*A/N: Hey guys! We are SOOO sorry for the late update. For the last few days, both of us Southern Gals have had a bad case of writers block. But we finally have this chapter finished and we are working on the 5th chapter now. Please don't give up on us. Lol. Updates will become more regular again! Remember to review! -Southern_Gals*
{Charlie's POV}
The smell from this place was chokingly repugnant. It smelled of rotting food and flesh. I had no doubt that most of it came from me. I don't know how long I had been here. Days, weeks, months? I never got to see the sun anymore, or any kind of light anymore as a matter of fact.
Everything was dark. The only kind of interaction I got from the outside world was when SHE came.
My stomach growled emphatically. I couldn't tell you when the last time I ate was. I was starting to get used to the sound of my stomach. It turned out to be the only comfort I had, though I can't really explain why. Maybe it's because it's the only reminder of the fact that I'm alive and not in Hell. I had tried countless times to try and feel my way to the town food that I knew would ease the ache in my stomach, even if for a moment, but I could never find it. Maybe it was another way of tormenting me; pouring the food to ever I could smell it, but never actually have it. 'Stupid bitch.'
I heard the door open upstairs, then slam loudly. The she-bitch was back. I knew what she was, so I knew she could see me, even in this darkness. I had taken to placing a permanent 'fuck you' face on, special order and delivery, with the finger on my only good hand just for her. You see, right about now is when I would like to be cursing her like the filth she is, but she never liked the way I talked to her; said it was rude to talk to a lady like that, and so she broke my jaw. So now I just stick to the face and hand. 'Lady my ass. Bitch.'
"Hello, Mr. Swan..." Victoria started, but I kept my face firmly in place.
"Fwuck yu!" I hardly the words out right, but knew that she understood the jumble.
"Tongue still sharp as ever, I see." I grunted as she grabbed my broken jaw in a vice-grip as she spoke. "Do you happen to know what your daughter is doing at the moment? I'd say right about now she is shacking up with the man that could've been your ticket out of here. So I'm here to make sure that the job gets done. Get up."
She jerked me up quickly, dragging me around the room by my hair. My feet hit a solid object and my knees hit the floor hard. My guess is we were going up a flight of stairs. She continued to drag me up as my knees hit and banged, over and over, cracking all the way up the steps. Grunting was inevitable. There was only so much pain a man could endure without making a sound. When she opened the door at the top of the stairs, I was blinded by light, and blinked to clear my vision. She threw me into a weird chair. It was black with iron wrist cuffs for the hands and ankles. Being strapped into the contraption, I had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. This bitch was going to kill me. I just knew it.
"Welcome to my play room. Now, I don't understand why Isabella insists on defying me. You know.. Maybe she didn't care... I don't understand her sometimes. But, she will understand me! I just haven't given her the right initiative." She waved to a man in the corner who held out a picture phone. Pressing the 'record' button, he smirked at me.
"Action," I heard him say. Then that's when I felt it: the worst pain I had ever felt. I screamed out in agony as I felt the molten lava course through my veins slowly. Creeping from my wrist, the flames soon engulfed my entire hand!
"Not done yet, Chief Swan. I just getting warmed up." And then, I felt the pain get hotter and hotter as she sucked the blood from my wrist. It felt as if the lava was burning more of my flesh off as it was pulled from my system. 'Maybe I was wrong. Maybe this is Hell after all. ' A few punches to the ribs broke them into many different pieces. I couldn't breath.
"Kill Jasper Whitlock, Isabella, then you can come get your daddy," she spoke to the camera. "
No...Bwella...stay away!" I tried to tell her, but want quite sure if she would understand the gurgled mess of words.
"Oh yes, Isabella... listen to poor old daddy..." She placed her foot on my knee and slowly pressed down. I could hear every tiny little cracked and pop, even over my screams. "Did you hear him, Isabella? Here, have another listen." She quickly snapped my wrist on my good hand. I screamed again, coughing when the scream diminished what remained of my breath, then yelled at the continuing agony of pain.
I felt my eyes go in and out of focus as the man holding the camera came closer, focusing directly on my face. Victoria was on my left, her head I. The crook of my neck. Searing agony spread throughout my neck... Then everything went black...
{Jasper's POV}
Charlotte opened the door and Rosalie strolled inside with Emmett in tow. When the pair mixed in with the rest of us, Bella was opening the mysterious message she had received just moments ago. We all watched in horror as we heard his agonizing scream as Victoria bit his wrist. I felt Bella's fear, and above all, anger, as she watched the bitch torture her father.
"Peter!" I yelled, "Take her phone!" Peter did as he was told, just barely getting out of the way before Bella lunged for him. Charlotte ran and wrapped her arms around Bella to stop her, only to be slung into the television. Next up was Alice. She jumped in front of the fetal newborn, but Bella grabbed her by the neck and threw her through the ceiling and into the second story of the house.
"Jasper! " Alice screamed. "Get her the hell out before she destroys the whole damn house! " I wrapped my arms around her, the shocks being enough to temporarily subdue her rage, but as soon as I got her through the threshold, she bit down, gums deep, on my left forearm.
With the apparent satisfaction of finally injuring someone, she relaxed my arm, then broke down. I did the only thing I knew how... I calmed her
"Hey, hey now. It's okay. Shh. It's airtight. No one blames you. We'll get to him, Darlin'. Charlie will be okay. We're with you every step of the way. Shh. It's okay..."
