A/N: Hey guys! How's it been? I'm sorry for the wait... Too busy, both me and my Beta, kallmecrazy... She's really good...! Thanks!
Anyway, I have a lot coming in the next two and a half weeks but after that, I'm all for fanfiction, projects or no projects... I hope you guys Read and Enjoy this one... Trust me, it's getting to the part... I just don't know how to let it out... I'm still thinking of a way to send ALL my ideas to my Beta... (Hope you don't mind!)
So, here's chapter 10!
Chapter 10: To…At…And…
The other Cullens, Bella, Esme, Alice, and Rosalie came back after receiving a call from Edward with his voice very stern and serious…almost broken and shaky.
"Edward? You do realize that you just made my elk run away. It was very huge, too." Bella questioned when she answered her ringing phone.
"Come home, now." She didn't fail to notice his serious tone and so her smile disappeared.
"What's wrong?"
"Come home, now." He simply repeated.
In a matter of minutes, the girls came through the front door to see Edward with the others sitting on the living room. Bella caught a breath when she saw Jacob in his wolf form sitting beside Jasper on the floor.
"What's wrong? Why is he down here? How's Renesmee?" Bella's interrogation about her daughter made Edward wince and the wolf growl a little.
"Edward, what happened?" Esme whispered.
The men told everyone what happened; the disappearances containing messages for them, the noise, and Raven's kidnapping. Bella would be soaked in tears if she could cry, she was whimpering and shuddering as Edward held her against his chest.
Jacob was still down on the floor beside Jasper who was trying to control his feelings so hard that it took every concentration in his body. Occasionally, Jacob violently growls at the mention of Raven's name.
It was almost 5 am and every one still hasn't recovered. Jasper was still flipping through the news channel when Edward stopped pacing across the living room.
"Stop" he commanded Jasper.
"Turn back 5 channels." Jasper did as he was asked and the reporter on television was just giving breaking news that was headlines for now.
All eight of the missing children had miraculously come back at their home, unharmed. Their parents were never thankful enough to whoever took them back. The children weren't able to remember anything from their time of capture until now. However, at Elizabeth Gomez's residence, the last girl taken, another note was left, but this time, the girl was clutching it on her hands.
The Cullens were listening intently.
I have her.
The note read.
The news faded on the back ground and everyone was silent again.
"What does that mean? Is he going to give her back?" Rosalie asked. But Edward was shaking his head.
"No."
"What do we do then? How do we know when he's going to appear?" Emmett asked with impatience written all over his voice.
Edward was thinking hard and everyone was looking at him intently when Jacob stood up and began marching up the stairs. He made no response from Esme and Bella calling and asking him where he was heading.
"You can't, Jacob. You think I wouldn't consider that thought from the very beginning?" Edward warned.
Jacob just whipped his head and growled at him and then kept moving his way up the stairs.
"Where is he going Edward?" Alice asked.
"He thinks he can hunt down Raven's scent from the room and then if he found it hard, he would go to the latest victim's house." Edward said rolling his eyes.
"Well, that can work, can't it?" But Bella's husband was already shaking his head.
"It would be hard. But then I was considering the thought of paying the Gomez's place a visit. I don't think that note was necessary to be left there."
"Why not?" Emmett asked.
"Think of it, Emmett, Raven came here and took Ness away… and we saw it, so there would be no need of informing us through the media. We saw it ourselves. Edward has a point, I'm coming with him." Jasper replied.
"I'm in. I swear I'm going to tear him to pieces." Jacob, now human, said.
"It would be hard." Alice chimed.
"I don't see you helping at all, pixie. You don't see anything yourself, right?" Jasper growled at Jacob's comment on his wife and Carlisle had to block him off to avoid any more drama around.
"For your greatest information, I can't see Raven at all. Do you know how hard it is, with you running around here back and forth?"
"Why can't you see him Alice?" Rosalie asked, making a crease on her forehead.
"Because I never encountered any of his kind…I think… just like with Jake and Ness, remember? I'm trying though, to the point that my headaches are now numbing every sense in me." She answered placing a pout on her lips and sat down on one couch in the living room.
"Well, there wouldn't be any point in coming over at the Gomez's house, now, is there?" Carlisle said. "The police would have taken the paper with them, I am sure."
Edward, Jasper, and Jacob indeed went over to the nearest station from the Gomez's house and went inside to look for the parchment. There were a few people inside, obviously for night shifts. At the back door, one by one, the three went in toward the office of the only officer handling the case of these missing children. In the darkness of the room Jasper, Edward and Jacob searched under piles of documents, boxes of evidences, and drawers filled with folders.
There was nothing, and they had flipped the whole room upside down in an organized way, but there was nothing.
"Hide." Edward whispered and the lights flipped open above them.
A fat man, with the height of 5"6, came inside carrying a coffee and sandwich on his hands. He went to sit on his desk and went over a folder. It wasn't five minutes long before another man entered the room, talking to the officer.
"Sir, we found results on the paper."
Hurriedly, the fat man stood up and went out following the one who called for him.
The three went out, quietly following the men to another room. Hidden behind a door large enough to keep the three of them from view. With their super hearing senses, they could hear every word the humans spoke of.
"What did you crack, Lewis? Do we have a name?"
"No, but… we found... that."
There was silence in the room and through a small hole in the wall, they could see what Lewis was showing the officer. The piece of paper with the words written on it. But there was something else in the parchment, not what they saw on television, but something else.
It was a drawing. A simple sketch but detailed enough to give out the message.
To the Cullens, the model in the drawing was very familiar, someone they know. But to the officers, it wasn't.
"I want a scan in the computer to identify who she is and give me the address and other important details immediately." With that, the fat man went out toward the room he left minutes ago.
The men looked at each other, not knowing what to do next and so…
"Should we let them trace the paper first or should I steal it now and we solve it ourselves?" Jasper asked.
"We can't let them get involved, besides, it's obviously for us."
Jasper was gone for a few seconds, in Jacob's count 15, before he returned with the paper in a zip-lock plastic bag. Into the night, the Cullens came back home to Forks, Washington.
"What happened?"
"Did you get it?"
"How did it go?"
A chorus of questions greeted them from their arrival.
"This." Jasper just showed the paper, bagged in plastic.
"Oh my God." Bella gasped, rested her head on Edward and turned away.
The picture, showing a familiar face, wearing black dress, and with red eyes, was indeed much more detailed than it seems at first, for the outlines used in every line were repeated words.
Full moon…9:46A…Clearing… Full moon…9:46A…Clearing… Full moon…9:46A…Clearing… Full moon…9:46A…Clearing… Full moon…9:46A…Clearing…
Full moon…9:46A…Clearing… Full moon…9:46A…Clearing… Full moon…9:46A…Clearing… Full moon…9:46A…Clearing… Full moon…9:46A…Clearing…
Full moon…9:46A…Clearing… Full moon…9:46A…Clearing… Full moon…9:46A…Clearing… Full moon…9:46A…Clearing… Full moon…9:46A…Clearing…
"The full moon is on the 23rd, right?" Carlisle said making a mental calendar.
"9:46 AM At the Clearing" Rosalie said reading the inscriptions.
"So we are meeting him at the clearing, at 9:46 AM, on the 23rd."
"No." Emmett said and everyone looked at him as he took his turn on looking at the paper, turning it over and over and over. "There's more. See? I think Raven has a request." He continued.
Jasper took the paper from his brother and took a glance at what Emmett was pointing out. He, too, made rotated the parchment in his hands.
"The wolves wouldn't like that very much."
"What won't we like?" Jacob asked from the corner.
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