*A.N. So this chapter has a bit of an odd structure but it gets me to the point I want to be in the story. I hope you all like it and by the way a massive thank you to all those who reviewed/followed/faved etc so nice to know you like my story.

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Jasper's POV

It was hard to watch Bella's internal struggle. I was trying to convince myself that she was just in pain watching him recover and couldn't stand it but I couldn't shake of the niggling feeling that it wasn't just that. There was something else to it.

The problem was that I just couldn't quite put my finger on what it was. She showed up regularly enough to the hospital to see Edward but as he struggled to even string a coherent word together and move more than sitting up I felt her drift further apart not only from us but from Edward.

It hurt, because Edward had always been there for me when were younger. Obviously his dad knew what was happening with me and he brought Edward and Emmett in to see me sometimes. They were great with me, they played with me and they took my mind off not really being allowed to be a kid. I loved Edward and although I knew he was often a monstrous dickhead I knew he was a good guy and this didn't deserve to happen to him. I just couldn't understand how Bella couldn't stick by him. Why didn't she have faith that he would pull through? Why wasn't she there every step of the way when I could tell how much she loved him?

Emmett's POV

Why my fucking brother? Why not some random I'd never met and would never have to care about? Fuck, why not me? I would do anything just to have a normal bloody conversation with him.

I was getting so scared the Edward I knew wasn't coming back to us until that night.

He had been sitting up in his bed watching us all and we had been talking to him; my mom myself, my dad and Alice – our crazy little family. He wasn't able to talk back to us yet, only push out sounds. I watched him get more and more frustrated with himself and I was sure as I watched his eyes flicker back and forth and his body twitch trying to communicate with us all that my brother wouldn't be permanently disabled. He couldn't be - the look in his eyes was one of intelligence and frustration not that of a brain damaged boy. I reached out and took my hand in his. My family quieted the patronising conversation they had been having with him as I squeezed his hand tight and looked into his unwavering gaze.

"Edward. You can do this, you know you've been in an accident but it will just take time – you need to focus. You need to focus on me Edward and say my name slowly, stop trying to say big long sentences and listen to us. Say it Edward."

I saw his eyes flash with rage as he uttered one big, long, strange sound and I waited until his fingers had stopped stretching in my hand.

"Edward, slowly, slow breaths and remember how your mouth needs to move to say my name. Open – e – press you lips together – mmmm – open again – e - then put your tongue on the roof of your mouth – ett."

He dropped his gaze from mine to his chest and for a second I thought that this was it, my brother wasn't coming back to us and then I heard him breathe deeply twice.

"Eeeemmmmetttt." He slurred.

I had forgotten that the rest of my family was in the room but they had all jumped up and my mother was crying again and I realised that tears were falling down my face too. The whole room was clapping and congratulating Edward. I could feel his fingers squeezing mines eratically and his mouth turned up into a slight smile.

He was repeating my name over and over again, his voice slurring less with each time.

I stood and hugged him and told him how proud I was of him. We were going to get through this, Edward was going to recover. I knew it.

Alice's POV

After the night Emmett got him to speak we all sat down to speak with the speech therapist and she informed us that Edward's brain must have forgotten certain parts, from him saying Bella's name repeatedly I knew straight away that it couldn't have been much and said so myself.

She informed me that it didn't necessarily have to be any physical memories he'd forgotten just more that his mouth, for instance, wasn't listening to his brains communications to it that he wanted to talk and when he tried to form a sentence he would need to focus on every individual word until his mouth remembered the motions. I remembered seeing dad crying again then, he wasn't the one who normally cried and it made me realise just how big a task it would be for Edward to be back to the way he once was.

When we spoke to the physiotherapist it was pretty much the same story.

School was just starting back and it looked like Edward would be missing this year of school, or at least until after Christmas. No one really mentioned it but we all knew what it meant for Edward and how much it would set him back.

I sat down with him a few weeks after he had woken up and sat with my hand in his. His grip was getting much stronger now and he could sort of push himself up the bed himself now. He had started forming sentences in the past couple of days and I had tried to get Bella to come with me today. She refused and said she had some studying to do, that's what she'd said in school as well. She clearly didn't want to get involved with Edward anymore and I couldn't say that I could understand.

I was giving her her space because I knew if she gave me anymore bullshit excuses for her behaviour I might just snap. It was my poor brother I had to sit with and watch him ask for her when she seemed to only make an appearance just after school – knowing that he was just after physio then and would either definitely be asleep or be falling asleep. He could hardly keep his eyes open after all that effort.

I couldn't understand how she could do this to him, but right now my priority was Edward and I didn't have time to understand Bella Swan's psyche. I knew she was hurting and maybe she just handled her pain differently from all of us – it didn't make it right.

Edward brought me out of my thought by saying my name, "Alissssssss."

