I know some of you are getting impatient waiting for Bella and Edward to get together and I'm sorry for the wait, but I have to do this on my timeline. Thank you to all that take the time to review and to all my new readers, you know who you are, Welcome!
Stephenie Meyer is the genius behind Twilight, I do not own it or it's characters.
EPOV
I stood outside pacing waiting for Bella's ambulance to get here. Why weren't they here already? It's been fifteen minutes. What the fuck is going on? I stopped when I heard sirens coming in the distance, that just had to be her, please God let that be her, oh and if you could make her alright for me I swear that I will do everything in my power to make her insanely happy for the rest of her life.
The ambulance stopped in front of me and the EMT's scurried out, the one on the passenger side handed me the chart, looking at the name I was relieved when I saw it was Bella. Finally! I read over their notes and sprung into action. Her vitals were weak, nobody was sure how long she was lying there on her floor passed out or what had happened to make her do such a thing. It was probably because of Jasper. Damnit, I knew I should have stayed at the club and waited for her. Jasper probably did a number on her, and then left. That son-of-a-bitch. I was going to kill him if I ever saw him again.
"Edward, oh thank God you're here. Please help her, please." Rose had jumped out of the ambulance, tears streaking down her face begging me to save her best friend.
"Don't worry Rose; I'll take care of her." I turned to the EMT's and told them where to go. Kate had decided to stay and help me instead of going to lunch. She secured a private room for Bella and had called my dad to assist. He's the Chief of Surgery here, but I know he'd do anything to help me and what I needed now was help saving the woman I love.
"Son, we're ready for her in here." My dad had come out of the room, dressed and ready for action as soon as we approached.
We got to work pumping her stomach, working hard to get the toxic mixture of pills and alcohol out of her stomach.
"I think we got it all Edward. She's going to be fine, you can breathe now son." Bella's vitals were going back up now; she really was going to be okay. The adrenaline rush had gone and the weight of the day fell heavy on my shoulders and I collapsed for the second time that afternoon, thankfully it was in a chair this time and not on the floor. "Why would she do this son? Do you have any idea what happened?" My father asked I was trying to get a hold of myself and calm my breathing down; my head was in between my knees using the calming techniques that I've learned throughout the years. Nothing seemed to be working though, as I thought about why Bella would do this I just got angrier and angrier.
"Jasper. Jasper made her do this dad."
"Oh." That's all he said, but really what else could he say? "She's got friends out in the waiting room waiting to hear something, so I'm going to go talk to them. Take your time in here with her. I'll be back." I nodded to my father and he left. I was alone with Bella in her room. She was unconscious and looked so frail and broken. If I had only stayed at the fucking club and waited for her this would never have happened. I scooted my chair closer to her and took her hand.
"Bella, I'm so sorry baby. I wanted to stay there and wait for you, but Tanya kicked me out. I knew that I should have stayed to make sure you were alright. I'm such an idiot. Please, Bella, please be okay. I'll do anything…" The sobs broke free at that moment, I don't know how long I sat there and cried but I felt a hand rubbing my back a little while later.
"There was nothing you could do Edward, don't blame yourself. If anyone is to blame it's me." My head snapped up and stared at Rose, her eyes were red and puffy from crying. "I should have gone home instead of staying with Emmett last night, and then this wouldn't have happened. I knew she was going to be in a fragile state after talking to Jasper but I had no idea that she'd do something like this." Her own tears started again and I got up, grabbing her and pulling her into my arms for comfort. Which one of us I was comforting I wasn't sure, I think it was for both of us at that point.
"OH MY GOD, IS SHE ALRIGHT! ROSE? Please tell me she's going to be alright." Alice was in the room looking frantic as she took in the sight before her. I couldn't imagine this would be easy on her.
"She's going to be fine, Alice. Her vitals are all good; she just needs to wake up." I had composed myself enough to relay the information to Alice, but looking back at Bella just broke me again. "I'm uh…going to let you two have a moment with Bella. I'll be back in a little while." Rose and Alice were busy hugging and whispering to each other, I wasn't even sure they heard me. Back in the waiting room it was packed full of Bella's friends and an older man with dark hair and a mustache, he was dressed in what looked like a police uniform. He was holding on tightly to a woman who has shoulder length brown hair, she was maybe 5'8", I couldn't see her face since it was buried in the man's shoulder, but the way her body was shaking I could tell she was crying. Everyone in the room was looking at the couple with sad expressions on their faces. It had been a long day, night had now fallen and Bella had yet to wake up.
"Edward, how is she? Your dad came in here and said she was going to be okay." The older couples heads snapped up as Emmett talked to me. They looked at me expectantly, waiting for my answer. Finally getting a good look at the woman I noticed how much she looked like Bella.
