Chapter 6:
Okay so here goes the story. Again I am still sick while working on this chapter so sorry for any funkiness and slightly well out there or off the wall errors / mistakes.
Sorry for the lag in getting this Chapter out. Like I said before I do not write on weekends, 1 to keep my husband happy, and 2 because somehow I always end up out with some of our family (cousins who are early 20's, which turns into very late nights/morning trips home) Also No Mercy had came out back on 9/5 and I hadn't gotten around to reading it yet.
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We both sat there talking about what could and couldn't do when it came to getting Anthony back. We really had no idea what Maria and / or Charlotte wanted. We knew Maria was with Charlotte but did she even have anything to do with this? We both thought so. It was just too much of a mess, and having a child being shoved into it as the leverage made it all even worse.
We both got up and walked back inside, not much had been decided but we would need the rest of the family, well not counting Edward to help us with this. It was going to be a mess.
Jasper's POV:
We walked back into the house and I saw that Alice was sitting on the couch and Bella was not around.
"Where is she?" I asked a bit worried something had happened that we didn't hear.
"I know you guys said not to ask what is going on, but-?" she almost sounded as if she would break down in tears any second.
"Alice, we don't know. Bella has asked that it is not brought up until Anthony is back home safe." I heard Peter tell her trying to be diplomatic in a way. It didn't suit him at all.
I didn't know what she wanted either of us to say, and I sent her my own confusion hoping she would understand we did not know either. It will not help the situation or how things are for us all by bugging her about it.
"Fuck – if you're going to talk about me at least use your vampire voices so I can pretend to not know." I heard Bella yell from the kitchen. I chuckled a little and got up and left Peter and Alice there walking over to Bella.
"I am so sorry Bella" I whispered into her ear.
"It's fine, I am guessing Peter told you my request?" she asked
"Yes, he told me" I told her softly. Neither of us had looked away or had raised our voice from a whisper. I knew they both could still hear us but I wanted to just talk, just the two of us.
"Okay" she said resting her forehead against my chest. I did the only rational thing I could think of and wrapped my arms around her body.
"Bella it will be okay, we will find him. We will do everything we can" I told her holding her close. I had missed her. Unlike Peter I hadn't ranted and screamed, and cried and moaned the whole time she was gone, but I did miss her. I had just kept it to myself.
"Bella I promise this is all I will say and you don't have to say anything back, but what Peter said earlier was right. Both of us have been hung up on you since you left. We never stopped caring about you, we missed you every day and wondered what we had done, and if it was our fault you had left. I felt even worse knowing that you were happy when you had gotten home with Peter that night, and that in 1 night of us I had made such a mess. I don't regret it, and I do remember it. I wasn't that drunk" I smirked down at her trying to use some humor " and Bella when Peter said that we can share just fine if it is what you want, he was right. If that would make you happy then, it would be perfectly fine with me. We both care about you a lot, and I know what Peter told you this morning about how he felt. I care for you and I would do anything to keep you safe, and I will do everything I can to get Anthony back here"
She looked up at me, smiled and went back to being held in my arms. I didn't know what I had expected from that but I really just had to get it off my chest. I heard the door closed and couldn't hear anyone around the house. I guess Peter had taken Alice outside. I knew they had heard what I had said, and in a way it would give Alice and idea about what was going on.
"I know you don't want to talk about it, I just had to put it out there" I told her softly talking into her hair.
She smiled up at me and I could hardly stop myself. I slowly leaned in hoping to give her time to pull away if it was what she wanted but she didn't. It wasn't a deep and passionate kiss, but it was sweet and soft. She let out a soft sigh as I pulled away.
"I'm not going anywhere, okay Bella?" I said not really as a question but more as a statement.
"I know that"
I scoped her up and carried her upstairs with me. I hoped she didn't take this the wrong way as I was debating between the couch and the bed. I set her down softly and wrapped her up in her blankets pulling her closer to me.
"Take a nap darlin, once Peter and Alice come back I will talk to them. We will call the family and figure out where to go from there. I am hoping Peter and Alice have figured out a plan or a way around Maria's shield and we can get this done, easy okay."
"Jasper where will I be during this?" she asked not even looking at me.
