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Disclaimer: I do not own twilight
Lost and Found
A Twilight story
Pairings usual except for Edward/my character Bella/Jacob
It will change POV sometimes.
Senior year, Edward and Bella have split for good, but the Cullens haven't left.
SORRY FOR THE WAIT, GOT A BIT SIDE TRACKED
Chapter 22 Break Begins and Black Clouds (maybe this one ought to be called It Begins)
Edward POV
It has only been a few days since I saw Carrie last and I'm already missing her terribly. Heck we all seem more irritable without her around, even Jasper and he is the quiet one. At one point or another we find ourselves standing outside her locked up and disguised bedroom door. Even though her scent has been washed away we can still sort of feel her presence in her room. We have even hidden all of the presents that had her name anywhere on them and now the tree doesn't look as cheerful since the majority of the gifts are for her.
Esme seems to be taking it kind of hard also. On the first day she made a breakfast for Carrie just to throw it away, because she wasn't here and we weren't going to take it to her for we don't want any traces of us anywhere near her. Esme spent the next hour slowly cleaning the dishes that she used. This morning she was organizing her pots and pans and going through the pantry straightening up.
We were all sitting in the living room doing nothing in particular. Carlisle had taken these two weeks off from work so there would be no distractions. He was currently playing a game of chess with Jasper. They were using a different chess set then usual since Jasper and Carrie had been in the middle of a game when all of this had happened.
We were also dressed up a bit so that we would look presentable when Aro and the others arrived. I was wearing the same thing that I wore when I took Bella to prom. Emmett was wearing roughly the same thing with no jacket and Jasper had the jacket but no tie. Carlisle was wearing a suit that he usually wears to work. The ladies had on dresses or skirts. Esme had on a red cocktail dress, Rosalie was wearing a sea green skirt that came to her knees with white blouse and Alice was wearing the purple top that Carrie made for her Halloween costume with a black skirt that came down to her ankles. What couldn't be seen however were the shorts they were wearing underneath in case they needed extra movement for fighting and they were wearing shoes that they could kick off in a hurry.
All of us were tense because we had no idea for the reason why Aro was coming here for. Why would he suddenly want to talk to Carlisle after all this time and what business does he need to discuss with us. The weather outside hasn't been helping either. The clouds coming in have been getting darker and darker. We could even hear some thunder which is a bit unusual but not uncommon with bad snow storms. According to the news reports a storm was rolling in that had a high probability of becoming a blizzard; possibly the worst seen in twenty years.
Thinking about the weather had me wondering how Carrie is doing. I checked over everything in my mind. When she was staying with us we increased the size of her den; it was almost twice it original size. We even added a little door to keep things out. Before we last left her we made sure that she had plenty of warm clothes, food, water and fire wood. So she should be set if a blizzard does hit until we can come and dig her out. I have Alice keep looking to see anything but she just gets blurs. Carlisle assures us that Carrie is a strong and stubborn girl that if anything does happen she can pull through, she'll make it. That doesn't keep us from worrying though; she is special to all of us.
Across from me Alice stiffens up and her eyes look unfocused, she was having a vision that I was too worried to watch along with her. When she pulls out of it she tells us that Aro will be arriving within the hour and that he is bringing Felix, Demetri and Jane with him as far as she could tell along with a few guards. So the time has finally arrived. It was a tense time for we didn't know why they were coming and how long they would be staying. It also didn't help matters that the storm was getting closer. Let's just say we had a lot on our minds and we were trying our best to keep calm and collected. We didn't want to say something or do anything inappropriate because we didn't look forward to being torn apart any time soon.
As the hour came to a close we cleaned up the living room a bit and straightened ourselves out then went to the front room by the door to greet our guests. Not even ten minutes later our door bell rang. Carlisle turned to us and mouthed 'smile' before he turned back to the door. He opened it and we were greeted with the sight of two guards wearing blood red garments with just as red spears and shields. They just walked through the door as soon as it was opened. They were followed soon after by another one then Jane came through. As she stepped over the threshold she sent as smirk toward me and stepped to the side. I couldn't tell what she was wearing for all I could see was the forest green cloak covering her form.
