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Chapter 7- Captured

For two long weeks I attend school without complaint while everyone else tries to find clues of where my family's being held. I'm starting to get to know Will and Jane's other friends pretty well now and I fit in perfectly with them. If I wasn't so nauseous about finding my parents I would actually be enjoying myself. On one particularly boring math lesson the phone rings. The teacher grumbles about interrupting instruction time and marches to the phone. While she talks chatter breaks out amongst the class. Will cracks some joke about the time the teacher hangs up the phone. I'm about to laugh until the teacher makes a little announcement.

"Vanessa Wolfe , check out."

I gasp and feel my unusual heart beat speed up. There would be only one reason that Jacob would pull me out of school. That reason just happens to be the exact same thing that's been eating me alive for weeks now. Will notices my unusual behavior and puts his hand on my shoulder. "What's wrong?" He mouths.

I look at him and whisper "Goodbye. Thank you."I know that this will be the last time I see him. "Tell Jane goodbye for me too." My voice cracks on the last word and I look at my desk. I take a moment to take a breath before I gather my stuff and walk out of the room.

As soon as the door shuts behind me my legs turn to jell-o and I have to lean against a wall for support. I clutch my stomach to keep everything from making an appearance on the outside of my body, letting all of my folders and notebooks clatter to the floor. My breath comes out staggered and quick. Are they dead? Are they in pain?

I hear the door start to open again and try to straighten up but fail. I end up with my back still pressed against the wall and my arms hugging my knees on the floor. I manage to lift my head up enough to see Will coming from the class room. His eyes widen when he sees me and he kneels down beside me frantically.

"Nessie! Are you okay? What's wrong?" He moves in front of me and paces his hands on my face. He starts to call for help but I clamp my hand over his mouth. I shake my head and motion him to be quiet.

"I'm fine. I promise." I remove my hand and he looks at me quizzically. I pick my stuff up and stand up waiting for his questions.

"What's wrong? And what the hell was the goodbye and thank you for?"

My mouth goes dry and I stare at him trying to come up with an answer. "I- I'm- I'm fine. I just- I need to go." I start to walk away but he reaches for my shirt and ends up trying to sink his hands into my rock hard skin. The effect is instantaneous. He jumps back and yelps.

"What was that?"

I want to answer but I know that I can't. I shake my head again. "I can't tell you." I whip around and go full speed down the hallway. I don't stop until I catch sight of Jasper and Alice in the lobby of the school.

Their faces tell me that the news isn't good. I burst through the glass doors and stare at them. They don't say anything at all but just turn around and walk straight out of the school. I follow them and the shaking starts to return to my legs. As soon as the door slams behind us they turn to face me. Alice wastes no time at all. "Someone was either tracking you and Jacob or me and Jasper because someone found us. We're not sure who it is, it could have been someone from the Volturi or someone who just wants the prize that's been slapped on our heads. Whoever he was captured Jacob. It was an ambush and we stood no chance. Without Jacob we would both be dead. The vampire was extremely advanced."

I was expecting many things. Parents are dead. Parents are being tortured. But I never thought that it would involve Jacob. I thought I was about to cry but I surprise myself by standing up straight and talking in a steady voice. "Then let's go. He can't be far now and if he can follow our trail then we can follow his."

Jasper nods. "You're right. We need to go now. Jacob could be killed at any second now. We're his last chance."

On that happy note Alice hands me the backpack that I packed two weeks ago. My mind slips to that day and I have to wonder what would've happened if I had left. Would Jacob be in the hands of one of his mortal enemies or would he be safe in the apartment? Whatever the answer is I can't dwell on it now. I have to help Jacob.

Jasper seems to have the skill of tracking perfected and knows immediately where to start on the trail. We head back to the apartment building, I want to go back to our room but Alice refuses to let me. "We're risking a lot by even coming here." She throws a glance at Jasper and he rolls his eyes. "Somebody could be watching our room right now."

"We need to be here. If you'd help me find his scent we could leave." We're wandering around the building while Jasper sniffs around. It must be really weird looking to anyone watching.

Alice and I spread out and I almost instantly catch Jacob's scent. I look up and see Jasper and Alice still looking around. "Guys, they went this way." Jasper runs over and takes a big sniff of the air. He gags.

"Yes, you're right. Alice, this way love." For some reason when Jasper says the word "love" a pang of pain hits my stomach. I shake it off and watch as Alice runs over. She starts to sniff too but Jasper stops her. "It stinks. Don't smell it."

I frown and smell the air. All I smell is Jacob, the normal scent of a campfire. I only have a vague memory of the La Push reserve, but what I do remember smells like him. It reminds me of home so I've never understood the whole "you smell horrible thing". I shrug. "I don't smell anything bad."

Alice raises her eyebrows. "Really?" Something seems to go through her and she smiles. "It must be the imprint." Oh yeah, the imprint. I've never been sure about how I felt about that, I love Jacob. But I'm not sure how I love him. I throw that as far away from my mind as I can. That's so not important right now.

"Yeah sure, so let's go."

I follow the scent south for a while before Jasper agrees to take over. Not too long after Jasper realizes that the trail is going in a constant direction and starts to pick up the pace. It's cold outside, and even I'm able to get a little chilly. I can't bring this up though. We have to keep going and even if I did want to stop nothing Alice or Jasper could do would help me. So we press on. Once we cross the Ohio border it gets a lot harder to track. Whoever it was went back and forth then would lurch to the side only to just come right back. If they were looking to confuse us, they did a heck of a good job.

After having to go backwards for a while after losing the scent a find it again and turn to the left. Alice and Jasper must have also caught a scent too because they both turn another way confidently. I throw my head back and growl. We'll never reach him in time. Together we decide to take the trail I chose because of the whole imprint and liking the scent thing. After about a minute of carefully following the path another scent hits me. I snap my head up to get a better whiff of it. Alice says my exact thoughts. "Blood."

It's not just any blood though. A memory surfaces from when I was about three. Jacob and I were staying at a hotel in Las Vegas. He was trying to teach me math, complicated math. He tried to turn the page of the notebook where we were writing and ended up slicing his finger open. It was no more than one drop of blood that got out before his healing skills fixed it, but I still remember that smell.

And this was the exact same smell.

Jacob.


First off- What did you think? Please review!

Second- My story recently hit 1000 views! HOORAY! Thank you to everyone who has read this story!

Third- After this chapter things really start to pick up. I had this huge AH HA moment while writing this chapter and while looking at my sisters Halloween costume... you'll understand after the next chapter. Anyway, I know what's going to happen next and it should be very good and hopefully very violent.

Fourth- Sorry about the long break between the 6th and 7th chapter. Both of my shows just ended and I was pretty busy with them and school. But now I'm on FALL BREAK! So I should be able to update often. Maybe not everyday but every other hopefully.