A/N: I really poured a lot of myself into Sarah and I really didn't want her story to end, but alas, it had to. Originally this story was going to be a series of outtakes about what happened to Sarah, Liam and Lina but then I got this great idea to incorporate all the different events into one story plot. I have never written anything this complex, so I apologize if it gets confusing but I will try to write it as best I can. Please be kind because I am not a professional writer at all!

Summary: This story includes several story lines and several plots all wrapped up into one. It takes place about a century after Immortal Wolves. Its mostly going to be other characters and characters from Immortal wolves but I promise there will be some Nessie and Leah in the mix. You will see what happens to all the characters through the eyes of a new generation. These new characters will uncover all the secrets of their family and they will get caught up in a war that they never knew existed.

Disclaimer: Stephanie Meyer owns all Twilight Saga and characters. Anita11 owns everything else.

Prologue

"It's been over 100 years since it all started. They all hoped that the first war would bring a time of peace amongst the immortals; however, greed has a way of overpowering reason. This was their down fall."

"Will you stop being so cryptic and get to the damn point!" Amy told her older brother. They all sat around the fire watching the green flames fickler as they listened to their favorite Quileute legends. A century later six teenager still told scary stories around a bonfire as their ancestors did. They were a small nation but they were one of the few nations whose traditions prevailed along the centuries of outside influence and technology.

Anthony, the oldest of the group, narrowed his eyes at his spirited little sister, trying not to laugh, as she stuck out her tongue in response to his scowl. The others chuckled at the two siblings, while rolling their eyes at this common bickering.

"As I was saying, the greed of the Volturi would eventually become their downfall. For a new power had risen from the shadows of the past and they were the Quileute immortal wolves." All the young Quileutes cheered at the mentioning of the wolves. All of them felt a connection with these heroes. They recognized them as their ancestors. Even though none of them truly believed that the legends were true, in their hearts, they felt the calling of the warriors they held within.

Billie smiled at the twelve year old girl sitting next to Anthony. This was the last time she would hear the old stories for a while and Billie knew how much she loved them. Though she had heard the legends many times from her grandparents and older brother, Billie was going to miss the stories just as much as her little cousin Cameron.

Jaime, Billie's older brother, watched them both carefully as Anthony told the old story. Cameron had been so different since the accident. They were all hoping that a nice old fashioned bonfire would cheer her up and so far it seemed to be working.

"You see..." Anthony continued, "Though there were many wolves, most of them had imprinted and chosen to release their wolves in order to be with their imprints and start a family but there were a few wolves who chose to remain as our protectors. These wolves became the immortal wolves." Anthony told them.

"The immortal wolves were wolves who had not imprinted so instead of marrying just anyone, they chose to live forever until they found their imprints. It was said that some of the immortal wolves, were wolves who imprinted on half-breeds." He said the last word as if it had a bad taste in his mouth. The others booed at the mentioning of the half-breeds. Only Cameron and Alexias, her distant cousin, felt excitement at their mentioning. Alexias cheered trying to annoy her friends. Brendon, who was sitting next to her as usual, covered her mouth and booed again. She laughed and punched her best friend playfully.

"Ok. ok. So the Volturi's power was weakened after the first confrontation that happened right here on our lands. Their own vampire community didn't trust them. After that first battle, all had seen that the Volturi were abusing their power and had to be stopped. That first battle was an eye opening experience for everyone. The immortal world was introduced to new members of the mythical community, the shape shifters. The Volturi wanted them almost as much as they wanted the yellow eyed vampires that had powers, so they waited until the right moment to strike and this moment came when the first Alpha female was born."

"About a decade after the first confrontation with the Volturi, a child was born into the Quileute nation. This child was the daughter of the Alpha Jacob Black and his imprint Vanessa aka Nessie Black. The leeches accused Nessie and her child of being a half breeds. Some say that they believed Nessie to be the daughter of one of the yellow eyes but we all know that vampires can't have children. It was all a vicious lie so that they had an excuse to attack us again. The Volturi thought they could trick the vampire community into believing that Nessie and her child were a mix breed because Nessie was introduced to Chief Jake by the Cullens as their daughter. Nonetheless, it didn't work because the child of Jacob Black was human just like her mother. The problem was that they has to prove it."

