Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

An Imperfect Life

By Midnight Dreamer

Chapter 03: The End or the Beginning?

(BPOV)

I woke up on the sofa to mumbled voices. Emmett and Dan were both leaning over me. They looked like they had both been crying. Then the realization hit. I remembered why Dan was here. He came to tell us mom and dad were in a accident, and that dad was in the hospital and mom was….mom was….was….was…. I started to cry all over again. It hadn’t been just a terrible nightmare. It was real. Emmett  lifted me into his lap and started to cradle me as if I was a fragile piece of glass that would break apart if he didn’t hold me together. I looked over at Dan. He was a mess, wasn’t he supposed to be composed, it was his job. He was supposed to be comforting the family, not breaking down into a blubbering mass on the floor. Then it dawned on me that he loved my Father and Mother too. He became part of the family too, when he became partners with my dad. I slowly slid off Emmett’s lap and went to wrap my arms around Dan’s shoulders. He pulled away at first and then pulled me into a tight embrace. When we finally got our heads together I looked to Dan.

” Where did they take Dad?” I asked.

” Mount Synide Medical Hospital on 12th street” he replied.

” We should pull ourselves together and get over there so we can be there for him.” I said.

With that we all got up and went out to Dan’s police cruiser. He drove us to the hospital. When we entered the hospital, we asked the nurse at the desk where to find our father and she gave us his room number.  He was up on the fourth floor. When we entered the room he looked like he was asleep. Dan went to find the doctor so we could find out  what was going on. It wasn’t long until we were speaking with the doctor who was on call when my father came in.

“My condolences on the loss of your Mother. Your father has been put into a medically indued coma to help him heal. He hit his head pretty hard. There was a lot of swelling and some bleeding, but he should pull out of it. He has two broken ribs, a fractured vertebra, and a broken leg. He will need lots of time to recover so he won’t be leaving the hospital for while.” The Doctor told us.

” But he will be okay won’t he? He will recover fully?” I asked.

“Yes dear he will make a full recovery. But we will know more once he wakes up” he said.

The doctor left and we went to sit around at my fathers side. I sat to his left and held his hand. Emmett and Dan sat on his right and waited patiently for some sign of waking from our dad. I leaned in to my dads ear and started whispering to him.

“Daddy please wake up. I need you. You can’t leave me here alone with Emmett, he’ll make fun of me all the time if there isn’t someone there to buffer him. Please daddy wake up” I said into his ear.

I felt daddy’s hand twitch.

“He moved. I think he is waking up. ” I said to Emmett and Dan.

They both looked at me with hope in there eyes. As we watched my father start to come around.

“Bella” he said groggily.

“Yes daddy I’m right here. Please don’t worry everything is fine” I told him.

“Where is your brother?” he asked as he became more aware of his surroundings.

“I’m right here dad” Emmett told him.

Looking around Charlie realized where he was.

“What happened? Why am I in a hosptial? Where is Renee?” he asked.

” Dad, dad calm down. Let me get your doctor so he can explain everything to you.” I told him.

I got up and walked to the hallway. The nurse at the desk looked up at me as I approached her.

“Excuse me, can you please page Doctor Dwight my father is awake” I said

“Yes dear no problem I will page him right away” she replied.

As I turned around and headed for the door to my fathers room I could hear the doctor being paged. (Dr. Dwight to the fourth floor, Dr. Dwight to the fourth floor. Your patient is awake.) I entered Charlie’s room and he was sitting up.

” So now are you gonna tell me what’s going on and why it looks like you all have been crying?” my father asked.

“Dad I think I should let Dan tell you what happened.” I said.

Just then Charlie noticed that Dan was leaning up against the wall just behind Emmett.

“Well Dan what happened? And why am I in here?” Charlie said.

“Charlie just relax, you were in an accident on your way home last night. A drunk driver apparently ran a red light and ran you off the road. Your car flipped over on it’s roof. You were unconscious and have broken a few bones and sustained multiple lacerations. You were rushed to this hospital.” Dan stated.

“What about Renee?” Charlie cornered

“well um” he stuttered.

Then everything got real quite. Charlie looked around at everyone and suddenly his eyes widened as he ascertained what had happened.

” No, No, No. Not Renee. Renee. Renee” Charlie started shouting.

Just then the doctor came in through the door.

“Now Mr. Swan please calm yourself or I will be forced to sedate you. I know there is a lot to go over, but now we need to check your vitals and get some blood work done to rule out any other problems. How is your head feeling?” the doctor said.

“My head feels fine doc. Tell me what happened to my Wife. I wanna know what happened to Renee.” Charlie countered.

” Well Mr. Swan…”

“Charlie.” my dad corrected.

“Charlie, you were in a serious accident. You sustained some serious injuries, Your wife’s injuries were much more traumatic, since the driver hit her side of the car, she did not survive the crash.”

Tears sprung to dad’s eyes but he refused to let them fall. He would be strong for us.

