I'm so so so so so sorry for leaving you all on a cliffhanger. I hate them too, one because they leave you hanging and two because they are so difficult to write a whole chapter on because you have to keep up the excitement for a whole 6,000 words. That's another reason why I took so long, some of you may have noticed that my chapters are never (except for three of them at the beginning) shorter than 6,000 words, I think they're too short otherwise, (this is why I got stuck) also, another reason why this took so long to write is because I hit a block half way through the chapter! It was so annoying! But I finally wrote, something. I'm building up the mystery :D
The four of them were standing in what looked like an underground bunker. The walls were made of earth and stone and there were pillars made of stone holding the whole thing up. The room was huge, it was probably the size of the house, covering exactly the same area as it did. What was amazing was that the entire bunker was full of things; paintings, sculptures, boxes, cases, shelves, chests of draws, antiques. There were several tables all with different things from different eras, old phones, old clocks, old rocking chairs, old candle sticks, old mirrors. There was a shelf full of old guns, another full of keys, another with a few record players and grammar phones. The furniture that littered the bunker were all old, worn and probably expensive. There even some olden day cars lying around, mainly were the garage was. One of the very first every made cars was there — those aren't even made anymore — and then the types of cars went up from there. The four of them stepped further into the bunker, looking at all the stuff, around three of the twins' houses worth of furniture was stored down there.
"Woah" Embry muttered
"Look at all this stuff" Sophie commented
"There's everything down here" Jacob noticed
"I've never even seem half of this stuff before" Cat confessed
"I've only seen some of them in pictures" Sophie said looking at her.
"Why would something like this be here? And under ground where no one can even reach it?" Jacob questioned, Cat shook her head, not knowing the answer.
"Has anyone else noticed that it's right below the house?" Embry asked looking at the twins. They nodded. Cat walked past a piano and brushed her fingers along the keys, it played perfectly.
"This stuff isn't even broken, it's just being stored" she muttered
"Have you noticed that none of it's covered in dust?" Sophie confessed
"Yeah, everything looks like it was cleaned this morning" Jacob agreed, their voices echoed off the walls around them.
"Look at all these paintings" Sophie said "This one's from the 1800's, look at their clothes" she said pointing
"This one's even older" Cat muttered
"How do you know?" Jacob wondered
"Because, in the corner it has the date, 24th of April 1685" she pointed
"But dates are only put on original paintings" Sophie muttered looking at them
"So?" Embry asked
"So how could an original painting, from more than four centuries ago, be here? Paintings this old should either be ruined or in a museum, especially if they're valuable" Sophie explained
"How do you know it's valuable?" Jacob wondered
"Because it's below our house which costs a fortune" Sophie shrugged
"That doesn't mean it's valuable" Cat muttered
"Still, I don't see why else it would be stored here, if it wasn't valuable you could just throw it away, the same with the rest of this stuff. I mean why would you keep a car that old when the parts for it aren't even made anymore? Unless it holds value." Sophie said pointing to it
"In a few years that could be priceless" Cat sighed agreeing, Sophie nodded
"Could be priceless now"
"Why would you leave it behind here though?" Jacob wondered, the twins shook their heads again. They walked through the bunker, looking at everything. There were old beds, dressers, even a clothes rack full of clothes.
"Look at these" Sophie muttered taking one off and laying it against her
"What era are those from?" Cat wondered
"Not sure, 17, maybe 1800's" Sophie muttered "They have petticoats and everything"
"Now they're storing clothes?" Cat wondered
"Might be hoping they come back into fashion" Sophie shrugged
"I doubt it" Cat confessed, she took one of the dresses off and laid it against herself "… well, maybe" she changed her mind smiling
"They're cute" Sophie grinned
"Hey" Jacob called. The girls put the dresses back on the rack and they all walked over to Jacob to find him looking at a chess set. They looked at it for a while waiting for Jacob to speak, he didn't.
"What?" Embry wondered, breaking the silence. Jacob picked up one of the pieces and handed it to him, Embry looked at him confused as he held it
"Doesn't that feel too heavy for a chess piece?" Jacob asked, Embry tested it before nodding,
"Heavy?" Sophie muttered taking the piece from Embry "That's weird" she muttered. Cat picked up another piece and examined it before her eyes widened.
"They're solid gold" she muttered, the boys mouths dropped and Embry took the piece back from Sophie.
