Chapter 10
BPOV
It was late and mostly everyone had gone to bed except me and Alice, we were sitting outside looking out at the ocean and talking about my date with Edward and her surprise date with Jasper. It started to get really late and Alice couldn't stop yawning.
"I think we should go to bed and get some sleep." She said standing up and stretching a little.
"You go ahead; I'm going to stay up a little longer."
"Okay but don't stay up too late."
"I won't, goodnight." I told her before she started walking away.
"Night." She called from the doorway before she disappeared into the darkness of the hall. As I sat there by myself, I couldn't help but think of what is going to happen between me and Edward. I was so lost in thought that I wasn't paying any attention to my surroundings so I didn't notice the other ship pull up and a few men climbing onto our ship.
I felt strong arms go around my waist and a large hand cover my mouth. I started to panic and struggle, trying to get out of the grip.
"Shhh. Bella it's me Jacob and I'm here to rescue you." I was confused at first then I remembered that I met him earlier that day. What did he mean he was here to rescue me? I wasn't in any trouble. I kept struggling and trying to talk but he wouldn't let go of me. "Don't worry; you don't have to be scared. I'm here to get you away from the pirates that kidnapped you."
I then realized that he must have seen Emmett come and grab me and take me onto the ship. I tried to correct him and tell him that I wasn't kidnapped but his giant hand prevented me from being coherent.
"No need to thank me, I'm more than happy to help, especially someone as beautiful as you." He said while he started to walk back to his ship. I started to struggle more but he just ignored me and passed to some guy that was on his ship so he could get over.
We started to sail away from Edward's ship and that is when I was finally able to talk.
"You have to take me back. I wasn't kidnapped by them, they are my friends. Emmett- the guy you thought kidnapped me- was just messing around."
"You don't have to lie Bella, they can't hurt you anymore."
"But I'm not-"I was cut off by Jacob dragging me by the arm to a door.
"Anyways, you can sleep in here. This is my room but I will sleep with the crew so that you can have your own room and don't have to worry about us guys. I will come get you when breakfast is ready. Goodnight Bella." He shut the door before I was able to say anything and when I went to try and open the door so I could leave, it was locked.
JPOV (Jacob)
As soon as I saw what happened to Bella, I ran right to my ship and gathered my crew on the upper deck.
"I just saw a woman get kidnapped by some pirates and we need to save her." Everyone agreed with me and we started to make a plan. We would follow the ship and when it was dark enough and no one was awake, we would go aboard and find Bella and bring her onto our ship.
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It was finally time for the rescue. I was only taking three other guys with me so we don't risk waking anyone up and causing a fight to occur. I was the first to go over and I saw someone sitting by the side of the ship. At first I thought it might be a lookout but when I looked closer I saw that it was a girl-Bella to be more specific. I signaled to the other guys to keep a lookout for anyone else while I got Bella.
I slowly and quietly approached her, I didn't want to scare her and cause her to make a noise so I put one hand around her waist and another to cover her mouth. She started to struggle and get free so she probably thought I was one of the pirates.
"Shhh. Bella it's me Jacob and I'm here to rescue you." Hopefully she would remember who I was but she will relax now knowing that someone is here to save her from these terrible people. She continued to struggle and I couldn't think of any reason why. Maybe she was still scared of the pirates, she might think that they might do something to her, so I tried to reassure her that she was safe with me. . "Don't worry; you don't have to be scared. I'm here to get you away from the pirates that kidnapped you."
I could feel her mouth started to move and heard her muffled voice, she was trying to thank me but that would have to wait for later, we needed to get off this ship now.
"No need to thank me, I'm more than happy to help, especially someone as beautiful as you." I told her while I made my way to my ship. Quil, Embry and Seth were already one our ship so I just passed Bella to Embry, who also put his hand on her mouth to keep her quiet, so I could get over. When I got back over we started to move away from the other ship. When we were moving away, Embry removed his hand and finally let Bella talk.
"You have to take me back. I wasn't kidnapped by them, they are my friends. Emmett- the guy you thought kidnapped me- was just messing around." This confused me. Why would she want to go back to those pirates and why would she lie about what happened? She must thing that they can still hurt her and she doesn't want to do anything to upset them.
