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Chapter 27

BPOV

James was dragging me further into the forest and the cabin was getting smaller and smaller. The tears swelled up in my eyes and they threatened to fall. I was so scared that I would never get to see Charlie or Renee ever again. Never see my friends. At the thought of never seeing Edward again the tears leaked out of my eyes like a river. I started to hyperventilate and Jame's hand over my mouth made it hard to breathe.

I started struggling against him harder than before, his grip around my waist tightened and I bit his hand again. He let go for less than a second.

I gasped loudly and wheezed out a few words before his hand covered my mouth again.

"What did you say?" James hissed. He moved his hand so it was hovering an inch over my mouth.

"I... can't breathe." I wheezed again. He finally noticed my quivering body and let me fall to the ground. I hunched over on my knees and gasped for breath. I tried to calm my erratic heart by thinking of the meadow Edward had once shown me.

When James heard my breathing return to normal he picked me up by my hair and gripped my arm hard and started dragging me back into the forest.

"Where are you taking me?" I asked him

"Away. Obviously one of the girls cracked and I'm not going to go back to the cabin. I know somewhere we can go."

We walked for a few more minutes and I saw another small cabin come into view. I thought there wasn't anyone for miles? Lauren is a Bitch. James walked up to the door and knocked on it loudly.

A woman not much older than us opened the door and beamed and James. Her hair was red and very curly. Her face was pale, and her body was toned. She was beautiful.

"James." She squealed she flung at him and James threw me to the ground. I hit the earth hard and screamed, which was ignored by them both. Now, along with my throbbing ankle was a throbbing wrist.

"Victoria." James said before she wrapped her arms around him pulling him into a kiss. What about Lauren? Not that I really care...

After I laid in the dirt for a few minutes James seemed to remember my presence and the reason for being there.

"Vicky, I need somewhere to stay." James said

"Baby, you're always welcome here. But she's not." She said pointing to me.

"Vicky, I can't leave her outside it gets too cold. I need her to live."

"Why? Whats she to you?" She asked

"Well, Jessica wanted to take her so she could steal her boyfriend. She said she'd pay me to help her so I said okay. But one of the girls couldn't keep their mouths shut. So now I'm on my own."

"So? Just let her go. We'll leave together and she won't tell. Will you?" She asked me, I shook my head "See."

"No Vicky, you don't understand. I'm keeping her for ransom now." James said. My brows creased, my dad doesn't have any money. Why would he keep me?

"Really, who's her parents?" she said acting interested.

"Her dad's just the towns chief of police." He said looking back at me. Victoria looked confused, as did I. "But her boyfriend on the other hand, He's a Cullen." My eyes widened

"Doctor Cullen's son?" She asked.

"Yup, one of them. I figured if he really does love her, he'll make daddy pay up. If he wants to see her alive again."

EPOV

When Jessica gave us the location of where Bella was being held I couldn't wait on my parents. I hopped in Charlie's cruiser and we were the first ones to arrive at the secluded cabin. Of course I had to stay in the car until it was clear. Other cops showed up and it was discovered that the cabin was empty.

My heart plummeted.

I got out of the car and walked over to the front door. I stopped dead in my tracks when I heard a faint scream. I knew it was Bella, I listened but didn't hear anything else. I walked up to the cabin and asked where Charlie was.

I went up the stairs and found Charlie standing in the hall way. When he saw me he stopped talking to his officer.

"Edward, you can't be up here right now." Charlie said putting his hands on my shoulders.

"Why not? She's not here, and i won't touch anything." His eyes were glistening over and I noticed they were filling up with tears. "What is it Charlie?" he shook his head and I pushed past him. The cops were placing evidence makers on the floor near a puddle of blood. I felt like I was going to be sick.

"Edward, it might not be hers." Charlie said trying to calm me. I took a deep breath and turned to face him.

"I know. Charlie, I swear I heard he scream when I was outside. It came from the woods. What if he knew we were coming and tried to escape?"

Charlie looked over at his officer and got his attention. "Call everyone at the station, get all the volunteers out here. We need to start searching the woods now." The officer nodded and went outside.