"Are you sure?" Sophie asked picking up another piece.
"Controller of minerals here. Course I'm sure" Cat nodded, shocked
"This entire room must cost more than the United States" Sophie muttered looking around
"A solid gold Chess set" Jacob muttered
"Moving on" Cat said as she took the piece from his hand and pushing him away from it.
"Who buys a solid gold chess piece and then stores it down here to collect dust?" Embry wondered
"Well, it's been cleaned so it's not collecting to much dust" Sophie smirked, Embry rolled his eyes
"You know what I mean"
"They even have chandeliers down here" Cat muttered looking at one that was just sitting on the floor.
"Let me guess, it's made of crystals?" Jacob huffed sarcastically, Cat crouched down next to it and held a piece
"Yep, it is" she nodded, Jacob gapped
"I was joking" he admitted, Cat shrugged.
"You know what we should do?" Sophie finally decided calling over to them all
"What?" Cat asked calling back
"Call Carlisle" she answered
"Carlisle?" Cat questioned as Sophie walked up to her
"Well, he will be able to tell what era all this stuff came from, he lived through the last three, we can at least eliminate some of this stuff from the age list." Sophie explained, Cat looked around and nodded. She pulled out her phone and dialled the Cullen's number
"Hello?" Esme answered after the second ring
"Hey Esme, it's Cat" Cat said
"Oh hello dear, are you alright?" she wondered
"Physically yes. Can you get Carlisle for me?" Cat asked
"Uh, sure" Esme said, sounding confused, there was a bit of shuffling before Carlisle took the phone
"What's wrong Cat?" he asked
"We — Sophie, Jacob, Embry and I — found something. Could you come down to our house and take a look at it?" Cat asked looking around
"Sure?" he said confused
"The others can come too, we just need a little… help" Cat confessed
"We'll be there soon" Carlisle promised
"You want to go the the left side of the house, there's a hole in the ground, to find us, follow our scent down it, we're at the end" Cat explained
"What are they doing down a hole?" she heard Emmett asked
"Come and you'll find out" Cat said before hanging up.
"Did you need to call them all?" Jacob asked
"They're all from different eras, they can all help" Cat reminded him
"They aren't that bad" Sophie said, Embry shrugged. A few minutes past before they heard a shout.
"Cat, Sophie?!" Carlisle called
"Down here" Sophie called back, they heard foot steps
"Woah" Emmett commented
"Look at it all" Rosalie muttered. They reached the twins half way down the bunker
"What is all this?" Alice wondered
"We don't know" Sophie confessed
"How'd you find it?" Jasper asked, everyone looked at Cat
"I felt it" she answered, though she look confused
"What is it?" Esme asked, noticing her expression.
"I've lived here for almost a year, how could I not have known it was here until today, this place is huge, it's not easy to hide something like this from me" Cat explained "And if someone did hide it, how the hell did they hide it's vibrations, and how did they think that someone might have been able to find it like that?" she said
"I was wondered that too, how come we didn't find it till now?" Sophie admitted
"I'm just frustrated that it seems to have been here for years, and yet I've only just noticed it" Cat said
"If it is protected in some way, that would explained why you thought everything felt fuzzy" Sophie remembered
"Doesn't explain how someone protected it from such a thing. I mean that kind of talk reminds me of magic" Cat confessed
"Yeah, I know…" Sophie nodded annoyed.
"What did you need my help with?" Carlisle wondered, changing the topic.
"Where all this came from" Sophie answered "There are things here from four centuries ago, but we don't know how far back it all goes"
"You think we'll know?" Emmett asked
"You have lived longer than we have" Cat reminded him
"Well, lets spread out and take a look shall we" Esme decided, wanting to help the two girls. They did just that and everyone look at everything, examining it all.
"Woah" Emmett bursted out. Cat sighed
"Emmett, leave the solid gold chess set alone" she called from around a corner as she looked at an old grandfather clock.
"So it is solid gold" Emmett called
"Put the bishop down" Cat said annoyed
"How the hell did you do that?" Rosalie asked approaching her
"Gold's heavy, it's not difficult" Cat grinned, talking about her vibrations. Edward was looking through a book shelf, Esme was admiring the furniture, Alice was admiring the boxes of jewellery and Carlisle was looking over everything. Rosalie and Emmett were just touching and looking at anything that took their fancy, they didn't look like they were as concerned about the whole place as everyone else.
