"What do you mean this is all Bella?" Edward's eyes were wide, laced in fear. "I know she's clumsy, I can place the leg fracture to before our senior prom, the wrist to a hiking accident. But I've known Bella for a long time, and I've never heard of any of these before."
"Most of these are old, dated back to when she was a child, you said so yourself." Emmett spread the x-rays out in front of the two of them. "If I had seen any of these injuries on one of my younger patients Edward, the first thing I would have done is called CPS."
Edward's knuckles were white, his hands gripping the bed rails so tightly he thought he would break them. "These are from before Bella came to live with her father, Em. These are all from before I had even met her." He pulled his phone from his pocket, throwing it toward Emmett. "Get Jasper here now."
"What are you two trying to tell me?" Jasper looked down at the same pictures Emmett had showed Edward and frowned. "All of these are Bella?" Jasper too remembered the young, vibrant girl that the Cullen's had fallen in love with. "I don't remember any of this happening to her."
"That's because all of these things happened under her mothers care, Jasper. All of these things happened while that monster had her." Edward was furious, Jasper could feel the rage pouring out of him, as if he were sweating it out. "She didn't tell me the whole story."
Jasper placed a reassuring hand on his friend's shoulder and sighed, "Can you blame her? I think you're even scaring Emmett, calm down."
"Calm down?" Edward's voice boomed above the rest of them, echoing down the hallways. "You want me to fucking calm down?" He shoved Jasper's hand off of him and started to pace the length of the room, his hands pulling at his hair. "Do you get what this is at all? All of these injuries, practically all of them are consistent with physical abuse, Jasper." He kicked a trash bin, sending it across the room. "I knew that they fucked with her emotionally, I knew that, the signs point to that, but this…" His face was red, his eyes brimming with tears. "This is unfucking believable."
"I think we really need to bring Charlie in on this, Ed. He needs to know what happened to his daughter" Jasper used a calming voice; one usually reserved for Alice's fashion freak outs. "Emmett knows enough to be brought in on our plans too."
Out of the corner of his eye he saw Emmett rub his two hands together, a smile that could be described as menacing flashing across his face, if he weren't so angry, he'd laugh. "I over heard a bit the other day boys," Emmett's voice was quiet, almost a whisper. "and I know that you both know that I know everything."
Jasper cracked a small smile and grabbed a hold of Edward's shoulder again. "We all love her Edward, maybe not like you do, but we love her."
Emmett threw his big arm around Edward too, squeezing him tightly. "And it's obvious to me that we all know what we have to do."
Edward huffed loudly, trying to calm himself. "Alright. But we're the only ones who can know. Not Charlie, not Alice, not even Bella." The other men nodded and then the planning began.