"The wolves were strong but their numbers were small compared to the Volturi. Seeing that their numbers had decreased because of the wolves who stopped phasing, the immortal wolves joined forces with the yellow eyed bloodsuckers. The yellow eye covens were unlike other vampires because they fed on animal blood. This allowed them to create stronger bonds of love and friendship but it also weakened them. Nevertheless, with the wolves at their side they created a new ruling family called the Olympians. Together, the Olympians were unstoppable, as the Volturi soon found out." Anthony took a moment to smile as he pictured them in his head, all looking like Greek gods before he continued.

"The vampire community that lived in Alaska joined the Olympians and together, they defeated the Volturi. Finally, the Volturi leader, Aro, was destroyed." Again, all the children cheered since they all despised Aro. "With Aro out of the way, a new Volturi formed in order to maintain the secrecy of the mythical community. This new Volturi was different and eventually even some of the Olympians joined them in order to maintain peace and balance among the immortals. The immortal wolves became the guardians and protectors of human life and to this day they say that they are the most feared of the immortals and that no vampire dares to hunt within their perimeter. This is why the Olympic peninsula has the least missing people and deaths in all of the United States. It is because these lands are still protected by the Immortal Wolves to this very day." Anthony looked around making it seem as if the wolves could be watching but he was interrupted by one small snicker.

"I don't think that's what really happened." Cameron said. Jaime smiled at her.

"They're only stories, kiddo. None of it really happened." He told his little cousin.

"Yes it did. I just don't think the story Tony told is correct. I have a feeling that the legends were tampered with." She said confidently.

"And why would they do that?" Billie teased.

"I think they changed the legends to make sure we never find the immortals. If you were immortal and you needed to hide, isn't that the easiest way to do it?" Cameron suggested.

"I guess you'll have to take that up with the council. I'm sure great grandpa Collin will love to hear your version." Alexias teased. All the kids were trying to keep the mood light when in reality they were all upset about their friends leaving them. In a few hours, Cameron's father would send his lawyer to pick up Cameron, Billie and Jaime and all three would be leaving the reservation, perhaps forever.

"Well I'm sure that even a super genius like you can't find mythical beings so it doesn't really matter does it?" Billie tickled her and Cameron squirmed on her lap until she was back on the sand next to her.

"It would be pretty cool though. If they were real." Billie continued.

"Yeah. It would be amazing." Cameron said dreamily and they all continued talk and say goodbye to their friends.

Cameron

It was a short flight. I wished it was longer. I wasn't looking forward to seeing my father again. I didn't even know he existed until he suddenly decided to take custody of us after our parent's death. He wasn't even at the funeral but a week after the funeral, aunt Rita's cousin, Yuren got an email from my dad claiming he received a letter from my mother, through her lawyer, saying that he was my biological father and he wanted the three of us to stay with him. Cousin Yuren fought for us but my dad had DNA on his side and the letter that was left behind by my mother in case she died.

I wished mom would have never written that letter but as much as I wanted to be angry at her, I couldn't because I had this strange sense that she kept him away from me to protect me. I felt something was wrong with him from the moment I met him. It was a gnawing feeling that gave me a feeling of dread and fear. Most people would brush off this feeling as nerves but the last time I felt this way was when our parents died. I knew they were gone long before the police came to our door. I just hoped that this time I am wrong and what I am feeling is just nerves because there was no going back now. The judge signed the papers and we all were on our way to living with a man who was a stranger but who was also our closest kin.

Before this all happened, I only knew my father as uncle Danny's identical twin. In my heart, uncle Danny was the only father figure I ever knew and it was strange to know that his twin was my father. But he wasn't a real father. He was a stranger to me and to my cousins, Billie and Jamie who I loved like my brother and sister. He was absent from all of our lives but the judge didn't care about that. My father was genetically identical to Jaime and Billie's real father, so the stupid judge claimed we would be better off with a familiar face. He didn't understand that my father had never been a part of our lives. Not as a dad, not as an uncle, not as anything. He didn't even come for us himself. He came to meet me the day of the trial and then he had his lawyer fly us after the hearing. It was all so stupid. DNA doesn't make a family, love does.

