A/N: Okay, so here is chapter 2. Would love to hear your feedback on this story.

Summary:

Seeing Reason

Ever wonder what happened to Alice and Jasper when they left in Breaking Dawn? This is my take on their adventures during that time.

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Chapter 2: Seeking

(Carlisle's POV)

To say I was shocked by Alice's vision was an understatement. How could Irina do this to us? She has condemned us all to death, with a false accusation. Renesmee was not an immortal child. She grew, she learned. She was smart way beyond her years. Knowing Aro, Cauis and Marcus I knew there was little chance that we would be able to talk our way out of this. I watched as Alice, pulled Jasper out of the house, begging us to hurry and find our friends, as Jacob entered into the house.

I tried my best to calm the young werewolf down and explain our situation with him. Retelling him had been hard, the details finally sinking in, and everyone stood still and silent from then on. I hardly noticed Jacob lie down in the corner of the room and fall asleep. I barely registered the fact that the sun had risen and the sunlight was sparkling off of our flawless skin like diamonds.

It wasn't until Edward spoke an hour later, his voice seeming to break everyone out of our own thoughts and onto the task at hand.

"Alice." He whispered.

I could hear my other daughter, Rosalie from my right, "She's been gone a long time."

I nodded in agreement. She had been gone a long time. It was quite unusual for both of them to be gone this long, at least without telling one of us where she was.

"Carlisle, You don't think-Something preemptive? Would Alice have had time to see if they sent someone for her?" Edward asked, his eyes wide with fear, and panic. I couldn't answer. Perhaps she had seen something in her vision and that was the reason that she left. And for once in my long, long immortal life I was scared.

I had to follow after her. The fraction of a second that Edward had headed for the door, I followed right after, Emmett, Rosalie, Esme and Bella quickly following suite. The scent of Alice and Jasper was faint, but still strong enough where we could follow them, and trailed after them.

"Would they have been able to surprise her?" I questioned Edward. If Edward had seen what was in Alice's mind, he would be the only one that would truly know her reasoning for running off the way she did.

"I don't see how." Edward answered me. "But Aro knows her better than anyone else. Better than I do."

"Is this a trap?" I heard Emmett call from behind us as we continued to follow their trail.

"Maybe. There's no scent but Alice's and Jasper's. Where are they going?" Edward answered truthfully.

We continued to follow Alice and Jasper's trail all the way to the Quileute border, and stopped. It wasn't until Edward's head snapped up that we all froze, the wind blowing the scent of the other wolves directly at us, and moments later, Sam approached us in his human form. Two big wolves flanking his sides.

Sam stopped a few feet away, standing as close as he dared, and began to speak.

"Right after midnight, Alice and Jasper came to this place and asked permission to cross our land to the ocean. I granted them that and escorted them to the coast myself. They went immediately into the water and did not return. As we journeyed, Alice told me that it was of the utmost importance that I say nothing to Jacob about seeing either one of them until I spoke to you. I was told to wait here for you to come looking for her and then give you this note. She told me to obey as if all our lives depended on it." Sam explained, pulling a small folded up sheet out of his pocket and handing it to me.

I took the sheet from Sam's hands, carefully opening it and reading the dark black message written in Alice's elegant scrawl. I read the words once, twice, three times and every time I read it , I still didn't understand.

"What is it, Carlisle?" Rose cried.

I sighed, "Alice has decided to leave us." I turned the page around to the rest of my family, so they could read her message too.

Don't look for us. There isn't time to waste. Remember: Tanya, Siobhan, Amun, Alistair, all the nomads you can find. We'll seek out Peter and Charlotte on the way. We're so sorry that we have to leave you this way, with no goodbyes or explanations. It's the only way for us. We love you.

I still couldn't believe that Alice and Jasper ran off. Perhaps she had seen that we would not be successful with the Volturi and left to save herself. The impending doom, felt like it was suffocating me although I had no real reason to breathe. I tried to regain my composure for the rest of my family, and Edward's voice shattered the silence that had fallen upon us in response to something in Sam's head.

"Yes, Sam. Things really are that dangerous."

"So dangerous that you would abandon your family?" Sam asked out loud, his voice hard. His face fierce.

"We don't know what she saw. Alice is neither unfeeling or a coward. She just has more information than we do." Edward responded, his voice softer.

"We would not-" Sam began.

"You are bound differently than we are. We still have our own free will." Edward snapped. Sam's eyes were black, furious. "This is not something that you want to involve yourselves in. You can still avoid what Alice saw."

"We don't run away." Sam simply stated, smugly.

I could not let Edward and Sam continue to provoke each other. It was not going to help anything. "Don't get your family slaughtered for pride."

Sam turned his gaze to me, softening slightly. "As Edward pointed out, Carlisle, we do not have the same freedoms that you have. Renesmee is as much a part of our family as she is yours. Jacob cannot abandon her, and we will not abandon him." His eyes flashed once again to the torn page that I still held, now at my side, his lips pressed into a hard line.

"You don't know her." Edward defended.

"Do you?" Sam retorted, his eyes never leaving Edwards.

I turned and placed a hand on Edwards shoulder, half reassuring him, half in a position to restrain him if necessary. "Let's go, Edward. We have much to do, and it would be foolish of us not to follow Alice's advice."

Reluctantly, he turned and slowly everyone turned back to head towards the house. Esme lingered behind sobbing quietly, as I wished to talk with Sam a few seconds longer.

"Thank you, Sam."

"I'm sorry. We shouldn't have let them through." His face softened with guilt, all the anger from a few seconds before now washed from his face.

