who she was that I opened my mouth to say it.
Bella's POV.
"Edward, watch out!" I screamed at the top of my lungs as I tried to grab the steering wheel from him just as the steel pipes flew towards our Volvo. In an instant Edward twisted the steering wheel as far as it would go, he took my hand and his eyes locked into mine. "I love you forever." his eyes screamed urgently as one of the thick pipes flew in through the windshield and then everything was blank.
Someone was touching my hair, whispering. Every inch of me wished it was Edward. I reached out instinctively making sure Edward was safe. But where his leg should have been, I only touched air. I looked up and saw the smiling face of Renesmee, our beautiful daughter, and I realized she was pointing towards Edward.
She crawled to him and touched him, "See momma, he woke up. I was singing to him."
She was right. Edward was awake. He sat up, his eyes still on Renesmee and I gasped. His eyes darted to me and I stopped breathing.
The way his eyes locked into mine was just like the way they did two months ago in that car. That day when I thought I'd lost everything. This time, though, his dazzling green eyes were not filled with certainty, the way they were two months ago -- today they were filled with questions. And as I stared at him, not knowing what to say after all these months of silence, he opened his mouth looking straight at me. He looked like he was struggling to find the words to say as tears started to fill my eyes.
In a tired, raspy voice he said, "Who am I?" and I ran to him, my arms wrapping around him as I sobbed.