Forever Loved: Broken Family

Chapter One

Charlie Swan sat in his chair watching tv, this is what he did to relax at night. There wasn't much more for him to do.

He had no one to worry about chastising him either.

Renee had divorced him a long time ago, and he never really thought about dating again. His daughter, Isabella, who liked to be called Bella didn't like Forks much.

He never understood why they two didn't like it here. It was quiet and peaceful, sure there was the gossip but one learned to ignore it after awhile.

Charlie liked the small town life, it was something he wouldn't want to give up.

Taking another sip from his beer he sighed as he flipped the channel to a basketball game. Football season had ended and he was waiting for the good basketball games to start.

He was brought out of his thoughts by the phone ringing.

"Who would be calling on a Sunday." Charlie muttered, ignoring the phone. He gave a small smile as the phone went silent only to go off not even five seconds later.

Sighing Charlie got up, setting his beer down as he did so, and made his way into the Kitchen so he could answer the phone.

As the phone rang for the third time Charlie grabbed the phone and put it by his ear, "Swan Residence, Charlie speaking."

"Uncle Charlie.." He knew that voice, but it sounded so broken. It wasn't a sound he was used to hearing in her voice.

"Kagome?" He frowned, shifting his feet, "What's wrong? You don't sou-" He didn't get to finish before he heard sobbing on the other end.

This didn't look good then.

"Kagome..." He didn't know what to say, he was never good with dealing with emotions.

"They..." The sobs got worse as she tried to catch her breath. She wasn't able to develop full sentences with the way she was crying.

"Take deep breaths, and calm down. In and out." Charlie instructed his niece. He needed to calm her down so he could find out what was wrong.

The line was silent, only the sound of breathing and gasps heard as Kagome tried to calm her breathing so she could speak.

"Everyone..." The was a pause again, "Everyone's dead..."

It took a couple seconds for that to process in Charlie's mind. Dead, this wasn't something he was prepared to hear.

"Can you explain what happened." He was going into officer mode. He didn't need to cry on the phone. He needed to be the strong one right now.

"I can home..." A pause, "There was blood everywhere...the police said it was a break-in gone wrong..."

Charlie took a deep breath, "What do you need me to do?" He knew his niece couldn't handle everything on his own.,

"I need help..." A deep breath was heard, " Help with funeral arrangements...and things to deal with that..."

Charlie nodded, "Give me a couple hours and I will call you with my flight time..." He sighed, "Just relax Kagome...I'll be there to help as soon as I can."

There was sniffling on the other end of the phone and a " Thank You..." Before the line went dead.

Charlie hung up the phone with a heavy heart, this wasn't how he thought his day was going to end.

His sister in law and the rest of them dead...he didn't want to ask for details over the phone. He didn't need Kagome to break down again.

Right now he needed to call his office and tell them he was going to be gone for a little bit.

'Tonight is going to be a long night' Charlie thought as he went to make all the necessary arrangements for his departure to Japan.