Chapter 8

The 16th Alice showed up she found Helen home in her room working on homework, every Friday Bella would bring Helen's homework home for her and every Monday she would turn it in for her so she would be able to keep up with her classes. But she was missing a lot of school.

Helen ran to Alice and embraced her Alice pulled back and Helen noticed her eyes were black.

Helen said "Sorry I'm just so excited to see you. Are you back for good, is the family with you?"

Alice said "I came because I saw Bella jump off a cliff. She killed herself."

Helen said "I don't know what you saw but Bella would never do that. She has been very depressed since you all left but she would never kill herself. I'm sure of it."

They heard the door open and Alice left the room in a flash Helen went down stairs at a human speed. Bella saw her coming down and said "get back to bed."

Helen said "I'm tired of being in bed and I'm hungry. Charlie went to the Clearwater's they had some kind of emergency."

Bella said "Harry Clearwater died. He is probably helping Sue with the funeral arrangements. I will make you something to eat while you rest on the couch."

Alice asked "you are sick again?"

Helen went to the couch and said "it turns out I have an immune deficiency the slightest cold can send me to the hospital. I'm missing a lot of school. Bella brings home my homework for me. But I might not graduate I have missed so much school."

Alice had to go hunting she left while Bella made dinner.

Bella made up the coach for Alice Charlie came home he was surprised to see Alice. He sent Helen back up to bed after dinner. Bella fell asleep on the couch.

The next day Alice and the girls caught up on the news with the Cullen family and Alice learned what the Swans had been up to.

Alice asked Bella while she was making dinner and Helen was in her room "how bad is this immune Deficiency of Helen's."

Bella said "if we aren't careful it can kill her. She tries to keep positive but this is really getting the better of her. She takes her temperature every morning if it is elevated at all she can't go to school. She has to wear a mask in public. The slightest illness tends to send her to the hospital. The fact that she most likely won't graduate has really brought her down. Helen has always been more fragile then I have been but this is the first time I have really been afraid we are going to lose her. Even the Leukemia wasn't this bad."

The next evening Charlie was at Harry's funeral and Helen was in bed when Bella came in and started packing a bag.

Helen asked "are you going somewhere?"

Bella said "I have to go to Italy to keep Edward from killing himself."

Helen said "slap him for me when you see him for being stupid. I will hold down the fort while you are gone. Charlie isn't going to take this well."

Bella said "I will leave a note."

Helen quickly got out of bed and ran to the bathroom and got sick Bella stood in the doorway Helen looked at her and said "go save Edward me being sick is nothing new I promise I will be here when you get back."

Bella said "you better be alright."

Bella left with Alice they were gone for three days. Helen was not home when Bella got back. She was in the hospital again. Bella and Edward went to the hospital Charlie was by Helen's bedside she was intubated and in a medically induced coma.

Bella asked "what is it this time?"

Charlie said "they aren't sure the cause this time but she was having trouble breathing it got so bad they had to intubate her and they put her in a coma so she won't fight the intubation. What is he doing here?"

Edward said "Bella should get home and rest."

Bella said "I can't leave Helen."

Edward said "there is nothing you can do for her if you are exhausted. Both of you don't need to be sick."

Charlie said "go home Bella come back after you have rested."

Several days passed Carlisle returned to work and he examined Helen and reviewed her resent medical history and he came up with a solution to make Helen well.

Charlie and Bella were in Helen's hospital room Carlisle said "I believe I have discovered a solution to Helen's problem. She has nearly no immune system to speak of I believe a bone marrow transplant will give her a boost to her immune system. Bella you are her identical twin there for your blood will be a perfect match. Donating bone marrow is not an easy thing but if we don't do this the likelihood of Helen recovering is slim at best. If she does recover from this illness there is nothing that says the next illness won't take her."

Bella said "of course I will donate my bone marrow to her. I wish there was more I could do to help her."

Carlisle performed the procedure two days after it was done Helen was able to breath on her own again 10 days later she was able to go home. She seemed to be getting a little better everyday. By May she was back at school but it determined that she had missed too many days and she would have to repeat her senior year.