I love this chapter, I've been waiting to write it for ages, and if I love it then you're all going to adore it. You're all going to have to hang on to your bottom jaws because I swear some of you are going to have your mouths open while reading it, it's one of the best! (Not meaning to brag or anything). Enjoy, I want reviews. Oh and also, I'm sorry, you'll know why when you've read it. :D


Two days after the wedding, the girls were feeling normal again, having relaxed with the thought of not having to do anything anymore. Cat took the chance to laze about the house while Sophie took the chance to get a few things done, like making sure she didn't loose any of her 'brains' from the lack of school and looking for suitable college to eventually apply to.

"You can't laze around for ever" Sophie scolded Cat who was lying on the couch, reading a magazine.

"I haven't had a lazy day in ages, leave me alone" Cat snapped lazily

"You had one yesterday"

"That was just one"

"Don't you have something you can do with Jacob?" Sophie wondered

"Not yet" Cat admitted, Sophie rolled her eyes, out of ideas on how to make Cat move. The door opened and, for once, Jacob came in through the front door instead of through the window.

"Hey Jake" Sophie greeted with a wave as she walked towards the kitchen

"Hey, Cat home?" he wondered

"Course she is, you'll find her on the couch" Sophie rolled her eyes again and proceeded to the kitchen. Jacob walked into the lounge and grabbed Cat around her waist, lifting her off the couch with a squeal before he sat her on his lap.

"Jeez, nice to see you two" she smiled

"Guess what" he smiled

"Hey, Cat, how are you today" Cat said for him "I'm good thanks, how are you?" Cat said, Jacob sighed

"How are you?" he asked

"Better now you're here" she smiled giving him a kiss, it lasted for quite a while before Jacob needed to breath

"What was that for?" he smirked

"Why not?" Cat asked with a shrug "So, what's up? What are you so excited about?" she wondered

"Rachel, the nerd, graduated early" Jacob explained

"Your sister Rachel?" Cat wondered, Jacob nodded "Doesn't that mean she's gonna come home?" Cat realised, Jacob nodded again

"She's coming home today from Washington" he smiled

"That's awesome…" Cat thought "Wait, does she know?" she asked, Jacob sighed and shook his head, Cat bit her lip "So you need to keep it all a secret" Jacob nodded

"Never had to hide in my own house before" Jacob admitted "I think I understand how Embry and Collin feel now, with their parents not knowing"

"I'm sure you'll be fine. As long as you don't result to shutting her out" Cat reminded him, he frowned at the memory but Cat smiled at him and kissed his cheek "So when does her plane land?"

"This afternoon" Jacob answered

"Are you going to pick her up?"

"Someone has to drive my dad" he smirked

"Want me to come?"

"Narr, that's alright, she might get a bit surprised if she saw your car" Jacob joked, Cat sighed

"The price of having expensive taste"

"But I would like you to meet her" Jacob asked, Cat smiled

"I'd be honoured" she said before earning a kiss from Jacob

"So, what's happening with the family solution?" he wondered softly

"I think we've resorted to ignoring it, we say we're thinking of a solution but really I'm just trying to push the memory away" Cat muttered, Jacob knocked her under the chin

"I told you you'd know what to do, that doesn't mean you have to think about it twenty-four seven"

"But pushing it away wont help either"

"As long as you're managing at the moment?" Jacob half asked

"I'm managing" she nodded "Some how"

"As long as my girl's still smiling" Jacob said, running a hand through her hair. "Now, I think you've lazed around enough, how about a run before I go?" he offered standing up, moving Cat to the couch.

"Haven't you been patrolling all morning?" Cat wondered looking up at him

"Almost all morning, but patrolling is different to a run graced by your presence" Jacob smiled, Cat smiled and took his hand, standing up before Jacob lead her to the door

"See you later" Sophie called

"Ears dropper" Cat accused

"I'm just happy you're off the couch" Sophie said back, Cat rolled her eyes as she and Jacob walked down the stairs and to the trees. Jacob phased and Cat began to run, as always Jacob was mesmerised by Cat's gracefulness through the forest.


Sophie's POV.

I sighed with relief, I thought there might have been another reason, other then laziness, that was keeping Cat in the house, like our parents.