"Bella I know if I asked you to stay here you wouldn't listen, so option 1 is you stay here, option 2 is we get you a hotel near Fort Davis" I really wanted her to stay here but knew Bella.
"Well I guess option 2 it is" she said looking up at me. "I miss him so much"
"I know, it will be okay"
I sent her some nice peaceful vibes and left the room as she fell asleep. She had woken up way to early this morning. I got up and left going to find Peter and Alice.
Peter's POV:
I sat down in the living room with Alice as Jasper walked away. I knew he needed time with Bella to talk, if she would let him. He had left for me this morning so I did the best I could and asked Alice to go outside with me.
"Okay, so what all have you and haven't you seen?"
She looked a bit lost that I brought her out here to talk but she answered.
"I didn't see him get taken, so I am guessing the shield is who took Anthony from Bella." She sighed " I am sorry I didn't see it, but since the whole Edward thing I have been checking in on her randomly. I also have been looking for Edward though too and have been able to see him, and he's not with Charlotte so I do not think he is involved in this."
Well this was all good, it was putting pieces together.
"With the shield back now, could you still look for Char, or Anthony and hope that he/she is not around anymore?" I was hoping this would work.
"I could try." Well that was good enough for me.
"Okay what, how?" I noticed her spacing out and figured oh that was simple.
"She is with a 3 other males, 1 female. She called the female Maria." Well that was now a yes, it was Maria. "I can't see Anthony so the shield is with him?"
"Okay that is good, that is something. We can hope it is only the 6 of them and then Anthony." This was good news. We could do that, 3 of us and 4 more would give us easy numbers to keep it all safe. Well that was without any of them having abilities we don't know about, and well mostly that. Jasper and I could keep our own, Alice was a quick little thing. I knew Emmett had no problems and Rose was one feisty girl. We could do this.
I let out a unneeded breath and looked over and saw Jasper coming out the door.
"Any news?" he asked looking between us. He almost seemed happy that we were just sitting here, stupid bastard. I wasn't going to go sleeping with Alice.
"Yes, thankfully whoever is the shield is with Anthony right now. So Alice has been able to pop in and out of what they are planning. Right now they are talking about jack shit, but it seems to be the same 3 males, and then Maria and Charlotte in the picture. So that would be 5 of them, plus whoever is with Anthony. Alice can't see him which means the shield is there, but if any others hanigng around with him we don't know. We can guess there are not since how many vampires would it take to watch a 4 year old human, but better safe than sorry. I want to say this will be simple, but my gut is telling me it won't be."
"Well then let's follow your gut. We will get a hotel 20-30 miles out, and go from there. Alice if you could find us a hotel, book 4 rooms, and then call the family to meet us there?" Jasper said going right back to being Major.
"Sure thing Jazz" she said running back into the house I am sure for internet and her phone.
"Peter"
"I know Major, I feel the same way" I could smell Bella on him, and missed the contact with her. I knew we had to get Anthony back. I just didn't want anyone to get hurt in the process of this. He still had his room at the house in Colorado and I hoped we could talk Bella into coming back with us after all of this.
The next two days went by faster then we could even think. Bella had came with us and we all had gotten hotel rooms. Jasper and Alice had talked and so had Bella and I some more and we had agreed to share a room. We had changed our reservation to only 3 rooms. There really want no point to have more. Bella had told us she was fine with Alice being in "our room" for looks since technically we only needed the 1 room for Bella to sleep in and 1 for planning, but we didn't want to raise any eyebrows. Alice had agreed to spend most of her time in the rooms with the rest of the Cullens.
Alice had been spending most of her time with Rose and Emmett in there room though leaving us plenty of time to sit and talk to Bella and get to know her more. Jasper shockingly didn't know much about her, but then from what he had told me Alice and Edward had kept him away from Bella for fear of a slip up. I could understand why but also couldn't in other ways. He had such great will power and strenght, the Jasper we had known, well the Major was never doubted.
Bella still had yet to talk to anyone in the Cullen family. She knew they were here, but she hadn't left our room. We had offered to take her out to dinner, to take her somewhere but she wouldn't go. Alice was still trying to get details from her visions of the land, a building, anything to help us figure out more of a location of where they were and it was starting to drive us all a little bit crazy.
