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Edward's Point of View

I still had Bella's hand encased in my own, and I was watching her expectantly. It had been about forty-five minutes, and I expected her to wake up soon. The entire time I've been sitting, watching her, I've been trying to push all the horrible thoughts out of my mind.

All of a sudden her eyes started to flutter. I stayed quiet, not wanting to scare her with my presence. Finally her eyes fully opened, and she turned her head towards me.

"Edward." She whimpered slowly. Her voice pained me.

"Yes love, I'm right here." I replied in a quiet voice. I slid my head across her forehead, moving some strayed hairs back to their rightful places. Her forehead was extremely warm, even for her.

"What…happened?" She was having difficulty forming her words.

"You passed out."

"From the nail polish." It wasn't a question, it was a statement. If only I could believe that was what caused her to pass out. How was I supposed to tell her, that I didn't think that was the cause? I decided I wouldn't directly respond to that, and went in a different direction.

"How have you been feeling lately?" I asked, trying to hide the worry in my voice, I don't know how well I did.

"Well…I've been okay. I've missed you a lot." I pulled her hand to my lips, and gave it a soft kiss.

"I've missed you too, but I meant how have you been feeling physically."

"Oh…" She trailed off, I wasn't sure if she didn't want to tell me something, or if she was thinking.

"Oh…what?" I pushed for an answer.

"Well earlier today I felt really tired."

"What are you thinking?" She asked, sweetly, tiredly.

"It doesn't matter." I replied, staring lovingly into her deep brown eyes. I wanted nothing more than to be holding her in my arms, laying in our meadow, but that wasn't going to happen right now.

Tears welled up in her eyes. I hadn't intended to hurt her with my response, but I had.

"Bella, sweetie, I'm sorry." I stood up, leaning over to kiss her forehead. I needed to go get Carlisle, she was burning up. I wiped the few tears that had fallen from her face with my fingers.

"It's okay." She replied quietly. I pushed a button on the wall for a nurse to come in. Jenny appeared in less than a minute.

"Oh you're awake. Do you need something sugar?" Jenny was talking to Bella.

"No, I'm okay." Bella replied, she didn't look okay, but I wasn't about to argue with her. Jenny started to walk out. I couldn't believe she started walking out…what was she thinking…that we just wanted her to know Bella was awake? Ugh.

"Jenny." I said rather loudly. She turned quickly.

"Hmmm?"

"Can you please send Carlisle in?"

"Of course." She turned and walked away.

I sat back down next to Bella, taking her hand in mine once again. We sat there in silence for a few moments, and then she opened her mouth to speak, but just then Carlisle walked in, and she closed her mouth again.

"Hi Bella." Carlisle spoke kindly.

"Hi there." She replied, trying to sound cheery.

"How are you doing? And don't lie to me." He said adding a smile at the end.

"I'm cold, tired, and I feel light headed." She replied slowly. The second I heard her say she was cold, I let go of her hand. My body temperature wasn't going to help. The moment my hand left hers she looked at me as if she was hurt.

"Bella, I'm only making you colder."

"I don't care." She pouted and I took her hand back in mine. I was surprised how truthful she had been to Carlisle, I was expecting her to act as if she were fine. Carlisle spoke.

"I'm going to check your temperature." Carlisle took out the thermometer, and placed it in her mouth.

"Well?" I asked, wanting to now how high her temperature was.

"It's extremely high, we're going to have to give you something to bring it down."

"What was her temperature?" I prodded.

"102.2." I gasped. Bella was trembling. She was cold. This was so horrible. Here she had a horrible fever, and she was cold, but we couldn't put more blankets on her, because that would only make her temperature higher.

"Bella, I'm going to give you some Motrin to lower your temperature." I so badly wanted to ask if he had gotten the results from the blood tests, but I decided to wait until I could talk to him without Bella hearing.

"Okay." She replied weakly. Carlisle inserted the Motrin into Bella's IV.

"I'm going to give you morphine as well. It will lessen any pain you may be experiencing, and it will make you sleep." Bella just nodded in acceptance.

"Edward, may I speak to you outside for a moment?" I looked to Bella, to see if it was okay with her. She nodded her head slowly. I followed Carlisle out of the room and into the hallway. Charlie was standing there too. I wasn't sure if I was ready for this. Carlisle was going to tell us what was wrong. I took a deep breathe, and waited for Carlisle to speak.

"I think we should go sit down." Carlisle said. This wasn't going to be good. The three of us walked over to the waiting area and sat down. I was wishing I was with Bella, holding her hand, watching her drift into sleep, instead of sitting here, waiting to hear what was wrong with my love.

"We go the results from the blood tests."

A/N: I know, I know, I'm drawing this out. I promise you will find out what's wrong in the next chapter!!! Please review!

Shel