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Chap 7- Not Again
EPOV"What do you mean she's bind?" I whispered.
"Her retina's must have been torn. There is so much blood in her eyes that I can't even see the retina's enough to know how much damage was really caused. Her eyes aren't responding to the light and the blood is a key signal that something is wrong." Carlisle whispered back.
Everything hit me at once. Replays of us together played through my head. The day she went missing, seeing her again only a few hours ago, seeing her like this, and now knowing that she was no longer able to see. I began to shake with useless gasps.
'If I had just stayed with her that day none of this would have happened! This is all my fault!' my mind was screaming.
I looked down to Bella who was beginning to fall asleep from the sedative.
"This isn't fair." I whispered looking back up to Carlisle, "Why does she have to pay for a mistake I made? If I hadn't left that day none of this would have happened. She'd still be…"
"Edward. None of this is your fault." He said looking back to me. I could see sadness in his eyes.
After a few minutes he was done looking her over. "She has broken 4 ribs and her shoulder right blade. I'm going to stitch the gashes on her stomach and a couple on her back, but other then that I can't do anything else here. She needs to go to the emergency room. Now."
I nodded and slowly picked her up. The moment I shifted her body she whimpered and tried to pull away. I started talking to her to make sure that she knew she was ok. She settled down after a minute. Her wings had pulled themselves back into her back so it was easy to pick her up.
We walked over to Chey and her mom.
"We need to get her back to our world to treat her. Some of these injuries I can't heal with the equipment there." Carlisle said.
"Ok, Rita will go with you." Chey/Rita's mom said.
Chey took us directly to the closest hospital.
After a few minutes and a phone call to Cheyenne Regional Hospital later, Bella was taken from my arms and into Carlisle's to go back for X-rays. I was very reluctant to give her up, even to Carlisle. Because we weren't at a familiar hospital I had to wait in the waiting room with Chey.
We sat there. Waiting.
And waiting.
And waiting.
I stood up and looked at the clock. I had been sitting there for 3 hours!!
"I'm sure they are a little behind here. It's still kind of late and they don't have many doctor's available." Chey said noticing my irritation.
I stood up and began to pace. 'Something has to be wrong. They should have come out to get me by now.'
I was to worked up to concentrate on my power to be able to read Carlisle's mind. Too many things were happening at once.
I looked back to the clock after a few minutes. Or what was actually another hour. I sat back down and put my head in my hands. Then got back up and started pacing. I looked out the window and saw the sun start to rise. Rain clouds hung over head thankfully.
I alternated between those two things for another 3 hours before Carlisle came out. "Edward I need you for a minute." I looked at him. Why was he wearing scrubs?
I quickly followed him back the hall and into a small room. "What took you so long?! I sat out there for 7 hours without even a report!!" I was beyond angry. He knew how much Bella meant to me and he had neglected to tell me what was happening to her.
"Calm down. She's fine now. Sleepy and in some pain but fine. When we took some X-rays we found this." He said pulling out the X-rays and hanging them to the light board.
I was shocked. I could see that Carlisle was almost right about her injuries. Her right shoulder blade was dislocated and broken. But she had 8 ribs, 2 on the left and 6 on the right, and completely shattered one of the vertebrae in her lower back. Carlisle didn't even know about the vertebrae shattering.
"She shattered the second Lumbar vertebrae in her lower back. We didn't know that until the X-rays were taken. We had to do surgery to fix both that and her shoulder. The reason everything took so long is because we and to pick at the pieces of the shattered vertebra out of her spinal column so it wouldn't cause any more damage. We put a medal plate in to stabilize the lower part of her back do to the vertebrae being removed." He looked at me, then continued, "Her shoulder had to be fused back together before we could put it back in place and we had to stitch some the gashes. In total it took almost 300 stitches to close everything back up, including the incisions for the surgery. As for her eyes, we couldn't find anything wrong with the retinas. So our only explanation is that somehow a clot has formed and there's nothing we can do about that. I'm really sorry about all this Edward." He said looking back to the board.
