Heaven and Hell

Beep….Beep….Beep….Beep….

I woke up to a constant beeping in my ear. Is this heaven? No, if it was heaven, I wouldn't be so annoying and my head wouldn't hurt. Maybe this is hell. I chuckled mentally at my outcome. I died all because of my stupid alarm clock that decided that it wasn't going to go off and make me rush to work so I would not be late, and then get in a car accident with an angel. Maybe that was my last reward in life. Dying in the arms of an angel. Well it sure was good last thing to see before I went down to hell. Now I would always have something to daydream about.

There was a slight buzzing going on around me. It sounded like voices, but like I was listening through a glass box. I stopped my internal monologue with myself to concentrate more on the buzzing. As I fought harder to make out what the voices were saying, it became clearer and louder.

"How is she dad?" asked a voice. The voice sounded oddly familiar. I couldn't recall who's it was. It was sort of like I had heard it in a dream before.

"She's fine Edward. She's lucky you were there to catch her when she fainted or she would have had a nasty fall on her already injured head." replied another deep voice. A light chuckle came from the direction of the first voice. Again, I tried to remember where I had heard that voice before. It was a friendly laugh that made me feel comforted and safe. A sort of dream, like voice. That chuckle was so familiar. I racked my brain from where I had heard it before. I gasped as it came to me. It was the angel! The angel who saved me from my burning car! Maybe I really was in heaven. The chuckle and the voice were both something that I had heard before. The chuckle continued as if someone had done something funny to amuse the angel. I was confused. The chuckle I heard now, I did not hear this morning, but I have heard it somewhere before Oh my god! It was the chuckle from the dream that I was so rudely awakened from by Alice that morning. The angle and the stranger in my dream are the same person! I tried to open my eyes to see the angel and thank it for coming to get me from hell, but they wouldn't budge. I groaned and the musical chuckle abruptly stopped. No! I fought harder to open my eyes to tell the angel that I needed to hear that beautiful laugh once more.

My eyes finally fluttered open to reveal a bright white light. Okay, maybe it's not a good idea to try and open my eyes. I squeezed them back shut again to fight off the headache threatening to develop in my already aching head, but once again remembered my purpose in opening my eyes in the first place. I carefully opened my eyes into little slits to reveal something that I was not expecting. I was lying in a white hospital bed surrounded by machines and covered in needles and wires. I guess I didn't die. I opened my eyes wider to take in my surroundings. It all looked like a stereotypical hospital room, but what stopped me in my tracks was the man standing in the corner.

It was the same God like man who had pulled me from my wrecked car. He looked the same except for the fact that his once open cut on his forehead was stitched shut, the soot was gone from his cheeks, and he had a new, clean pair of scrubs on. He was looking at me with wide, disbelieving eyes as I took him in. I soon realized that I was openly staring at him and dropped my eyes to avoid his stare.

There was an awkward cough from the other corner of this room and I gasped and looked up to see who it was. I didn't even realize that there was anyone else in the room, but now that I see him, I wonder how I missed him in the first place. He had golden blond hair that was in disarray just like my angel's is. He didn't look like the angel, but the one thing that told me that they were related was his eyes. They were the same deep emerald pools that I dreamed about the entire time I was out. He was older, maybe late 40's, but still just as gorgeous as he would have been if I had seen him when he was 20. These two clearly had good genes.

I saw a slight movement out of my peripheral vision. I then realized how long I had been silent and staring at the two. I quickly averted my gaze once more to my hands. Oh, bad idea. There was a long I.V. stuck into the vein in my hand. Ew, needles. The angel that I now knew as Edward cleared his throat as if he was about to speak. I looked quickly back up at him. His eyes were just as gorgeous as before, but this time, they were laced with amusement instead of concern.

"Ms. Swan?" he asked tentatively. His voice was just as magical as I remembered. Wait, he knew my name?

"Wait, how do you now my name?" I asked him before he could continue his speech. He looked at me quizzically, but soon realization came into his eyes.

"Oh! I'm a doctor here. Edward. Edward Cullen. Nice to meet you." He seemed like he was contemplating coming over to me and shaking my hand, but decided against it.

"I guess you already know my name so…" I replied awkwardly. The roomwas then filled with a long awkward silence. I wasn't sure if I shouldsay something or not, but Edward decided for me.

"Well, I must be going. You need your sleep and I have rounds. I guessI'll see you later," he said after the long silence.

"Um…Dr. Cullen? Why are you here?" I murmured hoping that he wouldn't hear me. Clearly he did as he turned around in the doorway and looked down sheepishly.

Edward coughed loudly and began to stammer. "I, uh, well, I was in the accident with you, and uh, you were brought here when I went to go get my stitches and um, I came here to check on you to see how you were doing after um, everything…." I could feel my cheeks becoming warm, as I looked away and murmured and quiet "thank you." He nodded stiffly and opened the door with a bang. Before I could say anything more or call after him, I blur of black and pink flew towards me at an alarming speed. I gasped as my little pixie friend squeezed the living daylights out of me.

"Can't. Breathe. Alice." I somehow got out with the little breath that I had.

"Oh! Oops!" she squeaked out before letting go of me. I laughed lightly but soon stopped as it made the room spin again.

"Oh Bella I was so worried they wouldn't let me see you because I'm not family even though I tried to bribe them and charm them and I used every tool in my tool box but nooo nothing worked and I heard some doctors talking about how they needed to get you an x-ray and I started to yell at that dim-witted nurse that refused to tell me anything about you and then that good looking doctor heard me and told me he was going to check on you and that he would tell me and then I called Jasper and he told me that he couldn't get here because he had some patient to take care of and he couldn't cancel and then I couldn't take the waiting anymore so I went shopping and bought you the cutest shoes by the way and then I came back here as the hot doctor was leaving your room and even though that nasty nurse yelled at me I ran past her and here I am." she got out all with one breath.