"You don't have to lie Bella, they can't hurt you anymore." I told her as I took her to my cabin.
"But I'm not-"
"Anyways, you can sleep in here. This is my room but I will sleep with the crew so that you can have your own room and don't have to worry about us guys. I will come get you when breakfast is ready. Goodnight Bella." I said closing the door and locking it from the outside so that she doesn't come out in the middle of the night and get hurt or try to get back to the pirates.
As I made my way to the crew's cabin I thought about the day's events and how I am happy that I was able to meet Bella, save her and hopefully one day; marry her.
APOV (Angela)
It was late and I was half asleep but I was waiting for Bella to come but she was taking a really long time. I went out to look for her to see if she was coming soon. I opened the door to the decks a little and when I looked outside I saw some large man with his arms around Bella and his hand over her mouth.
I heard him say something about helping her and about something about someone as beautiful as her as he passed her to another man on a ship that was right next to ours. I wanted to do something but I didn't have my sword with me and I can't fight them because they are a lot larger than I was. I started to run to Edward's cabin for some help.
I bang on his door twice then just open the door and run to his bed.
"Edward. Edward, wake up."
"What Angela? It is the middle of the night; can't this waiting until morning?" He asked as he started to turn the other way in his bed.
"Edward, Bella is being taken by some men." That got his attention. He bolted out of bed and ran to get his brothers next door while I got Carlisle. By the time that we got out to the decks, the other ship was already started to sail away.
"Shit!" Edward said.
"What happened Edward? Why was I woken up in the middle of the might?" Rose said in a very groggy and tired voice.
"Some guys took Bella." I told her as Edward started to pace back and forth, trying to think of something to do.
"Oh no." Esme said very concerned.
"Why don't we follow them and then we can attack them to try to get Bella back." Jasper suggested while wrapping his arms around Alice who was falling asleep on her feet.
"I'm on board for that." Emmett said, angry that someone took Bella.
"Why don't you boys go and wake the crew and tell them what happened so we can get moving and catch up with them and Edward, you and I need to talk." Carlisle stated calmly but he never looked away from a pacing Edward. While Carlisle took Edward off to the side and Emmett and Jasper went to wake everyone else, Esme, Alice, and Rose all came up to me and gave me a slight hug.
"I'm so sorry about Bella honey but we will get her back. Why don't the four of us go see if we can get something to eat for the boys?" Esme said softly, leading me to the kitchen.
EPOV
When Angela woke me up and told me what happened to Bella I almost died, I just got her and I don't want to lose her. Ever.
I was so happy when Jasper was able to think of a plan because I was so worried about Bella I wasn't thinking straight enough to be able to think of anything.
After Carlisle told everyone what to do he pulled me into my office so we could talk.
"Listen Edward, I know you are worried about Bella, we all are, but you need to focus. If you don't then you will be of no help and we won't get Bella back." I knew that he was right but it was so hard to focus when I felt like I was about to have a panic attack. "Now you stay in here for a few more minutes to calm down and clear your head then come back out and tell everyone what is going on and how we are going to rescue Bella."
"OK, thanks dad." He nodded and gave a pat on the shoulder as he passed me to leave.
It was really hard to calm down but I managed to do it. When I joined everyone else, all of the guys were informed on what happened and they seemed to be working hard to get the ship to go fast enough for us to catch up.
I went up to the wheel where my dad and brothers were when Esme and Alice came up and gave each of us a plate of food.
"Here you go boys, we thought it would be better for everyone if we brought food to all if you so no one had to stop and we can continue our pursuit." Esme said sitting down next to Carlisle.
"Thanks sweetie." Carlisle gave her a kiss on the cheek giving her a small smile before he started eating. While everyone else was eating, I just sat there pushing my food around; I had no appetite at all. Alice was the first to notice this.
"Edward you have to eat something, you will need your energy so that when we catch up to them you will be able to fight. And don't worry, we will get Bella back I know we will." I knew she was right; I would need some energy so I started eating but I still worried so I didn't taste anything I ate.
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By the time we reached the ship it was late at night and there was only one person up keeping guard and he didn't see us coming because he had fallen asleep. We didn't want to make too much noise so it was just me, Emmett, Jasper and Ben that went over to find Bella. We silently started looking around on deck and when we didn't see her we split up to check different rooms.