"Jasper why can't I just call her?" I was getting pissed. He had been telling me the past 2 days not to just call Charlotte. Or even to call the number who had called Bella back.
"Peter, then they will know we are coming after them"
"But maybe we can figure out what they want, why they took Anthony" I wanted to yell but with Bella sleeping in the bed not far from us I didn't want to wake her.
"Peter" I heard Bella whimper from the bed and I walked over and layed down with her.
"I want my son" she cried into my chest. I hated seeing her this way. She hadn't really said much the past two days. I pulled her into my arms and saw Jasper frown and he walked over to us. He kissed Bella on the top of the head walking back towards the door.
"We will get him back darlin, I'm going to go over to the family" Jasper said looking at me.
"Bella,"
"Peter I miss him so much, I have never been away from him since he was born. I have always had him around, or only a few miles away. I need my son back, why would they do this" she sobbed into me. I wish I would have the anwsers for her. Screw it. I grabbed my cell phone and opened up a text.
Charlotte-
Why?
-Peter
Peter-
I told you I would get you back to me.
-Charlotte
Charlotte-
What the fuck is your problem!
-Peter
Peter-
Since when do you play with your food? By the way she isn't to bad looking, I'd fuck her too. She smells divine.
-Charlotte
I didn't know what to say back, she was doing this to get back at me. This was all to get me back to her, to get me to Maria. God it was all my fucking faiult.
Charlotte-
Why did you take the boy?
-Peter
Peter-
Well you are planning to come and get him aren't you? Maria wants you, and since she knows Jasper is with you it makes it even better. :)
-Charlotte
Did she just send me a god damn smiley face. What the fuck is she happy about. They wanted me to join them, so what do they do.
Charlotte-
You do know who's son that is? Did you even think about the mess you are making.
-Peter
Peter-
Why would we care about some stupid human's child?
-Charlotte
Charlotte-
Nope, not human
-Peter
Peter-
What? What do you mean
-Charlotte
Peter-
What the hell do you mean Peter, who's child is this.
-Charlotte
I figured that would be enough and stopped texting her back. I had screwed up her happiness for the day, well hopefully for more then that, but I also knew that Jasper was going to be pissed off at me for even talking to her. I was not going to go back to them. Fuck, what the hell was Maria thinking.
Jasper's POV:
I walked into the room and wanted to tell them things had changed and Bella would talk to them and wanted to see them but I knew Alice could see in her visions that it hadn't changed, and I was sure my posture said it all.
"Jasper it is okay, we understand" I heard Carlisle say looking over at me.
Rose hadn't been talking much since all of this came out. She had been so rude and mean to Bella in Forks but now felt horrible after she learned what had happened with Edward, and she hoped she could meet Anthony. She had always wanted to be a mom and really wanted to have a nephew since motherhood wasn't possible. She just wanted a chance to prove she really wasn't heartless. I am sure if Bella chose to hear her out on why she acted how did she and learn of Rose's past Bella might understand. As angry as she was with it, she knew Edward was mostly to blame, but Rose still had her own explanation due for how she had behaved.
Emmett was pissed, his emotions were like Bella's. They were full and he loved and did everything with all of his heart. He was so angry at everything right now. Edward, Charlotte, Maria. I am pretty sure if he knew about Peter, Bella, and me he would be angry about that but Alice hasn't said anything and I was gracious about that.
Esme and Carlisle felt shocked. They were so appalled when they heard about what Edward had done, how he had threatened Bella. When we got to the part of the story where he showed up in Colorado Esme had to walk out. I could see the venom pooling in her eyes. She felt so horrible and it wasn't even her fault. Carlisle was shocked that he had a grandson, he couldn't wait to meet him.
"Well nothing really has changed, we still have no idea what is going on. I am not sure what they want" I heard Peter open the door.
"I do" he whispered almost
"How"
"I texted Char"
I wanted to fucking slap him, to rip his arms off. I had told him not to do it.
"I told you not to"
"I couldn't stop, I needed to know what is going through her head"
"So then, what the fuck did they want?"
