A/N: Okay, so in order for this chapter to work. I had to go back to chapter four and change Cassie's description. I hope it doesn't cause too much confusion. If it does, I apologize. I hope you enjoy the change. It's just me trying to fix a screw up that could turn out to be very good. Or at least, I hope. Also, I know I wrote before that Cassie has an autistic brother. Scratch that. Her family issue is that her parents have a secret but they won't tell her what it is. She thinks she was adopted and they just don't wanna tell her. Sorry this update took so long to get out. I was spending time with my mom and getting my room ready for my own computer. Which will hopefully be here by the end of the week. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

BELLA

It took a couple of hours but Carlisle finally got us an address. We couldn't be sure if it was the current one or not. The only thing we could do was pray that we found something. I hoped we would.

Esme called our travel agent and booked us eight tickets on a flight to Washington. She also called a rent-a-car company and arranged to have a mini-van (A/N: The only thing big enough for all eight of them.) waiting for us when we landed. The company didn't usually bring the cars to the costumers, but they changed their tune when Esme said she'd be willing to pay double for it.

Alice had me draw her a detailed picture of Melanie based off of the photo I'd seen on T.V. Due to my photographic memory, it was a perfect replica. Alice was using it to try to get a glimpse of Melanie's future. Unfortunately, it wasn't working very well. She still couldn't get anything for some strange reason. We weren't sure why. I mean, Alice knew exactly what she was looking for. She was getting very frustrated by the fact that she couldn't see anything. She hated being blind.

She spent the entire flight trying to see Melanie. She only succeeded in upsetting herself more. Jasper and I sat on either side of her trying to help her relax. We begged her to stop doing that to herself but she refused. She was determined to get some kind of look at what was happening to her niece. Jasper did the best he could to keep her calm but she still felt useless.

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As we drove through Washington, getting closer and closer to the house, I found myself getting more and more nervous. I had a feeling that this wasn't your run of the mill random human kidnapping. I knew, though I didn't know how, that it was supernatural. I found the lack of evidence and the non-forced entry to be very suspicious. I knew from ecperience that only two creatures could get away with that. Vampires, like myself, and werewolves. I couldn't imagine what werewolves would want with my daughter. Besides, as far as I knew, the only ones in Washington were still in Forks. They'd really have no business coming to Seattle. Especially for some random human. So I was forced to believe that it was vampires. I just couldn't figure out which ones or why. No one knew that she was my daughter so they wouldn't know to use her as leverage for anything.

I sighed and laid my head on Roxy's, who was sitting next to me, shoulder. She wrapped her arm around my shoulders in a comforting manner. We had become very close over the last fourteen years. She had by no means replaced Alice as my best friend, like Edward had so long ago joke about. Alice was still the best sister and friend a girl could possibly ask for. I didn't know how I would've gotten through the last fifteen years without her. Not only that, but she made the decision that saved me from the worst mistake of my human life. I didn't think I could ever be closer to any of my sisters as I was to Alice.

Roxy and I, however, were the only two in the family who didn't have mates. I found it so much more comforting to be able to talk to Roxy without feeling like I was interuptting something. I hated to take Alice away from Jasper. I knew neither one of them minded but I know how much it hurts to be away from the one you love. I didn't like putting Alice and Jasper through that. Roxy made it so I wouldn't have to.

Roxy understood my relationship with Alice and knew why I always went to her first. However, she told me that if Alice ever couldn't talk, she'd be there. I was grateful for that. I hated being a bother to Alice and Jasper. I knew how much they needed their time together.

I supposed it was also the fact that Roxy was the only in the family, other than Rose, who had suffered the same thing that I suffered at the hands of the Volturi. It was nice to be able to talk to someone who has experienced the same thing first hand. Roxy, Rose and I spent many nights over the last fifteen years counsoling each other through those traumatic events.

Roxy had gotten to know me so well that she knew when I needed to hear something or when I just needed to be comforted. Knowing this was one of those times when I just needed to be comforted, she rubbed my shoulder and laid her head on mine. We just sat like that for the rest of the ride.

Carlisle decided it would be safest for us to park the van at a park several blocks away from the house. He thought it would look too suspicious if a white van full of eight strangers parked in front of the scene of the crime. By parking away from it, it would look like we were just passing by. Or that's what we all hoped.

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When we reached the house, I immediately caught the lingering but faint scent of vampire. Two of them to be exact. The scents weren't familiar enough to me to differitiate who the belogned to. I wasn't sure if the family recognized them or not. They were shooting each other odd and uncomfortable looks. I took another sniff to see if I could pick up anything else.

Sure enough, there was an even fainter underlying scent. It seemed more permemant than the vampire ones did. It smelled as though whoever owned the scent spent a lot of time in or around the house. However, they hadn't been there in a few days. The scent itself was pretty disgusting. Yet, very familiar. I couldn't quite put my finger on it but I knew it was something that I'd smelt before.