"Confront them, or find more information?" I wondered unlike Cat, who I knew was accidentally trying to bury the info, I wanted to get to the bottom of the mystery, I hated not knowing things, and this was just bugging me. Unfortunately, I wasn't sure how to uncover the mystery.

"If they're old, somehow, there should be some sort of reference to them somewhere." I thought sitting at the kitchen bench and bitting my thumb nail as I thought. I glanced down the hallway towards my parents studies. Both Dad and Mum were out, Dad was at work and Mum had taken Sue out for a shopping spree to give the women a bit of relaxation time.

"No one should be home for a while…" I muttered, after debating with myself of a while I got off my seat and walked down to the studies "If I was going to hide something like this, where would be the best place for it…" I wondered as I looked from my mother's study door to my father's. I eventually decided on her mother's office, deciding that she'd be the best to keep it conspicuous and walked in, closing the door behind me. The east and west walls were each one whole book shelf and each shelf was completely covered.

"Oh great, where do I start?" I mumbled, I had completely forgotten this wouldn't be an easy task. I began scanning the books spines as I looked over them all. "One of the best placed to hide a book is with other books" I muttered to myself "Looking for historical books, binding might be broken…" I listed the things I was looking for. I began to pull off any books that looked seriously old, the binding and spines were damaged. I eventually sat down at my mother's desk with a pile of books and opened the first one, beginning to skim read through all of the books one at a time. I found that most of these books were on old myths and stories, so after going through a few I went back to the book selves and collected some more on the same topics. As I went through them I realised that they seemed to be the most opened books out of the the small collection. I paused to think for a minute

"So mum has actually been going through these books often… but if they already have the answers why would she be looking to more?" I wondered confused, using my gravity powers I forced the books I'd already been through back to their places on the shelves.

"So far all the info I've recovered is about myths and legends…" I muttered, that was when it hit me, I was a myth or legend, elementals were not meant to exist, the same with vampires or werewolves, they were stories, fairy tales.

"Mums been researching myths" I questioned. I opened all the books still in front of me to try and find another connection between them, there wasn't one. "She wouldn't just look at random myths that wouldn't get you anywhere" I guessed I needed more information, I cleaned up the study, removing any evidence of my presence and walked out the door. I stood for a second before going to the spiral staircase and walking down the stairs to the library. I scanned the books and found ones on myths, creating another pile on one of the tables. I went looking for some sort of marker in the books; a torn page, a folded corner, a piece of paper. Something that said that page had been used a lot. I didn't get very far before I heard the door open upstairs. I closed the book and they all floated to their original spots on the shelves before I walked up the stairs, one of the books still in my hands. When I got to the top of the stairs I saw my dad taking his shoes off

"Dad?" I looked at him confused "What are you doing home?"

"I forgot to bring an important medical folder that I was looking over last night" he answered me

"Oh" I muttered, he saw the book in my hand

"What you reading?" he wondered

"Oh, just something I found on the shelf, it's old and non-fiction but I thought it'd be interesting" I walked towards him and handed him the book, watching his facial expressions. I saw his eyes tighten slightly before he flipped through the book

"This is one of the oldest"

"Yeah, I was curious as to how we got it…" I dragged the question out

"It's probably a hand down through our family" he looked at me smiling

"We have books like that?"

"Yeah a few"

"Where are they all?"

"Probably stored away" he shrugged handing me the book back

"Where? I didn't think we had a storage area, we don't have an attic or a basement?" I pretended to be confused

"You'd be surprised how well your mother and I can store things" he winked at me before walking past and to his office. I huffed

"He's good" I muttered, he avoided the question, but gave a straight excuse, without having to think of one and his expressions stayed straight. "I guess I know where Cat and I get our lying skills from" I muttered before walking up the stairs to my room. I sat at my desk and just stared at the book annoyed as it sat in front of me.


Cat's POV.

"I can see why you like it up here" Jacob admitted, we had ended up in a tree. I really felt like a monkey now-a-days. Jacob was sitting next to me, his arms around my waist and my head on his shoulder.

"It's usually a good view"

"I've seen better" Jacob smirked, I rolled my eyes but smiled.

"Don't you have to go pick Rachel up yet?" I wondered, remembering

"You trying to make me leave?" Jacob joked

"No, just reminding you of your duties" I joked

"Duties?"

