Have a little Faith Chapter 1
It was a rainy day in the woods of Forks, Washington as Faith Thompson hiked up the mountain with her parents John and Ella Thompson hot on her trail.
Faith lifted the hood of her rain jacket off of her head and let the cool rain trickle into her blonde hair.
Rainy days were her favorite and she loved to hike more than anything in the entire world.
Her freckled skin had become tan from years and years of hiking in the mountains.
Originally the Thompsons were from Colorado where they lived for years out in a small cabin in the snowy woods.
Her parents had moved them to Forks, Washington where her dad had taken a job as a cardiologist at the local hospital.
Her mother had been in an accident back home and was now forced to quit work to stay at home.
Everything was going to change this year.
Faith had always been homeschooled but this year would be different.
She was going to start her junior year at Forks High school which would be a huge change from the homeschooling that she was used to.
As she climbed up a large rock formation and looked back at her parents smiling faces, she knew that she would do just about anything to make them happy.
She wanted to make them proud if it was the last thing she did.
"Well hello there, Ms. Queen of the Forest." Her dad joked as he joined her on top of the cliff that dropped off into a steep ravine.
Looking down he whistled sharply through his teeth at the sight of the steep drop.
"That's a nice drop right there." Her mother said as her dad helped her to stand beside them.
Faith and her father nodded in agreement as the family started to move away from the edge.
"Don't go too close to the edge, Dovey." Her father warned as she looked over the side and down where a small body of water lay way down between the rocks.
"Looks like we'll have to find another way to go further up the mountain." She said as her father pulled out a large map from his backpack.
His face scrunched up in confusion as he switched the map around.
"What's wrong?" Her mother asked as she looked over at him in concern.
"It seems that we may have gotten a tad lost. I think that we took a wrong turn somewhere." He said as his brows furrowed.
Faith pulled out the compass that her parents had given her when she was a baby from around her neck and held it in the palm of her hand.
Turning in different directions she tried to figure out where they were.
Suddenly the forest seemed to get darker as the wind and rain picked up.
The family gathered together trying to keep warm as the rain pelted them hard.
Faith suddenly got a bad feeling as she looked around at the darkened trees.
A growl was heard from behind them as they swiveled around trying to see through the rain.
"Who's there?" Faith called out as her voice shook with fear.
"The monsters that have come to eat you, little girl." A female voice said as two male voices snickered from somewhere on either side of them.
"Run, Faith. Go now." Her mother said as she pushed her daughter towards the tree line.
"No! I'm not leaving you here!" She cried as her mother shook her head and grasped onto her husband's hand before stepping down onto the forest floor.
"I know you're there. And I know what you want." She said shakily as her husband squeezed her hand tightly in his own.
"Ellie, it's been too long." A male voice gasped as three pairs of red eyes made their way towards them.
"Laurent. What are you doing here?" Her mother asked as Faith started to move towards her parents.
"Don't move, little one." The man named Laurent said as he stepped out of the trees and came to stand in front of them.
"They're hungry. They'll tear you apart if you move." He said carefully as he glanced up at Faith making her let out a gasp when he gave her a fanged smile.
"You know I'd come sometime, Ellie. This is your own fault you know. You shouldn't have kept her from me." Laurent said as he looked down at Faith's mother will a sad look etched across his handsome features.
"You have no right to take her." Her mother bit out as Laurent tilted his head at her with a smile.
"Really? Because I beg to differ. She is my daughter after all." He said as two other figures came to stand beside him.
"Victoria...James…" Her mother growled as the woman named Victoria laughed and gave her a wave hello.
"The one and only." Laurent murmured as he ran his sharp claws down her cheek leaving red marks in their wake.
"Please, Laurent. Leave her alone. If you care, you'll let her live." Her mother begged as Laurent looked over to where Faith stood with her long stringy blonde hair whipped around her face as she stood looking terrified at the man she had never met.
"Who said I was going to kill her?" Laurent said as he actually sounded genuinely put out by her assumption.
"You've turned, Laurent. You're not the same man that you were before." Her father said as his eyes glanced back at his 17 year old daughter.
"That is none of your business, John." Laurent growled as he took a step closer to the man.
"Hurry up, damnit! You have what you came here for. Now kill the bastards." Victoria growled as John clutched his wife's hand harder and closed his eyes.