"Um, yeah, she's doing alright. I just wish she'd wake up. Rose and Alice are in there with her. You can all take turns going in to see her, but only two at a time." I looked at each person's face as I relayed the information. Everyone that knew Bella was here, Tanya and Demetri, Jacob and Paul, Emmett, Rose and Alice, the only person missing was Jasper. What did he not care enough about her now that he wasn't even going to bother coming to see if she was alright? She's been here for hours.
"Are..are you Bella's doctor?" The woman who looked like Bella asked me. I was rendered speechless at how much she looked like her and sounded like her. I simply nodded my reply. She quickly walked over to me and enveloped me into her arms. "Thank you." She whispered. I wasn't sure what to do so I just patted her back. "You saved her, thank you."
"No thanks needed Mrs….." I hedged.
"Oh, I've forgotten my manners. I apologize, my name is Renee Swan, and I'm Bella's mother. This is my husband Charlie."
"Nice to meet you Mr. and Mrs. Swan." Charlie walked over and shook my hand.
"Thank you for saving our little girl." He said to me, they both looked really shaken up.
"Um, were you here when my father, Dr. Cullen, came in here to give an update?" Not wanting to repeat what he's already told them, Charlie and Renee nodded their heads in the affirmative. "Okay, well not much has changed, she's still unconscious but her vitals are getting stronger, at this point we're just waiting for her to wake up and tell us what happened. From what we pumped from her stomach there were a couple of pills, which based on what Rose told us was found in the apartment it looks like she took some anti-anxiety pills. There was also a fair amount of alcohol in her system. She'll be just fine though Mr. and Mrs. Swan."
"Thank God." Renee breathed out in relief.
"EDWARD!" Rose came running in to the waiting room, all heads turned to her. "She's awake." I didn't bother to say anything to anyone, I just ran into Bella's room.
BPOV
My head hurt, badly and that incessant beeping wasn't helping. What the hell happened? I opened my eyes slowly, blinking heavily. When my eyes adjusted I saw Rose and Alice sitting in the chairs next to my bed, watching me.
"Oh my God, Bella! You're awake. I'm going to go get Edward." Edward? Oh, right, I'm at the hospital.
"Bella, what happened?" Alice asked, her hand in mine squeezing in reassurance. What did happen? I can't remember.
"I…I can't…oh no." It came to me then, I remember what happened. "I had a flashback and couldn't calm down or go back to sleep so I took an anti-anxiety pill, it still hadn't helped two hours later so I decided to have a drink to calm my nerves. One drink turned into half a bottle then I took another pill thinking enough time had passed. I guess I was wrong." I hung my head down, what had I done? I knew better than to mix alcohol and pills.
"Bella!" Edward came running into my room. He was at my side in an instant, hugging me like his life depended on it. "What were you thinking baby?"
"I guess I wasn't. I'm so sorry." Edward backed up, put my head in between his hands and kissed me. I kissed him back of course, because what girl wouldn't kiss this man back? You'd be insane not to. His tongue slipped into my mouth and mingled with mine, my head tilted to the right and the kiss grew deeper, more passionate. I still had to talk to him about things, but I didn't want this to stop, not ever.
"Ahem!" Someone had cleared their throat from the other side of the room. Edward released me and backed away and I blushed, I'm sure I looked like a tomato. "I take it you are more than just my daughter's doctor then son?" Shit, it's my dad. Not good.
"Uh." Edward rubbed the back of his neck uncomfortably. He looked at me then at my father then at me again. I could see in his eyes how he wanted to answer that question, but was looking at me for some help.
"Edward and I are dating dad." I blurted out. Rose, Alice and Edward all looked at me with their eyes practically popping out of their heads. It would have been funny if it hadn't been for the look on my dad's face at that moment.
"Is that right? What happened to that Jasper fella you were telling us about just a few days ago Bells?" I winced at the mention of Jasper. If I told my dad the truth I had no doubt that he'd go after him with his gun. Rose's face looked downright pissed, as did Edward's at his name, but Alice, well that was just confusing. She looked…I don't know…ashamed, about what I have no idea. It was probably just my imagination so I brushed it off in that moment and decided to answer my dad who was looking at me expectantly.
"Well, uh. We broke up dad." I somehow managed to get out without my voice breaking. Talking about Jasper wasn't something I felt like doing just then.
"Uh-huh." That was all he said as his eyes moved from me to Edward to our clasped hands.
"Mr. Swan sir, I just want you to know that Bella means everything to me and I will do everything in my power to not only protect her, but to make sure she is blissfully happy for as long as she'll have me." I could feel the tears welling in my eyes at Edwards words. My chest constricted as I thought about what he just said. He wants me, for as long as I'll have him.
