"Jake, I'm so sorry. I should have talked to you."

He turned and pulled me into his lap, holding me tight to him and leaning his forehead against my temple.

"Bells, I need to tell you something." He said seriously. I suddenly became very nervous.

"Nothing ever good comes from saying that." I tried to joke, but it didn't really land with either of us. He looked up into my eyes, and I could see so much hurt there.

"This isn't about us babe, we're definitely ok." He said, brushing my hair out of my face. Unfortunately, my relief was short lived.

"Bells, Angela is missing."

I just sat there staring at Jake like an idiot. Apparently my brain was not created to understand such things.

"Missing what?"

He sighed, looking at me sadly.

"Babe, Angela is gone. Her parents called Ben this morning about 11:00. They went up to check on her because they hadn't heard her all morning, and she wasn't there. They called Ben, hoping she had just snuck out to meet him, but he hadn't heard anything either."

Angela was gone?Where would she have gone? Was she trying to get to Ben's house and wrecked? No, Ben would have known she was coming, besides, they weren't the 'sneaking out' kind of people. So where would she go? Or, could someone have taken her? No way. Who would have taken her? And why? Why would anyone take her?

"We need to go up to the station," he continued. "Ben said they wanted to talk to us since we were their closest friends, see if we can help them, give them any ideas of where she could have gone, or what could have happened."

I nodded numbly, and went to change out of my sweats. I just couldn't believe it, but it wasn't like she was dead, this was just a huge misunderstanding, she was fine, she just went somewhere and forgot to tell her parents. And Ben.

I kept repeating this ridiculous thought the entire way to the station. When we got there, Ben greeted us in the lobby.

"Hey man." Jake said, pulling him into a brief hug. Ben just nodded, looking just as numb as I felt.

"Thanks for coming guys, I'm sorry to drag you all down here." He said softly. I hugged him tightly, telling him to shut up, and he led us down the hall to one of the offices. We walked in, and the sight of Angela's mom and dad hurt me. They were just shells, I could tell they were devastated, of course. I clung to Jake's hand tightly as we sat in a couple plastic chairs by the wall. I nodded to Sgt. Joe Stewart who I knew well, and he nodded back with a grim look on his face.

"Bells. Jake. I'm sorry that any of you have to be here, but we need to see if there is anything we can piece together to see what could have happened to Angela."

I heard her mom whimper at the sound of her name, and it nearly made me sick. This was starting to really sink in, and I just didn't know if I could handle it. Joe continued talking.

"When was the last time either of you spoke with Angela?"

"Uh, yesterday. At school." I volunteered.

"Had she mentioned anything about going out with anyone last night? Maybe going to a party?"

"No." I shook my head. "She's a pretty calm, laid back person. If she goes out, it's either with me or Ben. She's pretty happy just hanging out at the house."

"You don't think she would have snuck out to meet anyone?"

"No way. Her mom and dad are pretty understanding, and if she wanted to go out anywhere, she would have talked to them about it. Besides, she doesn't go much of anywhere without Ben."

"Unless she was cheating on him."

"Joe!" I nearly yelled at him. "What the hell man?" He raised his hand calmly toward me.

"Now, Bella, you know we've got to consider everything. If she was cheating-"

"She. Wasn't." I ground out, clenching my fists. Jake was rubbing my arm, trying to calm me down.

"Bella, you need to calm down, we're just talking." Stewart said in a much more serious voice.

"Bells, it's cool." Ben said softly. "Process of elimination, right?"

I nodded tightly, and then turned my eyes back to Joe, gritting my teeth to stay calm. He softened his look a bit.

"Bella, I know this isn't easy, but we really do have to explore any options to try and figure out what has happened."

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, before looking at him again and nodding.

"Ok," he continued, "So she hasn't tried to contact you or anything in the past twenty four hours?"

"No, not that I know of." I reached into my bag and pulled out my phone, grimacing. "It's dead. Oh, wait! She had a GPS on her phone, she was always joking about Google being able to track her, can't you-"

"We tried. Even if a phone's battery is dead, we can track it. But we aren't getting anything this time. Her provider is supposed to be getting us a recent call list, but they couldn't release without a subpoena, so we're still waiting. It will probably be tomorrow morning before we see it. Other than that though, can you think of any reason Angela would have left?"