"Take a look at this bicycle" Jasper noticed, it was one of those bikes with the huge front wheel and tiny back wheel.
"I haven't seen one of those for years" Carlisle admitted looking at it.
"Any idea how old any of this stuff is?" Sophie asked him as she approached them
"It all varies over several centuries. Some of it I don't even recognise." Carlisle confessed
"The oldest car is from 1769. That was when automobiles were seen as a success and sold, but only the richest could afford them" Carlisle explained "Phones weren't made until the 20th century so those are kind of recent. The grammar phones were made in 1877. As far as I know the oldest thing I've seen in here is from the 1400's, but I only know that from research." he informed them
"The 1400's that was like seven centuries ago" Cat said shocked as she ran to their side, over hearing the conversation. Carlisle nodded
"Damn" Jacob muttered standing not far off.
"I've never seen anything containing as many antiques in one place like this, other than in a museum" Edward admitted walking up to them.
"These are mainly inventions though, house hold objects" Esme noticed
"So someone's emptied their house, what? Three times and just stored it here?" Embry asked, everyone shrugged
"What do you guys do with all your old things?" Sophie wondered, looking at the Cullens
"Store it, or sell it. But even we don't have this much old stuff" Edward admitted
"Well, we're officially richer than you now" Cat muttered, Edward rolled his eyes
"As it that's what you care about" he mumbled
"Well, it's gotta be difficult to be richer then someone who's been a doctor and earning money for 300 years" Cat shrugged looking at Carlisle.
"Uh, guys, I found something you all might wanna take a look at" Rosalie called interrupting their conversation. Everyone walked to the furthest end of the bunker which was a dead end, under where the games room was. Rosalie and Emmett were standing in front of a huge sheet that was covering the wall behind it.
"What is it?" Sophie wondered
"We don't know, but something that big and covered up can only be important" Rosalie confessed. Cat and Sophie glanced at one another before they both walked up to the sheet and pulled on it, a lot of dust fell off as it slipped off its object. Everyone waved their hands coughing before Cat forced the dust to settle. Behind the cloth had been a huge painting, the frame was gold and had swirl carvings on it.
"Oh my god" Alice muttered. The painting was a portrait, it contained a women, a man and two little girls, all wearing 1700 clothing, the frilly sleeves and frilly bodice and long dresses.
"Is it me or does that look like your mom" Embry muttered standing next to Sophie
"And your dad" Jacob agreed
"But that's impossible" Alice thought, she walked towards the corner of the painting "This was painted in 1758" she said turning to face them "That was what? Just over two centuries ago" she looked at the twins confused. They stared at the painting in shock until Sophie spoke
"Cat, tell me, do those two girls…" she began, unable to take her eyes off of them.
"I was just thinking that" Cat nodded
"They do look awfully familiar" Rosalie noticed
"That's cause they're us" Cat muttered, everyone looked at them shocked
"How can they be you? They're around five years old, in a painting panted two centuries ago, they'd be dead" Jacob reminded them
"We know" Sophie nodded "But that's exactly what we looked like when we were little, just without those old clothes". The two girls were the same height, one had short, golden hair that hung in ringlets, her cobalt blue eyes were wide and the smile on her face gorgeous. The other had straight, short, bleach blond hair. Her aqua eyes were shinning and the smile on her face was cheerful and happy. The golden girl was wearing a red and gold dress while the bleach one wore a light blue and silver one.
"They even matched the colours up, blue for you, red for me" Cat muttered with a heavy sigh.
"This can't be possible" Embry thought
"Is there any way you can be positive those girls are you and not just madly accurate cones" Alice wondered
"Or maybe you two have reincarnated" Emmett joked
"It's not funny Emmett" Edward scolded
"I think I know a way" Sophie muttered, she walked up closer to the painting and levitated up to the height of the children's faces. Cat reached up to her neck to touch her birth necklace around her neck.
"You really think they'd have something like these back then?" she asked
"No, but they might have something" Sophie muttered as she placed her fingers on the canvas.
"Well?" Cat wondered after a few minutes
"Nothing" Sophie said before she moved back and examined the painting "I don't see anything to prove that it's us"
"Except for the fact that those look like our parents and it's under our house" Cat reminded everyone
"If they were your parents it'd explain where all this stuff came from" Carlisle admitted looking at the furniture and things.
