I don't know why, but I am continually shocked by how much love this story gets. And how much you all are enjoying it. I think I had to do a double take when I saw that The Missing had hit over 2.75k views! It honestly means a lot to me that you guys are enjoying this little ride with me.

As always thank you to darcysmom for betaing, livieliv79 for her comments and reassurances.

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My hands smelled like wolf as I dropped the fur onto the ground. One dead wolf, and I knew the pack had others. My mind rushed with thoughts about who could have killed that wolf, and how they could have killed it. My gut became more twisted as my worries about the wolf's demise brought on more worries about Bella. If they were killed, What's to say they, whoever did this, wouldn't hurt her?

"Okay, Emmett, Jasper and I will make our way to the boundary line of La Push." I said, looking at Alice. " You-" I pointed at Alice, "will stay here with Esme and Carlisle and look at the house some more and anywhere else you can think of. We will call you if anything comes up. You guys do the same."

The three of us ran, and in no time we were at the border. It took us walking down the border line a little before we noticed anything of significance. What we saw proved that La Push was spared, that whatever had happened in Forks didn't spread. It seemed it was only the wolves that were missing from La Push. I watched on as I saw people coming and going, cars moving along roads, houses occupied.

I couldn't help but wonder if the people of La Push were aware of Fork's demise, of their own wolves' demise.

The wind shifted, bringing a sweet, freesia filled scent along with it. I breathed in deeply, it was a small hint, but it was something, it was enough to send me off into a sprint to the source of the smell.

I could hear Jasper and Emmett yelling for me to slow down as I continued to run. They cautioned me to not cross the boundary line, but I couldn't help it. The scent was taking me where ever it was taking me. I was powerless to stop it. Each inhale of the scent pushed me further along the boundary until we came to the cliffs.

The wind shifted again, making me lose the scent that brought me here in the first place. My eyes searched the trees, the ground, anywhere I could look and I still didn't find the source of the smell.

The wind shifted once more, the scent smelling so close to me. My feet dragged me to the cliffs edge, to a small tree that hung over the side. A small, black hair scrunchie was snagged on the tree, a few strands of hair were blowing in the wind.

I stood up, bringing the hair thing up to my face, inhaling the smell.

Bella! I know it's her. The color of the hair strands, the strawberry/freesia smell that permeates the hair thing. It's her!

I wrapped the hair thing around my wrist, even with the strands of hair still stuck in it as I called Carlisle's phone and my brothers look at me with worried looks plastered upon their faces.

It rang once before Carlisle answered. I didn't give him a chance to say anything before I was telling him what we found. He was surprised about La Push, but grateful that no one else was missing, but it was finding Bella's hair tie that had him shaken. He demanded we return to Bella's house.

I checked my pockets before we set to run off again, making sure I still had her phone, her note, and now her hair scrunchie. We ran, cutting through the forest and passing the path that lead to our house as we veered left to head on to Bella's.

We were about a mile away from her house, before we stumbled across another wolf body. This time the wolf was a gray one, and huge one at that.

Wolf hair was strewn about on the ground.

Carlisle was waiting for us as we made our way out of the tree line.

"Well, we searched the house top to bottom. We didn't find much else. Except we noticed that the last piece of mail was dated October 17th of last year. So this town shut down roughly almost three months ago."

He didn't have to say it. I knew what he was thinking. The length of time had been too long.

Hope was fading.

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I'm going into hiding now.

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