This is bad, so much glass. “Too much glass in the wound,” Carlisle replied to Alice while shaking his head. There was a horrible plummeting in my stomach. I watched as Carlisle ripped part of the table cloth and wrapped it around Bella’s arm stopping the flow of blood. I watched her eyes and she began to turn green. Bella was going to be sick. It was silly, but I had an instant flashback to last year’s biology blood typing incident.

She will need a lot of stitches, Carlisle thought, bringing me back to the present. This is going to take a lot of cleaning. “Bella,” Carlisle said softly, “Do you want me to drive you to the hospital, or would you like me to take care of it here?”

“Here, please,” Bella whispered.

“I’ll go get your bag,” Alice said.

“Let’s take her to the kitchen table.” Carlisle looked at me, Can you handle it? He was being absolutely serious. I could handle it – I would handle it.

I bent down to bring her into my arms. She warmed them and even under all the stress of the situation her heart still gave a little squeeze. This was wrong. Everything was so wrong. Carlisle continued to keep pressure on her arm as I brought her over to the table. I kept her in my arms. I never wanted to let her go. She was so feeble laying there bleeding.

Oh my, she looks like she is going to be sick, Carlisle thought and added aloud, “How are you doing Bella?”

Both of us looked at her, waiting for something horrible to happen. I didn’t know if things could get any worse. “I’m fine,” said Bella, her voice still quavering.

Her eyes didn’t leave mine. There were so many emotions going through me at this moment that I’m sure it looked like someone had just hit me across my face with something very heavy. Alice walked into the room, quickly holding her breath when she caught scent of Bella’s blood in the air. She walked forward and placed Carlisle’s black bag on the table. I finally placed Bella in a chair softly, not wanting to hurt her anymore than I already had. Bella continued to study my face. “Just go Edward,” she sighed.