It was dusk. The end of a perfect day for Jacob, Seth and maybe Leah, but the beginning of yet another darkness for all the vampires apart from Renesmee.

Carlisle was sitting on his usual armchair, reading the book he received as a gift from us. Edward, Emmett and Jazz were having a friendly banter in the corner of the room. Rose was sitting next to me and we were both watching Renesmee snuffle in her slumber. Esme and Alice had gone out to hunt. I didn't know where the werewolves had gone.

Renesmee was all that mattered to me. It was kind of like, she held all my strings, and I was her puppet, but I don't care, because I love her so. So really, nothing mattered more than Renesmee.

I heard paws padding in the distance, and guessed that the werewolves must be coming back from wherever they went. My eyes never left Renesmee; why would they, she was the most important thing in my life.

Jake ran in, followed by Seth and Leah, shouting at us.

"Guys, we have some bad news."

Immediately, our heads whipped towards Jacob. Suddenly, Jacob realised that Alice and Esme were not in the room, halted, and said "maybe we should wait until-" he broke off, because Alice had just sped into the room, followed swiftly by Esme. The rest of us were perplexed at what was going on, apart from Edward, whose face blanched and eyes widened.

"Oh no..." he whispered softly.

"What?" I asked, impatiently.

"Are you going to explain it, or am I?" Jacob asked Alice.

"I will" she replied. Facing us, she took a deep breath, and started her story. "When we were hunting," looking towards Esme, "and we came across a track...a vampire track."

"Yeah, so did we, but we didn't recognise it" added Jacob.

"It was Demetri's scent" murmured Alice.

"What...why...what is he doing here?" asked Jasper.

"We don't know" answered Alice. "But we can only guess that it's bad."

"Well, if he's looking for a fight, then we can definitely take him" growled Emmett.

"He wouldn't be so stupid..." Esme said in horror.

"He wouldn't" Carlisle reassured her.

During this conversation, Rose and I were silent. We looked at each other, and then looked at Renesmee. We both knew we had just made a silent promise to her, and each other. We would both protect her, whatever it took.

"I think Bella and I know why he's here" said Rosalie. "It's because he wants Renesmee."

"But he didn't indicate that when we confronted them last winter" Esme said, hopefully, even though she knew it was true.

"He didn't have to" growled Edward. The look on his face scared me, and that was saying something.

"So what do we do?" Seth asked

After some moments of deliberation, Carlisle said "we wait."