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Chapter 13 – No Games

EPOV

Green. Nothing but green surrounded me. All of this green was also leading me to Forks. Forks, where my Bella was from, where my Bella had been taken away from her life, her dreams, her aspirations. I had somehow made it my mission to give all of that back to her, and more. I couldn't leave her in this situation.

If I had approached her in high school, gotten to know her, asked her out, maybe we wouldn't be in this situation…I turned my attention back to the trip to Forks and what needed to be done. There wasn't time for regrets like what could have been right now. My only focus was getting Bella back where she belonged.

In high school, popularity was something that was very important for most people, my sister included. But it wasn't for me. So since she couldn't accept that her brother didn't want to hang out with the popular people, she forced me. Since I didn't know anyone in Forks, I let her at first, but when I laid eyes on Bella, it all changed. When they saw how it was affecting me, my parents had tried many times to talk to Alice and to make sense of the situation. I'd pleaded with Alice to let me do things my own way, but she wouldn't hear of it. Alice was very controlling back then. I ended up surrendering, but I didn't give up hope. So I watched her from afar. Isabella Swan, I'd heard her name from my "friends". Bella for short. She is Chief Swan's daughter. That gave Alice the more reasons to say she was off limits.

"But mom and dad are friends with the Chief!" I told her once.

"I don't care! She's not popular Edward, so she's off limits. Deal with it." She'd responded before walking away.

I gave up entirely after that. Senior year, I'd applied to different schools around the country, I desperately wanted to get away from my sister.

"Edward, stop feeling guilty," I heard Alice tell me from the front seat of my car. "You couldn't possibly have known that she would be kidnapped. You're not responsible for this."

Of course, Alice knew. Jasper had this ability to catch anyone's mood, and he'd probably told Alice how I was feeling. I know she's right, but I can't help but think that if things had been different, this wouldn't have happened.

"Edward, please, you need to move on," Alice spoke again. She sighs when I don't respond. "Edward, Bella wouldn't even blame you. How could she? She didn't even know us back in high school."

"Yeah, and whose fault is that?" I snap.

"I know it's my fault, I don't deny it. Now get out of this funk and cheer up, we're almost there."

I huffed. Easier said than done.

"Do mom and dad know we're in town?" I ask my sister.

"Yes, I called them not long after we left. I told them we would spend the night."

"Okay."

Nobody said anything else the rest of the way to Forks. Jasper was driving my car because I knew I wouldn't have been able to concentrate on the road. My mind was racing with guilt, and thoughts of Bella, what could have been. And now, I am about to face Chief Swan with all of this. I'd have to tell him where I found her. And we'd have to come up with a plan to get Bella out of there, and fast. I couldn't fathom to leave her there any longer.

Emmett was with us too, seeing as he wanted to be part of the plan too; he wanted to spring Rose out of there too when we got Bella. He was being unusually quiet, but I guess I could understand under the current circumstances.

I feel the car pull to a stop and look up: Chief Swan's house. I was happy to bring him relief, but at the same time I am scared; scared of his reaction, scared he will shoot my balls when he comes to know I like Bella as more than a friend. But I couldn't think of that for now. I need to focus on telling him the story and have him help me come up with a plan to get her out.

A tap on the window brings me out of my thoughts.

"Are you coming?" Emmett asks. I nod and step out of the car.

We all walk to the front door and I knock. Chief Swan opens a moment later, surprised.

"Edward, Alice, what are you doing here?" he asks.

"Um, hi Chief," I say. "We, um… can we come in please?"

"Oh, yes, of course," Charlie steps aside and we all go to the living room and sit down.

"We come bearing news," Alice says for me when I can't seem to find the words.

"News? What kind of news?" Chief asks wearily, shifting uncomfortably on the couch.

"There is no easy way to say this," I start after I take moment to put my ideas in order. "So I'll just go with it. I found Bella."

"What?" is the Chief's immediate reaction. I take a deep breath to calm myself down. I had to have expected this kind of reaction from him, it had been almost a year since he had heard of any lead in his search for his daughter. It's all very sudden.

"Chief Swan, I have found your daughter. I have found Bella."

Silence falls upon us for a while, letting the news sink in with the Chief.

"Are you sure?" he asked us and I could tell he was trying not to get his hopes up.

"Yes, Angela confirmed it sir," I answered.

"Angela Weber?" he asked and I nodded my head in agreement.

"Where is she?" he suddenly demands, jumping up from the couch as he begins pacing.

"In Seattle," I answer.

"Is she alright?"

"As good as she could be in her condition, yes." He stops pacing at that and faces me.

"What does that mean?"

"Chief, you better sit back down for this part. It's not... pretty."

He immediately sits back down on the couch, taking my word for it.

"She is working," I start nervously, taking good care of simulating quotation marks with my fingers on the word working, "in a strip club. As a stripper."

