CHOICES MADE

Disclaimer: The Cullens, the Swans, and most of the characters mentioned in the story that are known from Stephanie Meyer's beloved Twilight Saga, are all hers and hers alone. I neither have nor wish to pass them off as mine. I do appreciate the fact that she did bring them to life and allows us to play with them in our imaginations. The only thing I will claim is the current storyline.

Bella was restless, tossing and turning from side to side. She could no longer lay face down since she was now six months into the pregnancy. Edward was observing her and was wondering what he might be able to do to help ease her sleep. He and Lee both have been watch both Bella and Ria very closely since the visit from Margarite four months ago after the confrontation with the Volturi. Knowing that she had imparted some information to them both that was being kept hidden, but, they noticed that both women were very cautious about things going on around them.

After a bit, Edward got up and called Lee. He wanted to rule out a possible dream prophecy. It took a moment before Lee answered and Edward noticed right away that his tone was very quiet, almost as a whisper.

"Lee, is anything going on with Ria? The reason I am checking is that Bella is very restless, moving from side to side, but, with rapid eye movement like she is dreaming."

"Yeah, Ria is not as active, but, something is disturbing her rest. They could be connected. Stay by Bella and let it play out. They should tell us what it was all about in the morning." Lee advised him.

"Okay. Call me if anything changes with Ria and I'll do the same from this end."

"It's a plan."

"Lee, do we need to let Carlisle know what's going on?"

"Not right now, but, if things get too distressful them we will need to call him."

"Okay, thanks. Bye."

CHAPTER 2: LOOKING FOR KNOWLEDGE

Edward jerks forward as he sees what Alice is seeing. Except for three people no one else has any immediate meaning to him. He's trying to determine the meaning of what they have decided. It involves children, but, where they are getting the children is remaining hidden. No landmarks or recognizable individuals to be able to pinpoint anything helpful. Is this what Bella was communicating to Ria? And where did the children come from? To whom did they belong? Where did they belong?

More information was definitely needed. But, Alice is only able to give some much. Bella's dream prophecy was able to fill in all of the finer details. This all of the Cullen clan had learned for themselves through experience. The combination of Alice's visions, Bella's dream prophecy and Ria's ability to plan from what Bella transmit to her made for a formidable defense.

Knowing that he needed to talk with Alice and that she would be informing the rest of the family about her vision. They would be waiting to hear if Bella and Ria could fill in the blanks. At this point, Edward decided to call Lee again to let him know what Alice had just told him. As Lee answered the phone he responded with, "There has been no change, Edward, except that she has become quieter."

"I was calling to let you know that Alice had a vision and I think that Bella might be having a prophecy dream. Can you leave Ria long enough to meet with me for a short time?"

"Yes. What about Isabella? Is she comfortable enough that you can leave her without having a panic attack?" he asked with a bit of laughter in his voice. "Where do you want to meet?"

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"I want to talk with Margarite. Tell her Francesca is calling and I will call back in five minutes."

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"Jane, don't you think we should be checking with Francesca? We need to be getting everything confirmed with her, so, we will have time to have all of our plans in place and ready to execute."

"Alec, you are a worry wart. Everything is coming together nicely. I know that we can't totally trust Francesca, but, we do need her right now. She is going to try and keep the children, but, that would be her biggest mistake."

"If you know this then why are we messing with her?"

"As I just said, we need her for right now to help create a diversion for us to make our move undetected."

"So, we are going to appear to be working with the black queen when the whole time we will be working for our own ends." He summarized.

"Correct." With that remark, they both begin to laugh with glee.

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"This is Francesca, is Margarite available yet?"

"She is and waiting for your call. Hold and I will put her on."

After a brief pause a new voice comes on the phone, "Francesca, what the hell do you want? Have you decided to face justice for your crimes against humanity and our kind?"

"Hell no, and I have committed no crimes. But, I am calling to let you know that a couple of crossovers want to get their hands on some of the white side children. And, from what I hear they are some very powerful children. Someone not of the true blood can't be allowed to get their hands on true blood."

"I see. Are you going to give me any more details other than what you already have?"