We arrived at the airport early in the morning. My father looked angry from the moment saw us but it was when he saw my dog Nala that he was really pissed. Nala looked at my father and her shackles went up, then, she howled and barked at him. When dad glared at Nala she growled at him which was strange because loved everyone. She especially loved uncle Danny and, since dad looked just like him, I thought for sure that she would be ok with him. I guess I was wrong.

"I'm sorry. Maybe she's confused because you look like uncle Danny but you don't smell like him." I tried to explain. It only seemed to make my father angrier.

"What the hell is that thing doing here?!" He almost growled. His lawyer walked over to him and whispered something in his ear.

"I did not agree to this!" He growled at his lawyer. She looked at him defiantly and whispered something again. He calmed down and walked over to his car. He loaded our bags wordlessly and within minutes we were off.

The drive to his house was hard. Dad looked angry and irritated. He didn't say one word to us. At first I was angry that my mother, Leanna, never told me about him. Apparently, she didn't even tell him about me, but, now I could see why. She didn't trust him and neither did I. Inside I had a mix of emotions because even though he was my father, I felt that something terrible was going to happen if we stayed with him. I felt powerless. I looked up to the moonless night and it made me feel hopeless. It brought tears to my eyes and my brother/cousin held me closer to him when he saw them.

We arrived to a solitary are a of town by the afternoon. The house was big and so was the property that surrounded it. Dad was a prominent scientist and he was loaded, which was another reason he was able to get custody of all of us. He spent so much money on one of the best known lawyers in the state yet he was upset by us from the moment he met us as if he didn't want us. I don't know why he fought for our custody. Billie and Jaime said that he never showed any interest about being uncle to them before. Why did he want us?

We went into the large house and I was surprised at how beautifully it was decorated. It was like a magazine.

"The dog stays outside. You are responsible for it, understand? I don't want so see it. I don't want to hear it or deal with anything that has to do with it. You can put it in the garage for tonight until I figure out a more permanent solution for it."

"But she usually sleeps in my room." I said quietly. My dad gave me such a furious look that it made Nala bark at him again. I held to her leash tightly and pulled her back.

"That thing is definitely not sleeping in this house." He growled. Jaime stepped forward and took the leash from me.

"The garage is fine for her tonight. I'll build her a dog kennel and a nice dog run behind the garage so that you'll never have to see her. I promise she won't be a problem." Jaime told him. Father relaxed his stance slightly.

"That'll be fine. The moving truck is coming in the morning with all your stuff. I'll have your biometrics imputed in the morning so that you can get in and out without setting the alarm. Of course, if you kids know how to do it yourselves that will save us all some time. The lock code for this weeks is 150275. Memorize it." He told us as we walked into the large foyer.

"The master bedroom is downstairs so you have the upstairs to yourselves. Help yourself to whatever room you want upstairs. Down that hallway is my study, entertainment room, and bedroom, which are all off limits. If you want to watch tv, there's televid systems all the rooms upstairs. There are no maids here so whatever you mess up you clean up. Got it." He told us sternly.

"Yes sir." I said quickly. I didn't like the angry way he was looking at us. He stared at me for a moment. It was the longest time that he looked at me. Then he turned to the kitchen.

"I don't cook. The takeout menus already uploaded to the kitchen system and the phone for grocery delivery is already recorded into the televid. You can have them scan my card for identity confirmation when you order food. You can order anything you need unless you want to out to buy things for yourself. Since I don't have much in stock, you can order food for tonight but from tomorrow on, nobody comes in or out of this house after 9pm. Not even for delivery got it?" He asked Jaime.

"Yes, sir." Jaime told him.

"You drive now, right?" Father asked him.

"Um. Yeah." Jaime told him. He pulled out his wallet, took out a black card and gave it to Jaime.

"Good. Then you are in charge of the food, school supplies and driving yourself and the girls to school. Like I said, you're welcome to come and go as you please but no one leaves this house after 9pm. I was going to call a car service to take you to school but you can use the Toyota if you want to drive yourselves. I'll activate it for you tomorrow too but the backup keys are in the kitchen if you ever need it." He told Jaime.

"You're letting me use your car?" Jaime asked surprised.

"It's not my car. My ex's, I just never got around to get rid of it. Which reminds me. I expect you kids to stay upstairs and out of sight when I am entertaining company. Alright, well, I'm a busy man so I am heading my study and I don't want to be bothered. You guys are old enough to take care of each other so try not to bother me. Our lives don't have to be completely ruined by this situation." He said as he walked down the hallway and disappeared into his study.

