AN- I'm not used to writing in a first person perspective, so you'll have to bear with me for a while till I get into the groove. I would have like to have cheated and wrote as a narrative but I can't do that in a Twilight fic, That's just plain wrong.

This is set a couple of years after breaking dawn and may possibly jump ahead a little as I'm centring the story around Renesmee but keeping it in Bella's perspective mainly and jumping to Jacobs from time to time. I want to explore how Jacob deals with Nessie maturing into an adult, all be it a ten year old one and more importantly how Bella and Edward deal with it.

This will be the longest chapter of the entire fic because I couldn't find a reasonable place to cut it in the middle. It may seem a little repetitive if you've just finished the books but for everyone that hasn't read them for a while, it will be a good refresher. Plus I didn't feel right just starting it from nowhere. It needed some sort of introduction.

Chapter 1 – Prologue

I can't sit still and for a Vampire that's a mean accomplishment. My name is Bella Cullen and I was changed just after my wedding two years ago. I have a beautiful vampire husband, a half human daughter and an amazing family. My story is a strange mixture of legend, heartache and of vampires wanting to kill us all but none of it has prepared me for this. My mother is arriving from Florida today. That in itself wouldn't be a problem but she hasn't seen me since I was human and she doesn't know I have a two year old daughter that looks more like eight. After my dad, Charlie, was told what little he needed to know without being put in danger and dealt with it surprisingly well, we decided to tell my mom too. I'm worried how she's going to take it and if she'll be able to understand any of it either but since the wedding, she has asked me a million time if Edward and I would go see her and we can't possibly go there.

I couldn't take the suspense any longer and called Alice if she could see anything.

"Charlie picked her up half an hour ago. You should be able to hear them on the road any minute." She replied. "Don't worry, it'll all be ok."

"You can't know that." I retorted, throwing a look at Renesmee.

"True, but I can't see you're mom jumping off any bridges or running to the police when she leaves."

I was going to come up with another witty retort, when I heard Charlie's cruiser coming towards the end of the drive. Everything happened in a split second then. Edward and his brothers came in from hunting and Carlisle, Esme and Rosalie were downstairs in a flash. They'd heard the car too. I clung onto Edwards hand as thought it were a lifeline. Everyone stood perfectly still as we all listened to the car approach. Renesmee came up to me then and put her hand to my face. I could see a perfect image of my face in my mind. I looked terrified. Smiling I looked at my daughter.

"I know I shouldn't worry but I can't help it." I said, then repeated Alice's words from earlier, "It'll all be ok"

She seemed calmed by this and we both turned out attention back to the door just as Charlie knocked and walked in with my mom following behind. She'd already be warned in the car, much the same as Charlie had in the beginning, that the 'illness' I had after my honeymoon had changed my appearance. That I looked more like a Cullen now than a Swan. I prayed than she would buy the story but knowing my mom, she wouldn't be happy at such a weak explanation but instead, try and get to the root of things. I hoped she didn't. I wasn't looking forward to another, kill her or we will ultimatum from the Volturi. Mom walked into the living room with a more worried look than me and she scanned the room looking around as if she couldn't see me, which I guess was the truth. She was looking for the old Bella. Edward took charge

"Rene, what a pleasure to see you again. I hope the journey was pleasant."

That did it. She looked at Edward and then his hand clasped in mine. Her eyes flew to me, a mixture of confusion, fear and love. Just the same a Charlie's when he found out.

"Hi mom" I said, trying to keep my voice low. I think my new singsong voice would've tipped her over the edge. "I've missed you." I smiled. I knew it would light up my face but that couldn't be helped. Rene looked like she was fighting an internal battle. How could this creature be her daughter? Where was the clumsy 20 year old she was expecting? I think the mother in her won out over the rational side of her brain. She flew to me and wrapped her arms round me so tight, that if I'd needed air, I wouldn't have got any.

"Bella! Bella! Bella!" She cried, "I've missed you so much, look at you! What happened? Look at your face, your eyes and you're so cold. You can't be the same girl."

"I'm not really mom, that virus did a real number on my genes." That in itself was true, I guess. Since vampirism is a virus and it did give me a couple of extra pairs of chromosomes. "I'm still Bella though." I added. She didn't really look at all convinced, that's what had me worried but she seemed too happy at the minute to question me further. She did however notice Renesmee clinging to my hand. We had a story ready for her about Renesmee's adoption but I could already see that Rene has noticed how much like me and Edward she really was.

