Hey everyone, so here is my story!
Hope you all enjoy!
Warning: Contains some graphical scenes. For mature audiences only.
Do not own Twilight or the characters - but do own my own plot/storyline.
Previously...
"Alright then everyone form a line. Edward you stay at the back." We all listened the plan that Jasper had managed to cook up and headed back down the mountain. Jasper had come up with the idea of us all walking in a straight line, and the first person, Jasper, would say one. Next Alice would say two. Emmett three. Rose four. Me five. And lucky last, Edward six. We would say our numbers after the person in front of us, making sure that we were all together.
"1.."
"2.."
"3.."
"4.."
"5.."
"6.."
We kept walking...
"1.."
"2.."
"3.."
"4.."
"5.."
"6.."
And walking…
"1.."
"2.."
"3.."
"4.."
"5.."
"6.."
I was starting to get tired now. We walked for hours and continued in that same pattern, counting our way through the night and making sure that we kept an eye out on the stars, making sure that we were going in the right direction. I waited for the next number counting to begin, we started off counting off with only a few seconds apart. But now we were almost thirty seconds apart. I guess we were all getting bored and tired now.
"1.."
...
And nothing. No two.
Where was two? Where was Alice?
And Now...
"Alice!" I screamed out first. Our line stopped, slowly we joined together and too right we were one person short. She was gone.
"Alice this isn't funny. Come out now!" Rose screamed with tears running down her face. Emmett moved to her quickly and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Alice sweetie, are you playing a trick." Jasper asked out into the black night sky.
"Mary Alice Brandon you get your skinny but back here or I'll cut up all your clothes and credit cards!" Edward yelled while spinning around in the darkness trying to flash his torch at every possible angle.
"Ali…" Rose whispered and buried her face into Emmett's chest.
"Alice where are you!" I heard Jasper scream out and started to move away from the circle to search for her.
"Alice!" I screamed out through my tears and followed Jasper's movements. I ran towards the tree line with all hopes of finding her crouched down behind a bush. I for once preyed that she would jump out and scare me, to jump at me and squeal her high pitched scream at me. I broke through the tree's only to be pulled back. Two strong arms wrapped around me and slowly tugged me back into the clearing.
"It's alright love. We will find her." Edward whispered into my ear and slowly lead me back to the circle.
"Edward, where is she!" he held me tighter and I could feel his body shaking.
"Rose, Bella stay together, every minute we say our names. We're going to find her!" Emmett took command and swapped his fire torch with my battery torch. I was about to demand that I help but he glared down at me. This was not the time to argue, so I stayed quiet and nodded my head.
Edward quickly kissed me and then handed me over to Rose. I watched as the lights from our boys quickly disappeared into the darkness. I felt a water droplets land on my shoulder and my face, but they weren't my tears. I looked up and noticed the tears running down Rose's face.
"Oh Rose, she'll be fine." I rubbed her back as she cried a little more. As much as I wanted to break down with her, someone needed to be strong for her.
"Jasper..." I heard from my right in the distance.
Next would be Alice, but there was no sound. I felt my body tense up by the silence that filled the air. Where could she be?
"Emmett..." we both turned and looked in the opposite direction to where Jasper had called from. I squeezed Rose's hand, she was next.
"Rose..." she barely whispered. I squeezed her hand harder motioning for her to say her name again.
"Rose..." she yelled back.
"Bella..." I yelled almost instantly afterwards, not able to wait the full minute after her.
I waited for Edward's voice, I needed to hear it. I felt Rose's hand tighten around me. But there was nothing but silence in the darkness. Not again, please not again.
"Try again, maybe he didn't hear you?" I nodded and took a deep breathe, trying to summon up the loudest voice I could muster.
"Bella!" I yelled a little louder. I waited, this time and I felt a single tear roll down my cheek.
"Edward..." I felt my body literally collapse under me, bringing Rose down with me. We held onto each other tightly just trying to hold each other together.
"Jasper..."
"Emmett..."
"Rose..."
"Bella..."
"Edward..."
This continued for a good half hour. And every time that I said my name, my hope started to fade. Rose and I sat there watching as the dark sky started to grow lighter each time we said our names. I saw the sun start to rise above the hills and make its way into the middle of the sky, midday. There was no need for the torches now, they just added smoke to the now clear blue sky.
We waited for the next round of name calling to behind, the time between saying them had increased now, to at least three to four minutes apart. We waited, but there was an eerie silence amongst the air, something wasn't right, I felt it throughout my entire body. It felt as though we were being watched, someone was out there, someone was watching us. I jumped up quickly out of Rose's arms.
"Bella what's wrong?" she asked jumped up next to me. But I couldn't concentrate on her voice at the moment; I needed to hear the one voice, the next voice.
"Jasper!" I screamed out. Rose finally caught on.
