:) HI Again! I'm so sorry this took forever. School had started and I had quizzes and exams to study for. BAH! We'll I am glad that this chapter is done because it had been staring at me.

*At the Cullen House*

When Tammy woke up it was noon. She found herself in a bed but wasn't sure whose and where she was at first. Then it all came back to her. She remembered the argument between her Aunt and Uncle, her Uncle hitting her Aunt, her running into the forest and running into the Cullens, and Sam's words rang through her mind "The Cullens are the Cold Ones."

She shook her head and remembered vaguely Rosalie hulling her into the bathroom to take a hot shower, giving her some pj's to sleep in and leading her to a room to sleep for the night. They didn't talk much which was fine for the both of them. Tammy was really drained from everything that had happened and Rosalie just didn't feel like talking that much. And though Rosalie wouldn't admit it, she was having compassion for this girl.

Tammy looked around the room. From the looks of it, with all the fashion magazines and styling tips it had to be Alice's. It was a decorative room but she could tell that not only were there girl stuff, but there was a hint of boy stuff too, possibly Jasper's. She wasn't one to judge on that kind of stuff, didn't seem to care and wasn't bothered by it at all. Tammy had seen the way they looked at each other. It was like Rosalie and Emmett, only not as passionate. To her, Alice and Jasper were calmer and relaxed. They were the example of the old fashion couple.

"It feels like everything that happened last night was all a dream." Tammy thought to herself. She heard her phone ring so she turned over on her right side and saw that Derek was calling her. She answered "Hello?" Tammy could hear people talking in the background. "He's probably at lunch right now."

"Tammy! Are you ok? I heard what happened last nig…"

Tammy then heard a rude annoying voice on the other line say "Dude she's fine. I'm sure Seattle is the best place for her." She frowned when she recognized Leo's voice.

"Not helping Leo." Muttered Derek.

Tammy sighed "Tell Leo I said hi and no I'm not in Seattle." She tried not to put any attitude in her hi but it almost came out that way. "At least the upside to this day is that I don't have to deal with people like him."

"You're still in Forks?" asked Derek.

Tammy began to wonder what new gossip the kids at school were talking about her since she didn't show up after the incident with her guardians. No doubt Jessica would spread the news. Also the fact that the Cullens and Bella were also not in school today made her wonder what conclusions and stories people were coming up with. She wasn't even sure if she should tell Derek that she had stayed the night at the Cullen household. More gossip.

She hesitated "Yeah…um I bumped into…"

"Ah shit, Derek you better get off your phone now before Mrs. Reilly comes." Warned Peter.

"Fuck! Ok cover me. So where are you at? Your cousin's place?"

"No-even though now thinking about it going there would've been a better idea. I'm at…"

"Mr. Kings! Is that a cell phone I see in your hands?" Tammy heard Mrs. Reilly the school's administrator. She was an old crabby lady and had a shrill voice. Despite her old age, her eyes were sharp. It was hard to hide anything from her. She would never allow texting or talking on your cell phone if you were a student and gave no special treatment to anyone. Mrs. Reilly was nice sometimes but that's if you followed the rules.

"Shit! I gotta go. I'll call you when school is over ok? Bye." Derek said very quickly.

"Ok, bye." After Tammy got off the phone with Derek, she looked up and saw Rosalie standing at the door way.

"I see that you're awake." Rosalie leaned on the doorway.

"Yeah I got up a couple of minutes ago. What's up?"

"Came to see if you were hungry. Alice wrote down that you eat more than we do. So I'm sure you're hungry right now." Replied Rosalie.

Tammy's stomach growled. "Yeah sorry."

Rosalie shrugged her shoulders "It gives me something to do plus I'm not constantly stalking that tracker and the female like the others."

"Have you heard from them?" asked Tammy getting out of bed.

"No, not yet." Rosalie shook her head. Then she sniffed the air and her perfect nose wrinkled. "Oh, I think you should change that pad."

Tammy then felt some of it escape onto the pad she was wearing and shivered. "I think you're right. What did you use when you used to be on your period?"

Rosalie thought for a moment and replied "I'm not exactly sure. I don't remember much of my human memories anymore." Then she shrugged "Although, I'm glad I don't really remember much of that. "

"I wouldn't blame you. I hate getting these. I prefer pads though over tampons." Tammy said getting out of bed.

