A/N: Sorry this chapter took so long to get out. I was having a little trouble rearranging my thoughts on this one. However, I think that I have figured it out. Also, I got a little ahead in Bella's time, however, I caught the others up so now, they are on the same time line. I hope you all enjoy.
ALICE
The drive to Jessica's house was tense and silent. I had way too much to think about to talk. I didn't have any idea what I was going to say to Jessica. Plus, I had only been to her new house a few times before our falling out. And it's been over a year since the last time. So I couldn't remember exactly where I was going, that made things ten times more frustrating for me.
Jasper who understood what I was going through, just sat silent behind me. He held my hand tightly. Which was his way of silently telling me that everything was going to be okay. I could only hope.
We were driving for a half hour before we finally made it to the little blue house a mile or so away from the others. It was a small two bedroom, one bath, with a living room and a kitchen.
Jessica and her mom weren't as well off as Jessica liked to dress and act. In fact, they were just getting by. Jessica's father was a dead beat, like mine. I supposed that's what drew us together in the first place. Her mother, Kathy, raised her, alone, from the time she was a month old until she was fifteen.
That was about the time, Dr. Micheal Goldstein came to Forks. He was a very sought after therapist. However, he tired of big cities and wanted a change in atmosphere. Which was why he moved to Forks in the first place.
Kathy and Dr. Goldstein fell in love and dated for a two years. Dr. Goldstein proposed to Kathy a week after Jessica's seventeenth birhtday. Kathy, of course, accepted and they were married and very happy.
Jessica and Kathy lived the good life - a penthouse apartment, platinum credit cards, etc. - for eleven months and twenty seven days. That was about the time Dr. Goldstein decided he wanted a divorce because he couldn't get over some of Kathy's past mistakes. Well, due to a technicality in the prenup, Kathy and Jessica were left with nothing except the things they had already bought.
Kathy, the amazing woman that she was, didn't let that get her down. She had kept her orginal job as a secretary for a low budget law firm in Port Angeles as well as got a waitressing job for the weekends.
Kathy bought the house six months after the divorce and I have never seen anyone take more pride in their home than she does. She planted a beautiful garden in the front of it and a vegtable garden in the back. Plus, the three or four times, I had been there, I noticed that it was one of the cleanest houses I've ever seen.
I pulled to the curb and took a deep breath before we got out. We approached the house and I still had no idea how I was going to approach her about this. Jasper grabbed my hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze as we approached the door. I knocked twice.
"Just a minute!" I heard Jessica yell.
Less than a minute later, Jessica opened the door. Her eyes got wide with surprise once she realized it was us. I also saw a little sadness and regret flicker through them as we stared at each other for a moment.
"What do you want?" she asked trying, unsucessufully to sound like our visit didn't effect her.
"We need to talk." I stated.
"What about?" she asked.
"Bella." I answered.
"What about her?" she asked.
She tried to sound like she didn't care but I could hear a little sadness and regret in her voice. Was she feeling remorse for what she did to Bella?
"She's gone." I stated. "Edward and James kidnapped her."
"Are you sure?" Jessica asked as her eyes got wide with fear, shock, and worry.
"Why the fuck would I lie about something like this?" I asked getting defense.
"I know, it's just I didn't think that Edward would do something like this." she replied. "I mean, I know that he's an asshole and all..."
For some reason that statement pissed me off. If she thought that Edward was an asshole then why the hell did she screw him for God only knows how long?
"And when did you figure that out?" I cut her off. "Before or after you slept with him while he was dating your ex best friend?!"
I felt Jasper hand wrap around my wrist in a warning. I knew that I was ruining the chance I had to get a straight answer from her but I still wasn't over how badly she hurt Bella.
"Actually, I figured it out while I was sleeping with him." she replied looking like she was about to cry.
"So you continued to sleep with him even though you knew he was an asshole, where's the sense in that?!"
"Alice," Jasper stated calmly, "This isn't what we came to talk to her about. "
I took a deep breath and counted to ten. I had to remind myself that this wasn't about Bella's happiness. We could deal with that later. This was about her life and that had to be the focus.
"I'm sorry, Jessica." I stated. "Can we come in so we can talk about the real issue?"
Jessica stood aside and gestured for us to come in. She still looked like she was going to cry. I found myself wondering what was up with her new attitude. She led us to her bedroom which was off of the living room.
There was a queen sized canopy bed that took up most of the room. Her small closet was full of brand name clothes. The bed and clothes were the final remnants of the life that she so desperatelty wanted to have stayed apart of. Next to the bed, there was a small desk and chair set and small chest was at the foot of the bed.
Jessica pulled the desk chair out for Jasper then sat on the bed and gestured for me to join her.
"So what happened?" she asked.
