Chapter 21: A Girl Gone Missing

Daisy got herself up and dressed for school the next day, standing next to the door with her backpack, ready to go.

Jasper and I exchanged a look, "Honey, you can't go into school today."

Daisy's face fell, "Why not?"

"We just think that-" I began.

"You said I could!" Daisy interrupted, her voice indignant, "You said the next day and the next and the next! Everyday, you said! So why can't I go in today?! What's changed since you told me that yesterday?"

Sometimes her intelligence was kind of annoying. She wouldn't fall for the usual tricks that a human six year old would.

"Darlin', you know those vampires who came to see us yesterday?" Jasper asked.

"Volturi." Daisy spat. Her ability to see our memories also made it hard to protect her from the truth.

"They're dangerous." I said, "Especially to you. We don't want you to get hurt."

"The Volturi aren't at school." Daisy reasoned.

"We can't look after you whilst you're at school." I said.

"Renesmee gets to go to school." Daisy said.

"Renesmee's older than you." I said.

"THAT'S NOT FAIR!" Daisy screeched, "I WANNA GO TO SCHOOL!"

"Daisy, stop screaming." Jasper said sternly, "That's not going to get you anywhere."

Daisy stopped yelling and looked up at Jasper with a pout that I was all too familiar with, "Please can I go, Jazz. Pleeeease."

"No." I said before Jasper could melt. Tears sprung to Daisy's eyes, and I tried my hardest not to fall for it, "You can spend the day with Emmett instead. You like playing with Emmett."

Daisy glared at me, "You're mean!"

"Daisy!" I cried as she ran up the stairs. Jasper caught my arm.

"Let her go." He said, "It's just a toddler tantrum."

"She isn't a toddler anymore." I pointed out, "And she's in no way six years old by intellectual measures."

"She'll have forgotten about it by tomorrow." Jasper said, wrapping his arms around my waist, "It's for her own good."

"When are we going to let her go back to school?" I asked.

"Soon." Jasper replied, "We just have to be sure that the Volturi have left. They could still be hanging around from yesterday, and I don't trust them one bit."

"Me neither." I agreed. And, where Daisy was concerned, I wasn't willing to take any risks.

"We need to figure out why you didn't see the Volturi coming." Jasper said.

Last night I'd told him about my lack of visions regarding the Volturi's visit. He'd been concerned, and we'd failed to come up with an explanation. He'd suggested that I'd been too close to Renesmee, as my visions often suffered when she was around. I didn't think this was the reason though; this was different. Usually, if I was too close to Renesmee, my visions became blurred and uncertain. This time, I'd simply had no visions. I hadn't even had that usual feeling I got when something big was going to happen. There'd just been...nothing.

"Maybe it's just me." I said, "Maybe my gift is getting weaker. It stopped working when I was pregnant...maybe it's not going to get back to the strength it used to be."

Jasper took my hands in his, "It isn't you."

"What else could it be?" I asked.

"Perhaps the Volturi were trying to get around your gift." Jasper suggested.

"Possibly." I said, remembering Aro's words 'of course, Alice, you must have seen us coming'. Maybe he'd known that I hadn't had a vision. But... "How would they have managed to get around it?"

"Changing their decisions?" Jasper suggested, "Or getting someone else to decide for them, like Victoria did when she came after Bella?"

I shook my head, "In either of those ways, I'd still have seen...something. Even when they'd arrived, I didn't know until Emmett called us outside." I sat down on the sofa with a sigh, "I just don't know how they could have done it."

"We'll figure something out." Jasper said, "We'll talk to Carlisle when he gets home tonight."

Carlisle was on a business trip, and wouldn't get home until later today. I was counting down the minutes.

Not only would he hopefully be able to explain my lack of visions, but I wanted him around if the Voturi returned. He'd been friends with them, once, and if they'd listen to anyone it would be him.

~o.O.o~

"Daisy! Dinner's ready!" I yelled as I pulled pizza out of the oven. When Daisy didn't appear, I yelled again, "Emmett, bring my daughter down here!"

Emmett appeared in the kitchen, "She's not with me."

I look up at him, "She's been playing with you all day."

"I haven't seen her since yesterday." Emmett told me.

I race up the stairs, "Daisy!"

I threw open her bedroom door and looked around. She wasn't there. I ran through the house, in and out of every room yelling her name. I crash straight into Jasper in the study, "I can't find Daisy!"

"I thought she was with Emmett?" Jasper asked, holding me away so he could look down at my face.

I shook my head, "He hasn't seen her all day. What if she's in danger, Jazz!?"

"We'll find her." Jasper said, his eyes gleaming with determination.

He took my hand and together we raced through the forest that surrounded our house, searching for her and calling her name. We returned to the house after an hour to find Carlisle in the kitchen, talking to a police officer. "...been missing since this morning..."

He stopped when he saw me and opened his arms to me. I collapsed into them, "Where is she Carlisle?"

"We're gunna find her, Alice." Carlisle promised me.

"We're going to send out a team to look through the forest and surrounding area." The police officer told us. I smiled and we all thanked him as he left, but I think all of us were thinking the same thing; if it was the Volturi, the police couldn't help at all.

"You don't know that it's the Volturi." Edward said, reading my thoughts.

"Where else would she be?" I asked.

"Children run away all the time, right?" Emmett asked, "They come back. She'll come back."

Emmett had seemed almost as distraught as Jasper and I were about Daisy's dissapearance.

I turn to Jasper, "Do you think she would run away?"

"Why would she?" Jasper asked.

"Because of this morning." I say, venom tears gathering in my eyes, "She was so upset and I-"

"Don't you dare blame youreslf." Jasper snapped, cutting me off.

Despite his words, I couldn't help but go down that train of thought. What if I'd been too harsh on Daisy and she'd run away? What if she'd gotten lost? What if the Volturi had found her? What if-

"Daisy!"

I turned at Jasper's words and saw Daisy and Renesmee walking through the door, hand in hand.

"Oh my God." I grabbed Daisy and clung her to my chest, sobbing into her curly hair, "Where on earth have you been?"

Daisy looked down and didn't say anything, so I turned to Renesmee, "I found her in the playground after school."

I turned back to Daisy, "Did you run away?"

"I just wanted to go to school." Daisy said quietly.

I hugged her to my chest once more, "Don't you ever to that to me again."

"You're not mad?" Daisy asked.

"We are mad." Jasper said, "But we're more relieved that you're okay." He stroked her hair gently, "You gave us all heartattacks, Darlin'."

"Can I go to school tomorrow?" She asked.

"Of course you can." I said. Right now, I was so relieved that she was alive and in my arms that I would have promised her anything.

I set her down on the floor and crouched down so I could look straight into her face, "Daisy promise me you'll never run away again. Promise."

"Pinky promise." Daisy said linking our pinky fingers.

With our vampire memories, the promise would never be forgotten.

That didn't mean it would never be broken.

A/N: Sorry it's been a while...I'm super busy with exams at the moment! I know it was short too, but I wanted to end it there...anyway, hope you like it!

Think I might do one more chapter whilst she's six and then skip to when she'd nine. Thoughts?

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