Hey everyone, I'm so sorry about this, but I posted the old chapter two, as in the non-edited version, so here is the edited or at least the best that I can improve it. Sorry about that. Reena

Chapter Two

Bella

Carlisle parked the car in the garage. I still couldn't move my limbs. I felt paralyzed. I had not one clue how to go about this. I pressed my hands on the bottom of the back seat, willing myself to regain some kind of control. I shut my eyes tightly trying to find the will power to do what I had to do, but something felt odd on my left hand. I wanted to open my eyes, but I couldn't. Something was stopping me and then I heard a voice whisper in my ear; you know the creepy kind that makes your skin crawl.

"It's come for you. OPEN YOUR EYES!" My whole body went rigid and hit against the door as I screamed for help. My eyes opened, trying to find the handle and yelling for Alice and Carlisle, but they weren't there. Why did they leave me?

"It's come for you. OPEN YOUR EYES!"

"Please, why do you keep saying that? My eyes are open!" Her eyes were too bright for my eyes to handle. It hurt looking at her, but I couldn't turn away. It was like having all the stars in the sky jumbled into one and that's what I was staring at. "Please, it hurts, please stop."

Alice

What the..."Carlisle, why won't the doors open? What's happening? Bella, unlock the doors." Something was very wrong. Carlisle had the keys but they were useless. What was happening? Why didn't I see this coming? I heard Edward running way too fast and then...

"Stop...please stop. It hurts."

Edward and Carlisle and I tried to open the doors but nothing. Edward's eyes burned with fury, he tried to break a window and still nothing. Bella was...well, I've never seen her so scared. I've never seen myself so...scared.

"Bella, you have to unlock the doors. Bella, can you hear me love?"

It was as if Bella didn't realize we were right here. Her eyes scattered around the garage but never saw us. She was screaming for help that we could not give her and we didn't know why. Then I thought maybe this was..."Carlisle could this be a side effect to her condition?" Before I realized what I was saying aloud...in front of...Edward, I gulped hard knowing that I made a huge mistake. He turned to me and said,

"You will explain that when we get her out."

Carlisle gave me a disappointed look which I knew I deserved. This wasn't my story to tell, but I swear I didn't mean it. I was trying to figure out what was happening and with a lot of human diseases, they do have hallucinations.

"What do you want?" I wanted to close my eyes, they burned so bad, but it was as if she...this thing, wouldn't allow it.

"You are the Swan. They are coming for you. Do not fear me Swan. I was sent to warn you. Think of me as a Banshee of sorts. I am your Banshee in a different sense for your family and I must say that you are the first in over a hundred years. Child, you have to open your eyes to what you do not see…"

"I don't understand. My eyes are open."

The light had somehow become even brighter which I just couldn't fathom it getting any brighter than it had already. And then a piercing shout made my ears feel like they were bleeding out.

"OPEN YOUR EYES CHILD!" I gasped for air as if I hadn't taken a breath the entire time this happened. My grip on the door handle finally opened it and I fell hard to the ground.

"Bella..." That was all I heard, his voice full of concern. I couldn't open my eyes from the stinging, my tears flowing from the burn so bad that I couldn't muster trying and my ears felt as if they had their own tears gushing out.

"Carlisle, please tell me you know what this is?" Edward called out to him with full blown stress invading his veins.

"Edward, I've never seen this before. I don't know what to think right now. I have no reference to even look it up. We have to stop the bleeding now."

Bleeding? What was he talking about? "Edward...I feel like I'm burning. I need some...water."

I heard Edward ask Alice to get the water, but it all sounded muffled. My ears felt like they were blocked by something. What had happened?

Edward

"Bella, what happened in the car love?"

I answered as best as I could. "I...don't know. Edward, I'm so...tired and...Cold, but the burning...it hurts."

Judging by the look Carlisle had, he knew something and I was absolutely positive that Alice did too. Alice had brought the water, but Bella looked as though she fell into a coma or something. I couldn't make sense of this. It was like something was stopping me from getting into the car. What did Alice mean when she said, side effect? Side effect from what…? I carried Bella into the house without a word spoken. Carlisle needed to stop the bleeding. Her eyes and ears were flowing crimson and I couldn't locate the source of why they were. My Bella was hysterical in the car. Something frightened her beyond anything I had ever seen. It wasn't in her nature to be so...scared on the outside. She was a strong person. Alice stood next to me while I bent down holding Bella's hand while Carlisle tried to stop her bleeding. Alice ordered Jasper to leave the house before we brought Bella in. Alice would have normally left as well, but this worried her too much to be obsessed over her blood.

"I think she's going to be alright Edward. I don't know what happened or why, but the bleeding has stopped on its own. She's just sleeping now. It was too much for her to handle."

I stood straight and turned to Alice, she cringed under my glare. She knew she made a mistake earlier and now she was going to answer my question.

"Alice..."

"Before you go any further Edward, I can't answer you."

"Why is that? Don't keep me in the dark and please stop reciting Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."

