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Chapter 10 – Something wicked this way comes.

EPOV

After Bella had threatened to leave and go home, I was horrified. I was not going to let her leave so I would do anything to make sure that she was happy. So if shaking hands with the Mutt was the right thing to do then I would do it.

My family had all gone off to hunt leaving me and Bella alone in the house, I had left her to go and sleep as it had been a very stressful day for her. But I was not far away just down the hall in my piano room, working on a new Lullaby for Bella.

I was so absorbed in my work that I did not at first hear the utter silence that befell the house, until it was too late. I slowly made my way out of my piano room towards my bedroom, placing my ear to the door I listened for any type of sound but I all heard was the low whistle of the wind blowing into the room. Which I did find strange as Bella never slept with the windows open.

So I opened the door to find that the widow had been removed from the frame, the room had been turned over and Bella was gone. I caught her scent mixed in with the 3 vampires who attacked us the other day. The scent was fresh no more than 5 minutes, but how did I not hear them?

I ran out of the house following their trail, but I lost it as we crossed the Washington boarder. I turned back and ran home, calling my family at the same time.

My family beat me home; their thoughts were filled with sadness and anger. My mother was the first one to come and comfort me. "Edward this is not your fault. None of us would have been able to stop them." She said her voice full of sadness which made her accent so thick it was a little hard to understand her.

"Esme, I … I should have been able to do something I was in the next room, but I did not hear their thoughts, nor did I hear them destroying the place. They have her and I was not able to protect her." I let my head fall to her shoulder, I think if I was able to cry I would have cried like a small child. Esme just held me while I broke down in front of my whole family.

Next thing I know we are both being held by the rest of the family. We stood there for seemed to be a life time, till we were brought out of our moment by Bella's phone ringing from the bed room. We all rushed up and stood around the phone as Jacob Black's name flashed across the screen. I picked it up hoping that he would know what is happening.

"Jake… "I said sounding panicked.

"No this is Sam Ulely, is this Dr. Cullen?" he said sounding worried.

"No this is Edward, what is wrong why are you calling Bella from Jake's phone?" I asked hoping I did not sound to freaked out.

"Jake and some others from the pack were attacked this evening leaving them all seriously injured, but Jake was taken. We tried to follow them but we lost their scent when they crossed the border. I was hoping that I could reach you all and ask for your help to find him." Sam said sounding a little better know that he had one of us on the phone.

But I nearly exploded, Carlisle seeing this took the phone away from me and started to tell Sam about what had happened to Bella. I did not take in any of the conversation as Esme and Alice moved me to the bed. I curled up and placed her pillow to my face and just breathed in her scent. All different scenarios ran through my head about what these Nomads were going to do to my 2 girls that I screamed out in pain.

Alice had to literally carry Jasper out of the house with all the pain and anguish that was pouring out of me alone. Esme curled up behind me and held me tight against her in an attempt to calm me down, but at this moment all I wanted was my angel back in my arms.

After what seemed like forever I started to feel numb whether it was from my own emotions or Jasper trying to control what was going on I don't know, but it helped anything to stop the pain I was feeling was a great help.

Carlisle came back into the room and placed Bella's cell phone gently on the table and moved around the bed so that he was able to see my face. He looked at me but said nothing with his voice.

"Son both Bella and Jacob have been taken by the same nomad vampires. Sam and the pack have been unable to track their scents, but they are not going to give up and neither are we. We are going to get them back no matter what it takes. Now nod if you hear me and you understand, the family needs you strong, but most importantly Bella needs you strong and she needs you to find her and bring her home." I nodded my head very slowly. I knew that I had to stay strong and find my girls no matter what.

"Everyone, we are going to meet the pack in a short while so that can come up with a plan of action to find these nomads and get Bella and Jacob back and we are going to have to do it fast I have no idea what it is going to do to Bella." Carlisle said taking control but staying very calm, but I could hear his thoughts he was worried about Bella's wellbeing. Neither myself or Esme moved the whole time. She held me so tight against her chest that if I was human she would have crushed me to death.

When nobody spoke Carlisle ushered the rest of the family out of my room. I could hear Emmett's angry thoughts and how he was going to rip these vampire's apart slowly if they have done anything to his little sister. Rose was thinking about how far she would be able to shove their heads up there asses, this idea I liked and think that I might gladly join her in seeing just how far.

Esme was crying just crying so hard in her head that I was glad Jasper was not in the room at the time. But I knew that Carlisle was right I needed to get up and start looking for them, but first I just held my mother and let her cry even though she was 288 years old the loss of her child was still fresh in her mind. She could not go through losing another child. I turned in her arms so that I was facing her.

"Mum, listen to me we are going to get her back you are not going to lose anybody. I promise you with everything I have I am going to bring back your daughter." I whispered lightly kissing her forehead. We stayed holding each other till the sky outside went pitched black.

"Edward, Esme we are going to meet with the wolves, please join us." Carlisle said from the living room.

So we did, we left my room and made our way down to the living room, I had my arm around my mother shoulders before handing her over to my father. We left the house and ran into the woods, we ran until we came to the large river that ran through Fork's. On one side we stood together as a family everyone with their mate, me stood to the side alone. And on the other side, the pack all of them well minus Jake. Both sides missing a vital member of their family. At the same time both Carlisle and Sam stepped forward.

"Hello Sam, I am Carlisle Cullen. I hoped that we would meet under different circumstances." He said with a lot of sadness in his voice.

"Yes, but I spouse this is a good enough reason to join forces. But what I want to know is why they took Jake and Bella?" He said with anger in his voice but it was not directed towards us. His thoughts were filled anger directed towards himself for not being able to protect his pack.

"We will find them, and get them back safe and sound. But when we find them Bella is going to be top priority." Carlisle said with an air of authority, Sam nodded, he knew about Bella's health and that we had to find her and find her soon.

"Of course the soon we track down those leaches the better. Bella is part of both of our families and so is Jake and who would have thought a baby would be able to bring us all together?" Sam said with a small smile on his lips.

"The tales are true, a baby will bring the cold ones and the spirit warriors together to defeat a greater enemy." Sam's thoughts were filled with stories of the golden eyed cold ones and spirit warriors coming together.

"Can I ask on the phone you said that you tracked their scent to over the boarder? Oregon or Idaho? Carlisle asked out of curiosity. I had tracked them 30 miles into Idaho but then again they could of double back and they could still be in Washington for all we knew.

"We followed them nearly 25 miles into Oregon before we lost their scent." Sam said, the woman next to him let out whimper. Jake's mate, she looked pretty beaten up along with a couple of others. From the images flashing in her mind, they had only just found each other. I felt sorry for the poor girl.

"Well this could mean that they have doubled back and they are still in Washington." I voiced my theory to everyone, they turned to look at me they all knew that I was right.

"So any idea how they have been able to mask their scent and be able to get past our lines?" Sam asked he needed to know but we all did. None of us have ever come across any vampire that could mask their scent let alone take 2 people in under 2 hours. We were stumped.

It was going to take all of us time to try and not only find their scents again but to be able to track it. We left the clearing with as much information as we came with but we left with a new ally.