Part I – Chapter I

THIS CHAPTER IS JUST TO CATCH YOU UP ON THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN THE PAST SEVEN YEARS SINCE THE END OF BREAKING DAWN, THE STORY WILL COMMENCE DURING THE NEXT CHAPTER.

THIS IS TAKE 2 OF THIS STORY, I DIDNT LIKE HOW THE FIRST ONE TURNED OUT SO I'VE CHANGE IT A LITTLE, THIS IS PRETTY SIMILAR TO THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE LAST ONE WITH A FEW IMPORTANT CHANGES!

Disclaimer:- This all Belongs to Stephanie Meyer I do not own any of the characters at the moment. I will do soon though.

This is my Life...

(The story starts seven years after the end of Breaking Dawn. Renesmee is 7 & ½ but looks 17 and has Mental age of an adult, so she is almost fully grown)

Enjoy!

It has been seven years since the Volturi came to kill me because they suspected that I was an immortal child. The reason that I'm here writing this and was not killed at the hands of those Vampires who call themselves 'Law Enforcers' is mainly because of my mother Bella. She has a very powerful mental shield, which nobody actually knew about until our 'cousins' the Denali coven came and Eleazar told her when they came to witness me growing to stop the Volturi from killing me. Eleazar has the ability to identify powers and latent powers within vampires and humans, but he has to focus harder with humans, so that's probably why he didn't realise when he came to mom and dad's wedding.

My mother's Mental Shield is so powerful, it stopped the Volturi from being able to attack us. So, she along with the wolves, which the Volturi weren't expecting, stopped them in their tracks and forced them to listen to our story. Jane, who has the power to give anybody the illusion of pain and her twin Alec, who can cut off Vampire and Human senses leaving them utterly defenceless, couldn't penetrate my mother's shield. When the Volturi realised how powerful my mother's shield was, they backed down and had listen to our story. Aro, who is the leader of the Volturi, has the power to read every thought that has been through one person's mind just by touching them. He read my father's thoughts and saw into everyone else's minds through him. This was when he realised that I was not an immortal child but the biological daughter of my mother and father and so they were not my creators but were in fact my parents. Even Aro couldn't deny that. But he had other intentions…

We wouldn't have been able to 'win' if my Aunt Alice and Uncle Jasper hadn't come to the rescue. We thought that Alice had seen the Volturi take her, so she left to protect herself and Jasper. Not that I blame her for her actions, I would have done the same thing if it was me and somebody I loved was in trouble. But I must say when I saw her running towards us, Uncle Jasper in tow, I couldn't stop myself from smiling. Instead of saving herself from the Volturi, she went all over America searching for somebody like me. Which is no easy task when you cannot see what you are looking for, but she found him in South America. His name was Nahuel. He was a Hybrid like me. Except, he wasn't made out of love like I was, he was an experiment. His creator Joham had been trying to build a super race of Vampire-Human Hybrids. Nahuel told the Volturi how old he was and of his sister's and his 'father'. Huilen told the Volturi of how Pire, Nahuel's mother, died during child birth and how Nahuel turned his auntie into a Vampire. He is the only known Hybrid with Venom. Grandpa Carlisle thinks this may be due to him being male, since his other siblings who are female do not have the ability to produce Venom or at least not enough to change a Human into a Vampire.

Once the Volturi finally realised that I was no threat to Vampire Law, they decided to leave. But not before offering my father, mother, my 'cousin' Kate, Auntie Alice and a few other witnesses a place within the Volturi as part of the Guard. They all declined of course. So, the Volturi reluctantly left empty handed.

They sent a letter a few years later to my parents saying that they would send some of the Guard to check that I have grown. I expected nothing less personally. My dad didn't either, but my mom was shocked. She thought that seeing everybody's memories of me growing would have been proof enough. Apparently, that's not enough evidence for Caius. I just think he's bitter. He doesn't like to be beaten at his own game.

