Chapter 7 – Break In
EmPOV
I woke up and stretched out, noticing that Jasper and the girls were gone. The bed was messy, and Jasper's bag was neatly folded into the roll I gave it to him in. I got out of my own bag and rolled it up messily before exiting Alice and Jasper's room. Voices were lifting up from the staircase and I recognized them as Jasper, Alice, Rosalie, Edward and Bella. Slowly and quietly, I walked down the stairs, not making any sound as I neared the family room. Man, I really was getting in the habit of sneaking around, lately!
"It couldn't have been Charlie!"
Bella's voice boomed out from the living room.
"Bella, think about it, Charlie was the last person to see Jacob or Quil since that night."
Alice explained to her, wary of her feelings, but willing to plead the case right from the evidence. I entered the room and sat down on the only chair left, listening more. The only one who noticed me was Rose, and even then she didn't say anything. Bella went on, explaining why it couldn't have been Charlie.
"He took them to the jail and dropped them off. Then he took the week off and let the Deputies handle the case. Edward and I have been stuck with him at my house since that night!"
No one spoke from that point until around an hour later, then it was Carlisle, and he announced that dinner was ready. We all went to eat, getting up and walking into the kitchen to get our plates. I was last in line, and exactly the time I grabbed my plate, I heard glass break from upstairs. My plate shattered when I dropped it onto the counter, and then the ceramic glass crunched under my feet as I ran out of the room and upstairs. I was the first one to get to the top, with Jasper, Edward and Carlisle following inches behind me. I was the first one to get to the top, and I went to mine and Rose's room. Jasper was still following me, but Carlisle and Edward went to check Edward's room.
"Where're the girls?"
I asked Jasper, opening the door in the process and scanning the room. The glass of my room was still intact, so the shattering couldn't have come from my room.
"They're in the living room, come on!"
I turned to see Jasper dart down the hall to Carlisle and Esme's room, and I followed. There was no glass there, either, and that left only one room to search: Edward's. We raced to Edward's room and found Edward wrestling with someone in a black ski mask. Carlisle was out on the floor, unconscious from the way his body was laying.
MPOV
I got off of the bike and walked to the Cullens' back glass wall. I looked around and found a cement block, which if placed underneath the window, would make me tall enough to reach one of the glass doors which could open. I tried to open it after placing the cement block, but it wouldn't budge an inch. After leaping down from on top of the block, I grabbed a rock and threw it threw the door, making the glass shatter and scatter over the room's floor. The block held firmly while I made my way into the room. There were CD cases organized into a neat row on a shelf, a stereo system, a couch, and a very normal bed. I had barely begun looking through clues as to where I was when I heard two pairs of footsteps approaching.
I hid behind the door to the room and pulled a black ski mask out of one of the drawers of the dresser closest to me. I then proceeded to grab the closest object, a lamp, and wait for the first person to enter the room. Carlisle must have been a few feet in front of whoever was behind him, because he came barreling in first. I cracked the lamp hard over his head, and he crumpled to the floor, his body falling in a very unusual way. The lamp broke, but nothing seemed to have cut him, as there wasn't any blood around his body. Then I turned around in just enough time to receive a tackle from Edward. We began struggling, alternating between headlocks and various other holds while he tried to get me sustained.
Shortly after the conflict began, Emmet and Jasper came into view, apparently doing searching as well. Neither said anything as they watched Edward and myself fight. Finally, after a good minute of struggling, I flipped Edward onto his back and then punched him in the nose. His hands automatically flew up to his nose to protect it, and his eyes welled up with tears. I then ran back to the broken glass door and jumped down, missing the block by only inches. The bike fired up easily when I jump started it, and I sped back to the cabin.
BPOV
The boys with Carlisle ran up the stairs while the girls and I sat in the living room. I thought about what it could have been and what might happen to Edward when he found out what it was. I was worried to the point of tears with all of the possible scenarios that played out in my head. Rosalie patted my back while Alice hugged me. Both of them were scared and worried also, but they weren't as emotional as I was about the whole thing. The boys came down the stairs, Carlisle on Emmett's back. We all moved as he put Carlisle on the couch, then straightened himself out before turning to Edward and Jasper.
