Chapter two

Hospitals and Hammers

At the Cullen house, Jacob's POV

I wouldn't have been babysitting today, at all, but Esme phoned me up again, there was a wedding crisis and Carlisle was at work. It was a week after I got my tetanus injection; the doctor was trying not to laugh when I told him, after he asked, what happened to my hand. He was a young doctor so he must've not been there long; if he had been there a while he would've known Carlisle's kids. The nurse who came in overheard and gave me a sympathetic look, I noticed she had a few scars on her hand that looked like bite marks.

"You tried giving the Cullens their injections?" I asked her. She smiled but nodded,

"We tie a scarf over their mouth's now, and their hands behind their backs," she replied. I smiled at this. The doctor giving me the injection stopped laughing and looked from me, to the nurse. He swallowed loudly and while he gave me the injection his hand was shaking. He had to try three times before it finally worked, it didn't hurt, but it bothered me that it was taking so long, Billy must be wondering where I was.

I was sitting on the doorstep of the Cullen household, waiting for them to get back. Esme told me that she took them out for ice-cream to keep them quiet. It was raining slightly, but that didn't bother me. I was up half the night, I kept hearing these howls outside my window, I thought nothing of it, but it kept me awake. I had my head resting against the door, and closed my eyes. (AN: I closed my eyes, drew back the curtain, to see for certain, what I thought I knew! Far far away, far far away, someone was dream, ah ah ah! While the world was sleeping, Ah ah, any dream will doooo! Sorry, Couldn't help myself, Joseph fans will know what I'm talking about here)

Just then a car pulled up. I slowly got up as Esme got out of the car, Rosalie on her heels. Jasper was holding Nessie's hand with one hand, and had an ice-cream in the other, but was going a little too fast so Ness toppled over onto the grass. Alice jumped from the car and followed her siblings into the house. Emmett came of the car last and closed the car door behind him, ice-cream all over his face. I picked up Nessie from the grass just as Esme ran out from the house.

"Edward and Bella are at Charlie's house, he'll drop them off later but I should be back by then," She said quickly. There was a loud crash from the house, Esme, quite unconcerned, thanked me, got into her car and drove off as fast as she could without being arrested for speeding. I went into the house and set Nessie down at the door, she toddled off, grabbing her favourite cuddly wolf toy and waddling into the kitchen.

I went to the garage, cause I heard a noise coming from there and saw Emmett with a hammer, hammering his father's car. At first I thought this was funny, Emmett was going to be in so much trouble when Carlisle found out, but then I realised so would I, they would think I let him smash the car in, which I was, but not the point. I ran in and tried grabbing the hammer from him; he either ignored me, or didn't know I was there but the next thing I knew I was lying on the floor, with a killer head-ache. I must've blacked out, I couldn't see, or move, but I could hear. Emmett still didn't see me, either than or he was ignoring me. He continued to smash the car in, that much I knew; I could hear the sounds to smashing glass plus feel it as the glass hit my arm. I could feel wet, sticky stuff on my forehead, dripping down my face, I wanted to wipe it away, whatever it was, but I still couldn't move. I was cold, really cold. It was only when I tasted the blood in my mouth that I realised Emmett must've hit my head, I couldn't feel the pain, I must've been in shock. I felt a sharp pain across my arm as another piece of glass hit me. I kept wondering how long it would take Emmett to see me, lying there probably covered in blood. I didn't have to wait long.

I heard the footsteps first, then the scream.

"EMMETT!" screamed Rose, "YOU KILLED JAKE!" I heard her running over and Emmett dropping the hammer. I felt Rose check for a pulse, which I'm 80% sure was there. If I had died I don't think I would've heard anything, or felt the wet sticky stuff on my face, head and arm. Rose sighed a breath in relief.

"He's alive, Em get the phone," she said. I couldn't hear Emmett moving, did he really hate me that much? Not that I cared of course, though I was surprised when Rose wounded upset that I had died. I thought she enjoyed watching me suffer.

I heard more footsteps, a couple of gasps and another scream.

"Jazz, get Al out of here and grab the phone!" Rose said, rather calmly. Pride swelled in my chest, I was proud of her, she was keeping calm in a situation she's never encountered before. Jazz must've come back with the phone, I didn't hear him come in but I heard Rose punching in the numbers in.

"Hello? Yeah I need an ambulance," there was a pause, " Yeah my friend's unconscious and covered in blood," I was right there at least, she gave the address and directions in case they got lost.

"Jake?" I felt a cold hand on the arm that didn't burn slightly, "Jake, they'll be here soon, kay? Hang in there, it'll be okay," she told me, and I believed her. It took the paramedics only five minutes to get here, for those whole five minutes Rose told me all about her school. About how she liked his boy in her class, his name was Christopher, she told me all about him, and I listened. While I listened I learned, turns out Rose wasn't as bad as she seemed. She really was a good kid.

When the paramedics arrived Jazz got the door and led them to the garage. Then Jazz left. I wasn't really paying attention anymore, not properly.

"I'm Mike and this is Jessica, we're just going to check…" he paused.

"Jacob, his name's Jacob," said Rose.

"Okay, we're just going to check Jacob over okay, make sure everything's okay," a male voice said. A few seconds later I felt a hand making sure my breathing was alright ECT…

"Jacob? Can you hear us?" Mike said. I sure can, but I can't reply.

