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SIXTY THREE

"Notice anything?" Standing in the Police Station he looked over the two pills that seemed similar enough to each other. He was called in only seconds after his night shift had started, and like he had promised he stashed a good amount in his pocket to later give to Evangeline. There were bags of them, four to size of them that contained at least fifty to seventy tiny white pills. Charlie was standing a bit off to the side, observing Carlisle comparing the pills he brought compared to the pills that were seized off of Terrence Lahote. Same color, same engravings, and same texture but the real question was how much Fentanyl was within these tiny killers.

"Can't say unless we send them off to a lab to be tested." He opened his own little baggie, "You mind? The quantity in some of these might be different so a good amount of these would be much better to study." Medical, he would have to send these off, or he could forge the documents that would be brought back. It came in handy that he was a vampire most of the time that could get away with almost anything considering he didn't have fingerprints or DNA anymore.

"Be my guess, this is the biggest drug bust we've ever done..." His eyes moved over to Evangeline, the woman resting in the arms of Jacob who tried his best to sooth her. He didn't know exactly what the girl had done to achieve what she did, but she got it done in less than two days after their earlier conversation. She must be eager to sink her nails into Julia more than Joshua seemed to be. "You called Joshua? I'm sure he's worried about his cousin." He called, and a few other Sheriffs but none of them went through. Carlisle guessed it was because of Alice for she had stayed back with him after they all went their separate ways, he wondered what was going to happen when he got his own alone time with Joshua after all this blew over. He had so many questions, so many things that needed to be addressed and he couldn't do that with his baby girl in the way. He wanted to spare her feelings of knowing exactly what he was thinking about her mate.

"I did," He was given a hefty scoop of pills, it would've been better just to give him one bag at this point, but he understood they might've needed it to make a case. "Ended up sending a text for I know how busy he gets on Fridays." And Evangeline was someone he was 'close' with so it would make no sense for him to not want to hurry and get to the station and check on her. Throughout this entire thing he ignores the harsh stares of Jacob, the newly turned Shifter that obviously now knew that the legends were true and the Cullen's were vampires all along. He didn't know if the boy knew that the girl he had laid up in his arms was one also or if Joshua's magic was simply that good to the point he couldn't even tell...either way it wasn't his problem, and now that she had completed her task, it was time for him to do his so that he could get what he wanted.

"I know, good man wanting to make sure kids do well these days. Wished I had someone that cared for my grades like he cares for them." Charlie seemed to reminisce and while Carlisle didn't quite know how Joshua ran his classroom, he knew from his children's complaints that he was highly strict on unnecessary things that most didn't care about...or should but don't. Edward was failing, and that was saying a lot, but he trusted the man was grading fairly and correctly.

"He is a good teacher." He played with a few of them, pulling a mask up and crushing a few on the table just to peak at them from over a microscope. The Forks police were heavily underfunded so there weren't any useful items of them to use to check these pills, but the people here already thought he could do magic with the way he saves lives. "It's unfortunate that Evangeline has went through this. I hope this doesn't affect the way she sees this tiny town." He took another peek, monitoring the Shifter and not so vampire again before refocusing his attention onto Charlie. He seemed to be happy that the two of them were getting close, but he didn't know how Joshua was going to feel about a mutt getting so close to his 'cousin.'

"Yeah, outta check on the poor girl." She had barely spoken to Charlie, simply snuggling up into Jacob and maintaining her stunned, helpless, rich girl attitude. He didn't know how to sooth or even reassure her that everything was going to be fine. "She doesn't want anything to eat so maybe you should go over there and check her for injuries. We found the poor girl all tied up in the back of Terrence's pickup and hadn't had the chance to check if he had done anything worth worrying about to her." They saw no blood, maybe a couple bruises but no blood, and Jacob was busy fighting with the older man to even be able to relay if anything else had happened to her that he could've caught.