Brianna POV

I was released from the hospital two hours later with two stitches and a lot of band-aids up and down my body. Dad was filling out discharge papers and I was in the waiting area keeping a very close eye on sissy when one of the deputies came up to me.

"Excuse me miss, I'm deputy Clearwater. I was on the search team in the woods." He said introducing himself. He was dark skinned with a mass of black hair that had unfortunately formed to the shape of his ranger hat giving his a bad case of hat hair. He looked very young too. Like he was just able to legally drink kind of young. There was something about his eyes that seemed warm and inviting but I reminded myself that I was only seventeen... and a half. Still that didn't keep me from keep eye contact with the very attractive deputy.

I stood up and shook his hand. "Nice to meet you and thank you for looking for me."

He pointed to my head wound just in the nook of my colic. "Looked a lot worse than two stitches when we found you."

"Well, I did climb a dune basically with nothing but limited arm strength and fear of a heights."

He laughed showing a nice and a white smile. "You're very lucky that you didn't fall." He seemed almost hesitant to ask his next question. "It said in your statement that it looked like a wolf knocked you away from the edge?"

"Pft, yeah, my head wound is most definitely worse than two stitches. I mean a wolf knocking me a good yard away from the edge of a cliff? I mean how does that happen?" Lillian began tugging on my pant leg and I picked her up. "Did you also find my sister in the woods?"

"No," he said fidgeting with his hat, "she was behind the house under the patio."

I rolled my eyes. "Well that explains your messy face Missy." I said talking to her and rubbing my nose against her cheek.

He gave her a smile and rubbed away some dirt on her face with his finger. She smiled and dug her face into my shoulder.

"Sorry, she's shy."

He nodded. "You know I used to know the family that lived in the house that you're in right now. Charlie and Isabella Swan. Good people they were."

"Any idea why they moved?" I had a couple of guesses, got tired of all the green, the constant overcast oh and the fucking dangerous woods right next to them maybe? But still, I was curious.

"Uh, Bella was the daughter and got married. She moved in with her spouse's family and they moved out of state. Then Charlie moved with them to stay close to his granddaughter."

"Were you close to the Swan's?" I asked.

"Yeah, but I was closer to Bella than Charlie. Actually Charlie and my dad used to fish together almost every weekend." He said.

"Really? Well that's nice. What does your dad do now that his fishing buddy is gone?"

He cleared his throat. "He, uh, he died, a few years ago, before Bella got married."

I put Lillian down and patted her butt towards dad who was rubbing his forehead. "Shit, I'm sorry I didn't know."

"That's okay. It's been a while and time heals all wounds. Speaking of which I shouldn't be keeping you. I was just curious of your statement. I thought I would check up on it." He said closing the conversation.

"Well, thank you Deputy Clearwater."

"For what?" He asked.

"For uh, looking for me."

"You already thanked me for that." He said obviously toying with me.

I stammered and gave him my honest answer, "Well, I guess I'm just saying just so I can say it. It's something to say to end a conversation when the person is in a formal uniform."

He got a good laugh out of that and thanked me for my honesty and left. I walked over to my dad and he was just filling out the rest of the papers.

He roped his arm around my head and kissed my stitches."I'm glad you're okay pumpkin." He rested his arm around my shoulder and carried Lillian in his other.

"I'm sorry that I argued with you before. I know things are gonna be tight." We were almost to the car when I remembered that we no longer have insurance. "Dad, how much was that?" I asked.

He kept staring straight ahead and switched arms with Lillian. "You don't need to worry about that. Just work on feeling better."

We got to the car and he started buckling in Lillian but I was still persistent.

"Dad-"

"I mean it Brianna. Just worry about yourself right now. Now c'mon." He said holding the passenger door open for me. "I let you pick your room first."

I got in the car very reluctantly but I did and the whole ride home I couldn't help but think of Deputy Clearwater.

Seth POV

I went to the station and put away my badge, on-duty gun, hung up my hat and jacket and started getting dressed in my running clothes: ripped jeans and a plain white tee-shirt. I caught my reflection in the locker mirror and saw the reflection of someone else behind me. I whipped around and saw that it was Embry.

"Shit dude, nearly gave me heart attack." I said greeting him with a hug. "Where the hell have you guys been? How's Jake and Nessie?"

"They're good. You should see Nessie. She's a full grown teenager, giving Eddy a lot of mouth and raising a lot of hell even for Jake. They wrestle a lot and not that kind of wrestling, trust me I asked and almost got my ass kicked to Tuesday by Jake."

I chuckled. "How is our old friend Eddy? Hey how's he doing with the uh... you know?"

