Only At Night

Chapter 30 - A Place in Hell

JPOV

"Peter it has been three fucking days, every minute that fuck has her.... I can't, I can't think about what he might be doing to her." The sound of my own voice was pathetic and weak. I have never cried so freaking much in my life, and I never wanted to kill someone more.

"I know Jasper, I know. We will find her, keep the faith man."

Peter's expression was hopeful but I knew him better than anyone, he was putting on a good show.

Rose was a frantic mess. I watched her as she paced the halls of the hotel in Port Angeles. She hadn't said a word and she hadn't stopped pacing since we checked in 36 hours after Bella disappeared. I knew she was worried about Bella, but I also knew she was reliving her own worst nightmare. I tried to get her to stay back in Seattle, but she wouldn't hear of it. She actually snapped at me when I suggested it. She was downright scary. The overprotective sister had come out and between her and Char and Liz they were a fearsome group I would not want to wrong. Jacob may actually prefer it if Peter and I were the ones to find him first. I'd probably only kill him, slowly, but these girls; I have a feeling it would be much worse than anything I could do.

Tyler, Preston and Wade insisted on flying up as soon as Peter called them and Liz refused to stay behind, insisting Char was going to need her and Bella would need help when we got her back. I was just glad my boys had my back, the more of us looking, the more ground we could cover. We had agreed to sleep in shifts so that someone was always looking. I was about to go try to catch an hour or two before I passed out. I didn't want to stop, but Peter convinced me that if I found Jacob and I was running on empty I would not have the strength to do what needed to be done.

We were not allowed on the Reservation, Sam counseled us against approaching anyone on the Reservation asking about Jacob. The tribe was very closely knit and protected one another. Jacob's father was Chief, a role that would someday pass down to Jacob. He of all people would be protected to the death by the tribe. The tribe apparently ran by some pack mentality and they were loyal to its leaders, almost as though they had no choice. If Jacob ordered them to do something, they would do it without question, including keeping quiet. Sam had no jurisdiction there and they were self governed, there was no legal way we were getting on that land to search.

Dimitri attempted some further digging, but it was nearly impossible to dig up anything. The entire Reservation was under its own law, no property records, nothing that would help us.

"Okay people, we need to think. The answer to finding Bella may be in how Jacob took her. He could have found out when graduation was easily enough. How did he know about the champagne, to have someone posing as a waiter, how did he know where to have her approached, where he could get to her alone? How did he know that he wasn't being tailed that day?" I think I had been analyzing history for so long, studying battle approaches, that strategy became second nature to me. We were looking at this all wrong; we needed to look at his strategy if we had any chance at defeating it.

"You are right Jasper; he knew things that don't add up. How did he even know Bella would go to the graduation? I'm going to call Mary, she is still in Seattle, have her do an electronics sweep. I never considered doing it before, we thought we were dealing with some young punk stalker, but this is more than stalking. I don't believe Bella is some random obsession."

"Okay. Then the next question is why Bella? There has to be some connection if it isn't a random obsession." I was convinced he knew her or who she was before the night they met in the bar.

"It has to be something around here; she lived here in Forks, right?" Tyler began writing notes.

"Yeah, she lived here with her father, the Police Chief." It occurred to me the link may have been Charlie. "What if Charlie had hassled Jacob, arrested him, could this be revenge?"

"Jacob doesn't have a record, but he did fall off the grid for a couple years awhile back," Dimitri said.

"Do we know why, where he was?"

"No, just when."

"Okay, when was it?" I asked.

"It was almost seven years ago, and no indication of his whereabouts for nearly two years," Dimitri said casually.

"Wait, did you say seven years ago?" Rose jumped in; it was the first time she spoke in hours.

"What is it Rose?" I asked, getting excited.

Rose looked at me and seemed hesitant for a second before she said, "Edward, it was nearly seven years ago when he left her, could Jacob know Edward?"

"He knows about him, and actually Bella said that he knew things he couldn't have known. Maybe he did know him; that could be the connection."

"Where is this Edward now?" Dimitri asked.

"No idea, she's never seen him again, his whole family left town." It occurred to me that it was kind of odd that the whole family upped and moved just because their 18 year old broke up with his girlfriend.

"What was his last name; I'll see what I can find?" Dimitri was up and moving as he asked.

