Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or any of the characters.

A/N: Sorry about the horrible cliff hanger, but my evil twin had takeover for a week and decided to be really cruel. Ma, Ha ha ha... I won't say there won't be cliff hangers in the future, but I will promise none of them will be as bad as that one if there are.

Thanks to katmom and Angelinia, who beta this story.

Chapter Twenty-Six

Accidents will Happen

A primal groan came from his throat as he saw it... one second he was organizing his music collection, and the next his entire mind was filled with his angel being covered in blood and glass.

"NO!" he screamed and a great pain seemed to want to push him to the floor, crushing him with the force of the earth itself but he wouldn't let it. He started running, not sure where he was going at first, but as he ripped the door off its hinges, forgetting in his haste to use the proper amount of strength, the vision painted back and he was able to see the road that lead out of Forks and into La Push. He picked up speed; he was running faster than he ever had in his life. However, no matter how fast he ran, he couldn't get the image of the meaning of his existence cut and bruised out of his head. As he went over the vision again he realized that she hadn't made it across the boundary line and he was going to have to go into the wolves' territory to help her.

He did not slow down... he did not hesitate a second, he just keep running.

As Edward reached the road that she was on, he could see the truck mangled beyond repair. He could see that a black van that had crashed into it. A trace of thought nudged at him as he realized that Tyler's van had found its way to Bella's truck and this time he wasn't there to save her. A wave of guilt once again threatened to crush him but he pushed that to a different part of his mind; he would have to deal with that later.

Once he was at the site, he pushed the van away from the truck and looked down at Bella. Her eyes were closed, there was blood all over the place, sickening sweet and at any other time would have been more tempting than anything he experienced but he couldn't even feel the burn in his throat. He was in such a panic... he couldn't hear her heart beating.

"No, Bella, no," he cried as he tore off the truck door and felt for her pulse. Relief filled his entire being as he found it, realizing slowly that he had been listening for her regular heartbeat and not this faded and weak sound. The relief was gone now, dread took its place. He could not tell how extensive her internal injuries were, though he was thankful that the cuts were only superficial. He reached down and carefully picked her up, making sure that he didn't jostle her at all, again wary of internal injuries.

As he turned to leave he heard Tyler cough. His eyes turned on the boy and he felt an intense desire to rip his throat out because of the danger he put Bella in. But his anger couldn't last, not when he was holding Bella like this, not when she needed him to hurry.

"What are you doing here?" a sharp voice snapped and he turned and found himself face to face with Sam.

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"It's Bella," Alice said, mind flashing through the images as if in slow motion. The crash... the blood... the pain...

She couldn't stand seeing that and not doing anything, she had to do something. She got up and ran after Edward... surely she could help somehow.

"Alice," Jasper's worried voice came from behind her and she could tell that Emmett was with him.

"Tell us what happened!" Emmett said, in an oddly weak sounding voice.

"She was in a car accident," Alice explained, still running but she stopped suddenly and Jasper and Emmett flew past her.

"Alice?" they both said, knowing that something had changed... fearing what that change might be.

"I can't see... they're not there!" Alice said in a panic.

"The wolves!" Emmett said immediately.

"Edward," Alice groaned. "She was on their land... he's going to cross the boundary!"

Emmett cussed.

"We don't need this right now," Jasper groaned.

"Why are we stopping? Edward is going to need us to back him up!" Emmett said, but Alice grabbed his arm.

"No, you can't go there, Emmett!" Alice growled. "A fight will start for sure if you do go and that's the last thing we need right now!"

"But... Edward... Bella!" Emmett protested. "If the wolves..."

"They might let Edward go once they see Bella," Alice said and flinched at that.

"You don't know that!" Emmett argued.

"Alice... what should we do?" Jasper asked, trying to calm them both down.

"Jazz, take the Volvo to the hospital... you're going to have to stain the passenger seat with blood..." Alice said wincing as she again saw what Bella looked like at the moment. "Edward should be arriving there around that time... if he's not slowed down."