After Jane two other vampires came through. The first one I recognized as Demetri wearing a black cloak and the second one was Felix wearing a dark blue cloak. Then after a short pause Aro came through. He was wearing royal purple robes and he still looked as old and fragile as ever. But I knew that his looks were deceiving. He may look fragile but is far stronger than our whole coven put together. He also has the advantage of experience and his gift is quite handy also, for he can read minds through touch, similar to like I can without touch, but his gift is so much more powerful. Three more guards came in after him and Carlisle closed the door. Aro took a small look around the room that we were in and us as well. When he seemed satisfied he turned to Carlisle and said, "Carlisle old friend, how wonderful it is to see you again."
"Like wise. I hope that your travel was fair, not any difficulties I hope," Carlisle said his tone purposefully open and friendly.
"None at all," Aro replied. "I would ask for a drink but I know that you and your coven have a very…peculiar diet so we stopped on the way to town." Humans are nothing but cattle to likes of him it's disgusting.
"I hope that it was far enough away from town. We don't need the treaty broken between us and the La Push people," Carlisle said and I could tell it took great effort to keep his tone as easy going as it was.
"Don't worry dear friend, we were plenty far away so there shouldn't be any trouble for you or your coven," Aro said. "Now why don't you introduce everyone here, it has been a while since we have met last. I have heard of you starting your own coven and I am curious as to who they are."
"Of course," Carlisle agreed. "This is my lovely wife Esme," he said holding his hand out toward her. Esme took it and came to stand next to Carlisle.
She sent a smile to Aro and said, "Welcome to our home," like the charming and elegant hostess that she is.
Aro held his hand out to her as well. She placed her other hand in his and he brought it up to kiss the back of it. "Thank you."
"This is our son Emmett," Carlisle said next. They nodded their heads in greeting before moving on to Rose.
"This is our daughter Rosalie, she is Emmett's wife," Esme introduced.
"Ah to bad that she is married," Aro said as he turned toward Rosalie. "We would have great use of her beauty in Volterra." He kissed the back of her hand and she replied with a tense thank you. As much as Rosalie loved hearing how beautiful she was, she knew what 'use' they would have of her in Volterra. She was in no mind to lure humans to their death.
"Here is another of our sons Jasper. He is the newest addition to our family and life style," Carlisle said. Jasper inclined his head and Aro returned with a small nod of his head.
"This is our last daughter Alice. She is Jaspers wife and has been with us since Jasper joined us a few decades ago," Esme said. Like the other women Aro kissed the back of her hand.
"And this is Edward, the last of our sons. He has been with us for roughly the past hundred years," Carlisle said finishing the introductions. Again we only nodded to each other.
"Now Carlisle lets go somewhere that we can talk and get reacquainted, catch up on what has happened since we have last seen each other. I'm sure your children can keep my ... friends company," Aro said as he placed a hand on Carlisle's shoulder. I tensed at this, as with the other times, since Aro's gift requires touch, but I didn't pick up on anything. Carlisle agreed and leads the way to his study. His guards followed him and Esme went with Carlisle. That just left us and Demetri, Felix and Jane. My siblings and I looked at each other all thinking the same, when will this be over.
"So what do you guys do for fun around here if not chasing humans," Felix asked. This is going to be a long visit.
Over a week! Aro has been here for almost nine days, our break is only fourteen weekends included. Sure they came right before break was technically to start but still yet, they have been here for a while. Jane, Demetri and Felix have also been making it seem just like hell. Demetri and Felix are always trying to pick fights with Emmett, Jasper and me. Occasionally Aro would come down and practically order us to fight them. He said that it is to test our abilities but I have a feeling that it was more for his personal entertainment.
Jane has been practically doing the same thing with the girls. She is constantly bugging them and when she isn't bothering them she is annoying me. She follows me around everywhere like a love sick puppy. She goes through my music and my journals. She gets slightly mad whenever another female is mentioned. I guess it's a good thing that I hid the journals from the last couple of years so she isn't reading anything about Bella or Carrie.
