As Long As You're With Me Chapter 24: It's Too Late, a twilight fanfic

I do not own twilight! All belongs to Stephanie Meyer.

Here's Chapter 24! I'm sure most of you have been dying to know what's gonna happen next since I left you all hangin on the last chapter! So glad everyone liked it cause the drama continues!

~Dazzler 916~

Chapter 24

It's Too Late

(Seth's P.O.V.)

I've messed up.

I've messed up big time and I can't believe I let this get way too out of hand. Ella and I have never fought this much. She's my imprint, and I have been doing the best I can to help her but i'm doing it all wrong.

Let's face it, I have been doing it all wrong.

All we've done for the past few days is yell at each other constantly. Never have I seen her cry so much. Never have I made her this upset.

I'll admit I am a nervous wreck right now...but Ella's in a more of an unhealthy state than I am.

What's even worse is now she runs off to someone else for comfort and it's someone that I absolutely can't stand.

That Randal kid or whatever his name is.

Here's the worse part...

He's been a lot more better to her than I have, and I'm her boyfriend for crying out loud. I said a lot of things I shouldn't have said to Ella in the first place and I wish I could take it all back.

She needs me now more than ever.

It was midnight when I got home. Leah was sitting on the couch watching tv.

"Where have you been?" She asked me.

"Out, getting some air." I mumbled under my breath.

"Where's Charlie?" I asked her.

"Got called in and had to meet up to help investigate a hit and run that happened a little while ago. He's gonna be coming home late."

"Oh...well I'm gonna go to bed. I've had a rough day. Night sis," I said before walking into my room.

Sleep is what I need right now. Sleep is what Ella and I need, though I'm pretty sure she's just now getting home since I saw her and that jack ass driving to La Push on the main road.

Just as I started go to sleep, everything outside of my room started to get very loud.

My bedroom door swung open and someone turned on the light.

"Seth get up!" My mom said.

"Mom i'm trying to sleep. Turn off the lights." I shielded my eyes.

"Charlie we'll be there soon...yea Leah said her parents are already there. Alright, bye...Seth Cleatwater get up now!" My mom shouted in a frantic rage.

"Can it wait till the morning?" I asked her.

"It's Ella."

"What about her?" I jumped out of bed.

"There's been an accident. A really bad accident." She told me.

"You need to get up there. Her parents are at the hospital." Leah came into my room.

"What happened? Is she okay? Is the baby—"

"I don't know what's going on, but we better hurry. Leah we'll take your car." I heard my mom say.

Ever since I got home I had this feeling that something wasn't right, now I know why.

I felt like the car ride to the hospital was the longest I have ever been in a car even though it only took us 20 minutes to get there. Leah pulled up to the front of the emergency room just so I could just run inside.

I found Ella's parents and her little sister sitting in the waiting room and her father stood up when he saw me.

"Where is she? What's goin—"

"We don't know yet. Doc said she's pretty beat up and they're doing everything they can." Mr. Gardner told me.

"What happened?" I asked him.

"It was hit and run. Apparently she was in the car with a friend whose more beat up than she is and Chief Swann was on his way home when he found the car standing up on it's side...and he found Ella and Randy in the car unconsious—" Mrs. Gardner's voice got cut off by someone who walked in ans started screaming,

"Where is he? Where's my son?" The woman was out of breath.

"Lisa," Mrs. Gardner got up and approached the woman. They hugged, and now both of them were crying.

"Are they okay?" She asked Ella's mom.

"I don't know, but it's really bad." Mrs. Gardner told her.

Pretty soon several other people began to pack into the waiting room and the only thing we could do was wait. Wait for the good news...and wait for the bad news.

All of us had to wait for 3 hours. It wasn't until 3:30am that Carlisle had walked out and all of us stood up.

"Will the parents of Ella and Randy come with us please." He said to everyone.

Ella's parents and her little sister followed Carlisle along with some of Randy's family.

If they crashed...it was probably because of me.

Within a few minutes of having them out of the room, someone screamed from down the hallway and it made me start to shake.

If something really bad happebed to her then I don't know how I'm even going to be able to forgive myself. It was a woman screaming and the sound came from right down the hall

I couldn't take it anymore, so I got up and walked into the hallway where I found Randy's mother on her knees crying in the arms of Ella's mom.

I guess this means that Ella's doing a lot better than Randy, but at the same time I can imagine how this woman must be feeling.

Whatever it is...it's really really bad.

