Okay I thought I had this broken down into two more chapters. But now it may take four because I have become so longwinded in telling this story. It's just that these funny scenes keep interrupting my serious scenes and then they take over my laptop. So instead of 13 chapters as I thought originally, it may be 15 to 18 chapters.

Chapter 12 – Finding Dr. Cullen

Edward POV

"Okay Jasper, I think the man has told us all we want to know for now. You can give him his arm back," I assured him.

Percy was nothing but forthcoming as Jasper waved his own arm in front of him and threatened to beat him with it if he didn't tell us the truth and whatever else we wanted to know. He would have a great deal of difficulty denying us the information we desired, technically, it is impossible to deny us when we are together. The combination of Alice and I, were a walking, talking lie detector system. Between my mind-reading, and her visions, not much got by us.

Percy was barely two steps above a lowly minion, although he pretended to think for himself. Even as a vampire, whatever self esteem issues you suffered from as a human, more than likely followed you in your new life. Percy had been a follower then and he remained one now. Only this time he has decided that perhaps he needed to reconsider which path was the better choice. I am sure he had concluded there will be no more Victor when we get hold of him after he relayed to us Victor's plans for my mom and dad.

"Alistair, please accept my apologies in approaching your home with all this upheaval," I said as I remembered the manners Carlisle had taught us. "We always try to show respect to the coven whose territory we are in, as we would expect no less in ours."

"Rest assured, Edward, I am well aware as to why things have transpired as they have. Alas, I am afraid all my efforts with that boy over the last 130 years have been wasted. His mother and I tried to bring him up right but after the death of her and the girls, he just…lost it somehow. He blamed me for what happened to them, said it was my fault and I have had a tenuous relationship with him since that happened. There is not a day that I don't regret what happened that night. My daughters meant the world to me. But I have had to move on and accept what life has dealt us as your Carlisle relayed to me in his own story."

"I am afraid there will be no forgiveness for your son, Alistair, and if that puts a rift between us then I will understand. But we cannot allow such an affront, a direct attack on our family to go without retaliation. My dad may be a forgiving person but we are not."

"My son left me to die with you and your brothers," he replied. "I think I already knew he would not be returning to us; not that he was ever truly with us in the first place. I am sure he thinks us all dead. What did he think those vicious red eyes would do after they slaughtered us all?"

"That's just the problem. He didn't think about it," I replied angrily. "He probably left that for Percy to handle. They would have run rampaging through your village; killed all your neighbors and brought the Volturi here to dispense their brand of justice which is to kill off everyone involved and leave."

"We will clean up and burn these bodies and find our parents," I continued. "Percy knows some of Victor's hideouts and where Carlisle was entombed. We will start there."

"What if he had been killed by the explosion? Perhaps it is best…"

"No," I interrupted him knowing what he was about to say. "Alice saw him alive and returning home. Our biggest concern is she can't see my mom. But Percy assures us she is alive also, because of what Victor wants with her," I explained as I winced seeing that thought in my head again.

"I will have him show you the location of where the cavern caved in with Carlisle inside," Alistair continued.

"NO!" Alice spoke again as her eyes glazed over. "I don't know what happens but we don't get him out. What is it about those rocks Percy?" she asked him directly.

"They are embedded with the bones and DNA of a large population of dire wolves that existed before this area was populated. It makes the rocks and stones virtually impenetrable to us as vampires. The only way I know to move those rocks is with explosives," he explained to all of us.

"Or perhaps a descendent of the dire wolf," I concluded with a thought of my own.

"Oh I get it! Hey, wolf boy!" Emmett whistled toward Jacob as if he were calling a dog to come.

Stupid, stupid, stupid was all I could think as Jacob raced toward us and phased on the fly. Then he tackled my very stupid brother and knocked him down snarling. When the dust settled, I saw Emmett with a very horrified and fearful expression on his face with Jacob towering over him. Jacob had a firm grip on Emmett's groin, his teeth only millimeters away from destroying Emmett's manhood. At this point Jacobs's black eyes shined toward me.

