The weekend couldn't arrive fast enough for Alexis, she was worried that if they didn't find this intruder soon something bad might happen. But finally, It was Friday afternoon, Ambrus, and Alexis left for Forks. Samantha had gone ahead with Rose and Emmett. They arrived first at Alexis' house to leave their stuff, and say hello to Elizabeth. Once they were settled in they both hopped the fence and went over to Bella's house.
It turned out that Emmett and Rosalie were there as well. When Emmett saw Alexis he gave her a big dimpled smile, she shyly waved at him. Ambrus looked between the two and raises an eyebrow.
"Did I miss something?" He asks.
"Yes, I'll tell you later," Alexis tells him.
They all walk into the house together, and immediately the Lycans are assaulted by the smell of the male Vamp that was in the house. To them, the smell is still strong but they can tell it's already been a few days and to Emmett and Rosalie the smell is starting to fade.
Ambrus and Alexis allow Emmett and Rosalie to go through the house in order to get the scent of the male vampire, as it won't be necessary for them to do it. When they are finished they come back downstairs.
"Okay we have the scent, there is no way that we won't recognize it if we come across it again," Emmett tells them.
"Good now we just need Elizabeth's memories," Ambrus explains.
He then proceeds to bite Elizabeth on the neck and her memories begin to transfer over to Ambrus. When he is finished, he gently sits Elizabeth down in the chair so she can recover.
"Why did you bite Mrs. Hale," Rosalie asked.
"Because, I am not pack, I needed to bite her to get the memories. For the Pup, her mother will bite her."
Once Elizabeth had recovered, she stands up and walks over to Alexis and bites her. The memories of everything that Elizabeth had learned about the intruder flooded Alexis' mind. All the sight scents and sounds were burned into her memory. When it was over Elizabeth sat Alexis down so that she could recover from the bite.
"Alright now that we have all the information that we'll need we can begin hunting this vampire," Ambrus tells Alexis.
"Wait nobody said anything about hunting the vampire, that could be dangerous," Emmett said then looks over at his mate.
"We are not going to kill him, we are going to observe him and see what information we can get. We all know that it was no coincidence that he came into this house, we need to find out why he's after Bella and Charlie. And the best way to do that is to hunt instead of waiting for this person to strike. Waiting is bad for us, it puts us on edge giving the advantage to our enemy," Ambrus explains.
"Okay, when do you want to start," Emmett asks."
"Tomorrow night. We shall rest tonight and head back to Seattle tomorrow afternoon. We will begin our hunt in the evening."
"Alright, in the meantime, Emmett and I need to hunt. We'll be back later. Come on, Emmett," Rosalie tells her brother.
"I'll see you later, Lexie," Emmett says."
"O-okay, Emmett."
Ambrus, Charlie, Elizabeth, and Bella all stare at Alexis.
"What?"
"You stuttered, what's going on with you," Bella asked.
"Nothing."
"Are you sure this has nothing to do with your date with Emmett last night, Pup?"
"You went on a date with Emmett!" Bella squeals.
"No it was not a date, he just took me to get something to eat."
"Yeah, like I said a date. So what happened?"
"Nothing really, we started talking, I agreed that I would talk to him more often and then he took me home. And I… kissed him on the cheek."
"You what?!" Ambrus and Bella said in unison.
"I kissed him on the cheek, it was no big deal. It was just my way of thanking him for taking me out to eat."
"I knew you would forgive him eventually," Bella said with a smug look.
"I haven't forgiven him."
"You will, it's only a matter of time, now."
"I agree with Bella, Pup, this little outing shows great progress. Not to mention you can feel him now," Ambrus comments.
"Whoa, whoa, wait a minute, what do you mean you can feel Emmett? You mean you can feel his emotions now, since when?" Elizabeth asked.
"Since Jacksonville."
"Then you are definitely forgiving him."
"We'll see. I'm not getting my hopes up," Alexis tells her family and Ambrus.
Somewhere in the woods, Emmett has just told Rosalie what happened the night before. He was grinning from ear to ear by the time he finished telling her.
"I'm happy for you, Emmett."
"Thank you, Rose, I think last night we made some real progress. Why else would she kiss me if she wasn't starting to forgive me?"
"You could be right, Em, but you need to be cautious. I don't want you to get your hopes up and then she ends up changing her mind."
"I know, Rose, I just can't help feeling happy right now. Maybe there's hope for us after all."
"Maybe there is.
So, while Emmett and Rosalie spent the rest of the evening hunting and Ambrus, Alexis, Samantha, and Bella did their homework had pizza and watched movies.
