Chapter 21

Alice POV

I arrived home escorted by an officer. I rode the elevator up and carefully slotted the key into the apartment door. I entered and wasn't greeted by anyone. Not by a wailing mother begging to know that it wasn't her daughter covered in the morgue, not by my own mother to comfort me and not by my best friend. I walked into the sound of silence and placed my keys on their rightful hook. I searched the apartment looking for its residence to find no-one. I went to he kitchen to fetch a glass of water. I was wrecked by grief but I had to keep my game face on. As i sipped my water carefully I noticed a note scribbled on the whiteboard attached to our fridge.

'We're at the hospital, join us ASAP xo Mom'

I dropped my glass of water assuming the worst. It smashed into a million pieces and the officer came to see what the fuss was about.

'Miss?' he asked politely. I pointed to the board and he nodded. 'Oh yeah, they got a call ordering them to the hospital, did you want to go as well?' he asked stupidly. I nodded and quickly followed him out the door,

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We arrived at the hospital and I ran to the receptionist. She looked up and smiled politely.

'Who are you after dear?' She asked. I stared at her for a moment. Who was I asking for. Just as I went to ask to see if there was A Dr or Mrs Cullen i heard my name being called. I turned to see Jasper walking toward me. I ran into his arms and burst into tears. He cuddled me and kissed my head carefully.

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Jaspers POV

Charlie had now joined our search party realising he couldn't break boundaries when he was with the police. We had begun searching back allies and abandoned buildings refusing to lose hope when Charlie received a phone call from Renee. His face went whiter than it already was but he insisted on continuing looking. We were all beginning to get weary. If it wasn't Charlie insisting the hunt on it was Edward. He had become oddly attached to our missing Bella which had me worried. If we didn't find Bella, or if worst case scenario someone did find Bella dead, I feared it would consume him.

We had just finished looking through an abandoned factory when Charlie came to my side and patted me on the back. I turned to face him but found it hard to look into his eyes. I had failed to protect his little angel. If i had just answered my phone Bella would be safe with us all now.

'You have a good thing with Alice son, don't let that get away from you,' he said gruffly. I turned to him and raised an eyebrow,

'They found a body and they asked Renee to identify it, apparently Alice said she would do it to save Renee. She is a little hero that one,' He said. I thought of Alice in the cold morgue identifying her best friend when i heard a loud scream. Everybody looked up from where they were standing. Charlie was the first to start running toward the scream, his gun pulled. Carlisle followed after warning us to all stay back. We did not comply. We hurried around the corner and just as we did we heard a gunshot sound. The scene in front of us would haunt me forever, lying over th top of Bella was the body of her assailant, still breathing. Her pale frame did not move, it merely lay there. Charlie had frozen. Carlisle stormed forward and pushed the man's body off of Bella's and felt her pulse.

'Edward I need you over here! Bella is fine Charlie, she's just fainted,' Edward rushed forward to Bella's side. I heard him mutter to Carlisle who had turned to the criminal's body. He was placing pressure on his bleeding gunshot wound to stop the bleeding. Emmet had pulled his phone out to get ambulance assistance. When Charlie walked over to where Edward and Carlisle were. He still held his gun he pointed it at the man who was now begging for his life.

'Charlie don't!' Carlisle ordered trying to push his gun away but Charlie shook his head.

'Nobody hurts my baby!' he said now turning the safety off. I saw Carlisle make eye contact with Emmet who stormed forward and pushed Charlie to the ground.

'Do you want to lose you badge and end up in prison? Do you think Bella wants that Charlie?' Emmet said as he wrestled the gun out of his hand. He threw it aside and started hugging Charlie who was now whimpering. I was relieved to hear an ambulance sound. Jacob and I walked to Bella's side. Jacob patted her hair, tears streaming down his face and I pulled my phone out and called the apartment home number.

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I saw Alice leaning over the reception and I called her name. She ran toward me, relief in her eyes. I pulled her into a hug and never wanted to let go.

'Bella is fine, she has a broken wrist and is slightly traumatised but she is fine,' I whispered to her. 'Come on, let's go and see her,' I sad reluctantly letting her out of the hug and guiding her to Bella's hospital room. We walked in and saw Bella with a huge grin on her face, Alice squealed and ran to her side hugging her excitedly.

'I missed you Alice,' she said, still unable to wipe the grin off her face. It surprised me that she was able to stay so positive. She had claimed in the ambulance that she was happy because she realised that life was too short and it was time to adventure a little. I was happy, everybody was happy. All except Edward who sat in the corner of the room peering out the window, no expression is gracing his face. I wondered what was going through his mind when Jacob entered the room with a huge bunch of flowers and a big grin. Alice moved away from Bella's bed and to my side. Jacob walked to her bedside and got down on one knee.

'Bella, I've seen what life would be without you and i don't like it. I don't want you to be a housewife, I want you to be you. To be successful in whatever field you choose, i don't care if we don't have children because spending my life with you is enough to keep me forever happy. Bella, ill you do me the honours of being my wife?' He pulled out a box revealing a gold banded ring. I looked to Bella for a reaction. Tears streamed down her pale face and she nodded, giggling slightly as she did. He slid the ring on her finger and embraced her carefully. We all smiled and quietly clapped, i looked carefully out the corner of my eye to see Edward shatter into a million pieces.

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Okay, i hate writing from other characters POV but i thought it was important for this component of the story. It shouldn't happen any more....

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