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Chapter 23

Healing

As my eyes started to open, my head was spinning uncontrollably. I was welcomed to a blurry but beautiful angelic face with black eyes. I tried to put the spinning aside and look at his face. It was Edward. His face was contorted with worry but it looked like he was relaxing, now that I was awake.

"Hello love." His velvety voice said as it rang in my head. That got my head spinning again. Did I hit my head or something? "How are you feeling?"

"Not so loud… My head is still spinning." I said as I tried to sit up but a pain shot through my back. I went back down on the comfortable surface—which I figured to be a couch—and tried to relax.

"Stay still, love. You were badly injured upstairs. Esme is repairing the wall right as we speak. Carlisle said you'll be fine in a few hours but you will need to take some of Frederic's remedies." Edward explained as he placed his cold hand on my cheek and rubbed it gently.

"Alright… How's Rosalie?" I asked.

Edward didn't respond. He looked away from me and stared towards the hallway. Clearly, Rosalie wasn't doing well. I felt really bad right now. She got hurt because of me.

"I want to see her." I said as I looked into Edward's eyes. He needed to go hunt. His eyes were coal black. "But first… you need to go hunt."

"No, I'll stay with you until you heal."

"It's fine Edward. I'll ask Alice for some help while you go hunting. It'll be fine Edward." I reassured him. He didn't seem convinced but he eased up and gave in.

"I'll be back in an hour. Alice!" Edward called loudly that it rang through my head. I closed my eyes and he realized that it was just a little too loud for my taste. "Sorry." He said as I saw Alice coming down.

"You called?" She asked.

"Can you bring me up to Rosalie while Edward goes hunting?" I asked.

"Alright. But… I don't know if it's the best thing right—" She started but I didn't want to argue with her. I wanted to see Rosalie.

"Please Alice."

"Um… alright." She said as Edward picked me up and gave me over to Alice. She wasn't too happy that I wanted to see Rosalie right now but I wanted to know if she was alright. As Edward ran out of the house at an amazing speed and Alice brought me upstairs slowly, we were getting closer to Emmett's room. Since her room was practically destroyed, she was going to have to stay with Emmett for a little while, not that she wouldn't like that. As Alice brought me in the room, I saw Rosalie.

She was scratched up on her arms and on her legs and had a few bruises on her face. Her eyes were closed and Emmett was trying to soothe her. Alice set me down on a chair close to her bed and she was really sad.

"Is she alright?" I asked.

"I… I don't know. She hasn't opened her eyes since we found her on the ground. I don't know what to do…" Emmett said as he took Rosalie's uninjured hand and placed it in his. I've never seen him so sad. But there was something that was wrong in this scene.

"What's that?" There was a large scratch on her left hand that started bleeding dark red liquids from her hand the moment I laid eyes on it. Alice took a cloth from the room and wrapped it around Rosalie's hand but Rosalie winced at the touch of the cloth. Emmett put Rose in his arms and started cradling her gently. Rosalie still didn't open her eyes. It really got me worried to see her like this. I didn't know that a vampire could be like this…

"We don't know. That sadistic vampire got to her and she winces every single time we touch that wound. But the thing that frustrates me is that I can't see anything." Alice said with an angry and irritated voice.

"It doesn't look like a normal cut…"

"Normally, vampires can't keep normal wounds. If we do, then it's an unnatural cut." Carlisle explained as he entered the room. "Jules, you shouldn't be up right now. In your condition, it's unstable."

"Carlisle, I'm fine… so far. I just wanted to see Rosalie." I said as the spinning started again and I tried to put my hand up to my forehead but a sharp pain rose from my back. I winced a little but everyone was worried now. They gave me worried looks but I reassured them with a smile. "Don't worry… it's just a little dizzy spell." I said as Carlisle exited the room and returned in a second with a glass in his hands.

"Here, take this. It'll help. It should soothe some of the pain." He said as he handed me the glass and I started drinking it. It tastes absolutely revolting! Just like the first remedy Frederic gave me back at his place, except a little better. It tasted like coffee with strawberries mixed in it.

I made a disgusted face but drank the remedy completely. Carlisle chuckled a little but I wasn't. "Is there anything that we can give her?"

"Not that I know of. Although, it might be black magic once again." Carlisle said as he approached Rosalie's bedside.

"Someone's trying to kill me by getting to you guys…" I said; my voice lifeless.

"That's not—"

"She's right. Something's after her." Emmett said; his voice as lifeless as mine. The person he loved wasn't responding at all and it was because of me. Usually, Emmett would be against me saying things like this but I couldn't be totally surprised. "And it's going to kill us if we don't do anything. Rose got hurt because of this whole thing and I don't want to know who's going to be next."

I tried standing up but there was a pain that shot up my back. It wasn't as bad as before but it was still painful. Esme was behind me in an instant. Where did she come from? Did she finish repairing the room or did she take a break? "I'm fine." I said as I headed towards the bed. Emmett put Rosalie back on the bed. "I think I can help…" I went towards Rosalie's injured hand and took off the cloth while being very careful of the wincing. Of course, that didn't work. She winced at the pain. Black magic can work their horrible effects on anybody.