"Yes, duties"

"You're starting to sound like Sophie" he chuckled

"That's not a bad thing" I muttered with a sigh

"Never said it was" Jacob kissed my forehead. I sighed

"Come on, it's been years since you've seen your sister, you see me everyday" I removed myself from his grip but he twisted his arms back around me and sat me on him. He smashed his lips onto mine eagerly, I could feel the desire almost like it was radiating off of him. Like always though, he needed to pull away in order to breath, I smirked at him

"What was that for?"

"Well you were going to leave" Jacob said

"So?" I wondered

"So you'll end up running off and I wont get my goodbye kiss"

"That's preposterous" I said, imitating a formal women.

"No it's not"

"You make me sound like some awful person who's using you" I pouted, Jacob traced the lines on my forehead

"Not at all" he muttered, he brushed his lips against mine and his breath spread across my face, I knew he was trying to tempt me, and boy was it working but I was not going to give in to the irresistible temptation. I rested my arms on his shoulders and played with his hair before whispering

"Your sister?" I reminded him

"Don't remind me of her at a time like this" he made a funny face and I couldn't help but laugh. He took hold of my hand when he thought I'd leaned back a little to far in fear of me falling off of his lap while I tried to catch my breath.

"It's not that funny" he thought

"It's hilarious" I giggled. He sighed at me. I stopped laughing and stood up on the branch getting off his lap "Come on, lets go, before your father kills me."

"Why would he do that?"

"For making you late" I reminded him

"He'd be fine"

"He hasn't seen his daughter in years and his son is to selfish with his girlfriend to take him to the airport, hmm, that'd piss me off" I put my hands on my hips "Plus you're gonna have to get down to follow me" I shrugged and before he could protest I stepped off the branch. I grabbed another one and spun around it before dropping the several metres to the floor, gliding my way through the branches and not getting hit by a single one. I landed lightly on my feet before looking back up the tree, naturally Jacob hadn't moved and he sat there with his mouth hanging open.

"Don't tell me you're stuck" I called up laughing, he glared at me before he began to climb down, he wasn't nearly as graceful as me, but then again, no one was. He hit the ground and crossed him arms

"What?" I asked knowing what was about to come

"You could have killed yourself" he said immediately

"Underestimating me again" I said before turning around and walking away

"Cat…"

"Uh huh, don't do that. I can fly remember, I'm not gonna die from jumping out of a tree, especially when I control trees, I mean seriously Jacob" I scolded him instead of allowing him to scold me. I heard a sigh and knew I had one this one

"When are you going to realise I can take care of myself?"

"I do realise it, but there are some things I don't understand fully so I underestimate it" he admitted, taking my hand in his

"That's ridiculous, you've known me how long now?" I wondered, almost a year I realised. It's surprising how time flies. He didn't say anything, but then again I wasn't expecting him too, he usually went silent after I won one of these arguments. We walked in silence for a while, hand in hand before he pulled my hand up to his lips and kissed the back of it. I smiled before we stopped and had a small make out session. I didn't like it when we were silent, eventually it always became awkward, and I didn't feel awkward around Jacob, so it was never good when that happened.

"I gotta go" Jacob muttered

"I know" I said softly, he kissed me sweetly before giving me a hug and disappearing into the trees, I heard a howl and grinned. It was then that I realised he'd left me in the forest alone… that was weird, he never even dared to think about me alone. And yet, he just left me…

"Maybe he's beginning to trust me more" I muttered to myself before continuing to walk home. It didn't take long, but it was past noon when I got back.

"Not bad when I've spent the last day being lazy" I smirked to myself as I opened the front door. "I'm back!" I called. I walked into the kitchen to make myself some food when I realised I hadn't gotten a reply. I stood at the bench listening

"Sophie?" I called, looking at the celling, no answer. I listened and realised I was alone, there was no one in the house.

"Huh, she must be out with Embry" I muttered before making myself a fried egg and bacon sandwich. I went into the lounge room and turned on the TV, naturally nothing was on.

"Great, now how shall I spend my day" I grumbled annoyed. Yesterday I'd spent it in bed, watching movies and sleeping but I'd gotten up now so that was out of the question… well except the movie part but I'd watched almost every movie in this house.

