A/N: I updated much more quickly this time. I'm kind of proud of myself. –grins- Anyway, this is the chapter that happened from Edward's POV but it pretty much gives you a whole family view. Lots of family dialogue in here. I kinda like it. It's fun to be surrounded by the Cullen family. Also, Edward is fun to write for in this chapter. So unknowingly funny! Anyway, I've got a little surprise for you all at the bottom of the page! Enjoy the chapter!

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight or its characters. They all belong to Stephanie Meyer.

CHAPTER 11: NONSENSORY

EPOV

"You lost her!? How could you lose a human girl? You're a vampire, for the love of God!" Emmett growled, angry that I had challenged his abilities.

"She was outside the office by herself and then I smelled those mutts and then her scent was gone! There were people in the office and in the parking lot; how the hell do you expect me to have been able to get through there without being seen running?"

I growled as his memory played over in the forefront of his mind, loudly recapping the little he had seen; practically nothing, really.

"The same way the one who took her did! What the hell were you thinking? Oh wait, you weren't thinking!" Another blow to his intelligence and I could tell he was going to snap. He may very well have looked like an idiot but he was intelligent.

Shut the hell up Edward or you won't be able to play the piano until your fingers heal, Emmett hissed through his thoughts. I rolled my eyes, very aware of how his plans would unfold. Rosalie's nails started tapping against her armrest, a ringing thud that reverberated against the glass walls. She sighed heavily, a false, annoying sound.

"There's no point in making such a big deal about this. The dogs took her; no big deal. Leave her there with them for a few more hours. We'll call the Volturi, have them take care of the problem and be done with it. Isabella will be long gone by then and the Volturi will get rid of the wolves. Everyone wins. She's been attempting death for awhile anyway, Carlisle said so. She'll just be getting what she wants." Alice, Jasper and I all growled at her, glaring at her uncaring expression of boredom. Alice knew that Bella was going to be her friend. She had seen it. But when Bella had disappeared, her vision had gone black with anything having to do with Bella. As far as Alice knew, Bella no longer existed in this world. She wouldn't stand for not having seen her vision a reality.

Jasper knew of Alice's reason for wanting Bella alive and had therefore made it his duty to become less of a liability when it came to her safety. If Bella got hurt, Alice would be hurt. He would endure and protect her for Alice's sake.

As for me, I remembered the wolves of the past, the shape-shifting humans that had only wanted to protect humans from the darker creatures that sucked the life out of their tribes. They hadn't been this volatile before. They must have thought that we planned on breaking the treaty. This all came unexpectedly to me though. The wolves had died out long ago. What could have caused them to come back?

"Rosalie, you know that is out of the question. Do not underestimate the Volturi's fury if they found out that the human girl they are breaking the rules for is in the hands of an enemy. They will not tolerate a mistake like this from us. We are already on the tight rope. Let's not remove the net as well from beneath our feet," Carlisle said from his seat at the head of the table.

"Edward," Jasper said. "Did you hear the thoughts of the one who took her? Maybe a hint of his plan?" I pinched the bridge of my nose and grit my teeth before loosening myself up again. Anger would not help us now.

"No," I admitted shortly. "I was blocking at the time and hadn't really thought I would need to be cautious because Alice hadn't had a vision." Alice growled, her teeth snapping together loudly.

"It's not your fault," I amended. "It's possible that their plan hadn't been thought through, perhaps a rogue wolf getting revenge or acting on its own. We can't know for sure."

Esme frowned from her spot beside Carlisle, gripping his hand tightly. "Isn't there a way we can ask for her safe return without angering them? If we could just talk to them, maybe they'll let her come back."

"Or maybe," Rosalie interrupted with a sneer. "Isabella agreed to go with them. She's probably been dying to get back at the Volturi for taking her under their wing. The ungrateful girl is just using the dogs for her own needs. Once the Volturi come, they'll annihilate us and the mutts and she'll be dead."

"That's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard, Rosalie," Alice retorted. "How does that plan ensure that Bella exacts her revenge on the Volturi? That would only lead to the end of us and the wolves and her. The Volturi would only lose one potentially powerful vampire." Rosalie growled at that silent insinuation. She saw that insult and her vanity took her over when Alice suggested that Rosalie was not the powerful one she spoke of.

