A/N: Okay, this might be a long note but here goes. Thank you to everyone who has been reading and reviewing in the past little while. All the reviews have made my day, even the ones where people complain about cliffhangers. I'm not one for using them, but I had too. For the newbies, I am someone who loves a good 'Happily Ever After', so don't expect me to break them up in the long run. I hated Romeo and Juliet because they died. How stupid was that??

Huge hugs and shoutouts to: MaggieMay14 (awesome beta and Robobbessed just like me), Lovebuggkiss (go read her shit people), flightlessbird11(ditto for her stories), rms33, bacmel79, addictedtotwilight79, weasleyweakness, lysvia, mmwalker, melferd, glo4twlight and Meghan Bailey. I love you guys and your constant reviews make me smile!

MaggieMay14 gave a little shoutout to my new story in her review: "And for those of you who read the other reviews, I have to say you are all going to love the new story I got a sneek peek and it's great! So you better be good! :P tee hee" It will be posted soon, I hope. Perhaps this weekend, with two possibly three chapters.

I don't own Twilight but I do have some very tasty Canada Day Cupcakes. RMS33 where are my cookies??

BPOV

There was a flash of bright lights and then there was nothing.

I heard a series of voices trying to talk to me, but I didn't understand a word that came from their mouths. I felt my weight being lifted from the cold, damp ground and more words I couldn't understand. My brain was screaming 'What the hell is going on here' but no words were being spoken from my mouth. Before I knew it, the sirens that had been ringing in the back of my subconscious were gone. So were all my other thoughts as I drifted away.

I was suddenly in an ice cold lake, swimming, with Edward by my side. "I missed you," he uttered to me as I simply smiled at him and tried to swim closer. Each movement I made kept him at a distance which I was entirely too uncomfortable with.

"Why aren't you swimming to me?" I called out as he moved farther away. His beautiful smile subsided and I felt very uneasy as I watched him intently.

"It's you who's not coming to me Bella," Edward responded as he suddenly dipped beneath the surface of the water and disappeared. I swam towards where I saw him last, desperate to find him, but he was gone. I tried to dive beneath the dark water, but all I saw was black. Edward was gone.

I suddenly awoke with a start and realized I was lying in a bed, tubes sticking out of my arms and all along my face. As I clawed at them, a pale looking woman in her late fifties wandered over and checked a few things before nodding at me.

"I see we've woken up," she said sweetly as she seemed to examine my face for something.

"Is Edward here? Can I see Edward?" I pleaded as she furrowed her brow and looked at me curiously. She messed with something at the side of my bed and before I knew it, I was asleep again.

"Bella, talk to me," said the angelic voice from beside me.

"I am talking to you silly," I replied sweetly as I tried to move closer to the voice, but I realized I was enveloped in darkness. "Where are you?" I called out in frustration as I continued to walk through the darkness to find him.

"Edward," I called out loudly. Suddenly, I was falling into the darkness, calling his name, but unable to hear anything further. My hands clawed at the black that surrounded me, but there was nothing to grab onto. Nothing to save me.

I don't know how long I was out of it, but it must have been a while because when I woke up, there was a different nurse in the room with me. I blinked my eyes several times as I adjusted to the bright fluorescent lights. It must have been daytime now because there was sunlight streaming in from the side of my hideous beige curtains, casting beautiful light onto the pale peach colored walls.

"How are you feeling miss?" asked the cute looking blonde who was reading a few things off my chart. She walked about me silently as she checked some sort of monitor beside my bed and did a check of my blood pressure. It was moments like this that made me wish I had seen more ER, because all I knew of hospitals right now was that my boyfriend's father worked at one and people liked to yell the word 'STAT' a lot.

"I ache like crazy," I said as I heard my voice and it sounded different, raspy perhaps, I wasn't quite sure.

"You've had a rough night. Doctor Thomas will be in a bit later to check on you. It was touch and go for a while when you came in, then again internal bleeding tends to do that to a person. Everything seems to be well now. A few broken ribs, some cuts and bruises on your face and of course the bleeding, but everything will heal in time." Dolores, as her name tag stated, seemed sweet enough as she offered me a drink of water and continued to talk to me genuinely about my injuries. "At least you didn't have amnesia or something. People always say that stuff only happens in soap operas, but believe me, it happens more than you think."

