Okay, so I know I said this would be a oneshot, but I changed my mind.

EPOV

This was absolutely dreadful. Today had started off normal, I left Bella's house at around 5 am to get ready for a hunting trip, knowing I couldn't go to school today because of the sun. I wanted nothing more than to stay with Bella, but sometimes vampire life just sucked. No pun intended. When I got home, Alice had me dressed and bathed in a matter of seconds, claiming that the boys hunting trip started earlier than the girls. Emmett and Rose however were late so instead of Boys and girls the groups got mixed up. Esme, Carlisle and I were in one group and Alice, Rose, Emmett and Jasper were in the other. I decided to merge with the two groups and hunt all day, half of the day with the first group and half with the second. I mean, there was nothing better to do anyways since Bella wouldn't be able to come over and I wouldn't be able to go over there. Our cover up sickness made Charlie wary of sending her anywhere near me or my 'ill' family for the next week or so.

Like I said: Vampire life sucked. We got out of the house early and did the usual mountain ranges and forests we normally hunted at. I missed Bella immensely, especially when I let my mind wander to her. At noon I pictured her eating lunch with Jess and Mike as he tried to hit on her. I wished I were there to defend her. I also wished it was legal to snap his neck, too, but that wasn't going to happen.

I was irritated when I couldn't catch any mountain lions up in the ranges, and the kill today wasn't the greatest, either. When we came home for the second group- who I would be joining too- Alice was on the phone.

"Thanks, Bella… Sorry for interrupting your class Mr. M."

She was talking to Bella?

She hung up, blocking her mind from me.

"Alice, what's going on?" I sighed, frustrated at my little devil-pixie sister.

"Nothing. I had to call Bella." She smiled, but her mind was still being blocked by Switzerland's national anthem.

"In class?"

"Yeah, she just needed some advice, that's all. I didn't realize she was in Mr. Masen's class at the time, but whatever." She said with a straight face. I decided to let it go. If it were something severely important or dangerous to Bella, she would've told me. It was probably some stupid girl stuff that Bella didn't want me to know for whatever reason.

"Whatever, can we just go?"

"Wait!" Alice stopped me. I saw a brief vision in her mind that got cut off by the anthem again. Was that… Bella? In… black lingerie? With Charlie?

"I … I uhm, might've replaced her cloths…"

"God, Alice!" I yelled, though I found it pretty entertaining myself.

"Hey, Em? Can you go give these to Bella?" Alice asked.

I was going to ask why I couldn't be the one to go but Alice showed me standing there with Bella in lingerie and Charlie with a knife. That explains it.

"We're gunna get a head start on hunting, Emmett; can you meet us there with the Jeep?" Rose asked

"Yeah, sure." He replied, walking out the door.

We all piled in the Volvo, planning on going to some new mountain ranges a little further away from home, and Bella, since the last hunting experience with the other half of my family wasn't a great catch.

Emmett met us maybe fifteen minutes later, still laughing.

Looks like I've seen more of your fiancé than you have! He thought, making me growl. He was so irritating sometimes.

"Stop teasing him, Em." Rose ordered.

"Thank you for controlling your husband." I nodded.

"No problem," She laughed, as Emmett pouted.

Finally, after an hour of hunting, we caught scent of some nearby mountain lions.

"Be right back, I have to go bag a few for Bella," I laughed, Alice smiled and nodded.

"You're ridiculous, you know!" She called after me.

Her only reply was my laugh, before I let instincts take over. I closed my eyes and tried to pinpoint them. I used my ears to perceive how fast they were moving and I let my body follow what my senses said. I could hear their hearts pumping wet and juicy in their veins. Their hot blood just underneath their weak skin. I sniffed the air around me, trying to detect how many there were. Three. Two males and one female. Just over the hill, behind the trees. I leapt. Soaring through the air, I landed on the female and sunk my teeth into the space just below her neckline. The Males got aggressive, and tried to attack. I could barely feel their claws on my rock hard skin. It was like they were rubbing my arms, not digging in their claws. I knocked them both out with a flick of my wrist and continued my mean in peace.

Two deer and a buck later, I was ready to go back to the campsite where the rest of the group was. Man, was I thirsty today.

As I entered the site, I noticed Alice was gone.

"She still out?" I asked Rose.

It was rare that my little sister ever hunted longer than I did when we split up like that. Because she was so tiny, her body didn't need to hunt as much to keep her from being too thirsty, so she was almost always done before any of us. Especially Emmett and I who were both back already.

"No, she left, like, two minutes after you went out." Rosalie shrugged.

"Where did she go?" I asked.

"Don't know. She got a weird call." Emmett shrugged

"From…?"

They shrugged, so I checked their minds.

Alice said not to tell him but it's not even that big of a deal. She just needed a ride… crap he's listening… Amanece, lo veis?, a la luz de la aurora? lo que tanto aclamamos la noche caer? sus estrellas sus franjas flotaban ayer en el fiero combate en señal de victoria, fulgor de lucha, al paso de la libertada.

Rose blocked herself with the Spanish version of the national Anthem. Well played Rose. Emmett's thoughts were already blocked when I got down to focusing on them.

"Fine. I'll just call her then." Who would need a ride at midnight from Alice while she was supposed to be sick… And where the hell was my phone?

"Hey guys..?"

"Alice said Lauren took your phone after breaking into your locker last Tuesday. Sorry dude, guess you can't call her."

"You guys suck, why couldn't you just tell me that? I might've had time to get it!"

"Alice." They shrugged.

As if by miracle, Rose's phone rang.

