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Chapter 10: Far Away

Bella POV

My head was throbbing as I awoke. What had happened? I slowly opened my eyes and took in my surroundings. Where the hell was I? I sat up and lifted my hand to the back of my head, I felt the dried blood flake onto my fingertips and winced. I knew that in a situation like this people were supposed to think quickly and find the strength to get themselves out but not me. I felt my shoulders start heaving as the first few tears brimmed over my lids.

Just then the door swung open.

"Blind her," a voice commanded and suddenly everything went black even though my eyes were open. I started screaming in panic, thrashing about on the floor. Immediately someone swooped down beside me and held my arms down.

"Shh shh shh Isabella, it won't do any good to scream, I'm not going to hurt you."

"What do you want?" I managed in between sobs. I still couldn't see anything but in the midst of my panic I could feel the stony skin of a vampire and with that I knew I was done for.

"My dad is the sheriff, he'll find you…please, please just let me go home," I begged. My assailant let out a small fake sigh then stood up.

"I will not let you go, as it were, I require your assistance."

"For what?" I sobbed.

"To kill Major Whitlock." With that I heard the door slam and my sight returned to me.

"Jasper," I whimpered, tears streaming down my face.

Jasper POV

When I pulled into the Swan driveway there was complete chaos. It seemed as though every single police officer within a tri-county radius was here.

"Charlie!" I called as I ran up the walkway.

"Jasper, she's gone, there's blood all over her bedroom floor," he blurted, I could tell he was slowly unraveling.

"Everything's going to be fine chief, here, sit down for a minute," I soothed. It was hard trying to control his emotions when I couldn't even control my own but eventually I had him sane again.

Jacob Black stepped out of the house with the strangest look on his face. I could tell he knew something.

"I'll be back Charlie," I gave him one last soothing wave before I stepped into privacy with Jake.

"What do you know?" I asked.

"It was vampires. I know that much, their scent is all over her room," he explained. I had to steady myself on the back of the sofa.

"What?"

"Are you deaf? Vampires!" he repeated.

I ran up to her room and swung open the door. Jacob was only seconds behind me.

"I went through everything with a fine tooth comb as soon as the cops cleared out," Jacob explained, "The problem is all of you smell the same to me and the rest of the pack, for all I know…Jasper? Hey! Are you listening to me?"

I wasn't listening at all. On the floor, beside Bella's bed was a pool of blood. Her blood. I hadn't cried in years, I was incapable of producing tears but as I kneeled down to touch the dried blood I felt that familiar dry ache in the middle of my throat. I lifted my hand up to my nose and focused all my energy on smelling her blood. If I could just get a hint of scent maybe I could track her, I smelled nothing though.

Every human I've ever come across was a challenge. Sitting in the lunchroom at Forks High every day was my own personal torture. The one person whose blood doesn't affect me is the one person who I'm madly in love with, and, the one who I'd give anything to find. Damn it all to hell.

"So who was it?" Jacob interrupted my thoughts.

"Excuse me?"

"Come on," he exasperated, "You have to know who did this to her. It was a vampire! How many fucking vampires could there be in this area? This wasn't random dude, this was personal."

Jacob was right. I stood up and walked around her room. They would've had to come in through her window, which she always left unlocked for me…stop it, focus. I touched the window frame, I had to become the enemy. I turned around to face the room, Jacob looking at me, waiting for an answer. The rocking chair in the corner of her bedroom caught my attention. I went to sit down in it.

"They sat here," I said, "They watched her for a long time." When she awoke she would have sat up on the side of her bed. Her back turned to the rocking chair, and whoever took her. I stood up.

"He probably made some sort of noise from behind her, to bring her attention to this side of the room, to scare her," I explained.

"Why?" Jacob asked.

"So he could do this," I said as I leapt to the other side of the room, it took me less than a second. "He would've been directly behind her at this point, he hit her over the head and escaped back out the window," I divulged.

"How could Charlie not have heard anything?" Jacob asked astounded.

"This was a professional assailant. A tracker perhaps? Either way, he would've been dead silent, I'm surprised he left her blood behind," I went on, staring at the small dried pool.

"He left it for you," Jacob said.

"What do you mean?"

"Vampires smell human blood! Don't you see? Just smell her blood and follow her scent! She was obviously bleeding, so there's probably a trail of it!" Jacob said, an enthusiastic tone bubbling up in him.

"I can't…" I whispered.

"What do you mean you can't?"

"I can't…smell her blood. That's why it's so easy and natural for me to be with her, she's the first person I've ever met that I haven't been tempted to kill."

"Charming," he said sarcastically, "So what the fuck do we do now?"

"My family will be here soon. My brother Edward, he's the closest thing we have to a tracker, it'll have to do."

Bella POV

They have to know I'm gone by now, at any moment Jasper's going to burst through the door and take me home. I hope he kills them all. I moaned at the throbbing in my head, it wouldn't stop.

"Are you hungry?" a small voice from the doorway whispered. I shrieked in surprise but she seemed harmless enough.

"It's okay, I'm not going to hurt you," she was by my side now, a bowl of some form of food in her hand, a bottle of water in the other.

"That's what the other person said, she lied," I whimpered with fear. The small girl batted her lids.

"That was our Master. She's very powerful. Are you hungry?" she asked again.