"Well, after Bella caught the two of you together, she broke up with Edward. And he has a thing about losing things that he thinks belong to him. Bella being one of those things. A bunch of shit has happened since but the reader's digest version is this, James and Edward showed up at Bella's,Edward beat the shit out of Jacob, and they took Bella somewhere." I explained.
"And you don't know where?" she asked.
"We were hoping you could tell us." Jasper stated.
"Why would you think that I could tell you?" she replied confused. "You don't think that I had anything to do with it, do you?"
The tone of her voice made me ask,
"Well, do you?"
"Hell, no!" she replied. "I mean yes, I was pissed at her for being the one to finally snag Edward but I would never do something like that to her. I don't hate her that much. Besides, I already got my revenge." she shrugged.
I wondered what she meant by already getting her revenge because the thing that came to mind was just a little crazy and unbelieveable.
"What do you mean you already got your revenge?" I asked. "You didn't sleep with him to get back at her, did you?"
She shrugged and looked at the bed.
"I wanted to hurt her the way she hurt me. I wanted her to see the thing she wanted most ripped away from her. The way it felt like she ripped Edward away from me at the time. I thought I would be satisfied to see the look of pure emotional agony on her face. To show her how it felt for me, you know? However, it turned out that I was more satisfied about revealing Edward for the two faced bastard that he was. I didn't realize until I saw the look on her face that as much as I hated losing Edward to her, I hated hurting her more."
I couldn't believe this. Rosalie had been right about the whole thing. The sisterly feeling toward Bella was already trumping the hate and that was before she heard about Bella's life being in danger. She was regretting her actions because she'd hurt someone she cared deeply about. I wasn't sure what to say to that to I simply continued with the issue at hand,
"So you really have no idea where she is?"
"I'm sorry, I wish I did." she said.
I could tell by the look in her eyes that she really didn't. I could also tell that she was thinking as hard as she could trying to figure out something.
"Wait a minute." she said after some thought. "There's an abandoned cabin just outside of La Push. He might've taken her there."
"But why?" Jazz asked just as confused as I was.
With all the money he had a his fingertips, why would he have gone to an abandoned cabin? It didn't make sense. Jessica took and deep breath and looked back to the bed, ashamed.
"Edward is very sadistic. He gets off on bondage and all things connected with hurting woman. We were such a good pair because I got off on the things he would do to me. We loved to role play like he was raping me all the time." she continued to stare at the bed in shame. "Anway, there were a few times in the past when he talked about this cabin that only he and James knew about. He told me that it would be really fun if I let him blindfold me and take me there for a few days. He said we could pretend that he had kidnapped me to make me his sex toy. I refused because I didn't trust him enough to go to a cabinm that no one else knew about, alone with him. He gave up after awhile. However, I'm willing to bet anything that they took her there because he thinks they're the only two who know about it."
"Do you know where it is?" I asked.
"Unfortunately, no, all he would tell me is it was just outside La Push." she answered.
"La Push?" Jasper asked. "Hey, Jacob might now about it!"
"What time is it?" I asked liking his idea.
"Nine thirty." He answered.
"Visiting hours are over at ten. Do you think we can make it back to the hospital?" I asked.
"If we leave now."
"Perfect." I turned back to Jessica. "Thank you so much, Jessie. You have know idea how much this helped."
"I hope you find her." she whispered. "And I'm sorry for what I did, I thought I wanted to hurt her."
"I'm not the one who deserves the apology." I stated and she looked back at the bed. "However, you did make up for it a little just now."
I placed my hand on her shoulder and gave it a gentle squeeze,. I don't think we quite made it back to sisterly embrace yet, but at least we weren't enemies anymore.
Five minutes later, Jasper and I were back in the car and headed to the hospital. As I drove one hundred miles an hour, Jasper called Rosalie and told her we got something out of Jessica. He told her to meet us at the hospital so we could talk about it.
We got to the hospital at a quarter to ten. Rosalie and Emmett were waiting in the room when we got there. From the looks of things, Billy had gone home for the night. That was fien with us. We could talk without being overheard.
"Rosalie said that Jessica told you she might have an idea where they are." Jacob stated the minute we walked into the room.
"Well, hello to you too." I replied sarcasitcally as I went to sit on the foot of his bed. "But yes, she told us about a place they might be."
"Well..." Jacob pressed.
"There's an abandoned cabin somewhere outside La Push that Edward thinks only he and James know about. Due to his sexually history with her, Jessica believes that he took Bella there because it's like a fantasy of hi or something."
"Okay, well, does she know where, exactly?" Emmett asked.
"Unfortunately, no." Jasper sighed. "She just knows that it's in the woods just outside of La Push. We were hoping that you knew what she was talking about Jake."
"I don't think so." Jacob answered but I could tell he was thinking hard. "Wait, does she mean the old ranger cabin?"
