So sorry for the long wait! Hope you enjoy the chapter.

I do not own anything, even this computer I'm stealing from my Dad for a bit!

The wind was howling through the trees, lashing against my legs, chest and face, the rain pounding heavily against me.

If I were human I would have passed out from the cold hours ago, standing in shorts as I was in this storm as I was. But, being what I am, I could keep up my vigil by this cliff, waiting for Victoria to pass as I had seen in her thoughts she would.

It was only as the storm began to clear and the only water hitting the ground was dripping from my hair, that I remembered something important, you could lie with your thoughts.

I let out a roar that echoed off of the cliffs all around me. I was so used to seeing exactly what would happen in Alice's thoughts that I had overlooked this one crucial detail. I had thought my talent to be, if annoying at times, powerful. I had never realised until now just how much I relied on my sister. Or how much I would miss her if she wasn't there.

Hunting Victoria had been harder than I had ever thought it could be. James had made tracking seem so easy and I had seen all of his techniques in his mind. I had thought it would be simple. I had been sadly mistaken. I had spent weeks chasing Victoria all over the USA, and past the border into Mexico on one occasion, only to lose her now, due to my own sheer stupidity, at the Canadian border line in Pennsylvania.

I found myself unconsciously calculating how long it would take to run to Washington, to Forks, to Bella. I quickly forced that thought out of my mind. Thinking of Bella, or anything to do with Bella, made my heart ache, I had wasted a good bit of time whilst chasing Victoria down to Mexico running around Arizona instead of through.

I now considered my options. I could follow her into Canada, but the storm would have washed away her scent and I'd be running blind, having no idea where to go. I could run through Canada and visit the Denali's, pick up the chase later. I could head down to Iowa and check in with my family. The one thing I could not do now, could never do again, was the one thing I wanted to do the most.

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