Long Journey Home

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Chapter Four

Week Two, Day One

Denton, Montana, with Bella

Days have passed for Bella. She wanted to go home. She wanted to be near her loved ones. She was unable to with being in the middle of nowhere. She did, however, found out that she was located in Denton, Montana in an abandon house that used to belong to Spike and Nelly years ago.

Every morning and evening, Nelly, would bring her food and water. Basically a large turkey sandwich, a small bag of baked chips, and a container of water; for every meal. She was sick and tired of eating that every single day. First, she wasn't planning on eating anything someone was giving her, period. She had to, since she was having another child. She was glad that they didn't put any poison in them.

They even gave her store bought clothing, with the price tags still on them. She hoped that they didn't steal them for her. She realized that they wouldn't have cared. They already kidnapped her, and robbed a bank in the very same day. So stealing clothing from Wall-Mart, was nothing to them.

Bella didn't feel right wearing them. They were tight on her, so she felt like she could barely breathe. That always happened every other day. But she would get over it and take a very quick shower in the recently, cleaned bathroom.

Bella wished she had her purse with her. If she didn't she would have been able to call for help. Although she did leave her purse in the house that morning, only taking her car keys, driver's license, and her debit card. She even brought herself a black rubber band with her.

This day she started out that same as the past several days. She was tired of doing absolutely nothing. Nothing for her to do, or anyone to talk to. She felt like she was a prisoner on solitary confinement. But on this day everything was going to change she just didn't know when.

The door to the room, slammed open, hitting the wall on the other side. A decent size crack, where the doorknob was located. In walked, Nelly and Spike, they both looked afraid. Which they will be when the wolves find them.

"Get up!" Nelly demanded. "Come over to me."

Bella slowly stood up from the chair she was sitting on. She walked over to Nelly. She was hoping that she won't be getting hit any time soon. Not even a second later, Nelly grabbed her arms behind her back, and place handcuffs on her. The metal dug into her skin, leaving some cuts on her. She could actually smell the blood from those small cuts. She was glad that Spike grabbed a hold of her arms before she fell flat on her face.

"Where are we going?" Bella just had to ask. She was the curious one, and the smell of blood wasn't helping her.

Nelly grabbed her roughly by her shirt collar, stopping Bella from walking period. Although Bella's back bumped into Nelly's chest. She steadied herself, so she doesn't trip over her own two feet. Bella might have been clumsy in her youth, but not so much now then before.

"Somewhere far away," Nelly whispered against Bella's ear. Her breath felt uncomfortable against her ear. She shivered in misery. "You will never know where we are going. We don't need your dog, following us?"

Bella's brown eyes widen. Did she mean the wolf pack? Or actually small furry puppies that she owns? Bella cleared her head, slightly afraid. She got up her courage, before asking her. "What do you mean by dogs?"

Nelly threw her head back in ridiculous laughter. Her red painted finger nails dug into my shoulder blades. She was going to have bruising there in the morning. Nelly's dark eyes held amusement. "I mean the wolf pack. We don't need them sniffing, their way towards us?"

"Get her in the van!" Spike shouted from the driver seat of the van. The van in question, was white with no window's on the sides. This van was used for a business.

Nelly rolled her eyes at her husband. He was always demanding, for her to do something or another. She pulled Bella into the back of the van. Unlike her husband, she actually buckled her into the seat belt, too, before slamming the van door.

Spike started the van, and took off like a bat out of hell. He clearly wanted to get farther away from this place. As soon as the van was at the end of the dirt driveway, Spike took what looked like a pen from his pocket, and pushed the end of the tip. A loud explosion erupted behind the van.

The van suddenly turned, and Bella was able to see the house behind her. The house was in total ruins. Fire and smoke were all over the place. The whole house was destroyed that included the car that she was first transported in. The house was surrounded by a dense forest, so it will take a while for firefighters to, arrive.

Bella wondered why, Spike, would do that? But then again he was probably trying to cover up any and all tracks of her being there. Someone should have found her by now? Wolves and vampires would probably be working together to help save her. So where were they? Why wasn't she rescued yet? Do they even know that she was gone?

Alice was a physic, she should have seen, where she was going? Maybe Alice never cared for her anymore. Bella knew without a doubt that her mental shield was down. Eleazar taught her how to control her mental shield, and he was still in the process of teaching her, her physical shield too.

So many thoughts passed through Bella's head. She wanted so badly to go home, and away from whoever theses people are? She without a doubt knows that Nelly and spike aren't human, vampire, or any shape-shifting creature.

On the road, Jasper and Edward…

Four days have passed, and the Cullen brothers, were on the trail for Bella's scent. Edward was leading the way, while Jasper was driving. They followed the trail by the state line of Montana by dawn.

"I think we should find a hotel, before the sun comes up," stated Jasper, as he watched the clouds move across the sky.

Edward pinched the bridge of his nose. "But we will never get to her, then?"

Jasper sent Edward some calming through his powers. "She will be fine for now, I can smell her scent, she won't be that hard to find."

Jasper's golden eyes glanced at his brother in concern. "Besides, we need to find somewhere to stop to feed. It has been two four days, especially if we find her she is still your singer."

Edward sighed, he didn't like being wrong. In a strong voice, he became saying, "I agree."