"I'm so sorry Lisa," Lori told her.

I looked over at Mr. Gardner and I was just about to ask him what happened until Carlisle spoke up and said something.

"Seth, can we talk for minute?" Carlisle said.

"Uh, yea." I nodded. We walked all the way down to end of the hallway so no one could hear what we were talking about.

"I don't care how bad it is. Tell me everything." I said.

"Seth...I don't think you're gonna be happy about thi—"

"She's gonna be okay right?" I asked him.

Carlisle looked a little hesitant to answer my question.

"Right?"

The longer it took for him to answer, the more anxious I was to hear him say something. Intstead of saying anything, Carlise just walked away.

"Follow me."

He wanted me to follow him. Right when we walked pass Ella's parents, her mom reached out for me to hug her.

"Oh, Seth." She cried. "We just saw her...she's not doing too well."

"You can go and see her now, Doc will take you to her." Mr. Gardner put his hand on my shoulder.

Carlisle and I walked all the way down to the other end of the hall towards the "intensive care" unit. This entire part of the hallway all had windows and the blinds were closed.

We finally stopped at a door.

Room 324

"She's in there isn't she." I mumbled.

"Yea," He said.

"So let me at it...how bad?" I asked him.

"She's bruised all over, several minor cuts but we managed to stitch those up before she bled out...her right arm is fractured in sevearl different places...but that's not the worse part." He explained.

"What about the baby?"

Carlisle shook his head immeadiately. "It didn't make it,"

As soon as I heard him say that, my entire body sunk to the ground. I wiped my hands over my face. The baby is gone, and I feel like this is all my fault. If I didn't say any of that to her she would have never gotten into that car and drove off with Randy.

I feel like the worst person on earth right now.

This wasn't suppost to happen.

We were suppost to tell her parents about this. We were gonna keep this baby...

It took me a moment to calm down before I started to ask him more questions. "Does she know? Has anyone told her yet—"

"No actually she doesn't know yet," He said it pretty straight forward and I could tell he was hiding something.

"What aren't you telling me?" I asked him.

Carlisle looked at his clip board and then back at me. "Right now her body is completely unresponsive."

"What's that suppost to mean? It's late, I am so tired and this really isn't being processed in my head—but I know it's bad." I turned around so my back faced him.

"Well it will be bad if she doesn't wake up anytime soon...

I turned back around in an instant. "What do you mean—if she doesn't wake up!" The thought of that makes me sick to my stomach.

My Imprint...the love of my life...dead.

"Ella's in a coma."

...

A coma.

A mother effin' coma?

That's my girl.

My Ella, in a coma?

That's bullshit. I-It has to be.

"You're lying." I growled through my teeth.

"She's completely unresponsive. Her heart rates almost below 75 and if it goes any lower..."

"She'll be gone." I nodded.

"I'm afraid so, but we're doing everything we can." Carlisle reassured me.

"What about him? I mean Randy—"

"He's dead." Carlisle said.

"Oh," My shoulders sank.

"Yea he um...he went into cardiac arrest."

"Do you think she's headed that way?" I don't even like the thought of that. I mean I don't like this—Ella in a coma, or just seeing her dead. I don't know what i'm gonna do without her.

Especially if she's gone.

"Can I go in?" I asked. Carlisle gave me a quick nod before walking away, leaving me standing in front of the door.

I was scared...scared to open the door...scared to see how bad she really is. My hand shook as it got a hold of the door handle. My eyes were closed when I opened it.

Not really sure what to expect.

A few seconds after I opened the door...I finally opened my eyes.

There she was, her visibly lifeless body was completely still. A machine was helping her breath, she had bruses and cuts all over and the very very weak sound of heart beat was the only thing that acted like a somewhat friendly remind her that she was still alive...barely.

Slowly, I made my way over to her bedside and got down on my knees.

She looks so tired and I can't help but blame myself. I grabbed her hand and rubbed it gentley with the tips of my fingers hoping she would warm up a little bit. She's so cold and fragile.

"I'm so sorry," I trembled. "I am so sorry baby...but you need to wake up."

Now I can do is cry, and I did. It hurts to see her suffering.

"Please wake up...for me...Ella please...wake up."

(Chloe's P.O.V.)

It was 9 am when my parents came downstairs to wake my daughter and I up from sleeping on the couch. As soon as my parents had mentioned something about a really bad car accident I asked them what it had to do with me cause the way it all came out was a bit confusing.

