Chapter 14

"Who's the Donovan Clan?" I wondered out loud.

"Your guess is as good as ours," Carlisle answered, "over the time we have been investigating them, we have yet to identify a single member. What we do know is that they are very dangerous and do not hesitate to harm anyone that intervenes with their plans. We have been on this case for a couple of years, and they do nothing but taunt us, and waste our time with false leads. They are our black mark, but that ends now. It has been enough, and they have one of ours." Carlisle finished sighing.

Murmurs spread around the room, all talking about the biggest mission of their lives. The fear and excitement in the room was suffocating. Edward raised a fist in the air and the whole room silenced as one. He was after all the highest ranking member in the room after the leaders, everyone followed his command. "Who do they have?" He asked calmly. Carlisle looked to Esme for help and she sighed. She stepped forward and placed a hand on her husbands shoulder, "I'm afraid they have taken Leah Clearwater hostage."

A commotion in the back had everyone turning to look, I spun in my chair and saw Seth being held back by Paul, "Leah? H-h-how? Why?!" He asked shaking with anger, his eyes watering. Leah Clearwater was Seth's younger sister, she was only 11 years old but an excellent little girl, incredibly smart...and snarky. Yet she was the only family he had left, his father died of cardiac arrest, and his mom retired soon after, she lived in the small town of forks, unfortunately neither Seth nor Leah had seen her in a while due to their tight schedules, and it would be too suspicious if somebody saw her frequenting here.

"We don't know just yet, we're trying to see if there was a security breach, in fact Eric and Ben , could you please go help Rosalie and the others?" Eric and Ben nodded, quickly exiting the room, off to do what they could.

"As soon as we find her, I need you send out a rescue mission. Since you will be working together you are free to use the large rec room to set yourselves up, I need all of you at your best." Charlie said looking directly at the four of us, the leaders. He then looked to rest of the teams and made eye contact with each and every one of them, "If you are not working on a lead, you are looking in the archives and all files we have on them. Every piece of information is vital. Understood?* he commanded.

A single strong round of "Yes sir!" Was hollered, with a nod from Carlisle the members flooded out of the room and onto their jobs.

That left the four of us seated, Carlisle, Charlie, and Esme left in a single file out the door. Jacob was the first to speak. "Alright, from memory what do we know?"

"They're the most feared Italian mafia, but after a failed mission to intervene in a shipment of drugs, they soon turned into our personal terrorists." Tanya said placing her head on top of her linked hands.

"They appear and disappear to throw us off, but over a decade ago they submerged once more and never returned. Completely gone off the radar. Eventually we simply dropped the case." Edward added.

"And this is the second known kidnapping to the agency." I stated. Everybody stared at me. Confused to how I knew that. "Edward and Leah are the only two who have ever been taken hostage by them, both at a young age. " I elaborated. Edward looked at me astonished I knew that, "I like to know who I'm dealing with remember? I did my research." I shrugged.

"Alright," Jacob continued, "so after silence for more than a decade, why reemerge now?"

"And why take a young girl? If its vengeance they seek, wouldn't they go after the actual people that intervened?" I questioned leaning back in my chair and spinning to see all of them down the row.

"Yeah but all those agents are old and retired, what if they know that messing with them affects us minimally, I mean after all their legacies and legends live on. What if they're threatening our future? The upcoming generation of agents?" Edward pondered, and we all considered the idea.

"We're missing something..." Tanya sighed.

Indeed we were, we were missing something very important, none of us saw it staring at us.

...

I plopped down in the seat across from him, "Edward we should be working on the case. Not this." I motioned to the mess of food on his desk.

"No, no, you made me ask you to dinner, so now we are having dinner. Besides you won't be of much assistance if you get grouchy due to your hunger, so we are eating." He said placing a beautiful steak in front of me. I would so put him in his place had he not taken out the cheesecake. Darn him to heck! He knew what cheesecake did to me, I would kill a man for some.

