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EPOV

Emmett came home around 5. Something was wrong. I could tell. He's usually laughing and joking about everything, but he's intently serious about something. He came in and went straight to the computer. Like to do some sort of research. He never does any of that stuff what ever happened must have been serious.

'Lauren Mallory' he thought as he was typing in a search engine.

'Ashley Mallory missing! If you have any information contact sister, Lauren Mallory at Forks High School' it was dated two years ago. He made a mental note that it was suspious. That was the only thing he could find about her sister's disappearence. One little article on the loacl newspaper two years ago.

Also in the small article was a little information about her parents. Their names were Jim and Debra Mallory. So he entered Jim Mallory in the search engine.

'he was arrested a couple times for DUI and posession of drugs. His license is probably suspended but that doesn't help anything...oh, here's something about a dismissed domestic disurbance. So he sould be violent.' he was starting to get frustrated because whatever he was finding wasn't helping him find what he wanted to know.

'Jim works at some factory just outside of town, toward Port Angeles. Debra doesn't seem to have a job so she probably doesn't go out much because of her daughter going missing. I would guess that she's depressed.' he added to his mental note.

'Man, what is wrong with this picture. Something isn't right. I can't place it but I know something is off. I think I'm going to have to hide near her house tonight to figure out what more I can.' he then looked at his watch. 'Oh I better call Bella. I know she goes to bed soon. She will want to know what I found out so far.'

I was enraged. What did Bella have to do with this? Whatever he was probably doing was going to be illegal. She shouldn't be involved in this in anyway! While I was ranting to myself, Emmett had called Bella. She's just picking up.

"Hey Bella." Emmett greeted

"Hey Emmett. So what did you find out? I don't know anything about her except what I heard at school." Bella replied.

So she was in on this from the beginning? She wanted to be in on this?!

"What did you hear?" Emmett asked her.

'I don't want to tell her my suspions and theories before I find out more. I'll just tell her the basics.' Emmett thought

"Most people don't like her. Jessica told me she was the biggest bitch and whore around here." Bella told him. Though it didn't sound like she believed it.

"I wouldn't believe anything out of Jessica's mouth. She's a big gossiper from what I can tell. She told the whole school that we were moving here because we got expelled from our last school for making a bomb threat." Emmett said like people would actually believe something that outragous.

He had a short flash back of when one of the students came up to him and asked him if it was true. He laughed and said it wasn't true. The poor kid looked terrified. I chuckled internally at that one.

"Well I guess that's true. I did hear that but I knew it wasn't true. Though I'm not exactly sure why. I'm sure that isn't it. If you really wanted to blow up a school I have a feeling that you would just blow it and probably wouldn't be able to trace it back to you." she added.

Emmett started to have a very loud laughing fit. I heard a couple voices in my head wondering why Emmett was laugh at seemingly nothing. I guess they haven't been paying attention. After a minute or two he calmed down.

"You're right. At least someone here has a brain." he told her with a smile.

Everybody was paying attention now. Emmett's laugh seems to have caught everyone's attention. All of their minds are confused. Mine still isn't sure what was going on but i know more than they do.

"Yeah. So, what did you find out about her backround?" Bella asked like she didn't really want to know the answer by needed to anyway.

"Well, I found out that She lives with her mother and father. She also has a sister but she disappeared. Nobody knows what happened to her, and there were no clues. Her mother rarely come out of the house anymore and her father seems to have a drug and alcohol problem. So far, that's all I know. I will keep trying and I will let you know if I find anything of importance." Emmett said in a careful tone.

Since when is Emmett ever careful? I can't think of another time that he was.

'If this gets as bad as I think it will I don't want to get Bella involved if I don't have to. She shouldn't be in this but if it wasn't for her I don't think anybody would ever help this poor girl. She has all the signs. How could nobody have noticed them before?' Emmett thought to himself.

So he wanted to keep Bella out of this? That's good. He's a much better big brother than I ever gave him credit for.

"Thanks Emmett. You can call me at anytime. It's not like I'm going to get much sleep with all this on my mind anyway." Bella said even though she sounded tired.

"Ok, Bella. I know I wont be able to sleep either. I do hope you sleep though. Tomorrow is going to be a long day." Emmett told her.

Yeah. A much better big brother than I thought. He just wanted her to be safe and I can tell he wants to save Lauren with as little help from Bella as possible.

"Ok, Emmett. I will try to sleep. Goodnight Emmett." Bella said and hung up.

'What's going on with Emmett? He's feeling anxious and determined and a little angry. What could he be angry about? Should I try to help him?' Jasper was thinking.

"What the hell is he doing? I'm pretty sure he doesn't know what he's going to do either. His future is a little fuzzy until tomorrow.' Alice thought.

Well that's great. If Emmett gets himself in trouble then there isn't anything we can do to stop it since he doesn't know what he's going to do. Maybe I should follow him.

'What's he up to? I've never seen him this serious before. Whatever happened it has to be bad. I'm going to help him. I am his wife after all. I wonder if something happened to Bella. That would explain why he's so serious and is actually trying to plan to do something. I don't think he's planned anything but pranks in his life!' Rosalie thought.

This got me worried about Bella. Should I go and make sure she's safe? I think I am. But first I have to figure out what's going on.

"Quick family meeting. I know that everyone here knows something's up." Emmett said.

We quickly gathered in the living room.

