I was in no condition to drive home from school so Alice drove us home. I heard her explain to everyone about what the police officers said to us at the school. My family seemed horrified enough but they kept their distance from me. I could feel myself slipping into the same coma that Charlie's mind told me Bella had. But even with that one fleeting thought of her father, I winced in inconsolable pain.

"Edward." Carlisle's calming voice called out to me. "Edward, I know you want to go track her down, but I think it's wise that we wait. The police will want to ask questions of the entire family and with it being so close to our visit with the Volturi, we need to deal with that threat first and be together when they arrive. We need to be united in this." And then we'll go look for her.

I nodded at his hand on my shoulder, and no sooner did we hear the cars turning up the driveway.

"I bet you they know something."

"Nah, I heard they were taking a trip and the Swan girl was going with them. I don't think they had anything to do with this."

"They don't have alibis."

"They have each other as an alibi."

"Having each other as an alibi, is hardly an alibi at all. They could be covering up together."

I tuned the rest of the conversation out. "The cops think we have something to do with her disappearance." I didn't even want to risk saying her name, I couldn't trust my voice.

"We'll just have to act like we didn't." I heard Jasper's feet step up behind me and my eyebrows knit themselves together. I thought it was an odd thing to say and I was about to question Jasper about it but Alice was already running to the door.

"Good. I see you're all here." A pudgy officer with a handlebar moustache said as he walked through the foyer. His eyes settled on me pointedly after glancing at my family. Judging by his voice he was the one that was sort of defending my family.

The other officer showed an obvious disdain just for being in the manor. He had sandy blonde hair and was somewhat younger than his partner. But he had a baby face that was almost recognizable. He was a Newton, figured.

I was glad that Bree and her friends decided to leave last night. It would have been hard to explain their relationship to the cops.

"Alice and Edward have filled the rest of us in. Is there any news to Bella's whereabouts?" Carlisle asked immediately taking over the conversation.

The pudgy officer, Brand, quickly introduced himself and his partner, before answering Carlisle's question. He was ashamed to even have to address Carlisle for the sake of the investigation considering Carlisle saved his daughter's life after an accident last year. He held a lot of respect for Carlisle which seemed to extend to his family.

"I'm sorry, but we need to ask all of you a few questions. Where were you this morning?"

"Well, I was working a shift at the hospital. And as for my family, they were home. What they were doing, well you'd have to ask them." Carlisle answered smoothly.

"I made breakfast for the kids. Jasper came home early for the Alice and Edward's graduation. And Bella's of course. Then Alice and Edward left for school. Emmett and Rose were hoping to make it home, but they spent their first semester abroad and haven't arrived yet." Esme piped in.

"And the other two?" The Newton boy roughly asked.

"I was playing Call of Duty." Jasper pointed to the large T.V. that we mounted on the wall. The screen was paused on some war zone scene of the game.

"Edward. Are there any problems in your relationship? People say you two spent a lot of time together." Newton asked of me with a disgusting sneer.

"No problems. Everything was just fine."

"Are you sure about that? You seem a little tense. Are you hiding something from me boy?" He strolled closer to me and stood right in front of my face. I immediately stood up so that I was back in his and to his credit he only flinched a little before returning my stare.

Carlisle placed his hand back on my shoulder. I eased up the tension in my body just a little but I refused to back down from an officer, especially one that shared Mike Newton's genes.

"I'm sorry is any member of my family suspects? I can assure you we had nothing to do with Bella's disappearance." Carlisle tried to reassure the two officers in the room

"No. I can say with definite confidence that your family, the entire family," he cleared his throat pointedly towards Newton as if to remind him that we weren't suspects. "…are not considered suspects, or even persons of interest. We just had a few questions because this entire investigation is puzzling. Bella was last seen in the area around six forty five this morning and yet her car was found practically twenty one hours away."

"That wasn't Bella." I mumbled.

"What'd you say boy?" Newton practically spit in my face.

