"Son, I need you to stay still, don't move your head, just breath okay." Carlisle orders me, and I nod showing him I understand. His worried posture doesn't really help to calm me down.
"Hunnie what's the matter?" Esme asks him, wrapping a arm around his shoulders. He relaxes a little, but the worry is so prominent.
Bella must see it also, as she grabs my hand, connecting out palms together, and giving me a tight squeeze. I'm not quite sure if its to help her or me, but either way the feel of her skin does help me breathe normally.
"He has a fracture on two of his left vertebrates. If there not healed together again...he could become paralyzed on his complete left side." He says slowly.
If I wasn't frozen before I defiantly am now. Paralyzed. It never really occurred to me how breakable I am not. One hit from a wolf and I could be paralyzed. A vegetable. Not moving at all. My breathing accelerates, soon turning into hyperventilation as Bella's struggled sobs get closer and I see her peering down at me.
Her precious locks falling around my face, making a barrier between us and the rest of the world. I can smell her scent wrapping around me like a hug. strawberries, pomegranate and a flora type of smell. Beautiful.
Her brown eyes, usually sparkling with life, are now sparkling with the tears forming around the bottom of her eye lid. Her lips quivering and her cheeks a flaming rosy, as she tries not to cry. I don't want her crying about me.
"Shhh, I'm going to be fine, Carlisle is a amazing doctor."I reassure her, and myself.I want to raise my hand, brush away her tears, kiss her, hold her. I can't.
"He's right Bella, surgery should be barley any risk of it failing." Carlisle adds.I sigh in relief, but also the thought of surgery scares me, but not as much as not being able to move does.
"What happened?" Bella pleads in a cry, looking up towards Carlisle.
"The wolves from La push paid us a visit, for some reason they attacked us, we don't exactly know why yet." He tells her, his eyebrows narrowing near the end.
"I'm going to kill them." Bella says furiously, tears spilling over her eyes as rage consumes her. Then she is gone, out of my eyesight. Where is she? No. I can't move.
"Bella!" I call, and then I see her running over to me in panic.
Good.
"Don't leave me."I beg her.
Was she seriously planning on going to pay a visit to those wolves, is she mad.
"Never." She promises, making me smile. My heart warms as she places the most gentlest kiss to my lips.
"I'm going to have to sedate you Edward, just in case I hit a nerve." Carlisle informs me ,as he pulls out a syringe full of a clear substance.
I felt nervous being under the large medical light centred in the room. A metal tray on a moveable tray filled with so many different objects and most importantly the person standing near by with a panicked look on her face.
"Okay."I say, still not daring to move.
"Wait." Bella says quickly, coming forward towards me, and brushing some of my hair off my forehead.
"I love you." She tells me.
She carries on brushing back my hair, and I melt down at her words. They give me back a little bit more strength. She is here.
"I love you too."I tell her right back as I feel a pinch in my arm. I tremble slightly, as I look into Bella's beautiful eyes.
Without my will, my eyes close and my conscience breaks off from the world and I'm and left in the darkness again.
I don't know how much time passes. I'm not aware of anything at all.I feel groggy, slow and tired. I want to open my eyes, I can feel my muscles straining to do so, but the darkness is nice. Its relaxing.
Hmm, sleep...
"He should be waking up soon." A muffled voice spoke. Carlisle?
"He looks so...pale." Bella says worriedly.
Bella.
I try pulling out of my tired state, but everything feels so heavy and slow. I fight my urges to stay in the darkness, wanting desperately to see Bella.
"The surgery went good, but it could be a few months until he is recovered again properly."
"Oh god." Bella said the words right from my mind.
A few months to recover?
I push my eyes open, instantly regretting it as those bright lights burn me and make me recoil away from them. I want to move but as my head leans to the side a little I am more aware of my body. I feel right. Like there is something foreign about my body. Its uncomfortable.
"B-Bell-a" I try to say, my eye lids dropping closed. I'm shocked by my sore throughout and how horse I sound.
"I'm hear. I'm hear. Your alright Edward. Carlisle said everything went well."Bella reassure me, I could feel her warm hand running along my cheek.
Open your eyes! I want to see her.
I do so, even through the pain, I look at my angel. Her face hovering over mine, blocking some of the light from my eyes. The rest of the light forming a glow around her. She truly is a angel.
I felt useless as I lay in my bed, Bella wrapped up next to me and me with a IV pumping painkillers into my blood. I can move my next which is great, but Carlises told me I had to stay bed bound.
