Disclaimer: We all know who owns, and it sure as hell isn't me. What I do own is the plot bunny that multiplied and resulted in this story.

AN: I didn't send this to any of my normal helpers mostly because I wanted to get it to you guys as quickly as possible.

I know that I have been gone for a long long long time. But I promise you I have a very good reason for it. Hubs went on vacation June 8th for a few days to CO to visit a friend, days later he returned to announce that while there he was offered a job and we were moving. Me being the eager one to get away from Florida agreed right away thinking I had time to prepare. Big mistake... only a couple of weeks later we get a call that our new house will be ready for move in Aug 1st. leaving me only a little over a month to find boxes, pack and set everything that needed to be set up to prepare for the move. Needless to say that took most of my time, especially since I was still working. Then once we arrived I was without internet for almost two weeks. But I am happy to report that we are all moved in, mostly unpacked and settling down. I appreciate all of your understanding.

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to review, fav, rec and alert this story or myself. I may not have gotten a chance to reply due to my lack of time and internet but, I did read them on my phone and it made me so happy especially in those moments that I wanted to cry because the stress was so much.

Now on with what you all really want... More at the end.

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Edward hadn't noticed Alice answering her phone until her panicked voice broke through his drunken haze. "Shit! Charlie, is she okay? What hospital are you going to?" Edward's ears quickly perked up at the conversation Alice was having on the phone. He hadn't heard her phone ring, but that didn't mean that she couldn't have had it on vibrate.

Edward quickly sobered up at what he was hearing. It was impossible that his ears were hearing something different. Alice couldn't be talking to Charlie, his Bella couldn't be in the hospital, and she couldn't be hurt. He wouldn't accept that, he refused to believe that she was hurt.

"What did Charlie say?"

"Edward, you need to go home with Emmett and Jasper, they will be here shortly." Alice ignored Edwards question advising him on what he should do. Until she knew what condition Bella was in there was no way she would tell Edward anything.

"Damn it Alice, you have to tell me what happened with my Bella, Charlie called for a reason and I clearly heard you ask what hospital."

"It's nothing that concerns you Edward, go home, sleep off your liquor and tomorrow take an aspirin for the hangover."

Just as Edward was going to demand answers once more Jasper and Emmett walked into the bar to force him home.

"Just go home and let me find out what is going on before you get yourself all worked up."

With a resigned sigh Edward turned to head home, before he could completely walk out the bar he turned to Alice once more desperation in his eyes.

"Please, just call me when you know something."

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Charlie paced the whole length of the ER waiting room, nervously waiting for the doctors to come out and tell him what was going on with Bella. The EMT's that showed up to help him said that with how quickly she'd lost blood it was very likely that she'd nicked the femoral artery. They also told him that his quick thinking of tying his belt around her thigh probably saved her life. It was now just up to the doctors to save her. Just as Charlie thought he couldn't wait any longer a doctor came out to speak to him.

"Mr. Swan, I'm Dr. Cullen. We have transfused three pints of O negative into your daughter, but we need to take her up to surgery to repair the damage that the glass did on her leg. I am also required by law to have someone from the psychiatric department speak to her and make sure she isn't a danger to herself or others." Dr. Cullen stopped to make sure that Charlie understood everything that he was explaining to him. Little did the good doctor know that in reality he was stuck on processing the fact that he said his name was Cullen. It couldn't be a coincidence that he shared the same name as Bella's boss.

"My daughter isn't a danger to anyone by herself, doctor. Unfortunately she lacks a proper coping mechanism and inflicts harm to herself when stressed. I've already called her psychologist who should be arriving shortly."

Just as Charlie was explaining everything to the doctor Alice rushed into the waiting room.

"How is she Charlie? What happened? Have the doctors spoken to you yet?"

Alice hadn't yet noticed the man standing in front of Charlie until he spoke her name, "Alice?"

"Oh my god, Carlisle! Are you the one attending to Bella?" The shock and surprise were evident on her voice and face.

"If you will excuse me, I need to prepare for surgery. I will speak to you again when we are done. The surgical waiting room is up on the third floor if you would prefer to wait there," Carlisle excused himself and left Charlie and Alice to speak and wait.

"I take it he is related to Edward."

"Charlie, what happened?"

They spoke at the same time; Charlie being the gentleman that he was motioned for Alice to go first. They had time to get all the answers they seeked.

"When I talked to you last, you said that Bella was home. What happened? Have you talked to her at all?"

"No, I haven't spoken with her, and as far as I know she hasn't said anything to anyone." Charlie answered the second question first. "As for what happened, I'm not sure. I hung up with you and heard the shower turn on up in Bella's room. Thinking it a good idea to be there if she needed me when she got out of the shower I headed up, just as I hit the top step I heard glass breaking. Thinking Bella fell I rushed in her room and started to pound on the door, when I got no answer I decided to try and force myself inside. Once I heard the feral scream that reminded me of a wounded animal I broke the door, just in time to see her stabbing a large piece of glass into her thigh."

