Chapter Eight

The air was buzzing with an energy, a wolf runs through the forest floor before reaching the clearing, in a blink of an eye a man now stands.

"Sam!" the man yells out to the couple setting up a picnic table, walking in strides towards them.

"What is it Paul?"

"something weird is going on, there's a feeling in the air even now I can feel it. intensifies when we're in wolf form, I don't know what it is but I don't like it"

" I'll go talk to the elders" with that Sam Uley took off in a run towards the Black's home.

It was now noon and neither Mike nor Jessica spoke about the energy that seem to flow between them and Angela, nor did they speak about the flicking lights, the fact that the girl they watched over was floating a good two inches off the bed or that at times when they looked at each other they saw themselves staring back, too tired to truly freak out.

In an subconscious move they each held a hand of hers before reaching out to hold each other's free hand; instantly dropping off to a sudden sleep as if a switched had been turned off. Then they disappeared.

Leah feels a sharp tug at her heart when she hears a loud thud, her mother's voice is frantic but she can't understand as she blacks out, her body falls to the garage floor, Jacob barely catches her when Sam Uley and his gang appear out of nowhere.

"I'll carry her Jake" Sam strides over when suddenly he takes an obedient step back, as Jacob speaks, " No I got her, just move out of the way" with a strength a lanky 15 year old shouldn't have he picks her up properly and carries the 19 year old girl with ease towards her concerned father.

Placing Leah beside her brother on their parent's bed, to make it easier for their mother to nurse them, the loud thud was 13 year old Seth falling down the stairs as he too blacked out, a few seconds before Leah did. Instead of leaving, Jacob feels the need to stay by them and other then Paul and Embry, no other wolf or boy with the wolf gene comes near the room.

This doesn't go unnoticed by the three council elders, without even activating the wolf gene; Jacob Black was somehow able to still command these much larger, muscular men; he did it almost as an afterthought, didn't question that they would follow his request.

It was concerning because no alpha before had had this kind of reach, not since the first. The story had been passed generation to generation that only the first would ever have that kind of power again. Billy Black was worried for his son, who seemed to be guarding the siblings, but he acted in a trance like way, Billy feared change had arrived and there was no way to shield his son from fate.

Edward heard her thought before she fell, being the fastest, he caught Esme but was frozen in sheer shock; she was unconscious, as in asleep, something they should be incapable of doing. His phone ringing broke through his dazed mind.

"Hello"

"Edward something strange is going on we need to meet with Tanya an-" Alice is cut off by Edward

"Esme is asleep, Alice call Carlisle" was all he could say before sprinting home, laying the matriarch of the family down on the couch in the living room, before taking a seat by her feet, to wait for the rest of the family.

Carlisle was first, by the time his siblings had arrived, their father had tried everything to revive her but nothing. Edward being completely blindsided, did not catch any of his siblings inner observations as they waited for father and son to calm down.

Finally Carlisle spoke,

"Alice did you not see this?

"no today as I saw it was like any other day, Carlisle there is something you should know"

"Rosalie what are you thinking…it makes no sense…" Edward interrupts before Alice can explain.

"what is it!?" Carlisle explodes in a rare feat of uncontrolled emotion

Emmett steps up unexpectedly

"Angela Weber fainted this morning and has been unconscious ever since, we suspect that when esme became like this was when they disappeared"

"They?" Carlisle asked a bit calmer with information

"Jessica Stanley, Angela Weber and that Mike boy; together there was a strange energy around them, it may be linked to what's happening to Esme," Emmett continues

"Carlisle the conversation you overheard?" Edward asks as the thought passes through his father's mind.

"one of the nurses from the reservation got a phone call, that's right the Clearwater siblings both fainted, I'm guessing around the same time-" unable to finish the sentence and simply looks at his sleeping wife, sleeping who would have thought, he dare say he was almost envious…almost.

"That can't be a coincidence" Rosalie says almost to herself

"Do we wait then?" Jasper askes

"For now, yes" a much calmer Carlisle decides.

"Then what?... I can't see anything at all, I-"

" Alice it may only come once but use it well" Carlisle says feeling more himself with hope growing

While everyone waits, Esme, is returned to the day they died, those three wonderful siblings; Leah is awakened by a familiar looking man, who seems to think she's his wife and Seth is woken by bright sunlight before being pulled roughly out of the hay.

Mike wakes up to find himself lying just outside his house except its painted wrong and the new greenhouse is nowhere to be seen, the sound of children laughing makes him hide back in the forest cover, where he stands scared, its them as children and he remembers this memory all too well.

This was the time they saw strange teenagers at the forest edge but no one believed them, this was the moment that got them separated, this is also the one memory none of them can remember until no, why remember now.