A/N: Hey I was refreshing my mind on what had happened so far in the chapters and noticed that there was a part missing from this chapter..so I had to upload it again...not much is added on..but its importants if you want to be the hot docs any time soon....anyway..next chapter is on its way...hopfully it should be up tonight or tomorrow :D
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Chapter 2 – Grandpa
BPOV
After a 2 hour drive, I pulled up outside my childhood home in the small town of Forks in Washington. I hadn't spoke to my father ever since I married James 8 years ago and know I was just going to show up at his door step with a bruised and blooded face with two small children. What was Charlie going to think of me? Would he let me back into his life? Ever since my mom died of cancer six years ago, I had been completely alone.
I climbed out of the car and picked Elizabeth out of the back, which was still asleep. Mason climbed out of the car with his blanket and ran over to hold my hand. I loved my kids more than anything in the world and I have to stay strong for them but if Charlie turned me away I don't know if I could hold myself together. I walked up the path and up the little steps that lead to the front door. I took a deep breath and lightly knocked on the door. It was quite late at night and I just hoped that Charlie was still awake.
I heard some voices from inside the house, followed by the porch light being turned on. I took a deep breath as the door slowly opened. There standing in the doorway was Charlie who hadn't changed a bit. Okay maybe he had a few more grey hairs and wrinkles but apart from that he look just the same.
"Hello, can I help you?" Charlie's face was plastered with concern.
Great he didn't recognise me.
"Hi daddy."
Charlie's eye widen with shock as he realised who I was. I must have looked terrible. My face and clothes were still stained with my blood. I had tears in my eyes and my hair was everywhere.
"Bells?"
"Yea dad, its me." What happened next shocked me. Charlie threw himself at me and embraced me in a hug. I couldn't hold myself together any more. I let the tears fall and the sobs to come out on his shoulder.
"I'm so sorry dad."
"I'm sorry too Bells. I should have been there for you."
"No its my fault dad. I shouldn't have ignored you for all those years."
"Well, I didn't exactly try to get in touch with you either."
"I guess it was both our faults."
Charlie nodded in agreement. I pulled away looking down at Elizabeth to see if she was still asleep. Yep. That girl could sleep through anything. That was when Charlie noticed Elizabeth and Mason.
"God Bells, what has he done to you?"
"I should have listened to you dad when you said he was bad news."
"Aww Bells, I didn't want to be right."
"I know dad."
"Well I can't let my daughter and grandchildren stay outside in this weather. Come on in Bells. I will get your things out the car."
"Thanks dad. How did you know I had things with me?"
"By the look of you Bells, I know your not going back any time soon." Charlie kissed my forehead and headed to the car while I walked into the house.
"Charlie? Who was that at the door?" The voice was familiar. I walked to the living room, where the voice came from and stopped just in the doorway. In the middle of the room was an old man in a red wheelchair. He had tanned skin and long black hair. I recognised his right away.
"Billy?"
Billy turned around in his chair to look at me.
"Bella? It that you?"
"Yea its me." I said with a little chuckle.
"Oh my god! What happened to you?"
"Asshole of a husband."
"Momma, that's a bad word." Crap! I completely forgot that Mason was standing right next to me.
"Oops I'm sorry baby."
"It's okay. Just don't use that word again."
Billy chuckled from his chair.
"Oh you can tell he's yours Bells."
I stepped into the room and walked over to the coach. I pulled Mason up to sit next to me and settled Elizabeth into my lap, letting her rest on my chest.
"Yea, they both take after their momma, thank god!"
Billy looked at me with a concerned face. I locked eyes with him and gave him a small smile, my eyes filling up with tears once again.
"Oh Bells." Billy wheeled his chair right over to me and stroked my hair. Billy had always been like a second father to me when I spent my teenage years here and I loved him very much. I soon heard the front door close and Charlie walked into the living room and sat down in his chair, looking at me with the same expression as Charlie. It seemed like hours before someone finally spoke but it was no one in the room.
"Hey guys, sorry I'm late. I got stuck at the garage. Sam wanted to make sure that this car was ready by the morning…has the game started?"
A huge guy walked into the living room. He had cropped black hair and tanned skin. He was wearing a fitted t-shirt showing off his huge muscles and simple dark jeans. He was gorgeous. As soon as he saw me he stopped and his jaw went slack, proberly from the cuts on my face.
"Who is that and what the hell happened to her?"
"Jake…" Charlie started with a warning tone.
"Jake?" I looked back and forth between Charlie and Billy.
"Jacob Black?" Jake was the one who answered me this time.
"Yea, who are you?"
I stood up and passed Elizabeth to Billy who happily accepted her. I ran over to Jake and threw my arms around his neck and buried my face in his chest. He smelt just like he use to; a musky smell mixed with oil from the cars. Jake loosely wrapped his arms around my waist. I know he didn't recognise me.
"Hey Jakey boy." I called him the nickname I gave him when we were 16 knowing he would know it was me.
"Bells?" His voice sound choked and full of emotion. I nodded against his chest. Straight away his arms tighten around he and he buried his face in my hair.
