Chapter 5: Missing

#A/N. I present you with...Chapter 5! This chapter is the longest. From here, this story will alter between Edward and Bella's POV. Please review and leave any comments!

*Edward's POV*

I was sitting on a fallen tree, watching Jasper and Emmett wrestle each other to the ground. It looked like Jasper had the upper hand. Emmett may be bigger and stronger, but Jasper had years of experience on his side.

Emmett tried to place Jasper into a headlock but Jasper maneuvered out of the way, grabbing hold of Emmett's arms and quickly turning, causing Emmett to fall onto his back. Jasper placed one hand around Emmett's neck and used the other to pin his arms down. He leaned in towards his neck as if to bite him, smirking as he did so.

"I win…again." Jasper laughed. Emmett growled at him then sat up, pushing Jasper away as he did so.

"That was just luck. I can beat you any day." Emmett said, flexing his muscles.

"Sure you can." I said sarcastically from my place on the tree.

Emmett glared at me. "I can. In fact, we're having a rematch tomorrow." he said, a tiny hint of a threat in his voice as he eyed Jasper. Jasper just grinned at him.

I laughed lightly at Emmett's competitiveness. My laugh then turned into a sigh. I was missing Bella. I wondered what she was doing now. Was she at the house with the others? Or was she at our cottage playing with our daughter? Renesmee. I missed her too. I was counting down the hours until I could be back with my girls. I enjoyed spending time with my brothers, but I couldn't ignore the emptiness I was feeling inside by being away from Bella and Renesmee. I sighed again.

"We haven't even been out here for a whole day and there you are moping." Emmett grumbled as he came to sit beside me.

"I am not moping." I said defensively.

"Yeah, you are, Edward." Jasper said, coming to sit on the other side of me.

"I just miss them."I whispered.

"I know how you feel. I miss Alice."

"I miss Rose." Emmett chimed in.

We sat in silence for a moment, missing the ones who held our hearts. A light breeze blew the scent of mountain lion towards us.

"Ready to hunt again?" I asked them, standing up.

"Yeah, maybe I can find myself a bear." Emmett said. We ran towards the scent as the wind continued to blow. We found three mountain lions, and to Emmett's intense pleasure, a grizzly bear. Jasper and I went to attack the lions, leaving the bear for Emmett. After discarding the bodies of our kill, we headed back towards Emmett's jeep.

"Where to next?" Emmett asked, sliding into the driver's seat.

"How about Goat Rocks Mountain?" I suggested. "The bears and mountain lions are plentiful there."

"Goat Rocks Mountain it is." Emmett said, starting up the car and heading back onto the road. We rode in complete, comfortable silence. The silence was broken, however, when my cell phone started to ring. Thinking it was Bella; I immediately pulled out my phone and answered it without looking at the caller ID.

"Bella, love." I breathed into the phone.

"Edward!" Alice's panicked voice came from the phone.

"Alice? What is it? What's wrong?" I said, feeling the panic rise in my own body. Beside me, Jasper turned his body in my direction – alerted by the tone of Alice's voice. Emmett stopped the Jeep to turn around and look at me. His eyes full of questions.

"Edward, I didn't see! I'm so sorry!" she cried.

"Alice calm down! Tell me what's happening." I said with desperation lacing my voice.

"It's Bella, she's gone. We can't find her. Edward, she's missing!" Alice cried.

Missing I repeated in my head.

My Bella's missing.

No! She couldn't be!

"Edward!" Alice's voice broke me out of my thoughts.

"We're on our way." I hung up the phone. Emmett was already speeding back to Forks. My emotions were all over the place. I was feeling a mix of things. But above all anger. Anger at whoever took my Bella away from me. And then there was fear. Fear of not knowing where Bella was and who she was with.

We made it back to the house in record time. I was out of the car before it came to a full stop, flying into the house and into the living room. Alice was sitting on the couch with her head in her hands. Esme was sitting beside her with her arm around her shoulders, trying to comfort her. Rosalie was sitting in the armchair with Renesmee sleeping in her lap. I felt calmer seeing Renesmee safe.

"Tell me what happened, Alice." I said, standing in front of her.

She looked up at me with remorseful eyes. "Bella had left over an hour ago. She said she was going to the cottage to take a shower and change. But she never came back, so I decided to go look for her. When I got there she was nowhere in sight. I couldn't pick up on her whereabouts, or whoever it was that took her, because the rain washed away the scents."

