I know that it has been a long time since I posted and I'm so sorry. Between raising my 4 yr old, working and getting a new computer it has been a little crazy. I hope that you all forgive me for taking so long. I hope that in the future I can get a new chapter out every two weeks. I hope that you like the chapter. Please tell me what you think is going to happen because I love having people review and talk to me. Now on with the chapter

Chapter 10

APOV

My arms ached and my hands grew numb from being tied up for so long. Every couple of hours Laurent untied me, giving me a chance to stretch my legs and to use the bathroom.

James didn't come by much. I figured he was keeping tabs on the family to make sure they didn't figure out where I was or who was responsible for taking me. I hoped my family would figure it out soon. I missed them all, especially Edward and Jasper.

When James returned, I happen to catch a glimpse of what he was wearing.

Shit! Is that a...

No wonder he was able to keep close watch on my family. The son of a bitch was a police officer. The baby kept kicking my ribs. I suppose this was her way of telling me that she was still there and willing to fight. This made me relax just a bit and prayed that they would find me soon.

EPOV

Shock was not even the best word to describe what or how the family felt or reacted when Bella and I told them that Laurent was out of jail, and that James was a police officer, right here in Seattle.

The family was suspicious about our newly acquired information about James and Laurent. Finally after being silent for fifteen minutes, they asked the question Bella and myself knew they wanted to ask. How or who gave us the information?

We knew we had to tell them, and we did. They were all upset and happy that we were getting the help of the police. They were upset because involving the police meant that Alice could have gotten killed. They were happy because without the help of the police then, we would have never figured out that Laurent and James were in town and definitely behind everything.

As a family, we decided that we needed to do whatever it took to get Alice and the baby back safely.

When Scott called back to check on us he said that his partner, Mike Newton, was looking into anything they could find on Laurent being in the area. So far they hadn't found a thing. Scott said, "I will try tailing James to see if he gives anything away." We all wished him luck and hung up.

It was getting late and we had all been under a lot of stress and information overload. I tried to get Bella to lay down with me so she would be rested, while the others did the same.

When we retired to bed we just laid there together holding each other, in silence. This was one of those times nothing needed to be said. It felt like hours before I heard Bella's breathing even out. I laid there and watched her sleep.

Sometime in the wee hours of the morning I heard someone walking around downstairs. I scooted out of bed hoping that Bella didn't wake up. When I finally made it downstairs I saw the kitchen light on. I figured that it would be Rosalie cooking again but it wasn't.

Sitting at the table with a plate of cookies in front of him was Jasper. I hadn't taken a good hard look at him since we found out that Alice was missing, but he looked really bad. He had circles under his eyes, like he hadn't slept since that day she went missing and his faced looked sunken in. Maybe Jasper sitting eating cookies wasn't such a bad idea.

I walked over to the table and sat down. Jasper didn't look up until I grabbed a cookie. When he looked at me I could see that the light that he once had seemed gone.

"It's not your fault you know."

"Of course it's my fault. She was waiting for me to show up and she left the door unlocked, for me. Making it that much easier for Laurent or whoever to get in. If I had just skipped class or had gotten out early I could have been there. Please, tell me how this isn't my fault?"

"You can't blame the fact that the door was unlocked on yourself. If you had not been coming over she may have left it unlocked so you have no way of knowing that it was because of you. If you really want to blame someone for her getting kidnapped it should be me because I'm the one that insisted that you go and talk to her in the first place."

"It's not your fault either you couldn't have known any more than I could have. It is just easier to blame it on myself than on anyone."

"I know what you mean. I don't know what I would do if it was Bella in this situation. Even when I was upset with her for lying to me, I still got to see her every day. I always knew that she was safe."

Before Jasper could say anything else we heard some noise coming from the stairs. A couple seconds later Bella came into the kitchen. I knew that she had been only sleeping for a couple hours and that wasn't enough sleep for a pregnant woman. I didn't say anything because I didn't need her stressing out about not sleeping on top of everything that had gone on in the past couple days.

She saw Jasper and I sitting at the table with the cookies. She must have started to get cravings or something because she was eyeing the cookies. I grabbed the plate away from Jasper and handed them to Bella. She grabbed three of them. She started to eat them but stopped when she noticed Jasper looking at her.

"What is it Jasper?"

"It's just that you remind me of Alice when you sit there with you little baby bump."

"I'm sorry Jasper; do you want me to leave?"

"No, you don't have to leave. I will be fine. It just makes me a little bit sad that's all."

Bella turned to me with long face.

"Maybe we should cancel the doctor's appointment until we get Alice back."

I was about to answer when Jasper interrupted me.

"Bella, don't cancel the appointment. We need some good news right now and you coming back telling us that the baby is doing great is going to be excellent news."

Bella and I just sat there and stared at Jasper for a good long time. I finally looked away when I heard noise coming from the girls' room above the kitchen. I knew that it was only a matter of a couple minutes before the girls came downstairs so I got up and look through the fridge to find something to make for breakfast.

I found some bacon and some eggs; I pulled them out and started making some for the whole family.

With the girls getting up, I knew that they would wake up the rest of the house. I went in search of some pans when I saw Bella got up and head upstairs.

Jasper got up and helped me search for the pans, in the end he ended up helping with breakfast.

Bella came back down dressed in clean clothes and the girls trailing right behind her. I smiled imagining that it was our kids that were following her downstairs and me making breakfast for my girls.

Jasper nudged me and I turned back to making breakfast. It was less than a half an hour before the rest of the family came down for breakfast. After everyone had gotten breakfast I started doing other menial tasks around the house in order to keep my mind off the appointment that was later today.

After what felt like days Bella and I finally got in the car and headed to Dr. Morris' office. It was only a half an hour drive from Emmett and Rose's place so I didn't get time to start worrying again before we got there.

