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I just like messing with Stephenie Meyer's characters in my own plots!
4 AM Rude Awakening
"Rosalie McCarty, did you know I NEVER wanted a BITCH for a cousin?" Alice said roughly pulling her pillow over her head after she yanked the blankets off.
"Do you really think I want to see you half naked in a tank top and panties at 4 o'clock in the morning?" The blonde bombshell asked smacking her cousin hard on the bum. "Now, get up! We have to get moving."
"I just went to bed an hour and forty-five minutes ago. Let me sleep. I don't want to go shopping in the city. I don't want to go hiking. I don't want to do anything, but sleep." Alice said shaking her hand in the air in the general direction she thought her cousin was.
Rosalie plopped down ungracefully on the other side of the bed. "Alice, do you thing I would risk waking the demon pixie for something as trivial as shopping?"
This one question made Alice uncover her head to look at her older cousin. The blonde had tear tracks running down her face. Alice sat up so quickly that she got dizzy. After shaking her head, she asked, "Rose, what's going on?"
"You know about the fire in the woods, right?"
"Rose, I don't believe in killing the messenger, but I do believe in maiming them. If you don't spit out whatever you are not trying to say, I will go all kinds of demon pixie on your ass."
"I have to take you to the hospital. Something happened to your dad."
Alice jumped off her bed, steadied herself again, and threw on the first cloths she could find.
They ran down the stairs and to Rosalie's car. Rosalie started driving like a bat out of hell.
Once they pulled out, Alice was grateful that it was Saturday and Ben would be in the cover the bar. "Why did you come get me? Why didn't they just call me?"
"You turned the sound off on your cell. Besides, I was already going to be passing by your place. Emmett called me and asked me to get you. He didn't want you driving anyways." She answered almost blowing a stop sign.
Alice was out of the BMW convertible before it was fully parked. She burst through the emergency room doors and ran toward the nurse's station. A human shield, Emmett blocked her path.
"Where… is… how… my… dad?" Alice asked through gasping breaths as she held a stitch in her side.
"He is in surgery. Let me take you up to the waiting room." He said giving her a giant bear hug cutting off her ability to breath.
Alice paced while waiting for Rosalie and then, the elevator to arrive. She bounced in the elevator on the way up to the surgical floor. The doors opened and she shot down the hall to the surgery waiting room. Rounding a corner, she could hear a quiet buzz coming from the room, but she didn't expect half of the department to be sitting in there. There were also a few members of the Forks and Reservation littering the room. The fire must be out or very well contained.
"Mom, where are you? Mom…" Alice said loudly because she couldn't see her auburn hair among the crowd.
Sam quickly came over to her, hopping over sprawled out legs. He enveloped her in giant hug, almost cutting off her breath again. He kissed the top of her head and whispered, "She couldn't stand it in here. She is with Emily and Leah. Do you want to go down there? I'll come get you when the doctor comes out."
"No, I'll stay." He bent down and looked at her skeptically. She placed her hands gently on his cheeks. With a faint smile, Alice said, "I want to stay."
He pulled Alice back across the room to the seat he had just vacated and forced her into it. He sat down on the floor and leaned back against her legs.
For the next few hours, random guys in the department would ask if she wanted something to eat or drink as they went to get themselves something. Alice would either continue to stare unseeingly or decline the offer. She just sat staring at the back of Sam's head and played with his hair.
Alice could feel most of the guys that were still awake randomly look at her and then, look away quickly. But she felt two sets of eyes staring at her, almost boring holes into the top of her skull. She looked up in the direction of the eyes. They were all the way across the room near the door, but still one set locked eyes with hers.
These eyes held anger and pain. They were golden eyes surrounded by a face that was vaguely familiar even though she knew that she didn't know the man. He appeared to be relatively good looking even under the soot and fire gear. He had wild, bronze colored hair. She guessed that he was about 6 feet tall and lanky, but he had lean muscles and a clear pale skin very much like her own skin.
She blinked breaking their connection and then, purposefully looked at the other man. It felt like his eyes pierced her soul when she locked eyes with his. His eyes were full of compassion, sympathy, wonder, and lust. He had wavy, dark blonde hair that came to down to his jaw-line and cinnamon colored eyes. He was slightly taller than the pained man next to him, but he had the same lanky, lean muscled body.
Emmett, who was sitting next to her in a chair with Rosalie in front of him on the floor, noticed where she was looking, more like staring.
