*Carlisle POV*
It was another day at the hospital when chief Swan came in he had a stack of papers and was looking flustered.
"Chief Swan, what can I help you with today?"
He cleared his throat and handed me one of the papers.
"My daughter Bella, she ran away from her home in phenoix about six months ago, she lives with her mom, she'd contacted me around that time telling me she was in seattle, she over heard Sue talking to me and took my hesitation as me not wanting her in my life, I thought she'd go home to her mom's but Renee just called me yesterday finally deciding to tell me that she was missing...Since her last known location was only a few hours from here, I decided to put up some posters here and I know your girls Alice and Rosalie goes there or to Port-Angeles for shopping so I was wondering if they'd maybe help me out by putting up some of these posters"
I reached out and looked at the girl smiling up from the paper, she was a very attractive young girl, mahogany hair and chocolate brown eyes.
"I'm going there for a conference this evening, I will do it personally"
He nodded and mummbled a thankyou and left, I pulled out my phone and called my family to tell them what was going on.
*Jasper POV*
A knocking on my door disturbed me from my thoughts, my sister Alice poked her head in the door.
"Hey Carlisle just called we have a girl to find, we're going to be best friends isn't it fantastic?"
I let her explain the whole story to me, my mind driffted to the day she found me.
She'd told me how we were meant for something better, she would find her love in a coven in this small town, we became close friends and then adopted members of this family shortly after, her and Edward were soul mates Rosalie and Emmett were also together forever, I however was used to being alone and enjoyed it quite a bit.
I snapped out of it when Alice handed me a small home made poster with the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen.
I'd always struggled before with the scent of human blood but over the past fifty years it has gotten quite a bit easier for me.
"Where are we looking Ali?"
She smiled and skipped out the door.
"Seattle"
*Bella POV*
I stared helpless as the plate which I had tried to balance in the crook of my elbow crashed on the floor. Of course this had Frankie running out from his office screaming at me for breaking another plate.
He told me to leave and not to come back until my shift on monday, seeing as it was wednesday I was losing almost a weeks pay.
When Victoria got home she found me in the living room crying.
"Aw Bells what's wrong?"
I explained to her what happened and her solution was to pull out a few beers, in my head I was shocked it was so hard getting used to just being expected to have a beer after work, the good girl in my head scolded me as my hand took the cold bottle from her hand.
"Thanks, ugh I don't know what happened, I didn't even try to grab the plate it was like my subconcious wants Frankie to fire me!"
Victoria laughed and we watched TV and had a couple more beers between the two of us.
It was almost eight thirty when the front door opened and Laurent and James walked in. Victoria was suddenly really excited and clinging onto James's arm asking him something about 'stuff' and trying it.
I can't lie I was curious I leaned forward to see what they were piling up on the table, there were a few credit cards some straws and a couple small ziploc bags of a white powder.
Laurent caught me watching and patted the spot on the couch next to him, I blushed because he was pretty cute, I scooched over and leaned forward again to get a closer look.
"So...what is it?"
The three of them all started laughing and before I knew it I heard a chorus of 'try it, come on it's good, you'll love it, better than beer, you're pretty cute'
The way Laurent was looking at me like I was cool, or attractive it made me stupid, I would like to say it was the three beers that made me make that decision but it was me, my head made the choice to lean towards that stark white line on the top of the table with the straw.
I listened as they instructed me how to do it and the next thing I know my heart is racing and I felt so giddy I couldn't help laughing right out loud, then everyone else did the same thing and we were all dancing around the room.
Shortly after Victoria and James went into her bedroom and I was left on the couch with Laurent, he practically lunged on me and began trying to kiss me but I knew I didnt want to do this, I wasn't in my right mind, though by the minute I was caring less and less and just as suddenly as he jumped on me I was kissing him back and then the next thing I knew I was waking up in my room.
I jumped out of my bed only to discover I didn't have a stitch of clothing on and Laurent was left next to where I ahd been in much the same condition I was, I grabbed my house coat off of the floor and wrapped myself in it.
