A/n: sorry it took so long. Thnxs for the reviews! ( please keep them coming)

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BPOV

I was awakened by a very annoying ringing in my head. I groaned and sat up rubbing my eyes suddenly realizing that the ringing wasn't in my head but out loud coming from the table next to my bed. I reached over and grabbed at the mobile phone that sat on the bed-side table propped up next to a white shaded lamp.

"Hello." I said groggily into the phone. I glanced at the clock and realized it was about 3:00 in the morning. Ugh. I hated getting up early.

"Bella this is Carmen. There is a bad weather announcement being broadcasted. I know the three of you have had a long day but Eleazer wants everyone on call in case something goes wrong tonight. Can you get the other two up and ready and be here no later than 4?"

Listening to her I began to wake up and take notice. By the end of her speech I was on full alert. "Yes ma'am. I'll have everyone up and out the door in thirty minutes. Bye" I shouted quickly and hung up, faintly hearing her 'goodbye' before the phone clicked.

I launched out of bed, startling Jake and Seth who were both asleep in the corner.

"Go wake up Rose and Alice." I told them. "Go get Rose and Alice." I repeated. They both jumped up and ran out of the room.

I slid into the bathroom splashing cold water on my face to wake myself up.

Suddenly I heard, "AGGGGHHHH JAKE, WHAT THE HELL!!!!"

I shouted back to her room, "Rose get up there's an emergency! Storm's coming," I called running over to my dresser and pulling out a pair of jeans and then reaching for a turtle neck and sweatshirt.

As I was pulling the shirt over my head I heard footsteps approaching, "What?"
It was Rose and I can only imagine Alice beside her, wondering why in the world I was getting dressed at 3:10 in the morning.

I gave them the synopsis of what was coming while I continued to whip around the room getting ready. Both boots on, jeans, and shirts in place, I was ready and heard Rose and Alice in their respective rooms running around getting ready in a hurry.

I sprinted out into the hall and almost ran over Seth who was standing in the middle of the hall clearly confused. I whistled loudly calling for all four dogs and continued my run where I left off.

Down the stairs and shuffling in the closet under the stairs, I whipped the dogs into their gear.

Sam was still and in full 'rescue' mode. Jake and Seth seemed to be about equal in terms of stillness and excitement at watching me throw things, trip over those things that were thrown, and what not. Leah was clearly, tired. The look of pure annoyance in her eyes at having been woken was evident.

I bent down strapping on her gear, "I know you're tired, but this is important, people may need us, kids may need us." I said, her mood quickly changed to determination and focus. That was Leah, always worried about the kids.

Rose and Alice vaulted down the stairs with ease and were grabbing our gear and coats, as I put the leashes on the dogs. It was currently 3:27. Good on timing! I thought.

We trudged out into the snow and made our way over to the car. The sky was black, the wind was howling, and the snow was swirling around us.

This does not look good, I thought. I glanced over at Alice and Rose and their thoughts seemed to be along the same lines.

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Rose sped over to the training center, at least as fast as you could with out causing an accident or fishtailing or anything of that nature. We arrived at 3:43.

We jumped out of the big truck, Rose opened one of the back doors and I opened the other. The dogs jumped out on both sides and came to stand beside the three of us. Rose, Leah, and Sam ran around the front end of the truck and made their way to the front doors, Alice, Seth, Jake, and I following along behind.

The door was held open and we all made our way into the building the wind howling behind us. The dogs shook off their coats and the girls and I took off our own coats and walked into the main area.

Carmen, Eleazer, Kate, Tanya, and Irina where standing in the middle of the room. Mike, Tyler, and Eric, where standing off to the side, but for once had serious expressions plastered on their face. Surprisingly Garret, Nathan, and Sean were also amongst the crowd. They tended to volunteer, so it should not have been too surprising, but still I was not expecting them to be joining us.

In the far corner I noticed that all the dogs where lined up, leashes hooked to the wall, every one wearing a matching colored vest and black booties. Sadie, Aqua, Sunny, Oreo, Big Mike, Red, Jo-Jo, and Juno, (Max not being among them because he was not fully trained) three of which were Alaskan Malamutes; two were Siberian Huskies, two being Akita's, and Juno a Bernese mountain dog.

