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Chapter 3

Forks, WA – 2 Months Ago

-Ringing, Ringing, Ringing-

"Chief, the phone just will not stop ringing." The receptionist called out to Chief Swan as he hung up from another phone call from a frantic citizen about the latest new reports.

He nodded and ran a hand through his hair before burring his face in his hands, sighing he looked up at the small television in his office seeing the screen flash through different images of cities around the word in chaos. They were lucky so far in Forks, so far they had not seen the sickness in the area.

Grabbing the phone he called Renee again, she picked up after the 4th ring as if she was out of breath. "Ello? Charlie?"

Clearing his throat, "Yes Renee it is me, have you finished packing yet? You don't need to bring everything. You need to get Isabella out of there."

He could almost hear the scowl she was giving off, "Yes I know. We are waiting for Phil to get back with the final supplies." She paused and then kept talking, "Isabella is in her room finishing packing now. We should arrive in a few days, but there are apparently a lot of road closures."

He sighed knowing she was right, "Yes there are some riots starting in Seattle, nothing here in Forks though. It is still safe here."

"Yes I know Charlie, we will be there as soon as we can. I have been trying to keep Isabella in the dark about everything, but I know she has heard things and I've caught her watching the news a few times."

He sighed, "The town's people are trying to block the roads, to prevent people from coming in. You, Phil and Isabella might have to take a back road or drive through the woods as you get closer."

He heard her rustling around, a pit banging and then her voice again, "O-okay Charlie, thank you. We will be there as soon as we can." –click-

He sighed putting the phone back on the cradle before getting up out of his chair. Stepping away from his desk he pulled on his hat, "I am going to head out on patrol, call in Eddie and Carl to help with patrols. We need to try and make people feel safe." She just nodded and made the calls as he left the building.

Driving around the town for a few hours before he decided to head to the store before heading home. Getting there he noticed a few semi-truck dropping off more supplies as people just kept walking into the store.

Getting out of his patrol car he headed inside as well. He had already picked up 4 cases of water and canned and dry foods, however knowing Renee, Phil and Isabella were coming he picked up more. With the unrest in the larger cities currently, he didn't want to risk anything if the water and power went out.

Making sure he had enough for 4 people for a few weeks he heading to the car and loaded everything up.

Once he got home he loaded everything down into his basement, along with pulling out the spare sheets for the pullout bed in the couch. Isabella would have her own bed in her room, but Phil and Renee would be sleeping downstairs.

Throwing the sheets into the washer before heading upstairs to go to sleep, work had been very taking that day.

Over the next week he kept trying to call Renee in vain. She wasn't answering the house phone and her cell phone was going straight to voicemail. He had even tried calling Phil's cell phone however that was going straight to voicemail as well at this point.

To say he was worried would be an understatement, things had gotten worse in Forks as well. A man had gotten into a car accident two days ago and ended up dying in the hospital from his wounds.

From what he heard it was not long before he woke up and bit the nurse violently, after that the tight tension in their small town snapped. People got their guns and people started ransacking other people's supplies. Lucky for him, his were locked inside his house and then locked in the basement.

However by the end of the day, he returned to his home as well. The Sherriff station had been ransacked for weapons and ammo. He had to resort to his own supply after that, but with the phones and internet down there was no way to communicate with the outside world.

Grabbing his side arm and heading out to the town again trying to help whom he could. Driving in his patrol cruiser he watched as people ran through the streets carrying whatever they could to their homes. He stopped caring about the people looting the stores the moment he saw an elderly couple being eaten while standing in line to buy something. As long as they didn't harm another for it, he no longer cared.

Driving past the high school he stopped the car hearing a young girl screaming for help. Running from his car taking his shot gun as well as the weapon holstered at his side. He ran to the football stadium seeing the girl running from a pale group of kids around her own age.

As he got closer he realized they were infected like the others, she ran down the players exit on the field only to find the doors locked shut with no way to get out. Charlie jumped down and started firing his gun into the oncoming group, but his wounding shots were having no effect on the advancing infected.

Right as they got within arm's length, he shot one in the head as the boy dropped to the ground. There were still too many as he fired his weapon at the others as well. Feeling a wet hand grab at his arm pulling at him trying to bring him to the boys mouth when a body dropped down in front of Charlie and the other young girl we was protecting.

He covered the girl's head to protect her as he watched the two men 'kill' the others that were attacking them. The younger of the two had a girl walking up behind him while he took care of another. Charlie called out to the boy, "Watch out behind you!"

The boy turned but not in time to stop her from biting down on his arm, however instead of blood flowing from his arm the girl's teeth broke in her mouth as she was unable to break his skin.

Shocked he just kept staring at the boys arm unaware that the older man was trying to speak to him, "Chief Swan are you alright?"

Looking up he finally realized who it was, "Dr. Cullen? Yes I am alright". Looking at the girl in his arms who fainted by this point, "I think she is too, she just fainted."

He nodded checking the girls pulse and seemed content with it, "We should get you both to our house, it is safer there since…. It is out of the way."

Charlie nodded and then looked back to the boy who he now recognized as one of Dr. Cullen's adopted kids. "Your son…. He was bitten, is he alright? There… was no blood."

He nodded looking as his son walked over, "Emmett will be okay, they didn't hurt him." He sighed, "Come on let's get you to the house so we can let her rest."