"But it would only create more questions than it would answer" Sophie muttered
"Like how they are still in their twenties, young and not vampires after so many centuries." Cat added
"What do vampires have anything to do with it?" Edward wondered
"How else do normal people live forever unless they become vampires?" Sophie wondered as she landed back next to Cat as they all stared at the painting.
"And it they have lived for centuries, and so apparently have we, than how come we don't remember anything?" Cat questioned "How come we only remember the last 19 years?"
"And why wouldn't they tell us anything? Why would they keep it a secret?" Sophie muttered. Cat's expression showed a bit of realisation
"Sophie, do you remember when those two people attacked us?" she asked, Sophie looked at her and nodded "Remember what that man said to you?" Sophie thought
"He said ' "It's amazing how every time you grow up to look the exact same" ' and ' "They still haven't told you. What terrible people they are, hiding the truth" ' and something about being kept in the dark and lied to my whole life" she remembered, Cat looked at her "You don't think they meant that mum and dad were the ones lying?" Sophie asked her
"I don't know, this situation just reminds me of how they know something about us that we don't" Cat said.
"But we grew up in Miami, we had a princess party for our fifth birthday. We had our first day of primary school and that boy toppled over a stack of chairs. We gained our powers at thirteen and went three weeks without the other knowing until we read one another's minds. I became the top marking student in high school. We moved here and you through a huff about it" Sophie listed the memories "Where, in all of that, was there time for us to be around in the seventeenth century?" she questioned
"I don't know." Cat looked at the others but they all shook their heads
"There will be an explanation to it all" Esme assured them, putting her arm around Sophie
"But when do we get to hear it?" Sophie muttered, placing her head on Esme's shoulder, the caring vampire stroked her head.
"I will admit, it's a great painting" Rosalie said
"You two were so cute when we were little" Alice said sweetly, smiling. Cat cracked a smile, finally.
"We did ok" she muttered
"I wonder how they got all this stuff down here" Jasper finally wondered, everyone looked at him
"Good questioned" Cat muttered. She walked up to the wall and placed her hand on the dirt, she stood their for a minute before she walked along side the wall, her hand brushing over it. Everyone followed her as she walked until she came to a shelf
"Dead end" Jacob muttered
"Not" Cat said, she leaned against the shelf and it slid along the ground easily, revealing a door behind it.
"Why cover up a door, if you don't think anyone's gonna come down here?" Rosalie questioned
"Who knows" Sophie muttered as Cat opened the door, it was an old wooden door, the handle was large, round and rusted, the door creaked as she opened it.
"It's not even locked" she muttered
"Shit security" Emmett mumbled
"That's a 1860's door" Carlisle noticed
"Great something else old" Sophie grumbled as Cat walked through the door, she sighed
"Well, I found the entrance"
"What do you mean?" Sophie walked up to her and saw a set of stairs going upwards "What's the betting that goes to our house?" she frowned
"High" Cat sighed and she begun to climb the stairs, everyone else following her. They walked for a few minutes, it was sorter than the walk into the bunker, but also steeper. Eventually the ground levelled out and they came to a blocked door. The door was not much a of a door, it was just a wood panelling, a light was shinning from behind it.
"There's no handle" Sophie noticed
"Why would you put a handle on a secret door?" Cat asked, Sophie shrugged, Cat brushed her fingers over the wood until she found a button, she pushed it and the door swung open. The eleven of them filed out of the earth tunnel.
"Well would you look at that" Cat said her hands on her hips, they were standing in the twins' library in their house, the door had been one of the book shelves.
"Like every mystery novel ever made, a door behind a book case, how original" Sophie complained. The shelf shut behind them and Edward walked over to examine it. There was a single gap in the shelf, he reached in and found another button, he pushed it and the shelf opened again.
"Think our parents know about that?" Sophie wondered
"If that's their stuff, yes. Otherwise, not sure" Cat sighed
"Why do you always get more questions before you get any answers?" Sophie muttered
"I wonder how long that's been there?" Jasper muttered
"Probably as long as the door below has been" Rosalie decided
"Not when there are things down there that are even older" Carlisle disagreed
"I bet I could find out" Cat admitted, everyone looked at her "The earth leaves traces too, I could find out when that bunker was dug up, but I'd need time and we don't know what time Mum and Dad are coming back so, I can't do it know" she said
"We'll do it another time they're out all day" Sophie decided, Cat nodded
"Thanks for helping us out guys" she said to the Cullens
"It's no problem" Esme smiled at her and walked over to give her a hug
"Thanks Esme" Cat muttered smiling
"We'll see you guys later?" Sophie said
"Tell us if you get any news" Carlisle said "We're here for you both"
"Thanks Carlisle" Sophie said gratefully. The Cullens filed into the garage where Cat opened one of the doors and they all sped out and away, back to their own house.