"What? No!" Those are the only words I can recognize as the man in front of me literally falls apart. Never would I have thought I would see this in my life. The Chief of Police completely overcome by his emotions. He sinks down in his seat and just let the tears fall. I see Alice stand up and go to him and she tries to comfort him.

I'm not doing a whole lot better. Not only am I feeling conflicting emotions about this big revelation, my heart breaks for the Chief. I can't even begin to imagine what he's going through. After a while, Alice helps him up.

"We're going for a walk, we'll be back later," she tells us as they make their way to the front door.

Emmett, Jasper and I only nod in response. I think we're a bit shocked by the reaction we received from Chief Swan. It's a bit disturbing; but at the same time, it was to be somewhat expected. This isn't just any case of kidnapping for him, it's his own daughter. You can't be expected to keep your game face on when being confronted with your own daughter's disappearance.

"What now?" Emmett asks after we've all been silent for a while.

"I don't know," Jasper replies.

"We've got to come up with a plan. We have to help Bella," I say. "I just don't know where to start. It would be so much easier to just grab her and run, but we must send those responsible for this to jail. We can't allow them to either kidnap other girls or have them come after us. Bella needs safety right away." Emmett and Jasper both nod at my words.

The severity of Bella's situation becomes all too clear while sitting here plotting how to get her to safety. My heart begs whatever deity that will listen that she hasn't suffered, that she wasn't beaten in any way or hurt, God forbid raped while she has been held. I can't imagine how she lives in a world where she knows that she has no control over anything. Now all of our conversations make so much more sense, the clinginess, her need to know that I would be back. I almost break down to know that I might be the one thing that helps her hold on to her sanity.

"You're right, son" I hear the Chief say. I turn around and see him standing in the doorway to the living room, Alice is nowhere to be seen.

"Where's Alice?" Jasper asks.

"In the kitchen, she's making something for lunch," he replies, looking at Jasper, and then he turns back to me. "You're right, Edward. Whoever is behind this needs to be arrested, that's why we need to come up with a plan quickly, and this plan has to be infallible. We could even get some help from the Seattle Police Department; an inspector over there owes me a favour."

"All of this sounds great," Emmett says, "but where do we start? What do we know?"

"We don't know much. Bella hasn't told me anything regarding her having been kidnapped, hell I didn't even know who she was and what happened until Angela told me that she was your daughter and that she had been missing for a few years. Somehow I understand why she didn't tell me, I was only a customer to her the first time I saw her-" I pause and wonder if my slip up will go unnoticed by Charlie. No such luck as he begins to speak immediately.

"A customer," Charlie interrupted me and I could tell her was trying to remain calm. "What did you do to my baby girl? You better not have put your hands on her."

"Calm down Charlie," Alice said as she appeared at his side and put her arm around him. "Jasper bid on her for Edward's birthday. Edward had no part of it."

"Bid on her?" Charlie questioned confused.

"They auction off the girls at the end of the night so that you can spend some time alone with the girls, they treat them like they are a piece of meat," Emmett says disgusted.

"Look that's not important at the moment. Chief, you've got to have some information, right? You must have gathered something from all the leads you got," I asked him hopeful that he'd have something that we could use.

"First, Edward, how many times have I told you to call me Charlie?"

I smile sheepishly. "Countless times, sir, but I can't seem to bring myself to do it, out of respect, I suppose."

He chuckles at my words. "Nice to know there's still some respect for authority in this town. Now, yes, I did gather some information, but not enough to have a solid lead on who could be behind this. I followed every single lead and they all lead nowhere. I strongly suspect Bella's mother to be behind this, but nothing confirms it. I mostly suspect her because she disappeared right after Bella was taken."

"What's the most recent lead you got?" Jasper asks.

"There were reports of her in Seattle but they always led to a dead end. People saw her being forced into the back of a car with a blonde girl. That's basically what all the leads were. Two teenage girls, one brunette, one blonde, being forced into the back of a car."

"A blonde girl?" Jasper asks hopefully.

"It must be Rose, don't you think Emmett," I say, wondering what's the deal with Jasper.

"My girl?" Emmett questioned and I could see him thinking it through, "no way, Rosie is just working there, she isn't being forced, I don't think she is anyway…she didn't say anything about it. Fuck, I will kill them if they have so much as touched a single hair on her head." The range of emotions that he went through in a matter was seconds was understandable, I felt them all when I realized what Bella was living through myself. I patted his back to hopefully show my understanding and calm him down as well. We needed to focus to be able to form a plan. Right now Emmett and I were the best options that Chief had since we had been inside the club several times. We had seen the layout, as well as seen the faces in there. We had to focus.

"What's her name?" Jasper asks Emmett, "her full name?"