"I do not get grouchy." I defended.

He chuckled, "Care to explain that to our broken coffee machine?" I glared at him and dug in.

"So what do you really think about the case." I asked taking a sip from my wine, yes he brought wine. I had learned to enjoy it, since it was about the only drink I could tolerate.

"What do you mean? I already said everything I knew." He said not looking up from his plate.

"I didn't ask what you know," I corrected "I asked what you think."

He put his fork down and sighed, "I know we're missing something, and I know somebody here knows what it is. I feel somebody is hiding something."

"Somebody..." I said asking for an elaboration.

"Jacob." He finished.

"Funny I was going to say Tanya." I said squinting at him with a small smile.

"She's a good person." He stated exasperated.

"He's a great guy." I retaliated.

"Alright fine, but somebody is holding back info." He moved on rolling his eyes.

"What if its not one of us, what if its somebody above us?" I questioned.

"Why would they hold back any information vital to the case? They want this to be over as soon as possible." He asked confused.

"Well what if the information isn't vital to the case? It could be a few simple details they're trying to cover up? Maybe its the reason of the failed mission a few years back. They don't want us to know, they want to keep something buried."

"Your conspiracy theory is cute, but I don't buy it." He said shaking his head and digging his fork into the mashed potatoes.

"Well I'm not selling, I'm simply presenting." I defended sticking my tongue out at him.

He chuckled and continued eating, I mindlessly played with my green beans, while something else was picking at me. It was like I knew what it was, I could feel it in there, I just didn't know what.

"Guys we've got something." Alice informed us through the earpiece. We quickly stood up and walked out into division one's room, Jacob and Tanya were seated at the large table covered in files.

"Okay so we've figured out how they got to Leah." Rose began explaining, "After watching through the survelliance videos, we see Leah left the training room and went to the garden." Ben clicked something bringing up the video onto the large screen. He continued from where Rose left off, "Here she sits and reads, then she looks up to the sky for a brief second and continues on to her reading. Nothing suspicious to the untrained eye, but if we zoom in here and look at her eye direction," Rose rewinded a few seconds and zoomed in to focus on the girl, "we see she is actually startled and looks up into the TREE, not the sky. Then when she looks back down, her lips begin moving, is she reading out loud or..." He zoomed in even more this time focusing on the tree. When he did, a blob appeared in the leaves, at first it was indistinguishable, but slowly it morphed into a face. A face of a young child, "was she talking to someone? Particularly this little girl." Rose finished.

"We've checked all our records of current and past agents, this girl is not in our profiles." Jessica said from her seat.

"Then who is she and how is she in our head quarters?" I asked.

"I am currently running her through all the data bases we have access to, FBI, CIA, national security, etc. To see if she's on the records." Mike answered.

"As to how she got in," Ben said turning our attention to him, "she didn't come through the front door, she couldnt have just walked in like that. And we really don't have a back door, only one in the garage, but it requires I.d. and not to mention the fact that in order to get to the garage you have use the main entrance. So we figured, the roof. Angela went up there with Kate and they found a set of small prints on the door frame, and that it had been slightly adjusted."

"Adjusted?" Tanya asked.

"Meaning that it wasn't properly put on its hinges. After I took a closer look, it seems as though they had unscrewed the hinges, taking them completely off and later reinstalled it with a slight misadjustment." Kate elaborated.

"This was obviously well planned, it was an in and out. Do we know how they got Leah out?" Jacob asked.

"It isn't 100% clear, since after Leah gets up and heads to her next class, she disappears from the cameras. We're thinking chloroform and then carried out. But this girl knew where our cameras were, she is careful to avoid every single one of them. Hence her hiding in the tree." Rose answered typing at her tablet pulling up multiple cameras onto the screen. As I observed the different screens, I could hear Seth's pacing in the back.

"Seth!" I shouted with out looking behind me, the scrape of his feet on the carpet stopped abruptly.