"Well Edward I'm happy to hear that, but let me tell you one thing son, and then I'll have said my peace and be done with it." Edward nodded and I could see him tense up, he gulped as he waited for my father's next words. "If you ever hurt my little girl just remember that I am the Police Chief, which means I have a gun and can easily dispose of your body with no-one being the wiser. You understand me son?"
"Uh. Y-ye-yes sir. I hear you, loud and clear." I don't think I had ever seen Edward stutter or seem anything less than sure of himself. I tried not to laugh, my dad was trying to be intimidating with him and if I laughed right now I'd get a damn earful.
"Good. I'm going to go to the cafeteria and get myself a cup of coffee. I'll be back in a few minutes, no funny business you hear me?"
Edward and I both said, "Yes sir" and "Yes Dad" at the same time. Mine was more sarcastic and Edward just sounded terrified.
"I'll come with you Charlie. Alice, did you want to grab something?" Rose, bless her was trying to get us some time alone.
"Yeah, that sounds good. See you guys in a few." Alice leaned over and kissed my cheek and trailed behind my dad and Rose out the door. I let out a sigh of relief that we were finally alone. Edward turned and looked at me then.
"Tell me what happened. Is this because of Jasper, because so help me if he did or said something to cause you to want to hurt yourself I am going to string him up by his balls and beat…."
"No, it wasn't anything Jasper did or said. I…I had a flashback and it woke me up. When I couldn't go back to sleep I took something to help relax me."
"Anti-anxiety medication?" I nodded then continued.
"Yeah. Two hours later I was still on edge so I poured myself a drink, when that didn't work I poured some more until I had drunk almost half the bottle. I thought enough time had passed that I could take another pill, but I guess I was wrong. I'm such an idiot." Tears poured from my eyes, how could I be so stupid?
"Shh, Bella. It's alright. Everything is going to be fine." Edward whispered. He placed soft kisses all over my head and stroked my hair. "Do you want to talk about the flashback?" I shook my head, not ready to get into that with him just yet. My tears had subsided finally as Edward continued to sooth me. As much as I didn't want to, I pulled away from him. There were things we needed to talk about.
"I think there are some things we need to talk about." I said to the beautiful man sitting with me.
"It can wait. I actually have to go check on my other patients. I'll come see you in a while and we can talk then, okay?" Edward kissed my forehead and moved to get off the bed. "See you in a bit Bella. Try and get some sleep."
"Leaving already Edward?" My mom was walking in just as he was leaving, surprise that he was leaving clearly written all over her face.
"Yeah, I have to get back to work for now." He looked at me one last time and winked before he walked out my door.
"That man is really something Bella." I hadn't noticed it when she walked in, but in my mom's hand was a bag from my favorite restaurant, Zippy's, they have the best burgers in all of Seattle, at least I thought so anyway.
"Is that for me?" I asked; hope shining through in my voice. I knew my mom was fully aware of my obsession with that place so to bring that here and it not be for me would be absolute torture.
"Well that depends, Bella. Are you going to tell me what happened?" My mom sat on the other side of the room with the brown bag of greasy goodness. As much as I didn't want to rehash this story for the third time I told her what happened. She seemed relieved that I wasn't trying to kill myself. Like I would actually do something like that. If I didn't try after all the awfulness with Jamie why would I do it now? "Oh thank God. I thought…oh never mind what I thought. I'm just glad you're okay sweetie." She got up out of her seat without the bag, but with one look at my face she rushed to get it and bring it to me.
"Thanks mom. So any idea when I'm going to get out of here?" I tore open the grease stained bag, it was almost see through at this point, but it was going to be so damn good.
"I did talk to Dr. Cullen, senior that is, and he informed me that you should be able to go home soon. They want to keep you overnight for observation and…"
I had the burger almost in my mouth, but stopped when my mom cut herself off. "And…?"
"Theywanttodoapsychconsult." She rushed out.
"What? I didn't catch that."
My mom huffed annoyed that she had to repeat herself. "They want to do a psych consult tomorrow baby." I rolled my eyes, if that was all that was standing in the way of me and my nice comfy bed then I had nothing to worry about. I had been going to see my own therapist regularly and even had an appointment set up for this week. "You're not worried sweetheart?"
I had taken a huge bite out of delicious burger so I held up a finger as I chewed and swallowed. "Did you get me a drink?" She smiled and handed me the cup of iced tea. "Thanks." I took a long pull from the straw before I actually answered her question. "No, I'm not worried. I'm not suicidal and I have been seeing my therapist and have an appointment on Tuesday, so all should be fine."
