Disclaimer: Stephanie Meyer owns Twilight and all recognizable characters and situations contained therein. All original content is property of the author. This story is rated M, and will contain drug use, graphic sexual situations, adult language, and graphic violence, horror, and multiple character deaths, this is a HORROR story, and noone is safe, well, no one but the murderer, and maybe one or two survivors... You have been warned!

A/N: Just so we're all on the same page here: All of the Forks kids on the trip are going into senior year, as are all of the La Push kids with the exceptions of Jake, Embry, and Quil who are going into junior year. It's roughly mid-August, and the trip was planned for the incoming senior and junior classes. Sam, Paul, Leah, Angela, Lauren, Mike, Tyler, and Ben are all 18. Bella, Jessica, Kim, and Jared are 17. Embry, Quil, and Jake are all 16.

**Later in the evening**

Lauren, Jessica, and Angela walk together over to the cabin that Bella is sharing with Leah and Kim, Jessica is still spooked, "Lauren, come on, please! Just, let's put the board away, and I don't know… maybe play nice with Bella…"

Lauren rolls her eyes, "Stop being such a baby, Jessica! I mean seriously, maybe I'm remembering it wrong, and you're the one who peed yourself over the board.

**Meanwhile, in another part of the campground **

Sue and Charlie stand shrouded in the cover of the trees. Sue's voice is deeply troubled, "Charlie, I really think you're making a mistake!"

Charlie's voice is stubborn, as he rebuffs her, "The only mistake I made was not doing this earlier! I'm doing this for her own good, you know that!"

Sue disagrees, "No, I don't know that!"

She puts her hands on her hips, and her voice raises, "Jesus, Charlie, the girl is seventeen! She'll be eighteen, and a legal adult in just over a month! What do you hope to accomplish by what I can only call a bully tactic? Do you really think she'll go along with this quietly? Hell, maybe she will, but I can guarantee you, all you're going to do is piss her off to the point that on the day after her eighteenth birthday she'll be on the first plane back here, and then she'll marry him and never speak to you again!"

Charlie huffs, "At least I'll be able to say I tried! That guy is going nowhere, and I'm not going to let him take my daughter with him without a fight!"

Turning he stomps off. Sue looks around, shuddering at the feeling that she's being watched, and hurries back to her cabin.

They thought that no one was around, but at least two heard them.

**Back at Bella's cabin.**

Lauren places the board on the table in the corner of the room and drags it out into the middle. The cabin is dark and shadowy, lit only by a couple of kerosene lanterns that throw shadowy dancing figures on the wall.

The other girls gather round, Jessica still looks scared, and she makes one last ditch effort to shut the shit show down, "C'mon guys… maybe this isn't such a good idea. I mean, you heard what that Ranger said! The guy who murdered those people said the SPIRIT MADE HIM DO IT!"

Lauren fixes her with a glare, "Jessica, if you don't shut the fuck up I swear to all the spirits that I will shut you up. I mean let's be serious, that guy was clearly crazy, 'the spirit made me do it', spirit my ass! He was crazy and it made a good excuse! Now, you know that I know how to use this board, my mom taught me, and she learned from her mom, who learned from her mom, and so on and so forth all the way back to the puritan days and the Salem Witch Trials."

Bella is determined to shut Lauren up, once and for all. She pulls out one of the heavy chairs with a clatter, and sits down in it, "Ok, Witch, you want to play? Let's play then. Sit down, or take your board back to your cabin, and shut the fuck up."

Lauren smirks, and takes the seat across from Bella, "Well, well, well. Look who put on her big-girl panties and came to play. You know how this works, Bella."

She turns to Angela, "Angela, dear, please get me the shot glass from my purse."

Angela hurriedly does as she's told, and Leah smirks, "That was some snap to, girl. Would you wipe her ass if she told you to?"

Angela scowls at her, and snaps, "Oh just shut up, Bitch!"

The Spirit Board was constructed from a flat piece of drift wood, it's roughly rectangular shape approximately 18 by 16 inches. The surface is sanded down and smoothed, with rough pine trees carved into the background. In one corner it says 'yes', on the opposite side is 'no', and between yes and no an owl has been carved, underneath that the alphabet is carved in two rows of 13, a third row has numbers from 0 to 9, and below that in fancier letters has been carved one word, 'Goodbye'.

Lauren takes the shot-glass from Angela, and places it bottoms up in the center of the board. She smirks, and places two fingers lightly on top of the glass, raising an eyebrow, as she says, "Well, Bella? In or out?"

Bella sighs, and places her pointer and middle finger on the other edge of the glass, gasping in alarm as her fingers feel almost glued to the spot where they're connected to the small cup. Lauren arches a perfectly manicured brow, and feigning innocence, asks, "What's wrong, Bella?"

Bella jerks her hand back, expecting that her fingers won't release from the glass, but they do. She swallows compulsively, and her fingers tremble slightly as she places them back on the bottom of the glass.

The rest of the girls gather around, and Lauren's voice takes on an ethereal tone, as she says, "Spirits, we call you! Heed us! We seek knowledge of the world beyond. Teach us!"

Lauren's voice becomes sharper, and she questions, "Spirits! Are we alone?"

The glass, with both girls' fingers on it, jerks to the upper left hand corner, to the word 'NO'. Jessica lets out a strangled yelp of fear, and Lauren speaks again, "Will you answer our questions?"

The shot-glass moves quickly across the board to point to the word, 'YES', and Jessica speaks up, "That's enough, Lauren! It's real funny and all, but enough is enough!"