"I don't know. I know his father was a doctor. Check with Sam and see if he knows anything about him."

"Okay, Wade, Preston and I are heading out, you get some sleep Jasper."

"Fine, call me if you find anything though."

"Will do." Peter gave me a hug and then they walked out and I went to take a warm shower and crash for a couple hours.

As I stood in the shower, letting the warm water run over me, I wondered if I would ever see her again, if we would find her alive. I wondered, even if we did find her alive what condition she would be in, physically and emotionally. Would this break her, finally be the last straw, the thing that sent her spinning into an abyss she would not come back from? She had been so fragile when I met her, I honestly didn't know who I would get back if we ever found her. Would all of this have been too much for her? Would she still want to get married after this ordeal? I couldn't worry about that, I'd do whatever it takes to get her back, physically, by finding her, and emotionally.

I couldn't think that way; I had to figure out where she was. Then it hit me, his wedding invitation. I was out of the shower and drying off in minutes, as much as I wanted to run out in just a towel, I knew Rose and Liz and Char were out there. I quickly threw on jeans and was out the door as I was pulling on a shirt.

I was frantically yelling as I walked into the living area of the suite.

"Where is the stuff Jacob left on Bella's car? When and where did he say that they were marrying?"

"Shit. Yeah, I have it, hold on." Dimitri was rummaging through a box on the table.

"Dimitri, is that all on Jacob?"

"Yes and Bella, there are some articles on her parents deaths, anything I thought he might have used to get information. I tried to find any information Jacob could have found easily."

"Wow." There was an entire box filled with information.

"Okay, here it is. June 1st. What are you thinking Jasper?"

"If we haven't found her by then, we have to be at that church on the 1st, it may be our only chance. Do you think he really will bring her to the church and try to marry her?" That thought made me sick, but if it brought them out in the open and I had a shot at getting her back, I hoped he would.

"Char would you mind making some calls, see if there are any weddings scheduled for the 1st, see if you can get anything out of them. Felix, find this church, get over there, check it out; ways in, ways out, what is around there, check the distance and routes to and from the reservation. James, go with him."

Dimitri was in full swing now and I was hopeful for the first time.

By the time I woke up it was night. I slept much longer than I had wanted to, but I was pretty sure Char wouldn't allow anyone to wake me, it was the first time I had slept since Bella disappeared. I probably needed it; my brain had been turning to mush. Perhaps now I could think more clearly. I laid there for a good twenty minutes just listening to the voices in the other room. If they had found her or had any promising news I know they would have woken me, so I took the opportunity to try to get myself together.

My chest felt there was a gaping hole in it. Like the world would cease to exist if I didn't get her back. It didn't matter what anyone said, it was my fault. She wouldn't have even gone to the ceremony if it weren't for me. I knew she was thrilled because I was so proud of her. She would have been just as happy skipping the thing all together. I knew she wasn't close to any other classmates, besides Steve. I could tell by the looks of her classmates that they were shocked she was there. I didn't for a minute believe it had anything to do with the time she missed from classes the weeks before finals and graduation.

Bella had really kept everyone in her life at arm's length, especially her classmates it seemed. Nobody really seemed to know her and so many of them seemed shocked at the large crowd attending in her honor. I got the stink eye from several guys that had probably tried to woo her at some point. If I knew Bella, she never gave them the time of day. It wouldn't have fit with her plan.

I was convinced there was more to Jacob Black than met the eye and it somehow involved Bella in ways she was not even aware of.

I started going through things in my mind for the hundredth time, looking for something that didn't fit. I knew he had to be on that reservation somewhere and tonight, there was no moon. I was going in, like it or not, just me and my boys, quietly on foot. We have hunted together our entire lives, this was just another prey.

"Jasper, I talked to Sam while you were asleep, he knew who this Edward was and I got a last name, Cullen. Sam said that when they left it was strange, no one knew where they had moved to, and they never left any forwarding information. The father was a Dr. so I am trying to find them that way, if I can find the hospital he moved to, maybe I can find them. I did learn that he treated the people on the reservation, sort of a free clinic that he started and ran with the agreement and blessing of Jacob's father. He actually treated Jacob's father and tried to save his mother when she died."

"Maybe there is some connection then, could he be bitter because Edward's father couldn't save his mother, but how did that have anything to do with Edward or Bella? We are still missing something Dimitri."

