Her Final Days

Chapter 5

The nursing home was all abuzz after that incident.

It all began when an elderly man suddenly slipped and fell from his wheelchair. The other residents gasped in fear and a doctor was summoned to the place.

Of course, the doctor just HAD to be Carlisle Cullen.

He came with Jacquelyn and Jasper; Jasper to calm down the frightened people and Jacquelyn to detect any evidence of witchcraft.

"So what happened here?" she asked.

Mrs. Hoss said, "Jeremy Lowe was just sitting in his wheelchair here when he just...fell."

"Odd," said Jacquelyn with a strange look on her face. "Nobody just falls out of their wheelchair like that."

But it had happened before...in La Push.

And that was over 25 years ago.

Billy Black, father to Jacob Black, had fallen out of his wheelchair; he was nearly 70 years old and in bad health. Jacob had stepped out the room and Jacquelyn was alone with the aging Indian. Jacob heard Jacquelyn scream and rushed to his father's side. Carlisle Cullen was summoned, but there was nothing that he could do. Billy died a few hours after his fall.

Jacquelyn blamed herself for Billy's death, despite everyone from Charlie Swan to Sam Uley telling her that it wasn't her fault; Billy was old and sick. She refused to hear any explanations about the tragedy at all. After Billy's funeral, she disappeared from La Push for a week, leaving Carlisle to track her down.

Carlisle said, "OK, everyone, Mr. Lowe is going to be fine. But I'm going to have to ask some tough questions."

"Such as, do you know of any witches around here?" Jasper cut in.

"Witches?" said Mr. Tennyson. "What witches?"

"Rumor has it that there's a witch here who has been stealing young girls and torturing them," Jasper continued. "Do you know anything about that?"

"No," said Mrs. Hoss. "But we have heard about the disappearances. In fact, Chief Swan is in charge of this case."

Carlisle and Jasper nodded; the new chief was Nathaniel Swan, grandson of Charlie and Sue Swan. He was newly promoted, and his grandfather's reputation of being one of the toughest cop in Forks was weighing heavily upon him.

Mr. Danforth said, "Wasn't there a girl with you two?"

"Oh Jacquelyn," Carlisle groaned as he searched the entire waiting area for the dark-haired werewitchpire.

"She couldn't have gone too far," Jasper said.

They did manage to locate Jacquelyn, who was found staring into a dark room. An older woman was sitting on her bed. But Jacquelyn didn't see the older woman, just someone she thought she knew. And the thing was, she didn't like what she was seeing.

"Jacquelyn?" Carlisle clamped a hand on her shoulder. "Are you all alright?"

Jacquelyn gasped in horror. "I thought I just saw...Rosalie."