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Chapter Seven - Seth
After inviting Seth inside we were all stood around him in the living room waiting to hear what the bad news was.
Edward looked surprised, "Its reversing?" he said suddenly, the rest of us looked to them for an explanation.
"That's the big thing going on back home," Seth nodded, "Since you guys left there are no vampires in Forks anymore, you guys being in Forks is what activated the… magic, for lack of a better term, that changes us into wolves. But now you're not there anymore the pack is getting smaller and there are few of us left now," he explained.
During the Volturi mess when we had to invite many vampires to Forks to testify as witnesses to prove that Renesmee was no immortal child, there had been a mass implosion in the wolf population in La Push, six more young Quileute teenagers had phased putting up the number of Wolves to Sixteen. After the standoff with the Volturi the two separate packs became one again after Sam finally agreed to step down and let Jacob take his rightful place as the Alpha male, Leah remained as his second, which Sam wasn't happy about, Leah, on the other hand, was ecstatic.
I vaguely remembered Jacob telling me that the boys of the La Push tribe only changed into wolves when the Cullen's came back to town. Just like they first did when it was Ephraim Black, Levi Uley and Quil Ateara Sr. who were the only three shape changers then, they were the ones who agreed upon the original treaty with the Cullen's. But soon the Cullen's left again, that's why Billy Black's generation never changed, nor his father's generation, there were no vampires around. The changes only take place in the frequent presence of vampires. And now that we were no longer in Forks, the catalyst was gone, their magic was reversing.
"Leah was first," Seth said, "she just started to shrink down to her normal size and her normal build and then about a week or so later she was no longer able to phase, she was okay about that though, I can tell she is happy about it, finally being free. So at first we just thought it was a girl thing or something, but then it happened to the younger boys then Paul, then Embry, then Brady, Collin was the last to go as you must have heard over the phone and now it's slowly happening to Jared, he shrunk 7 inches in the last two days. Sam thinks its reversing because you left, but in all honesty I think its mostly because we're not phasing so much anymore, Jacob's orders, only phase when necessary"
"What about Jacob?" I asked
"I don't know!" Seth cried, "That's what I'm really worried about, it's not so much us loosing the wolf thing. The wolf imprint thing still seems to have stayed in tact for those who are back to normal though so there's no loss there. When I phased earlier today to try and get in touch with Jake like I promised you I would…"
"Is he okay?" Carlisle asked
"I can't tell," Seth said looking frustrated, "I could sense him there, so he's definitely still a wolf, but I could no longer hear his thoughts, at first I thought he was hiding them like he normally does, but I couldn't sense anything about Jacob still in there, just the animal instinct. I could just make out his surroundings, and the worst thing is I don't think he could hear me either because I kept calling him to come home because we needed him, but there was no reply, it just felt like an echo. I think he's completely given himself over to his wolf side" Seth sunk into the sofa, "I tried to find him from what little I could make out from our connection and I tried tracking him but there's nothing to pick up on, no scent, he's been gone too long, Jacob's missing,"
"How come you came alone?" Edward asked
"I was the only one prepared to get help, while Jacob's not around and with Leah back to normal, Sam's now in charge, and I think his pride gets in the way, besides, there's so much going on back home with everyone changing back," Seth explained,
"Hang on a minute, if Jacob is still in wolf form while you're all reforming back to your old selves, what will happen to him?" I asked
"We don't know," Seth sighed, "We're not sure if the magic will just change him back to human or whether he'll be stuck as a wolf or hopefully the process might not reverse on him because he's still in wolf form,"
"I don't think we should take the chance we need to find him," Edward said
"How?" I asked
"I think Seth should go outside and phase, focus on locating him and keep trying to contact him, I'll listen in, see if I can help you make any sense of anything he's seeing, see if I can recognise anything you don't" Edward suggested
"Sure, good place to start," Seth said, "By the way," he turned to face us all, "It's great seeing you all again" he smiled and we couldn't help smiling back. Seth was probably the sweetest person I've ever known, his courage and loyalty to us was greatly appreciated and we'll always be in his debt for everything he's done for us. I was proud to call him 'Brother' even if it was only through marriage.
We all followed Seth and Edward outside, Seth ran to the woods to take his shorts of so he can phase and he ran back out to us a few seconds later as a wolf.
Seth sat and closed his big wolfy eyes and Edward started talking us through everything he was seeing in Seth's mind, "it's pretty quiet," he said, giving us a play by play "he's calling Jacob but it doesn't sound like he's responding. Someone else has phased, it's Quil, apparently Jared's body temperature has dropped significantly and he's shrunk another 2 inches, he's also running out of breath like a human does when he's being active," he said, "Seth thinks Jared will be fully human again by tomorrow. They're both calling out to Jacob, still nothing, but he's definitely still wolf, they can see where he is, but it's just a lot of woodland, there's nothing to really tell it apart from any other forest. Seth is right, it does really seems like Jacob isn't in there anymore," Edward sighed, "It's too frustrating, there's no way we can find him like that, and we can't track him because there's no start trail. Seth?" the young wolf looked up at him, "Could you stay phased and keep concentrating on Jacob, if you see anything that we could use to locate him, call me,"
Seth nodded and lay down in front of the house while the others went inside to discuss options. I walked over to Seth and knelt at his side stroking his sandy colored fur which felt like fire to my ice cold hands, I didn't want to think what my hands would feel like to Seth but he didn't flinch from my touch, "Thought you'd want some company," I said to him; he barked a response, "Thanks Seth, you've been such a good friend to us in the past, we owe you," he whined, and in some weird way I understood him. This time he needed our help as much as we needed his.
"I know we're all worried about him too, we'll do our best to help you find him,"
He barked again, it sounded like thanks this time, I smiled and kept stroking his fur, it relaxed me. He didn't seem to mind either. "I love having you for a brother," I told him, he nudged my arm with the top of his head, a sign of his agreement
From inside I could hear the others (except Rosalie) talking about ways to find Jacob, but none of their ideas would work, even I could pick the faults from each idea that was being suggested and I was newer to this. Seth's head was turned towards the house too, and shaking his huge head from time to time, he too could hear the faults in each plan they talked about.
I tuned out of their conversation and instead listened into the sound of my daughter sleeping, her light breathing and her fast heartbeat, like the rhythm of a hummingbird's.
Renesmee…
I was a genius; I rose to my feet giving Seth a quick rub on the head and strolled inside where the others were.
"Renesmee," I said interrupting them all. Everyone turned to look at me where they stood; even Rosalie looked up from her channel flicking.
Edward understood it right away, his eyes lit up and he smiled my favourite crooked smile, "You are fantastic," he said,
"What about Renesmee?" Carlisle asked
"Her gift," Edward said, "How she sends pictures, thoughts, memories… anything to someone's mind by touching them," he said
Rosalie rolled her eyes and continued her channel flicking, "right… she has to be TOUCHING the person," she said in a bored tone
"Usually," Edward admitted,
"But not for me and Edward," I said, "Our connection as her biological parent's is strong, she doesn't need to be touching us and she was able to do it without touching Jacob either, she doesn't even need to be near us. If the connection between her and Jake is as strong as we assume it is, with a little practise she'll probably be able to call him from however far away he is, and we can hope hearing her will shock him out of his wolf mode,"
The family stood around looking both dumbfounded and amazed, it wasn't long before Seth ran back in, in human form with a huge grin on his face
"That is excellent!"