"His sisters, they left and never looked back, why? Maybe we could get them to talk to us."

"It's worth a try, can you find them?"

"Don't have to; I already know where they are."

Dimitri went off to call on Jacob's sisters to see if they would talk. I set out looking at the box of information waiting for Peter and the others to return. Felix, Emmett and Mike were getting ready to go out looking. Jesus, Dimitri had everything under the sun about this guy, I could tell you if he had the chicken pox as a kid. There was information about his older sisters, health records, school transcripts, Christ he was thorough.

Wait a minute, Dr. Cullen delivered Jacob. Huh, Dimitri said that he had been the Dr. running a clinic on the reservation. Jeez, he treated his older sister when she was a toddler, before he was even born. Seems she had almost died as well as a couple other kids on the reservation. Dr. Cullen saved all their lives. That was just before he started running a clinic there, treating all the tribe. Fuck, you'd think he would have worshiped the guy; he saved his sister, his father, tried to save his mother and brought him into this world. What the hell beef would he have with his kid?

This has got to be a dead end. He probably just knew Bella dated Edward from Dr. Cullen. Maybe the Dr. had mentioned it in passing, or maybe they had come to the reservation with him at some point or something. There were some notes about Dr. Cullen leaving the clinic early fall seven years ago. Hell, that was the last anyone had seen of Jacob, he went off the grid the same time the Dr. and his family moved out of town.

Why was there nothing about where they moved to? Dimitri probably didn't find it relevant, and it probably wasn't. Nothing here was actually about Dr. Cullen it was all just places where his life overlapped Jacob's. There was nothing about his son overlapping with Jacob. Maybe I was getting hung up on the "other guy" needing to know something about Edward, the man that destroyed my beautiful angel when she was nothing more than a girl. Focusing on this shit isn't going to help find Jacob or Bella.

Peter came back with a bunch of pizzas and salads. While everyone ate I pulled him aside and told him what I wanted to do. He looked at me skeptically for a minute and finally responded.

"It's about fucking time. You know damn well Preston and Wade did not come up here empty handed. I think we need to keep Tyler out of it though and it has to be just us. I trust Bella's family, but we have been a team for years, I don't hunt with people I don't know and I don't know them well enough."

"I agree, I know we can trust them, but I don't think they have our kind of experience in this. It isn't the time for a new guy on the team." I agreed with Peter on this, I also didn't want to drag them into this if we got caught.

"We tell them we are taking a drive to look around, let's get out of here before the others get back." Peter was going to tell the boys what was up.

I grabbed a slice and started eating, trying to act calm. The girls had all sat down at the table and were dishing out salads which I declined, grabbing another slice instead. I could hear Bella and see her shooting me a death glare for skipping the greens in my mind and it made me smile. I missed her so fucking much.

"We are going to go take a drive around some more and see if we can pick up on anything. Tyler, will you start going through these records, see if you can find something, I need your eye to pull out anything fishy."

"Sure Jasper." He gave me that look that told me he knew damn well what was going on, but he wasn't going to argue, he knew we'd need him on the outside if we got caught.

I was bent over pulling my boots on when James walked up to me.

"Bullshit, Whitlock. You might be able to fool them, but I see right through your shit. You aren't going out there without me." He stared me down for a full minute before I sighed and said, "Fine."

Peter shot me a look and I raised my eyebrows to him, he nodded and we all headed out. We drove past the reservation and around as far back as we could before parking the SUV off on a dirt road, obscured from what little traffic was out there. We had to hike in from the forest that surrounded the reservation.

We had been hunting together for years and were all very comfortable with the silence and knew how to manage through the thick vegetation without making any noise. James fit in well; he was really good at spotting things in the dark. Several times he alerted us to a herd of deer or some other animal that would have scampered loudly if startled. We heard a pack of wolves howling in the distance and I was glad to be armed no matter what predator we ran into, be it Jacob or the furry variety.

After a few hours of trudging through forest and undeveloped parts of the reservation we saw a dilapidated old shack and we all exchanged a look. We sat quietly for thirty minutes looking for any sign of movement, sound, but nothing. We slowly and silently surrounded the shack looking in through windows, long broken and poorly boarded over. It was dark and overrun with cobwebs and dust. Peter went in first, followed by Preston; I stood guard in the front and James at the rear. Wade took up position right outside the front door.