"First get out of my face." I gave him a tap and he staggered back, almost knocking into his partner. "Bella freaks out if she's in a car that's going ten miles over the limit. And if her car was found so far away in such a short period of time, she would have had to been driving between a hundred and a hundred and fifty miles per hour. Someone kidnapped Bella! And you're doing nothing but asking me dumb questions! Get out! Get out!" I really needed to hunt despite the three deer I drained this morning with Esme. Carlisle placed his hand on my shoulder and I felt Jasper's calming effect on me. If I'd been human, I might have fallen asleep.

"I'm sorry we can't help you further. But as you can see my family is deeply affected by Bella's disappearance." I heard Carlisle pause for a second before continuing, but that wasn't what drew me out of Jasper's trance. There was a slight hesitation in his mind that I'd heard when someone was holding back words. The two cops didn't notice my head snap up before Carlisle spoke some more before escorting them out of the house.

I tried listening further into all of their minds, but it was like there was a stronghold that wouldn't let me in. And that was in and of itself suspicious.

"What's going on? What aren't you telling me?" I looked Esme, Alice, and Jasper squarely in their eyes.

"What do you mean?" My eyes narrowed at Alice. I knew my family was lying to me, I just couldn't figure out for what reason and why.

"You're all hiding something from me and I want to know what it is." I tried to remain calm on my own, fighting off an additional wave of calmness from Jasper.

For twenty minutes, I had a staring contest with four of the six vampires I'd considered my family without speaking another word.

"Bella's out there Edward. We need to go search for her. Maybe we can make it to the site where her car crashed and we can track her." Esme offered since the silence seemed to unnerve her more.

I couldn't shake the feeling that they were still covering something up, but it was a good suggestion, an idea I was toying with myself. But I remained unmoving, staring intently in their eyes. I caught flickers of thought from Esme, something to do with the Volturi. What did the Volturi have to do with Bella's disappearance?

"Fine, I'll tell you. But before you get angry, Esme didn't know about this. Remember she was with you after the Volturi left." Alice's small voice piped up.

"So was Jasper." I pointed out.

"Yeah but I filled him in. And I don't want you to feel betrayed. We were all following orders, and quite frankly for a human, Bella was pretty scary." I narrowed my eyes at Alice's use of was. That wasn't something I wanted to hear. "And you never want to consider her ideas, that's why she sent you away. It really was the only way I clearly saw all of us remaining alive once we saw Aro." Alice was rambling, a feature that wasn't really becoming of her.

"How bad is it?" I growled out unwillingly.

"First you need to stop being so overprotective of Bella! We've talked about this." Alice cried out as I took a step towards her with my teeth bared. I quickly thought of either tearing her arm off or burning her entire Fall Collection of Coach bags. And I soon got the results that I wanted.

"Bella had us kidnap her. She's in the process of transforming in an abandoned ranger's cabin."

"WHAT!" I screamed. "You went behind my back and did this?"

"Bella insisted! And we all knew you wouldn't listen. You didn't see some of the things that I saw Aro doing to us if she remained human. Doing this to her before the trip was the only, and Edward I do mean ONLY way we continued to exist, without any consequences from the Volturi. I know you had plans for Bella to remain human, but trust me, there was a really high chance you wouldn't of been able to carry out even one of those plans had we gone to Italy with a human." Alice was yelling at me now and had backed me into the wall.

"Edward, we took a chance, and I'm sorry if this was at the cost of your trust. But Bella saw this as a way to save us all. But considering the things that Aro has done for punishment in the centuries that I was with the Volturi, she's done just that." Carlisle added, and I couldn't help but sink to the floor. A small part of me conceded that they were right.

"Take me to her." I said, resolving myself to stand. "I want to be with her."

A/N: Sorry it took a while for me to update, writing in Edward's POV always gives me a headache for some reason; which is probably why this chapter is so short! Sorry! Read and Review! Let StarChild23 know she's doing a good job as my Beta!