Hi, I know I said that it may be Christmas before I post a new chapter, but my mum has let me use her laptop because writing really helps with my anxiety and I was freaking out last night. But anyway, I'm having to rewrite the chapters that I lost and we will be back on schedule for a chapter every Wednesday for a while. I hope you enjoy this.
Chapter 13-
"What?" Alice asks her mother, freaking out.
"Calm down baby, you're bleeding but we aren't going to worry about it until we have to, okay?" Esme answers.
"Calm down? I'm bleeding!" Alice shouts.
"Yes, you are, but there might not be anything wrong and stressing out might make something happen. Let's not stress until we have to stress." Esme tells her daughter calmly as they reach the door.
Jacob holds the door open even wider and gasps when he sees them all. When they're in the room, he pushes the door shut and turn towards his grandmother, tears in his eyes. "Nana, is she okay?" He gestures towards the blood coving the crotch, bum and the tops of the legs of her jeans.
"I don't know baby boy, I'm now going to look." Esme answers her grandson. "Bella, can you pick the gun up off of the floor and hold it pointed at the door please just in case. Jacob, I want you to stand away from the door, over next to Charlie for the time being please."
Jacob runs to the other side of the room where Charlie is resting in the makeshift bed, a cushion laid on the floor with pillows either side of her to stop her from rolling over.
"Jake, you have a really important job. I need you to make sure Charlie doesn't roll over, she needs to stay on her back to be healthy." Esme tells him calmly, slipping into her profession nurse persona knowing that it's what her family needs. If she stresses, so will her daughter and it might cause more harm to the baby.
"Okay nana." Jacob says, taking his responsibility seriously and keeping his eyes on Charlie.
Esme lifts up her daughter's top as Bella reaches down and picks up the gun before sitting in the chair that Esme vacated a few minutes previously. Esme feels around her daughter's stomach and then lets out a huge sigh. "Oh thank god. I feel a kick."
"I thought so but I didn't know if that was just pain." Alice says.
"No, defiantly a kick baby girl, your baby is fine. Now I need to figure out why you were bleeding, okay?" She pauses.
Alice nods her head, wiping the tears from under her eyes trying to calm herself down. Her baby is kicking, that's all that matters right now.
Esme unbuttons Alice's trousers and pulls them down with her underwear. "Can you spread your legs wide please? Really wide. Wider than that, I don't have any tools so I'm going in blind, I need room to see. Place one leg over the back of the sofa and place the other one on the floor." Esme suggests and then she waits while her daughter complies.
"Ouch." Alice moans out.
"I know baby, the pain might just be because of the fall. I need to relax. It will make it easier for me to see and will help calm both you and baby down." Esme sooths her daughter. She inserts her fingers inside of her daughter to see if there is any damage to the cervix and to make sure the fall didn't induce an early labour. After about 5 minutes of making sure the fall didn't cause any issues to her daughter or her grandchild, she pulls back and looks at her daughter. "I think you're fine, but when we get out of here, you're going straight to the hospital for a full and proper examination. I'm not taking any chances but I think you're okay." She reassures her daughter and grabbing a blanket to cover her up so she doesn't have to put back on her dirty, bloody clothes, before turning to look at Bella. "What did you see through the peephole?"
Bella looks up at her boyfriend's mother. "Um, well the man from Charlie's bedroom is there and he's sat on the sofa shooting the wall where the door is which explains the bangs we heard. Edward and Rose are tied up, gagged and unconscious at his feet, I don't know if they're still alive but I couldn't see any gunshot wounds on their bodies but I also couldn't see if they were breathing or not. Jasper is also there, tied up and gagged but conscious." Bella gets interrupted.
"Jazzy! Does he have any wounds?" Alice frantically asks Bella.
"Not that I could see Ali, I'm so sorry I couldn't see more. The man knew I was there though, he turned and looked at me before kicking him around the head. The room also looks like the scene of a bad horror movie, blood everywhere. I have no idea where the other three are or if they're okay or not, they weren't in the room or in view through the door but I also couldn't see anyone else, it looks like it's just that man in the house but they could just be somewhere else. It sounded too quiet though, almost silent apart from the man in the other room" Bella finishes.
"Okay." Esme stands up from her spot at Alice's feet. "I'm going to go out there. I need to get us out and see if my babies are okay." Esme runs over to the wall and places her hand flat against it. A blue light shines over it and then a beep sounds before the wall literally opens up and Bella sees an entire closet of guns.
"Jesus." Bella says with a gasp.
Alice looks over at her from her spot on the sofa where she is holding and softly stroking over her pregnant belly. "I know. Jazzy made that."
Bella looks back at her and blinks in shock. "That's cool and almost like something straight out of a science fiction novel, but I was more on about the guns. How many guns do you all need?"