I waited nervously, hopeful, pissed beyond all belief at the thought that he had kept her in that hell hole. It was so very quiet. It felt like it took forever for them to clear the shack. I noticed the holes in the roof and thought of how damp and wet it had to be inside and felt the anger growing deeper.

Preston was the first one to walk out and when he shook his head no, I don't know if I was more relieved or more frustrated. Strike one.

We kept moving through the land looking for anyplace that could have been used to keep someone captive, someplace quiet with privacy. We came across a burial ground. You could read the history of the tribe from the simple monuments to its dead. The place of honor clearly left for the former chiefs, Jacob's entire bloodline laid out before me. I had a really sick feeling being there. Like we were trespassing on some sacred ground. I felt chills as I read over the names of his ancestors chiseled, branded and etched into markers. I wondered whether he would lie here when I was done with him or whether his people would feel he dishonored the tribe and was unworthy of the place of honor.

We moved on, searching for something, anything before the dawn would force us back to the shelter of the forest and we would have to wait until the dark descended once again to return to complete our mission.

JBPOV

It was almost too easy. I knew they would be over confident once Whitlock and his brother were back in town. I decided to wait until then to take her; she would have completed school and had all her silly dreams come true before I pulled the rug out from under her. Then when I heard them talking about the graduation ceremony I just couldn't resist. I had to let her have that little moment, that icing on the cake before I took it all away. It only took one simple call to the school to find out where the graduation was being held and the agenda.

The part that sealed the plan was when the cop complained that they wouldn't get the real diplomas until after the ceremony and that they would have to go turn in their gowns and settle any remaining balances to get the diplomas. A quick walk through of the hotel the night before gave me the layout and confirmed it would just be her and the cop when they went to get the ten cent piece of paper. There were nice, laminated, convenient signs labeled "graduates only" and arrows down the hall to the room for gowns and a table set up for the diplomas, hell it even had the sections separated alphabetically. I'd even know where she had to stand to make the trade.

I swiped a waiter's uniform on my way through the employee locker room and grabbed one of the trays and two of the glasses they had already set up for the party.

I knew just who to get to help me out with this part. That stupid fuck Quil, he followed me around the reservation for years, my father finally kicked him off when his drug habit go so bad that his own parents wouldn't allow him in the house. Who could blame them, he was stealing money every time he walked through the doors and he disappeared for weeks on end. When he showed up on my doorstep a couple weeks before, I figured it was karma somehow. I let him crash at my place and all it took to get his help was the promise of a rock. He would have done it anyway, but I figured that would keep his mouth shut. I told him all he had to do was give the two people in the picture the two glasses of champagne and make sure they drank it and he would be higher than a kite just as soon as he helped me carry the drunken girl to the car.

Everyone else would be in the hall for the cocktail reception. I only had to hope that he called off the tail for the day. He had been cutting back more and more. He left while I was at work during the day and then again at night after I was settled in at the piece of ass I had been usings place. It was too bad; she was a great fuck, so eager to please, although she was aggravating the hell out of me with her plans for our future. She was in for one hell of a surprise.

Once he was gone for the night I mentioned ice cream and she was all excited when I offered to go get some for us and teased about bringing back whipped cream and where I was planning on putting the whipped cream. I wasn't sure how long it would take before I would get Bella to willingly submit to me for the first time. It was crucial that the first time she did it willingly, I couldn't force her or take her against her will, she needed to submit and that could take a while. So I figured what the hell, my last night getting laid for awhile ought to be a dozy, besides all the lies and manipulations were good practice for being tender and loving with Bella until I broke her. Yes, I would make sure that last night was an all out fuck fest, that would keep the piece of ass happy for a while anyway and keep her from talking, hell I'd even give her what she wanted. It would keep her my staunch supporter and ally.

I ran over to the garage and hid the car under a tarp and swapped it with the Impala that was dropped off that morning. There was nothing wrong with the car, I had convinced the owner to drop it off for service while we was out of town. He was out of town nearly every other week on business and was going to be gone two weeks this time. I kept it off the books and nobody would even miss it until he came back looking for it. Ah, the benefits of regular customers.

