Information:
Characters:
Leroy Jethro Gibbs
Anthony DiNozzo
Ziva David
Abigail 'Abby' Sciuto
Timothy McGee
Leon Vance
Donald 'Ducky' Mallard
Caitlin Todd
Jenny Shepard
Jimmy Palmer
Jackson Gibbs
Tobias Fornell
Mike Franks
Nikki Jardine
Jordan Hampton
Trent Kort
Margaret Allison Hart
Eli David
Ari Haswari
Brent Langer
Michelle Lee
Paula Cassidy
René Benoit
La Grenouille
Paloma Reynosa
Michael Rivkin
Lara Macy
Merton Bell
Cassie Yates
Chad Dunham
Charles 'Chip' Sterling
Faith Coleman
Gerald Jackson
Holis Mann
Jeanne Benoit
Vivian Blackadder
Jethro (Butch)
Holly Snow
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Seth Clearwater:
After Breaking Dawn, a lot changed in Forks and La Push. Seth really started hitting his teenage years and begun having mood swings that rivaled Paul's. The Pack understood that it was only because he was a late bloomer when it came to teenage attitude, because whenever he didn't lose his temper, he was still as kind and happy as he usually was. Then, two horrifying things happened in a two month period.
Incident One
First, was in early May. No one understood why, but Edward and Bella had begun to feel resentful towards Jacob for imprinting on their daughter, Renesmee. They wanted her all to themselves. Sam and Jacob had sent Seth round to their cottage - well, they had added onto it, so it was a big house - because they were late to a meeting between everyone. Jacob would have gone with him, if it weren't for the fact that he had just become full Alpha, of all the wolves. When Seth went round to their house, Bella and Edward told him that he should get Renesmee up, since she was still sleeping. When he entered her room, he was met with a sight of horror. Renesmee was tied to her bed with chains and gagged. Bella and Edward slammed the door behind him and then set fire to the place. It took all of Seth's skill to get out of that situation alive, with Renesmee. Bella and Edward had burned themselves, so they didn't face the Pack's judgement. Seth was rewarded for his getting Renesmee, an imprint, out of that situation.
Incident Two
Second, was in early June. Leah hadn't turned up to a Pack meeting, so Seth was sent to find her. When he found her, she was in a ditch and reeked of death. Luckily, he was in wolf form, so the rest of the Pack was there within minutes. It took Seth three days to change back to human form, but he was never the same. The guy who was suspected of murdering Leah was found dead in the same ditch that Leah was found in, in late July, because of a suspected animal attack. The Pack suspected that Seth had a hand in the guy's death, but never breached the subject with him. In the middle of August, he decided that he had to get out of La Push and asked for permission to finish his English Literature course in the college in Washington, D.C., and left a week later.
Seth is currently seventeen and has no idea that his life is about to change in another drastic way.
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Incident One:
Seth was getting ready for a meeting with the Cullen's. Jacob and Sam had told him to be ready for midday, so he was ready. He walked out of his house, wearing only a pair of cut off's. It didn't take long for him to walk to the meeting area, since he knew the urgency of this particular meeting.
The Cullen's wanted to leave Forks, but Jacob couldn't and since he imprinted on Nessie, neither could she. They weren't exactly willing to accept this and everyone seemed to be walking on eggshells these days.
Seth stood in line with the other wolves, in human form, like Sam, Jacob and Jared were. Paul, Collin, Brady, Quil, Embry and Leah were all in wolf form behind them, while the Cullen's stood ten feet in front of them, minus Bella, Edward and Nessie. Seth's brow furrowed. They were supposed to be here by now. Everyone had agreed upon the time, so there was no excuse.
"Where's the rest of your coven, Carlisle?" Jacob asked, a low snarl in his voice.
Carlisle shook his head. "They're supposed to be here. I will go and get them."
"No," Sam snapped. "Seth will. That way we know that you won't just tell them to run off."
Everyone looked at Seth and he felt a little on the spot. He'd never been given a really important job before. They mostly gave him jobs that kept him safe and out of harms way, though sometimes it didn't work out that way.
He nodded. "Okay."
The way Jacob looked at him, like he completely and utterly trusted him, almost made him want to run. No one had ever really given him that look before, so it made him scared and fearful. What if he messed up?