"Jasper it's been five minutes, you can start again!" Rose called trying to keep her voice calm, I could sense her trying to hide the panic, but right now we were both in panic mode.
"Jasper, man where are you!" I heard Emmett scream.
"Edward!" I screamed out. There was a silence.
"Edward, answer me this instant!" Rose screamed.
"I'm here, I'm okay!" Edward screamed out. I turned around and saw Edward running through the trees behind us, from the complete opposite direction from which he left last night. He looked exhausted, he had dirt all over his clothes and his body seemed to sag under every step. As soon as he reached us, Rose and I engulfed him in a hug.
"It's okay, we'll find her." Edward was trying to sooth both Rose and I when we heard running from the behind me and saw Emmett break through the trees. I moved out of Edward's arms and bolted straight for him. He reached be half way and I all but jumped into his arms. He held me tightly in his signature bear hug.
"Where are they Em?" I felt the tears run down my cheek and onto his shirt. He held me tighter.
"We'll find them, you know Jazzy won't stop till his got his women." I couldn't help but laugh slightly, but Emmett was right, Jasper wouldn't stop at anything till he knew we were safe. I remember the day when we went to the airport to pick up Emmett's cousin. I went to the bathroom and got lost, and Jaz didn't stop till he found me, he ever entered the very full, very busy toilets to find me. The security team even had to restrain him at one point.
"Hey guys over here!" We all looked back and saw Jasper calling us over from. Emmett dropped me back to my feet grabbed my hand and ran towards Jasper, dragging me along with him. Edward and Rose were running behind us.
"JASPER!" I screamed and ran straight into his awaiting arms. I embraced him for a moment and then remembered that I was angry with him. I stepped back out of his arms and slapped him across the face.
"Bells what was that - "
"Don't you ever do that again! I was calling and calling! I thought you disappeared to!" I shouted at him, the tears were uncontrollably running down my face now. He stepped forward and hugged me.
"I'm sorry hun, I promise I won't do that again." By this stage Edward and Rose were standing next to us.
"Jaz what did you find, did you find her!" Edward asked. Jasper shook his head.
"No but I found this," he held up a torch. Alice's torch, it was easy to tell whose it was. It was pink.
"Where?" Emmett asked. Jasper led the way, through the thick trees, the bushes.
"Right here," Jasper pointed down. I looked around it was a small open spot, a rock was behind me, trees sticking out everywhere. Why was she here, what happened. I could hear voices but I blocked them out I had to think. Analyse. I walked around looking for anything, anything that could help me figure out what happened.
"Daddy daddy, what's this?" I pointed out a large foot print on the ground. Daddy had taken me camping for the summer. He was going to show me the wonders of the wild. I couldn't help but giggle, the wild was a wonder, I wonder what the wild thought about it being a wonder...
"Well that baby Bells is a wolf print. See here, where the print gets deeper in the ground." I looked down as his fingers traced the outline of the print. I nodded and looked back up at him.
"Well this shows that the wolf was running, he puts more force into his steps when he runs trying to go faster and faster." He stood up from his crouch and moved over to the nearby tree.
"See how this twig is snapped?" I walked over and looked at it.
"What do you see?" He asked me. I looked at it. I couldn't figure out what he was seeing that I wasn't. All I saw was a snapped twig.
"What colour is it?" he glided his finger over the snapped part. I looked closer.
"Green," I smiled. He picked up an old brown twig off the ground it had already been snapped. Its insides were brown.
"This one's brown, why?" I questioned.
"Well when a tree or twig first snaps it's still alive. The green shows that it was snapped recently. While the old twig on the ground that has been snapped a while ago shows brown. It's no longer alive."
"This twig is dead?" I asked. I felt my eyes start to water.
"Oh pumpkin it's alright. It's just the circle of life. Everything dies sweetheart, everything lives."
"You won't leave me, will you daddy?" I looked up at him as he brushed the stray tear that ran down my cheek.
"No Bells, I will never leave you. I may have to leave this world like the twig. But I'll always live right here." he placed his hand over my heart.
"I will always live in you baby girl."
"I love you daddy," I wrapped my arms around his neck.
"Love you to Bella."
I remember that day like none other; my dad had taught me everything about camping. Tracking was my specialty, I even tried to teach Jasper and Emmett whenever we go camping.
I stepped forward and saw the branches. A couple of them snapped. Both green and brown.
Thanks Daddy…
"Over here!" they all came rushing.
"What is it Bella?" Edward asked.
"Here, someone was here. A couple hours ago."
"What how?" I ignored Edward and moved forward seeing another snap. It was leading me.
"And here, she went this way." I didn't bother to wait for them I kept seeing more and more signs. I could hear them following me.