"Sorry, I can't help it." He said sounding sheepish.

"No I was going to say don't waste your energy, instead head up to the roof and pacing every single foot of space with your eyes glued to the floor. See if you can find anything useful." I commanded slowly turning to look at him.

"Yes m'am." He stood tall and quickly walked out of the room. I turned back to facing the table and folded my hands on my lap.

"Guys!" Ben shouted excitedly snapping all our attentions in his direction. "I haven't found who the girl is, but I found her on a traffic cam, she just entered a coffee shop on Clark st."

Edward, Jacob, Tanya, and I all stood up in sync, "We've got the front entrance." Edward said catching his keys from Jasper.

"Then we'll take the back alley, and cut her off from there." Jake nodded.

We ran out the door and jumped into they elevator, "Do you guys want back up?" Alice asked.

"Negative," Edward answered, "Have Em and Paul's crew scope the perimeter, she doesn't leave the block and see if anybody else is acting suspicious, they might be part of her crew." He directed.

"Copy that." Alice confirmed.

Before the doors had fully opened we were out and in our cars, I with Edward, Tanya with Jake. We sped off at incredible speed, weaving through the traffic, and dodging civilians. In less than a few minutes we were parked in front of the coffee house, "Division 1 in position." I said stepping out.

"Division 2 ready to go." Tanya answered.

"On my count." Edward said stepping out of the car and walking to the entrance, with me on his heels. Resting his hand on the door knob, he turned to look at me, I gave him a silent nod, "Three." He said and in we went. I walked in swiftly my hand resting on my holstered gun. Within seconds I spotted the petite blonde turning to leave coffee in hand, she spotted us and grinned, stopping in her tracks.

Edward stared at her sternly, "We'll need you to come with us Miss."

"My, my, isn't this a surprise." She giggled sending goosebumps up my arm, no child should sound so...wicked. In fact she didn't sound like a child at all. "Let me guess, I try to run and you shoot?" My hand tightened on my gun, I had to remind myself we were in a public area.

"That's one of the possibilities, but you don't want to run. We both know how that would end." I answered icily.

"Ah the infamous Isabella swan," her eyes turned and focused on me, "I must say you managed to impress us all, yet my boss still bet for you instead of against." She smiled cocking her head. I glared at her, how did she know about me? Out of my peripheral vision I noticed people were starting to notice us.

"Edward." I said urgently. He had noticed too for he was already nodding. "Let's finish this elsewhere shall we." Jake interrupted wrapping an arm around her shoulder, and guiding her to the door, with Tanya right behind him. Edward followed pursuit as I took one last glance around the room. Satisfied with what I saw, I turned to leave. As I walked out a young man entered looking down at his Iphone, the doorway being too small we bumped shoulders. "Sorry Miss." He apologized quickly. I nodded and stepped outside. "We'll meet you at HQ, we're going to check on perimeter control." Jake nodded to the alley behind him. Edward and I nodded, taking off back to interrogate her.

...

I stared at the blonde sitting in front of me, "Is this," she rattled the chain on her cuffs, "how you treat all your guests?" She asked smiling.

"Just the special ones we want to keep close." Edward answered sourly leaning against the wall.

"Mr. Cullen you flatter me, but I'm sure Isabella here doesn't want to here that." She smirked.

"Indeed I don't, alright you seem to know us very well, why don't you shed some light on who you are?" I asked smiling. I crossed my legs, leaned back and cocked my head. Waiting for her to answer.

She looked over to the double sided window, her reflection smirking, behind it stood Emmett, Jacob, Alice, Tanya, Alec, and Austin. "My people call me Damanta," she turned to face me, "but my name is Jane." She added.

I arched an eyebrow, "Wow, you must have done something big in order to go from 'gift of god' to 'damned'." I smirked.

"It also means fierce." She sneered.

