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Chapter dedicated to bella raven cullen again for rocking my world.

Song for chapter is… Dead! By My Chemical Romance.

Once in a lifetime: Edward's POV.

Chapter 24

EPOV

Alice had kidnapped Bella and left her crutches here. I shook Jasper awake.

'You were supposed to make sure your girlfriend looked after my girlfriend, who happens to also be your sister, Bella,' I said to him, enunciating every word carefully. Jasper yawned.

'She'll be fine,' Jasper muttered. I glared at him and walked to the top of the stairs. I could see Alice dragging Bella across the packed dance floor, she didn't seem to be in any pain but she had been becoming very good at hiding it. I saw them approach Tanya at the bar and start a conversation. Bella looked perfectly happy, which made me smile. They were fine, I told myself. My eyes scanned the room. Paul was DJing; he was quite new here but had experience at another club. Alice had told me that Bella loved dancing. I smiled. God, I loved her. I couldn't stand seeing her lying there in all that pain, tubes attached to her. I vowed from the moment that she woke up; I would never leave her side. Although Alice and Christine had made me break that but I was doing my utmost best.

A girl at the end of the bar looked up at me flirtatiously and beckoned me over with a finger. I shook my head, what a slut. I made my way back over to the dozing Jasper. He began to snore lightly as I sat down on the other couch. I whacked him hard around the head, he jolted upright in surprise. He saw my raised hand.

'First the women, now the guys. Why me?' he muttered.

The music wasn't really to my taste or style, I preferred rock, so did Bella, I'd been told. I had loved her since I first laid eyes on her at the ball my parent's held some seven months ago.

I relaxed using the music to calm my overprotectiveness. The beat for the current song was simple, but I suppose all club music had simple beats.

I must've fallen asleep because Jasper was shaking me awake.

'Alice has been back ten minutes, she's panicking about Bella,' he told me with a tone of worry in his voice. I jumped up. Alice was shaking. She was whispering, 'not again,' repeatedly to herself. Jasper was trying his best to calm her. I took a few controlled breaths to calm myself. I'd left her and she'd disappeared. There was a momentary silence between songs. A loud gunshot filled the air. The song that had just started was cut off abruptly. Sound problems, that's all, I told myself. Then two more followed in quick succession. Then a terrifyingly familiar scream filled the air and I found myself rooted to the spot. Jasper sprinted down the stairs, leaving Alice sobbing louder. Rose and Emmett appeared. Rose comforted Alice and Emmett followed Jasper. Rose pushed me to the stairs and I found myself running down them.

Paul caught my eye and turned to the microphone.

'Sorry, we are experiencing some technical difficulties. Please could you leave the premises so we can get it back up and running, thank you!' he announced, there were a few complaints but in the end everyone left. Tanya, Kate, Irina, Eleazar, Fabian and Paul all walked to the bottom of the stairs. I ran to where a reddish liquid was mixing with Tequila looking liquid. I could smell it before I realised what the red was. Blood. I sprinted behind the curtain where the blood seemed to be coming from. A door appeared right in front of me, I shoved it open and ran in.

Emmett had a leather clad man in a head lock to keep him from escaping. Jasper was comforting Bella, she was sobbing. I ran over to her, she automatically wrapped her arms around my neck. Jasper moved away. I held Bella as she cried.

'He's not going to hurt you,' I whispered.

'James, He came back to get me, keep me safe. I don't want to die, Edward,' she cried. I hugged her close. James was in for it now.

'He's gonna get sent to prison, they all are, love, don't worry. I'll look after you,' I soothed her. I picked her up and carried her back up to the upstairs room. I laid her on the couch and she whimpered.

'The police are on their way,' Kate whispered as she went to get the First Aid kit. I nodded.

Blood was seeping through Bella's top, staining it red.

'Bella, love, I'm going to have to take off your shirt to see the injury,' I told her. She nodded as her head lulled to one side. I bit my lip, this was my girlfriend. I pulled up at the hem, my fingers unintentionally grazed the smooth, flawless sin of her abdomen. She gasped. Her skin was so smooth. I pulled it up quickly, trying not to ogle at my girlfriend's beautiful smooth, flawless body. A thin trickle of blood ran down the centre of her chest. I tried my hardest not to stare at her bra. She had a long deep gash on her shoulder. Blood was coming out of it slowly. I balled up her discarded top and pressed it against the wound. She winced and gripped onto one of my hands. She closed her eyes and a single tear rolled out from under her eyelid.

'Grip onto my hand and squeeze when it hurts, love,' I whispered to her. Her grip tightened on my hand. I pressed the material harder onto her shoulder trying to make the blood clot but I knew she was loosing it rapidly. Her grip began to loosen and her hand fell from mine. I bit my lip. Her head lolled to one side.

Hurried footsteps entered the room and EMTs started to check her over. Someone pushed me aside. I stood there for what seemed like forever, then one came over to me.

'She's lost a lot of blood. She's going to have to be taken to the hospital, she's not looking good. I'm sorry.'

My world fell apart around me.

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