"You did the right thing. Alice is free to do what she will. I wouldn't ever deny her that." I explained. Sam merely nodded, and I turned to head back home, Esme quickly at my side. I wrapped my arm around her shoulder as we left Sam at the treaty line, comforting her as best as I could. It would work out in the end. It just HAD to.

Alice had given us a chance to stop the oncoming slaughter, and we had to take it, no matter what. I had to believe that there was a reason that her and Jasper had left us, it didn't make sense otherwise. I tried to rationalize her behavior knowing that they had also had another life before coming to live with us. Had she seen something in her vision that proved to her that our lives were over, therefore choosing another life? Had she escaped the horrible fate that lay ahead for the rest of us? We would fight, all of us…even our friends, and the werewolves…and we would all die.

But maybe, just maybe, by some small miracle they would stop and listen, without our confrontation turning into a fight. It was all I could hope for.

As we neared the river, just outside our home, Bella insisted on following Alice's scent that had led off of the main trail that we were following, and Edward and Bella took off breaking away from us.

"We'll meet you at home, Carlisle." He stated simply. I nodded and the rest of us continued to the main house. When we reached the main house, there was so much that we needed to do. We had to contact as many friends as we possibly could, and convince them to stand witness to Irina's false accusation that we had created an immortal child. Alice had given us a list of names that we could convince, more or less, to stand with us, and we had to find them. Rose raced up the stairs along with Esme, determined to follow Alice's request and reappeared seconds later with a large globe she placed on the table.

"Alright. Rose, Emmett try and track down Garrett, Mary, and Randall. If I know them, they will be here." I spoke pointing to a spot on the globe. "Esme and I will track down the Irish and Egyptian covens. Send back anyone that you can find."

"Alright." Emmett agreed, and took off to gather his stuff. Everyone was a blur. I headed to my office and gathered some things for myself. I took my cell phone out of my pocket and dialed a familiar number.

"Hello?" I heard a familiar voice answer. I could almost picture her confused face as she had answered the phone.

"Hello, Tanya. It's Carlisle."

"Carlisle? What's wrong?" Tanya asked, her voice full of worry and concern.

"A slight problem has fallen upon us and we would greatly appreciate your help."

"A problem? What kind of problem?"

"It's not something I can discuss over the phone, but I would appreciate if you came here at once. Will you come?" I explained, quickly.

"Alright. We shall come. We'll be there in the morning." Tanya agreed.

"Thank you. We shall see you then." I thanked and hung up the phone. I sighed, shoving the small silver phone back into my pocket. I continued racing around the house at vampire speed gathering up what little belongings that I would need for our journey, and by the time Edward and Bella strode back into the house, Rose, Emmett, Esme and myself were ready to leave.

I started recalling all that we needed to do in the little time that we had in my head counting off each item. 'Em and Rose are going to find Garret, Mary and Randal…Esme and I are going to find Siobhan, Liam, Maggie, Amun, Kebi, Benjamin, and Tia…Alistair, if we can find him. Edward, and Bella will stay here and convince our friends..' I was interrupted by Edwards voice.

"We're to stay here?" His face bunched in confusion and frustration, his golden eyes meeting my concerned ones.

"Yes, Edward. Alice said that we would have to show people Renesmee, and we would have to be very careful about it." I explained. "We will send whomever we can find back here to you-Edward, You'll be the best at fielding that particular minefield."

He nodded, but I could tell that he wasn't too happy about it and didn't need Jasper to tell me that. "There's a lot of ground to cover." He contradicted.

Emmett answered for me. "We're splitting up. Rose and I are hunting for nomads."

"You'll have your hands full here. Tanya's family will be here in the morning and they have no idea why." I started, dropping my bag at the door, and then turning back to him. "First you have to persuade them not to react the same way Irina did. Second, you've got to find out what Alice said about Eleazar. Then, after all that, will they stay to witness for us?" I touched each of my fingers as I said each step. I stopped and sighed, bringing my hand up briefly to my eyes. "Keep repeating the steps to anyone that comes, if we can convince anyone to come in the first place."

I strode over to my 'oldest' son and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Your job may well be the hardest. I'm sorry I have to put this burden on you, but good luck. We'll be back to help as soon as we can."

I gave my newest daughter a kiss on her forehead and headed towards the door. Esme was at my side in a second, and we strode out the door, followed by Rose and Emmett.

"Call if you have any troubles." I stated to Rose and Emmett as they were getting into Rose's BMW.

"Thanks, Dad." Emmett called back. I felt a small spark of pride, as he called me dad, and smiled slightly.

"Good luck." Rosalie added. She could be a bit bitchy at times, but she really did care for the family.

"Thank you, Rosalie. Emmett. Good luck to you to both." I stated as I threw Esme and my bags into the back and slid into the seat of my Mercedes. Esme sliding into the passenger's seat. I gazed over at my wife and couldn't imagine living without her.

"Everything will be alright, dear." She assured me, smiling, patting my hand. I smiled weakly at her, and held my hand to her cheek, gazing into her loving eyes. I closed the distance between us, her lips meeting with mine for the smallest of moments before being distracted by Rose's honking, reminding us of what we needed to do. I growled slightly in irritation, as she laughed, but pulled away, and threw the car in reverse, heading down the driveway with Rosalie following close behind.

I sighed as we pulled onto the main road, hoping by some miracle we would be able to get enough witnesses together to cause the Volturi to stop and listen. But then I reminded myself that Alice and Jasper had gone, and my hope quickly vanished.

A/N: So…what do you think about that chapter? Don't worry… Jasper's POV will be up next! PLEASE Read and Review! I love reviews and they drive me to keep writing! Thank you!