Alice POV

"Lila! Come and get some banana and graham crackers." I yell from the kitchen as I put the last couple of pieces of banana on her princess plate. She comes running in from Blake's room and holds her hands out.

"Here. Be careful not to drop it, Ok" she nods her head and I place the plate in her hands and watch as she turns around and slowly makes her way back to the room. I smile as I watch her walk away, her long brown hair swinging from side to side, and her bare feet hitting the tile floor. Lila might have Bella's hair, but everything else on her is Edward, she even has his 'thinking face' and his pout.

I turn back around to start doing the dishes from breakfast, when there's a knock at the door. Not expecting anyone, I dry my hands on a towel, and walk to the door, pulling it open and trying to hold back my gasp as I see James standing on the other side.

"Um. Hi James…."

"Hi Alice. How are you?" he says. There's a small smile spread across his face and instead of being friendly or charming, it's frightening.

"I'm doing good… what about you?" I ask, as I start to knead the fabric of my shirt in my hands.

"Good. I haven't seen you in a while… can I come in?" he asks, and my head immediately starts to set off warning bells. My heart starts pounding, and I know he's up to something, and that something can't be good.

"Actually, Jasper is sleeping and I don't want him to wake up…" I say, hoping he'll believe it and leave, but all he does is bring his foot forward, and place it against the door so I wont be able to close it. He takes a step in, and brings his hand up against the door and leans down to my face.

"That's funny, considering I watched him leave for work a half hour ago." he whispers against my face, and I can feel the panic rise as I realize that he's here to harm us.

I'm about to launch myself away from the door and run to the kids' room and lock myself in there, but as I push off, I feel him grab the fabric of my shirt and pull me back. I slam into the door frame, and let out a groan as the pain hits me and James grips me around the neck and moves in front of me.

"I really hate to do this, but your sister in law gave me no choice…." he says, and then I watch helplessly as he raises his fist and slams it into my face repeatedly. Even as I block my face from his hits, they still get through, and I can feel the trickle of blood as they fall from my open cuts and down my face.

I don't know how long I'm hit for, but soon after, when I feel weak and I can't even raise my head anymore, he grabs the back of my hair and drags me to the bathroom connected to Blake's room where he continues to hit me as I lay half conscious on the floor. I see his feet move right in front of my face, and he kneels down close to my face, and smiles in my face.

"Tell them I took her…." he says and then stands back up. I watch in horror as he brings his leg back to kick me, and before his foot makes contact with my face, I hear Lila screaming for me in the doorway.

BPOV

Instead of having to wait for Alice to come and open the door, the force from our knocks causes the door to squeak open and I watch as Edward pushes the door open all the way, and we see into Alice's house. There's things broken and scattered all around the hallway, and when we step further into the house, we hear Blake's cries from his room. Edward nods at me to go and get him, and I run into the room, passing the destroyed living room and dining room. When I get into his room, Blake is standing in his crib, crying and his diaper is soiled badly.

Alice would never let him get this dirty.

I pick him up and take him into the adjoining bathroom, and start to clean him when I hear a sound coming from the bathtub. I walk back into the bedroom, placing him back into his crib as I grab the closet thing I can find, which happened to be the lamp stand in his room. I grab it, and make my way back into the bathroom and stand on the other side, taking deep breaths, preparing myself to kill him if he's on the other side of this curtain. I count to 3 in my head, and rip the curtain out of the way, and let out a blood curdling scream when I see who's on the other side of the shower curtain.

Crumpled on the floor of the shower is my best friend, and my sister, Alice. She's not moving and her face is black and blue, with speckles of blood everywhere. I step back, shaking my head as the tears fall down my face and I run out of the room. I pick up Blake and I run through the house to find Edward, and just as I turn the corner to look in the rooms, he comes barreling down the hallway.

"Edward! I can't find Lila, and Alice is in the shower, she's not conscious and she looks like she was beat real bad" Edward runs past me, and into the bathroom, and he intakes a sharp breath when he sees his sister.

He kneels down on the floor, and holds out his hand, and begins to stroke the hair off of her face. She's breathing, but barely and almost every visible part of her is covered in bruises or blood.

"Alice…. Alice.." he says, shaking her gently, trying to get her to wake up. Blake squirms in my hands and I run into the bedroom to change him. I can hear Edward speaking softly, and I rush to go back in there, and once Blake is clean, I make my way in there to see Alice's lips moving, but her eyes aren't open.

"Where's Lila, Alice?" he asks and she tries to lift her face to her brother, but groans when she sees she's in too much pain to do it.

'He Took Her…."

It gets harder to breathe when I hear that, and all I want to do is fall to the ground and pass out, but I have Blake in my arms so I try my hardest to stay up. Edward, however, falls to his knees, gripping tightly to his hair and lets out the loudest scream. Seeing my husband fall to his knees and just look like that was hard. I don't know how he reacted when I was taken, but I know it's different this time.

Because this time, it's our daughter.

EPOV

The only sound I can hear is the sound of my heart beating furiously in my ears.

James took her… James has my daughter and I have no clue where he took her.