"Tell him what I want to hear him say," his thought reached out to my mind.

"Ah Emmett, Jacob will take a bite out of you now unless you say, 'Wolves are the better force in a fight and I worship Jacob Black and the ground he walks on'. It's your choice." I relayed the message to my traumatized brother.

"What!" he exclaimed. "You can not be serious!"

At this point, Jacob applied pressure to the mouthful of Emmett he was holding securely between his wolf's teeth. Rose will not be happy when she finds out about this. Emmett let out a seriously unmanly yelp.

"Okay, Okay. I give up. No more puppy jokes. I'll stop." Emmett pleaded fearful for his manhood now.

"I'm afraid you are going to have to say the words brother, if you ever want to show Rose you're happy to see her again." I explained trying not to laugh at the picture that I would never get out of my head.

"Yeah," Jasper piped in, "If you ever want to rise to the occasion with your wife, you'd better lower your pride and say the words bro." He actually laughed at our brother's predicament.

"Oh man!" Emmett exclaimed totally beaten and humiliated. "Wolves are the better force in a fight and I worship Jacob Black and the ground he walks on." He said with total embarrassment written on his face.

Jacob let go of his crotch and walked off giving one of his wolfish laughs again. I hid my smile as Emmett sulked off to take inventory of his boys.

I headed for the manor and said to Jasper, "I am going to go find Bella and get ready to look for Dad after we finish up here."

"I think we need to heed what Alice has said Edward," Jasper reminded me. "There is a reason she gets these visions and we need to respect that. You've tried bucking against them before and remember how that turned out?" He reminded me looking pointedly at the manor where Bella was inside.

"What do you suggest we do then brother?" I asked irritated that he would point something out I already knew but had chosen to ignore.

"We will send Percy and Jacob to the sight to find Carlisle while we clean up this mess. After they return, we will decide from there," Jasper suggested. "In the meantime I say we take the wives back to the hotel, get cleaned up and help Emmett recover some of his dignity before we return to the manor this afternoon."

"Fine, where are Jacob and Percy anyway?" I asked noticing they were not around.

"Alistair had the idea to go ahead and send them to the caverns while we work out here and get things cleaned up. He figured dad would appreciate coming back to his family not looking like they just finished in a major brawl. I agreed with him, of course." Jasper rationalized as I agreed with his ideas.

"Okay, let's go get Emmett and get to work before the villagers show up with pitchforks," I joked as we headed inside to drag out our humiliated brother and get to work.

Jacob POV

We ran towards the caverns as fast as we could. At vampire and werewolf speed, we were there in no time at all. Percy showed me the collapsed cavern and I sniffed around for a place to start. I raked my claws over the mound of rubble and it moved easily under my claws. I started to dig as I found a spot to concentrate on. The dirt was still fresh and some places were soft compared to the hardened rocks and stones of the cavern walls.

As I dug, I felt the dirt and rock start to give away as if a small cave-in had occurred. Then I heard a centuries old curse that rivaled some of my own. I started digging faster and aimed toward the sound of the voice I had already recognized as Carlisle. It was gravely and groggy but it was my future grandfather's voice.

I appreciated this man. He helped to put me back together after I was badly hurt in a fight with a bunch of newborn vampires. He helped save my best friend and cared for her and her child, a child who was now my bonded mate through imprinting. He and his family welcomed my pack of three when we broke away from the original pack to stand on our own. And he cared for anyone and everyone he could help.

This was a man who had shown nothing but goodness to me and others as long as I had known him; for someone to have brought harm to him and his wife, brought my hackles up anew just thinking about it. I wanted to literally eat this Victor character. He would probably make me throw up but I seriously thought about it as I kept digging.

Then I heard him scrambling on the other side, digging through himself, from the opposite side of this pile of dirt. Hand met paw in the middle and I let out a soft 'woof' to let him know I was coming through and to stand back. He must have understood and stepped back so I could finish the digging on my own. I barreled through the dirt and opened up a gaping whole wide enough for me to enter the cavern.