"Okay," Jasper said running back to the house without another word.

"Emmett, I need you to go back to the house and tell Rosalie and Esme what happened... oh and call Carlisle... he should be getting off soon and he must not leave the hospital!" Alice said.

"Alice..." Emmett made to complain.

"Do it, Emmett!" she commanded. "I know you can't stand just standing around but you have to do it this way!"

"Fine," Emmett huffed. "What are you going to be doing?"

"I'm going to go after Edward... just in case," Alice answered and foreseeing his questions she added, "they'll feel threatened if you're anywhere near there, Em... we have to avoid a fight at all cost. Hurry and call Carlisle."

With that being said Alice starting running after Edward again and Emmett ran back home. She ran the same path as Edward had, her mind going over the same things his did, images of a hurt Bella filled her mind too. She, however, paused when she reached the border, as she could see Edward standing with Bella in his arms glaring at Sam.

"I'm here to save her," Edward's voice sounded dead, and she realized that he wasn't glaring at Sam, but looking at him with a crazed kind of panic that went far beyond reason. Right now Edward was capable of doing anything. "Let me go."

Sam wasn't looking at Edward anymore, but at Bella, his eyes widened for a fraction of a second before he looked back at Edward. He opened his mouth to say something but before he could a grey wolf bounded out of the forest straight for Edward.

"EDWARD!" Alice yelled, running again, but she stopped almost immediately, right on the boundary line this time. Sam had exploded in that second's worth of time and immediately the grey wolf fell to the ground, all thoughts of fighting seemed to have been drained from him.

Edward looked at her, shaking his head and then he was gone, running again. She sighed in relief as she saw him bring Bella to Carlisle.

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Edward tensed as he watched the wolf come at him, he could not fight it, that was for sure. Bella would not survive if he tried. His only option was to run.

"EDWARD!" he heard Alice scream, realizing then that he had actually been hearing her thoughts for almost a minute now without taking that to mean that she was there too.

STOP, he heard a different thought scream in his mind. The voice was filled with power and it wasn't hard to believe the grey wolf would stop at the sound of it. Leave him alone.

The grey wolf bowed his head and Edward realized that it was no longer a threat, that it could not attack him as long as the Alpha had commanded him not to. Edward turned his look to the black wolf in front of him.

You were foolish to come here, but I will let you go this time, Sam thought at him, obviously knowing that he could read minds. Make sure the other bloodsucker doesn't cross to our territory!

Edward turned to Alice then and shook his head, knowing she would understand that it would be unwise for her to come toward him and then he ran, ran with all he had towards the hospital... to his father that had to be able to save her.

"Bella, Bella, my Bella, you're going to be okay," he found himself muttering as he ran though the forest, she was still unconscious, her heartbeat was still weak. "You have to be okay."

"Edward," Carlisle said, not surprised at all that he was there; obviously Alice had warned him about what happened. "Put her here."

He did as he was told and Carlisle started to exam her, and seconds later she was having tests done.

"Edward, you're going to have to go to the waiting room," Carlisle said to him, placing a hand on his shoulder in attempt to soothe him.

"I'm not leaving her..."

"It will be easier for me to do what I have to do if you aren't here," Carlisle said in an even tone and Edward nodded his head. Carlisle was right; he would be only an annoyance here. Besides, he would be able to see just as clearly as if he was in the room by looking through Carlisle's eyes. He walked slowly to the waiting room, his feet seeming to know the way to go without his mind telling them what to do. He sat down in one of the seats and closed his eyes, immediately immersing himself into Carlisle's very thoughts as he again examined Bella.

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"Why are you still here?" Sam asked as he phased back into his human form. He was glaring at Alice as she stood on the boundary line, though she hadn't technically crossed it yet.

Alice didn't answer right away; her eyes had become cloudy as she looked at the damaged truck in front of her.