"Me, well us now"
"Are you fucking serious"
"Jasper, Language Please" I heard Esme sniffle from the other side of the room
"Sorry Esme"
"She told me she followed me around, Maria still wanted me to come join them after Charlotte had went with her. They saw you there, and then saw us with Bella. When she left they followed her and realized taking Anthony would be the easiest way to get us to come to them" Peter told me, looking down at the ground. I could feel the dispare and guilt.
"This isn't your fault. Stop being an idiot."
"Well I also told her something and pissed her off a bit."
"What now?"
"I asked if she knew who's child she took. She said a stupid human. I told her she was wrong and then stopped texting back. She is bit pissed."
"So who's son does she think it is?"
"Fuck if I know, but after she asked me when do you play with your food, and said she would fuck Bella too, I got a bit snappy."
Well crap I hadn't told the family about any of our relationships with Bella and that commend sure did not miss Emmett's ears. Before I could say anything Emmett had Peter pinned down to the ground by his neck.
Peter's POV:
"Fuck if I know, but after she asked me when do you play with your food, and said she would fuck Bella too, I got a bit snappy." I told Jasper. I was stupid, I played into Charlotte's picking at me but I had at least thrown a wrench into her thoughts.
Well I'm and idiot because before I had time to think I was pinned down to the ground by Emmett. Obviously no one had told the family there was any relationship with any of us with Bella.
"You did what!" Emmett screamed in my face.
"Ga go- she –fine – realx" god it was hard to talk when your windpipe was crushing.
"Emmett, she is an adult." I heard Jasper saying to him as the door cracked open and I saw Bella standing there. She ran over and shoved Emmett trying to push him off of me but being a vampire he didn't flinch.
"Get the fuck off of him, what are you doing!" she screamed at him. "Emmett!" she said pulling her arm back to punch him. I saw Jasper grab her and pull her into his arms wrapping her up.
"You will break your wrist, your hand or you arm darlin" I heard him whisper into her ear. She turned around and looked at Emmett.
"Let him the fuck up god damn it!" She was pissed off still. Emmett got up and off of me walking over to the bed in the room and sat down next to Rose. She wrapper her arms around him as he sat down.
"I could hear you down the hall" She said leaning down to me helping me stand up. The thought was so sweet and I pulled her into my arms when I stood up kissing her on the top of her head.
"Sorry Bella" She pulled herself tighter into my arms and I heard a growl from behind me.
"Shut the fuck up Emmett" She barked at Emmett. Well way to go Bella.
"Peter come back to bed with me" she said into my chest hardly looking up at me.
"What the hell is going on" Emmett yelled.
"None of your damn business Emmett, god damn it, I am glad you are here to help us get my son back but fuck you all. You left me, you all left. Fuck I don't care about the shit with you not helping me with Anthony in the past, you didn't know. But fuck it if I am going to let you have any say in my life now. I just want my son back."
"Bella- Is what Jasper told us about Edwards threats true? Is that why you had me removed as your doctor?" Carlisle asked softly.
"Yes Carlisle that is why. I was doing my best to keep my son safe, and now I am here again with you all for 1 reason. I want my son back. I want him safe, and then I want to go back to my life."
God I hoped she would let me back into her life, and I knew Jasper felt the same.
I realized Bella was writing on my chest. Oh god she is adorable. She wanted to talk to me without them knowing. J-A-S -2. Okay this would be harder. Hum what emotions to send to Jasper. I tried to send him needing and wanting, and he looked at me shocked and I broke out into laughs.
"We will be in the room" I said with my arm wrapped around Bella walking back to our room.
I broke out into a hysterical laugh.
"What is so funny?" She asked
"I tried to send him emotions of needing and wanting" I laughed
"God he probably thinks you want him now" she laughed at me.
"I've missed your laugh" I said leaning slowly in towards her for a kiss. I was happy she didn't pull away and I wrapped my arms around her pulling her into a kiss. She relaxed in my arms and I just felt happy to have her here right now.
I heard the door crack open and I pulled away from the kiss. I was pissed to see it wasn't Jasper walking in but Alice.
"I wanted to let you know, Jasper told me he would be over when he could but he didn't want to open that up to the family right now."
"Thank you Alice" Bella said as Alice walked back out the door. I was glad Bella was being nice to Alice, I know she was angry with the family for what had happened when they left. I had no idea if Alice and Bella had talked but it seemed she wasn't angry at Alice.
