Chapter 4: Missing
Bella's POV
Edward and I had really needed to go hunting. Our eyes were almost pitch black. We, especially I, wanted to put off the hunting trip for as long as we could.
I didn't want to separate from my daughter right now. Not with the threat of the Volturi. My daughter was only half vampire and she was nowhere near strong enough to defend herself. Separating from her scared me. I was the momma bear and she was my cub.
Edward had suggested leaving her with Jacob but Jacob was busy on pack business. Jacob already did a lot for us and Nessie. Especially Nessie since she was his imprint. But I didn't want to take advantage. The rest of the family was busy to doing research on Nessie's kind and of course gathering witnesses to testify that Nessie was not an immortal.
So next Edward suggested that we leave Nessie alone for the first time. It scared me. She was only three months old. She was just a baby. I couldn't just leave her alone.
But somehow Edward convinced me to do it anyway. It would only be for 45 minutes and she was smarter then many adults that we knew. I still felt uneasy ab out the whole thing but I did it anyway.
So now we were just returning from the hunt. I had been worried all throughout the hunt and I was sure that I was driving my husband crazy. So it was a relief for me to finally go home again.
As we got closer and closer to the house I realized that something was wrong. I could not hear my daughter's heartbeat. I could not hear the soft thrumming of her heart. Something that I should have been able to hear perfectly.
I picked up the pace and ran to the house as fast as I could. Her scent was old. I could not pick up any new traces of her scent anywhere around the house which told me that she.
I quickly searched the entire house only to have my suspicion and fears confirmed. Nessie was gone. My little girl was missing.
I started to freak out as I began to search the surrounding area for my daughter calling out her name over and over again. I would have had a heart attack if it had been possible.
"Bella what is going on?" Edward asked me when he finally caught up to me.
"Nessie is missing that's what is going on!" I was a bit irritated that he had not already picked up on the fact that his daughter was missing.
"Bella calm down. I'm sure that she is around here somewhere. She could not have gone very far"
"Calm down? You want me to calm down when my daughter is missing!" I hissed. "I've already checked the whole area and she is not here. Her scent is old. I can't hear her heartbeat. She is gone!"
"Are you sure about that?" Edward asked. Now he looked as worried as I felt.
"Think about it Edward do you hear her thoughts anywhere around here?"
He listened for a second and nodded his head 'no'
If possible I started to freak out even more.
"I'll get Carlisle, Esme, Jacob, and the others. We need to find her now"
Edward disappeared and I continued to search for my daughter just hoping that I missed her somehow and she was around here somewhere. Unfortunately I was right.
Jacob was the first one to get here. I could smell him from a mile away.
"Bella what is going on? Where is Nessie?" Jacob asked me. He looked extremely worried. I was sure that Edward had already told him but he was just hoping that it wasn't true.
"Nessie is gone. She is missing and I have no idea where she is" I told him. My voice was breaking. I was sure that I would be in a river of tears by now had I been human.
"So it's true?! She's gone!?"
Jacob was trembling badly. His inner wolf begging to explode. Although he did not look angry. He looked scared. More frightened then I had ever seen him in his entire life.
"Yes it's true. I have searched for her everywhere around here and she has simply vanished"
"What?" I heard Carlisle say. The others had just arrived. "What do you mean she vanished? She has to be around here somewhere?"
"She is not. She has disappeared I am sure of it" I told them.
"But how?" Esme asked. She, Carlisle, along with everyone else looked just as worried as I felt. They all loved Nessie as much as Edward and I did. If anything happened to her it would be devastating to the whole family.
I explained how we had to leave her alone to go hunting and that is when she disappeared. Jacob was beyond angry that we had left her alone and didn't even bother to ask him to watch her.
We spread out the search to look in different directions Edward, Jacob and I went farther into the forest hoping that she had just simply gotten lost and that was it. While the others went to search the surrounding cities.
After three hours of searching we had no luck. I was beyond desperate and consolable right now. The others returned with nothing but anxiety-ridden expressions on their faces and that only made me even more worried.
Carlisle looked the most worried though. Even more worried then me. I wonder if he knew something or came across some clues that the rest of us had not. Carlisle was always a very calm man even in the most dire situations so it made me extremely worried and anxious to seem him this worried and anxious.
"Carlisle what is going on?" I dared to ask, but also afraid to know the answer at the same time.
"I don't know how to say this but-" he interrupted himself and took a deep breath.
"But what?!" I said in a rude manner that I would never dared to speak to him in any other situation.
"I came across Nessie's scent around the airport. That is where her scent was the freshest. I searched the area but she was no longer there. I don't know where my granddaughter is at but I'm 99.9 percent sure that she is no longer in the state of Washington"
I swear I felt like I was going to fate right then and there.
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