Everyone had been walking on eggshells ever since they left Forks. For Emmett, he was pissed off, because it seemed that the only one that wasn't suffering was the pussy that made them leave, in the first place. While he was off gallivanting God only knows where, even poor Jasper could barely live with himself, for supposedly having set everything in motion.

Though Emmett was pretty sure that Eddie-boy had it planned, all along. Why else would that one little incident set him off as bad as it did?!

Only a little over two months had passed, yet none of them were moving on with their lives, like they should've been. Emmett just kept getting an inkling that something wasn't quite right. His gift, for lack of a better word, was an intuition about those that he cared for, and something told him that he needed to go back to Forks, and quick, before something bad did happen.

All he had to do was convince Rosie of his plan after Eddie-boy made his weekly phone call. That would give them one week to find Bella and move her to safety, before that asshole found out and got involved.

Emmett should've known it wouldn't have taken much to convince Rose that they should go to Forks. He talked with her the moment that Carlisle and Esme stepped out of the house to go hunt. Alice and Jasper were away on vacation, trying to come to terms with what had happened, so when he went to their room to find her all packed up, to say he was confused would've been an understatement.

"C'mon Emmett," she said, her eyebrow raised in a questioning manner. "You don't think I was really think that I was so unaware, that I didn't know what you were planning, huh?"

After that, it didn't take him long to pack, load up the car, heading their way to Forks. Since they were still in Alaska, it only took a few hours or so to drive to Forks, seeing as how Rosalie obeyed almost all of the driving laws, not wanting to get caught speeding to hold them back any longer. Once they did reach Forks, it was nightfall.

The town seemed eerily quiet…too quiet, actually, but neither Rose nor Emmett dwelled on that fact for long, deciding to go straight to the chief's house, where they were sure that their little sister would be.

But she wasn't. In fact, nobody was home, and it looked as if the house hadn't been lived in since they left in September. Emmett was right…and he knew it, unfortunately, but he wondered if he was too late to save them? After all, where could they have gone?

Emmett looked back at his wife, who had a worried and sad look on her face. He understood earlier that Rose had never held anything against Bella, personally. In all honesty, she really liked the human, but hated how she allowed their brother to treat her. Now that Edward was out of the picture, she was looking forward to starting anew with Bella, to be the big sister that she's always needed.

But where was she? And more importantly, where was Charlie? The two of them both disappearing not long after they left didn't sit well with Emmett.

"Come on," Emmett encouraged his wife, having one of those inklings, again, that was telling him that he couldn't leave Forks…not yet, so since they were supposed to be gone, there was only one other place to go to…the mansion. "We can check around later, maybe see what the hell is going on."

Rosalie agreed, and they got back to the car and sped off towards the house. Already, things were too creepy for Emmett's liking. As they passed a few shops, like Newton's Outfitter's, they found it to be closed, but not in the temporary sense…it just wasn't there, anymore. Even their old high school looked as if it held a long lost and dark secret, as if their moving had flipped a switch on the town, causing it to decay in such a short amount of time.

"This isn't good," Rosalie whispered, her words mirroring exactly how Emmett felt. He reached over the console, lacing his fingers together with hers, letting her feel him so her soul would know that her mate was right here with her. She smiled at that little gesture, venom tears welling in her eyes as she took a deep breath, pulling into the long driveway that led them to their old house.

Just like in town, they could both tell that something was up, here, too. The woods seemed overgrown, like it was done on purpose, even though Esme had hired a gardener to take care of things like this. As they got nearer to where the house was, both felt like their skin was crawling…whatever here was dangerous, but they could also trust it, which was a weird feeling for them to be having.

Not wanting to chance going any further in the vehicle, Rosalie parked the car and got out. Both her and Emmett grabbed their backpacks and Rosalie's purse, before closing the car doors, not bothering with locking them. After all, if somebody wanted the car, the lock probably wouldn't do them a damn bit of good, anyways, so what was the point?

As they walked, Emmett took Rose's hand into his own, holding it securely. Not like she couldn't handle herself, but it made him feel better, like he had his lifeline when he was physically connected with her.

Rose brought his hand up to her lips, kissing it, before they got to the porch steps of what had once been their home.

Somebody was living here, that much was for sure. But whoever it was, they were gone, right now. Emmett and Rose decided to take the chance of unlocking the house and going in, finding the key under the mate, where it had always been, just in case. After all, she because a vampire could break into a house, it didn't mean that they should.

Once they were inside, they noticed a few things, all at once. Whoever was living here was a vampire, and there was more than one, though they smelled what seemed to be a human mingled in with the other two scents, which was odd. It was like the human was living here, too, but that didn't seem right, because besides them and the Denali's, they knew of no other vampire who drank animal blood, and the thought of a human drinker having a human live here seemed pretty well preposterous. Nothing was making sense, to either one of them.

"Let's snoop some more," Rose suggested, receiving a nod from her husband as they headed upstairs. One thing was certain…whoever was living here wasn't using the house in its entirety. Rooms were blocked off, but there was a commonality it it—all the room's that were blocked off had something major to do with Edward, like his bed and piano room. Other rooms, like the den, kitchen, a couple of bedrooms and bathrooms were being occupied, in some shape or form. Seven rooms, total. It was kind of creeping them both out.

