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Author/Note 1: Sequel from Our Dawn 2

A/Note 2: I'm not a native English speaker so I'm sorry for my grammar and spelling. Thank you for reading.

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Alert: the characters in this story curse a lot.

Our Dawn

Part III

Book 1 – Weakness & Strength

Leah Clearwater

Chapter 4 – Invisible

"So, where's Harrison?" I asked driven by panic again. I almost feared what Alice would day next. I wasn't ready to know that one of my boys could be dead.

"How do you know it's William?" Jacob questioned.

"Because he has the jacket that I bought him last week. I only see one child and I'm sure it's Will."

"If Harry isn't with them, he has to be here somewhere, right?" Seth was hoping for the best but I knew that if Harry was alive, he was alone and in danger.

"There are no evidences that Harry is dead." Jasper stated. "We searched the area and we didn't find anything but there's a high possibility that we missed his scent because we were focusing on finding Edward's. We always thought they were both with Edward. "

"What are we going to do about the Volturi?" Quil asked. "We can't risk a war again. It's too dangerous."

"We still have Alice. She'll be able to see what's going to happen." Bella said. "We need to calm down and…"

"I can't wait for Alice to have her next vision, Bella." I said sternly. "Harry is out there alone. I need to find him."

"I believe Edward will give me some clues to where to look for Harry when I have more visions." Alice announced.

"Ok…So what did you see in the last one?" Jacob asked. "What clues did he give you?"

"They were in a ship on their way to Europe. I saw three Volturi guards. They keep Edward away from Will because they know Edward can read their minds and try to escape. Once in Europe they'll cross three countries until they arrive in Italy. Aro will be pleased to see Edward again."

"What about clues, Alice?" Jacob insisted.

"I…I don't know…In the ship Edward is being well guarded. That's all I saw but I know more visions will follow."

"Alright. Look, you can stay here and wait for another vision but we need to do something. If Harry is alive we need to find him and then we'll deal with the Volturi." Jacob turned to me and held my hand. "Harry is a tough kid. He'll be fine."

"Can you smell that?" Embry said suddenly. "Is that what I think it is?"

Everyone stopped talking and we started to sniff the air around us. There was definitely a non-vegetarian leech near by.

"Volturi?" I questioned.

"I don't think so." Carlisle said.

"The scent is close, but I can't see anyone." Quil stated the obvious.

By the close proximity of the horrible smell we could feel, the leech was less that twenty feet away from us, but we couldn't see anyone.

Being on alert mode meant having all our senses focused only on finding the leech that apparently was there, watching us.

"Jasper…" Alice whispered.

The blonde male vampire started to use his power and Jacob phased. We heard a small whimpering sound and the rest of us phased immediately. I guess whoever was there wasn't expecting to see humans morphing into giant wolves.

The Cullens gathered around a tree and suddenly we saw a young man materialising in front of us. I thought he was sort of a magician but Carlisle's words brought me to reality. He wasn't a magician, he was a vampire.

"You have an interesting power there, son." Carlisle said in a soft voice. "Who are you?"

We had made a circle around him to prevent him from escaping. The young man was frightened but when he spoke he tried to show us that he was absolutely cool about being surrounded by five giant wolves and seven vampires.

"Fred." He said brushing the snow that had accumulated on his shoulders while spying on us. He was wearing a black and expensive jacket with blue jeans and black boots. "And who are you?" He demanded in a firm voice.

Jacob growled taking a step forward and the leech's red eyes were suddenly filled with fear again. Jasper went to Fred's right side and he calmed down a bit.

"My friend is not going to hurt you." Jasper said. "But he's a bit stressed out and he tends to have quite an explosive temper sometimes so I really think you shouldn't talk like that."

"What are they?" Fred asked in a whisper, probably thinking we couldn't hear him.

"Werewolves."

At the mentioned of Jasper's last words, Fred took a step back and hit the tree behind him. He was astonished.

"Werewolves…Wow…They exist too…What about the Elves? Trolls? Unicorns?"

Rosalie and Emmett cracked down laughing.

"I've never seen Elves." Alice stated. "There are trolls though…We even had one for a President a few years ago…about the unicorns…I'm afraid hallucinogenic drugs are to be blamed. Sorry."

"Do you think this is a Harry Potter's movie or something?" Rosalie questioned amused.

