A/N: I hope everyone enjoyed the prologue! This is up a little bit earlier than was expected, so I hope you're as excited as I am! I would also like to point out that characters may be slightly different in how they interact with one another than in the books or movies. You have to remember that everyone has a different writing style, but I will try to keep them as accurate as possible. Also, I am jumping up a few years so that Nessie is seven, yay for seven year olds!

Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight, never have, never will. Well, unless you count my mass market copies, I own those, but not the rights!

"Love? We need to get going, Carlisle is expecting us around noon." Edward said with a small trace of contempt in his voice. "We don't want to be late, he said it was very important." He was getting slightly more aggravated as the time passed without an answer. "Nessie, you're coming too, and Jake as well, but I've already let him know." Edward made his way into the living room of their small cottage. "Seriously, we-", on the table was a note that read 'Gone to the house with Nessie, you were out. Make sure you're on time. Love, Bella.' He looked at his clock, 12:02 pm, being on time was out of the question. He rushed to his old house, the place he moved out of once his daughter was born.

"Are you sure that he's coming?" Edward heard Alice ask.

"Of course! He probably just thought he was waiting for us or something." Nessie answered.

Edward ran up the steps of the house in three big bounds and opened the front door, "I'm here everyone, no need to worry. Bella just didn't let me know she had abandoned me before I was late."

A big smile popped up over Nessie's face, "What did I tell you guys?"

After the small disturbance was over Carlisle began to talk in what seemed like a rush compared to his usual pace, "I know that this will be something that none of you are too happy about, but as the leader of this Coven I decided that it was the best choice for us. This way they will no longer be able to hold Nessie as an immortal child in their minds, because it will have been completely proven that she is in fact growing and not controlled by blood lust." Once he had finished there was a slight shift in the room, "So, this means that a member from the Volturi will be visiting us to check on the growth of Nessie and the condition of our Coven, and will be staying with us."

The room erupted into chaos. It was Rosalie and Bella who had the worst reaction, saying that for them to continue this tirade was cruel and purposeless. Nessie even looked a little uneasy at the idea of having a member from their ranks co-existing with the rest of them. Jasper quickly calmed everyone down and looked around the room, "Carlisle, do you really think that that is the best idea? None of them really like us, and they all have superiority complexes. I think that it is a noble idea, but a noble one that won't work." Carlisle looked a little upset with what Jasper had said and with the reaction his news had illicited.

Alice looked on to the scene that was about to unfold, it was a quick flash before her eyes. Rosalie would put up a mild fight about how this was a family decision, and then Esme would scold her for speaking to her 'father' in such away. Emmett would then come in and announce that since Rose was a grown adult and could talk to anyone anyway she wanted. Edward would try to make since of what the reasoning behind this was with Carlisle while Jacob would tell Bella that he would not allow this to happen so long as he was imprinted on Nessie. All the while Jasper would just stand trying to muddle through all the emotions flying around. She decided that that future was not something she was in the mood for witnessing so she said something. "We have to let Carlisle finish what he started and fully explain the situation, because if we don't, how can we truly say no?"

Edward nodded in agreement, "I think that is a great idea, because I am more intrigued than I am put off." Bella gave him the coldest look she could possibly muster, and her mind went completely blank. That was her way of letting him know that she was upset and he was in trouble.

"No. I don't want to hear the rest, because I'm not allowing it. Nessie will not be some Guard member's task. Aro probably told whoever it is that Nessie should be watched like a hawk and anything suspicious should be reported back to them, so they can have a reason to come here and kill us all." Bella was livid, her face looked angry and her body showed it too.

Carlisle was taken aback at how badly everyone had taken this news, when he hadn't even given them the full details, they didn't even know what he was saying. All they had heard was that he, as leader, had said that the Volturi were sending one of their own to live near them and exploit Nessie and the Coven. He hadn't even said who, or explained much to why or how long their guest would be there. The thought process Carlisle had lasted but a few seconds, but gave way to Emse to add something, "Everyone, before you go and write this off let Carlisle finish. It isn't as bad as you think, and it might be even more fun than you can imagine."

"Thank you sweetheart," Carlisle began "Now when I say a member of the guard, I don't mean someone like Jane or Demitri. Aro assured me that it would be the youngest member of the permanent guard, a girl around the same age as Edward, physically, and who is very sociable. She, compared to the rest of the guard, is supposed to be very kindhearted and sweet. I was told that she will not get in anyone's way because she is very non-confrontational. She will be staying with us for at least five years, at which time we can decide if we want her to stay or go. None-the-less, she is coming here and living with us." He finished, and the feel around the room was of pure hate. Nobody wanted this girl to be living with them no matter how sweet and innocent Aro made her to be. They all were thinking the same thing: She was probably the most ruthless one of all.

