AN: Sorry for the delay everybody. I have a lot on my plate. Now I know better. NO one can do 6 stories at the same time. The good or maybe its bad news there is only 2 more chapters to this story AFTER this one.

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My Betrayal Was For Her

Edward-

I shook my head and walked toward the podium and Bella still was not beside me. I started to panic. I looked back and I realized the audience had become quiet. On a large screen above me was a white bloody rose.

"Bella!" I ran toward the left side of the stage just as Jeff stumbled out onstage. He was holding his head and in his hand he held a bouquet of bloody roses.

"She's gone."

I looked at him and roared, "Where is my wife!?" He stumbled backward. She was gone. My whole life was gone.

I'll kill her.

I'll kill that red headed bitch.

Security started combing the building and closed off all exits. No one was allowed to leave. For the first time in history, the Academy Awards ended with nothing more than a picture saying:

We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties

JamesPOV

I was allowed a few amenities since I was a model prisoner awaiting trial. Tonight I was allowed to watch the festivities at the Academy Awards.

I watched as the Bell of the Ball graced the TV screen. She was truly beautiful. Even when she was a child, I thought she was so sweet and innocent. And there on the arm of the fucking pretty boy- and I mean boy, he was six years her junior. Come on Bella, you could do so much better.

I watched as they announced her name for her role of a lifetime. Her face was euphoric as a smile graced her glowing face. She glided up to the podium and I listened to her pretty little speech.

She saw herself as a victim. I loved that, despite the fact that she no longer would play the victim. That's alright, love. That would make my time with you that much sweeter. She'd be that much more of a challenge.

Now without Jasper and Emmett on her ass all the time, I would be able to get to her. Next week, when I had to go to the courthouse; I could wait patiently.

I would formulate a plan. I'd grab her just after she has her children. The hospital would be where she was the most vulnerable. Then she would be mine. No games this time. This time I'd play with my little prize for a while before I delivered the final blow.

She would watch the love her life die right before she took her last breath. She wouldn't escape me this time and neither would he.

I continued watching the TV and laughed at Edward's discomfort. He seemed to be looking for something. I remembered hearing that Bella and Edward were going to present for Best Actor, yet she hadn't joined him.

I watched a new body guard stumbled onto the stage with a blood rose in his hand.

I roared. Victoria. She disobeyed me again.

"Get me my lawyer!"

BPOV

Darkness was pressed around me and I had no idea what the hell just happened. I tried opening my eyes to escape the darkness but was only met with a black abyss.

I had been blindfolded.

The memories started screaming back in my head and it certainly didn't make me feel any better.

"This way, Mrs. Cullen," Rick said guiding me toward the exit that I would be exiting in a few minutes. I looked at Rick and smiled at him. But he seemed preoccupied. He looked around and I noticed his eyes darting back in forth between me and the new body guard Jeff.

"Rick, is there something wrong?" I asked worried; he seemed not to trust Jeff. I knew Jasper had known Rick for most of his life and trusted him with his life and mine. So if Rick was having misgivings of Jeff, then I knew I had something to worry about.

"I'm just worried about you going out there in the open. It's just unnerving. I don't want to disappoint Jasper." Rick looked down for a moment and he seemed young suddenly, like a little boy confessing a weakness.

"No worries, I've been out there on stage already and nothing happened. Like I said before, James doesn't want me dead." Rick raised a brow in question. I rolled my eyes and continued. "Well he wants me dead but he'll want to do it with his own his hands. So a gun is not something he would use." I shrugged looking at him but he didn't seem convinced.

"Victoria?" he said in a whisper just as we approached the side entrance. The producer turned to speak with Jeff on timing my entrance and where they should wait until Edward and I exited the stage.

"She's a loose cannon. I don't know for sure, but I think she sees me as her competition. She thought James took too much time letting me heal in between beatings," I said, shivering at the memories that had been resurfacing since my epiphany.

