AN: So I own nothing the great SM owns it all. I just wanted a little piece of my own. So just a little about me, I have been reading on this site for 2 years and I LOVE everything twilight and fanfiction, because I can envision it all in my mind. In every story I find myself wishing it was longer or something else would happen so I wanted to write my own. This is the first thing I have EVER done. I am a horrible speller who thanks whom ever made spell check. I am 23 with a full time job and a 2 year old but will write as much as I can as quickly as I can. I don't have a schedule for my posts but I will try and make one. But for now I am just going to keep writing when ever I have the time! Thank you so much! - Amanda

"Charlie I just can't do this anymore. This is not the life I want." Renee yelled in the living room. "That's not the way it is Ren, you know that. You cant just WALK AWAY!" Charlie yelled back at her. They didn't know that I was sitting on the stairs hanging on to every word. I don't think a 17 year old should have to hear the final fight between their parents, however I just couldn't find it in myself to walk away. I need to know that at lease someone fought for this family. And that someone was Charles Swan...

I could tell over the past few months something was happening with Renee. She just didn't seem like herself. She was on here phone more often, shopping more often, but mostly gone more often. There would be weeks at a time that I wouldn't see her. No one really had an answer for me other than she was on a vacation or taking some "mental health days" as my dad would call them. I am not really sure if they expected me to believe those lies, but I brushed it off and acted like nothing bothered me. That's just how I am, I do not let anyone outside of my family in. Its dangerous.

There is only one person in this life that I know I can share absolutely everything. My twin brother Emmett McCarty Swan. He is my rock. He looks like the Hercules I swear he is massive. I tell him all the time I know its the steroids, but he laughs it off and says I'm crazy. We train together so we can defend ourselves together when the time comes. And as we get closer to our 18th birthday we know our time is coming.

Outwardly I am simple pain Jane. Nothing special about my brown hair, and brown eyes. I am pretty short at 5 foot 3. But looks can be deceiving. I can shoot more accurately that the Chief of police in this town. I am a black belt with pretty damn good hand to hand combat skills. And I can lie with the best of them. I am a Swan. Isabella Marie Swan. We are one of the top Mafia families in Washington, and right now we are being targeted. I can feel it in my bones. Even though no one has said anything I think that's why Renee wants out. She has never been good with the pressures of this life.

"Come on Bells, lets go downstairs and work off this stress. This isn't our fight. If she wants to leave us then let her. We can do it without her. Hell we pretty much already do. Its who we are and what we do." Emmett says staring angry holes in spot where our parents stand before us. I am sure dad can feel our stares. He's always been good at that. But I guess you have to be to make sure no one is coming for you. But maybe in the wake of having his wife about to walk out the door its not as heightened as it usually would be. "Come on Sissy, don't make me go down alone." Ah sissy, Em nickname for me when we were little. He knows I love when he calls me that and it always works. How are I refuse him. And that's how we made our way down stairs. Avoiding any gazes from our parents.

I am hitting our old punching bag with all the rage I've been holding inside all day long. I've been hearing them fight all morning. I know today is the day that Renee walks out. I also know she doesn't care to fight and take us with her. She knows we are deep into the life she never wanted. She fell in love with Charlie at 16, and was pregnant with Emmett and me by the time she turned 17. Her parents kicked her out and of course Grandma and Grandpa Swan let them stay here. After all Charlie was an only child and Renee was carrying the heirs. But what Renee didn't know is she was marrying into one of the top crime families, and by the time she found out it was to late to turn back. Over the years her love for Charlie and us started to fade, but she had no where to go. I guess she found somewhere because now she is leaving.

"Em can you shut the door I don't want mom and dad to hear the TV echo their fight and know we are watching." He immanently gets up to close the door after wiping the sweat from his head. This room is sound proof thank god so they should hear no matter how loud I get while running. I am on the treadmill and the burn in my lungs has started to take over. I love to run. Being as small as I am getting away quickly is a need. This room is our sanctuary, dad built it when we were 13 and started teaching us about the family business. Emmett and I are advanced, or at least that's what most would say. We are in college at 17, and both double majoring. Me in forensic analysis and business while minoring in Lit just because I love the way a story can be told. And Em in foreign affairs and business. Its honestly not all that hard for us. Probably because Charlie has always wanted this for us.

"I will be damned if you take one step out of this house with my children Renee. You not going to go live your life with another man and take my children away from their birthright." Charlie was at the end of his rope. Anyone who knows anything about him could see. We all new about Phil. He was her +1 on all the vacations she kept needing with the "girls." "I don't want to take the kids from you Charlie. I want out. Completely. And they are falling to much in your footsteps to ever leave with me willingly, we both know that." I couldn't believe Renee wasn't even going to fight for us. Then again yes I could. That's when I saw it. I called Emmett over to me and he saw it too. The three men came rushing in the house and over took Charlie by surprise. However they let Renee run free. They held Charlie down on the ground while everyone else got set up. Em and I watched in shock but if there is one thing we knew is, we could not help or we too would die, because Charlie knew we would be watching he gave us a sign with his eyes that clearly said "Hide."