'Isabella!' Alec called as he walked into her room.

She wasn't there which he saw as odd since he knew the guard was all working besides Jane, but Jane he had seen not two minutes ago. Her aunt and cousins were all with their other halves beside Edward but she had never actively sought him out before and her father and uncles were all together.

He looked around the room warily, nothing looked out of place but something seemed wrong. Perhaps it was simply that fact that her door was open: it was never like that except if she was in the room. Alec glared around the room once before leaving heading toward the garden.

'Really, vampire proof,' I sighed heavily as I stopped trying to hit the bars that were holding me in and sank down to sit against them, leaning my head against my knees as I drew them to my chest. 'There must be a way out, there must.'

I jumped up again quickly as I heard footsteps. They were rhythmic but not as light as Jane or Alice's steps.

'I wouldn't be so sure,' a female, childish voice said as the red-head who had been a problem for the last months stepped around the corner to stand in front of my jail.

'Victoria,' I snarled. 'Why aren't I surprised? What do you want with me? Why am I here?'

'For me, an eye for an eye,' she answered, 'but Stefan and Vladimir have other ideas and I'm willing to wait to kill you if all three of us get what we want.'

She said this all sweetly like she wasn't talking about killing me. I thought quickly.

'Edward isn't my mate,' I informed her quietly. 'Killing me won't cause him the pain that you want him to feel. Edward left me not long after James' death.'

This obviously wasn't the right thing to say as she shrieked, reaching towards me. I took an automatic step back so her clawing hands wouldn't reach me.

'So James died for nothing!' she screeched causing me to cringe at the level her voice reached. 'That stupid Cullen killed him for nothing, for a useless human he later left!'

'Isabella's missing,' Alec said as he stormed into Aro's office where the three Volturi leaders along with Isabella's favourite uncle, Carlisle, were talking. All their heads turned at his loud entrance.

'What?' Carlisle was the fastest to react, shooting to his feet and worry marring his face. 'Are you sure?'

'Positive,' Alec replied shortly, his lips the only thing moving. 'No one's seen her for the last twenty-four hours, she's not answering her phone for anyone and I found this.' - I held up her tiara that she wore everyday – 'It was in the garden, surround by some scuff marks –'

'Someone's taken her,' Marcus said, his voice a little less bored than normal. He loved his niece more than anything, everyone knew that, but it wasn't enough to stop him from being depressed about the death of Didyme.

Ten minutes later, the whole guard plus the other members of the bridal party were gathered in the throne room.

'I know you want to, Alec,' Jane said softly, placing a comforting hand on his shoulder, 'but we can't just go charging off after her.'

'I can't just sit here,' Alec groaned, sinking onto a stone step nearby Isabella's empty throne, the only person missing from the gathering.

The three Volturi leaders were sitting in their thrones, the Cullen's were standing by the side of them with the exception of Carlisle who was leaning on the back of Isabella's throne liked he used to do when she was younger. Since she was a princess the back was slightly lower than her fathers which made it good leaning level for a man the height of Carlisle. Adrianna, Abi, Ben, Tammy and Renny were leaning against the wall the other side of the room to the Cullen's while the guard stood in the centre facing the thrones.

'Then stand, you prat,' Felix chuckled but in return he got a cruel look from both Jane and Alec which was fitting for the witch twin image.

'You have to, Alec,' Carlisle said and Alec could see why Isabella was always so calm around the man, 'just until we figure out a plan then we can start getting her back.'

Although Alec nodded, Esme came over and sat next to him, placing an arm around his shoulder and rubbing her hand up and down his arm, trying to provide her own comfort. It was weird since no one ever tried to comfort him about anything about Jane and his fiancée.

'We'll get her back,' Emmett said, cracking his knuckles dangerously. 'No one takes my cousin and gets away with it.'

'A plan first, Emmett,' Carlisle cautioned his adoptive son before looking at Aro.

There was a moment silence as everyone tried to think of a way to get her back but without any clues as to where she was it became rather difficult.

'If only I could track her,' Demetri sighed heavily.

Everyone in the guard knew the Demetri was close to Isabella since she started dating Alec and that he would never want her harmed because he cared for her deeply. Whilst the whole guard would risk their lives for her, it was mainly because of Chelsea's power but Demetri genuinely cared for her and would die for her without Chelsea's influence. This was just as difficult for him as any of her family.

