Hereafter
Prologue.
May 18th 2018.
Isabella Swan started off her day like any other. She woke up at 07:05 to her alarm, went for a brief shower before getting changed for work and headed downstairs for breakfast. Everyday was the same for Isabella; she had a routine and wouldn't change it unless necessary. She lived in the tiny town of Forks, Washington, and had done ever since she was a teenager when she moved in with her father.
Isabella worked in a local bookshop, and started work every day at 8:30am. It took her ten minutes to drive there from her house, and she left the house at eight o'clock. This was her way, and she was set in it.
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08:30am. Isabella's manager, Gloria, peered out of the shop door wondering why she hadn't seen Isabella turn up yet. It was very unlike her to be late, and even more unlike her not to inform the store if she was ill, or was going to be late for whatever reason.
09:15am. There was still no sign of Isabella, and her phone went straight through to voicemail. Worried that something might have happened, Gloria asked a colleague to mind the store as she drove to Isabella's house.
09:30am. Isabella's car was seen parked in the front yard, but nobody came to the door when the bell was rung. With fear that something was seriously wrong, Gloria phoned Isabella's father, who just so happened to be the Chief of Forks Police Station.
Despite her car being in the yard, Isabella was nowhere to be found, and so within the hour a search had begun.
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May 25th 2018.
Seven days after her disappearance, there was still no sign of Isabella Swan. The police had found a few things, but it hadn't lead them anywhere. During the investigation of her house, fresh scuff marks were found in the lawn which indicated a struggle. Her bag was found in a trashcan near a Shell gas station. It was filled with all of her items for work including some packed up lunch, and putting two and two together, the police were of the belief that Isabella was steps away from her car, or even at her car, when the kidnapping took place. The cameras of the gas station hadn't caught whoever threw the bag into the trash.
Neighbors reported seeing a dark blue SUV driving up and down their street a couple times roughly around eight o'clock, however they couldn't say for certain whether it was linked. They also couldn't give any specific details of the car, apart from its color and that it was an SUV.
Isabella's father, Charlie Swan, ruled out the chance of a runaway; he knew his daughter and he knew that this was not a planned thing. Somebody had taken his daughter, and he worked around the clock in order to find her. Within a few hours of her disappearance, Charlie had gotten in contact with border control to stop anybody from leaving the country before a full search of the vehicle had been done.
He hired police from all over the state, and even surrounding areas to help with the search. Sadly, things were not looking good for Isabella or her family. The chances of finding her alive dropped every twelve hours that passed.
The police continued to have no suspects, and whoever was responsible had clearly planned this out, which only made things harder. They never found any suspicious behavior on any security cameras, and after swabbing the handle of Isabella's car, the only fingerprints found were her own. They only thing that they could rule out, however, was that Isabella was not a planned victim - she was just unfortunate enough to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time, because nobody would be stupid enough to kidnap a policeman's daughter.
May 27th 2018.
The blue SUV that neighbors had reported seeing became the main point of interest. The cameras at the gas station, where Isabella's bag was found, caught a car driving past that matched the description, and after zooming in onto the image, they managed to take note of the license plate. Police then took recordings from every security camera in that area of the town, and they saw the same car passing every one of them. They were caught driving past the Umpqua bank and again near a Thriftway supermarket. It all happened between 08:22 and 08:47. From the direction they were headed, it was clear that they were leaving town.
While running the plates, to Charlie's dismay, it turned out to be stolen. After losing the car on CCTV, that lead went cold. While Charlie had a gut feeling that his daughter was in that car, the thought of that footage being the last he might ever see of Isabella filled him with cold dread.
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From now on the story will be in 1stPOV, but this was just to help you get into the story.
Please let me know what you thought and I'll post chapter 1 as soon as I can.