Chapter 6 – Another call

I got kicked out of the interview! Kicked out!

The lawyer walked into the room just as I broke out in anger and tried to grab James. Quil sent me out to cool off and Embry took my place. From the look in Quil's eye I could tell he was all too willing to allow me to beat the shit out of that scumbag.

The hours passed by and my anxiousness and despair was only growing. I found myself walking down to the interview room more than once just to turn back again. If I go back there I will only end up losing my temper and my job, so I waited patiently. Well, as patient as anyone can wait when waiting to see if the man in question is going to give us the whereabouts of his hostage.

Bella's photo was in the centre of my desk. Every so often I would pick it up and just admire her. She really is beautiful. I knew know why I am so attached to this case. It is because of her. She is the only reason. I don't understand why though, I mean I have never met this woman, only spoke to her on the phone but it didn't seem to matter. It was just her.

"Jacob?" I looked up from the picture to see Quil stood at my door. I place the photo gently onto my desk and looked at him expectedly.

"Well?" I asked when he didn't speak.

He closed the door and took a seat opposite me. "He says he doesn't know anything about Bella Swan, but the look on his face says otherwise. What are we going to do? We cannot hold him here because we have little to no evidence." He was right and it was my call. If we did let him go we would be putting Bella's life on the line, he would defiantly hurt her now he knows we're on to him.

"We follow him" I thought out loud. "He will lead us to Bella, but we have to be careful so that we can get to her in time before he hurts her."

"Okay" Quil nodded but seemed to be in thought before he spoke again. "I'll go with Embry, you stay here" He stood and started towards my office door. His hand was on the door handle before I even realised what he had said.

"No, I'm going as well" I walked towards him, deeply confused by why it wasn't obvious that I would be coming with them.

His face held concern before he looked at me and removed his hand from the handle. "Jacob, I'm doing this because you are my friend. You cannot come with us" He paused and I let the anger and slight confusion show on my face. "Embry and I can see what this case is doing to you, Jacob. What about if we get there and Bella is dead?" I winced at his words but I knew that in some way they could be true. How would I handle it if she was dead?

I just nodded at Quil and took my seat behind the desk. "We will keep you posted on what is happening" He told me before he swung the door shut behind him. I dropped my head into my hands. More waiting, I wanted to be out there, saving Bella but Quil was right, if Bella is dead and I was the one to find her I don't know how I would react. Just like I don't know why my feelings are going haywire these days. It scared me to think that Quil and Embry had both noticed, it wasn't just in my mind. I really was been affected by all this, but yet again I ask myself, why?

I tried to get some sleep on my office couch, but just like the previous night, I was unable to due to one thing. Bella. She was everywhere when I closed my eyes and everywhere when I opened then. It was worse now that I had a face to the name. I gave up on sleep but it was impossible to do anything except wait. It must have been hours before my office phone rang. I looked at the caller I.D. It read unknown number. Could this be Bella? My heart jumped and I pressed the record button quickly before answering. Before I could even speak, Bella did.

"Help me Jake" Her voice was croaky and muffled.

"Bella, what's a matter?" I asked her urgently. My heart was in my throat as I heard her gasped out in what could only be pain.

"Everything hurts" She moaned and a sob escaped her throat. She spoke the words I had been dreading to hear.

"Bella what happened?" I tried to keep my voice calm for her sake but inside every nerve was shaking and I thought I was going to burst into tears myself. She was in pain and there is nothing I can do.

"He hurt me. I made him mad. Jake there's loads of blood" She sobbed more as she tried to gasp out the words; her voice seemed to be lower and therefore harder to understand. "Jake, I heard your voice today"

"Bella stay with me, don't fall asleep." I tried to convince her whilst picking up my cell phone and strolling through my contact until I reached Embry's number. I pressed call.

"Jake it hu-hurts so bad. I fe-feel sleepy, I need to sleep" Her breath started to hitch and slow down.

"Bella no-" I was cut off my a sound on her end of the phone.

Beep.

"Bella what is that?" I asked her. My voice was no longer calm, I was panicking and I wasn't letting it go unnoticed like I should have let it.

"The battery, Jake it's going to go dead. Please help me it hurts-" Her terrified voice was the last thing I heard before the phone was cut off.

"FUCK" I yelled as I slammed the phone down. I stood on my feet and vaguely heard my name been called from the cell phone that I had forgotten about.

"Jacob?" I heard Embry ask more clearly as I slammed the phone to my ear.

"ARE YOU NOT DOING YOUR JOB? WHY AREN'T YOU FOLLOWING JAMES?" I screamed to a shocked Embry.

"What?" He asked nervously.

"I HAVE JUST HAD BELLA ON THE PHONE. SHE'S HURT. JAMES HAS HURT HER"

"No, James hasn't left his flat. We followed him to his apartment when he left the station and he hasn't come out yet. He's still in there; we kept seeing him walk past the windows"

My breathing increased. James is still in the apartment? How is that possible? Embry remained quiet on the other end of the phone. All I could hear was Quil asking what was going on. "Maybe, it's not James that we should be after?" I thought to myself, not realizing I said it out loud.

"It is. That was defiantly his voice on the recording" Embry said.

I didn't speak again, I pressed the disconnect button. My heart was in my mouth as I thought of Bella. I had let her down. We didn't know where she was and she was hurt. The chance of us finding her alive is unlikely, never mind the change of finding her at all.

I listened to the phone call that I had just had with Bella. It cut me inside to hear her like that. She was dying. I knew that. We need to find her but where is she and if James hasn't got her who has? I pressed play again when the recording stopped. This time I listened to it carefully and I quickly caught onto something.

"Jake, I heard your voice today" Bella had said. What did that mean? How can she have heard me? Was she hallucinating? She heard – NO! It hit me. She had heard me. She had heard me call her name. How could I have not realised?

I grabbed the phone and quickly called Embry back. As soon as he picked up, I yelled down the phone. "She's somewhere in the apartment."

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I got the day off work today because of the snow so I decided to spend it writing!

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This might be the last update on this story before Christmas, not sure yet. I'm going to try and squeeze in time to write another one but if not. HAPPY CHRISTMAS! Hope you all have a nice time!

Bex

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