"You've had a daughter? She's eight! How's that possible?" Mom really seemed like she was going to lose he grip on reality but I still tried to go with our cover.

"Well Edward's brother was in an accident and with no other family, we adopted her." I tried to reason.

"And I suppose it's just pure coincidence she looks like you used to as well?" I looked at Edward with a plea for help in my eyes but before he could say anything, she carried on without a breath.

"And you!" She looked accusingly at Edward. "You told me you didn't have any family and now a brother has conveniently crawled from the woodwork. I want the truth and I want it now Bella Swan!" That did it, she only used my full name when she was really mad and I'm guessing she was madder than usual, since she forgot I'm married. Edward whispered in my ear that Jacob was coming and it gave me an idea. I just had to talk to everyone first.

"Ok mom, just give us a second. I need to talk to everyone first, it's not my story to tell." I said as Jacob came through from the kitchen. Rene's eyes flew to the seven foot mountain of muscle as I asked him quickly. "Jake, I need you to take Nessie to the cottage for a bit. Will you?" He instantly felt the atmosphere in the house, nodded, picked up Renesmee and left. The others needed no word from me as they turned to follow him and waited in the kitchen for me. "One minute mom, ok?" I said, already turning to follow. I was in the kitchen before she had chance to reply.

Rosalie was the first to speak,

"You can't honestly expect us to be ok with you telling Rene? Don't you remember what happened when you found out? This is absurd!" she cried in a terse, low voice.

"Of course I remember, do you honestly think I want my mom in that kind of danger? But if we don't give her a better explanation, she's going to go to the police, the press, anyone who'll listen and if that happens, we're all screwed!" I said angrily. All of a sudden I felt perfectly calm and threw a look at Jasper.

"Hold on, Hold on." Carlisle said calmly "Bella's right but this isn't as easy as us thinking up a new cover for our family. She knows you've changed Bella and that Nessie is more than an adopted daughter. The likeness is too strong. Alice, I know you can't see anything involving Nessie but what are the Volturi upto?" Alice closed her eyes

"They don't plan on coming back till Nessie reaches adulthood but I can't see when, Aro keeps changing his mind. Caius has just heard of a new werewolf outbreak in Eastern Europe though, so they're attention is focused there." She said, coming back to the present.

"Are you suggesting we tell her the truth?" I asked Carlisle

"Yes Bella, you're mother is more astute than we gave her credit for and I don't think she'll accept even the best story we can think of, I wouldn't be surprised if she'll accept the truth." He smiled "But it's the best we can do." Edward gripped my hand.

"Your mother is strong like you. I know she'll be able to handle this" He said

"Ok!" I cried exasperated "If you think it'll work" Rosalie huffed her displeasure and fled out of the house in a fraction of a second. Emmett looked like he was about to follow her but the smile on his face told me he wouldn't miss this for the world. I sighed and led everyone back to the living room. The conversation had only taken moments but my mom looked like we'd left her in limbo for weeks.

"Mom you'd better sit down and Charlie, this is out of the realms of need to know. So if you want to leave, now's your chance." I said softly. Charlie took one look at his distraught ex wife and made up his mind.

"I'll stay if you don't mind." He said looking to Carlisle for assent. Carlisle nodded and Charlie took a seat next to Rene and held her hand in comfort. I didn't know where to start. I had to explain to her why I was what I was and where Renesmee had come from but I could hardly start with 'Mom, you never guess what but I'm a vampire!'. She would totally freak I decided to start at the beginning.

