I apologize for not updating as soon as I would have liked. And I thank all of you for being extremely patient with me. This chapter is shorter than I had planned, but it will be the shortest chapter that you will ever get from me. Disclaimer: no! I do not own twilight.

BPOV

The second I stepped outside, Josh grabbed a fistful of my hair, and began to drag me across the lawn to his car. I tried to struggle, but he used his gift on me, forcing me not to move. I was utterly helpless.

My mind raced back to Edward. The looks of pure devastation on his face, was enough for my heart to snap in two. I already missed him, though I couldn't hear anything going on inside the house. And then,

There was loud crash that sounded as if the living room wall had been knocked in. Then another. Things started hurtling out of the windows, I saw the couch fly across the living room, and blow its way through the opposite wall, landing upright on the grass.

I could hear the screaming coming from inside. The sweet voice of my angel asking to die. Over and over again Edward asked to let himself die, and it killed me to hear it. Knowing that I had caused this pain to prevent him from another one.

Sobs racked my body, as I was thrown into the backseat of my camry. My whole body trembled with the ache that was Edward. The hole where he had belonged. I struggled against Josh's influence and managed to break free, sprinting out of the car and up the lawn, only to be re-captured by a steely grip. I kicked him in the knees hard, but he didn't give. "Let me go," I hissed, trying to find a way to knock him out.

"Never," he seethed in a malicious tone. I shuddered involuntarily, but fought my way through it. I had to get to Edward. "Do you remember what I can do to him?" I stopped struggling, my heart smashed into scattered pieces.

"Yes," I whispered, trying to hold back my sobs.

"Good."

Josh easily carried me back to the car, not bothering to be remotely gentle with me. I growled under my breath, but he didn't seem to notice. I couldn't read his thoughts, so I hadn't a clue where he was taking me, but I knew it wasn't anywhere I wanted to be.

He sped flew out of the driveway, already doing a hundred and fifty before he reached the highway. I had managed to sit in a comfortable position, before dealing with the problem at hand.

I didn't have a plan.

I had lied to give Edward some piece of mind, but now I was regretting it. I didn't have the slightest idea how I was going to get out of this one. In the words of Gabriel, 'I was screwed.'

EPOV

I stared blankly up at Jamie, the eleven-year-old boy who was a mathematical genius. He smiled at me, his eyes holding hope.

"What's your plan," Carlisle asked kindly.

"It's quite simple really," Jamie began, but Gabriel cut him off.

"Before you begin, I am going to warn you don't give any more than three statistics on how this is going to work out. It crushes my morale." Jamie shot him a scathing glare, but agreed.

"Well if I am correct, like I usually am, Josh will take Bella to our safe house. It's up near the lake, and surrounded by thick woods. Even with improved hearing Josh won't hear us approach. I'd say we would have a two out of---."

"Jamie!" Gabriel growled, shooting his brother a black stare.

He gulped.

"My plan is that Gabriel here, walks up to the front door, while we are all hiding at a far point in the woods. He'll ask to see Bella to make sure she is still in a living condition. If I know anything, Josh won't be stupid enough to tie her up but he'll probably have her locked in a room with steal doors. Not that that will help much, but it should keep her there.

"The rest is quiet simple. As soon as Gabriel is let into the cabin, we'll sneak up. Gabriel will start a fight with Josh, causing the distraction, and then Emmett, Jasper, Carlisle, and I will have the element of surprise and start to rip him to pieces."

I snarled, I should be the one to rip that slime ball into a million little pieces. Jamie seemed to understand where I was coming from, and gave me a small grin.

"We would have to work fast, but if we beat him just enough in the tiny time frame we have, he'll be too week to use his gift on us. Then Edward will come in and retrieve Bella; you have to run, as fast as possible, but from what I have heard you're extremely so I don't think that will be much of a problem. "

I was somewhat flattered by this. Never in the wildest parts of my brain, would I think that I would ever receive a compliment from Bella's new family. I nodded showing my approval at this.

"When you run her out there, hand her to Alice, who will run her two miles up the woods where Rosalie will be waiting. Rosalie will take her another three miles back to the high way, where Esme will take her back to your home. Where Arielle will be waiting."

"Why can't Bella just run?" Jasper asked, in a slightly confused tone.

Gabriel snorted with laughter.

"I thought you knew Bella as a human?" He laughed, though it was a strangled chuckle. "She trips over everything, even with the whole grace thing."