As soon as they said Ella was in the hospital...I went into this frantic state of shock and was moving as fast I could to get dressed and get out of my parents house and to the hospital.

Gabe called me just as I got Nora into her car seat. I knew he was calling me to share the news.

"I just found out. I'm on my way to the hospital right now." I told him.

"Lucy and I are on our way too, so we'll see you in a little bit. You alright?"

"My best friend is in the hospital and I don't really know what's going on, so that would be a no." I said.

"I'm sorry that was a stupid question—" Gabe began to mumble before I cut him short,

"Not it's fine. Don't worry about it. I'll see you soon okay? I have to a make a few phone calls."

"Alright, bye." He said.

I hung up the phone and then dialed Belinda's number.

"Hey chica what's up—"

"Ella's in the hospital, I think Randy is too." I told her.

"What happened?"

"My mom said they got into a very bad car accident." I explained.

"I'm leaving right now—"

"Do me a favor and call Marina and Ainsley and the boys. Tell them it's urgent and someone needs to call Madame and tell her what happened." I panted.

"I'm watching it right now and it's all over the news. I'll be there soon Chloe."

Honestly I don't know what to prepare for but if it's all over the news and my parents are freaking out then it must be really bad.

I made it to the hospital shortly after I got off the phone with Belinda. Elenore was fast asleep when I walked inside with her in my arms.

"Chloe!" Ella's mom saw me walk in.

"Megan hold her for me?" I put Nora in Meg's lap and she didn't even seem to notice I put her down.

My god-parents gave me a big hug and I could tell just by the look on their faces that this isn't good.

This isn't good at all.

"Madrina is she okay?" I asked her.

Ella's mom looked like she was trying her hardest not to cry, "It's really bad." she shook her head.

"But she's gonna get better." I assured her.

Ella's mom shook her head.

"Madrina she's gonna get better right?"

"Sweetie...Ella's in a coma." She told me.

"A coma? Wait—she's in a coma?"

"When they found her, she wouldn't respond to any treatment, her heart rate is really low—but they're doing everything they can...so don't you worry sweetheart,"

She wiped the tears from my eyes and I couldn't help but cry even more.

"What about Randy?" I asked her.

Instead of answering my question she just gave me a pat on the back. "You know what? You should go keep Seth some company. He's in her room, right down the hall. Room 324."

I guess I'm not gonna find out about him till later.

The door was wide open and the room was very dim. I found Seth sitting in a chair right next to her bed. Seeing him in here wasn't a big suprise to me, he loves her. I stood in the door way and watched as Seth held Ella's hand and kissed it several times, brought her hand back down and rubbed it gently in his hands. Seth was torn, it's written all over his face. I know deep down it's torturing for him to see her like this. He layed his head down on the bed.

"I'm so sorry." I heard him say.

"Seth," I put my hand on his shoulder. He moved his head just enough so he could see me from the corner of his eye, then he eventually got up from his chair.

"Chloe," He burst into tears.

"I know." I sniffed. "I know. I'm scared too." I whispered in his ear.

"This wasn't suppost to happen. It's all my fault—"

"No it's not." I cut him off not allowing him to finish his sentence. "Don't you dare blame yourself for this. Who ever hit them and drove off should go to hell." I told him.

"She's going away Chloe. We're losing her." Seth cried.

"She'll get better. I know she will." I assured him even though I honestly don't know about that yet.

"I'm trying to convince myself that it's acutally gonna happen but I can't—"

"What about the baby?" I asked.

Seth closed his eyes and shook his head. "She lost the baby too," he stammered.

Both of us sat across from each other on opposite sides of Ella's bed side. We were both crying. This girl means so much to me and it pains me to see her like this—so still and fragile.

This is my best friend and my sister...and if she leaves, then I don't know what the hell I'm gonna do without her.

Nothing would be the same. Our loves wouldn't be the same.

I want my best friend back.

(Leah's P.O.V.)

I don't like this.

I don't like seeing my brother like this.

I haven't seen him like this since Dad died, but I can imagine that this might be even worse for him. My baby brother is heart broken.

He won't leave her side. He's afraid to leave her.

The waiting room is chaos right now and the doctor hasn't announced the bad news about the person who was with her to everyone else just yet.

Ella's pretty much the little sister that I hoped and prayed for when I found my mom was gonna have another baby, then she brought Seth home and I lucked out : P. In a way I guess Ella was the perfect replacement lol. But now I'm just as upset as everyone else.