"Come on Edward, tell me where you heard the scream." I walked back down the stairs and out of the cabin. Charlie and I headed out into the forest and started our search for Bella

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3 hours into our search Charlie and I came upon a small cabin in the woods. It looked like it was abandoned, but there was a small light in one of the rooms. Charlie and I headed towards the front door where he knocked loudly

A young woman opened the door, she was probably only a little older than me. She was pretty, but definitely not my type.

"Can I help you?" She said politely.

"Yes ma'am, I'm sorry to bother you late, but we were wondering if you had seen a young woman travailing with a young man." Charlie pulled out his wallet and took the picture I had given him of Bella. "This is the girl. Have you seen her?"

The woman took a good look at the picture. "No, I'm sorry I wish I had. Is she okay?" She asked

"We're not sure. She's been missing for a few days and we were just out searching for her. May we come inside and take a look around?" Charlie asked her.

"Sure, Can I take this picture and show it to my boyfriend? He might have seen her, he went out hunting today."

"That would be great." Charlie said as she let us in. The cabin was small, and there wasn't a lot of hiding places.

"I'll go in and ask James if he's seen her." She left us to look around on our own. I heard faint talking and Charlie and I looked around. We checked every possible location where Bella could be hiding, or stored. We came up with nothing. There was no basement and the only room left searched was the room where the owners were in, which had to be the bathroom.

"I'm sorry, he said he didn't see her while he was out. He said he'd keep an eye out for her tomorrow."

"He's going hunting again tomorrow?" I asked.

"Yes, he wasn't able to catch anything, he caught his foot on a root and fell down breaking his nose. He came home so I could clean him up." I nodded not knowing what else to say.

"Shouldn't you take him to the ER? I'm sure his nose should be put back in place." Charlie asked.

She looked down shyly. "We don't have any insurance, and we have no money."

"My dad's a doctor, I'm sure he could help." I found myself saying. For some reason I didn't want to leave yet.

"Really? He wouldn't charge us?"

"No, He's a great guy and would love to help." Just then the bathroom door opened and a man around my age walked out with just a pair of jeans on.

"James, this young man said his dad could fix your nose at no cost!"

"Really, thats nice of him." We made eye contact for the first time. "Cullen?" He asked surprised.

"Yeah?"

"It's me James Davis." Jessica's cousin? He looks like shit.

"Oh, hey James. I was just talking to your cousin today." I said. Something is not right.

"Really? I assume you mean Jess?" I nodded. "How is she. I haven't talked to her for about... a month I think? She actually asked me about you." He laughed.

"Oh yeah? What did she ask?"

"The same thing she does every time. If you're dating anyone. I told her I didn't know because you had left to come home. She was very happy about that." He laughed again. "Has she got you wrapped around her finger yet?"

"No, actually the missing girl is my girlfriend." I said with no emotion in my voice.

"What a lucky girl." The woman muttered under her breath.

"Excuse me Victoria?" James said.

"Nothing."

"So Cullen, you think your dad can help my nose?" James asked.

"Sure. He's at home right now. He cane come out here or you can go to him." I said.

"I'd rather not go anywhere, I'm really tired after my long day of hunting. I need to rest before tomorrow."

"No problem, let me go call him." I walked out on the front porch to call Carlisle. The phone rang only once before my mom picked up.

"Edward, any news?"

"No, but I need to talk to dad."

"Hold on." My mom sounded defeated.

"Edward, what's going on?" My dad asked when he got on the phone.

"Dad, I need you to come out to where I am. There's someone out here who broke his nose and it looks awful. He can't afford to go to the hospital, so I thought you could look at it for him." I said loudly as I walked off the front porch.

"Okay, but shouldn't you keep looking for Bella?" My dad asked sounding confused.

"Dad, listen, I don't have much time. Somethings not right. It's James from school. His cousin is Jessica. I think he might know where Bella is. He said he broke his nose falling down, maybe it happened while chasing Bella or something, please come out here." I said quietly and quickly.

"Okay, Give me that address and I'll be on my way. Don't worry, I'll be completely professional and he won't suspect a thing."

"Thanks dad." I went back in the house. "Hey James, whats the address here?" James told me and I relayed it to my dad.

"Okay, he's on his way" I said as I walked back inside closing the door.

"Great, thanks so much man." James said.

About 20 minutes later there was a knock at the door. Victoria went to answer it and led my father into the main room.

