Intro – The kidnapping
The car sped down the highway towards to Sacramento. The two teenage passengers were trying not to fall asleep on the empty highway.
The older girl behind the wheel pushed a strand of dark brown hair behind her ear and pressed down the paddle harder pushing the bright yellow VW classic bug to reach the city harder so they could get some sleep. She threw a side glance to the younger girl in the passenger seat that was already asleep, her face hidden behind a thick curtain of beach blond hair.
"Aw Bells, you can sleep through everything"
She joked and yawned herself. As she took the turn for Fruitridge road she noticed a large black van turning behind her. She had seen the same van twice since they left Phoenix. Once while Bella drove leaving Phoenix and the second right as they pulled to Stokton. Biting her bottom lip she reached for her green purse lodged between the seats and grabbed her phone. Pressing '3' she held the phone to her ear pressing the gas pedal harder.
"Hello, this is Sheriff Swan. If this is an emergency call the station"
"Hey dad, it's Emma. We just entered Sacramento but I think someone is following us. I may be going crazy but I've seen the same black van twice so far. Could you run the plates for me please? A-C-G-8-0-9-5 I think they're from Washington State. Love you"
Snapping the phone shut she set to put it in the front pocket of her jeans but the black van sped and hit her bumper.
"What the hell?"
seventeen year old Bella woke up suddenly and glanced at her sister. Her deep brown eyes widened in far. Eighteen year old Emmanuella, Emma as she preferred, was freaked out as well but was doing her best to keep the car in a straight line as the black van kept on hitting them from behind again and again, her emerald green eyes flicking to the rearview mirror.
Bella sat straighter snapping her seatbelt close as Emma kept swerving trying not to let the black van come up to her side. Bella grabbed her own phone from the glove department and dialed 911.
"Someone is trying to push us out of the road, we're at... NO!"
She screamed. One extra hard thrust from the van had been enough to kill the engine of the classic Bug and now the van had pulled up to the side and front of their car.
"oh crap!"
Emma tried to remain calm as Bella looked scared out of her wits and light blue bubble was now engulfing her younger sister. Two hooded figures with ski masks jumped from the van and tore open the car doors.
"Bella"
"Emma"
Both girls shouted as the two large figures grabbed them each from their elbows. Thug#1 tried to grab Bella but was unable to touch her die to her bubble and thug#2 began bleeding from his mouth, eyes and ears the moment he grabbed Emma. A third thug jumped from the van and backhanded Emma hard enough for her to fall back and hit her head. Bella screamed again and seeing her now fallen sister her bubble was gone allowing thug#1 to grab and toss her in the van where thug#3 was tying Emma. Then he jumped in the drivers seat and drove off leaving thug#2 laying dead in the middle of the street.
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It was some time before Emma opened her eyes slowly. the van was smoothly speeding and thug#3 in with them seemed fast asleep if the earth shaking snoring was anything to go by. Twisting her head around she saw Bella being tossed near the side door of the van, blood trailing slowly from her nose.
Seeing her baby sister hurt, she began to seethe with anger.
Her own hands were tied behind her back as well as her ankles. As she seethed she felt the rope around her elbows and wrists begin to dissolve as if she had thrown acid on it. Groaning softly she sat up and untied her legs. Crawling to her sister, she pushed Bella's beach blond tresses out of her forehead and untied her. Before tapping Bella's cheeks softly
"Elle?"
Bella whispered the childhood nickname of her sister. Emma nodded planting a smile on her lips.
"We need to get out of here Belle. Can you move?"
She whispered using Bella's nickname. Twisting her limps Bella nodded and crouched up to a seating position before reaching to quietly open the sliding door just as the van passed the welcoming sign to Seattle
"How did we reach Seattle so fast?"
Bella wondered whispering.
"Beats me. we jump and run for our lives"
"One, two, three"
On three Bella pulled the side door completely open and jumped out of the van, rolling down the hill and ran tripping and slipping every now and then until she reached the tree line. Exhaling heavily she turned to look for her sister but Emma was nowhere to be found. looking back on the road she saw thug#3 pull Emma inside with one arm wrapped around her slender throat and the other planted on her head until Emma lost her senses
"I love you Belle"
Bella heard her sister's voice inside her head for the last time, watching as the van drove off quickly. Wiping the tears off her pale cheeks Bella began to run as fast as she could until she reached the city of Seattle and with shaking legs she grabbed hold of the first cop she saw on a busy looking junction street.
"Please help me"
She whispered with tears filling her eyes
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When Charlie returned home from a very long shift at work his first instinct was to grab a beer and plop to his favorite armchair to watch a rerun of the game.
That was until he saw the blinking light of the answering machine.
"Hey dad, its Emma. We just entered Sacramento but I think someone is following us. I may be going crazy but I've seen the same black Van twice so far. Could you run the plates for me please? A-C-G-8-0-9-5 I think they're from Washington state. Love you"
the scared tone of his older daughter had him grabbing the computer to run the plates Emma gave him and his phone to call them. Neither daughter answered the phone and he knew both daughters would walk over fire to answer their phones.
According to the answer he got from the goverment site the plates were non-existant. What he did find out was that the classic bug he had bought Emma for her highschool graduation was totaled on the side of the road along with a dead guy.
No sign of his daughters.
Grabbing his cruiser keys he all but ran out of the house calling a few friends he had in the FBI in the Seattle Department.
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Only two hours later he found Bella in torn clothes upset but calm. She had seen the face of thug#1 but his face was not known in the FBI. Charlie asked his friends to be on the lookout for the thug, the van and Emma.
Meanwhile Bella went to a hair salon. If Emma wasn't going to be here, she would do her best to leave her Renee-self behind and be the Bella she was meant to be.
