Why me?

Hmm This story is turning out MUCH longer then I thought haha. So far 570 hits and 8 review!!!
Thanks to all my reviewers AceSpades, frapanappy, ladypandorarose, Peachy Keen, and Savannah Lion.
k this chapter will reveal what happened to Edward last chapter. Charlie's actions aren't being explained just yet. But I promise guys there was a point.
Here you go my avid readers.

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I lay there in bed for what seemed like forever. Just laying there, in a ball crying silently. In 3 days I'd been violated twice and god only knows what had happened to Edward. I heard a knock on my door and looked up the clock. 12:30 there was no way dad was home. Edward maybe? Possibly Alice? I shuttered at all the possibilities.

"May we come in?" A smile voice whispered. It was Alice and Edward, or so I thought

"Sure" I said softly. The door cracked and I saw Alice, Rosalie, and Esme step inside. Esme rushed to my side and untied my arms. They screamed with pain as blood surged back to my hands.

"Wait a second, Emmett." Rosalie said pushing her hand out the door and shutting it.

"How did you all get in?" I said standing up and finding my rode. It was discarded in the corner. Putting it on I climbed back into bed and laid down.

"The front door was unlocked. My phone had died when you called and it sent your call to my voicemail. I got the voicemail about 30 minutes ago. I'm sorry we all came, I just wasn't sure whether or not James was still here." She sat on the edge of the bed stroking my hair.

"Where's Edward?" I asked frantic thinking of what James said about paying Edward back.

"We've not heard from him all day. Why?" Rosalie asked puzzled, speaking up for the first time. I scrambled for my cellphone and dialed his number. It rang and rang and rang it someone answered it and hung it back up. I felt a sharp pain run from my stomach to my chest. I dialed the number again.

Ring. Ring. Ring.

"Hello?" A soft velvety voice answer.

"Edward!" I nearly screamed. "Where are you? Are you okay?"

"I'm fine Bella. You need to be worrying about yourself right now." I heard him cough violently.

"Where are you?" I was nearly pleading

"No where. Don't worry. I'll be home soon. I'm sorry but I have to go" He wouldn't give me any bad news. He wouldn't let me know what was happening. And he wouldn't let me realize just how bad things were.

"What's going on Bella?" Esme went to the door, opening it and letting Jasper and Emmett in.

"James said, he was paying Edward back for what happened at school the other day." I grimaced, not sure what he was having done to Edward right now. Horror struck Esme's face.

"We're need to find him." Jasper spoke up. I nodded.

"Bella, Carlisle is going to call Charlie and convince him to let you stay with us for a few days. To protect you. Jasper, you and Rosalie are going to go find Edward. And Emmett, you're bodyguard." Alice said instructively as she stared to pack my cloths into a bag. Emmett picked me up in a bridal hold and carry me to the car and stuffed me in, being careful of my wounds. Esme climbed in the back seat with me and pulled me into her arms. Alice and Emmett piling into the front seat. We drove to the Cullen's and waited for any news on Edward and the others. Just as before I laid on the couch. Only this time my head rested in Esme's lap, my eyes closed while I pretended she was Edward.

"Bella?" Esme said, being the first to speak up in the hours we'd been there.

"Yeah?" I said sitting up looking at her.

"Do you" She paused a looked away, trying to form her words "Do you love Edward?"
I had expected this question sooner or later. But not now and not from her.

"I don't know, Esme. I might, but I don't really know" I said now trying to avoid the other's eyes. The phone rang. Everyone practically lept at the sound. Alice being the one to jerk it up and answer it.

"Hello?
What happened?
How bad?
Where?
Ok, Carlisle is ready and waiting" We all sat anxiously listening to the one sided conversation. She looked up at us, unsure of what to say.

"They're bringing him back now. Carlisle, can you get the room upstairs ready?" Carlisle simply nodded and went upstairs. Esme's eyes filled with tears and I looked around in confusion. What the hell was the room upstairs? A morgue? My mind reeled. Again I didn't realize I was verbally freaking out until Emmett was having to try to calm me down.

"What's the room upstairs?" I asked frantically as Emmett held me tight in her beat like hug.

"It's like a hospital room, Bella." Alice furrowed her brow, not sure how to explain it.

Within thirty minutes Rosalie's Mercedese was in the garage and she we bursting through the side door telling everyone to move out of the way. Jasper followed carrying Edward. My heart stopped. There was blood all over him and it continued to drip on the floor as the ran him upstairs.

Drip. Drip. Drip.

I ran up to the stairs, but Emmett caught me at the bottom pulling me back to the couch. Despite my bruised frame I fought him as hard could trying to get upstairs to Edward.

"Bella, if I have to hold you down I will. If you go up their Carlisle won't be able to focus and he won't be able to save him." Emmett said picking me up and sitting me directly on the couch.

"This wasn't suppose to happen though! He's not suppose to die!" I shouted fighting to get onto my feet and back to Edward. Jasper reappeared at the bottom of the steps.

"Jasper help me. I can't hold her down alone" Emmett said forcefully "Well, I could. I'd just end up hurting her. Jasper nodded and came over to help Emmett. Alice ran to kitchen and back with a green pill bottle and a glass of water.

