The Twilight Saga Fallen Star

Chapter 5. Dying

I was grateful Rosalie took Nessie away as Carlisle was trying to suture Emma's hand back. She was in apparent pain, but she refrained from screaming, adding to Edward's torture, and exacerbating his anger towards me. Carlisle did the best he could, he put all of his past long years of medical expertise into helping her, but I could see in his eyes he wasn't satisfied by the results.

To be honest I wasn't at all worried about Emma, what really scared me was the dejected look Edward had on his face, a look I haven't seen, not since the time he left me after my doomed birthday party accident. For it hadn't happened, we could have avoided all of the volturi trouble, and most importantly escaped Emma's comeback. The hole in my chest was back, only deeper engulfing me into folds and folds of fear and darkness.

"Having a long day ha?" Alice chatted breaking my chain of terrifying thoughts.
"Oh, yeah," I faintly answered.

"We were on our way to help with the bears' situation, until I got hit by another graphic vision," she teased, directing her speech at Edward.

"You saw Emma's attack?! I thought you couldn't see wolfs," I wondered puzzled.

"I didn't, I saw Edward and someone else's flying head," She taunted, obviously referring to Jacob.

"Emmet, Jasper, we need to trace that other vampire Jacob mentioned. If we really have a devious nomad vampire scouting the area, we need to know who he is and why he is here?"

Edward ordered firmly, cutting off Alice attempt to lighten up the atmosphere, and bringing back that nauseating pain to my chest.

He knelt down to touch Emma's face and whispered, pain breaking his tone,
"I am sorry for all that happened today."

"It wasn't your fault," she immediately replied a touch of anger injected in her voice.

"But as we are all here, I need to ask you all for a favor," she continued mainly eyeing Carlisle and Edward.

"Please, don't try to change me, better yet don't even try to help me. It's too late for that," her voice was breaking with agony as she held her injured hand close to her chest.

"I have accepted that, please try to accept it too. Don't force me to leave. If I am really dying, at least let me die with all of you, let me die with my family." tears broke on her face amidst the shock of all of us.

Edward was fast to wipe her tears off.
"Your humanity is beating the beast in you Emma. Don't talk about dying, you are only a hundred years old, you are too young to die." she heartedly smiled resting her head over his chest.
"You should rest now, Alice please help her upstairs."

Alice rushed to help her, as Edward gestured for Emmet and Jasper to move.
Before I even thought of following them, he turned abruptly to face me,
"I think you should stay here Bella, we don't know what we are dealing with, besides I think Nessie needs you, you got some explaining to do."

He was firm, distant and that made me refrain from arguing with him, especially when Rosalie walked in with a very curious Nessie in her hands.
She jumped in her daddy's arms and complained,
"You are leaving again?!" she said sadly, poking out her lips in an animated pout.

"Sorry darling, I have something important to do, but I will be back soon," Edwards charmingly apologized, holding her deep to his heart and showering her with kisses. Seeing them together tuned down my all day frustrations and worries.

As Edward left, Nessie focused all her attention on me. I watched her closely as she indulged on how she spent her day with Rosalie and Alice. Her wide eyes flickered like butterfly wings every time she got too excited, her sweet little hands gestures were pleasure to my eyes. Her little stories were the only entertainment I had for weeks, right up to where Jacob starred in one of them. I felt a cringe in my stomach just thinking of him and of the decisions Edward is enforcing on all of us.