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Chapter 2

Although Laurent was just as surprised as the rest of us, he hid his thirst more easily to talk to Carlisle.

"Brought a snack did you?"

"No, she's with us." Carlisle replied.

"But she's human." Laurent stated with disgust.

"I said she's with us." Carlisle retorted. He was trying to keep the peace but remain firm.

"It seems we have a lot to learn about each other." Laurent complied.

"Let's discuss this somewhere else, say, our home…."

Victoria was still on edge, her eyes flickering from the human girl to the Cullens. I on the other hand was planning how to get to Bella. It was not her blood that I desired; it was the thrill of the hunt. I wanted to know that I could get passed all of these vampires, who were all completely obsessed with this human girl, to know that I could outsmart them, outmaneuver them, seeing as they outnumbered us. I knew that Laurent only traveled with Victoria and me for convenience. He would probably not help in the hunt. It would not be worth risking his life to him.

Another wave of calming surged through us as Carlisle eyed the blond, Jasper, and continued to speak, to the others this time.

"Edward, Alice and Emmett, go get the Jeep. We will meet you at the house."

With that, Emmett, the burly brown haired one, walked over to Edward, Alice and Bella, while keeping his eyes on me. He was right not to trust me, of course, but now of all times, when they clearly had the upper hand, would not be a good time to attack. For one thing, Laurent would go hide in the woods, and Victoria would try to take on too many of them at once. No, now would be a horrible time to attack. I like to work from behind the scenes, to take them out one by one….

"We will be sure not to hunt in your land." Laurent said.

WHAT!!! Why would you say such a thing when you know I want her?!

As I thought these things, Edward stiffened. He must have heard my thoughts. Good, now I know what his talent is. He can read minds. I already knew that Jasper can influence the emotions of his company. Obviously, Emmett's ability was his strength. I had heard things about Alice's ability to see things before she was changed, so I imagined that was her ability now, only on a much greater scale. This information would be useful to me when I attacked.

Edward started to pull Bella's arm impatiently toward the edge of the clearing. Once there, he scooped her up into his arms and ran, as fast as he could I imagine, away from us. His siblings couldn't keep pace.

Carlisle had started toward his house with Esme, Rosalie, Jasper and Laurent behind him. Victoria made no moves before me, so I quickly came up with an excuse to leave, Victoria trailing close behind.

We sprinted through the forest as fast as we could to catch up to Edward and company. We didn't come close to them, seeing as we were trying to tail them. They were driving around 115 miles per hour and then suddenly sped up. I thought the reason for this was that Edward could read my thoughts and knew we were close behind. I told Victoria to slow down so that hopefully we would be out of his range of hearing. We were about four miles away now but we could still hear the loud roar of the Jeep. Without reason, the Jeep slowed back down to 110 and then screeched to a stop.

Then, Edward, who was driving, swung the Jeep around and sped back toward Forks. I decided that this would be an excellent time for Victoria and me to regroup and start planning our next move.

"They are probably getting some of her things and then fleeing town. You go back to the Cullens' mansion and circle it. Keep moving so they can't catch you as easily. I don't know what the others' powers are yet. I'll follow them to wherever it is that they are going. Here, take this." I said as I handed her a cell phone. I kept one for myself. "I am your speed dial number two." I told her. Soon after, we hugged and departed.

Little did I know, the targets of my chase were headed to the Cullens' mansion. I knew that Laurent wouldn't get involved. He left the house before anything else happened. When something did happen though, it was not as I suspected. I smelled the girl leave the house with what smelled like Rosalie. They took her truck and left.

"I have to admit, I am a little skeptical about this. Why don't you follow them, I will wait here to see what the others do. Call me with any new information." And with that, Victoria left to go follow the ancient truck.

A few minutes later, Carlisle, Emmett and Edward left the mansion and got into a silver Volvo. I didn't know what they were doing, but I didn't like it. I also knew that Jasper, Alice and Esme were still in the house. I didn't think that it could do any harm leaving them there and following the Volvo, so I did. A few minutes after I left, I heard a phone call. I would barely make out what I did, but I heard, "Okay, he's following us. You can go." Either the group at the mansion was fleeing, or I had missed a vital clue as to what they were doing.

I followed the Volvo north for a period of about seven hours. I was being careful to stay outside the mind-reader's range of hearing. That's when Victoria called me.

"She's not with them! They've been going east for hours now and haven't stopped. Surely the human would have had to eat by now!"

"Maybe they brought food with them?"

"I would have smelled that." She said, like it was obvious.

"Are you sure the girl isn't just sleeping?"

"Do you really think that she could under this much stress?"

"Alright then, double back and stay in Forks. Search the high school for any information. Anything at all! Where she used to live, grades, class schedule, anything! Check at her house for anything else as well. I don't think that she would leave Charlie without an explanation for her sudden change of heart. Check the phone records as well. We need any and all information we can get on this human." Bella. No matter how far you run, how well you hide, I will find you. I swear it. And when I do, you will be in for more pain than you knew you could survive through. Of course, you won't survive for long….

"I'm on my way back right now. I don't think they know I've left yet, but they will." Victoria said, interrupting my wonderful thoughts of Bella's demise.

"Just remember, Victoria, my love, don't get caught, or you will surely die."

"I won't let myself get caught by these fools." She scoffed.

"That's my girl. Goodbye."

"Goodbye." Click.

So these buffoons think that they can fool me do they?I thought. I decided to follow the Volvo until Victoria returned to Forks and got back to me with any new information. They were still heading north. We were coming to an area of Canada that was secluded; a place where no witnesses would be around if there was and "accident", a perfect place to stop and attack, a perfect place to utilize your vampire strength and destroy the surrounding area while brawling. As I thought about this I knew that I had been fooled already. They were leading me away from civilization to attack so that no unsuspecting soul would be harmed or lost. They were using the phrase "divide and conquer" quite literally. I had done this many times. Why hadn't I seen it coming? I supposed that I was just too busy focusing on getting to Bella that I hadn't imagined what they were focusing on.

I slowly fell back, and then made a break for it. I could only guess the time it took them to realize that I was gone. I knew that the Rosalie and, Esme I assumed, would follow Victoria back to Forks. I didn't want too many Cullens in one place at one time. If I lead Carlisle and company back to Forks and Victoria lured Esme and Rosalie there, the odds would be stacked against us. I usually liked, no, loved a challenge, but that wouldn't have been a challenge, it would've been suicide. No, I would run to some place sunny. I would run in the night and hide during the day. I wouldn't get far like that, but I couldn't go back to Forks. I wouldn't put Victoria in danger like that, I couldn't.

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