"I need to download some more" I decided. I laid on the couch for a few minutes just staring at the celling, I sat up a little confused

"Since when does Sophie leave the house and not tell someone she's going… whether she's alone or not" I questioned, I walked up the stairs and to her room but there was no sign of a note on the door or on her pillows or desk. I noticed an old book sitting open on her desk

"That's weird, Embry must've really distracted her if she left it sitting here open" I smirked. I sat down and took a look through the book, sure I wasn't as big a reader as Sophie was but this look really old. The pages were yellow and the binding was coming apart.

"Where'd she find this?" I wondered. I read through the page she was up to, which wasn't very far into the book at all.

"Their old myths" I realised. I read through a few "What was she doing with this?" I asked confused. Most of if was written confusingly, it reminded me of how Shakespeare wrote some of his plays actually, just not that bad. I knew Sophie understood it, she was better with processing things then I was. After trying to read it for a while my head began to hurt so I got up and left it, walking back to my own room. Again I checked for a note from Soph but there wasn't any, which was weird and unlike her.

"She was probably expecting me to spend all day with Jake, that would mean she'd get home first anyway" I grinned. I collapsed onto my bed with a sigh, I really couldn't think of anything I wanted to do.

"I just need Jake to hurry up and collect Rachel, spend some time with her and then come and get me again" I huffed "Sure, I can do that" I muttered sarcastically.


It took four hours before I got a call from Jacob. Not only was I really looking forward to meeting his sister but I was beyond bored. I managed to fall asleep for about two hours, but then I had two more hours to deal with. You'd think once you finished school everything would be better, but without school to keep my busy and without Jacob to spend time with and my sister still out, I seriously was lost on what to do. I had ended up baking myself a cake and had already eaten a quarter of it, but I'm not much of a baker so I wasn't exactly satisfied with that, plus baking involved a lot of waiting around. I had eventually retreated to the piano, mum had made both Sophie and I learn from a young age. I'd played Claire de Lune for the last god knows how long, but you can't blame me, it's a beautiful peace, and sort of just, made the time fly a little. Jake had called me and the first thing I'd said was, 'thank god' he'd laughed at me and asked me what was up

"I'm bored!" I hit the piano and squinted

"What was that?"

"The piano, sorry" I stood up and moved away from it before I hit the keys again

"You play?"

"Course I play, I've got one" I said as though it was a silly question, most people who owned a piano, knew how to play it.

"Sorry" Jake chuckled

"Jake, is that her? Are you talking to her?" I heard a girls voice in the background

"Yeah" Jacob answered

"Is that Rachel? How is she? Did she enjoy college? I need to know so that I know what to expect!" I explained, I was really excited to meet her, I wanted to know what she was like, to tell me things about Jake when he was little, those sorts of things, I wanted to get along with her most of all though. Jacob sighed

"You know I'm not a messenger, I'm not passing messages to you both" he said, talking to both me and Rachel

"Don't be such a baby" Rachel said

"Yeah" I agreed, he sighed again

"Hey Cat, would you like to come over and meet Rach?" he asked

"Seriously?!" I wondered

"Sure" he said

"Oh, yes please!" I nodded to myself

"See you in a bit then"

"Absolutely" I cheered. I hung up the phone and skipped into the kitchen to grab my car keys from their hook before locking the house up and walking down to the garage to grab my car. I drove, pretty quickly, down to Jake's house. When I pulled up I saw the curtain move and someone looking out at me in surprise. I guessed it was just the car, though it had been a while since someone had been surprised by it. I got out of the car and shut the door before walking up to the front door, I watched the person move from the window as I approached. I knocked on the door and counted to one before the door opened. Before me stood a clear quileute girl. I could see Billy in her but she must have looked much more like her mother, her eyes were brown and soft and she reminded me a little of Emily. I smiled as soon as I saw her, she was looking me over, I guessed the whole big sister thing kicked in as she decided whether I was good enough for her little brother or not. I just stood and waited for a while smiling sweetly before she smiled back. My smile widened when she did, Jacob came up behind her and Rachel moved out of his way so that he could fit through the door way. He kissed my cheek before turning to Rachel

"Rachel this is…" he began

"Cat" she finished sweetly, "Jake's told me a lot about you" she said. I took her waiting hand and shook it, I raised an eyebrow at her comment

"Like what?" I wondered looking at Jacob, Rachel laughed

"Nothing bad" she assured me

"Cat this is one of my older sisters Rachel" Jacob introduced, interrupting us

"I guessed as much" I smirked, he rolled his eyes at me. Rachel stepped aside and Jacob and I walked into the small red house.

