--I was told to post soon. So here it is.

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Chapter 29: Separated

Emmett had the door open in seconds, then turned around and started to help Jasper take down Alexander.

Carlisle, Bella, Alice, and Esme flocked into the rooms. Rosalie stood at the door, more to make sure Emmett didn't get hurt than to watch guard.

"Madison!" Bella flew over to her unconscious daughter's side. Carlisle looked her over.

"There's still a pulse. Her wound needs to be cleaned and re-closed…" Carlisle glanced over at Christopher, who was writhing on the floor still. Alice and Esme were next to him, trying to calm him.

Alice looked up with frantic eyes. "Carlisle, he's too far gone. It's been too long. He has to go all the way."

"This is going to kill Madison," Esme mumbled, looking at Christopher's changing face.

"We need to get them out of here. I don't have all the tools necessary to help Madison and Christopher need s to get somewhere secluded." Carlisle said, carefully picking Madison up off the floor with gently hands. Esme picked up Christopher, muttering words of assurances to him.

"Five more minutes, then the rest of us will catch up," Alice stated quietly and positively.

Sure enough, five minutes later the old building was burning to the ground and the rest of the Cullens were catching up the Bella, Esme, and Carlisle.

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Edward pulled Bella out of her own chair and into her lap. He sighed. "It's going to be quite a while before she can see him again."

"Mmm. Not too long," she argued. "Her birthday is approaching."

"What about her friends and school?" He mumbled into her collarbone.

She sighed. "I think we should change her early. We may never get a chance like this."

Edward looked at her, clearly frustrated that he could know what she was thinking.

"She's shot, then kidnapped from her hospital room. I'm still wondering how Carlisle managed to calm down the entire hospital and keep them from wondering what was going on."

"Jasper was there to help keep things low until Carlisle could give orders." He paused. "However, I'm not sure if we should change her right at this point. First, one newborn vampire will be enough. Second, we still need to figure out how to erase Christopher from everywhere."

"That won't be easy…" she mumbled, already agonized at the task ahead of them. "His father is going to be so heartbroken."

"I know," Edward murmured into her cold, pale skin.

Madison groaned quietly as she opened her eyes.

"Madison!" Bella cried out in a whisper. Madison just stared at her mother with an emotionless face. Then the tears rushed down her face and her it contorted into a mask of pain.

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Christopher sat in the corner of the room on the floor.

"So Madison broke the rules," Emmett chuckled.

"Guess so," he said quietly, not looking up. Any mention of her made his dead heart break.

"It won't be that long before you get to see her," Emmett stated. Christopher looked up at him confused. "The Volturi have strict rules about human's knowing our secret. So on her seventeenth birthday, Bella is changing her."

Christopher just stared at Emmett.

"She would have been taken away…from…if…" Emmett grinned and nodded.

"But don't worry," Emmett said, getting up from his chair in the middle of the room. "That's not what happened."

It had only been five days since they were kidnapped, yet it felt so much longer. He didn't know how he could take six months without Madison. Then his mind wandered out a little further. He would never see his dad again. Or his older brother – if he ever came home. He started to wonder if Madison was okay, if she was hurt. He remembered hearing her voice the first part of the transformation. She said his name. She called out to him. He kept hearing her scream from the hospital. It haunted him.

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Not a very big cliffhanger. I tried not to, just in case. Ugh. I'm freaking out. I'm sitting at my computer at 5:30 in the morning and I hear a loud pop (again!). It sounds like, you know if there's a dent in a plastic bottle, and then they push it out. It sounds like that.

What ever.

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