Stephenie Meyer owns Twilight
*APOV*
Bella had come in to the shop stressed that she need to talk to Rosalie and I about something very important. I knew that things were going well with her and Edward because well he told me. Every time he came in from being at her house he was smiling and humming some melody. I caught him one day when he thought no one was around, smiling and looking at the baby grand piano that Esme and Carlisle had bought when we were children. Edward was the only one of the three of us to ever play it. He had taken lessons and even written some pieces for Esme. When were in high school he was working on another one, Esme had asked if it was a new one for her and he shook his head and said it was for someone else. None of us needed to be told that it was for Bella. The night she left for school was the last time he touched the piano. He played the song once, closed the lid and walked away from it. About three days ago I found him looking at the piano. I told him to just play it already; he looked up surprised and then went over and played. It was the melody he had been humming and it was beautiful. I sat and listened, soon Esme and Rose joined me. Esme had a tear in her eye as she smiled brightly at him. None of us said a word afraid to break the spell of him playing again.
I thought about that moment as I watched Bella stand before me trying to get out whatever it was that she needed to say. "Just tell us already!" I couldn't help it, if it was so important why didn't she just get it over with. She looked down and then up at us, tears were pouring out of her eyes. I knew that it couldn't have to do with Edward, these two belonged together. "Bella what is going on? You are seriously freaking me out right now." I said as I approached her, Rose followed me to her and we hugged her. She began to sob it was almost uncontrollable.
"Bella, talk to us. We are here for you. Does this have to do with why you came back?"Rose asked she was more observant than people gave her credit for and that made her amazing at what she did here. It was also why she could be so forward with people and they didn't mind. She saw what they didn't want, and once they knew she had seen it, they couldn't deny it. Bella just nodded her head. Then Rose said something that threw me, "Does this have to do with the marks on your back last week? The bruises?" Bella shook more. "What?" I asked, "What bruises? Rose what are you talking about, Bella didn't have any…" And Rose just looked at me. She turned Bella around like a doll and lifted her shirt just a little in the back. "Those" She said looking at me, and then turned Bella back around. I couldn't believe what I had just seen. "How did you know?" Bella asked, I was thinking the same thing to myself. Rose's answer was straight to the point. "The way you reacted to my hug that first day, how you refused to change your top in your room and you insisted on wearing that jacket, and then when Emmett hugged you I heard you cry out from it hurting. What really did it though was how Edward kept hiding your back when we were at Club 7. I figured when you were ready you would tell us."
I was floored I couldn't believe I had missed all those things, but like I said Rose is observant. Bella just cried. Rose switched the sign on the door to say closed and we walked into the office. Bella finally was able to get herself somewhat controlled and then she told us.
*RPOV*
Bella finally let it all out. And it took everything I had not to want to track this guy down and kick his ass. Then she told us there was more. My heart stopped, "Jacob Black called me to tell me that Brian took off the other day, he might be on his way here, if he isn't already here." I took her words in, she had fled him and now he was hunting her. I don't know how she got away but I was glad she did and all my anger about this was boiling up and over. Alice looked at me, because I apparently let out what could pass as a growl. "Have you told Edward? I am assuming that he knows about the abuse now, but does he know what Jacob told you?" I figured that if Edward was going to fight, then Emmett would be standing at his side, and probably Jasper as well. My family would never allow someone to be hurt, if any of us had known about what Bella had been going through for all those years in New York you bet your ass we would have brought her back here without question. I looked at her, and tried to contain my anger. She shook her head "No I tried to call him, but I just got his voice mail. Charlie is taking the children down to Billy Black's so that he can't get to them if he is here. I am so terrified. I don't want anything to happen to any of you. Charlie thinks that I shouldn't be alone and maybe I should see about staying with you all at the house." God love Charlie the man knew what he was doing. There might not be a lot of crime in Forks and the surrounding area, but he still took it seriously.
"Well that's what your ass is doing, you are not going to be alone right now!" I found myself almost yelling, Alice seemed a bit surprised by it. Alice called Esme and Carlisle and told them that Bella would be staying the weekend with us and we would explain when we got home. It seemed to not faze Esme at all. We offered to take Bella to her house to get some things for the weekend. But she insisted on going alone. She said she would meet us at home in a couple of hours. When she left, I called Edward from the store phone, Alice stood next to me while I told him we knew why Bella had returned, that she had told us and that she was staying with us for the weekend. I also told him that he needed to go by her place as soon as he finished his shift at the hospital. The rest was up to her.