Lauren's voice goes suddenly toneless, and horrible, not at all like her regular voice, as she says, "Enough, yes, enough is enough. One is coming, one will inhabit, one will force, one will KILL!"

As soon as the last word leaves Lauren's mouth a giant flash of lightning rends the night sky, followed by a tremendous boom of thunder. The lightning hits one of the stones in the fire pit outside, and all the girls but Lauren and Bella scream in terror.

Lauren and Bella lock eyes across the board, another round of thunder sounds, this one so powerful that it shakes the entire cabin, a flash erupts, seemingly from the board itself, and it flings both girls backwards onto the floor.

Leah rushes to Bella's side, shouting, "Bella! Bella, are you alright?"

Jessica grabs the board, the shot glass seems all but fused to it, and she throws it out the door, as Lauren shrieks, "NO! Are you insane? That board is 400 years old!"

Jessica puts her hands on her hips, and shouts, "I don't give a fucking shit if it's 4000 years old, given to Jesus by God himself! You want it, you go get it!"

Leah helps Bella to her feet, and then slow claps, sarcastically saying, "Good work on growing a backbone there, Jessica. Let's hope it lasts beyond the weekend… Now, the three of you need to get the fuck out of here!"

Bella is visibly shaken, an odd light seems to twinkle from her eye, just a trick of the light.

Leah takes her by the arm, and leads her over to the bed, before turning back and addressing the others, "Angela, and Jessica, get out!"

Jessica starts to argue, "Please, Leah, can I please stay here?"

Leah shakes her head, "GO!"

Lauren has already gone out into the storm to grab her board, the other two follow after her, leaving Leah, Bella, and Kim alone in their cabin. Kim breaks the silence, "Bella are you okay?"

Bella looks shaken, but she nods, and clears her throat before responding, "Y, yeah, I'm fine. The thunder was really what scared me, and then that lightning! That flash, it must have been the lightning reflecting off the window, but it seemed like it was right in here with us!"

Leah nods, "It was certainly fuckin freaky. Let's just go to sleep, everything will be better in the morning."

Paul's eyes pop open in the darkness, as someone shakes his shoulder, as his eyes slowly adjust they focus on Sam who is kneeling next to his bunk in the darkness. Confused, he asks, "Sam? What's up, Man?"

Sam holds up a finger, and listens for Chief Swan's buzz-saw snoring, he hears it, and whispers, "Dude, I have to talk to you, not here though… Let's go outside."

Paul gets up, throwing on the t-shirt he had left draped across the rung of the ladder leading up to the top bunk, and follows Sam to the door.

The two move quietly out of the cabin, and Sam leads the way into the forest. The heat storm had passed on for the moment, but the moonlight was hazy and ominous. Sam walks a little further out, enough so that they won't be seen if anyone happens to look out a window, and then stops, and leans against a tree.

Paul crosses his arms, asking, "What's going on, Sam?"

Sam runs one hand through his hair, while he rambles, "I don't know, maybe I should just stay out of it, but if it was Leah, man I'd want to know!"

Even more confused now, Paul asks, "Know what? Spit it out!"

Sighing, Sam answers, "Bella's leaving. Charlie's sending her away."

Goggling in shock, Paul scoffs, "No way! Charlie wouldn't send her away, he loves her! He wouldn't do that!"

Sam's tone is low, defeated, as he replies, "He would if he thought it was the only way to get her away from you."

Paul starts to get agitated, his voice raises, "Away from ME? What do you mean get her away from me? That's insane! Bella would never go along with it! Oh man, just wait until I tell her, she's going to explode on him! I knew he never really warmed up to me, he never made any secret of the fact that he'd have much preferred for Bella to date Jake Black, but I NEVER thought he'd go this route! Of all the fucking nerve! So he's planning to just ship her off? Where's he sending her that he thinks is going to erase me from her memory? He can't be thinking about sending her to her mother's, she hasn't even spoken to Bella since before Bella could talk! That sanctimonious son of a bitch! I'm gonna marry that girl, Sam. Whether that son of a bitch likes it or not!"

During his rant, Paul has started to pace back and forth. Sam grabs his elbow, and holds him steady, trying to level with him, "Dude, he's her dad. You can't just tell her he's a giant creep, she probably won't even believe you! She and Charlie have always been close, you should just try to accept it. Bella's as good as gone. Leah's going to freak… Maybe you should just dump her, Paul. Just for a few months, she's going to be 18 soon, he can't do shit after that. At least this way she won't have to leave everyone."

This train of thought only increases Paul's anger, and he snaps, "You asshole! Do you know how she would feel if I proposed that? I mean shit! We've been together for 2 years! Her Dad's always been an asshole, plus even if I could get her to play along with that, if we fake broke up until she was 18, don't you think he would realize that we were playing him? He's a fucking asshole, but unfortunately he's not a stupid fucking asshole!"

Sam shrugs, "I guess you're right. I don't know what to tell you man, I'm sorry. I just thought you should know…"

Paul calms slightly, he knows his friend really didn't have bad intentions, it was just a shitty situation that he and Bella would have to face together. Charlie Swan was going to find out that Paul Dixon Jr was nobody's pushover. He wasn't going to give up his girl without a fight.

The two of them start back to the camp, there's a horrible popping noise from somewhere off in the distance behind them, and Sam pulls Paul back, his eyes are wide and spooked as he asks in a harsh whisper, "The fuck was that?"

Paul shrugs, "dunno man, probably just an animal passing over and breaking a tree limb or something…"

Sam nods, taking a breath, and getting himself together. "Okay. C'mon, let's get back before they know we're gone…"