Tears were streaming down Alice's face, she felt like she'd failed. She shouldn't have let Bella leave, she should have stopped her. Hell she should have known that Bella was not fully recovered and was still a danger to herself. With those thoughts in her mind she began to beg Charlie for forgiveness.

"Charlie, I'm so sorry. I failed you. I failed Bella; I should've been more vigilant, prepared you and her better for today. Hell I shouldn't have agreed to tell Bella about Marcus or any of what happened in Edward's office this morning. And I will completely understand if you don't want me here."

Before Alice could turn away to leave Charlie grabbed onto her wrist. "Please don't leave. None of us thought that Bella would react the way she did. We all thought she would be able to handle everything today. Please if blame should fall on anyone it should be me. I failed her fifteen years ago, when I let Renee take her away to live in Arizona."

After his statement Charlie went to call his wife and let her know what was going on. Sue volunteered to stay behind and clean up the mess that was left in Bella's bathroom.

While Charlie updated his family Alice went in search of Carlisle. She'd known him long enough to know that he would be in a room with an observation deck and she'd be able to talk to him for a few minutes before the surgery began.

"Is she going to be okay?" Alice started off with the hardest question before she explained anything to him.

"I think she will make a full recovery, but I can't tell you what lasting effects there might be. She came very close to dying today. You know as well as I do that the Feral Artery can bleed out within seconds. Her father's fast thinking is probably what saved her life. I just can't tell you how extensive the damage to her leg will be. Is she your patient? How do you know her?"

"Yes, she is. Shelly Cope over at Midnight Sun recommended her for Edward as his secretary, and since I agreed, I took her on as a patient so that I could be readily available in case Edward screwed it up."

"Is it my son's fault that she is in my hospital today?" There was a growl in Carlisle's voice that Alice had never heard before.

"No, Edward didn't do anything to cause this. She just had a setback in her treatment and experienced an emotional breakdown." Alice tried to explain as much as she could to Carlisle without breaking anything that may have been said in confidentiality. She was already feeling like she'd failed Bella once today, she sure as hell wasn't going to do anything to jeopardize her again.

Placated Carlisle turned back to finish up preparing for surgery and Alice went in search of Charlie.

Alice was just about to walk into the Surgical waiting room when her phone began to buzz in her back pocket. Deciding it was best to speak to whoever it was on the phone she stepped out onto the small terrace that was located down the hall from the waiting area.

"Hello?"

"Alice honey, please tell me you have something I can tell Edward before he hurts someone or himself. He is acting like a caged, desperate animal right now," Jasper stated desperately. Alice could hear Edward's screams demanding information on Bella as well as to be let go.

"Let me talk to him. Maybe I can get him to calm down a bit," Alice suggested.

"Alice so help me god you better be calling to tell me what's going on with Isabella, or I will call every fucking hospital in the Seattle area."

"Edward calm down. Bella is going to be fine. Your dad is in surgery repairing a cut on her leg, but he assures me that she will make a full recovery."

"I'm on my way to UW Medical Center right now." Alice could tell by the determination in his voice that there wasn't anything she could say that would dissuade him from coming but she had to try anyway.

"Edward, you need to sober up before you can think of coming. Rest, take a few aspirin, shower and by then she should be out of surgery. You're not missing anything by not being here."

"Believe me Alice, I'm sober and there is no way I will not be there when my Bella wakes up." There was something about the way that Edward kept referring to Bella that was intriguing Alice. She couldn't quite determine if it was the tone or the words themselves, but she knew that he'd somehow developed strong feelings for Bella.

Before she could say anything else Alice found herself hearing the tone on her phone that alerted her call had ended.

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Now supplied with where Bella was Edward wasted no time in leaving the house. He was hell bent on making his way to the hospital and being there for when Bella awoke. It was in that moment that he realized that he had stronger feelings for Bella then those he was even aware of.

The drive to the hospital felt like it took an eternity when in reality it was probably only ten minutes. He knew exactly where it was that he could find everyone waiting, but he chose to wait outside of the main OR doors. He wanted to be sure that he was able to speak to his father before anyone else. The longer he waited the guiltier and desperate he felt. If he'd just let things go, not pressured Bella about the whole Marcus thing maybe she wouldn't be there at the moment. Then another part of his brain told him that he would never be able to let go of the fact that someone caused Bella to be the way she was, and they needed to be punished for it.

At some point all his thoughts and exhaustion caused Edward to slide down the wall his head between both arms with the elbows resting on his bent knees. His mind was a jumble of thoughts and feelings, unable to completely settle on one or another. The door almost hit him as Carlisle walked out of the operating room. Faster than his sore, aching body thought it was possible Edward was on his feet.

"Edward what are you doing here?"

"I need to know how Isabella is doing. Please dad, please just tell me if she is okay."