Every second I spend in this condition is a second wasted, so I dig into my pocket and take out my cell phone, and dial someone I know can help me. The phone rings 3 times before I hear him answer.

"Aro… It's Edward… my daughter's been taken…."

Aro gets right to work, taking down my sister's address and promising he'd come, with an ambulance for Alice. Alice is still in the bathtub, unable to move and I watch as she knocks out of consciousness numerous times. Bella is sobbing quietly behind me as she holds on to Blake, who is calling for his mother. He hasn't seen her since the curtain is blocking his view of his mom.

I walk out of the bathroom as soon as I hear sirens start to approach, and I wait impatiently on the doorstep for them to get here. The ambulance stops in front of the house and 3 paramedics jump out of the car, and rush into the house as I yell which room to go into. Aro pulls up not too long after that and walks up to me.

"Edward… the police are right behind me on their way over here. The house is going to need to be searched, and we need to put out an Amber Alert for her…. What was she wearing last?" he asks, and I tell him she was wearing her Dora the explorer shirt, and a pair of jean shorts with pink flip flops.

Bella comes out from the bathroom, tears staining her cheeks and holding a sleeping Blake to her chest. She walks up next to me, and I wrap my arm around her shoulder and pull her close to my side.

"It's all my fault….. I let him in…. I trusted him… and now he has my baby." she says, the last part coming out in a sob, and I feel the tears prick my eyes.

"Bella… it's not your fault. We don't have time to be putting blame on each other, Ok? Right now we need to get Lila back" I say and she nods her head, just as Aro comes back in.

"Ok. I put the alert out, and for the news I'm going to need a picture of her." I nod my head, and stare down at my feet, feeling helpless. My little girl is out there, and I have no close where she is. To make it worse, she's with a maniac….

I feel Aro rest his hand on my shoulder, and I look up to see him looking at me with a look of sorrow in his eyes.

"I told you this before, and I'll tell you again… I won't rest until we find her." I nod my head and smile as Alice is wheeled out onto a stretcher by the paramedics. Just then I realize that I haven't called anyone to tell them what happened, so I grab my cell phone and tell Bella to grab the house phone and call Jasper as Bella calls Emmett.

Jasper answers quickly and I tell him what happened and that Alice is on her way to the hospital and he quickly hangs up after telling me that he's on his way to her. As soon as I hang up, I hear Bella yell for me and Aro, and when I walk out to the living room, she's there in front of the answering machine, holding Alice's house phone in her hands.

Aro and I make our way over to her and when I ask her what's wrong, she turns to me with tears in her eyes, and presses play on the answering machine.

Hey guys… You've probably found the little pixie by now… so sorry about that…but I just wanted to let you know I have something you guys will want back…. Say Hi Lila.

"Hi" my daughter's little voice sounds over the machine. She sounds so scared, and I swear that when I find her I'm going to rip him in half for taking her.

So… if you want her back.. I want Bella. I want Bella to come alone to where we are. If I see any cops cars, I get rid of the kid… you hear me Masen? I don't want you there either! So, if you want your daughter back, Bella needs to call me.. She knows the number.

The message ends and Bella starts to dial James' number, and Aro tells her to put it on speaker.

"This better be Bella" James says after the 2nd ring. Bella shuts her eyes and takes a deep breath.

"It's me… please.. Just give us Lila back." she says and begins to sob hard as she gets the last word out.

"I want you Bella… Please.. Just meet me.. We can be a family…." I'm about to say something when I feel Aro's hand rest on my shoulder, trying to calm me. Bella looks up at Aro and he starts to mouth what to say to her next. Bella nods her head after seeing what Aro has told her to say, and she takes a deep breath and starts to talk.

"Where are you, James?" she asks, shutting her eyes, and waiting for his answer.

"Are you coming?" he asks, his voice sounding excited. She gulps, and nods her head.

"Yes. Where are you?" she says, and he chuckles.

"The warehouses off of the highway once you leave town. It better just be you, Bella." he says, and than hangs up. Bella stands there in shock, before dropping the phone, and falling to her knees. I kneel down next to her and pull her close to me.

"Baby.. We'll find her." I say and she nods her head and looks up to Aro.

"So… are you going to have someone follow me?" my eyes dart to her face and I start to shake my head, angry that she would even think I'd let her go to him.

"What the fuck do you mean? you're not going to him Bella!" I say and she moves her eyes to me and I'm shocked at the expression I see there. She looks angry and enraged, and it's directed at me.

"What would you prefer me to do, Edward? You want me to leave Lila there? You heard him, if anyone else comes he'll hurt her… " I throw my head down, and run my fingers through my hair.

"Bella. You're pregnant… if he hurts you…" I start but she holds her hand up at me.

"I've been pregnant and had to deal with a madman before…" she says, standing up and beginning to walk out of the room. "and unless I'm a damn ghost right now, it all ended ok."

I made this chapter end like this because if I had kept going, you all would have gotten another cliffie... and I know how you love those. :)

Give me a little bit to post the next one... I have a busy next couple of days and I don't know if I'll be able to get it out as soon as I'd like to.

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-Ana