"So Rach, how was your flight?" I asked

"Not bad, nice and short" Rachel smiled

"How short is short?" I wondered

"About five hours" she shrugged

"Did it feel great to graduate?" I asked

"Yeah, but also kind of sad, leaving all the people I met there"

"You must have been excited to come back home finally though?" I thought

"Absolutely, I haven't seen dad or Jakey in ages" she smiled "Though I was not expecting to find this —" she pointed to the fact that Jake was tall, muscular and all out gorgeous since she last saw him, all thanks to the wolf gene of course. "— he looks completely different to the goofy little kid I used to know"

"Goofy? Really?" I asked "He was building it up when I first met him, though he had his growth spurt somewhere in the middle" I admitted

"Wow, he must've grown fast" Rachel realised, I shrugged pretending to be confused. Jacob sighed, he seemed bored with the topic. "So," Rachel took my hand and dragged me to the couch.

"Tell me about yourself"

"Didn't you say Jacob already told you lots?" I asked grinning, she rolled her eyes

"I want to hear it from you" she admitted. I giggled

"Well where to start…" I thought "I'm nineteen, I grew up in Miami, I have a twin sister named Sophie, but we don't really look that alike" I admitted

"What's she like?" Rachel wondered

"She's, almost the opposite of me. While my hair is golden, Sophie has bleach blond hair and her eyes are more aqua and lighter then mine." I explained "She's the smart one, while I'm more of the sporty one. But don't let that fool you, she's a special child" I smirked, Rachel giggled

"Reminds me of someone else" she muttered to me, nodding her head towards the kitchen where Jacob was

"I heard that" he called back causing us both to giggle at him. I was surprised, it was so easy to get along with Rachel, then again she was Jacob's sister and Billy's daughter and they were all like that so why should she be any different?

"So you graduated from school?" Rachel wondered, I nodded with a smile

"In June"

"Did you go to the res one or the Forks one?"

"Forks" I said

"How'd you meet Jake then?" she asked

"On the beach, the second day that I moved here, he was walking along in several layers of clothing while my sister and I were taking a look around" I grinned, Rachel sighed

"Well it does get rather cold around here"

"How was Washington" I wondered

"Completely different" Rachel exaggerated "How about you, you went from Miami to here?"

"I know" I sighed and shook my head then pretended to sob "It was such a tragedy, I had to leave the beautiful sun behind" she smirked and played along, putting an arm around me and rubbing my arm

"Oh, poor dear, it must have been awful"

"Well it was for me, Sophie loved it" I said seriously, my change in mood caused her to laugh.

"Does she like the rain?"

"Loves it, it's weird"

"Guess she fit in here better then you did"

"Yeah, she was ecstatic from the beginning, me it took a bit longer"

"Sophie said you were throwing a tantrum before you even left" Jacob smirked, a sandwich in his hand and his mouth full, causing his words to be a bit confusing to understand

"Huh?" Rachel and I chorused, he rolled his eyes and gave me a look, he knew I understood him, I was just giving him the chance to repeat it. Naturally he didn't and he walked off again. I smirked

"Did you understand him?" Rachel grinned, I nodded and we had another giggle.

"It's fun to tease him" I admitted, Rachel nodded

"But that's just cause I'm his big sister"

"What about your sister? Rebecca?" I wondered, she sighed

"She got married and moved away, I think being here makes her a little sad still" Rachel admitted, I frowned but she smiled

"It's alright, I've still got dad, and Jake" she assured me, I smiled back at her. "So come on, you were telling me things about you"

"You need to tell me some things too" I told her

"I will, when you finish" she grinned, I rolled my eyes but thought

"I live on the boarder between Forks and LaPush, huge house buried in the forest, with my parents… I love the sun, I hate the rain… I don't know what else there is" I shrugged, she giggled. "So come on, your turn".


