Chapter 15 - Missing Pack Member
In the early morning, around 3 am Jared heard something...He wasn't sure what it was...He carefully removed his arm from under Janel and went to find out what it was. As he walked down the hallway he looked straight ahead and noticed the front door was wide open. He walked over and looked out the door and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary, his truck and Janel's bike were sitting in the half circled driveway...everything was as it should've been. As Jared started to close the door he was struck with someone in the back of his head. His head snapped back and hit the hardwood floor as he saw black and slipped into unconsciousness.
The menacing figure stood over the boy laying on the floor and chuckled evilly...He leaned over the lump on the floor and triple handcuffed the boys hands behind his back and pulled a white mask out that was soaked in chloroform and slipped it over the boys mouth and nose...as he lifted him and threw him over his shoulder and walked out to the road in front of the property and tossed the body into the bed of the truck. He burned the tires getting out of there as fast as he could. Once he crossed over the border into Seattle, he saw his turn off road that went deep into the woods and slid around the corner onto the access road, tires screeching.
Janel woke up around 9 and stretched her body awake. She pulled herself from bed and stared out the window...She couldn't believe it was already the middle of December, there was a light sprinkle of snow on the ground...the heavy snow hadn't come yet, but it was due in a week or so...Everyone was grocery shopping trying to get their cabinets fully stocked and buy all the warm clothes they would need to survive before the hard winter set in at La Push. Janel pulled on a pair of jeans and her black hooded sweatshirt and pulled her hair into a ponytail as she went through the house collecting dirty clothes.
Janel walked out to the laundry room and started the washer...After she did that she walked outside and walked on the porch figuring Jared was out for his run like normal…She looked down on the bottom step and noticed his running shoes were sitting there…Suddenly she turned around and found a piece of paper suspended against the front door of the home by a dagger. The words written on the paper said 'I have something you want…you know who I am…you know how and where to find me…And you know what I want.'
Janel felt her chest getting tight…she knew it was Mike…and she already knew he'd taken Jared. She pulled her keys and slipped her socks and sneakers on and jumped in Jared's truck and took off to Sam and Emily's. Sam heard tires screeching as he looked up from the kitchen table with Jacob, Embry, and Paul...Sam said, "What the hell?" He got up and went to the door and out to the porch and waited for Janel to get out of the truck but she never did...He looked again and she was crying so hard his heart tore open for her. Sam ran over and opened the driver side door and said, "What? What's wrong?" Janel handed the note to Sam and he said, "What does he have?" Janel looked at her dad and calmed down long enough to say, "Jared."
Sam carefully gathered her in his arms she cried on his shoulder...Her body was racked with sobs as he carried her inside. Janna and Emily went to her side immediately. Jacob said, "What is going on?" Sam said, "Someone took Jared...It doesn't look good." Janel calmed herself and said, "It was Mike...I can tell by the handwriting...He wants me...I know where he took Jared...He's got a log cabin up in Seattle...On the out skirts in the woods." Jacob growled out, "DAMN IT!" through clenched teeth, he could feel himself getting pissed off...Janna walked over and put her icy cold hands on his neck and said, "Calm down." Jacob's skin was so hot it almost felt like it was going to burn her hands to the bone.
Sam looked around the table and Jacob, Embry and Paul were on their feet...He watched as their chests rose and fell hard with their breathing heavy...Sam said, "Take it easy all 3 of you...We have to have a plan first...Then we can get our brother back." They all sat at the table hatching a plan...They knew they would have to incorporate Janel in the plan because they wouldn't get within 10 feet of Mike without her. They didn't know how much time they had and weren't sure what kind of shape Jared was going to be in once they got to him.