"A little," I mustered, though what I was really wanting was the water, she seemed to notice this and handed it to me. "Thanks."

"What's your name?" I finally asked after I gulped down half my water.

"My name is Aubrey, but you can call me Bree, everyone else does," she said, her crimson eyes smiling.

"How old are you Bree?" I asked as I took a small bite of food.

"I'm 16."

"You've been a vampire for 16 years?"

"No, I've only been a vampire for a few months. I was 16 when…" she trailed off.

"Why are you being so nice to me?"

"You're scared and alone, I know how that feels," she explained. I closed my eyes tightly, feeling sorry for myself and Bree. It took me a few minutes, but I finally got the courage to ask my next question.

"What are they going to do with me?" my voice shook with anxious fear. Her eyes shot to the door, making sure no one was near.

"I'm not really sure, they're waiting to see what he'll do," she explained. Now she was behind me, using a wet wash cloth to remove the clumps of dried blood from my scalp.

"He? You mean Jasper?" I asked frantically.

"Yes, Major Jasper Whitlock. I really hope he finds you soon," she said. I gulped, my mouth suddenly dry again.

"What happens if he doesn't?" I asked. I felt Bree go rigid behind me, she didn't want to answer.

"If he doesn't find you by tomorrow night, well, Riley said that Master will turn you," she explained.

"Bree!" a deeper voice came from the door and in a flash Bree was standing up, her hands behind her back like an innocent school girl.

"R-Riley, I was just…" she looked at me hurtfully for a second, unsure of what explanation to give the boy standing at the door.

"You were just divulging information to our guest, information she needn't hear," he looked at me then, and I shut my eyes fearing the worst.

"Come Bree, Miss Swan is almost out of water. She'll need a refill soon, but that is all she needs, is that understood?" he asked her. Bree nodded her head up and down enthusiastically and they both walked out the door, shutting it behind them. I started sobbing immediately, I was completely alone and if Jasper didn't find me soon they were going to turn me into one of them. If Jasper did find me though, my heart wrenched at what might happen to him.

I'm not sure how long I slept, but suddenly I was woken up by the door creaking open. I turned over, expecting to see Bree, instead there was a different woman, she was older…beautiful. Still, when I looked into her crimson eyes fear filled me to the brim. This must be Master.

"Are you thirsty Isabella?" she asked seductively showcasing the bottle of water in her pale hand. I was thirsty, but I found myself unable to speak. My lack of words seemed to irritate her so she threw the bottle at me, hitting my stomach and leaving an instant bruise.

"I understand that Bree let you in on my little plan, should Major fail to find you," she said. Poor Bree, she was just trying to be my friend.

"Please don't hurt her," I begged. The woman turned to look at me, amused.

"Ah, she speaks. You don't have to worry about Bree, she's just a stupid girl, nothing she shared with you has upset my plan so she is safe," she explained and I let out the breath I'd been holding. "You see Isabella, I do have a problem. It seems as though my Major is having a bit of trouble finding you, this is upsetting to me. I assumed he would have been here hours ago, but that wretched family of his has desensitized him almost completely, it will take years to get him back…" she trailed off in thought then smiled demonically at me turning my blood to ice again.

"Never mind that, anyway, it seems I need a little more from you," she said as she pulled a cell phone from her pocket.

Jasper POV

"Ed, please, you have to hurry," I begged. We were standing across the street from the Swan house. All the officers, Charlie included, had left to investigate around town and through some of the forests. I had assured him that I would stay behind with Jacob Black in case anything should happen.

"Jazz, I can't even imagine what you're going through but every time you interrupt my thoughts I lose focus, so please," Edward sighed. I nodded through my frustration and sulked back across the street.

"We will find her son," Carlisle assured me. I walked into the house and sat down on the couch. This is where we shared our first kiss. We were so far away from finding her and this was hopeless, Alice still couldn't see anything, Edward was struggling under pressure, and Jacob and his pack were proving to be completely useless. My phone rang suddenly and I prayed it was Charlie, perhaps the human police had found something after all. It was a withheld number and I sucked in a breath as I struggled to open my phone.

"Hello?" I cried into the speaker. There was a long pause, and my dead heart dropped, a wrong number probably. Then suddenly, I heard faint breathing, I was about to repeat my "hello" when I heard her soft cry.

"Jasper?" she sobbed into the phone. It was Bella.

"Bella? Bella where are you? Are you alright? Tell me where you are baby, I'll be there, I'll save you," I cried into the phone. Her sobs grew louder and I heard a rustling in the background followed by a hard noise and Bella yelping. They were beating her.

"Jasper…I, I love you so much," she cried then yelped with another hit.

"Bella, baby, I love you!" I yelled as loud as I could. Alice and Carlisle must have heard me because they rushed through the door seconds later.

"She won't let me go, she's going to turn me into a vampire," she rushed the sentence as if she wasn't supposed to say it, then I heard another smack. I winced with the pain that she must have been feeling.

"Who? Bella? WHO?" I sobbed.

"Maria," she croaked.

The line went dead as I sat there. My phone slipped from my hand and landed with a thud on the floor.

"Son?" Carlisle took a step towards me.

"Maria has her," I spat as I pushed my way out the door. There was only one person that could help me now.