"Wow you made excellent time. Come over here and I'll give you the update." Eleazer said with authority.

Jake, Seth, Leah, and Sam, refused to leave our sides as we made our way over to the group in the middle.

"Okay, now that everyone is here…I received notice several hours ago that a storm was headed for us. Only till about an hour ago, did the police force find it necessary to alert us, and force people to take precautionary measures. But being so late, most were already at home in bed, so the sirens have been going off. The force is afraid avalanches might come of this storm and they are afraid of just how much snow we are going to get, they hope that people won't be buried alive, or stuck inside their homes. We have been put on full alert. As you can see all the fully trained dogs have been put into gear and are ready for anything. I want everyone to stay in this room, Carmen will go make coffee-"

The front door opening cut him off at his words. We all looked around and saw a slightly funny and relieving sight, Billy Black and crew bringing in rounds of Starbucks coffee, all appearing to be larges.

"Hey! Heard there was a storm coming and everyone has been put on high alert. I got some people together and we made coffee, for you and the police force. We need all of you to be fully charged and ready to go." Billy told us with a smile, but a serious tone to his voice. We each took a cup that was handed out to us, slowly sipping the hot contents inside.

"Sorry it may not be what you typically order, but we were trying to be simple."

We laughed and Carmen spoke, "This is incredibly kind of you, thank you so much for doing this, and I think we'll appreciate the fact that you brought us hot coffee not so much what kind it is." Everyone chuckled but agreed to her words.

"Well better get going, have to hit the other stations, before we bunker down ourselves."

A chorus of 'goodbyes' rang out from the group.

Sipping on our coffees we huddled into little groups voicing our concerns about the brewing storm.

"Oh, I hope the guys are okay." Alice said suddenly looking at her phone, noting once again that the boys had not called us, her voice laden with concern and worry.

"They'll be fine. I mean think about it, Jasper is military trained and Emmett is a doctor, if anything goes wrong they'll know what to do." Rose said with confidence and comfort.

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We had been sitting around for a few hours, 6:23, the clock read. The dogs had fallen asleep, as did a few of the group, including all of the guys. Eleazer, Carmen, Tanya, Rose, Alice, and I were the only ones still awake, yet dozing at times.

We all jumped about a mile high when we heard the front door open behind us. In walked two of the most unlikely people I thought I would ever see.

Rose, Alice, and I shot out of our seats and ran over to the unlikely couple, worry etched on our faces.

Please let them be okay, please let them be okay, I chanted in my head.

Carlisle and Esme hurried over. Tear streaks were evident on Esme's face; both had terrified and worried expressions.

"No, no, no, no" Alice kept repeating, almost to herself. I glanced at Rose and the terrified look was mirrored on her face. I gulped, praying that they were not here for the reason we all were thinking.

"Please tell me you have heard from the boys?!" Esme cried, tears bursting forth, even without us giving an answer in the positive or negative.

A collective gasp came from the three of us, I knew it!

"No," came Alice's small voice.

Esme heard and sobbed into her husband's shoulder.

Carmen and Eleazer came running over to us concern etched onto their features.

"Is everything alright? … Is there anything we can do?" Carmen asked.

I heard an intake of breath, and glanced over at Carmen on my right. Her eyes were wide in shock as she took in the shaking form of Esme.

"Esme?" she asked with uncertainty. My head danced between the two women, confusion on my face as well as others.

Esme looked up at who spoke her name; recognition lit her features as she took in Carmen.

"Carmen?! Oh my goodness! What are you doing here?" shock and happiness filled her voice.

"I work here. Why didn't you tell me that you were headed up here?"

"I didn't know you lived and worked here otherwise I would have."

The two women embraced in a hug. Carmen pulled back and held her old friend at arms length. "Honey, are the boys missing?" she asked with serious composure and puzzlement, a little worry laced within the two as well. Esme just nodded letting the tears fall once more. Carmen brought her back to her and held her tightly. I caught the glance that Carmen gave her husband.

Eleazer ran over to the others and shook them awake. I jogged over to the dogs and did the same.