Edward had come to see me when his shift ended that night after all my friends and family had left. I was so tired after my trying day that we ended up not talking; he just laid beside me, his arm holding me to him and hummed some song I didn't recognize until I fell asleep. When I woke the next morning he was no longer there and I had a nurse taking my blood pressure and had all the supplies needed to take a blood sample, not my favorite things and how many times in a twenty-four hour period do these people really need to stick you? Is it absolutely necessary for them to take a vial of blood every hour?
When the psychologist came in to talk to me that afternoon day I told her the story of what happened, she asked for the name of my regular therapist and said that as soon as she got confirmation on all that I told her I could be released as soon as the doctor saw fit. Friends and my parents came in and out of my room all day, but I didn't see Edward at all. I desperately needed to see him and talk to him. The day dragged on, more nurses came to take my vitals, I slept and talked to my friends. My mom and dad grilled me on what happened with Jasper and eventually what was going on with Edward. I gave them the abridged version. I told them that Jasper and I just weren't working out as a couple. His absence didn't go unnoticed by anyone.
Alice hadn't been in all day; I just figured she was getting her apartment ready. Rose told me that she called to check in on me, but the movers were apparently complete idiots and needed constant supervision. I could just see Alice sitting there in all her 5'4" glory bossing these guys around and yelling at them when they didn't put something in just the right place.
Edward sauntered in well after visiting hours, one of the perks of actually working here I supposed. He was dressing in his street clothes, no sign of his doctor's attire much to my girly parts dismay. I was relieved to see him finally though.
"How is my favorite patient?" He asked when he came into the room. He checked my chart and looked happy with whatever was on there.
"Charmer." I responded. I was just eager for him to be closer to me.
"Only to you Bella. But seriously, how are you?"
"I'm fine, glad to have some peace and quiet though. I love my friends and family but they can be exhausting." The rush of breath that came out of me reminded me of just how tired I was from my friends visit. Rose stayed with me most of the time, so did my mom. They talked for hours around me. I tried to contribute to their conversation but I fell asleep once or twice while they chatted away.
"Oh, did you want me to leave?" Edward asked, he clearly took what I said to mean that I didn't want him here. We couldn't have that though, now could we?
"No! Please stay." His features relaxed and so did I. I really wanted to talk to him.
"Okay. Is there anything you need Bella?" He was so sweet, looking after me. I knew then that he would be nothing like Jamie or Jasper for that matter. He cared for me like no one I've ever met.
"No, I just want to talk to you." I hesitated for a moment, thinking about how I wanted to ask for what I really wanted. Would he do it, he did last night. "Um…would you…uh"
"Anything Bella, what do you need?" He said. My hand was in his and he soothingly traced my knuckles with his thumb.
"Would you…maybe..lay down with me?"
"Uh"
"Please?" I whispered, looking into his beautiful green eyes.
"It's against the rules, but I can't deny you anything." He removed his shoes and I scooted over to one side to make room for him. I lifted the blanket and he lay down beside me. I turned to face him and wrapped my arm around his waist, my head finding a home on his chest and his arm wrapped around me. I was finally comfortable in this crappy bed. "Better?" He whispered.
"Much, thank you." I took a deep breath to steel myself for the conversation I knew we needed to have. "So about what I said to my dad."
"Yeah. I, uh..was hoping we could talk about that." He started playing with my hair, almost lulling me to sleep.
"I wanted to talk to you about things before all this, I guess what I said to my dad tells you where my head's at." Why was I so nervous? Just spit it out Bella. "Look, Edward, we've become close in the last few months and even when I was with Jasper my thoughts and heart were always with you. What I guess I'm trying to say is that I want to try…this…with you, if that's something you're interested in." I closed my eyes, waiting for his reply. I felt his finger under my chin, lifting my head to look at him, but I kept my eyes sealed shut, then the most wonderful thing happened. I felt his mouth on mine. It wasn't needy and passionate as our kisses usually were, the few that we'd shared already, but it was perfect none-the-less.
"Open your eyes and look at me pretty girl." I did as he asked and I swear to you his eyes were sparkling, his kissable mouth was in that delicious smirk that make appearances in my dreams, he looked happy. It reminded me of the day I first saw him. I thought for sure at the time that he was sent by the devil himself to torture me, he was cocky and gorgeous, every woman had their eye on him, but his eyes, well they stayed on me, even as he walked out with those skanks. I was up late that night thinking about him, going over every single detail, was he married, was that the first and last time I was ever going to see him? So many questions and as the weeks went by they were all answered. He had me from the moment I laid eyes on him, why had I waited so long to get to this point? The only obvious answer, besides being scared, was I was just plain stupid. A song was starting to form, coming to life as I lay here with him, I vowed to write it down as soon as I could, but now was not the time. I watched him, waiting for him to say something, anything. I had said what I needed to say, it was his turn now. "I've been waiting to hear you say that for a long time Bella. I would love nothing more than for you to be mine, to let me love you. I'm already in deep here and I'm not going to lie to you, I was planning ways to get you and Jasper apart from the beginning." He chuckled into my hair at his admission, I laughed a little with him, I could just imagine the different schemes he came up with.
