CHAPTER TWENTY
"JASPER!" Edward yells in panic at the same time Olivia yells. "JAZ!"
Edward throws Bella behind his own body causing her to fall into the table on top of now shattered plates. She gasps in shock from the impact and the pain.
Olivia yells in pain as she feels like something inside of her had snapped. "Jasper, please stop!" She begs him tearfully.
Jasper snarls as he shoves Olivia away with vampire strength and tries to get to Bella. All he could see was red, all he could think about was the bloodlust clouding his mind.
It would become one of his biggest regrets.
Olivia gasps for air as her vision goes blurry. She had been shoved into the stairs and her head was slammed into the piece of wood harshly. She felt like she couldn't breathe.
"You stupid bitch!"
"No, no, no, no." Olivia begins mumbling to herself as her surrounding seem to be changing around her. She was back in that dark basement.
She see's his face and although she's in horrible pain and everything around her was spinning she pushes herself backwards into the wall, trembling and attempting to get as far away from him as possible.
Meanwhile Edward and Jasper clash and it sounds like giant rocks smashing into each other. Not only was his adrenaline through the roof to protect Bella but he swore his whole body started shaking the moment Olivia's terrified eyes met his own. Her mind opened to him for less than a second but he heard her clearly.
'Help.'
Edward pushes him as hard as he could and Jasper flies back into the wall, but he's relentless. He makes a run for the girl again but this time both Emmett and Carlisle tackle him from the side and push him into the floor. Seeing them struggle Alice rushes towards the blonde and helps the two hold him down.
Edward slightly snaps out of his violent rage as he hears the familiar thoughts he had heard not so long ago. The memories he had clashing through his head the same night Olivia had tried to jump from the rock between the treaty line. His eyes find Olivia heaving on her knees, blood falling from her forehead, with one hand holding her stomach and one hand holding her mouth to catch her sobs.
"Jaz... shhh." Alice cooes to the raging blonde as she tries to calm him down. But suddenly, she and the rest of the Cullens stop everything they were doing, their heads jerking to either Bella or Olivia.
Bella looks away from her sister to her own arm. Her head was spinning a hundred miles a minute as she was trying to take in the situation. All because she got a paper cut, everything was ruined in seconds. Her arm had been slashed multiple times by all the broken plates, blood gushed out of her arm, creating a pool of her own blood.
Carlisle runs to Bella's side and she nods with encouragement and a silent plead towards her sister as Edward meets her eyes. Needing no more confirmation Edward rushes towards the older Swan with heartbroken eyes.
Jasper slightly snaps out of it, though his eyes were still pitch black, as he hears Olivia's silent pleads. He looks towards her looking so vulnerable and damaged. All because of him.
"Olivia." His voice croaks from the floor, though she doesn't hear him still trapped in her own mind. Her body aching.
"Emmett, get Jasper out of here." Carlisle orders, looking away from his obviously hurting son in sadness.
Jasper doesn't fight it but keeps his eyes on Olivia as long as he could. He had never hated himself more than in that exact moment because he had lost control and hurt her. He could feel her emotions and he thinks that's what snapped him out of the crazy bloodlust. It was still there but he wasn't an uncontrollable animal at the moment because the sadness and fear were clouding all other senses.
Edward hesitantly approaches the brunette. "Olivia." He gently calls out.
He could hear her heartbeat. It sounded like it was beating a thousand miles a minute. He knew simply talking to her wouldn't break her out of her nightmare so he tried the next best thing.
He grabs both of her cheeks and forces her to look at him. She struggles, attempting to get out of his grip for several minutes, not able to see past her own thoughts.
'It doesn't help that blood has flown into one of her eyes.' Edward sighs, his face falling even more. He tries to wipe the blood out of her eyes but she continues to struggle, making it even more hard for him.
Carlisle and Bella work in the room beside them, taking the glass out of her arm and stitching it up.vBella had silent tears falling from her eyes as she listens to her sisters cries of terror. Carlisle had a look of utmost sympathy on his face as he thinks about the effects tonight will have on everyone.
"It's me, Olivia!" Edward slightly shouts. "It's Edward, you're safe now."
Olivia continues to cry but her thoughts had vanished from Edwards mind so he took it as she was no longer locked in her past but instead crying from the events of tonight.
He pulls her into a soft hug feeling relieved that she was at least lucid at that point.
"It felt so real." She sobs in denial. "He was here."
Edward shakes his head, his eyes becoming glossy. "He wasn't here, Olivia. I promise. You know I'd never let that happen."
She grabs onto his forearms and clings to them in despair. "I-It hurts to breathe." She heaves, her breathing begins to sound like hyperventilating. "Carlisle!" Edward yells in panic as her eyes start rolling to the back of her head.
"Olivia! Olivia, wake up damn it!" Edward yells and shakes her body in his arms.
Carlisle sprints into the room, Bella rushing along soon after with a freshly stitched arm. "Olivia!" Bella yells worriedly.
Carlisle calmly holds a flashlight to her eyes and sighs. "She has a concussion. I don't suspect anything too bad but we can never be too careful. She must have passed out from a panic attack."
"She said it was hard to breathe." Edward exhales, closing his eyes as he thinks back to moments before the incident. "Jasper was holding her waist when everything happened."
Carlisle sighs to himself and turns to Bella. "I'm sure your sister would appreciate a semblance of privacy, would you mind lifting her dress while we turn around and just let me know if there's any bruising on her abdomen.
Bella hesitantly nods and when both males turn around she lifts her sisters dress.
Both males tense and hang their heads as they hear her breath hitch.
"It's bruised, Carlisle." She gasps, more tears falling from her eyes. "It's really, really bad."
They both turn around once she's fixed her dress, Bella looks towards Edward for some type of comfort but he looks away, clenching his jaw.
"I need to take her to the hospital and do some X-rays. Edward you should take Bella home." Carlisle orders.
When he see's Edward was about to object he cuts him off. "You can come see her once you've taken Bella home. And Bella.." his eyes drift back to Olivia.
"I'll come up with a lie to Charlie." Bella slowly nods her head.
Edward stands beside Carlisle as they look at the girl in a hospital gown, hooked up to a few monitors. "How bad is it?"
"She has three broken ribs and a moderate concussion. No brain bleeding, so that's good." Carlisle quietly informs him.
"Nothing about this is good Carlisle." Edward lowly snarls. "She could have died."
Carlisle lays a hand on his sons arm. "But she didn't. With time her body will heal and she'll be okay."
Edward looks away from his father back towards the girl he was supposed to protect with a deep frown on his face.
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