Disclaimer: All of the usual Twilight characters aren't mine...but the new ones are...so bagsy mine!!

About: So the story breaks out into juicy goodness and we can fit some pieces together. We find out about the evil in this 'gothic' woman and what her deeds are. Bella takes the step forward.

R & R please!!

Ragdoll Ranny

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Help!

I stood by the door, breathing heavily, having shut it behind me. There was a small figure on the bed, but I couldn't see her clearly as she was hidden under the covers. I inhaled deeply again, tasting the air. It seemed I could cope with it. Just cleaning products...

I took a few steps forward, making no noise to wake the child. When her face came into view it seemed she was asleep. I took the seat beside her bed and picked up her folder containing her notes.

'Addiena Meredith...' I read. I read through the notes trying to find what her illness was, but it seemed all the doctors had just wrote symptoms and nothing else. I flicked through the dates, looking at the notes...and still couldn't find anything. Maybe that was why Carlisle put me here? Nobody knew what was wrong?

The girl stirred and I looked up. A lock of her light brown hair fell across her face to her nose, and I lightly picked it up. Her skin was cold, and as I looked closer I noted how it looked unnaturally white. Not vampire white...just unnatural for a human.

My hand strayed across her cheek and her eyes flickered. She mumbled something about being cold and I retracted my hand quickly. Slowly her eyes opened fully. She stared at first, her emerald green eyes boring into my own. I wondered what she was thinking and probably guessed correctly.

"Hi Addiena," I said, placing her notes back on the desk.

"Addy..." she coughed out. Her breathing seemed weak and she moved her head only briefly to look up at me. I smiled to myself briefly, remembering how I had to remind people that I preferred Bella, and how frustrating it got, no matter if it wasn't anyone's fault.

"How are you feeling?" I asked.

She shrugged and rolled onto her back. "I've been better..." she said, sighing deeply.

I stood up to look at her face...when suddenly I had a flash back. The woman I kept seeing, the young girl who was with her... I gasped.

"What?" she asked, her eyes full or curiousness. I smiled and moved closer to her bedside.

"Nothing...I just...I just caught my foot on your bed," I said, pulling an embarrassed grimace. She giggled, her smile crinkling near her eyes. She looked older, like she had too much wisdom for someone her age. From her notes I noticed she was 19 years of age. She was the same age as I was when I was turned into my immortal self.

"Can you tell me how you're feeling?" I asked, sitting beside her again. She sighed and rolled over to face me again.

"A little weak, kind of sick feeling...the usual. You've read the notes. Nothing's changed," she muttered, staring at the floor.

My thoughts swirled to the other woman I saw her with earlier, but of course I couldn't ask, or that would cause suspicion.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door and a young nurse came trundling in. I knew what she was going to do before she got the bag out. Blood transfusion...I sat locked in my seat. I couldn't get up and leave, what kind of Doctor did that? Ran at the sight of blood? I gritted my teeth and held my breath and she hung up the bag and attacked it to the poor girl lying in her bed. She closed her eyes as the first few drops slowly trickled in...Dammit Bella...stop focusing on it.

I turned back to the other girl and held her hand which she squeezed back. She opened her eyes and smiled briefly before shutting them again.

When the nurse left, I began my interrogation.

"I'm sure you've been asked this before, but I've noticed you've been in here a total of 6 times with the same conditions. Do you notice anything at home which begins before you get taken to hospital,"

She seemed to think in her daze and I flicked through her notes again.

Low, but acceptable blood supply...weak, dizziness, scars/cuts on body (could be from fall)...

She opened her eyes and just shrugged.

"Do you mind if I look at these scars that are mentioned?" I asked. I was grasping from straws and couldn't think of what it could be.

She nodded and moved away her duvet. She lifted her arms and one leg. "There's some on my back aswell," she whispered.

I bent over her bed and looked at her arms. When I saw the marks I gasped loudly again.

"Fuck!!!!" I yelled. Addie's eyes widened and she pulled the duvet back over her.

"You've seen these before?" she asked.

I panicked, not knowing what to answer. If the half mooned shiny scars on her body were that I think they were then by answering she would know the truth.