"I'm sorry Edward, I want nothing more than to tell you, but it's not my story to tell. Besides, Bella asked to be the one to tell you. I'm sorry."

Alice was being sincere and that was nice of her, but I still didn't get my question answered. I turned to Carlisle and he too stopped me before I said a word.

"Edward, this was Bella's decision. I cannot interfere with her request. I'm also sorry. You will have to wait for her to wake before you know what this is all about."

My own family... I was astonished at the blatant refusal to answer me. Something was very wrong for them both to stay out of this and it wasn't in Alice's character to stay out of anything...ever. This is how I knew something was wrong. Carlisle kept thinking only about his patients while Alice wouldn't stop her barrage of nursery rhymes. Neither of them faltered...not once. I sat beside Bella covering her with the afghan that Esme brought and I went to hold her hand. It was unusually cold even more so than yesterday as if her temperature just kept dropping by the day. I began noticing this about a month ago. About an hour went by and finally Bella began to stir a little, but her brows were downcast as if she were in a nightmare and then she yelled out my name. I truly hoped this wasn't a repeat from earlier. I called for Carlisle just in case.

"Edward, please make it stop."

I held onto her hand while I caressed the side of her face, trying my best to calm her and wake her out of it. I swore that if I were human as afraid as I was for what was going on that I did not understand; my hands would have been shaking as I touched her. A few seconds went by as I repeated the process and finally she woke. I was stunned into silence when Bella opened her eyes. Her eyes were coated with a thick mass of blood. Her brown once vibrant eyes that I could almost see her soul in were unrecognizable. With a blank stare, I asked her,

"Bella, how do you feel?"

"Um, tired, but better. I had a really crazy dream."

I wondered if she meant what she just had or if what happened earlier felt like a nightmare to her and wasn't real. Right now, it was best to allow her to think it was all a nightmare. I would deal with that later, but right now, what I really needed was to know what Carlisle and Alice had said. I asked her if she felt up to having a talk. My face must have shown that I knew something was wrong because her body tensed at my words. She let her head fall to her lap and said,

"Edward, there's something that I have to tell you."

My nerves would have been shot by now with the secrecy going on here. Why was I, the last to know what was happening? I finally resorted to begging her and her tears washed away the remaining blood and then she proceeded.

"Edward, I haven't been feeling good lately and I didn't want you or my dad to flip out on me so I went to Port Angeles to get some blood work done a few weeks ago and..."

"Bella, you are really scaring me, please tell me." I was beyond scared at this point.

"The blood work came back this morning so the doctor asked me to come in for the results and bring my dad, but I told him that he would have to talk to him another time because he was busy at the station. I went before I knew you would come over and..."

If she waited any longer to say it, I would have a coronary. "Bella...please..."

"Okay, Okay, this is hard for me to say. The results showed that...I...I have...Acute Leukemia."

"What? The test must be wrong. I'll have Carlisle look them over." Leukemia, humans survive for years with this disease. It's manageable from what I recall. "Bella if this is the case, it is manageable. The survival rate can be high, but I would trust the tests more if Carlisle..."Bella cut me off.

"He has looked at them and Edward...I don't think you understand the significance of what the word acute means."

Of course I did. Why would she think so little of my vocabulary skills? "Bella, acute means..."

Edward's face went solid. He lost all resemblance of the Edward I knew and loved and that's when I knew I needed some help here. "Carlisle...Alice, you might want to come in here now." as weak as I felt, it didn't stop me from pulling myself up towards him to make sure he was alright. I rested both hands on the side of his face. He wasn't looking at me, he was looking through me. I didn't want to hurt him like this. I was shaking and crying quietly as I spoke to him.

"Edward, please don't leave me. Talk to me...I can't deal with us without you." I couldn't keep quiet any longer. I wailed aloud holding onto him, begging him to stay with me.

Alice

"Carlisle, the bleeding, the hallucinations, were those a product of her illness?"

"No Alice, I have no idea what it was that caused them." Carlisle was pacing as if something was bothering him so me being well…me, I had to ask.

"Carlisle, what's wrong? Something else is bothering you."

"Alice, I fear when Bella finishes telling Edward about her condition that we may lose both of them. I'm not sure how to help either of them. I'm just at a loss."

I went to speak, but a black canvas interrupted the space in my brain. I saw a small portion of Edward and then...nothing, just blackness. I knew Bella had told him. I couldn't see my brother anymore. "Bella told him Carlisle."

"I need to know what is happening Alice. What do you see?"

"I saw Edward for a fraction of a second and then...nothing but blackness, no future at all." before I could elaborate any further, I had another vision. Bella was pleading with Edward and yelling for us to come help her. "We have to go back Carlisle. Bella is yelling for us." we arrived right before Bella yelled out for us. Bella was desperate, pleading for us to take away his pain. I wish I could have done something to help, but the damage was already done.

Hi everyone! Let me know what you think of this chapter. More to come soon. Reena