Fred glared at her and fixed his composure.

"So…you didn't answer our question, Fred." Bella said. "Why are you spying on us?"

Jacob growled again.

'He might know something about Harry…he might even be responsible for…attacking him.' Jacob said.

'We would smell Harry's scent all over him if he had touched your son. I think he's clean.' Embry pointed out.

'Let's see what the Cullens can find out.' Seth suggested.

Actually we had no more options. Fred could've seen the Volturi taking Edward and William away. He could also give us clues about where to find Harry and since we didn't have any more clothes to put on, we would have to let the talking up to the leeches.

"I was just passing by." Fred said.

That was clearly a lie and we didn't need Edward's mind reading powers to see that.

"That's not very convincing son." Carlisle told him and crossed his arms. "We're not stupid."

"We know you're not with the Volturi but it can't be a coincidence that you're here." Jasper announced and Fred began to look for an escape route. Only there wasn't any.

"Start talking." Emmett suggested clenching his fists. "Or we will be forced to…"

"Are the Volturi the vampires with black ropes?" Fred cut him off.

Carlisle nodded affirmatively.

"What do you know about them?" Bella asked. "Did you see them taking Edward and two little boys?"

"I don't know who Edward is but…"

"He's a vampire too. He has yellow eyes just like us." Bella said almost stumbling over her own words.

"Holy shit…you're them."

The Cullens looked intensively at Fred. How did he know them?

"You know us?" Carlisle questioned suspiciously.

"You're the yellow eyes' Coven that Riley told us about. We were supposed to fight you, kill a human girl and have a reward."

'He was part of the newborn's army that attacked us years ago.' Embry concluded.

'He's probably the only survivor.' Seth added.

'His power probably saved him because we couldn't see him.' I thought. 'Invisibility it's always handy.'

'Let's focus on what's really important.' Jacob groaned. 'We need to find out what he knows about the Volturi.'

'It would be nice if we had some clothes.' Quil said.

'I have some in the hotel.' Seth announced.

'Quil go with Seth…bring us something to wear. Fast.' Jacob ordered.

When my brother and Quil left, Fred got startled.

"Where are they going?" He asked. "They're really fast."

"So you were one of the newborns that Victoria recruited to kill Bella." Carlisle said ignoring Fred's question.

"I never knew any Victoria. We were instructed by Riley. My ability gave me an opportunity to leave as soon as I realised that Riley was lying to us."

"You're the only survivor then. I'm glad for you." Carlisle told him and Fred was suddenly more relaxed.

Maybe it was just Jasper's powers or maybe he had just understood that the Cullens weren't his enemies after all.

"No one else survived?" He asked with a hint of concern in his voice.

"I'm sorry. We tried not to kill everyone but your friends didn't leave us a choice. They would kill us and innocent people just because Victoria needed a distraction."

"Is she dead? And Riley?"

"Yes." Jasper informed. "We're sorry about your friends."

"They weren't all my friends. Only one of them…" He said and his eyes went to the floor. I guess he did like this friend of his.

"We don't have time for this." Bella said. "Do you know about Edward and the kids or not?"

"Did you kill her?" Fred asked suddenly.

"Who?" Carlisle inquired.

"Her name was Bree. I promised I would wait for her and for Diego in Canada."

"Bree?" Bella asked surprised. "Oh my God. She was your friend?"

"So…you did kill her…"

"No. I found Bree and she surrendered to us. We wanted to teach her how to be like us." Carlisle explained.

"What do you mean?"

"We don't feed on human. We feed on animals. That's why our eyes are yellow and not red like yours."

Fred looked at Carlisle. Probably trying to decide if he should believe in him or not.

"Keep going." He asked.

"The Volturi arrived and they forced…"

"Tortured." Alice cut in. "They tortured Bree for information and then they denied our request to keep her in the family."

"So these Volturi guys…they killed her?"

"Yes." Carlisle confirmed. "In case you didn't notice, they're like a secret police that keeps our kind in the line. When there are vampires who don't follow the rules, they take care of the business…by their laws."

"Which means death." Fred said, finally understanding.

"Exactly." Carlisle confirmed again. "Bree paid for her creator's mistake. You though…you had a second chance thanks to your power."

Seth and Quil arrived then in their human form, carrying a bag with clothes. Jacob, Embry and I went to the middle of trees to dress up.