"What do you have to do with Ms. Swan, Edward?" the pointed look that Carlisle was giving him left little room for avoiding the question.

"I've fallen in love with her."

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The first thing Bella heard was the sound of a machine beeping. The more she tried to open her eyes to look around her the heavier her eyelids felt. Her body felt as if there was a lead blanket holding it down.

The more time passed the lighter everything around her started to feel. She could now make out more sounds that filtered into her mind. She could make out voices, but not who they belonged to, one in particular sounded so pained all she wanted to do was wrap her arms around the person. She couldn't understand why that one voice was causing that reaction in her heart. She never wanted to comfort anyone before. She felt as if she was closed off from the whole world, too afraid to allow anyone close to her, she didn't trust anyone anymore. The pain and hurt that he had caused her would be with her forever. She couldn't let anyone close to her; she couldn't give anyone a chance to do things to her ever again. The only way to ensure that happened was to keep everyone at arm's length. The one person she'd begun to let in betrayed her as soon as he knew more about her past.

Slowly Bella's eyes finally began to flutter open, the room she was in was bright, the fluorescent light harsh on her sensitive retinas. Almost instantly her lids snapped shut in order to shield themselves from the pain.

"Isabella? Can you open your eyes for me please?" a foreign voice requested.

"It hurts," she rasped.

"What hurts your leg?"

"No, the light."

Without even opening her eyes Bella could tell that the light had been dimmed, allowing her to slowly reopen her eyes and take in the room she was in. To her right was the monitor she'd been hearing beep, a small table, and the ugliest striped curtain she'd ever seen. The other side contained three very occupied chairs and a blonde man she'd never laid eyes on before standing next to her. She only took a moment to focus on the person in the white lab coat beside her before she concentrated on the occupants of the chairs. She took a moment to let her eyes take in each of the people sitting, starting with her dad. Charlie's eyes were filled with worry and pain, guilt welled in Bella's heart, and she knew that her father blamed himself for not being able to help her. She'd overheard him and Sue talking on more than one occasion, and now she'd done something that put more worry and stress on his shoulders. Next her eyes focused on Alice's red swollen face. Bella could tell that she'd spent some time crying, Bella shook her head trying to let express to Alice that she didn't want her to be sad over what was going on. Bella mouthed to her friend not to cry that she was going to be alright, but that only caused Alice to cry harder and run out of the room. Finally, her gazed landed on Edward; she'd never seen him so disheveled in her life. His hair was in complete disarray as if he'd spent hours pulling on it. His normally clean shaven face had a days' worth of growth and his usual button down dress shirt lay open with the white undershirt exposed and crumpled. Even in the state that he was in all Bella could feel was the hurt and pain that he'd put her through, that quickly morphed into anger, no more than anger rage.

"Get out! Get out of my room! Get out of my life! Get the fuck away from me and never return!" Bella's eyes never moved away from Edward's making it clear who she was indicating her words to.

"Bella plea..." Edward was cut off before he could even finish his plea, by Bella's rough, scratchy scream.

"NOW!"

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AN: I hope you all enjoyed that. I have been playing with this chapter in my mind the entire time I was packing. When I finally sat down to work on it my mind settled on this. We will have a major time jump next chapter, as I am so anxious to get to the good stuff. Driving cross country gave me some wicked ideas, and I am itching to get to them.

I will be participating in Breath-of-Twilights Halloween countdown, I really enjoyed doing it for Christmas and Valentine's Day, so I look forward to doing it again. Besides the prompt I have, is definitely out of my normal writing style, so a look forward to the challenge.

I will not beg for reviews, because I've been such an epic fail in replying to them that it just feels wrong to ask that of you when I haven't kept up my part of the bargain. But if you do find it in your hearts to review, I promise that I will do my hardest to reply to them.

Here are some rec's that have kept me entertained during my moving hell, and if you can find it in your hearts to review and tell them I sent you I would greatly appreciate it...

The Love Boat by Twilly- I love Prudella and Not-so-Gayward (my little nickname for the characters) You get free tickets for a couple's vacation, but is it really that simple? What's the catch? You have to read the story to find out. (Twilly's summary is better but it would take me to long to copy it here, so there is my little interpretation of it.)

To Serve, Honor and Love by MrsEdwardCullenP- I love just about everything Pen writes, so just run and read it... Marine Bella and Edward, know how doesn't love a man in uniform...JS

Sideline Collision by Nolebucgrl - Rainbow is the funniest cat in the damn world. She reminds me so much of the little kitty I had to leave behind, but she is great. Band Geek Bella and Cocky Quarterback Edward collide on the field and it changes their lives.

Sperm Donor Wanted by OzellaMarie - talk about being a back woods crack up drabble. I love it, it adds a little comedy to my day.

Ok that is all from me for today. Have a wonderful weekend and hope to see all you lovely ladies again soon. OOEG