She's helped me out so much and yet , the one time I wish I could do something to help her, I can't...and I really wish there was something I could do to make her better, but I can't.

(Chloe's P.O.V.)

After being in that room for almost an hour and a half, I went into the bathroom to try and clean up my face. I wasn't wearing any make up and all of this crying made my face looked washed out. It took me a good 15 minutes to calm myself down before I went back out in the waiting room to go check on my daughter. Nora was no where in sight once I entered the room

"Your parents took her to the food court. They'll be back soon." Meg told me.

"Okay," I nodded.

"Chloe,"

I turned around to see Gabe standing right behind me, waiting for me to jump into to arms...and that is exactly what I did.

Gabe held me and I held onto him very tightly. He just let me cry. He held me in his arms and let me cry.

"Did you and Lucy see her?" I asked him.

"Yea we did, Lucy's still in there—" Gabe was cut short when a nurse had walked into the waiting room.

"If we could have the close friends of Brandon Thomas Matthews III come with us for moment." The nurse said,

"I should go, wait for me out here." I said.

"Chloe!" Someone yelled my name just as I was about to follow the nurse.

Ainsley, Marina, Caroline, Mason, Belinda, Colby and several other people in our dance class had just showed up and ran towards me.

"The nurse wants all of us to go with her," I told them.

"What's going on?" Colby asked me.

"Um, Ella's not doing to good and I know nothing about Randy, but the nurse wants to talk us so I'm sure we'll find out whats going on. Come on," I said.

All of us piled into a small room and sat down right next each other.
A doctor walked in...followed by a pastor.

Usually when a pastor is brought into a hospital, they come to help people as grieving counselor.

Now I was scared.

Suddenly all of us were exchanging looks of worry.

We held each other's hands and squeezed them for dear life, praying that everything was okay with Randy.

"As you all know...two people that I you all are very close to were in a terrible accident." The docotor announced.

Everyone nodded.

"Should I start with Ella?" He looked around the room.

Everyone nodded again.

"As of right now she's completely unresponsive and is in coma. We're doing everything we can to help but for now we won't know if she's making any progress until she wakes up."

I watched as everyone had closed their eyes and took a moment to themselves.

"Now what about Randy?" Mason asked the doctor.

The doctor looked over at the pastor who gave him an encouraging nod to continue.

"I'm so sorry...but at 1:47am earlier this morning, he went into cardiac arrest. We did everything we could to try and save him...but he just stopped breathing...and couldn't be revived."

All of us gasped for air after hearing the unbearable news about our friend.

"I'm terribly sorry to say this...but Randy is dead."

(Gabe's P.O.V.)

It's been an hour.

Chloe hasn't come back yet...but something tells me that whatever the nurse had to tell Chloe and all of those other people wasn't good.

It's almost as if I can feel exactly what she's feeling right now.

Misery

Sadness

My sister and her friends finally came back into the waiting room, all of them looked like they had just finished crying up a storm.

"Gabe!" My twin made her way towards me so I could hug her.

"I know sis...I know. She's gonna be okay." I assured her. "Ella's gonna be okay,"

"I talked to Brady, he said he's on his way right now. He'll be here soon." I said hoping that having her boyfriend here would cheer her up a little bit.

"Thanks for calling him for me." She sniffled.

"Your welcome,"

They all sat down next to me.

All of us caught sight of Natalia when she walked in and I quickly looked away when she saw me.

"I saw it all over the news and I tried calling you—" She began to say.

"We know." Macy said coldly.

"Well how come you didn't call me?" Natalia asked them.

"We did." Lucy told her.

"No you didn't."

Macy and Lucy ignored her this time.

"Okay look I'm sorry about yesterday with Chloe—" This time I was the one was gonna cut her off.

"Natalia can I talk to you outside for a moment?" I asked her.

"Can it wait—"

"No it's important." I growled.

Natalia pursed her lips together and crossed her arms.

"Fine," She started dragging her feet out the door and I walked right behind her.

Lucy and Macy weren't the only ones who told me that Natalia had been giving Chloe a hard time and it's gotten even worse since Chloe became my girlfriend.

"So what is it? What do you wanna talk about?" She rolled her eyes

"It's about Chloe—"

"Okay I'm leaving." Natalia started to walk back inside and I got a hold of her and pulled back.

"No you're not." I told her.

"If you don't let got I'll hit you in the face," She threatened.

"Last time you tried hitting me you ended up hurting yourself..." I reminded her.

