Renesmee's POV
Loud. Everybody was being very loud. Me and my sister were playing with momma when the curious man came in, he was very beautiful, and he looked very kind. I wanted to be his friend, I felt like we already were in a way, looking into his peculiar dark eyes (peculiar because they were very different to my family's golden eyes or my sisters green ones) I felt safe. But then everyone got angry very fast, momma and daddy started shouting at the stranger. Grandma took me and Carlie out the room and upstairs, she put on a cd and soft classical music played, but I think she forgot that we had strong hearing because we could still hear our parents raised voices. I started to cry. Why were mommy and daddy so angry? And why was I taken out of the room of that man? I wanted to see him. I wanted everyone to stop being angry.
Grandma was holding us and trying to distract us with a colourful book, but she wasn't really paying attention to us, her eyes were slightly unfocused as she smiled down at us and I knew she was really paying attention to what was happening downstairs. I strained hard, but I couldn't hear more than my parents raised voices, I kept getting distracted by the melodious piano sounds. Frustrated I looked to my sister, her brows were furrowed, like she was listening hard as well. Her angelic face twisted into what looked like pain. I couldn't know for sure, she had never made that face before. I reached out to stroke her face, to take the pain away. Before I could comfort her, she raced out the room. She was very fast.
"NO!" she shrieked. Running back into the big room. Grandma scooped me up and followed her, as we arrived in the room I saw her run up to our parents who were still standing in front of that strange man.
"NO!" she shouted, tears streaming down her face. "You can't take her! You can't take my sister away from me, She's my sister!".
"Shhh, honey shhh its okay" said momma scooping her up off the floor trying to comfort her.
"don't worry, no one is taking her from you, from us" soothed daddy, stroking her hair whilst glaring at the russet skinned man.
He wanted to take me away from my family? From my Carlie? I started to cry as I imagined being separated from my sister. The pain would be unbearable. Daddy moved over and took me into his arms trying to soothe me. When he stood next to momma I reached out and clasped my sisters hand and pulled it to my chest against my heart. The mans face was concerned, but it changed to upset when I started crying. His face twisted in pain and regret. I suddenly felt concern for this strange man, it hurt me to see him in pain.
"I think its time for you to leave Jacob" grandpa said, touching his shoulder and tugging him towards the door.
Jacob, that was a nice name. I liked it. Daddy growled, I felt it resonate through me as he pulled me closer to him.
"please, Edward, Bella, when I can I come back? Please" Jacob begged as he stared at me longingly, I suddenly wanted to hug him, to try and stop him being so upset.
"not likely" spat my mother in a voice that shocked me. "you'll be lucky if I let you set foot anywhere in forks ever again" she hissed, scowling.
The thought of never seeing this Jacob again panicked me. It hurt my heart, an unbearable pain similar to the one I felt when I thought I was going to lose my sister.
Daddy sighed and said, "we'll think about it Jacob, give us time".
Jacob nodded and gave me one last longing glance before leaving.
"Edward, what the hell?!" momma demanded staring at him disbelievingly.
"later" he said nodding towards me and my sister.
Bella's POV
I couldn't quite believe it. My entire world seemed to be crashing down around me. I could lose everything I fought so hard for, everything I gave my life for. I clutched Carlie closer to my chest as I looked at Renesmee sadly, three months. Just over three months of life I had my daughter, my little princess before she was taken away from me. Three months, before someone had some moronic wolfy claim to her. Edward moved closer and embraced all three of us.
"its going to be just fine, nothing is going to change, they're always going to be our little girls, nothing and no one can take them away from us".
"That's not strictly true "said Rosalie, walking forwards into the centre of the room.
"Rose- "started Emmett.
"NO! it's not going to be okay! some wolf just barged in and now thinks he can claim my niece? No, this isn't the dark ages, he needs to be kept away"
"its not that simple-"began Edward
"the hell it isn't! besides that, what about the Volturi, they're still coming after us. They're on their way and now… now we don't have Alice or Jasper" he voices broke as she choked out their names, remembering how just an hour ago we unfroze from our positions upstairs when we realised Alice had gone, without properly explaining.
"she's right Edward" began Carlisle, "the situation with Renesmee can keep, the Volturi however are on their way and we still don't know why".
Edward growled and began arguing but I tuned them out and sat down on the floor with my girls. They crawled onto my lap and sat next to each other just looking up at me. They were now the size of one-year olds, they were still small but in terms of their growth to their actual age they were not. Their identical heart shaped faces never ceased to amaze me, their faces had such defined features that were just so breathtakingly beautiful. The warm ivory of their skin always had a luminous quality about it, especially when the sun hit their skin, they did not sparkle like me and Edward, they just glowed slightly -in a way that would never keep them inside on a sunny day. I smiled at them, my heart feeling like it could burst with love as I looked at the two curly haired angels in front of me, the only differences being the colour of those curls and the colour of their eyes, they smiled their devastatingly beautiful smiles back at me and my breath hitched at the beauty they inherited from their vampire father. I would forever be awed that they took after him, their beauty a direct result of his own. I stilled as the realisation crashed over me. The burning question had been answered. Slowly I got to my feet and pulled the girls into my arms.