I grinned. If Bella and I ever got out of this, I would carry her around for the rest of my life.

"When should we start aligning into our positions?" Esme said pulling out a silver phone from her back pocket.

"It takes about fifteen minutes to get to the lake from here going at a hundred and twenty. Were going to have to run, if we want to have stealth. Alice you'll follow us into the woods but will stop a quarter of the way in, Edward will cover the most ground out of all of you."

"Why do they have to switch?" Emmett asked Jamie, raking one hand through his dark curly hair. "Why couldn't Edward just run her the whole way?"

"Switching is safer. It disguises her scent from Josh, in case he manages to get out of the house alive. And that way we'll have back up if were not winning the fight."

"Smart," Carlisle murmured under his breath. Jamie didn't seem to take much notice, but I could clearly see a small grin creeping the way onto his face.

"I can switch it so that someone else can run Bella," He asked, trying to accommodate me.

He looked up at me, as if asking for my approval. "I'll run all the way around the world and back before I let anyone touch Bella," I replied, hoping to assure him that I would run as much as possible.

"Good." He looked relieved, as he turned towards the broken coffee table, and picked up the pad of paper that at one point had been sitting on top of it. Carlisle handed him a pen before he could even ask for one.

"Thanks." Jamie began to draw a neat map of where we would be switching Bella. "Edward you will run five miles to Alice who will run two, then to Rosalie who will run about three and a quarter. Esme you'll have about three also, to get back to your home. Then I suggest you bring the car back to the cabin, pick up Rosalie, Alice, and Edward along the way."

He turned to Arielle, who had bee picking her fingernails during his plan. "If anyone gets near the house I want the windows shattered, and their bodies to drop. We'll give you the ok when were a mile away."

I stared between the three Grays in bemusement. I opened my mouth to ask what they were talking about, but Alice got to it first.

"What do you mean, windows shattered?" I knew she was thinking about out newest installment into the house, her stained glass window that had replaced the other windows in her room.

"Think of Arielle as a…"Jamie was at loss for what to describe his sister as.

"A banshee," Gabriel suggested.

"Banshee!" Arielle scoffed. "Please, zose idiotic creatures have nozing to do with me." She flipped her white blonde hair haughtily over her shoulder, and glowered at Gabriel.

"What can you do," Carlisle asked, his voice sounding a bit wary of her now.

"I can zcream in a high pitched zrill that cauzez all glazz to shatter and vampires to become unconzcious, humanz uzually die if I get to zoud." She spoke as if her gift was nonchalant.

Gabriel coughed. "You are the equivalent to a banshee," he argued. "A humans blood vessels will burst if you scream too loud."

She rolled her eyes. "Zo."

I could feel the tension radiating between, and I was standing across the room. They squared off, their eyes narrowed at precisely the same angles, their jaws clenched in the same way. The only thing that came to my mind was they had spent too much time living together.

"Jamie interrupted their glares, by stepping in between them and wrenching their bodies away from each other.

"We don't have time for this!" He screamed in exasperation. "Bella could be dying at this very moment." Gabriel shot one nasty look at Arielle before stalking off to the other side of the room.

"We need to leave in the next five minutes, does everybody know their positions."

We nodded. Arielle screeched in sheer irritation.

"All I zet to do iz guard zhe houze!"

"Suck it up Froggy," Gabriel said, elbowing her in the ribs. I choked on my laughter, hoping to hold it in.

"How zare you call me a Frog! It waz already bad enough being called zat wretched animal by the English in zhe early eighteen hundredz, but now to be called zat by my own---." Gabriel clapped a hand over her mouth, muttering something menacing in her ear. She scowled, biting his hand playfully before he let go.

"That's my frog," he chuckled before walking back over to Jamie's side.

The small boy was bent over the small piece of paper, scribbling an incoherent picture onto its white surface. His head suddenly shot up.

"Let's go," he whispered, handing Carlisle the small paper.

BPOV

The horror that filled my chest as Josh parked on the dirt path that led us to Gideon's safe house, was terrifying. I gasped.

Once I had called this place a sanctuary, a home away from home, where I could retreat into my own thoughts. Several summers ago I had lived here for the whole three months of summer vacation. It was the summer that reminded me the most of Edward.