"What I'm going to tell you mom, is hard to believe, even harder than Nessie being adopted but you can't interrupt. You've got to listen to the complete story first." I waited for her to nod before I carried on. "Back when I first came to forks, on my first day of school, I knew there was something different about the Cullens. They were all so beautiful and distant, the first time I met Edward he looked like he wanted to be anywhere on the planet, as long as I wasn't there. For weeks he avoided me, skipping classes and pretending I wasn't there, he even tried to get his schedule changed, so he wouldn't have to see me. Then to confuse me further, he started talking to me one day in class. He knew I knew he was different and he asked me what I thought it was that made it so. I was a little embarrassed at my reasoning, I thought he's been bitten by a radioactive spider or something else from a comic and that amused him no end. It wasn't until Jacob," I motioned in the direction he had left, "told me one of the old tribe stories that I had a better idea. He told me a tale about how a certain few of his tribe were born to protect everyone from the cold ones. That they'd been here before and they were back now. I knew then why no one from La Push liked the Cullens but I still couldn't say it, not yet. I looked on-line for stories about the cold ones and nothing I read sounded like the Edward I knew but since it couldn't be worse than the comic book hero idea, I asked Edward anyway." I looked at Edward then, a smile crossing his face as he remembered that day.

"When I met Edward that night, I asked his almost straight away. 'You're a vampire aren't you?' I was expecting him to laugh like when I mentioned the spiders but he just looked serious. I knew then that I had it right." Rene gasped in shock but kept quiet. She wanted to interrupt but kept to what she had agreed. I think the fact I had stopped trying to speak with a lower tone helped, it made everything sound like a fairy story and it was just simply too hard to keep up while I was trying to organise my blurry human memories. "I wasn't scarred. I knew that Edward was still who he was no matter what he was and things carried on as normal. We became a couple and nothing would part me from him." I saw my mom's questioning look and remembered that she had seen me after he had left. I knew I'd have to tell her more than I wanted. "The Cullens aren't the rule as far as vampires go, more of the exception to it. They're vegetarian, purely sticking to animals for sustenance but there are others that prefer to find their food in more conventional places. I met some such people while I was watching everyone play ball. One of them, James, took a 'shine' to me and decided nothing would stop him getting what he wanted. That's why I was in Phoenix. Alice and Jasper brought me down while everyone else hunted for James. Tried to stop him. It didn't work. I was tricked and left Alice and Jasper while I went to meet him. I thought he had you. When I got there it was obvious what he had done and I knew I was going to die. Edward arrived just in time and killed him but not before James had broken half my bones and bit me. Edward got the poison out of me before it was too late though and I was fine." I showed Rene the crescent shaped scar on my hand that was almost invisible on my pale skin. "After I recovered, Edward decided that it was too dangerous for me to be around them, so they left. It wasn't till after my cliff diving stunt that he came back. He knew then that I didn't need help getting myself killed and I would probably fair better if he was here to keep an eye on me." Rene did interrupt then.

"I don't understand though. How did you get like this? When?" She asked in a quiet voice. I looked up and noticed Charlie then for the first time since I'd started. He looked shocked, afraid. I think he'd has his suspicions about what we were but having them validated was another matter.

"Once Edward came back, I made it no secret that I wanted to be changed. I'd be able to defend myself better if anything like James happened again and I didn't want to grow old with a boyfriend that was permanently seventeen. Edward would hear none of it though and maintained that he would love me even if I was eighty but I got Carlisle to agree. There was a date set for after graduation but since I wanted Edward to do it, he made me a compromise. He would change me, if I would marry him first. I didn't want to agree but in the end he got his way. On our honeymoon I decided that I wanted to stay human a little longer, maybe go to Dartmouth for a semester but none of it went to plan. We'd been on the island for about three weeks when I noticed that my clothes felt tighter, there was a bump where there shouldn't have been and I couldn't keep anything down. I knew I was pregnant right away but it didn't make any sense. I couldn't get pregnant to a vampire, it shouldn't work. But it did and we flew back straight away. It progressed at an amazing rate, forty days instead of weeks and Edward tried to get me to end it. The baby was draining me of life, I couldn't keep even water down and no one knew what would happen because it was a first. No vampire had ever had the inclination or the strength of will to sleep with a human without killing them, so even Carlisle was at a loss. I was on deaths door when we realised that since the baby was half vampire, maybe it needed a more liquid diet." Rene flinched as she realised what I meant by liquid diet. "After we discovered that, the pregnancy was relatively easy. It wasn't till the birth that everything went down hill. I managed to bend funny so the placenta detached and the birth had to happen very quickly. The baby was as strong as Edward and without meaning to, kept breaking my bones and even my spine. I lay dying on the table as the baby was born and it was the vampiric virus that saved me. It healed everything and put me to rights as it changed me. I came out at the end unscathed but changed. I became a vampire." Rene knew what the story was leading to but never the less dropped into a dead faint as I said the words. I'd been expecting it and just moved her so she was laid on the couch.