He quickly ran into the woods, heading for Bella and Edward's house. They had added onto it since the Volturi left. They had three floors, with Nessie's room at the very top. She'd wanted a room with a view. The house itself was beautiful inside and out, and it gave Seth a real sense of foreboding. He didn't like it.
He reached the house and immediately felt that something was wrong. The whole place smelt of petrol and oil. He was about to phase, to have someone alert Jacob and Sam, when Bella walked out of the house.
She smiled at him. "Seth, come in. I'm sorry we're late, but as you can probably smell, we've got a little problem."
He hesitated, but nodded. All of his instincts were screaming at him to get Nessie out of that house and quickly. Get her out. Get her back to Jacob. Quickly. Quickly.
He walked into the house and saw Edward standing in the hall, by the stairs. "Hello, Seth. Renesmee is asleep upstairs. Will you get her?"
That alerted him that something was definitely wrong. Edward didn't call her Renesmee anymore. It was Nessie. And why did Edward say that he, Seth, could get her? If he didn't like that fact that Nessie was going to be forced to stay in La Push as a wolf girl, why let him, a wolf, get her?
Seth ran up the stairs, hearing a faint sound behind him, with the powerful vampire smell, saying that Edward was following him. His wolf reared its head, telling him to defend himself, but he couldn't, because he had to get to Nessie. Her bedroom door was shut, so he opened it and stepped inside. The scene that met his eyes was one that he would remember for the rest of his life. Nessie was gagged and tied to the headboard of her bed with chains and rope, while tears streamed from her eyes. Something hard pushed him into the room from behind and the door slammed shut.
"You will not take my daughter from me!" Edward's voice yelled from outside the door. A clicking noise alerted Seth to the fact that the door had been locked.
He got up and ran over to Nessie, quickly removing the gag.
"Momma and daddy are going to set fire to the house!" she screamed at him. The petrol and oil made sense to him now. It seemed especially strong in this room.
Downstairs, he could hear Bella and Edward declaring their everlasting love for each other and hopes to meet on the other side. He almost vomited up his lunch. Seth ripped Nessie out of the chains and rope, just as he heard the striking of a match.
Oh Shit! he thought.
The roaring and crackling of fire got closer and closer within seconds. Seth held Nessie in his arms, covering her as much as he could. If he could help it, the fire would touch him first.
He looked towards the window, knowing that he would only have one chance to get out. He'd jumped three stories before, so it wasn't a problem, but the fire was just burning through the door to Nessie's room now, so he would only have this one moment to get out. The fire would rush straight towards the window.
"Do you trust me?" he whispered to Nessie.
She peered up at him through her hair, with tears running from her eyes. "Yes."
There was no need for anything else. Nessie trusted him, Jacob trusted him ... everyone was depending on him to get out alive, with Nessie.
Oh, this was going to hurt.
He ran straight towards the full length window and crashed through it, feeling the glass cut into his skin very deeply. As he predicted, the fire came rushing towards the window. He wasn't quick enough in dropping through the air, because it caught his bare back and he barely contained his yell. A whimper slipped through his gritted teeth, but he made no other sign that he was injured.
Then ... they hit the grass. Seth didn't just lay there, he jumped up and ran towards the tree line. But he couldn't get any further. He sat down in the treeline and leaned against a tree, taking deep breaths. He could feel blood running down his arms from where a few deep cuts were caused by jumping through the window, but it was his back that was causing his agony. It felt like he hadn't left the fire and he was - in fact - burning alive from that area.
"Seth!" a voice whimpered next to him.
He looked and saw Nessie kneeling beside him with a worried look on her face. She wasn't hurt, which was enough for him.
He took a deep breath. "I'm fine."
She shook her head. "No, you're not. Your back ... your arms will heal, but I'm not sure that your back will."
He grimaced. "Nessie, I'll be fine. But we need to get out of here. It's not safe."
He forced himself to get up (when thinking back on this moment, he would have no clue as to how), picked Nessie up and started walking. He managed to get a good mile away from the house before he heard the explosion.
"That'll be the gas," Nessie whispered. She was in shock.
Seth sat down again. He couldn't walk away further, even though he was starting to feel numb. He couldn't feel his back. He could feel his energy leaving him. Being burned by petrol and oil in a roaring fire could be fatal to a werewolf if he didn't get immediate attention.
"Nessie," he managed to get out, "you need to get out of here. Get to Jacob. Go straight to Jacob."
"What about you?" she asked.
