Edward POV
As soon as I set Bella down in the Volvo she was out like a light. Bella, my beautiful Bella, why would someone hurt this angel? Shot! I looked into my rearview mirror to find Charlie following us with the lights flashing and the sirens going. Just. What. I. Need! God I don't like this man and now he is following us! What else can go wrong?
"Come on buddy the lights are on! All you have to do is stop and unlock the door for my daughter!" Charlie screamed in his head. "Come on boy!" He just kept begging me to pull over, but that isn't going to happen buddy.
I yanked out my phone and started dialing Chief Hunginkis' number so then I could tell him about this Charlie problem. "Hello? Mr. Hunginkis? I just need to let you know that I have Isabella and Charlie is following me with the sirens rawring and the lights flashing. Is there anything you can do?" I was desperate to get Charlie away from me and most importantly Bella.
He sighed, "Mr. Culled why did you leave the hospital in the first place? You know that I could have protected you and Ms. Swan."
"I know, but I had a funny feeling that something bad was going to happen if we stayed there in the hospital." Although I said that I thought, I knew because Charlie was going to shoot me and slice Bella's throat. I would rather be chased by a police car than being shot with a gun.
"I'm going to follow you alright? Don't pull over no matter what, do you understand?"
"Yes sir I understand. I'm driving near Neon Bar so if you know-" I was cut off by a scream of pain in the back of my car. "Bella?! Are you alright?" I muttered a goodbye to Mr. Hunginkis and looked at the road. I heard her whimper in pain which only made my leaded foot want to push on the gas farther. I smiled as her calmly and she instantly calmed down from her panic attack.
"Can I come sit up there with you? I don't feel safe back here." She whispered and I simply put my hand out so she could step from the back seat to the front. With a lot of effort she stood and took my hand, which she squeezed with ultimate pain pulsing through her veins. "Thanks. What did Alice see?"
I shrugged so I could maybe put some time off of it, but being Bella she gave me a look that was like death. I sighed before I replied with, "Charlie he was…well…" I had to admit that I was scrambling for words, but nothing would fit and I knew that.
"Can you just fucking spit it out Edward?" I sighed, "Please Edward?"
I was still trying to find easy words to state the situation. "Will you promise not to scream and hold my hand when I tell you?" This sent a nervous expression to her face, but she nodded her head for me to continue with what I saw going on inside Alice's head. "Well, I can't find a better way to put this so please bare with me," I gave her hand a squeeze and she squeezed back, "your fuck of a father was…was going to shoot me and then slice your neck. If…if we didn't get out of there then we both would have been dead within ten minutes." Slow tears ran down her face and her brown mud colored eyes were glossed over with moisture. "I'm so sorry Be-" she cut me off by putting her fingers to my lips, I kissed them and she chuckled.
"Edward, I love you, and if it wasn't for you we both would have been dead." Apparently her tears were of happiness not the crying for her monster of a father.
"Anything for you love. Now, where would you like to go?" she looked back to the police cruiser and her eyes widened. I found her hand and started rubbing soothing circles into the back of her hands. "Don't worry about him love, we have Chief Dunginkis on our side." I looked out to my side mirrors and saw another police car, Officer Dunginkis! "Plus look, he is right here, so we are safe." Relief instantly went to her face and I was smiling, that is until my cell phone rang. "Hello?"
"Edward, Edward is that you?" Alice was panicked and I knew something bad was going to happen. "Okay I'm taking breathing as a yes. There's traffic and Charlie is going to get out of the car, I need you to stay in the car."
"Okay I will trust me." I lowered my voice so then Bella wouldn't hear, "Are the windows going to break?" I was hoping that I was staying calm enough for Bella, but she would see right threw it, I know it.
"They don't, just stay in the car and keep Bella busy, we don't want her to panic now do we?" She laughed but I could tell that it was forced as soon as I heard it. "Jazz is in the room, maybe I should explain things to him." The line went dead and I wasn't surprised at all. I looked out the windshield more carefully and saw the traffic at a halt. Wonderful!
"What did Alice want?" questioned the beauty sitting next to me with my hand upon her knee.
"How did you know that it was her?"
"I have excellent hearing. I can hear people in other rooms at school, but I always thought that that was normal…I guess not." She chuckled a forced laugh and smiled at me. "At least I know that I'm not the only freak in the world." I smiled at her and my car came to a hault with the traffic which was now in arms distance.
"My love, will you go out with me? I really love you." I planned on asking her in the meadow, but I had to keep her busy right?
"Yes, oh yes, hell yeah!" She screamed this with joy and jumped into my lap forgetting about her back. "Oops, I," she winced a little, "guess I forgot about my back." I held onto my girlfriend with pride and she just beamed it back towards me. My grin just got larger and finally I started to laugh. "What's so funny Edward?" I had to make up something quick, and this really wasn't something to lie about.
