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Chapter 25: Forever be Missing

I waited for what felt like hours not daring to move an inch. Not caring what came after me. My vision was blurry, my face was covered with tears. I was shaking uncontrollably. He had to walk through the woods he had to. He was ok, he was strong, he wouldn't just give up. I knew it, he was ok. I would know if something happen to him. I would feel it.

"BELLA!" I heard my name, it sounded like the person was miles away. "Get up! Move. Bella, PLEASE!" they wanted me to move, I was annoyed, I was waiting for Jake. couldn't they see that. I looked up for a split second as a large object collided into my side. Sending me into the air.

I landed in a heap on the ground. I gasped as the air in my lungs was suddenly knocked out. I coughed and sputtered trying to catch my breath. Realizing we were still in a fight. I kicked and punched at my attacker. I saw Michael rise to his feet in front of me. He was hovering over top of me licking his bloody lips.

I kicked up at him furiously. Coming in contact with his underbelly. He let out a low whimper. I rolled to my side and scrambled out from under him. My hand came down on a large splintered piece of wood.

I heard Michaels loud growl echo in my ear. I grabbing the splintered wood and rolled over onto my back holding the wood in front of me just as Michael pounced for me. His sharp claws dug into my leg. I let out a loud cry of pain.

I heard Edward shout my name from somewhere beside me.

Michael landed with a loud thud, and then loud whimpers and whines erupted from him as he jumped of me pulling the wood from my hands. I looked in fear, and then in satisfaction as the large splintered wood stuck out from the side of his chest.

I looked around anxiously toward everyone else. I realized there was only four left, Michael, Marcus Victoria and a male Vampire fighting beside her.

The entire pack along with Carlisle and Esme were attacking Marcus from all sides. Ripping fur and chunks from his body. I felt nauseas, I shook it away. Looking for Edward. He was fighting Victoria and the other vampire with Emmett.

I was hoisted to my feet by Alice. I looked back again and saw Rose tear into the other vampire, ripping his hand from his arm.

Emmett suddenly came barreling toward us turning into a blur as he whizzed passed us. I saw Michael fly back, wood still deep in his chest.

He growled in pain, or angry. I wasn't sure. He grabbed the splintered piece of wood in his mouth, and pulled it out hurling it toward Emmett, who was distracted by the vampire rose was trying to deal with. It struck him in the back sending him flying forward to the ground. Michael was on him, before Emmett had time to react. I tried to pull away from Alice. She wouldn't let me go.

I couldn't let anything happen to anyone else.

"Michael!" I shouted, he slid to a stop almost a foot away from Emmett who was braced for the attack. Emmett lunged forward attacking him with everything he had. I heard a loud snap. As Michaels body collapsed to the ground with a thud.

"NO!" I heard Victoria shriek from behind me. I spun around she was still fighting Edward. "You Stupid Mongrel!" She shouted.

I suddenly heard a loud furious malicious growl. I suddenly saw Marcus leap into the air over the pack that was fighting him. He headed straight toward Edward and Victoria.

"Edward." I shouted. Alice wrapped her arms around my waist keeping me in place.

He ducked just in time. Marcus now was crouching over Victoria snarling ferociously in her face.

The other vampire suddenly shot after Edward. My heart skipped a beat. Edward suddenly pounced on the vampire. Teeth bared and sparkling white. I heard the vampire let out a loud cry in agony, and it was cut short. Suddenly his head dropped to the ground, and rolled toward me. I looked at Edward, my heart skipped again.

No one was left now, it was Victoria and Marcus, and suddenly they were no longer alias. Marcus was teasing her, keeping her trapped, held tightly against the ground.

Then suddenly blood was everywhere splattering all around as Marcus viciously tore into Victoria, defining her cries of pain.

Edward was in front of me suddenly. I saw the pack all pounce at once.

"Don't watch." he warned.

I buried my face into Alice's chest. I heard snapping, and growls, snarling, crunching sounds, and then nothing.

"It's over." I heard Sam call. The pack must have changed back.

I pulled my face away from Alice. I looked over to Edward.

He looked scared.

Why would he be scared. It was over. I was bewildered, he looked terrified, he took a slow step forward.

"Bella." He whispered. "Bella, love."

My eyes widened. Why was he taking his good ole time to get to me. Screw it.

I ran toward in, my leg ached with pain, but I didn't care, all I wanted was to be in his arms.

I jumped at him. He gasped in surprise. Suddenly he wrapped his arms around me, buried his face into my hair. He kissed my neck, my shoulder, my cheek, and finally came to my lips.

"Oh Bella." I sighed. "I thought, I thought you'd be afraid."

"I was afraid." he pulled back suddenly letting go of me.

I looked at him confused. I went to step forward but my let shot up with pain again. I almost fell. Edward grabbed my arms and I buried my face into his chest and started to cry again.

"I was so scared I had lost you. He was so big, so lethal. He, I, Oh Edward." I cried as I pulled away from him glancing at every part of him.

"Are you hurt at all?" I saw some cuts on his arms, his clothes were a bit tattered but he seemed mostly unharmed.

"I'm fine Bella, I'm more worried about you."