Suddenly Edward and Carlisle walked in, responding to my outcry.

"Bella..." Edward said, rushing towards me.

"Have you seen these before...?" Addie called again. I stared.

"Erm...i might have," I said.

It was her turn to gasp this time.

"...no doctor has ever seen these, and they don't know what they are...that means...oh my god! You're one of her!" she said. I froze and so did Carlisle...Edward was the only one that was still moving.

Addie's eyes widened as panic spread over. She began to get up, but Edward was there before she could move.

"Edward!" I cried as he moved to quickly and too noticeable for a human. He turned to look at me.

"Bella, she already knows, and she's already been in trouble with our kind before. We can't cause more attention. You need to calm her down," he whispered.

I unfroze myself and slowly walked over to the poor girl, her eyes frantic and scared.

Eyes...that should help.

"Addiena, please listen to me. Look at my eyes...the colour. If you know what we are then you should understand the meaning behind it..." I stared at her, and watched as her eyes turned in my direction. Suddenly Edward released her and she slumped onto her pillow. I looked up at Edward.

"She's not struggling anymore, and I think we can trust her,"

I nodded.

"Addie, please..."

She turned her head to me again.

"I often heard her muttering to herself about the 'golden eyes'. That's why she wore golden contacts," she whispered, tears rolling down her face.

I thought back to when I first saw her, and remembered the golden coloured eyes.

"What colour were they usually?"

"Red...scary red, but they changed when she...when she..." Addie struggled to carry on, but I noticed how she rubbed her arm and lowered her head.

"When she bit you?" I said quietly, realisation suddenly hitting in. Addie merely nodded.

Edward was listening, listening carefully to the truth pouring out in her mind. His face contorted into disgust.

"This has been happening for over 6 months...she's been feeding off her, and then leaving her with just enough for her body to refill itself again. But recently her body's been struggling to keep up with her obsessive feeding, hence why she's been coming to the hospital. She's been passing out in public. If it was done behind closed doors she would probably never have been found," Edward whispered as the story came through.

I gasped and put a hand to my mouth.

"We have to stop this!" I yelled.

This time it was Addie's turn to move.

"No...You can't stop her. She'll do the same to you!!" she cried, her hand gripping my wrist. For such a weak girl I could feel the determination behind it.

"But why her?" Carlisle said.

"The exact reason I had the trouble when I first met Bella...singing blood. However, she isn't going about it in the same way as I did," Edward growled.

There was another knock on the door, and Doctor Greenman came walking in.

"Sorry to disturb you, but I'm glad to tell you you're shifts over," he said, before smiling broadly and leaving the room.

"No...!" I cried. I took Addie's hand. "She has to come with us," I yelled.

Carlisle shook his head. "Sorry Bella, but we can't do that. The officials will be noted and they will just take her back to the hospital. We can come back tomorrow," he said, rubbing his hand soothingly on my back. I gritted my teeth and bent close to Addie.

"Don't you worry. I'll be back first thing in the morning and we will work out how to stop this," I whispered.

I shoved a piece of paper into her hand with my number on it.

"Please contact me if ANYTHING happens...please," I whispered.

Her eyes were huge and scared, but I was glad to think that she had accepted us as the good side.

And with that we had to leave the room.

~***~

I sat in my chair in my room staring at my phone watching at the evening rolled by. Even Edward and Alice were pacing the room, using their skills. After we informed the rest of the group a huge action plan was put into use, but for some reason I couldn't bring myself to help. The only plan I could think of was to bring Addie here and have her safe with us...which was when I realised...

Oh my goodness...I'm getting maternal.

Suddenly the thought of turning her into my own vampire was ideal. It would be like having a new child, but I pushed away the idea. That was cruel and unjustified when I had so many friend here...but to have someone to pass my own wisdom onto. No Bella!

I got up to keep myself occupied when my phone vibrated. I was there first with the phone open and reading the message.

I dropped the phone and could have died.

HELP! -the message read.

I have to apologise again. My past few chapters have been apologising for not updating. But you have no idea how busy things get.

This chapter gives quite a lot of information and moves the story along. I guess I needed to rather than just waffling :D

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