Cullen household, Forks Washington…

The pack members, and anyone within the tribe that knows of the pack were currently over at the Cullen household where they have set up the find Bella operation. Charlie was at work, trying to find out anything about his daughter.

Paul was in his wolf form in the middle of the woods trying to calm down. But he couldn't, as of right now. He was still depressed. He wanted his wife back. His life back to normal, or as normal as possible. He was currently blaming himself, for not going with her to the store.

In the distance, Paul was able to see another wolf come near him. He was able to tell right away that it was his younger half-brother Jake Black. His wolf came near Paul's and nudged his wet nose across Paul's forehead.

Charlie is on his way back, Jake thought to him, and whatever pack members that were in their wolf form. He has some good news he found out. I think it might have to do with Bella.

Why didn't you tell me right away, Paul thought to his pack mate. He mentally growled at him, too.

I thought that you might be sleeping. I didn't want to scream that inside my head just in case you were, Jake thought to him.

Both of the guys phased back into their human selves. Before they ran up to the house, they slipped on a pair of jean shorts. Paul was looking beat up. His eyes had dark circle's underneath them. Jake also looked like crap, but not as bad as Paul did. They ran up to the Cullen's house at the same time, Charlie pulled up in his police cruiser.

"I have some news," said Charlie, as he entered the Cullen house. He still had his police uniform on. He wanted to get their as quickly as he could.

"What is it?" asked Paul, after he took a drink of soda. "Did anyone find her?"

"No," said Charlie. "She was not found. But they did find the car that she was taken in. I got a call from the police chief from Denton, Montana."

Megan's had a hopeful smile on her face, "Did they at least find anything?"

"Yes," said Charlie. "Early this morning there was a fire in an abandon house on the edge of Denton. The car was blown up, along with the house. So far, there were no human remains discovered, and there was a fresh set of tire tracks leading away from the crime scene."

"So Bella is either burnt to death or still out there," said Paul, with his head in his hands.

"Unfortunately," Charlie muttered. "I do have the address to the place where the car was discovered. If we can call Jasper or Edward and give them the location, they might find something more than human eyes can."

Alice pulled out her cell phone, and she dialed Jasper's number. Charlie gave Alice the address to the scene of the crime. In the hallway, the shape-shifters and vampires could hear. "Jasper, it's Alice. I want you and Edward to go to Denton, Montana. There is a burnt building there that happened recently. There might be evidence to where Bella might be."

Alice whispered something into Rosalie's ear. To quiet for the others to hear. Rosalie rolled her eyes at her sister, as Alice walked up to her room still talking on the phone with Jasper.

"They will check it out, but not until midnight," said Rosalie. "Also there calling for a small rain shower before that, so the ruins' will be alright to look through."

"Good," Charlie muttered to himself.

Midnight, Denton, Montana with Edward and Jasper…

After the sun went down, they went to the nearest forest to hunt before going into the recently burned down house. They didn't know what to except when they got there. The boys each took down a couple of deer, and other wildlife. They were both filled up with blood and good to go for the next four days. So they were good on hunting in that area.

They brought two book bags with several different items for the dig out. They ran to the house instead of taking their car. They didn't want anyone to know that there was someone at the crime scene. Plus, they would be faster running than a car. Especially when they are on a tight schedule.

The house was in complete ruins', and so was the garage. Pieces of charred wood were near the forest. Charred pieces of wood were everywhere. The scene was, luckily, not cleaned up yet as seeing the police were still doing an investigation on the house. Glass plates were shredded and had scorched marks. The area was a mess.

"I smell her scent," said Edward moving over to what would have been the room that Bella slept in. "Her scent is mainly in this area. Right here is the strongest, but I don't see any human ashes."

Jasper took two steps forward in Edwards direction. Under a crap load of rubble, was a small metal box with a small silver lock on. He crushed the lock with his bare hand. He looked inside, of the box and seen that there was some ashes in it. From the amount of ashes, Jasper was able to guess that it was a child before they were cremated.

Edward's and Jasper's eyes met at the same time. The box was located underneath a broken bed. Jasper wondered what it was doing there? Did it move with the explosion? Or was it hidden underneath the bed?

"I think we need to give this to Carlisle, to rule out anymore kidnappings," Jasper stated. He was getting a bad feeling about this.

"Your right," said Edward moving his right foot a little bit to his right. He moved a large piece of wood with his hand. Underneath there was a melted metal shoebox without a lock on it. Edward lifted it lid up, and peeked inside.

Old newspaper clippings that had been through the years and this explosion, just barely lasted through that. There were several surviving photographs of three people. Edward smelled Bella's scent on the old photographs, and newspaper clippings.

"I think you should run these to Carlisle now," said Jasper. "I know that we are in this together, but I think that the theses boxes are important. Especially if Bella's scent is the recent one on them. There might be more clues inside, of them."

"Your right," said Edward. "Will you be fine here?"

"Yes," said Jasper, rolling his eyes at Edward. "I will uses my gift if I need to. I will see you in the morning."

"Stay safe," said Edward. "Make sure you leave before dawn. We don't need anyone seeing our sparkling asses at this sight."

"Just go," Said Jasper. Edward nodded his head before running off into the night. Jasper sighed, "Finally some piece and quiet."