Okay, so it's been a while… I'm not even sure how long ago it was since I posted my last chapter! Not good, sorry guys I'll try and keep the chapters coming consistently from now on – but I'm revising for exams and stuff so it's difficult to fit all the writing in.

Can I also make an excuse (lol) for the shortness of the chapter. I know how to end this story (finally I actually know what's going to happen!) but I didn't know how to write this chappie – it's kind of a filler chapter :/

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So here is the chapter, hope you guys enjoy! It's definitely not one of my best, but yeah… ENJOY!

The Cloudy Road Ahead

Chapter 12

Within a flash we were all outside the house and running at top speed. Of course, I could go faster than all of the Cullens so I was racing ahead of them, heading straight for Seattle.

I was dodging trees and jumping aimlessly over streams and other obstacles, but I wasn't thinking about what I was doing. All I could think about was finding Edward and taking him back home with me.

The Cullen's were far behind me when I reached the outskirts of Seattle. I slowed to a human's jog, which felt painfully slow as I got to a street and crossed it. People were out in their cars tonight, listening to the radio and singing along to the music playing. Sometimes I hated having amazing hearing because I hated hearing people singing along so cheerily. It made me feel sadder.

I walked down a few more streets and a few more, until I started getting closer into town. There were shops on every corner covered in neon signs and I past them all. Finally I got to a street with neon-lighted shops down the whole street in a sort of parade. I realised that this must be Seattle Highstreet – and my hunch was confirmed when I glanced at a street sign.

I hunched over a bit to get closer to the ground, making sure I didn't look too suspicious to the people driving past, and smelt the air and floor around me. I inhaled deeply until my lungs could take no more, but I couldn't smell Edward. I walked further down the street, a couple of meters or so and repeated the hunch smelling.

I carried on doing just that a few more times, but I found nothing peculiar. The rest of the Cullen's arrived and I signalled them to join me when I crossed the road to check the other side. We stretched a meter apart and smelt the road, checking tiny corners and doors of shops, every nook and cranny we could find. Police were still swarming around the alleyway in which the man had been killed. We couldn't go down it to check it, but Jasper asked a rather round Police Officer what had happened. "How was he killed?" Jasper asked tactfully. It would definitely be Edward if the man had been bitten or ripped apart a bit.

"He was shot." The Police Officer said, shaking his head at the sad event.

I looked at Carlisle in astonishment. "He was shot? Oh poor man!" I cried. So we had come here for nothing.

The officer took of his hat and looked up at the sky. "Something weird's starting up in Seattle for sure, ma'am. No one is safe." The officer had a slight southern accent.

"I'm sure you're right." I said, copying his accent. Alice had taught me that if I ever needed to cover up tracks, then keep humans feeling close to home. "C'mon guys. Let's stay away from here."

We walked away from the crime scene and started whispering quietly.

"He was shot?" Emmett wailed. "Aw man."

"We've blown our last chance!" Rosalie cried. She started shaking violently and Emmett put a large hand around her comfortingly.

"Hey, we might not have." Jasper protested. "When I was in the War plenty of vampires used guns. We used to call them wimps, but it is likely that Edward would have shot someone rather than ripped them apart."

Carlisle looked up, but the hope from Jaspers words hadn't hit him and sadness was still present in his eyes. "Vampires in the past may have used a gun, but I definitely couldn't not smell Edward at all at the scene. It seems unlikely that he was there if I and all of you couldn't smell him."

Jasper unexpectedly turned on his heel and ran off at vampire speed, whizzing past us towards a tall building on the other side of the road, almost opposite the crime scene.

"Where the heck is he going?" Rosalie enquired. Alice just shrugged.

"Come on." Carlisle said, starting after Jasper. "Maybe he's caught a whiff of something!"

We all ran across the road at top speed. Humans would only see us as a blur and then just put it down to heat haze. We followed Jasper into a tall cream building with around four flights of stairs. We climbed them, excited about what Jasper was going to show us.

Jasper opened a small wooden hatch on the top floor, and pushed down a foldable ladder, which we then scaled. The moment my head burst through the hatch onto the roof, a wave of Edward's smell hit me, almost knocking me over from surprise. The smell made me feel so much better all-of-a-sudden and I scrambled up the last rut of the ladder and started skipping around the roof, breathing in the scent and blissfully enjoying it. It smelled almost as good as the smell of human blood and I definitely felt like I was drinking the air.

"Oh My God!" Rosalie said as she emerged from the hatch after everyone else. "He was here!"

Esme looked as if she were about to cry. "He was here!" She cried, repeating Rosalie and looking around. "My baby was here!" I felt sorry for a mother to have to go through this. Esme does certainly still mother her children despite them all being over 100 years old and vampires, and she was certainly very attached to her first 'child', Edward.

"I knew it." Jasper muttered, peering over the rooftop and looking far down to the street below.

Rosalie ignored Jasper and quizzed, "So why did Edward come up here? Did he kill the man up here and throw the body down into the alleyway?" She twisted a stand of her hair in her hand and looked around for an answer, biting her lower lip.

Emmett was right behind her and said strategically, "No Hun, if he'd have thrown the man from here then there would have been blood drops leading there. I couldn't smell any when we ran here."

We all looked at Emmett, Rosalie included, and stared at him with utter awe. Emmett was not known for being clever, and he had just argued a very valid point.

"Emmett is right." Jasper backed up. "Edward certainly didn't throw the body. In fact, Edward probably killed the man from here whilst the man was enjoying a cig down there." He pointed down to the alleyway.

"How?" Rosalie asked. We all gazed at Jasper as if we were all blonde. He knew more about fighting and killing people than we all did. He had experienced war from when he first became a vampire and it had become a part of him ever since.

"It's obvious." Jasper smirked. "He used a sniper rifle. The alleyway is viewable from this rooftop so he would have got a clear shot." Jasper smiled, satisfied he'd found out why Edward was here.

"A sniper rifle?" Esme queried, raising an eyebrow. Esme was the sort of person who wanted to know everything. She would constantly ask questions no matter what it was about. Sometimes I wondered why she never went to school with us.

Jasper grinned, "It's a type of gun."

Carlisle shrugged and started pacing back and forth. "But where has he got to now. He should still be near but there was no trail from that hatch."

Emmett unwound himself from Rosalie's embrace. He ambled around the perimeter of the roof, inhaling through his pale nose deeply and smelling the air around him.

Emmett was known for his sense of smell, which could sniff out some of the furthest away mountain lions in a forest.

Suddenly he stood up completely straight, as if he had just been zapped with lightening. He took a few big steps back, ruffled his hair with his fingers and ran forward to jump off the building. Rose gave a little squeal and we all crowded by the edge of the roof to see him fall and land, thank god, safely on top of another building not far away.

He beckoned us with big hand gestures to follow him and, slowly and surely we, one by one, jumped off the high rooftop and landed by Emmett who started following a more potent scent trail we knew belonged to Edward.

Yet again we were running. It felt like we were going round in circles today, but hopeful we shall find the circles corner. I will find it, even if it kills me once and for all.

You might be thinking, 'ughh short AND a cheesy ending!' but I was feeling like it! Sorry though :P

Next chapter is definitely going to be more exciting. I'm quite excited to write the next one actually. So stay tuned (haha) and review and stuff.

Thanks for reading,

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