Hey! Sorry about the lack of updates. I doubt any of you that are ready actually got notified! LOL. :) My Grandad got bad fast and passed away on June 28. It's been hard for my family and I've been spending a lot of time with them, so, once again, I'm so sorry about the lack of update. I did get a new laptop since my other one broke, so I should be able to write more. I'm not sure about taking this of hiatus yet, but I might soon. Thank you so much for taking the time to read! Please review!
"Stop fidgeting Jackie. It's not broken, I can tell. The only reason I am here is because you basically dragged me!" If she kept moving so much I might just go even more insane that I already was in the cold, sterile room.
"You don't know that for sure! And what if it is broken! Then you can't skate and you can't-"before she could finish her ramble there was a knocked on the closed door and Carlisle walked in.
"I thought that I wasn't seeing you until tonight?" He asked me with a semi-amused, semi-concerned look. Charlie had gone to Seattle for some Police Conference so I was staying with the Cullen's. In Alice's room of course… Well, as far as Charlie knew.
"I'm fine! I feel a little hard and Jackie freaked out because she kinda heard a snap…" my voice decrescendo as I continued. I hated the fact that Carlisle was right the in the protectiveness with Edward, Emmett, and Jasper when it came to me. "But it's fine!" I added at his look.
"I think that I will be the judge of that." He picked up my hand and, despite my hardest to hide it, noticed when I winced a little. Although his hand was like an ice pack and I won't lie, that felt good.
"I don't think that it is a full out break, but I think that you might have fractured it. Come on, let's go get it x-rayed." He helped me up and out of the room after telling Jackie that we would be right back.
"I'm really fine!" I told him again. This time I could see that he was getting a little peeved at me.
"I think that I am going to ban you from saying that word! Don't think I didn't notice you wince. Jackie might not have, but I sure did. And I've seen you hurt enough to tell the difference from when you are in pain and when you are. Plus, Alice said she saw you coming home in a brace." I groaned at the last part.
"Will it probably would have been fine if I hadn't had to have punched a stupid werewolf in the face!" I told him. I had only gotten out of that brace a few weeks ago. I was not eager to relieve the experience.
"I really should have put you in a cast then you know. Maybe I should just put all your joints in permeate cast so they won't break. It would sure help my battery life. I think I've lost count of the text messages your boyfriend has sent me. And that is a hard thing for someone with a photographic memory to do." Once again, I groaned at his last sentence. In reality I knew that I wouldn't be able to keep this from Edward. Not with a future seeing sister and his little ability to read minds, but part of me had kept a little hope that I would. I don't think that my lecture on leaving me alone if I fall would still work know that I had actually been hurt. "Although I think a few of them may have been from my other sons. And perhaps one or two from my wife…" he said with a face that looked deep in thought. Another groan on my part.
"There isn't any chance of keeping this from them, is there?" I asked even though I knew the answer. Carlisle just laughed at me as we entered the x-ray room.
"You can't keep anything from them." He told me before he started to take the pictures.
Twilight-Figure Skate-Twilight-Figure Skate
"It's a small fracture." Carlisle told both Jackie and I back in the small sterile room. "I am going to just put it in a brace for now, but if I see you event thinking about removing it or doing something that could further injure it, I will put a cast on you. I'm going to keep that on for a week and then we will see about getting it off, but I don't want you skating for at least two weeks." I didn't even get a chance to groan, something I seemed to be doing a lot of today, when he sent me a look telling me that if I was smart I would just say 'Yes, Sir'.
"Don't worry Dr. Cullen. She won't be getting on the ice. She knows better than to test me when she in hurt." Jackie said, glaring at me as Carlisle fitted my wrist with a new brace. When I had first started competing as an elite skater, I had fallen and broken my wrist. Not skating though… I didn't think that Jackie was at the rink so I tried to get on the ice for just a little while. I wasn't going to jump, maybe a few spins, but mainly just stroke around. But of course, with my luck, Jackie was there that day. As soon as I got my cast off… Let's just saying that I was not eager to re-experience her best form of torture. Conditiong.
"Please, call me Carlisle. And I know she won't be. I have a feeling that she will have someone glued to her side at all times." He winked at me when he said this. I wasn't stupid. I knew that he would tell everyone not to leave me alone. Although I didn't think that they would anyway.
"Your boys do seem pretty protective of her. Even Alice and Rosalie do." Jackie told Carlisle as he snorted.
"I think protective is an understatement. Bella is a part of our family now and we are very protective of our family. It doesn't help matters that she seems to find trouble wherever she goes." They both laughed at my face and my experience. "I'll drive you home Bells, my shift is over anyway. Do you need a ride Jackie?"
"I have my car, but thank you. I'll see you tomorrow Bella. I was thinking about bringing out the video camera, so that can be your job for now. And if I hear of you doing anything that could further hurt yourself…" She didn't even finish her threat, just glared at me.
"I promise Jackie. It's not like I'm gonna to be able to do anything that could potentiently hurt myself. Unless shopping with Alice counts…" Carlisle started to snicker as I trailed off. Jackie just looked confused. Taking pity on her, Carlisle explained.
"Alice is a little bit of a shopping addict." He told her before I intruded.
"A little! I would rather be in Jackie's conditioning class!" This made the both laugh. They just didn't understand…
Hiding in the Present
The car had barley stopped when my door was opened and I was swept up into the arms of the love of my life.
"Edward! I can walk you know!" I told him, only a tad annoyed. He had been hunting and wasn't supposed to be back until tomorrow, but it was no surprise to me that he had come back early.
"Can I not trust you to be alone for less than 24 hours?" He asked me, his soft voiced filled with love, concerned, and pain. Once again, he was blaming himself for that fact that I was hurt. He sat me down on the couch and took my wrist into his hands. I saw him and Carlisle make eye contact and knew that they were having another one of their silent conversations.
"Y'all are lucky that you don't have to feel her annoyance when you do that." Jasper said, his southern accent coming out as he plopped down next to me. Even though he was joking I could tell that he was also concerned about me. He may not be one to right out say it, like Emmett or Edward, but he was just as protective. "How to wrist?"
"I'm fine!" I said, regretting it once I saw Carlisle's look. "Sorry." I mumbled.
"Maybe I should start a 'fine' jar… Like a swear jar only every time you say that you are fine you have to go shopping with Alice for five minutes…" My face must have been pretty hysterical because everyone started laughing, including Emmett, Rose, Esme, and even Alice, who I hadn't seen walked in.
"I think that would be a great idea." Edward said, not even trying to hide his amusemt at my predicament.
"I certainly wouldn't have a problem with that." Alice said, completely ignoring the pained look on my face.
"I'll stop saying fine! There is no need for a fine jar! I don't use it that much! And I am fine!" I told them.
"Your wrist is fractured. I'm pretty sure that is not fine." Carlisle told me.
"A small fracture, you said so yourself." I couldn't help myself. It probably wasn't the smartest thing to say, but it kinda just came out.
"If you don't watch your mouth I will put a cast on. Just because I didn't today doesn't mean that I can't." With those words I shut my mouth. They all smirked, knowing that his threat was about just as bad as threating to go shopping with Alice.
"I'm going to bed." I told them, making my way upstairs mumbling about dumb, overprotective vampires. They all starting laughing. Stupid, overprotective, great-hearing vampires.
Sorry there wasn't really a plot to this. I was kinda just going with the flow. I got the name Ellie from Ella, a shortening of Bella. Thank you for reading and please review!