"We don't know Bella well enough but I don't feel that she would willingly go with whoever took her, Rosalie," Carlisle said thoughtfully. "She's been held captive all her life. Any form of captivity will frighten her now, even if it is committed by someone who appears human. Assuming this is the same species we encountered all those years ago, there will be very few wolves. We can only hope that they see the benefit of acting calmly and releasing Bella on our request rather than insist on a fight. Their leader will know that a fight would be the end of their pack. I'm sure he wouldn't allow that."

"If their pack is so small, why don't we just take them?" Emmett argued. "I'll take them myself. They need to be taught not to mess with us or Bella. She's part of the family now and their ain't no way in hell that they'll get off that easily!" Emmett pounded his fist into the air. His thoughts were filled with the essence of a fight, the adrenaline he wished he could feel, the knowledge that he would be stronger than any single opponent he faced.

Rosalie sniffed in disgust. "She's not part of our family. She's a nuisance that just happens to be a good practice dummy for our control and a nice puzzle for Edward to solve."

Emmett frowned but didn't argue with her. He knew what that road would lead to: sleeping on the couch…figuratively, of course. Emmett had enjoyed Bella's living in our house. Her humanness amused him, her scowls and her pathetic excuse for growls whenever he tried to tease her were little things he had never focused on before with normal humans even though he had probably noticed nearly as much as I did. Maybe it was only this particular human that amused him so much.

"This is so frustrating!" Alice growled loudly, worrying Jasper. He tried to send out a wave of calmness only to see Alice's mighty glare in response. "She's not there! Nothing is. And because I don't even know who to look out for, I can't see what they're doing."

"Edward," Esme said. "What do you think we should do? Have you not gotten closer to Bella? I've seen her listening to your music when she enters and leaves her room."

I sighed. "She's as close to me as she is to you, mom. My idea is as good as yours."

Please Edward, just tell me what you think we should do, she thought. I sighed but nodded.

"We can't cross the treaty line and we can't call into La Push and ask for someone who might not even be there. The tribal council will not trust our intentions if we ask for Bella back. We have no face and all we can rely on is a scent that both Emmett and I know. I say we wait. It's all we can do without starting a war with the pack."

Carlisle nodded in agreement and squeezed Esme's hand tighter. She looked about ready to burst into tears at the thought of leaving Bella alone for so long with strangers that she had been kidnapped by.

"So we wait," Carlisle finished.

--

Time continued as it always had but I felt a delay as the seconds took longer to pass. Bella was out there with wolves, wolves that we knew nothing of. Wolves. Of all the creatures she could possibly have been taken by, she was taken by the ones that were supposed to be extinct. Lovely.

What was worse was that if I had just taken met her and Emmett after their last class to assure that she had been fine like I was supposed to, none of this would have happened. But knowing that she would be angry about her name change, I had tried to avoid her anger by trying my best to at least quell her anger before she could argue with me (whom I assumed she would be angriest at because I was the first to warn her). That's why I had allowed Emmett alone to assist her at the office with her schedule. I needed to heat of the car first. My feeble attempt to at least appease her by taking into consideration her hate for the cold (another thing I learned from careful observation; she always seemed to have a chill and the temperature had dropped as the day went by) was the factor that had gotten her kidnapped. If I had been there, none of this would have happened. If I had –

Your guilt is making me feel awful, Edward, Jasper thought. It's not your fault. He knocked on my door once before entering, knowing I would have taken that as enough of a warning.

"She seems like the unlucky type, anyway," Jasper continued aloud. "Taken by the Volturi, the only ones who could possibly get away with taking a human girl in and not killing her, then forced to live with us after, well , you know, " I grimaced. "And now taken by wolves. I can't see her as the girl who'd ever have a chance at winning the lottery."

"Don't forget her parents, Jasper," I said quietly. "They were also taken from her. I wonder what would have changed if they too had been special and if they would have been changed before it was too late. What would have happened if they had survived in the vampiric sense of the word?"

"They would have been her murderers," Jasper replied. "And once they had realized what they had done to their daughter, they would have begged for death anyway. No one would have won except the
Volturi."

I sighed and ran a hand through my hair out of habit. Being around Bella for so long reminded me of being human and though I couldn't remember much through the murky water of memories, I felt as if I was remembering. It was a strange feeling. There was still so much to figure out. I needed Bella here so I could solve the puzzle. She was the puzzle in its entirety and without her, how would I know what the missing piece was?

"Alice knows Bella isn't dead." My head shot up and I looked at Jasper with hope.

"She had a vision?" Jasper shook his head and my hope vanished.

