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Chapter 4:

A picture of Laurie then appeared on the screen. She was pretty, kind of pale almost glowing skin, with dark brown eyes and long curly red-brown hair. It was similar to my hair except mine was the very unique bronze colour that I inherited from Dad. I was still staring at the picture, there was something very familiar about her but I couldn't place her face in my memory. I'd only been to the school and the airport, where could I know her from. The TV turned off, I was pulled out of my revere and looked up at my family and all eyes were on me. They all looked uneasy, as if there was something they knew but didn't want to acknowledge out loud.

"That's so sad, after a party, her family must be devastated." I said quietly lowering my head.

"Stop." I looked up, Dad was looking at Emmett and lightly shaking his head. He turned to me with a forced smile. "Ness, do you have any homework. You don't want to be behind on your first day."

I guess he was trying to distract me and I temporarily forgot I was angry at him.

"Yeah, I guess I do. I'll be in my room."

I came down later to talk to Grandma while she cooked my dinner. The sun hadn't set but I was so hungry I didn't mind eating this early.

"So, you think that Nik and her friends like me?" I asked eagerly, even though she'd never met or even seen her.

"Well, they sound like they do, sweetie. I like her, she seems to be pretty good for you. I'm so glad you're meeting people and making friends outside the family." Grandma was the only one even talking to me, everyone else was sitting in the living room. The TV was back on but I couldn't hear anything it was down too low. "Ready? Where do you want to eat?"

I just smiled, she knew I liked to eat my dinner in front of the TV. I let her carry the plate of my favourite meal, Chicken Bosciola, to the other room. Mushrooms are my favourite of all the human food. I had it four days ago, so I don't know why I was having it so soon, but I didn't care I loved it and she made it to perfection.

Mom fluffed a pillow, casually signalling me to sit there beside her.

"Excuse me guys? But if the TV is going to be on and it is, could we at least turn it up so I can hear it?" Dad looked at Mom, then picked up the remote and turned up the volume so I could hear it. The show on was a repeat of a cop show drama from about a year ago. I liked it then so I didn't mind watching it now.

I finished my food and Grandma automatically removed my plate from my lap and took it to the kitchen.

"Thanks Grandma, it was delicious as usual." She smiled brightly and returned to the kitchen, probably preparing something for dessert. I hoped it was chocolate pudding, chocolate second best human food.

The TV screen changed and everyone was suddenly in the room. Grandma and Grandpa, Mom, Dad, Alice, Jasper, Rose and Emmett, were all tense staring at the TV. The news symbol came on, they must have been waiting for another update, especially if it was somehow a vampire responsible.

"We interrupt this program to bring you a gruesome discovery." Oh no, this was the news I'd been dreading. I was hoping they would just discover that she met a nice guy and was holed up in some kind of kind of love nest. "The body of missing seventeen year old student Laurie Madson, has been discovered four miles from where she was last seen in this bushland. Another discovery has been made, with police noticing the similarities between this case and several others in smaller communities in Alberta. The victims in those cases were-" She started saying names of all the female victims. There was seven altogether but I didn't even hear their names. As soon as the pictures of the girls came up, I felt sick. The woman began talking again and I listened very carefully.

"We believe this to be the work of one offender, which recently moved to the area. The similarities between the victims seem to suggest that the offender has a type. We and the police urge any females between the age of fourteen to twenty, with similar characteristics in and around Abbotsford, to stay wary and not to travel alone."

I suddenly realised why I thought that I recognised Laurie or the other girls. I looked just like them. They were all beautiful, one was exceedingly gorgeous and could even give Rosalie a run for her money. They were all young, pretty, most were pale and they all had long curly reddish brown hair.

I looked up at my family, they were all staring at me and Mom. We were both pale, beautiful with long red or brown hair, we were his type. The serial killer vampire's type. They recognised the resemblance this afternoon. I hadn't realised. I turned to Mom, her eyes showed worry but only for me.

"It's fine sweetie he wouldn't dare attack a coven as large as ours for the sake of one victim." She ran her cool hand lightly on my face, soothing me.

"Hey, look in the mirror Mom, you kind of his type too." As I said it Dad growled obviously not wanting to imagine his wife and only child victims of a serial killer, strong enough to actually hurt us. His hand moved around to hold Mom in a tight hug when he heard me think that.

"Sweetie I know, but I'm a full vampire he wouldn't be able to drink from me." I hadn't thought of that. Besides he would probably prefer a weaker more fragile prey like me. Dad growled again, loudly and menacingly making everyone stare at him. I lowered my head and sat back into the couch. All those girls; Laurie, she could have been my friend, they were human they stood no chance against him. They wouldn't have even been able to fight him off, they weren't strong enough.

"Alice, what was that?" Dad was staring at her, she hissed then looked at me, her eyes wide with fear. Dad growled again, louder than before, then turned to me. "No! Don't you even think about it?"

"I hadn't thought about anything... yet." Alice hissed and Jasper hugged her tighter than before, looking between us obviously nervous that he didn't have all the facts.

"Alice, Edward, what happened? Alice what did you see?" Jasper turned his wife so she was facing him. "What did the rest of us miss?"

"Nothing." Dad interjected, still looking between me and Alice.

"Edward, don't you dare lie to me!" Mom grabbed his chin and turned his head so he was looking in her eyes. "What did she see? Alice?"

