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BPOV

I started screaming out Edward's name, I was frantic. If he died it would be my entire fault.

I couldn't stand up on my own, so I did an army crawl over to where they laid. Edward was lying underneath Charlie. I continued to scream his name.

When I got closer, I heard several grunts and groans coming from the pile, and I stopped immediately.

What if it was Edward that got shot? That means I'm still left here with Charlie, and I have Edward's death on my hands.

But, what if Charlie got shot? Then I'm free, I wouldn't have to deal with the abuse anymore. I wouldn't have to live in fear of him.

I saw movement coming from the pile and heard more grunts.

Charlie rolled off of Edward, who quickly rose to his feet. A few swears came out of Edward's mouth, but then he looked over at Charlie. His eyes went wide, and then he stared at me.

My vision blurred behind the tears that started coming down my face. He immediately ran towards me and grabbed me.

"Shhh Bella, I here for you" He said as he rocked me. I pulled myself as close to him as possible and breathed in his scent. I felt safe here, and always would.

"I-I th-thought I l-l-lost you." I cried into his shoulder.

He pulled my face up to look at him and said, "That could never happen." And brought his face down to mine.

His lips on mine was the best feeling ever. It was as if they were made for each other. He tightened his grip on my waist as I threaded my fingers through his hair. I could, and never would get enough of him.

I almost forgot Charlie was here, that is, until he started screaming.

I hesitantly pulled away from Edward and looked at the man who had caused me so much pain. Even though he had done all those horrible things to me, I just couldn't let him die. As much as I wanted him to, I couldn't. I crawled out of Edward's lap and made my way over to him.

Once Edward noticed where I was going, he immediately pulled me back. "Bella, what are you doing?"

"We just can't leave him like that. As much as I hate him, I can't let him die like this. He will get what he deserves soon, but now we have to help him." I said determined to help him, no matter what Edward said.

He looked like he wanted to disagree, but probably changed his mind once he saw the look on my face, and nodded. "Stay here, please. I don't want you to going anywhere near him."

I agreed and he went over to Charlie. He ran over to where he left him and looked over him. He said some things to Charlie and pulled his arms away from his stomach, most likely to allow himself to see what's wrong. He stared at it for a while before taking off his shirt and started putting pressure on it.

"Bella, I understand what your saying, and we need to help him. He was shot in his gut and is bleeding a lot. He's too heavy for me to carry all the way back by myself. I left my phone at the house, so I can't call anyone. One of us needs to stay with him, and the other needs to get back to my house.

"Now I refuse to leave you alone with him so I'm going to point you into the direction of my house, and I want you to go as fast as you can and get my father, anybody. Tell them where we are, and I want you to stay there. Can you do that?" He stared back at me. He seemed to be pleading with me to listen to him.

I nodded my head and tried to get on my feet. He let go of Charlie and came over to me. He carefully grabbed onto my arms and pulled me up as gently as he could. Once I was standing he ran off for a second and returned with one of the crutches I abandoned in my haste to get away.

He gave me a quick kiss before pointing me in the right direction and telling me to hurry.

I began hobbling as fast as I could, which wasn't very fast.

I know Edward is safe right now. There is not much Charlie could do to him right now.

Charlie.

I don't understand why I care so much about him right now. Maybe it's because, no matter what he does to me, he is always the father I loved when I was little. I know that I don't want to be with him anymore, but I guess I just don't want him to die either. Really, he is the only family I have left. He killed my mother, and my grandparents were all dead before I was born. I just don't want to be all alone.

But I'm not alone. I will always have Edward, Alice, Emmett, Jasper, Rosalie, Esme, and Carlisle, and they would forever be there for me.

I was getting tired now. I have been doing so much lately and I think its starting to catch up to me. But I needed to get to Edward's house so I can get some help. The sun had started to set a while ago, and I was quickly running out of light.

I started having a fight with my consciousness, and I had to win.

I'm not sure how long I was running, but I began to see a clearing ahead of me. I saw the back of the Cullen's white house and a huge smile broke across my face.

Alice was lying out in the backyard with Jasper, and they looked up when they heard me approach. Their eyes went wide when they looked at me. I can only imagine what I might look like after running through the woods all day.