Now this was the farthest place from safe that I could have ever imagined. All my body was aching for Edward. All I wanted was he to be holding my hand telling me how much he loved me.

Josh wrenched my thoughts away from Edward, and back onto my miserable situation. He was grinning in a twisted sort of way that made me want to vomit.

"Come one," he whispered in my ear, picking me up in his arms. I snarled a very feral sound and struggled my out of his grasp. I fell to the ground with a loud 'thump' causing him to laugh loudly. "Lets go."

He dragged me by the hair kicking open the cabin's wooden door. None of us had been there in over two years, so the place was coated with dust. It was sickening, I was sure Esme would have had some fun with it. My body made a clear streak on the cabin's floor, the dust gathering around my jeans.

"So," he whispered, licking his lips. Josh was standing over me with a malicious gleam in his eyes. "What should we do first?"

I growled, kicking him in the shins. The pain didn't register on his face; bit anger flashed in his now coal black eyes. Fear rushed over me. He looked so murderous.

"I'll ask you again," he growled in a much harsher voice. "What are we going to do, to pass the time?"

I didn't answer; my throat closed with the horror of what he could possibly do to me. What would he do to me? I was utterly defenseless if he used his power.

I gulped, which brought a smile to his face.

"I think I have the perfect idea." He bent down, lowering his lips to mine. I didn't respond to his kiss, until he hissed. "Remember what I can do to your precious Edward?" He kissed me again and this time to my complete hatred I kissed him back.

"Better," he grinned, pushing my shoulders down to the floor of the dusty cabin.

I shivered, not liking where this was heading. I tried to push him away but I felt powerless. He was using his power on me.

And then to my great relief, a knock resounded on the door. I was saved for the moment.

EPOV

We had assembled ourselves into a running line outside of the Grays home. Gabriel and I were in the front, behind us were Arielle and Alice, behind them Emmett and Jasper, then Rosalie and Jamie, then Esme and Alice.

I started running breaking out into a full sprint by the time we reached the coverage of the woods. I was surprised that Gabriel was only a few feet behind me, the rest were trailing along by a few yards.

It took us only a few moments I was pushing myself faster and faster. I shot through the woods like an unseen blur, which was constantly reviewing Jamie's facts in my brain.

It would take us little over an hour to get there, but then Gabriel would be there immediately knocking on the cabin's door. I could feel Bella's presence as we enclosed the cabin area. I felt a hand stops me from behind and I slowed to a human pace.

It was Gabriel.

"Were nearly there," he hissed under his breathe in such a low voice that I barely heard it. "Remember don't come in and get her until you hear the fight starting." I nodded; I knew the plan better than he did.

We crept into out positions as Gabriel walked slowly as a snail up to the cabin front door, he knocked once. At first I believed that Jamie had been wrong and that no one was inside. My hopes were shattered; I would never see Bella again.

The wooden door swung open in an instant to reveal Josh a crude glare on his face. "What do you want," He hissed loudly.

"To know if Bella is living," Gabriel spat with just as much malice as Josh had.

"She's alive."

"Can I see her?"

"No." Gabriel snarled.

"She's my sister, let me see her!"

"Pick your battles Gabe," Josh mocked, licking his lips thirstily.

I edged closer towards the cabin, barely able to restrain myself from running in and grabbing Bella. But I waited like I had been told to, watching the scene before me with narrowed eyes.

"I will," Gabriel whispered before lunging at Josh knocking him over backwards.

In a blur of bodies, Carlisle, Emmett, Jamie, and Jasper flew out form the woods and into the cabin. I waited until almost instantly I heard Emmett snarl the ok.

With as much speed as I could gather I darted out from the coverage of the forest and into the cabin. Josh was underneath a pile of malevolent vampires. His week attempts at controlling them were strained, but he had managed to hold back Jasper and Carlisle from the killing him. I rushed past them and found Bella on the floor in the corner.

Her eyes locked with mine, safety filling those beautiful orbs of gold. I carefully picked her up, letting her rest her head on my shoulder before racing her back out of the cabin. All the way I whispered how much I loved her in her ear.

A/N: Ok so that was it, not as long as the other chapters but it was fairly decent, eight pages not too bad. There are spelling errors I will say that my spell check didn't really work today. On a brighter note my next chapter will be up in a few days. I have practices for a tournament this upcoming weekend so I wont be able to update sooner.

I'm rambling, I hoped you liked it, REVIEW!