Rosalie snorted and smiled "Maybe you'll change your mind after you have sex. You're still a virgin aren't you?"

Tammy froze and looked down "Yeah. It's obvious isn't it?"

"It's your innocence that gives it away. You do look young and naive on that despite your-as Edward calls it feisty attitude. Trust me you're not the only one at school. There are a few others and if you believe it even Edward is one." Rosalie glanced at her perfectly manicured nails and smirked.

"I'm not surprised on Edward. I don't' know why but it just seems like it that he's is-well to me anyways." Tammy felt a little uncomfortable talking about hers and Edward's virginity. Tammy wasn't one for talking about sex since she came from an old fashion family so it made her feel a little uncomfortable talking about it since she was inexperienced compared to her friends. Of course like many teenage girls she raging hormones and sometimes got carried away when it came to boys but never as far as sex.

"Oh well. Now hurry up and change. The smell is really strong." Rosalie backed out of the room. She really wasn't used to being around teenage girls who were on their menstrual cycle this long. Alice had always warned them about upcoming events like this and they all hunted and kept their eyes on Jasper- much to his liking. "I hope she didn't stain that bed. If she does I'm not cleaning it up!"

As Tammy passed Rosalie and headed for the bathroom she muttered "I'm so looking forward to menopause."

Rosalie laughed "I bet so."

*Somewhere in the forest*

Edward was running out of options. They were trying to distract James and the female. They were out of the state and in Canada and had been there for a while. The tracker never figured out that Esme was a decoy while Bella was really down in Phoenix with Alice and Jasper. While Esme still had the female following her; Carlisle, Edward and Emmett had the tracker on their trail and were waiting for the right moment to ambush him.

"Any sign of him Edward?" thought Carlisle.

Edward shook his head. Even though the tracker was fast, they were still way ahead of him. Edward knew that he'd be there in about 10 minutes. Emmett was high in a tree standing on top of a tree branch. Edward stood behind next to the tree so the tracker can see him and Carlisle stood on the other side hiding behind the tree.

"I can't wait to tear him apart!" Emmett was too excited and anxious that Edward had to kick the tree a little and glared at Emmett to keep down his excitement. "You're really no fun Edward. Come on, we can take him!"

Edward rolled his eyes. "Emmett can be really stupid. This isn't the time to be anxious. He needs to be focused. We can't get too over confident. I won't let anything happen to Bella!"

He wondered how Bella was doing and what she was doing at this very moment. He wondered if she was asleep or watching TV or if they were still on the road. Maybe Alice might keep her entertained by doing girl stuff. He smiled a little bit at imagining how Jasper would take it. Jasper had usually stayed away when Alice did girly things with Rosalie, Esme or by herself.

Edward had an empty feeling in his stomach. He wished he was by Bella's side this very moment protecting her. He wished he could hold her in his arms protectively. He wished he wasn't here but he knew he had to be. He would never admit it that this was a good plan for him and Bella to be separated for a little while. He was just afraid of something going wrong and Bella wound up getting hurt. "I can't think like that. This is only way I can make sure nothing happens to her."

The wind blew hard but that didn't bother them. They stood perfectly still waiting for James. They knew this was their only chance and if either of them moved even the slightest, James would hear and know he was walking into a trap. Edward tensed when he heard James' thoughts and within seconds, they heard his footsteps.

"….I can't wait til I get my hands on her. This is really going to be a fun game for me. I hadn't had this much fun in over a century! They really are making this too easy for me… " James stopped running.

That's when Edward's dead heart froze. "Why did he stop?"

Carlisle and Emmett both looked alarmed. "What's going on?" thought Emmett.

"This can't be good." Thought Carlisle. "He couldn't have figured it out. There's just no way. "

They couldn't see James but they knew he was near and they stood as still as they could be. None of them saw the big smile that came across James' face. "Sigh. This was fun boys, but you'll have to do better than that. I'll get that human one way or another!" He then took off back in the direction he came from. "Now it's time for the real fun! To the airport I go and soon enough I'll be waiting…" Then the last thing Edward was able to get out of his mind was a room with mirrors.