"Were you now? Somehow that doesn't surprise me." I told him honestly. I gazed into his eyes and just got lost there, never wanting to find my way back, I felt like I was finally home.
"Oh yeah, there were some really despicable things I was willing to do to get you guys apart." Edward got a mischievous grin on his face; I sat there wondering what his wicked mind could come up with.
"And to think that you didn't have to do any of those things, he did something despicable all on his own."
"I'm so sorry he did that Bella. I never thought he'd be capable of doing something so…" I finished the sentence for him since he couldn't find the word, even though we'd both already said it.
"Despicable?"
"Yeah." He resumed playing with my hair. After a few minutes of just being in each other's arms he spoke again. "So…you want me?"
"Yeah…" I answered.
"I want you…." He whispered.
"Mmhmm…" I kissed his top lip.
"Which means….." What was he asking exactly?
"Which means….what?" I needed to get clarification on what he was asking before I said something I wanted to crawl into a hole for. I knew what I wanted out of this, but what did he want.
"Can I call you my girlfriend now?" Before I could answer, although I'm sure the grin that I was sporting showed my answer without the words, he shook his head and laughed to himself. "Geez, could I sound any more like a girl right now? 'You wanna be my girlfriend?' Shit."
"I think it's cute. And to answer your question…" I wanted him to look at me when I answered him but he was staring off at the door, finally after what seemed like ten minutes, but I'm sure was only ten seconds, he looked into my eyes. "I would love to be your girlfriend."
It was his turn to have a huge grin on his face; I of course found it absolutely adorable. "Really?" He asked, sounding genuinely surprised.
"Really." I told him enthusiastically. Then I kissed those damn perfect lips of his like I'd never kiss them again.
"Oh, sorry." Someone had entered the room. We broke apart at the sound of her voice, but didn't take our eyes of each other. "Dr. Cullen? Don't let your father catch you on a patient's bed hot stuff; you know it's against hospital policy." Lifting my head I noticed the woman who had come in. She was a nurse, short and thin; she was the same height and build as Alice, so tiny, with long light brown hair and vibrant green eyes. She looked to be our age, maybe slightly older. She had a smile on her face as she looked at the position Edward and I were in and I had to wonder how many times these nurses tried to get this hot shot doctor to settle down.
"Yeah, yeah Carmen. You go ahead and tell Carlisle, I'm sure he'll be ecstatic about this particular turn of events, especially since said patient is my girlfriend."
"Girlfriend? When did this happen? I've been telling you to settle down for months and you always said the right girl hasn't looked your wa….ait a minute. CLAIRE!" Edward groaned as Carmen called out for another woman, I assumed she was a nurse on this floor as well. Edward was hiding his face in his hands.
"What Carmen? Where's the fire?" The woman I assumed was Claire, who was in fact a nurse just as I thought, rushed in looking panicked.
"It seems our young Dr. Cullen here has suddenly found himself a girlfriend."
"NO WAY! Anyone we know?" Claire's eyes were as big as saucers.
Carmen gestured to over to the bed we were occupying and Claire followed her hand landing right on me and Edward lying cozily on the uncomfortable hospital bed.
Claire looked from us to Carmen, us to Carmen and again us to Carmen like she couldn't believe what she was hearing/seeing.
"Is that right? Edward, I wasn't aware that you made it a habit of strolling the halls here looking for girls to prey on." She was kidding, obviously by the snicker she was clearly holding onto and the wicked smile firmly in place on her mouth.
"Ha Ha Claire. Now if you two little hens are done can you leave us alone? I have some making out to do with my girlfriend." The ladies ooooohed as they left the room laughing.
"Well that was…just…weird." I said, trying to work through what just happened.
"Don't mind them, they like to gossip. News of the young Dr. Cullen having a sexy girlfriend will be all over the hospital in about half an hour." I groaned and hid my face in his chest. "Don't worry baby, I'll make sure no-one else bothers you."
I resolved to just let it go, who cares if everyone in this hospital knows that I'm Edward's girlfriend? If anything it would make sure the rest of these women kept their grimy paws off my man.
"Oh well. I do believe we have more pressing issues to attend to Dr. Cullen." I said as seriously as possible.