"Well he's better than the last time I saw him but he still looks like shit. He moved back in with the rest of the Cullen's to be closer to the family in Canada."

"Did you guys have trouble finding them?"

"Nah, each vampire has a distinct smell and who could resist the strong smell of the Cullen clan?" He smacked me on the shoulder. "You should have come with us! It was great just running in the forest all the way to Canada with no ties I mean other than our wives."

Embry got married last fall in a church because no way was he risking the chance of rain on his day. Though of course all day that day there was nothing but sunshine. Paul married this one girl he met at the gym three years ago and now has a litter of his own. Quill is still pinging over Claire who's now in kindergarten. He even joined the family on taking her to her first day of school which he of course told us about. He said that she was trooper, probably the only kid that wasn't clinging to their parents leg. He then got to talking about how proud he was of her and even started tearing up! Leah even got married and is having my nephew in two more months.

"No way man, someone has to keep this town safe from traveling vampires seeing how you and the entire freaking pack went to see Jake and the Cullen's."

"Oh yeah that's right, you're the bitch of the pack!" He said punching my arm. "Besides Leah was here."

"Leah's seven months pregnant doofus." I closed my locker. "C'mon man lets go get a drink, you can tell me all about your trip."

We went to Jo's bar, a cop bar for Fork's and Seattle police. More for Forks than for Seattle. It looked like a wooden cabin with pictures of Seattle hero's on the wall and plaques of honors above the liquor. With the new laws it was now a smoke free place but it was crowded outside with cops and their cigarettes which made it a hazard for others walking in but would you go up to a cop and tell them what to do?

Embry and I started with scotch, as tradition to warm us up, then we would talk over beers.

"Is Edward hunting at least? Last I heard he was starving himself." I asked.

"Yeah but not enough. His eyes are almost always black and he only eats in front of Nessie. She may give him a lot of mouth but she still worries about him." Embry was took another swig of his beer and took his time downing it.

"What do the rest of the clan think about it?"

"Of course they want to force feed him but they also don't want him to run like he did for the first two months. What is it with that man and running away?" He shook his head and signaled the bar tender for another round.

"How's Nessie?"

"Jake's taking good care of her. It's hard for her because she has to stay strong in front of Edward but on the inside it's still a fresh wound almost. Jake tells me she still cries herself to sleep."

"Well it's only been two months." I said remembering my mourning process with my dad. It was tough but we all got through it with help from family and friends.

"Yeah, we went there to provide support for them all, give out condolences and leave the next day. Ended up staying there 3 weeks. Gail was going crazy. I had to stop by there first and take care of some things first." He said with a coy smile.

"I'm glad I'm not running with you any more. Don't get me wrong I love Gail but I really would rather not see her... exposed."

He chuckled. "What? Is my wife not attractive enough huh, punk?" He shoved me off the bar stool and I landed on my ass and everyone looked in our direction looking to see if a fight was gonna break out. It usually does when the rest of the pack comes in but not today. Today it was my special day and no way was I gonna get thrown out today.

I got back up and took a swig of my beer resisting my natural urges to knock his in the jaw. "So, did they save anything of hers? Meaning did they put her in an urn or something like that?"

"Yeah, they collected the ashes, which was mostly wood is what I heard from Jake, and they put her in this family vase that Esme had. They scattered some in her garden and gave us to scatter at the meadow, the old Cullen house and her old house." Embry downed his beer and asked for another.

"Whoa, man, you might wanna slow it down. I just finished my first beer." Then I thought of something. "You scattering at Bella's old house might be a problem."

"Oh, yeah? Did the house finally sell?"

"Yep and I'm starting to think that it was that house that made Bella so clumsy."

"Why do you think that?"

"There's this new family that moved in and the youngest is three so they thought she got lost in the woods and them being city folks went into thew woods and the oldest daughter almost threw herself off a cliff. If I hadn't intervened she would be fish food right now. From what I got from the guy they had already lost the wife when the baby was born. I-"

"Shit I hope that doesn't happen to me. If I lost Gail when the baby is born-"

"What? Gail's finally pregnant?"

He hung his head and took another swing of his beer."I'm not supposed to be telling any one but yeah, I'm gonna be a dad."

"Bartender! Two glasses of scotch over here! We're celebrating my buddy's good fortune!" I yelled and of course he didn't hear me but was making another round of beers ready for us so I thought I'd yell at him then. "Embry that's great! Congrats man. I have some good news myself you know."

"Oh yeah?"

"Embry, I imprinted on the girl that almost fell off the cliff."