I ran to the bathroom and locked the door behind me I turned on the shower and made it as hot as I possibly could, I'd already burst into tears before I stepped under the scalding steam but I needed it, I had to get this crawling feeling off of my skin.
I had only been in the bathroom for a few minutes when there was a knock on the door.
"Bella! the guys just left, what the hell happened?"
I opened the door with a towel wrapped around me, she took one look at me and wrapped her arms around me.
"Awe Honey I'm so sorry, I should ahve warned you about him...I never should have let you try it last night I'm such a horrible person..."
I didnt want her to blame herself I'd wanted to try it and before the whole Laurent thing I'd been enjoying it, I explained this to her and suggested that maybe next time we just don't invite him.
"Oh yay that makes everyone happy! Thank you so much Bells!"
*Jasper POV*
We'd looked and looked for Bella for days but without a scent we couldn't garuntee who we'd found Edward couldn't pick up any thoughts that would single the girl out and Alice's visions weren't working the way we'd hoped, she'd always see me finding her but she was somewhere light and cold...
*Bella POV*
That day was almost exactly a year and a half ago, I'd stopped celebrating my birthday, everyday was 'just another day' to ma know the only way I knew what season it was wat the temperature outside.
Victoria got out about six months ago, she was in some rehab facility who knows where and who cared, James likes me know and I'm just fine with that, Larent died of an overdose shortly after I had first tried cocaine, it was a loss but he had it coming he should have known what he could and couldn't handle.
I know I can't lay blame, yes I'm an addict but you know what its nobodies business!
I still worked at the diner, Frankie was always on my back but I got the work done and I'd stopped dropping plates so he couldn't complain, I never got caught using at work so he had no solid proof, he left random 'help me I'm an addict' cards laying on the counter and in the bathroom and I'd even found a couple in my apron pocket once.
Today was a particularly long shift so I was getting almost an hours break, I stared at the pouring rain before heading off to take a hit. I locked the bathrrom door behind me and cut a line on the counter I was getting the straw out of my pocket when the door practically came off it's hinges and a small girl with spiked black hair stood in the door way.
"What are you doing?"
was this girl nuts! she was going to get me caught by-
"What the hell is this?"
-Frankie...
needless to say today I lost my job, Frankie took everything I had so I was screwed until James got back to the appartment.
That annoying spiky haired pixie followed me for a few blocks and then I lost her, haha stupid ditz tried to follow me.
I got home and slumped against the door, I was shaking now I needed Something! and I needed it quick, I dug in the fridge and found a couple cans of beer, it wasn't what I needed but it was still a buzz.
*Alice POV*
I knew just the right moment to interupt her, I'd seen the vision, now we could find where she lived, who she hung out with, it was about six months ago that my visions showed me what she'd gotten into and we knew we had to move fast before it killed her.
*Edward POV*
The vision Alice saw was horrifying that girl from the picture on the missing poster was gone, in her place was a half starved coke addict itching for the next hit, small slivers of the girl stll showed though her eyes were glassy and her hair was matte she was still beautiful.
*Jasper POV*
I can't describe it, to know that this beautiful creature was destroying herself like this, it was terrible.
We'd made the plan that Alice would cause an upheaval and we would finally find where she'd lived all this time, how this human girl could unknowingly evade us for almost two years was mind boggling, not even Carlisle could explain it.
After Alice peeled off Edward was on her, keping a distance I was following along the roof tops out of all the emotions on the street Edwards frustration stood out the sharpest, I'd have to ask him about that later.
We followed her to an appartment building and she entered a unit on the ground floor, now we waited, it was about seven when a guy who made my skin crawl entered the unit and we heard conversation.
"What do you mean you got fired! You're useless! babe don't cry, I'm sorry I didn't mean it...come on, sit you look like you need a fix"
Alice suddenly had her phone out and was speaking into the phone, I heard the address of where we were and then she said in a hushed yell into the phone.
"Oh my god he has a gun, he's going kill her!" and then she hung up I would have been right there in the room if Edward didn't have my arms pinned, he nodded at Alice and they explained that it hadn't happened yet, the police would get here just in time to save her.
Not even fifteen minutes later we watched them wheel her out on a stretcher and then a second stretcher followed on it was a closed black body bag.
