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Chapter Seventeen: Heartbreak Warfare

Jesus Christ I couldn't catch a break. I was on a plane to New York riding first class with almost all Cullen's; Emmett stayed behind with Rosalie. I was antsy for the whole ride. I'd never been on a plane before and the whole experience was quite frightening. Edward held my hand the entire time but I was still nervous.

"I didn't mean to traumatize you." Edward chuckled.

I clenched my jaw, "Just don't tell Emmett I was scared."

Across the aisle Alice was practically falling to pieces. It was the saddest I'd ever seen her look, absolutely heartbroken. On the outside she looked fine but I knew better than to be fooled. Alice was wrecked on the inside.

"I'm worried about Alice." I whispered to Edward.

Edward glanced at her inconspicuously, "With good reason Jacob. She's closed her mind off to me completely. I've never seen her like this."

We had to get them back. All of them. I gripped my armrest as the plane experienced some turbulence. Inside me Damon was still recuperating but I could feel him trying to get loose. He didn't like planes as much as I did. The last thing we needed was an angry werewolf 10,000 ft in the air trapped with frightened people. Esme and Carlisle were sitting behind us. Even without seeing them I could tell they were rigid and anxious.

Everyone was.

I opened my fifth bag of peanuts and popped most of them into my mouth. Eating was calming me a little but I couldn't shake the foreboding feeling that my visions would somehow come true. My pocket buzzed. What the-? I reached into my pocket, expecting to find nothing, but grabbed a cell phone instead. I pulled it out. It was Seth's.

Fuck! He left it at the house and I'd grabbed it before we left. I held the phone up to my ear. Could phones even work on airplanes?

"H-hello…?"

It was Seth. The real Seth, I was sure of it.

"Jacob are you sure?" Edward said quietly, answering my thought.

I nodded and whispered, "Tell Alice."

"H-h-h-hello?" Seth whimpered again.

"Seth?" I said with relief, "Are you okay?"

I heard him take a shaky breath, "That thing's got Bella…"

"I know. We're coming to get you." I reluctantly asked the next question, "Is Jasper there with you?"

"No…why would he be? Isn't he with you?! I tried his cell and it went straight to voicemail…" Seth said frantically.

"Seth…Seth…you need to calm down. Can you tell me where you are? Like at a gas station or a Wendy's? Give me something to go on here, kid."

"I'm on Bella's cell phone. Jake where's Jasper? Please tell me…are he and Alice okay?"

Crap, so he had Bella's phone, meaning there was no way to reach her now. I sighed, "Alice is here on the plane with us. Jasper left earlier to find you. Seth, where's Be-"

"Jake I'm so scared…"

I believed him. He was alone without a clue to where he was.

"Just keep it together Seth." I said.

Alice had appeared next to me where Edward was sitting. They'd switched seats. Her eyes that were usually jovial were somber. Without exchanging a word I handed her the phone. She pressed it to her ear and breathed a sigh of reprieve.

"It's all right Seth." She said in a soothing voice, "Jasper and I are coming for you. He just went ahead. We told you, we'll always come for you."

I crumpled the empty packet of peanuts in my fist. Frustration was beginning to set in. The Ma'heen Gun's plan was in motion; I was waiting for us to walk into a trap.

Alice's yelling broke me from my thoughts.

"Seth!" she yelled into the phone.

We were lucky everyone on the plane was distracted by the in flight movie or people might get the feeling something was wrong. Okay so it was but it wasn't their problem.

"Seth! Don't worry we're coming! I love you!" she choked out.

"What going on?" I asked.

Alice was gripping the tiny phone so hard I thought she was going to break it. Her hands were shaking.

"That…that thing got him."

"Got him?" As in…Seth was gone?

No, he wasn't. We could still make it in time to save him. We had to.

"Jacob you need your rest." Carlisle said.

"No! I'm fine." I said indignantly, hiding a yawn behind my fist.

