Bella heard a pained cry from the forrest where Edward was chopping wood.
"Edward!" Bella exclaimed, running out of the house. She tripped over a few times, her natural clumsy trait always getting in her way. When she finally arrived, (after falling over several times and getting covered in snow) Edward was kneeling on the icy ground , equally covered in snow, a pained look on his face.
"Edward." Bella cried "Edward!" he didn't respond, didn't even acknowledge her presence "Edward whats wrong?" She said as he continued to stare blankly ahead. After calling his name a few times and even resorting to lightly shaking him. Bella resigned, No matter what she did Edward wasn't snapping out of it. She wasn't strong enough to bring Edward into the house so she just sat there with him in the snow. After hours of waiting and Bella nearly freezing, Edward came out of the coma like state he had been in for hours, "Edward," Bella said hugging his ice cold body. "You've come back to me, I thought I lost you for sure. What was that? What happened to you?"
"Im not sure, I just suddenly got this sensation in my chest, an intense pain, like I was being stretched out, pulled in two directions at once. Then suddenly I was kneeling on the ground, all I could see and hear was white noise, and then here you are."
"What do you think caused this? Is it lack of blood? When did you last feed?"
"I've fed recently, and going for a period of time without feeding has never effected me like this before."
"Maybe some one did this to you. Did you meet another vampire whilst you where out here?"
"No, it's completly deserted out here."
"Your skin feels colder than usual." she said reaching out again "When I touch you, It stings, its like hugging an ice block."
"I don't know what caused this, these type of things just dont happen to my kind. We dont get sick or injured, certainly don't feel that level of pain. It doesnt make sense, we can't even ask anyone because we are in hiding."
"Maybe, it's, it's a, a, a -" Bella shivered, teeth chattering, she crossed her arm's.
"How long have you been out here?" Edward said inspecting her hands "You're frostbitten, we better get you inside right now before you loose a finger or freeze to death."
Bella nodded following Edward inside, half way to the house she collapsed and Edward had to carry her the rest of the way.
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Edward brought Bella inside placing her on the couch and immediately started a fire to warm the house, he wrapped Bella in layers of blankets, and heated up some water bottles he found in the cupboard. Satisfied he did that all could be done to warm her, he took a seat beside the the couch, waiting to see if she was going to wake-up, staring into the flames.
After a while, Bella eventually woke up, she was still shivering "Edward, it's cold."
Edward was absentmindedly staring into the flames, so he took a while to notice that Bella was talking to him.
"You're awake," he said with a small smile finally noticing "How long did you stay out there with me? You were ice cold by the time I got you in the house. "
"I dont really remember" said Bella confused "I'm sure I was only out there for a few hours, but maybe it was longer." she said reflecting back.
"You're only human Bella, you cant be doing anything like that again, you could have died. I might not be around to rescue you from your own stupidity next time. What if I hadn't snapped out of it? Would you had gone inside? or frozen out there in the snow?"
"I had to make sure you were okay."
"Bella, that's no reason to put your life in danger."
Bella reached out to Edward but Edward got up moving away from her reach. He sat closer to the fire, staring into the flames brooding, and slightly angry at Bella, same old Bella, always putting her life in danger. For a moment he wondered if it wouldn't be too horrible if she did freeze out there in the snow, then maybe he could return to Jacob. He shook it off with a shake of his head, telling himself that wouldn't be a solution, and it would be something "monstrous" if he did do it.
Bella was disappointed, Edward had moved away and wasn't even facing her anymore. He was thinking intently on something, she noticed how handsome he looked when the fire glowed off his skin, gave him a look of ethereality "It is only a matter of time," she thought "Edward is resisting now, but he is only being stubborn. He will come around eventually. He would be hers it would just take time, that she was sure of. She and Edward were destined to be together, he just hadn't realised it yet."