"Where is this?!" Edward thought to himself. Edward had no clue where there was a place with mirrors.

"What? Is he going in the other direction?!" Emmett thought as he jumped down from where he was standing.

Carlisle came up to Edward. "He figured it out didn't he?"

Edward nodded "Yes. I don't know how but Laurent was right. We shouldn't have underestimated him. He's heading to the airport right now as we speak. He'll be heading to a room with mirrors."

Carlisle scrunched his eyebrows together "A room with mirrors?"

Edward shrugged "I'm not sure what he meant by that. It could be anywhere but I doubt it's here or anywhere near Forks."

"We better come up with a new plan. He's pretty fast and could've headed back to Forks." Replied Emmett. He looked up at the sky. It was cloudy and almost midafternoon. "Dam! We almost had him too!"

"Emmett is right. He could be heading back to Forks."

Edward nodded his head and sighed. "We'll have to take care of Charlie now too." "This is unbelievable!" How the hell did he keep it out of his mind? Does he know about my ability? There's no telling what he knows."

"Don't worry about that Edward. Esme can switch off with Rosalie and take care of both Mr. Swan and Tammy."

Edward sighed. He had forgotten all about Tammy. "I hope she's ok. Rosalie BETTER be treating her right. I swear if I find her worse than when we last saw her, I will personally…."

"…I wonder if they'll ever invent flying cars. That'll be SO COOL! I can't wait for them to do that. Ugh but knowing humans it'll be a while. If we had it my way…"

Edward glared at Emmett. Emett asked "What?"

Carlisle had already dialed Alice's number and waited for it to ring. "She must've seen this and his new plan by now." It rang only once and when it was answered¸ he was the first to speak "Alice?"

Alice breathed "Carlisle."

"Did you see him change his mind?"

"Yes," Alice replied. Emmett and Edward stood near Carlisle; neither of them needed him to put Alice on speaker. They could hear her perfectly.

Carlisle continued "Edward said he's heading to the airport now. He'll be heading to a room with mirrors. He didn't see where this room is but he doesn't know where. He seems to have known all along about our plan. Hopefully we can stop him before it's too late. Did you see anything?"

Alice said "I just saw him. I saw a room that's long, with a wooden floor and mirrors everywhere. He's in the room and waiting. There is a gold stripe across the mirrors. A decision hasn't been decided yet. I'm not exactly sure when he'll be in the room. It'll be either today or tomorrow. And he's in the dark now, running a VCR in another dark place but…I'm not sure where that is either. There is a black table with a big stereo and a TV but he doesn't watch the way he does in the dark room. It was too dark for me to tell. The room is where he waits."

Carlisle looked at Edward and Edward took the phone from Carlisle's hand "Alice, may I speak to Bella please?"

Alice said "Yes," she handed the phone to Bella. Edward could hear Alice say "Bella?"

"Hello?" Bella breathed.

It was like music to Edward's ears. He almost felt relived when he heard her wonderful voice but he was still so worried and frustrated with everything that was happening. "Bella," He tried to sound normal but he thought it came out differently.

"Oh, Edward! I was so worried." She said.

"She shouldn't be worried about me! She should be worried about herself. Not me!" Edward frowned and sighed in frustration "Bella, I told you not worry about anything but yourself."

"Where are you?" She asked.

"We're here outside of Vancouver. Bella, I'm sorry-we lost him. He seems suspicious of us- he's careful to say just far enough away that I can't hear what he's thinking. But he's gone now-it looks like he's heading to the airport. We think he's heading back to Forks to start over. " "I can't believe he knew all along." He didn't want to mention that to Bella. She had enough to worry about as it was.

"I know Alice saw that he got away."

"You don't have to worry, though. He won't find anything to lead him to you. You just have to stay there and wait till we find him again." Edward was confidant on that.

"I'll be fine. Is Esme with Cahrlie?" asked Bella.

Edward froze for a split second but recovered "Yes- the female has been in town. She went to the house but while Charlie was at work. She hasn't gone near him so don't be afraid. He's safe withTammy. Esme, Rosalie are watching them." He didn't mean to lie to her about that Nobody was watching Charlie- at least not yet. And he didn't also mean to let it slip that Tammy was there too. He forgot that she didn't know about what happened with Tammy in the forest.

