CHAPTER 4: SWEET NIGHTMARES.
After I explain, or "show", everything to Jacob and the rest of the family, they look dumbfounded.
"I didn't see anything." Alice says.
"Obviously." Emmet murmures under his breath, but we all just ignore him. I think he believes me and is mad he didn't get the chance to fight.
"Keep looking, Alice." Dad says.
"I cant see! Jake and Nessie are making blind spots." She says.
"Well look harder!" Dad snappes. I hate it when they argue.
"Stop this madness! Nessie has enough stress, you two are just making it worse." Mom says, she's right.
"I know, I'm sorry, Alice." Dad apologizes.
"Me too." Alice says. I yawn and start to get up, but as soon as I do my ankle rolles out from under me. Jacob and mom both go to catch me at the same time, and bump into each other, knocking them both to the ground. My reflex is to catch my self, but my body is to weak.
"Ouch!" I wince as my head hits the the wall. Then a picture falls and breaks on my head. It surprisingly doesn't hurt that much. Everything feels better after witnissing Hector's fury. Dad rushes over to me faster than the speed of light.
"Renesmee, honey, are you alright." He asks, worried.
"I'm fine dad, just really tired." I admitt.
"On it." Jacob says as he scoops me up and carries me to the cottage. As we get to the river, he lookes troubled.
"Whats wrong?" I ask.
"Well, I dont know how I'm gonna get over this river with out phasing." He responds.
"Got it!" Alice said as she runs behind us and picks us both up while leaping across the river. I can't help but giggle, Alice looks so dainty and small but is just so strong. When we get to the cottage, I put on my pajamas and am looking foward to the next time I will see my bed.
"Guess I'm on bed rest, huh?" I say to Jacob.
"Yeah, guess so. It's to bad..." He doesn't finish
"What's to bad?" I ask.
"Nothing." He says.
"What is it?" I ask curiously.
"I'll tell you when you lay down." He says, knowing I will fall asleep as soon as I hit the bed.
"Ha ha." I say, getting his drift. "You win." I say as I fall onto the soft bed. It feels great to lay here, to sleep, to be with Jacob and the rest of my family. Knowing they won't be hurt, and it was all just my imagination. Knowing sleeping is safe... Smash! I wake up in the middle of the night. Jacob is next to me, snoring his head off. He didn't hear that? How could anyone not hear that? I go outside to check what it is, but something suddenly captures me. "Jacob!" I yell, this time I know it isn't my imagination. I feel Jacob phase and run through the woods. I also hear people landing on the ground, my family obviously. They catch up soon enough, and I know my mom has her shield out. Edward is the first to catch up to Sandro.
"Let her go!" He yells. I hear 7 pairs of feet behind me and 14 pairs of paws.
"Help!" I yell to Jacob when Sandro speeds up. I don't have enough power to harm him after what had happened earlier, and all of the energy I had rested for tonight has been wasted on adrenalin. Finally, Jacob and Paul catch up to us, and Paul bittes Sandro's ankle. Then, unexpectedly, Sandro jumps up to a Sakita Spruce, Alice and dad still on his flanks. Alice must have seen him jump there and dad has seen it through her thoughts. Dad grabbs Sando's shoulder and throws him off of the spruce and into Emmett. Rosalie grabbs me out of Emmett's arms before he can hit and then mom realises Emmetts out of her shield. Thats when Sandro, once again, fades away like paint underwater.
"Look out." Dad yells to us. "His ability is to control your senses, but Bella's shield can protect us." Dad says.
"On it." Mom says.
"What does that mean?" I ask dad.
"It means he can make you see what ever he wants. Only mentally, though. He can control what see, hear, feel, smell, and taste." He says.
"Oh, wow." I say, collapsing on to the ground. Rosalie helps me up.
"We better get back to the house, this could get even more dangerous than it all ready is. Bella, try to keep your shield around all of us, with no physical or mental exeptions." Jasper says.
"Got it." Mom says. We run back to the house, and I am still shaking in Rosalie's arms when everyone starts bombarding me with questions. If it wasn't for them, I would keep quiet.
"What is he after?" Jasper asks no one in particular. I notice that Alice's eyes are fixated on some point in the distance.
"Like that's not obvious." Emmett mumbles. He means me. Does Sandro want me? I don't know. I think so, I mean, he asked me to join him. So he want's me, right? I dont know, but I think it's my ability he want's more than me myself, half vampire or not. Like I said, I don't know, I'm still trying to figure out the questions everyone else is asking.
"Hold on." Alice says. "Edward, you said he could change you sight, right? Or, I mean, what you see." Alice asks.
"Yes, but what does that half to do with this situation?" Dad asks.
"Maybe he is the one who is messing with my blind spots." Alice explains.
"Impossible." Dad says.