"Rosalie, why?" Emmett answers, seemingly confused.

"Lily from that night. She had long blonde hair, blue eyes, taller than me," Jasper muttered to himself. "Why didn't I see it? How could I not have known?"

"Jasper, what's wrong?" Charlie asks, concerned.

"My cousin... She went missing... We thought she might have run away... Her name was Rosalie."

"Son, there could be several Rosalie's, I don't want you getting your hopes up."

"Yeah," I agree, "there's a chance it isn't your cousin."

"No, it has to be. I know it." Jasper's face showed the same mix of hope and despair that the rest of the room wore.

"Jasper?" Emmett asks carefully.

"Wait, you had sex with her," Jasper says, once again hopeful. Emmett looks at him confused. "Did she, umm, did the person you had sex with have a freckle on the inside of her right thigh?"

"Yeah, how did you know?" Emmett questioned somewhat confused and pissed off at Jasper's knowledge of Rosalie's thigh.

"It's her, it's my cousin Rose!" Jasper bypassed the anger that Emmett showed and went immediately to elation at the idea that he too had found his cousin, somewhat safe and sound. As far as we knew they were safe and sound, anyway.

"Son, I don't think you should-" Chief Swan starts, but Jasper cuts him off.

"No, it's her, it just has to be."

"I just don't want you getting your hopes up," the Chief says, and I can tell he speaks from experience, knowing how it felt to be let down time after time.

"I can handle it if it's not true, but it's her, I know it." Jasper's resolve gives us all some hope that we have the right girls and will be able to get them out safely and quickly.

"Okay, well you may be able to help us. Tell me everything you know about your cousin's disappearance."

Apparently the Chief just thought it was better to just start taking down the info and stop trying to tell Jasper to not get his hopes up; it wasn't getting him anywhere anyway.

Chief wrote down all that we could remember, including the name of the club, the layout, the descriptions of the people we saw when we have been there, and any little tiny pieces of info that we could remember at all. Slowly but surely Chief's house became Grand Central Station. Officers from several different agencies showed up and we told and retold our info as often as they would listen. They separated the three of us guys and took our info individually, then they took as much as they could from Charlie about Bella, Renee and anything else he could provide.

At the end of the night a plan had been established to put a girl on the inside posing as a dancer that needed work. She could gather some names and info in order to build a stronger case against the ones that are responsible, so they hoped. Lots of theories were discussed and several plans were laid out. Each one had a back up plan just in case. They wanted to play this correctly so that the girls got out alive. I prayed for that scenario as well. I just wanted to hold Bella in my arms without any time limits or people knocking on the doors telling us what we can and can't do. As the night wears on the activity slows down and almost comes to a stop. Then a few of the officers drift back in and they say a name that makes Charlie go ballistic. Phil Dwyer. He is apparently Renee's new husband, Bella's step dad. He owns the club that Jasper, Emmett and I visited. It takes a long time to calm Charlie down, understandably so. If what these cops are saying is correct then Bella and several other girls are being held by her step-father. She is being pushed out on stage half naked to dance for men so that he can line his pockets, by her step-father. My rage takes over and I slam out of the house and attack a plastic chair sitting on the porch. Charlie follows behind me and throws his arms around me from behind. I immediately freeze and wait for his reaction.

"Hey, listen," he drops his arms from around me and turns me to face him. I wipe the tears off of my face, angry that I lost my temper in front of all of them. "We'll get her back, okay?" He searches my face as I wipe the tears off with the back of my hand. "We will, Edward. You did this okay? You made it possible to get her home to me again, to us. So keep that in mind until this is all over then we will deal with our anger like men. We'll go out on the Rez and shoot something." He patted me on the back and chuckled. I half-heartedly laughed as well but stopped when Chief pulled me in for a hug. A full on hug, not a man hug or half and arm tap thing. A hug. "Thanks, Edward, I owe you so much more than I could ever repay you for this." I noticed a tear in his eye as well, so I looked away from him.

"I think I love her, sir."

He nods. "I had suspicions that you did, but your reaction confirmed it." He is silent for a moment. "You're a good guy Edward. I don't think there is anyone I could see my daughter with other than you. I don't think you need it, but I give you my blessing. Just promise me one thing. Two actually."

"Of course, anything." I'm elated. I didn't think this conversation would happen today, but not only it did, but I get Charlie's blessing to date his daughter. This is more that I hoped for tonight.

"First, please give her the time she needs if she doesn't want to get into the whole relationship thing with you right away."

"You have my word, Chief. I would never force her to do anything she isn't ready to do."

He nods. "Second thing, I need you to promise me you will keep her safe. She's my only daughter, she's been through enough."

"Of course. She will be safe with me."

"Good. Now let's go back inside, there's still some stuff we need to discuss."

I nod and follow him through the front door.

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