Chapter 16 – The Search for Bella

WHADDYA think of the last chapter? Twisty huh? Ha-ha, I wanted Angela back in the story, but I didn't know how to bring her in, this seemed perfect. Enjoy this chapter.

ALICEPOV

I was sitting on the couch in my room when I saw her. Bella was huddled in a ball on the forest floor sobbing. I couldn't tell exactly where, but I could tell that she was not going to be going home anytime soon.

Not knowing where she was at worried me.

I flipped out my cell phone, fingers flying as I dialed Edward.

"Hello?" his stressed voice answered.

"It's Bella."

EPOV

I left the Volvo at the house as I went out to find her. That dog was dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead.

"Jacob." I hissed as I dashed through the forest.

Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie and everybody else were also on the hunt for her. Alice wasn't able to see exactly where she was.

"Where are you, Bella?"

The silver phone in my pocket rang again.

JASPERPOV

She saw it when we were looking for Bella. Caius and Alec. They had Bella. They had been careful when they thought out the details, when they put the plan into action. They knew about Alice. My dear sweet Alice thought she was a failure. Caius and Alec had Bella, and were about to get Edward.

EPOV

I stopped running and closed the phone with enough force that it snapped in half. I cursed and threw it hard against a tree. The tree crackled, protested, and snapped in two.

BPOV

I opened my eyes slowly. The damp gray wall across from me looked strangely familiar. I blinked as I tried to figure out why.

The door to my right swung open and Caius walked in, slowly, gloating.

Everything came flooding back.

I had been curled up on the forest floor, sobbing about the fact that Jacob had imprinted on Angela, when Alec had emerged from the trees. The next thing I knew was darkness and waking up to this hideous room that I had foreseen Edward in, me screaming in a separate room. And the figure…it had been…Caius.

I shook my head, blinking again.

"Hello my dear." Caius said pleasantly, kneeling down in front of me.

"Hi." I spit.

He wiped at his cheek. "Pleasant." He hissed under his breath to himself. "Comfortable?"

"You bet." I growled. "Let. Me. Go." I separated each word for his benefit.

He chuckled and stepped back out of the room.

Bella, where are you? I heard Edward's nervous and fearful voice think.

"EDWARD?!" I shrieked.

Bella? He stopped running. He was above me!

"EDWARD! UNDER YOU! ITS THEM! BE CAREFUL!" I screeched.

Alec entered the room, dashing towards me and punching me in the face.

I spit out blood and glared at him. "You're going to wish you hadn't done that."

Bella? Bella are you okay?

"RUN EDWARD!" I shouted.

He took off, I could hear him telling me in his thoughts.

Alec kicked me in the side.

I coughed up more blood, laughing at the pain and at him. "I wouldn't be doing that."

He smiled. "You're in no place to threat."

"Neither are you."

Edward was behind him, he swung a punch, hitting Alec square in the jaw.

"NO EDWARD!" I screamed. "GET OUT!"

He rushed to me. "Not without you."

Suddenly Caius was there, he and Alec dragged Edward into the next room.

"Bella!" he shouted.

"Edward!" I screamed.

What else could go wrong?

No. I told myself. Don't think that, otherwise something worse will happen. I sighed heavily, trying not to sob as Alec waltzed into the room with a smug we-win smile on his face. I braced myself for what was about to happen.