Previously

"Hello?" He said in a creepily cheerful tone. "who am I speaking with?" He waited for a response. I could hear commotion outside as the police were giving people orders.

"Ahh, Chief Swan," He smiled. "So glad to talk to you again! I have you daughter right here." He held the phone out to me. I realized what he was doing now, this was to get back at Charlie. "Say hi to daddy." He instructed.

"Dad?" I asked through the phone and my voice broke and I began to cry when I realized I might not be getting out of here. I heard Charlie yelling on the other line and Mike swiftly took the phone back.

"Careful Chief. We don't want anything to happen now do we?" He waited for a response

"Good." He said. "What do I want? I don't want anything. All I want is for you to suffer." Mike said and shut the phone, ending the call. He turned back to me with a crazed look in his eye.

Chapter 9

EPOV

The week passed by so slowly as I waited for my date with Bella to arrive. I woke up early Thursday morning and got ready to work. I said goodbye to Alice and went to my car.

As I walked through the lobby I noticed that James was not at his usual stool near the door. Where is he? I swear he is the worst doorman anyone could have ever asked for!

I let it go and walked out to my car and drove to work. On the way there I remembered it was Thursday and I wondered if Bella would be picking up Charlie again tonight and if I would see her. When I arrived at work, before I got out of my car I pulled out my cell phone.

To Bella

Have a great day! Will I see you at the station tonight?

From Edward

I sent the text and then put my phone way in my pocket. I then got out of my car and entered the station. I greeted the other cops and then went to the kitchen and poured myself a cup of coffee that someone had made for us. As I poured my coffee my phone buzzed in my pocket and I opened it to reveal a new text.

To Edward

Thanks, you too! And yes you will see me tonight.

From Bella

I smiled at the thought of seeing her tonight. It seemed like years since I had last seen her even though it was only since Saturday.

Last Friday when she sprained her ankle, I was so worried about her. Throughout the week I had been asking her how her ankle was and she said she was fine but I still worried about her. She was on my mind every second.

I grabbed my coffee and went back to my desk to work on so paper work. I was really getting into my work when my phone buzzed again in my pocket. I didn't know who it could be because I wasn't expecting a text from anyone. I looked at my phone and it said it was from Bella. My mood lifted immediately but when I read the text my entire world crashed around me.

To: Edward

Man in the school with a gun. Please send help.

From: Bella

My breathing stopped and I think my heart did also. I was immediately worried for Bella's safety. What if they hurt her? I was not only worried, I was enraged. Who would dare break into a school with a gun? Who would want to hurt little children? Who would want to hurt Bella?

I jump out of my seat and practically sprinted to the Chief's office, knocking into some officers trying to get through. I barely paid any attention to them though. I burst through Chief swan's door and straight to his desk, he looked up at me in shock.

"What the hell?" He cursed surprised, and then he saw the look on my face. "What's wrong?" He asked. I handed him the phone and he read the text. A panicked look came over his face and he stood abruptly.

"Bella!" He said pushing past me to get out of his office. I quickly followed after him. He entered the main room where all the other officers were gathered.

"Attention!" Charlie announced in his powerful Chief voice, "There is a gunmen at the elementary school. All units are required! Officer Paul, call swat and EMS. We don't know if anyone is injured. Wait at the scene for more instruction." Charlie said. The officers looked shocked and scared for most of them had children there too.

"Let's go!" Charlie said and walked swiftly to the door. The rest of the officers hurried to grab their things and keep up.

"Cullen!" Charlie called. "You're with me" I nodded and ran to catch up with him and then joined him in his cruiser while other officer's were getting in theirs.

He turned on his lights and sirens and quickly sped out of the parking lot. Then my phone rang in my hand because I hadn't had a chance to put it away yet. I looked at the caller i.d. and was relieved to see it was Bella. I answered it immediately.

"Bella? Bella! Are you okay?" I asked worried.

"Yeah I'm fine." she whispered just loud enough for me to hear. Charlie looked at me concerned and I nodded that she was ok.

"Hold on Bella you're on speaker, your dad's here." I said and switched the phone to speaker so that Charlie could hear too.

"Bella? Honey?" Charlie asked panicked.

"Yes dad I'm here." She answered.

"What's going on?" Charlie demanded. "There's a gunman?"

"Yes well now there are two." Bella informed us.

"Bella did you see them? Do you know who they are?" I asked.

"Yes, the one is your doorman James, Edward." She said and I let out a growl. I knew he was up to no good. I swear if he hurts her…

"I knew something was wrong when he wasn't there this morning." I said through clenched teeth mostly to myself

"And the other one's name is Mike." Charlie and I gasp.

"That could be Mike Newton. He was released from jail yesterday." Charlie said to me as he drove.

"It could be. But why would he be doing this?" I asked to Charlie.

"Wait who's Mike Newton?" Bella asked a little louder.

"Remember two weeks ago when I told you about that guy who was selling drugs?" Charlie asked.

"OK yeah." Bella said.

"Bella, we are on our way, we need you to-" I started to say but I was cut off by Bella's gasp and frantic whispers.

"Oh my God! They're trying to get in!" She said in a panicked whisper. This enraged me. Bella was in danger and I wasn't there to save her. Charlie sped up. We were not that far from the school now.

"Hold on, Bella!" I said.

Then, over the phone, we heard a loud noise and screams. The screams made me clench my fists and they made Charlie drive even faster. Then we heard Bella shuffle the phone around, I suspected she was trying to hind it.

"Okay," We heard someone say faintly. We also heard children crying "We can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way, Miss. Swan." My knuckles were turning white; I was clenching them so hard. "Which will it be?"