I could see the horrible scratch it had left on her hand. They weren't the same as Edward's since these could be healed but it was definitely black magic. There were only two spells that I knew to take the effects of black magic away. There was the Nerve Ending spell that could be cured and the System Failure spell. It makes the person completely knocked out and they were in a kind of coma that cannot be broken with simple words from family and friends. I closed my eyes and said a few words and suddenly, my fingers started to light up in front of the scratch. I placed my fingers on the graze and opened my eyes to find the wound evaporating and appearing on my hand. This spell was able to bring back the consciousness of the injured and makes the user of the spell get the cut. Since I would be getting the cut, the only thing that was good about this was that I wouldn't have any black magic transferred in me. It would evaporate like the graze. I winced at the pain of the scratch forming on my hand but I tried to push the pain away so that I could finish the counter-spell. In a few seconds, the scratch on Rosalie's hand was gone and it was now on mine.

Everyone was stunned at what happened and weren't moving until Emmett heard Rosalie waking up. I put the cloth on my injured hand now and started walking away very slowly out of the room. Everyone was greeting Rosalie and announcing how happy they were that she was ok. Nobody noticed that I left the room. I was on my way towards the guestroom very slowly—trying not to make this walk too painful—but I was going to go pack. I figured that if I left, the Cullens would be safe. I guess you could call me selfish in a way but I only want other people's safety.

As I started getting the bags out—painfully I might add—and putting my clothes in it, I saw Alice in the doorframe of the guestroom. She looked worried. "How's Rosalie feeling?" I asked as I kept packing my things. I was starting to feel a little better but not a lot.

"She's fine. Emmett and Carlisle are with her right now to see if she's ok. Esme went back to repairing her room so she could be in it soon. But the better question is; what are you doing?" She asked.

"Leaving."

"Oh no… Jules; please don't tell me we'll have to go through all of this again! You're not leaving! And with your injuries, you're not going anywhere!" She said as she came towards me and started unpacking everything in my suitcase.

"Look Alice, Emmett agrees with what I said. I'm hurting all of you if you guys keep protecting me! I don't want anything to happen to you guys on my account. Three of you already got hurt because of this and I don't want anybody else getting hurt! I'm sorry Alice but it would be best if I went somewhere far away from you guys." I said as I repacked the things she was unpacking out of my suitcase. Alice wasn't convinced.

"You're not going anywhere. We can get through this. It's going to be fine." Alice said as she took my shoulders and looked me straight in the eyes. She brought me in a careful hug and I just wanted to get out of it. It hurt to do so. "Besides, think of how Edward will react if he finds out you're leaving. He loves you. We all love you. We won't let anything happen to you. Rose is fine, I'm fine, Edward's fine so, there's no need for you to leave." I tried getting out but it was getting more painful so I gave up.

"That's right." I heard a lovely voice say beside us. I looked towards my door and saw Rosalie and Emmett standing there. Emmett was holding Rosalie by the waist and it looked like all of her scratches were gone. That was good.

"Dude, I didn't mean any of that stuff before. I was just upset." Emmett explained.

"It's fine Emmett. Don't worry about it." I said as I fell apart from Alice's squeeze. I sat on the bed since the pain shot back up my back and Rosalie and Alice sat on either side of me.

"You're not going anywhere." Rosalie said.

"I've heard that before." I said as I shot a glare at Alice. She looked back at me with the same glare. "But seriously, I—" I started but Alice put her cold hand on my mouth, which told me I should stop talking.

"Jules, I'm awake because of you. I don't see any reason why you should leave. You're a part of this family now." Rosalie said as she put her arm around my shoulder and brought me closer to her but it was painful the way she did it. I winced and she relaxed her grip on me. "Sorry. Where does it hurt?"

"It's nothing." I assured.

"She got hurt when that vampire attacked." Alice explained.

"Mostly her back and her head." Carlisle said as he came in the room. Esme came up behind him. She looked satisfied. I guess she finished the room. Edward still wasn't here. That must mean that he's still hunting. "She'll be fine with a little bit of rest."

"Where's Jasper?" He was the only one that wasn't here right now—except for Edward. At least I knew why he wasn't here.

"There was a lot of blood in Rose's room. He couldn't stay here. He might have done something that he would regret later if he attacked you. Remember, he's the newest of the family." Alice explained.

"Even if we are vegetarians, we can't always control ourselves when it involves human blood, especially yours." Carlisle explained.

"Vegetarians?"

"It means that we don't feed on human blood." Esme explained.

"Well, that makes sense." I said as I got up slowly and started unpacking all my things from my suitcase while everyone started to leave the room. Carlisle and Esme got out first, next was Emmett and Alice was out after him. Rosalie was the last one to leave my room. I sat back on my bed and started to lie down slowly. The spinning had come back and it was really bugging me. Suddenly, I heard some light footsteps and opened my eyes to look at the ceiling.

"Jules?" I heard Rosalie ask in the doorframe.

"Yes?"

"You can start calling me Rose, if you want." She said with a smile before heading out of the room. It was nice to see that we really were on good terms now…

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