"Well if we're going to pick and choose, it also means bad and unbearable." Edward chuckled against the wall.

"You know, tomatoes, tomato." I shrugged.

"Where is Leah." Edward demanded fiercely, stepping beside me.

"I don't know what you mean." She smiled sweetly.

"Cut the bull," I snapped "we know you entered our facilities and took one of our trainees, Leah Clearwater. So where is she?" I asked leaning forward in my seat.

Jane leaned back smiling. I growled frustrated and stood up, standing behind my chair. Every second we wasted was a second Leah couldn't afford.

"Guys." Alice said softly in my ear. I looked up at Edward, he nodded at me and we left the room. The door next to the one we came out of opened and out poured the watching agents.

"Anybody else think she's a bit too comfty in there?" Emmett asked scratching his head.

"I would've said a little too happy to be here, but same thing. Something's not right." I said crossing my arms.

"Well I ran her fingerprints and came out with nothing. So she's off the grid, we know nothing about her except that she works for the Donovan clan." Alice stated.

"And we know that because of the pendant she wears and she didn't deny it when we asked her about it." Alec added on.

We all stood there pondering what to do, when a cell phone rang. I looked up and looked around waiting for the annoying tone to be silenced.

"Its not me." Austin said putting his hands up.

Everybody began checking their phones. "Its not mine." Emmett shook his head.

"Mines on silent." Alec said.

Edward looked at me, "It sounds like its coming from you." He said.

"What? That's not even my ringtone." I said pulling out my phone from my front pocket. "See? Nada."

"But its none of us." Austin commented.

I put my phone away in the pocket of my jacket and felt something buzzing. I pulled my hand out and in it was a small flip phone buzzing. "How in the-" I wondered out loud.

"Answer it!" Alice urged me.

I skeptically opened it and pressed the call button, "Hello?" I answered.

"Ah Isabella," answered an old male voice with a heavy Italian accent, "I was wondering how long you would keep me waiting." He spoke as if we were best friends catching up. "I understand you have someone in custody, so tell me how is that working for you. I'm sure Mr. Cullen is a little frustrated with my girl, I bet he's used to having his way with women." The man chuckled, I peered into the observation room and through the window I could see Jane smiling directly at me.

"What do you want?" I spat icily through gritted teeth. I began began running down the hallway, I heard footsteps behind me, and then Edward was running up the stairs at my side, 1 floor up to the offices, I barged into division ones office and motioned for Rose to trace call. She nodded quickly and began typing frantically.

Meanwhile the man spoke calmly, "I want what you want I suppose, my family back. You have my girl, and I have yours, I say we make a deal." He suggested.

"Let me guess, I give you Jane, you give me Leah, right?" I stated sourly, Edward looked at me, his expression pleading for information. I put a finger to my lips and pressed the speaker button.

"Yes it is rather predictable, but we must do what we must." He sighed.

"It seems like a fair deal," I answered "except for the fact that I know not who I'm dealing with. It seems like you and your people know very well who we are, yet seem to be in the dark about you. If I am to make deal I need to know with who don't I?"

The man chuckled, "Oh my dear Isabella, you know very well who we are." He chuckled deeply.

"Edward." Rose called out and an address appeared on the screen, she had tracked him down. At the same moment that she had called him Alec burst into the room with blood trickling down his ear.

"She's gone." He breathed calapsing on the floor.

"Lock down the building!" Jacob shouted.

"Oh and Mr. Cullen, your clock ticks, savor it." With a final laugh the line went dead.

"I want everybody within the building looking for her, the rest of you with me. Surround the building and near by buildings as well. I want this son of a bitch captured." Edward ordered and everybody fled the room.

You know who we are his voice echoed in my mind.

A/N taaaaadaaaa, I know its not the best. But I am working on my iPad and sometimes its not the friendliest of toys. So I hope you like it, or at least find it some what interested. Please let me know what you think, and I'll be making the next chapter a bit better.