They seemed curious about Carrie's room but they seem to accept the explanation of it being a storage room for things of years past that we occasionally bring out from time to time. It had several locks on it that were difficult to pick and only Carlisle had the keys tucked into a pocket on his undershirt.
As a safety precaution we stacked a bunch of boxes in there and placed a lot around the door so if someone did get in there they would just see a bunch of boxes. We also rigged the door so that it can't open that far no matter how much strength you put behind it; it was Emmett tested so we were confident with it. The bulbs were removed from the chandelier and have the curtains tightly closed and window locked so no light can enter it. Any foot holds on the outside were removed so even if they jumped up to the widows they couldn't get in. Again it was Emmett tested. All of this was designed by Jasper.
Another thing that has us down is that it has been snowing practically constantly since Christmas Eve four nights ago. There was some light snow to beforehand, with the blizzard it has been particularly nasty; strong winds, heavy snow fall. We have been out there quite a few times already to clean off the porch, the roof, build up along and on the house, plus the normal shoveling out the driveway. There have been massive power outages across the state. We have our own backup generators as well as most of the population of Forks. It's a good thing because it has been almost dark as night the entire time; the clouds are so dark like rain clouds that the snow kind of knocks you for a loop. It has also barely been above freezing during the day and almost reaching zero, if not below, at night; the coldest nights on record for the past decade at least.
During this time we try not to let our minds wander to a certain someone. We don't want to alert Aro to her existence. We are all worried about her in this weather but we try our best not to let our concern show. We were all wishing that Aro would leave already. We already determined that once we are sure he is gone we are all going to check on her. It doesn't help matters that Alice can't seem to see a thing.
Esme appears to be having a hard time. When she isn't in the study with Carlisle and Aro or in her room or the library, she is in the kitchen. When she's in there she goes through her dishes and pantry. She looks through her cook books and watches cooking shows taking notes. During the whole time she keeps looking out the window. We try to keep her busy so she doesn't tip Aro and company that something is up. When asked what was wrong she replied, "Mothers instinct." This puts us a little more on edge. After asking for permission we go out to relieve some stress by hunting, fighting, stupid little competitions. It takes almost everything that I have to not to run and check in on Carrie.
Carlisle and Aro come down then and call a meeting in the living room. "Now for the business part of this visit," Aro said as he looked us over but stopped when he came to me. "I am most interested in young Edward here. I can tell that he is quite powerful already and his gift is much sought after. I would like him to come back with me to Volterra and join our ranks. With our help he can become even stronger, one of the elite. Not that he is almost there already."
"It has also come to our attention however that he has informed a human girl about our existence in the world. Her name is…" he paused as of to remember the name. "Oh yes now I remember, her name is Isabella. I'm I correct Edward," he asked.
"That is correct, but you don't have to worry about her now," I said stoically.
"Is that so," Felix questioned. "Did you kill her? Did you change her? Or has she died?" He said the last part a bit too eagerly for my tastes.
"None of the above," I replied tersely.
"Would you care to explain," Demetri said. Even sitting down he looks intimidating and serious; not someone that I would particularly going up against, as I and the other have in our 'sparring'.
I turned to look at him before looking at Carlisle. I saw him nod his head so I turned back to Aro. "You are correct that I was involved with a girl named Isabella and I informed her on the existence of vampires. She has not told anyone our secret. We were going to change her to become one of us eventually, as Alice had foreseen," I said with a glance toward her.
"Is this true Alice," Aro asked her in a curious tone. I noticed a spark in his eyes when her gift was mentioned.
"Yes it is. They would have had an interesting future together," she said solemnly. Alice had such high hopes that we would get together but even she did not see her ending up with Jacob.
Aro looked at me to continue. "Well earlier in the year we had a falling out of sorts. I caught her with another guy, one from the La Push who also happens to be a werewolf. She has been back and forth between the two of us that I finally had enough of it and ended it with her."
"She is a liability! She should be killed! She could leak our secrets," Felix said angrily as he stood from his seat quickly.
"You can't kill her," I said.
"I don't care if she was your lover. She is a danger to us," Demetri said as he slowly stood as well. I could see Jane slightly bouncing in her seat, eager to see a fight.
