A/N Yes! Another chapter XD I'm being quite good with the updating this time round =] The fiction should carry on in this more positive note from now on, unless something really bad happens to me. Either way, you'll be able to tell. Anyways, hope you like this one, it's the longest I've done for a while. I was going to break it off half way through for a cliffie, but I wanted to mix it up a bit and I felt a bit mean with the continuous cliffies. So this is different =]

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Disclaimer: Alice Cullen is only mine in my imagination...

Moans filled the room and I could hear my heart monitor picking up, as I slipped my hands into her hair to crush her closer to me.

Not a good idea. My groan filled the room, but this time it wasn't one of pleasure. Alice recognised this and pulled away instantly, eyes filled with worry and scanning my body to see what was wrong.

"I'm so sorry, I can't believe that I forgot that you were hurt!" she exclaimed, looking appalled with herself. I eased her worries quickly by pecking her on the lips and then reminded her that I forgot too. "I did just tell I loved you as well, anybody would've got carried away" I smirked at her for that, enjoying the fact that for once she had acted like a normal human and I had been the one who caused it, even if it caused me pain.

She smirked back and pressed her lips to mine once again, lingering there before mumbling "I love you too Bella" against them. I allowed a grin to take over my face, took a deep breath to steady my nerves and asked her the question I had been meaning to ask since she told me about Jasper.

"Alice, I know this is all back to front, but would you be my girlfriend?" I looked away shyly after asking this. "Look at me sweetie." I complied and saw such a large smile on her face that I thought it would surely split in half. I tried to smile back but then flinched as she squealed so loud that I thought she'd broken my ears. I think that's a positive answer.

"I would LOVE to be your girlfriend Bella! I can't believe you actually asked" She leaned down to place a chaste kiss on my lips before wrapping her arms around me and laying herself to my side with her head in the crook of my neck. A muffled "I love you" reached my ears as I felt her place a kiss to my neck and I grinned in spite of myself. Alice Cullen is my girlfriend! Alice Cullen! Edward didn't kill either of us and she is my girlfriend!
As if she could feel my happiness, she let loose a giggle, which rang round the room and caused me to sigh in contentment. Despite my pain, I was very happy.

Speaking of which.. Alice lifted her head to yell "Carlisle you can come in now!" and then snuggled back into my side. I saw a golden head of hair peek round the door to the room that I was in, before Carlisle walked into the room looking sheepish and downtrodden. I had never seen the normally confident Carlisle act this way, and it worried me until he reached my bedside and grasped my hand, looking into my eyes with such concern and sorrow reflected in his that I understood.

"I am incredibly sorry that you had to experience all of this Bella, I can never apologise enough for what my son put you through and his actions were completely inexcusable. I promise you that no one in my family will ever threaten you or harm you again" A growl broke through his apology and I looked down at Alice to see that the noise was coming from her. "I will make sure that that never happens again" she ground out. Carlisle looked taken aback but I just kissed the top of her head and mumbled "down tiger" which caused her to calm down and smile against my neck again.

I caught a glimpse of a smile on Carlisle's face at my comment, but he quickly masked his emotions and started checking my heart monitor and vitals. When finished, he perched on the side of my bed and sighed. "I guess you want to know to what your injuries are". I nodded and felt Alice grasp my hand, interlinking our fingers and squeezing gently. I smiled as I felt the electricity sizzle up my arm from the small gesture and then returned my focus to Carlisle. "First, what about Charlie?" I remembered that he had been at work while everything had happened; he had left whilst I had been in the shower beforehand. But I was worried about whether Edward had caught up to him, or whether he had seen the state I was in.

"You don't have to worry about Charlie; he was at work until you were brought into the hospital. He thinks you were hit by a car" I chuckled at that, sounds like something that would happen to me. "He and Renee have been taking turns hovering over your bedside throughout your stay here. Alice saw that you were going to wake up, so we sent them to rest to allow us to talk"

I was confused. If I only had a few broken bones why would Renee have flown out to Forks and why would my parents have taken turns 'hovering' as Carlisle put it? "How long have I been in here Carlisle?" I wasn't prepared for his answer and almost jumped off the bed in surprise.

"A MONTH!" I was gobsmacked, I'm pretty sure my jaw was hanging on the floor. Before I could splutter out some questions Carlisle started talking.

"You didn't just break a few bones Bella. Your body took an enormous amount of damage. It is a miracle that you were still alive when Alice found you. To begin with we had to put you in a medically induced coma to allow your body chance to heal. We weren't sure if you were going to make it but Alice was certain and wouldn't leave your side until she had a vision of you." I grasped her hand tighter at that, I knew how difficult it must have been for her to go without feeding all of that time.

