"Bella, go to sleep." Edward said to me, exasperated.
"I am too keyed up to sleep." I said. I didn't want to mention what would actually happen when I fell asleep. And no, it was not nightmares.
He started humming my lullaby. Suddenly, he broke off, puzzled. He pulled out his cell phone.
"What is it Alice." he asked. Using my super hearing he didn't know about I listened to hear what Alice said.
"The Volturi are coming to kill us." Alice said.
"What?" he gasped. "When?"
"Ten minutes. You have to come back here." she told him.
"No, I can't." he said. "It is too dangerous to leave Bella here by herself."
"She will be fine. I have seen it. Don't worry so much." Alice snapped.
"Fine." He snapped.
"What is it, Edward?" I asked, watching his face. I hated acting like this.
"Just a problem at home. I will be back soon. I have to go to my house. Will you be okay here?" he asked.
"Of course I will be." I said.
He left and ran to his house. I waited a few minutes before following. I ran after him, faster than a human could go, even faster than vampires.
The rest of the Cullens were waiting for him with grim expressions on their faces. Rosalie glared at him.
"Why are they coming for us, Carlisle?" Esme asked.
"Probably because Bella is still human." He replied holding her in his arms tightly.
"They are here." Alice said, right before they started walking out.
Everyone was there, even the wives, I noticed, surprised. They all put their hoods back at the same time.
"Well, Carlisle. How have you been?" Aro asked.
"Quite well, Aro. What brings you here?" Carlisle replied politely.
"We just came to see if little Bella was still human." Aro said pleasantly, "Though, I notice that she is. We warned that we don't give second chances."
Edward growled furiously.
"And neither do we." I stepped forward, my eyes flashing. I pulled out a knife from my jacket. "I don't understand why you bothered to come here, Aro. Haven't we shamed you enough already. We warned you." I said.
"Even you can't beat us by yourself." Aro said, with a wicked glint in his eyes.
"Yeah, but she has us." One of my brothers said walking to stand next to me. Jordan. I gave him a smile.
"You underestimate her. I bet she could." Jordan's twin, Jackson, said.
I rolled my eyes. "Regardless. Do you have a death wish, Aro? Caius? Jane? Alec? Demitri? Do you want to die? Or are you just to cocky to realize that we already have you beat?"
I asked them. I named a few that I knew loved this life and would not give it up for anything. I specifically didn't mention Marcus because I knew he would love to die. Ever since he lost his mate. I felt for him. I really did.
"Bella." Edward hissed. "What are you doing here? Come back here. You don't piss off the Volturi." He said.
I knew he was worried and I was touched. But he didn't need to be. I had pissed them off more times in my eighteen years than I could count.
"Oh, we are way passed pissed." Caius muttered.
"Are we fighting or are you going to leave peacefully?" I asked, my voice hard.
"We will leave." Aro said.
"But Aro," Felix complained.
"Now." Aro commanded and he led the guard and all the rest away.
"Damn. I wanted to teach them a lesson, too." Jordan complained. "Show them who is boss." He glared at me. "Why did you let them go?" He asked.
"Do you really think right now is the best time to go to war with vampires?" I demanded.
"War?" Carlisle asked. "Bella, what I going on?" He asked.
I looked at them, sadly. "I cant explain. I am absolutely forbidden until the time is right." I said.
"You never listened before." Jackson muttered.
"There was never a stake before." I growled back.
"When is the right time?" Edward asked. I knew he was hurt. I looked at him. I opened my mouth to answer, when I my messager went off.
My messager was a device that showed me my schedule for the day in my world, it would get internet, it told me where every vampire, werewolf and shape shifter were and it acted as a cell phone. With texting.
You can bring the Cullens.
It was a message from my dad. "Apparently, now."
Do not tell them. They can not know right now. You will show them, then explain.
This was actually the most my dad had said to me in quite a while. We hated each other. More or less.
"Well, scratch that. I can show you. I don't really like that idea much. But you have a choice. Do you want to come to my world. I am warning you now that it isn't exactly the safest place for you, but I have the power to keep you safe. I would do anything to keep you safe." I said.
"Let's go." Emmett said and Alice nodded in agreement.
"But you said it wasn't safe." Jasper said.
I shook my head. "It isn't. I wont lie to you. But I can only show you until I am given permission to tell you. Carlisle, do you have any idea what is going on?" I asked. I knew Emmett did, he was from my world before he was turned. So was Alice, though she doesn't remember.
Carlisle was thoughtful. He was trying to remember, I know Aro warned him about us. Finally, he understood it. "Naturalist. That's it." He said, snapping his fingers.
"Correct." Jordan said. He was the more outgoing of the twins and Jackson didn't trust vampires as much as Jordan and I did.
"But what is a Naturalist?" Edward asked. He pulled me into his chest, holding me tight. I opened my mouth automatically to answer, but Jackson threw his hand over my mouth. "Bella." He snapped.
"Oops." I said. "Thanks."
"Why did you stop her?" Esme asked. "She was going to answer a question. And I don't believe we met you." That is Esme, always the kind, caring one.
"I am Jackson. That is Jordan. It would have been too dangerous for her to answer the question. It would have resulted in-" it was my turn to cut him off.
"Sorry, Bells." He said.
"It's okay." I said.
"So, are you coming or not?" I asked.
"I guess we can go." Carlisle said.
"You understand the risk, correct?" I asked.
"I know it is dangerous. What is the risk?" Carlisle asked.
I gulped. "Naturalists were born to kill shape shifters… werewolves… and vampires." I said.