He shook his head. "I can't go any further. I can't feel my back. Please, just go."
She stood up. "I'll bring help."
She turned and ran to where she knew the meeting was. Seth watched her go with a slight smile. He laid down on his side, looking up at the blue sky. Birds flew overhead, he could hear robins singing and smell everything about the forest around him. Nothing had ever seemed so peaceful to him.
Everything started fading to black around him and his heartbeat thumped in his ears.
Thump ... Thump ... Thump ... Thu ... mp ...
"... beating ... no hospital ... no- -ible ..."
"... saved ... imprint ..."
"... home ..."
The first thing Seth heard as he opened his eyes was bird singing. He was laying on his front in a huge bed in a room that was unfamiliar to him.
At least it's not white, he thought.
Then, the pain came into focus. He just managed to prevent yelling out, but a few muttered curse words slipped from between his gritted teeth. A memory of a voice telling him that he'd be getting lots of morphine filled his head. Well, where the hell was it?
He heard a door open and turned his head slightly to see Jacob enter the room with a worried look on his face.
"Where the fuck is that morphine you people promised me?" Seth asked, a slight snarl in his voice.
Jacob's lips twitched into a slight smile, walked over and picked up a needle off the side table. He quickly injected it into Seth's bloodstream. Thankfully, it worked quickly.
"That should last about an hour," Jacob told him. He sat down and looked Seth in the eye. "Thank you, Seth, for saving Nessie."
Seth nodded. "How is she?"
Jacob grimaced. "Shaken, but fine physically. She told us what happened. Did you really jump through a three-story window?"
"There wasn't anything else I could've done."
Jacob shook his head. "Your injuries weren't that bad. It was the burn on your back that caused us the worry. The petrol and oil they used to keep the fire going was soaked into the burn. Your heart stopped twice. Once, before we even got to you. The second time, as we were trying to treat the burn."
It was Seth's turn to grimace. "How bad is it?"
"Not good," Jacob said. "It won't ever fully heal."
"I figured as much," Seth said, seeing guilt form in Jacob's expression. "It wasn't your fault, Jacob."
Jacob laughed, bitterly. "I shouldn't have sent you alone. I should have known better and sent you with backup. I let my feelings about Bella get in the way. It was a rookie mistake."
Seth just looked at him. "It wasn't just you who made that mistake, Jake. We all did. None of us wanted to believe that she could be really bad. We thought she was just as overprotective mother."
Jacob shook his head, as if he was trying to shake bad thoughts from his brain. "I knew something was different with her, Seth. I just ignored all the signs." - He shuddered - "I can't imagine what Nessie was feeling before you turned up."
Seth remembered the tears streaming down her face and the fear in her eyes, but swore to himself he would never tell Jacob about that. It would be up to Nessie to discuss it with him.
Seth's eyes started drooping. He was tired again. Jacob stood up and said, "Get some sleep. You'll be able to get up tomorrow."
As Jacob left the room, Seth fell to sleep. His last thought was how he hadn't asked Jacob about how the meeting with the Cullen's went - or if it happened at all.
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Incident Two:
The Cullen's had left Forks with little complaining after incident with Bella and Edward. Jacob was right, because the burn didn't fully heal and it took Seth over a week get back on his feet.
Now, though? Now he had to find his sister, because she hadn't turned up to a mandatory Pack meeting. It wasn't like Leah not to turn up. She took her position of Second in Command very seriously.
He was following her scent through the woods. As he moved, the scent mixed with someone elses. Seth followed the scent to a place rarely touched by human civilization. What the hell was Leah doing all the way out here? Just as he moved in the space, a scent hit him that made him blanch. It was the smell of death. He looked around, seeing the source of the scent and just stared.
No ... No, it couldn't be.
It was Leah.
He automatically threw his head back and let loose a sound of deep sadness and pain that everyone in Forks and La Push heard it and stopped what they were doing, wondering what the hell was going on.
-N-C-I-S-
Seth sat in his room. The police had just visited saying that the guy who was suspected of killing Leah was found dead in the same place that Leah had been found. It was a suspected animal attack. He couldn't say that he was surprised.
He had to get out of here. He could see Leah at every corner of La Push.
-N-C-I-S-
Seth stood in his new apartment. He was attending Washington State University, so that he could get his English Literature Degree. The Pack hadn't been accepting of his decision, but he'd needed to get away.
He needed to find himself again. He needed to relax for a while