Chapter 4: Where is she?
Edward's POV
In the present….
It was finally the end of the day and Bella and I were heading back to our cottage. Renesmee had better have finished those chores of hers if not she was going to be in a lot of trouble. As if she weren't already in a lot of trouble. I was so angry and disappointed in her. She was supposed to wait until marriage! What was she thinking?!
I couldn't even stand to look at her right now. Every time I looked at her I remembered that night that I walked in on her and Jacob and I get filled with anger all over again, as if I were seeing it all over again for the first time.
To our surprise the house was completely dark when we got back. I expected that light would still be on. I thought for sure that she'd be in her room reading; the only hobby of hers that she was still allowed to participate in, mostly because of Bella.
We went in and right away we knew that the house was empty and that it had been empty for a few hours. Her scent was a few hours old.
"Where is she?" Bella asked.
"I don't know. Wherever she is though she is going to be in a hell of a lot of trouble" I said angrily. My daughter was on house arrest and she knew it. She was only allowed out of the house if I needed her to do something.
We followed her scent into the forest where it just abruptly disappeared. That was strange.
"Renesmee!" I screamed knowing very well that she would hear me if she were nearby.
"Renesmee!" this time it was Bella that screamed. We still got no answer.
We searched all over the forest but we found her no where.
"I'm going to call Carlisle. Maybe she went over there" Bella said.
"That's a good idea. Hopefully she's over there" I said.
Carlisle said that she had not been over there. None of them had seen her all day as a matter of fact.
Where could she be? Did she run away?
"Carlisle said that he and the others on their way to help us look for her" Bella said with worry in her voice.
"I'm sure that we'll find her fast. She can't have gone to far" I said.
"I hope so. I would hate it if anything happened to her" Bella said.
We heard the others approach.
"Where was the last place you saw her?" Carlisle asked.
"at the cottage this morning" I said. "Are you sure that you haven't seen her?" I asked.
"We're sure. We haven't seen her since yesterday" Carlisle said.
"Then where could she be?" I asked in desperation.
"I don't know, but we'll keep looking. I'll call the Denalis and see if they know anything. Maybe she planned this ahead of time. Or maybe she is on her way there" Carlisle said.
But the Denalis hadn't seen or heard from her either. They said that they'd call us if anything changed or if she appeared.
We kept searching and searching but we found nothing.
"Maybe she went to go see Jacob" Esme suggested.
Just the sound of the mutt's name sent flares of anger throughout me.
"You're right. I bet she's there. I swear when I find her I will kill her and him!" I screamed before running over to the reservation. I crossed over to their lands. At the moment I didn't care about that damned treaty. Hell I'd welcome war right now.
I banged on the door to Jacob's house.
"Where's Jacob?!" I demanded when Billy opened the door.
"He's asleep" he said.
"Is Renesmee here?" I asked.
"No she's not" he said.
Then Jacob came out. "What is going on here?" he asked.
"Where is Renesmee?" I demanded to know.
"I don't know. I haven't seen her" he said.
By reading his mind I could tell that he was telling the truth.
I was starting to get worried now. What if something had happened to her while we were gone.
Over the next few days we continued to search for her. Jacob also got the packs involved to search for his missing imprint.
We searched all over the country and found nothing.
What was I thinking? What was wrong with me?! I treated her so cruelly and now she was gone. If something happened to her and the last thing that I ever did was yell at her I would never be able to forgive myself. If she just ran away, how could I blame her? I've treated my one and only daughter so cruelly.
"bye dad. I love you" her last words rang through my mind with such clarity.
My response though is what really hurt. "Bye Rensmee" I had just said and then left.
She had just said that she loved me, and I didn't even bother to say it to her.
I broke down crying. I needed to find her. I had to find her. I wanted to beg her for forgiveness. I wanted to apologize for everything that I had said and done to her. I especially wanted to let her know how sorry I was for those god awful lies I had said to her on that night. I was angry, and sometimes when you're angry you do and say things that you don't mean. No matter what though, nothing, absolutely nothing excuses what I have done and said to her.
"It's okay Edward. We'll find her" Bella said as she attempted to comfort me.
"It's all my fault" I said.
"No it's not. We don't know what happened" she said.
