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Summery – Bella and Charlie have a fight and Carlisle comforts her – 2004

Authors note – This is a Father/Future daughter In-law story

Being There for Bella

By:

potterfan2006

Bella could not believe what was happening; she could not believe that after all this time that Charlie could blame her for her mother leaving. It was her mother's choice and he knew that but he wanted someone to blame other than himself.

Bella stormed out of the house. She had to get away for a little while to just calm down and give Charlie some time to come to his senses. She managed to stay on her feet as she stumbled to her truck; she closed herself in the cab and drove down the road. She did not know where to go, she just let herself drive.

Somehow Bella found herself driving over to the Cullen's house. As she pulled up she knew no one was home but she did not care. The pain was overwhelming her now. She turned off her truck and folded her arms on the staring wheel, placing her face on her arms. She let the pain overtake her and allowed the tears to fall.

She did not know how long that she cried until she heard her car door creek open and a set of cold arms enfolded her into a hug. As she sobbed in the arms, a familiar scent wrapped itself around her. It was Carlisle.

Carlisle had been in his office when he heard the sound of Bella's truck. His family had gone to feed today, and Bella was aware of that. But due to an emergency at the hospital, Carlisle had missed the hunt. When a few minutes passed and he had not heard the doorbell ring or the front door open, he decided to go down to see what was stalling the young woman. Just as he was walking down the stairs, he could hear faint sobbing coming from outside. When he opened the door and as he got closer to the truck, the sobbing got louder. He walked to the drivers' side and opened the door to find Bella's head on her arms around the steering wheel; she was the one that was sobbing. All he could do was pull her into his arms and hold and rock her.

"Shhh, Bella, its okay. It's going to be okay," he said repeatedly. He could not smell any blood around her so she must not have been injured but her cries were one of hurt.

Soon her sobs died down to just little hiccups and she pulled away to look at him. He cupped her face in his hands and using his thumbs he gently wiped her tears away. "Can you tell me what has you so upset?" he asked, concern clearly heard in his voice.

Bella nodded softly, "Ch...Ch…Charlie and I had a… a fi… fight" she said through a fresh wave of tears.

Carlisle pulled her close again. "Shhh Bella calm down it will be okay."

"No, it won't," she said into his shirt. "He blames me for my mom leaving him."

"What makes you think that?" Carlisle asked.

"Because he said so!" she sniffled.

"Bella, tell me everything that happened," he said gently. He did not like seeing his future daughter in-law cry.

"He had come home from work and was upset because he had to deal with a domestic abuse case today. The wife and son were taken to the hospital where the son later died of his injuries."

It came all together for Carlisle then. He had been the one to treat the mother and son and later had to pronounce the boy's time of death. He tuned back into what Bella was saying.

"When Charlie got home, he had a few beers and then started to just get angry and started blaming me for her leaving," she said as she stared to shiver; whether it was from the cold of his body or her emotional state, he did not know.

"Bella, why don't we get you inside the house and warm you up, and then we can talk more about this," he suggested.

She nodded her consent and he helped her out of the truck and into the house, where they sat and talked well into the night until Bella fell asleep in his arms.

The End