"Do we now? I thought we covered everything, was there something else you wanted to talk about?"
"No, nothing else to talk about, but I believe you told those nurses that we were going to make out, and I think you need to keep your word on that one. It'll make my recovery go a lot faster."
"Where was my head? You are correct, let's get to it." He rolled over on top of me and kissed me, slowly at first then the intensity grew. His hands were in my hair, caressing my face, exploring my body. One of the monitors started beeping really fast, but I ignored it. Edward's tongue was probing my mouth. "Your heart is beating so fast Bella." Huh? Could he feel it, or did he have super human hearing or something. I must have looked confused, but his eyes drifted over to one of the machines in the room. "The heart rate monitor, it's beeping really fast." A light kiss was placed on my lips and then he spoke again. "I think you like making out with me Bella." He smirked cockily then kissed my neck.
The snarky retort I had dissolved with the things his lips were doing to my neck. "Oh, that feels so good." I moaned.
"Mmmmm." He continued kissing my neck, as he traveled up to my ear I shivered, but I wasn't cold at all. "You smell fantastic." Edward took my earlobe into his mouth and sucked, then bit lightly on it. Oh that felt good too. "This is so much better now Bella. So much better."
"What's better?" I'm not sure how I am even concentrating on what he's saying right now with what he's doing to my neck and behind my ear, oooh and now he's moved to my collarbone.
"Kissing you, freely. Not having someone else hanging over us. It's just what I always wanted." I started humming a tune, one that I realized would go perfectly with the new lyrics running through my head. "What are you singing baby?"
"Just something running through my head." I told him.
"Is that how it always works, writing songs, I mean?" I might have pouted a little because his lips were no longer on my person.
"Most of the time, yeah. Something in my life sparks a chord and lyrics just seem to flow through me."
"What's this one about?" His fingers traced every curve of my face; it was distracting in the best of ways.
"Um.." Did I tell the truth or make something up? Is it too soon to admit to writing songs about someone? I mean I know that he was already aware that Hey Stephen is about him, but I never confirmed it.
"What? Please tell me." He pleaded. His left hand grazed my breast, his breath hot on my neck. His tongue languidly licked my neck from where it met my shoulder all the way up to my ear where he sucked on the lobe again. I was turning into putty.
"Oh God." He was very good at persuasion, too bad I couldn't remember the question. "Wh-what was the question?"
"I asked what the song you were just humming was about Bella. What's the matter is something distracting you?" He whispered cockily into my ear right before he took the lobe between his teeth and nibble.
"Uh-uh. It's just in the beginning phase right now." Edward's warm body was suddenly no longer above me, looking around I noticed he got off the bed, and was making his way to the chair next to me. "Where'd you go?"
"My ego is wounded Bella. I thought my mouth was more persuasive. Turns out I was wrong." His bottom lip jutted out, he was just too damn cute.
"Poor baby." Carlisle decided that now was a good time to come in and talk to me; I was relieved that it wasn't 5 minutes ago when Edward was lying on top of me, feeling me up, that would have been embarrassing. "Hi Dr. Cullen."
"Bella. How are you feeling?" He checked my chart, walking closer to the bed. I don't think he even noticed Edward sitting in the chair yet, but just as I thought it he looked over at him sitting in the chair. "Edward, shouldn't you be at home son?"
"Probably, but I wanted to keep Bella company." He gave me a coy wink and I may have blushed thinking about what we were just doing. What? You would too if you had a hot sexy doctor all over you.
"Okay, well visiting hours are over, don't stay too much longer. You know what a stickler Carmen is about that." Edward snickered, but Carlisle either didn't hear it or just decided to ignore it. He fixed his eyes back to me; I hope he has some good news for me. The psych consult had gone well; at least that's what the Dr. told me, so there was really no reason to keep me longer than absolutely necessary. "Bella, do you want to talk in private?" I looked from him to Edward, who was starting to get up. Did I want him to leave? He is a doctor, it's not like he can't get access to all this information anyway.
"No, I'd like Edward to stay, if that's okay Dr. Cullen."
"If that's what you want Bella, that'll be fine." Edward took a seat on the bed next to me and grabbed my hand. The movement of his thumb on my fingers sent tingles up and down my body. Having him touch me made me feel more alive than I have ever felt before. We looked at each other and smiled until Carlisle spoke again. "I spoke to Dr. Williamson about your psych evaluation and she is confident from your talk that you did not do this on purpose. She said she spoke with your therapist and they agree that although you have some things to work through they don't think you could ever cause yourself harm."
"Well yeah! Dr. Cullen, I've been through some pretty shitty…er bad stuff a few years ago and even then that thought never even crossed my mind." I knew that Dr. Williamson said she thought I was fine, but to actually hear that she told Carlisle that relieved me to no end. "So when can I go home?"
