This is a Vampire Academy/Twilight crossover. Everything takes place where the books left off.

Disclaimer: I do not own either Twilight or Vampire Academy series or their characters.

Chapter 1

Bella POV

Life is good – well my existence is good anyway. Since the so-called 'trial' in the clearing with the Voltori, my days have been filled with the love of my new family has been a high priority. Edward and Renesmee have been on the very top of that list. Before Renesmee was born and I was such a fragile human, I had been concerned about all the things in my human life that I would be giving up. Now I am thrilled that those fears were so wrong. I had gained so much in this life that I would have never thought possible. After the confrontation with the Voltori I had been deemed the hero of the day, but I had not wanted that distinction since they were wrong. My actions were simply for the protection of my family - from the threat of a lifetime.

I had everything in this life that I could ever dream of, and more. I had Edward, my only true desire for entering this world. I had Renesmee, who had been pivotal in bringing me to this new life. As an added bonus in this life, I had my best and truest friend, Jacob. Charlie even had a part in my world, although sometimes I think he wanted to know more than he let on but kept his "need to know only" attitude and I was grateful for that. I refused to put him in that kind of danger from the Voltori since their retreat from the clearing gave them more excuse to punish our family. For that reason I was even more reluctant to visit Charlie.

Renesmee ran up to me, flitting around like a tiny version of Alice. She jumped like a kitten up into my lap, raising her hand up to my face. Her thought were like a tidal waves, giving as much emotion away as if she had spoken her request. I had not gone to see Charlie since the visitors left from the Cullen house. Renesmee's thoughts were clear, she missed him so much. I knew that this was going to be the extent of their relationship for now. Charlie was the grandpa in the true since and I loved the accepting nature that he always took with her. It just wasn't safe for either of them to push their relationship further. I didn't have a plan in mind to go but I suppose that since there is no impending danger on the horizon, we could go this afternoon. I had hoped that this kind of opportunity would present itself so that we could all regain some sense of being "normal". She was so hard to refuse.

"Yes Renesmee we will go see Grandpa Charlie today!" I said in the same tone of excitement that she had at the idea.

"Yea!" Renesmee exclaimed.

Since our near destruction Edward and Renesmee were much closer in companionship with me. Alice and Jasper had also regained their positions in our family after their seemingly long absence. Alice, seeing an opportunity to shop, decided that she would go with us to Charlie's. Reluctantly I agreed since Renesmee was swiftly running out of clothes that would fit her. She had grown to the size of a five year old and her clothes were usually discarded after just one use.

"When we are finished at Charlie's house we can go to Seattle!" Alice said. "There is a new store there for children's clothes that would be a perfect stop for our trip." She finished with a smile at my protesting expression.

"Edward, why don't you go and have some fun with Emmet and Jazz? We are going for a sort of Girls day, so you guys can do what you want." Alice suggested.

"I don't need Edward to have fun…" Emmet retorted, "I'm a barrel of laughs on my own!"

"Aww come on Em!"Edward sneered, "It'll be fun…unless you're not up for the challenge!"

"Are you kidding!?" Emmet half laughed, "You know how much I love a challenge!"

"Ok." Edward said. Emmet blew out the door to meet Jasper in the yard. Edward walked out to the car with Renesmee to see us off. "Hurry back, my love!"

"Alright enough with the mushy stuff, come on let's go!" Alice said impatiently.

"Alright," I said. "See you soon Edward." And we were off to Charlie's. I called Charlie as we were pulling out of the drive to let him know that we were coming…no answer. I figured that he ignored it since there was a game on today. He never cared for a phone anyway, especially if it interfered with his sporting events.

As soon as we turned on to Charlie's street there was a sense of fear. Charlie's cruiser was in the drive so I knew he was there, but there was another vehicle that I also recognized. "Renee's here, crap!" I thought about turning around and continuing with the shopping trip. In that second, Renee was standing outside the house waving her hands at us.

"Well there is no way to avoid it now!" Alice said. "Now what do we do!" It was then that I remembered that she could not see around Renesmee.