It has been almost three years since that letter and no unexpected visits, except from the Denali's unplanned visit a couple of years ago, to inform us that Garrett had officially joined the Denali Coven and that Tanya was dating a nice human called Jonah, who apparently had latent abilities. Unfortunately, they decided to tell us this at about 2 o'clock in the morning, but that was okay, since they're family after all. Besides, I love seeing Carmen. We almost always converse in Spanish because she finds it easier that way, and I need to get better at my languages before I start school this year.

The Wolves of La Push have been doing fantastically over the past seven years apart from a few minor bumps in the road. Sam decided to quit the Pack after getting married to Emily and having their first baby, they have just had another baby, a boy about 19-months ago.

They had a little girl called Poppy Mae who is around five years old now and they also had two sons called Harry Samuel and Thomas James or TJ as they call him. Poppy Mae is a little girly girl and is always wearing dresses and skirts and if you try to put her in sweatpants or even jeans she goes hysterical. Auntie Alice loves buying Poppy clothes because she is one of the only 'wolf kids' so far, that actually understands that she is a girl, all the others are pretty much tomboys, but I guess that's what happens when you grow up with a wolf as your dad. Poppy pretty much looks exactly like Emily just without the scars, she has long black hair that stops at her waist and light brown eyes surrounded by long eyelashes, her dark skin tone makes it hard for you to see the redness in her cheeks but that's what made her parents call her Poppy, because she always has a blush. Their son Harry is three years old now and is the spitting image of his father Sam, with dark hair and brown eyes inherited from his mother. He is a very tall three-year-old and only stands an inch or so taller than his sister Poppy, people tend to think he is the oldest for exactly this reason, but once people see how him and Poppy interact you can tell that Poppy is the oldest simply by how much she bosses her little brothers around. Last but by no means least, we have Thomas James, who tends to go by either Tommy or TJ. He is currently 19-months old and he is still a little chubby because of his baby fat but that just makes him even more handsome. He has everyone wrapped around his chubby little fingers. He takes after his mother in temperament being quite laid back and chilled but he is a perfect mixture of his parents look wise.

Jacob managed to became the Alpha of fifteen immature and rowdy Wolves after inheriting Sam's pack after he retired. At first it was tough for him and they were giving him an extremely hard time. I could tell that they were being pains in the backside, and I was only about two at the time, but looked about five years old. I did feel sorry for him, because he could deal with five other Wolves sharing his head. But adding ten more to the mix was obviously giving him a migraine every time he phased. He would come home in the most irritable moods, so I helped him get through them. I just told him (through my thoughts) to zone the voices out and only listen to specific ones at a time, so that he doesn't get confused. I also asked dad to help him out since he has to listen to everybody's thoughts all the time. Dad helped more than I did. I didn't expect any less of Jacob to listen to my dad more than me, since they were in the same boat after all. After their 'talk' Jacob came home a lot happier from his patrols.

It became worse however, when more teenagers started phasing because the gene was triggered with my family staying around and me going on and off the reservation. Surprising the majority of us, Leah is no longer the only female wolf in our pack. There are now another eight female wolves, which makes the current pack numbers stand at twenty-five wolves. It works out quite well though because a lot of the wolves have now imprinted on each other. Collin imprinted on a very sweet demure girl called Margo, Jacob's cousin Seraphina 'Sera' Black imprinted on a wolf also, Cody phased a little while before she did within days of each other and they were paired for training together, once they laid eyes on one another that was the training day over, neither could concentrate long enough to practically stop drooling. Leah, Seth, Embry, Brady and a few other wolves still haven't imprinted. I really want Leah to imprint soon, she's so lonely and I just want her to be happy like the rest of my family are.

Paul and Rachel got engaged – and eventually married –, and were going to get married shortly afterwards, but she found out she was pregnant a little while before they were meant to get married so the wedding was put on hold until after the baby was born, she didn't want to be fat in her wedding photos apparently.

