KARI
When I woke, I was laying on a stone cold floor. My hands and feet were still wrapped in the duct tape. The had removed the piece across my mouth. I didn't understand why. I sat up, with difficulty, to take in my surroundings. From the look of things, I was lying at the bottom of a staircase. The door at the top was shut. I repositioned myself to look behind me. I found myself staring around a pretty big room. The emptiness of it made it seem eerie.
Once I established that I was in a basement somewhere, I took inventory of myself. I was still wearing the camisole and sweatpants that I had on when Jasper took me. I thanked god that it was all still in one piece. I looked my arms over the best I could. I didn't see any hints of being bruised or anything. My head was throbbing slightly. I figured that was from whatever I hit in the car. I was satisifed that I was unharmed but there was one other person I was worried about.
As if in answer to my thoughts, I felt a sharp pain shoot through my stomach. It was worse than the others and I couldn't help but cry out in pain. I knew it was a mistake when the door came open and I saw three sets of cold black eyes staring down at me. I gulped as Bella, Jasper, and Carlisle made their way down the stairs. I tried to to push myself back away from them. The all let out chuckles as they continued toward me.
Jasper was the first to reach me. He grabbed me by the upper arm and yanked off the ground.
"Finally awake, I see." He whispered. I felt his lips brush across my ear. A shiver went down my spine. I felt him smirk into my neck.
"Please just leave me alone." I cried.
Bella smirked and walked toward me.
"We can do that." she sneered. "You see, human, I don't think it's right that you can get away with having the very thing the I lost."
She laid a cold hand on my stomach.
"Besides," she continued. "Edward and the others need to learn the punishment for turning their backs on this family. And you're just the tool we need for that."
"Should we get this over with?" Carlisle asked. "Or do you want to play a bit first?"
My heart began pounding in my chest.
"Please, don't kill the baby. Let it kill me then you can have it!" I begged unable to control the tears.
I struggled to pull away from Jasper but it wasn't much of a fight.
"As tempting as that offer is," Bella replied. "I'd rather not raise the child of a slut."
"Let's get rid of the thing first." Jasper said in my ear. "That's sure to be entertaining."
I struggled as Jasper pulled me up the stairs. The other two following. I kicked and struggled knowing that it was useless. I knew the death of my baby was inevitable but I wasn't going to give up without a fight. No matter how impossible it was to win.
They dragged me through the house. I barely took anything in but I did notice that it looked lived in. I knew we hadn't here that long. Maybe, this was somewhere they went when they needed to get away from each other. Or maybe even when Jasper and Bella wanted to have uninteruptted alone time.
I struggled the whole time. Jasper chuckled. After awhile, he got sick of fighting me and through me over his shoulder. We went up a couple more flights of stairs. I closed my eyes praying that someone would come and save me and my baby.
I opened them back up when Jasper through me down on an uncomfortable bed. I heard the door shut and lock. I looked around the room and found it was set up much like a hospital room. I was laying on an uncomfortable hospital bed. There were several machines around the room. I didn't even know the names of half of them.
Carlisle walked over to me a began to peel the tape of my legs. I held still for that, knowing it would only give me an advantage. Once both were free and Carlisle made to force them apart, I began to struggle again. I aimed a few useless kicks at him. My hands were useless still taped up behind my back. I just kept kicking out as the three vampires tried to hold me down. I was surprised that they were actually struggling to keep my legs pinned down.
I guess the whole mother lifting a car off her child theory applied here. I was putting up the biggest fight of my life for my baby. I mean, I fought for the ones I loved before but never to this intensity. This was my flesh and blood growing inside me. I'd do everything in my power to keep my baby from getting hurt or killed.
I felt Jasper trying to send me waves of calm as I continued to fight. I refused to allow them to get through. I let them bounce off of me.
"You may have to sedate her." Jasper said to Carlisle. He felt that his powers were having no effect on me.
"You're right." Carlisle answered.
"And I so badly wanted to this with her awake." Bella commented darkly as she continued to try and hold my leg in place.
I saw Carlisle filling a syringe with something. I pulled away slightly as he touched my arm. He smirked as he forced the needle in, not very gently either. I cried out as the pain shot through me arm. As I watched the liquid leave the syringe and enter my body, my vision began to blur and I felt like I was floating.
After a minute, I felt all the muscles in my body relax as I faded back into the darkness.
ALICE
"God damn it!" I flinched when I heard Edward curse yet again.
This was the third house we searched in the twenty four hours since Jasper had taken Kari. We found nothing in each one. No furniture or anything to indicate that someone had lived there or was current;y living there. I felt so useless. I couldn't even get a vision of where the I turned up with when I looked was nothing.
I preferred trying to see the werewolves and Nessie. At least with them, I got blackness to look at. I knew that someone was with one of them and what not. But I didn't even get that when Kari was involved with the future. It's like I couldn't access her future period. I'd only been able to do it twice. The first time, I saw nothing but blackness. I assumed that was the baby. The second time, I saw Edward on one knee sliding a ring on her left hand. He didn't want me to tell him about that one. I liked that he wanted to see things play out.
I wish I could be more help to both of them now. I knew how bad the anger and guilt was eating him up inside. He wanted to save her but he didn't know how. And I could only imagine the pain they were putting Kari through now.
The fact that I coudn't see anything more about her future was driving me insane. In this time of need, I understand Edward's frustration with his inability to read Bella's and Kari's mind. It doesn't help in dire situation like this. What was worse? Edward couldn't even catch her scent. The war had made everyone good at covering their tracks. So our senses were utterly useless to us now.
"Where to next?" Edward asked as he walked back into the living room.
"We could try going back to Forks." Esme suggested. "He did keep the house, the way it was."
"But do you think they'd be stupid enough to go there. They'd know it'd probably be one of the first places we went too." Edward replied.
"It's worth a look." I piped up. "We need to explore all our options right now."
"I know." Edward said. "I just don't like finding these dead ends. And what if were on the wrong path. I mean, there's been so many secrets lately, what if Carlisle bought a place that we don't know about. How are we supposed to find her then?"
Once again, I felt a wave of guilt wash over me. Why couldn't I see her? Was I losing my vision?
"Alice, don't." Edward said. "It's just a fact that there are some people are immune to our powers. It's not your fault."
"But I saw her once, Edward." I said. "It doesn't make sense."
"I know but we have to just focus on finding her. Then we'll figure out the rest." Edward said.
I nodded. I heard Esme talking to our personal pilot. She was making arrangements for him to pick us up at the local airport in twenty minutes. We would be flying to Forks, Washington overnight. This was one of the advantages to being a Cullen right now. We got where we needed as quickly as possible.
I pushed away my low self esteem and allowed it to be replaced with hope. It was hard thinking, they'll be at the next one only to find that they weren't. Hope, however was the only thing we had right now.
A/N: I hope this one turned out okay. I didn't have a plan before I sat to type it. I just started and let it flow on it's own. I'm not sure how they would go about getting rid of the baby. That is why I had them sedate her. REMEMBER THE FLYING MONKEYS WHO WILL EAT YOU IF YOU DON'T REVIEW.