"Well, let's go in and take a look around." Alice stated.

She was already headed to the porch. I took a quick look around just to make sure that no one was looking out there windows at that moment. As I turned back, I noticed one of the windows of the second floor was open. I realized it would make the most sense to go through there. It would be much quicker than having to pick the lock. And it wouldn't leave any suspicious about the suddenly unlocked door.

"Carlisle, maybe we should climb throught the window up there." I stated looking to him.

I think that would be a very good idea." Carlisle replied. "It would probably be least conspicuous."

We quickly climbed, one at time, up the side of the house and in through the window. I was the first one inside. The vampires' scents were stronger inside as was the faint disgusting smell. I took a look around as the others climbed in. From the look of things we were in Melanie's room.

It was quite messy. There was clothes everywhere. The unmade bed had a Disney Princess set on it. C.D.'s and DVD's were stacked in piles on the floor. I noted the many Debussy C.D.'s in the piles. She'd definitely get along with Edward. Her walls were covered in pictures of everyone from Paramore to Taylor Swift to Daniel Radcliffe to Tom Cruise. I had to laugh at her varying tastes in music and actors. Her dresser was simple dark cherry wood with little swirls on it. There were several pictures of her friends and family on it. Or at least, I assumed they were her friends and family.

I finshed my inventory of the room just as Esme crawled through the window (A/N: Remember vampires are fast enough that it takes them only seconds to process what it takes us minutes to.). Once again, I noticed the family exchanging odd and uncomfortable looks.

"But he wouldn't...unless...but why would they?" Alice said out loud.

It sounded as if she was trying to talk herself into something. She had her brow furrowed in frustration and confusion. I had no idea what she was talking about. I looked to the family who all seemed to be pondering the same thing that Alice was. I got a little upset about being left out of the loop again.

"Is anyone going to tell me what's going on?" I asked.

Everyone looked at me like I was crazy for a minute. Then, Esme adopted her motherly sympathetic look.

"Of course, you don't recognize the scents. You weren't around either of them as one of us to become familiar with it." she said. "Perhaps, you should sit down."

"I'm fine." I stated. "Just tell me what's going on."

Carlisle sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. I had a feeling that I wasn't going to like this at all.

"Two vampires were here within the past forty eight hours. As you've probably been able to figure out." Carlisle began. "Unfortunately, we are very familiar with who they belong to."

"And that is?" I pressed getting frustrated with his riddle.

"Their Edward's and Jane's." Jasper stated calmly.

I felt the floor disappear beneath me as I thought about what that meant. I waited for myself to hit the floor, however, Emmett's strong arms caught me and set me on the bed. I just shook my head unable to believe it.

"But he wouldn't." I stated. "He would never place an inoccent human in the hands of those monsters. Especially if he knew who she was."

"He would if Aro threatened your life or safety." Rose stated. "That's probably who he's been controlling Edward for the past fifteen years."

I shook my head again. I refused to believe that he would kidnap an innocent girl to save my life.

"But surely he knows that I'd rather be dead than see allow some poor innocent girl suffering at their hands."

"He does." Alice reassured me. "But he loves you and he couldn't live with himself if anything happened to you because of him. Aro knows that. Which is why he most likely told Edward it was your life or Melanie's. Edward can bear to see anything bad happen to you."

Her logic did make sense but it opened a whole new question. Why did Aro want Melanie so bad? Unless he knew that she was my daughter. Even with that knowledge though, it didn't make sense. He had me to hold over Edward's head. He didn't need my daughter too.

"But why? Why did he want her?" I asked choking back the sob that threatened to escape. "He could've taken any other human in this world. Why Melanie? I don't understand."

I was still sitting on the bed wanting nothing more than to cry. My family was staring at me with varying degrees of sadness and sympathy on their faces. None of them could answer the question and they all hated it. I hated that they couldn't tell me either. We were still and silent for a long moment before Carlisle stepped forward.

"I'm going to take everyone downstairs so we can investigate further. Maybe get some clues to answer that question. You stay up here for right now. Get your bearings back. Roxy's going to stay with you." he said. I nodded. He then put his hand on my shoulder and got down to look me in the eye. "When we finish here, Esme is going to call and make arrangements for us to go to Italy. And, just like I told the family when it came to you, we aren't leaving until we've got her. Who knows? We may even be able to get Edward back too."

"Thank you, Carlisle." I whispered and wrapped my arms around him.

He hugged me back briefly before leading the others out of the walked over to the bed and sat beside me.

"I'm sure he wouldn't have done it if he had known." she stated putting her arm around my shoulders and giving them a gentle squeeze.

"I know." I replied laying my head on her shoulder. "I just wish that he wouldn't have felt he had to do it for me. I know he loves me and doesn't want anything to happen to me but I'm not worth another innocent human's life."

"To him you are." Roxy whispered. "You are worth every human's life to him. That's the way he's always felt. And it'll never change."

