{{Seth's POV.}}

I was sitting across Charlotte on her bedroom floor. We had just finished building and painting bookshelves for her upper room.

"Now over half of them are empty, and I thought there wouldn't be enough. You know how many books I have?" Charlotte said.

"Three gigantic boxes worth. I should know, I carried them up here," I said.

"Thanks for doing that. But that's not even all of them. I have more at our old house. I think Dad was going to get the rest this weekend."

"Nerd," I coughed into my hand then smiled at her.

She lightly hit my arm. "I'm not a nerd, I just love to read."

"So says those boxes."

"I'm sorry; I didn't know they were that heavy."

I laughed. "It's fine." I was still surprised at the amount of books she had. Who ever knew a person could read so much…

Her phone sounded then mine.

It was Sam. "I have to take this," I said and left.

"Hello?"

"I'm sorry to call sense you're with Charlotte, but Seth, we have a problem at the reservation." There was a loud growl from the other end of the phone. "Jared, follow Paul! We don't need him to get killed." Another growl faded off into the distance. "We've come across two trails of vampires. I told Mr. Duckling and insisted that you stay with Charlotte in case anything goes wrong, but he said he'll be there in a few minutes to watch her."

"Okay, I'll leave as soon as he gets here."

"There's something else you should know. It's about Charlotte's mother. She's not─"

"Seth?" Charlotte interrupted. I turned to her.

"Um, sorry to bother you, but my dad wants to know who you are talking to."

"It's Sam."

"Dad? He said it's Sam," She spoke into her phone.

"Give the phone to him." I could hear his voice on the other line.

He handed the phone out to me. "He wants to talk to you."

"Okay, well I think he'll explain some of it to you," said Sam then he hung up.

I took the phone from her hand. "Sam just told me," I said into the phone. I turned my back and walked a few steps away.

"Did he tell you about her mother?"

I spoke quickly as not to be overheard but Charlotte. "No, he started to."

"We think the vampires have something to do with Charlotte's mother, Arianna. They keep coming to her place. We can't get too close or they'll attack. However, occasionally the two vampires come out but never Arianna. The pack is patrolling but the two are too fast to keep up with. I think you should stay at La Push for a few days, or at least until things start to quiet down. And the most important thing: don't say a word of this to Charlotte."

"I understand. Okay." I placed the closed phone back in her hand. "I have to go." I darted down the stairs.

"Hey, wait! What's happening?" She followed.

"It's nothing important; it's just…uh…werewolf business." I opened the door and ran into Mr. Duckling.

"Dad," said Charlotte.

"Oh, Seth. You better hurry."

"I'm just leaving." I disappeared out the door without looking back.

"Dad? What's happening?" I could hear Charlotte. She sounded so scared. I wanted to comfort her but I had no time. Even if I could, what would I tell her?

I phased and ran for the boundaries.

Seth! They all screamed my name as I was connected with them.

I'm coming.

Seth, be careful, Sam said to me. They keep disappearing, like teleporting. We have no idea what they want but it has to be something important. Find Embry and patrol with him.

Got it.

I quickly found Embry. Hey, how's it going?

Hey, Seth. Nothing's happened. I've just been patrolling.

Do you know what's going on?

Only what Sam has told us. Other than that, not a clue. But don't worry, I'm sure everything will be okay.

I hope so.

We ran in silence around the boundary that separated La Push from Forks. My mind was wandered. How was it possible that Charlotte didn't know her mother was alive? I was convinced that she knew and just didn't want to talk about it. Shows how much I know about it.

We patrolled for hours without seeing either one of them. We did however catch their scent it ended abruptly when we followed.

Now they can teleport…this just keeps getting better and better. Why can't they just be like most vampires? No abilities. That would make life so much easier. Embry was complaining.

It gives us a challenge. I don't want to be bored. I want to fight when they attack. Paul was enjoying Embry's complaining. Just suck it up.

Embry groaned but didn't say anything else.

After another two hours without anything. Sam called it quits.

I ran straight for Charlotte's house. I knew she would already be asleep but I went anyway. I stayed on the edge of the forest that faced her wall of windows. I lay down. Her breathing was soft. I quickly fell asleep.