"And you didn't see any of this?" I snapped at her, my fear and anger finally spilling over.

"No, I'm so sorry, Edward." Alice said, her voice small.

"Sorry isn't going to bring her back." I growled.

"That's enough, Edward!" Jasper said glaring at me as he came to stand in front of me, blocking my view of Alice. "You know that she can't always see everything. Don't you dare blame her for this."

"You're right. I'm sorry, Alice. Forgive me?" I said, hanging my head.

"There's nothing to forgive, Edward. I understand that you're scared and angry." She said, pushing past Jasper to throw her arms around me to pull me into a hug. Carlisle walked into the room then.

"I came as fast as I could." He said, walking over to Esme and taking her hand in his.

"Does anyone have any ideas as to who could've taken Bella?" he said, looking around the room.

"The Volturi?" Emmett said from where he was standing beside Rosalie.

"I was thinking that myself." Carlisle said. "There's no doubt in my mind that this is something that Aro would do. This could be some sort of revenge for our last confrontation. But then, we don't exactly know that do we? Yes, the Volturi has enough motives to be behind this, but there's a chance that could be an enemy we didn't even know we had."

We all agreed with everything Carlisle said. We couldn't just frame the Volturi without having the facts first. That could lead us all into great danger if we were all suddenly showing up at their castle, prepared for battle.

"But then how did they get around Alice's visions?" Esme said.

"Not many people actually know exactly how her visions work." Rosalie chimed in.

"Which brings us back to our first conclusion – the Volturi." I said. "Aro knows more about Alice and how her visions work than anyone."

"But we still don't know if it was the Volturi, Edward." Jasper said. "There's a possibility that we have been watched without our knowing."

"That's true." Carlisle said, nodding his head.

"But how would they know about my visions?" Alice asked.

"Then someone must have been watching us for a very long time." Carlisle said. "We have two possible theories to who could've taken Bella. Now all we need is evidence. We will have to wait until something comes up. In the mean time, Alice will keep a close watch on the future."

"Carlisle, I can't just sit here and do nothing!" I yelled, turning on him. "My wife is out there somewhere, probably about to be…" I choked up, I couldn't finish the sentence.

"Edward, it's the only thing we can do."

"There has to be something else." I argued.

"You know as well as I do that this is the only thing we can do at that moment. I want Bella back home too – we all do, but we can't take any risks." He said, his voice holding authority.

I sighed. He was right. I hated that there wasn't anything more I could do to find Bella.

"How much does Renesmee know about this?"

"She doesn't" Rosalie said. "She fell asleep a little while after Bella left. The dog was here but then had left to check on his father, so I suppose she got bored. She hasn't been up since."

I winced. How was I going to tell her that her mother was gone and I didn't have any idea how or when she would be back?

"I can tell her, if you'd like." Esme offered.

"No, it's something I need to do." I said, closing my eyes.

I made my way over to the couch. I sat down with a sigh, trying to keep my emotions in check while I tried to decide the best way to tell Renesmee when she awoke. I didn't think I could do this. I was on the very edge of falling apart without the added stress of this.

I had to do it. I had to be strong for Renesmee. She couldn't be without both parents. I vowed right then that I would do whatever it took to stop myself from falling apart. Renesmee will need me and I couldn't let her down.

Renesmee started to stir in Rosalie's arms. She yawned and then stretched, her eyes fluttering open.

"Daddy!" she cried, when she spotted me. She climbed out of Rosalie's lap and ran towards me. I wrapped my arms around when she was close enough, hugging her tightly to me. I noticed that everyone started to quietly leave the room.

Renesmee placed her palm on my cheek.

"I missed you."

"I missed you too, my Renesmee." I whispered into her hair. We continued to hug each other for a few minutes.

"Where's momma?"

My dead heart broke a little. I hated knowing what I was about to do.

"Renesmee, your mother…. she's not here at the moment." I said, pulling back to look here in the eye.

"Where did she go? When is she coming home?"

I took a deep breath. "I don't know. Your mother is….missing. She's gone."

Tears welled up in her eyes. "No!" she shouted in my head.

"I promise you, I will do whatever it takes to bring her back to us." I said to her, determination in my voice. I pulled Renesmee closer to me as she started to sob.

"Momma!" she cried, her voice muffled by my shoulder.

My dead heart broke all over again.