I'm sorry for what I've done to you all. Please don't hate me.
TRIGGER: If you are triggered by pregnancy complications/miscarriage, don't read the end of this chapter. I will put a line before it so you know where it is.
Don't worry, I will start writing the next chapter as soon as I post this one.
Enjoy.
Chapter 12-
Bella stands there looking at the closed door before she turns and looks at the others in the room. Esme hands Charlie to Alice and walks over to Bella, wrapping her arms around her and walking her over to the sofa in the room. Looking around, Bella sees the room is painted a deep red with a television mounted on the wall, has hard wood flooring and a room off to the side with a full bathroom inside. Bella looks at Esme in confusion.
Esme stands up and walks to the wall at their left. She places her thumb on a pad and it opens a door that leads to a long hallway with 10 doors dotted down it. "Through here are seven bedrooms, all en suits, one of which is set up for Charlie, a games room for Jake, and a computer office for Alice/ second living room." Esme closes the door and walks to the wall at the back, she places her thumb on another pad and another door opens revealing a full kitchen.
"Wow." Bella says in awe.
"Your thumb prints are also programmed into the system, you can get into any of the rooms. There is a second safety feature just in case anyone manages to guess the code to this room, once in the hallway, we can make the thumb pads disappear and so the doors will disappear and no one can get into the true safe room. This hallway is also fireproof so if someone was to set a fire in the main room, we would be safe. We can get out of the computer office in that case and that leads right outside by another of the thumb controlled doors. If someone was to break in however, we would get told."
This entire exchange is rushed and takes about a minute in total. "Now we need to get into the hallway because this room is just a decoy and they may have seen the door close."
Bella looks and sees Jacob and Alice have disappeared and Esme is ushering her towards the door that leads to the hallway. Esme places her thumb on the pad and it opens just as they hear banging on the door to the room they're in and an alarm starts to sound. Bella stands up from the sofa and runs through to the hallway as Esme follows close behind her. The door slides shut behind her and she presses her thumb to the pad inside the door, through the screen next to the door, they see the pad and door leading to the kitchen disappear and the door and pad leading to the hallway disappear just as a group of men burst into the room and start shooting.
Alice sticks her head out of the door right at the end to the right. "Bella, mom, in here."
Bella starts to run down the hallway looking behind her.
"They can't get in here, Bella. Don't worry." Esme says.
Bella stops running and waits for Esme to catch up. "One sec Ali, I'm just going to show Bella a bedroom."
"Okay mom. I put Charlie down and Jake is in his games room."
"Okay baby." Esme opens the door closest to her and gestures for Bella to walk in first. She steps into the room and sees a room identical to the one she sleeps in upstairs. Esme walks through to the other side of the room and opens a door that leads to the bathroom. "These are the spare rooms, your room upstairs can be decorated any way you like."
"I like my room upstairs, I think I'll keep it like it is if that's okay."
"It's your room, you can do what you want with it. Let's go and see Charlie's room."
They walk out of the room and into the one next door. They walk in and see a full nursery, complete with gender neutral colours, a new cot, changing table and dresser. Bella gasps. "Oh my god, this is amazing." Bella turns to look at Esme. "Thank you." She wraps her arms around Esme in a big hug.
"You don't have to thank us Bella, we want to do this for you both. You're a part of this family now. Do you want to see the games room?"
Bella nods her head, so after giving Charlie a kiss on the forehead, they walk out the door and into the one next to it.
"Hi Jake, I'm just showing Bella the games room." Esme says when they walk in.
"Okay nana." He says not looking up from his X-Box game.
Bella looks around, there is a Playstation, Wii and an X-Box in the unit on the floor which also houses many different games for each console, with a TV on top. To the side there is a computer to play PC games on and a PSP sat on the computer table. "Emmett would have loved this room." Bella says with a smile.
Jacob perks up and looks at her. "If he's alive, we can hang out. Do you think he'd like that?" He asks.
"If he's alive, I'm sure he'd love that." Bella says.
"Okay Jake, we're going to be across the hall with Auntie Ali, remember to keep it down, Charlie's asleep next door." She says to him with a kiss on his head.
"Okay nana." He says turning back to his game, which appears to be some kind of racing game.
The two women walk out of the room. "Sorry if he upset you." Esme says.
"I'm fine." Bella replies with a smile.
They walk into the room right in front of them and Bella gasps. "Wow." She says again for the second time in 5 minutes.
"I know right." Alice says turning towards her best friend with a big smile on her face.
They both walk over to where Alice is sat in front of a series of large monitors and Bella realises what they're looking at; the fight in the main house.
"You haven't missed much, while you were looking at the rooms, the men that broke in to the safe room were shot dead by Alec, he's running through the rooms taking out as many as her can, and Edward and Jasper shot dead 5 men in the kitchen. Marcus is upstairs taking them out as they walk up the stairs and Dad is in the basement. Rose is hiding in the alcove by the door taking out as many as she can as they come through the door." They hear more gunshots ring out and Bella jumps. "Oh, and we also have audio."
