Title: Never Fear

Chapter 1

Author: Britt

Disclaimer: I own Paige, Emma, Abby, Stacy, Amy, and Alex. I also sort of own Detective Cheney...though Ben could have an uncle whose a cop so who really knows. lol. All the rest are owned by the wonderful and talented SM!

Chapter Summary: This is present day…Bella is 22, Paige is 23, Emma and Abby are 7. Edward and Alice are 22. Emmett, Rosalie and Jasper are 23.

Author's Note: This story is un-betad, though I'd love to have one so if your interested feel free to PM me! Longer Author's Note is at the bottom and is important so please don't skip it!

Dear Journal,

It has been a crazy few years. I used to journal all of the time, but then stopped for obvious reasons. Okay, so maybe not so obvious to you but obvious to me. I should probably start at the beginning, so my story will make a bit more sense.

My name from the time I was born until I turned 13 was Isabella Marie Swan. However at the tender age of 13 I was kidnapped, and upon said kidnapping I was given the name of Madison Elizabeth Johnson. My kidnappers were James and Victoria Johnson, and along with me was my sister, who had also been taken, Paige Marie Johnson.

I won't get into everything that has happened over the years, because it would be a waste as your technically an inanimate being, only paper and binding, but it helps to write things all down. Anyway, during my life after I was taken from my parents and my friends, I was raped by a man named Max, as was my older sister. We were both left pregnant and left to raise our children under the 'careful guidance' of our 'parents' Victoria and James. My daughter Emma and Paige's daughter Abby were as inseparable as Paige and I were.

Fast forward through 7 years and you have 6 months ago. I am now 22, Paige is 23, and Emma and Abby are 7. The same ages as we were 6 months ago when all of our lives drastically changed.

See, when I was kidnapped, I not only left behind my parents, Charlie and Renee Swan...I also left behind my best friends and they're parents. My best friend and secret love at the time was Edward Cullen, his twin sister Alice Cullen was my other best friend. Edward and Alice's older brother Emmett Cullen may have well been my older brother as well for the amount of pranks he pulled on me and how much he looked after me. Jasper Hale and his twin sister Rosalie Hale were also part of our group. Rosalie and Emmett were a couple as were Jasper and Alice, leaving Edward and I to be grouped together most of the time, not that we minded.

Anyway, sorry this is such a choppy first journal entry, but it's necessary to explain where I'm coming from. I'm a writer and I'm sure I'll look back on this and cringe at the amount of grammar errors that I'll see, but again, it's necessary.

So as I was saying, 6 months ago Paige was in Parenting Class (Yes, we both thought it was ridiculous that a mother of a 7 year old had to take a parenting class in college but it was required so she dealt with it) when he came upon a family that she thought seemed oddly familiar to her. Turns out it was the Cullens (Edward, Emmett and Alice) and the Hales (Rosalie and Jasper). She ended up bringing them over to our house that we had bought that was a few miles away from James and Victoria (I'm sure you're wondering why we didn't run away, I'll explain that in later entries)...once they saw me I knew it was time to come clean.

They called my parents and they called their parents. Long story short (I know, about time right?) Paige and I finally went to the cops (actually, to a cop, our friend Ben's uncle who had just transferred to the precinct we needed to go to) because our 'adopted parents' as they called themselves decided that we were too old and went and found themselves two new girls. We knew we wouldn't let them go through the same hell we did so we got them out of there and took them to Detective Cheney (Ben's uncle).

Long story short (Okay, this time I promise), we had Max (our rapist), James (our kidnapper) and Victoria (our kidnapper's insane wife) all convicted and we were finally free. However things are even more crazy than just that.

Edward and I figured out (finally) that we were in love (okay, cut us some slack, we were apart for 9 years), Emma decided she wanted him to be her father and he proposed. Also my parents planned to adopt Paige so that she would legally be my sister (I know, how adorable are my parents?) and she's dating a former friend Jacob Black who is completely in love with her and Abby, which makes me happy since I know they are safe…

"What are you doing?"

