Chapter Nine – A lead

Carlisle POV

My sons and I were gathered in my office again and I had my head in my hands.

Emmett spoke first "Well, dad? What's our next plan?"

"I don't know. I don't know why we can't get over such simple little things that normally don't bug us at all."

Jasper responded and said "I've got nothing. Unless we can force this guy with violence to fix this, I don't see anything that's going to do us any good."

Edward said "call the therapist again. Explain everything to him that we've tried and what went wrong. Maybe we can all team up against him and get him to change his mind."

The other two nodded and I dialed his number again. I spent the next hour explaining everything that had happened, with added input from my sons as help. By the end the doctor just sounded frustrated.

"Carlisle, you guys aren't realizing why I did this. This isn't the key. Stop focusing on getting back what you lost. Take advantage of the new."

"We tried both varieties of that and it didn't work."

"That's not it. Carlisle, I told you. You have a smart, strong family. I'm sure that you'll figure this out."

He hung up and I sighed. My three sons looked like they were about to go see the doctor and tear him to pieces and light him on fire. I was ready to join them when the phone rang.

A friendly voice coming from the speakerphone filled the room. "Hey Carlisle!"

"Jake, you're on speakerphone with everyone. Please tell us you found something out."

"Well, the guy we were with was rather unwilling to talk…something about a confidentiality agreement…we got one thing out of him though."

"What? Anything might help Jake."

"Well apparently the personalities got switched to these people for a specific reason. That was all that I could find out."

"So Rose was put in Bella's body for a specific reason?"

"Yes."

"ok, thanks Jake, you guys can head back I guess, if you have no more leads."

"Alright." He said before hanging up.

I looked at my sons who all looked confused.

Emmett spoke first again, "so if this is based around the girls, why don't we just lock them all in a room together and let them fight it out until they fix this?"

I chuckled inwardly at this idea but knew that it wouldn't be the key.

"No, that would only succeed in destroying that room or more of the house."

The guys smiled at the idea of a girl fight and I figured I ought to remind them about something else. "Which you know Esme would make all of you guys fix."

Their smiles faded instantly and they sighed.

Edward said "well, let's just talk it out with everyone. There must be issues with each person who got switched to whom. We can all just sit and talk it out."

It was a last ditch effort kind of plan but I nodded and we headed out to find the girls and bring them down to the living room where we could all sit and talk together.

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