"Hello Edward." He said to me.

"Dad, This is Victoria and this is James." I said pointing to each of them.

The said some quick hello's and my dad took a look at his nose and did everything he could for him. When he was finished he walked over to the sink and I followed.

"Edward, this wasn't from a fall. Someone shoved their palm up into his nose. It's shattered." I looked back at James and I felt myself walking towards him. My dad quickly grabbed my arm. "Not now, lets go outside." My dad walked back to the couches where everyone was waiting.

"I'm all done here Charlie. James, take care of that nose."

"Thank you so much Dr. Cullen." Victoria said shaking my dads hand.

"Yes thank you." James added.

"Well we should get going. We've taken up enough of your time. Enjoy the rest of your evening." Charlie said standing up. "Carlisle. Do you mind giving us a ride back to the station?"

"No, not at all. Goodnight James, Victoria."

"Goodbye." I said to them.

They said their goodbyes and we got into my dads car. We headed away from the cabin ans I couldn't help but feel like something was not right.

"Carlisle, please pull over." Charlie said from the front seat. My dad did as he was asked and Charlie turned to look over at my dad. "What did I miss?"

"Charlie, I don't think his nose was broken from a fall. It looks like it was inflicted by someone else, someone shorter than him." My dad said.

"Bella?" he asked.

"Possibly. I wanted to get you out of there so they didn't get suspicious."

"I'm going back." I said hoping out of the car. I heard my name being called by both men.

"Edward, you can't go back alone." Charlie said. "I'll come with you. Carlisle, go back to the other cabin and bring some back up." Carlisle nodded and wished us luck as he got back into the car.

"Come on. We have to be quiet. She wasn't in the house. If they have her they have her hidden well."

We walked back to the cabin quietly, we went around to the side and looked in the windows. Victoria was pacing back and forth yelling at James and James was yelling back at her. We couldn't hear what they were saying, but they were being loud enough so they couldn't hear us talking.

"I'm going to look around back." I told Charlie. I walked around looking for anything out of the ordinary. I walked around for a while and went deeper into the woods. I saw a small shack, just big enough to hold some tools. I heard foot steps behind me and turned to find Charlie walking up behind me.

"Find anything?" He asked

"I was about to look in here, but it's really small." He nodded and I opened the door. There was a ridding lawn mower in the middle and tools hanging on the wall.

"Damn it!" I yelled. I started to walk back out when I heard a muffled scream. "Charlie, wait." I looked down on the floor and saw a small latch. "Help me move the mower." Charlie came in and we pulled the mower out of the shed. I pulled on the latch and a small door opened on the floor.

"Charlie, I need your flashlight." I said putting my hand out. He gave me his light and I lowered myself into the dark hole. It was a small dirt room. I heard the muffled scream again and my flashlight scanned the room until it landed on a small lump in the corner. I crawled to it quickly.

"Bella?" I said quietly, praying to god I wasn't seeing things. I put my hand onto the body and it jumped. I pulled on it and turned the body around. My heart jumped when I looked into the red swollen eyes of my one true love.

"Bella!" I pulled the duck tape off her mouth.

"Edward, oh god. I knew you'd find me." tears were streaming down her face. I took her head into both my hands and kissed her hard. I reached around and untied her hands and feet. She threw her arms around my neck and pulled me to her lips again. I wanted to deepen the kiss but I heard Charlie holler for me.

"Come on baby, lets get you out of here." she crawled over to the hole and pulled herself out.

"Bella, oh thank god." I heard Charlie saw as he helped her out.

I crawled out behind her and she unwrapped her arms from her father and turned to me. We both and huge smiles on our faces. At the same time, we took a step to each other and embraced each other in a huge hug.

"I've missed you so much." I whispered in her ear.

"I've missed you too. I love you so much Edward."

"I love you too." I closed my eyes and took a deep breath and took all of Bella in. I was brought out of my happy thoughts by a loud exploding sound. Bella and I both jumped and spun around. Charlie didn't move, as if he was too afraid to turn around. His eyes went wide and he looked down.

Blood started to seep through his shirt and he fell to his knees. I faintly heard Bella scream for her father. I looked up dazed and saw James standing behind about 10 feet away with a gun in his hands.

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