*EPOV*
It had been a tough day, the only good thing is the fact that I have a date with Bella tonight. My cell phone has been acting up all day. In some parts of the hospital I get no reception but no one really ever calls me while I am here so I usually don't notice. Today my phone would start to go off and then stop, I never got a chance to check my messages but I wasn't too worried. It wasn't until I was sitting in my office reviewing some files before signing off on them for the night when my office phone rang. It only rang once when I answered "Hello this is Dr. Edward Cullen." The voice on the other end was not one I expected, "Edward we have to talk" Rosalie said very matter of fact. Rose has never been one to mettle in my personal life; that was Alice's job so something had to be up for her to be calling and sounding so serious about things. "Okay, I am listening" I responded just as serious. She didn't waste time letting me know that Bella had just left the shop and that she would be staying the weekend at the house, "Why is she doing that? She has her own home across town. What about Emily and Joseph?" The fact that she would be anywhere without them didn't seem right. "Charlie is taking them to visit the Blacks down at La Push." Rose seemed to need to tell me more but wasn't, and then it came out. "Edward, we know. Bella told us everything, after I crying her eyes out and me confronting her about the bruises. Alice is still a little shocked." I pinched the bridge of my nose, my heart broke for Bella. I knew how hard it had been for her to tell me after I had pushed for the information, so for her to just tell Rose and Alice meant something big was going on. "What else did she say?" I asked still pinching my nose, counting internally to bring my heart rate down. "All I am going to say is that you need to meet her at her place after you leave the hospital, and she will have to tell you the rest. Bring her to the house, we will get her out for the night and all figure everything out together." Rose sounded confident, and though she was serious and I had become nervous there was something about the way we would figure it all out together that made me less worried. But, there was still that awareness now, and that had me on edge.
I called Bella as I was about to reach my car in the garage. She sniffled when she answered "Hi" the awareness spiked, "Bella love what is wrong?"I asked becoming more concerned. It takes a moment, and then she says "Can you come to the house and talk? Charlie is taking the kids to Billy Black's, for the weekend, and there is something I have to tell you." She sounds sad and it worries me. "I am on my way to you. It should only take me about 20 minutes, just wait for me there at the house." I got into my car and sped out of the garage. I felt like I had to get to her as quickly as I could. It took me less time than I thought to get there, but I was doing 80mph. As I pulled in I noticed a blue jeep parked down the street, I hadn't seen it before, and for some reason it made me nervous.
I walked into the house without knocking, and called her name "Bella, where are you?" I looked in the kitchen and then went to the stairs. "Bella!" I called again. As I climbed up the stairs, I felt my chest tighten I called her name again "Bella!" I rounded into her bedroom and found her, packing a duffle bag, headphones in her ears, the music so loud I could hear it from the doorway. I stood there and watched her. She sang along to what was playing "The smell of your skin lingers on me now
You're probably on your flight back to your home town I need some shelter of my own protection, baby To be with myself and center Clarity, peace, serenity. I hope you know, I hope you know
That this has nothing to do with you It's personal, myself and I We've got some straightenin' out to do
And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket But I've got to get a move on with my life
It's time to be a big girl now And big girls don't cry Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry The path that I'm walkin', I must go alone I must take the baby steps 'til I'm full grown, full grown Fairy tales don't always have a happy ending, do they? And I foresee the dark ahead if I stay I hope you know, I hope you know That this has nothing to with you It's personal, myself and I We've got some straightenin' out to do And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket But I've got to get a move on with my life It's time to be a big girl now And big girls don't cry Like the little school mate in the school yard We'll play jacks and Uno cards I'll be your best friend and you'll be mine Valentine Yes, you can hold my hand if you want to 'Cause I want to hold yours too We'll be playmates and lovers And share our secret worlds But it's time for me to go home It's getting late, dark outside I need to be with myself, and center Clarity, peace, serenity I hope you know, I hope you know That this has nothing to do with you It's personal, myself and I We've got some straightenin' out to do And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket But I've got to get a move on with my life It's time to be a big girl now And big girls don't cry Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry" when the song was done I moved into the room and resisted the urge to pull her to me. She turned; realizing she wasn't alone let out a small scream and jumped up putting her hand on her chest when she realized it was me.
Getting to a crucial part, hope you like it.