"Bella......." It was Charlie. I'd forgotten how much of my life now that he didn't know. He looked awed and scared.

"I could never have guessed, how could I? I just though it was like Jake. Vampire would never have crossed my mind." Maybe I was wrong about him knowing more than he let on.

"It's ok Charlie. No one was meant to know. It's only because mom's so stubborn, that you both do now. Alice can you go get Nessie and Jacob for me? May as well let her in on the whole thing now." I said. Alice nodded and almost vanished as she ran out of the door. No point in hiding anything now. I looked at Rene and pressed my cold had to her forehead. She'd come to soon and then we'd never hear the end of it. I heard Jacob approaching and in moments he was stood next to me, putting Renesmee down.

"So you told her everything huh?" He grinned. Then his face fell as he noticed Charlie still in the room. "Oh man, Charlie, are you ok? I though you wanted to be on a need to know basis. Why'd you stay?"

"I wanted to support Rene, I know it was going to be weird but I didn't realise it was going to be like this." He said more resigned now. He looked at me "You're still my Bella though aren't you?" He asked.

"Of course." I replied, "just think of me as Bella 2.0" I added smiling. Charlie caught the joke and looked relieved.. I heard Rene's breathing change and was on my knees by her side in an instant.

"Mom?" I said tentatively. "Are you still with us?" I joked.

"Please tell me I fell asleep in the car and the last twenty minutes have been a dream." She groaned. "So it's true I'm a grandmother then?" I should have known that would have been her first concern.

"Yes," I smiled. "Do you want to meet her?" She nodded. "Nessie, come here please." Renesmee walked cautiously towards her grandmother.

"Well little one, do you have a story for me too?" She asked. Renesmee looked at me.

"She has a different way of explaining things." I said, Renesmee touched my face to show her and Rene nodded in assent. Nessie put here hand on Rene's face and I saw the look of shock as the visions began. Rene's face calmed as she got used to the strange medium and then blanched. The Volturi, I knew I should have told Nessie to edit out some parts. The entire thing only took a minute and when Nessie took back her hand, I saw Rene shake her head a little.

"I guess you guys are doing ok from what I've seen. You've got a lot of friends Bella" she smiled. Then she turned to look at Jacob and her gaze wasn't remotely calm. "I see you are very close to my granddaughter, unnaturally close. I don't think I like that,"

"Oh mom, that's just a wolf thing." I realised what I'd said wrong as soon as the words left my mouth.

"A wolf thing?" Damn

"Jacob, do you want to tell her or should I?" I asked

"May as well be you, you're on a roll today it seems." He laughed

"Ok I guess. Mom, do you remember me mentioning the tribe story about the cold ones?" Rene nodded. "Well Jacob is one of the tribe that is entrusted with the rests safety. Whenever there are vampires close by, a gene activates and some turn into werewolves. They are here simply to kill vampires. The only reason they don't us is because we're different." I said

"So Jacob was one of the wolves in the clearing?" She asked, remembering the scene with the Volturi.

"Yes, Jacob was the one on my left."

"I don't understand though. What has this to do with why he's so attached to the child and her him?"

"That's where it gets a little murky. You see there is something with wolves that is known as imprinting. Every wolf has a person on the planet that is made for them, that as a partner, will make the line stronger and the wolves can't help this. Once they see this person, it's all they can think about and their only care is to make this person happy. If in this case, the person is very young. The feelings are similar to that of a big brother. When the child grows up, the feelings change. I trust Jacob like family, he will never hurt Renesmee." Rene nodded absently like she didn't understand. Then she thought of another question.

"How did you think of the name Renesmee? It's very unusual."

"From yours and Esme's names Rene-Esme." I explained. This seemed to please her no end and for the first time today, she smiled. "I know you've got more questions," I pre-empted as I saw Rene open her mouth to speak "but why don't you come see our home first. Let your brain process a little."

"Don't you live here?" She asked

"No, we were given the cottage as my nineteenth birthday present, come see." I led her out through the kitchen and into the woods.

A/N Please review, I'm not used to this perspective when it comes to writing, so it would be nice to know what you think.