I don't own Twilight or any of the characters, it all belongs to Stephenie Meyer.

Chapter 1

13 years later

Edward's POV

I looked over to the pile of mail I had on my desk and decided to start going though them.

As I flipped through them I came across one handwritten and addressed to me, but it didn't have a return address, not even a name.

My eyebrows furrowed as I stared at it, and I finally turned it over and opened it.

Edward Cullen.

When I kidnapped your daughter 13 years ago. I believed what I was doing was the right thing, and I still do.

I stopped there and stared at the letter in shock. When they kidnapped my daughter? I wondered briefly, if it was some prank, but I couldn't be sure, so I decided to finish reading it.

I didn't keep her, I put her on the porch of a family I had been watching. When I left her, I left a note, telling them when her birthday was.

I believed, that if the princess grew up as a commoner, she would be a better princess. Not growing up in luxury, as a princess would have, but instead, being normal, and knowing how everything affected the people, and what it's like to be poor.

I was careful when I picked the family to put her in. I had watched them for weeks beforehand, and when I left her there, I was sure that she would grow up loved and cared for, until she was 13.

The last name of the family I put her in, is Peterson.

It's a great family, and when they found her on their front porch that morning, they took her in immediately, without a thought. They didn't even consider putting her in an orphanage. They adopted her, and raised her as if she was their own.

They didn't keep up with the news, so they didn't know that the princess was kidnapped until a friend of theirs told them.

They wondered briefly, if the baby girl they found on their porch was the princess, but they quickly dismissed the idea. Why would someone kidnapped a princess, just to leave her on the porch of a poor family?

I have kept an eye on her all these years, and take my word when I say that she is happy and healthy. Though unaware of who her real family is.

She is aware, that she was found on their porch, and that they didn't know who her real family is. For all she knows, they might not have been able to take care of her, and tried to give her a better life.

I am sorry for taking her away from you, and taking away your chance to watch her grow up, but I believe that it was for the better.

Her name is Cassidy Peterson, no middle name.

Enclosed, is the Peterson's address, along with the parents names, ages, and jobs.

I found another letter in the envelope that contained the Peterson's address, the parents names, ages, and jobs.

I don't know how long I sat there in shock. But when I finally recovered enough to move, I called Emmett and Jasper to my office. I needed to talk to them about this, see what they thought.

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Jasper and Emmett walked in but then stopped when they saw me.

"What's wrong Edward? You look like you've seen a ghost." Jasper asked me worriedly.

I just shook my head and handed Jasper the letters.

Jasper read them aloud with Emmett looking over his shoulder. When they were done, they were both pale, and they looked at me in shock.

They didn't talk, they just stared at me.

I finally broke the silence by speaking, "Do you think someone's playing a joke on me? Or do you think the kidnapper really did write this?" I waited for them to reply while they thought.

"I don't know Edward, we could look up Cassidy Peterson and see if she's even real." said Jasper, thinking of the best course of action.

Before I could reply, Emmett spoke up.

"But if she is real, and let's say she resembles Edward and Bella, how do we tell if she's really their kid?"

Jasper and I looked at each other for a minute, thinking.

"We could do a DNA test." I suggested in a quite voice. We weren't even sure if she was real and we were already figuring out what we were going to do.

Emmett and Jasper both nodded and we turned my computer on to see if Cassidy Peterson really existed.

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We looked her up on the school website (A/N I don't know if you can really do that, but let's say in this you can) and it did come up with a Cassidy Peterson and where she lived, it was the address the kidnapper had given me. But what really shocked us, was that she did look like Bella and I.

She had Bella's brown eyes and she had my bronze hair, it was long and wavy, and I could also see both mine and Bella's features on her. She had my high cheek bones, and Bella's nose.

Jasper and Emmett were shocked as well.

"Well....I guess this means we're going to do that DNA test, huh Edward." Emmett said, looking at me.

I nodded faintly then looked at the calender. It was May 11th and I realized what day it was.

"Emmett, Jasper, today it's been 13 years since she was kidnapped." They looked at the calender, then back at me with wide eyes.

"Do you think it's a coincidence? Do you think the kidnapper did that on purpose?" Jasper asked us.

"I bet he did." Emmett said, nodding.

"That means last week was her birthday." I murmured.

We usually didn't mention it when it was her birthday, but everyone knew. This year I had forgotten, it had been a busy week.

"Should we tell Alice, Rosalie, and Bella?" Jasper asked.

I shook my head. "We still aren't completely sure it's her, for all we know this kidnapper dyed her hair and gave her contacts, to make us think it's her. I think we should do a DNA test before and if it's not her, then we'll forget about her, and if it is..........well, we'll figure out what to do then."

They both nodded.

Emmett then thought of something. "Hey Edward, how are we going to get the DNA? You can't just walk up and say 'Hey, I'm the king of England and I need to have a sample of your blood to see if you're my long lost kid,' what are you going to do?"

I thought about it for a minute.

"I think we should have John have the principal call her parents to see if it's okay to get a blood sample so they can check something. Then we'll have it checked and see if she really is my daughter."

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I'm really sorry that I took so long to update this story! Okay, so I don't know if you can really look people up on a school website, I don't really even know if schools have websites! But, please just go along with it. And, John is their most trusted guard. Please Review!!!!!! I love to know what you think!!