"Is she going to recover from this ok?" I asked.
He nodded slowly sighing. "I think so. People have healed from it before, but we have to watch that she doesn't get sick or hurt herself by moving around."
"Can I go see her?"
"Sure. She's probably still asleep from the anesthetic. We gave her morphine when we finished so she may need more in the next hour or two. She's in room 604 in the ICU on the 5th floor." He said turning to walk away. "I'm going to fill Rita in on what happened." He walked out.
I rushed to the elevator and pushed the button for floor 5. The wait seemed like hours. Finally after the door opened I walked down the hall. This floor was huge. I asked one of the nurses were Bella's room was and they sent me down the hall to my left. When I finally reached room 604 I sighed and walked in.
Bella was still asleep. I walked over to her side and grabbed her left hand. Her ID bracelet was laying one the bandage that covered her wrist up to her elbow. Her other hand had the IV in it but instead of being in the vein in her elbow it was in the vein on her wrist under more bandages. She was wearing a hospital gown but she also had loss shorts on so the doctors could lift up the gown to check the stitches I presumed.
I lifted up the top part of the gown to see her stomach. It was covered in bandages like her arms were and most likely the bandages went up over her breasts to hold the bandages for her shoulder in place. There was also a black cloth that covered her eyes which I assumed was to keep her from irritating her eyes.
After a few minutes she began to stir. She began whimpering and released my hand to try to reach up and grab and pull it away from her eyes.
"No, you have to leave that there." I said as I grabbed her hand and pulled it back down.
"Edward?" her voice was shaky and I could tell she was still in some pain.
"Yeah it's me. You're ok. I'm right here. How do you feel?" I said pressing my lips to her warm hand.
"Everything hurts." She started to wiggle around.
"Stop moving. I know it hurts but you shattered a vertebrae in your lower back and if you move you might hurt yourself even more."
"I missed you. I tried getting back to you but they…" she was beginning to cry again.
"Shhh. It's ok. We'll talk about this later all right? Just close your eyes and rest." I said running my fingers over her cheek.
"I can't everything hurts."
"Ok, I'll call one of the nurses." I was shocked that she didn't object when I called for the nurse to bring in some morphine.
When the nurse left I sat back down. "Now close your eyes and go to sleep. I'll stay right here."
"But I'm not tired."
She was lying and I could here it in her voice. She was getting quieter. She started moving again and I stood up.
"Just rest your fine."
"I can't."
I leaned over her, mindful of her injuries, so my face was near hers. "Just relax and go to sleep." I blew in her face knowing how it used to calm her down. And it did.
She was asleep in only a minute.
Carlisle and Chey walked into the room.
"How's she doing?" Chey asked.
"She's tired and in a little pain but ok other then that." I said looking at them.
"Rita has something that she needs to tell you." Carlisle said.
"Twilight Angels shut down minor parts of their bodies as they heal. She shut down her sight so her body would concentrate on healing itself. She should get her sight back in a day or two. Even though she reverted back to a human her body will turn her sight 'back on' when it's done healing. She will heal a little bit faster then a human will but not as fast as a T.A. would." Chey smiled.
I sighed with relief. She would get better. And now should would be mine forever.
5 days later (still in Hawaii)
Bella had healed enough that I could take her home yesterday. Chey had gone back to her realm a few days ago. When we arrived back to the house everyone was glad to see her. They all were saving their happiness for when Bella was feeling better. Her sight was back thankfully and the two of us never left one another's side.
We were down on the beach watching the sunset when a bright light appeared. Cielo was standing there when the light vanished.
I felt Bella freeze.
"It's good to see that you're ok Nita. How are you feeling?" Cielo asked.
Bella stood up and began backing away slowly never taking her eyes off Cielo.
I stood up as well.
"She's healed up and is doing a lot better." I said grabbing Bella and holding her to me.
Cielo smiled, "Good cause she needs to come back home."
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