Chapter 3: A Mother's Worst Nightmare
Bella's POV
For the last 12 years I'd been living a mother's worst nightmare. I felt a pain so strong that it was difficult to even describe it. It was a pain that no mother should ever have to endure. It was the pain of losing a child. My beautiful little girl. My little nudger. Renesmee. To even think her name brought me great pain.
Nobody knew what happened to her. We were on a hunting trip in Alaska when it happened. We'd been there for about a week visiting the Denali clan when we went out to hunt. That's when my daughter suddenly and unexpectedly vanished without a single trace. We looked for her everywhere calling out her name for hours on end with no luck. There was no trace of her anywhere. Not even a scent.
We quickly expanded our search to encompass the rest of Alaska, then Canada, North America, Mexico, and South America. We flew to Europe, Asia, Antarctica, Asia, Australia...we searched every country on every continent on this planet. It was as if Nessie had simply vanished from the Earth altogether.
In my heart I knew that she wasn't dead. She was alive out there somewhere in the world. Jacob could feel it to. He'd often said that he'd know through the imprint bond if she was dead. No. His soul mate was still alive and that knowledge is what kept us all going. It gave us just the hope that we needed to go on.
Over the years we moved around from place to place and went to much like my family used to do before I joined them. Jacob had also joined the family much to Rosalie's displeasure. After Nessie disappeared the only thing that brought him any comfort was our family. It made him feel closer to Nessie even if she wasn't here. Jacob's presence also brought me comfort as well. He was and always will be my best friend. My personal sun. Nothing would ever change that.
"Holy shit!" Jacob suddenly yelled out loud from his room. He was lucky the others had gone out for the day. Esme would give him an earful for cursing.
Jacob's tone of voice had me worried though. Without even being consciously aware of myself ever moving I was suddenly standing outside of Jacob's door.
"Jacob what's wrong? What happened?" I asked worriedly.
When Jacob didn't answer I just walked in hoping I wouldn't find him naked. He was sitting at his desk staring at his computer looking at some website. Nothing at all about the situation matched the urgency in his voice.
"Jacob you idiot you scared me!"
"Bella you need to see this," he said completely ignoring my comment. "Leah just emailed me the link to this website. You need to see this. This is bad. Very bad. Dangerous even,"
"It's a stupid website Jacob. It's hardly something considered dangerous by most people,"
"This website might be when you see what's on here,"
I rolled my eyes at him but decided to give this dangerous website a look. Jacob moved over enough for me to get a good luck at the screen. I clicked on a story called Twilight that had been uploaded and I immediately understood the reason that Jacob had panicked. After reading the first few pages I knew that this story was about Edward and I. This story mentioned every one of us by name.
I looked at Jacob in alarm. "What is this?"
"It gets worse. Read the summary of the book,"
Oh God. This was not good. Someone knew mine and Edward's story. Whoever it was they knew who the Cullens were and what they were. But how? This doesn't make any sense. Nobody we knew would publish our story online for the world to see.
"and you might want to look at this section also. It says there's another book coming out soon. There's also a section about all of the characters that will be introduced. Look here's one on me. The picture even looks a lot like me. Whoever created this website knows I'm a werewolf. They know about vampires,"
He was right. We were all mentioned by name. The Cullens, me, Charlie, Jacob, all the wolves, The Denalis and to my absolute horror each and every member of the Volturi. Aro, Caius, Marcus, Jane, Alec, every member of the guard. Each of our histories and every one of our special abilities were listed on here.
If the Volturi found out about this we were all in danger. I whipped my phone out of my pocket and called Edward "Edward you need to get home immediately. So do the others. This is urgent," I said and ended the call before he even got a chance to speak.
I just stared at the screen along with Jacob until I heard Edward getting home. "Bella what's going on?" I heard the worry in his voice which I knew would only be a fraction of the fear he'd feel when he saw what Jacob had discovered.
"I can't explain it. You need to see what Jacob found on the internet,"
"Whatever it is I'm sure it's not that serious,"
"Oh it is. Just come look,"
Edward quickly walked over to Jacob's computer and after only a few seconds of looking at everything that was on the website there was serious alarm on his face. "Who did this?"
"We don't know. It's an unknown author,"
"We need to find out who created this website and who wrote that story about us fast,"
"Who wrote what story?" Carlisle asked as he walked in. Esme and the others were right there with him. "What exactly is going on?"