"It's Alice," she said, handing me the phone.

"Alice?" I answered, "Where have you been?"

"I'm actually back in Forks," She said calmly, in that voice I knew meant she was hiding something.

"Why?" I grew more suspicious.

"Well, my dear sister needed me and you know I'd do anything for her." She prompted

"Why did she need you, Alice?" I grew more and more wary with each second.

"There was an… accident." She sighed, defeated.

"What kind of an 'accident', Alice?" I growled

"She… slipped, and needed me to drive her home." I could almost see her wincing with each question I asked.

"Home from where?" I prodded.

"The… ER." She sighed, defeated yet again.

"She was in the hospital and you didn't tell me?" I was hurt. Bella, my Bella was so hurt she had to be brought to the hospital, and nobody had the decency to even tell me?

"She didn't want you to know," Alice defended

I grumbled. Why wouldn't she want me to know? It only made me more upset. Did she not want me to take care of her? Did she not like it when I came over?

"Can I talk to her?"

"You may." Alice allowed, handing the phone over to Bella.

"H-hello?" She stuttered, nervously. She almost sounded… afraid.

"Hey, beautiful," I murmured

"Yeah?"

"Why didn't you tell me you were hurt?" I sounded upset, but calm, "I would've taken you home."

"I didn't want you to be mad," She said, sheepishly.

"Why would I ever be mad?" I was pretty confused.

"Because I know it hurts you to be around me when I'm all bloody."

My heart sank.

"Oh, Bella," I sounded even sadder.

"Do you not want me?" she whimpered

"What? Where did that come from?" I was stunned by her question. How could I not want her?

"I don't know. Why do you want to be with a clumsy human who constantly puts you through pain?" She responded

"Bella," I spoke softly, yet fiercely at the same time "I love you no matter what. Just because you fell doesn't mean I don't want you, my silly, silly girl."

"I know." She whispered sadly.

"Where did that come from?"

"Lauren," She muttered, and I growled uncontrollably. That phone stealing, annoying voiced, fake looking, sick minded b*tch.

"I'll kill her for making you cry," I promised, darkly.

"Who said she made me cry?" she asked, though it was easy to tell she had been.

"Bella, are you… okay?" I asked. Sure she had a bad day, but there was more to it than that. Her voice wasn't as happy, it held nothing, like she was empty. There was a pause on the other line and a bit of sniffing.

"No," her voice cracked, and she started crying into the receiver.

"Shh, Bella, Shh. I'll come back, okay? I'll be there soon. Calm down," I tried to calm her.

"I'm sorry," she mumbled through tears "It's been a really hard day."

"Yeah, I can tell," I chuckled without humor.

"I bet you can," she laughed too.

"Hey, I love you," I reminded her

"I love you, too," She sighed and hung up.

I was in the car before the phone clicked off. I didn't even give Rose an explanation. Since Alice had taken my car, I took the jeep. So basically I stranded my brother and sister a couple hundred miles away from out town, in the middle of the forest. They would find something to do. I don't think they'd ever had sex in the woods before. Yeah, Emmett would come up with that in a few seconds. A pleasant surprise for Alice if she decided to go back and hunt.

I ran the engine as fast as possible to get to her, at as fast as possible without blowing up the car. To my extreme distaste, the Jeep Wrangler didn't go as fast as the other cars my family owned. The engine sped and the vibrations became stronger. The buzzing got louder and higher as it accelerated. It still wasn't fast enough, but it would have to do. I was probably going to drain Emmett's car of battery and gas in a matter of minutes at this speed. We'd probably have to carry it home before daytime since Charlie couldn't know I was there and it wouldn't be able to drive that far when I was through with it.

I got a text from Alice saying she was leaving, and I'd better be there soon because Bella was getting nightmares again. Damn. After I came back last September, her nightmares seemed to have stopped. Apparently not. Did she get them every time I went hunting? Was it that bad, that Alice needed me to get there ASAP? The car speeded up just that much more.

I was an ass for leaving her. A stupid, cruel, demented, masochistic ass. What was wrong with me? I was a horrible person. She shouldn't have even taken me back. I didn't deserve her. I didn't deserve any position in her life. Not even the right to look at her. But the only way to punish myself was to leave again, and there was no way in hell I would let us be separated ever again. Especially not by choice.

Finally, at around 4:15, I reached her house and climbed my way up to her bedroom.

"You shouldn't still be awake," I chided softly, when I saw her eyes wide open and the light on.

"I couldn't sleep," She mumbled.

"Nightmares?" I guessed.

"Yeah."

I sighed, what was I going to do with her?

I kissed her forehead gently, and wrapped my arms around her waist, laying down with her and pulling the covers over our bodies.

"Do you want to talk about it?" I asked, and she shook her head no, pressing it against my chest.

"Okay," I sighed, "Does your leg hurt?" I asked.

"Yeah, kinda," she admitted. This was bad, really, really bad. Bella downplayed everything. Admitting to an injury was like admitting murder to her. It must really hurt if she's willing to tell me it does at all.

Since it hurt, I rested my cool hand on her knee. I heard her breathe a sigh of relief. I smiled, glad that I could help in any way I could. Maybe being a vampire didn't suck as much as I thought it did. It actually came in handy sometimes. After a second of lying there, her heartbeat slowed and her breathing evened out.

"Edward makes things better just by being here" She mumbled in her sleep.

Didn't she know she had the same effect on me?

BOOM! EPOV…Like hate? Whatever. I really liked it. I might do one of the morning after but maybe not… it depends. Review please! :)