Everything went so perfectly. Of course hearing everything they talked about at the house made planning so much simpler. I was thrilled to learn that they were all hung over as hell too; they would be that much further off their game when it went down. I really only had to worry about the cop and he'd be drugged.

I watched from the door at the opposite end of the hallway while Bella and the cop approached the room. Quil had followed them and played it so well begging them to take the last two glasses off his hands and toasting them so they would drink it right away. I swear for a junkie, I was impressed. It was just enough time, by the time they were coming out of the room Bella was clearly starting to lose it. The only place to go was the bathrooms across the hall or back out to the reception. I had placed all my cards on her going to the restroom. She did.

The cop followed here lead and went in to the men's room and I took the tray from Quil and followed him in. He was already beginning to feel the effects of the drugs and he had been trained, he knew what was happening. I hit over the back of his head and he went down, I took his gun and went after my prize.

I walked in the ladies room while Quil watched the door prepared to say it was closed due to a leak if anyone happened by. I watched her stumble towards the mirrors and sinks and wanted her to see me before she passed out; I wanted her to know I had won while she was under.

Sure enough she saw me just before she went sliding toward the ground and I caught her. I pulled her cell phone out and smashed it under my foot, last thing I needed was them tracing it or some shit. I put her arm over my shoulder and walked out the door with my arm around her waist. Quil was pulling the vest and tie off as we came through and he took her other side. It looked like we were escorting a drunken friend if anyone came by. No one did, the hall was empty. Quil stuffed his uniform in the trash can along with the tray and helped me get her to the car. I popped the trunk and dumped her in, cuffing her hands and feet.

That was when shit started to unravel. Fucking Quil. He had to start demanding his rock right then and there as I was cuffing her unconscious body. Like I had time for his shit. I told him to sit down in the back seat and prepared a syringe for him. He was acting like a paranoid ass and I realized I couldn't trust him to keep quiet, I prepped another syringe. I tied his arm off and plunged it in; once he was flying I plunged in the second and watched as he started convulsing and foaming at the mouth. I drove to the dumpster and threw his body in; he'd be dead before anyone found him.

I was out of the parking lot before anyone had come looking. It was less than ten minutes total. I drove straight to the reservation and dropped her off, stripped her and fastened the cuffs to the bed, locked the doors and then drove back to the house and hid the Impala in the old falling down garage behind my father's house. I took the bike back to the hideout, pulled in and parked it. Closing the hatch behind me.

I ate and got a glass of water ready for her when she came to and took my chair behind the bed and watched her. It wasn't the first time I had been able to admire her naked body, but this time there was no closet door interfering with my view. She really was beautiful, such a fine little body.

I sat back and fantasized about doing the things I had done the night before with the "girlfriend" with Bella and was instantly hard, much harder than that bitch ever got me. Although, as much as I wasn't that attracted to that bitch she was great, she could suck like no body's business and she was so fucking desperate for someone to love her that all it took was a few tender touches, a few compliments and she'd let me fuck her any way I wanted. Once I had told her I loved her, she was sucking and fucking five times a day. I literally woke up in the morning once with my dick in her mouth. It was pretty hot, if it weren't for Bella, I might have played that one out awhile.

I had to focus or I'd be too tempted to take Bella as soon as she was coherent. I went through it like a mantra in my head, be gentle, tender, take care of her every need, confuse her. The plan was to keep here drugged for two days, just enough that she would come out of it every couple hours and then I could race in as her white knight and take care of her until I drugged her again and repeated the process until she was confused. Then I'd start spilling little tidbits, first about Edward, she wouldn't know what to think. I would tempt her with more comfortable accommodations if she behaved and start to let her get comfortable, and then punish her for every outburst I would goad her into until she learned not the react.

I would spoil her and read to her and feed her and take care of her every need until she finally broke down, thinking it was her way out. Then I would break her with the flood of information that led her to the situation she was in. By the time I was done with that she would be broken, shattered, devastated and then I'd have my fun. If she didn't comply after that, I'd just take it and it would be so much rougher on her she would eventually learn to submit freely to avoid the pain and opt for the road to mutual pleasure.

Yeah, everything was going according to plan.

A/N

How is everyone holding up, you ok? Last chance before Jacob's big reveal, tell me your theories, next chapter is HUGE. I wonder if anyone can guess what happens next.