This is my fist fanfic so please don't bully me :(. I don't know why I wrote this story, it was just an idea that came into my head. It takes place in Breaking Dawn when the Cullen's are in the clearing with the Volturi. Alice and Jasper never left and stayed with the family to help find friends and fight. I don't know if I will carry on writting, i'll just wait and see how i feel :).

Unfortunately I don't own Twilight or the characters in it, they're all Stephenie Meyer's. However I do own the character Autumn :).

Chapter 1 - Surprise

I couldn't believe I was doing this. I'd never even met them. But, they were my family. I couldn't let them die, no matter what they'd done to me and my mother. Really, it was only Edward – I refused to call him dad – who had done anything wrong. I know that my mother didn't love him and he didn't love her any more, but he should have at least stayed in touch. Then she might still be alive.

I ran as fast as my legs would carry me through the trees. I was running so fast that everything was just a blur, but luckily I didn't run into anything. I heard a growl from the clearing I was heading to. I had just a couple more seconds. I knew I could do it. I pushed myself even faster and flew into the clearing. You could cut the tension there with a knife.

I was running so fast that they didn't even notice me. Well, I thought, here goes nothing. I stopped dead in between the two groups of vampires. I stood in front of the Cullen's, facing the Volturi.

"What the hell!" I heard someone gasp from behind me. From what I knew, it was probably Emmett.

"I think you'd better leave." I said politely to the Volturi, although I was gritting my teeth.

Every member of the group turned to look at me with different emotions printed all over their faces. Some confused, some shocked and most of them terrified.

"You!" Caius hissed.

"I see we are no longer needed here. We will leave now." Aro said, his voice shaking, showing his fear.

I heard everyone's thoughts from behind me. Everyone except Bella's.

Who is she? Carlisle

How did she do that? Alice

She's really pretty Rosalie

Suddenly, Bella's thoughts started creeping into my mind. That was weird. Then I read everyone else's thoughts. Bella was a mental shield. That's why I couldn't hear her at first. So now I would have absorbed her power. But, Renesmee was the opposite. No one could keep her out. She could put her thoughts into other people's heads by one touch. So, I would have her power too. That explained it.

I was pulled out of my reverie when I noticed that there were only five members of the Volturi left in the clearing. And they were retreating. A few seconds and death glares later, they'd all gone. And I knew that they had no intention of returning in the near future as long as I was around.

Suddenly, I had lots of different pairs of arms practically hugging me to death.

"Thank you! Thank you so so much!" Bella dry sobbed from behind me.

"But, who are you? And what did you do?" I heard Alice ask me from my left. I had others surrounding me. I didn't know the others names, only my family from visions.

"My name is Autumn. Autumn Miracle Cullen. And it's pretty complicated." I told them. They pulled back to look at me.

"Cullen?" Carlisle asked me. I hadn't noticed he was standing in front of me. Bella and Edward were hugging each other and Renesmee. Jacob and the other wolves were also there.

So, I save they're immortal butts, but they fuss over my baby sister instead. Thanks! I thought sarcastically. Then I remembered Carlisle.

"Yeah. I'm your granddaughter." I replied simply. Every head within a mile radius turned to look at me. Oh crap! Me and my big mouth!

"His granddaughter?" Bella asked me, confusion crossing her features.

"Er... yeah. I wasn't supposed to tell you that." I stuttered and blushed tomato red as everyone stared me down.

"But, how?" I heard Esme gasp.

"Well, I don't really want to explain here. But, my father is in this clearing right now." They all turned and looked at each other, finally releasing their gazes off me.

"Maybe you should come back to our house." Carlisle offered. All of their thoughts were silenced by the shock.

"Okay." I chirped and skipped off in the direction of their house. I realised that they weren't following me and I turned around to see them all staring at me like I had three heads.

"How do you..?" Carlisle began.

"I know a lot about you guys." I said, smiling mischievously. I continued my way back to their home.

After about two minutes of running in silence, we got to their house. My jaw dropped open. It was so much better than in my visions. It was huge! I heard someone chuckle behind me and turned to see Emmett muffle his laughter.

They all walked inside and I followed. I hadn't noticed until now that all of their friends had left. I just shrugged it off anyway.

I sat down on the nearest couch. It was really posh. White leather. Renesmee bounced onto my lap and made me jump. Well, at least I had one approval. Bella and Edward glanced at each other before Bella sat down next to me and Edward next to her.