"You cannot kill her for it would be a violation of the treaty we made with the La Push. One because she is a human within the city limits and our territories, second because she is the mate of the werewolf mentioned earlier. And…," Carlisle began but he stopped and looked at me.
"What," I asked confused as to why he was giving me that look. His thoughts were full of concern as to how I will take what he was about to say.
"Well…" he began, "there is a possibility that she may be pregnant with his pup, his child. She came in right before the break to visit another doctor about a pregnancy test." Surprisingly this didn't hurt me as much as I thought that it would have. There was a little pang but it soon went away. I could still feel a little something but I was able to move on. I looked up and saw that Aro seemed to be studying me.
"Why don't you tell me everything that has happened between you and her," Aro said. I knew that it wasn't a request.
So I spent a good part of the next day telling everything that has happened. I started to when she moved here I couldn't read her mind and how intoxicating her scent was to where I would sneak into her room and watch her, trying to figure her out. I told about how I saved her from being hit by Tyler's' van and how she discovered what I was. Then I started on bringing her for a baseball game and the incident with the terrible three. I informed him how we tried to trick James long enough for Bella to get away with Jasper and Alice. How she got away from them at the airport when she thought James had her mom. I explained how James tricked her into coming alone to the ballet studio. I finished up with her almost dying and turning but I sucked the venom out and how our relationship changed until I finally left her so she wouldn't have to choose. I also told about Victoria's revenge plan that had backfired and the fate of Laurent.
"Sounds like you've had an interesting year with her. I can see how the rest of eternity with her would have turned out. I however hold you to your word that she will not tell anyone about what we are and we will not harm her and destroy the treaty that you have made with the werewolves," Aro said. Demetri and Felix looked like they were about to argue but he sent them a look and they kept quite.
"Too bad about her, with her abilities to block your powers she would have made a wondrous addition to Volterra," Aro said. "Now on to other things, like I mentioned earlier I would like Edward to come back to Volterra with me and be trained to join the Elite." He turned to look at me. "You are quite strong already, but we can make you stronger. With you under my wing you can be unstoppable. You can have anything that you want. We can even find you a wife, heck you can have as many wives as you want. All that you have to do is join us," Aro said persuasively, trying to get me to agree.
"I'm sorry, but I believe that I am going to have to decline," I told him keeping both my face and tone unemotional.
"And why is that," he asked curiously.
"Well the main thing is diet. I am a vegetarian so I refuse to drink human blood. I made a promise to Carlisle that I wouldn't partake in that…" I paused before continuing, "delicacy. Second, you offered a position among your court to him long ago and he too turned you down. Third I'm fine with the way that I am. I don't want to become stronger."
"Well this is such a disappointment. I was hoping that you would join us," he said with a fake pout. "How about you Alice, You have great potential and your gift is even harder to come by. You would be a great asset to us. Why don't you come with us to Volterra? We could train you to better control your gift. I could also personally train you."
Alice sent him a smile and said, "As great as that sounds I'm also going to decline the offer. I'm happy here the way that I am."
"I suppose that your reasons are much the same as Edward's," he asked. Alice nodded an affirmative. "Oh well. I'll most likely ask you again in a couple of decades anyway. You'll be stronger by then also," he said.
"Is there anything else that you wish to discuss," Carlisle asked him.
"Yes, there is one more thing, but I will get to that after I have a drink," Aro said as he reached into his robes. When he withdrew his hand he was holding a small bottle that was filled with blood. Human blood no doubt. The others did the same as him and pulled out their own bottles of blood. Aro motioned that it was alright for his guards to do so also and they did.
They uncorked all of their bottles and the smell of human blood swept across our noses. So tantalizing that it was teasing us like a perfume, trying to draw us in like an asp/snake to the forbidden fruit. Forbidden fruit indeed, the one substance that we need to survive, the one thing that we have sworn off to never have, the one thing we all craved; human blood.
