Charlie's POV

Edward and I were dealing with an arsonist… he had set fire to outbuildings on several properties within the Forks city limits and then had moved on, and eventually our suspect was picked up in Port Angeles. We had been working the case in Forks for weeks, so when we got the call that they had found our guy… we were both en route to meet up with the Officer who had caught him in the act of setting another fire. It was a complicated case, spanning multiple towns and so we knew we would be gone for a couple days while we sorted it all out.

I didn't like leaving Bella and Nessie while we were going to be out of town… but Esme came through again, inviting the girls to spend the night with her and Carlisle. It took a massive weight off of my shoulders and both Bells and Ness were comfortable with Esme.

"Coffee." Edward pulled the door open and handed me the cup. It was early, but we wanted to get as much done down here as we could before heading home, hopefully later today.

"Thanks." I grumbled, grabbing the cup and taking a quick sip.

"Talk to Bells?" I asked him as we drove from the coffee shop to the station. It was too damn cold to walk today. Edward didn't answer me, shaking his head.

"They're probably still asleep." The kid muttered and I shook my head. I liked Edward, but he was as love-sick as it got, when it came to Bells.

As I pulled up out front, I let the engine run for a few minutes, neither of us moving as we drank our coffee.

"Cullen…" I paused, not quite sure what I wanted to say to the kid. I had already thanked him profusely for never giving up on my girl, and for being there for her now. He had been amazing and she had clung to him from almost the beginning… she trusted him like nobody else… including me. And Ness… she looked up to him fiercely.

"What's up Chief?" He asked when I didn't say anything.

"Bells loves you, ya know?" I asked him, not quite sure that he realised exactly how much she did feel towards him. "Every night… Bells has the nightmares about that bunker. She screams and she cries… but then, almost every night like clockwork… she calls for you, and then she goes quiet. It's like you enter her dreams and you calm her down, helping her." I told him. Bells had never shared her dreams with me… and really, the only reason she had talked about anything that had happened in the bunker with me, was because I was there when we took her statements. Those days had broken me as I watched and listened to my daughter describe the extreme abuse she had suffered. Beyond that, I tried to be there for her as much as I could, and I knew that my daughter loved me… but it was Edward who had helped her the most.

"Nessie told me about the dreams once… she said Bella never had them in the bunker… they only started once they got home." Edward responded quietly, his hands wrapped around his cup, and his eyes focused outside of the window.

"Sometimes I don't feel like I'm doing enough for her… and other times… I don't know if I'm pushing her into too much." He admitted and I could relate. I felt that way a lot of the time now too… I didn't really think that there was a right or a wrong way to how we were dealing with this… everything took thought and understanding, and when I spoke to Esme about it before, she assured me that it was normal to feel useless and inadequate at times. None of us had been through what Bells and Ness had, but just because we couldn't relate directly… it didn't mean that they didn't still need us.

"Charlie… I want to be there for you and Bella and Nessie. I want to be there for the girls no matter what… whatever they need from me. I will do whatever it takes to help them and make them safe. I love them both." He said simply and I knew that already. It was plain to see when he talked or even thought about them… he had never wanted anyone else, always believing that one day Bella would come back. And now that she had… he was devoted to her, and her daughter – I don't think anyone would question the boy's dedication to them.

"I trust you with them, Kid." As I spoke I heard my phone chirp and I looked down, putting it quickly to my ear to see what Anita needed back at the Forks station.

I'm sure my face went white as Edward sat and watched me.

"Yeah, we're on our way back up." I said quickly, thanking her before hanging up.

Tossing my phone to Edward I told him to call Detective Cruz to let him know we wouldn't be in this morning to go over the arson files… they had copies of all of our stuff, and we would have to come back later to answer any questions or figure out all that new-fangled internet chat stuff. All I knew was that I needed to get back to Forks for this now… it wasn't an emergency but it was far more important.

"What's going on Charlie?" Edward had gotten off the phone with Cruz and we were already flying up the highway. Glancing at him, I could see the fear on his face reflected. There was only one reason that he could think of that I would be heading back to Forks this quickly.

"You're never going to believe who just walked into the station." I nearly growled in response, frustrated at far away from Forks and my daughter I was right now.

Edward didn't answer, his face telling me that he already knew.

I told him anyways.

"Victoria Sutherland." I said, and saw him reach up, tugging on his hair.

"She's turning herself in." I told him what Anita had told me, and I felt the hair on my arms stand straight up. Of course she had picked a day when neither Edward nor I were there. Not only that, but it meant that she had been in town… what if she had gone after Bells again… or Nessie? We still didn't understand that woman's motives at all when it came to her part in Bella's kidnapping.

A minute later and Edward's phone was back to his ear… I assumed he was calling either Bella or Esme to warn them. Who knows whether her friend was back too… or maybe it was some elaborate scheme to get Bells or Ness away from other people.

But again, Edward surprised me.

"Jazz?" He said, not letting his friend say anything before he launched into what he needed, obviously on the same page as me.

"Take Emmett and go to the house. Bella and Ness are there with Mom and Dad. I'm with Charlie on our way back from Port… we just got a call that Victoria Sutherland is at the station, ready to turn herself in. I just need to know that Bella and Ness are safe… just in case…" He said, his voice rough as he thought through the same things that had gone through my mind.

I assume Jasper agreed, and I listened as Edward gave them further instructions. I knew that my decision to trust that boy was smart… there was no way that he would ever allow anything to happen to those two girls again.

A/N: Hey guys! Thanks for all of the amazing reviews and love for this story! I just wanted to apologise for the delay in getting new chapters up. It's been an insane weekend so far here, with a couple of unexpected minor emergencies come up. Hopefully I'll be back on track for the rest of the week now, but it will probably only be one chapter a day now going forward.

Thanks again, and I hope that you enjoy!