An: This chapter is written back just after Fay ran away, but it's about how others reacted to her leaving. Please read the larger AN at the bottom of the page after you read this chapter. Thank you!

Chapter 10

Heaven Is Waiting

Jacob Age: Sixteen, Six Months

July

Billy Black knocked loudly on his son's bedroom door. It was early in the morning, but it still looked dark out with the thick storm clouds covering the sun. "Jacob, wake up!" Billy called through the wooden door, wondering if his son could hear him over the heavy rainfall outside.

"Dad, it's summer break!" Jacob yelled after a few moments, in the normal annoyed tone of a tired teenager. It's the first Monday of summer break, has he forgotten that? Jacob wondered as he rolled over in bed.

"There's someone here that wants to talk to you," Billy said, not fazed by his son's tone.

An image of Jake's childhood friend Bella came to the boy's mind. Bella had moved back to Forks just over a week ago and he had only seen her once since her return - when dropping off her new truck. They had talked a bit and he had told her she should come visit La Push soon so they could catch up. Could she have already taken him up on the offer?

Jacob sprung out of bed, dressed in dark sweatpants and red t-shirt. His eyes were now wide awake, and a smile was forming on his lips. Billy had barely enough time to wheel his wheelchair back before Jacob was wrenching his door open and leaping into the hallway. But the joy visibly fell from Jacob's face when he saw who was waiting by the door.

Sam Uley; definitely not Bella. Jacob was caught off guard a bit, not just by who was waiting for him, but by how much Sam had changed since their last encounter. Jake could swear Sam had grown over half a foot taller and gained a shocking amount of muscle in the month since they had last seen each other.

"Sam?" Jake said sounding disappointed and confused at the same time.

"Jacob," Sam's voice was all business. "I need to speak with you about Fay." Jake's eyebrows draw together in concern.

"Is she okay?" Jake asked. Fay was Sam's younger sister, and Jake had been friends with her since first grade.

"When was the last time you saw her?" Sam asked, not answering Jake's question.

"Umm..." Jake tried to think about the last time he had seen the girl, his memory still fuzzy from sleep. "She wasn't at school last week, I can't remember seeing her... The Friday before last she didn't show up. Why?"

"I can't find her, and my dad's also gone. I was hoping she might have said something to you." Sam was putting up a brave front, but his eyes still showed fear for his sister's safety. Jake blinked a few times wondering if he had heard that right.

"Fay's missing?" He didn't mean it to come out as a question, but it did. Sam nodded once.

"I went to the house looking for her and the place was torn apart. No one was there, but dad's truck was still parked in the driveway. I tried calling his work and the bar, but no one's seen him either. And since school is already closed, I can't find out when Fay was last there."

"And Charlie won't do anything?" Billy asked thinking of the Forks chief of police and close friend.

"I haven't been to the station yet; I was hoping someone would be able to tell me where they are. I didn't want to get the police involved unless it was absolutely necessary."

"Jacob why don't you call some of your other friends, see if Fay told them anything about going away," Billy said to his son. Jacob nodded his head, moving quickly to the kitchen phone. In the few moments it took Billy to wheel himself up the hallway to speak with Sam, Jake was already speaking rapidly into the phone.

"Billy, I need to speak to you and the council as soon as possible." Billy nodded to Sam. He was already aware of what Sam was going to inform them of. They had been waiting for the next pack of wolves to start phasing ever since the Cullen's had moved back to Forks. When Sam had gone missing, they all assumed that was why. Now that Billy was looking at Sam, he knew the boy had phased.

Jacob called everyone he could think of. Asking them about Fay and if they had seen her recently. Did she say anything to them about going away on holidays? Was there anything off about her that could explain where she had gone? But no one had anything helpful to tell him. That wasn't surprising. Fay had always been odd, unbelievably quiet, and hated to share information about her home life. For someone who had known Fay almost her whole life, Jake still knew little about her.

When the next day came and no more information had been found about Fay's whereabouts, Sam reluctantly went to the police station. He filed a missing person report. Chief Swan was right on the case having people called in for questioning, a report written up for the local news to broadcast, and missing person posters printed out by the dozen.

Chief Swan then wanted a walkthrough of the Uley house, to see if he could find any clues to where Joshua and his daughter might have gone. Sam knew what state the house was in, so he opted to wait outside while Charlie went in. Chief Swan was horrified by the living conditions at the Uley household. The smell of beer hit him as he opened the door, as did the smell of old smoke and rotten food. The house was dark because of the gloomy day so he flicked on the lights and regretted it. There were beer bottles scattered all over the room, food packets and empty cigarette boxes lined the floor. Dirty dishes covered the kitchen counter, already growing mold. The garbage bin was filled to overflowing.

As he crept his way through the maze of rubbish towards the hallway, he saw unexplainable marks on the pail walls. Shards of glass crunched beneath his boots. The first bedroom he came to looked unlivable. Rubbish everywhere, clothes strode all over the place, the curtain rod had half fallen down and the bed was merely a mattress on the floor.

The house's small bathroom reeked of mold, but that's not what made Charlie's stomach turn. Around the sink were partially bloodied handprints and a towel with dark stains he feared to be more blood. Charlie's hand rested on his gun as he moved on to the next and last room of the house, unsure of what could be waiting for him. Sam had already been through the house, had he not seen the blood? Why didn't he report it immediately? Charlie thought to himself.

The last room was another bedroom that might have looked quite average and clean if it didn't look like it had been recently ransacked. The dresser drawers were ripped out, clothes thrown everywhere. The small desk in the corner had been pushed over and the sheets on one of the two single beds were pulled to the foot of the bed and the mattress had been cut open. The other bed was roughly made with a dark stain on the pillowcase and red smears on the wall above the bed.

"Do you want to believe Josh wasn't the golden father figure yet?" Charlie flinched at Sam's voice, not having heard him enter the house.

"Why didn't you report this sooner?"

"I did. Fay did. We tried to tell you what he was like, but you wouldn't listen." A tremor of anger ran through Sam, but he concentrated on remaining calm instead of focusing on the anger he felt.

"I'm listening now."

AN: I hope you liked this chapter; I know it wasn't the longest, but I hope you still enjoy it. The next one or two chapters will probably be more background on what everyone did after Fay left, but mostly focused on Jacob, Bella, and probably Sam.

So, I'm sorry as always that it took so long to update but I literally got this chapter idea last week, typed it up in three hours then sent it off to get checked. Before that idea I had been stuck on this chapter and what to do. I had almost four hundred words written about Fay and Sam getting into a fight, but I scratched that idea once I got this idea of going back and see how others dealt with losing Fay.

I think I did mentioned ages of caricatures in this story would be different to Twilight. Well, I have finally written down a timeline and ages and worked out for this story line to work Bella is a year or two younger and she moves to Forks just before summer break. So, she goes the whole summer break without really meeting people her age other than Jake, so they spend more time together and have a bit more of a bond. And there's no Edward to get in the way of their friendship for a while. Or at least that's what I'm working towards. IDK if that made any sense but oh well. There will still be Bella and Edward in this story but since I'm not a vampire lover there probably won't be much. But that's probably ages away, and I'm probably way to OCD over the timeline and things when you don't really care if it's a month out here or a week out there.

Umm I feel like half of you have stopped reading halfway through this AN note so I'm going to wrap it up by saying THANK YOU to everyone who reviewed last chapter, you are all amazing.

Hope you have a nice day/night, thanks for reading!