Sorry for the long wait and the short chapter but it can't be helped. Have so much to do at the moment.

"What?!" Edward exploded. Somehow he could not believe what he was hearing. He had seen all his family in their mind scapes and was currently sitting with Alice and Jasper on the floor while Jasper frantically tried to calm Alice. The girl was sobbing uncontrollably and all the other ones besides Edward had no idea why she was in the state she was in.

Beside his concern for Alice something inside Edward made him furious with Emmett's suggestion. Something, the monster, inside him screamed at him the same way it had when they had last seen the boy. The monster screamed for him to protect that boy with all he had. He did not know why he had such a reaction to another beside his mate and it scared the shit out of him.

In fact not even with his mate, Bella, he had these feelings. With her he struggled constantly not to attack her and suck her dry. Even though that urge had lessened since the 'Volturi incident'.

"Why would we do something like that?" Edward continued. "He is family. Maybe even more than Severus!" He did not know why but he was not able to just give the boy up, even though it seemed like he wanted nothing to do with them.

"Maybe we should tell each other what we found out. At least some of us actually seem to have been able to get something from this," Carlisle suggested and all around him his family nodded. It was high time they told each other what they had found and why some of them had the reactions they had. "When I tried earlier in my office he would not let me near my bag and told me to leave it alone. As I left I got an image of him clutching a stuffed elephant to his chest," Carlisle begun by telling the others what he had found since he was the first to know and to find anything at all.

"He only really told me to let it go," Rosalie said sadly and Edward and Esme nodded their consent. All of them were somewhat crestfallen that they had not gotten anything real from this. Something substantial even if it only was a fleeting memory like some of the others had. All of them were quite sure that they had been close to Harry and it saddened them that he had not even given them something small to remember him by.

"He said he wanted me not to remember because he wanted me safe above anything else. When I asked him why he said because I was dear to him. I don't know why but it sounded as if he meant me more than the whole coven. I don't understand why he should feel this way," Edward said quietly.

"We will figure it out, Edward. From your reactions I guess that you three did find out something?" Carlisle asked and his three remaining children nodded.

"He sat in the chair in front of the fire and told me that I did not really need bookmarks," Jasper began to describe what he had seen. "Then I answered him 'But maybe I want to use a bookmark, Harry. After all you always used a bookmark when reading, Time Tot.' So from that I gathered what I said earlier," Jasper continued. "Somehow I it just came to me. I did not really intend to say this but it just felt right."

All of them looked at the last two that had not yet shared what they had found out. Seeing that Alice still was in no shape to share what she had found out, Emmett rose to speak.

"I had a picture on my side table," he begun, "of the whole family. The whole coven was on it, we seven plus Harry, Severus, Remus and Sirius. I still have no idea why the traitor would be in it as well but Severus and Remus seemed to be happy with him there. Maybe something changed in the Wizarding World in the time that we have no recollection of. Maybe he was wrongfully accused or something, I don't know and it doesn't matter at the moment. What matters is that Harry on the other hand seemed highly uneasy where he was." Emmett looked at his 'baby' brother. "You had your arms around him and he did not seem to like it overly much. I don't know what but I think something happened between the two of you and he felt uncomfortable when he was around you. Maybe that was the cause he erased our memories. Maybe he doesn't want to come back."

Edward stared at his brother blankly what could he have done? On the other hand the two of them seemed to have somehow overcome their differences in the time between when the picture had been taken and the moment Harry had vanished from their lives as Harry had wanted him save and after his own words 'above all else'.

"I don't think that whatever was between Harry and Edward was the reason for him erasing our memories and leaving," Alice said shakily from where she still was curled up in a tight ball. "I had a vision shortly before he left. He must somehow have seen it and that drove him to do what he did. He most likely told us what was happening with Voldemort and we have insisted to come with him. After we made that decision I had the vision and it showed me what would come of it. He could not bear it and rather made sure we were here and safe without any motivation to join this war. I think that vision is the cause he erased or memories and left without us."

"What was it?" Carlisle asked and they all knew from Alice reaction that she had seen the vision again it was definitely not pretty.

"We were in the middle of a fight there were spells flying all around us and we were fighting together. All of us were in a group when we were attacked by magical vampires. None of us stood a chance to break free. They held all of us in place and made sure that Harry was watching as they killed Esme first and then went on with Emmett. He begged them to just take him and let the rest of us go but they only laughed and told him that their lord had ordered them to break him and that we were abominations of vampires anyway and deserved to die. They then burned Rose and Edward with fiendfyre. That was the point he seemed to die inside and when Severus, Remus and Sirius came into the fight too and killed the offending vampires. But for the majority it was already too late.

"But the thing is he would have given himself up for any of us. I doubt that there is anything that could have happened that would make him want to leave us. He only wanted us to be safe. We have to get him back. There is something that we are missing. He is missing. We need him in our family. We really need him here. And he needs us as well. We have to do everything we can to get him back."

As Alice had ended the whole coven stared at her in shock. They could not believe what could have happened. Carlisle clung to Esme like Rosalie did with Emmett. Nobody moved but all of them knew one thing for sure. They had to get the person back that had put their safety before his happiness.

Sorry again that it is so short. Hope you liked it nevertheless. ~athena