Carmen's voice carried over. "Can you tell me where they were, what they were doing, anything that might help us find them faster?"

Esme sniffled and took a deep breath, trying to compose herself but just broke into sobs once more. Carlisle stepped beside her, "All we know is that they went skiing on the mountain. But after that I have no idea, we lost connection with them. We haven't heard from them since about 5 o'clock yesterday."

Alice stepped up, "I can confirm which mountain. But like Carlisle, we haven't heard from them, except we haven't heard from them since about 1 yesterday."

Eleazer walked over to Alice with the others following behind, "Which mountain?"

"The one Bella found Bree on, the main mountain. But they could have changed their mind, or drifted…" Alice took in a rattling breath.

"We'll start from there and work our way down. We'll start at the top and make a wide circle around the top of the mountain, each of us taking a section of the mountain, and search down."

"But there is just one problem…The storm… its not over." Mike said, pulling us into a pessimistic state of reality.

"He's right. We can't send everyone into a raging storm to look for people, we will end up separated and lost." Carmen said being the voice of reason.

"But, but… We can't just stand here!" Alice said in growing panic. Her eyes were wide and filled with fear, fear for the one she loved- Jasper.

"But Alice, if we go out there we could end up in trouble ourselves, causing more people to be hunted for." Tanya said rationally.

"SO!" Alice screeched. "We can't leave them out there!" Rose went over to her and took her sister into a tight embrace. Alice sobbed into her blue shirt. My face looked pained, I wanted so bad to go out into the storm just like Alice and hunt down that amazing guy, but 'Ms. Practical' came and talked down 'Ms. I-do-what-I-want-just-let-me-get-my-man'.

What was i thinking 'my man?! We weren't even dating!...But I still want him to be okay...do I like him...Arg! Now is not the time to think about this! Focus!! I shook myself out of my confusing and spiraling thoughts and looked around at everyone landing on the leader.

Eleazer sighed and looked at his feet, his brows furrowed in frustration, concentration, and concern.

"Eleazer, I want my son's back, but I do not want other people to go missing." Carlisle said simply, bringing his wife over to him. Esme looked up and although there was a hint of anger at his words, I could tell that a majority of her agreed with him.

"Our son's are very smart, they will know how to survive, whatever the circumstances."

At that Esme smiled, her eyes distance, slowly nodding her head.

Eleazer took in another breath and let it out slowly, "Fair enough. Everyone get your stuff together we leave at first sign of it stopping!"

A bustle of events happened.

Carmen took Carlisle and Esme into the kitchen, preparing the coffee.

Eleazer ran into the office and called the police force to notify of the three missing people.

The rest of us busied ourselves with getting the dogs fully into gear, putting our full gear on too.

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With my thick winter jacket, pants, and boots on, I stood in silence with Jake by my side. My hands fiddled with the leashes I held loosely in my right and left hands, my eyes downcast staring at nothing in particular. My mind was wondering over to a certain person, hoping and praying that nothing was wrong.

Alice was sitting on the arm of the leather sofa with Sam. She was staring at nothing, an occasional tear falling down her cheek or her nose.

Rose was also staring at nothing, but looked fiercely determined for this to work out. She held the leash to Leah.

Tanya had Juno. Kate was holding Sunny. Irina held Oreo. Mike had Red. Tyler was working with Jo-Jo. Garrett held onto Seth. Nathan held Big Mike and Sean had Sadie's leash. Eric was holding onto Aqua's leash.

We would be making a circle around the mountain top and working down, per Eleazer's orders, but we would be within some distance of someone else so that we would not get seperated. It would also ensure to cover full ground as the dogs would in most places overlap searching areas. Eleazer wanted to take all precautions, so we each had in our pockets a walkie-talkie, a first-aid, flashlight, and canteen of water.

At first we would all be packed together and not miss anything, but the further down we went we knew that gaps were sure to be created, so it seemed like it was up to everyone one of these dogs to find the ones who- it seemed- held Rose, Alice, and my own hearts.

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A/n: I couldn't continue this chapter any further it just kept closing itself- I will try my hardest to get the next chapter out ASAP! I just don't want to force it- next will be the search!