"She didn't leave!" Her mom burst out, causing Jake and I to jump slightly. "Her car is still there! Her purse, everything is still there! The only thing gone is her and her phone. Somebody has taken her, and we are sitting here, wasting time talking about it!" She was shaking and her husband wrapped her in his arms in an attempt to calm her, and it absolutely broke my heart. No parent should ever have to go through this. None of us should be going through this.

Especially Angela.

"Wait a minute." Jake said darkly, leaning toward Joe's desk. His face looked dark, and it seemed like he had just figured out something, but it wasn't good. "Her car isn't gone? Sir, no offense, but do you know anything about Angela Weber?"

Joe just looked at him with interest, luckily he didn't take much offense to anything. Jake continued with his thought.

"Angie's house is surrounded by woods, her driveway is about seventy five yards long, and the last time she participated in any sport, was third grade when she was forced to play kickball, and even then ended up with a bloody nose. The girl doesn't have an athletic bone in her body. So I cannot imagine that she willingly left her house, and went walking through the woods, or wherever, in the dark in the middle of the night."

The rest of us sat, thinking of all of this, until Stewart picked up his phone and requested officers back out to the house with search dogs.

"We'll get back out of there and continue to comb it. Meanwhile, keep your phones on you, charge yours Bella, and if we need anything, we'll be back in contact." He said as he walked out, followed closely by Angela's parents and Ben.

Jake and I were silent until we got to the car.

"So what were you thinking back there?" Whatever it was, I could tell he was pissed.

"Vampires."

"What? Why? I mean, why her? Why would they target-"

"You." He looked at me with dark eyes. "I haven't let you out of my sight, so now he's got her, he's trying to draw you out."

"Why would he think that would work?"

Jake just shook his head, I could tell he was really trying to keep it together. I reached over to rub his arm, and he grabbed my hand, squeezing it as if to remind himself that I was right here.

It was late by now, and in light of everything going on, the once familiar woods that framed the road to the rez, seemed to have taken on an ominous appearance. I shivered involuntarily, and Jake wrapped his arm around my shoulder. I could almost feel us cross over that invisible line into the rez, I immediately relaxed when I felt it, and I could swear Jake relaxed a bit too.

"You ok? I mean, considering the circumstances." Jake asked softly.

"Yeah, I guess. Maybe. I don't know. I just feel like I'm right there on the edge of crazy, you know? I feel like all it's going to take is one more push before I crack, but I don't know what that means. I wish I had a way of just forgetting about everything. Either that, or I could just be more like you guys. If I was indestructible, I could just kill the bastard myself."

"Well, we're not totally indestructible, but yeah, I understand. I kinda wish you were too, I might not worry about you as much. But then again, I'm glad you don't have to deal with all this wolf shit either."

"Yeah, because attracting a vampire to you is just so much better." I said sarcastically with a smirk. We got out of the car and walked up the porch, and as I went to open the door, I felt his arms wrap around my waist from behind.

"Do you remember our first date?" He asked softly, rubbing his nose against the shell of my ear. I smiled and leaned back into his embrace, as he continued. "I remember being so nervous. It wasn't technically our first kiss, but I knew it was the one that would change everything." He said, running his hands slowly up and down my sides.

"I remember being nervous too." I said, closing my eyes, enjoying the sensations he was creating. "The whole night was perfect, but once we got back to my house….." I turned to face him, his face partly lit by the streetlight. "...all I could think of was that I was going to be devastated if you didn't kiss me."

He pulled me tight against him with one hand on my lower back, while he brought the other to caress the side of my face. He looked at me with such an intensity, I could feel my heart flutter.

"I love you so much Bella, I always have, and I always will." And he lowered his lips to mine gently. My mouth melted into his as our lips and tongues met. The kiss was slow and deep, full of all the love we held for each other. My hands went up into his his hair, much shorter than it was the night of that first date, but still long enough to tangle my hands in, and anchor him to me. His hand moved gently from my face, to the back of my head, pulling me in to deepen the kiss even further. I could feel a searing heat beginning to grow through my body, as did my need for him. He pulled me against him even tighter, and I moaned as I felt him against my hip. I broke the kiss to move down his neck, nibbling and sucking as he hissed and moaned. His hands moved down, squeezing my thighs, before pulling me up his body, my legs wrapping around him automatically as he pushed me against the wall, and his mouth attached itself to my neck. I moaned as he ran his tongue from the base of my neck all the way up to behind my ear, pushing himself into me.

