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Chapter 19

Finding her

Edward's Point of View

Dad and I took the car and followed the police officers in a hurry. Anxiety was boiling inside me. Bella had to make it. If she were to die… I don't know what I'd do. She was the only girl that I've ever really cared about and she might be lost forever. No! I couldn't think like that. Bella will make it, I just know it. "Edward, you need to calm down." Dad's voice brought me back to reality. Looking at him, he seemed to keep his eyes focused on the road. But I knew one thing: his eyes held fear. He knew that with the amount of drugs Charlie had injected into Bella, it might kill her instantaneously. "We're going to find her."

"She needs to be alive… I can't… She just has to live. I need her…" I pleaded mostly to myself, trying to compose myself as we arrived at the house. It was only a few miles on the outskirts of town, thankfully. Dad had told me to call the ambulance before we left and they were now on our trail, their red and white lights flashing in the background.

"Edward, you know that it won't be pretty. Bella's going to be in a bad shape. You saw her on the screen. She—"

"We're here," I said, pointing to the house around the corner. This was it, the place where my beloved was being held against her will. Charlie was also in there… I'd kill him with my own hands! Or better yet, he could rot in hell in a jail cell. Driving around the corner, I could see that Charlie was walking towards the window and saw us. His expression instantly changed from groggy to horror-struck. He ran away from the window towards something, hopefully not my Bella. "I want to kill that man…"

"Let the police take care of that. Now, all that matters is getting Bella to a hospital," Dad said as we exited the car, walking towards the police officer. They were all armed and prepared to attack. Their guns were fully loaded and prepared to shoot anything and anywhere.

"Alright people, let's get a move on. Charlie might be on the move once more," Bob said, his tone finally changing as the police officers nodded and stalked slowly towards the front door. They knocked the door down and entered without any warning. Entering the house, the police checked every single room but found nothing on the first floor. This was like an action movie with the SWAT team unleashed to find the bad guy. But this was real life and my Bella was in the middle of this. Dad and I just stayed down on the first floor with Janet and Bob as the rest of the police officers went upstairs to deal with Charlie. There were many gun shots but after a few minutes of horror, the police officers were dragging Charlie downstairs, his face bloody and angry.

"You can't do this to me! I'm the chief of police for god's sake! Let me go!" Charlie yelled as the police officers dragged him out of the house and into the police car. My heart began to relax. Charlie would be put in jail and wouldn't bother us ever again. He wouldn't bother Bella ever again.

"Doctor," A police man I'd never gotten to know the name of said as he came towards us with a stern look, "she's upstairs and she's not responding."

Both Dad and I rushed upstairs without another word and found a few police officers and paramedics surrounding a small bed against the farthest wall. We pushed past them to find Bella lying on the bed, barely conscious. Her head was tilted towards the side but her misty eyes were still clouded with drugs. My poor Bella… Dad knelt on one side of the bed and started looking over Bella for any signs of serious injuries. Who knows what Charlie could have done to her?

I knelt on the other side of the bed and placed a hand on my Bella's cheek. She moaned slightly at the contact. My eyes started to water a little at the sight of her. Bella was in so much pain that even lying down must hurt her. Her light brown eyes were so filled with drugs that she was almost on the verge of death. Oh god… She was in such a bad shape. "Bella? Bella, can you hear me?" But there was no response from her. "Bella, Hun, I love you and I want you to stay with me, alright? You're going to be just fine. I'll be right here with you every step of the way." Her skin was getting colder as we went. Looking at my father, his forehead was creased as he gave orders to the paramedics. "Is she going to be alright?" I asked as the paramedics pushed past me and placed Bella on a stretcher. She looked so helpless, so fragile. Bella needed to live. She just had to!

"Edward, I'm not going to lie to you." His gaze was stern as Dad placed a hand on my shoulder. Oh no… "She has a lot of internal bleeding and many broken limbs. Her wrists and ankles are swollen and cut from the handcuffs and her ribs are broken and bruised and her knee is dislocated. She has enough drugs in her system to kill a person—I'm surprised she's still alive after everything that Charlie's done to her. The bullet went right through Bella but still, the wound's infected. Maybe not enough to have blood loss but with the drugs, it's still questionable. I'll go with the ambulance and rush to the hospital while you call the others and tell them to meet us at the hospital," Dad instructed.

My mouth just stayed open. My Bella really was a fighter. No person alive could suffer so much pain and abuse and still be alive after all this time. I'm so proud of her… When I composed myself, I said: "But I told her that I'd stay with her every step of the way."

"Edward, she knows that you're here with her but during the observation, you're going to have to stay outside with the rest of the family. You need to help them through this while I work on Bella," Dad said with a hint of a sympathetic smile. There wasn't much else I could do. The paramedics probably wouldn't let me enter the ambulance and Bella needed all the help she could. Nodding forcefully, Dad rushed downstairs, embarked in the ambulance and rushed off to the hospital.

From: Edward

To: Alice

Meet me at the hospital. I'll explain everything.

When finishing the text to Alice, I embarked in the car, rushed off to the hospital and tried to control my anxiety. Bella had to be alright. She might have a lot of cuts, bruises and well pain in general but she was a fighter. She would get through this for herself, for me and for every member of my family. Bella had changed us so much in the last few months that it was impossible to think that she could leave us just like that. We needed her. Alice and Rosalie needed their sister, Mom and Dad needed their daughter and I needed my heart and joy. As long as Bella lived, she held a piece of my heart. I had given it to her the moment we told each other that we loved one another. She couldn't die. Not my Bella, the person who was so full of life.