"Who is living here?" Emmett asked, voicing the most obvious of questions. Rose gave him a sidelong glance, rolling her eyes.

"If we knew, we wouldn't be snooping."

At that moment, they both stopped, sensing someone, rather than actually hearing or smelling them. They looked at one another before ducking into the library, moving towards the bookshelves. With one quick motion, Rose had the hideaway door opened and pushed her husband inside, before following him and shutting the door as quietly as she could.

One good thing of living with vampires was learning a few tricks over the years. Carlisle had built this room in case of a war that may happen with the Volturi or whoever. Each of their houses held a few rooms similar to this one, which halted any inclination that whoever had stepped into that room was ever in the house, meaning that now that Rose and Emmett were hidden away, they couldn't be found out, now, unless those who were squatting here knew of this room. For that, they would just have to wait and see.

This room off of the library led way to where all the other rooms could meet up. The part they were in just happened to be the closest in proximity at the time that they needed it.

Halting their breathing, Rose and Emmett held each other's hands in the dark room, as they listened to what was going on from the other side. Soon, two pairs of footsteps came into the room.

"Are you sure this is where you heard it?"

Rose and Emmett's eyes nearly bugged out of their heads. That rough, yet lilting voice, belonged to none other than Charlie Swan. But, if that was him, when did he change into a vampire?

"I'm sure of it, dad," a soft soprano answered him, belonging to none other than the one that they came here to look for, in the first place.

Bella.

Emmett had it in his mind to leap from his hiding place, scoop Bella up in a hug, and run away with her, but with Rose pulling back on his arm to keep him with her, he thought better of it. They needed to know what was going on, especially now!

Soon, light footsteps could be heard, carrying the owner from the living room, up the stairs and into the room where Charlie and Bella were standing, both baffled. That's when they both heard a gasp coming from Bella, which almost set them off if not for the light chuckle that was well received right after.

"Renesmee," they heard her say in a light, yet scolding manner. Both Rose and Emmett looked at one another, very confused, right now, as they heard a small body being picked up, followed by what sounded like a light kiss being given on somebody's cheek. "What're you doing? You were supposed to be with auntie Alice."

Emmett had to grab ahold of Rose, this time, so she wouldn't barge into the other room. Whatever was going on, at least they now knew why Alice and Jasper had lit out of their presence as soon as Edward had gone. But who was Bella talking to? And why was she calling Alice auntie?

No sound. That's what they heard for the next several moments. Nothing, saving from the shuffle of feet, somewhere, as well as a heart beating, though so slow it was almost as if the person were dying.

"Ah, I see…you wanted to find out for yourself, so you ran ahead of them," Bella replied, almost as if she were reading the person's thoughts. Emmett's eyebrow quirked up in amusement, but one glare from Rosalie had his face a stone mask, for the time being.

Soon, both Emmett and Rosalie recognized a set of footprints coming out of the forest, towards the house. The whole journey they made in a matter of seconds had Rose seething. She understood needing secrets to be kept from Carlisle and Esme, so Edward wouldn't know, but why did they hide secrets from herself and Emmett? Emmett deserved to know about his baby sister, and…well, Rose was a bitch to Bella, before, so she understood why she wasn't let in on the secret, but still, Emmett should've known.

Soon, both sets of feet, along with their bodies, were in the room with everybody else. And the way Alice began rambling, if she had been human, she would've been in a full-on panic attack, by now! "They're on their way!" Silence…shuffle…huff… "No, I just saw them, and they just left!" Silence…silence…huff… "Are you sure?" Silence…silence… "Then there's only one place where they could be?"

All at once, it got deadly quiet. Rose looked over at Emmett, who shrugged his shoulders, just as confused as she was. Nothing went on for several moments, and the anticipation was beginning to really get to Rose.

Then, all at once, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!

The wall before them was gone, and Emmett and Rosalie, both too shocked to move, were staring into the red eyes of Alice, Jasper, Charlie and Bella, but it was what was attached to Bella's hip that had the two of them really transfixed, more so than the four of them having red eyes.

A small, carbon copy of Bella, her arms around Bella's neck, stared at the two of them in wide-eyed, childish wonder. Yet there was knowledge, there, as well, saying that she wasn't as innocent as she seemed.

If Rose had to guess, she would say that the pale child couldn't be more than a year old, yet Rose would've guessed less had it not been for the agility and focus that the young child was displaying. Rose would've flown off the handle, by now, but she realized quickly that this child, though her eyes were red, was not an immortal child. She was the human they had sensed, earlier.

But what was going on? Why did the child look so much like Bella? Why were Jasper and Alice here? And what had gone wrong that, once the Cullen's had left, both Bella and Charlie had been turned into one of them?!

I hope everyone enjoys this! Honestly, this is something that I'm just going with, because it came to me that easily. I have a lot on my plate, right now, and my other stories, as good as they are, need my 100% full attention to complete, as I don't want to mess them up. This one came to me in a way that I could just free-write it without having to do research or what not, so I figured this would be a good way to still post stories while I'm indisposed, without screwing up and not giving my readers what they justly deserve.

All of my other stories will be continued, but for the time being, I'm just going to focus on this story, so that I can still write without having to feel like I'm cheating or anything, LOL :-D

Thanks! And again, I hope everyone enjoys this, as it really just came to me out of the blue, and was down on paper before I knew exactly what was going on, haha!

~*Missy*~