Hey everybody! Sorry that I've been gone for so long. I went back to college to finish my degree and it kicked my ass! I really didn't have time for anything other than school work but rest assured that I will try my very best this entire summer to get at least one chapter out each week. Yay!

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Jacob POV

Weeks passed by with minimal sightings or smellings of Victoria and minimal contact with Bella. Casey still spent some time with her but they weren't close like they had been at one time and Casey wasn't spending time with the leech doctor as much. Not that I minded. Whenever she would come back after seeing him she would be mad or sort of depressed like he had given her a lecture on something she had done wrong. It was June as well and Casey was preparing for finals even spending the weekends studying.

The phone rang and Casey picked it up, "Black residence…WHAT?" Casey yelled. "You want us to come over?…ok, we'll be over soon. I thought you would be able to tell yourself…sure whatever, be over soon. Bye," she said hanging up. "We're going to Bella's," she said grabbing a jacket and throwing it on.

"Why?" I saw no reason for us to go over there especially since the leech boyfriend would most likely be there.

"Stuff is missing from Bella's room and Edward thinks he smells a vampire's scent in there," she said grabbing her keys and opening the door.

"Then why do they need us?" I asked following her to her car.

"He wants a second and third opinion cause he's overprotective," she grumbled. "Stupid, overprotective, meddling vampires, I swear it's in the venom that infects them," she said under her breath. I had a feeling she wasn't just talking about Leechward. The drive was short with Casey speeding but the silence made it seem long. We pulled into the driveway and I stopped Casey before she got out.

"Case, what's up with you? You've been acting different," I said.

"I'll tell you tonight ok? Just not now and promise me you won't see me differently, ok?" she said looking into my eyes looking completely defeated.

I nodded and we went into the house where Bella was waiting with Edward.

"Hey, Bella, Edward," Casey said smiling her fake smile.

"Good afternoon, Casey," Edward said formally.

"Will both of you quit it?" Bella asked.

Casey nodded as Edward apologized and kissed Bella making her look dazed.

"I don't sense anything off in the house," Case said her eyes closed. Her head tilted slightly to one side as if she was listening to something. "But something was here, it disturbed the air," she said.

"Disturbed the air?" Bella asked sounding lost and I was too.

"I've been gaining strange new abilities and one of them is that the elements can talk to me in a way," she said.

"Since when?" I asked.

"A couple of days ago. I thought I was crazy at first when I heard voices coming from the forest but then I realized it was the trees like I need anymore voices in my head. Anyway. Ready to head up Jake?"

I nodded and followed her up the stairs. Bella's room really hadn't changed much from when I had been here last except the room smelled even stronger of bloodsucker. "Someone else was defiantly here," I said. "Whoever it is, they smell even worse than you Cullen," I said sensing that he and Bella had followed us up.

Casey had closed her eyes again her mouth had parted slightly and her hand was out in front of her as if she was touching a wall we couldn't see. "It was a vampire," she whispered. "Not Victoria but he took some things after smelling them. They were things that only had your scent on them or your scent was strong."

"Why would they do that?" Bella asked.

Casey opened her eyes and shrugged, "Any number of reasons but what is strange is that it seems like he came when there was no one close to the house meaning that he planned it. His scent is overpowered by venom meaning he's most likely a newborn but newborns couldn't plan like this. They're too irrational," she said staring out the window with her mouth in a slight frown.

"Do you think they'll come back?" Bella asked.

"I don't think there's a reason for him to come back. If he had wanted to kill you or Charlie he would have stuck around and waited for you to come back."

"you're making too many generalizations," Edward growled. "we have no idea what a newborn would do."

"You're right we don't but this new born was being controlled and I would guess that Victoria was controlling him."

"You can't know that though."

"I don't know it for sure but it's the most logical explanation," Casey said staring at Edward looking annoyed. "Put your pride behind you and think about all the possibilities! It could be that it was and older vampire that had just fed too and likes to play games with its victms before feeding from them or it could be something else. You never know."

"We should see if we can track the scent before it disappears," I said.

Edward nodded, "Who's going to stay with Bella?"

"She'll come with," Casey said. "With any luck the vamp will come back to get her and we can take care of it."

"You want to use her as bait?" Edward growled.

"Not bait. If I wanted to use her as bait I would cut her arm making her cover an area with her blood but we're not doing that," Casey said barely holding back her anger.

"I'm sure you've done that to your friends before haven't you?" Edward asked his eyes getting darker. I inched closer to Bella just incase this got out of hand and Casey and Edward started fighting. It was amazing that I was being the rational one here.

"Never! I did it myself I would never put my friends in danger like that and especially not Bella when she can't defend herself against a vampire for more than a second," she said getting into Edward's face.

"Then why just we spread your blood everywhere?" Edward asked. A growl ripped from my throat startling Bella and Edward.

"There would be no point since the vamp seems to be after Bella."

"Can you stop talking about me like I'm not here?" Bella asked from beside me.

"Sorry, love," Edward said kissing her lips and making her just cave into him. I saw Casey roll her eyes and smile at me softly showing all her love for me in that single smile.