"She's right Edward. Don't blame yourself" Carlisle said.
"No it is my fault. I think she ran away because of the way I've been treating her" I said.
"Edward we've all treated her very badly since then. It's a mistake that we all regret. If she ran away it would be all of our faults, not just yours. We'll find her. We'll apologize to her. We'll get on our knees and beg for forgiveness if we have to. We've all hurt her in ways that we shouldn't have. It's not all on you" he said.
"But I've said the worst things to her. On that night that I caught her and Jacob I told her that she had failed me and this family. I told her that she was not the daughter that we raised and that she was an embarrassment to all of us" the words felt like vile coming out of my mouth.
"You said what?!" screamed Bella.
"Edward how could you?!" Esme said.
The rest of the family looked at me in astonishment.
"Edward how could you say that to her?!" Carlisle said angrily. "Now I feel even worse. Our actions toward her must have reinforced those lies that you told her" he said angrily.
"I know and I feel so horrible. That's why I just have to find her. Hopefully she'll forgive me" I said.
"Now we really have to find her" Carlisle said determined.
"Wait, she could be with Charlie. We never thought to check there" Bella said.
"That's true. Hopefully she's there" I said.
Everyone agreed that it was worth a shot. I couldn't believe that we hadn't thought to check with Charlie.
Within minutes we were at his house knocking on his door. Charlie seemed surprised to see us there.
"What are you all doing here?" he asked.
"We're looking for Renesmee. Is she here? Have you seen her?" I asked.
"No I'm sorry I haven't" he said.
That's when I noticed a strange picture that had never been there before. I pushed past him and picked up the picture. It was a picture of Renesmee in a hospital bed holding an infant baby boy.
"Why is Renesmee holding a baby in this picture?" I asked.
Everyone else looked at the picture in confusion to.
"That's not Renesmee. That's Carlie McFly. Surely you all remember her" Charlie said to us like if we had all lost our minds.
"I'm sorry but we have never heard of her dad" Bella said.
"Bella she moved in with us the day after you arrived. You were the one who begged me to let her stay because she was living homeless. You both were so close, like sisters for the eight months that she lived with us" he said.
"Charlie we have never heard of that girl" Carlisle said.
"How can you forget her? She was like part of your family to. Alice, you threw a lavish baby shower for her. Bella, she went into labor at your 18th birthday party at their house. Carlisle you were the one that helped her deliver her baby boy" Charlie said.
What the hell was he talking about?! We would have remembered all that!
"We don't remember anything Charlie" I said.
"How can you forget?! She named her son Carlisle Edward McFly. You don't forget these things" he said.
Okay something really weird and freaky is going on here.
"Where is she now?" Esme asked.
"She moved away not long after she gave birth. She still keeps in contact with me though. Right now she works as a surgeon in Houston, Texas" he said.
"Can we have her address? We'd like to see her" I said.
"Um sure. Here it is" he said.
"Thanks Charlie" I said and then we all left.
"Does anyone remember a Carlie McFly?" I asked.
"No, but I have a suspicion of what is going on" Carlisle said.
"What is it?" Bella asked.
"A century and a half ago I met a vampire named Diego. He has the power of time travel. He demonstrated his power to me and took us both forward in time. It was very hard but somehow we both got back to our regular time. If my suspicion is correct than Diego must have appeared again and sent Nessie back in time" he said.
"Why don't we any memories of a Carlie McFly?" I asked.
"I think it's because we are all supernatural creatures so it doesn't affect us quite as fast as it affects humans, but I'm sure we'll start getting the memories soon. Most likely we'll know that they are false memories though" he said.
"I can't believe it" I said.
"This is worse than what we imagined. I can't believe that she was pregnant! I feel so horrible now. She's tried approaching me several times in the past few weeks because she was worried that something was wrong with her, and I chose to ignore her. What is wrong with me?! I should have just listened to her! She must hate me now" Carlisle said with a lot of sadness in his voice.
"Carlisle she named her son Carlisle Edward. I don't think she hates you" Bella said.
"What are we going to do now?" I asked.
"For now there's only one thing we can do to confirm our suspicions" he said.
" and that is?" I asked.
"Get out your cowboy hats and boots because we are heading to Houston" Carlisle said.
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