"Carlisle you need to see this,"
Edward showed him the website and Twilight. "Who would do this to us?" he asked in alarm. "It has to be someone we know. Nobody else could possibly know about us,"
"Do what to us Carlisle? I don't understand what's going on,"
"Apparently someone made a website about us. There's a story on here called Twilight which is about Edward and Bella. But whoever wrote it knows about us. The Volturi. The wolves. Everything,"
"What?" everybody said at the exact same time. It would have been funny if it wasn't so serious.
Everyone took turns looking at the computer. We were all equally confused and horrified by what was on there.
"Alice did you know about this?" Rosalie asked.
"No. If I did I would have told you all and we would've put a stop to it before this ever made it to the internet,"
"So what do we do now? What if the Volturi know about this?" Esme asked worriedly. The idea of any of us, her children, being in any kind of danger scared her.
"We need to do something about this quickly," Carlisle said. "Hopefully before this comes to their attention,"
"I'll figure it out tonight," Emmett said. "I'll find out who created this website,"
"How?" Jacob asked him.
"I'm very good with computers. Just give me a few hours and I'll have all the information we need,"
He got right to work. True to his word he called us all back a little over an hour later. "I figured it out. I was able to take down the website,"
"Did you find out who created it in the first place?" Carlisle asked.
"Yes. I figured out the IP address of the computer used to create the website. I was able to hack into her computer and erase the stories she had on file about us,"
"Who is this person and where is he located?" I asked.
"She," Emmett corrected. "She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Bella her name is Renesmee,"
Just like that it felt as if my whole world had been turned upside down. No. It could be here. But how many Renesmees were there in the world?
"Renesmee?" Carlisle repeated. "Are you sure that's her name?"
"I have never been more sure of anything in my entire llife. Here's a picture of her I was able to get from her laptop,"
He showed us a picture with four people in it. A man and a woman I'd never seen before with two teenagers. A boy and a girl. As soon as I looked at the girl I knew it was my daughter. Even though she was 12 years older I knew it was her. I
"It's her. Oh my God Edward it's her," I gasped. I felt like I was going to cry.
Edward hugged me tight. "Yes its her Bella. She's alive,"
"So when do we leave?" Jacob asked.
"Today," Carlisle answered. "I'll call and make our flight arrangements right now,"
Two hours later we were at the airport. Just like that we had uprooted our entire lives. We already had a house in Baltimore and Esme was already making the necessary arrangements for us to start school at the very same high school Nessie and her brother attended. Thanks to Emmett we had Nessie's address, school address, her grades, and even the credit card number she had on file on her laptop that she used to make purchases online.
I couldn't believe this. We had found my daughter and in just a few hours we would be in the very same city that she lived in.
As soon as the airplane landed I wanted to go look for my daughter but it was a sunny day. So I'd have to wait until nighttime. Jacob was lucky that he wasn't limited by the sun. As soon as we arrived home he left to go look for her.
It hadn't occurred to us that it was still early enough in the day that Nessie would be at school until much later. It was now nighttime and we still hadn't heard from him.
I went out for a quick hunt. When I came back everyone was gathered around looking scared. "Bella we have a big problem,"
"What happened?" I asked fearing the worst.
"The Volturi know," Alice said. "Other vampires did see the website and brought it to Aro's attention before Emmett was able to take it down. They're coming,"
"Call Jacob. We need to discuss what we're going to do now," Carlisle said quickly.
I grabbed my phone and called him. But he didn't answer. So I called him again.
"Jacob where are you? Carlisle wants you to come right now. There's-"
"I'm not Jacob," said an unfamiliar female voice.
"Who are you and why do you have Jacob's phone?" I asked suspiciously. Who was this girl and why did she have Jacob's phone?
"My name is Renesmee. Jacob and I met at a Starbucks earlier. We must have switched phones by accident when he helped me pick up the stuff I had dropped. I'm assuming he has my cellphone. Do you want my phone number?"
The phone slipped out of my hand as I stood there frozen in shock.
"Bella? Do you want my phone number?" she asked. I could see everyone listening intensely to our conversation.
"Bella. Do you want my phone number?" she asked again.
I couldn't believe that I was hearing my daughter's voice for the first time in over 12 years. If I could cry I'd be surrounded by am ocean of tears right now.
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