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Accusations

BPOV

This was humiliating. I didn't want to be here anymore. Not that I wanted to be here in the first place. If it was up to me I would never have left the school grounds. Then again, if it were up to me I would never have fainted. I groaned at the memory. Trust me to faint in the arms of a man after looking into his eyes. I would never be able to look at Cullen again. He had saved my life though, so I would have to look at him at some point to thank him.

Jasper sat at my side, murmuring soothing words to calm me down, to keep my attention. He had been told to not let me slip into the welcoming blackness. They were worried I had concussion. Which was ridiculous, I hadn't hit my head on anything but the warmth of Cullen's shoulder, and even then it hadn't been hard.

"Jasper, I want to go home." I whispered at him.

"You can't, not yet Bells, they want to make sure you are ok."

"But I am!" I protested loudly, struggling to sit upright. "I fainted, that's all." I hissed.

"I know that, you know that, but they don't know how prone you are to accidents and fainting. Though your file should be the size of a door step by now." He laughed and I allowed a snigger out of my throat.

We were distracted by a flurry of activity at the doors before I could protest any further. Alice smashed through the doors and ran to my side, her face etched with worry.

"I'm fine!" I informed her before she could say anything. "Everything is present and accounted for."

"Well, thank god for that!" She grinned at me and took my hand.

"Where is Edward?"

"He cut his hand, Dr Cullen is looking after him." Guilt rushed through my body and I groaned. Great, he was injured and it was entirely my fault.

"How is Lauren? And Tyler? And Jessica?"

"Bells, I don't know how much you saw, but Lauren isn't going to be ok." Alice whispered.

"Oh." I didn't know what else to say. She has never been my friend, but I had never wished her harm, no matter how vile she had been.

EPOV

Carlisle squirted something yellow onto my hand and I winced as it stung the cuts on my hand. I hadn't even felt it happen, wasn't quite sure when it had, but now that I knew the cuts were there they were making my hand throb.

"Did you hurt your head?" He had asked when we arrived; shining a light into my eyes and making me follow it.

"No. I'm fine Carlisle, I honestly am." I sighed at him. "Please, could you just go see to Bella?" He shook his head slightly and continued examining me, checking my skull through my hair.

"You need a haircut."

"I like it like this."

"Was there anyone else injured?" Emmett answered that question, telling Carlisle exactly what he had seen from his point of view.

"...and then Edward launched himself at Bella and they both landed on the ground in front of the truck. I didn't see if either of them hit their heads. But I saw...the van hit..." He trailed off, unable to continue, still in shock at what he saw.

"Looks like you will be fine, Edward." Carlisle told me after he had cleaned up my hand.

"Great, I told you, now would you please go check on Bella?!"

BPOV

We sat for a long time, waiting for something, anything to happen. We saw Tyler being wheeled in, his face covered in glass, blood pouring from the side of his head. Jessica followed him not long after, her skin milky with shock and her eyes completely blank, staring ahead fixed on nothing. Then we saw a third person wheeled in, encased in a black body bag and we all had to look away, unable to even look at each other.

Finally a doctor entered the room, followed by Emmett and Edward.

"I'm Dr Cullen." He introduced himself to me, acknowledging Jasper with a nod. He was so young. I had expected a middle aged man. Dr Cullen was hardly any older than thirty-five, with smooth, clear skin and well groomed blonde hair.

"I'm Bella and I want to go home please." Emmett snorted from behind Dr Cullen.

"Well, I'll be the judge of that. Follow the light please." I did as he asked, following the light as it shone across my eyes, catching glimpses of the people surrounding me looking on with concern.

"The Chief's daughter then?" I smiled up at him in what I hoped was a winning way.

"That's me."

"Quite the crash, it could have been a lot worse." He commented whilst running his hands across my head to check for any scrapes and lumps

"I didn't hit my head. And Edward saved me." I commented quietly, hoping that no one could see the idiotic smirk I let escape when I thought about how he had effortlessly spun us out of the way.

