Chapter 10- Stephanie's leap of faith.

It had been a while since Stephanie had an adrenaline rush, just so she could see Hunter's face once more. But her chance came when she went rock climbing with Chris and his family. The thrall of the climb allowed her to hear Hunter's voice in her mind, she could hear he was sad and missed her terribly. It's what she had always wanted to know.

She had spent the better part of the past few weeks trying to convince her dad that there were no wolves in the forest, they weren't the ones behind the deaths of the people who had been discovered. "Since when the hell did you become a tree hugger?" her father demanded.

Stephanie shrugged her shoulders and said that Chris had told her about the forest, it wasn't a wolf's doing. "Dad think about it, a wolf wouldn't kill something and not eat it. The people you found had their necks torn open, but their bodies were in tact!" she explained.

"Don't matter, I think it's wolves and it needs to stop!" he announced.

Stephanie couldn't believe her own father, he was willing to make a mistake and blame animals (or werewolves) for the deaths of the people he had the displeasure of discovering. If only she could tell him the truth. But she knew if her father knew the truth about Hunter and Chris, no doubt she would be on a one way ticket to a crazy house. She begged him to wait and see if it was for certain the work of the forest animals. He said he would wait, but the tone he spoke to her with meant otherwise.

She joined Chris and his friends later in the day, in an instant she picked up tension among the group, Natalya in particular. She looked startled, scared even. But no one mentioned why.

Chris had decided to introduce Stephanie to a new activity. Cliff diving. It was the first time she had ever heard of doing such a thing, but at the same time she couldn't wait. The rush of it all would make her closer to Hunter than ever before, she would see him vividly and know how he is doing without her.

They spent hours, hiking to the cliffs were Chris explained there's only known to them. Apparently, cliff diving wasn't well accepted in town, not to mention the parents. And yet the idea of a new adventure excited her, she couldn't wait to take the plunge.

Meanwhile.

"What the hell do you think you were doing Kane? You know damn well you shouldn't be around people after the incident! Or are you so screwed in the head…" Kane was getting the third degree from Mr. McCallaway, and there was no sigh of him letting up. Kane tried to explain himself, yet every time his mouth opened the yelling would continue on. He sat and endured the verbal about as the others watched like kids from the stairs.

"Isn't it great when he gets in trouble" muttered Maryse who blew the whistle on him in the first place.

Batista wasn't certain. "I don't know, all he did was check on Stephanie. Why, is beyond me" he muttered back. No one however bothered to tell Hunter of Kane's little 'trip'.

In the Upstairs.

"All I want to know is what the hell is going on down stairs!" Hunter had been yelling at Maria for the past ten minutes, demanding to know what Kane was being scolded over. She tried to explain and fabricate a lie all at the same time. She stuttered over her words a few times as she nearly came across as a 'dumb blond' but then the words came.

"He went out when he wasn't suppose to, you know Kane, he was looking for something vicious to hunt. He was getting dangerously close to the zoo" Maria explained. She then paused as her mind froze, a vision was coming and Hunter knew it. He sat her down in the corner and waited for her to speak. Maria couldn't control the words from her mouth as she announced she could see Stephanie… and she was jumping off a cliff.

Hunter couldn't believe his own ears as Maria broke from the transe. "No… No she wouldn't do that! Maria, please tell me it wasn't a true vision!" Hunter begged.

It was the most real it had ever felt. She tried to tell Hunter, but he was already gone from the room. No one in the house saw him leave, slipping through the front doors and ran. Maria was quick to try and give chase but found she was too late. The whole family paused as they turned to her. "Maria, what's wrong? Was that Hunter?" Kane asked as he stood up off the couch.

"I had a vision again, it was Stephanie. She… jumped"

The room went dead silent as Kane turned to Mark, giving him a hard punch to the arm he announced. "Now whose the crazy one! I could have saved her life, but NO." he announced. "Damn it and I know where Hunter is going to go. We don't have much time!"

"What the hell makes you care about him all of a sudden?" Batista demanded.

"Judge me later when my foot is up your ass, we don't have much time, Hunter is going to do something stupid" Kane growled as he took hold of the house. Everyone had to spit up and find him before Hunter makes a terrible mistake. Kane told Mark to seek out the elders, his hunch was Hunter was going to try and join Stephanie.

"Wait, is she really?" asked Maryse.

"No, I overheard the wolves, they were taking her cliff diving…." Kane muttered. "But Hunter didn't know that, now did he?" his glare went Mark once more. The family said nothing as they went out to find him, before it was too late. Kane had to go back to the States, he needed to bring his proof….