Laurent looked surprisingly torn for a moment as he looked between Ella and her daughter.
He didn't mind killing John but killing his daughter's mother in front of her wasn't what he was planning on.
"Turn around, Faith." Laurent said gently as Faith's eyes filled with tears and she started to scream and beg.
"No! NO! You can't do this!" She cried as Victoria grabbed her shoulders and forcefully turned her around before covering her ears with her hands.
But her hands couldn't block out the horrible scream from her mother and two sickening cracks that landed with a thud on the forest floor.
Faith cried hysterically as Victoria tried to shush the girl the best she could.
"There, there child. They were meant to die. Vampires need to seek revenge when they are wronged." She soothed but Faith wasn't listening as she fought to turn around.
Victoria held her tightly in her arms as Laurent took one last look at the mother of his child before making his way over to his daughter who was barely standing.
"Darling, I…" He began to say but was drowned out by a loud howl followed by several more making them all curse loudly.
"The mutts have arrived." Victoria growled as she threw Faith behind her and took a defensive stance.
"Close your eyes, love." James said as he glanced down at the young girl.
But Faith couldn't close her eyes no matter how hard she tried.
Moments later the sound of thunder shook the ground as a large russet colored wolf lunged from the tree line.
More followed as they lunged towards the vampires leaving the girl to fend for herself.
She screamed as Victoria threw a wolf into a tree.
A smaller grey wolf trotted up to her and looked down at her with a look of confusion but was caught off guard when one of his pack mate's was thrown into him knocking Faith over to the edge of the cliff.
"NO!" Laurent cried as Faith clutched the edge of the cliff before she grew too tired and fell almost four stories down to hard rocks below.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?" Laurent screeched as he bared his fangs at the wolves who surrounded them immediately.
Victoria moved to the edge of the cliff and looked over the side grimacing at what she saw.
"She's gone, Laurent. We need to go NOW!" She screamed as the wolves began to move in closer.
With a heavy heart, Laurent grabbed Victoria and lifted her into his arms as he and James flitted up into the trees.
With the vampires gone, Sam phased and gathered his pack around him to check on the bodies of the two adults that laid amongst the leaves.
But just as he was about to reach out to check their pulses, a loud painful whine sounded from behind him and when he turned he saw that Jacob was still in his wolf form and had his head on his paws at the edge of the cliff.
"What is, Jake?" He asked gently as he came to stand beside him.
The russet wolf looked down into the ravine where a small girl lay in a blood of blood at the very bottom.
"She's gone, Jake. There's no way she could've survived that fall." He said as he shook his head and turned away from the gruesome sight.
Tears fell from Jake's big brown eyes as his pack mates crowded around him in comfort.
It was then when Sam received the message that Jake was trying to say loud and clear.
"Imprint…"
The word flashed through his mind like lightning and made him stop and run back over to where Jake was standing too close to the edge.
"Shit…" Sam said as he watched Jake trek down the side of the ravine and over to where his imprint lay dying on the wet rocks below.
Jake quickly phased when he reached her and stepped through the pool of blood to kneel besides her checking for any signs of life.
He let out a heart wrenching cry when he couldn't hear a heartbeat in his mate's chest.
Sam and the others quickly joined him as they all let out howls of grief that echoed through the forest.
But then, just as Sam was about to help Jake lift the dead girl's body, he heard it.
If he hadn't been standing directly next to her body he never would've caught the faint sound.
Suddenly Jake and the rest of the pack member's ears perked up letting him know that they heard it too.
"She's alive…" Sam whispered before shouting it out to the entire forest.
"She's alive!" He cried as he and the others helped Jake carefully lift the broken girl into his arms and make his way up the side of the cliff.
"We need to get her to my truck right now!" Sam yelled as the other boys nodded and followed behind him.
But Jake was already at the truck, loading his imprint into the backseat where they would speed off to the nearest hospital.
Sam grabbed his keys out of his pocket and jumped in the driver's seat while the rest of the pack piled in the bed of the truck.
Quil stayed behind with Embry to anonymously call in the dead bodies that still lay in the woods.
A pair of red eyes watched them from the trees above as a single tear fell from their red orbs.
She was alive. And she would be safe. Even if it was with the wolves.
And one day, he would meet her again.