Carlisle and Edward looked at Edward curiously. "Bella doesn't know about Tammy!" thought Emmett.

"Well I guess now Bella has to know about Tammy now too." sighed Carlisle. "What a day."

"Are you sure Charlie's safe? And what do you mean about Tammy too? She's…she's there with them too? Why?"

"Yes, Esme won't let him out of her sight. We found Tammy in the forest after we had split up to throw the female and tracker down. I'll explain all of it later, so don't worry. We'll be there in Forks soon. If the tracker gets anywhere near Forks, we'll have him."

"Ok…. I miss you." Bella said.

"I know, Bella. Believe me, I know. It's like you've taken half myself away with you."

"Awww." Smied Emmett in his mind.

Edward glared at Emmett again and mouthed "Shut up!"

Carlisle shook his head "My boys."

"Come and get it then." Bella challenged.

Edward grinned at first and then his voice became hard "Soon, as soon as I possibly can. I will make you safe first."

Bella reminded him "I love you."

"Could you believe that despite everything I've put you through, I love you too?" asked Edward. "I can't believe she still loves me. Am I really worth it?"

"Yes, I can actually."

"I'll come for you soon."

"I'll be waiting."

Edward hung up the phone and handed the phone to Carlisle. "Now it's time to call Esme. I'm sure she must've figured something out with the female. We need to tell her to go join Rosalie and somehow get Charlie Swan over to our house."

An idea came to Edward's mind "I'm sure that Charlie is looking for Tammy so they could use that."

"Excellent! I'll tell Esme and fill her in." Carlisle had already dialed Esme's number and waited for her to answer. When she did, Carlisle said "Love, we got a new plan."

*Back At The Cullen House*

Rosalie looked at Tammy a little bit wide eyed. She couldn't imagine how one small human could eat so much. While Tammy was freshening up and changing out of her pajamas, Rosalie quickly gone to the Kings restaurant and got two large pizzas and bread sticks so that way it would save the trouble of leaving Tammy unprotected but Tammy had eaten two slices and finished all the bread sticks. Not to mention the litter of soda she brought was half way gone. "Wow!"

After Tammy whipped her mouth with her napkin, she asked "Does it suck that you can't eat human food?"

Rosalie shrugged "A little bit. I do miss eating human food sometimes. Although, I never had pizza before."

"You never had pizza before?!" asked Tammy a little loudly.

Rosalie nodded "Yes, pizza wasn't popular around my time. I was a teenager of the Great Depression but what's strange is that my family wasn't affected by it. I grew up middle class but my father did exceptionally well. He worked in a bank while my mom stayed home and made sure me and my two younger brothers didn't get into trouble." She smiled proudly "It may be hard to imagine, but I was beautiful when I was human too. My parents loved that fact. "

"That's pretty cool. I thought everybody was affected by the Great Depression. Even rich people."

"Not us. To us, it was like a rumor. Oh you should've seen how beautiful I was." Smiled Rosalie. "I wore beautiful dresses, shoes and my hair in all sorts of fancy styles."

Tammy smiled "I can imagine seeing you in those pretty dresses I see in the movies about people during the 30's. I liked the dresses from that time all the way to the 50's."

Rosalie smiled "Oh yeah I remember wearing those dresses too. The poodle dresses were nice for their time but now…I don't think I can wear them again. They are way over fashion. I love the fashion for now."

Tammy smiled "Me too. Although, some of these clothes that were picked out for me…I'm not entirely sure." Tammy was wearing some new outfit that Rosalie handed her. Alice had left a note to Rosalie that Tammy was allowed to wear her clothes. It was a good excuse for her to go shopping later.

Rosalie looked at Tammy. It was a navy blue low-cut V neck long sleeve shirt with a white frilly undershirt underneath and nice jeans. Tammy wasn't wearing any shoes but was in her socks.

"It looks cute and plus it compliments your boobs fine. Too bad Derek isn't here to see it." Smied Rosalie. "You're clothes are mostly casual and ok but I guess that didn't bother him. Now with this, you'll defiantly get his attention. Maybe next time Alice takes you shopping, I'll go with you too."