Paul and Rachel's first child was a little girl as well, born a few months after Poppy was born called Nora Louise Lahote. She was just as stunning as her mother. With big plump lips, dimples and a little button nose. She was absolute perfection. She had big brown eyes which were framed with huge dark eyelashes so thick that she wouldn't need mascara when she was older. Nora's temperament is evenly split down the middle, but she will throw a tantrum is she gets angry enough, I guess that is a downside of have children when both parents have bad tempers. She never cries and is generally always happy, smiling and laughing, which makes you laugh in return because she just looks so happy, I guess that's what makes it so hard to deal with the tantrums she throws, they are so few and far between that when she has them it's a complete mess, nobody knows how to deal with it.

Rachel and Paul eventually got married. It was a beautiful ceremony on the beach with the sun setting in the background as they said their vows. On their honeymoon, however, Rachel fell pregnant again. This time with twins, in which was bound to happen eventually, since she is a twin herself. She had twin girls, first born was Sarah Danielle Lahote and ten minutes later arrived her sister Katherine Grace Lahote, Katie for short. Sarah and Katie are complete opposites, they may look identical but their personalities are completely different. Katie is quiet and laid back which surprised a lot of people they couldn't have been so lucky twice? Sarah however, has a temper which could rival even her parents. Sometimes I do wonder where Katie and Nora's temperament comes from, it's definitely not from Paul or Rachel because they argue like cats and dogs. Maybe they get it from Jake, because he's so laid back and we do babysit the three of them a lot when Paul and Rachel go on their Date Nights.

Jared and Kim also have two daughters already. I don't see as much of their daughter's as I do Rachel's or even Emily's children. The only time I ever really saw Kim at all was if she was over Emily's or Rachel's. I do like Kim though and I will try to become better friends with her, now that I'm in charge of the female pack member's well being. Her first daughters name is Amelia Lily Cameron who is four years old; she is named after Kim's mother Amiee and Leah Clearwater. Kim had always admired Leah for her strength of staying in Sam's pack even though he had imprinted on Emily whilst still dating her. Jared had agreed to let Leah be Amelia's godmother – Even though she was already Poppy Mae's – And Kim and Leah have been best friends since. In fact, sometimes I wonder if Kim is Leah's only friend. Their other daughter Olivia Rose, is their youngest child – so far. She is also 18-months old and hers and TJ's birthdays are about a three weeks or so apart, Olivia is the youngest though.

Anyways, I digress...

Did I forget to mention that Jacob and I got married? Well, if I have, I apologise. He told me about a year ago, when I looked about 15/16, that he had imprinted on me much to my parents' displeasure. I didn't believe him at first but the more I thought about it the more sense it made. We are very close like the other imprints are. So, it wasn't that far-fetched to believe. Anyway, we got married about two months ago, it was a small ceremony on La Push beach, my family and friends (vampires) were granted special permission for just this one day to cross the border to watch their little girl get married. If my vampire family could cry I know they would have.

We had a surprise visitor at our wedding, even though she had been invited, she didn't RSVP, so we weren't exactly expecting her to turn up. Jacob and Rachel's twin sister Rebecca showed up from Hawaii with her two sons, Joshua Riley Finau-Black and Zachary Peter Finau-Black and was pregnant with her third child. She left her husband Solomon after he accused her of cheating on him. She denied it, but he didn't believe her and chucked her out. She stayed just long enough to grab her boys and leave. She told the authorities over there that he was unhinged so it was safer to take her boys with her. They agreed and allowed her to leave Hawaii. She has been living in Forks now for a few months and the boys seem to be settling in very well and enjoying spending time with their Grandpa and their Auntie Rachel.

After we got married I officially became the Alpha Female of the Quileute Pack. Which meant that came with its own set of responsibilities. I needed to attend Pack meetings with the Tribal Elders and I was also in charge of the females of the Pack. Not in the ordering around sense, no, that's still Jake's job, more in the sense that if one of them is having a problem they can come to me and have a nice chat and it will stay confidential between me and that particular female as long as it doesn't harm the well-being of the Pack.