"Don't be so down. Alice said that she knows that Bella isn't dead and that she probably hasn't been harmed yet. She calls it psychic's intuition," Jasper said, humor in his voice.

Probably? Yet?

"Please tell me have something more to go on than Alice's feeling?" I asked hopelessly.

Hey, at least I'm trying, Alice thought grumpily. I've been having flickers but that's it. There was one just a minute ago where I saw something, trees and stuff, but things disappeared again. She's tough, just like I knew she'd be. She's fighting.

Alice waltzed into my room, her head held high and a smug air that was only intensified by the determination in her eyes.

"I think she's getting away from them. Things are starting to appear again but I can't really tell what's going on. She's walking as far as I know but I don't know where."

Her vision played over in her head for me to see. Tall furs alongside a dark road, a slow slope of land that you could see houses beyond, the sound of waves crashing against rocks and sand….

"I've seen that place before. When we first made the treaty with the wolves. They must have taken her back there to interrogate her. It's like a tradition with them," I murmured to myself, knowing I wouldn't have to repeat it for Alice and Jasper.

"We weren't there when the treaty was made, Edward," Alice reminded me. I didn't know where she could have possibly been when I first saw that. I've been hiding out in the trees trying to get closer to where she might be. Plus, I've been trying to keep you out too. You've been rather testy as of late.

"Sorry," I muttered. And then Alice's mind clouded again and her eyes shut as another vision came to the forefront of her mind.

A rickety looking house with a screen door, a boy leading Bella through the door, the sound of rubber wheels rolling across linoleum. A flash of black.

We'd almost lost it. The vision flashed forward.

"This is you," a deep, gravelly voice said. A man sat in a wheelchair, his wrinkled face determined, dark eyes focused. A picture, a girl on a boat with two men, one who looked similar to the girl. They had the same hair and eyes, the same awkward smiles.

"I'm sorry, but I don't know what you're talking about. I've never seen this picture before and I don't look anything like that girl." A quiet female's alto voice; she was lying.

The vision flashed forward.

"No, they took me from the school."

"What!?" he exclaimed loudly. "You mean, they actually took you from there, without your permission?!" Bella nodded uncaringly. She had seen outside the windows, watched the trees pass by as the houses disappeared. She was nearing something. Everything disappeared for a moment before flashing back. They were at the line. Carlisle's car was there.

Alice's eyes opened and her thoughts became her own.

"The call will be coming right about," she listened. "Now." The phone rang loudly, the obnoxious sound reverberating in my ears. "I think you should go with Carlisle to pick her up, just to make sure she's okay. I'd go but I have a feeling she doesn't like me quite that much at the moment," Alice said, annoyed. "She seems to have the harshest feelings for people who have unique gifts. If she hadn't already had a resentment for all vampires, I would have been worried that we had another Rosalie on our hands." Rosalie growled from her room. Alice ignored her. "You have a gift too but I think she sees that mine is the most unique seeing as Aro hasn't seen one like mine in his existence. You probably bother her as much as Emmett would."

"Alice, I'm the last person she would want to see. If I hadn't –" Alice cut me off with a snort.

"Yeah Edward, I'm sure she would just dump all this on you. If you hadn't gone to heat up the car, she wouldn't have gotten taken. If you had warned her properly, she wouldn't have been so angry that she wanted to let Emmett take her sign in form to Ms. Cope rather than have to go in herself. If you had just killed her in the first place, she wouldn't have to deal with this. What next Edward? What could she possibly blame you for that you haven't already thought of?" I sighed angrily and pinched the bridge of my nose hard. Alice could be so…

Damn right I'm difficult, Alice bragged hotly. Now, go get my best friend before I lose my sight again. I don't think I could handle that much stress in such a short period of time.

I nodded and stood as Carlisle's Mercedes' engine purred to life outside. Within seconds I was in the car and Carlisle had sped off toward the treaty line, a line that we hoped we would never have to cross.

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"Do you hear them?" Carlisle asked as he pulled onto the side of the road, moistened dirt squelching beneath the tires. I nodded.

"The boy she's with thinks loudly. He's embarrassed about what he saw happen. The men who took Bella are named Sam, Jared and Paul. They call themselves, "Protectors"." I sighed angrily, annoyed that from the image of them, they all seemed to be at their peak of physical growth. Such large creatures that were so strong handling Bella, I could only hope no harm had come to her. The boy was worrying excessively, his thoughts completely revolving around her well being. Did that mean that he actually had something to worry about?