My talk with Rachel lasted most of the rest of the afternoon. Every now and then Jacob would poke his head in to see how we were doing. He once asked if we were finished and he could steal me form Rachel, at that Rachel wrapped her arms around me and told him I was her's. He'd sighed while I giggled and tried, unsuccessfully, to hide my laughter. I was so happy that she liked me, I guess after feeling Jacob's temperature she wasn't shocked by mine because she didn't mention it once. At around five o'lock I went home, that was when she commented on my car, I grinned but before I could say anything Jacob turned around and said

"You should see her house, it's just as impressive." I sent him a growl before giving Rachel a hug and leaving, driving back home. Dad wouldn't be home yet, Mum was probably having one of her long as conversations with Sue and would be home around the time dad was.

"Which meant Sophie's probably making dinner" I smiled "Hope she's home… what am I talking about course she is, she'll be expecting to cook too" I drove into the garage, Sophie's car was still there, but then again it'd never left. I walked into the house to find it dark, I listened, but the entire house was still empty. I turned the usual evening lights on before standing near the front door for a while; something wasn't right. Sophie had been out all day, sure that was usual with Embry around. I pulled out my phone and walked to the kitchen, I was about to dial Embry's number when I paused

"His mother doesn't know anything…" I remembered. I thought for a minute before dialling the Clearwater's house. Seth picked up

"Hello?"

"Ahh, not on patrol are we?"

"Cat, hey, narr, but Leah is" Seth answered

"Which would explain why you picked up. Say is my mum there?" I wondered

"Narr, they're not home yet"

"Course they're not"

"Did you need her"

"What? Oh no, just curious" I remembered why I'd called "I was wondering when Embry's patrol was?"

"What do you mean? He's been on patrol almost all day" Seth admitted, I paused

"What do you mean?" I repeated

"Well someone had to cover for Jake 'cause of his sister, and Embry was given the job." Seth explained. If Embry had been patrolling all day, then where was Sophie

"He hasn't seen Sophie today has he?"

"I don't know, why?"

"No reason, just I've been out all day and she's not home yet, I was just wondering where she might have gone" I said casually

"Oh, cool"

"That was all, thanks Seth" I said, kind of rushed

"See you later" Seth said cheerfully before I hung up the phone. This wasn't good, Sophie didn't go anywhere unless is was with me, Embry or one of the Cullens. We'd kind of lost our connections with everyone else… I began to ring the Cullens' house. Rosalie was the one who picked up

"Oh hey Cat, what's up?" she wondered

"I was wondering if Sophie had been there today?"

"Here? No, I've ben home all day and she hasn't turned up" Rosalie admitted

"She's not with anyone else?"

"Everyone else is home" Rosalie said "Why, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, she's just not home and that's sort of weird because she's probably meant to be cooking dinner for us, my parents are out"

"Oh, alright, well I'll call around if I hear from her"

"Thanks Rose" I smiled before hanging up and put my phone down on the bench. I stood in the kitchen for a while, thinking. I knew this wasn't right, I had a bad feeling coming from my gut. I walked up to Sophie's room, it was the exact same as it had been since I'd been in there. I took a deep breath and sniffed in through my nose, I smelt Sophie's scent, naturally, all over the room, but none of it was fresh. The newest was from this morning, not long after I'd left. But that wasn't all, there was something else, and it wasn't a scent I recognised. I thought, when I'd come home, the doors hadn't been locked, if Sophie had left, she would have locked them. I smelled her room again and tried to put my finger on the scent

"Oh my god! She's been kidnapped!" I thought, the doors not locked and an unfamiliar scent, that's gotta be it… but then, who has the power to over power Sophie and kidnap her? I heard the doorbell ring and slowly walked down, my legs were shaking at the realisation that Sophie was actually missing and in trouble. I shakily reached for the door knob after reaching the bottom of the stairs.

"How could I have been so stupid! I just assumed she was with Embry, but Sophie always tells someone when she's leaving the house. She would have sent me a text message if she was leaving. I'm such an idiot for just assuming something!" I blamed myself, if I had realised this earlier I could have done something, I could have… I opened the door and looked at the person standing there

"Hello, are you Catherine Mitchell?" he asked

"Yes…" I answered slowly, I looked at him for a while before my expression changed and I glared at him, but he just grinned back.


Jacob's POV.