"What happened?" I asked quietly, trying to save my voice which still sounded unlike me. Dolores was calm and patient as told me what she knew about my accident.

I had been crossing the street in front of a grocery store and gotten hit by a drunk driver who jumped the curb. He drove away from the scene, but was found a few miles down the road in a bar having yet another drink. His blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit and it turned out, he was driving without a license. I was rushed in shortly after ten at night and it was now seven in the morning, the next day.

"It's Sunday? Where is everyone?" I asked curiously she looked at me with an odd expression.

"There is no one miss. Did you want me to call someone?" I stopped for a moment as I pondered her words. Why had no one come for me? Did they all sleep through the call that I had been in a tragic accident that appeared to have left me in the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital? Had no one thought to call them? What if they only person they called was Charlie? I was certain he was still listed as the next of kin on my medical history.

"I want Edward Cullen," I said forcefully. "He's the son of Dr. Carlisle Cullen." I noticed her face light up in recognition as she smiled easily and sat down beside my bed.

"Dr. Cullen is the cardiologist here. Do you know him?" asked Dolores sweetly as I felt her hands run across my face. She removed a couple of bandages and my face suddenly ached more than it had a few moments ago.

"He's the father of my boyfriend," I said succinctly as I tried to reach up to touch my face but she moved my hands away, a little too vigorously I might add. "What is wrong with my face?"

"You had some glass cuts, they were superficial really, but there is a lot of bruising and swelling. Dr. Cullen was in here an hour ago, I don't think he even knew who you were," she said calmly. "Are you going to tell me your name, because you were brought in here as a Jane Doe."

"My name? I'm Isabella Swan."

EPOV

I ran into the emergency room entrance and immediately went to the admissions desk, where Sue was standing in her bright pink scrubs with small yellow and white daises on them. They were atrocious, and had I been in here to visit my father, I definitely would have told her so. "Edward, I see your father called you," she said genuinely as I gripped the edge of the desk. I looked up at the clock and noticed it was already pushing seven in the morning. I couldn't take any more of this not knowing.

"Where is she? My father said she was here," I said as I tried to remain calm. Emmett caught up to me and gripped my shoulder, trying to be the voice of reason.

"Edward, it might not be her, so relax alright?" he said as I shook my body and his hand fell from me.

"I'll take you boys down there, but like your brother said, we're not sure it's her Edward. She woke up a few hours ago, but only for a moment." I followed Sue down the hall my hands absolutely shaking with nervousness. I was terrified it would be her, lying broken in the hospital bed, but I was even more terrified it wasn't her at all and we had to keep looking. We turned a corner and my nerves started to get the best of me and I stopped.

"What's wrong?" asked Emmett as he moved in front of me. I saw Sue point into a room just a few feet from where I was standing.

"What if it's not her? What the fuck will I do?" I said, my voice dripping with fear.

"What if it is her and you are standing here like a fool. She needs you." I gave Emmett a tentative hug and walked nervously towards the room. I stood outside the door for a moment, Emmett against the wall on the other side of the hall. He was giving me a few moments alone before joining us, when I finally got up the nerve to get into the room.

I listened carefully to the conversation going on in the room and my heart practically soared when I heard the voice of my angel.

"My name? I'm Isabella Swan," she said tentatively as I gave Emmett the thumbs up and slowly walked into the room. She hadn't noticed me at first, but I immediately felt my face grow into the biggest grin I had ever worn. My heart was breaking inside though as I saw her all bruised and bandaged. Her face looked to be three different shades of black and blue and I could feel my breathing quicken as I looked at her. The nurse at her side appeared to be changing some of the dressings on her face which covered some cuts.

"Bella," I said meekly as I moved closer and she whipped her head around, probably too quickly considering the massive trauma she just endured. She broke out in the most beautiful smile I had ever seen, even though she then touched her cheeks lightly, the smile clearly tugging on her stitches. "You are a sight for sore eyes baby. No more late night trips to the store without me," I said sweetly as I sat on the chair beside her bed, pulling it as close to her as possible and grabbing her hand in mine.

