Chapter 7: Jacobs POV

{Authors note: Please review! We are going on a bit of a time jump hold onto your seat! It has been a month on the road. Canada had provided the ideal escape with all the trees and small towns that our characters have been running through and living in. They have not had any contact with their family.}

Why, why, why, did I let them talk me into this. I get it they are capable ladies, but I do not think this is a good idea. Focus Jacob focus. It is just a game. The kitchen timer goes off. I strip my shorts putting them in my mouth and phase to wolf.

Nose to the ground I smell. Nessie and Lue's sent mingle with the natural smell of the damp forest. The rain soaks my fur as I run. I follow the stronger trail for Nessie's sent. Once I find her, I will be less crazy knowing she is safe and within eyesight.

I cross a river. Where did her sent go! Relax Jacob this is a game. Lue better have her in site range. That was the only way I would agree to play this game. Who in the world wants to play hide and seek in the rain? Oh, that's right the crazy girls I live with that's who. These girls are insane.

I slosh upstream smelling both banks of the river as I wander further. Just before I lost all hope, I caught her sent again. Running out of the river following it.

Her sent is the only thing about her that has not changed over the course of the months. She is growing so fast. In the past month she has grown to look more and more like a child. Her hair is so long, not that she has any wish to cut it. She is no longer looking like the young baby-faced toddler from her identification. We will soon have to choose a place to settle permanently or find someone to forge us a new documentation. Let's face it in three weeks she will look so much older than the photograph that I won't be able to cross boarders with her. By air or by car.

Her sent changes direction up a small hill. I follow it. Following her sent I am lost in thought. So, lost I don't hear the footfalls coming towards me.

I feel her before I notice anything else. Lue climbs up on my back. Laughing as she lands. "Did you even wait for the timer to go off?" she asks.

I nod and laugh. Lue tends to get distracted by the weirdest things. "I saw a butterfly on a flower. It looked so water soaked I built it a little house, so it won't be soaked when the sun comes back" she tells me as she stands on my back. "Have you found her yet?" she prods me with her toe. Shaking my head, she launches off my back and starts to run after the sent. "Race yah!" she yells and starts launching herself from tree to tree.

I follow behind her taking risky movements between trees to pass her. Now I am in the lead. We come to the top of the hill. Nessie is laying in flowers. The rain soaks her skin and clothing. I slow watching her. I know she is breathing and unharmed. In this light she looks so sad. The rain making her look like a crying angel.

Lue runs past me and body rolls on top of her laughing. Coming to a stop landing on her stomach looking at Nessie.

"Why are you crying honey?" Lue asks all humor gone from her voice.

Nessie is crying. I see that there is more then rain on her face. I quickly run into the woods to phase back. Once dressed I run the small amount to reach them.

"It's just that my family has not found me yet. I had not thought that it would take this long for my family to find us. We have been safe leaving trails, but I thought at least they would have discovered one of our trails by now. I thought they would be here. I thought if I looked up at the sky and saw a shooting star, I would get to make a wish." Nessie sits up as I walk closer.

"I will look with you. Once we find the shooting star, we will both wish so the wish is extra powerful. It has almost been two months since you ran from the Volturi. I vote we go home. Then we can at least see what happened to everything." Lue hugs Nessie in a tight embrace. Kissing her on the cheek and glaring at me. I knew that Nessie had been showing Lue memories of home every night for the past month. They both now desperately wanted to go back. Nessie to find her family and Lue to see the places. I was the bad guy when it came to this decision.

I roll my eyes. This has been an argument Lue and I have been having over the course of this past week. We both want what is best for Nessie, but she wasn't there. She did not see the terror or experience running. She only sees her best friend is hurt and scared and wants to know what happened. Maybe she is not ready. Maybe none of us are ready. It's not like I think they are still standing on the battlefield. It would kill me inside to see who was lost in that fight. I would not be able to take care of Nessie if I was the reason people died, because I ran away.

I scoop Nessie up into my arms. "Would you like to go home?" I whisper to her.

"Yes Jaky. I want to go home. I want to live in Forks with my family. Or at least revisit the memories that I have of them there. If they are not there" her voice cracks "well I just want to know once and for all what happened after we ran. I want to see Charlie at the very least. There would not be a reason he would not be there right?" Nessie looked so determined.

"We do not have to go back now. It might just cause you more pain." I tell her.

Really, I do not know if I am ready to go back. If things happed the way I think they did. I will be the only wolf. I would be the coward wolf that ran. The wolf that decided my imprint was more important than being an alpha. More important than the trib. More important than my family.

"Jaky I dream about it every night, I dream that they are waiting for me to come home." Nessie sobs as she speaks.

Lue perched on her elbows looking at the stars waiting for one to give us the opportunity to wish. I see the tears escape her eyes. The bond these girls have made is as strong as sisters if not stronger.

"Your family would not be the type to wait around for you to come home. They are out searching the world for you. Turning every stone and swimming across oceans to find you" Lue says in a matter of fact tone. "Your memories do not show me people who would wait for you to come back on your own. They show me determined people that out of their love for you would not stop until they find you".

"Thanks" Nessie said her voice muffled by tears and my chest.

"That being said. I think we should go back to the place it all started. There might be clues on where they went. Then we can stop being the ones being tracked and start tracking. Or maybe someone has their cell phone number." Lue said looking up into the cloudless rain to find a shooting star.

Nessie climbed off my chest to lay next to Lue. "How do we choose when to go?" Nessie asked staring at the stars.

"Well I think we should go soon. If for nothing more then your sanity my sister. The what if questions are causing you to lose yourself" Lue leaned over and kissed Nessie on the cheek.

"Fine, we will go back to Forks" my heart dropped and squeezed uncomfortably inside my chest. I needed to keep Nessie safe. Forks was the place that I felt safe my entire life, up until that last day. I would be walking back into a town that haunted my dreams.

Laying on our backs we waited for a shooting star to light up the sky. It took an hour and I was almost going to tell the girls that if we did not go soon, they would both be getting sick. When it happened. The star burned a bright blue then dashed across the sky.

We all wished.

Nessie for her family

Me for Nessie's safety

Lue for the strengthening of the bond of this little family.