Disclaimer: I do not own these characters. Stephenie Meyer does and I love her for creating these characters and her story that goes along with them.
Emmett's POV
Edward and I sat in Bella's hospital room just staring at her and her badly bruised body for what felt like hours without a word spoken between us when suddenly, dad rushed in. I had totally forgotten that my dad had still not made it to the hospital and when I saw his face I knew that he did not have good news to tell us. His face had a look of more then just concern or anger. It was an emotion I could not place, but it was an emotion I never wanted to see on his face again because, quite frankly, he was scaring the hell out me at the moment.
Edward and I both stood up and dad was about to open his mouth to talk when he caught a look at Bella out of the corner of his eye. His facial expression completely changed. I could tell there were tears threatening to spill out of the corner of his eyes, but he was doing his best to contain it. He finally regained his composure and asked in a very hushed tone, "Is Bella asleep?"
"Yeah, the nurse gave her a sedative," I told him hoping he would not ask why because I did not want to tell him it was because Bella had a complete spaz attack when she woke up.
"Oh. Well, just in case, can you boys come outside for a moment?"
"Okay," Edward and I both answered in confusion.
We exited the room but not too far because if Bella woke up, I did not want her to wake up and find herself alone.
"I am going to need you boys at some point to talk to the police and give a statement as to what you two saw tonight so that we can get an arrest warrant out on Phil."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN GET AN ARREST WARRANT…WHERE IS PHIL?!" Edward yelled and looked like he was about to ripe someone's head off. I could not blame him. I felt the same way, but there was no way they did not arrest Phil…'right'?
"Edward, please lower your voice… Bella is right behind that door. There is no need for her to know about this." My dad said in a voice I knew was his police officer voice.
"Wait, you do not have Phil in custody?…Why?" I said trying to keep my voice as low and under control as I could manage.
"When I got to the house, Phil was not there," my dad said Phil with such venom in my voice that is scared me, but I could not get over the fact that Phil was not there. This was all my fault.
"Emmett stop looking like this is all your fault…If it was not for you, we would have never found out about Phil and Bella would probably be de.." he could not finish his sentence. And while, I knew he was trying to make me feel better, I felt even worse because I was the one who brought Bella there and left her…I was the one who let Phil get away. "And I would like it if neither of you told Bella that we do not have Phil in custody…There is no need for her to worry about this too..." he paused but composed himself again "She is going to have more then enough to deal with without adding this on top of it."
Edward and I just nodded. We looked at Charlie for a moment and then, sensing the conversation was over, we started to walked back into Bella's room. Just then, we heard the sounds of people running down the hall and we both turned to see Jasper, Alice and Rose coming towards us. I could tell by looking at Alice's and Rose's eyes that they had been crying and I was pretty sure that Jasper might have been too. Rose ran to me and I grabbed her in a huge hug. I was so glad she was here. I needed her more then she would ever know. Just simply holding her made me feel a little better but her sobs quickly brought everything back to me. She looked up at me with her bloodshot red eyes with her black eye liner running down her face and asked "What happened?…Is she okay?…Are you okay?"
I did not know what to tell her. I did not want to tell everyone that Bella was raped. I was pretty sure she did not want everyone to know and if she did, she would tell them on her own. Even though it pained me to lie to Rose, I was doing it for Bella. It was the least I could do for my little sister. "Phil beat her up," I said in a flat tone.
"What do you mean he beat her?"
"ROSE! HE MEANS THAT PHIL BEAT THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF BELLA!" Edward said out of frustration, but I cringed at his word choice.This didn't make the situation any better and Alice and Rose both started sobbing again.
Once the girls had finally composed themselves, we headed into Bella's room where Rose and Alice, once again, had to compose themselves after seeing how bruised Bella's body was. And the worst part was, I knew the bruises were only going to get worse because it had not even been a full 24 hours since Phil had beat her, and I cringed at that thought. Once we had all sat there for a while in silence, still just staring at Bella, Jasper finally said "I am going to go get some food…What does everyone want?" I could tell Jasper desperately needed to get out of the room and I was also glad to get some food. I had not had any dinner yet and I was really starting to get hungry. Jasper took everyone's orders and left with Alice.
Right as Jasper was leaving, a police officer came into the room and asked to speak with me. I nodded and followed him to the door.