"Okay. As you all know I went over to hang out with Bella after school. Lauren Mallory wanted to hang out with Bella too, so she came over also. And were just messing around and I was ticking Bella and I turned to Lauren and said your turn. She went almost as pale as us. Just then her phone rang and she looked to see who it was and she seriously as pale as us. She answered and went into the kitchen. It was her dad. He wanted her to come home, but she didn't want to. It sounded like she was winning the argument. The strangest part was the line he used to get her to leave. 'If you don't leave now, you know what your punishment will be.' After he said that she but ran out the door. I knew something was wrong so I left shorty after to do some good research and find out what I can about her past." Emmett was saying until Jasper interupted.

"Do you know what's going on exactly?" Jasper asked. It sounded like he wanted to help in anyway he could.

"No not exactly. But I have a couple theories. And I was getting to those. Did you all hear what I told Bella abour her?" Emmett asked. I'm sure he just didn't want to go though it again if he didn't have to.

We all nodded.

"Ok. What I didn't tell her is that the cops have been there for a domestic disurbance. One of my theories is that he beats the hell out of Debra, her mother, and she can't do anything about it. The second one is that he beats the hell out of her, but can't tell anybody for safety of someone. Her mother maybe? And the third, I think he might have something to do with his own daughter's disappearence. And I think he could be holding it over her head like a treat of what could happen to her if she doesn't obey what he wants her to do. I'm leaning towards the last one though." Emmett concluded.

"How can we help, Em?" Rose asked.

"Well I think I'm going to stake-out her her house tonight. I've got to make sure she's safe because I think she's in a lot of danger. Whom is the question, but I'm pretty sure her dad has something to do with it. I want Rose to come with me. I think Edward, if he can handle it, should stay near Bella's house because he know that Lauren was there. Alice and Jasper should find out what they can on the street about Jim Mallory, Lauren's dad. And on the way you should Call Carlisle and leave him a voicemail to let him know what's going on. He probably wont hear it right now. They only left a few hours ago." Emmett conluded his little plan and went to garage to get supplies.

"That's actually a really good plan. Emmett does a really good pretending he's a nitwit but it's actually better than what I thought of." I stated. Everyone nodded in agreement. Right after that he came back with a backpack.

"Rose are you ready to go?" he asked her. She nodded and they walked out the door.

Alice and Jasper headed out to my Volvo. I let them take it since we didn't want people to know that I went to Bella's. A random Volvo in the driveway wouldn't be a good idea. I was running. I threw Jasper the keys and started running. The house wasn't very hard to find. Her scent was everywhere.

Just as I was getting there I saw someone trying to break into her house. I stopped right behind him and waited for a moment to possibly realized I was there. He didn't.

"Why are you trying to break into Bella's house?" I said in a low, calm voice. I know my eyes are dark with anger. I know I look frightening, and I want him to be afraid. I was thinking about killing him, but I realized that wont do anything.

He froze, and slowly turned around.

'What the hell! Who is this guy?' he asked himself as he turned around. He stared at me with fear in his eyes as he very well should be.

"I'll ask again. Why are you trying to break into Bella's house?" I said it this time with a little more force.

He gulped. And seemed to remember something. 'My gun. That will shut this guy up.' He told himself in his thoughts as he whipped out his gun. Then he pointed it at me. I noticed that it had a silencer on it. So he was going to kill her!

"Get out of my way!" He said will as much force as he could muster.

I laughed darkly. "I am not afraid of a gun. In fact..." I grabbed it from him with vampire speed and showed him that I now had it.

"How did you? You didn't even move." He sput out.

I decided to scare him a little bit. I took the silencer off and showed him it. Then I crushed it into dust and threw it at him.

"Now. Why were you trying to break into Bella's house?" I said calmly.

"I...I was ordered to." he studdered out.

"Well, tell your boss that Bella cannot be harmed. He will have hell to pay if one hair on her head is hurt." I told him a firm voice.

He nodded and ran off. I ran out of sight from the street to keep an eye on Bella. I climbed a tree right by her window so I could see for myself that she was ok. She was sleeping peacefully. Her heartbeat was normal as was her breathing. I dialed Emmett's number to inform him of what had just happened.

"Good call Emmett. When I got here someone was trying to break in and was ordered to kill her. If you hadn't thought of this she would be dead about now." I told him.

"How dare he? She had nothing to do with this!" Emmett fumed. "I'm not positive but I think her has some major connections with the mob. There has only been a couple people, men really, that have come and gone. Nothing big has happened yet but we're staying until about 6:30 am just to be sure. I don't want something to happen as soon as I leave." Emmett informed me.

"Ok, Emmett. If anything else happens let me know. I'll stay here until she gets up, then I'll go home and get ready for school. Bye." I told him.

"Bye." he said and hung up.

"Edward..." she said. Did she see me here. Did I freak her out? Why can't I just read her mind? Just then she rolled over and mumbled my name again. Was she dreaming of me? She's surely still asleep. Her breathing and heart rate is still very even.

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The night wasn't as long as I feared. Bella is very interesting when she's sleeping. She seems to talk about whatever she dreams about. She misses her mom though she does seem to be pretty happy here. Maybe she fits in better here.

I just left to get ready for school. I don't know if I will ever get her voice out of my head. The way she said my name in her sleep. Though if I could sleep I would probably dreaming some really naughty things for Bella to do to me or that I could do to her. Either way I should stop thinking about this before I get home so Jasper doesn't catch on.

School is going to be much more intersting here than I ever expected.

Well there's chapter 10! i need to got bed now because everything looks like it's in slow motion and that probably isn't good. PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!!!!!