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Chapter 27

EPOV

The darkness was overwhelming. I felt like I couldn't breathe. I didn't know what do, where I was, how I got here. Where was here, anyways? I wasn't sure I wanted to know though, because I suddenly felt something pressing down on me. Like a weight on my chest that wouldn't let me breathe.

I tried to remember something that happened before I got here, wherever here was. I remembered going to a club with my family. I remembered drinking and dancing and loud music. I remembered taking Bella home and ravishing her until neither one of us could breathe right.

I remembered feeling her body against mine, so soft and warm. I remembered the way it felt to hold her to me, how her body fit every line and curve of mine. I remembered the sounds she made and the face she made when she came undone so many times that I lost count. I remembered whispering sweet nothings in her ear.

These memories seemed to be helping the weight on my chest because every time I thought of her the weight would get lighter and lighter. It kept getting lighter and lighter until I didn't feel it at all. I was glad because the pushing down on my ribcage was starting to hurt and my head felt like it was going to explode from lack of oxygen.

I opened my eyes or tried to at least. I blinked a few times and groaned because I felt a sharp pain in my head, like I was hit by a truck or something. Someone called my name and then something squeezed my hand. I looked down at my hand before following the skin of the arm up to Alice's face. She looked slightly happy that I was awake but sorrow and sadness overrode it.

I looked around the room barely noticing that I was in a hospital. I saw everyone's faces except for my parents and the one face I really wanted to see. The face that saved me from the darkness and weight I had on my chest not too long ago.

"Ugh? Alice?" I felt the bed move and then I was up in a sort of sitting position. I had to blink a few times to get my eyes to focus. I looked around the room again.

"What happened?" My throat was scratchy. It hurt a little to talk.

"You were attacked, Edward. Dad's still trying to find out who did it." She told me softly.

I wasn't expecting that answer but I stored that away to focus more on figuring out where Bella was. I looked around again, looking for her beautiful face. When I couldn't find it I asked Alice.

"Where—" I coughed to somehow clear my throat a bit to speak clearer. "Where's Bella?" I looked at her but she turned her head so I couldn't see her face. I knew she was hiding something and I knew it was about Bella.

I gripped her hand, trying to get her to tell me where she was. I needed her. I had to see if she was okay.

"Where is she, Alice? Tell me. Where is Bella?" My voice was stronger.

I saw her flinch and then she spoke in a quiet voice. "She's gone."

I looked at her, disbelief written all over my face. I shook my head rapidly, not paying much attention to the dizziness and pain it brought on. There was no way she could be gone. She'd never leave me. She had to be here. If she wasn't here, then what was I supposed to do without her?

"No! She can't be gone! She's not gone!" I was yelling even though it hurt my head. I was vaguely aware of Emmett's head popping up in my peripheral vision.

Then last night's or at least I think it was last night's memories came crashing down on me; the same memories that saved me from the weight and darkness.

"She can't be gone! I was with her last night! She was right next to me!"

I let go of Alice's hand and started to pull at the IV in my arm and hand. I pulled at the breathing cords on my face. I tried to get out of bed, but strong arms where holding me back. I thrashed around, trying to get free so I could find Bella.

I needed her with me. I had to know she was safe.

"Bella! Bella! Where is she?! She has to be here. She's not gone!" I screamed.

It hurt not being able to see her and know she was safe. I felt my heart clench and my head pound. Jasper and Emmett I sort of realized were the ones holding me down. I tried helplessly to break free but they were too strong or I was too weak and out of my mind.

"Chill, Edward. Everything is fine." I heard Emmett say.

Everything was not fine. Everything was a fucking disaster. My life was missing and he said everything was going to be fine. No it wasn't. Not until she was in my arms, safe. Tears were streaming down my face. They came hot, hard, and fast. Bella never came bursting in the room like I hoped she would. She never came…

"I want Bella! Tell me where she is!" I tried again to get some answers. I tried to get them to tell me that she was fine and safe and happy. But they didn't say anything of the sort.

"Calm down, Edward. We'll find her. You know that," I heard Jasper say.

And I did know that. I knew they would find her if she was missing, but she couldn't be missing. She couldn't be. We were too smart to let her be so unguarded. We were too smart. She wasn't missing. I couldn't believe she was missing. My heart didn't want me to.

I heard the door open but my eyes were too clouded by tears to really focus on who was there.

Then Carlisle's head popped in my small line of vision. He grabbed something from his coat but I was still thrashing, trying to get away from my brothers.

Something stabbed my arm. It stung, but I was barely aware of it.

"I want Bella. I want…I want…Bella…" My head felt heavy. My eyes dropped and my body felt like lead. Everything seemed to go in slow motion as the light and my family's faces faded into darkness.

Even in unconsciousness I couldn't escape the realization that Bella was gone. I had to know where she was because she would've been the first person I saw when I woke up. She would've been the one whose hand I would've been holding.

The darkness haunted me. Pictures of Bella's face kept coming into my mind. So did her body, her voice, her soul…

I felt like I would drown in her, but I didn't. The blackness faded and I was suddenly jerked back into reality.