"I saw glimpses of us running through the woods, we're all worried and Bella and Edward broken with... grief and rage." She said the last few words quietly but we all heard. Then she buried her face in Jaspers shoulder.

"Does that mean he has decided to go after Nessie?" Rosalie understood immediately that a combination of a parents rage and grief could only be the result of the murder of their child. She looked appealingly at my father hoping she was wrong.

"No, it means our little Nessie here is going to try to set a trap and get herself killed." They all turn to me shocked and I blush deeply from embarrassment. The idea had only entered my mind for a fraction of a second, but apparently that was enough and later I would implement my plan to stop him.

"Stop plotting!" Dad threw the remote and it smashed against the living room wall with a shower of plastic.

"Well great now how are we supposed to change the channel? Get up and do it?" I tried to joke but he didn't seem to be in the mood. Crap, I was still doing it obviously making new plans and changing what Alice was seeing. Dad could see everything, how I'd try to follow his scent through the woods and try to look lost, innocent and the perfect target.

" I'm not joking. Now stop that, we are not setting a trap. We will follow his scent and stop him. You will go to the garage and to school otherwise you can't leave the house."

"Huh! Good luck, you couldn't even smell him at the school and it was so strong there, then it branched off in two directions, obviously one is the way he went in and the other out from the party where Laurie was last seen. One trail was slightly stronger, probably because he'd just fed then come out of the woods and headed back to town."

"You didn't mention the potency of the trail earlier. You told Jake you thought you might have imagined it."

"Well of course, Dad, did you hear Jake worrying, he was going crazy, and I had to convince him I was crazy, but I know what I smelt and I know it was a vampire. I'd never smelt it before and I knew that it was heading in the direction of the party and where her body was found." Dad didn't like me thinking like this, like a hunter or a tracker. "Yes! Alice saw earlier us following a trail in the woods, I'll bet you any money, I can follow the scent and it will lead to where the police found her."

"Alice also saw us mourning you!" He was angry, furious in fact, there was no way he was going to let me follow that trail. But Alice saw it so I must win and they'll have to come with me, which is why she thought she saw us hunting. "Fine! You, I, Alice, Jasper and Emmett will go to the school to follow the trail. Rosalie and Carlisle stay here with Bella and Esme. We can't rule out that he won't attack the house or that Esme would be too old to be his type."

I turned to Grandma, I hadn't realised that she was almost his type. She had pale skin, was beautiful and even though her hair was mostly straight it was a beautiful brown colour. I saw Grandpa put his arm around his mate. I'd seen Mom be fierce and so strong. Strong enough to bet Emmett at arm wrestling, but Grandma has never acted that way. She seems so strong emotionally but I'd never seen her fight and I never want to see that day.

"I don't know Edward. I'm not sure I want her to leave the house." Mom said to Dad, squeezing his hand with hers. "I don't want her out of my sight."

"Bella she will be fine, stay here with Rose, ok?" Dad replied looking calmly into her eyes. "I won't let her out of my sight."

"First of all, Mom, I will be fine and second would you two stop talking about me like I'm not even in the room?" I know it is just their parental instincts, but I am an adult I'd like to be part of the decision making process of my life. "So let's get this show on the road!"

Mom sighed; she knew I was too excited about the thought of a murderous vampire on the loose. But I was just excited about leading the hunt, because I was the only one who could smell him.

We headed out to the garage, we thought it better if we take a car and drive it to the school. We took the Beast because it had the most room.

"Please, be careful. If you smell him anywhere in the area, you let your father know immediately. Got it?" She looked me directly in the eyes in her most stern motherly voice. "I mean it! You let them know and you get to safety. Stay with Alice ok?"

"Don't worry, Bella. I will keep my only niece the safest she has ever been. I'll keep pace with her exactly." Alice knew how to calm Mom the best, after Dad. She leaned over and put a hair behind my ear. "Do you want me to put your hair up before we get to the school?"

"Well, I usually like it out when I'm running, but while tracking I should probably tie it up. Would you?" She smiled and pulled a hair tie off from around her wrist. She knew she was going to be tying my hair up. She moved swiftly and soon my big mop of curls was up in a neat and casual bun. "Thanks. Mom don't worry we won't be gone long, besides I have school tomorrow and I'll need to get some sleep."

"Excited about school, I didn't think I would ever see the day!" She leaned through the jeep and kissed my cheek. "Just be careful ok?"

I placed my hand on her face, I know she liked me to talk to her this way, more private. "I promise I won't do anything reckless. I love you."

"I love you too."

"Oh, well Ness is going to be fine the vision completely changed, I'm not sure if we'll find anything out there" Alice said cheerfully. "Come on let's go Ness will need her sleep so she can look bright eyed and brushy tailed for school. Ooh... I already know what I'm going to pick out for you, you're going to look so cute."

We pulled out of the garage after Mom kissed Dad, sweetly but passionately. It didn't take us long to get to school, especially the way Emmett drives. The school was on a big corner block with not many other buildings in the district. The woods were very thick around here so it wasn't a very populated area. The sun had just set and we parked the Beast across from the school and go out silently. I was glad I put my Chuck Taylors on before I left the house; they are easier to run in than my boots.

We ran off into the school yard, easily moving between the classrooms. Alice's vision from lunch was here, we stood by B Block ready for the hunt, ready for me to take charge.

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