“How long am I in for Doc. My case load is over flowing and I can’t afford to take time off of work.” Charlie looked straight ahead staring at nothing. “ I won’t know what to do without Renee around.. I have to get back to work.” He whispered more to himself.

“Sorry Charlie but no such luck. You need to rest. You will be here a while longer, then you will have to go to physical therapy.” the doctor prompted.

Charlie whimpered. The doctor left leaving us to grieve for our loss.

The weeks drifted by. We made the arrangements for Mom’s funeral, and  continued to attend school. Charlie was pissed and upset that they wouldn’t release him so he could attend. We had the service recorded so dad could see what a wonderful job they did. So many people attended.  

Charlie and Dan fought daily over his returning to work. Dan said he had everything under control but Dad didn’t buy it, he knew exactly what he left for Dan to deal with on his own, and he needed to find a way to work through his grief at loosing my mother.

 After a month and a half in the hospital Charlie couldn’t wait to get out. He still had a long way to go. According to the doctor he still had two weeks of physical therapy left before he would give him the okay to go back to work. Charlie spent his days whining and pouting about not being able to do anything. His nights he spent in his room, I don’t think he wanted us to know he was crying but you could hear him if you listened hard enough. I know he misses mom.

I tried to stay strong for as long as I could for dad, but now it’s like it all came crashing down on me at once. Dad was home now and on his way to recovering fully, I didn’t need to be there for Emmett he seemed to be taking everything in stride like always, so I stayed in my room, I couldn’t eat or sleep, I hardly ever left. Emmett started telling everyone at school that I was sick, but I don’t think anyone believes him. Nicole stopped by but I told them to tell her I didn’t want to see anyone. I felt so lost. It seemed like a part of me died along with her.  My moods changed like the days, one day I would be sad the next mad. Eventually everyone stopped talking to me. They watched me like a hawk though. Waiting for me to just stop breathing.

It went  like this for 3 weeks. Charlie finally went back to work, after he and Emmett forced me to go back to school. Well my body went back to school, my mind went else where. My friends would try to talk to me but when they did I would snap at them or just ignore them all together. Eventually they too stopped trying. One day after an extremely brutal day at school I came home to find Charlie sitting at his desk in what appeared to be an important conversation. As he hung up the phone he turned to me and smiled. I tried to return the smile but it came out more as a frown.

“Bella is Emmett with you?” Charlie asked with a huge grin on his face.

I simply nodded my head toward the door. Just then Emmett came storming through the door.

“Can you believe that girl! She just keeps leading me on and I keep falling for it. I won’t do it anymore” he ranted.

I cleared my throat to catch his attention. I still wasn’t into talking to anyone.

” OH….I didn’t see you there. Sorry I was yelling, I just had a rough day” he said coming over to me and catching me up in a big bear hug.

I winced but then slowly relaxed.

“Can I have a word with both of you?” Charlie asked.

“Sure okay, it can’t be any worse then the day I had today” Emmett said.

We followed Charlie into the living room and took a seat on the sofa.

” I wanna talk to you about something important.” Charlie said.

I quirked a brow in question.

” Well I just got off the phone with an old friend of mine in Washington. It’s seems that they are in desperate need of a sheriff seeing as their’s has retired. What I wanted to ask you about is…..what do you think about moving to Washington?” Charlie finished.

“Wait. What? You want us to move to Washington? Talk about short notice. When do we leave if we decided to go?” Emmett of course with all the questions.

” If we decide to go; we will be leaving Friday after you get home from school so we can be there and settled in before you would start school first thing Monday morning” Charlie said.

“What do you think Bells? Emmett asked.

” NO… I’m not going anywhere” I screamed. “ My friends are here, my life is here, mom is here. You can’t make me go, I won’t go!” I stormed off. Both in shock that I would have such an outburst after not talkin for so long. Emmett caught me by the bottom of the stairs.

” What do you mean your not going, your friends are here…Bella you haven’t spoken to any of your friends in weeks unless your snapping at them, some of them think you’ve lost your mind. As for mom, she would tell you to move on and be happy. She wouldn’t want you to give up everything we have just to sit around here and mope. And this job offer for dad sounds like something he really wants. Didn’t you see how happy he was when he said it. You didn’t even wait to find out exactly where in Washington we would be going. Did you know that the town were moving to was where mom and dad grew up. So if we go there you won’t lose mom at all. She is there too.” Emmett exclaimed.

“I don’t care Emmett you guys can’t make me go anywhere. I’m not leaving” I yelled back at him.

” To late Bells we’re leaving Friday, me and dad decided; two against one. Now be a good little sister and go pack your things.” he chided.

“You both suck and I hate you…” I yelled back down the stairs as I slammed my bedroom door.

How could they do this to me. Everything we have ever known is here in New York. We have never even gone on vacation and now they wanna just pack us up and move us across the country to some god forsaken town I have  never heard of that doesn’t even appear on a map. I won’t go. They can’t make me leave.