"I am not as mad at her because she helped keep Anthony safe, when she called Jasper when Edward showed up at my house back in Colorado" she said looked up at me.
"Am I that transparent?" I smirked
"You never shut up unless you are confused." she laughed at me
I pushed her down onto the bed stranding her and started ticking her ribs and stomach. God I loved hearing her laugh.
"When will we have him back" she looked up at me.
As soon as she asked that the door slammed open and Alice and Jasper ran in.
"We found them!" She smiled over at us looking a bit shocked at finding us on the bed but said nothing about it. I climbed off of Bella and we looked over at Alice. I noticed Bella had reached down and grabbed a hold of my hand.
"Where are they?"
"They are in one of the terminal buildings at Oak Grove Airport" Jasper said.
"Where?" Bella looked at us as if we are speaking some other language.
"32.58 North, 97.3 West, just south of Fort Worth" Jasper told her. "It is a closed off airport that was opened in the 1960's. The building are mostly overgrown, the airstrip though is still able to be used which is probably why she picked it"
"When are we, well what is going to happen now?" She looked back and forth from Jasper to me.
"Bella, it would be best if you stayed here now. I figure since Maria wanted Peter and me that we will go in first. The family can stay close by, Alice can come in with us. We will try to make a deal with Maria first. She will not think anything of Alice being with us."
"Bella" I heard Alice speak. "I need to tell you something I saw in my visions. Edward, well it seems he went to visit us the other day and with us not there he followed our scent. He will be here tomorrow. Please, I don't see any major problems once we tell him the situation but the next part of the plan we need him for." I felt Bella cower back into me.
"What is the rest of the plan?" Bella asked softly.
"Well if it doesn't go as planned we can call to Edward, he should be out of there shields range, and thus able to hear us. Then they can come in to help us with this situation." Jasper tells her.
We all just sat there looking at Bella as she looked around the room.
"Alice, this is the scenario that goes the best I am guessing?"
"Yes, it is. The 3 of us will not cause concern to Maria and Charlotte. They saw you and Peter it seems being together but they do not know of Jasper and my split"
"Okay then. So now what, wait for Edward to get here?"
"No, you will not be waiting for me to get here" I heard Edward say from the doorway. "I am here now, what the hell is going on?"
I wasn't sure how Bella would react to seeing him. Last time we had seen him he had been in pieces and it was not the best situation. I was not exactly prepared to see what Bella did next.
She got up and walked over to Edward. Alice grabbed my arm as I went to go running towards her. She looked down at the floor and I could smell the tears forming as she looked up at Edward.
"Please, I am begging you. Help me get my son back" she said sobbing looking up at Edward.
"Edward please think before you speak" Alice told him looking over at him.
"… … … What is the situation?" he asked looking only at Alice.
"Maria and Charlotte too Anthony. Bella had moved down to Arizona after you had came to Colorado. To get away from this world. They took Anthony from her on his birthday a few days ago while outside the house. We know from phone calls that they are after Peter and Jasper and that they saw fit to take Bella's child as a means to get Peter and Jasper to come back to them." Well that was the short of it. And I noticed how Alice worded everything. Edward did not think of this child as his and he never would.
"Please Edward, I just want my son back, I want him safe and sound and back with me. Please" Bella was sobbing in front of him and he wouldn't even look at her.
"Where is the rest of the family Alice" God damn it look at the mother of your child you stupid bastard. I wanted to growl at him but knew we needed him in this plan. All others ended up with a lot of pain. One even ended up with me staying with them to keep Anthony safe, and if it came to that I would do anything to keep that boy and his mother safe.
"A few rooms over" She said walking towards the door. Bella slowly walked back towards me and I reached my arms out pulling her closer to me.
"It will be okay" I whispered into her ear.
"You hope so" I heard Edward laugh as he left. It was quiet enough that she couldn't hear it but I saw Jasper's head turn and heard the growl.
"Jazz please" Alice quickly said walking with Edward back to the family.
Alice's POV (Sorry needed someone who would be in that room's POV)
I hated this mess. I had an idea now about the relationship with Jasper, Peter, and Bella and everytime I looked at the future right now it was a mess. A few weeks ago It was fine. I had seen the 3 of them being happy and together eventually. Now not so much, but then again Bella couldn't get past the right now and I am sure that wasn't helping.