*Bella POV*
The first thing I noticed when I woke up was the beeping from the machine on my left and the whooshing sound of the machine on my right, my guess it was helping me breathe...the second thing I notice...were those eyes they were an almost burnt caramel colour but much nicer than how it sounded in my head.
I felt a thrill of fear in my chest and then he smiled, the most beautiful smile I'd ever seen, perfect teeth, lips, hair all my fears washed away and then the adonis before me spoke.
"Oh good you're awake, I'm docotr Cullen but you may call me Carlisle...you've been pretty rough on your body over the past few years havent you Isabella?"
I tried speaking but found I couldn't with the tube that was in my throat.
He smiled and handed me a pad of paper and a pen I took it and filled it with my messy scrawl.
'what happened? where am I? where is James? Can I go home now?'
He shook his head beofre he answered me.
"You stopped breathing, a result of a cocaine overdose, you are in the hospital in Seattle but will be transfered later this afternoon to the hospital where I usually work for recovery as I specialize in these kinds of cases, your friend James was killed by police three days ago for turning a gun on them and I'm afriad not...you can't go home, we need to get you on a rehabilitation program..."
I scribbled furiously at the pad of paper and threw it at him. I was doen plaiying this game, I was going home, I was getting itchy, I had to have a fix before I went insane. suddenly there were nurses in the room and my wrists and ankles were being tied to the bed fram by padded straps, I was too exhausted to even struggled.
I felt a tear fall from the corner of my eye as I looked at him and then the note pad that he layed on the table next to me, the words I'd put there stood out like a neon sign.
'HELL NO!'
*Carlisle POV*
I didn't like making this girl do something that she very obviously didn't want to do, but it was for her own good really it was. I injected a sedative into her IV and left the room.
I headed to my temporary office, I'd done a month long transfer because of a vision that Alice had saying that we would find her, When I got there I went straight to my computer, I had to fins this girls mother to let her know that she was okay, after what happened to her father, he wouldn't be of much use to her while she was recovering.
*Jasper POV*
While she slept I watched her, Alice said she saw me helping this girl recover and that we would be really close, I'd never had a friend outside of the family and the thought had pleased me, I couldn't wait to be friends with this amazing creature.
I looked down at the papers that Carlisle had handed me earlier, and I went over the conversation in my mind.
"Jasper...there is something serious that I need to talk to you about son..."
Id nodded and followed him out of her room and into the hallway, he had guardianship papers, I knew what this meant, now she wasn't quite eighteen yet but we couldn't adopt her with out both parent's consent or that of a living parent, which he filled me in on.
"About eleven months ago Bella's mother and stepfather were on their way here for the third time to look for her when their plane crashed..now charlie is in no fit state to take care of her, and we can't just dump her in some rehab clinic...I want to know if this is okay with you Jasper, the rest of the family has already agreed...it's just up to you..."
He'd already signed them but if I wanted it to happen I had to deliver them to Esme to sign if not I would tear them up and she would go into government care, I tucked the paper back into the envelope and left to go home and talk to esme.
*Bella POV*
After much protest this ridiculously attractive father son duo still didn't get that I didn't want to go anywhere with them of course I found myself wanting to do anything to please the brooding son, but that was in my coherent moments, it had been over five days since my last fix and the exhaustion and pain were just too much, I seemed to be able to cope when the son was around and that I enjoyed.
*Jasper POV*
"Carlisle when I'm arond her you wouldn't even know she has a drug problem, I can help her with that, she needs to finish her education, let me try taking her to school for a while and if it doesn't go well then Esme will home school her...Please Carlisle?"
I'd had this argument with him in my head for a few hours now, I'd only just built up the courgae to say it to him outloud and surprised me greatky when he readily agreed.
"You're right, she's missed enough school over the past two years...I'll make sure everything is ready for after the summer break."
With that we pulled into our driveway and the girl asleep on the back seat stirred. though she was still asleep and I whispered so that hse couldn't acctually hear the promise I made her I carressed the back of ehr hand.
"You're home now...and I'll do whatever it takes to make you well again.."