"I can just imagine a huge goofy grin spread upon my face is all." My smile came back and she started laughing her head off and leaned into the steering wheel. I wonder if she is healing, might as well ask if I can see. "Bella? Can I see your back just to check it? It might heal fast, you know?"
"Sure I guess since you are my boyfriend." I lifted the back of her shirt and to my amazement there were two scratches there instead of the hundreds of openings along her back. "It really doesn't hurt anymore, you know? I think there are only a few scrapes there. I usually heal fast anyways." I pulled down the back of her shirt and as I was pulling down the two scratches disappeared in front of my eyes and her face was no longer in pain. "Now I feel better!" I laughed and she hugged me which felt extraordinary; her laugh came straight to my ears and I wanted to record it.
"I'm glad Bella, really I am! Carlisle would love to see you, and it isn't just because of your hearing and healing skills." I smiled and kissed her forehead and leaned away from her to look at the sight I had secretly been listening in to. "Can you tell me what they are actually saying? I can only hear what they want to say."
"Sure" the whole car was quiet as she listened in. "They are fighting over me and about my home." The sad expression on her face said it all and I was upset that Charlie was still lying about his abusive ways. "HOW DARE HE!" she suddenly outburst, and I jumped a little at the sound of her usually quiet voice being so loud. "So Charlie just tried to lie about not hurting me, thank god Mr. Hunginkis doesn't believe it or else I would be back with him." There was another pause and then she clung to me like never before, "He…he…just ad-admitted t-to H-Hunginkis th-that he…he wanted to…r-rape me!" She burst into tears and I just let her tears ruin my shirt. I rubbed soothing circles into her back knowing that might calm her nerves a bit. Soon she was breathing evenly and sleep talking. "Edward…" she snuggled into my chest, but she had to go back into the passenger seat.
"Bella honey you need to wake up so then we can go somewhere." I laughed as she reluctantly went back to the passenger seat. "Can you call Me. Hunginkis to tell him that we are going back to my house?" I took out the phone and she snatched it away from me and had a very short conversation with him. "So is he okay with us going back to my house?" she nodded her head and looked out the window, "Bella what's wrong?"
She left out a word that sounded like dead, but I couldn't tell. She spoke in just a whisper, "Charlie, he, umm, go shot by Chief Hunginkis, and-and, he just, died." On the last word her voice broke into sobs. I pulled over to the side of my driveway (I hadn't even noticed that we were close to my house) and put the car in park. She was sobbing uncontrollably and I slowly climbed over towards her. She stood so then I could sit down and as soon as I sat down she was crying on my shoulder.
"Shh love it's alright. He did deserve it although you still love him, he did almost kill you. I couldn't live without you." My last sentence was a whisper, but she heard it and stopped the crying immediately. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm just-wow you really mean it? You can't live without me?" wonder just covered her voice.
"Yes Bella I can't live without you. Ever since I met you, saw you, I was sucked into the "love" gang," she giggled at my choice of words, but this was true, "and after I heard that you loved me too I pretty much have wanted you. Bella I love you, you are my life now."
"W-O-W!" she was truly surprised by this and that was the best thing I have heard in a while. "I feel the same way! What a small world!" She started humming "It's a Small World" and I had to join her. My phone rang and I already knew who it was.
"Hello? Alice why the hell do you have to-" I was cut off.
"Edward, Carlisle and Esme want you and Bella home right now. Where are you?"
"We are just coming up the driveway. What's wrong?" Bella moved to the backseat and me to the driver's seat.
"I…ca-can't say. Please do-don't ov-over-react cause it w-would scare B-B-Be-Bell-a." She sobbed into the phone and I could only wonder. The line went dead and I sighed.
"Bella? You still alive back there?" I looked back and saw her face full of fear, "Honey can you tell me what you hear? They're blocking me out…"
"They want to talk about out relationship…as…in…" she was interrupted by her phone ringing. "Hello?" then she paused. "Why?" this pause became too long for both of our tastes, "Okay I won't I promise." She hung up and sorrow filled her tone and she simply stated, "Alice said that you would overreact and I don't want you to so I think that I will keep it to myself." She looked at my face and then to the floorboard with her blush covering most of her cheeks, "Plus I promised Alice. She said if I told you, I wouldn't be able to kiss you for a week. Imagine…we didn't even last five days!" She chuckled and became silent. I opened her door, after we came to a full stop, and she was starring at her new home in awe. Three stories, white, glass walls, meadow-like lawn, and huge door: these are things that I have gotten used to. We started walking towards the door where this "meeting about relationships" would be held. Honestly I'm nervous as hell. Here goes nothing…