I looked at her incredulously as she panted and tried to regain her breath. My lips started to twitch and soon enough I started laughing so hard that tears were coming out of my eyes. Alice crossed her tiny arms and huffed.

"Well if that's how you're going to act when I went through hell sitting in the waiting room then next time I just won't come!" she huffed indignantly. I calmed down after a few minutes of her incessant glaring.

"No Ali, I just have never heard someone say so much in one sentence!" I replied to calm her down. She kept glaring, but I caught the slight twitch of the corner of her mouth. I knew I was forgiven so I held out my arms for a signature Alice Brandon hug. She gave me one hard look but rolled her eyes and grinned hugely. She leapt off of the chair that she was sitting in next to my bed and flung herself into my waiting arms.

"Don't you ever do that again you big old dummy! I'm going to go prematurely grey if you keep it up!" she cried with her smile still in place.

"I know Ali, I shouldn't have sped." she nodded her head as her form of an acknowledgement at my apology, but got a very mischievous glint in her eyes.

"So, cute doctor huh? What's his name?" she asked coyly.

"Aliceee," I groaned, "he's just a doctor. I'm the one who got in an accident with him and he was coming to check on me like any good doctor would have done."

"Oh, and do all doctors have to dazzle the nurse to let them look at your file?" she asked wickedly. My eyes widened at that.

"He what?" I asked incredulously. Alice nodded her head feverishly while replying nonchalantly, "Oh yeah he brought out the charming smile and even winked to get that unsightly nurse to hand over your case."

I felt my cheeks warm and turn red at that. Could that God of a doctor really have that much interest in me? That's impossible. I'm just plain jane Bella. What would a divine creature like that want to do with me? Even the thought of him having the slightest interest in me made me giddy, but I wasn't about to let Alice know that. She would take it wildly out of proportion.

"Oh well that was nice. I'm sure he just wanted to see how his fellow war veteran was doing," I replied while shrugging my shoulders. Alice rolled her eyes and me and made a disapproving noise at the back of her throat, but thankfully she let it go for the time being.

"Alright Bell, lets get you out of here. Lord knows we will be back soon enough with your coordination, might as well get out for a while," she said while gathering my belonging and calling for a nurse to bring me my discharge papers. By the time that I was dressed and had signed the papers, Alice was already bouncing the doorway babbling on about how she saw the cutest dress on sale today. I grabbed her hand and pulled her down the hallway. Thankfully she was distracted or she would have questioned me about my haste to get out of here. I just wanted to get home, take a bath, and ponder about my eventful day, and the angelic man that now consumed my every thought. As we walked through the sliding glass door, I turned my head one last time to see Edward Cullen looking at me with a certain look in his eye that I couldn't quite put a finger on what it was. It looked like longing, but I'm sure that the distance had everything to do with that. There is no way that the beautiful Dr. Edward Cullen would want anything to do with me. Sighing, I turned back around to the still chirping Alice as the glass doors of the hospital closed. At the sound of the doors swooshing back open, I turned my head around again to see who was coming our way.

My eyes almost popped out of my head to see the very same man that I was thinking about and pinning over, running towards Alice and I. I stopped dead in my tracks with panic. What could he want? What do I say? Alice stopped her blabbing and turned around to look and see why I abruptly stopped. Her eyes widened at the sight of the all elusive Dr. E Cullen jogging to catch up with us. Most would not have caught it, but I saw the fleeting smirk that plastered her face before it became a cool facade. She knew this was going to happen, and I would never hear the end of it.

As his footsteps grew louder, I held my breath and turned to face him as he approached. Alice giggled at my facial expression. I looked like I was about to go into a war zone.

"Isabella?" he panted when he finally caught up to us.

"Bella," I corrected.

"Oh right, well, Bella, I was hoping that we could exchange information." he replied. I stared at him dumbfoundly. He caught my expression and quickly tried to correct himself.

"Oh! Um, for, um, you know, insurance and stuff on the cars. For, um, the accident," he stammered. I almost laughed out loud at my stupidity. I thought he was asking me out. As if!

"Oh! Right. Hold on a sec," I replied after a pause. I dug into my purse to retrieve my business card and handed it to him. "Well call me any time and I'll get the rest of the information to you."

He looked at my hand for a second before grabbing the card from between my fingers. As he grabbed it, his hand brushed mine. I gasped at the contact. It was the same electric current that I felt earlier when he was saving me from my car. He looked up at that moment, and I knew he felt it too. When our eyes met, we had a sort of silent conversation. He was telling me he felt it too. I'm not sure how long we looked in each other's eyes, but our moment was interrupted when Alice coughed loudly. He looked shocked for a fleeting second, but quickly composed himself and drew his hand away. It wasn't until that moment that I realized that he had never moved his hand away from mine.

"Right well, I'll call you later about the car information," he said as he looked anywhere but at me. I nodded mutely, being too shocked to say anything. He took that as his cue to leave and nodded at Alice and me once more before turning and retreating back towards the hospital.

I turned around silently and stood, stuck in my place. Alice giggled and grabbed my hand to drag me once more towards her car. She didn't say anything for once, as I slid silently into the soft leather interior. My mind was filled with thoughts of Edward. I pulled my phone out of my purse and twirled it around in my hands, waiting for Edward to call. I knew that he wouldn't call soon, but a girl could hope.

Little did I know what was in store for me later that night.