Trust Factor

Chapter 15: When you Love Someone, You Follow Them Till the End

Friday January 23-2:30am-Woods-Forks Washington

Cleo sat unmoved under a tree. She could hear voices calling her name, but she didn't move. Alice's voice struck the forest every few seconds, with Edward's, Jasper's and Bella's not far behind. She could hear the rustling of leaves around her. Then a face appeared in her hiding spot.

"Cleo," Seth's voice was relived and worried.

"Seth, what are you doing here?" Cleo asked in as low a whisper as she could manage.

"Looking for you," He answered getting down next to her. "Everyone is so worried that you had been kidnapped."

As Seth sat next to Cleo, he could see the tears streaked down her cheek. He saw the fear on her face as she turned away from his glare. She was still sniffling, with her phone held close to her, hoping for a call from Rikki or Bella in Italy.

"What's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost," Seth pointed out whipping tears from her cheeks.

Cleo held her phone out to Seth. He took it and saw the message box was full. Thinking that was what she wanted him to hear, he pressed the talk button and listened. The scared voices of Rikki and Bella Hartley filled his ear as they had Cleo's not too long ago. He was shocked as he listened to the last message.

"Oh, Cleo," He said handing her phone back to her. "You mustn't be scared. The Cullen's aren't like those vampires your friends met."

"No," Cleo finally said. "That's what they thought. They killed Bella's friends, they took Zane and Lewis and they hurt Emma. I don't want to see them again."

Seth pulled Cleo closer to him. She put her head on his chest and just let him hold her for a while. Then he whispered in his ear, "You need to talk to Alice."

Cleo looked up into his eyes. He smiled back at her and said, "I just want you to know how nice she is, and she needs to know you are ok. I'll be with you the whole time."

Keeping a straight face, Cleo let Seth take her by the hand and lift her to her feet. Then They walked back through the woods were Alice was searching with Jasper. She stopped quick when she saw Seth Come up with Cleo by his side. She saw the fear in her eyes and the tears on her cheek.

"Are you alright?" She asked quick, coming to hug her. Cleo pulled away from her.

"Alice, I think you might want to hear this," Seth said taking Cleo's phone from her shaking hands.

Alice listened quietly as Rikki and Bella Hartley's voices spoke with the fear Cleo was showing. As she listened, Alice couldn't move. Every message just shocked her more. Cleo kept her eyes locked on Alice's quick changing expressions. When she was finished she handed the phone to Jasper to hear.

"Oh Cleo, I'm sorry," Alice said slowly holding her hand out to her. Cleo stayed back.

"It's the wars," Jasper said after he finished listening to the messages.

Alice nodded and said, "There has to be something we can do."

"We could go down there," Jasper suggested.

Cleo looked up at Jasper as he spoke. "You would really take me down there to see Rikki?"

"I'm not letting Cleo go alone," Seth said just as Jacob came up with Nessie.

"Not letting Cleo go where alone?" He asked. "And the others have left, they want you two." He pointed to Alice and Jasper.

"Mexico," Alice said. "Where the Sothern wars are going on, and we are taking Cleo, and apparently Seth, down there."

"Vampire wars," Jacob said scared. "I'm not letting Seth go down alone. I'm coming."

Alice smiled, then looked down at Nessie. "We can't leave Nessie alone, or take her, or leave her with the others. Which do you think Edward and Bella would hate the most?" Alice looked to Jasper with her sweet smile.

"Leaving her alone, then taking her to the others. Not that taking her with us will make them happy either," Jasper answered. "But they would freak out less if they knew she was with us."

"Ok so it's settled, We are going, taking Nessie, and not telling the others," Alice said. "you two get your things and meet us back at our house in four minutes. We will be ready to go."

Alice took Nessie's hand and started to run. Jacob and Seth went in the opposite direction. Jasper picked Cleo up on his back and started for the house.

It didn't take long to have everything ready to go. Cleo's bag was placed neatly in the back with Jacob's, Seth's and Nessie's. Jacob had left a note for his father and Seth's mother and Leah back at their house. Alice wrote a quick note to the others before strapping Nessie in the back of her Porsche which she was taking with Cleo and Nessie. Jacob and Seth were on the motorcycles with Jasper, Seth on Bella Cullen's old one.

As they all drove off quick, the note Alice wrote fluttered unnoticed to the floor. It slide soundlessly under island in the kitchen. The words written on it, "I'm sorry we had to leave so quickly, but it is an emergency. Everyone going is under their own will, except Nessie. Bella, Edward, Nessie is in ok hands and she is safe. No one should worry. Alice, Jasper, Cleo, Jacob, and Seth," lost for no one to see.

Friday January 23- 10:45am- Ash's house- Mexico

"Do you really think we are still safe here," Rikki asked Ash.

"Rikki, we haven't seen the vampires for a while. I think we are ok, for a while at least," Ash reassured her.

Emma lay on the couch. Her breathing was short and she still hadn't waken up. Rikki had taken her tempter and it was colder than normal human's, and every time it got lower. Last time she checked it was 36.

"Ash, Emma's getting worse." Rikki announced. "I think that bite might be killing her."

Tears were in Rikki's eyes as Ash came up and hugged her.

"Rikki, it will be ok. I don't know how, yet. But every think will work out." Ash said quietly.

"I hope you are right," Rikki said before pulling away and going up to her room.