They see a tall man run up behind Edward and Jasper and raise his gun. The three women stop breathing as it doesn't appear the boys have noticed him. "EC, it truly is an honour to kill you." He says.
Bella hides her face and starts to cry, Esme wraps an arm around her.
Before the man can pull the trigger however, Rose runs into the kitchen and shots him in the back of his head. "Cocky bastard." She mutters before spinning around and shooting 3 men who ran up behind her.
"Thanks Rose." Edward says, shocked that he didn't think to look behind him. He just assumed Jasper was looking that way. All three of them run out of the room and take out the next load of men that enter the house.
"I should be up there." Alice says rubbing her bump.
"You know you can't. Rose suffered the same when she was pregnant with Jake." Esme said placing a comforting hand on her daughters shoulder.
They watch as Alec runs in the room and both parties raise their guns but lower them when they realise who it is. The women then watch as the four of them split up, trying to get as many as possible before their eyes are drawn to where a man dressed in all black and wearing a mask covering half his face, his mouth uncovered, walks into Bella/ Charlie's bedroom. "Where did he come from?" Bella asks.
"I have no idea, I've been watching since I got in here, he must have got in before I started watching. Marcus has his back to him. Shit!" She shouts.
They all watch as the man walks over to Charlie's cot and picks up the pink elephant that Edward bought her a few weeks earlier and rips its head off. Bella gasps. He then walks over to the bed, reaches in the cabinet on the left side and pulls out a marker pen and a piece of paper. Walking over to the dresser, he leans over and appears to be writing something. Suddenly, he stands up and looks right into the camera before walking towards is slowly, his head tilted to the side slightly and a smirk on his face. He hold up the paper and on it, the words 'Hello Isabella' are written. Then, he pulls out a gun from his back pocket, raises it to the camera and shoots. All of the screens turn black.
"Fuck! He's shot out the entire system!" Alice screams.
"What?" Bella asks. "How?"
"That is the main camera, kill that one and they all die. It's like when Christmas lights blow, you need to find the one that controls them all. The cameras always run and never die because they're run from Alice and Jasper's computer. Whoever it was must have known the camera to shoot out. We placed it in a random room so this wouldn't happen, now we can't see anything." Esme explains to Bella frantically.
"I can't get them back." Alice tells them, slumping down in her chair. "I can't get them fucking back!" She suddenly screams.
The door opens and Jacob walks in. "Is everything okay?" He asks his voice small.
Esme opens her arms for him to run into. "Of course baby boy. We've just lost the feed and Alice is a little stressed. I'm sure they're all okay." She says into his hair as she holds him tight.
"Then why are you crying?" He asks her, reaching up and wiping under her eyes.
"I'm just feeling a little emotional because I love you so much." She tells her grandson.
Bella stands up and holds out her hand. "Come on Jake, why don't we go and play video games together. I used to play with my brother so it's been a while. I'm warning you, I'm a little rusty."
He looks at his nana and she nods her head at him. "Go on, Alice and I will be fine."
"Okay nana. I love you too." He tells her, kissing her cheek before taking Bella's hand and walking out of the room with her. "I'll go easy on you."
Bella looks back at Esme and Alice. "Thank you." Esme mouths at her. Bella just nods her head and lets herself be pulled into the games room.
Once the door is closed, Jacob turns to her. "It's bad isn't it?"
"What? No. The feed dropped out is all." Bella replies.
"Nana is scared and Alice looks sad. You look freaked out and sad and scared and worried and are also a bad liar."
Bella smiles. "You're observant for a seven year old." She comments and then sighs. "The feed didn't just drop out, a man shot it out after writing a message for me. We don't know what's happening right now or if anyone's hurt. That really is it."
"Okay. Thank you for telling me. Nana thinks that not telling me helps me but I freak out more when I don't know." He sits on his beanbag chair and sighs. "I hope everyone's okay."
Bella sits down on the beanbag chair next to him. "Me too little man, me too."
Jacob hands her a controller and they start to play the racing game that he was playing before but neither of their hearts were really in it. After driving her car into the wall for the 5th time, Jacob smiles. "Let me help you." He places his hands over Bella's and shows her how to control the car and the amount of pressure needed so she doesn't lose control again. After 2 laps like this, he finally lets her control it on her own. They play a few more games, half-heartedly trying to beat each other when they hear another bang, this time on the wall against the hallway opening.
Bella flies to her feet. "Stay here." She tells Jake before running out of the room and closing the door. She sees Esme and Alice in the hallway as well.
"I can't see what's causing it, the camera in here is controlled by that one as well." Alice says sounding scared.
They hear the bang again and all jump. Esme turns to Bella. "They can't get in. Fireproof, soundproof, bombproof. To them, it's just a wall." She turns to Alice. "To them it's just a wall right?"
"Yes. No one can get in." Alice reassures them both and Esme and Bella let out a sigh of relief. "Bella, grab Charlie, Mom, get Jake. We'll wait it out in the office together just in case."
"Just in case! I thought you said we were safe!" Bella shouts freaking out.