"God, Bella, I've missed you so much. You feel so good." He breathed out. I clenched my legs around him, squeezing my core against him.

"Jake, please, I need you." And I felt him grinding underneath me, as he placed open mouth kisses down my neck and we worked to remove each other's clothes. I didn't even realized we had moved until he laid us down on his bed. He hovered over me, just staring into my eyes, smoothing my hair out of my face. It was like I could actually feel his love for me oozing out of him, it was enough to make me gasp, and I could tell my heart rate was accelerating. It was both wonderful and overwhelming.

"Bella, can you feel that?" He said barely above a whisper. All I could do was nod, my eyes tearing up at the intensity of the feelings I was getting from him. "That's how much I love you, how much I want and need you. You are my everything, Bella." I saw his eyes filling with tears also, and I gently pulled his face to me, and I kissed them away.

"Jacob, you are my whole world, and you always have been." I focused on all the love and happiness I felt for Jacob, so he could feel it, because I knew there was no way I could put it into words. He closed his eyes with a gasp, and I knew he had felt it. He opened his eyes and kissed me deeply, until we both needed to take another breath. He leaned his forehead against mine, never taking his eyes from mine as he sunk into me. I cried out at the sensation as he moaned loudly. He started moving slowly, keeping himself buried deep inside me while moving himself around. The feeling of him filling me, and moving inside me like that, while I could feel his pelvic bone rubbing up against my clit at times, had me so close to climax, but I couldn't come without him.

"Oh Jake, baby, yes….oh…...oh Jake, I'm so close."

He started moving against me faster, moving in and out of me, and I could feel every inch of him pushing in and pulling out, our slick bodies sliding against each other, the sound of our short, fast breaths echoing off the walls of his bedroom, our moans and pants in rhythm with each other.

"Oh God, Bella, Bella baby…" He moved even faster, his breath coming harder, and I could feel the intensity of his love, it was so concentrated it took my breath away. I saw him clench his eyes and felt a growl building in him, and I knew what he needed.

"Jake, I love you. Please….." He met my eyes.

"Bella….I can't…..I can't stop….." He sounded so desperate.

"Jacob Black, I am yours, and you are mine. Claim me."

He growled loudly as I turned my head, giving him access, and he continued pumping into me as he sunk his teeth into the same place he had before. I screamed out from the immeasurable pleasure that was shooting through my body like a strike of lightening, but it sounded so much louder, and it shook my chest. He released my neck and roared out with his release, shaking the windows and the pictures on the wall.

We laid there, taking our time coming back to ourselves. My body suddenly felt very heavy and tired.

"Bella, you shouldn't have…"

"Shut up Black, I'm fine, see." I slurred through my exhaustion, but he jerked his face up.

"Wait a minute." He jumped up and turned on the light."

"Damn it, Black!" I said, quickly covering my eyes. "Warn a girl will you?"

"Bella, seriously, look!" He was borderline freaking out.

"What?" I squinted, not knowing what I was supposed to be looking at.

"Your neck."

"What?" I asked reaching back. I brushed against the bite mark, which was sensitive, not to pain, but just sensitive in a weird way.

"There's no blood." He said seriously.

"Good! That means I don't have to change the sheets." I threw the covers off me to get up to go to the bathroom, but he grabbed my arm to stop me.

"Bella! What I mean, is it's already healed." I turned to face him.

"It healed fast last time though, what's the big deal?"

"Not this fast. This is werewolf fast."

Well, look who decided to finally post! Sorry guys, this has been one of the hardest chapters to write so far. The story itself is getting harder to write, there are so many different paths it could take at this point, I have great ideas for each one, but I can only go one way. I rewrote this probably close to ten times, and I tried to go back over, but if you see any mistakes, please let me know so I can fix them asap!

Otherwise, hope you enjoy!

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