"Not entirly." Jasper explains, he looks deep in thought. "Alice depends on her vision as strongly as we do on our eye sight, maybe he doesn't mess with our senses, but with what we consider our senses. Almost like Alec." Jasper says.
"So Alec blinds, and Sandro controls?" Dad says like an explenitive.
"I believe so." Jasper responds. The whole time I'm just sitting there next to Jacob, neither of us speaking, with the exeption of me answering questions.
"Why would Jane and Alec join them? With Chelsea around, they would've been tied to Aro, Ciaus, and Marcus." Carlisle proclaims.
"Maybe they distroyed them." Rosalie considers.
"No" Alice says. "I would have seen it, I've kept a very close eye on them."
"Thats it!" Dad says jumping out of the love seat.
"What?" everyone asks in perfect synchronosation.
"I was listening to Jacob's thoughts, and he has a very intresting theory. Maybe the 'new Volturi' found their mates, Jane, Alec, and Chelsea's." Dad considers. A moment later, I sware I see lightbulbs go off on top of everyone's head.
"Of course!" Alice says while she beams her brilliant smile.
"But hold on, the only way for them to get the gaurd would mean meeting them. Aro wouldn't allow that unless he read te thoughts. He would've seen what Sandro was planning and stopped him. Unless..." Esme starts.
"Unless Aro is dead." I finish. It's silent for a moment.
"Aro's death isn't a thing to grieve. Just forget about that. Now we have new, very valuable, information that can help us." Mom says.
"But this doesn't solve anything." Jacob says, ruining there only good moment since the incedent. Then it hits me. After alot of thinking, I discover that the only way to protect the ones I love I to fight the Volturi. Alone. Dad races over to me at what seems like the speed of light.
"No!" He shouts at me.
"What? Whats wrong?" Esme asks in her sweet tone.
"Renesmee Carlie Cullen, if you ever even think that thought again for one more shelly I sware you will spend the rest of your life in your room!" Dad yells at me. I could live with that.
"Stop yelling at her like that!" Jacob says as he stands up to get in dad's face, towering over him at 7'6.
"Stop!" Me and mom shout at the same time.
"What is all this madness about?" Mom asks, only her this time.
"Renesmee thinks she should fight Sandro alone to protect us." Dad says in aggrivation.
"Oh honey." Mom says as she walks over to me. " We're your family, we are to protect you. " She explains.
"But mom," I say desperatly. "it's the only way for us to live."
"We could gather up some more vampires again, like we did when the Volturi came to kill us." Rosalie suggests
"Not a bad idea." Esme says.
"No, no. I half to do this alone. It's the only way to keep you guys alive. I dont want you all to die for my well being." I tell them
"Well it's not going down without some kind of fight." Emmett says. He has been very quiet so far.
"No!" Dad says again.
"Calm down, Edward" Mom says.
"Dad, think about it. Honestly, I doubt you could stand the thought of loosing mom or anyone else here." I say, looking at all of my family. "If we go to fight together, who will it be that never comes home?" I ask
"She's right." Alice says.
"Alice, I cant loose my daughter." He says, agony in his voice.
"I love her just as much as you do, Edward. You think I can stand the thought of loosing her either?" Alice says with desperation in her tone.
"So it's settled." Carlisle says. Everyone looks very serious. I mirror there perfect faces, frozen still with all kinds of emotions. Then, unexpectedly, mom races over to me.
"Renesmee, I half to agree with your dad on this one." She says. I thought I was about to get what I wanted.
"No, mom." I tell her.
"Yes!" She snaps sternly to me. Seldom for her to get angry at me of all people. "I have fought for you since the very beginning, Nessie! Since you were just my little nudger in my belly. Since I was human! I wont stop fighting for you now." She proclaims.
"But mom." I say, and she can sense the emotion behind my voice and understands.
"Sweetie, I know. I know how you feel." She tells me.
"But mom." I repeat. She lets out a sigh and looks at dad. I yawn.
"We better get back to the cottage." Jacob says in a gentle voice. We are at the cottage now.
BACK AT THE HOUSE:
"She's right, you know." I say to Edward.
"Bella." He says to me.
"I know, lets think about it." I say to him.
BACK AT THE COTTAGE:
"You know, it may be easy to stop your family from fighting at your side, but not me." Jacob says.
"Not you too!" I say in a frustration.
"I cant stand loosing you, Nessie." He says to me. He holds me in his arms. When I go to look up at him, our lips met. Niether of us pull away. We keep going. There is a ravenous hunger in him that he has been holding back, the same feeling that's in me. Our passion for each other is equil. He easily rips off my silk pajamas Alice got me, and he is in nothing but boxers which I pull off. The feeling if his heat inside of me is brilliant. His soft lips press against my hungry touch.