'I just don't understand how they got her,' Renata said, shaking her head. 'She's a brilliant fighter.'

'One of the best we have,' Demetri agreed, nodding his head. 'No expects her to be so they underestimate her – stupid mistake really.'

'Then this person must highly trained and know she's a good fighter,' Aro stated. 'Or it was a group.'

'The Romanians?' someone suggested.

'Victoria?' another guard member added.

'Both?' Jane asked her own suggestion.

'We know their working together,' Caius said, 'and they have been causing problems for a while. It was most likely them.'

'Well, if it isn't the last of the Romanians,' I said as I heard two sets of footsteps and two distinct scents washed towards me.

'Well, if it isn't the leetle princess Isabella,' Vladimir said in return, his Romanian accent heavy.

'What do you want with me?' I asked these two since Victoria despite numerous visits to be over the last few days – I could tell time had passed since there was a small window - hadn't told me what the two Romanians wanted with me.

'From you?' Vladimir repeated. 'Nothing at all but we want a lot from your father.'

I blanched wondering what these two wanted with my father; surely they would want all the Volturi leaders.

'So I'm what? I asked sceptically. 'Bait?'

'Exactly,' Vladimir grinned a horrible grin. 'Smart leetle thing, aren't you?'

'For my father?' I asked, just to clarify.

'No,' Stefan disagreed, speaking for the first time and his accent was just as heavy, 'for your beloved fiancé.'

'What?' I yelped before I could help myself, panic surging through me and the slight thought of Alec anywhere near these two. I corrected my reaction and glared at them angrily. 'Why?'

'We want him out of the way,' Stefan answered as though talking to a small child, 'and hopefully, if he brings his twin, that will remove the witch twins from the fight we're going to have with your family-'

'A fight you can do nothing about,' Vladimir laughed cruelly.

My mind was now on overdrive, I had to find a way to warn them. The guard was good but Jane and Alec were the reason they were undefeated but I also had to protect Alec from these monsters.

'Alec won't care,' I said, grasping at the first thing I could think off. 'He doesn't feel enough to come and rescue me.'

'That may have worked a few months ago,' Stefan began.

'But we saw how you two acted at your engagement ball,' Vladimir added and inside I sighed, I hadn't realised they had been there.

'Amazing,' Stefan said, leaning toward me tauntingly, 'for someone who does not feel.'

With that they left and I sank to the floor, resting my head in my hands and then on my knees. A single tear fell into my hand. My family was in danger and there was nothing I could do about. Alec would come as soon as he found out where I was and the two Romanians would probably kill them, it was clear, although they hadn't said it straight out, that was their plan.

They came back a few hours later, or they were walking by, and I was quick to anger.

'You won't win,' I snapped at them. 'Even if Alec and Jane aren't there, you won't win.'

'I like your confidence,' Stefan said pausing in his walk.

'Ah, such faith,' Vladimir sighed before the continued walking and I sighed.

I suppose this would teach me for going for a walk alone in the garden to clear my head.

I had just finished all the dress alterations and the flower bouquets before deciding to get out of my room, keeping out the ways of guard members who would no doubt follow me to protect me. The garden was the place I naturally went and it was there that a load of vampires came out of nowhere. I fought my best but was badly outnumbered, so outnumbered that I had no hope against them all. I remember wondering where all the guard members were but some of them were away since they were only temporary and most were working hard on a job within the castle. It was highly unlikely they could hear what was going on outside from their place inside even with their advanced hearing. It was my own fault. I was here for trying to get around my father's orders to be accompanied everywhere. If I had just taken Alec with me, I wouldn't be here.

I couldn't get out that was clear and, until the Romanians wanted, no one would know where I was. The scents would stop once I was shoved in that vehicle so I couldn't be followed, Demetri couldn't track –

My thoughts stepped dead. I didn't allow Demetri to track me because of my mental shield. It was difficult, mainly because I hadn't tried much not wanting anyone to get in my mind, but I could remove it. Removing the shield took a lot of effort and there was no way I could keep it up for more than a few hours at a time. Plus the chances of Demetri actually trying were low but he cared about me so there was a chance, even if it was small.