{Bella's POV}
After releasing Jasper's arm from my teeth, I started to break down. Seeing my dad being tortured like that made me feel defeated. My body collapsed underneath me, but Jasper's strong arms held me tight while he whispered in my ear, stroking my hair and leaning his chin on top of my head.
"Hey, hey now, " he said. "It's okay. Shh. It's alright. No one blames you. We'll get to him, Darlin'. Charlie will be okay. We're here with you every step of the way. Shh. It's okay." I started sobbing even harder. "Hey," he continued. "Look at me. Shh Shh Shh. Bella, look at me. "
With my eyes swimming in venomous tears, I slowly picked my head up to look at his face. His eyes searched mine, and I could see the pain I felt reflected in them.
"Listen to me, Bella," he said sweetly. "We're going to save Charlie. I promise. But we're gonna need you in control." He paused for a moment before continuing. "We're mates. We know this now. So no matter what, I go where you go."
I couldn't help it. He was standing so close to me, and now I knew what the pull that I had felt meant. He was right. We were mates., so it couldn't hurt to...
I hadn't even noticed I had been leaning in closer to his face until my lips meet his, the shocks confirming our bond.
{Alice's POV}
"I'm sorry. That wasn't supposed to happen," Bella apologized to Jasper. I had just stood in the second floor of the house, watching them below from the window. He had taken that...that...bitch outside to keep her from destroying the rest of the house, and she kisses him?! We had just found out that they are actually mates not long before Bella received the video, but it didn't matter to me, Jasper was MINE!
"It's okay, Bella," Jasper responded. "It's completely understandable."
'Oh hell no!' I marched downstairs and stomped onto the front porch. "Bella, I understand that you're upset about your father, but do you think you could NOT destroy my house or throw me through the ceiling?" I was pissed about the two of them, but I wasn't about to let on that I had been spying on them.
"I'm sorry," she apologized, then hung her head as Jasper shot me a death glare, his eyes turned black
I'm not going to lie, I was terrified, but I wasn't going to let him know that. So I decided to play nice. "
It's alright, Bella. I'm the one that should be apologizing. That was insensitive of me."
"Jasper! Bella!" Peter called out. The two of them went inside, happier still holding Bella to keep her calm. I followed behind them.
{Peter's POV}
I was sick to my stomach to know that I had even touched this monster. The sole fact that someone could be this fucked up had my hair on end, and I'm no saint.
{Jasper's POV}
Peters voice sounded urgent. I held tight to Bella as we walked inside, trying to help her remain calm. Alice followed closely behind.
"What's up?" I asked as I took in the emotions of everyone around us, especially Peter's profound disgust, although I couldn't pinpoint the cause of it.
Peter handed the phone to me, but before fully releasing his hold on it, he spoke to me and Bella with a look of sympathy and remorse.
"You are both going to have to watch this. Together," he said to me, then turning to Bella.
"You, Bella," she looked up and into his eyes. "You need to remain as calm as possible. If you feel that you're going to lose it, you need to grab hold of Jasper. He's your mate, and he's not going to let anything happen to you." He looked at Alice next. "And you, Pixie, this is no time to be getting jealous. Unless you want me to rip your head off, you'll sir in the background and keep your mouth shut." Alice apparently heard the deadly promise in his words, because her eyes widened with every syllable.
I held Bella's hand with reassurance with my right hand, while my left hand held the phone.
"We've already watched it," Peter mentioned. "But we will stay with you, just in case..." I appreciated the support. I've again, we watched in horror as we heard Charlie's agonizing scream as Victoria bit his wrist. I tuned into Bella's emotions, so as to better keep her calm.
"Not done yet, Chief Swan," she taunted. " I'm just getting warmed up." We continued to watch as she, again, brought her lips to his wrist. His scream emptied out both of his lungs of air. Bella started shaking as venom started swimming in her eyes. She squeezed my hand, and I sent her a dose of reassurance.
Victoria punched Chief Swan a few times in the ribs, and we heard them crunch several times as he started struggling to breathe. Bella's worry and desperation came flying at me when Victoria told her to kill me in order to save her father.
Charlie tried to speak, to tell Bella to stay away, but it was gurgled from his clearly broken jaw and a possibly punctured lung.
"Oh yes, Isabella... listen to poor old Daddy." I felt Bella's anger rise again, but instead of letting it consume her, she did the unexpected...she turned her phone off.
{Peter's POV}
I slowly made my way over to Bella and wrapped my arms around her to show my sympathy.
"I'm so sorry, Darlin'. She's not the same woman I knew then. We'll find her and get your paw back, safe and sound." Jasper flipped into Major mode at the sight of his devastated mate.
"Captain..." he addressed me. 'Oh shit, the Beast has escaped.' He continued barking orders. "What can you tell me about the room in that video? I want a full report."
"Well, Major, turns out, the bitch has the target locked in the torture Chamber hold rim, in camp 2." Jasper slowly nodded his head. I'm sure he figured out by now where that was, and what it unfortunately meant for Charlie.
I wanted to get him back for Bella. I had a connection with her. She was like my little sister Caralee. She was sweet and always greeted with a warm smile.
Major was pacing around the floor, no doubt thinking of the wrist possible way to kill Victoria. A part of me wanted to try and safe her and change her for the better; only because I had cared for her before, but a bigger part wanted to be the one to hold her down while the major took his time torturing get the same way she had done Chief Swan.
"Major, I know where she is. If we're going to get him back before he is killed, we need to move out." I said silently, hoping he will make the order. I watched as Bella walked right out the door, looking back at all of us.
"What the hell are yall doing standing there for?" She asked. The Major smirked at me.
"You heard the lady. Let's move out!"
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