"You two alright?" Jacob asked, placing his arms around Cat, comfortingly
"Not sure" Cat muttered, there was a pause as Embry held Sophie to him also
"What if those girls are us?" Sophie eventually muttered
"Than we need some answers" Cat decided
"Where do we get them from?" Sophie asked
"Not sure, but there has to be somewhere that could answer something" Cat thought
"I thought our questions would've been easily answered after we found out what we are" Sophie confessed
"You said so yourself, nothings easy or normal with us. Of course it wouldn't be that easy" Cat complained
"What do you want to do?" Jacob asked her
"Right now, I want to go upstairs to my room, and sleep" Cat sighed closing her eyes
"Sounds like a plan" Sophie nodded "Today's been too busy"
"Agreed" Cat nodded "Come on" she yawned and took Jacob's hand, dragging him upstairs with her, Sophie and Embry followed.
"Morning girls" Caren greeted cheerfully the next morning
"Morning" they answered groggily
"Are you two alright?" Caren wondered
"Yeah, just tired, we had a long day yesterday" Cat confessed
"Should we ask her about it?" Sophie asked sleepily
"No, what if she doesn't know anything and doesn't even believe us?" Cat reminded her
"Only one way to find out if she doesn't" Sophie confused
"No" Cat said "I don't think it's a smart idea, not yet, we don't know for sure of anything. We'll ask after we're sure"
"Fine" Sophie agreed as she had some hot coffee.
"Wow, did you two go to a secret party last night or something?" John asked walking in, grinning
"Feels like it" Cat said her head on the bench
"Are you sure you're alright?" Caren asked again
"Peachy" Cat held up her thumbs, though not removing her forehead form the bench
"No one says peachy anymore Cat" John admitted
"Well I just did" Cat said sourly before she got up and left the room. Caren and John looked at each other before looking at Sophie, she shook her head and left also, following her sister up the stairs.
"That was a little rude" Sophie confessed walking into Cat's room
"I'm not happy with them currently, ok" Cat said, she was lying on her bed, staring out the window.
"We don't even know if they're guilty of anything, you just said that yourself" Sophie reminded her
"Doesn't mean I'm not suspicious" Cat admitted
"Innocent till proven guilty, Cat" Sophie went and laid on the bed with her, using Cat's back as a pillow
"How can you say that? We might actually be old than Carlisle, they might be even older than that, and they haven't even told us! They could have actually been lying to us for longer than we even can imagine" Cat bursted out
"But they also might not have been" Sophie reminded her "You just said that"
"You saw that picture Sophie! It's more proof that something's going on" Cat raged
"I saw a painting. It might have been of us, it might not have been, we don't know that. For all we know mum and dad might have dressed us up like that when we were younger for a family portrait" Sophie said
"Now you're just making things up to make them sound innocent" Cat said
"And you know that it's definitely not that reason because?" Sophie asked
"Why would you date it 1758?" Cat questioned
"Make it more realistic" Sophie shrugged
"I can't believe you're actually convincing yourself of this?!" Cat raged standing up "I've already got enough questions about myself that I don't have answers to, now thanks to that stupid painting I have more questions than answers. I'm sick of being lied to about myself and I just want bloody answers! I'm sick of my life being a stupid question!" she raged "For once I just want the truth!" Cat turned around and jumped out the door, disappearing into the trees in a flash. Sophie sighed
"Me too" she muttered, still lying on her sister's bed.
Cat's POV.
I was sitting in a tree, again. I'd ran for ages, for a normal person it might have taken a few hours but I really needed to let loose, so I ran at full speed and made it in minutes. I'd found a cliff and grown the tree off the edge. I was sitting as far up as the branches would hold me, just staring at the scene below. The town of Forks was to my right in the distance, the beach of LaPush further ahead, the rest was just trees and a few lakes here and there. There was a wind blowing, moving the clouds, the sky wasn't clear like it had been the last few days. The sun rays fought to reach the ground, the few that did get passed the clouds, glittered the ocean.