With the smallest hint of humor in his voice, he leaned over and whispered in his cousin-in-law's ear. "Alice, your father is in surgery and you are staring at two guys?"
After lowering her eyes back to Sam's hair quickly and blushing, I whispered back to Emmett. "I was trying to figure out who those two are. I don't think I have ever met them before."
"They are relatively new to the Forks Fire Department." He said. I looked at him questioningly, so he continued. "The crazy haired guy is Edward Masen. He joined the department three or four months ago. He is a bit of a know-it-all, but is still a good guy. Actually, he is the guy that carried your dad out of the fire's path."
Alice stifled a sob at hearing her father couldn't even get out of the fire's way under his own power. Emmett wrapped his arm around her shoulders while Sam turned, crouching in front of her to hold onto her small hands tightly in his larger ones. After fighting for control of her sobs for a few moments, Alice glanced up to see the crazy haired man staring at her. She mouthed the words 'Thank you' to him before snuggling back into Emmett's side.
A few minutes later, Alice realized that Emmett hadn't told her who the man with the piercing eyes was. "Who is the other guy, Emmett?" She asked quietly.
"The other guy… oh yeah. The other guy is Jasper Whitlock. He has been with the department for about a year. He is a bit odd. He grew up and was a firefighter in Galveston, Texas, for five years. He got fed up with the sun, heat, dry weather, and flat desert."
"So, he moved here, one of the wettest, sunless, coldest, mountainous places in the continental US?"
"I told you that he is a bit odd. He is a great guy and one of the top investigators for Forks. Your dad trusts him. He will go out to help figure out this fire after he lets the doctors clear him for smoke inhalation."
Before Alice could respond, a surgeon walked into the waiting room. As he took in the room, he removed his surgical mask from his face. She knew down to her very core that her father's injuries were horrible. Dr. Banner, the hospital and Washington's top orthopedic surgeon, was the one operating on her father.
She tapped Sam on the shoulder because he had gone back to dozing and resting his head on her knee. He jumped up startled and tore across the room to go get my mom from the maternity ward once he realized what was going on. She rushed after him to the door. Dr. Banner and many of the firefighters looked nervous since she was leaping over the sprawled legs from the guys sitting on the floor. She chanced a look up to see Edward Masen and Jasper Whitlock's faces wrinkled with concern and almost faltered.
Alice stopped just before Dr. Banner. "How is my dad? Is he okay? Will he live?" She asked frantically.
"Alice, slow down." He said placing a placating hand on her shoulder. She immediately shook it off. "Are you sure you want to know right now? Don't you want to wait for your mother?"
"Just tell me!" She spat with a steel resolve. She felt Emmett and Rosalie place their hands on her shoulders to try to calm her down enough to listen properly.
Dr. Banner nodded his head and with a voice loud enough that the whole room could hear, he started to explain. "Carlisle is very much alive and will be so for a very long time."
"But…" Alice said bringing his attention to only the small, young woman. He shot her a quizzical look. "What is 'the but'? It feels like there is a 'but' coming."
"You are right, Alice. I want to wait for your mother though."
"Answer me." She said with such fierceness in her voice that the man could only obey.
"He sustained an injury to his lower spinal cord. It has caused a paralysis in his legs."
"He's a paraplegic?" Emmett asked in surprise.
"I am afraid so." Dr. Banner said as Alice's mom and Sam ran into the waiting room.
Esme Cullen continued to her daughter and wrapped her arms around her. She released Alice, but grabbed her hand before she turned to Dr. Banner.
"You couldn't fix his back, could you?" She asked. He shook his head no and left the room.
Alice could see everything going on around her. She could hear everything that was being said. She squeezed her eyes shut willing everything to go away because she just couldn't deal with it. She began to sway.
Suddenly, she was being picked up and held tightly against a chest that smelled like smoke. A voice that she didn't recognize whispered to her as he was led down the hall.
"Alice, it is going to be fine."
"Take deep breaths for me, Alice."
"You still have your father."
"Open your eyes, please."
Alice chose to ignore the rushing of her mom, Emmett, Rosalie, and the doctors. The southern accent speaking was relaxing to her. It relaxed her until everything was gone.
Author's Note~
This is where the confusion and drama really starts. There is definitely more to come.
I really hope you are enjoying this story. Let me know what you think, like, love, or hate!
~KaliCali77