"Hmm, there doesn't seem to be any damage, although your blood pressure is slightly elevated. That's to be expected, however."

"See? I'm good to go." I smiled hopefully up at the Cullen patriarch. His mouth split into a smile in return and shook his head at me.

"I think we should wait for your father to get here. Don't you?"

"Fine." I sighed at him, knowing full well that it made sense, seeing as Charlie was probably already on his way to the hospital. As if on cue I heard him shout my name frantically.

"Bella! Bella?!"

"I'll get him." Jasper offered and stuck his head out into the corridor without waiting for a response. "Charlie, in here."

Charlie pushed past him, making straight for me and hugging the back of my head into his uniform, making it uncomfortable to breath. His hand unsteadily stroked my hair and I could hear his heart calm down.

"What the hell happened?" He roared at everyone in the room, making them wince, including me. I had never heard Charlie raise his voice in my life, even when I had sold his police badge one summer to fund my obsession with all things Pokémon.

"There was a car accident Charlie, he was going too fast for an icy road." Answered Alice.

What happened next shocked us all. Charlie rounded on Cullen and started to advance with a look of utter rage on his face. He looked like he was going to kill him.

EPOV

I had never seen murder in someone's eyes until Charlie Swan started to advance on me after Alice answered his roar. It clicked into place in an instance, what he had assumed happened. After all, he had stopped me earlier for going too fast. The ticket he issued was still in my pocket. I backed up, unsure as to what to do.

"No. It didn't happen like that, sir." I spluttered out, realising I had been backed into a corner.

"Happen like what? Like you tooling around like a fucking idiot when everyone else in the world knows not to go that fast when ice like that is laying on the goddam ground!" His voice was barely above a whisper, his rage barely controlled.

"It wasn't me, I swear Chief Swan." His hands had balled into fists.

"You could have killed her!" His voice raised slightly, the words breaking in his throat.

"Dad." Finally I heard someone else talk. He didn't seem to notice. "Dad!" I could see Bella struggle to get out of her bed, as did Emmett and it prompted him into action.

"Chief Swan. You need to calm down." Emmett told him as he positioned himself in between the two of us. What was happening here?

"CHARLIE!" Bella screamed at him and it finally made it through, he relaxed his hands and his shoulders slouched a little. Exhaling a breath I didn't realise I had been holding in I slumped back to lean on the wall.

"Charlie, I think you should calm down. You don't usually jump to conclusions, why don't you listen to your daughter." Carlisle said calmly as he placed his hand lightly onto Charlie's arm and pulled him softly back to Bella.

"Here Charlie, sit down." Alice stood up, offering her seat to Charlie.

"I'm sorry." He said shakily to me. "I'm very sorry." I nodded at him and he sat down beside Bella, looking absolutely horrified with himself.

BPOV

It had taken me a second to realise what Charlie was doing. He was intimidating a seventeen year old he had thought almost killed me. I shouted at him, calling to him to stop, it wasn't until it felt like I had torn my throat shouting his name that he calmed down enough to think logically. His shoulders slumped as he sat down and he apologised to Edward, obviously horrified with what had just happened.

"It's ok, Chief Swan, I understand." Edward graciously allowed, patently glad that it was over.

"Dad, for one, it was an accident, for two, it wasn't Edward, for three, I'm ok, and for four, I want to go home already." I said softly, and he chuckled unexpectedly.

"Ok, Bells, let's go home. I'll sort the paperwork, I'm a pro at that now."

Dr Cullen walked him through to reception, leaving the room in silence as we all thought over the morning. My thoughts were still veering wildly between the horror of the accident and the thought of Cullen crushing my body into his own, sure that he had been as aroused as I had in that split second of reprieve before the impact of the truck assaulted out ears. I must be in mild shock to even think that.

"Damn, Bella, your Dad is wicked crazy." Commented Emmett and laughter burst out of my mouth before I was able to stop it.

"Yeah, laugh it up." Cullen said quietly and stalked out of the room.

"Don't mind Edward, he doesn't play well with others."

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