I turned to face the stage and waiting for the announcer to introduce Edward and I. I heard a little commotion behind me and I quickly turned. Jeff and the producer were on the floor.

Rick had the butt of his gun facing toward me and his eyes were filled with tears but determined. Then he sort of sobbed quietly. I looked at him and he mouthed, "I'm sorry."

I felt someone press something to my face from behind me and my vision blurred and I noticed Rick shaking his head and sobbing.

As I shivered from my memories, my mind came back into the present.

Oh god, my babies. How long had I been out? What if what they knocked me out with hurt them?

I noticed I was lying on the floor of something moving. A van possibly. My hands were tied behind my back as were my feet. I felt cloth in my mouth, gagged.

I wasn't going anywhere for now.

"Bella," a strangled whisper was just to my right. I recognized Rick's voice and turned automatically turned toward him.

I whimpered when I suddenly felt a movement in my tummy. They were OK! I sobbed a little chocking slightly from the rag in my mouth.

"Shh…Bella if she hears you she come and get you."

I whimpered my response, "Wmy?" I felt the gag being removed from my mouth. I felt Rick beside me but he seemed to be sitting up.

He understood me. He let out a strangled sob. "James had been threatening to hurt my daughter since the beginning if I didn't help. I hid her for a while to be on the safe side and it seemed to work. But he got more aggressive. And the next thing I knew, I was sent a DVD of my daughter playing outside in the front of my grandparent's house. He knew how to find her."

"At the studio?" I questioned. I knew it seemed too easy that I happened to use that bathroom at the studio at the same time that James happened to be there.

"Yes, I had no choice. He said if I didn't help him that he'd take her. I only agreed after he guaranteed that all he needed was ten to fifteen minutes."

"Your betrayal was for her."

"Yes."

"How old is she?" I whispered aware of music playing in front of me.

"She's only twelve."

I sighed. I would have done the same for my child. I had no doubt in my mind that I would.

"He wouldn't have touched her. He won't hurt kids."

"He hurt you and you were only fourteen," he said more firmly.

"He only did that to me because it was my father that caught him. Revenge."

I heard the sound of metal being struck a few times. It sounded like he was banging his head against the side of the vehicle.

"Where is your daughter now?" I asked trying to adjust the way I was laying. I wanted to make sure all of the babies were moving which was hard to do.

"She took her this morning," he sobbed quietly.

I whimpered. James was one thing and I felt that I could get him to release Rick's daughter, but not Victoria. From what I remembered, she wanted James to push me further. But he refused, making it really clear that he wouldn't kill a child.

Victoria didn't seem to have those limitations.

"She's running the show now. He wouldn't have agreed to this…"

I heard Rick sigh. "No matter what Bella, you have to promise me something."

I waited for him to continue.

"When I say go, grab my daughter and run."

I remained immobile for a few minutes contemplating his words.

He was going to sacrifice himself to save his daughter and me.

"What's her name?"

"Ashley."

I nodded.

I vowed at that moment that if given a chance I would not hesitate to kill the bitch. No one fucks with a pregnant woman or a parent.

You just don't.

Not unless you're asking for death.

Momma Bear Bella is out of hibernation and it's time for me to hunt.

EPOV

It had been a couple of hours and there was no sign of Bella, Victoria or Rick. Rick…why him? There was a quite a bit of blood found near where Jeff had last seen Bella and Rick.

Jeff and the producer with Bella could not remember who hit them. Jeff was pretty positive that he was hit from behind with a butt of a gun.

Rick.

He betrayed us.

Why?

I couldn't get past the fact that Rick could be in on this. Jasper and Emmett trusted him with their lives and he have never gave anyone any reason to think he'd betray us.

But now it made sense. He could be the one. He's been with Jasper since the beginning. Rick was the one that scoped out hotels and venues to make sure it was safe. He was there before I was even in the picture. He was supposed to taking a stand at her trailer the first time James got a hold of her our first day of filming.

He had conveniently gone on a break just before James had taken Bella. He was in charge of video surveillance at the mansion. God, we were fucking fools.