"Where have you been?" she asked genuinely as tears began to fall from her tired looking eyes. I really didn't want to see her cry, especially since her salty tears would probably be burning her uncovered cuts.

"I can't come and find you if they don't know who you are Bella. You left your wallet at home and you had no I.D. on you. Dad was in earlier and said your face was so swollen he wasn't even sure it was you," I replied quietly. I didn't want to upset her any further than I already had, although I was certain they were tears of joy not sadness. I used my hand to try to wipe some of the tears away but Bella flinched slightly because of the pain. "We spent most of the night trying to find you. I was about to just drive around the city when Dad called and let us know you might be here."

"Yeah, Nurse Ratchet over here," she started to say as she motioned to Dolores who was laughing easily at her comment, "filled me in on what happened, although I don't remember much. I recall bright lights when I got out of the store and that was it."

I watched intently as the nurse proceeded to continue to replace her dressings and every time she removed one, I wanted to gasp at what was revealed underneath. The narrow cuts, the stitches, the bruising and swelling, all of it made me want to run into the bathroom and throw up. If only I had eaten something in the past twenty hours, that might have been possible. It was a few minutes after the nurse had finished that my father and Emmett strolled into the room, smiles radiating from their faces.

"You gave us all a scare young lady," laughed Carlisle as he grabbed the chart from the end of Bella's bed and began to go through her records. "You appear to be healing very well. Dr. Thomas is an excellent doctor, so you really lucked out there."

"Thanks," Bella muttered quietly under her breath.

"I called the rest of the gang and they'll probably be over within the hour. Alice was muttering something about flowers, candy and pajamas but I really wasn't paying too much attention," admitted Emmett as he stared at Bella, disturbed by her appearance. She tried her best to smile at him, but it was still pretty difficult for her. Thankfully, Emmett didn't push the issue and simply smiled back at her.

"The swelling has gone down considerably, so that is a great sign. This morning you looked a bit like a chipmunk with a mouthful of nuts," said Carlisle with a chuckle, although the only person who laughed was him. "Anyways, I have some patients of my own to attend to. I also need to call Esme and let her know that you are doing well. I'll come back to check on you before I leave at the end of my shift, okay?"

Bella simply nodded her head slowly and tightened her grip on my hand. "I'm not going anywhere until you are discharged," I said firmly as Emmett looked at me with what could only be described as pity. "You, big brother, are going to do me a favor," I said with a nervous grin as I leaned forward and kissed Bella's forehead.

"What? Do you want something to eat?" asked Emmett lamely after he had just proceeded to get himself comfortable in some plastic covered armchair in the corner of the room.

"No. When Rosalie gets here, you are going to tell her you love her. No more of this 'dating other people' bullshit. Life is too short for that crap. How would you feel if it was Rosie lying here and you hadn't told her how you feel?" I asked as Emmett sat forward in the seat, his hands now rubbing his temples. I heard him quietly mutter 'fine' under his breath and I noticed Bella breathe a sigh of relief.

"So, it took me almost dying to get Emmett and Rosalie to smarten up, I'm glad I could be of service," she laughed gently, which clearly pained her as well. Bella's doctor ended up coming into the room ten minutes later and gave us the latest update on her condition. The surgery went well, all internal bleeding was taken care of and Dr. Dane, their plastic surgeon, had done an excellent job on her facial lacerations. All she really needed now was time to heal.

"When do I get to go home?" asked Bella tentatively. It was as though she was reading my mind because I was about to ask the same question. I wanted to get her home and take care of her. I told Emmett I was taking a week off of work, which he had no problem with, and I would dote on her the entire time she was recuperating. I would probably drive her nuts, but I didn't give a shit.

"Probably not for a day or two. We want to continue to monitor your progress and I know Dr. Dane will want to take a look at your stitches when he gets in later today." We both nodded our heads in agreement of his words and just as he was about to walk from the room, Alice, Jasper and Rosalie ran in, completely breathless. Alice was clutching a plant while Rosalie had a large bouquet of helium balloons in her hands, all of which said 'Get Well Soon'.