Emmett was the quietest of all during this confrontation, not saying a word until Carlisle had finished, "It feels like a really bad idea. I have to go with what Jasper said earlier, it sounds like a good idea, but it won't be one." He looked solemn, and a little scared at the idea of the Italian coming to live with them.

Nessie looked around the room and made a face and then she walked to the center. She knew that what she was about to say would make most of her family unhappy, but she needed to say it. "Let this girl come and live with us," Nessie had the appearance of a seventeen year-old and the mental capacity of someone far older "I think that it's important to Carlisle, otherwise he wouldn't have asked us here for our opinion, and I think it's a good idea. If we do this, they can't say that we are uncooperative, or that we disobey them, and we would be able to prove that I'm not some baby driven by my hunger. I want to do this, and I think that that is all that matters. You guys are definitely going to have to learn to live with this new member, but she would be spending all her time with me, not you guys, and that's what's going to matter. In the end I have to be the one who's okay with it, because I'm the one who is really going to be affected." Nessie's words sat heavy on the room, like a cloud of smog in a city, but they were effective. The whole room began to nod, and Nessie turned to return to where she was before she started that monologue.

Jake was the only one not in agreement. "If that girl Carlisle mentioned is here, I don't know if I can be too." When he finished his statement he left the house too quick for any of them to protest.

Nessie made to run after them, but Rosalie stopped her, "Let him go, let him think about it and decide if that's what he really wants. Besides we're probably not done here anyway."

"You are certainly right Roaslie, we are not done here." Carlisle replied chipperly. "I wanted to let you all know the girls name, so when she came you could know something about her. It's Ashlyn. I'm not sure if she has a last name or not, but she is very young to be a permanent member, only a hundred or so years old, but she has been having trouble getting along with the rest of the guard because they don't understand why she has been a member since her creation. Anyway, that's everything for now." He turned to leave to his study, but turned around to say one last thing, "Wait, I would like to let everyone know that I think in the next year or two, or sooner, we will need to relocate. We've been here a long time." With that everyone unceremoniously scattered to their respective parts of the house, except for Edward, Bella, and Nessie.

"Hey mom, I think I'm going to go see if I can find Jacob and talk to him, cause I don't think it'd be good to leave things at the 'If that girl Carlisle mentioned is here, I don't know if I can be too' remark. Is that okay?" Nessie asked her mother.

Bella gave her a warm smile, "Of course it is, sweety. Your dad and I will be back at the cottage if you need us." Nessie left in a hurry, so that she wouldn't lose Jacobs scent. The two of them followed not soon after.

Bella asked to take the long way back, just walking, and talking to Edward. "I don't understand why they won't take our word for Nessie's growth. It doesn't make any sense. We have done everything to reassure them that we aren't doing anything shady, but that doesn't seem to help at all. And I don't see how this will help either. It's not going to work; we all know that, so I don't understand why try." She looked up at the trees, the forest was so beautifully green this time of year that it never ceased to amaze her the way the light hit the same color so many different ways.

"From what Carlisle was saying and what he was thinking, this is a pity case more than showing that Nessie has grown. Aro is using the pretense that he wants to make sure we didn't lie to him seven years ago to hide the fact that he has a defiant young vampire that has more power than he can control, and that in sending her here it will make her wish she was there, in a familiar setting. It's really complex psychological warfare he's trying to put into her brain, and I don't think it'll work. But it'll be nice to have another face with us." Edward was looking down at Bella to see if anything he said was making her upset, she still hadn't opened her mind back to him. "Bella, what are you thinking?"

She smiled, "That this feels like it's going to end in something big and bad. I just get this bad feeling about it all. Like it's not what we're supposed to do."

"Not everything we do will feel right, and that's okay. But what we need to focus on is that there is a girl that is coming to live with our coven, that needs support and to feel important, because if she is striking out in Italy that obviously means that something isn't happening there."

"You're right. But I can't help feeling that. Can we run now?"

"I thought you'd never ask."

A/N: So, I'm really happy with this, and I hope you guys are too! Don't forget to review and tell your friends about this! I'll try to get the next chapter up in a few days! I'd also LOVE to know what you guys would like to see happen!

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