What would drive a man with his impeccable record to betray us?

My phone vibrated in my pocket and I fished it out, Jasper.

"Jasper…"

"Where the fuck is she, Edward?"

I sighed trying to fight the fucking ache in my chest. "I don't know, Jasper."

"I've been trying to reach Rick since I saw the broadcast, where the fuck is he?"

I sighed again, a growl emanating from my chest. Ready to explode.

"Tell me Jasper, is there any reason why he was betraying us?"

There was silence at the other end. "No fucking way, Edward. Are you telling me he's missing too?"

"Yes," I sneered.

"Fuck. I'll call you back. I need to make a call."

He hung up.

I wanted to throw the dame phone across the fucking room in frustration. All around me there were people analyzing video from every camera available. To see if there was anything. Anything that would tell us who took Bella.

I knew who.

Victoria.

My phone vibrated in my hand and I held up and didn't recognize the number.

I slid it open and answered.

"Hello, Edward."

It was a voice that chilled and angered me down to my soul, fucking James.

"Where the fuck is she?" I said quietly trying not to alert anyone. I had no idea what this man would want. I didn't want to risk getting police involved. I rose from my chair and slowly walked out of the room.

"Do you think I would've had that bitch touch her? I'm a not that much of a monster, pretty boy."

I growled in frustration. "Then if you didn't plan this I guess you don't have control of that bitch anymore."

James sighed into the other phone. "I don't think I ever did."

He didn't say anything further and neither did I. We were both at a standstill.

I decided I needed to piss him off enough to tell me where I can find her.

"So you're going to just let her take what you claim is yours?"

I heard him growl. I smiled, it was working.

"Funny, you'd think that she'd know better. Isn't Bella's death supposed to be from your hands?"

He didn't answer but his breathing had picked up.

"I guess not…how does it feel knowing you can't do fucking shit about this?"

"Probably the same way it feels to you."

"Hardly, asshole. I love Bella. I wouldn't fucking hurt her."

"I never said that I'd kill her. I just want to claim her. I want to make her mine."

I froze.

This was fucking new.

Bella always said that all James wanted was to scare her before he killed her.

But now it was different.

He wanted her for himself.

"I love her too."

I roared. "She's MY wife and mother of MY children! You'll never have her!"

James fucking just laughed.

"Nice to know I can get you riled up."

"Fuck off, James." I hung up.

I paced the hallway I was in. I ran my fingers through my hair.

Oh god, what have I done.

The one link to my Bella has just been severed.

RickPOV

"Bella, we're almost there. Pretend you're still asleep," I whispered in her ear. The scent from her hair permeated my sense of smell. I almost cried out, the same shampoo my baby girl uses.

I saw Bella nod and I replaced the rag in her mouth. I brushed the hair from her face and tucked it behind her ear. It was a gesture I saw Mr. Cullen do on a daily basis. It was like a need for him to touch her.

I vowed to make sure Bella would find the arms of her husband again. I vowed to make sure my little girl would find the arms of her mother. I had to.

Even if it was the last thing I ever did.

The van came to a halt outside of an abandoned house. The building was dilapidated with crumbling brick and broken windows and pitch fucking black. The fact that my baby was in there all by herself made my blood boil.

The last fucking thing I would do was strangle this bitch.

I heard the driver door slam closed and I heard the gravel crunching beneath someone's feet. The sound was following the length of the van and circled until it came to the back. The doors swung open and I was met with a demon.

She is a demon with fucking flaming red hair. I noticed the darkening sky which meant that we traveled at least three hours and that would put us way passed city limits. She didn't turn many times and I now that we head east mostly. We could be anywhere.

Victoria was smiling like a fucking Cheshire cat. Bitch. I glared at her. She didn't trust me. She knew I wanted her dead.

She tsked. "Now is that anyway to look at the one that will make sure your daughter is safe, Rick?"

I snorted. Yeah fucking right.

