Introductions

Alee POV

My siblings and I followed my parents. I wasn't sure where we were going but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a trap. Vampires have been known to do that. Of course there were three of us and I was confident that we could take them. The blonde male, Carlisle, mentioned three more vampires so if it became a fight it would be five against six.

"Alee, why are you looking for a fight? You don't even know if there will be one. These vampires could be good like mom and dad." My sister, Tessa thought.I had almost forgotten that as wolves we could hear each other's thoughts. We had only been wolves for a few weeks. It was still taking some getting used to. "Tess, Mom and Dad are unique. You and Nick were sleeping but I had gotten up to get a glass of water one night and I overheard them talking."

"What did they say?" Nick piped up.

"Mom mentioned the Volturi. I'm not exactly sure what that means but based off of their conversation I am pretty sure that they are a powerful group of vampires. And Mom doesn't like them. She was worried about what they would do when they found out that vampires and werewolves were living together. She said they wouldn't care that we were family. We would all be destroyed. Dad told her to relax, that that was a worst case scenario and they probably would never know about us."

"So that's why you don't trust other vampires? You're worried that someone will tip off this Volturi? Al, you don't need to worry. Mom and Dad are really good at keeping secrets. It wasn't until we turned out to be werewolves that they told us they were vampires." Tessa stopped. She gave me a look that basically said I was being ridiculous.

Esme POV

I was in the kitchen, cooking for the wolves, when my cell phone rang. It was Carlisle. After we'd talked for a minute, I hung up and went back to cooking.

"What did Carlisle want, Esme?" Edward asked.

"He just said that he was bringing some guests over and wanted me to be aware."

"Did he say what sort of guests?" Edward looked a little worried. He must have been thinking of Renesmee.

"He didn't but he didn't sound worried. And Ness is never far from his mind. I don't think he would have invited them if he thought that there would be a problem involving her."

Edward sighed. "You're right. He wouldn't have. I should probably warn Bella anyway or she might freak out."

I smiled. Even though Edward couldn't read her mind, he had become pretty good at figuring out how Bella would react. Most of the time anyway.

Elyse POV

The entire time we were walking through the woods I just kept thinking about my kids. I knew Nick would be fine with everything. He was just a happy-go-lucky, go-with-the-flow type person. Which was good because his sisters could get pretty intense sometimes and he was great at calming them down. Alee was the more intense of the two girls. Usually Tess or Nick could get through to her. She usually listened to them. After she'd jumped in feet first.

The forest started thinning and then we came upon a house. Well it was more of a mansion, really. It was three stories tall and all white. And standing in front of the house were five vampires.

I could hear Alee growling behind me. I put my hand on Alex's arm to stop him.

"Alex," I whispered. He looked down at me and saw my worried expression.

"Carlisle," he called out. "You didn't tell us about the other two. Or the wolves," he said gesturing his head to the side of the house.

Startled, I looked to where he was gesturing. There were five wolves over there. Alee's growling increased and this time Tessa joined in.

"My apologies," Carlisle replied. "It was not on purpose. Come, let me introduce you."

I gave Alex a look. "At the first sign of trouble…" I warned. He just smiled.

When we got to the edge of the lawn, Carlisle stopped. Rose and Emmett ran to join the others. Carlisle turned toward us. "This is the rest of my family. Alex, you already know Esme and Edward." Carlisle pointed to a woman with shoulder length caramel brown hair and a boy of about seventeen with bronze hair. "You have also already met Rosalie and Emmett." He pointed to the two from earlier. Rose must be a nickname. "And standing next to Edward is his wife, Bella, and then there is Jasper and Alice." Jasper was blonde like Rosalie and he was looking at us cautiously. Alice reminded me of a pixie. She had super short black hair and was standing behind Jasper. At first I thought that she was afraid of us but then I realized that Jasper was the one that was afraid and was doing his best to protect Alice from us. The thought of that made me laugh under my breath.

"What's so funny?" Alex asked.

"They're afraid of us." I replied.

Carlisle turned toward the others. "There is no need to be afraid. They are family."

Esme blinked a couple of times at that statement and then took a step toward us to get a closer look. "Alex?" she asked. "Is it really you?"