"T-the easy way." I heard Bella stutter. Just then we arrived at the school. Charlie and I got out of the car and went and stood in front of it, waiting to hear more. Other Officers arrived at the scene and came close to listen too.

"Okay, then Miss. Swan. Your students may go but you must stay." My breathing stopped and Charlie looked up at me with a worried expression.

"Hurry up and get the kids out before I change my mind." I heard the man say after a minute of silence. Then more silence came. Charlie looked up at the other officers.

"Ok, get those kids away from here as soon as they come out!" Charlie instructed and they nodded and waited for the children to exit the building, after a minute the doors opened and Bella's kindergarten class came out with a girl around the age of twenty. The officers soon rushed to them and hurried them to a safe building across the street.

Then we heard more over the phone and we listened carefully.

"What do you want?" Bella asked. It killed me to hear the fear in her voice.

"Well, first, I know you have a phone so hand it over." It was quiet for a moment and then the man we suspected as Mike Newton spoke into the phone.

"Hello?" He said in a creepily cheerful tone. "who am I speaking with?" He asked and I looked around and saw more teachers and children rushing out of the building.

"The Chief of Police." Charlie answered.

"Ahh, Chief Swan," He said with a smile in his voice. "So glad to talk to you again! I have you daughter right here." Charlie grabbed the phone from me "Say hi to daddy." He instructed to Bella.

"Dad?" Bella asked through the phone and her voice broke. It hurt me so much to hear her like this. She must be so scared. This broke Charlie's self control.

"I swear to God if you touch her I will personally kill you!" Charlie shouted into the phone He was about to say more but the man cut him off.

"Careful Chief. We don't want anything to happen now do we?" He waited.

"No." Charlie said through barred teeth.

"Good." He said.

"What do you want?" Charlie asked.

"What do I want? I don't want anything. All I want is for you to suffer." Mike said and ended the call. Charlie looked up at me with tears brimming his eyes.

That's when I knew what I needed to do. I looked Charlie in the eye.

"I'm going in." I said. It wasn't a question. Charlie nodded.

"Get her back to me safe." Charlie said. I nodded. Then I drew my gun and ran towards the school and through the entrance.

BPOV

"So Bella, do you remember us?" Mike asked me. I nodded my head.

"Good, and do you know why we are here?" He asked. I shook my head no.

"Well, I'm here to get revenge on your dad for putting me in jail and James over there is here to get revenge on your little boy friend because I believed he asked you out didn't he?" I nodded, my eyes tearing.

"And then you said no and went off with your boyfriend right?" He asked. Well, Edward wasn't my boyfriend but he was basically right. I guess I would just make things worse if I said he wasn't my boyfriend and that I lie because I just didn't want to go out with him, but I nodded anyways.

"Good then we all understand each other." Mike said and gave me an evil grin and then turned to look out the window. I took this chance to look at James. I gave him a pleading look to let me go. I think I saw a glimpse of remorse and regret in his eyes but then he turned away. Why did I have to turn him down? Maybe if I didn't this wouldn't be happening.

"Well, Bella, you managed to get the entire police squad! Good job!" Mike cheers sarcastically. I looked at my feet. He grabbed my face and forced me to look up at him. Then he raised his gun and shot it at the ceiling. I yelped in surprise.

"Please don't hurt me." I let out in a cry.

"No promises." Mike said emotionless letting go of my face and I began to cry softly.

James looked up at Mike with a confused expression. Then he walked over to where Mike was standing and started speaking quietly to him, but I could still hear what they were saying.

"I thought you said no one would get hurt!" James whispered frantically.

"I never said that! Besides you must be crazy if you thought we would be walking out of here. You knew just as well as I that if we did this we would go to jail." He paused.

"But you said we were just going to teach them a lesion." James argued.

"Yes and why not make the most of it. Why not teach them the hard way." Mike said louder so I could clearly hear him. He walked over to me and pointed his gun at my forehead. This is it…

I closed my eyes and cried harder, waiting…

But it never came. I slowly opened my eyes to see that his gun was no longer pointed at me but at the door. I looked at James and saw his gun pointed at the door also.

Then I looked up and saw Edward at the door, gun drawn.

"Put down the gun. James, you too." Edward instructed.

Mike looked from Edward to me to James. "James, is this the guy?" He asked amused. James didn't say anything he just glared at Edward. I feared for Edward's life now, I wasn't the one in danger, he was, he had two guns pointed at him.

"James, don't do this." Edward tried to negotiate. "You can still walk away from this right now." James contemplated this, dozens of emotions flashed over his face.

"Don't listen to him, James. "Mike warned but never moved his eyes from Edward. "If I'm going down I'm taking you with me." James looked nervous but then he lowered his turned his gun on Mike.

"You said no one would get hurt." James said angrily now. Mike laughed.

"Oh wrong choice James." Mike smiled and before I could blink Mikes gun was pointed at me and there was a loud bang followed by another loud bang and everything went black.

When I opened my eyes I found myself staring at the ceiling and suddenly I felt a burning sensation in my abdomen. My instantly went to my stomach and I felt something warm and wet. I raised my hand to see what it was and then I saw my blood on my hands.

Black dots started clouding my vision then I was a black figure standing over my head and I could faintly hear someone calling my name. Was this my guardian angle?

"Bella!" The beautiful voice started to fade and the figure in front of me started to get farther away. No I didn't want it to go…

"Bella can you hear me?" I nodded but my eyes felt heavy so I started to shut them.

"No, Bella! Stay awake!" The angelic voice commanded and I tried to follow its commands but I felt so tried I couldn't stop my eyes from closing.

The voice faded to a point where I couldn't hear it anymore and then I felt nothing at all.

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