"I can't believe its you." He pulled back to get a better look at my face. His happy smile soon dropped when he remembered the cuts on my face. I saw the anger grow in his eyes and heard a low rumble in his chest. He bought his hand up and stroked my face but pulled away when I winced in pain.
"Don't touch my momma!" Out of nowhere Mason shouted and ran over to where me and Jake were standing and started hitting his knees with tears streaming down his face. I let go of Jake and bent down to grab Mason's hands.
"No no baby, he didn't hurt me." Mason nodded and threw himself at me into a hug. Jake bent down next to us and ruffled Mason's hair.
"Hey there slugger, I would never hurt your mom. She's very special to me." Mason peeked up at Jake. Jake gave him a warm smile so Mason let go of me and jumped into Jake's arms. We both stood up, Jake keeping Mason in his arms.
"So slugger, what's your name?"
"Mason Swan-Gibbs."
"Well hey there Mason, I'm Jake. I knew your momma when she was just a little girl."
Mason giggled.
"Momma was never a little girl. Not like Lizzie."
"Yea she was. Who's Lizzie?"
"My little sister silly."
That was when Jake noticed Billy holding my sleeping little girl in his arms. Jake smile gently.
"She looks just like you Bells."
"Yea I guess she does." I walked back over to the coach and sat down, holding my arms back out to get Elizabeth from Billy.
"It's it alright if I hold her for a while?"
"Yea sure Billy."
"Hey hey hey! These are my grandkids. Don't you think I should get to hold them?" The three of us looked at Charlie who had a little pout on his face and burst out laughing. Charlie started to get grump; he never liked being laugh at. This only made us laugh even harder. I didn't notice how loud we were because Elizabeth began to stir in Billy's arms.
"Momma?"
"Yea sweetheart I'm right here."
"Where are we?" She sat up in Billy's arms and looked around.
"We are at grandpa's house." Elizabeth looked straight at Charlie, almost knowing that he was her grandpa. Elizabeth jumped off of Billy's lap and ran over to Charlie and climbed into his lap. She kneeled up and planted a sloppy wet kiss on Charlie.
"Hi Grandpa!"
Charlie smiled down at my baby.
"Hey there angel."
Billy grumbled from his chair. Charlie looked over at him and stuck his tongue out at him.
Billy turned to me now with a serious expression.
"So Bells, what happened?"
I looked over at the kids who were in Charlie's and Jake's arms snuggling into their chests.
"Let me put the kids down first. I don't want them to hear it, they've already seen it."
Billy and Charlie gasped in horror and Jake growled. I walked over to Charlie and picked up Elizabeth.
"Right young lady, its way past your bedtime, say goodnight to Grandpa Charlie, Grampy Billy and Uncle Jake."
Elizabeth said goodnight and curled up into my chest.
"Dad, it there somewhere I can put them down?"
"You can use your old room Bells, I didn't change it."
"Let me help you Bells." Jake stood up with Mason, half asleep in him arms. "Mason say goodnight."
Mason mumbled something close to a goodnight before completely dropping off. Jake followed me up the stairs and into my old room, where Charlie had put our bags. It was nice not having to put the kids to bed all by myself. We settled them down and I kissed them on the forehead before leading Jake back downstairs.
We sat back down on the coach and Jake threw his arm around me, pulling me onto his shoulder.
"You've got some really great kids there Bells."
"Thanks Dad, I'm just glad they didn't spend much time with their father. They might not have turned out so good." I said with a humourless laugh.
"Come on Bells, please tell us what happened, it's killing us here."
With a heavy sigh I began telling them the story from the beginning. About falling in love with him; the competitions; the separation from friends; the beatings and the kids. I finish by telling them about the glass and hurting Mason. By the time I had finished I had tears flowing down my face and I was emotionally drained. Jake pulled me onto his lap and I curled up into his chest as his rocked me back and forth. The silence was killing me.
"Someone please say something." My voice hurt from sobbing so much.
"Sorry Bells, just we can't believe we let you go through that." I looked over at Charlie who had a pained face.
"Dad it's not your fault, I should have gotten out of there sooner." I sat up and looked at Jake's chest which was now covered in my blood.
"Jake, oh I'm sorry, I ruined your shirt." Jake looked down to examine his shirt while I frantically tried to wipe the blood off.
"Bells, I'm fine. It's you I'm worrying about."
"I don't know what you're talking about, I'm fine."
"Bella, you've been bleeding for the past couple of hours and James had been beating you badly for the past couple of years. You need to go to the hospital."
"Dad, really I'm fine. Its just dried blood, I need to wash that's all." I got up from Jake's lap to go and clean up but stumbled slightly. Jake caught me before I could fall.
"Are you alright." Charlie stood up to help Jake but I shrugged them both off.
"Yea, I just got a bit of head rush. I'll be fine." I started heading towards the stairs, when I suddenly felt faint again. Everything started to spin and then went blurry. I continued to make my way up the stairs when I couldn't move anymore.
"Dad?" I turned around on the stairs seeing Charlie at the bottom. Suddenly everything went blank and I felt pain. The only thing I could hear was my father calling my name before everything went completely dark.
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