A.N. 1 I do not own Twilight, i.d. says Elizabeth
A.N. 2 This is the second chapter of my rewrite.
I was woken up early because by some miracle, they found a teenager with a piece of steel sticking out of his head. I scrubbed in and I hope Carlisle does not do neurosurgery. It was bad enough that I had to see him and Jasper yesterday but because truth be told, there are not enough miles to be wedged in between us.
The surgery took nine hours and the kid died on the table. I hate it most when it is a kid who dies on the table. I have faced death a surgical assistant but it never gets easier even with war.
This should be my only case of the day and all I want is coffee and to visualize the inside of my eyelids. I went to the mess tent to grab some coffee and I saw ice. It is too damn hot out and iced coffee sounds too damn good is this heat. I miss the Arizona heat, it is dry and more comfortable. The heat in Afghanistan was doable even with all of the armor I had to wear but there again, I was in the medical tent most of the most of the time.
The neurosurgeon that I assisted with is air force. I saw my commanding officer, the neurosurgeon, and Carlisle take a seat across the table.
Col. Reed, my commanding officer has been on my case to go to medical school but that would mean going down to the reserves.
"Lt. Swan, Dr. Cullen said he had known you when you were in high school. Was he the one who you.."
Sorry Colonel but you are wrong on this one.
"Actually Ma'am, it is my grandparents whose steps I wanted to follow. My grandmother was an army nurse during world war 2. My grandfather was an army surgeon during world war 2."
Point to Bella Swan because their faces told it all.
Major Davids, the air force surgeon had his own piece to say. "Lt. Swan, you should seriously look into it. You have clinical hours loved in which many applicants do not, you have graduated from the top nurse practitioner program in the country, you can easily get the recommendations, and you know the army will pay for it."
I had to let the nice major down easily. I know how to do it with Col. Reed and have before.
"Sorry Major but I feel the army has enough of them, no offense. Plus I like being a first assistant too much."
Victory for me. I repelled Carlisle Cullen for now. Then someone else came over who I did not want to see, Jasper Hale. I felt a wave of calmness come over me which I damn well know is his gift.
"Bella, I just want to talk to you for a moment. Just listen to me before you storm off. I was set up by Alice and Edward. Alice had kept me from hunting for a few days before the party. I was starving. When you were cut, I felt the blood lust of everyone in the room. You can call it an emotion.
Edward basically threw a temper tantrum and forced us to move two years early. Alice just went along with a smirk. I knew Alice was hiding something from me and it was something serious.
Edward setup Jasper to take blame since he is the one who suffers from blood lust the worse. Edward threw you into the table. It was bad when we arrived in Alaska.
Edward decided to have an affair with Kate, a cousin to the family. They were kicked out when Edward and Kate decided to go and drink human blood.
Rosalie and Emmett could not take the drama and went to London. They actually miss you and have been looking for you these past six years.
Jasper took a hard hit and went to Texas to see his brother and sister-in-law with Alice. Everything had been going good for him until Alice dropped a bombshell that she has been having an affair with this Egyptian vampire the past ten years. Jasper divorced her.
It was only by chance that I found Jasper here again . Esme and I would like to see you when affair is said and done with this disaster. Just something to think about."
There is merit to what Carlisle says but I am seething in anger still. He should not have let rule with a temper tantrum. There is so much conflict that I do not even want to start to think about but I need to work it out for my own sake. I will give Jasper a chance to say is piece just like Carlisle did. I will be the mature one in this conflict and not be petty. I want to have closure most of all. Do I let them in again with little trust or do I kick them all to the curb, even Esme. They made no effort to try to explain things to me.