I sighed. I know I shouldn't have snapped at Sophie, but I couldn't help it. My whole life had been perfect, till I turned thirteen and then the questions had arisen. I thought we'd answered most of them, the other questions I could live without an answer for… but now, now was different. Now I had too many questions and it was driving me nuts, not only that but the only people who I knew would be able to answer my questions attacked Sophie and I, for a reason still unknown, which just brought up more questions.
"They didn't help either, they just created more problems instead of solving any" I muttered to myself. Why did everyone insist on beating around the bush? Why couldn't they just answer us straight up? What was the reason to hide the truth from us? What was the harm in us knowing the truth? And about ourselves no less? I sure didn't see a reason.
"I'd never lie to my kids about what they were" I muttered, though I guess because I've been through something similar, I'd know how they felt.
"How confused they'd be" I sighed. The wind blew and I shut my eyes, just listening to it whistle calmly past me. I opened my eyes and looked at the cloud covered sky, I sighed again.
"I don't even know if mum and dad are to blame" I muttered "I told Sophie that and yet, I still snapped at her" how stupid could I get? Why did I have to be such a bloody hot head?
Jacob's POV.
I couldn't believe this, Cat might be even older than the Cullens. And if that's possible, than what is she? As far as we knew the only immortal, or non-changing creatures were werewolves and vampires… than again we didn't know anything other than those two things existed until the twins showed up. I feel so awful for her, Cat has had enough questions about her life, she didn't need anymore. Plus the fact that those two strangers are after them, then there's Bella's wedding and they're being dragged around for that. They have too much to worry about, they do not need more questions.
"Do you think there's anything we can do?" Embry asked. Right, I forgot, I'm not alone. Embry, Quil and I were all on patrol, running the boarder line. My four legs pushing me faster than I really needed to go, the wind blew through my fur like a comb as I ran.
"Not sure" I sighed
"I feel so sorry for them, to think their own parents might have been lying to them their whole lives. Their own family" Quil frowned
"Uh Quil, that happened to us" I reminded him "Our family didn't tell us about this important change" I said talking about the wolf side of us.
"Technically they did, they told us the stories our whole life" Embry corrected me
"It's not the same as actually saying to our faces 'son you're a werewolf' " I thought
"But we at least had the stories to make sense of it all, the girls don't even have that. Imagine if we were completely clueless about all this? We wouldn't understand why we even phased at all" Quil said pitifully.
"We need to help them, it's killing me seeing Sophie like that" Embry sighed
"Yeah…" I muttered
"I know you're worried about them, but I don't really think we can do much" Quil admitted
"Thanks for reminding me how helpless I am" I grumbled
"That's not what I meant. I'm pretty sure, that right know, the one thing they are sure about are you two, make sure that's true"
"Alright mr love guru" Embry teased. Quill huffed, now embarrassed.
"Yeah, since when did you become all wise?" I smirked. He didn't answer us but his thoughts were telling us how annoyed he was and how he should have kept his mouth shut
"Yeah, you should have" Embry commented. I felt my mind expanding as someone else joined us, it was Seth.
"What's up Seth?" Embry wondered
"It's not change over time yet is it?" Quil questioned
"No. I got a call from Sophie, she couldn't contact you and knew you'd be out patrolling or something so she called me instead" Seth answered
"What did she say?" Embry asked immediately
"Actually, she wanted to call Jake, Cat ran off upset and Sophie thought she'd let him know. She's upset about what happened with the underground bunker and that painting you all found. The two had a little argument and Cat snapped at Sophie before running out of the house. She was really upset" Seth explained. I felt my heart drop. Cat was upset? She was gone? Where had she run off too?
"Sophie wasn't sure but she knew Cat wouldn't want to talk to her" Seth answered me.
"We'll cover for you Jake" Quil decided when he saw that I'd immediately chosen to go find her"
"Is Sophie still at home then?" Embry asked
"She didn't tell me but I think so" Seth nodded
"Thanks Seth" Embry appreciated it. I had already diverted off my path, running towards the twins' house. If I was going to find her I had to start were her scent had been last; her room. As I smelt the house coming into view I smelt Cat's scent as I crossed it. I skidded to a halt and drew in a huge breath through my nose, Cat's scent was like a drug, the strong smell of flowers, vanilla, and a touch of smoke. I ran off, following the beautiful, toxic smell. I ran for miles, up hill
"Of course she'd go somewhere high and away. She must be really upset" I thought. If I could, I'd be frowning, it was so difficult to think of her in any kind of pain. I came to a cliff and looked around, the scent was strongest here, hitting me full on in the face. But I couldn't see Cat anywhere.