Concentrating hard, I felt for the edges of my shield and forced it out of my mind. It fought against my wishes but I managed to push it completely away. I let back against the stone wall behind me, trying to appear relaxed, and focused completely on my shield and keeping it from my mind. I knew if I got the slightest bit distracted it would snap back into place and I would have to start all over again. All I could hope for now was that Demetri was paying attention to me.

'Demetri,' Aro called from the throne room, which was now empty. It wasn't long before the aforementioned guard member was in front of him. 'Try and track my daughter, if you find her take Alec and Jane and go get her.'

'Yes, Master,' Demetri nodded and disappeared off to see if he could find the essence of Isabella's mind.

'What are you doing?' a voice asked causing my shield to snap back into place, I swore quietly to myself.

'What do you mean?' I asked innocently glancing up at Victoria. 'I was resting my eyes.'

'You concentrate that hard to "rest your eyes",' she sneered, gripping the bars with long fingers.

'I was trying to forget where I was and imagine being back with my family,' I snarled at her. 'Not that it is any of your business. Leave. Now. If you have nothing to say.'

She hissed at me but left and I leant back to try once again to remove my shield.

'Alec!' Demetri called, excitedly. 'I found her.'

The twins' heads, since Alec was sitting with his sister, snapped around at an inhuman pace to look at him oddly.

'What do you mean?' Jane asked. 'She's here?'

'No,' Demetri snorted. 'She's allowing me to track her. It's fleeting and I keep losing it so it'll take a while to find her but I can find her.'

'Fleeting?' Alec asked, getting to his feet from where he was sitting on the floor.

'Yeah,' Demetri nodded. 'Fleeting. You know how hard it is for her to keep her shield off her own mind. It's staying up for quite a while so she's obviously really focusing on it but she can't seem to keep it up because I suddenly lose her.'

'Well, what are we waiting for?' Alec asked rhetorically, pulling Jane to her feet. 'Let's go get her.'

There was commotion above my head but I wasn't sure what was going on. Victoria and the Romanians had left – they had stood in front of my cell and told me so rather smugly – so they obviously weren't getting annoyed at someone but I was sure someone was fighting on another floor somewhere above me.

I was sure I had been in this dungeon for at least a week, if not more, I had started to lose count of the days as they slipped by since I had nothing to do but try keep my shield off my mind. I hadn't known it was possible for vampires to get migraines but I had gotten one over the last few days – or maybe it was just half-vampires who got them.

'Alec and I will keep this lot incapacitated,' Jane informed Demetri, 'you go find Izzy for us. She must be around her somewhere.'

Demetri nodded and winked at Alec clearly stating that he wouldn't return to the room without his fiancée. He followed the tenor of Isabella's mind and the very weak smell of her scent – a strawberry and freesia kind of smell with hint of something nasty which was problem her blood (it wasn't really nasty smelling, it just wasn't appetizing like a humans) - through the old, large, stone building his tracking sense had led them too. She was hear somewhere he knew but where was the question.

'Isabella!' he called. 'Izzy, can you hear me? It's Demetri! Iz, where are you?'

He received no reply to his questions so he continued walking; her scent had disappeared so now all he had to rely on was his special ability. The building was like a maze with many doors and staircases that he had no idea which he had to go up or down to find her. It only made it worse that he had no idea how long he had before Jane and Alec had problems upstairs - or was it downstairs? Demetri wasn't really sure what floor he was on anymore.

'Metri?' a soft, feminine voice that he recognised called. 'Is that you?'

'Depends who asking,' he teased, feeling lighter now that he knew she was fine and there was also the upside she could help him find her.

'Shut up, you goofy knucklehead, and get me out,' she shouted, obviously not appreciating any jokes.

They were both yelling so Demetri knew she couldn't be that close by which wasn't that much help.

'Do you know how I can get to you?' he bellowed to her, praying to any and all gods that she did.

'Not really,' she shouted back in reply and he deflated. 'I never saw it!'

'Excellent, just bloody perfect,' Demetri muttered to himself as he kicked a dead mouse on the floor.