"Did you have to talk to her all afternoon?" I asked

"Aww, did you want some time alone with her?" Rachel smirked, yes actually, I had. Though I was extremely happy that Rachel approved, there was just something about Cat that made everyone love her, I think Sophie said it had something to do with the sun, something about Cat made everyone feel brighter and warmer. I'd asked Cat if that was true but she'd just rolled her eyes and told me she couldn't do it any better then I could, she said it was her personality, and I didn't blame her for that, she was irresistible.

"So you liked her?" I asked, getting onto a slightly different topic

"She's fun, and seems like a good kid." Rachel nodded "I'm glad you've found someone" she said softly, I rolled my eyes

"Really Rach, you're gonna go all mushy on me?" I questioned, she rolled her eyes

"Don't be such a guy" she insulted. I smirked down at her, it was surprising how much taller then her I was, especially seeing as I'd been looking up at her for my whole life, I hadn't had my growth spurt till after she'd left for college.

"So tell me…" Rachel began "Is she the one?" she smiled, I sighed, just like a girl. But then I smiled at the thought of Cat

"Definitely" I nodded, and it wasn't just because of the imprint that allowed me to know that. No one understood me more then Cat, and I didn't have as much fun with anyone as I did with Cat. She was my best friend as well as my girlfriend, my whole world. Rachel clapped her hands and jumped up and down like a teenager

"That's so romantic" she said sweetly, I rolled my eyes at her. "I hope I could be as lucky as that" she sighed happily

"Don't worry sis, you'll find him" I promised. The phone rang and Rachel walked to pick it up.

"Hello, Black residents?" she answered "Seth?" she wondered, I held my hand out for the phone.

"Jeez, what did the kid want know?" Rachel saw my hand but didn't give me the phone

"Who do you want to speak to?" she asked

"Is Jake home?" Seth asked on the other end

"Yep" Rachel answered "Give me a sec" and she handed me the phone, I smirked and she rolled her eyes.

"What's up Seth?" I asked putting the phone to my ear

"I just got a call from Cat" he said

"What about?" I wondered, she'd only just left here, what could she need to ask that she couldn't ask before?

"She was wondering when Embry's shifts were and when I told her he'd been on patrol all day she sounded confused." he explained

"Confused?" I questioned

"Yeah, she asked if Embry had seen Sophie at all and when I told her he hadn't she was silent, I think something was wrong" when he said that my face dropped and I swear my heart stopped for a second "I asked her what was wrong and she said Sophie hadn't come home yet, but I could hear the cover up in her voice Jake, she was trying to shake it off as nothing."

"I saw Sophie this morning?" I remembered

"Well, apparently she hadn't been home for a while cause Cat thought she was with Embry" Seth repeated

"I'll go over and find out what's up" I decided

"I'll come" he offered

"Thanks Seth, meet you there" and I hung up, Rachel gave me a weird look but I shrugged "I gotta run an errand, I'll be right back" I promised, she gave me a look but nodded. I left the house and ran for the trees before kicking off my cut offs and with quick, practiced moves, I rolled them up and tied them to the leather cord around my ankle. As I was still pulling the ends tight, I started shifting. The fire trembled down my spine, throwing tight spasms out along my arms and legs. It only took a second. The heat flooded through me, and I felt the silent shimmer that made me something else. I threw my heavy paws against the matted earth and stretched my back in one long, rolling extension. I shook my head before I began off towards Cat's house, that was when I realised I wasn't alone.

"What's up Jake?" Embry asked. Damn, the second I heard his voice it reminded me of how worried he'd be if he found out about Cat's worries. I let slip the conversation I'd just had with Seth

"Nice one" Leah insulted, having heard it all too, I felt my mind expand and Seth joined us, it didn't take him long to realise that I'd let it slip to Embry.

"Oh…" he muttered, he remembered the conversation with Cat and we all heard the worry in her voice, and her poor efforts to cover it up.

"What happened?" Embry demanded

"We don't know" Seth and I answered

"We were just about to go and find out" I explained

"You two keep patrolling and we'll get back to you" Seth assured, trying to sound serious. He was coming up behind me as we reached the house. I phased and pulled my shorts back on before Seth reached me and he did the same. We walked up the house, I couldn't hear anyone so we just walked around to the front door. We walked up the stairs but when we reached it, there were scorch marks everywhere.

"Wow, what happened here?" Seth wondered

"I'd say Cat happened" I realised, these must be from her flames… but why would she be using them at her front door.