"Not at this time. I am letting you know what could be happening in the near future, but, I am going to be trying to stop it on my own. However, if that becomes impossible, I will need your help. Will I be able to count on it for this situation?"

"Yes, but, only for the protection of the true bloods."

"Thanks that is all I needed to know. I will stay in touch as the circumstances present themselves."

And with that the call was disconnected and the two women went back to what they were doing.

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The connection between the cousins became quiet and slowly became awake to find their husbands absent. However, it didn't take them long to come to the conclusion that Alice would have seen a vision that was seen by Edward who would have called Lee to let him know. So, with that mystery dealt with, they both went back to a more peaceful sleep.

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Edward and Lee met in the clearing halfway between both houses. All of the Cullen family was at Serenity with Edward and Bella having the apartment over the garage while everyone else was in the main house. Then the du Toulouse family was at the new house the Casa de Pax. Quickly so they could return to each of their wives, Edward explained what Alice had seen in her vision. "But, I have not a clue as to any information concerning the children. I did recognize three people from all of that and it was Margarite, Jane and Alec."

"The white witch queen?"

"Yeah. We have caught sight of her enough over the last few months to know who she is. This could be why she was meeting with Bella and Ria. Could be some kind of problem that is beginning to present itself concerning some of the children of the white witches and she wanted to warn them since we have white witch children."

"You might be right. If you are then we need to take caution with the little ones. They will have to be watched at all times. This Jane and Alec are the two that escaped after Ankarra beheaded them on the island. Correct?"

"Yes."

"Okay, I'll make a call to Ankarra and when Ria is awake I will inform her of Alice's vision. That will give both Ria and Isabella the opening they will need to discuss the dream, if there were one, they were having a short while ago."

"Sounds like a plan. If Alice can detect any more information or see any other changes being made to the vision I will let you know immediately. Lee, you don't think those two are going to be stupid enough to try and take our children, do you?"

"It would be the height of stupidity for them to even have that thought. But, you have to remember they were with the Volturi a long time. And, they were well grounded in the concepts of the Volturi and what they thought it stood for. That is something we don't need to ignore."

"I think we all need to get together to talk and put some safety measures in place to protect Jason, Ria and Bella at this point. It would be better to be overreacting then under reacting. There was no sign of our wives in the vision, but, that isn't to say they wouldn't be snatched and held until the babies were born. And, I know before you say anything, that we aren't sure that it was even our children. But, it was white witch children and our fall into that area."

"I do agree about all of us getting together to try and figure this out." After all was discussed and agreed upon each man headed back home to his wife. Each a bit smug since they really believed that they had firsthand knowledge about the possible coming situation.

As Lee entered through the kitchen he went on to his office instead up to his sleeping wife. Sitting down he made the call to Ankarra. Once she answered and Lee explained to her what was seen in Alice's vision and who seemed to be targeted, she said she would be on the way immediately. Lee thanked her and hung up.

Instead of going on upstairs, he remained what was left of the night in his office working on paperwork in conjunction with the different businesses that the Twin Powers and he owned together. It was getting near time to bring Edward up to date on all of this so he could start assuming some of the responsibilities. But, then again, he did need to speak with Isabella about that to see what her wishes were in the matter. If she decided that it wasn't something she wanted him to know at the moment then he would respect that. But, if they were all going to combine as a family, even though, they were going to remain as separate units, then all needed to be familiar with all points of business on each side.

Lee was wondering, also, how long it would be before Ankarra arrived. Where would she want to stay?

A/N: Still of lot of plotting going on. Francesca called Margarite to alert her as to the threat against the offspring of the true bloodlines. Lee and Edward think they have a good working knowledge of possible events. Are they going to be in for a shock when Ria and Bella tell them about what they know from both Margarite and the dream?

A lot of planning going on against each other and against a selected target. Jane and Alec have an agenda to obtain a certain goal to take over things. Francesca has ideas of the same thing, but, with a lot of distrust and distain towards Jane and Alec.

Ria and Bella are now approaching their seventh month of pregnancy, but, their sleep pattern at the moment seems to be causing some alarm to Lee and Edward. What could be causing this?

We have our families getting ready for a new adventure and I hope you will enjoy this one as much as you did the last one.

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