Band-aid Brigade

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Chapter Six

-Edward POV-

Why hadn't she taken the side walk? How had she ended up in a back alley? It was harder than I thought to hear people anymore. Years of blocking people out made what used to be second nature difficult. I couldn't find her in anyone's thoughts.

Not until angry thoughts got louder than the others. Someone was really mad at her; she had hurt him in front of the other guys. There were four of them. I saw a street name and I drove faster than a bat out of hell. Why wasn't she screaming for help? She stopped fighting. The man I was listening too pulled her leg out from under her. She hit her head.

I couldn't listen anymore. He was getting his knife out. His thoughts taking a turn from horrible to absolutely infuriating. I wasn't getting there quick enough. She had to take a different route? I should have followed behind her. Who would have expected her to do that though?

I found them. She wasn't moving, why wasn't she getting up? Get up! If anything was wrong with her, I swear those men were dead. I would track them down and murder every one of them. I stopped the car so the passenger's side was closest to Bella.

I wouldn't worry about those damn rapists until I had Bella safe, I knew the ones name, so I had a way to find them all. I kneeled down, touching Bella's face. She looked more like she was sleeping. Her eyes shot open, fear at first, then recognition. I smiled, 'she was alive!'

"Don't move yet, Bella" I told her, not wanting her to worsen any injury she might have gotten. I took her jacket off, taking care not to jostle her too much.

"I'm fine… Edward, thank you." She tried to get up but I pushed her down, gently. She surrendered and did as I wished.

"I see the blood on your Jacket Bella, don't lie to me." She arched her neck looking around her. Fear still in the background of her eyes. Her arms weren't broken; she did have scratches on her palms and elbows. Blood was showing on her knees too, I had a feeling she had fallen.