He was sitting in the pristine white living room of the Cullen's, he felt odd being in there as the rest of the family talked in the kitchen. Dr. Cullen had taken the girl into a guest room in the room behind him. After a few moments Dr. Cullen, Mrs. Cullen and Emmett walked out and sat on the couch across from him.

Dr. Cullen held his wife's hand as he spoke, "Charlie, I know you saw Emmett earlier and with everything going on in the world right now, we don't think confusion you with a cover story will help. But…. What we are going to tell you, you cannot repeat to anyone except our family. Is that alright?"

He nodded, "Alright Dr. Cullen, What is your son?"

Dr. Cullen nodded, "Please call me Carlisle, and my wife Esme." He sighed looking down for a moment before looking back up. "Emmett.. he…and the rest of my family are vampires." He stopped for a moment, "The reason the infected girl could not bite into Emmett's arm is that our skin is like granite. Human's don't have the strength to bite through it."

Silence followed for a while and then his four other children walked into the room and sat down. "Chief Swan, these are our other children. However they are all older than you, Jasper and Alice, Rosalie who is Emmett's wife, and Edward."

Charlie just looked around the room, "Call me Charlie. I don't think I and the Chief of anything anymore….." Closing his eyes as he took in everything, "Vampires? Like crosses and garlic?"

Carlisle just smiled and shook his head, "That is a tale spun by Hollywood, We don't burn in churches or in the sunlight for that matter. But, that is for another conversation."

Carlisle stood up and looked to Emmett and Jasper, "Can you guys take Charlie home, get any supplies that he will need." Looking back to Charlie, "You can stay here, it will be safer until we figure out what is going on, were you able to stock up on food? We have some, however since we don't eat human food there is not much. It will not take long to run out."

Charlie nodded, "Yes in the basement, my daughter, ex-wife and her husband were coming. However I haven't heard from them in a week." He paused, "is there any way you can help me find them? They were getting ready to leave when everything happened, and then the phones went down…."

Carlisle looked at his family, "We can try. But first we need to get your things from you house, if you have that much. You and the girl will be safe here for some time."


-Four hours later-

They had packed some of Charlie's clothing as well as his camping equipment, Weapons and the food and water he had saved up. They needed to start planning on the trip they would need to make in order to see if Charlie's family was still alive. Charlie sat at the small table in his kitchen and marked the map with Phil and Renee's address in Florida, and grabbing other maps that included the others states they would have to go through.

Emmett and Jasper left Forks with Charlie four days ago. They had to move slower than if it was just the two of them, since they took a car. Finding gas was proving difficult as the passed through previously dense populated areas. Finally they arrived in Florida at the home of Phil and Renee.

Emmett and Jasper shared a look as they looked at the house from the outside, the front door was open and partially destroyed as if it was forced open. There was also a lot of infected people walking around the houses on the street.

Jasper looked at Charlie, "Let me go in first, I cannot be harmed and will clear the house."

Charlie nodded knowing it was the smartest plan, if he was attacked he would die. As much as he wanted to rush into the house he knew he couldn't.

Watching the house as there were a few crashing noises, he swallowed hard seeing Phil's car sitting in the driveway with gas cans visible in the backseat.

Jasper walked out a moment later and if it wasn't for the blood splatter across his shirt you would think nothing had just happened. He opened the car door, "Alright there were only a few inside, they are dealt with though."

Charlie nodded and all but ran into the house followed closely by the two brothers.

Opening the door as it creaked slightly in protest, the light brown carpet was matted down with old blood as if a bucket of it was dropped at the very spot. Looking around he swallowed seeing the counters with boxes on them as if partially packed, a few of them having been knocked to the ground trinkets scattered across the floor.

Turning around he stopped in his tracks seeing half of a man lying on the living room floor next to the coffee table. His insides trailing out onto the carpet, both his arms missing as well. Looking closer as he realized behind the bloody face it was Phil.

He took a step back as Jasper looked at the man who caught Charlie's attention, "He was still moving when I arrived, and he was one of 5 infected I ended in here."

Charlie swallowed, "He was Phil, my Ex-wife's husband… he was torn apart…." His face paled a bit as he tried holding back the vile threatening to come up. Pushing it back as he heading away from the living room and towards the back of the house.

Staggering towards the back of the house he stopped briefly seeing a picture hanging in the hallway of Renee, Isabella and himself at the park when she was about 4 years old. Taking it off the wall and out of the frame as he tuck the picture in his back pocket.

He found two of the others Jasper mentioned, both males in den and in the master bedroom. Stepping into the last room which was his daughters he swallowed seeing Renee's corpse lying half on the bed and another smaller female form lying on the carpet with long dark hair, however he could not make out the smaller forms face as the flesh had been eaten off as well as missing a limb.

Charlie dropped to his knees in agony silently letting the tears fall from his eyes, "They are dead…"

Emmett and Jasper stood out front guarding the house, allowing Charlie time to grieve his family that never made it out of the house. A few infected walked close to them, but they knew the two men were not of the living so they stayed clear for the most part.

An hour later Charlie emerged from the house holding a photo album and a small stuffed fox that he had given Isabella for her last birthday. He silently walked to the car and got in followed by Emmett and Jasper as they headed silently back to Forks, WA.


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