"She wouldn't need saving if it wasn't for you. You. Sick. Bitch."

She laughed throwing her head back with a menacing full-on glee fest.

Her head snapped back looking at me and glaring at me with eyes that seemed to light with fire. "Bring her," she commanded.

I nodded and carefully climbed out of the vehicle. I pulled Bella into my arms. Like the great actress she was she didn't fight me, make a sound and just laid limply in my arms. She fucking deserved that Oscar.

I followed Victoria into the house with chipping white paint along the eve. The stairs were barely standing. I quickly looked around me and noticed nothing but desert surrounding us. I smiled.

Bitch didn't know that I planted a tracking device in Bella's necklace. With that and the link I was having my wife send to Edward, soon it won't be long before they find us.

I just had to make sure the bitch was dead before then. That was the only way to keep my family and Bella's family safe.

BPOV

I had to bite the inside of my cheek when Rick lifted me out of the van to keep me from whimpering. I was so scared of what was to come. I had no idea what she had planned. I only hoped that she didn't have as sick of an imagination for torture than James.

Then again any type of torture would be terrible. My body before would be able to handle it, but not now. My babies wouldn't. I felt a dry air swirl around us as Rick climbed up, my guess was stairs. It was a just a few, that led me to believe that we were going into a house or an apartment. Since I didn't hear any objections to two people carrying a faint pregnant woman, I would say an abandoned house.

I heard a door creak open and I felt the air become considerably cooler. I heard Rick curse under his breath and his whole body tensed around me. He was obviously angry and I was sure that whatever happened, it may not end well.

I just wanted to be in my husband's arms. We'd be lying in our bed whispering our love to each other as he places gentle kisses on my lips. My happy place was anywhere he was.

Why couldn't I be in my happy place?

Why did this shit always seem to happen to me?

What was I? Some kind danger magnet?

I felt my body being led to the left of the front door and up more stairs. I cursed internally. How the hell was I supposed to escape, barefoot, pregnant and tragically clumsy?

Rick laid me on a bed and I heard whimpering from somewhere on my right. It was a child's plea.

"Damn it, Victoria." I heard Rick curse and run somewhere to my right. I continued feigning sleep wanting to know just where I was.

"Stop your whimpering, child. I have no fucking heart so quit trying to find it," Victoria sneered to the left of me. I heard a distinct growl from where Rick was earlier.

"Leave my daughter alone," Rick said with menace. I heard the sound of something metal clicking. It was a familiar sound hand cuffs. Did she just confine Rick?

Victoria's laugh filled the room. It ran a chill up my spine and back down again. Unfortunately, it did not go unnoticed.

"Oh look sleeping beauty is waking now," she whispered in my ear. My blindfold and gag was removed slowly.

I fluttered my eye open, still feigning sleep and drowsiness. Then I looked upon the eyes of my new and just as frightening would be attacker.

Her hair was wild and it appeared that she had not washed it in days. On her cheek, there was a bit of dirt smeared just under her eye. Her eyes were wild and constantly darting from side to side. Searching for something.

"You don't seem surprised to see me little pet," she cooed.

"I knew it was just a matter of time before you disobeyed him." I shrugged my shoulders.

She laughed at me and her eyes narrowed. "James never controlled me, it was just wishful thinking on his part. He never did anything without my consent."

I knew this already. But he held back when she instructed him to hurt me when I was a child.

"Until me of course," I whispered swallowing the fear that was building up in my throat.

Her eyes narrowed further. She snorted and stood up fully. "I never understood why he had such hang-ups on hurting younger women or hurting you while you're with child," I continued in a whisper.

Victoria turned and stalked toward Rick and his daughter and I became aware that she was holding up some kind of gun up, pointing toward Ashley.

Didn't she know? By the look of complete composure, I would say she didn't.

"Because his step mother was 5 months pregnant with his little half-sister before his father shot her."