"I'll sign your discharge papers and you can go home by eight am tomorrow. I suggest you get some rest until then. That means no more visitors tonight." Carlisle looked directly at Edward as he said the last part and it made me a little sad to think he couldn't stay with me. I felt so much more comfortable and relaxed with him in the bed with me. I wonder if it'll be like that at home too. Hmm, that is something I am going to have to test out. "Goodnight Bella. Edward." He gave Edward a look that clearly said not to stay much longer, to which Edward gave his dad a curt nod.
"I don't want you to leave." I whined.
"I don't want to either, but I do need to go home and get some sleep if I'm going to be back here at eight am." Edward had resumed his spot next to me on the bed, holding me tightly to him. I inhaled his musky scent and it instantly calmed me. Why did I ever think that I could stay away from him? I realized what he had just said, that he had to be back at work by the time I was supposed to be discharged, that made me sad, I wouldn't be able to see him again until Tuesday if he had to work tomorrow and I didn't like that idea at all. I was going to have to cancel my lesson with Jasper for tomorrow, it's not like he wasn't going to understand after everything that happened, in fact I wasn't sure if I wanted to see him at all at this point, but I never liked bailing on my responsibilities.
"I should let you go home, especially if you have to work tomorrow, you'll need your rest." My hand clenched around his shirt tightly, not wanting to let him go even though my words said otherwise.
"I don't have to work tomorrow Bella." He kissed my head and I looked up at him, confused. Did he not just say he needed to be back here at eight tomorrow? "I'm going to be here to pick you up. I already talked to Rose and since I had the day off already she agreed to let me take you home and take care of you until she got back from work. I am thinking about stealing you away and taking you to my place and never letting you go though."
"Hmm, that sounds nice. I'm glad you're going to be here. I was disappointed when I thought I wouldn't see you at all tomorrow." His arms tightened around me.
"I wouldn't allow that to happen even if I was working Bella. I can't seem to stay away from you."
"That's good." I responded, I kissed his shirt covered chest and he hummed in response.
"I should go." He said, sounding just as unhappy with the prospect of him leaving as I was.
"Nooooooo." I whined again, tightening my hold on him.
Edward gasped as my arm accidentally brushed up against his crotch when I tried to make myself more comfortable. "Sorry."
"Nothing to apologize for Bella. I really should go though, if I don't I'm going to want to do things to you that no-one in this hospital should ever see." His words ignited a fire within my body, I could feel every inch of me warming up and I knew that if he didn't go now I was going to let him do whatever he wanted, hospital staff be damned.
"Okay. I'll see you in the morning." I leaned up to kiss him before he left. He moaned as my tongue licked his bottom lip and my hand squeezed his toned ass. We broke away from each other panting, my heart monitor going crazy again.
"Sleep well Bella." Extricating himself from my iron grip he finally was able to get up off the bed. He grabbed his coat then stopped to kiss me one more time before he left me for the night. I slept well that night, happy thoughts of Edward and me finally being able to be together. Morning broke and I was so happy to not have many interruptions during the night so I could get a more restful sleep. I wondered if Edward had something to do with that. I complained about it the other night when he came to lull me to sleep. He laughed at my annoyance and told me that it was a necessary evil, but he'd see what he could do.
"Good morning beautiful." Edward was sitting there on the chair next to my bed, with a magazine in his hands.
"Morning. How long have you been here?" I rubbed the sleep from my eyes and sat up.
"Not long. I didn't want to wake you." He put the magazine down then looked at me with a mischievous smirk on his beautiful face. "Did you know you talk in your sleep?"
I could feel my face heating up in embarrassment. What the hell did I say, it must have been something truly embarrassing judging by the look on his face.
EPOV
I woke up really early, too excited to sleep knowing I was picking Bella up and taking her home from the hospital today. The fact that I would have most of the day with her to myself had me practically vibrating with excitement. I decided that seven am wasn't too early to get to the hospital so I left as soon as the clock read six forty.
"Hey hot shot, you're not on today, what are you doing here?" Sitting at the nurse's station was Carmen pouring over charts.
"I'm actually here to pick up Bella. She's getting released today." I leaned over the desk to tried to grab the snack that I knew was sitting there. My hand was just about to hit the mother lode, a Butterfinger (those were my favorite) when she swatted my hand.
"First of all, she's not being discharge for at least another hour and secondly how many times do I have to tell you to keep your hands off my Butterfinger? One of these days I'm just going to bite you. That'll teach ya!" She looked so mad, but I knew underneath she wasn't really mad at me. I laughed at her and right after she gave me a scowl she laughed too. "Don't think just because I'm laughing means you can lay a finger on my Butterfinger mister. You've been warned."