He continued walking through the house, hoping to find a trace of Isabella's scent but none was to be found. Maybe this Victoria had a friend which could remove scents because that would just be perfect. He would never find Isabella on all the floors and hidden rooms; it was like a haunted house: you pull a book and a secret passageway opened.

'Follow Victoria's scent,' her voice called about ten minutes later. 'Or the Romanians.'

So they were behind this, Demetri snorted in his head. Of course, they were but then where were they?

'Izzy, you're shields back up!' Demetri yelled angrily as he tried to feel for her mind again, 'I can't track you!'

'Sorry but I can't multitask with it!' she yelled right back but it wasn't angry, it was annoyed, more at her shield, but also apologetic. 'What would you prefer my voice or my shield away from my mind?'

'I'm really not sure,' was the reply he yelled back.

I was on my feet in my cell, Demetri's voice was above me, I knew that much and never had I been so happy to hear his voice. Although he wasn't sure what he wanted, I sat back down and focused on removing my shield. I was so out of it that I never noticed someone stepping out of the shadows of the corridor.

'You look like hell,' the voice said that snapped me from my task.

I heard the jingling of keys and then the moving of metal causing me to look up. The person in front of me was tall and lean with an olive tint to his pale skin and dark wavy hair to his shoulders.

'Metri!' I grinned, pushing myself to my feet and into him, wrapping my arms tightly around him.

'How's your day?' he asked in typical Demetri fashion.

'My day just got a whole lot better,' I replied with a grin. 'Thank god, you were paying attention.'

'Your father thought it was worth a shot,' he shrugged. 'Good job, getting your shield down. Come on, Jane and Alec are holding their own against a loud of newborns, we have to get you out of here.'

'Jane and Alec?' I questioned panicked not even catching the first bit of his words. 'No! They're what the Romanians want –'

At my words Demetri's eyes widened and, before I could start rambling about what I had been told, he grabbed my hand and pulled me out. It took us a while to navigate the way through the house but eventually we found Alec and Jane. Alec had his mist swirling round the room apart from where Jane was and she was slowly making her way round ripping heads and arms off the newborns.

'Enough,' I called to them causing the heads to snap around and relief covered their faces. 'We have to go.'

As much as I wanted to destroy the newborns I knew would later be used to attack my family but, knowing that if the Romanians returned before we left, Alec and Jane would be in worse danger and I wouldn't risk that.

Jane, Demetri and I joined Alec and I, tiredly, extended my shield around the four of us so that we could walk through Alec's mist unaffected.

'Just kiss her, mate,' Demetri said, once we had run a safe distance from the house and I turned to glance at Alec.

I giggled as he grabbed me by the waist and spun me around, kissing me the whole time.

'I missed you, too,' I laughed as he set me down; I pressed one more kiss to his lips before turning away from him. 'Now, what did you say, Metri?'

He thought for a second as though wondering what I meant before comprehension dawned on his face.

'You look like hell,' he said and I glanced down at me clothing.

My dark black Volturi cloak was fine but dusty but my delicate dress underneath was ripped and dishevelled. I knew my hair was a mess because strands were falling out of the bun I had had it in onto my face and because my tiara had been ripped from my head during the fight. I pulled my cloak around my body but shrugged, it wasn't too worried about my appearance at the moment.

Jane laughed and hugged me, 'I'm so glad you're okay.'

'Me too,' I laughed and received a shove in return.

It took a few days to get back to the castle and the first person to see us was Esme and Rosalie, who were doing my pass time and walking round the garden.

'Isabella!' Esme breathed and rushed towards me, wrapping me in a tight hug. 'Oh, thank goodness. We were so worried.'

It was weird being hugged like this. It was a motherly hug, typically of Esme, and I wasn't used to being mothered. Esme usually tried not to mother me too much because she knew it would make me sad and feel slightly guilty but it seemed now she couldn't help it.

'I'm – I'm fine,' I told her gently barely above a whisper.

I looked over her shoulder to see that Rose had gone, probably to go inform everyone that I was found and okay because it wasn't long before crowds of people came out of the castle.

I'm not really sure I like this chapter, it seems like it a squeezed too much and too bitty and far too short, like this event should have gone on for more chapters but, oh well, it's finished.

Hope you like it because that's what really matters, please review x