Sorry this one took a little bit to get up. Weekends are usually more unpredictable and hard to find time to post.

Late afternoon light flickered through the curtains of the ward that Bella was peacefully asleep in. Edward remained by her bed watching her for any signs of stirring but it wasn't until late afternoon that she began to show signs of life. Her eyelids flickered and her body moved and abruptly stopped as she felt pain. Moving hurts, why? The thought flickered through her head as she opened her eyes, but even opening her eyes hurt. She groaned.

She could hear a beeping noise. Maybe a truck was reversing outside her apartment? But it didn't sound like an ordinary truck…

She eventually managed to open her eyes and peer out around her to see that Edward was sitting by her bed looking at her with concern. She frowned. What was Edward doing in her bedroom?

Wait.

She wasn't in her bedroom. "Where…?" She tried to say but her throat was too dry.

"Bella? How are you feeling?" Edward asked her, leaning over so that he could gently rub her arm in a soothing manner but everything hurt too much for it to make any difference.

"I hurt… It hurts… Why –" She croaked. Edward handed her a glass of water and held it to her lips for her to sip. The water helped wet her mouth and she could finally form the words she'd been trying to say although she felt so drowsy. She wanted to close her eyes and fall back asleep…

"What happened? Where am I?"

"You're in the hospital, sweetheart. You were in a car crash…"

Bella's eyes widened at the news and her body lifted off the bed a little. "What? Oh my god… I… I don't remember… Was anyone hurt?"

Edward reached up to her head to gently smooth her hair back, the movement also forcing her back onto the pillows beneath her. He frowned, concern evident in his expression. "It was just you, sweetheart… You don't remember?"

Bella's eyelids fluttered close and opened again as she tried to stay awake.

She tried to remember what happened, the last thing she remembered.

"I remember going to the club… You… We had a fight? I went to the club anyway… Rose's car… She lent it to me for the night. And I worked my shift and then… Then I left… And… And that's it? I don't remember anything else." The pieces were coming to her in bits. There was so much of the night that she couldn't recall and she was so tired. Her eyes fluttered close again, she needed to rest them. Just for a second.

"It's okay… It'll come back…"

Bella's eyes opened again and she groaned as the pain in her body hit her hard.

"I hurt… It hurts…"

Edward frowned and quickly stood to his feet but was back in a second with a nurse in pink scrubs.

"Bella, I'm going to give you something for your pain," the nurse was telling her. Bella couldn't even nod her head to tell her okay, her eyes closed again and as the nurse filled the tube in her hand with clear liquid, Bella began to once again drift off.

The next time Bella's eyes opened it was because she could hear voices. The voices of her friends, she recognized them. The sun was higher in the sky and Rosalie, Alice and Edward were standing together on the other side of the room talking in hushed voices.

"Do you have any idea how this happened?" Alice was asking.

"I don't… She doesn't remember. Maybe she fell asleep at the wheel?" Edward replied trying to find answers to the million questions they all had about her.

"Oh God… She could have died… How bad was it Edward?" Rosalie was crying.

"Pretty bad. It's a miracle that she's not worse off."

Bella stirred, she still felt drowsy but she no longer felt any pain. That was a good thing right?

"She's awake."Alice rushed toward the bed to stand beside Bella's bed.

"Rose? Alice?" Bella slurred.

"How are you feeling, Bella?"

"Great," Bella replied. "Except I feel like my drink has been spiked." The feeling was actually far too similar to the high she'd often felt when years ago when she'd used heroin.

Edward stood in the background allowing Rosalie and Alice to get in and see their friend.

"Oh… God… Rosalie! Your car. I'm so sorry!" Bella said as she realized that she had been the one to crash her car.

"God, shut up, Bella. Don't even worry about that… I'm just so thankful you're okay!"

"Do you remember anything? Do you remember crashing?" Alice asked her eyes wide.

Bella shook her head and blinked. "Do you know what happened?"

"No… Emmett called me; he said that they'd been called to an accident… That you were the driver…" She trailed off.

Alice was looking back at Edward. "Edward got you out of there. Then you were rushed to hospital…"

Edward? Edward had gotten her out of the wreck. "My hero…" she murmured her eyes fluttering close again. "He always saves me. He saved me from the balcony. He saved me from Riley. He saved me from the car…"

The morphine was obviously doing its work and had effectively stripped Bella of her verbal filter.

Alice and Rosalie exchanged puzzled glances as they looked back at Edward. "What? Riley? What happened with Riley?" Rosalie asked.

Yes, Edward. What happened with Riley?