"They're all different. We never know what situation might present itself and so we're always ready. That, and we love guns." Esme explains placing her hand back flat on the wall where the blue light appears once more and the wall closes. She then walks over to the door and pulls it open before looking back into the room. "I will be back for you, don't worry. No matter what, I'm getting you to a hospital Ali."
"Okay mom, be safe. I love you." Alice replies.
"I love you too baby girl, you too Jakey."
"I love you too, Nana." Jake calls over to his grandmother, looking away from Charlie for the first time since he was given the task to watch over the baby.
Esme smiles at him before walking into the hallway and closing the door. Taking a deep breath, she walks down the hallway and places her ear against the door but hears nothing. She walks over to the door that leads to the kitchen and walks through it, running down the corridor and taking the right turn. When she reaches the kitchen, she stops to grab a glass of water. "Calm Esme. Your babies need you."
She finishes her glass of water and places it in the sink to clean up later before walking to the door and placing her thumb lightly on the thumb pad for a second before pulling it off.
"Peephole opening. Ten seconds only."
Esme leans over to look through it and sees the room exactly the same as Bella reported, except the man is looking around the room as if unsure and nervous, holding the gun in his hands so tightly his knuckles are white.
"Peephole closing."
Esme reaches down and presses her thumb to it and holding it down for a few seconds.
"Door opening."
Esme cocks her gun and leans over to look out of the door before it's fully open, shooting the man in the shoulder holding the gun before running over to him and knocking him out with the base of her gun before he can even react, as the door slides to a close behind her. He slumps down on the sofa, falling unconscious. Without turning her back on him, Esme leans down and feels for a pulse in her two children and sighing in relief when she finds one. "Thank god." She mutters removing their gags and untying them both.
She then walks over to Jasper, still keeping her eyes on the unconscious man lying on the sofa, and unties him before helping him to his feet. She reaches up and feels around the cut on his head. "Are you okay? Any blurred vision-"
He bats her hands away. "I'm fine. It was just a few hits to the head. How's Ali?"
Esme looks up and him and her face softens.
"What?" Jasper asks, knowing the look on his future mother in laws face can mean nothing good.
"She fell on her front and was bleeding." Before she can get the next word out, she's interrupted.
"What!" Jasper shouts looking at the women in front of him and then to the wall where the door is hiding that leads to the hallway and his fiancée.
"She fine! I felt the baby kick and the bleeding has stopped, the cervix also doesn't show any signs of early labour." Esme rushes to reassure him. He relaxes but not by much, he won't fully relax until he sees her and gets her checked out by a doctor. "I'm going to find the others. Tie him up and make sure he can't get away before we can speak to him." Esme kicks his gun away from the man on the floor. "Also wake my babies please."
Edward groans from the floor, followed by Rose. "Too fucking loud." She complains.
"Alice fell!" Jasper tells the two on the floor.
"What!" Edward shouts sitting up suddenly and then clutches his head in pain. "Fuck. Why am I tied up, is Ali okay? The baby?" His words almost a whisper as his head starts to pound from whatever drug was in his system making him feel as if he has a bad hangover.
"I think she's okay, I felt the baby kick and the bleeding stopped. This guy knocked you out and tied you up. I need to go and find the others, Jasper, tie him up and then go to Alice, she's in the office. Don't kill him." She shouts as she runs out of the room and into the living room.
Seeing that room clear, she runs into the kitchen where she finds Alec unconscious on the table. "I just fucking cleaned that this morning." She grumbles running over to her brother in law and feeling his neck for a pulse. Felling one, she unties him and removes the gag and then she checks around the room for anybody but finding it clear so she runs off the last room she saw her husband in. Running down the stairs and into the basement, she sees her husband tied up and gagged, but conscious.
"Esme!" He shouts out around the gag.
She runs over to him, removes the gag and unties him.
"I must have been knocked out because one minute I was about to shoot someone and the next I was waking up bound and gagged." He explains. "How's everyone else?"
"Alec's unconscious in the kitchen, Rose and Edward were unconscious but are now awake in the safe room, Jasper bound and gagged but awake in the safe room. No idea about Marcus yet as I haven't found him. Alice fell on her front and bled, I checked her out and felt a kick, the bleeding stopped and she doesn't appear to be in early labour." Esme rushes out as they both run upstairs.
Carlisle runs towards the safe room as Esme runs towards to stairs. "I'll check her out." Carlisle calls after her.
"Thank you!" Esme shouts back before running up the stairs and onto the first floor. Seeing no one in the hallway, she walks into every room, her gun raised as she looks through every room carefully, all 15, under the bed, in the closets, in the bathrooms but finds it completely clear. She moves up a floor, again looking in all 15 rooms, under the bed, in the bathrooms, in the closets, nothing. Moving up to the final floor, she repeats the same process again, and finds Marcus tied up and gagged, unconscious in the last room on the left. She runs up to him and feels for a pulse. Finding one, she relaxes and unties him until he jumps up and scares the crap out of Esme. "Ah!" She screams falling back in shock.