Alice sat at my feet, which also surprised me. Esme and Carlisle and Rosalie and Emmett sat on the other couch and Jasper sat on the love seat. Jacob and Seth stood next to the door.

"So," Carlisle started. "How about explaining to us how you are my granddaughter." He encouraged. Everyone – once again – turned to look at me.

"Well, I guess I can't keep it a secret any more. So, I'll just come out and say it. Edward is my father." I mumbled looking down and blushing. I heard gasps of shock and I felt a gust of wind next to me. I looked up to see Bella was gone. Edward was staring at me, jaw almost touching the floor.

"But. How?" Esme asked.

"Ask Edward." I told her. "He hasn't been entirely honest with you these past fourteen years."

"Edward?" She gasped.

He just carried on gawking at me. Then he whispered almost incoherently "Sasha."

Everyone looked at me. "My mother." I told them. Then Renesmee reached up and touched my cheek. I'd almost forgotten her on my lap. A flash of images came into my mind. They were of me. Then she asked me if I was her sister. I had to give it to her, she was awfully clever for a baby.

"Yes, I'm your half sister." I cooed at her. She smiled a bright white smile that I just had to smile back at.

"I have a sister!" She beamed. Everyone but Edward was smiling too. Even Rosalie. It was the first time I'd heard her speak, and she had the most beautiful bell-chime voice.

"I'd better go and check on Bella." Alice sighed and left the room. She was extremely graceful.

I hadn't thought about Bella. She was my step-mum now, wasn't she. And I'd just come here and messed up her whole life. What was I thinking? Talk about breaking it gently.

"I hope she's okay." I whispered. More to myself than anyone else. I don't think they heard me anyway.

"So, how are you his daughter?" Esme asked me kindly. Obviously trying not to upset me.

"Well, it's a really long story. But, I guess we do have forever." I chuckled without humour. "Back in what must have been around nineteen-ninety-three, Edward and my mother met. Obviously, Edward hasn't told you guys anything, but they fell in love. Not like him and Bella, this was different. But-" I was interrupted by Edward.

"But I left." He whispered, ashamed. "I left her in nineteen-ninety-four. When we moved to Alaska. But we'd taken our relationship... well... a bit... further than planned. But we just didn't feel the same any more. I swear, I had no idea she was pregnant. Why didn't she tell me?" He panicked and stuttered over the words.

"She never told you because you just left her with no way of getting in touch! You might not have loved each other but you could have at least stuck around! Maybe she'd still be alive then!" I snapped at him. How could he blame this on my mum! She wasn't the one who left.

"She's dead?" He gasped. I hadn't noticed until then that everyone had left the room except for Renesmee who was still on my lap. Giving us some privacy no doubt, not that I wanted time alone with him.

"She died minutes after giving birth to me. Her last words were my name. She named me Autumn because of the colour of my hair." I said smiling and twisting a lock of my hair around my finger. I always smiled at the though of my mum, no matter what was happening.

She named me Autumn because my hair was the colour of autumn leaves. It was the same colour as Edwards and had different shades of brown highlights in it. It was wavy and went all the way down to my waist.

My eyes were the perfect jade green to bring out the brown in my hair. My skin was white and ice cold as a vampires but I had the most beautiful elegant blush on my cheeks. I was very pretty and apart from the hair and eyes which were like Edwards when he was human, I was the spitting image of my mother.

"I should have stayed. Why did I leave? I'm sorry. I don't know what else I can say. I never really stopped loving your mother. Well, as a friend. I never forgot her." He whispered to me gently, pulling me out of my reverie. And in that moment I knew that he cared. Having this gift had its advantages sometimes. I could tell he was telling the truth. His emotions and thoughts were filled with love and regret. He really cared.

Renesmee reached up and touched my cheek again. I saw images of me and her. She was asking if I was staying with her.

"I don't know darling. Your family might not want me around." I told her sympathetically. Two people in my family loved me, at least. Edward had obviously seen what she was showing me.

"You can stay as long as you like." He blurted out. "You are family. You're my daughter. You're Renesmee's sister." He stated, looking me in the eyes.

Renesmee squealed and wrapped her arms around me.

"And it looks like she wouldn't let you go anyway." Edward laughed looking at her. "She really likes you."

"Are you sure? What about everyone else? What about-" I was cut off by another pair of arms wrapping around me. Edward was hugging me. My dad was hugging me. And this time it wasn't just a dream; this was reality.

"You're staying. No matter what. You are my daughter. I've already missed fourteen years of your life. I'm not going to miss any more." He told me.