"Our parent's just died and he treats us like his life was ruined? Asshole!" Billie said. She hated my father just as much as Jaime did.

"He's not even happy to know I exist." I said sadly. Billie took my hand and Jaime took the other.

"I'm almost 18 years old and the only time he ever came to see his family was for grandma and grandpa's funeral. He's a miserable, unhappy man which is probably why aunt Lee left him and never told him about you. Don't fry a wire over him. He's not worth it." Jaime told me. He looked at the card father gave him.

"Come on. Let's get you girls fed and ready for bed." He told us. We walked into the kitchen and Jaime pulled up the menu screens.

"Choose what you want while I go get Nala settled in the garage." He told us and rolled his eyes. I giggled and kissed Nala goodnight before he took her out. I was glad that Jaime offered to build a kennel for her so that we could keep her but I wasn't surprised by it. He would do anything for Billie and me. Jaime had always been very protective of us. He was the oldest. When mom left my dad, she went to live with aunt Aurita (Rita) and uncle Daniel (Danny). We have been living with them ever since so I was more like his baby sister than little cousin. Billie Ann was his real little sister but we all grew up together like siblings. She was fifteen so I really looked up to her and Jaime. Now we were all each other had.

Father's house was a lot more advanced than homes at the reservation. By the time Jaimie came back, we decided on pizza. Jaime used the televid to order pizza. We imputed our order on the screen and the integrated infrared scanned the card that was already uploaded to the website to complete the order. We had pizza in the fancy kitchen within 10 minutes. Everything was digitized and voice activated. Sensor/voice activated faucets, voice activated appliances with touch screen. Digital countertops with antimicrobial flashers. Actually it looked like almost every surface had a flash self-cleaning system, even the floors. No wonder he didn't have a maid.

We were still a little behind on all the advances of the 22nd century. We had smart appliances and I had seen smart features in some my friend's homes but I never lived in a full blown smart house. The rooms upstairs were just as amazing. There were four bedrooms upstairs and a small living area that Jaime said we would use to study. However, it had a large 3D televid so I doubted we would do much studying there. The closets had a digital scanning system to sanitize clothing as soon as we hung them. Most homes still use washers and dryers so I had never seen a smart closet. The only thing we would have to wash was our underwear or any stained clothing or linens. Everything was voice/sense activated from the lights, to the wall integrated televid system, to the temperature. Everything in the bathroom was self-sanitizing and voice activated including the dual water/waterless shower settings and toilet settings. We only had a touchscreen appliances back home so this was very impressive.

"At least the house is amazing." Jaime said after we explored the upstairs. I agreed. It was amazing but it wasn't home.

"I miss home." I told him. I felt a sense of disconnection from home that penetrated to my very soul. The only connections I felt were with my siblings and unfortunately with him. The more time I spent with him the more I felt connected to him even though he despised me. I felt the stupid tears in my eyes and they spilled out. Jaime took me in his arms and picked me up. He was really tall and strong for 17. He went into the first room he found and he laid me on the bed. The light automatically turned on as soon as he walked in.

"Why don't you girls sleep here? We can figure out the room stuff tomorrow when the truck arrives with our stuff."

"Ok." Billie told him. She got into the bed with me and Jaime put the covers over us.

"Lights off." He said as he walked out the door.

Jaime

It was after midnight when I got hungry again. I went down to the kitchen and saw uncle Jack there getting a beer. He stumbled away from the fridge which made me realize he was drunk. He sat on one of the counter stools and that's when he saw me. His face went rigid and hard. It was so difficult to look at his face, my dad's face. Uncle Jack was my dad's twin brother. He was an asshole and once he left the reservation he never came back except for his parent's funeral. He didn't even come for our parent's funeral.

"What the hell are you doing up?" He asked me.

"I got hungry. I'm just gonna get a snack." I told him, matching his harsh tone. I went over to the fridge and got out one of the power bars I saw earlier. I wanted some cereal but I wanted to get the hell away from him as soon as possible.

"You're just like him." He told me.

"I'm his son. I'm supposed to be like him." I told him.