I don't know how long I was in the hospital. When I woke the second time, no one was holding my hand. No one was even near me. The little lamp in the corner was lit again. I could see Rose curled into Emmett's lap, his arms wrapped loosely around her with his head leaning back against the wall behind him. He, too, was sleeping. I could hear his soft snores.

On the other side of me, Alice and Jasper were in much the same position as Em and Rose. The only difference was that Alice looked like an infant in Jasper's arms. It was almost comical. But then I somehow noticed Alice's hand. It was a little blue and purple. I would have to apologize to her about that.

I sighed heavily and reached up with my needle clad hand to scratch my head, but I came across cloth and gauze instead of my messy mop of hair. I must've been hit on the head or something. I tried to remember last night or the night before, I didn't know, but all I came up with was black. I frowned.

I stared up at the pale blue ceiling trying to recall the past few days. The last thing I remember was taking my EOC's…then after that…nothing. I must have a concussion. I didn't like it but who does anyways.

I remembered remembering the events of the past few days when I woke up the first time because I knew Bella wasn't with me. I was in denial about it though. It was why I'd flipped out earlier. But now, everything's blank and I didn't like that either. Ugh!

So instead of thinking about blank spots, I thought about what little happened when I woke up before. Alice said she was gone. Gone would mean that she was either kidnapped or she left to be somewhere…somewhere I wasn't.

After all that we went through, after all that she herself went through, I knew that she wouldn't just up and leave after we had sex. Bella just wasn't that type of person. It wasn't like her to do something so conniving.

So I settled on her being kidnapped. And I had just the person in mind that could have kidnapped her.

I heard a groan and a soft sigh come from Alice and Jasper's direction. I turned to see Alice rubbing her eyes like a baby; that made me smile a little. Jasper's arms fell limply at his sides as Alice stood.

"Hey, Edward," she said.

She came to sit in the small chair by my bedside. She smiled a little at me and gingerly placed her small hand in mine.

I looked down at her hand. It was still that purple-bluish color.

"I'm sorry, Alice." I whispered.

"No worries, Edward." She sighed.

We sat in comfortable silence for a while. I thought about something to say, anything to say, but nothing came to mind. Then she spoke.

"Edward, I'm sorry," she whispered. "I can't imagine what you must be going through right now. I really can't and that's hard for me because you know how close we are. I mean, we're twins for goodness sake! I tried to get there, Edward." Tears were coming down her face as her voice shook. "I tried and I was too late. I'm sorry."

"Alice, it's okay." I whispered and gently tightened my hold on her hand.

"No, it's not! I knew something was wrong. I knew. And I was too damn late to do anything about it."

It was our natural twin thing to take the blame for each other. Jasper and Rose do it a handful of times. We did it growing up but this…this was something I couldn't let Alice take the blame for. She had no control over it.

"Don't worry, Alice. Don't blame yourself. Please. There was hardly anything we could do to stop this. We had to know what was going to happen getting involved with Bella. We knew the risks. We knew what we were doing. We just have to deal with it now."

She dropped her head to my chest and cried. It was a wonder the rest of the family didn't wake up because her sobs seemed so loud to me. I was mildly concerned about how calm and collected I seemed when Bella was out there, her location unknown.

I rubbed Alice's back, comfortingly until she stopped crying. She sat up some and wiped her face with her hand.

"I'm sorry, Edward."

"It's okay, Alice, really."

We sat in comfortable silence once again. We laughed a little when we heard Emmett let out quite a loud snore. Rose shifted in his lap. I saw Jasper move out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head to see his hands searching. He was looking for Alice, no doubt.

"Alice?" He said groggily.

"Jazz," she called.

He rubbed his face and stood, stretching. It took him a minute to notice that I had awakened but when he did, he moved to stand behind Alice, eyeing me like I was going to snap again.

"I'm fine, Jazz, well, as fine I can be."

He nodded. "How are you?"

"My head is pounding some, but I'm getting there. Is Alice's hand really okay?" Alice glared at me and Jasper chuckled. We both knew that, just like Bella, she liked to sometimes downplay her pain, no matter how small it was.

"She'll be fine. You didn't break it or anything, but you had a pretty firm grip."

"Yeah, sorry, Alice," I apologized again.

"No worries, Edward." She continued to glare at me.

"Do you know anything?" I asked.

I knew they both knew what I was talking about.

Alice looked up at Jasper and he shook his head at me with a remorseful look on his face.

"Carlisle said he's been talking to Williams nonstop since we found you in the room, but nothing yet. Williams said they were close though, I don't know how close."

I nodded, dejectedly.

They knew I would want to know and even if they didn't know a thing about where Bella could be they told me anyways. I was grateful. I would always be. It would help me keep my sanity because anytime I was without her I didn't feel right. I never felt right when I wasn't with her and to be without her now while knowing that she was or could be in danger was tearing me apart.

I could feel the small hole in my chest get bigger by the minute. It was like the more aware of it I was the more it hurt and the bigger it got. I tried to keep my face smooth, expressionless. It was hard work and I didn't want Alice or Jasper or anyone really to see the pain I was in. I stared at the ceiling above not knowing what exactly I was looking at.