"Will you talk or not?" Jacob asked harshly after putting on Seth's cut-offs.

"Jake, hold on a bit." Bella said.

"I can do better than that." Fred said and we all looked at him surprised. "I can show you something."

"Like what?" Emmett asked. "Look, no offense but the mutt is right, we need to hurry."

"Spill the beans, leech." Jacob demanded.

"Come with me." Fred said again.

"I think we should go." Jasper said. "It might be important."

We ended up following the damn leech until we reached a small town just near Mount Lorne. He took us to a secondary street where the police was trying to keep people from going to peek over a crime scene. It was quite easy to understand what was going on.

There were yellow ribbons surrounding a car that once had been in flames. We could still feel the burning smell of the dismembered bodies that were inside.

"They were four. Someone turned the man first." Fred explained.

"Giles Carson. I read about his disappearance in the newspapers." Carlisle said. "Giles must have turned his wife and daughters."

"They were a potential threat for our community so the Volturi had to interfere." Jasper stated. "That's why they were here."

"I was in the area when I heard the screams. They were killed in the forest and then the vampires with the black ropes set up the car crash." Fred declared.

"It's the Volturi's procedure." Jasper confirmed. "Now we know why they came. They ran into Edward by coincidence that's why Alice didn't have a vision."

"I did follow the Volturi all the way through Whitehorse. They felt my presence a couple of times but since they couldn't see me…I managed to keep a low profile. When I arrived to Mount Sima, you were already speaking to the werewolves and the guys dressed in black were gone."

"So you never saw Edward or the kids." Bella stated disappointed.

"No. Why?"

"Let's get back to Mount Sima and start searching for Harry. We have to pick up his scent somewhere." Jacob said and we all followed him.

"What about this?" Fred asked pointing to the place where the police was.

"We can't do anything about that. They're dead." Carlisle stated with a sad look.

"In any other day I would rip your head off and you would end up just like them, but since you helped us…I'm letting you go." Jacob said turning back to face Fred. "I hope we never meet again, leech."

"I thought you were friends with the vampires."

"Only the Cullens have that privilege." I informed. "So leave while you can, before we change our minds."

He didn't think twice and disappeared from our view in a flash.

"We should call Sam anyway." I suggested.

"Ok. I guess we can use some back up." Jacob agreed.

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It wasn't easy to follow Harry's scent mainly because we couldn't find it and that was driving us insane. My child was alone for more than forty-eight hours now and we weren't even close to finding out where he was.

Sam and his pack had come to help. Sullivan and Brady had stayed in La Push as a precaution but the others were all helping us. Alice had told us that the reason why we couldn't find Harry's tracks was because Edward had tried to cover up his scent so that the Volturi wouldn't locate him.

We still didn't know what had made Edward act like that. Why was William with him and Harry wasn't? Was that a good or a bad sign?

To me it was just disturbing. Not knowing where he was and if he was dead or alive was worse than anything else. Jacob and I didn't sleep in two days and we weren't planning on doing it until we found a clue on where our son could possibly be.

Because they had been all over Mount Sima and other places in Whitehorse and even in Dawson, Harry's scent was present in some places but then it would just vanish completely. We were racing against time because a scent doesn't stay in a place forever.

The Cullens kept saying that Edward knew what he was doing but I was starting to question that. My despair was making me feel sicker by the hour. I could feel my head throbbing and my body starting to give in. I was tired, mentally and physically. The only thing that kept me going was knowing that Jacob was going through the same thing. I wasn't alone.

My pack was having a hard time too. The mental link between us allowed them to experience our pain. It didn't make me feel any better because it wasn't my intention or even Jacob's to cause pain to our friends. Seth was still feeling guilty for not being there with Edward to protect the kids. Embry kept thinking about his own son and what he would feel if it was David who was missing.

Sam's pack was also starting to feel exhausted. We had distributed several searching areas to small groups of two so we could cover almost all the Canadian territory. We had excluded the provinces east of Ontario and Nunavut. Jacob and I were searching in Yukon, where Harry's scent was stronger.

'We taught him to be able to survive out in the forest.' Jacob reminded me.

It was true. We used to camp in La Push in the summer with the kids since they were four years old. They were also starting to learn how to fish and set a small fire but I wasn't sure if Harry had paid attention to what we had said. I knew William had but Harry was so much like Jacob, always being distracted by something else, always making us repeat the same thing twice.

