Song: 120 days - come out, come down, fade out, be gone. (I can't find this on youtube, but try grooveshark. com. It's there;)

A.N: Okay guys, this is the first time I've tried this, hope I'm doing alright...

I give you...

*tamtamtam*

- JPOV

Hunt

I turned my car over and parked in front of the police station. As I got a glimpse of my reflection in the rear-view mirror, I saw that my face was set in a goofy smile. I hadn't even known I was grinning. What that girl did to me... I laughed silently and shook my head.

I got out of the car and headed inside. I wasn't going to stay long if I could prevent it. I could feel the familiar pull of her, dragging me in the opposite direction, willing me to go back to her. This is why it was so difficult to be away from her. She always pulled me towards her, and resisting was a pain.

I walked over to the counter, to the man sitting there. Maybe I could say hi to Charlie while I was here as well.

"Hi, my name is Jacob Black, I'm here to fix the new signboards for my car"

I was only halfway paying attention to what I was saying. My thoughts were drifting off to this morning, the way she looked next to me in bed. Her eyes were squinting as her oh-so-full lips sent me a confused smile, making her cheeks dimple. Her face was framed in a mess of bronze curls, which clearly told me she'd slept well. She'd tried to ease out from under my arm, and I remembered how her t-shirt had been sliding up, revealing a glimpse the soft skin on her back...

"Signboards?"

The man looked utterly dumbfounded, and I repeated what I'd said.

"Are you sure you have come to the right place?"

"Yes" I looked him straight in the eyes, nodding for emphasis. I was starting to get annoyed. How thick could you get? "Something about a registration sign. New rules"

"There must be some kind of misunderstanding"

"No" I snapped. I was getting more irritated than necessary, I know, but this was depriving me from valuable alone-time with Nessie, without having to control my thoughts all the time...

"I don't know what you're ..."

"Come on, you called me in less than thirty minutes ago, and asked me to come here!"

Ass.

"Nobody have been using this phone today" the man insisted, nodding towards his phone beside him. He was trying to be patient, acting like I was some kind of stupid, ill-tempered kid, but I could hear his irritation shining through. "You must have misunderstood. There are no new rules concerning the registration signs. As far as I know, no one has called you from this station. But if you wait here, I can ask the others whether..."

It hit me like a bullet in the head. The man was still talking, but I couldn't hear what he was saying. It was a trap. "No one has called you from this station". No one had called. From this station. In less than two seconds I was out the door. I heard the man yell something after me, but I couldn't listen. I ran like I had never ran before. I crossed the main road without looking either right or left. Cars honked. The sound of whining brakes. I didn't care. I didn't see. As soon as I reached the edge of the forest beside the road, I phased. I didn't care if anyone saw. I didn't care if I ripped my clothes to shreds. The only thing on my mind was to get to her. To get there in time. Before someone else did.

I was greeted by several voices inside my head, but they soon went quiet when they could see what was on my mind. I didn't know who they were or how many. It could be Seth, it could be Quil, it could be all of them; I didn't know. The only coherent thought I could manage to think was Get there. Get. There. I could feel their acceleration in my mind, and I knew that they as well, were headed there. A wolf howled, far away.

I could be wrong. I hoped to be wrong, I begged to be wrong. But I could not risk it. I launched myself further, willing me to be there in time.

I reached there first. One second the main-house appeared in front of me, the next I was on the front stairs. I knew something was terribly, terribly wrong. Not just because of the unfamiliar smell of several humans, or the smell of fuel, or the music that echoed out from the open door. I knew because the pull was gone. Her pull. Her presence. There was no pull for me, nothing to tell me where to find her. Instead I was left with a feeling of emptiness, like a big empty hole had punched its way through me. This could only mean one thing: she was too far away.

I felt my four legs buckle and fell to the ground. My whole frame was shaking and I could not see. A terrifying and completely devastating howl escaped my throat and I could feel the minds of the others fill with panic and fear when they heard.

I needed to phase to get inside. She could be there, I tried to fool myself. She could be there. I knew she wasn't. There was no pull for her there. But she could be, a little voice inside my mind said, my own this time. She could be there, even if there was no pull from her. She could be...

I phased, and was inside. I knocked over the cd -player as I stumbled past, and the silence was screaming in my ears. I checked every room. I fooled myself to think she could be there, but at the same time dreading with all my heart that she was. Because that would mean she was... I blocked my mind, didn't allow myself to think it.

