It wasn't until the following week that all of Rayna's things arrived from Rebecca's house. Thursday, a week and two days after she had arrived in La Push, she received the last of her boxes. By Saturday, she had most everything put away and hung up the way she wanted it.

The time had gone by rather slowly, in her opinion. By the end of the first week, she made it a habit to find different things to do outside of the house. Jacob always made it seem like something about her presence was an inconvenience, which would have once upset her terribly. This time, she couldn't blame him. After all, she had been gone two years and he had the place basically all to himself. It must have been lame for his younger sister to turn back up.

So the beach was her favorite place to be. The irony was not lost on her that two years later, she ended up back at her same fallen tree log overlooking the ocean that she had spent most of her time at when she lived in La Push. When it was too cold, she took to taking shelter in Sue Clearwater's diner. Part of her both hoped and dreaded Seth would show up to hang out with her, but to her dismay he never did. He came over a few times, but only briefly.

Rayna found it hard to distinguish if she was mad or sad about that.

The one thing she could be happy about, was she never ran into a certain Paul Lahote. The man she couldn't stop thinking about and couldn't figure out if she liked him or hated him. She certainly had enough reason for both.

Sunday, Rayna woke up to the sound of rain beating down on the roof of their small red house. It was the first time it had rained since she was back in Forks, surprisingly, and it irritated her because it meant she wouldn't be leaving the house. She didn't yet have a car, and she didn't have anywhere to go. There were no friends for her in La Push.

As she rubbed her sleep heavy eyes, she heard muted voices coming from inside the house. Maybe the kitchen? She mused as she got out of bed, stretching her arms over her head. Out of nowhere, she heard her dad shout Jacob's name in a panic.

Rayna hurried out of her room, following her dad's voice to the front door where he sat in his wheelchair just a few feet down the ramp. The rain was heavy, but it didn't seem to bother Billy.

"What's wrong?" Rayna asked, standing in the doorway. The rain made La Push smell heavenly. The smell of rain there was one thing Rayna always missed.

Billy took a moment before he answered. "We got a wedding invitation." He turned around slowly, and wheeled himself back into the house, Rayna taking the thick white invite out of his hands.

ISABELLA MARIE SWAN

AND

EDWARD ANTHONY MASEN CULLEN

TOGETHER WITH THEIR FAMILIES REQUEST THE HONOR OF YOUR PRESENCE AT THE CELEBRATION OF THEIR MARRIAGE

"Bella?" Rayna questioned, scrunching her eyebrows. "Chief Swan's daughter Bella?"

Billy nodded, seemingly lost in thought.

"Where did Jake go?" Rayna stared down at the paper, running her fingers over the expensive looking lettering.

Slowly, Billy made his way over to his cup of coffee, abandoned on the counter. "Not sure. He just needs some time."

"He cant get far," Rayna mused, gently setting the invite down on the table. "He's still injured."

"Doc cleared him this morning." Billy quickly replied, shaking his head. "Besides that, he's upset and willful."

"I thought he would have gotten over his little crush on her." Rayna took a bowl out of the cupboard, searching through another for cereal.

While Rayna fixed her cereal, Billy was silent. Once she sat at the table, he heaved a long sigh.

"You missed a lot while you were gone for two years, bug."

Rayna clenched her spoon in her hand. While he said it gently, he drove the point through to her heart that she had abandoned her brother and her father not long after her older sisters had done the same. Pair that with the fact that it had been a very long time since she had been called by her mother's favorite nickname, made her throat ache and her stomach twist.

"It is what it is, though, I s'pose," Billy mused, his eyes flickering over to the invite. "No changing the past. Only way to go now is forward."

Rayna nodded woodenly, throwing herself into her cereal with gusto. By the time she was done, her father had finished his coffee and was dialing someone on the phone, speaking in hushed murmurs. She caught the words "Cullen", "Jake disappeared", "upsetting", "no warning", and "impact", but that was pretty much it.

The rest of the day, she busied herself with putting her room together the way she wanted it. She didn't really leave her room, but from the sounds of it it sounded like Billy had some company coming and going throughout the way. Nobody came to bother her, so she was able to get everything exactly the way she wanted it.

Although her garden and house plants had to stay with Rebecca, she had taken enough pictures of them before she left that it almost felt like she still had them. The poster board on her wall had those pictures, and selfies with her and Rebecca, selfies with her, Rebecca, and her husband Teuila, different Hawaiian landscapes and scenery, dolphin trips, a few of the friends she left behind. Her bed now had her lavender sheets and yellow bedspread, her worn stuffed wolf her parents gave her when she was too young to remember that she slept with every night. On the floor, her cute black cat rug she got on clearance from Michael's was at her bedside. Her old desk now was overflowing with her makeup, her fairy lights were strung up tastefully around the room, and her random knick knacks were organized to her pleasure. It was beginning to feel more like home.

She had left the bottom dresser drawer untouched.

By dinner time, Jacob still wasn't back. Billy was unphased, but Rayna couldn't help but worry about where he could be.

"Aren't you the least bit worried?" Rayna asked around a bite of her sandwich, the only other noise was Billy's fork scraping his leftover fish across his plate.

Billy shrugged. "Jake can take care of himself. He's eighteen now. He's got to sort this out on his own."