Jasper jumped up and caught me before I fell. Alice was right by his side. "Bella, what happened? What's going on?"

"Edward…help…" I pointed in the direction I came from before everything went black.

EPOV

I watched her as she ran off. When I could no longer see her, I stared down at the horrible excuse of a man that was laid in front of me.

To think that he could harm someone as innocent as Bella made me sick.

And then to think that I was helping to keep him alive killed me inside.

I have the perfect opportunity to beat the crap out of him for all the pain he cause Bella, but I'm not. All because she asked me not to.

I can understand, to an extent, for why she wants to help him. Her heart is too kind to leave any body without help. No matter what they've done to her.

Charlie started groaning and moving, underneath me. "You need to stay still." I growled out to him.

"So you're the boy my daughter's been whorin' herself out to," he took a second to look at me before finishing, "Is she as good as she looks to be?"

It took all I had in me to not to pick up his gun and point it at his head. Who talks about their daughter like that? I just pushed all my weight onto him. He started coughing up blood, but stopped shortly after.

"She's just a little bitch, and is never going to change. You'll realize that sooner or later." He continued to tell me these lies.

I closed my eyes and tried very hard not to just get up and walk home. This bastard deserved to die. But I have to keep my word to Bella to help him. I was breathing heavily, having an internal battle with myself.

I didn't say a word to him, I just continued to try to stop his wound from bleeding.

I began to lose track of time, but I knew that the sun would be gone soon.

I hope Bella made it to my house safe. I can't believe how stupid I was for letting her go off on her own. She is still hurt and shouldn't be running all over the woods. I still can't believe that I kissed her earlier.

The way her warm lips felt on mine could only be described as heaven. Her scent had enveloped me completely and all that was there was Bella.

As I thought of her I began to relax. I looked down at the Bastard and noticed he was beginning to lose consciousness.

After a few more moments, I began to hear rustling around me. I looked up and saw Carlisle, Jasper, and Emmett all running toward me.

Carlisle got to me first and immediately started asking questions. "Edward what the heck happened over here?"

He kneeled down on the other side of Charlie and started to look at him. I moved my shirt so he could see what happened. "Carlisle he was hurting her. I went to save her and then …this happened."

He looked down at it, then raised his head at me and he had a look of pure horror on his face.

"Edward, we called 911 and they are on their way. You stay here with me. Jasper hand me my bag." Carlisle informed me, then grabbed the bag that Jasper handed him.

I stood up and started pacing the field we were in. Emmett walked up to me and gave me a pat on the back, silently telling me that he approved of what he thought I did.

It was quiet for a few minutes until we heard the paramedics and cops arriving. Carlisle told the paramedics what was wrong with Charlie, and I walked up to the officers to tell them what happened.

"I was running through the woods to get to Bella's house to save her because I realized that her dad might have been abusing her. I was on my way and I heard her scream, so I ran towards her. When I got here, I saw Charlie pointing a gun at Bella.

"So I jumped. I was trying to get the gun away from him. I'm not quite sure what happened, but I think he pulled the trigger trying to shoot me, but I had turned the gun around trying to have him drop it." I kept my eyes locked directly with theirs as I told them this, so they wouldn't think I was lying.

"Those are some pretty tough accusations you are throwing. Are you sure?" One of them asked, his face showed a look of disbelief. He probably doesn't think that the chief would be able to do that.

"I'm positive."

"Where did Bella go then? Why isn't she here with you, since you did say that the Chief was about to hurt her, than she should be here." The other cop asked me, I assume trying to make it seem that I was at the wrong.

"I had her run back to my house because I left my cell phone in my rush to get out. She went to get my dad, and I had her stay there, since she is still seriously hurt." I said with confidence.

"Well, we need to get a statement from her to prove your story true." Said the first cop.

"Sorry to tell you officers, but Bella isn't in any condition to talk right now." Carlisle told them.

What?! What happened?

I turned to my dad, "What do you mean by 'isn't in any condition to talk,' what happened to her.?" I asked, getting more anxious as I waited for him to tell me.

"Edward, she passed out in my arms as soon as she got out of the woods." Jasper told me.

As soon as he said that I took off like a rocket for my house. I needed to get back to her.

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