"Thank you." I whispered. Then I realised I was crying. Damn tears!

"You can cry?" Edward asked, astonished.

"Yeah." I laughed, wiping the traitor tears away. "I have fairly equal human and vampire qualities. I can cry, I can drink blood but I prefer human food. I can sleep if I want to, but I don't actually need to and I have blood, thought it's cold, weirdly enough. I have vampire strength and speed and I have a gift. And I'm also venomous and immortal too." I told him.

"You have a gift? What is it? Is that what made the Volturi so terrified of you? And you eat human food?" He flustered. I laughed at his eagerness.

"Yes, I eat human food, but I can survive off blood just as easily. And I have a history with the Volturi. They found out about me when I was two years old. And like with Renesmee, they came for me. I grow at a normal human pace, so my gift saved my life. I couldn't have fought them because I was only the size of any normal human child.

My gift is extremely powerful. Well, really it isn't just one gift. I absorb any power that I come into contact with. So you can't read my thoughts, correct?" I asked him.

"Yes. I could read them when you came into the clearing, but then you just went silent." He said, his eyebrows furrowing.

"Well, I absorbed Bella's power. And Renesmee's and probably some of your friends' too. I already had yours, Jaspers and Alice's. Because my mum was around you all before I was born. That's how powerful it is, and that's how I got to the clearing. I'd seen it in a vision so I knew all of you already. When the Volturi came for me, I absorbed all of their gifts. They're terrified of me." I laughed.

I looked at Edward to see his jaw hanging open wide. Almost touching the floor. I couldn't contain myself. I burst out laughing and Renesmee joined in with me. We were both rolling around on the floor like dogs. Then everyone came back in to see what was going on. Bella stood behind them all and Edward composed himself and went up to her. Me and Renesmee both sat up on the cream carpet trying to stop the laughing fit.

"Love, I'm sorry. All of you, I'm so sorry. I should have told you about my past. But, I swear I didn't know about Autumn. Not that it makes what I did any better. It's true, she is my daughter. And Nessie's sister. I-" He blurted out in a rush, but Bella cut him off.

"I trusted you. I love you, and this is what you do. I told you everything. You said, no, you promised you had no relationships before me. I wouldn't have minded if you'd told me the truth!

"It killed me when you left last year, I had some crazed vampire chasing me for two years because her mate tried to kill me, and then I almost died carrying and giving birth to our daughter, and yet I still stuck by you and told you everything. And this is how you repay me?" She fumed. And with that Bella left the house again.

I felt so bad. I'd ripped the whole family apart. Ugh! Sometimes I really hated myself. I heard a strange noise and looked to my side. Renesmee was crying. I scooped her up onto my lap and held her close to me. She shouldn't cry. I'd only known her for an hour or so, but I already loved her so much. Who wouldn't? She was adorable. I'd become so attached to everyone in the short while I'd been here. Even Jasper and Rosalie who had hardly even spoken. They were my family.

"Mummy doesn't love me?" Renesmee whimpered, her tears soaking my dress.

"Of course she does. Everybody loves you. Don't ever think like that. Mummy's just upset." I reassured her, rubbing her back and trying to calm her down.

Suddenly, my arms were empty. I looked up to see the end of Bella's glare that was obviously meant for me. I didn't blame her.

"I'm sorry, honey. I love you more than anything in the world. You're my life." She cooed at Renesmee who she was now carrying away in her arms. Then they were gone. Edward followed them out into the garden with Jacob close behind him. I just stayed sitting in my spot on the carpet. What was I doing here? I'd killed my own mother when she gave birth to me and my own life was in tatters. I couldn't wreck my family's too.

"I'm so sorry." I murmured to the six vampires and Seth, who were still in the room with me. I got up and ran out of the front door as fast as I could.

I didn't know where I was going. I ran towards the forest. I felt safer in the comfort of all the trees. I just kept running in a straight line. Tears were starting to blur up my vision and I could feel them escaping my eyes and running down my cheeks. I didn't care. My path met with a huge thorn bush but I ran right through it, tearing my little black dress into pieces. I still didn't care. My black converse would have holes in them soon, I was sure, because I was running so much today.

After running for what felt like forever, I came across an opening in the trees. I slowed down and started walking at a human pace towards it. I don't know what I was expecting to find there, but when I entered the little meadow a wave of disappointment and regret washed through me.

I couldn't stand up any longer. I fell to the ground in the middle of all the wild flowers that I could barely see because of the tears. I hugged my knees to my chest and just sat there and cried.