She whipped her head around to look at me. I got her. I was getting to her. I wanted to piss her off just enough to make a mistake so Rick can stop her. I think that was what he was waiting for. He had at least 100 pounds over her and he knew how to disarm her.

It was a good idea until she fucking slapped me.

The sound of her slap reverberated around the room causing poor Ashley to cry. Rick looked at me pleading for me to stop and I noticed his hands were handcuffed behind him. I closed my eyes and tried to calm my breathing; my hands were still bound but I noticed the ties at my ankles was coming loose.

"What's the matter, Vicky? Don't like that I know something about that fuck up."

She screamed like a banshee.

I took that as a yes.

"Like I was saying before. He wanted to lay low after his last victim before Jamie. But I kept on insisting. But he was being such a whiny bitch so I left him." Victoria paused and walked around the bed but kept her gun pointed at Ashley. I glanced at Rick and he was watching the gun and Ashley whose long dark hair reached way past her waist was sitting against the adjacent was her arms wrapped around her knees leaning against her father's chest.

"Less than twelve hours later he came with news that he already brought the next victim to our usual hangout. So easily manipulated. But he was gentler than usual with this girl. That pissed me off so I gave the local chief a tip that led to his capture. I was tired of playing his games. I was really hoping that doing hard time would make him comply a little easier."

"But of course you were a lot younger than he anticipated. He was such a pussy," Victoria said disgusted. I took a few deep breathes and watched Rick.

"I came up with all your punishments. We never had someone be able to take what we gave them without a scream. That was quiet brave of you to endure the torture without making a sound."

She sounded impressed but I knew she was just trying to make me upset. I wasn't brave; I was smart. And I didn't want them to have the satisfaction. But now I knew that it was her that was the sick sadistic mastermind of my torture.

I grimaced when she leaned in just an inch from my face. I kept my face composed and stared into her eyes. I would not look away first. She smirked and kissed the tip of my nose.

"Yes, very brave. But let's see how brave you are now. In your current state." She bent slightly still holding up the gun and pulled something out from under the bed. It was a black with red battery terminals.

Oh god, my babies wouldn't survive a round of shocks. I heard Ashley cry out. "Leave her alone you bitch!"

Rick was trying to keep Ashley in his arms and they both turned away so they didn't have to watch. Victoria placed the battery at the foot of the bed and readied a set of wires. She returned her full attention to Rick.

"Either of you move, you're all dead. Better yet Rick, you'll have to watch me doing this to your precious daughter."

Rick growled again and used his body to shield his daughter from Victoria. I didn't want them to endure this so rolled off the bed when I was aware that my feet were loose. I managed not to hurt myself and scrambled to my feet.

Victoria laughed at my tragic attempt of escaping. Or what she thought was an escape attempt. I made it to the corner of the room and the bed didn't allow Rick and Ashley to see me. Victoria came up to me with the long cables in her hands. I whimpered. I couldn't help it.

She touched each end of the cables causing a spark to admit. I whimpered again which caused her to grin wider. "I don't see why James is adamant on keeping you alive." She lifted a few strands of my hair and sniffed it then patted it back in place.

"No don't see it. Now let's get on with this, shall we?" I braced myself for what was coming and I closed my eyes waiting for death to claim me and my babies. At least we'd be together.

My mind wandered to Edward. What he must be enduring right now? What he must be feeling? Would it be just as painful for him losing us like it would for me to lose him? I loved him with my whole being and losing him would be like losing a piece of myself. A large piece. But I thought suddenly.

What the fuck?

I'm a mom.

I'm a wife.

I'm a cops fucking daughter.

No one does this shit to me and my babies!

I shot out my foot and swung it out in front of me causing the red haired witch to topple. Both of the wires landed on her arms and I watched the bitch fry.

It didn't last long enough. She managed to move them off of her quickly. I twisted my body just enough to feed my feet and legs through my bound hands. Now instead of them bound against my back they were loose in front of me.