"Just my luck. My asshole brother finally dies and I still get stuck with his fucking mini-me." He said and took a sloppy slurp of his beer. I instantly felt every muscle in my body go rigid.

"Don't talk about my dad that way!" I yelled at him before I could stop myself. Uncle Jack got up so quick, I barely had time to react. He grabbed my shirt and got right at my face. I saw the rabid wild look in his eyes and, for a moment, I was scared.

"Or what?! Don't forget, that the only kid I am actually responsible for is the little brat that bitch Leanna gave birth to. You and your sister are here out of the kindness of my heart!" He spat out and let go of me with a violent shove that made me land hard against the fridge.

"That brat is your daughter! She's gifted, kind and much better than you deserve. Why did you even have us come here?" I felt the tears sting my eyes. I was angry and a little scared so the tears came out of my eyes unwillingly.

"I'll let you know when I figure it out, now get the fuck out of my kitchen." He told me as he sat back down at the counter stool to drink.

I went back upstairs and checked on the girls. They were both still asleep. I suddenly didn't feel like sleeping alone so I got into the bed next to my sisters. I cried silently next to Billie until I fell asleep.

The truck came early in the morning. My asshole uncle was already gone which I was thankful for. I helped the movers unpack the few boxes and I helped the girls get settled. My parent's friends called us to see how we were settling in. It was so stupid that we had to be here with this man who clearly didn't want us. Especially because there were people who truly loved us back home. My mom didn't have siblings but she had plenty of cousins who would have taken us. Aunt Yurien wasn't mom's real sister but she loved us so much that she got lawyers and fought for us; however, since Cameron was uncle Jack's biological daughter and our only immediate family he was able to win the custody battle easily.

"Are you guys unpacked?" I asked my sisters. They were sitting in the little sitting room watching something on the 3D televid.

"Yea. Wanna watch a movie with us?" Billie asked me. I laid across both their laps and smiled when they both complained. We watched the movie together. Just the three of us, like it would be from now on.

I took the first bedroom and let them pick the two that were furthest down the hall. I felt it would be safest now that I knew Jack drank. It didn't matter, though. All week he never came upstairs. He left before we woke up and he returned at dusk and disappeared. It was a nice arrangement. I slept with the door open, just to make sure he didn't come up but also to listen into the girls' room.

We had arrived on a Monday, Billie cried in her sleep all the way through to Thursday and that's when Cam started having nightmares. On Friday I decided to unpack all the old pictures and put them all around the upstairs area. I thought maybe it would help with the nightmares, unfortunately it only made everything worse.

That Friday night I heard Cam screaming in her sleep. Nala must have heard her too because she started howling and as soon as she did I heard a rumbling downstairs. Great! He was up. I ran over to Cam's room almost running over Billie and we both went into her room. Cam sat on her bed looking up at us frightened. Looking up at me frightened.

"What the fuck is all that screaming?! This is my last day of peace damn it!" Uncle Jack yelled from downstairs. We heard him going up the stairs and Cam quickly came over to me holding on to me like she was afraid I would leave her.

"What is this? What the hell is this?!" Jack screamed. We walked down the hall to the living area. He was staring angrily at one of the pictures I set up earlier. He was definitely drunk but when he turned his face up to look at us, he looked horrifying. I had never seen a face contort with rage that way. Even his eyes were different. There was something almost feral about them. Cam gave a little yelp and buried her face at my side. He threw the picture over the little balcony that overlooked the entrance of the house and it crashed loudly against the floor downstairs. Nala howled again making his already furious eyes rage further.

"What the hell man?! That's all we have left of them!" I yelled at him.

"This is my house! I'm your fucking parent now!" He said and started throwing pictures. Nala started barking.

"I thought I said I didn't want to hear that damn mutt!" He roared and threw a picture of aunt Leanna, Cam, and Nala against the window so hard that it broke the window.

"Stop it! Stop it!" Cam cried at my side. She finally felt brave enough to look at him and look he gave her in return was one full of disgust. I almost growled at him.

"Get her out of here. Go take Nala for a walk around the property. I'll clean up here and take these down." I told Billie and handed Cam to her. Jack was still fuming as he watched them head down the stairs.

"I want all this crap out of here and clean up the damn mess downstairs!" He screamed. The girls were already down and out the door so I began to work.