This has led to many things, such as with Matt and Nova. Matt was one of the newbies to phase during the fight with the New-born Army Victoria made to kill my mom. Nova and Matt dated before he phased and then he stopped seeing her just before because of his temper had escalated due to the phase. Once Nova phased and saw Matt it was love at first sight they got back together and engaged because she realised his temper wasn't towards her but was because he didn't understand what was happening as with most wolves who're due to phase. They got married in the June and because of their body heats the wolves can't use protection, the human imprints – if female – can go on oral contraception but the female wolves can't. Their body heat either melts the latex of the condoms which is beyond painful – don't ask how we know that, but let's just say the procedure carried out by my Grandpa was horribly embarrassing to the persons involved – and the pill/implant or anything else just get burned out of their system similar to how Jacob's body heat cancelled out the morphine when he got hurt, it's the same for other medications.

To cut a long story short, she came to me a while ago worrying that she wasn't pregnant yet, and why that could be. I didn't exactly have an answer for her so we went to my Grandfather Carlisle. He checked her over and deemed her perfectly healthy. He did lots of other tests and even roped in Leah and another female wolf called Lilith who is saving herself until she imprint's apparently. His tests showed that the female wolves are in fact very similar to their actual wolf counterparts. They are only fertile during certain times of the year, exactly like a real wolf, our wolves too, go into heat, which explains why her and Matt didn't conceive straight away, so now she is just waiting to go into heat and is just happy to know that she can get pregnant eventually.

Not long after Jacob and I got married we moved away from the wonderfully boring, miserable town of Forks, Washington because it was getting way too dangerous for the entire family to stay. We moved to a small, quiet town just outside of Oregon about two months ago, we have yet to start school since we moved in around the middle of summer break, so we had to wait for the next year to start. I can then go out in public, as another of Grandpa Carlisle and Grandma Esme's adopted children. I don't mind it too much. Just as long as I get to leave the house for once unlike back in Forks, unless it was to go to the reservation, without somebody following me that is. I'll be fine; I'll keep up the Human Façade. It's been drilled into my brain ever since I can remember. Plus, it's not like I'm a child anymore, I'm a married woman, not that I can wear my beautiful wedding ring that Jacob bought me when we go to school. Then again, neither can the others.

The only humans who could see me are Grandpa Charlie and his new wife Sue, (who happens to be Leah and Seth Clearwater's mother) or Grandma Sue as she is called now, Billy, the imprints and their children. Grandpa Charlie and Sue went to Las Vegas for their three-year anniversary, secretly eloped and got married in the Little White Chapel. Auntie Alice saw them make the decision but was too late to stop them. She was furious, to say the least. She didn't talk to either of them for months. She got over it eventually, after they promised that she could throw them an anniversary party. Alice and her parties... I don't understand it personally; I love a good party, like anybody else, but the planning and everything would drive me bananas.

Grandpa Carlisle now works at the Local Medical Centre in Oregon. He stopped working at Forks General about three years ago, and began working in Seattle, and then we had to move because the residence, were wondering why none of us looked any older. You can only go so many years saying you look younger because of Botox. He is really happy at his new hospital, but because it's such a small town – roughly about 1,500 residents – he will have to start looking for a new position at another hospital, but somewhere else that's still close by. I don't know where he will go; we aren't near any other cities unless he runs across Siskiyou National Park. One and half hour commute for a vampire, to the nearest town on the other side. He'll have to leave a car or something near there. Grandma Esme is the same as ever. Always making me chocolate chip cookies whenever I wake up from a nap on the weekends or come home from hunting with Jacob, there is a lot more choice in this Park than in Forks, we have Black-Tailed Deer, Bob-Cats, Coyotes, Cougars, Elk, Ring Tail Cats, and Uncle Emmett's all-time favourite, Black Bears. Grandma works for a Home Design company, which she does from home. They send her the specs of the house she draws it and faxes the drawings and designs over. If they need her to explain, then she has to conference call them. She really enjoys her job but she loves doing it from home. Her reasoning is, is that she is a mother of seven – eight if you include Jacob, since he moved with us after we got married (one of the hardest things he had to do, leave his family) – children and needs to stay home to look after them. Which is kind of true I guess, except that we are old enough to look after ourselves and the majority of us don't need feeding except for Jacob and me.