I swung my fists connecting with her jaw. I felt the pain in my right hand from the blow. I heard the crunch but otherwise ignored the pain when I went to do it again. She was yelling and screaming. I saw Rick get to his feet doing the same, threading his feet through the loops of his handcuffed arms and scramble to his feet. He lumbered toward Victoria and wrapped his bound arms around her neck cutting off her oxygen.

"Go, Bella. I don't have a phone with me. But Edward should be tracking you by now. Go to the highway. I'll take care of this thing," he said tightening his arms around Victoria.

I nodded and ran toward Ashley. I helped her up but she wouldn't budge.

"Daddy, I'm not leaving without you!"

"Baby go. I'll be fine. Go to your momma, I'll be right behind you," Rick said in the most soothing words he could, considering that Victoria was attacking his arms with her nails.

Ashley still wouldn't move.

"Please, baby. I love you," Rick said quietly.

Ashley nodded as tears rolled down her cheeks. "I love you too, daddy."

Rick smiled and nodded. I took Ashley's hand and ran down a dark hallway and down a flight of stairs.

"Be careful Mrs. Swan, there's holes and loose floorboards everywhere."

I nodded and led her in the dark in the direction that I hoped was the front door. I walked until I felt a door knob and swung it open. I let out a breath I didn't realize I was holding and Ashley and I high tailed to a white van. Just as I opened the passenger door for Ashley's small trembling body two gunshots penetrated the quiet of the night.

Then all hell broke loose.

Ashley pushed me away and ran toward the house screaming for her dad. I managed to get a hold of her and wrapped my arms around her waist. She struggled against me screaming for me to let her go. I pulled her toward the van and like a slow action movie, I heard a motorcycle come up from somewhere from the behind the house.

No fucking way is that someone we know. The front door opened of the house and out came out the bitch with hair like flames. Her hand was holding the gun toward us.

From the corner of my eye, I saw movement and I couldn't believe my eyes. Just as I heard her arm the revolver a body lunged for her and his cold blue eyes turned toward me and screamed, "Run, Bella!"

I grabbed at Ashley and basically threw her in the van she was frozen in fear at the scene before us. I ran to the driver door and slid in. I turned on the car and took one last look.

There before on the small porch of an old house in the dead of night Victoria was fighting off James. I couldn't tell who was winning their movements were so fast and quick. They both looked like they were dancing in some kind of lethal mating ritual.

A bullet hit the window causing me to stop gawking and put the van in reverse. I struggled to keep my composure and my fucking sanity. I kept going in the opposite direction of the house. I chanced a glance at Ashley and she was frozen. No emotion on her delicate features.

Another childhood now ruined. My guess is during the struggle between Victoria and Rick that he was shot. Ashley knew this. She knew her father would do anything to get to her out.

I found a highway about 30 minutes later and there were dozens of cars coming down the road. I stopped at all the cars stopped surrounding the van. I put my hands up when dozens of officers came out brandishing their guns.

The car doors swung up and Ashley and I were pulled out of the van. Questions were being thrown at us from every direction and Ashley was screaming. I pushed and shoved my way to her explaining who she was. Ashley's mother that I recognized wrapped her arms around Ashley.

Then I heard him.

My life.

My love.

"Bella!" I saw his face and I think my babies did to in a way because they started kicking like crazy.

His hands found purchase on my cheeks and his lips met mine. With a fevered need to know he was really with me, I kissed him back clutching him to me with all my strength.

"Bella, where's Rick?" a southern drawl said behind me.

I turned toward Jasper his face twisted in pain.

"He chose to stay behind to save us. Send the officers down that road. It leads to an old house where Rick, Victoria and James should be."

Jasper's eyes widened.

"He escaped."

AN: So Rick like everyone that already was the one that eventually started helping James but at first it was Victoria. I'm not sure what chapter I mentioned it in but she worked at Rosalie's agency and was able to obtain Bella's itinerary from her computer there. When James lost that link he went after Rick.

Ok I see two more chapters coming...the birth of the children, the final confrontation and the epilogue.

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