We walked out to a clearing. It was small but slightly open. There were rocks, boulders and a tiny stream of water ran over them.
I looked around trying to pick up the trail again.
"Over here!" I looked and saw Jasper bent over a rock. I ran towards him. What I saw scared me, blood.
"No – no – no," Rose started to panic.
"ALICE!" Rose screamed out, tears running down her face. She went off running over the rocks.
"Emmett stop her!" I screamed out. He bolted after Rose catching up to her quickly. She broke down on his shoulder.
I couldn't let my emotions take over, if I did then I would be of no use to anyone, especially Alice.
I needed to find this trail before it was too late, before we lost the light. I looked down at the blood. A small handprint smudge. There wasn't enough blood to be fatal, it was just a cut.
The way the blood was just a smear, but showed a struggle. Maybe she broke his nose… Maybe it wasn't even hers… I hope it wasn't.
There was someone else here, someone has her. She was running from him, she had got away. But he got to her here. She fought, she would have fought hard.
"Bells, what do you see?" Jasper asked bending down next to me. I looked up and made sure Rose wasn't listening. She didn't need to hear this. Emmett noticed and nodded his head, picking her up and walking slightly away from us.
"She's being chased. Someone is following her, but she managed to get away. She was running from over there to here. He caught up to her here, they struggled. I don't know what happened but he's carrying her from here and they went that way." I pointed across to the rocks and through the trees.
"Bella, how can you tell exactly?" Edward asked. I walked over to other side of the rocks were the trail picks up again.
"See here, the dirt is flattened. It's deeper than before over there. Which means either he has suddenly gained a lot of weight or he's carrying someone?"
"He?" Edward asked.
"I don't believe a female would be able to overpower Alice and get her to come willingly. He nodded in confirmation and I kept walking forwards. Everyone followed me. We kept walking, following the trail. At one point there was another slight struggle. Alice is fighting back, good girl.
"There!" I pointed at the object on the ground. Bright pink. I ran forward and picked it up. It was a bead.
"Show me," Rose stepped forward out from Emmett's arms. I showed her the pink bead, she picked it up and looked at it.
"It's a pink sapphire. I gave her this bracelet before this trip as a graduation present."
"But where are the rest of them? If one came off they all would have. It was a single silver chain." I couldn't help but smile, even a small laugh escaped my lips.
"What the hell are you laughing at!" Rose all but attacked at me.
"Because, this means that the bracelet didn't break." She looked at me more puzzled than before.
"Alice is leaving this for us, she's leaving a trail." Rose finally smiled. She stepped forward and hugged me.
"I'm sorry I snapped at you," I hugged her back.
"Sorry girls, but I think we should move along," I pulled back and nodded.
We kept walking, picking up our pace. We found more and more beads. Finally the last thing was the chain itself. I looked up everyone had the worried look on their faces, what else is left for her to drop, her clothes?
I looked around and tried to find the trail. It wasn't clear but there was something. A light trail, actually you couldn't even call it a trail more like a smudge of dirt. After all the rain we'd had, and the past couple days of sun, the tops of the surface were dried and slightly cracked, but with enough pressure the top cracked open and revealed the wet mud underneath. It really wasn't that hard to find, you just had to know where to look, and know exactly what you're looking for.
The trail got thinner as the trees got denser. It was single file and slowly led around a cliffs edge.
"Help me please," I looked up and saw the mud falling down from the cliffs edge.
"Bells…" My mind snapped out of its trance and I looked up to see Edward standing in front of me, blocking the cliffs edge.
"I'm fine." I squeaked out and tried to swallow the pain from my chest.
"I've got you love," he whispered and wrapped his arms around my waist taking a step forwards with me in tow.
"I can't." I pulled back and pressed my back against his chest, effectively halting us.
"You can, I'll be with you every step of the way I promise." His arms tightened around me if to prove his point. But I shook my head, I squeezed my eyes closed wishing that the empty air between me and the cliffs edge would just disappear into a forest of trees.
"Bella," I finally opened my eyes and saw Jasper and Emmett in front of me, both holding their hands out for me.
"Come on Bells, we won't let you fall." Jasper smiled and stepped closer towards me.
"Yeah, and if you do we will be there to catch you." Emmett smiled and plied one of my hands away from my chest and nudge me forwards a step.
"You can do this," Edward whispered into my ear and took a step forwards.
"I can do this…" I repeated to myself while taking in a deep breath.
I kept my eyes open the entire time, my father would be disappointed in me if I let my fear take over my life. He always taught me to embrace my fears and to never give in. To always keep fighting, even until my final breathe is taken away, and then jump back up and fight some more.
"You did it," Edward's voice whispered into my ear and then his lips pressed down onto my neck. And he was right, the cliff was completely behind me, but what stood in front of me through the trees caused my breath to catch.
A cabin.
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