Chapter Thirty Four

Peter

We met up in Rapid City and I could see The Major was on the edge, Bella and Edward seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth. We could have missed them but I didn't think so.

"Where are they Peter?"

"No fucking idea. All we can do is wait for Rosalie's friend to call her"

"And in the meantime?"

"Bella's tough. She'll survive."

"Survive? She shouldn't have to survive Peter"

"Hey, don't shout at me. I'm not the enemy. I'm on your side and we will find her. She's your mate, we'll find her. What about using the pull?"

"I've tried but the pain is constant, its not pulling me stronger in any direction."

"Well that must mean something"

"What?"

"Fucked if I know but calm down. You trash the car you won't be going anywhere.

He dropped his head into his hands, the first time I'd ever seen the Major helpless and it scared the fuck out of me.

"OK. Well we know they can't have got that far. This Ellie hasn't seen them on an aircraft so we can safely assume they are still in the States and somewhere along I-90."

"He could have turned off anywhere Peter. We have no idea what State she's in now."

"State as in geographical I assume you mean? Well lets look at it logically. He headed off I-5 onto I-90 for a reason. I don't think he's running blind Major, he has a safe place to hole up. Why not try your tame lawyer, perhaps he can trace any house purchase or rental Edward's made in the past, say three months."

"You think he planned for this?"

"Well he met Bella a while back and if he's fixated he might have done. Your reaction to each other was the catalyst that set him off."

The Major took my phone to ring his tame lawyer leaving his free for Rosalie's friend and while he was busy talking to Jenks it rang.

"Yes?"

"Jazz?"

"No Alice its Peter."

She groaned, the feeling was mutual but we didn't have time for one of our usual verbal battles,

"What you got Alice?"

"Ellie says they have stopped moving. She saw a house, a large house not far off I-90 she thinks."

"Well that's helpful. Can't she pin it down a little better than that. I-90's the longest Interstate remember."

"Yes I did know that and no she can't but she says Edward is getting more frustrated and angry because he thought getting Bella would silence the voices but it hasn't worked out like that. She's worried he might hurt her in his frustration."

"Yeah well, lets keep that little morsel of information to ourselves shall we. Only The Major is finding it difficult enough to concentrate as it is".

"Is he bad?"

"You could say that Alice. After all his mate has been snatched by a psycho who hears voices. How much worse can it get?"

"Tell him I'm really sorry I didn't see more."

"I will. Keep looking Alice. Can't you see anything?"

"I never could see Bella very well but Edward is becoming impossible to see since he zoned out."

"What's Carlisle doing?"

"He keeps trying to reach Edward but he wont answer his phone and he doesn't have any more idea than the rest of us. We've got another problem too"

"He keeps phoning him? Yeah, that'll work, I can hear it now. Edward stop being a naughty boy and bring the pretty Bella doll back home. The man is an idiot! Anyway what's the other problem? AS if we don't have enough"

"Charlie, Bella's dad. He turned up here demanding to see Jasper and when we told him he wasn't here he insisted in talking to Carlisle"

"What did Carlisle tell him? Not the truth I'll bet! Nothing that might make Edward look less than angelic"

She didn't answer and the phone went dead.

Jasper

The pressure in my chest made it impossible to breath and the pain almost doubled me over, I needed to find Bella before Edward did something stupid. I just prayed she would try to keep him sweet whatever the cost, just until we located her then I'd help her rip him to pieces. It was the thought of Edward forcing himself on her that wound me up most of all. I tried to think but it was so difficult and I was thankful for Peters presence, he would keep me grounded. Jenks was going to pull out all the stops and see what he could find out although when I told him the house would be somewhere near I-90 he cursed,

"That's a lot of ground to cover Mr Jasper."

"I know. So you need me to come help you look?"

"NO, no that wont be necessary but it may take some time. Its a lot of checking."

"You have twenty four hours"

"I don't think I can promise..."

"Twenty four hours"

I put the phone down on him knowing it was an impossible task, but that he now had the incentive to try real hard.

Rosalie

Things were getting really awkward at the house since Charlie turned up looking for Jazz or information on Bella's whereabouts. Carlisle took him up to his study and spun him a bit of a tale but he couldn't get out of the fact that Bella was with Edward unwillingly. How he persuaded Charlie not to put out an APB I don't know but Bella's dad was camping here now and it made all our lives difficult, especially with Ellie acting very strangely to his eyes. I thought we might have to let him in on our secret before long, he'd only be put off for a short while and his cop nose was already twitching.

I knew Ellie felt guilty she couldn't pinpoint Edward any closer but she was trying really hard. She sat at the piano for hours running her fingers over the keys without making a sound, her eyes closed and her lips pursed.

"Do you think she can do it?" Alice whispered looking over at her.

"I don't know Alice but she's our only hope. What would you do if you were Edward?"

She pursed her lips thinking,

"Find somewhere isolated to take Bella and keep her under wraps."

"Is there anywhere Edward has been recently that could fit the bill?"

She shook her head

"I can't think of anywhere although he did disappear a few months ago for a weekend. I wonder if Carlisle knows where he went."

We enquired of Carlisle but he didn't know, Edward hadn't told any of us, he'd just disappeared for a weekend alone.

"We need to trace where he went."

"How Alice?"

It hit us both simultaneously and we shouted

"Emmett"

Emmett

When the girls explained what they wanted I nodded,

"As long as he took his own car and had his GPS on I think I can trace where he went. It won't be exact but I should be able to get you a ball park area."

I cursed myself for not thinking of it earlier as I went out to the garage. The Volvo was in its usual place and the keys were hanging on the board so I opened it up and removed the GPS device.

"Right let's see what you can tell us."

I switched it on then cursed, not only was the battery almost dead, it had been left switched on, but the memory had been wiped. Still all was not lost and I carried it through into the house.

"Alice, find the cable for this in Edwards room will you"

She raced up the stairs and we heard the sound of things being thrown around as she searched none too tidily.

"What's that noise?"

Esme came out from her room,

"Alice looking for something in Edwards room, we may have found a way of tracing where he's gone."

She came over to the computer as Emmett booted it up and Alice came down stairs, a lead in her hand and a triumphant smile on her face. Emmett took it from her and plugged the cable in then turned to us,

"I'll need to charge it up before I can try to retrieve the deleted memory"

"How long Em?"

He looked at me and shrugged,

"A few hours. Its almost flat"

I cursed but knew as soon as he could Emmett would start work.