We fight against the lure of it and we immediately turn toward Jasper. He being the newest to the no human blood the temptation is much stronger than the rest of us. We turned toward him but we were shocked at what we saw. Jasper was standing there, with Emmett's hand to his chest, but he wasn't fighting against him. His form was tense and his hands and jaw were clenched tightly. He wasn't struggling to get to the blood; he was resisting its call. Emmett slowly lowered his arm while looking at him hesitantly but stayed prepared to grab him if he would have to. But Jasper didn't move he only brought his hand up to his face to help resist the smell.
Aro and his group seemed to take their time sipping the blood. They would leave it open while they talked about whatever they talked about in Italian. While they were talking they would wave the bottle around and more scent would be put into the air. By now the rest of us were finding it a little more difficult to resist the smell. Carlisle and I seemed to have the best go of it. Carlisle being a doctor and me studying to be one at one point. Jasper had his arms around is middle but he was still resisting. Emmett, Alice and Rosalie were distracting themselves and Esme appeared to be in her own little world. I tried to ignore the smell and I concentrated on anything else but the blood. Carlisle was up trying to calm Jasper down.
After a couple of hours Aro and company put their half empty bottles back within their cloaks, "I think that that is long enough. I'm surprised that you all made it that far. Especially you Jasper because from what I understand you are the weakest when it comes to resisting human blood; it appears that you are finally able to control your urges."
"You mean that was a test," Rosalie said angrily. Her eyes like the rest of my family, excluding Carlisle, were darker in color; closer to the black then the amber they usually are.
"You can say that. It just fascinates me how you can resist not drinking from humans, it is just so delicious," he said. "Well that concludes our business here. I think that we better head off since the storm seems to have passed." We looked outside and it was indeed lighter out there. You could see dawn approaching on the horizon. We stood up and walked after Aro's group to the door. After the first three guards and Demetri, Felix and Jane walked out he turned to face us.
"Will be asking again for you two join us in a few decades or so. Next time though you friend will be involved," he said confidently.
"You mean Bella. I don't think she'll be a threat, she'll be an old lady by then if she is still alive," Esme asked confused as to what he meant.
"No my dear not that one, the other one; the one who's room you have disguised as a storage room," Aro said. I felt my eyes widen when he said that. He knew all along and he didn't do anything. He must have seen the look on our faces for we were all surprised at what he said. "Of course, I have known all along. She must be really important if you tried to hide her from me. I have seen glimpses of her, have felt her presence in the house and I believe that she would also make a valuable asset when and if she is changed. I cannot tell if she changes or not, but all depends if she survives what has happened to her over the past week or so," he said with a smirk.
"You mean to say that you know what she has been going through since you got here," I asked incredibly. Aro simply nodded with a shrug. "Why, how?"
"I guess that you can say that this is her test to determine if she should become one of us. As for how I have my ways," Aro replied.
That had me so angry I felt several pairs of arms wrap around me with guards pointing their spears inches from my face before I even realized that I was trying to get after Aro. I could tell that the others were angry as well but there were no words to describe what I felt at that moment. Even the strongest blood lust that I have felt cannot compare.
Aro sent me a smile before he turned and left followed by the rest of his guards. The door closed behind them in an eerily loud slam. I fought harder because I wanted to get him before he left. I didn't care if he was a founding member of the Volturi, I was going to rip him apart and burn the pieces. It took an hour before Alice determined that he wasn't going to come back and during that time Carlisle was calming me down.
"Get a hold of yourself Edward. You will be of no help to Carrie in this state, you need to clear your mind and come back to yourself," Carlisle said. How could he expect me to be calm after hearing that?
"How can you be so calm about this? He knowingly allowed her to go through whatever it is that she went through," I said already my mind envisioning all the things she must have had to endure without me there to protect her. My mind was in turmoil remembering the state we found her in last time we had any kind of separation. God, Alice's vision could be happening, I could be losing her right now. She could be half dead somewhere out there wishing I found her.
"I'm upset too Edward, but I'm going to use my anger as the fuel that I'll need when we go out there to find and help her," he said. "Everyone listen up." We all turned to look at him. "We need to be prepared for anything. I want everyone to grab a towel and a blanket of some sort. I also want everyone to grab one of the first aid kits that I keep in the bathroom. We'll take these with us when we go out."
