A/N- Thank you for reading! Chapter 2 is longer and hopefully more exciting, so here it is, enjoy.

Disclaimer- Of course I don't own the books.

Chapter Two.

Battle Before it Began.

Edward POV

"Carlisle we can't, this puts our whole family in danger!" I boomed

"Edward it's a recession! Sure we have more than enough money, but what if it gets out that we're paying off the government? The government doesn't take bribes!" Carlisle ranted on about how he knew this put stress on our family, but we couldn't use money this time.

The whole family sat in the living room watching me pace back and forth trying to concoct a plan. I was livid.

At the beginning of this year the government had issued a draft, requiring everybody within a certain age group to register themselves. Once registered, one could be automatically picked for the draft. There were not many ways one could get out of the draft, on was to have someone respond in your place, but our family doesn't have that option.

"Carlisle you're a doctor, can't you declare us ill?" I tried.

"Your right I could, but the chances of them believing the diagnoses of all three of MY SONS being ill, is slim."

"We can try it."

"I don't need the suspicion, and the government sending in their own doctors to examine you. I'm sure they'd definitely deem you unfit to fight, when they check your heart beat." He said.

The letter Alice gave me was worse than I'd imagined. When I opened the letter I found the news that I had be drafted, slowly putting the letter back in the envelope, it dawned on me vampires can't fight in a war. When I went downstairs I was given the news that Emmett and Jasper had also received identical letters.

There was no way we could leave our family; no way could we risk being exposed.

"We die" I blurted out.

Seven curious pairs of eyes turned and stared at me.

"Huh?" Emmett said.

"Easy, all we have to do is die" I repeated. The seven pairs of curious eyes, turned into horrid looks.

"Edward are you crazy?!" Bella shirked throwing herself into me. Everyone started to question me at once, questing my sanity that is. Bella was still latched on to my waist, dry sobbing, yelling "No, no" and "This isn't happening."

"Not physically die, but fake it" I explained "We can't go if were dead. We make up a story, something believable, like a car accident. We dump a car into a river, and we let the humans find it. They'll never find the bodies; we'll be classified missing, and presumed dead."

I could see the faces around me absorbing the words I just spoke. After taking my plan into consideration Carlisle said,

"No we can't go through that again, people become to invasive. Like the last time, people became interested in learning more about us. They become suspicious when we leave town.

Carlisle made a good point, but I still felt the plan was doable.

"We can make the plan work we just need to per-"

"No, we'll find a way to manage this, but not with that plan" Carlisle cut me off. I clenched my fist and Jaw in defeat. By that point Bella had moved to sitting on the couch slowly rocking back and forth, burring her head in Esme's chest.

This was hurting Bella so much more then it was hurting me. There was no way I could leave. I promised her I would stay with her forever. I wasn't about to break my promise that easily, not without a fighting. Hold on Bella I'm trying I though.

"I think we have to do this" Jasper spoke for the first time.

"Do this?" I exploded "You mean go?! There are a million reasons why we can't go! First we'll be living close quarters with humans, who might start to notice we don't eat or sleep. Second what are we going to eat? It's not like we can quick run off and find a lone deer to eat. Third what do we do in a battle and human blood starts to spill? Huh? What do we do then Jasper?" I was out of line, and I knew it.

"I'm sorry Jasper that was in sensitive and inexcusable of me" I apologized.

"No no, point taken" he replied. I was wrong to use Jaspers weakness, but my family had to see all the dangers to us.

"And what if we get shot?" I suggested "That'll cause a bit of interest if it bounces right off our skin."

"The military has bullet proof vests, if that ever happens blame it on the vest, but I would expect you'd have fast enough reflexes to dodge the bullet. As for food I will think of something, and the blood issue, well, we'll just have to work on your control. I know all of you are strong enough."

I brought my hand to the bridge of my nose putting my head down thinking. Why was Carlisle so set on this decision? This is the kind of problem my family ran from. Not because we were cowards, but for the protection of the others and our existence. Carlisle's thought were completely set around his confidence for us.

"It's a way to go against our nature, to help not hurt. You can protect better then the humans, there out sacrificing, and you can help them survive."

Of course Carlisle would be thinking about helping others, it's what he would he did best.

My head was racing; I didn't even know what to think. This is dangerous.

"This is dangerous" I repeated that thought aloud.

"Bringing suspicion on my family is dangerous. If it was only one of you that was notified, then by all means we would have gotten out of this, but with all three of you dropping out will bring investigation, investigation we don't need." Carlisle was sure. There was no way I was going to change his mind.

Alice spoke up for the first time "This is my entire fault, I didn't see it, If I had we could have moved, and this whole thing would have been avoided. We couldn't be any use to them if we moved."

"Alice this isn't your fault. This is nobody's fault, if we want to make it through this, we need to be strong, not blame ourselves. I need to go find out what preparation I have to make, I'm sure there's going to be entrance medical exams I need to forge, along with some paper work. I'll be in my office." Carlisle got up and left the room.

I knew I had lost this battle and the decision was made.

A/N- Thanks for reading! Please review! As for the facts in the story, I am not sure how the military works these things. I am taking my knowledge from school about the wars, and I looked a few things up, I am so sorry if anything is wrong. Thank you!

-Race for the clock tower.