"I'm fine, I just was scared of someone getting hurt." Then my mind flashed back to Jacob. I looked around worried.

I pulled away from Edward and spun in a circle looking at everyone, they were all mostly unharmed as well, some blood stains, bruising, cuts, tattered clothes. The pack was only wearing tattered shorts. I spun around once again. Still not finding him. I walked forward.

"Bella." Edward whispered softly.

"Hold on I have to find Jake." I stated bluntly

I pushed my way through the pack, looking at everyone's face. They looked sad, worried. Why was everyone so worried. It was over. I just had to find Jacob, I had to explain things.

I walked through everyone. Coming to the last in the cluttered group. Carlisle stood beside me. He placed his hand on my shoulder, and lowered his head.

My eyes got wide, as I spun around and looked at everyone. Jake wasn't here. No, he wasn't he couldn't be.

My mouthed opened slightly and then I remembered he was in the woods, I took off at a run, tripping over god knows what. I ran toward the edge of the clearing.

Why was no one following me, we had to go find him.

I ran through the woods, pushing branches out of my way.

"Jake!" I called. I was getting annoyed.

"Jacob!" I yelled. Why wasn't he answering me, he couldn't be that mad at me, could he?

"Bella." It wasn't him, Edward came up behind me. "Bella. Your going to get lost. Please come back to the clearing."

"No, I have to find Jacob. I have to explain I cant let things go the way they are. He shouldn't of found out that way."

"Bella." he whispered again. I turned around to look at him. He wouldn't look at my face. He just looked at the forest floor.

"Edward, what?"

"Bella, I…." His voice trailed off.

"No, your lying." I stated. As he picked me up.

"Put me down." I started hitting him as he walked me back into the clearing over to everyone else.

"Put me down, I have to go talk to him." I shouted as I smacked his arms.

"Bella, Love. Please. I'm sorry." He said softly. As he placed me on my feet.

I looked up at his face. There was nothing but sorrow in his eyes.

I shook my head, not willing my self to believe it. He was lying, he had to be lying, but why would he lie about something like that.

"No." I whispered mostly to myself. "NO he cant be! Your lying your all lying! He's just in the woods, just through there." I shouted.

"Bella." Edward shook his head.

"Bella, we cant sense him anymore, we cant here him." Quil said lightly

My face dropped.

"NO, he was just in there, he's right in through there. He never came out when.." My voice trailed off as I remembered seeing Michael come out of the woods into the clearing blood stained teeth and all, alone. No Jacob in sight. And the defining howl of pain that happen before.

I started shaking violently, if I didn't know I had no quilette blood in my bones I would have sworn I was about to transform for the first time. I started to sob heavily I collapsed to my knees. My hands over my face. I couldn't breath, I tried to gasp for air. Everything around me went black.

EDWARDS POV

"Bella! Bella." I shouted, she had collapsed to the ground. I had my arms wrapped around her trying to wake her up. It was no use.

Carlisle came running over. He looked her over. I gently rubbed my hand on her cheek as he checked her to make sure she was ok. Her ripped a piece of his shirt sleeve and wrapped it around her leg to stop the bleeding.

"Is she going to be ok?"

"She's just had a lot to take in, give her time. She'll be ok. She just fainted from the, stress." he finished.

We all knew it wasn't stress.

"Alice, run to Bella's house, write a letter to Charlie telling her you stole Bella early for a shopping trip. Give him Esme's cell phone number to check. He wont believe it until he hears it from her that she's not with Edward. Do it fast, he should be awake soon. She can't go back like this." Carlisle stated and Alice was off in a flash. Jasper took off after her.

"What are we going to do?"

"Leave her be for a minute or so, she'll wake when she's ready. I have to look at everyone else." and with that he stood. He walked over to Esme she had a few cuts but other than that she was fine.

Embry had to have his arm popped back into place, and Sam had a few broken ribs. Carlisle set them back in place.

"You shouldn't phase into wolf form for at least a few days. To make sure they set properly." He informed Sam.

"Thank you." Sam said shaking Carlisle's hand

"No thank you. We couldn't have done this with out all your help. I am terrible sorry for your loss."

"As am I, I have to be the one to tell his father."

Bella began to stir. She as screaming shouting Jacobs name.

She shot up from my lap and looked around.

"No" was all she said she was on her feet.

"He, Cant be, he just cant."

"Bella." I grabbed her in my arms.

"No." she whispered.

She began to sob in my chest again. I tried to suppress mine, it did nothing. Tears began to roll down my face.

Bella was hurting, she was in pain, and there was nothing I could to do ease it.

"He can't be. We have to go look for him."

"Bella, we did, and we don't sense him anymore. I cant feel him anywhere." Embry came up beside her and put his hand on her shoulder. She leaned over to him.

"No, try again." She yelled.

Quil was suddenly a wolf. His eyes were closed.

"Embry look for him. We have to find him!" She was screaming, shouting at us.

Quil took off at a run into the woods, Embry followed. The entire pack walked toward the woods. I could hear they were just doing it to appease Bella. They couldn't sense him anymore, and that could only mean one thing. Unless Jacob was a miraculously quick learner on how to ignore the wolf instinct. He was gone.

