Carlisle hissed and tore after Rosalie, all with the slightest idea of what was going on with her. Bella stood paralysed with fear and watched helplessly as Jacob snarled and in a flash, a giant hairy beast stood in his place. He looked at Bella and she nodded. He snarled again and ran after Carlisle and Rosalie, wrecking every piece of furniture and wall in his way.
Bella reached for the cordless lying down on the floor and dialled in Edward's number. Her ears were ringed with the sound of a busy phone. She cursed and threw the phone aside, "Alice! Alice, please somebody!"
Then there was the sound of heavy glass crashing down to the ground. Bella ran forward and stopped at where one huge glass wall once stood. She brought a slow hand to her mouth and looked down, a small choked sob escaping again. Alice and Emmett appeared at her sides, all with the same reaction. "Oh my—", Alice mumbled and jumped off the broken ledge. Down below on the grass, was a werewolf, whimpering and yowling in pain with blood and shards of glass etched into its body, accompanied by Alice who rushed forward to help him. Carlisle was nowhere to be seen. He's gone after Rosalie, Bella figured.
Emmett gave Bella as reassuring look of safety and lent out his hand. Bella swallowed, and then took it gratefully. In a whir, they were down below on the grass with a dozen glass shards sparkling like early dew drops in the moonlight. She broke out of her thoughts are rushed down to Jacob.
"Jacob, I'm so sorry, it's alright—", she lowered down beside him and stroked his ears. She looked over him and into the forest of tall trees for any sign of Carlisle, but there wasn't any. She turned her gaze to Emmett, "Take Jacob inside; give him what he needs, I'll catch up with you."
Emmett nodded and looked at the human Jacob who was now crouched on the ground in ripped jeans, glass shards sprinkled over them like Christmas decorations. Emmett helped him up. Jacob squeezed his eyes shut in pain and took his hand, helping himself up on his feet. There was blood all over his arms and neck, and Bella didn't want to see it.
He groaned and looked at Bella, "Bella, I'm so sorry, I wasn't—I didn't know what to do, she made me call Edward and—"
"What did Edward say?" Bella stood up beside Alice and studied him. She noticed a cut on his neck through which blood was oozing out. She immediately looked away.
"He said that he can't come too soon, he's meeting up with some of the newborns and—"
"Newborns?" Emmett stared.
"The nice guys, I think. He didn't sound that shocked though, he said that they might help. And then—and then he just hung up." Jacob flinched in pain and grabbed his left arm.
Bella looked at Emmett and then at Jacob, ignoring the beautiful sight of blood, "What did you even tell him?", her mouth was open in a small gap.
"Rosalie—she wanted me to tell him that Esme was just injured and she needed his help, I waited until she was out of sight and told him what had actually happened," he paused and looked around. "What did you—do to Esme?"
Bella bit her lip and looked down. Alice looked at her and placed an arm around her shoulder. "She's still there; nobody is allowed into the kitchen," she looked at Jacob with a weary expression. "Why don't you go get cleaned and grab a beverage, we'll meet up with you." She looked at Bella again.
Bella forced a weak smile.
Jacob too, forced a broken smile and turned around to go inside, leaning on Emmett. Bella watched as they disappeared and appeared near the doorway in a flash. She turned to Alice, "Alice, I need my daughter."
Alice sighed and picked at the rim of her eyelid to stop a inhibiting tear from falling. "Don't worry, Rosalie's crazy sometimes, you know how she was when she first met you. Renesmee—she'll be fine. She's got a gift, Bella. As long as you got one, you're fine."
Bella scuffled some folds in her dress and looked into the tall forest. "Carlisle's in there somewhere, do you think he'll be fine?"
"He'll be fine, don't worry," She stopped and looked at Bella. "And Bella?"
"Hmm?"
"How did you know that Esme's head was—"
"It came to me."
Alice looked stumped, "Oh, right, right."
She looked around again. "What's—", she was cut off by Alice's phone. Alice immediately dug into her jeans and fished it out, flipping it open. "Hello?"
She stopped for a while and handed it over to Bella, "Edward."
Bella hastily grabbed the phone and brought it up to her ears, "Edward—where are you?"
She looked at Alice and nodded. Alice nodded back and moved away, "I'll give you some privacy."
Bella turned back to the phone. "Look, we have something really serious going on and—"
"Bella, calm down, everything's fine. I've deduced something from meeting with the newborns and Esme's going to be alright, okay?"
"Edward, just listen—"
"And tell Alice to connect the phone line back, it's not ringing I suppose."
"Edward, listen to me!" Bella snapped. "Renesmee's gone."
Silence hung at the other end of the line and Bella closed her eyes shut, biting her lip again.
"What do you mean gone?" He finally spoke up after a long empty void in between them.
"Rosalie took her."
Another long moment of silence.
"Our daughter is gone?"
Bella made a small noise, almost like a whimper.
"I'm on my way." And with that the line was dead.
She brought the phone down and flipped it shut. Where was her daughter? What had just happened? She had no idea, but something in her made her feel safe, it was the same feeling that made her feel Renesmee would be safe.
She sighed and looked around for Alice, who apparently had disappeared over time. With the phone tightly clutched in her hand, she walked up to the doorframe. Her snickers crunched the glass on the ground and that was all she could hear. "Alice?" She called out, but no reply echoed back.
She sighed again and walked into the house, turning around a corner. A familiar voice startled her.
"Where's Carlisle, Bella?"
She quickly turned around to see a perfectly intact and unharmed Esme standing in front of her. There was a heavy cloud of fear that clung onto the air around her. She was frozen. She couldn't do anything.
She screamed.