"Do you know what happened?" the girl asked kindly while they continued to check me over.

"Emmett? What happened" asked Rose. Emmett was still here? He was real quiet, that's not like him. Emmett just whimpered,

"It was my fault," he whispered hysterically, "I was playing with the hammer, and I didn't see Jake, I didn't mean to, I really didn't mean to, he'll be okay right? I didn't kill him? I don't wanna go to jail, I really didn't mean to. I promise I'll never play with the hammer again, just don't report me to the police for attempted murder, I really didn't mean to!" Poor kid, he sounded scared. He was talking so fast I couldn't hear half of what he said.

"Hey, it'll be okay kid, Jake will be just fine. And we won't report you to the police, no worries, just an accident," said Mike in a calm voice. Emmett sighed a breath of relief. I was then lifted up onto one of those wheelie beds, I think so anyway, cause I felt like I was moving.

"We're just taking him into hospital, okay? That way we can take care of him properly," the woman said.

"Okay, but I'm coming," said Rose.

"Mike, maybe we'd better bring all the kids, we can't leave them here unattended," Jessica whispered to Mike.

"Okay, get the kid into the ambulance," he replied and I heard the gravel crunching under his feet as he walked back towards the house, getting the rest of the Cullens. Once I was in the ambulance, and all of the Cullens were as well we drove off. Rose, Jazz, Em and Nessie were in the back, with me and Jessica, who was there just to make sure I didn't die on the journey. Alice was in the front with Mike, who was telling her what all the buttons did.

"Jake will wake up right?" asked a quiet voice who I recognized as Emmett.

"Yeah, course he will, he'll be just grand," replied Jessica, putting an IV into my arm and checking the bandages they put on my arm and head.

Once we got to the hospital I heard Carlisle voice,

"What happened?" he asked, sounding concerned. The paramedics repeated the confused story that Emmett gave them and wheeled me into the building. Carlisle took his kids into the waiting room and I was left alone in the room they left me in. Then I must've dozed off for a bit.

After a few hours I could finally open my eyes, a Doctor came in and explained in medical terms what was wrong with me, or at least that's what I think he was talking about. I sat up.

"Sorry Doctor, I'm no genius, could do dumb it down?" I asked. He smiled,

"You have fourteen stitches in your arm, and three stitches in your head, you'll need to come back in a few weeks to get them taken out once the wounds have healed," he explained. (AN: Sorry if it's not correct, I've never been hit by a hammer before so I wouldn't know, I only know that it hurts) I looked at my arm and saw the stitches, and felt the ones on my head. I was starting to feel the cuts I obtained from Emmett.

"There are a few kids who would like to see you, shall I send them in?" the doctor asked. I nodded, probably the Cullens.

I was right; the little herd of Cullens shuffled in. Ness had something in her hand. She waddled over to the bed and handed it to me. I lifted her up and set her on my knee. It was a get well soon card. I looked at them in surprise.

"We just wanted to say sorry," said Jasper, Rose nudged Emmett.

"I'm Sorry Jake, I didn't mean to hit you with the hammer, or daddy's car," he said nervously. I looked at their little scared faces, and laughed.

"What's so funny?" asked Jasper.

"I'm laughing because you all think I'm mad at you," I chuckled.

"You're not?" asked Alice, climbing up on the hospital bed and sitting on my feet.

"Why would I be? It was an accident, and besides, I'll have a scar now, that's always a plus," I said showing them the stitches on my forearm.

"Yucky!" protested Nessie, pushing my arm away. We all laughed, that's another word to be added to Nessie's vocab.

I was discharged half-an-hour later; Carlisle wanted to go over a few things with me, one for example, what the hell happened? In different wording of course, Carlisle doesn't swear. Charlie brought Billy to the hospital, along with Edward and Bella, hearing what happened. Seriously? Does everybody in this town know now? Can't anything in forks stay a secret?

I sent Billy home and told Carlisle I could take the Cullens back home. Carlisle thanked me and I got them all into the car. Charlie had taken Edward and Bella with him and told Carlisle he'd leave Edward back home once he had taken Billy home. I left the kids off at their house, Esme was already home, probably worried sick coming home to a destroyed house and missing children, but apparently she found out too, so it all turned out okay.

"Rose," I said as she was just getting out of the car, the others had already gone in. She turned,

"You're not a bad kid," I told her. She smiled for about half-a-second then said,

"You heard all that?"

"Yeah," I replied.

"Tell anyone and you're dead meat," she said, her eyebrows pulled down with anger and stomped into the house. I sighed; glad things were back to normal. I've had enough drama for one day, now I'm going to go home and lift that hammer off the garage floor and maybe put it on the very bottom shelf in a box and lock it up, don't want any more accidents.

I know it's still a little boring, and it's changed a little from the last version, but I hope you liked it, review and let me know what you think of it. I'm still open to ideas, how long do you want this to be? I've got maybe a few idea's for a sequel? Again, I am sorry that I haven't written anything in ages, hopefully this all might help to make up for it.

As for the idea that I had in the last chapter there, no-one's commented on it, so I'm taking that as a no, unless I get some feedback on the idea I'm forgetting I even had the idea in the first place.