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Bella kept her tears at bay as Sam and Mike loaded her back into the backseat of their squad car and drove away from the police station. She wanted to beg them to turn around, to take her back to Alice, to let her rescue her again. But she couldn't. Not this time.

"How did Lauren kill herself?" she asked, watching as the two men tensed. Sam kept his eyes locked on the road. Mike, however, turned and looked at her. "Did she slit her wrists? Swallow a bottle of pills? Maybe she put a gun under her chin and pulled the trigger."

Neither spoke.

"When Jacob pushed her down in the seat of pick up, when he peeled her clothes off and forced himself inside of her, did he tell her that she'd learn to love it? Did he call her a dyke? Tell her it was her fault, that she deserved to be . . . to be raped? Because she was a sinner and deserved to be punished?"

Again, neither man said anything.

"When he was touching me," Bella whimpered, keeping her eyes locked on Mike's, "he said I'd learn to love it. To want it. My father said that to me when he climbed onto the bed behind me, and caressed my butt, positioned himself against me." She blew out a heavy breath. "That was my father, and he wanted to fuck the gay out of me, because in Charlie Swan's mind the worst thing I could be was a lesbian. I could have fucked every boy in town, and he wouldn't have cared. But kissing a girl . . . that was just too much for him to handle."

"But you didn't kill him," Sam said, and she shifted her attention to him. "You didn't, Bella. We all know you're covering for them."

She shook her head. "No, I'm not."

Sam pulled his squad car in the back of the county lockup, and turned and looked at her. "You're not a killer, Bella. You don't have it in you to take a life. I get why you think taking the blame for them is the right thing to do. I do, but it's not. They could have come to us, asked us to help find you, but they didn't. They took the law in their own hands, and, Bella, that's not okay."

Bella shook her head. "You don't believe that he put his hands on me in the first place, Sam. You're not stupid, are you? You heard what he's like, didn't you? Maybe you just thought it was man talk. Look at her tits. She's got a tight ass. Bet she's just begging to be fucked. Bet she likes it hard and fast. That's what he'd say, isn't it?"

Sam didn't reply, which was all the confirmation she needed.

"I was his daughter, and he was going to rape me, and you sit there and you judge me," she snarled. "You're not any better than he was." She looked at Mike, who was frowning. "Neither of you are."

Sam and Mike shared a look before they climbed out of the car, Sam dragging her out of the backseat. They held each of her arms as they escorted her inside, down a long narrow hallway, until they pushed her into an empty room. They closed the door, and left her inside. She blew out a heavy breath, trying her hardest to keep from openly sobbing.

The door opened again and Sam and Mike walked in with a woman guard behind them. She was tall, thin with fiery red hair that had been pulled into a bun on the back of her head.

"Get her processed," Sam ordered. "Be thorough. She'll like it."

Mike and Sam left the room, leaving just Bella and the woman guard, who rolled her eyes and turned back to her. "What'd you do to piss them off?"

Bella shrugged her shoulders.

"Okay, well, let's get started," she said. "I'm going to remove the handcuffs. I can assure you they are standing just outside the door, so if you do something stupid, like attack me, they'll be in here less than a second. Let's just get this over with, alright?"

She nodded.

"Good," she replied. "My name is Maggie. You're Bella. I've seen you on the news. Kind of thought you'd be bigger."

Maggie moved so that she was standing behind Bella, and grabbed her arms, pulling them roughly, a play of power, before she removed the handcuffs. Bella pulled her arms in front of her and rubbed her wrists before Maggie grabbed her shoulders and pushed her against the wall.

"You're going to have to strip, honey. Take it all off."

Blowing out a deep breath, Bella began removing her clothes, letting them drop on the floor until she was only standing in her bra and underwear. When she turned back to Maggie, she found her standing behind her with a camera in her hands.

"Where'd you get the bruises?" Maggie asked, gesturing toward her neck, her arms.

Bella didn't reply. What was the point? She wasn't going to believe her any more than Sam or Mike had.

"Did they do that?" she asked, tilting her head toward the door. "Or did your old man? Heard you wacked him? He put his hands on you and you kill him?"

Bella just stared at her.

Maggie smiled and took pictures of her bruises before she kicked the stack of clothes next to the door toward her. "I'll save you the full body search. Put them on, and I'll take you to your cell, honey."

Bella pressed her lips together before she knelt down and picked up the cliché orange jumpsuit. Her hands were shaking as she slipped the clothes on, putting on a pair of rubber slides on over her socks.

Maggie gave her a look before she turned and knocked on the door, which opened almost immediately. Sam and Mike stepped into the room, smirking as they gave her the once over. Bella resisted the urge to roll her eyes, knowing it wouldn't help her situation.

"Was it good for you?" Sam asked, lifting an eyebrow.

Maggie gave him a shove before she grabbed Bella's arm and dragged her past them and down another hallway. She paused at a thick iron door, which buzzed and opened a moment later. As the door began to close, she turned and looked over her shoulder right at Sam and Mike, who watched her with contempt. It really didn't matter to them that her father was a monster, and that scared her for all the little girls who needed their protection.

Maggie stopped in front of cell six and pushed open the door, and nearly threw herself. Bella stumbled and hit the back wall, but as the door slid to a close and she turned around, she gasped when she found herself face to face with Renee.

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