"Where could she have gone?" I questioned looking around, and then I remembered; Cat liked high safe places, she was controller of nature. I looked up and looked at the tree tops. A mass of gold caught my attention and I turned my head to the tree on the edge of the cliff, the tree was leaning slightly over, leaving Cat with nothing but branches below her. She was frowning. But at the same time she looked angry. I turned tail and phased back among the trees before pulling on my cut offs and running back to the base of the tree. I just stood and watched her for a while, her facial expressions changing slightly as she thought. Eventually she sighed and looked down at me, forcing a smile onto her face. I frowned, I could see right through that smile. We didn't say anything, we just looked at one another until she couldn't force the smile anymore and looked away from me. I hated being so far away from her, so I jumped up and grabbed the nearest branch, climbing up the tree towards her. It only took me a few seconds. I sat next to her, immediately placing my arm around her shoulders and holding her to me. She placed her head on my shoulder but didn't say anything. I looked out at the scenery, it was beautiful. Though it could never compare to Cat's beauty. I looked back at her angel face, she really was my angel, my guardian angel sent down from heaven. She even over ruled the angels, none could compare to her. I finally saw her smile and look up at me
"Thanks" she said softly in her beautiful voice. It took me a while to realise she'd heard my thoughts again
"That doesn't even compare to how beautiful you are" I told her
"To bad I don't really feel it" she muttered looking away from me.
"Hey," I took her chin as she sat up, forcing her to look at me as I looked into her perfect blue eyes "It doesn't matter who you were, what you might be or what that picture is about. You are Cat Mitchell, the fastest girl on the planet, maybe even in existence. You're my imprint, the love of my life. You're my sun. That's who you are. It doesn't matter if you have unanswered questions, those things will never change." I told her positively. I watched as she bit her lip and tears began to well up in her eyes. She wrapped her arms around me and hugged me tight as she whimpered.
"I'm just so confused" she muttered
"It's alright, everything's gonna be alright" I said, stroking her hair
"How do you know that?" she cried
"I just know. We wont stop until we have answers. And we have an eternity" I reminded her, she looked up at me with her watery eyes, her make up had smudged again, even so, she looked as gorgeous as ever. She groaned and hid her face, I grinned and took her chin, she was hesitant but eventually looked at me and I placed my lips on hers. She immediately kissed me back, her lips moving perfectly with mine. Her breath washed over my face. She moved from my lips and placed feather light kisses down my neck as she gave me time to catch my breath, keeping up with her was difficult, she could hold her breath for too long. I felt her fingers getting hot as they traveled up and down my chest. I knew one of the turn ons for her were my muscles. Her hands travelled over them a lot. They moved to my arms and around my neck as her lips found mine again.
(Author's Note: I really felt like telling you this; while I was writing this little moment all I could think about was the branch breaking and ruining everything, I thought that was funny and I almost wrote it down, but decided against it :P)
Embry's POV.
My patrol shift finished and I raced off to Sophie's house as soon as Paul phased to take my place. I had to make sure she was ok. Her house came into view and I darted around to her window, phasing quickly and removing the cut offs from around my leg, pulling them on before running to the open door and jumping in. I looked around to see Sophie at her desk, she looked up at me and smiled. I felt a smile spread on my face, answering her's.
"Hey" she said standing up and walking over to me
"Hey" I answered, placing my hands on her hips "How you holding up?" I wondered. She shrugged
"Better than Cat" she confessed "I know there's a reason and an explanation to all that's happening, I might not be happy about them but until I know the truth there's no point getting upset and angry"
"You always were the cool one" I smirked, she rolled her eyes and I leaned down to place a kiss on her lips. She kissed me back until I needed a breath.
"Your patrols finished then?" she wondered, I nodded
"Till tonight sometime"
"Isn't it annoying having to patrol at night. When was the last time you had a complete nights sleep?" she asked
"Your birthday" I reminded her
"Other than that?"
"The last time I spent it with you" I grinned. She smiled and kissed me again.