I wanted to rip Edward to bits and I am sure Rose had a few things to say to him. I kept my mouth shut besides answering what he was asking of me. I knew we needed his help, and right now he wasn't even acting as though Bella was here.
We walked into the room and I saw the family all sitting around. I had told them of my vision when Jasper and them made the plan. We now all hoped it would work out as we saw.
"Son" Carlisle said looking over at Edward.
"Did I not ask you all to stay away from Bella?" He said looking around the room.
"You fuc–" Rose started and Emmett put his hand over her mouth and kissed her neck.
"We did Edward until we got pulled into a situation that she needed our help."
"You couldn't let the little whore deal with it herself. Fucking idiot went and is living with 2 vampires what did she expect to happen."
"Do you not care about your son?" I heard Esme whimper from next to Carlisle.
"I have no son, I told her to deal with that when it happened. She chose her future"
Emmett was keeping his hand over Rose's mouth probably the best thing right now, however he did not have that great of a grip on her.
"Rose no, please" I begged after seeing a glimpse of Edward leaving.
"Fine" she screamed walking out of the room followed by Emmett. I didn't care where they went so long as they left right now. He was pushing her motherly buttons more then anyone in the room and he knew how to pick at her.
"You actually think this is my child?" Edward glared at the remaining 3 of us.
"Edward yes, have you seen him?" I knew Carlisle had the best chance of getting through to Edward.
"No"
"Oh Edward, Bella showed us pictures and he has your hair, your eyes from when you were human" Esme dry sobbed.
"So what, that doesn't mean shit. There are plenty of humans around she could have slept with"
I wanted to kill my brother.
"Edward I need to know if you will help us or not."
"Why should I?"
"You should do it because it is the right thing to do son. Your family needs your help"
"She is not my family, she was a human for me to play with, and human for me to fuck with" he sneered.
"You don't mean that?" Esme sobbed
"Of course I do, why else would I have just up and left? If I actually gave a damn I might have stayed around and helped her with the child."
"So it is yours?" Carlisle caught him in his own words
"Does it really fucking matter? You all need to just go home and let her clean up the mess she made. God Alice how can you be here helping her out when it is obvious from there thoughts Jasper and Peter are both fucking her. She is fucking you husband"
I had to close my eyes and just drop all train of thought. I heard Esme's gasp and Carlisle's confusion was written all over her face.
"He has to be joking" Esme thought to herself
"Sorry mom not joking here. She fucked them both the day before she moved down to New Mexico."
"Edward, Stop this" Carlisle almost yelled at Edward. "Either help us to get your son back or leave. Alice and Jasper separated years ago. If you had checked in with your family you might have known that. It is not our choice what he does, or what Bella does with there personal life."
"Oh but you left out Peter, seems he is in this too with the two of them. What a great big happy family" he sneared.
"Oh Edward just shut the hell up will you. Grow up. She is doing the best she can with what her life has been, she has tried again and again to stay away from vampires like you asked, and to stay away from all of us but she got drug into it again. She did not ask when she moved away to have someone follow her and stalk her stealing her son. She never asked you to help take care of you son, she lived in fear of running into us. She has done every god damn thing you ask of her. We all came here of our own free will to help her, much to her dismay. She begged for us to go away, for us to leave her, now all she is asking is help to get her son back. I would tell you to go fuck off if I could but we need you."
I hated telling him that but we did.
"What if I say no" he asked with a sick smirk on his face.
"Then we will figure it out, we will find another plan and we will make it work"
"What do I get out of this"
God he had become a selfish bastard.
"What would it take to get you to help?"
I wasn't above bribes. I knew how much Jasper had come to care for this child, Peter as well.
"You all to leave her life, to stay away forever, and by all I mean Jasper and Peter too."
"Obviously I can't answer for them"
"Well then skip skip hop hop and get over there and get me an answer"
Fucking asshole I thought walking out of the room. I walked back into Bella's room and couldn't look at her.
AN- I had hoped this chapter would end at a different point but I really wanted to get this Chapter up and posted. I hope it is okay, next chapter should be fun. I start work late tomorrow so hopefully I can get ½ or even all of the next chapter written.