When we moved here Grandma Esme and the others made us a lovely house on the outskirts of the National Forest and the town. Everything is very similar to the house in Forks, except this house has ten bedrooms, five of which are guest room spanning over four floors and every main bedroom has an en-suite including jacuzzi tubs.

The basement houses the Game and Cinema Rooms, the boiler and Auntie Rosalie and Uncle Emmett's room are located down there. The Games Room has a lovely dark oak wooden floor and a dark brown feature and cream walls with oak tables and oak lined chairs and sofas dotted around near the games. There is a pool table, air hockey table, darts board and few electronic games a pinball machine and finally the all-important poker table which I must say Uncle Emmett, Jasper and Jacob spend way too much time at. The Cinema Room is kept dark and has four rows of five seats ranging heights to get the best view of the massive industrial size cinema screen, the walls are covered in shelves of DVD's and even some classic black and white Video's. Aunt Rosalie and Emmett are in the basement because Dad didn't want to be able to hear the in his own words 'crude and disgusting' thoughts that go through their heads. Their room was done rather tastefully to Rosalie's specifications. She likes 'Princess' style beds and lots of space. She and Emmett have a walk-in closet too thanks to Alice.

All of the ground to second floor south facing rooms have a window wall to let some light in, Grandma Esme loves natural light so she has the south facing wall as a large window. The other accents in the main rooms and hallways are of neutral colours.

The ground floor hosts, the kitchen which leads off to the garden, through a transparent glass wall with doors in the middle. The Kitchen is very modern with granite worktops and state of the art oven. It also has a breakfast bar and two American style fridge freezers in there to keep up with the amount of food that Jacob manages to eat. Leading off the kitchen is the dining room, which rarely gets used for eating unless a special occasion such as a birthday party or something of the like; it is however, normally otherwise used as a meeting room. The dining room is plain with one large picture going across a wall; it was one of my paintings. It's a landscape portrait of a snowy day from a Mountain View point where you can see the whole of the Olympic Peninsula; you can see Forks, La Push you can even make out our old house and First Beach. I painted it just before we moved and it has pride of place on the burgundy coloured walls in the dining room. We also have a utility room on the ground floor where it has the washing machine and dryer and such in there and the store room houses all the blankets and towels. It is also used as a mud room, since you can get into the house leading from the garden into there. We also have a drawing room and an entrance hall, the drawing room is usually used for entertaining guests since we also have a living room next to the kitchen which has a very small room leading off it which Esme converted into a library/music room for me and dad so we can keep his Grand Piano. The Living room is big enough to house all the wolves and my family and even a few more guests in case we need a 'family meeting'. It has two huge white couches, three medium sized ones, two love seats and two arm chairs dotted around it. A massive 58in' flat screen TV is at the front of the room and sits above the feature brickwork fireplace.