As soon as I noticed Rosalie, I glanced over at Emmett who simply nodded his head. I wasn't sure what the hell he was going to do, as long as he did it. I figured he would take her down the hall and talk to her, but that didn't happen. Instead, we all watched intently as he suddenly grabbed Rosalie at the waist and pulled her down onto his lap. He was still seated in the brown plastic covered chair in the corner of the room and looked nervous as hell.

"What's going on?" I heard Alice whisper to Bella, who simply raised her hand to her, as though to let her know to wait a moment.

"Rosalie Hale, I am so madly in love with you," started Emmett as we all watched Rosalie's mouth drop open. When I looked, Alice and Bella had the same expression as Rosalie, which made me chuckle for a moment. "I have been in love with you since the seventh grade when you stole my strawberry fruit roll up. If it had been any other person stealing my food, I would have hunted them down, but I just watched you eat it and smiled like a fucking idiot the whole time."

"Emmett, what on earth are you doing?" stammered Rosalie as she tried to fight against his hands and stand up from his lap. It wasn't working and I heard Jasper snicker in the background as Rosalie shot him a nasty glare.

"I am doing what I should have done like six years ago when you left. Edward and Bella have reminded me that life is too short for all the petty little crap, like fake dates with nonexistent people," Emmett said with a grin as Rosalie stared right at Bella.

"You told him?" she said angrily as Bella simply shrugged her shoulders and gave a tentative grin.

"No, I told him," said Bella as she pointed to me. "Thankfully, he listens when I talk to him and he told Emmett."

Rosalie was looking at Bella as though she wanted to kill her. Thank god, she was in a hospital and that would never happen.

"Rosie… I want you, always you. Forever with you. I want to get married one day and have more perfect kids like Logan. Even Logan wants us together," sighed Emmett as everyone in the room began nodding their heads.

"Everyone knows?" she said incredulously.

"Logan recruited us all ages ago to try and help get you guys back together. I had a good plan too, romantic candlelight dinner, soft music, booze… all the things needed for a proper reconciliation," laughed Alice as I glared at her. "I suppose Bella's idea worked too. Get hit by a car and force you guys to admit your feelings. Good going there Bells."

"Thanks, it was all part of my genius plan. I even had Logan driving the car, so don't get mad at him if he's extra tired tonight. He was out late last night," Bella said as I sighed and shook my head. At least her sarcastic sense of humor didn't go away.

BPOV

My sense of humor certainly didn't take a beating in the car accident like my body had, but I was slightly embarrassed by the efforts put in by Alice and Edward to make me feel better. I was wheeled out of the room around ten in the morning to have a test done, and followed and paced outside of the room while it was being done.

When they rolled me back in, Edward at my side still clutching my hand, I was surprised by the voice I heard. "Edward right?" said my father as I watched him extend his hand out to Edward, who took it easily in his and began to shake it vigorously. They had met briefly during Christmas last year, but they were hardly on friendly terms at the time.

"It's nice to meet you again sir," said Edward in response as he pulled away to let the orderly's put my bed back in place. "I wish it was under different circumstances though."

"Dad, what are you doing here?" I asked nervously. It had been so long since I had spoken to my father, I was surprised to see him here. He was dressed in his uniform and looked a bit awkward around me as he glanced at my face and all of my bandages.

"Edward called this morning to let me know you were missing. I high tailed it over here and was getting help from Trent down at the Southwest Precinct when Emmett called to let me know you had been found," said Charlie anxiously. "You really scared the hell out of us Bells."

"Yeah, I've been hearing that a lot lately," I said stoically as I looked up at Edward who simply shrugged his shoulders. "Edward, do you think you can head down to the cafeteria and get me something to eat?" I asked casually. I really wanted a few moment alone with my dad and thankfully, Edward took the hint and simply smiled at me as he nodded his head and walked out the door.

Charlie grabbed the chair beside the bed, which had been Edward's for the past four hours, and when I looked at him, he actually seemed heartbroken. "He seems like a good man," said Charlie genuinely as he pointed out the door towards Edward.

"He is dad. You would love him. He's smart, determined, very successful and he treats me like gold. I just moved in with him actually," I said quietly, though my father didn't look shocked.