"I also want hot water bottles prepared for her; if she is too cold her body temperature will need to be brought up. Esme you can take care of that. Emmett, Edward and Jasper I want you to clean out her room so that it is ready for later. Alice, Rose I need you to get all of the bandages that you find and move them near her room. The same goes with extra towels and blankets. Let's get moving, the sooner that we get this done the sooner we can go out and bring her home," he commanded letting us know that there should be no nonsense.
With that said we set out at out appointed tasks. For now we just moved everything to the end of the hall out of the way. We were going so fast to get done so we can get out of here that we ran into each other a lot, causing what we were carrying to scatter which we then had to waste more time picking it up. Eventually we had everything that Carlisle asked for ready and we could set out.
We all ran directly toward Carrie's den with me leading the way and Carlisle and Esme bringing up the rear since they had never been there before. Of course with me being the fastest I arrived sooner than they did. I paused as I came by the house. The lights were on and I could hear laughter from within despite the early morning hour. It sounded like more than two people in there, so that must mean that Carrie's step siblings came for the holidays.
I walked right past the house I didn't care if they saw me I was looking for someone important. As I was walking back I came across on area where the almost 4.5-5 feet of snow was shallower then the surrounding area. In the middle of this area was a post and I walked toward it. I didn't care if I was leaving a trail I needed to find Carrie.
As I reached the pole I noticed that there was a chain attached. I slowly reached toward the chain and pulled it up. It was long enough to be roughly the radius of the circle in which I was standing. I continued pulling until I came to some resistance. The others had caught up with me now and were standing just outside the circle about twelve feet away. I pulled up the chain and welded to the end was a metal collar. Attached to the collar were frozen fabric straps. It was frozen because they were covered in blood. It was too frozen to get a scent from, but I recognized the fabric as part of one of Carrie's favorite sweaters.
I dropped the chain and hurried as fast as I could in the snow toward the direction of the den. I found her out door shelter and walked ten paces/feet directly south. When I stopped I used my hands to start digging in the snow. I barely noticed as the others helped me to dig. After a few moments we finally uncovered the door. I grabbed it and ripped it off. I barely noticed that there was no fire light coming out before I saw Alice dive into the hole. She was back out less than a minute later with a troubled look on her face.
"She hasn't been in there for a while. Her scent is really old and the fire has long burned out," she said her worry creeping in to her voice.
"Alright we'll split up from here. We'll start by looking in a mile radius into the woods around the house. They couldn't have taken her too far from here on foot. We'll split up. Alice you're with Edward, Esme you're with Rosalie and Emmett, Jasper you are with me. If you find her yell, I don't care if you draw attention to yourselves we need to find her. Now let's go," Carlisle commanded.
We split up and moved as fast as we can in the snow, looking everywhere for any sign of where she could be. As we were searching we came upon a curiously drawn path in the snow. It was wide enough for a car and appeared to be only recently filled in with snow. I traced its path in the snow and… it led back toward the house!
Alice and I got on this path where the snow was only about a foot deep. We followed the path for at least a mile until we came to an area where it looked like the snow had been piled up to form a wall. The part covering the path was the smallest part of the wall. Alice and I headed to the wall and started clawing our way through even though we could easily jump over it. When we got through I looked at my surroundings and could not prevent the gasp that came from me. It appeared as if someone had made a homemade torture chamber right in the middle of the woods. There were posts and large stones all with chains nearby. The ground appears to have been cleared of snow just a few hours ago so I could see blood upon the objects. Looking at the snow wall again I could see red stains mixed in with the dirt stains. It seemed impossible for there to be so much blood.
I looked around again, praying that Carrie wasn't somewhere among this place of terrors. Unfortunately I came across a figure that didn't seem to fit in. I slowly moved toward it, hoping that it wasn't what I thought it was, to get a better view. When I saw what it was I didn't even realize that I fell to my knees until I felt something sharp dig into my skin. I couldn't believe, wouldn't believe what I was seeing. I heard Alice say, "What's wrong Edward?" I couldn't say anything, I was in too much shock and I turned my eyes away from the scene. I could hear Alice gasp then try to say something as she saw what I turned my eyes from.
"CARLISLE," I heard Alice finally shout hysterically.
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