I screamed a bit before recognizing the voice, though during my scream I had thrown my journal across the room. Looking up I was met with the sheepish green eyes of my best...boy...fiancé, Edward Cullen. I smiled and pecked his crooked nose a bit to let him know that I wasn't mad, though my heart racing in my chest could definitely stop anytime it liked.

"Shit, sorry baby, I didn't mean to scare you." I laughed a bit, smiling as my heart finally stopped racing as it had been and shrugged. "No big. Just don't sneak up on me like that." I told him, before standing and stretching, the popping of my back making me wince at the sound. I felt old at that moment and then laughed a bit as I thought it, knowing I was nowhere near old.

I turned around and saw Edward staring at my exposed stomach and blushed, pink flushing on my cheeks before rolling my eyes and tapping his head. "Anyone home?" I asked, smirking. His cheeks turned the subtlest shade of pink before he composed himself and smiled his crooked smile that I was never able to stop myself from swooning over, no matter how old I was. "I asked what you were doing before you broke my eardrum with your scream." I rolled my eyes but let it go, knowing we could and would most likely banter all day if this kept up. "I was writing in my journal. Dr. Bahr said it would be a good exercise to use." I told him and noted the nod before turning back and grabbing my journal from up off the floor, putting it into my nightstand that was on my side of the bed. Dr. Bahr, or Mackenzie as she preferred to be called, was a therapist that Paige, myself, Emma and Abby had been going to see every week. Sometimes we would have a group session, sometimes we would go by ourselves, or sometimes we would go in pairs (Myself and Emma, Abby and Paige). It was something that had been suggested to us during the trial and it was something that I agreed with. Paige had been a little harder to sway but eventually after Abby had woken up from a chilling nightmare that had sent Jacob banging on my door at 2am begging me to help Paige wake her up, my older sister realized that it was a good idea.

"Is it helping?" I heard his velvety voice ask from the bed and as I sat down next to him, he pulled me into his arms, cradling me against him before I was able to shrug. "I'm not sure, I have just gotten around to writing my first entry. I hope it does though, if not for me, but for Emma." It was true, Emma had gone through a rough patch recently. She had seemed to do alright at first, but now that the trial was over she was clingy, and always wanting to be near me, wanting to make sure we were really and truly safe. She trusted Edward, myself, and Paige as far as adults go, but I was unable to leave her with anyone else without getting a phone call in the middle of the night saying she was inconsolable and screaming for me. It had been a rough few weeks since the trial but hopefully things would start to calm down.

I felt Edward nod and smiled, kissing his chest. It was only noon but it had been a long day. Emma was over at Paige's and I was supposed to be catching up on some homework but I was too exhausted. I heard Edward yawn above me and giggled a bit. "Tired?" I asked and waited, but didn't hear any reply. I moved my head gently and looked up, seeing him asleep, looking like the little boy I had grown up with in his sleep. I kissed his cheek before settling back down in his arms, deciding a nap wouldn't hurt either one of us.

TBC! Okay, sorry this was sort of a boring first chapter but I need to get back in the habit of writing. I will say though, there were 65 of you out there who voted for this story to be written, so I beg of you to review. I've taken a hiatus from writing the past few months and am slowly getting back into it. However I do have other stories rattling around in my brain and have a few chapters written out to a fair few but I promised myself I wouldn't post any of them until I got a few of these sequels out. I want to hear what you think and if you want me to continue, so please keep your reviews coming.

On to other things. I can't promise I'll update once a week or once every two weeks. I'll try my hardest and I hope to have a few chapters written so I can try to stay on a steady update schedule, but I'd rather warn you ahead of time versus making a promise I can't keep. I will say though, the more reviews I get, the more motivated I am to update. Just a hint. ;)

One more thing before I end this epically long author's note. I haven't gotten a complete outline for this fic written out yet, so if there's something you'd like to see, feel free to PM it to me or leave it in a review. I'll definitely take any and all suggestions into consideration.