I beamed at him, I was so proud of his progress. "Hey Edward, I was in school today and Mr Kennedy was asking after you, saying he was hoping you'd get better soon so he could have his best pupil back." He rolled his eyes and I giggled and continued, "yeah I thought you'd think that but you know what it gets like when a pupil gets unwell and teachers suddenly pretend you were the best pupil they've ever had." He snorted as if to say 'I know' then he let out a low noise before breathing deeply and starting again. I squeezed his hand for reassurance.

"Howww isss Be-Be-Be," he stopped and I could tell he was frustrated. I felt a surge of anger, he shouldn't have to ask me that question.

"She's fine Edward!" I did a big fake smile and lied my ass off, "she always seems to come up when you're asleep she keeps cursing herself saying she has the worst luck."

He frowned at me, "Neeeeeed to speak," he took some deep breaths and looked like he was concentrating very hard, "to her, impooooor-"

"Important?" I finished off for him and he nodded while frowning. "I'll let her know to try come up more often and catch you at better times then bro." He just nodded, still frowning. I reached out and touched his forehead, gently smoothing his frown away. "Can you tell me what's wrong Edward? Can I help?"

He looked at me seriously before slowing shaking his head. "Privaaate."

I nodded at him and flipped on the TV for him, I had put in a DVD of friends in earlier, I missed his smiles.

Rosalie POV

So Emmett and I had decided it was a good idea to let Edward know I was in a delicate condition so to speak. He had woken up three and a half weeks ago now and his progress was coming on in leaps and bounds. My main frustration was that Bella seemed to be avoiding him like the plague. We all didn't want to get too worked up about it, but I could feel the situation coming to a head. Everyone was unhappy with her behaviour. We all understood if she had decided that she wasn't in love with Edward but when something like this happened to your friend you put romance aside and fucking be there for him. Fuck, you would even do it if it was your friend's brother; I mean she was at least our friends although I can't say she had been much of a friend lately.

She seemed to spend her lunch breaks in the library and I could swear for every pound I was putting on Bella was losing.

But anyways, Emmett thought it was a good idea to give Edward to focus on and Carlisle and Esme agreed. Emmett nearly started crying every time he mentioned how nice it would be to see Edward holding our baby. I had known Edward since I was tiny and I knew he would be the sweetest uncle – I remembered how good he was to Alice when she first came to Forks.

We sat down with him and Emmett cleared his throat as Edward's eye flickered between the both of us "Hi," he smiled.

"Hey bro," Emmett gripped his hand as he always did and hugged him tightly to him pressing his electronic bed buttons to sit him up and placing a pillow on his back.

Edward smiled his thanks and turned his head jerkily toward us and I saw him look us up and down. I smiled a bit as I thought how he must be thinking I'd put on a ridiculous amount of weight since his accident.

We had this whole thing planned out, what to say to him and we had worked out the questions he would probably want to ask so we were going to answer as many as we could rather than forcing him to ask them all, it would just tire him out.

But all of sudden I felt the baby kick, the baby had been kicking for a while now and it was getting quite violent in there. The plans went out the window as Emmett stopped his catch up stories with Edward noticing I had stood up and I think he realised what I was going to do pretty quickly. He could see my hand moving about my belly trying to follow my little footballers kicks and punches and it was a familiar sight to him so he just placed his palm on the small of my back as I walked right up to the bed and Edward's eyes were popping out of his head.

"Baaaaby?"

"Yeah, here, you can feel." I lifted my jumped and cami top up and lifted his limp hand to my blossoming belly placing his fingers right over where I had just felt a particularly hard kick.

"Baby, let uncle Edward feel you," Emmett cooed and instantly another kick smacked into Edward's hand and his whole body seemed to shudder, he smiled and breathed deeply before speaking.

"How long – have I – beeeen in coma for?"

There was silence before Emmett burst into exuberant laughter and I found myself joining in. We laughed until tears of happiness dripped down our bright red faces and even Edward managed to bark some laughter at his own joke.

I pulled down my cami top and jumper and patted his hand while Emmett tried to stop his laughter – "don't worry, just as long as we said, I hadn't told you all, but I should of, I was actually..."

And so we told him everything while he chimed in with some questions of his own.

When we left that night we headed back to the Cullen's as I was scheduled to be moving in there in a couple of weeks anyway. We had only just gotten to Emmett's room when there was a knock on the door.

"Come in!" I called as Emmett lay at the bottom of his huge bed massaging my aching feet.

Alice and Jasper's head popped around the door and they came and sat on the bean bags under the TV, both looked pretty serious.

"How was Edward?" Alice asked.

"He was pretty good actually, he's definitely getting his sense of humour back, he was asking after Bella again though before we left."

Jasper shook his head a little and I noticed the flash of anger in Alice's eyes before she spoke. "I think it's time we all confronted Bella about the way she's been treating Edward."

We all nodded and I could see the rage in Alice bubbling over. Bella was for it now.

*A.N. Well guys I thought I'd let you know that the next chapter is the big reveal – they're gonna all know who Bella really is! It's a big ask but I'm looking for thirty reviews before I put up the next chapter! I would love to hear your thoughts on how you think the reveals gonna go and what you thought of this chapter – Love you all x!*