"Sorry, what happened?" He asks as he stands up and they make their way back down to the living room, slowly because of the pounding headache Marcus now has.
"You were drugged, so was Edward, Rose, Carlisle, and Alec. I shot the guy that did it, everyone's okay, Alice fell on her front though and bled. I checked her over and don't think there's anything wrong, the bleeding stopped, baby kicked and there are no signs of early labour. Carlisle's checking her out now." Esme replies.
They walk into the safe room to find everyone, including Alec, banging on the wall and trying to get into the corridor, holding their heads in pain but needed to get to Alice, and the man, still unconscious but tied up laying on the sofa. "Crap, sorry. Alice blocked all of your fingerprints. Long story, I will explain later." She says as she opens the door for them all to get in.
Jasper and Carlisle sprint down the hallway and push on the door trying to get in before turning towards Esme who is running up behind them. "Sorry, extra layer of protection. Bella is holding a gun behind there as well."
Edward smiles. "That's my girl."
Esme puts in the code to open the door, 6605398227 and pushes it open, seeing Bella sat there with the gun raised. Bella lets out a massive sigh of relief when she sees that it's just Esme and drops the gun to the floor. She walks over to the other side of the room and picks up a sleeping Charlie while Jacob runs out of the room to his mother, only after checking with Bella that it's okay, and Jasper and Carlisle run into the room to check on Alice. Bella stands up with her sleeping daughter in her arms and walks out of the room cautiously, not sure whether Edward and Rose are awake or even alive. Seeing Jacob in Rose's arms, Bella relaxes some, if Rose is alive then surly so is Edward.
"Angel!" Edward calls.
Bella's head whips around and she sees her boyfriend. Running over to him, he wraps his arms around her and Charlie, softly stroking the baby girl's head. "You're okay." Bella says in relief, not realising that she has started to cry until her tears fall onto Charlie's head and she sees the damp spots that they're creating on Edward's shirt. She reaches up and wipes them away but more just keep coming.
"I'm okay." He whispers into her hair. "How's Alice."
"Fine as far as I know, after Esme checked her over, I made sure she stayed still on the sofa." Bella replies.
"Thank you, Angel." He says kissing her on the lips and then leaning down to kiss Charlie on the top of the head. "I'm going to go in and see her, do you want to come with me?"
"No, I'll stay here. I've been in that room for far too long." She tells him.
"Okay baby." He kisses her again and then walks into the room and over to see his sister. "Are you okay?" He asks her, kissing her on the head and taking hold of her other hand.
Carlisle is checking her out.
"Yeah, apart from the fact both of my parents have looked up my vagina today." She says attempting to lighten the mood even though they're all worried about the baby.
Edward and Jasper laugh at that and Jasper brings her hand up to his face to kiss it. Carlisle leans back, removes his gloves and places the blanket back over his daughter. "It looks like everything's okay, but I still want to get you to the hospital to triple check."
"Okay daddy." She says.
"I'll run up to the room quickly and get you some clean clothes babe." Jasper says before running out of the room and passing a bewildered looking Bella.
There is only her and Esme in the hallway, Bella standing quietly, leaning against the wall trying to process everything that's just happened and Esme is watching everything that's going on in the room.
"Esme, can you go with Alice? I would as well but I need to check everyone else out." Carlisle asks his wife.
"Of course." Esme says stepping into the room and leaving Bella by herself in the hallway.
Marcus steps out of the room and walks over to Bella. "Are you okay?" He asks.
"I don't really know." Bella replies slowly. "What the actual hell just happened?"
Jasper runs back through with a pair of sweatpants and a pair of clean underwear of Alice and into the office.
Marcus wraps his arm around Bella, "It must be a lot to take in. Everyone is fine though. We will have a meeting soon and break down everything that has just happened so we're all on the same page."
Bella nods her head. "Okay-"
She gets cut off by a muffled shout from the other room. "Bells!"
Without thinking, she hands Charlie to Marcus and takes of running down the hallway and into the first room of the safe room. She recognises that voice and no one has called her Bells since the night of the fire.
"Edward!" Marcus shouts to get the attention of his grandson. "Bella's run over to him!"
He wakes up the sleeping Charlie who starts to scream her head off as Edward runs out of the room instantly knowing what his grandfather meant and seeing his girlfriend knelt down next to the man that put them all in there. He runs over to her as he sees her pull of the man's mask.
"Oh my god." Bella breathes out in shock, feeling as if the wind has been knocked out of her.
So... what did you think? I would never hurt Alice's baby, and we find out the sex in the next chapter. Boy or Girl, what do you want? Who do you think it is under the mask? Review and tell me. See you all next Wednesday. ~Megan xxx