"Take this" she said showing me the label. 'Melatonin' I read to myself. She pushed the pill into my mouth and held the glass to my lips. I assumed it was to sedate me, so I gave up. It was a loosing battle with Emmett and Jasper. They let me go and let me lay down once again. Jasper sitting on the edge of the couch next to my just in case I ran. But I didn't run. I couldn't. I started to fall into a deep sleep, forgetting everything around me
I started to stir as I felt a hand pushing again my shoulder. I immediately though if James. How has he got in? How had he got passed Emmett and Jasper?

"No" I said weakly refusing to open my eyes. The hand pressed harder at me. "Stop" I started pushing the hand off me and fight against it madly.

"Bella! Bella it's okay! It's me! It's Emmett!" Emmett said trying to comfort me. I opened my eyes looking at him confused. Unable to make out his face at first. "Bella, Edward's awake upstairs. Do you want to go see him?"

"I'm sorry" I hesitated "Yeah, I'd like to see him" Emmett led me up the stairs in total silence. Neither of us having the courage to speak what we both thought. Both of us worried for his life. We rounded the stairs and down the hall. He put his massive hand on my shoulder. I guess he was trying to comfort me. First door on the left. Second door on the left. Finally there it was, the third door on the left. I closed my eyes for a moment, biting my lip as we walked through the open door. And audible gasp escaped my lips, before I could contain it.
He's obviously been beaten, and probably tortured. All over me. I felt Emmett push at my back, easing me on. I looked up to the top of the bed to Edward's beautiful green eyes. He was awake.

"I'm so sorry." I repeated over and over and over trying to make it go away. But my words couldn't and wouldn't cure him. I felt anger, helplessness, hate, defeat, and regret all balled up inside me at once. If I could have gotten to James in that very moment I would have killed him or died trying, but instead Emmett continually pressed me forward to Edward's bedside.

"Bella," He said weakly reaching his hand out to my face. "you're safe" A weak smile crossed his face and he touched me skin. I shivered and tried to smile. I'd gotten very good at fake smiles lately.

"Yeah," I said tears pooling in my eyes "What happened?"

"Don't worry about it. I'll be fine." Even with me sitting here looking at him, he still refused to tell me what had happened.

"No! Tell me" I shouted before I could stop myself. I quieted me voice and tried to speak again"Tell me what happened." I felt Emmett's hand disappear from my shoulder as he backed away leaving Edward and I alone.

"Bella I really don't want to tell you" He said pleading. I wouldn't have it. He had to tell me and I guess he saw that cause he let out a defeated sigh "I came over to your house this morning. Around 8. Charlie had said he was going to work and he didn't want to leave you alone. I agreed to come over to watch out for you and try to convince you to press charges. I decided to wait for you to wake up to actually come in. So I was sitting in the wooded area across the road when someone hit me from behind. When I woke up I was in the woods somewhere."
I watched him shift as best he could and cough. He didn't want to tell me anymore. I didn't want him to. But we all needed to know in our own sick way. I reached up and touched a gash on his forehead.

"What did they do to you?" I asked softer and more to myself than to him.

"I don't want to talk about it Bella. Just please. Leave it at that" I could tell he was frustrated and backed off the subject.

"When we found him he was in a ditch just out passed the house. Where the road meets for forest." I heard Jasper tell Emmett. I knew where they'd taken him. I guess that was James's place. Where he took his victims.

"Bella, are you okay?" He asked with a concerned tone. I hadn't noticed that I was shaking uncontrollably.

"This is my fault." was all I could reply before standing and leaving. The Cullens all watched me and I when down the hall, to the bathroom and as I slammed the door. I couldn't handle this. I needed something. Some sort of release. Anything to escape this torture. I did love Edward. I loved him so much. And he was in a hospital bed because of me. I was being used a someone I hated sex toy. My little brother was dead because of me. And nothing I could ever do would change any of this.
At all the thoughts I sank to the bathroom floor screaming. Screaming in anger. Screaming in frustration. Screaming in fear. Screaming in every emotion I had. My life was slipping out my control and I couldn't stop it. Once again, I drifted off to sleep. My body barracking the door, so no one could come try to save me again.
I woke up to my cell phone ringing. It was 2am and I didn't recognize the number at all. I groaned and answered it.

"Hello?" my voice choked as I pulled myself off the black tile floor.

"Where are you?" The strangely familiar and sinister voice struck me hard.

"Edward's" I said automatically

"You liked my present?" James laughed. I felt sick again.

"What do you want?"

"Meet me at the end of the drive away unless you want him to suffer more" James said blankly. My heart sunk as the phone went dead. Without hesitation I stood up and headed down the stairs. Everyone else was in bed asleep. Edward heart monitor beeping breaking the silence every few seconds. Outside, at the end of the driveway, waited the black car. I opened the door and slipped in without a word to him.

"At least you're realizing your place" He said darkly and drove, to where I didn't know.
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:O So there is the explanation for Edward and Charlie. Err basically for those who didn't get it. Charlie didn't push it cause he knew how much Bella cares for Edward and thought maybe Edward would change her mind. And then Edward was beaten nearly to death and tortured. I will be wrapping this story up very soon.