My hands were gripping the steering wheel so hard my knuckles were turning white. The hospital was just a few minutes away; it wouldn't take that long to get there. Without noticing, I was going thirty miles over the speed limit. Well, the police couldn't stop me anyways. They knew where I was going and no way would they stop me because of a stupid law. Bella's life was more important.

Arriving in just minutes at the hospital, I could see that they were already wheeling Bella in the hospital, getting some shocking stares from the other doctors, patients and visitors. Parking the car, I ran inside and was stopped by a frantic nurse. "Son, you need to stay in the waiting room." She tried to sound calm but wasn't capable of accomplishing that task.

"But my girlfriend's in there! She might die!" I screamed at the woman. She flinched slightly at my tone but I didn't calm down.

"Edward!" Alice's voice made me turn around and face my family that was rushing to see me. Emmett and Jasper had also followed along, both slightly angry.

"What are you guys angry about?" I asked as the stopped in front of me.

"We didn't get to kick that bastard's ass!" Emmett boomed angrily, his tone scaring most of the visitors in the waiting area.

"Yeah, I would have gone all Texan on him!" Jasper said, his fist punching the air.

Looking at him sceptically, I asked: "You're from Texas?"

"I was born there but—"

"Ok, can we not do this now?" Rosalie asked, her tone shutting us all up immediately.

"You found Bella? Is she alright?" Mom asked worriedly, breaking the small silence that had formed.

Nodding, Alice chimed in and asked: "Is Charlie…?"

"He's gone. The police grabbed him and he's going to jail, hopefully for good." Everyone nodded and they let me finish. "We found her and she was in a really bad shape, even worse than what we saw from that video conference. Dad's taking care of her right now but…" I couldn't finish. It was just too painful to think.

Mom came up to me, wrapped me in her arms and whispered: "She's going to be alright, Edward."

"How do you know?" I asked, not wanting to offend my mother but… it was a possibility that was just too painful to face.

"Because I know Bella. She'll pull through this," Mom said as she looked in my eyes for a few seconds and we all sat down in the chairs, facing the unbearable waiting game.

Carlisle's Point of View

"She's not responding!" One of the nurses said as we tried to get Bella to respond to anything. Her heart monitor showed her weak heart that was starting to fail. But even though it was failing, Bella was still keeping her heart pumping. That a girl. Keep your heart beating and you'll be able to pull through this. "Plunge an IV in her! We need to keep her hydrated!"

People were shouting at one another as I stitched up Bella's bullet wound. It had become infected but we were able to remove the infection and keep the wound clean. Most of the drugs in Bella's system were drained but it was hard to keep her alive. The internal bleeding had been provoked by the infection and had been stopped but it did fail one of Bella's lungs. We had a little bit of trouble getting it pumped up again but it was a success nonetheless. Bella's heart had failed once but we were able to revive it seconds later. Her external wounds were cleaned and wrapped up as the doctors tried to fight the drugs and the infection. But just as I was about to finish stitching her up, Bella's heart decided to stop once more and a flat line appeared on her heart monitor. Not good.

"Get the paddles!" I screamed at one of the nurses, already working on CPR. There was no way I would let Bella die, not when we were so attached to her. While the doctors were rushing to get the paddles, Bella's heart didn't restart. No, she was not giving up. "Come on Bella, don't give up!" I said while trying to pump her heart manually. One of the doctors started charging the paddles while I applied more pressure. In under a minute, the doctor gave me the paddles. "Clear," I said after placing them at the correct spots on Bella's chest. When the charge went through, Bella's body lifted from the table, forming a small amount of pain flow through my heart. Even though the first charge didn't work, we kept on trying, hoping to get Bella's heart pumping once again. We had to. I couldn't lose my daughter. "Come on Bella, stay with me! Fight this!"

Bella's Point of View

I was standing in a field of beautiful flowers, a wonderful waterfall and many trees hiding the sun from blinding me. This must be heaven. There was no pain, no sorrow, no negative feelings, emotions or sensations. It was paradise to me. I haven't been able to feel peace for years.

But what made even better was to see the person standing just a few feet away from me. "Mom…" I whispered, unable to believe she was here with me. Her red hair was shining in the sunlight, her smile radiating joy and happiness as she approached me slowly. But I just ran at her, unable to hide my joy any longer. Mom opened her arms wide, waiting for me to jump in her arms like before. Tears slid down my face as I wrapped my arms around my mother's neck. She was just as I remembered her, short like me and so happy. "Mom, I missed you so much…"

"I missed you too baby. God, you're even more beautiful now that you're a woman…" Mom said while looking me over with those green eyes of hers. Unfortunately, I'd inherited Charlie's eyes instead of my mom's beautiful green. They could have matched Edward's… Edward. Just thinking about him made me feel guilty. I'd left him without even a word of goodbye. What kind of girlfriend was I to just leave him there, alone? "Honey, you have nothing to feel guilty about. Charlie shouldn't have done that to you for all of those years."

"How did you…?"

"I could always read you like an open book," Mom said as she laughed half-heartedly. That was one of the many things I missed about my mom. She was so caring about me that it was hard not to love her.

"Mom, I'm so glad you're here…" I said, wrapping my arms around her once more. I was with my mom again…

IMPORTANT AUTHOR'S NOTE!

Alright, so here's the deal. I know you guys are sharpening your pitchforks because I ended the chapter like that but hear me out. I decided that YOU GUYS are going to decide Bella's faith. By the next day, I'm going to see how many people want Bella to live and how many people want her to die and, with you guys' decision, I'm going to write the chapter (although I have a pretty good feeling of what you guys want). I'm pretty sure you guys want her to live but until you guys review telling me what you want, I'm not going to start typing the chapter. Frankly, I want Bella to live but hey, it's all up to you guys. So, REVIEW! I'M PUTTING BELLA'S FAITH IN YOUR HANDS!

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