'Thank you so much, Leah.' He thought pouting.

'Well, it's true. You're easily distracted.'

'I know he's young and I think that he's terrified to be all alone, but I'm sure he's not dead.'

'We taught him useful things Jacob but he's only six years old and back then we were always close to home.'

'I know. But we need to hold on to hope.'

Jacob was right but it was hard. There's one thing you're never ready to do when you're a parent: loosing a child. Either it was or wasn't our fault, I felt responsible and so did Jacob. If we didn't find Harry soon, I knew we would start fighting each other eventually. Of course that in this case, we could also blame the leeches. They were supposed to take care of them.

'We'll have to tell the Council soon.' Jacob thought. 'They still think that we're following a leech.'

To go public with this was scaring the shit out of me. To return to La Push without my children was just going to prove what everyone thought about me: that I was unfit to be a mother.

'You're a great mother, Leah.' Jacob's thoughts invaded my mind. 'I'm the one who's irresponsible and immature in this marriage. I'm the one who wasn't always a good father.'

Not wanting to share my pain with the pack I phased back and quickly put some clothes on. I sat down on the forest floor, embracing my knees and crying. A few minutes later Jacob found me. He ran up to me and kneeled, putting his hands on my shoulders.

"Leah, look at me." He said.

I couldn't do it. I couldn't face him.

"I'm being punished, Jacob." I whispered between sobs.

"What are you talking about?"

"I wasn't supposed to have children. Since the day I got pregnant, everyone and everything tried to warn me that my pregnancy wasn't supposed to happen."

Jacob lifted my chin and made me look at him.

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"I did this to us Jacob. I'm the one you should blame if something bad happens to your kids."

"Our kids. You're their mother."

"They shouldn't be mine. They should be someone else's kids. I don't deserve them. I almost had a miscarriage twice, I phased when I was pregnant and almost got them killed. I'm not good enough…You should've chosen someone else to be your kids' mother."

That was just the pain, hurt and guilt talking. I wanted someone to blame me, to punish me for letting this happen.

"Stop that!" He ordered me. "Are you crazy? This is not your fault, Leah and you are a good mother…the only mother I want my kids to have."

Jacob pulled me up and hugged me tightly for a couple of minutes. Slowly I started to calm down.

"What if we never see them again?" I asked trembling.

"We will. They're going to be fine. They're our kids. The Clearwater-Black twins."

I broke down crying again in his arms and I felt his heart racing with fear of what I had just said. Despite his strong front, Jacob was as worried as me.

So far we had never been in this situation and it was devastating. The hopeless feeling was so intense that I couldn't think or focus on anything else.

Our story wasn't probably the conventional love story. Jacob and I never dated, we never planned on having children, we got married after our kids were born and we had to adapt ourselves to each other after the wedding. Loving each other didn't make things particularly easy, at least not for us.

Most of the couples we knew did things the right way: dating for several years, getting married and having kids. We did everything backwards.

But even though we were different, we loved our children. Jacob was the only man I saw myself having kids with. I was proud that Harry and William had half of Jacob's genes. Our kids weren't a mistake.

In that moment we heard Bella's voice calling out our names and a few minutes later Bella and Seth joined us.

"Is everything alright?" Seth asked. "You disappeared from our minds suddenly. I was worried."

"I'm sorry Seth…We needed to talk privately." I said.

My brother nodded.

"We have to go to Dawson." Bella announced. "Alice had another vision."

A/Note 3: Don't blame Alice about the political joke…that was all me. Sorry if I offended anyone's political beliefs.

I really dislike violence against children so in my stories children may be taken to other countries or kidnapped but they will never suffer from physical abuses or die. So don't worry Harry is fine.

Leah and Jacob's life will always be a challenge. They had to fight to be able to stay together and they'll have to fight many other battles to achieve happiness. I promise you that although they still have a lot to go through my stories always have a happy ending.

Thank you for all the kind words.

To Blackwater101: Thanks a lot for your reviews. Harry is not a wolf yet (he's still too young to phase) but he will be in the future. Harry and William are descendents of Ephraim Black and they are the only kids in the Reservation to have both parents with the wolf gene. Being the Clearwater-Black twins makes them the best candidates to form a pack later, when they're older. Their sister or brother will be a wolf too. :D Take care

Karisan