Bella took off at a job toward the woods. We all followed.

All around you heard Jacobs name being shouted. We all were searching for him, any sign of him. There was none.

"Edward? Bella?" I heard Alice shout.

I pulled Bella toward where Alice was. We walked over to her.

"I left the note like Carlisle had said."

I heard Bella gasp lowly from beside me. I turned to look at her face.

She was staring directly at Alice.

"What?" Alice said nervously as she looked all around her.

She took a few steps back. As the pack and the rest of my family suddenly circled her.

"No." Bella whispered as she collapsed to her knees again in front of a large burnt area of the woods floor. Jacobs tattered burnt shorts lay in the center of ashes.

I kneeled down beside Bella. Wrapping my arms around her gently.

I knew I couldn't heal her pain. I could do nothing but let her cry, and comfort her as she did. She had lost her best friend. I then realized how much she truly cared about him. I suddenly was kicking myself for not listening to her when she told us to get along. I knew how much it had tore her up to have the to most important men in her life fighting and being at each others throats all the time. She sobbed heavily into my shirt. My sudden realization made me grieve for the loss too. Knowing if Bella had cared that much about him, he couldn't have been that bad of a person. Even if he was trying to steal the reason for my existence, he didn't deserve this.

"Bella, I'm so sorry." I said as I rubbed her back. It only made her sob more.

"He can't be gone." She cried.

Quil and Embry quietly Knelt beside me, head bowed in silence. She looked up for a second, and slowly stopped sobbing. I only saw sadness and pain in her eyes. She reached for Quil's hand. I let her go softly. Quil pulled her into a hug and she began to cry again. Embry leaned his head onto her shoulder.

I wanted to pull her away, pull her into a hug, and suck the pain out of her. But I knew that was impossible there was nothing that was going to heal the pain she felt. The pain we all felt.

Jasper kept sending waves of calm to everyone but soon gave up. He had to walk away the emotions were just to much for him.

Alice soon followed after him, after Carlisle had examined her arm. She had been bitten. The vampire venom and stung her arm badly but that was the extent of her injuries. It would heal over night.

I wished Bella would heal that quickly.

I looked down at her as she hiccupped into Quil's chest. Embry was shaking, but not from anger, he was sad for the loss of his friend as well.

The three of them sat there on the ground for a long while. Consoling each other. I wanted to pull Bella away, but I knew she needed this. I knew they all needed this.

I walked over to Sam who was sitting on a fallen tree. His face in his hands.

"I'm sorry for your loss Sam." I said, he looked up at me and nodded.

"I think this will effect us all."

I nodded and agreed.

"Werewolf and Vampire alike." I added.

I thought your kind couldn't cry? He thought

His sudden thought startled me. I raised my hand to my face and felt he wetness that was now leaking from my eyes.

He narrowed his for a moment "I Forgot you could read my thoughts." he stated

"Yea, I, sorry." I said as I wiped my face. "Usually we can't, no ones heard of it before. it's a recent development to me to. It started when I cried over Bella a few weeks ago." I stated, probably telling more than I should, but at this point I didn't care, I owed Sam for my life. As he did me. We had fought side by side against Marcus. Saving one another a few times.

"That's strange, I've never heard of it before."

"Carlisle looked in all his books, there was nothing about it. He thinks with deep sadness, deep emotion some how I can now." I shrugged unsure.

"Thank you Edward." is sudden thanks baffled me.

"For what" I stated as I wiped my eyes again. Trying to blink the tears away.

"This has showed me that maybe your, family at least is different. You cry for Jacob as the rest of my pack and Bella do."

I went to open my mouth but he raised his hand.

"You may be crying because of the loss that Bella feels for Jacob, but at the same time it is your own loss. I see that now, alias or not, we have no reason to fight a battle against each other. I see that now. Jacob tried to tell me that a while ago with Bella. I wouldn't listen. You were gone why did I have to." He grinned. "You came back and with that I the treaty came back. I see no reason for a treaty anymore."

My eyes widened in fear for a short second. Sam laughed half heartedly.

"Not because we can now fight each other. Just I see no reason to keep up the fight to keep you off our land. You fought well, you saved my life, you grieve for my loss. Enemy of my enemy is my friend."

"Yea, you saved my life to." I said

Carlisle walked toward us.

"Thank you Sam."

Sam stood to shake Carlisle's hand.

"Please let us know when if you need anything, anything at all."

"His father will make the arrangements."

"If he needs help with anything, doesn't matter the cost. You tell him I am more than willing to help. Jacob fought well tonight, he should have a proper and fitting burial. He should be remembered for the great person he was." Carlisle stated, Sam nodded.

I heard Bella sob loudly again. I walked over to her. Quil lifted her slightly I picked her up.

"Edward, take, me, home." she whimpered shakily.

"Ok love."

I walked away from everyone else. Leaving behind Jacobs ashes.

I wanted to walk forever, walk Bella as far away from this place as possible. Let her forget it quickly. I knew it wouldn't help though. It didn't matter how far I took her. Jacob would always be a part of her, a part of her that would forever be missing.

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