No one said anything for a while and eventually I forgot that anyone was really in the room with me that was until I heard someone groan loudly on the other side of me.

I tried to stop thinking about the huge hole in my chest long enough to find the source of the sound. I turned my head to see Emmett rubbing his head and cursing. He muttered something about having a crick in his neck. Rose sat up and yawned. They both noticed me staring at them and they immediately jumped up.

"Edward!" They both said.

"Hey, guys. Sleep well?" I tried to keep my tone light but I had a feeling that Alice saw through it even though I couldn't see her face I could feel it. She'd want to talk to me if we ever got a chance alone.

She'd want to know my true feelings even if I didn't really want to voice them. Emmett and Rosalie came to the other side of my bed.

"Yeah, I did actually. Sleeping in a chair does real wonders on your neck. You should try it." Em said sarcastically.

I rolled my eyes. I noticed Rose didn't smack him like she usually would. I guess the impact of what's happening really did a number on her.

"How are you?" Rose asked.

"As good as can be," I sighed.

There was a pregnant silence. The only sound in the room was the steady beeping of the heart monitor and light scuffles of people outside the room.

I felt like crying but nothing came. I felt like dying but I knew that wouldn't happen. Even after all the promises I made to her, all the things I told her, she was still taken away from me. She was taken against her will.

My promise had been broken. I promised to never let anything happen to her, to never leave her side. Well, that's all shot to shit now.

I sighed.

I could feel Alice and Jasper's eyes on me but I didn't look at them. I continued to look up at the ceiling.

"We're going to go…um…get something to eat." I heard Rose mumble.

I saw her and Em leave out of the corner of my eye. Before the door closed someone else stepped in. Whoever they were they didn't speak for a while. I heard a heavy sigh, a stressed and tired one.

When I looked at the door, there stood my father. He came towards my bed, nodding at Alice and Jasper.

"Go check on your mothers. They're in the waiting room."

Jasper grabbed Alice's hand and headed to the door. She gave me one last look before she was gone.

Carlisle sat in the chair Alice just vacated.

"Edward, I—"

"I promised her, dad." I started quietly. "I promised to never leave her, to never let anymore hurt come her way no matter what it was and then this happens."

I stared at the ceiling again. He didn't say anything while I mentally berated myself and glared holes into the ceiling. When I looked at him, though, he looked tired.

His face was long and he had dark circles under his eyes as if he hadn't slept in days. His usually slightly disarrayed hair looked more like bed hair and his eyes were so tired. Suddenly, I wondered how long I'd been here.

"How long have I been here?"

Carlisle ran a hand through his hair.

"Almost three days."

My eyes felt like they'd roll right out of my head. Three days?!

"What?!"

"When you first got here you wouldn't wake up, but that was expected seeing as how you'd lost a lot of blood and had a concussion on top of that, but then when you did wake up, you exploded for lack of better term. I had to put you out so you wouldn't reopen the wound on your head. I only gave you enough to put you out for a few hours, but you…didn't wake up for two days.

"I was in and out constantly, trying to see if you'd slipped into a coma or had any other injures I'd missed, but you didn't. On top of that, there was a bus accident on the highway and the ER was overloaded, with little staff. I've also been in steady contact with Williams and he's working as hard as he can. I'm…sorry, Edward, but we … haven't found anything yet."

The shock of being here three days had worn off almost immediately when he told me I'd been out for two days with no explanation. I couldn't trust myself to speak yet so I just stared at him, speechless.

He sighed before speaking again.

"Your mother wouldn't take not knowing what was going on so she called Claire. Claire knew everything because Rose told her. Esme got Claire to bring her here and she gave me an earful," He chuckled slightly. "But she understood my reasons. She's been talking to Williams, too, so that's helping. Everyone else…hasn't left since I put you out."

I love my family. Their commitment was harder than diamonds.

"Claire and Esme bought a few things from the house so they could clean themselves up. I'd bet they are doing that right now."

"Dad, I—"

"Edward, I may not know what you are going through, right now, but I'm trying my best. You're family is here, but you know that already."

He always seemed to know exactly what to say to ease my pain or comfort me. Sometimes it was a joy having a very understanding father.

"I know that," I said quietly.

"Just…promise me you won't hold anything in. It's not…healthy and we don't want you to become a lifeless shell of a person, no matter what happens."

He knew me so well. No matter how loving my family was, if anything changed, even the smallest thing, it was a permanent change. And losing Bella after having experienced the best six months of my life…there weren't any words to describe how I felt.

"Promise."

He smiled a tired smile and ruffled my hair a bit. He walked to the door but before he closed it he turned to me, an amused looked on his face.

"I expect your mother will be here soon. She may give you an earful, too. Just a warning, son,"

I laughed a little.

"Thanks, dad," I said.

He left quietly.

I returned to staring at the ceiling. I knew my family was here with me. I knew that. But what I didn't know was how long they would stay with me if I went into full blown depression from my loss of Bella.

Bella…

Come back to me…

Poor Edward!!!! Will Bella be okay? Is she going to be rescued if she's in any danger?? Find out whenever you're told!! :D Hope you guys like it!!