As the quiet rumbling of a truck neared, the scent of Bella came to me. Carlisle had yet to smell its potency, a reminder of just how strong Bella's blood called to me. This would probably be the only time I would ever be thankful that I had the curse of knowing Bella's blood to be sweeter than any others.

Bella and the boy were talking, a relaxed chat that I didn't feel the need to eavesdrop upon. When a black truck pulled up to the line, Bella climbed out and said, "It's okay. These things happen. I'm over it," before walking towards us. As soon as she climbed in and the door was shut, Carlisle pulled out quickly and began a slower pace back to the house. He most likely wanted to hear what she'd say before we got there.

I took her head between my hands as gently as I could, turning it from side to side to get a better look. She must not have noticed that she had leaves in her hair, the scent of wet dog surrounding her.

"She reeks of them Carlisle," I muttered to him, trying to keep my tone quiet. Bella's eyes weren't as wide and open as they had been before and her face was slack with what I could only see as exhaustion. I hurriedly asked her questions in hope that I could get answers before she started passing out on me. "Are you hurt? Did they hurt you at all, in any way?"

She sighed, her eyes drooping even more. . "Nothing but a bruise to the pride. I don't like being carried around like some sort of rag doll. Running isn't particularly fun either." Immense relief filled me. She hadn't been hurt and as far as I was concerned, her pride would be fine as long as the kidnapping business didn't become a habit. A moment passed before I remember exactly what we needed to know.

"What did they say?" I asked. She sighed heavily again. "They asked what I was doing with you all, the "blood suckers"," she rolled her eyes. "Really, couldn't they be more creative? Could they really not come up with a better, more theatrical name? Nosferatu would have been good…" I rolled my eyes back at her, silently relieved that they hadn't tormented her nearly as much as I thought they might have. For all I knew, this species could have evolved since the last time we had encountered them.

"Anything else?" She paused for a moment, her eyes rolling upward as her head leaned back unconsciously.

"Yes, they said something about you all breaking the treaty, that it would start a war if you bit me. And something about them being werewolves. But they weren't, were they? Really, how could they have been confused by their own species? They are shape-shifters of some sort but they most definitely aren't werewolves." Her eyes were brighter but she never seemed to hint at the fact that she had noticed something that not even most vampires would have noticed. Admiration for her seemed to flow through me.

"Impressive. You're right, they aren't werewolves. Shape-shifters that shift to large wolves, yes, but definitely not werewolves. Perhaps they are at a disadvantage because they will shift when most volatile but I suppose every species has their faults," I shrugged. "I just didn't think the species still carried on." I turned to Carlisle. "We'll have to look more into it. I didn't expect that the wolf genes would continue being passed on through all these years."

Carlisle shook his head. "Neither did I. I thought they had died out. Fortunately for us, we aren't going to be partaking in any form of biting or trespassing in the time to come."

It's been so long, he thought. Have they really held their grudges for this long?

"I just wish people would stop kidnapping me or taking me hostage. If this continues, I'll be up for a world record on the person has been kidnapped the most and has lived to tell the tale." Bella sighed a yawn, leaning her head back against the seat, her eyes fluttering closed just softly enough that I could hear the air as it was fanned away with her lashes. The blood beneath her thin skin moved through her veins, blood pumping thickly around her throat as the sound of her words died in the air. I swallowed thickly.

"You're being unusually vocal today. Are you sure you're alright?" My voice came out a little too rough and I hoped terribly that Bella couldn't hear it.

Edward, are you alright? I nodded minutely. Bella shook her head, her hair tangled against the leather seats.

"Just tired. Want to get back to the house. Long day." I watched as her eyes moved beyond her lids, her breath becoming deeper. I reached over and turned on the heater. Hot air shot out through the car.

She's been through so much in one day. She's so strong to have gone through this all alone.

I knew he didn't only mean the events of the day but I didn't say a thing. Bella's chest rose and fell in soft motions as she succumbed to sleep.

A/N: The surprise, the surprise…well, it's not much of a surprise. More like I'm offering to let you all read something that I let my readers for Blinding Lights read. I am writing an original story and, if you all read Blinding Lights, you know what I attempted to do before I turned 17 (did I mention I am now 17?). Well, people who reviewed the last chapter of Blinding Lights got an excerpt from my story. Now, if you all review this chapter, you get the excerpt as well.

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