"Let's go check out the trail," she said turning her body towards the door but keeping her eyes locked on mine. I walked to her and grabbed her hand leading her downstairs with Bella and Edward following. Once we got outside I phased quickly and laid down to have Bella get on.

"No way is she getting on the dog," Edward said pulling Bella into him.

"Edward, she would be safe. You and I can read the vampire's mind and stop him before he even gets even close to Bella and Jake. It also allows you to cover more ground," Casey said.

"Edward, it sounds like a good idea. Jake will take care of me," Bella said pulling away from him and climbing on my back.

"Bella, don't worry about pulling out his fur, he has enough of it and it won't hurt him. Lay down on his back and squeeze his body with your legs. If you need to even wrap your arms around his neck," Case said helping her up.

"I like Jake in wolf form, he can't talk," Bella joked making Casey laugh.

I gave a small woof that made them laugh even more before I stood up slowly. Bella grabbed on tight obviously startled, "Some warning would have been nice," she mumbled.

Casey laughed again and ran off into the forest to follow the smell with Edward following close behind. I followed in a slow trot and gradually getting faster before breaking out into a full run.

Jake, what's going on? Embry asked.

The leech smelled another leech at Bells' house and called me and Case over to check it out. We're tracking it right now, I said.

"Damn it!" I heard Case yell. "Damn fucking cars!"

I stopped a little bit away from the edge of the woods that was cut by a road where the leech's smell abruptly ended.

"Can you sense where they went?" Edward asked.

"No, my new powers are too new and I don't know how to fully use them. I can sense the car was here but not where it went cause there were other cars that passed through here," she said scowling.

"Is there anyway to track it?" Bella asked.

"No, if we had gotten here sooner then we maybe could have tracked it but the trail would have been really faint even then," Casey said.

"I'll talk to Alice. She should have seen this," Edward growled. "You should have seen this!" he said yelling at Casey.

"My visions are a little fucked up right now so I couldn't and Alice can't see everything, Edward," she snapped back at him.

"This is getting us no where. Why don't we just go back?" Bella asked.

Finally, a good idea, I thought.

"I agree with Jake. that's a good idea Bella," Casey walked past me shaking up the fur on top of my head before running back the way we came. I took off too with Edward running beside me to probably make sure I didn't drop Bella. We reached the house and I phased back after Bella climbed off.

"Case we should probably head back," I said.

She nodded and hugged Bella. "Don't worry, you've got a lot of kick ass people looking after you."

Bella smiled and nodded.

We walked to Casey's car and drove back to La Push.

"What was it that you were going to tell me?" I asked.

Casey sighed, "I'll tell you when we get to the cliffs."

I nodded and relaxed into my seat. Casey parked at first beach before we walked up to the cliffs and sat near the edge.

"Please don't look at me different for this Jake," Case said her voice soft and almost weak.

"Case, you'll always be an amazing person to me," I said wrapping my arm around her.

She took a deep breath and started talking. At first it didn't sound so bad. The missions she took were to protect her City and the people she loved then it started to change. Her eyes started to glaze over and the words poured out of her mouth in a monotone voice as if she didn't care about the horrible things she was describing. Her words stated to become graphic describing every little thing that she had had to do to people that made them beg for death and how she had to laugh at them even though all she wanted to do was help them and make them better people.

"Case stop," I said. I didn't want to hear any more, I couldn't hear anymore but she kept on talking as if she hadn't heard me.

"Casey, please stop," I said closing my eyes to try and get the pictures that I had come up with, out of my mind but she kept on talking and more pictures came into my mind.

"Faith! Stop!" I yelled.

Her body jumped as if she had been shocked and her eyes cleared. She stopped talking and stared straight ahead staring out at the ocean. "I'm sorry," she whispered so soft I almost couldn't hear her.

"Why would you want to do any of that?" I asked somewhat angrily.

She lowered her eyes to her lap before speaking, "I didn't really have much of a choice. If I didn't complete my missions thoroughly then I could be executed. That's what keeps us doing the things we hate doing."

"Isn't there a way around it? Why would you even do it in the beginning?"

"It helps to keep the world in a better balance. I normally don't deal with human missions. I normally deal with missions that deal with supernatural creatures such as vampires and werewolves. Everyone though at some point has to do a mission that changes them eventually. After a couple of years you learn to separate yourself into two people, the person who is the real you with all of your morals and stuff and then the person who has no morals and doesn't care about killing. You do that too Jake. there's you and your wolf. It's just less of a difference between the two."

I didn't know what to say. I wanted to be angry. I wanted to forgive her and tell her that I understood. I wanted it to go away and never come back. I wanted to forget about it entirely and go on as we had been.

"Jake what are you thinking?" Case asked. I met her eyes and saw so much fear in her eyes that I felt like I would drown.

"I'm not going anywhere Case," I said pulling her into my lap. "I'm yours. I'm here as long as you want me." I kissed her hair inhaling her scent. It always seemed to change. Now it smelled like spring after it's rained with the smell of a flower as well.

"I want forever Jake. I want you forever."


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