Chapter Eight

I could hear a loud beeping sound coming from my right and the semi lough snoring coming from my right. There was also something heavy and warm wrapped around my middle and laying heavily on my left side. My eyes fluttered open when the beeping started to get annoying. I wanted it to stop. When I finally got my heavy lids to open all the way I was met with a dimly lit room and through the blinds of the window, I could see that it was definitely night time and probably close to midnight with it being so dark.

Looking to my left I came face to hair with a blond mop that I have come to love. Jasper had me completely wrapped into his arms in a death grip and by the way it felt, he wasn't going to let me go anytime soon. I ran my fingers lightly through his curls but stop when I felt the raise of something on his scalp. I pushed his hair aside to just barely see the outline of three staples in the crown of his head.

Mother fucker.

I'm going to kill Jake.

Not only did he go jumping to conclusions and doing the whole 'kick ass first, take names later' routine but he physically hurt Jasper.

I could feel the anger building up in me. Not only at Jake but if when Jacob said was true, the accident that Charlie and Sue were in was all because of Edward and Alice. My ex-boyfriend and ex-best friend that were both supposed to be long since dead. If they were really alive, in a sense, and they hurt my family purposely... I don't care if they are vampires or whatever the hell they are, I will kill them. I will light both of their asses of fire and then spit in the ashes.

My eyes had adjusted enough to look around the room and my gaze landed on the massive snoring form to my right. Emmett.

What the hell?

“Emmett!” I hissed as quietly as possible.

Nothing.

“Emmett!” I said a little louder.

Still nothing.

I looked around me and all I could see was a Styrofoam cup sitting beside my bed. I picked it up and luckily it was empty and chucked it at Emmett's sleeping form. I guess I threw it harder than I meant to because it smacked him right in the face.

Emmett jumped out of the chair, looking around frantically and shouted, “What!?”

I tried to hold in my laughter, I really did. But it just didn't work. I let it roll.

“Christ Bella. You scared the shit outta me. Whats wrong?”

I held up and finger telling him to wait a minute while I let my laughter die down. “Sorry Em. Didn't mean to scare you.” I snickered.

Emmett rolled his eyes. “Only time you will ever scare me sis, now, pray tell why you are throwing things at my face at,” he glanced down at his wrist and then back up, “three in the morning?”

“I was wondering what you're doing here. How the hell did you get here so fast?”

“Bella, I got here two days ago.” His face was pinched in concern. “When you passed out, from what I heard, you hit your head pretty hard. Carlisle said you would wake up soon but your body just needed to rest. That you were stressed out from taking in everything at once. When Jasper called to tell us what was going on, I packed up my family and came to check on my baby sister. How are you feeling by the way?”

“My head is pounding, my eyes hurt, my mouth feels like I've been chewing cotton and I have to pee like a freaking Russian race horse.” I whined.

The weight that was laying on the left half of my body started to shake. Looking down I was met with Jasper's beautiful eyes and they were twinkling with amusement while his entire body was shaking with silent laughter.

I rolled my eyes are him. “Oh ha-ha, laugh at my painfully full bladder. But, if you don't let me up Jazz, I might end up peeing myself. So....” He was up and off of the bed before I could say another word. I gave him a bright smile and leaped out from under the covers much faster than I should have causing myself to sway on my rubbery legs. “Whoa.”

Jasper grabbed my arm to steady me. “Easy there, darlin.”

“Thanks.” I smiled, making sure my legs were okay before I bolted straight to the bathroom to relieve myself.

***

Embry had stood watch outside of my room the entire time I was asleep while Jake and Seth watched over Charlie and Sue. The doctor was going to let me see Charlie now but I had to promise I wouldn't do or say anything to get him worked up because they were afraid of his heart completely giving out on him. I pushed passed Jacob and walked into my father's room with Jasper in tow behind me.

That wasn't the smarted thing to do...

“What the hell is he doing here!?” Charlie shouted. “I want him out! Now!”

“Dad, calm down. Its not good for you to get all upset, just breathe, please.”

Charlie shook his head. “No. I'm in here because of his crazy brother! That bullshit that Jacob and the rez boys gave to the hospital about finding a dead animal was just that, complete and utter bullshit!”

“Charlie if you don't calm down I will get the doctor to come sedate you again!” Jake shouted from the doorway.

“Don't you threaten me Jacob black.” Charlie growled. He actually growled. Looking to Jasper he sneered. “What are your family?” he demanded.

Jasper shuffled his feet and the floor became very interesting to him. “We are human, Charlie. Well, we are now.”

“What do you mean 'now'?” Charlie questioned. “Were you wolves too?”

Jasper blanched. “What do you mean 'wolves too'?” Jasper questioned him right back.

