Chambers of the Soul

Summary: Bella lives with her abusive father; Charlie, her older brother; Maxi and her younger sister; Harmony. She almost thinks there's no hope but what happens when the new family comes to town? Will she ever be happy? What if Bella and her siblings became happy and then someone came back to haunt them…

Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight. All characters and other twilight-related things belong to SM. I only own the storyline.

Bella Swan

"Maxi," I whispered, grasping his elbow. "Why would she leave abruptly like that? And what on earth was that noise?"

He disappeared for a moment and then came back cradling Harmony. "We should go look…"

He was scared. It was evident in his voice.

I nodded even though he wouldn't be able to see it, and started on the stairs. Each step we took made one of those ear-piercing screeches. You know, the sound in a horror movie when someone is trying to be quiet but fails miserably. That was us.

Living our own, very real and very scary, nightmare.

Once I got to the bottom of the stairs, I flipped the light switch on and stared at the empty downstairs of Renee's house.

I was confused. Very, very confused. Where had Renee gone so suddenly? I peered around the stairs to see the basement door wide open. I wrinkled my noise at the old-abandoned smell and turned back my head. "Can you believe this? She didn't even leave a note. I mean, child services wouldn't be very pleased with this would they?"

Maxi shook his head. "This is terrible. She could have told us she was leaving…Why didn't she ask us to go too?"

"Maybe she like daddy…" Harmony whispered, her big brown eyes staring at me in fear.

I took her from Maxi and rubbed soothing circles in her back. She could remember clearly what Charlie did to her. She'd often wake up screaming that the water was stealing her breath and she was going to die. "Sweetie, I don't think she's like daddy."

But that was the problem. I didn't know. I didn't know our own mother. She was the one who walked out and caused the mess.

We were walking across the front room towards the kitchen when a bang went off somewhere else in the house. It was coming from downstairs, I just wasn't sure where.

"But she left…" He said, panic taking control of his features. "I mean…the door went and everything."

I nodded and held my finger to my lip as a signal for him to be quiet.

He got the point and sat down on the couch with Harmony, trying to distract her from the noises.

I listened again, trying to pinpoint where the soft, continuous bang was coming from. It seemed to be under the floor. I walked quietly, each step sounding like an elephant. My heart was on the edge.

I finally pinpointed where the noises were coming from. They were coming from the wide-open door under the stairs that led to the basement.

I knew it was a bad idea to check. To walk towards something I was scared of. But I did anyway.

I walked right into its trap. Right into the spider's lair.

As I step through the door and began walking down the stairs, it shut behind me and there was complete darkness. Noises were coming closer and closer, louder and louder.

I wanted to scream but no sound came out.

My feet were swept from under me from some unknown source I couldn't see, and my head took a hit against the hard, wooden steps.

The darkness began creeping away, and my eyelids swept shut quickly.

Edward Cullen

"Alice?" I asked my sister who had her back towards me as she searched the web.

She turned and shook her head mutely. "I haven't found anything, Edward. I'll keep looking. Thanks for staying out of my head."

I smiled. It was the least I could do. "No problem, little sis."

I got up from the couch, too anxious to sit down. I tried listening to every thought in the house, all of them negative. No such luck.

We were searching Renee Swan. Even though child services had confirmed that she was aloud to take her children, I didn't like her. There was something fishy. What was worse is that just like Bella and Maxi, I couldn't read her mind either. Alice couldn't see their futures either so we were pretty much screwed.

It wasn't possible for us to keep tracks on the people we'd accepted into our family.

Esme had been worrying out of her mind. Every since she watched Harmony disappear in that car, she hadn't come out of her room. Harmony had kept her occupied. She was a growing human who depended on people to get her through the day. Esme had felt like a mom for once.

Their lives had finally been coming together and in place and then their own mother had come in and unsettled them again. I could only imagine what they were dealing with right now.

Renee brought back bad memories for Bella, I knew that. And I didn't blame her. The last time she'd seen her mother, she'd left them for death with Charlie. It was totally normal for Bella to be feeling like that.

And I was so worried about her. So scared. How often would I get to see her now with her living somewhere else? And would Renee let me see her? We were in love…so in love. It would be wrong to keep us apart.

"This woman is like a ninja or something…" Emmett muttered quietly as he looked over Rose's shoulder onto the computer screen. "There's hardly anything about her. How can a human do that?"

"Oh, it's very possible." Carlisle told him. "But only skilled humans will figure out how to keep themselves completely away from the internet and any records, like herself."

"Charlie's a police officer…" Jasper put in. He was always the smart one. "He knows exactly how to wipe people from records as if they never even existed."

I agreed with him, taking in all of my family's thoughts. There was one that was bothering me a lot.

I took the stairs two at a time and knocked lightly on Esme and Carlisle's bedroom door. I didn't want to just barge in, it was rude. "Mom?"

"Come in." She spoke quietly, but of course everyone in the house could hear her.

I took a step into the room, studying her with narrowed eyes. She was led on their king-size bed, her eyes staring up at the plain ceiling. I sighed. "Mom, you can't just lie here and think about them. We need to be up and active, hunt and find them. Just to check on them. I mean, if you see them happy, you'll be happy right? To see Harmony interacting with her real mom, laughing and playing?"

Esme cast her eyes towards me and her thoughts spiralled quickly. "I guess so. She deserves that."

"I agree. They all deserve to be happy. They're so strong and amazing." I smiled. "For humans."

We both grinned at each other but we were interrupted by the others.

'Edward,' Rosalie thought urgently. 'You should see this.'

I sped down the stairs to the computer in vampire speed. Esme was hot on my heels.

I stared at the screen. If I'd had a human heart, it'd have been beating.

"There's a record here," Rosalie read to everyone. "A file of a Lanae Sawyer…or something." She wrinkled her nose. "Well anyway. There's a picture, it looks like Renee but slightly different. There's a whole track of criminal records; the list goes on and on." She looked up with fears in her eyes. "Do you think Renee would change her name all those years ago?"

"To get back to her children without being suspicious, yeah." Alice said. "If she changed her name when she left Charlie and committed all this stuff…she may have changed her name back 2 years ago or something – planning to get to Bella, Maxi and Harmony. If you look, there are no records after 2 years ago."

I nodded. It seemed to work. But wouldn't people know she was the same person? Like child services? Had they just made one huge mistake?

"If this is still her address now, then I know where they are. It's a 2 hour drive, human speed." Emmett said, pulling Rosalie close to him.

"Okay," I said and told everyone to get ready. "That's it; we're going to go visit them. Who knows, we may be wrong…"

But deep down inside me I somehow knew we weren't wrong.

so, who forgot the Cullen's were vampires? ;D Go back to chapter 3 for a reminder;D

I don't know why some people found the last chapter confusion…but well yeah. So, here it is; Renee has finally come back to take her children back after she left them with Charlie. She realizes it was a mistake and takes them to her house where they will live now. The last chapter was the first time Bella, Maxi and Harmony had been in Renee's house. The accident Bella was referring to was the one that took place with Charlie. Where he beat them all up, and drowned Harmony. Sorry guys, I know my head isn't with it atm… :/

I put this chapter together quickly. Hope its okay! What do you think about Renee?

please review! :)

Savannah

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