Change in my Life
By
Nicole
Disclaimer: I dont own the Twilight Saga. Stephenie Meyer does. Summary: A fashion designer that had everything at her fingertips is held hostage by a gang for ransom, but one of her kidnappers seem to have a kinder heart than his friends. AU/AH
Change in my Life
Chapter 1: Life Interrupted
Alice sighed as she looked at another set of designs, getting up to look at the manikin that was wearing the design. "I said these skirts don't need that much frill," she muttered pulling on it. She was a little frustrated with the fact that the people making the clothes weren't following instructions. She kneeled down and took out some scissors and cut some of the frill that was hanging all over the skirt. "Jessica!" She called.
"Yes miss?" Jessica asked walking in.
"Is my dress for the fall fashion show ready?" She asked.
"Yes I'll bring it in," Jessica answered.
Alice got up off the floor and looked up when Jessica came in with another manikin, removing the sheet. "Ooh! It looks great!" She said excitedly, jumping up and down a little. The dress was supposed to be worn at the ending of her fashion show. It was a fuchsia colored dress that almost looked like kimono, rhinestones along the seams of the dress. She smiled as she checked everything on her dress. "It's perfect," she told her excitedly.
"Glad to see one of your dresses came out like you wanted," Jessica commented.
Alice smiled and looked through the rest of her clothes for the fashion show.
On the other side of the city, Jasper Hale was sitting in an alley with his gang, swinging his knife around on his finger from the string it was on. He was sitting on a fire escape wearing black boots, black pants, and a black hooded sweater with the hood over his head. He was told to sit up on the fire escape, being his gang's lookout as usual. He looked up and closed his knife as a familiar group of people walked into the alley. "You're on our turf mutt," Jasper told them jumping down in front of them.
"Really, I don't see the Cougar symbol on any of these walls," the leader answered.
"Sure there is," Jasper answered.
He took out the small flashlight from his pocket and aimed it at the wall next to them, showing them the Cougar symbol on the brick wall. Jasper looked at the group with a half evil grin on his face. The leader shoved Jasper backwards when the rest of the gang came out of hiding. "Well our Coyote friends have come out to play," James sneered. The leader of the Coyotes punched James in the face with the rest of the Coyote gang attacking the Cougar gang.
Jasper pulled out his knife and took a swipe at the guy coming after him. He ducked when the guy tried to hit him in the head with his own knife. Jasper tried stabbing at him when he was attacked from behind, hitting the ground hard and lost his knife. "Here kitty, kitty," the guy laughed. Jasper rolled out of the way jumping back up to his feet. He tried to get to his knife when he was felt the sharp pain in his shoulder.
"Shit!" He hissed.
He grabbed his arm and saw that it was already bleeding. He was kicked in the side again, Jasper was able to get his balance back and grabbed a hold of his knife and threw it at the guy who tried stabbing him, the knife embedding into his side. He ran back over and grabbed the knife back when he ducked again when another guy tried to aim at his head with his own knife. James had the leader of the Coyote gang pinned. "Get off our turf," James snapped. The leader shoved James off before they grabbed their injured friend off the ground and left the alley.
Jasper sat in the warehouse where the gang hung out and took off his hooded sweater. "Dude did he see your face?" James asked.
"No," Jasper replied as he started to take care of his own injury.
The cut was deep, but not deep enough that he needed stitches. These kind of cuts were normal to him, so he just took care of the injuries himself. He cleaned it out and wrapped it up in the gauze he had snuck from the hospital the last time he was there. "Teach those mutts from trespassing on our territory, Jazz did you kill the guy?" Laurent asked.
"I never kill," Jasper answered almost irritated with the idea of killing someone.
He fixed his arm up and put his sweater back on. "Good work Jazz, good work," James told him. Jasper cleaned his knife back up and closed it before climbing back out the window.
Jasper sat outside the warehouse again when James climbed out, tossing him a beer. "Victory my friend," he told him with a chuckle.
"Not much of a victory," Jasper answered nonchalantly.