"What if he doesn't come back?" Rayna pressed, her anxiety hitching up a notch. Although Jacob and her weren't as close as they once were, she worried about him. He was her big brother, after all.

"Rayna," Billy's voice was heavy, and his face suddenly appeared as if he had aged a hundred years within that one moment. "Let it be."

So, Rayna let it be. As the days passed, she didn't bring up Jacob again. Even as a week went by. And then another. By the start of the third week, Rayna was really getting worried. Although she hadn't spoken a word to Billy, and he hadn't spoken a word to her about the situation either, she knew it was bothering him too. So she stayed around the house more. Watched baseball with him, and Chief Swan. Charlie had long been one of her favorite adults, and he was still the same. Shocked at his daughters sudden nuptials, certainly, but fairly unchanged beyond that.

As for his daughter, Rayna found out a lot of what she had missed when she was gone. Bella met Edward in college, they started dating, he left her, Jacob healed her broken heart, Bella jetted off to Italy to "save Edward", the two got back together and Jacob was essentially left in the dust. Rayna could understand why Jacob reacted the way he did, but didn't his family mean anything to him? Was Bella Swan really that important?

Rayna resented Bella, she surely deserved as much. She made her brother leave. It wasn't right what she did, and she gets her happy ending while Jacob may be dead? How was that fair?

That Sunday night, the end of the third week, Rayna had a hard time falling asleep. Her mind kept floating towards Jacob, and wondering where he was. Hoping he was okay. Willing him to come home.

She started by relaxing her toes. She worked her way up to her shins, her knees, thighs, hips, all the way up to her neck. She needed to fall asleep, school was approaching and she didn't want to have an awful sleeping schedule by the time it came around. She focused on the music playing softly from her phone, and let her mind wander once again to Jacob. All she wanted to know was if he was okay.

The ground below her was odd. It was grass, yes, but it was also pulsating. It seemed to move like a fast heartbeat that pulsed too fast. Rayna followed the direction it moved it, noting that she wasn't walking, but rather floating. She must be dreaming, she noted. Odd dream.

As she neared a large animal, the ground seemed to calm, and instead of pulsating like the heartbeat, it merely moved like small waves. It reminded her of Hawaii.

The large animal appeared to be a wolf. An oversized one at that, hunched over at the river that shifted and moved much too irregular to be normal. The russet wolf was drinking.

Rayna looked around, and moved closer to the wolf. It seemed as though it was in pain. It reminded her of Jacob. She reached out, intending to rub its back soothingly. However, the minute her hand touched its warm fur, the wolf spun around and bared its teeth.

The wolf had the same eyes as Jacob.

When their eyes connected, she felt an overwhelming rush of emotions. Somehow, this wolf was her brother.

"Please, please come home," Rayna pleaded, her eyes misting with tears. "We miss you."

The wolf with eyes just like her human brothers seemed to understand what she was saying. He dipped his head down, and with no warning, disappeared. Rayna stood there for a moment, her heart empty as she stared at where the wolf who reminded her so much of Jacob had once stood.

The ground shifted and pulled, and the grass started to attach itself to her ankles. Rayna struggled to move her feet, but they were quickly being pulled down into the ground. She started panicking, and screamed for help. Her knees slid into the ground, the feeling was like hot mud. By the time her hips were being swallowed, and felt a shimmer in the air.

A large white wolf stood in front of her, its form switching between a man and animal. When the man appeared, he held his hand out to her. Rayna gripped it desperately, and his touch grew hotter and hotter until it felt as though her skin was being burnt off her bone. She cried out in pain, and suddenly, she was pulled out of the ground with a popping noise, and was thrust into the air with blinding speed.

The area around her got brighter and brighter until all she could see was white. And then everything went black.

Rayna shot out of bed, her throat shortening and her stomach heaving. She barely made it to the bathroom before she threw up in the sink. It was loud and it was nasty, and her stomach ached terribly.

"You alright, bug?" Billy must have heard the commotion.

She shook her head as she turned her head towards the toilet, this time making it. By the time she could no longer be sick, Billy had returned with a glass of water, and mouthwash.

Rayna flushed the toilet, swished the mouthwash around, and spat it into the shower. She was slick with sweat and felt hot and dizzy, her head pounding and her stomach still twisted. Mechanically, she cleaned out the sink and then took a small sip of water.

"I had the worst dream." She moaned, her voice scratchy from her stomach acid.

Even though she was a little out of it, she saw the look Billy gave her. "It was just a dream."

"It felt so real." Rayna looked down at her hand, half expecting to see her flesh burnt off. Of course, it was just fine.

"Why don't you go sleep on the couch?" Billy suggested. "It's just a bit past five. You should get some more sleep."

Rayna nodded, and stumbled her way into the living room. Although the couch was old, it was plush and comfortable, and smelled of peppermint with a hint of mustiness. The usual scent of home.

"Dad?" She asked, biting her lip as she threw the throw blanket over her body. "Would you mind sitting out here with me?"

"Of course not." Billy settled himself into his easy chair. Rayna got the feeling that he would have sat out there even if she hadn't asked. "Get some rest."

Rayna nodded, and shut her eyes as she burrowed into the furniture. The sound of the morning news and Billy's breathing soothed her back to sleep.

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