Once we walked into the waiting room, the nerves finally hit me. I could tell that Bella was nervous too because, she was holding on to my hand like I was going to fly away. Her eyes were also darting around the room like someone was after her. Once we checked in and sat down I felt Bella start to relax. Of course the moment they called her name to go back she tensed up again.

The nurse took her to the scale and weighed her. From the look on Bella's face I'm guessing that she wasn't happy about gaining weight. After that the nurse took us into a room. She then proceeded to take her blood pressure. Once that was done she told us that the doctor would be with us shortly and then left the room. After a minute or two I got up and started pacing. Bella's eyed followed me as I paced until we heard a knock on the door and the doctor walked in.

Since Bella had gone to the ER when she found out, they gave her all the things that she would need until a future appointment so she was taking all the vitamins that she needed to be. The doctor came in and introduced herself as Dr Marika Morris. She asked us if we had any questions before we started. Bella asked her why she seemed bigger then she thought she was supposed to be at this point. After hearing that question I realized that she was bigger than Alice was at the stage in her pregnancy. She told us that she would do an ultrasound after the appointment to make sure that everything was going ok. After voicing our questions she gave Bella a gown and left the room so that she could change.

I was about to leave when she ask me to stay. I knew that she was scared but I didn't think that she was that comfortable with me seeing her naked since we hadn't technically been dating very long. I was just happy that she needed me.

A few minutes later the doctor came back in. I had never been to a pregnancy exam much less a female exam so watching the doctor check her was a new thing for me. The exam didn't take very long before she said that Bella could put her clothes back on.

Dr. Morris said, that the nurse would be back to take us to the room to get the ultrasound done.

I didn't know that I could get any more nervous than I was but when the nurse took us to the room with the ultrasound machine I became exponentially more nervous. As the nurse was getting Bella ready on the table the doctor walked in the room. She started up the machine just as the nurse finished getting Bella ready.

"The gel will be a little cold so you know. It might also be a couple seconds until we find the heartbeat because the baby is so tiny still."

With that she applied the cold gel to Bella's abdomen. Once she found the heartbeat I gasped at the sound. That was our baby's heartbeat. I heard Bella gasp and then say

"Edward that is our baby's heart beating, can you believe it?"

I was so overwhelmed all I could do was shake my head. The doctor moved the wand around a little bit more before she stopped. She took some measurements and a couple photos.

"Well it looks like there is no reason to worry about being bigger than normal."

I was pretty sure what she was about to say but I had to hear it for it to be absolutely true.

"You are at about 11 weeks with a set of twins."

My heart almost stopped beating. Twins I was worried about one child now two. This is going to be an adventure. I looked down at Bella and saw the same stunned face that I was wearing. Then Bella turned to Dr. Morris

"Are you absolutely sure that we are having twins?"

"I'm 100% sure that you are having twins."

With that she turned the monitor more towards us so that we could see the outline of both babies. She then took another picture and printed it out so that we could take it home to show the family. Before she left she turned to Bella and told her that since she was having twins that she would need to get some blood drawn for some basic tests and to also to stay on the prenatal vitamins.

We walked back to the waiting room so that we could wait for the blood to be drawn. It wasn't too long before they called Bella again. There wasn't enough room in the area where the blood draw was going to be done for me so I stayed in the waiting room. A couple minutes later Bella came out looking extremely pale. I ran to her making sure that she was ok.

"I don't like needles and every time that I'm around them I get real light headed and dizzy."

"Do you feel well enough to make your next appointment or would you like to call back when you are feeling better?"

"I think I can handle making the appointment. It's not like its rocket science."

I helped her walk over to the desk and make the appointment for next month. I told her that I would come to every appointment with her. She smiled at that. I walked her out to the car and got her in the passenger seat before ran around to the driver's side.

We spent about 10 minutes in silence before Bella started talking.

"Are you sure this is what you want? One baby is a lot but two, do you think that you are ready?"

"If you are there with me everything will work out fine. Whether it is one baby or two babies we will get through it together. With Alice getting kidnapped it put a lot of things into prospective for me. I don't know what I would do if it was you and our babies that had gotten kidnapped."

With that Bella just smiled and laid her head on my shoulder. For the rest of the car ride we sat like that with our hands entwined. I just hoped that the news about the twins was enough to lighten the mood.

Once we pulled up to the house you could tell that everyone was still there. It looked like no one had left the house all morning. Once I parked and helped out of the car I heard the front door open and saw my mother standing there. She helped us into the house before she started asking questions about the appointment.

Everyone was already sitting in the living room. The probably had been sitting there for a good twenty minutes waiting for us. I turned to Bella and looked into her eyes.

"Would you like to tell them or should I?"

"They are your family you should tell them the news."

I nodded my head and then turned to my family.

"I know that you all knew we were going to our first appointment together today and we found out some excellent news."

I turned to Bella leaving the family in suspense. The once Emmett yelled tell us already I turned back to them.

"We asked the doctor why Bella seemed bigger than Alice did at this stage and so she did an ultrasound. During the ultrasound we found out that the reason that she was bigger than Alice was because there was one more baby than Alice has in there."

Once I finished everyone just stared at us for awhile. Finally someone spoke and it was the person that I least expected, Jasper.

"Alice is going to be so pissed that you are getting to have twins and she isn't."

I smiled at Jasper and said,

"I know she is going to be pissed but she will just have to deal with it."

After that it seemed like the family relaxed for awhile. We showed them all, the ultrasound photo. Hoping the calm would last but I knew that it wouldn't last long so I talked Bella into helping me make dinner for everyone. I knew that if we didn't get her back soon the family would eat each other alive eventually because we have never been this close together for such a long period of time.