The first floor houses the majority of the bedrooms, including Grandma and Grandpa's, Mom and Dad's, two Guest Room's which are decorated plainly since Alice couldn't see why we needed so many, and finally, Grandpa's office. Each room has a bathroom attached but there is also a separate bathroom on this floor. Grandma and Grandpa's room is the room straight in the middle, next to that is Grandpa's study which is warmly decorated with dark wood everywhere except for the ceiling which has the Tudor type beams going across it with the south facing window wall to top it off. The room is covered in memorabilia from his life time including; a huge wooden cross, a collage of graduation caps collected by my family members, and a family portrait of everybody, including Jacob over the fireplace. His study also has a door leading to his room and the hallway. Next to their room is my Mom and Dad's room. Their room is plainly decorated, except for all the pictures of me dotted around everywhere and the south facing window wall that lets lots of light in. Mom also has pictures of her mom and her Step-father Phil in her room too on her computer desk. Renee still tries to get Mom to come to Jacksonville to visit her and Phil, especially since they adopted Phil's deceased brother's daughter Summer-Anne, but mom always has to make up some excuse. It's a shame too because I get on perfectly fine with Grandpa Charlie and Grandma Sue, I don't really understand why it's a problem. She also has pictures of her friends from school which she took with the camera she got for the 18th birthday. They are framed and sitting on her chest of drawers. You can tell dad wants to get rid of some where some guy called Mike is holding mom way to close but she wanted to keep them because they are decent photos of her friends Angela Weber and Ben Cheney, so he puts up with them for her.

As for Grandma Renée and Grandpa Phil, I don't think that I'm ever going to meet them or my adoptive Aunt Summer-Anne either; mom says that if she sees the family resemblance between me and her that she might figure out our family's secret. If she saw me at the age that I am now and realised that her daughter was my mother she'd try to figure out how I'm so old. And we can't risk our family and her. It has to be horrible to know that your own daughter is avoiding you, but we cannot let her get too close to our secret otherwise we might have to kill her. Vampire law states that if any human finds out about our existence they must be dealt with accordingly. The only reason Grandpa Charlie isn't dead by now is because with him it's on a purely need-to-know basis. He knows something is not right, but he hasn't thought that far into it, nor does he want to. He just wants to be able to see mom and me. Every time Renée calls we have to make up some stupid excuse, poor woman. Mom stays in contact with her through phone calls and e-mails. But it's not the same as seeing your daughter in the flesh. It's for the best, for all of us.

The Second floor has the final bedrooms Auntie Alice and Uncle Jasper's room as well as another three guest rooms. Auntie Alice's room is by far the most colourful and extravagant. It's all mismatched colours but somehow it works. The walk-in closet is just as big as the en-suit bathroom that they have if not bigger, and as soon as you walk into their room it just screams Alice.

Outside we have a pool house with an indoor pool and a gym, a three story 15-car garage and above the garage is mine and Jacob's bedroom along with another guest room - although I suspect its actually a Nursery. Jacob was relegated to outside because Aunt Rosalie didn't want the house smelling of mongrel, so I went with him of course. Our room also has a kitchenette in case we don't fancy going to the main house for food, we normally do though since Jacob in his own words 'How can I refuse momma fangs amazing cooking when I managed to burn water?' so we are over at the main house a fair bit. Our room is decorated in earthy colours to remind Jacob of the forest and such, Esme also had a custom bed made for us so that his feet don't hang of the end like they normally do on standard sized beds.

The garage was big, but not as big as it could be. It only housed the 'every-day cars' so it had five spaces above ground, and below ground which spanned the entire underbelly of the basement all the 'flashier' cars were housed. The most used cars were; Grandpa's Black Mercedes, Emmett's Silver and Black Land Rover, Mom and Dad's Silver Ford Focus, and Jacob's motor bike which was a 2012 Yamaha YZF-R1, it always had a spare spot in there plus people could also park in the driveway if they wished. The other cars were parked underneath hidden by a secret password protected door, since the cars held down there were 'super cars' daddy, Grandpa and Aunt Rosalie especially wanted to keep them safe. So, Daddy's Aston and Rose's Ferrari as well as Alice's Porsche were stored down there out of sight.

My family, Jacob and I are to begin school again soon; we will be going to Oak Ridge High School. Let's just hope that we don't cause too much of a stir. Nobody has seen us yet, I wonder whether we will make a good impression?

A/N: - I hope you enjoyed the first chapter, this was just to get you guys caught up on what has happened since the end of Breaking Dawn. This took me a long time to write. So, I hope it's good. Next chapter should be up shortly.

Bekah x

Edited on:- 29/3/17 - Please Re-read!