"Well we got to keep it simple and hope she doesn't catch on." I said. "We'll use the same story that we told Charlie since that's probably the explanation that he went with. Renesmee is Edward's niece. As for me I'm still recovering slowly, but much better." I wanted to keep it simple for my sake too, since I was so "readable" as Renee once put it. I was thankful that I had taken the Volvo and not my car. I already had enough explaining to do as it was.

We got out of the car and waved toward the doorway. I was hoping that the flood of questions would at least wait until we were inside. I was wrong.

"Bella?" Renee said, obviously noticing the subtle changes to my appearance. "I was so worried about you. What's going on?"

"I'm fine mom." I said as convincingly as I knew how. "I was going to call you soon. I've just been so busy with school about to start at Dartmouth. Did Phil come with you?"

"No Phil has practice and a few games this week." Suddenly her eyes shifted from me to the small form clutching my right hand. Renesmee shifted behind me to peer around me. "Who is that little girl? She looks so much like you when you were little. What's her name?"

I could tell that she was starting to put some of the pieces together. Renee was never the type of person to miss visual cues so I had to think quickly. I decided that it was best to take this into the house and give her the same type of talk that worked so well with Charlie.

"Mom, come inside the house and I will explain everything the best that I can." I moved toward the door where Charlie was now standing where he greeted us with a smile. We walked inside the house and Renesmee was right on my heels. She knew that she had to play the part around humans to protect our way of life. I was so glad that Renesmee was a much better actress than I was. Renee followed Alice with a bewildered look across her face as she tried to access the situation. Renesmee and I sat on the couch and I began to explain.

"Mom, there are things that you cannot know for your own safety and things that are utterly impossible for me to explain." Renee pursed her lips in confusion and averted her eyes again to Renesmee. "I cannot give you the absolute truth, but I will give you the only explanation that I can. Edward and I have taken Renesmee as our own to raise. She is Edward's niece. As for me I was very sick but I am much better now. Yes, I have changed subtly, but these changes were necessary for my survival. This is the explanation that Charlie got and it is the only one you're getting."

"But she looks so much like you?" Renee replied.

"She looks even more like Edward." Alice retorted. I shot Alice a warning glance. I was going to have to do this myself and she wasn't helping.

"Again mom there are things that I CANNOT tell you, for your safety. You don't really want to know the truth." I added.

"About this little girl I do! There is no way she should look like you if she belonged to Edward's family. I'm not that dumb!" She protested.

"Renee this is something that I still don't understand but I've made this whole thing in a 'need-to-know' basis kind of thing." Charlie blurted. I was glad to see that he was content to not know and was on my side.

"I don't know how or when, but that child has to be yours. The resemblance is so similar." Renee said. I turned to Alice.

"Alice? Do you think that Carlisle might come down here for a little talk?" I needed help and I knew it. Of course she would pick today to act like a stubborn child.

"I don't see why not. I'll just go call him and see." Alice said.

A minute or two later Alice came back inside. Minutes after Carlisle and Edward came. We all sat in Charlie's small house talking until finally Renee decided that she was not going to push the matter further. After an hour or two of explanation, Charlie sat at the kitchen table with Renesmee showing her some flash cards that he had picked up for her. Carlisle, Renee, and Alice were making small talk on the couch. Renee must have accepted Carlisle's explanation even though it was a mirror image of the one that I had given. I could see that she was still skeptic, but she didn't push the issue any further. Edward came over to me, sitting by the window.

"You did really well explaining things to Renee; she just wanted more of an explanation than you could give." Edward encouraged.

"I know" I said. "I didn't want to do this now but what choice did I have? I hate lying to her but I cannot put her in any danger from the Voltori."

"You didn't have a choice." He said. "If she saw you leave she would just come to us. There was no way to avoid it." He kissed my forehead and pulled my hands up to his chest. We shared a quiet moment and them a cool smile came across his face. A slight laugh passed through his lips.

"What's so funny?" I said, thankful that the mood of the room around me had changed. I would have suspect that Jasper was outside using his mood power, if he was I would have to thank him later.

