Edward POV

"EDWARD! WAKE UP!" Alice screamed as she jumped on top of me. My eyes flew open, and I glared at her. I was having the first happy dream about Bella in a year. And she took me out of it.

"What." I grunted, sitting up and rubbing my eyes. I looked at the clock. 11:45pm.

"Edward they got her. She's back." Alice cried, tears falling.

"Wait- what?"

"It's a long story. Mr. Weber found out, told Charlie, Charlie went and got her. The point is she's here. She's at the hospital. Dad's with her right now. Let's go!" she shrieked, running from the room. I jumped up ripping off my sweatpants. I pulled on jeans, a long sleeved gray shirt, my black shoes, and ran from the room. Downstairs, I found Emmett and my mom standing there next to a bouncing Alice.

"Ready?" Mom asked. The three of us nodded and ran to the car. My mom hopped behind the wheel, and we were off. We sped to the hospital, but it was still the longest ride of my life. Finally we made it, and ran inside to the ER. We saw Charlie and Renee standing there wrapped in each other's arms crying happy tears.

"Oh hi guys." Renee said as we approached. She hugged my mom and Alice.

"Any news?" Emmett asked.

"No not yet. Your dad has been back there working on her for awhile now." Renee answered.

"Working on her?" I questioned. Renee grabbed my hand as Charlie answered.

"She was in pretty bad shape Edward." I nodded at his words. I expected as much. I wish she wasn't, but how could she not be. She was here, and alive, and thats all that mattered. The six of us sat down, waiting. A few minutes after we got there, Jasper and Rosalie came running in. We updated them on all we knew, and then continued to sit in silence. We only sat there for around 45 minutes, but it felt like we had been there a lifetime when Dad finally walked in.

"Carlisle! How is she?" Renee asked as we all stood. My mom walked over and wrapped her arms around my dad as he sighed.

"I'm not gonna lie, she was bad. She had a sprained wrist and 4 broken ribs, and from the looks of it they've been broken for awhile. Luckily the ribs didn't puncture her lung- that would have been serious. She's severely bruised all over her body, and has a few cuts as well, even some scars from old cuts. Charlie you said he had a knife so I don't doubt he cut her often. I could tell from x-rays that within the past year she has had many other broken bones that received no medical attention. Luckily those healed fine, so we have nothing to worry about with that. Charlie you also gave me permission to do a rape kit and I'm afraid that the results of that were positive as it did indeed happen. How many times, we cannot be sure. There was severe tearing, uh, down there, but that will heal in time as well. She is also severely underweight and malnourished, so we've been trying to get her some vitamins through her IV. All together, physically she is bad, but nothing critical. In time she will heal just fine. I'm more worried about the emotional damaged caused. That will take a lot longer to heal."

"She will be fine though. Eventually she'll be back to normal, right?" Renee asked, as she clutched Charlie's hand for dear life. Dad looked at her.

"Eventually I have no doubt she'll make a full recovery- she's a strong girl. I do not know how long it will take, but with us there for her and the right approach, I think she'll be okay in the end."

"Okay. Good. Can we see her?" Charlie asked.

"Well, normally I would say to let her rest for now, but she's been asking for everyone. I told her to sleep and she could see you all later, but she refuses to sleep until she sees you all."

"This large a group? Carlisle are you sure that's smart? It might overwhelm her!" My mom spoke.

"I know, but she insists." Dad nodded. "So, I guess you all can follow me." He said, grabbing my mom's hand and walking down the hallway. Charlie and Renee were right after them, and I followed right behind them, and everyone else behind me. I was aching to see her, a part of me still couldn't believe it was real. That she was really here. We all followed my dad to a door at the end of the hall. He turned to us. "Remember guys, she looks different. Prepare yourself."

With that being said, Dad opened the door and we all peered inside. It was the normal hospital room, the bed, a few chairs scattered around. I only focused on her though. Dad was right. She looked as if she had lost 25 pounds, a huge loss since she had already been tiny. The sheet was pulled up over her to her waist, and that was plenty to see. There were bruises and cuts everywhere, just as dad had said, but seeing it rather than hearing it was so much worse. Her once beautiful long brown hair was flat, lifeless just like her. The scariest part however were her beautiful brown doe eyes. The moment we walked in the door, her eyes locked on mine, and I stared into her eyes. They terrified me. Once so happy, so full of life, her eyes now looked dead. It was almost like I could see straight into her soul, and from what I could see, it was empty. She wasn't the same. I didn't expect her to be, but I expected her to still be Bella. But looking into her eyes, I saw that Bella was gone.

"Oh my baby!" Renee said, running forward and cautiously taking Bella into her arms as she cried. Charlie was right behind her. It was a beautiful moment of a family reunited, but Bella's eyes were still locked on mine. And although I could tell she wanted to cry, no tears fell. Charlie had said she had cried the whole way back here, so maybe she was just cried out for now. However, still looking into her eyes, it broke me. She was hurt badly. And I couldn't protect her.

"We're glad to have you home Bella." My mom said, smiling at her. Bella finally looked away from me, and I was glad as I felt I could breathe again. She nodded at my mom, then looked around at everyone. We all smiled at her, the happiness we all held of having her back in whatever form was overwhelming. Finally after a few minutes, Dad spoke up.

"Okay Bella, you've seen everyone. Now you need to sleep, like we agreed." he said, she looked up at him and nodded. My dad started filing everyone out, when Bella finally spoke.

"Edward?" I heard her voice call. I closed my eyes. Instead of her usual bell-like voice, it sounded dead. I turned to her. She gave me a look as if asking me to stay. I looked at my dad.

"Five minutes." He said, before closing the door. Bella and I were now alone. I walked up to her slowly, and sat in the chair by her bed.

"Hello love." I whispered. She reached out for me, and I took her hand in mine. Looking at her now, I finally started to cry. She tried to squeeze my hand, but all I felt was gentle pressure. I looked up at her.

"Edward." She whispered again. I sighed. I had waited so long to hear her say my name again.

"Bella I'm sorry. It's all my fault. I should have gone in with you. I should have fought him harder. I should have followed him. I-" I cried out until she interrupted me by putting a finger to my lips.

"Stop it." she said. "It's not your fault I was taken. I was just so worried about you cause he hurt you."

"No Bella, he only hurt me by taking you."

"He was a monster Edward."

"I know." I whispered. "I know. But it's all okay now. I'll never let anything happen to you again. I know I made that promise before and I broke it. But I'm promising you now, I'll die before I let you get hurt again."

"Don't say that." She cried.

"No it's true."

"I know it is. But I need you. If you die you leave. Don't leave me." she choked out.

"Never." I whispered, as I leaned forward and gently kissed her forehead. She smiled at my words, and closed her eyes, quickly falling into a dreamless sleep.

A/n: Hello again. I know this is another short update. I've just been trying to update for you guys cause I'm really excited about this and you guys seem to be excited too as I've gotten countless reviews. So I wanted to post something, even if it is short. Hopefully I will update again today as it's still early and I've got nothing to do. My brother just had surgery yesterday so all I'm doing is laying on the couch watching movies with him so I've been pretty bored. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed this and I'll see you soon! REVIEW PLEASE!

~Rosalie3