Her Final Days

Chapter 6

Where we last left off: "Jacquelyn?" Carlisle clamped a hand on her shoulder. "Are you all alright?"

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

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Rosalie was sitting in her room in the nursing home; no one had noticed that she was not there during the few minutes that Dr. Cullen was there treating a patient who fell out of his wheelchair. In fact, no one seemed to notice her at all.

But she did see Jacquelyn standing in her doorway through a reflection in a family picture.

Before she could turn around, though, Jacquelyn was gone.

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Jacquelyn snapped at Jasper as they were walking toward the entrance, "What was that for, Jasper?"

Jasper said, "You shouldn't be wandering around. You know what happened the last time you wandered off..."

Carlisle said, "Enough, you two. Now let us leave this place, it does no good for both of you to remain here, especially if we're among those who will die soon and we cannot die at all." He steered them out of the nursing home and they all got into his car.

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Esme was sitting in the kitchen when the others got home. "What happened?" she asked.

"Just another old man falling out of his wheelchair," Jasper reported. Jacquelyn glared at him. "But it was just a false alarm; he's going to be fine."

At that point, everyone had gathered into the kitchen at the same time Jacquelyn stormed out. Carlisle added, "She thought she saw someone, but we had to drag her out of there before they noticed."

"I see," said Esme. "Well, we must all go hunt before we meet with the Wolves tonight."

Carlisle agreed and the entire family (without Jacquelyn) took off for the woods.

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Jacquelyn frowned; she just couldn't get the image of the old lady out of her mind. Was it really Rosalie that she had seen, or was it just wishful thinking?

And if it was really Rosalie, then why was she in a nursing home?

She went downstairs to eat; despite the fact that she was a vampire, she had been part werewolf in her human life and still needed to eat actual food. That had been one thing Esme was grateful for; she and Carter were the only two members in the Cullen clan who were actually able to eat human food. Three, if you included Ezra, who was out hunting with his grandparents and various other relatives in his wolf form.

But did I really see Rosalie? She wondered aloud as the night went on, not knowing that she would soon get her answer.

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"Jacquelyn said that she saw Rosalie?" Emmett cried out. "Where?"

"At the nursing home," said Jasper. "But we had to leave before anyone noticed that we were vampires."

"Out of all the things to be worried about, you'd expect a bunch of old people to be worried about...vampires?" Edward laughed.

But the laughter soon died when a frightened young girl approached them. She had dark hair and red eyes. A young vampire.

"Please help me," the girl cried out as she fainted.