She fell into my arms and all I could do was hold her. I had stumbled upon the positively heartbreaking scene that she was only moments ago, but those moments...They felt like eternity.

She sobbed for what felt like hours, and still I was helpless. With her crying and totally unable to tell me what was wrong, I had absolutely no way to help her. I was so used to being the hero, but right now I couldn't save her. And that's what killed me the most.

Bella had always been a lovely girl. We had spoken at length about almost everything there was to talk about and we went against tradition, being that I was the "father" of her boyfriend and we were friends. That was something I admired the most about Bella. She may struggle with things internally, but she was so strong on the outside. She was so calm and poised most of the time.

When Edward first brought Bella home, we all worried. We thought that she would be so terrified she would barely be able to stutter out a "Hello". That's what I thought at least. Then, Edward brought her in. Esme and I were slow and careful with our movements, hoping that we wouldn't scare her. Amazingly, our concern was unnecessary and She walked confidently into our living room, appearing not to have a care in the world, despite the fact that she had just walked into the home of a family of seven vampires. She walked right up to me and shook my hand, warmly. She gave in to my insistence of calling me by my given name and her following smile lit up the room. She was amazing, a hero even.

And now, one of the greatest heroes the world would ever know was broken in my arms. Her tears had soaked my shirt by this point. Glancing at my watch I realized that I had been holding my fallen angel for almost two hours, and still she was not cried out. I sat there, taking stock of her room at she cried, muttering soothingly whilst inside I was seething. Her room was a shrine of the agony she was feeling. Obviously, I tacked the majority of the blame up to my son, Edward. He claimed that she was his life, but how could he truly feel that way if he had left her. But as much as I blamed Edward for the damage he had done, He was not wholly to blame for her current state. It appeared that Charlie, Bella's father had not helped her at all, or even taken notice of her pain. There was a bloodstain on her carpet, on the left near her door, which had obviously dripped off her wrist during one of her cutting sessions. There were thick curtains over her window, which I had had to fight with upon my entry. Her walls were bare of anything other than the white, peeling paint that the house had been bought with, whereas before the walls had posters, little knickknacks that she had made with her mother, lights and a whole assortment of other things. The room was dauntingly sparse in the furniture department. Before, there was a stereo, a small bookshelf with her beloved book collection, a computer desk, chair and computer itself, as well as the standard bed, nightstand, and dressing table. Now, the books had been put away, the stereo unseen and the computer had collected dust. All in all, it was a pathetic scene.

From her room's appearance, she seemed to be a zombie. Moving, speaking, laughing robotically and generally just going around with her brain tuned out. She was hollow. And still I could do nothing for her as she cried.

I held her in my stone arms, hoping to God, as she fell apart that I would know how to put her back together.

*It's not much but I'll update soon hopefully. I started out with Stumbled being nothing more than a one shot, but I got such an amazing response for the first chapter that I couldn't resist adding to it. I wrote 3 stories last night and this morning I logged into my email account and discovered I had 31 emails notifying me of all the favourite story/ author, review and author/story alerts. I actually had tears in my eyes and I was completely overwhelmed at how positively all of you guys thought of my stories so thank you very much for your support. I'll upload this chapter and hope you guys feel as strongly about this as the one before it. These two chapters were more about details than anything else, so next chapter will be the talk between Bella and Carlisle. I hope you guys like it and please review. Oh, and if you haven't seen my other stories, then check them out.

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Unfinished Perfection*