A/N: Again, sorry for not updating in a horrendous amount of time. I am very sorry but I had a lot going on including a lot of volleyball games, tests, and homework. I am very sad at the lack of reviews too but I will go on! Please R&R! btw, I am considering deleting this fanfic, if there is only one reviewer, I will definatly kill this.

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Chapter 6

The Map

Brooke POV

Sue was very generous to me, even though we didn't know each other. She had told me I was welcome to stay here and that Leah and Seth would help as long as I needed it.

"So where do you want to go to today?" Seth asked around a mouthful of cereal and pancake.

"Can we go to Kirstin's house?" I asked, staring into my milk and swirling it around.

"Why?" Leah asked.

"I think she has something that can be useful to us," I explained.

So, after breakfast, we started out around the woods. They led me through woods until we came to a neat little cabin with trees surrounding it. A little stone path led up to the house and I knocked on the door.

"Come in! It's open!" I heard Kirstin shout from inside.

I opened the door and was greeted by Collin watching a football game or something and Kirstin sitting next to him.

"I thought you didn't like sports," I teased her.

"I changed my mind," she huffed, "What brings you here?"

"I'm trying to get back to the Court but remember, they always change the entrances abruptly, so I need the map," I explained.

"I left it at the other house," she got up while Collin turned the TV off.

"Other house?" I lifted one eyebrow and she smiled.

"I'll bring you there, you have to see the rest of my coven," she was still smiling.

I blacked out for a second and then came back, "You're coven? What happened to Kaleb?"

It was silent for a minute until Seth intervened, "He died along with Marina two years ago. She became the official leader although the rest of them live in the old houses."

I nodded and Kirstin quietly led us out into the forest again. We walked along a dirt path that looked like it had been used a lot until I was met with four houses, all connected.

"This is where you lived?" I asked doubtfully.

"Yup! This is home!" Kirstin skipped happily to the door of the main house and entered without knocking. From my peripheral vision, Seth shrugged at Leah and we all entered behind her.

"Everybody! Brooke is here!" Suddenly, nine or so people appeared in front of us and I was startled to realize that I remembered each and every one of them.

"Brooke! It's been so long!" Loraine shrieked and threw herself at me. I patted her back and she finally back off to give the others a chance to see me.

I saw Kirstin discreetly leave us but then bodies engulfed my vision and I couldn't see anything. Ten minutes later, Kirstin came back down with a plastic tube in her hand.

After she explained everything about my messed up misplacement, we headed to the Cullen house. Collin had already called a meeting and we entered with everybody else already here.

"Why did you call a meeting?" Paul whined.

"Kirstin and Brooke have something important pertaining to the location of the Court," Collin rolled his eyes at the baby-like shape-shifter.

"Why couldn't Brooke just tell us or Kirstin, don't they remember?" Jared asked.

"The Court is built under a system of tunnels and on a random day each week or so, the Court will switch the entrances to the Court. I have a map that documents all of the places that are entrances." Kirstin explained, holding up the tube.

"Won't that take a while?" Jacob asked this time.

"Yes, but it will take less than three days to look at each tunnel and they always have the Gate Keepers guarding the real entrance." I said this time.

Kirstin then popped the stopper out of the tube and took out the map. It showed a crude drawing of the world and red dots were painted throughout Britain. Kirstin held it up to show everybody and then placed it on the dining table.

Kirstin grinned, "If anybody outside of the Court looked at this, they would have no idea what they were looking at because the shapes aren't the same then today's maps. This map was drawn at least five centuries ago and it was given to me by the King,"

"That could also be a disadvantage. Now, we have to make it look like a real map in order to figure out exactly where the openings are," Carlisle frowned and traced a figure down one charcoal line.

"Time to get busy!" Edward clapped as a call to duty and he and Carlisle brought the fragile map up the stairs to where I assumed was Carlisle's study.