He made sure I could move my legs, which I was very glad I could, and he poked me in places asking is I felt anything.
Though all seems fine, he informed me staying still and not straining my muscles would help the healing process.
A loud bang sounded, disrupting the door burst open and the silence that me and Bella were surrounded by was destroyed.
"How are you holding up bro?" Emmet questions, as he strolls over to my bedside.
Bella sits up immediately, but holds my hand under the covers.
"I'll be fine. What happened?" I asked them the question that was most important to me right now.
What the hell were the wolves doing here? Why did they attack us?
"The mutts ran into the treaty bounds before we could properly...confront them."Rose said pissed off as she picked at her nails.
"We have no clue why they did it. It doesn't help that I can't see there future."Alice pointed out from the doorway where she stood next to Jasper.
"Well we need to find out." I say the obvious.
"Hell yes we do, nobody does this to Eddie and gets away with it." Emmett bellows, nodding his head and trying to show his menacing side.
Always Emmett, ready for a fight.
"They attacked you guys too..."
"We can handle ourselves against a pack of wolves, but you can't, not now. Don't worry about this Edward you just heal, we willing bf out what's going on." Alice insists coming closer and smiling.
"You know I'm starting to see the downfalls of being human." Rosalie spoke up randomly, before disappearing in a flash of white.
Probably off to do her nails seeing as she was so interested in them.
Typical.
"So I guess the Jaspaxi is back in service...Carlisle said in about a week or two you should be able to walk around, get used to the metal plates, but I will have to help you with travel." Jasper informs me, grinning slightly.
"Do you like being my personal taxi driver or something?" I ask him, finding somehow the strength to be humorous.
"Well it does have a good ring to it, and I love walking in on the awkward situations you two get yourselves into." He winked at me and Bella.
I roll my eyes. There really are to many to name.
Its been over a week since the attack from the La push wolves. I've been bed bound, degraded to being served food in bed, and being helped tot he bathroom. Not really the most pleasant experience. I've just felt useless.
The only good this was the beautiful brunette who laid beside me through out most of the day. Of course she had school, and had to go back home. But Alice, being Alice manage to sway Charlie into a two day 'sleepover'.
Carlisle's explained to me the heady technical's of the surgery he preformed. He used some sort of specially created bone cement formula to heal the wound, and had to insert a paper thin layer of metal around the vertebrate to prevent future damage and bone loss.
The pain has subsided, but I just feel weird. Carlisle said it would take a while for my body to adjust to the feeling of having something foreign in my body, but soon enough I won't even notice it. The initial stabbing pain has subsided, thanks to drugs and surgery.
Today is the big day. Well that's what everyone seems to think. I'm going to be walking from one end of the house to the other, independently. Then were going to see if I can manage to hitch a ride of Jasper without injuring myself, again.
"Are you ready to do this?" Bella asks me, and the family all start to pile into the room. All except Rosalie of course. No need to be able to read her mind to know that she couldn't care.
"I guess so."I mumble.
I pull the covers off me, revealing my nee pyjamas that Alice insist I wear. I heard Emmett snigger a little at my matching blue and white stripped top and bottoms. I threw him a dirty look and he tried to use his hand to cover his laugh, all the while looking at my trousers.
He looks ready to burst with how hard he is restraining himself from saying anything.
I ignored him, and took a bravery step forward. My stiff muscles protest a little ,but I straighten my back and try to adjust. I feel a little hardness at my lower back, and subconsciously I know its the metal plate beneath my skin.
I sigh, and take another step forward, feeling completely fine. I take Bella hand in mine and she give me a small smile as I continue to walk out of the room. Walking down the stairs is...weird,but I don't feel any pain.
Carlisle's follows along, as me and Bella stroll hand in hand around the house. I actually feel better walking around.
"Well you seem to be walking fine, how does it feel?"Carlisle's asks me, as we stand near the back-door.
"It felt a little weird at first,but I fell normal now."I tell him honestly, and Bella wraps her arm around my littlest things still make my heart leap with joy.
"That's fairly normal, mainly patients would experience some pains or muscle twinges, but your lucky since your body for some reason heals faster. Now lets just see if Jasper can actually take you anywhere, other wise I would say school or anything that involves stringing to much is off bounds."
This is it, the true test of my capability.
"The Jaspaxi is in service and reporting for duty." Jaspers souther drawl goes along perfectly with the cheeky salute he throws my way,and I can;t help but chuckle along with Bella at his ridiculous behaviour.
Maybe he has been stuck around Emmett and his emotions for too long now that it is eating at his rational side.
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