She wasn't there. There was warm water in the sink on the kitchen, and her smell was everywhere. But she wasn't there. She wasn't there. Again I fell down on my knees. Air came in and out in shallow breaths. My head was filled with her, how she would look like, if she still... Only the thought of her ceasing to exist tipped me over and felt completely drained. If she was not, then I could not be either. Pain. I couldn't breathe, couldn't think, couldn't see, couldn't hear. I felt helpless. The empty hole was filled with dread. Time stopped.

"Jake!"

Embrys voice was scared. I felt him at my side, kneeling beside me.

"What happened? What's going on?"

Slowly, time started to move again. It was as if I could hear the machinery slowly stir into life. As it started to tick, I could see what I needed to do. She was out there, somewhere. She was. I needed to find out where. I needed to find her. And I would. It was not too late. I wouldn't let it be too late. My mind filled with determination, not replacing the pain but distracting me from the acute feeling of it. I would find her. I would find her and never let her go.

I walked out of the kitchen, Embry trailing confused behind me. I walked outside to see my whole pack there, still in their wolf form. Embry, Quil, Leah, Seth. I phased. I remembered many years ago how my wolf form had helped me escape my human feelings. It didn't help now.

Their questions were everywhere, but they stilled when I replayed what had happened in my head. The phone call. The police station. Nessie gone. I replayed how she'd been attacked that night in Port Angeles as well. It didn't seem so coincidental now.

It stung in my chest when I realized Nessie had suspected that all along, that it wasn't coincidental. I could clearly remember her face on our way home when she wondered about the motive. I'd taken it for granted. I'd failed her.

But what was the motive? Seth interrupted. Why would someone do this?

I could see how upset he was. He considered Nessie as part of the family, of the pack almost. I guess most of us did.

While telling them, I had ran back and forth, filling my nose with all the unfamiliar scents. Three humans. Men. Grown. A car too. Fuel. Her scent was all over the front porch. Maybe they hit her. No blood. Maybe they'd dragged her to the car. The motive. I had no idea. I tried to think but ended up howling with frustration, literary. I wanted to do something, not just stand there. We needed to run after them, now, before it was -

Sam's coming, Embry interrupted. He had phased back, and stood beside me now.

You called for him?

Yes.

It must have been Embrys howl I'd heard before. I was surprised. I hadn't thought of that. Since the old pack was split all those years ago, we were now two packs, and we couldn't share thoughts between the packs. Only the alphas could communicate. To contact Sam hadn't even crossed my mind; not that many coherent things had. But the more the better.

I tried to follow the scent of the three men, but it disappeared right where the car most likely had been. And so did the fresh trail of Nessie. I hole in my chest was now filled with guilt. If I'd gotten to her on time, none of this would have happened. I should have taken her with me to the police station. I should insisted that she joined me. I would have protected her. I'd failed.

I shouldn't have answered that phone call. I should have ignored it. I should have been more suspicious. I should have listened to her that night in Port Angeles. I should know that it wasn't a coincident. I should have been able to put the pieces together. Someone was after her. Someone was after my girl. My Nessie. I pictured her face in front of me. Innocent. Beautiful. Her red cheeks, her red lips, her brown chocolate eyes, her dark bronze hair, her pale skin. Her smile, her happy joyful eyes. Someone was trying to hurt that image, to hurt her... I was quivering. I should have stayed with her. I'd failed in protecting her.

We heard the thudding of approaching paws, and soon they all appeared. Sam came first, with Jared, Paul and the others right behind. Sam went straight up to me, stuck to the place where the car had swallowed her scent.

What's going on? he demanded.

I told him, trying not to pay attention to my thoughts as if that would make it less real. I couldn't break down now. As soon as Sam knew, the rest of his pack knew as well. Understanding, sympathy and worry painted their faces.

Jared says there were two men in you driveway last night. Do you think they might have-

I was running before he'd finished his sentence. Back to the main road. I remembered what Jared had told me last night. Two men. Driveway. Jared had thought they were lost. As it turned out, they probably weren't.

I reached the end of the driveway, and froze for the tenth of a second. I could detect a very, very faint whiff of their scent. It was theirs. The same, human scent as outside the main house. It continued north. I started running. I stopped thinking, stopped feeling, I just ran, pressing myself to my furthest. No thoughts except one. Find. Her. Find Reneesme. Find Nessie. Find her, before...Find her. I vaguely noticed I was not alone. The others were right behind me, their minds also focused on the one thing that mattered. Find her.