Chapter 18

Edward's POV

My heart felt empty without Bella here with me. the teacher talked about unimportant things while i day dreamed about Bella how soft her skin is how every time i look at her she blushes, how her brown eyes seem to always know where i am.

Hello eddie boy

i sat up straighter and let a growl out causing students to look at me cautiously

Now, now wouldn't want to disturb the class now would we? why don't you go outside and we'll talk.

"Excuse me i don't feel well" i shot up from my seat and walked to my car. "What do you want Royce"

i want to live again Cullen, and your Bella can do that and your going to convince her

"Go to hell"

Been there done that, now i want to live or else

"Or else what Royce? what else could you possibly do to her"

just then i saw an ambulance pull up and two paramedics jump out

you'll see Cullen, now go and check on your girlfriend he chuckled and i would do anything to strangle him i jumped out of the car and ran inside

"Edward don't" i was pulled back from someone, I turned to see Alice

"Alice, what happened where's Bella?"

"Bella's in a state of shock or something, one minute she was fine and then the next" she shrugged something flickered in Alice's mind it was too fast for me to catch

"What was that tell me Alice"

she sighed and looked at me with sad eyes

Bella was lying on the bed, her eyes were closed and she looked paler than usual a hand reached for her but they felt coldness i saw who the hand belonged to...me. i was weeping non tears and sitting next to Bella.

i drew back from the vision and realized what i had just saw. my Bella dead.


i sat beside her at the hospital bed my father was doing everything he could be he couldn't understand why she was still asleep, it had been two days since the day Bella collapsed i remember how shaken up my brother was when he witnessed it

"Emmett, what happened?" i rushed to his side, Rose was stroking his neck he looked really shaken up

"I-I don't know, O-One minute she was fine and then..." he just shook his head and shown me instead

Bella was saying she was having trouble breathing, the next thing she was screaming and then gagging her hands went to her neck and then her stomach her lips went blue and her eyes rolled back and her eyelids closed, she fell onto the floor and she wasn't breathing.

i closed my eyes and i vowed to myself nothing like that would happen again.

How are you son? my father thought still outside the door talking to one of the doctors i notched at the corner of my eyes i saw him spare a glance and i just shook my head not really aware of anything that was happening to me right now, i don't know what i would have done if Bella had died but if she's not waking up after two days that's bad right? god how many times have i been to Medical school and yet i don't know the answer to this?

i heard the door open and Charlie enter

"Hey Edward"

"Mr. Swan" i diverted my eyes off Bella just to be polite to Charlie for a mere minute before turning my attention back to my poor Bella, these ghosts these visions were surely too much and yet she never complains when Alice mentioned the Volturi coming the night before last they didn't which we found odd because Alice's visions are very rarely wrong, especially if it's around the Volturi.

myself and Charlie didn't talk neither one of us wanting to talk because the thoughts of Charlie and myself only centered around one person, Bella.

"Mr. Swan, Edward i have some news about Bella" my father came in and clouded his thoughts from me so i knew it was bad

"What's wrong?" Charlie asked gripping hold of his daughters right hand as he looked at my father in a hopeful manner

"I'm afraid Bella has dropped into a coma" i didn't hear anything after that i just looked at Bella, i saw how she looked so peaceful her eyes closed and i willed myself to just believe she was sleeping and not trapped in a coma

"Edward? Bella has had too much strain on her brain the physical and emotional side of her has been drained being so she has become weak" i nodded still not averting my eyes away from Bella.

So do you believe now what i can do Cullen?

i snarled as the vice of Royce popped in my head again i got strange looks this time from Charlie and my father

convince her to set me free or i'll do much worse than this and to prove my point...

he trailed off but it didn't stop me from noticing what he could do as Bella moaned and frowned in her 'sleep' her breathing picked up and her eyes tightened

"Stop" i hissed too low for Charlie to hear but to cause suspicion on my fathers path

do as i say then

Bella relaxed on the bed, no longer hurting for whatever Royce had done to her. i knew i needed to alert my family of this, i knew Rosalie would take this the worse in pain and anger.

"Excuse me, i need some air" i shot out of my seat and walked passed my father and outside where my family were standing looking glum

"Edward, what's happened to her, i didn't see anything" Alice asked frantically in Jaspers arms

"It's Royce" Rosalie hissed "He's done something to her to cause her to go into a coma" my family gasped "And i can hear him in my head now when he wants to communicate with me"

"What has he done?"

"He's...i think he can get in Bella's head while she's dreaming or whatever is happening while she's in the coma, all i know for certain is if he proceeds this because Bella has had too much on her already there might be a chance she might not wake up"

my family looked at each other in thought but they all didn't want Royce back all the question was now, was what to do next?


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