EPOV

If Jasper hadn't been with me and calmed me, I not sure how much damage I would have done to my surroundings. The computer screen had fickered and the background had disappeared. In its place was a room. We could see a bed and on it lay my angel, my only love. Bella. Her hands were locked behind her back and round her ankle joints were fetters. The emotions in her lovely eyes were fear and confusion.

"Why?" she asked, her voice was very weak.

At first I thought that her word was spoken to me. She wondered why I had left her. My heart broke once again, as it had done time after time again when I been away from her.

"I'm running out of money and I'm simply bored."

That voice belonged to a man, not a human man. The man that held my Bella into captivity was a vampire.

"But my family doesn't have money!" Bella begged.

"Your boyfriend and his family have lots of them."

"I don't have a boyfriend…"

"Oh right, now I remember! Edward left you a couple of months ago."

Bella's breathing went strained and the pain showed clearly in her eyes. Her arms struggled against the handcuffs. After seeing Jacob's memories, that he had threw at me, I realized that she tried to hold her arms around her. Like she had done then she and Jacob had talked about me and my family.

"May I guess what he said to you?" The man went on without favour for Bella. "'My dear Bella, I've to leave you because it's too dangerous for you to be with me. Farewell, I love you.'"

"No", Bella cried and the agony in voice made me wince. "He doesn't love me. Never... He never loved me. So he won't give you anything."

An intense pain flared up in me and Jasper tried to ease that by putting his hand on my shoulder, it didn't help much. I couldn't believe that Bella had believed me when I had said that I didn't love her. And now she thought that I would refuse to pay the ransom that would free her.

"Oh, I think that he loves you, sweetie. Because I've seen you together."

My eyes, as Bella's, Alice's and Jasper's, winded. Had the man seen Bella and me together before I had left her?

"Isabella." Footsteps was heard, the man moved in the room there he and Bella were. Bella followed him with her eyes, scared now that he came closer. "Can you see my eyes now?"

Bella peered against the light and when gasped, now she knew what he was.

"Right, I'm a vampire, like Edward and the rest of the Cullens. But I have the normal eating habit. And my ability is that I can see people's memories when I look into their eyes. I see what they have seen, I hear what they have heard and so one, sadly not with you." Her memories were protected from him like her thoughts were to me. " I was in a small town near yours and caught a few teenagers' eyes and saw the Cullens in their memories. I have never meet them but I found it weird that their eyes were shimmery brown. You were in the memory too, happy with Edward. And I could see in the memory how you changed when Edward left you and Edward's love for you, the kids didn't see the deep emotions that can't change in his eyes. So I left for Forks to get to know more about you and to take you to make some money. I hate to work but I like to have money. But I couldn't get in."

Bella was barely breathing, every time the vampire said my name Bella winced.

"I smelled the werewolves and I didn't want to have an encounter with them. But I met another vampire, Victoria. She had some memories of you and Edward. She even had useful information of the Cullens' abilities… Oh wait! Should I mention that she is incredibly upset with you? She wants to kill you, torture you to death to be exact. But like me, she couldn't get to you. Well, I did at last. I have some human friends who are loyal to me and I made them go and get you. And we succeeded!"

The man laughed and then he lowered his voice so Bella couldn't hear him. "And Alice saw it. I know about your little talent. It's a good thing to know about when you decide which place to stay at."

Let me guess, you pick a house in the woods that can be anywhere with no landmarks! Alice thought, she was very angry.

"And I won't need to try to find your phone number in order to contact you. I know that you won't abandon Isabella after what I saw in the memories." His footsteps was heard again and the camera moved and zoomed in on Bella's face, so we could see her face and eyes better. "I don't think that I need to start torture her physical yet, by the look she seems to be hurt mentally because of you, most Edward."

That I already knew. The pain was burning her. It wasn't the man that caused that, it was I.

"You're right, Isabella", he said and I could hear that he smiled. "Edward…" Bella stopped breathing because of the pain my name caused her. "Doesn't love you! He left you. They all left you! They didn't care who you felt. They knew that you were going to be unhappy, but they didn't care! You just a human! A plain, insignificant human!"

Bella's agonized eyes were shiny of tears that she tried to hold back. Her breathing became more exerted and I feared that she soon would stop altogether.

"Edward", the man whispered again, while the picture zoomed out. "I want you and your family to get all the money you got, and I know that's a lot. Alright, if I want money I can easily rob a bank or empty several houses. But I've got bored with that. This is much more fun!"

The tears began to fall from Bella's eyes and she sobbed. I wanted to cry too, but I couldn't. My arms were shaking with the desire to hold her, comfort her.

"Ash!" Bella didn't react when the man shouted, the pain she felt had taken over.

I could hear footsteps, too heavy and noisy to be a vampire's, and the sound of a door that opened.

"Unlock the fetters but cuff her to the bed", the vampire said to the human that had entered to room.

A young man came into the picture. Over his head was a mask that hid his face, except for his eyes and mouth. He walked to the bed and unlocked the handcuffs around Bella's hands and ankles. But he only released one of her hands, so he could lock the other end to the bedpost. She could move more now. But she didn't struggle, she just put her free arm around her and huddled herself into a ball. Her sobs had grown louder. The man took in the form of her and turned to the vampire.

"What have you done to her?" he asked astonished.

We understood his surprise, Bella had no injuries on her body but seemed to be in great pain.

"She just remembers some old memories", the vampire simply told him. He when lowered his voice. "I'm going to let the camera roll. Your battery will be finished in about a quarter. I'll contact you in twelve hours."

"It must be very lovely memories", the guy laughed and stroke Bella's cheek. "She's totally gone! Isabella! Do you hear me? Isabella?" He shook her without success.

"Do you want to play with her, Ash?" the vampire asked and I felt how my stomach turned.

"Can I?" The young man looked at the vampire and I really felt like I would puke when I saw the hunger in his eyes.

No! They can't do anything to her! They can't hurt her! My legs tensed, ready to run to Bella and put her into safety. But I couldn't. I didn't know where she was. Never before in my life, my existence, had I felt so powerless.

I could hear Jacob's thoughts in the outskirts of my mind. He was on his way here. But I didn't have the physical or mental strength to stop him from getting here. My eyes never left the screen, there Bella reacted to my name again.