It was then and there that I dropped to my knees and broke down into tearless sobs. I knew who the Volturi were. I remember the few times that Edward had mentioned them. The first was in Carlisle's study about five years ago, but he had called them Aro Caius, and Marcus, patron gods of the night.

How Carlisle had lived with them for a few decades while trying to convince them to survive off of animal blood rather than humans. And they in return tried to convince him the surviving off humans was a natural part of being what we are. It wasn't long until Carlisle left and came to Chicago where he created Edward.

The second time was in Charlie's home the day of my birthday. He had told me that you don't really go and see the Volturi unless you had a death wish, and they don't come to you unless you have something that they want, or have broken a rule. Like the immortal children or the secret of being a vampire.

Well if they were coming for me and Renesmee we must have something they want. And the only reason I could think of them coming to destroy the wolves would have been because they know the secret of the existence of vampires. There was the one and only real rule of being a vampire, to remain a secret from the human world.

All around me everyone else was hovering trying to comfort me. It wasn't until Renesmee ended up in my arms with her hands to my cheeks and the image of my own face flashed through my mind that I looked up at her. My face was surrounded by fear for herself and for me in her mind, as well as for those around us. Each of their faces flashed through my mind showing fear and concern, as well as love and determination in each of their expressions. Renesmee showed me Edwards face last. His expression showed the most in pain and held the most love out of all of the faces of our family around us.

"He's worried about you, mommy." She said in her thoughts. Out of the corner of my eye I saw him move until he was behind me with his arms wrapped around Renesmee and myself. "I'm worried about you both Nessie. I don't want anything to happen to either of you, not now that I have you both back. I'm not going to lose you again, and I'll fight as hard as I have too to keep you both safe." Edward said softly before kissing her forehead lightly followed by a kiss to my cheek.

It took me a few more minutes of sitting on the floor to calm myself enough to stop the sobs and be able to look up at my family again. Jake was the closest to us rubbing his hand up and down gently along Renesmee's back to keep her calm. Once I was able to Edward helped me stand again and walked with Renesmee and me to our room. We all lay down on the huge bed as Jake can in and laid on the floor.

Renesmee crawled off the bed and joined Jake while Edward and I became wrapped up in head was resting on his chest and my right leg and arm were thrown to rest across his upper and lower half of his body. While one of his hands cupped my face as his thump gently stroked my cheeks, his other hand was wrapped under me and rubbing soothing circles on the small of m back.

We remained in this position until morning light broke through the windows. Renesmee then joined us on the bed lying in between us. As usual with Alice's visions we never knew exactly when they would be taking place. So the next day I tried to get things as back to normal as possible around the house. Eventually days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months, and months turned into years. Thirty years to be exact. Time had flown by so quickly.

When Renesmee had reached the age of seven she stopped aging. She now looked like she was the same age as Edward and me. It was a little difficult at first for us to adjust to the idea of our daughter being the same age as we are. But eventually you got used to it and things would go back to normal again. Even as time flew by we never forgot about the Volturi, we trained everyday with the wolves, always wanting to be prepared.

It was actually quite amazing how well we all got along with the new treaty in place and everyone's main objective to make sure that no harm came to Renesmee or me and that we were trained just as well as the others.

Renesmee and Jake grew really close and even now they are always together. I learned to trust Edward again and we're still in love like we were before. This summer Alice and Jasper decided to get remarried, which of course lead to Renesmee thinking about wanting to marry Jake.

But thankfully with the end of summer comes the beginning of school and Renesmee had been begging us for years to finally let her go now that it was safe. Charlie had passed away and all of the old teachers and staff had retired after thirty years.

Edward, Carlisle, Esme, and I have been discussing the return of all of use to school this year and we finally decided that we would all go, including Jacob. Some of use even got a different background story and last names this time around. Alice and Emmett we're still brother and sister with the last name Cullen.

Rose and Jasper decided to switch from being the Hale twins to being the Whitlock Twins. Edward decided that he wanted to use his actual last name of Mason this time around. While Renesmee and I were going to be twins as well we decided to be safe we'd borrow Hale from Rosalie. And Jake well he wanted to stick with being a Black.