"The girls" I whispered sadly. "They're coming because of the girls". My heartbreak was present on my face as I looked at my husband, his eyes roamed their faces and then his features broke. They twisted in pain and his eyes tightened as he came to the same realisation.
"The immortal children" he said. Carlisle widened his eyes in understanding and sighed sadly as he understood we were right.
"But the girls aren't immortal children" argued Rosalie, "they grow every day, their mental capacity is far greater than their physical growth, the immortal children were frozen" she said shaking her head as if trying to convince us of the truth we ourselves already knew.
"we know that Rosalie, but who would guess that if they saw them from far away, there has never been anything like me and Edward. No one would think it possible, they would look like – "
"immortal children" I finished with a whisper, my heart splintering as I remembered the horrifying stories Carlisle told me of the scourge of the immortal children. That left such a stain upon the vampire psyche that the mere mention of them was taboo.
"But how, how would they know?" said Carlisle clearly frustrated as our questions had no answers.
"Irina" I said simply looking to Edward in confirmation. He nodded slowly.
"Yes, Alice was watching for her when she got the vision of the Volturi, the Volturi had already made the decision to come after us they just needed the catalyst. Bella has to be right, the only reason the Volturi would come against a coven as powerful as us is for a big reason, and the only way they could get information about the girls is from Irina, no one else knew" he finished with a sigh.
But why had they already made the decision?" asked Esme, "That's a complete violation of the trust that vampires place in them".
"Alice" answered Edward simply.
"And you" I whispered, my heart tearing at the vision of Edward in a black robe and blood red eyes.
"More Alice than me, Aro craves her, he will stop at nothing to get her on his side"
"That's why she left us" whispered Esme, her voice trembling with motherly emotion.
"Yes".
"Then Alice was right" began Emmett, "we need to gather as many people as we can, we cannot possibly fight them alone".
"we cannot ask our friends to die for us Emmett, I would not ask them of that" said Carlisle softly.
"I would" said Edward, his face set, eyes hard and blazing as he took the girls out of my arms to squeeze them to his chest. "I would ask any one of anything to save my family" his burning eyes bore into mine with such intensity that I believed he would tear the whole world apart for his little family.
"I don't think we need to gather them for a fight, I believe if we got enough of our friends here to help us, told them our story, we could ask them to be our witnesses" said Esme brightly, "if we could just gather enough people to make the volturi stop and listen, we would be able to convince them that the girls are not something they have ever encountered before".
"That could work" said Emmett smiling, "we would do it for them, it's only witnesses Carlisle"
"I agree" said Carlisle grimly, if we only have until the snow hits the ground we do not have long, we need to move. Now".
The rest of the afternoon was a flurry of activity, me and Edward were charged with staying home with our daughters whilst the rest of them would travel the globe trying to gather enough people to help our family out of this crisis. The Denali's were arriving in the morning for our explanation and then It would be up to me and Edward to explain to ever other vampire sent by our family. After saying goodbye to everyone, it felt so empty in the big house without everyone else being there, so we began the journey back to our little cottage, to put the girls to sleep in their rooms. The cottage had been rennervated very quickly, Alice designed it so the fundamentals of the cottage were the same, it was just a lot bigger than before to accommodate our two little princesses. The downstairs was extended so a small kitchen/diner could be fitted that had enough space for four people around the table and all the new gadgets available. The other spare room on the ground floor had been converted into a music room, it held all of Edwards music collection as well as the most elegant piano I had ever seen, it also had the same gold carpet as his room in the big house and a small leather couch in the corner. Seeing that room gave me a sense of nostalgia from my human days that always warmed me. The main room was made bigger and, in the corner, there was a small spiral staircase that led upstairs. Upstairs held only three rooms, the girls' bedrooms and the bathroom that adjoined both rooms. That way there was a way for the girls to go into each other's rooms through their own, it was just through the bathroom. Tonight however, they didn't want to sleep in their own beds, so me and Edward brought them into our room and lay with them on our big bed until they fell asleep. My need for Edward was always present, however tonight all we both needed was to lay in each other's arms, looking down at our daughters. We needed to be a family.
Morning came all too quickly, and my breathing became laboured as we walked into the empty big house. Edward suggested that I stay with the twins in the dining room, so he could try and explain to the Denali's when they arrived, to control their reaction. I just nodded stiffly as the realities of our situation began to sink in. My breathing picked up its pace when I heard the car turn onto the long drive. Edward kissed mine and each of the girl's heads, before his lips went into a grim line and he walked out the room to stand by the front door.
Here comes the hard part.
A/N a little insight into Renesmee's mind there:)
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