"Uh Jake," Seth called, I looked at him "The front door's open" I looked and he was right, it was standing wide open. "Cat wouldn't leave the door open purposely would she?" Seth asked. I was to busy thinking of all the things that could have happened to her. I was trying to sniff out everything, but Cat's burn marks had basically eradicated the scents around. Seth walked through the front door and started looking around, what the hell was going on? How could someone kidnap the twins?

"Jake, the whole house is empty?" Seth muttered, my breath hitched in my throat, they were gone? I walked into the house, pushing past Seth and walked straight up the stairs. Seth didn't follow me but I heard him walking around down stairs. I walked into Cat's room, nothing, I walked into Sophie's room, nothing. I walked to their parents' room, nothing. I rushed back down the stairs and to the lounge room, nothing. I raced past Seth in the kitchen and to the twins' parent's office, nothing. I ran downstairs and to the garage, nothing, I ran to the library, opening the hidden door to the bunker. I walked down and listened, but it was empty too. I walked slowly back up stairs, the house was literally empty, Cat's car was in the garage as well as Sophie's. I reached Seth and he held up Cat's phone in his hand, Cat never left her phone behind, ever! She took it with her everywhere, even to the newborn fight.

"Something's wrong" I admitted

"Where could they have gone?" Seth asked

"Who took them is a better question" I began to rage, someone had actually come and kidnapped the two girls.

"What are we going to do about their parents?" Seth wondered, I hadn't thought about that "They'll see the scorch marks out the front" Seth realised, I hadn't thought about that either.

"Jacob! Seth!" we listened as several people walked into the house and towards us, it was Sam, Embry, Quil, Leah, Collin, Brady, Paul and Jared, everyone.

"What's going on?" Quil asked, I didn't answer

"The house is empty" Seth said

"Empty?"

"Cat just left my house, both the twins cars are in the garage" I explained

"We saw the scorch marks…" Leah began, I nodded

"Cat's doing, we think" Seth glanced at me

"What abut Sophie?" Embry croaked out

"Cat said she'd been gone for a while" Seth admitted

"They're gone?" Collin asked, I managed to nod

"I checked the house, it's completely empty"

"How do we know they're not just out?" Brady questioned

"I've known Cat long enough to learn a few things" I began "And she never goes anywhere without her phone"

"So?" Jared asked, I held it up

"I found it on the bench" Seth explained "She called me from her mobile so she must have put it down after we hung up"

"How long ago was that?" Paul wondered

"Fifteen minutes" Seth shrugged

"So the scents should still be strong" Leah thought

"Good luck, Cat's fire has ruined the scents and covered it in ash at the front door" Seth reminded her

"Why would she do that?" Jared accused

"To protect herself" Leah said annoyed

"I can't believe someone kidnapped the twins" Quil said surprised

"We can't even touch them…" Jared remembered "How did someone else manage to?"

"It wouldn't have been a vampire, they wouldn't stand against Cat" Sam thought

"What if Cat got rid of it and then went off to find Sophie?" Seth wondered

"Sophie would have exploded it" Embry admitted "They don't stand a chance against her either"

"Plus there was no stinking pile" Collin reminded us all.

"We need to go, before their parents turn up" Sam decided

"What are we going to do about them?" Jared asked seriously "They'll see the scorch marks and know something up"

"I can't believe Cat was that careless as to leave such a mess" Quil thought, I realised something then

"She wouldn't"

"How do you know?" Paul questioned

"Other then Sophie I know her the best" I said plainly "She and Sophie are already having problems with their parents, she wouldn't go and make it worse"

"What if she didn't have time to fix it?" Seth wondered

"She'd control the flames to much for that, kind of like missiles, make them come back." I thought

"So, if she was alright, there wouldn't be any evidence" Brady realised

"But if there was, then somethings definitely wrong?" Collin wondered. Everyone nodded

"Come on, we'll discuss this later, we need to leave" Sam said and he walked back out the front door. I put Cat's phone down on the bench and followed with everyone else

"Sam, do we leave the door open or not?" Quil asked, being the last one out

"Open, we didn't touch anything" Sam ordered and he ran into the trees. We all followed, Embry and I shared a look. They were gone, and we had nothing to go on in order to find them.

"Where do we start?" Embry wondered, but I didn't have an answer.