The next afternoon, they all met up at the Hale house to discuss what they were going to do.
"Alright, I think we should split up and search the city. Since we as Lycans have the best sense of smell even in our human form I think it would be wise that we each go with one of you," Ambrus, tells Emmett and Rosalie, "I shall go with Rosalie and You, Pup, will go with Emmett."
'Like I didn't see that coming.' Alexis thought.
She looked at Emmett who had a big grin on his face and wiggled his eyebrows, causing Alexis to blush.
"Now, let's get going."
Ambrus, Alexis, and Samantha get into Alexis' car and drive off while Emmett and Rosalie follow behind in Emmett's Jeep.
Ambrus, Alexis, and Samantha drive in silence for a while with Samantha staring at her best friend. She crosses her arms and smiles.
"You're excited to be with Emmett, aren't you?"
"What gives you that idea?" Alexis says as she turns to look at Samantha.
"You're fidgeting and wringing your hands. You're either excited or nervous."
"And your heart rate has increased, Pup."
"Alright, I'm nervous about being around Emmett, can you blame me?"
"No we can't, but you need to relax and focus on what we are going to be doing tonight. Put your feelings for Emmett aside," Ambrus tells her.
Alexis takes a deep breath, "I can do this."
"Of course you can."
When they get back to school they park outside Alder Hall and Rosalie escorts Samantha inside. She comes back out and stands next to Ambrus.
"We'll split the city in half. If you find anything just observe. Get as much information as you can. Do not interfere for any reason." Ambrus tells them.
Rosalie and Ambrus take Emmett's Jeep while Emmett and Alexis take Alexis' Dodge Challenger, Alexis lets Emmett drive.
"Where do we start," Emmett asks.
"How about the warehouse district? There are a lot of abandoned buildings there."
"Okay."
They drive down to the warehouse district and get out, Alexis starts scenting the are. She almost immediately picks up the scent of the very vampire they're looking for.
"I got him."
Very carefully they start to follow the scent, staying as far back as possible. Eventually, they spot him, he's skulking around in the shadows as if looking for something. Then Alexis' ears pick up the sound of music.
"We need to get higher so he doesn't spot us," Emmett tells her.
They climb the closest building to them and watch what the vampire is doing from their vantage point. The vampire walking toward the sound of the music at human speed. Alexis and Emmett quietly leap from building to building watching his every move. It turns out that there's an underground club nearby and the vampire goes inside. Alexis and Emmett look at each other.
"Care to dance?" Emmett asks.
"I'd love to."
They get down off the building and go inside the club. Slowly they make their way around the club looking for the vampire. But it's so crowded by the bar they can't see anything.
"Let's go out on the dance floor and see if we can see him," Emmett suggests.
He takes Alexis by the hand and pulls her to the dance floor. They start dancing and at the same time keep their senses open for any sign of the vampire. At one point a slow song comes on and Alexis tries to get off the dance floor, but Emmett pulls her to him.
"Just keep dancing."
Slowly their dancing becomes more intimate. Emmett wraps his arms around Alexis and holds her close, he leans down and brushes his lips against hers then he ghosts his lip against her neck working his way up to her ear.
"I miss you," Emmett whispers and kisses her neck.
Alexis' eyes slide shut as she feels Emmett's cold lips on her hot skin. He begins kissing along her jaw causing a shiver down her spine. Emmett places his forehead against hers and tightens his hold on her.
"I love you, please take me back." He says and softly kisses her lips.
Alexis wraps her arms around Emmett's neck, kissing him back. She pulls away and sighs.
"Emmett, I, I."
Suddenly her eyes widen, "I got him, I got his scent again."
Emmett reluctantly lets her go and follows Alexis out of the club. They follow behind the vampire and watch as he has his arm around a girl and is leading her to a car. The vampire suddenly slaps her across the face knocking her out.
"We have to help her!" Emmett says.
"We can't. We can't interfere we have to see what he plans to do."
They climb on top of the building and follow the vampire who goes into a nearby warehouse. Emmett and Alexis peer in through the window. Inside are dozens of vampires feeding on other humans. The vampire throws the girl to the ground roughly and she wakes up. Suddenly she grabbed from behind.
"Welcome to the army." A red-haired vampire says and bites her on the neck. The girl screams and the red-head throws her down.
"Victoria."
"That's Victoria?" Alexis asks.
"Yeah, so she's the one building an army."
"You knew?"
"I found out yesterday, I'll explain later, let's go."
With that, Emmett and Alexis went back to her car and called Ambrus to meet them at A Burger Place restaurant near the University.