I was such an idiot, thinking I could belong to a family. I should have left as soon as I'd got rid of the Volturi. Well, tomorrow I'd be on my way back to Chicago. Everything would be back to normal. I'd be on my own, just like normal.

These thoughts just brought on more tears. I didn't want to go back home. I didn't want to be on my own again, but what choice did I have? I obviously wasn't wanted around here.

I wished Nikki was still living with me. She didn't like me, I know, but I loved her. Nikki was my mums sister. It was my mums dying wish that Nikki look after me at least until I was old enough to fend for myself. So, when I was ten, she left. I might have grown at a human pace physically, but mentally I matured at the age of seven.

I don't know how long I sat there for before I fell asleep. I was woken up by the rain which was starting to get heavier. It was dark when I woke up and my eyes were stinging from crying. It wasn't a clear night. Clouds still covered the sky and there was no moon or stars. It didn't bother me though. I could see just as clearly in the dark as the light.

Now that the crying had stopped, I stood up and had a proper look at the meadow. I recognised it from one of my visions. It was Edward and Bella's meadow. Great. If Bella found me here that would just make her even more mad.

I started to walk out of the peaceful little meadow and back into the trees. It was raining really hard now and my scent had been washed away. I looked around me and all I could see was trees. I didn't know my way out of here, I was completely lost.

"Great!" I yelled at the top of my lungs.

I want Autumn. Where did she go? And where are mummy and daddy and Jacob? Where am I? What am I doing here? I'm lost and now I don't know how to get back. And my dress is ruined and Auntie Alice is going to freak! I heard someone's thoughts. Renesmee? What was she doing out here on her own? And why was she looking for me?

"Renesmee?" I called out.

"Hello? Who's there?" Renesmee yelled back. I followed her voice for a couple of minutes - not bothering to use the tracking gift off Demetri - until I found her sitting on a broken tree trunk. She was full of dirt. She looked like she'd just had a mud fight with her frilly, ivory dress now a muddy brown colour. I ran up to her and scooped her up in my arms.

"Autumn!" She squealed. That adorable smile stretched across her face again.

"What are you doing out here?" I sighed in relief. It was strange, I felt really protective of her. Well, she was my little sister.

She really did grow quickly! She looked about three years old. It was easy to forget she was just a few months old.

Renesmee reached up to touch my cheek. She showed me her thoughts of her running off after me when I left the house. She was looking around the forest and she got lost. Then she tripped up and fell in a puddle.

"You shouldn't have come after me, sweetheart. I'll take you home back to your mummy and daddy and Jacob. But, then I have to leave." I told her as softly as I could.

She stuck her bottom lip out in an adorable pout and her eyes started to fill with tears.

"But daddy said you could stay!" She whimpered as the tears escaped.

"I know baby, but it's not just daddy's decision." I whimpered back. She was making me cry now. It hurt to see her so upset. And the truth was, I didn't want to leave her. Any of them.

"I want you to stay too. You're my big sister." She sobbed.

"Let's get you home. It's dark and you're getting soaked in this rain." I said, more to myself than her.

I hugged her closer to me. It was getting cold and the temperature was dropping quickly. The cold didn't bother me. My skin was the same temperature as a vampire. But, I didn't know if it would bother Renesmee. Could she get ill? So many questions I had that could never be answered. Why was the world so cruel?

Renesmee snuggled her face into my hair as I started running. Then, I remembered I was just as lost as she was. Oh, crap! I looked down at my dress and remembered the thorn bush. All the thorn bushes looked the same, except the one that had shreddings of black silk all over it. If I could find that, I could get Renesmee back home. But, which way was that? Considering I was half vampire, I wasn't very good at this kind of stuff.

"Renesmee, you didn't happen to cross a thorn bush covered in bits of my dress on your way here did you?" I asked her hopefully. She lifted her face out of my bronze-brown hair.

Renesmee put her hand on my neck and showed me exactly what I was looking for. She wanted to know if that was what I was talking about.

"Yes, that one!" I told her enthusiastically. "Do you remember which way it is?" I asked in that same encouraging tone.

She lifted her arm and pointed one tiny finger to the east. I kissed her forehead.

"Good girl!" I beamed. She smiled up at me from my arms. She looked a lot like her father. Our father. She had his bronze hair which fell in ringlets all the way to her waist and his face. But, she had her mum's chocolate eyes and ivory skin with the most adorable rosy red cheeks. She was the prettiest baby I'd ever seen.