Chapter 12

EPOV:

Everyone except Ben, who was up in my room, were gathered in the family room again. Angela was sitting still as a statue, with her eyes closed and all of us were watching her, waiting for any sign that she got in contact with Bella. It took hours of her sitting quietly, every minute that passed without anything sent a pain through me. I wanted my Bella back, I wanted to tell her that I feel our connection, that I know what we are. I want to tell her that I love her.

I was about to say something when Angela went flying backward through the air, Jasper screamed, "she is so scared, she feels so helpless, it feels unbearable." We all jumped to our feet and went to them. Jasper was doubled over, holding his head in his hands and Angela was already getting up off of the floor.

"I am okay," she said.

"What happened?" I asked.

"Well, she found a way to contact me, it didn't need to be so forceful, but she did it," she answered.

"That was Bella?" Emmet asked.

"Yeah," she answered. "I didn't get much, except that she is most defiantly scared. Her magic came from the east, I am assuming Italy, like you said," she answered.

"That is where she is, we need to get plane tickets to Italy, the first flight we can get," I said.

"Hold on Edward, we cant just walk in we need a plan, if we just go in and start fighting, they might kill her," Carlisle said.

"We don't have time to plan Carlisle," I argued, "I will not just stand by and let her be beaten and raped by him," I added.

"Edward, I know that you are worried, but, if we go in there without a plan and get killed in the process of saving her, she will have less of a chance to make it out of there alive," Carlisle argued back. He was right, I knew that he was right and he knew he was right. I just shut my mouth tight and averted my eyes to the floor. A plan, I can deal with that, as long as we get Bella out of there.

We decided it would be best to go to Italy and scout the situation out there. Alice got on the phone and got a flight for all seven of us leaving in two hours. We rushed out of the house and left Angela to watch over Ben and sped to the Airport.

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We finally arrived in Italy fourteen hours later. We were spread out on Aro's land, taking note of the guard schedules and any weak points in the brick fence surrounding his home. We had all met up and shared our findings just inside the forest on the south side of his lair when the earth began to shake. It was small at first, but, it grew into something more and more powerful. It lasted for some time before it just stopped, like someone just flipped a switch and it was over. Esme was about to say something when Alice gasped. I peeked into her mind and saw her vision as she saw it.

Bella was sitting in a room that was clouded in a dust or smoke of some sort, she tried to stand, but her legs wouldn't hold her right. She fell to the ground and began to drag herself with her arms towards a light in all the dust. It wasn't until she reached the light that I saw what it really was, it was a hole in a brick wall. She was trying to crawl through it, but the hole was jagged and rough. I got a quick look at the view from outside the hole and saw us, that's when the vision ended. I looked at Alice and then to the brick building that was Aro's home. There on the very bottom of the wall was a small hole, and then Bella's scent hit me like a punch in the face. I ran towards her scent and the others followed.

BPOV:

While I was alone, I inspected the room I was being held in. I walked around pushing against the brick, hoping to find one that was loose, but they were all pretty sturdy. I would just create a portal, like I did in the woods, but that kind of magic takes a lot of energy. I don't know how long I have been here, but I haven't fed, nor have I really slept. I just didn't have the energy to do magic like that. I finally gave up and sat down in the corner. I wanted my back to a wall and the only entrance in my sight at all times.

I practiced my control over the elements for a while. I could now make a quiet breeze at my command, not really threatening, but if I could keep practicing it could be. There was no water so I couldn't really do much with that. I kept pushing at the air with my magic, trying to learn how to do different things with it. I was about to move back to the flame when I got an idea. One that I almost smacked myself for not thinking of before. I could control the earth. Maybe I could push with enough power to cause an earthquake, it might give me a way to escape, but it could backfire. The building could just fall on me and crush me. I weighed my options and decided that I would rather be crushed to death then be stuck here.

I sat on the ground and put my hands on the floor. I closed my eyes and cleared my mind. The only thing on my mind was the ground, the soil that was under the brick floor. I reached deep into myself and opened the part of me that was magic. I felt it answer, my magic filled me, warmed me, made me feel a little bit safer. I pushed my magic into the floor reaching deep into the earth beneath it. I called the earth, I pulled at it and willed it to submit to me, to answer me. It took a bit, but eventually I felt the earth shift with my magic. It was small at first, but I pushed harder and the shifting turned into a violent rumble. I sat, holding myself up while the earth shook. The roof collapsed in the middle and fell to the floor, the air filled with dust making it difficult to breath. I could hear people yelling but I concentrated on the task at hand. When I saw light peeking through the brick I pushed with everything I had in me, I screamed in the effort it took. The bricks fell to the ground making a hole in the wall. I pulled my hands off of the floor and the earthquake stopped immediately. I felt my magic pull back to that part of me and settle back down.

I tried to stand, to walk to the hole I had made, but using my magic to cause an earthquake took so much. My legs wouldn't move and my arms felt like they were to heavy to lift. I was finally able to throw myself to the ground and drag myself to the hole. My arms where scratched and bleeding, my body was being cut my the debris that littered the floor. I managed to reach the light. I peeked my head through and thanked the Goddesses that I was almost free. I pulled myself through almost half way when a quick sharp pain on my thigh made me stop. I put my hand down to the place that it hurt and felt a warm thick liquid cover my hand. I looked down and whimpered. A large nail had been sticking up through the debris and it tore a long gash in my leg. I turned back and pulled, trying to get myself out when I felt hands on my wrists, pulling me out.

They pulled to the point of hurting me and finally I was free. I looked up to the owner of the hands that had freed me and sobbed. Edward, he pulled me out. I reached my hand up to his face and cried.

"Bella, thank God you are okay, I was so scared that I had lost you," he said as he bent down to me and started placing small quick kisses all over my face.

"Don't ever do that again," he said pulling back and looking at me in the eye.

I leaned towards him and kissed him with every last bit of energy I had before my world went black again.