"Hey! I'm talking to you!" Sam said, trying to get her attention.

"Charlie's coming... here," Alice said, her brows furrowed and Sam thought that it almost looked as if she cared. Of course that couldn't have really been the case; she was probably just thinking about covering up their tracks or something. He was willing to accept the fact that the bloodsucker that had just broken their treaty truly cared about Bella. There is no faking the look of despair that was so clear in the vampire's eyes. He had been reminded of his own pain when he saw Emily hurt and bleeding on the floor, his claws bloody... he shuddered.

Of course he had to let the vampire go after that, he couldn't stand to see that look in anything... anyone's eyes. Then Paul had to come out, claws first. What the boy was thinking he didn't know, that is he didn't know until he transformed himself and realized that the other wolf was seeing only red... seeing only the vampire... holding a bloody girl. He couldn't blame Paul for his reaction, but he couldn't let the attack carry on either. Especially, not when he knew that an innocent girl's life rested in the balance.

Paul stopped immediately at the Alpha command, and he turned his eyes onto the vampire, telling him to go. It was the only thing he could do in the situation like this, but that didn't mean he wanted any other bloodsuckers on his land. He was going to make sure that the female left immediately, but at her words he hesitated.

"... someone called the accident in... he's going to show up here to help," Alice's voice quivered as her eyes went blank again and she sighed, "I don't know what to tell him... I don't know if Bella is going to be okay!"

"Be that as it may, I don't see why you're still here," Sam said coldly.

"Please... let me be there when Charlie comes," Alice said, turning her golden eyes onto Sam, pleading him to give her permission to cross onto his land.

"No," Sam answered immediately. "We'll take care of Charlie... we'll help him get to the hospital."

"I'm not sure how much a naked man is going to be of comfort to him," Alice pointed out, crossly.

Sam felt himself blush a little, realizing she was right.

"Please... I swear I won't do anything but just stand there," Alice said, looking at the truck again. "I would go to the hospital, but I can be of more use here... if you just let me..."

Sam grimaced at her, he didn't want her on his land, but he knew deep down that it would help if he just let her go.

"Can you handle being near the blood?" Sam questioned. "There's an innocent boy in the other car... but I suppose you don't even care about him."

"Not at this moment," Alice admitted coldly, and the hair on the back of his neck rose at the threat in her voice. "But I will not do anything to hurt him. Not as long as Bella is okay."

Sam narrowed his eyes at her, not liking what she said, but realizing he would have just as much anger at the boy if he caused one of his pack members to be hurt and he had to admit that the bloodsuckers had adopted Bella into their pack... coven... family... whatever they were. He could hear the sirens blaring in the distance and he found himself nodding his head.

"Stand there... nowhere else," Sam said. "But don't think that this changes anything. You're not allowed on our land after this."

"I understand," Alice said as she took a step across the barrier, but before she could move farther she turned to him, her expression sad again, and he was again filled with the sense that she cared about something. "You're going to have to tell Jacob about this..."

Alice was gone then, he looked towards the accident and she was there, looking at the truck, but he only slightly paid attention to her, for now he was thinking about the pain his pack brother was going to go through when he heard what had happened.

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"Edward," the soft concerned voice of Esme said as he opened his eyes to see most of his family there. He didn't hear their thoughts because he was so deep into Carlisle's mind that it would have been easy to believe that he was in the operating room himself.

Is she okay?

What's happening?

How bad was it?

The questions came to his mind and he groaned, "Stop."

"Edward," Esme said again, sitting next to him, her hand resting on his shoulder, her eyes pleading with him for any information he had, but she kept her thoughts from portraying that.

"Carlisle is operating on her," Edward said in a monotone. "He doesn't know yet how bad..." his voice failed him there.

"I'm sure she'll be okay..." Emmett said, a forced smile on his face. Rosalie came over to him and grabbed his hand in support.

Jasper looked around the room, Where's Alice?