"Nothing, but I thought that you and Alice were taking Renesmee shopping?" He said with his grin growing wider across his face. My eyes wheeled over to Alice who had apparently been listening. I was sure that the grin on his face was related to a thought that Alice had. Her shoulders slumped with disappointment at the thought she might not get to shop.

"We are going soon." I assured Alice and her face lit up with a wide smile. Alice flitted over to join us and threw her arms around me in a huge hug.

"Oh thank you, thank you, thank you!" Alice rejoiced. "I'll just go wait in the car."

Minutes later we were getting ready to leave. I was kind of glad that this explanation was over. Renesmee had drifted off to sleep so I called Alice inside to take her to the car. Edward and Carlisle left just a few minutes prior. Renee had gone back to her room at the local bed and breakfast, convinced now that she was not going to get the answer she really thought she wanted. I said my goodbyes to Charlie and Alice and I were on our way.

Alice and I drove to Seattle and pulled into the parking lot of the first store. We spent a few hours picking out some clothes for Renesmee that would fit her loosely do that they would last longer. Eventually I knew that we would have to be prepared to leave Forks with Renesmee. Dartmouth started in two weeks and we would have to leave next week. I didn't know how I was going to explain all of this to Jacob. He was really trying to give us the space we needed and I knew that understanding was about to end.

We started home to Forks with piles of clothes. Alice picked out a few things to restock my closet, although my closet was still well stocked. I hated that there was so much in there that I would never think to wear, however I was silently amused that my lack of fashion sense bothered her so much.

Carlisle, Jasper and Emmet were all gathered in the large room that was often the center point of our daily life now. Edward came in the house with Jacob trailing close behind. Renesmee fell asleep again in the car so I took her upstairs to Edward's old room to lay her down. Alice helped me take the clothes down to the cottage and we came back to the main house for the family meeting. I knew what we were all gathered to discuss and Jacob's presence confirmed my thoughts. I dreaded this discussion for a long time and now the day was here.

"We have to leave soon. I know that this will be hard for you Jacob, but we don't have any choice." Edward said directing his words towards Jacob.

"I can go with you…you know I can't stand being away from Renesmee for so long." Jacob said

I tried not to involve myself into the conversation. I knew that Edward would do whatever he thought was best for us. I heard Renesmee coming down the stairs from her nap, so I went to the foot of the stairs to meet her. Renesmee held out her hand on my face to show me her thoughts on the matter, she wanted Jacob to come with us which was not a real surprise. The decision was made that we would start school at Dartmouth but it was much harder to get Jacob to go along with our plan without being directly involved. We came to the agreement that it would be best if we didn't try to stop Jacob from coming with us but let him make his own decision.

"It's settled then…I'm going with you guys!" Jake announced.

"Yea!" Renesmee exclaimed in excitement.

"Jake, where will you stay? You know you will want to be close to 'Nessy'." Edward asked. I still hated the abbreviation of our daughter's name. It seemed so…just wrong. Although I had to admit it was getting harder to keep my stance on the matter when 'Nessy' was used so loosely like it was her real name.

"Well, I'll figure something out between now and then. So when do we leave?"Jake asked.

"We need to leave soon. We really need to hunt before we go since it may be several days until we are able to organize in a new area." Carlisle said.

And so it was final. I would have to go and tell Charlie that I was leaving for college. And I would have to do it sooner rather than later so that I can talk to Renee and Charlie both. Jacob offered to go with me to Charlie's, but I thought it better if Edward, Renesmee, and I went alone. I knew this day would come but now it just seemed so absolute.

Edward Renesmee and I were the last hunting party since Carlisle wanted to make sure that I didn't give in to the newborn hunger when we got to Dartmouth. Jacob tagged along to watch after Renesmee. It was sort of surreal that this was our last carefree hunting trip before we tried to mingle with the humans at school. I was a little nervous as to what to expect. Jacob would stay at the house with Renesmee while we were at school and Carlisle got a job at the local hospital. My fears weren't for me, but for my daughter and the rest of my slightly unusual family.