"I wouldn't mind. It was fun when I went with her but Bella really needs to lighten up and have fun."

Rosalie frowned "Oh yeah I forgot about her."

"Sorry I brought her up."

Rosalie shrugged "Oh well. What should we do next?"

"Let's see what's on TV. Maybe there's something good."

Rosalie and Tammy talked while watching the movie Little Women.

"It was one of my favorite books growing up. I always thought of myself as Amy. And I remembered how I envied her for going to France. I thought of vacationing there for when Royce and I.." Rose stopped. "….Oh no…"

Tammy looked at Rosalie "Who?"

Rosalie sighed "Well… sigh. Ok, way before I had met Emmett and before Carlisle turned me into a vampire, I was engaged to this man named Royce King."

Tammy's eyes widened "Royce King?"

Rosalie frowned "Don't be silly; he's not in any relation to Derek Kings or his family. I hate their last name so much."

"Ok so… you were engaged to some guy named Royce and I'm assuming you didn't like it?"

"Oh I did like it at first but then I had some second thoughts. You see Royce was everything that I had dreamed of- I was really shallow back then- he was the son of a very wealthy man and had everything opened up to him. We would go to parties, dances, and the theaters. He would shower me with dresses, flowers, jewelry, and everything a girl could've asked for. But I had this girlfriend who was really close to me and despite her being poor, she really had everything I had wanted and I was jealous of her. She had a husband who loved her and kissed her sweetly, and an adorable son. Royce had never kissed me like Vera's husband did and their son had the cutest dimples and curly hair. Well one night after leaving Vera's, I was walking home and I saw Royce with some friends, sons of other wealthy men. They were all really drunk.

"'Here's my Rose!' Royce shouted, laughing with them sounding just ast stupid as the others. 'You're late. We're cold; you've kept us waiting so long.'"

"Believe me, I had never seen him drunk before. A toast, now and then at a party. He'd told me he didn't like champagne. I hadn't realized that he perffered something much stronger.

"'What did I tell you John.' Royce crowed grabbing my arm and pulling me closer. 'Isn't she lovlier than your Georgia peaches?'

"His stupid friends were all from Atlanta. The man named John was dark -haired and suntanned. He looked me over like I was a horse he was buying.

"'It' shard to tell' he drawled slowly. " 'She's all covered up.'

"They all laughed and Royce suddenly ripped off my jacket from my shoulders- the jacket was a gift from him- popping the brass buttons off and scattered them to the street.

"'Show him what you look like Rose!" He laughed again and then he tore my hat out of my hair. The pins wrenched my hair from the roots and I cried out in pain. They seemed to enjoy the sound of my pain…."

Just then Rosalie's cell phone rang. Tammy tensed and Rosalie quickly picked up the phone "Hello?" She listened for a little bit, hung up the phone and went to one of the walls to punch in the code to unlock the doors and let Esme walk in quickly. As soon as she was in, Rosalie punched in the code to secure them and protect the whole house.

"What happened?" asked Tammy sitting on the couch Indian style.

"The tracker somehow figured out the plan. I'm not sure how but

"How did he figure it out?" asked Rosalie. "Not like I really care anyway." She was partly lying but there was a hint of concern in her thoughts.

"That's what we're still trying to figure out. It doesn't make sense." Said Esme. "But all that aside, we need to protect Charlie Swan now. Edward told Bella that we were taking care of him."

"Ha! Isn't that nice, he lied to her." Replied Rosalie.

"That w uncalled for." Tammy looked at Rosalie.

"Rosalie be nice." She turned to Tammy "Unfortunately, we will have to let Officer Swan that you're here."

Tammy froze. "Oh shit." "Do you think he'll take me to Seattle?" "That's a stupid question. Of course he'll take me to Seattle!"

"I'm not sure but telling him you're here is the only way we can get him here. You both need to be protected. Is that ok?" Esme asked. "I know she's scared but Officer Swan does need to know what happened to her and we can't let anything happen to him either. Bella would be upset."

Tammy nodded. "Ok."

Rosalie sat back down with Tammy on the couch and both of them watched Esme dial the number to reach Charlie Swan.

Well I hoped you like it. Thank you for being patient with me and let me know what you think! :D