A/N: This chapter starts out in Bella's PoV, but for the first time, it will switch to Mark's. Tell me what you think of the PoV switch-if you don't like it, I won't do it again.

The window crashed in, glass flying across the room. Mark and I ducked under the covers, luckily avoiding all the flying glass. Victoria jumped in the window, then, and her red hair was blowing all over the place. She grabbed me and jumped out the window again.

"Bella!" Mark yelled, but it was too late. Victoria was already across the street and I didn't dare yell for fear of waking the neighbors.

"You're all mine," Victoria cackled quietly. "Your silly friends can't help you now."

"What are you going to do with me?" I whispered, fear robbing me of any louder voice.

"I'm going to make you suffer before giving you a slow, painful death," Victoria answered. She ran faster, if possible, and I closed my eyes for fear that I would get sick.

Mark's PoV

"Bella!" I screamed, but to no avail. She was long gone, and Victoria, at least, that's who I assumed it was, had jumped out the window with her before I even realized Bella was gone.

"Mark?" Angela called. "What's wrong?"

She came running upstairs and stopped short when she saw the glass flung across the room. She looked at me with wide eyes.

"What happened?" she demanded. "Where's Bella?"

"I… I'm not sure," I answered. "She… go get me shoes, please."

Angela gave me a strange look, but turned to go back downstairs. She returned a moment later with my tennis shoes and threw them at me.

"Now, what happened?" she demanded.

"Didn't Bella say you were quiet and didn't talk that much?" I questioned.

Angela rolled her eyes. "One of my best friends somehow disappearing from her room and her husband yelling for her tends to bring out the more demanding side of me," she answered. "Can you answer my question, please?"

"Somebody came in the window and grabbed her," I answered.

"I'll go call Charlie," Angela muttered, and she turned to leave.

"No, don't!" I exclaimed.

"Why not?" she asked suspiciously.

"It's a long story, but it won't help to call Charlie. I'm sure that whoever took her is long gone by now, and anyone who tries to find Bella will get killed in the process."

"Who took her?" she asked.

The doorbell rang at the point, and I jumped out of the bed, having already put on my shoes, and ran to the door.

"What happened?" Alice demanded once I opened the door.

"Victoria took her," I answered immediately, aware that Angela was watching me from behind.

"When?"

"Just a moment ago," I answered. "Angela heard me scream for Bella and came upstairs. The window is broken, and I'm sure Victoria and Bella are long gone."

"Edward won't be happy," Alice said with a grimace. "Neither will Jake, for that matter." Suddenly, she became very still and stared blankly ahead.

"Alice?" I asked.

"What happened to her?" Angela asked. She moved forward to get a better look.

"Shoot!" Alice muttered, suddenly coming to life again. "We need to leave now!"

She grabbed both Angela and me and pulled us out the door before shoving us into the BMW waiting in the driveway.

"Ouch!" Angela exclaimed as Alice shoved her in the car. "Alice, Mark, what's happening? What have I missed?"

"Mark, explain it to her," Alice commanded as she suddenly appeared in the driver's seat and started the car. We were flying down the street before I could answer.

I blinked at her sudden appearance. I hadn't expected that they could move that fast. "Are you sure?" I asked. "Bella was so reluctant to tell me."

"She'll just be persistent until we tell her, and we can't afford to take her home right now," Alice answered. "There have been so many mistakes tonight. We don't have time to fix them all."

"What are you explaining to me?" Angela asked shyly. Apparently her outgoing streak had disappeared.

"The Cullen's aren't normal," I answered.

"I already knew that," she said, "just not how."

"We're vampires who drink animal blood instead of human blood," Alice said. I noticed that we were driving towards the Cullen house.

"Are you joking?" Angela asked.

"No, she isn't," I answered. I told her as much as I knew, with Alice throwing in the occasional fact that I either didn't know or I had forgotten. I ended with Victoria taking Bella out the window.

"What can I do to help?" Angela asked.

"Nothing," Alice answered as we pulled up outside the Cullen mansion. "We're taking you and Mark inside and locking you in a room where you'll be safe until this is all over."

"So now that we know all of this information, you're going to make us sit and wait?" I asked.

"There's nothing you can do to help," Alice growled, obviously impatient. "Get out of the car and into the house now."

Angela and I didn't need to be told again. We scrambled out of the car as fast as our human legs would allow. Alice was already at the door, waiting for us to come in.

"Stand there," she ordered, and we stood in the middle of the living room. She went to the keypad in the wall which I hadn't seen until that time and punched in a few numbers. A panel on the wall slid forward and to the side, revealing a staircase that led down to a basement.

"Go down there and wait for us to come get you," Alice ordered.

"How long will that take?" I asked.

"Hopefully not more than a few hours," Alice answered. She glared pointedly at me, and I took the hint.

"We're going," I muttered, and pulled Angela down the stairs. Once we were at the bottom, Alice closed the door and I flipped on the light. It looked like another living room, complete with couches, chairs, a big screen T.V., and any other number of objects a living room would have. Angela and I sat down on different chairs.

"Maybe we should try to get some more sleep," she suggested after a few moments of awkward silence. There were blankets over the back of the couches, so I agreed.

But neither of us could sleep. We were too busy thinking about the new information we had been presented with that evening to even consider sleep.

A/N: Ok, so I promised a few of you a lot more action in this chapter than actually happened, but this is how it ended up. Sorry about that. There will definitely be more action in the next chapter.

I finally managed to get through the huge amount of reviews for my story that were sitting in my inbox, waiting for my attention. They were piled up from chapter 9 on. So for anything below 18, I only answered questions or replied if I felt like it, and anything from 18-21 I responded a little more. I think I responded to all the reviews from 22 and 23, but if I missed you, I'm sorry. I'll try to stay on top of replying from now on. I just get so overwhelmed when the email servers are down on here, and they all come to me once the servers are back up. That's just too many to handle at one time!

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Until the next chapter,
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