When I was walking down one of the halls I saw a chair that was holding a door closed and I rush to it assuming that Bella was in it. I took the chair away and slowly opened the door, hoping that it wouldn't creek. It was dark in the room but I was a figure lying on the bed and when I got closer I saw that it was Bella. I was so happy to see her again I almost started crying right there but I held them back and went to wake her up.
I walked up to the bed and gently shook her awake. She was startled at first and I thought she was going to start screaming so I tried to calm her down.
"Shhh, Bella it's me Edward. You have to be quiet so you don't wake anyone."
"Edward? Oh I'm so happy to see you. I thought I would never see you again." She was clinging to my neck hard and wouldn't let go. I sat on the edge of the bed hugging her back and burying my face in her neck.
"I'm happy to see you too. I was so worried about you when Angela told me you had been taken, I didn't want to lose you when I just got you." She pulled back and smile at me. Slowly we both leaned in until our lips touch in the sweetest kiss ever. It started to get more heated when Jasper walked in.
"Edward have you found….Bella! I'm so happy to see you're okay but we have to get going guys, you can continue that when we get back but we don't want to risk anyone waking up." Bella grabbed her things and we slowly made our way back to Emmett and Ben. We were almost to the side to get back to our ship when all of a sudden the guard woke up.
"HEY! Where do you think you're going with her?" I internally groaned; we were so close and he most likely woke everyone up with how loud he was.
"We are taking her back, you kidnapped her." I told him.
"No," came a voice from the side, "you are the ones that kidnapped her. I saw the large man over there take her on the docks and bring her to your ship." He was pointing at Emmett as her said this.
"He was just joking around; I told you Jacob they didn't kidnap me." Bella said a little irritated at this man, Jacob.
"There would be no reason for a girl like you to be with pirates. Men attack!" They started coming at us, swords wielding. The rest of my crew jumped over and we all grabbed our swords when I noticed that Bella didn't have hers.
"Bella, get over to the ship where you will be safe and we will take care of these guys."
"No, I'm not leaving you Edward." I sighed; she could be so stubborn at times. But that didn't matter this just means that I will have to stay with her in order to protect her. One guy came at me and we started to fight, when I saw another guy out of the corner of my eye coming this way and it looked like he was going to hit Bella. I shoved her to the back a little so he would miss her but he ended up getting me in the arm.
"EDWARD!" I heard from Bella, I wanted to tell her that I was fine, but I was a little distracted at the moment. The fight continued on and we seemed to be evenly matched but we were gradually winning. I had just taken one man down and when I turned I saw Jacob swinging his sword at me and I knew that I didn't have enough time to defend myself so I just waited for the blow.
BPOV
I couldn't believe the fight that was happening. I felt bad because Jacob and his men didn't mean any harm they were just trying to help me; even though I told them I was fine.
I saw Jacob running toward Edward when his back was turned and everything went in slow motion. Jacob pulling his sword back and Edward turning to see it coming at him. I quickly grabbed a sword that was lying on the ground next to me and ran to help Edward. It was just about to strike when my sword made contact with Jacob's stopping it. I took his surprised state as my chance to disarm his and stand in front of Edward with my sword pointing at Jacob.
"Bella, what are you doing? Why are you protecting that pirate?" it seemed as if everyone else stopped fighting to see what was happening with us.
"I told you I was not kidnapped and I will not let you hurt Edward. I love him." At that Jacob looked shocked and disappointed.
"You what?" I heard Edward behind me." I turned around to face him and dropped the sword to the ground.
"I said that I love you. I love you very much Edward."
"I love you too." He wrapped me up in his arms and gave me a big kiss. We forgot everyone and everything around us and just melted into our own little world. There was a throat cleared behind us making us turn around and saw Jacob standing there looking uncomfortable. Also that the fighting has stopped and most of Edward's men were back on our ship.
"I'm sorry for the misunderstanding and you are a lucky man to have the love of a wonderful woman like Bella." I felt so bad for him, so I gave him a small hug.
"It's okay Jacob, you thought you were helping. I hope that I will see you again in the future." He nodded and I turned taking Edward's hand and walking away, back to my friends and family.