"Yes ma'am! I will keep my hands away from your candy bar Carmen. Scouts honor!"
"You were never a boy scout McSteamy." She replied.
"McSteamy? Have you been watching that show again? You know how mad you get when they do something wrong; I don't know why you even bother to watch it in the first place." A wadded up paper flew at my head, but my reflexes are so good I dodged it just in time, but it didn't miss my dad. Carmen looked petrified; meanwhile my dad was looking all around trying to figure out where the flying wad of paper came from. I finally couldn't contain it anymore and starting laughing, really hard. Tears were coming out of my eyes as my dad gave me a disapproving look.
"Edward, this is a hospital, you shouldn't go around throwing paper at people." My dad scolded, that stopped my laughter, but brought on Carmen's.
"It wasn't me! Carmen threw the paper at me, I ducked, but unfortunately it hit you instead." Carmen stopped laughing, giving me her best death stare.
"Oh, well, okay then. Carmen, have a good day." He said, with a smile and a wink. What the hell?
"Why do I get a lecture when you think it's me, but when Carmen does it she gets a 'have a good day'? What is that all about?" I was acting like a petulant child, but I didn't care.
"Easy, I like her better!" He laughed and Carmen smiled wide.
"I'm your son!"
"Yeah well." Then he walked off. "Oh, Bella's discharge papers are in, she should be ready to go in twenty minutes."
Shaking my head I walked into Bella's room. She was still asleep, so I sat down, picking up a magazine to look at while I waited.
"Edward." I looked over at her thinking she was awake, but she was still sound asleep. Hmm, guess she talks in her sleep. "Mmmm Edwaaaard. That feels soooo…" Hey now that got my attention. She was dreaming…about me….most likely doing dirty things to her. Her hand started moving under the sheets, I saw it traveling down to her…um…down there. "Don't stop. Oh GOD!" She was moaning and writhing around and I could feel my dick waking up, my pants were getting tighter by the second as I watched and listened to this display. She rolled over on her side then, mumbling something I couldn't quite hear, guess the show was over. A few minutes later my dick thankfully was standing down again and Bella's breathing changed, she was waking up.
"Good Morning Beautiful." I said softly, trying not to scare her.
"Morning. How long have you been here?" Bella rubbed her eyes and sat up.
"Not long. I didn't want to wake you." I set down the magazine and looked at her with an all knowing smirk. Should I tell her that she talks in her sleep? I thought about it for a second and decided that yes I should. "Did you know you talk in your sleep?" She turned beet red as I continued to smile at her.
Her face went into her hands as she turned even redder. "Oh GOD!" That woke my dick up. "What did I say? Was it totally embarrassing?"
"It wasn't that bad Bella. Don't worry." I tried reassuring her, but I was having fun teasing her.
"Tell me what I said Edward." Her hands went to her lap and she looked me right in the eyes, determined to find out what she had said.
"Well…you uh…moaned a lot."
"OH GOD!" She screeched.
"Bella, please don't say that." I pleaded.
"What, why?" She asked, bewildered.
"Um, you said it in your dream and it's making me…uh." How did I finish that sentence? Gee Bella, can you stop moaning and saying OH GOD like that because after watching you having a sex dream those words get me hard and I want to do very bad things to you. Yeah, that would not go over well, girlfriend or not. Bella got the idea though, looking down at my crotch. She couldn't see my problem though since I was sitting down. "I saw my dad and he said you are all set to go, so whenever you're ready, your chariot awaits."
"Oh..okay…good. Are you sure you're okay taking me home? I don't want to impose, I'm sure you have things to do since it's your day off." Bella started getting up, gathering her things.
"You're not imposing and of course I want to take you home. I planned on staying the whole day so I could take care of my beautiful girlfriend." I couldn't wait to spend the entire day with her, waiting on her hand and foot and just being with her for an entire day, enjoying being together. She leaned down and kissed me softly, but I wasn't having any of that, so I pulled her into my lap, which earned me a squeal and kissed her thoroughly until we were both out of breath.
"Wow!" She blushed a little and traced my lips with her fingers. "Okay, let me up so I can go change and we can leave. I can't wait to get out of here."
I reluctantly let her off my lap and watched her go into the bathroom. I was taking my girl home, spending all day with her and taking care of her. It was about fucking time.
Thanks to all my reviewers, I love you all, you inspire me to write more. Next chapter Bella finds out about Alice and Jasper, the shit is going to hit the fan, that's all I'm gonna say. Reviews get a little taste of the next chapter. Until next time…chao!