“Watch it son, don't give me attitude. I know that the rez boys are wolves. Now answer me, were you wolves too?”

“No sir. We were not wolves, we were their enemies.” Jasper gave a wry glance in Jacob's direction.

“How did you know about us, Charlie?” Jake asked.

Charlie snorted. “Well, all the wolf sightings around La Push and then they were turning up in Sue's backyard and then my backyard. Plus, I saw this sandy-ish colored wolf walk right up to my back door one night and then the wolf was gone and replaced with a very naked Seth. I damn near crapped my pants that night!”

Jacob chuckled. “Yeah seeing a horse-sized wolf turn into a teenager would cause that reaction to anyone.. well, except for Bella.”

“You knew!?” Charlie shouted.

I put my finger to my lips. “Shh, Jesus dad. We were threatened to be removed if we upset you too much. So just keep it down to a light yell if anything.” Turning to give him my most innocent smile possible but it didn't work.

“Why did you ever tell me about this stuff Bella? If you knew all along that these guys weren't human, why the hell did you even hang out with them?” I started to reply but he cut me off turning a glare to Jasper. “And if your family isn't wolves, what the fuck are you?”

“Were.” Jasper stressed. “We were vampires.”

“V-vampires?”

“Yes sir. But, we weren't the typical vampire. We feed from animals only and we were not a danger to anyone...”

Jacob snorted. “Not a danger? You do remember what happened on Bella's birthday, right? When you tried to drain her because of a fucking paper cut?”

“Shut up, Jacob. That is not what happened. We found out the truth about what really went down that night and Jasper was never coming after me. He was after Edward.” I grounded out with a glare.

“I don't know what the hell all happened but what happened, happened. Now, will you all tell me why that little prick tried to kill me and my wife?”

Jasper turned towards Charlie. “What happened that night? Tell us everything you remember.”

Charlie sighed, running a hand through his dark curls. “We were on our way home. It was late because we got a bit side-tracked after dinner.” He rose his eyebrows at the eyes and I gave a shiver of disgust. “Anyway. We were still on the highway when I thought I saw something up ahead in the room. The closer we got the better I could make out that it was a person.”

“Well, the person was in the opposite line from ours and when we were a couple hundred feet away a started to slow down. Which didn't work so well because the brakes on the cruiser have been getting bad. When we hit a puddle, we started sliding and I couldn't stop us cause the damned brakes had locked up on me. I had braced my arm across Sue's chest just in case and when I turned back toward the road we were close enough to see the person.”

I was clutching Jasper's hand tightly in mine and I could feel Jacob's vibrating form against my opposite arm. Charlie gave another heavy sigh before continuing.

“It was Edward. I thought that I was seeing things are first to be honest. I mean, Edward Cullen, back in Forks after all this time. But that was what had me so weirded out about seeing him. The head lights were right on him. I always thought you all were paler than a normal person should be but the golden eyes I remembered all of you guys having weren't what was staring back at me. His eyes were blood red.”

“I seriously thought I was seeing shit... I was simply just going to drive past him and pray we got home safe. In my mild panic, I hit the accelerator. When Edward saw this, he stepped in front of the car. I couldn't have stopped if I wanted to because his entire being blurred and that was when we felt the impact. I had looked up in time to see Edward with his shoulder slammed into the front of the cruiser. He stopped the car dead in its tracks.”

“I was so thankful that I hadn't moved my arm from in front of Sue but then an impact from the right side of the car hit. I watched in horror as the passenger side door caved completely in. I knew Sue was trapped when she let out that heart-breaking cry. The hit jerked the car so hard Sue hit her head on the window. All I heard was her tell me she loved me before she passed out. I was hysterical at that point, I tried everything to wake her up but it would work.”

I thought for sure that Charlie was going to break down and cry at any minute.

“Then I heard laughing outside of the car. There stood Edward and Alice. Both laughing like someone had just told the funniest fucking joke in the world. Alice actually came to my side and kissed my cheek with her bright smile she always used on me before she just disappeared. Edward got really quiet after she left though. He said something about complications and that he had to go. But that wasn't before...”

Charlie's gulp was audible.

“Before what Charlie?” Jasper asked softly.

“He said he was going to claim what was rightfully his. He's come back for Bella. Said he would stop at nothing until she was his and if he couldn't have her then no one could.” Charlie finally broke and a sob escaped his chest.

I was at his side in an instance. I hugged him close to me, trying to assure him that nothing was going to happen to anyone.

We were all quiet for a long while after charlie's and my sobbing had stopped. Jasper was perched on the other side of Charlie. Jacob all of a sudden went completely rigid. A low growl echoed throughout the entire room.

“Jake?”

“Embry don't leave this room. Call Seth and tell him to watch his back and his mom. Call everyone else.” He was in full alpha mode. “We have a visitor.”