"We are, but just in case they use one of them out there to get in-" Alice cuts herself off.
"What?" Bella asks.
"We can cut off their fingerprints. The only issue is, we won't know if it's safe to come out."
"There's the peephole in the kitchen door." Esme says.
"Yes but that might be too risky if there's someone looking for anything in the main room. They could see and be able to use it against the others." Alice says.
"What if the banging is them?" Bella asks.
"It isn't, they'd just use the thumb pad. They know how to bring it back up." Esme says.
"Then what's stopping anyone from forcing them to? Like a gun held to Edward or Rose's head forcing Carlisle to open the door or something?" Bella starts to hyperventilate.
"Calm down Bella. This is why we need to block their fingerprints. We never needed to do this before because we could always see what was happening. I'm going to block their fingerprints, one of you get the children, and the other one go to look in the peephole." Alice says.
"Esme, you go and get the children, I'll look in the peephole." Bella says.
"Are you sure?" Esme asks her.
"Yes. If I'm going to be a part of this family, I need to step up." Bells tell her with conviction.
"Okay." Esme says rubbing Bella's arms before turning and walking down the hall. "I'm going to block of the door. We won't be able to hear anything when we're in it and it's completely shut off. The code is 6605398227 to get in." Esme shouts and then runs through to Jacob's games room, first getting him and the Charlie.
"I'll see you in there." Bella says, her heart hammering. What if they get in the hallway before she can get in the room? "Which way do I go?" She asks Alice.
"Through that door there." She points to the door right next to them. "Then follow the corridor, when you get to it, turn right." Alice says.
"Get to what?"
"It's split, go right."
"Okay." Bella says before opening the door and running down the corridor. She's running for about 2 minutes when she comes to the split and she stops. "Left or right? I can't remember. Think Bella think!" She hears a bang come from the right side of the corridor and Alice scream behind her. Without thinking any more, she runs down the left side and is running for another two minutes, which feels like two hours, until she comes to a wall. "Fuck!" She screams placing her hands against it, before taking a deep breath, turning around and running back to where she came from, and turning down the right corridor.
She runs down the corridor, the same distance as the left side, even though it feels double the time than the last one, and comes to the kitchen. She's breathing really hard and places her hands on the counter to steady herself. Drips of sweat run down her face and she grabs a piece of kitchen towel before bringing it to her face to wipe it off. After a few minutes, Bella manages to calm herself down enough to walk over to the wall where the thumb pad is. "What if the door opens, Jesus, I should have let Esme do this. Okay Bella. Look around and see if there's an obvious peephole."
She runs her hands all over the wall and finds nothing. "Okay Isabella. Calm and think. The pad is the only thing that could work. Okay." Bella lifts her shaking hand to the pad and presses her thumb to it. She holds it down.
"Door opening." An automated voice says.
"Fuck! No!" She slams her thumb down on the pad over and over again until the voice is heard again.
"Door closing. Peephole opening. 10 seconds only."
She lets out a sigh and leans close to the hole in the wall, placing her eye to it. She looks out and sees the man from her room upstairs lounging on the sofa, Edward and Rose, tied up and gagged, unconscious at his feet, Jasper tied up and gagged, awake, next to them. Blood is strewn all around the room, looking like a bad horror movie set. Bella starts to sob. Suddenly, the man's head turns towards the peephole and he smirks again. He laughs and kicks Jasper in the head before shooting the wall where the door is.
'That explains the bangs' Bella thinks, sobbing uncontrollably.
The peephole suddenly closes and Bella falls to the floor, gasping for breath. After a few minutes of this, she manages to calm herself down enough to run out of the room, back down the corridor and out of the door.
- (AN: If triggered by pregnancy complications/ miscarriage stop here.)
She runs for the room, stopping when she hears a whimper from behind her.
Bella turns around and sees Alice laying front down the floor.
"Help."
She run towards her. "What happened? Did you fall?" She asks her frantically.
Alice nods her head. "It hurts." She says.
"I'm going to get Esme, I'll be right back okay?" She tells her best friend.
"Okay." Alice says through a sob.
Bella runs down the hallway and bangs on the door. "Esme." She shouts. No answer.
"The code." Alice says with a wince.
"Right. I've got this." She looks at the keypad next to the door. She presses the keys slowly, trying to remember. 6605398227. The door beeps open.
Esme is on the other side of the door with a gun pointed at her. "Bella! Where's Alice?" She shouts jumping to her feet, the gun falling to the ground.
"She fell. I need your help." Bella rushes out.
Esme runs out of the room and down the hallway; Jake holds the door open.
"I'm coming baby. Tell me where it hurts." Esme says as she runs down the hallways. She falls to her knees next to her daughter.
"Everywhere. I feel wet." She says around sobs.
"I need to get you into the other room. Bella help me get her down the hall so I can check her out."
The two women wrap their arms around Alice and they pull her to her feet. The look down and see blood. "Shit!"
Don't hate me. I am writing the next chapter as you read this AN. Please review. ~Megan xxx