"We need to go after him."
Emmett was pissed; his voice had every trace of disgust and anger imaginable. Edward ignored him, even though I knew that he felt the same way Emmett did. He walked over to me and wrapped his arms around me, making me feel safe once again.
EmPOV
Even though we didn't know who the guy was, I still wanted to go after him. He deserved the beating that I had in store for him, what with breaking into my family's home and harming one of the members of it, namely my dad? Oooooh, when I catch up to whoever that broke in, I am going to rip him to shreds.
"Eddie, Jazz, saddle up, we're goin hunting!"
They ran up stairs and then came back five minutes later with stuffed horses that had saddles made into their backs. I made a goofy grin appear on my face before toppling them both over with a vase from beside of the door.
"Very funny, smart-asses. Wait……where did you get those horses?"
Jasper got up, started laughing and put the horse beside of the stairs. Edward followed suit with his as they laughed. I looked for something else to throw; nothing was in sight, so I gave up. The assholes completely ignored my question, and we walked outside and into my jeep. The girls decided to stay with Carlisle and take care of him, so we went looking for the breaker-inner. We looked for about an hour and a half, and to nothing of great success. So we went door to door, asking if the people had been out of their houses lately. We got a bunch of weird looks and a couple of slammed doors, but when we got to Mike Newton's house, there was nothing. Silence was the only thing to be heard in that house. I was just about to leave when I decided to look through the living room window. Sitting, or rather lying, was the body of Quil Ateara. I darted from the window and went to the bushes near Mike's house to throw up.
"Emmett! What did you see?"
Edward's voice sounded in my ears while my stomach's contents spewed across the bushes.
"Jasper, look through that window."
He told Jasper to look, and Jasper went, he peered through that window and joined me in the bushes right when I stopped puking.
"Edward, there is a body in Mike's house. It is Quil. I remember him exactly, even without his head. After all, I did beat him twice."
Edward's eyes widened and he helped me and Jasper to the house. We knew who the killer was now; we just needed to know where to find him. Jasper decided to search the house for clues and Edward and I followed him in. We went straight to Mike's room, and the first thing we saw was a folder labeled 'Receipts'. Edward began rummaging through it, while Jasper searched his drawers and I searched the closet. Edward found two receipts, holding them up to us and then placing the folder back where he got it from.
"Hey, Em, Jazz, I found two receipts. One is for a cabin near here and one is for a cliff knife."
Okay, now we knew how the heads got into the box and sent to us. For that matter, we knew everything. All we needed now was to go to the cabin and take care of little Mikey. I hopped in my Jeep and let Edward and Jazz get in before I took off. We made it to the house and I had Alice go to work finding out where the cabin was. She didn't disappoint me. I had detailed directions in my hands in record time, explaining every turn and how far and everything. I went back out to my Jeep and Jazz and Edward followed, we went to the cabin. I parked just before the cabin and we all ran to the nearest window and opened it, jumping in. Mike sounded like he was just getting home from our house, so Jasper hid in the closet and Edward in the bathroom, both near the bedroom, where I would be sitting on the bed, waiting.
MPOV
Dammit, I was so close to taking those two out!
My thoughts were running wild when I leapt from the bike and hid it around the back of the cabin. I entered the doorway and took the mask off, throwing it to the floor near the table. Was that window open when I parked the bike? I didn't think about it, not wanting to cause myself any mental strain. I walked into the kitchen and stood for a minute. Then, I slid the cliff knife out and put it on the table.
"Why couldn't I just kill them?"
I was beginning to talk to myself, and it didn't bother me in even the slightest.
"Maybe it's because you are just all talk and no walk."
There was the answer, and again, nothing. I didn't realize that too much anger pent up inside could make you go crazy. I smiled to myself and then looked over to the bed. There was a person sitting on the bed, and my eyes went wide as I made out who the person was piece by piece.