Edward looked at him at that and he felt guilty for his thoughts, but he knew that Edward had crossed into the wolves' territory and it unnerved him that she wasn't here.

"I don't know," Edward answered his silent questioned. "But she was okay when I saw her... she wouldn't do anything stupid..."

Jasper nodded his head and sat on Edward's other side, putting his hand on Edward's arm and dulling the pain considerably. He closed his eyes again, feeling better now that his family was near him, and going back into Carlisle's mind.

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He sighed; he hated it when he was called in to look over traffic accidents. It was always difficult to see how badly hurt people can be. He hoped that this one wasn't too bad, but from the sounds of the call he wasn't going to get his wish. He got in his car all the same, it was part of the job to help out whenever he could and he was going to do that now.

He drove down the familiar road to La Push, letting the ambulance go in front of him, knowing that was probably needed more than him. That ambulance had prevented him from realizing at first what was sitting before him, but as soon as he saw the rusty red color he slammed on his brakes. His heart started to race as dread filled him. He got out of the car and ran towards the truck, his mind going over a hundred different possibilities as to what he would find.

"Charlie..." a musical voice said, but something was wrong, the voice shouldn't sound so sad. He turned so he was now standing looking at Alice, trying to read her expression, but he couldn't.

"Tell me..." Charlie demanded; he needed to know what had happened. He needed to know now.

"Edward took her to the hospital," Alice answered, taking a step towards him and placing a freezing cold hand on his arm, that despite the temperature it felt warm to him.

"Edward?" he couldn't make sense of what she said. "But you're not supposed to move..." he found himself saying, he knew that for sure. He was told that if he ever made it to a scene like this before the EMT's that he shouldn't touch anyone in case he made them worse. If they were conscious he was supposed to talk to them.

"Carlisle taught us how to make sure someone is secured properly," Alice said, squeezing his arm in a comforting sort of way. "He drove her to the hospital... he was afraid of waiting..."

Charlie shuddered at that, feeling his legs weaken beneath him. His little girl... afraid of waiting... no he couldn't lose Bella, not when he had just gotten her back in his life.

He was dimly aware that Alice was now holding him up, supporting most of his weight, as he looked towards the accident. The EMT's were getting Tyler out of the van, but his eyes kept moving until they rested on the truck. The door was missing and he could see glass everywhere and a sickening red color that shouldn't be there. He turned back to Alice, feeling queasy.

"I've got to get the hospital now!" he said, though he wasn't sure if he was talking to Alice or himself. Either way, Alice was now helping him go back to his car. He didn't notice anything until he realized that she was putting him into the passage seat. He made to protest, no one was supposed to drive his cruiser but him.

"You're in no condition to drive," Alice said firmly and he couldn't argue with that. He would be a menace on the road right now, so he let her drive. Drive to the hospital. Drive to find out how his daughter was.

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Edward let out a sigh of relief as Carlisle put down his instruments. Bella was still scratched up, and had lost a lot of blood, and she was probably not going to wake up for several days, but she was okay... She was still alive. He could hear her heartbeat again; it's pace slowly going back to normal.

A/N: Well, that was a crazy chapter. I really didn't plan on going into Sam's or Charlie's point of view (having planned on it being in Alice's), but it just seemed to come out that way when I sat down and started writing this chapter. So now that Bella is going to be okay, I'm sure a big part of the next chapter is going to be about Edward's thoughts on this situation.

On another note, people have asked me how far I plan on going in this story and the answer is I think about just as far as Breaking Dawn went story wise, but as the way things are now I think only like ten to fifteen more chapters. Also, I would like to explain that the first chapters of this story, basically all the chapters leading up to the one where Bella started reading the books, was the Twilight story line. At least, in the sense that it was the part that showed Edward and Bella meeting and getting to know each other. I supposed I also went into the New Moon territory with all the wolf stuff. Now I'm going into Eclispe, but obviously I can't really follow that story line at all, but as this chapter suggests, there will be some drama in this part of the story.