I took a step in and picked up on a heartbeat.

"She's alive." I breathed.

"Barely, but..." Edward looked up at me like his world had been crushed. I heard Carlisle getting his bag from his office and Esme in the kitchen getting the bleach.

"But?!?!"

"She's lost a lot of blood, and..and..."

"AND?!? Edward, breathe...Think...Speak."

"And her blood is still tainted by venom."

"No" I whispered, "Did you try and suck it out?"

"Yes. But she's cold, so I stopped"

"How is this going to turn out?"

"This has never happened before." Carlisle walked in and laid down a towel. Edward put Bella on it.

" What happened to me never happened to anyone else. And I'm.... Well, I am here." I said trying to help

'Edward.'

'Alyssa...I tried to protect her...'

'You did what you thought would help. Now we wait'

"...Now we wait." Carlisle ended his diagnostic. Edward and I chuckled a little. I took his blood-covered hand in mine. And we stared at each other.

"Edward." A familiar, but raspy, voice called out.

"Yes, my love." Edward said, moving way too fast and forgetting to let go of my hand, pulling me with him.

"It...It hurts." Bella grunted, "It burns, Edward."

"I hope that means that she has enough blood, or not that much venom." I said.

"Everything will be ok. I just need you to wait the pain out, love."

"I'll try. Kiss?"

"Anything for you." Edward said, flashing her a smile then leaned down and kissed her tenderly. For a moment, this monster could be mistaken for a human. Carlisle was hard at work fixing up her leg. It looked like she stepped through our glass table. Her arm had one puncture wound. It was identical to the one she had on her hand.

'Edward, we need a story. So Alice and I can go tell Charlie.' I thought. 'What if she changes, will she be dead to him? Or do we open his eyes to our dangerous world?'

'I don't want to think about that right now.'

"Edward, we have to tell him something." I said out loud, but too fast for human ears.

"She's right. Lissa, tell him that she fell down the stairs right into the glass table and the decoration on the wall, a mirror, fell and hit her head. She lost a lot of blood. And that I had all the right tools to try and stabilize her right here at home. And that he can't come see her because she might not make it, and we don't want this to be his last memory of her." Carlisle said "Edward, let's move her into the dining room."

"Ok," was all he said, mortified. I hated seeing him like this. I went to the kitchen to wash my hands, because Jasper was still nearby.

Once I was outside, Jasper and Emmett were gone, and Alice was in the passenger seat of my blue Mustang.

"He won't take this well." Alice said.

"I know." I said and sped down the road to Charlie's house. When we told him, he was sitting at the kitchen table. He fainted.