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He squeezed down on my wrists, and almost immediately pain overtook my entire body, and I couldn't help it, I doubled over with my hands still held tight in William's hands and screamed.

I heard him let out a little hiss, and the pain lessened a fraction but it was still unbearable, and I felt my eyes begin to close against my will.

"I'm sorry Marie, I'm sorry." William said and I lost control of my body and fell limply into his arms. "I'm sorry, but I told you that I couldn't let you leave here, not in the condition that you are in."

And all at once the darkness consumed me.

EPOV

We'd been running for hours, just trying to pick up the barest scent of my Bella, and we did manage to hook her scent a few miles back, but we've run into another, tall and indestructible wall. Bella's scent, no matter how fragrant and strong it was, it stood no match against the rain.

My family was all worn out; I could tell that just by looking at them. Their clothes were drenched from a sudden down pour we'd encountered and their hair was in disarray. I couldn't ask them to do anything more, they had helped me to the best of their ability and now that I knew my Bella was possibly still breathing I wasn't going to stop. Ever. Not until I found her again, I'd search until the end of time if I had to.

I stopped dead in my tracks and shook my head. This was ridiculous. "Alice, Jasper, Emmett, go back home." I said and they all stopped as well, and stared me down.

"What are you talking about?" Jasper said.

"Listen, I'm glad you came to help me find Bella, and I'm glad you are trying to truck through this for me, but there's only so much I can ask of you. Please go home." I said.

"Of all the rude, arrogant, stupid things to say, you choose to say that." Emmett hissed. "Bella was as much part of our family as you; she was a little sister to all of us." He snarled, and then shook his head trying to calm down. "I'm not leaving till we find her." He said.

"I'm with Emmett." Alice said looping her arm through Jaspers. Jasper just nodded in agreement. I let out a low growl, but I knew it was futile. They were going no where, and there was nothing I could do.

"Get out of here leeches." The thought came through in my mind as human, but out of my mind I heard the low and feral hiss of a dog. My family turned their heads as well just as 5 huge dogs, or were they wolves stepped out from the brush.

"Let's kill them Sam." Hissed a voice.

"No." Came the strong assertive reply.

"Aw, came on same for the first time I actually agree with Jacob." Chortled another.

"Shut up Jared." Hissed, I guess Jacob.

"No." The leader I suppose said.

"Quil, Embry, scout the perimeter, check to see if they have friends." The leader, I supposed his name was Sam said, and two of the closer dogs began to turn away.

"We don't have friends with us." I said to them, and the dogs froze in their place.

"Did that leech just respond to something we said?" Hissed Jared in anger.

"Yes, I did, and I don't really like being called a leech, thank you." I said smiling.

The biggest wolf barred its teeth at me, as if to strike, but instead he darted back into the forest, and growled the whole way. This was the oddest thing, I've never been able to communicate with animals, just Humans, and things that were once human, it was strange, and oddly fascinating at the same time.

"Edward what's going on?" Alice asked from just behind me.

"I'm able to communicate with the wolves in my mind." I said in wonder, just as a human man stepped out from behind the bushes. He stood fairly tall, with long black hair, and russet colored skin.

"Okay leech, listen to me. You have to leave, now. We are out here with a purpose and you are interfering with your rancid stink." He hissed at us.

"What a coincidence mutt," I mused, well he did change from the wolf so mutt fit just fine. "we are out here looking for something as well."

It was when he lunged at me I realized that my words could have been mistaken very easily for a hunter looking for prey. I silently cursed myself and dodged and grabbing hands to see judgment cloud his eyes, if we were what he thought we were he'd never be able to beat me like that.

"Let me rephrase that if you will. I mean to say, we are out here looking for someone that's lost, not something for dinner." I said. "Not to mention the fact that we don't hunt people, strictly animals."

His eyes flashed over me, and one of the wolves growled.

"What's your name leeches?" The boy, or maybe man asked.

"I'm Alice Cullen." Alice said.

"Emmett Cullen." Emmett said.

"Jasper Cullen." Jasper said.

"Edward Cullen." I whispered.

"So it was you." He said glaring right at me. I staggered backwards trying to regain my composure. But the boy was throwing memory after memory at me. Memories of him and Bella riding side by side on old beaten up dirt bikes. Bella, her face crumpled and broken, streaked with tears. Bella, yelling at Jacob with such strength and throwing pillows, lamps, cups anything she could reach in the living at him.

But the most painful of all was a memory of Bella, looking so totally out of it, sitting in the living room with some guy smoking weed while he ran his hand up and down her leg. I cringed reflexively, and hissed.

What happened to her?

"You ruined her you leech. You broke her and left her in pieces, and look what you've done to her. Now she's gone. Did you know that? Ran away with one of your kind. Hopped right out her bedroom window last night and BAM! she's gone!"

"Ran away with one of our kind? What did you mean ran away?"

"Ran away, gone, skipped town. However you look at it she was running, and it's all your fault. You should have never come near her." He said shoving me back with his hands on my chest. "You should have never blinked her way." He said pushing me again, and I actually let myself stagger backwards. "She would still be here! She wouldn't be out running with a stupid leech if you had just kept your greedy mitts off her!"

"Jacob." Said a voice, and we all turned to see a taller man also with the same russet skin and dark hair standing tall right behind Jacob. "Calm down Jacob." He said again.

This man I could already tell, not from his voice, but by the immediate command in his voice that he was Sam. He stood with such authority and defiance that it was hard to take it in all at once.

"You're looking for Bella as well?" Sam said taking a step closer to us angling Jacob behind him.

I straightened up and stared back at the man before me. "Yes, I am. Which is why I'd love to know anything you are able to tell me." I could hear Jacob grinding his teeth together and the sound of him clenching and unclenching his fists, until finally something I knew would happen, happened.

"We're not telling you anything leech. You're the reason that she's gone! You're!-"

"Jacob!" Sam hissed cutting Jacob off.

"Fine!" Jacob spat. "You tell him everything Sam, tell him every detail down to what she was wearing, but in the end the only thing he'll find if he shows himself in front of her is the mess he's left behind. Not that he'd care."

"You listen here you little mutt! Edward cares about Bella! We ALL do! So for you to say that-"

"Enough." I said and Alice stopped talking. "It's enough." The air blew by and ruffled everyone's clothes, it was freezing out, but I guess the wolves wouldn't feel the cold, and we couldn't either.

"Edward…" Alice said looking at me, the pain in her eyes boring into me.

"It's enough-" The wind blew by again, but this time it held more than just the cold. I looked around at the faces of everyone around me to find that they had also realized what I had.

Without a word we all took off in the direction that the wind had come from, vampire and wolf together for the first time in history. Together we were searching and following the origin of the wind current. The wind current that held the scent of my love, the current that held the scent of Bella.

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