Billie

I grabbed our jackets as we walked out the door and took Cam outside. It was dark out so Cam couldn't see the tears rolling down my eyes. I tried to keep my cool for Cam but seeing that evil man destroy the only memories of my family was too much. He wasn't my uncle, not anymore.

Jack lived in an area were houses had large plots of lands measured in acres. Our closest neighbor was over a mile away and he had been gone for the entire week we were here. A lot people in the city used these houses as vacation or weekend houses so I wasn't surprised. I went over to the kennel and took Nala out on her leash. There was a nice garden so I took Cam and Nala to see it.

"I hate him. I hate him! I want to go home!" Cam said suddenly and then she started crying. I sighed. Nala went over to her and laid by her feet next to her.

"I want that too but we can't. This is our life now." I told her, trying to keep myself calm so that I didn't fall apart in front of her. In many ways, Cam was older than me but in age I was older so I had to set the example.

"You shouldn't say that about your father." I told her even though I hated him too. The way he looked at his own daughter was frightening. My father had been angry at times but he never had that look on his face. It was so surreal to see that anger on a replica of my dad's face. Its like he defiled my dad somehow.

Cam started walking away from me as if my response upset her. Nala and I followed behind her. I sensed that she wanted to be alone so I shortened the leash on Nala and let Camwalk a few feet ahead for privacy. Cam's body froze suddenly and Nala went on alert. We all stopped and I looked around to see if there was something that startled Cam but there was nothing.

"Cam?" I grabbed her shoulders and turned her around. Her eyes came to focus and she looked at me afraid. Terrified.

"Jaime! He's hurting Jaime!" She yelled at my face and ran back to the house. Nala jumped and I lost my hols on the leash. She ran after Cam easily keeping up with her. I ran after them trying to catch up to Cam but she was always so much faster than me. I heard the screaming almost as soon as we got close to the house.

"I'm not him! Get off me!" It was Jaimie. My heart started pounding faster than ever before and somehow my feet grew wings because I was running faster than I ever had before.

"You took her from me! And because of you my life is gone! I'm gone!" I heard Jack scream. I ran harder when I heard my brother scream. I saw Cam run into the house with Nala and I heard her scream just as I ran in.

First thing I noticed was Cam shaking at the entrance of the living room and Nala was in front of her growling at an odd figure. My eyes focused on the figure and that's when I saw Jack on top of my brother beating him. Jaime's face was bloody and he was trying to throw punches back but Jack was too drunk to feel anything. I ran towards them as fast as I could and I jumped on Jack's back trying to choke him. I was trying to choke the monster with my father's face

"Billie no!" I heard my brother scream. Jack shoved me back and I hit my head against one of the tables, something fell over and shattered. Somewhere in my head I registered that I knocked down the flowers but it hurt too much for me to care. I saw him get up and come over to me. He grabbed my hair roughly.

"Why Rita? Why couldn't you love me?" He screamed at my face, his entire body was trembling at this point. I screamed and then I heard a loud growl. Nala finally jumped on Jack and was biting his arm. He let go of me. I quickly went over to Jaime to see if he was ok when I heard a loud shriek coming from Nala. I turned and saw Nala on the floor shaking and Jack kicked her, hard.

"Stop!" I heard Cam scream.

Everything after that happened so fast that I wasn't sure of what I saw. Jack turned his attention to Cam and so did I. She had a gun, pointed at his chest. Jack let out a loud feral growl that seemed more animal than man and then he took a stepped towards Cam. I couldn't see his face but I could see the look of terror in Cam's face. Something about his face must have startled her because she suddenly gasped, startled. That simple motion caused her to pull the trigger. Finally, I heard a gunshot. Cam was shaking. Her little hands trembled around the hard metal. Her cheeks were stained with tears and her little mouth was open in shock. She shot her father! I saw the bleeding wound on the side of his ribcage as he dropped to the floor.

"Shit!" Jaime managed to get up somehow and went over to him quickly to feel for a pulse while I took the gun away from Cam.

"Where the hell did you find this?" I asked her as I set the antiquated weapon on one of the tables.

"It it it was in a book on the sh...elf." She stuttered. She was still in shock. I saw the opened book on the floor. It had a cavity on the inside where the gun was hidden. How did she even know it was there? We heard a small whimper and we all turned to see Nala trying to stand. Cam ran to her and held her in her arms.