"I know." I sighed.

Unable to just sit there any longer, I got up to do another inventory of Melanie's room. Just to be sure that we didn't miss anything. My eyes fell on one of the pictures on her dresser. It looked like one that was taken at a school homecoming or prom. There were five guys and seven girls, all dressed in formal attire, standing in front of a white backdrop with stenciled in green leaves. The five boys were all on one knee in the front. Four girls were sitting on a bench behind them and the other three were standing behind then.

Melanie was standing in the middle of the back row. However, my eyes were drawn to the girl on her right who Melanie had her arm around. The girl was Natice American. She wore a spaghetti string blue dress that reached the floor. Her long black hair was curled and pulled back into a ponytail. There were a few curls hanging around her face. She looked so familiar to me but I couldn't figure out from where.

I wracked through my fuzzy human memories trying to figure it out. As I inhaled through my nose, that faint yet familiar and disgusting smell hit me. Suddenly, my fuzzy memories became clearer as one face stood out in them. I looked back to the picture and saw the same face with only a few differences staring back at me. I gasped as I realized what this meant.

"Guys, come up here quick." I said as Roxy came behind me to look at the picture too.

The family was back in the room in less than a second. They all had varying degrees of worry on their faces. I took a few unecessary breaths trying to absorb this new information.

"What's wrong, Bella?" Jasper questioned. He no doubt felt the millions of different emotions that were running through me at the moment.

"I want you guys to get another whiff of this room." I stated. "Ignore, Jane and Edward for a minute. There's is a scent underneath it that should be familiar to everyone. It's faint but it seems more permenant. Like the person who owns it, spends a lot of time here but hasn't been here in awhile."

I waited while the family took another smell of the room. I watched for the reaction. First there was recognition on each of their faces. That was quickly followed by disgust and I smiled.

"I haven't smelled that in over fourteen years." Emmett stated. "And werewolf still smells as horrible now as it did then."

"But what does it mean?" Carlisle asked confused.

I handed the picture to Carlisle.

"Take a look at the girl standing on Melanie's right. She should look familiar." I stated. Carlisle stared at it for a moment while the rest of the family stared over his shoulder.

"Jacob's daughter." Carlisle finally stated.

I nodded. We had all known Jacob had a daughter. Alyssa was pregnant about the same time I was. She was probably three or four months behind me. Jacob didn't tell us when she was born though or tell us what her name was. I figured it was because he knew how hard I took letting my little girl go. It was ironic to see our daughters had become friends.

"But what is she doing here?" Alice questioned. "Isn't the pack supposed to stay together in La Push to protect the tribe?"

"Not necessarily." Carlisle replied. "The only need that maybe to protect the tribe from large threats. Like us. That's why there was that many of them fourteen years ago. However, once we left, there was no longer a huge threat. Only the ocassional one or two passing through. One or two packe members could've easily handled those threats. So the others would've been free to go on and live their lives. They would, of course, have had to stay close, just in case our family or another coven decided to return to Forks. But it is quite possible that he moved his family here."

We stood silent for a minute just letting the new information sink in.

"This is quite an interesting development." Carlisle mused. "It may do us some good to have a little chat with Jacob and maybe his daughter. It's going to be tricky, though, because we can't be sure if the girl knows about the family secret. I don't want to put Jacobe into an uncomfortable position with that. Nor do I want to kickstart the gene. The family doesn't need to deal with that."

Everyone nodded their agreement. I wasn't sure how well this was going to work. Like Carlisle said, we didn't want to put too much stress on the family with the vampire/werewolf thing. Especially, if his daughter didn't know anything about it. Yet, we needed to talk to them because they might be able to help us figure out what the Volturi wanted with Melanie. We didn't know if they would know anything but it was the only lead we had.

"Can you get someone get us an address?" I questioned.

"I think there was a phone book downstairs." Alice said before racing out of the room.

She was back before anyone could say anything. Alice sat on the bed and flipped quickly through the book.

"Jacob Black." she announced excitedly. "1501 Park Avenue."

"That's just around the corner!" I said with a smile. "Let's go!"

"Shouldn't we call first?" Rosalie questioned.

"There isn't a number listed." Alice stated.

"Then I guess we'll just have to surprise him." I stated with a shrug.

I crawled out of the window before anyone else could protest.

A/N: I hope you really enjoyed this chapter. Please review. I know the family's reaction to Edward's scent is a little calmer than you'd expect. They just know how hard Bella's taking it and want to make it as easy as possible. I hope it didn't turn out to bad. Now, on a completely non-twilight fanfiction related topic. I need some help!!!!! Anyone who reads the Vampire Diaries series and has read The Return: Nightfall, please PM me. I don't understand a certain part of the last chapter. I would greatly appreciate it if someone who does can answer my question. Please, help me. I've been trying to figure this one out for almost a week now. And I can't make sense of it. Help me!!!!!!!!!!