Chambers of the Soul

Summary: Bella lives with her abusive father; Charlie, her older brother; Maxi and her younger sister; Harmony. She almost thinks there's no hope but what happens when the new family comes to town? Will she ever be happy? What if Bella and her siblings became happy and then someone came back to haunt them…

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight. All characters and other twilight-related things belong to SM. I only own the storyline.

Edward Cullen POV

Not long after we left the parking lot were we arriving at the house. From Esme and Carlisle's sudden shock of us not being in school they were waiting on the porch with angry but concerned expressions.

Once Rosalie was out of the car Esme's face lit up and Carlisle's face passed between a look of shock as he immediately recognized Harmony.

I got out of the car myself since I was the last sibling left and lifted Maxi into my arms. Fortunately his head wasn't bleeding and hopefully he was just unconscious.

"What happened?" Carlisle asked; immediately transforming into doctor mode.

"Well when we got to school he was sat on the grass upset with Harmony pale as a sheet beside him. He said he was fine but when he pulled himself up he was limping. We said you could check him over but he disagreed and tried to get Harmony back. Rosalie decided to give him Harmony if he came to see you. Harmony woke up from sleeping and called out to him just before he stumbled and bashed his head against a railing pretty hard." I quickly told him the brief story.

He nodded and removed Maxi from my arms; running him up to his office to treat him.

Harmony pushed against Rosalie as tears spilled over her eyes. "Please," she began. "You're hurting me! Please, my chest hurts…"

Rosalie stared at the little girl before lowering her to the ground. Once her feet touched the gravel she was running up the porch steps probably in search of her brother.

I ran after her with Rosalie close behind me. She was running up the stairs and tripped on a few before she ran faster. She grasped the last step and pulled herself up onto the landing and then faced 6 doors. She lifted up her finger lightly and began doing that little 'eenie meenie' thing that kids do and then chose the 4th door which happened to be Carlisle's office.

She barged through the door with Rosalie and I right behind her. She stood a few paces away from Carlisle who was treating Maxi with her hands on her hip. "What on earth do you think your doing?" she questioned.

"Treating your brother." Carlisle smiled as he slid an injection into Maxi's bruised arm.

Harmony's charade faltered for a second before she took a step forward. "Move away from him."

Carlisle stared at her in amazement. Where did she get this behaviour?

I shrugged; I was as amazed as Carlisle on this one.

Harmony gritted her teeth. "I said MOVE away!"

Once Carlisle was satisfied that Maxi wasn't going to start getting sick he stepped away and Harmony moved to Maxi's side, taking hold of his arm and pulling the sleeve right over his hand. "You aren't even supposed to see that." She glared but then her eyes softened as she stared back down at Maxi. She rested her small hand on his cheek and leaned forward. "Il est correct. Vous pouvez se réveiller maintenant."(A/N Sorry, my French is quite bad, is this right? If not will you please correct me? It's supposed to say: "It's okay. You can wake up now.") How on earth did she learn French? She was only 5. "Maxi; Réveillez-vous…" She spoke urgently again. (Again, sorry if this is wrong, supposed to be "Maxi; Wake up…")

Rosalie stepped towards Harmony with her arms wide open. Harmony refused at first with tears dripping from her eyes because she was unable to wake up her brother who was sedated for the time being but after a little observant of Rosalie she ran into the embrace and I followed them out of the room as Carlisle got back to work.

When we reached the front room Rosalie took a seat on the couch next to Emmett with Harmony in her arms. She was staring at the child lovingly.

Harmony was looking worried and I tried desperately to get into her mind. All I picked up was blackness and a buzzing.

Not being able to find what was wrong I voiced my thoughts. "What's wrong?" I asked her.

Suddenly she whipped her head around in my direction and the worry dripped from her face. "Nothing! I was just wondering the time." She said innocently.

"11:30am" I answered automatically. "The school knows we came home, my mom phoned them."

Her worry didn't completely disappear. She turned to Rosalie. "May I use your phone, miss?" She spoke softly as if she'd get a row for asking something.

"Of course!" Rosalie said happily, digging her cell from her pocket, in doing so she passed Harmony over to Emmett who was completely fascinated by the small frame positioned on his lap. Rosalie passed the phone over to Harmony and she took it in her small fingers; dialling a number. Eventually she placed it to her ear and sighed loudly. "Hello sir." She spoke softly.

Charlie Swan's voice came over from the other end. "Harmony," he spat. "What are you doing? Whose phone is this?"

"A girl's sir, I was just phoning to check on you…" She trailed off, fear in her brown eyes.

Charlie huffed. "I do not need checking up on and you should be in school and not on some girl's phone. Get back to your brother now."

"I can't." She whispered.

"Why not?" He demanded with anger in his voice. Why was he so horrible to her? She was only a little girl…

"He had an accident in school today and this nice family helped us out and now we're at their house and their treating him for us so he doesn't have to go to hospital…" She smiled up at me and I smiled back, only a little.

I quickly took the phone and informed Charlie on Maxi's condition and that my father was a doctor and he was being well cared for. That didn't go down so well and Charlie was on his way.

What was wrong with this family?

It was bad enough that fragile Bella was in hospital…

Moments later Carlisle came down the stairs with a solemn expression. Maxi was shortly behind him. He didn't look good; his face was pale and he was sweating.

Harmony gasped in happiness and ran over to her brother before he could get down the stairs. "Maxi! You came back!" She yelled in joy, wrestling her head against his stomach.

"I didn't go anywhere…" His voice was thick and broke. He lifted her into his arms though and carried her over to us.

She leaned down into his ear. "You fell; didn't you hear me asking you to wake up? You fell; just like Bella. Is she going to be okay? Charlie is coming, he won't do anything right?" She whispered. It wasn't even intended for us to hear. What was she on about? Why would Bella be in anymore danger? She was safe in the hospital wasn't she?

I suddenly felt a pang of worry and grabbed my car keys. "I'm sorry, I have to go." I slid on my jacket. "I'm going to check up on Bella, I need this." I muttered to low for any human ears and then rushed out to my car.

I've been so busy since we're now caring for a terminally ill child but I hope you like this one. I've also been having really bad family problems this week which were caused by myself...my little sister is having heart surgery today also shes 13.

Thank you so much God for bringing Miley home safe and sound for us...

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