Hey guys, sorry this chapter took so long, i've had it written up for ages but i've been honded with school stiff lately! Hope you enjoy!
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Chapter 10
If vampires could cry I think I would be in hysterics right now. I cannot even start to explain the stab of pain that shot through me when I thought of my Bella in any kind of trouble or discomfort. It just isn't right for such an angel to face so many obstacles in life. As I traveled at break neck speed down the motorway, my mind began to spin with all the possibilities of things that could have happened to her, each new scenario worse than the one before. She could have fallen and gone into premature labor, or one of the patients could have attacked her, or there could have been a shoot out in the hospital, or a fire, or an explosion…
As soon as I reached the hospital I leapt out of the car without bothering to park properly and raced through the hospital doors whilst the receptionist shouted after me that I simply couldn't park in front of the hospital doors without a permit. Permit my ass. Like I'm going to stop and sort that out while both my reasons for existing might be in mortal peril. I darted round the corner into the ER and nearly collided with my dad. He in turn grasped my shoulders and rooted me to the floor. I tried to push past, I had to find Bella, but my attempts were futile. I finally let my body relax and brought my eyes to stare into that of my fathers. He waited another couple of minutes before speaking.
"Thank you Edward for calming down," he said calmly. "You'll be no help to Bella being in the state you were before, though your reaction is completely understandable." I took a slow, shaky breath to steady myself before I nodded once.
"What happened?" My voice shook as I tried to hold Carlisle's eye to gauge a reaction. "Is Bella alright?" I continued, my voice breaking slightly at the end. He smiled softly, before releasing my shoulders and leading me through the winding hallways.
"It wasn't as bad as I originally thought. When we got the call up in the surgery the information was muddled and I couldn't really tell what was about whom. It seems that whilst Bella was assisting on a trauma case she slipped on all the blood on the floor. This happened while they were on the phone to us, so as you can imagine sounded much worse because nobody really knew what had happened." He paused to look at my reaction. I tried and hoped that my expression came through as controlled, because on the inside I was literally falling apart. "I've examined her and everything seems perfectly fine. I do, however, want her to go up to OB/GYN just to make sure. But she refused to be moved until you got here. She wasn't very happy that I called you, but we both thought it best to wait 'til you got here." I smiled weakly at Bella's attempt to easy my worrying. She knew how much of a panic I would get myself into, even if you thought I was being ridicules, and knew that it would only heighten were I not to be able to find her in the ER. As we rounded yet another corner, I swear this place is a maze, I turned to see my Bella, complaining as usual. I have to admit that brought out small smile. At least she's feeling like herself.
"Stop it!" she warned, as they tried to sit her in a wheelchair. "I'm not going anywhere until Edward is here and you can't make me!" she exclaimed indignantly.
"Miss you must calm down. It isn't good for the baby," the nurse tried to persuade her, but my Bella, ever the independent, was still trying to maneuver her way out of this situation. I heard Carlisle chuckle beside me. I raised an eyebrow in inquiry.
"She doesn't like to play by the rules or make things easy does she?"
"You've got that right," I sighed, in incredibly better spirits than earlier seeing that my Bella was well enough to argue, I started to make my way over to try and calm her down before she caused herself serious damage or embarrassment.
Once I was near enough for her to see me her beautiful rosy blush flushed across her face and neck. She gave me a small smile before complying with the nurse's wishes and settling herself in the wheelchair provided.
"Took you long enough," she grumbled, crossing her arms over her chest and pouting like a child whose been told off. I chuckled softly, before taking the wheelchair handles from the nurse and proceeding to the elevators. I could sense her about to complain about me not being hospital staff and protocol, but thankfully Carlisle steeped in to explain to her as I whisked Bella away to OB/GYN.
"You know," I whispered in her ear as I bent down to her current height over the seat. "I don't think your OB is going to be extremely impressed to be seeing you twice in the last 48 hours, do you?" I joked lightly, to which she replied with incoherent mutterings that even I couldn't understand. I know it was a bit mean, but she's that clumsy that you can't help but say something sometimes. Once we'd entered an empty elevator and I pressed the button for level 4, I went and knelt down in front of her. As soon as I tried to look into her eyes she turned her face downwards. I tried to meet her gaze by looking up and under but with no luck. Frustrated, I gently placed two fingers under and chin and lifted her head up so she was forced to look at me. I could see her eyes tearing up already, and soon after salty tears started spilling over and running down her cheeks.
"Hey," I soothed, wrapping both her arms around her sobbing form and pulling her up against my chest. "Don't be like this love. You know I hate to see you cry, and I was just an accident, no harm done." I comforted her as she started to calm down.
"That's the thing though," she cried, slowly retracting herself from my embrace. "It's always an accident and its always me but its not always 'no harm done'! I know that I probably worried you to death and I probably worried everybody else to death as well and all because I can't stay on my own two feet for more than 5 seconds…" I place a finger on her lips to stop her rambling, then reached up to twist around a piece of hair that had escaped her ponytail. I sighed gently before caressing her cheek and wiped away her tears with the pad of my thumb.
"You are both a hundred percent corrected and completely wrong at the same time my dear Bella." I explained softly, to which so just gave me an extremely confused look. "You do, on a regular basis, scare the life out of me. I think if I were human that I would have had at least 2 heart attacks by now! You do worry everyone else and its true that you honestly can't stay on your own feet for more than 5 seconds, but at the end of the day its part of who you are and we all love you for it. Ask anybody you like, they'll tell you exactly the same thing." I smiled hugely, and after a couple of seconds she joined me with her own dazzling smile just as the elevator dinged signaling our arrival. I quickly went round to the other side of her wheelchair and pushed her through the opening doors onto the ward.
"Now, lets go make sure you didn't do to much damage with that little fall of yours," I chuckled and sure enough she started giggling at my half hearted joke. I think her laughter was more at my expense though, what with my famous worrying. Just as we rounded the corning, Dr Prescott caught sight of us and gave a small sigh before making his way towards us.
"Back again already Bella?" he chuckled. Bella nodded mechanically. Obviously this was a regular occurrence for him, and with my Bella being the way she is I can very easy believe that. "Alright, let's see what you did this time…"
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