"After about 2 weeks we withdrew the medicine but you remained in a coma. You had received massive head trauma and are incredibly lucky that you don't appear to have any lasting brain damage. As for the rest of your injuries, they've healed quite well in that time but would you care to explain to us how they happened because it may make it easier to understand where they all came from?"

I nodded, swallowing before I felt a reassuring kiss on my neck from Alice that miraculously calmed my thudding heart rate enormously. "I realised that my feelings for Alice were stronger than those for Edward. I was going to break up with him when he spotted some marks on my neck and collar bone" At this I heard a little giggle coming from the pixie at my side and blushed. "He went a bit crazy and started holding my neck, demanding to know who had given them to me. Then he sniffed me and recognised Alice's scent. That's when everything really started. He threw me across my room and I hit the wall. Then he pinned me up again and started yelling at me and called Alice a slut. I wouldn't allow him to say that, so I yelled back. He got even angrier and threw me out of my window and onto the ground outside." I paused to compose myself as tears were pouring down my face and I could feel my breath start to shutter. It was harder than I thought it would be to relive it.

The look on Carlisle's face was priceless; he looked so shocked that his son did something like that. Alice had propped herself up next to me and was growling under her breath, eyes pitch black and glaring murderously off into the distance. Despite that, she still had one hand drawing gentle patterns along my exposed arm that helped me to calm down.

"So that is how you received all of your injuries?" Carlisle finally managed to get out, his eye widening when I shook my head.

"That was when I got covered in glass, smashed my head against what I think was a rock and hurt all of my left side. But then Edward turned up. He trod on both of my wrists and kicked my thigh, but I wouldn't give him the satisfaction of screaming so I focused on trying to get Alice to have a vision of what was going on. I decided to talk to him after he had thrown me at a tree."

"My brave girl" Alice whispered and I turned my face to look at her. She was staring at me with such love on her face that I wanted to lean forward and claim her lips but was aware of Carlisle being in the room so broke eye contact and turned back to Carlisle. "I did see that, it was the only thing that enabled me to save you" she told me, and I allowed a weak smile onto my face at the thought that I had worked out how to use Alice's visions to help myself.

"I think this is where I came in Carlisle" she told him softly, "I found him pinning her up against a tree ready to kill her." I nodded my confirmation and she pecked me on the cheek.

Carlisle scratched the back of his head, a habit he had obviously picked up from all of his time spent around humans. "Well, that certainly explains things. Yet again Bella, I can't apologise enough for the fact that my son put you through all of this, but at least you're healing well. You should only need a couple more weeks in hospital as your casts will make it almost impossible for you to function even if you do have Alice to help you" I grumbled under my breath at that and both vampires laughed at me.

"Now, I'm sure you really want to know what injuries you actually have" I nodded, I seemed to be doing that a lot recently. "Well as you probably already knew, both of your wrists were fractured and so was your left leg. In several places actually, not just where he kicked you. You had quite a few fractures, most of which came through your skin. Your right leg was amazingly untouched, but both of your feet had multiple fractures. Your pelvis was also fractured in many places, and your right arm had greenstick fractures too. Three of your ribs were broken. You had a dislocated left shoulder, ankle and knee and had displaced some of the disks in your back. Lots of your cuts from the glass had to be sewn up too, so I'm afraid you're going to have quite a few new scars. All of your casts are due to come off in 12 days time, and then you're going to have to start physiotherapy after that. It's a long road to recovery but you've been unconscious for most of it so at least it will seem shorter to you."

Carlisle finished his monologue and I just sat there staring at him. I knew that I had lots of injuries; I'd seen them and could feel them. Plus the fact that most of my body was covered in casts was a huge clue. But to have it actually confirmed left me feel shocked beyond belief. I couldn't believe that Edward had caused me this much damage. He said he loved me! Funny way to show it! I knew Alice felt the same way because she was muttering in my ear about how he deserved everything he got. With my left arm (wrist strapped up but the rest of it free), I pulled her closer and stifled a yawn.

"Looks like the human is tired" Alice grinned, poking my nose and lightening the atmosphere. I giggled a bit and nodded sleepily. It had been a lot to take in and I was mentally exhausted. "Stay with me?" I asked, pouting. I noticed that Carlisle left the room as Alice shot me a brilliant grin and pressed her lips to mine. "Of course." I sighed happily and allowed sleep to consume me. Just before it did I heard a whispered "I love you Bells" and then everything was dark again.

Ta da! My first, non-cliffie chapter =]