"She's really hurt." Cam said with a shaky voice. Jaime went over to them to examine the dog. I couldn't move. The only thing I could register was the dead body and the gun on the floor.

"How did you know where the gun was?" I asked her.

"I had a feeling." She told me in a whisper.

"Yea but how did you know to pick up that book?" I continued. She shook her head at me.

"This doesn't matter. My father is dead and Nala is hurt. What are we going to do?" She asked Jaime and started crying. I went over to her and I took her in my arms before I looked at Jaime too. He looked into my eyes and shook his head. He didn't know either. Our 12 year old sister just killed her father. Jaime walked over to the table and took the gun. He wiped it down.

"That will only get out the fingerprints, not the DNA. We need a PCR inhibitor like the stuff they use for pools." Cam said. She was gifted so it didn't surprise me that she knew this stuff.

"We have a pool so there should be supplies in the shed. Do you know what you're looking for?" He asked her. Cam nodded. I just looked at them horrified.

"What the hell are you two thinking? We clean the gun and then what? He's still dead. When he doesn't show up for work on Monday they'll come after us." I told them. We all looked at the dead body. I felt bad for him. He was always a miserable man but he was my father's brother. Cam looked at him with so much pain that it hurt me to see her.

"We can tell them it was a burglary." I quickly suggested.

"That won't match the evidence and I am not letting them send our sister to juvi. We're cleaning the gun, erasing all traces of our dna before we put the damn thing back where it was and then we are leaving. They can think he went into a drunken rage and we left. For all they know someone else shot him." He said.

"Do you think anyone is going to believe that story after they see your face and find your blood on the floor?" I asked him.

"We'll use the PCR inhibitor. It will be suspicious but they will probably think that the thief was getting rid of his DNA. they can't prove it was us." He said.

"What about your face? What about Nala? How do we explain that?" I asked him.

"I'll do what I can for Nala and me here with the first aid kit. He had a really good one in the garage so we may not need professional help. For now the most important thing is to get as far away from the crime scene as possible and fix the scene to our advantage before we go. If they find, we'll tell them we left before this happened. If they find us, we can say that we were running away from his violent tempers but that he was alive when we left." Jaime told me.

"In that case we should just take the gun with us so that they can't find it. They can't trace the bullet to any of us if the gun doesn't exist." Cam said mechanically. She was still staring at the body.

"I think they'll find it suspicious if his gun is missing." Jaime said.

"I don't think this gun is registered to him. Its not his gun." Cam said.

"What makes you say that?" I asked her. She finally looked away from him to the book I was holding.

"It was in mommy's favorite book, see." She showed us the title on the old book cover. Wuthering Heights.

"Make's sense. Aunt Lee always liked the old school stuff. This gun is ancient. Its probably not registered to her either." Jaime commented.

"No. It would have shown up on the list of assess if it was registered to her. It looks like a 2012 standard glock. Its an antique. Usually cops had these so maybe it was an heirloom." Cam said.

"So what are we going to do? They can track the car anywhere we go." I reminded them.

"Dad has the old Chevy truck in the garage. I saw it the other day when I went to see Nala. It will call attention to us in the big cities but it can't be traced." Cam told us.

"Why the hell does he have that? Aunt Leanna said that was like an old family heirloom or hers." I said confused.

"She left here without anything. Like she was running away. I bet you he was beating her." Jack said. I looked at him and he realized what he just said. We both looked at Cam to make sure she was ok but she seemed unaffected by his implication.

"Do you think it still runs?" I asked her, trying to change the subject.

"It'll run. No one will think anything of it and I bet the license plate can't be traced either so its our only chance." She told us.

"We're leaving tonight. We need to make it look like we are fleeing. Nobody knows what stuff we brought with us so go get some clothes. Don't take too much that they would suspect we're intentionally running away. One pair of jeans, a couple of shirts and underwear, we're not on vacation here. We have to make it look like we left in a hurry, in case they do find us." Jaime told us. Cam looked at her father one more time and nodded. As she looked at him she saw something. Her eyes glazed over again.

"You ok?" I asked her.

"I just thought I saw something weird. Impossible." She said. She was shaking again. I took her hand and we went upstairs to get out stuff.