Carlisle was trying to persuade me to sleep a little but I couldn't. Bella and Seth were in danger and I'd be damned if they died on my watch. We'd touched down about an hour ago and had managed to procure a snazzy black Escalade. Carlisle said he'd been to Ithaca before so he knew exactly which roads to take to get us there faster. We had only stopped once at a gas-station to fill up and for me to get a pee break.

Esme turned around to look at me, "You don't look very well Jacob."

"I'm fine." I insisted.

Edward pressed his chilly hand to my forehead, "You're burning up."

'What else is new?' I thought dryly.

"More than usual." Edward said with concern.

I shrugged it off, "I'm just tense. Honest."

My stomach was churning. I'd been nauseous since we'd gotten off the plane but I had a feeling it wasn't from being on solid ground. It was a warning. A warning that I was getting close to the other Ma'heen Gun. Another yawn racked my body as I leaned my head into the crook of Edward's neck.

'Jacob…kid…don't fall asleep.' Damon said.

'I'll just rest my eyes. I don't feel so hot.'

'She'll get you in your dreams.'

My eyes snapped open. That's right. I pinched my wrist a few times to wake myself up. No way was I sleeping.

Edward frowned deeply, "We can stop at a hotel if you'd like."

"Really…" I said, trying not to yawn again, "you need to stop worrying about me."

"I've been missing you so much my love."

I opened my eyes, expecting to see Edward's topaz ones but instead I saw a pair of mismatched eyes, one blue one brown. Glancing around I didn't recognize my surroundings, if you could call them that at all. Everything around me was black and colorless. It appeared I was on some sort of astral plane.

"My Damon, my love…"

The eye's owner was a willowy woman. She has dark skin like me and black hair like most of our tribe. Raised marks covered her arms. There was no mistaking them. They were vampire bites.

"I'm not Damon. Get that through your thick skull." I said indignantly.

Her eyes narrowed, "I wasn't talking to you, pup."

"She was talking to me."

I whirled around. I must've been looking into a mirror. Only there was something wrong with my reflection. I'd grown taller, if that was possible, and I looked thinner. But that wasn't the only thing wrong. My eyes weren't green. Nope, not green at all.

"It's me you dolt." The reflection said.

"Damon? Is…that what you look like?" I'd only seen him as a wolf in my mind.

He shrugged, "In the flesh…sort of." He smacked me in the back of my head. It surprisingly hurt.

"I told you not to fall asleep!" he scolded.

I rubbed my head, "Sorry. Sorry."

"Abandon this body Damon." The woman said, "Come back to me…your mate."

Damon growled, "You are not my mate, Sia. You murdered him in cold blood 200 years ago."

"Sia? She's the other shaman!" I blurted.

Damon gave me a look, "Why don't you let the grownups talk for awhile Jr. you've done enough."

"Whatever." I mumbled under my breath. I'd be glad to leave them alone if they did the same to me.

"What is it about the Cold Ones that entices you so much?" Sia asked angrily, "That you would be willing to break the treaty and abandon me! Abandon your children and your tribe!"

"We all have to make choices." Damon said, "And Alexander was mine."

I noticed how his face fell at the mention of his dead mate. Edward had almost the exact same expression when he found me with my dad's corpse.

"Just leave the boy out of this."

Sia chuckled, "You and your avatar are one in the same, Damon. The Cold-One named Edward will die and so will the child. Your selfishness caused this, nothing more."

Fucking hell I'd fallen asleep! My eyes flew open. I was in a hotel room and from the looks of it I was alone. The Cullen's scent was faint. They'd been gone for awhile. I cursed my tiredness and jumped out of bed. Streams of light were leaking in from the drawn blinds onto a small glass table with a folded note sitting on it.

I grabbed the note.

"Jacob, we've gone with Alice. She had a vision about Jasper. Please rest, love. You're not yourself when you're tired. I promise to return to you, my wolf. Know that. –Edward."

I crumpled the note in my fist, "What the hell Edward!? Rest? This isn't a Sandals resort!" I threw the note against the wall, "Relax, order room service! Ignore the fact your friends are probably dead! Fuck!"

'Time to get away.' Damon whispered to me.

I nodded, welcoming his advice for once, and bolted out the door.

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