"Yeah, he mentioned that this morning at six o'clock when he called me," said Charlie as I looked closer at him and noticed a remorseful look cross his face. "Of course, I wish you had been the one to tell me, but I haven't exactly been father of the year material, so I won't blame you."

I lay in my bed for the next five minutes absolutely shocked as my father proceeded to apologize for virtually every little mistake he had made in the past several years. It was like he created his own 'Karma List' and was on 'My Name is Earl'. "I'm most sorry about not believing you about Jacob. Billy and I got into a fight about it all a few months back and I think Billy might have even tried to smack some sense into Jacob. Apparently it had been going on for a while and we just never saw it. I'm sorry sweetie," said Charlie as he leaned over and gave me a tentative hug.

"I forgive you for trying to see the best in people, even though they are clearly womanizing assholes," I said with a smile as my father frowned at me for swearing. Edward was back in the room within ten minutes, clutching a sad looking blueberry muffin and an apple juice. He sat with my Dad and me as we talked about everything he had missed in the past little while. Charlie jumped from his seat in excitement when I told him I was going to be a published author. Charlie and I may have had our differences, but he was always very supportive of my dreams and goals.

When Charlie disappeared, it was almost five in the evening. Carlisle and Esme came in last, with some takeout food from a nearby Italian joint. Everyone had made themselves scarce when Charlie arrived, but they were back shortly after lunch time to tell me about all the events of the morning. Emmett and Rosalie were the last leave shortly before visiting hours ended. They thanked Edward and I for being so manipulative in our attempts to reunite them and Edward made them promise to call their next child Isabella, if it was a girl, which made me blush while everyone else laughed.

"Visiting hours are over. Unless you are her husband or something, you will have to leave," said the gruff nurse who had been there when I awoke the first time.

"Cindy, is it?" said Edward as he peered down at her nametag and then back at her face.

"Yes, now if you would kindly leave for the evening, it would be greatly appreciated. Ms. Swan needs her rest and we have some additional tests to run on her," said Cindy as she picked up my chart for a moment before wandering to the side of my bed and adjusting my dosage of something, I had no idea what.

"I'm not going anywhere. Dr. Carlisle Cullen should have had it approved that I was able to stay with her overnight, and I'm not adverse to calling him right now and letting him chew you out over such a small issue," said Edward forcefully as he glared at her, practically shooting daggers with his eyes.

"Throwing the family name around won't get you far Mr. Cullen," said the nurse with a frown as she turned on her heel to walk away.

"If it makes you feel any better, she will be married to me one day, does that help?" Edward called out to her as she walked away, fuming.

Edward was furious with her for trying to force him to leave and I honestly couldn't blame him. I didn't want him to leave either. Hell, every time I needed to go to the bathroom, he was there with me, holding my gown closed and helping me in. He even almost stayed in once, but I assured him I could pee all by myself, so he simply stepped outside the door and talked to me about the weather while I did my business.

The nurse finally relented and stormed out of the room in sheer frustration. "I bet she'll switch rooms with someone else," laughed Edward as I felt his hand move a few stray hairs from my face and tuck them behind my ear. "You look so beautiful. I don't think I was able to tell you that enough today."

"I don't look beautiful, I look like one of those freak bad guys from Scooby Doo. I have weird bandages all over my face, and I feel like crap," I said firmly as Edward began to stroke the side of my face lovingly. Edward didn't respond to my self depreciating humor, instead he shoved me over on the bed slightly and climbed in beside me. I immediately rested my head on his shoulder as I felt his arm wrap around mine, holding me close to him. "I'm sorry," I muttered as tears started to fall down my face again. "I never should have left the apartment alone."

"I'm just happy we found you Bella. I don't know what I would do without you," he said sweetly as I felt his lips against the top of my head. I honestly didn't know what I would do without him either.

A/N: I think my funniest review came from Ana V, who I wish I had fan fic account so I could respond to her: "SHUT THE FUCK UP! i bet it was jacob that asshole! please more im having a freaking heart attack! i need more now please!" You had me and my beta in stitches over that one! Classic! It's not Jacob. Just some random SOB drunk driver. It's not Lauren dressed like a man either!