Bloody Hell

Chapter 23: Bella..?

3rd Person POV

Carlisle nodded in promise as he sat on the chair, waiting patiently.

Bella took a deep breath as she shifted. Her bones snapped and rebuilt itself as she felt relief and exhaustion from being in her wolf form for presumably hours.

Carlisle's eyes widened in shock, he could never forget a face. Especially if that face was family to him. "Bella..?" His whisper was so low, Bella wouldn't hear him if she wasn't supernatural herself. "Sur..prise?" She trailed off, she noticed that bandages we're still wrapped tightly around her despite shifting. "Huh, weird." She commented.

"You're alive..?"

Oh right. Bella shrugged. "Been alive for 50 years now." She sighed deeply. It was silent for awhile before Carlisle looked at the door. "Strange, I expected Alice and Emmett to run upstairs after hearing us." Bella smiled as she shook her head. "I had wrapped a force field, no one can hear us no matter how good their hearing is."

"But... how?" Carlisle more fascinated than anything else tilted his head slightly. Bella sighed before running her hand through her hair, a habit she never gotten rid off. "Another story for another day." She comments.

Carlisle took the hint and nodded his head. "But.. Can I ask, you were a shifter this entire time? What about Victoria and James, we thought you had died!" Carlisle's tone was slightly raised but not too much.

"Well, that's where my Oscar comes in. You do everything in your power to not be found by the people that hurt you." Bella spoke, her voice dismissive. Carlisle felt a slight pang in his unbeating heart. "I'll.. I'll leave you to rest, I won't let anyone else in until you're ready." Carlisle stood up sheepish and slightly embarrassed.

"Thank you." Bella sighed and laid her head back down, pulling the covers to cover her upper body. Carlisle left and closed the door lightly as he went down stairs.

The family was watching the new vampire movie that recently came out, Hotel Transylvania.

"New movie?" He asked as Emmett nodded before giggling at the stupidity of the movie. Rosalie laying her head on his lap while scrolling through her phone. "How are they?" Esme asked as she approached her husband. "They're all stable."

Alice frowned before looking at Carlisle. "Is Ella still in her shifter form?"

Becca also leaned in the conversation, she herself was curious. "Yes she is, though I ask all of you to not enter the room for now to let them heal and give them space." As promised, Carlisle kept his mouth shut about Bella. Thank goodness Edward wasn't here.

"I see, I understand." A small sigh of disappointment came out of Alice as she reverted her eyes back towards the TV.

Jasper squinted his eyes and tapped his girlfriend on the shoulder. Becca nodded.

They knew something was up.

(A short one but yes)