"No idea." I stated. "But if that's the best we have to go by right now, then we should go for it."
"I agree with Bella." Rosalie stated. "I mean how many abandoned cabins can there be in those woods?"
"She's right." Jasper stated. "It's the best chance we have."
"Okay, so what do we do about it?" Jacob asked. "Should we call Charlie and let the police take care of it?"
"No." I stated. "With all the prep they'll have to do, it'll be another whole day before they can set out. If we went alone, we could leave as soon as you got discharged."
"Good, because I wasn't going to accept that answer." Jacob stated. "We can handle those assholes."
"All the same, I think it would be a good idea to tell Charlie before we head out, just in case we need back up." Emmett suggested.
"Right." I stated. "We'll call just before we head into the woods. Now, we have a rescue to plan."
We spent the next couple hours planning mission: Saving Bella. We talked about it until a quarter to one when one of the nurses finally realized we weren't supposed to be there.
BELLA
I looked up at both men standing over me looking furious. I was absolutely terrified. What were they going to do to me? I tried to slide away from them on the floor. However, that just made the cuts from the glass worse. Edward smirked and placed his foot on my chest adding slight pleasure. The glass stabbed and cut deeper into my back, causing me to cringe.
"Where do you think you're going?" he asked.
'Nowhere." I choked out through the pain.
"Good." he replied and added a little more pressure.
"How far did you think that you would get?" James asked sounding slightly amused. "You're in a cabin in the middle of the woods. And you don't even know exactly where. We would've found you before you got out, even with a few hours headstart."
His words were dead on the mark. I hated to admit to myself but I didn't have any sense of direction and it didn't help that I had no clue where I was.
The stinging pain in my back caused me to cringe again. Edward smirked and applied more pressure.
"Does that hurt?" he asked with mock sympathy.
I didn't say anything so he applied more pressure. Pain shot through the wounded parts of my back, some bigger some smaller, as the glass dung deeper into me. I cringed again but Edward continued with the pressure.
"Well, does it?" he asked again.
"Yes." I cried through the pain.
"Good." he replied and took his foot off of my chest. "Now, get up!"
I did what he said. It was a slow and painful process. The bits of glass embedded in my back stung as I moved. I felt blood trickling slowly down my back. Once I was standing, Edward grabbed me by the hair and dragged me to the couch. He then shoved me, face first, onto it. Once I was down, he ripped my shirt at one of the holes made by the glass.
"James, there a first aid kit in one of the bags." he stated. "Can you get it. Along with a couple sets of handcuffs?"
"Sure." James replied.
"What are you going to do?" I asked.
Then I felt a bugger chunk of glass part, not too gently, with my back. Pain seared through the wound as he removed the glass. He continued the painful process.
"I'm getting this glass out of your back and then cleaning you up." He growled. "I don't want anything to get infected and endanger your health."
James had come back witht he first aid kit. I started feeling the cold metal of a pair of tweezers. I guessed he was working on the smaller bits. They were as painful as the big bits. I was pretty sure that Edward was going out of his way to make it hurt.
"What the hell were you thinking?" he yelled as I heard him put the tweezers away.
"I was thinking about getting away from you two sick fucks." I replied.
He punched me in the back then and I screamed in pain. Not only had his fist connected with my spine but it also landed on one of my open cuts and the sweat from his had stung.
"Watch your mouth, bitch!" He yelled.
A minute later, I felt him start to rub soem kind of ointment over my back. It stung but was very soothing at the same time. He, then tape some gauze to the deeper cuts and took extra pieces to wipe of any blood that had trickled down my back.
When he was finshed, he flipped me over on the couch so that I was facing him. I was shaking as I saw the anger in his eyes. I knew I was in for it.
"You're lucky." he whispered. "I'm too tired to punish you tonight. But when I'm through with you tomorrow, you'll wish you had escaped." The threat sent a shiver up and down my spine as he yanked me off of the couch by my hair. "Now, since you can't be trusted to be alone and restrained in the least painful way, I'm going to have to get nasty."
He dragged me to the kitchen sink. The door to the cupboard under the sink had fallen off and there was an exposed pipe. He sat me down with me back to the pipe, as James handed him the handcuffs.
Edward clipped one side of the cuffs tightly to my left wrist, then looped it around the pipe that was behind me, and clipped it just as tightly to my other wrist. He then used the other pair on my feet.
Finally, he and James moved the couch to block the door.
"There," Edward said. "Now even if you do get out of those, you won't be able to get out the door."
He laughed then went back to his chair. James curled up on the couch again with a huge smirk. They were both out again within minutes.
And I was left alone to wonder if there was any way out.
A/N: Well what do think? I know the Bella/Edward part wasn't impressive but I don't want think to get too big yet. Please, review.