Gotta love the advantages of being a werewolf. "Don't give me that look!" She spat.

"Be nice to Chloe." I said sternly.

"Why should I? Give me one could reason and don't just say I should be nice to her just because she's your girlfriend...cause that's not a good enough reason."

Well there goes that one.
Maybe the truth will set things straight.

"I love her." I said.

"I didn't ask you if you loved her—gee thanks for rubbing that in my face." She yelled.

"Keep your voice down. We're in a hospital—" I tried to tell her,

"Gabriel don't tell me to keep my fucking voice down—"

"You see? This is why I broke up with you..." I snapped.

At first I said it just to get her shut up, but to be honest i've been wanting to get that out for a while. When we were dating she was just like this. Never really knew how to watch what she said and how she acted around my parents, she would boss me around, push me, hit me...back in high school a rumour even went around towards the end of senior year that she was cheating on me—which was another reason why we broke up.

I was never really able to trust her.

"I was so sick and tired of the way you would always treat me around everyone—and you didn't start acting this way until senior year. You changed. Another I didn't like was how you lied to me...several times—but that's not the point..." I began to say.

"Well go on, I'm listening..."

"Now I know for a fact that Chloe has done nothing but be nice to you and you've been treating her like crap. It hurts her and it hurts me. Chloe's been through a lot as it is and you don't even know the half of it...so for you to come along and to disrespect her like that is completely unacceptable. And if this is some way to get back at me because I broke up with you...then you probably have to be the most selsfish and most obnoxious person I have ever met."

I didn't mean to make her cry, but there wasn't any other way I could really put it.

I've been holding this in for a while and I never got the chance to really tell her how I felt about that.

"Well you know what they say, you'll never forget your first...remember...we were each other first?" She said.

"Natalia—"

"Don't act like you don't," Natalia put her arms around me.

"Natalia knock it off." I told her.

"I know you still have feelings for me—"

"Nat please," I shook my head.

"You're even calling me by my nick name. See? You don't have to play games. Nobody's watching us."

I know what she's trying to do, and I wasn't buying it. "Don't make me do this." I turned away

"So this may not be the best way to start the day—especially with our friend being in car accident and everything but...I know what can make you feel better. I always knew how to make you feel better.

She wouldn't stop.

"That's it." I pried her hands off of me.

"No wait!"

Now this time Natalia was trying to stop me.

"You've got one minute, and then I'm leaving." I growled.

"Okay fine I'm sorry!"

"Sorry for what?" I asked.

"For being a total bitch—and for being a bitch to your girlfriend. I promise I-I'll even go an apologize to Chloe right now if that's what you want. I'm just—well things just don't feel right to me anymore ever since we broke up and I miss that. I miss being with you and we've had a lot of good memories just being together and when I noticed that you started having an interest in Chloe and I started freaking out cause we just had sex after we left prom and lost our virginity to each other before she even came into this place and then I saw the way you looked at her and it hit me like a ton bricks...and that's when I realized that I was losing you. And if it's not obvious...I already have."

Now she was really crying. It's nice to see her come clean about this, I just wish she wasn't crying, then again she's a girl but I didn't think I meant this much to her to make her cry.

"Natalia—"

"No I'm not done and that's not the worst part...I still love you." She murmured.

Natalia started leaning in so she could kiss me and took a huge step back knowing that if this continued, then both of us are gonna be in trouble and I could never do that to Chloe.

I love her too much.

"So that's it?" She said as started to move away.

"I'm sorry Nat, but I can't—" before I could even finish that sentence she slapped across the face with her hand which is what I wasn't expecting...then again it's Natalia but still.

"Yes. Yes you can so cut the crap—"

"Gabe!" A very familiar and childish voice had said my name and I looked down to see Nora reaching her ou ther arms for me to pick her up.

"Hey, what are you doing out here?" I said picking her up.

"Oh Lord," Natalia mumbled under her breath.

"Where's Mama?" Nora asked me.

"Let's go find her," I began to walk back inside.

"Um hello? I'm still here!" Natalia yelled.

"Right," I turned around so I could face her. "Leave me and my girlfriend and her daughter alone, and there won't be any problems in the future—but if you choose to do otherwise...then stay away from us." I snarled.

"And for the record...I don't except your apology, and I'm not the only person you owe an apology too. So better open your eyes and look around because you have hurt a lot of people." As far as I'm concerned, that's the last thing I will ever say her.

I'm done.

Chloe and Nora are all that matter to me.

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