He popped the cap off his beer bottle, taking a long drink from it. "We need a plan," James informed as he sat back against the rail.
"What kind of plan?" Jasper asked curiously.
James chuckled evilly before taking a long swig of his beer. "We need money," he informed as he looked at their turf. Jasper remained quiet as he listened to James' plan on how to get the money they wanted.
Alice smiled as she walked over to Jessica. "Jess, send these down and have these designs made," she instructed.
"Alright," she answered.
"You have a nice weekend now," Alice told her sweetly.
"Thanks you too Miss Cullen," Jessica answered.
Alice took out her keys from her purse as she stood in the elevator. Once she reached the car garage, she started looking for her yellow Porsche. She looked up when she almost walked into someone only to see three guys there. She gasped and stopped dead in her tracks. "Hello Miss Cullen," one of the masked men commented. She stepped back a couple of steps.
"What do you want?" She asked.
"I hope you were serious," one of them sneered.
Alice shrieked when they came at her. She grabbed the pepper spray out of her purse and tried to spray them with it. She let out a scream when someone grabbed her from behind and then a rag was pressed against her nose and mouth. "Relax," the voice hissed in her ear. She struggled but then she started feeling lightheaded and darkness claimed her.
Alice woke up in a dark room, looking around. She tried to touch her head when she heard clanging next to her. She saw that her arms were handcuffed to a iron rod headboard to a bed. She tugged some more and looked around. The room was extremely dark except for whatever light was coming in from the closed window. "Don't try it, there's two more guys sitting at the end of the fire escape," a voice commented, startling her.
Tugging on her chains, the young woman looked around in fear. "Don't worry as long as you don't try to scream or anything, nothing will happen to you," the person informed sitting in a chair. Alice let out a deep breath when she could see the glint of his knife in the light from the streetlamp. He was skillfully swinging it back and forth on a string, opening and closing it as it landed back into his hand. "No need to fear me girl, I'm the last person you should be afraid of," he told her.
"Why am I here?" She asked.
He opened his knife and started poking the tip of the knife against the arm of the wooden chair he was sitting in. "You are needed for a plan that's why you're here," he replied. Alice tugged on her chains some more before she gave up with a defeated sigh. "Again you have nothing to worry about," her guard informed. Biting her lower lip as she looked at the mattress she was placed on. She gasped when he suddenly got up from his chair.
"Stay away from me," she told him trying to back up.
She tried to scream when he covered her mouth. "Hush I'm not going to hurt you," he told her sounding a little frustrated. He undid the handcuffs and handcuffed them to a lower bar. "There, so you're a little comfortable," he added.
Walking back over to his chair, Jasper watched her out of the corner of his eye as he continued to swing his knife back and forth. He watched as the girl stared at the wall. "How long are you keeping me here?" She asked.
"I don't know," he replied.
Alice remained silent after that, feeling the sadness well up inside her. She might never see her parents or brothers again.
James was outside the room pacing as he continued to stare at the clock on the wall. "Victoria, get the phone ready," he instructed.
Walking over to the room, he knocked on the door. "Hey bring her out here," he ordered before covering his face with a ski mask. The door opened and Jasper came out with the girl. "Her parents will want to hear her talk," he told Jasper.
"I have them on the phone," Victoria informed covering the mouthpiece before handing it to James.
"Hello Mr. Cullen, I have your daughter," James said into the phone.
"I want to talk to her," Alice heard her father say.
"Mmm I don't think so," James answered.
James chuckled as his gang started gathering their things. "You listen here, we want 10,000,000 dollars, we'll call you with more details," he informed before slamming the phone down. He stood up. "Cover her eyes we're getting out," he told the gang.
Alice let out a gasp as someone blindfolded and gagged her. Jasper sighed as he lifted Alice up and they hurried out of the warehouse.
Not long after that, James and Jasper were standing by the windows of their new hiding spot watching as the police broke into their old hangout. "Keep moving they'll be searching all the warehouses in the area," he informed. Jasper nodded before they went to their next hiding spot with their hostage.