Chapter 10

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Chapter 10

Blake and Plans of Action

Everyone had gathered downstairs to crowd around Alice at this point and was asking her questions. Carlisle wanted to know exactly what she saw. "Could you describe the whole scene, Alice?"

"I see them get suspicious if we call and tell them not to come. They end up coming anyway and when they see Marcus they attack us."

"What if Marcus isn't here?" Emmett asked.

Alice became unfocused for a moment then responded "no matter what they find out. If it isn't one thing it's another that shows them."

"How about if I were to meet them out front and explain?" I asked.

"NO! You would make it ten times worse!" Alice yelled hastily with a shudder.

"What if I did it?" Edward asked then answered himself after seeing Alice's vision "no then. Would Carlisle be a better pick?"

"That... might work." Alice said hesitantly, as if afraid voicing it aloud would make it not so. "You would need to convince them very well before they entered the house to give him a chance."

"Out front then?" Carlisle inquired for confirmation and she nodded.

Just then bambina cara, who had been in Bella's arms, yawned. "She's waking up" Emmett stated the obvious. How she had slept through the ruckus was beyond me.

Renesmee's eyes opened and she looked up at her mother and touched he hand to Bella's face. Bella pursed her lips and frowned but handed her to Jacob.

"Their connection is unnerving." I hadn't realized I had said the words aloud until I heard Jacob snarl at me. "It's just she looks so young but has a bond with you that is nearly blinding it glows so bright. The same goes for your connection to her. The illusion of her age makes it seem… odd. It isn't necessarily a bad thing though. If anything having such a strong connection so soon is a good omen."

"Just what kind of connection are we talking about here Marcus?" Emmett asked.

"The same for both" I replied, making him draw it out more.

"Which is?" he asked, annoyed.

"Friendship and family of course! What else did you think it was?" I pretended to be puzzled he could be suggesting something other than that.

"Well I was wonderin-"

He was cut off by Rosalie smacking the back of his head murmuring "he knows what you meant idiot! He was just messing with you."

"Oh" Emmett said. Followed by a laughed-out "hey man not cool." The others were laughing too at this point.

I went up to Jacob and held out my arms "may I hold her?" He hesitated for a long moment until Renesmee reached out and leaned into my arms. Jacob let her go but gave me a long warning glare.

I took her to a couch facing the window. "Your mother tells me you like to read. Have you read any poems by William Blake?"

"I think so. Didn't he write The Tyger?"

"Just the poem I was thinking of actually. Well one of them anyway. He wrote a poem called The Lamb as well which is a complete contrast in word-choice and style to The Tyger. In The Lamb he writes with a childlike innocence about how God made the lamb and sings the lamb's praises. In The Tyger he uses phrases like 'What the hammer? What the chain? / In what furnace was thy brain?' Hardly singing praises." I paused "How is it one such as you exists in a world with one such as him?" I asked.

"Aro?" she asked for clarification and I nodded.

"Who could have made someone as innocent as you the lamb go and make a monster like the tiger?" I wondered.

Carlisle opened his mouth to reply but Renesmee beat him to it with "although sunlight is good, all sun makes a desert. However if it is all dark no plants can grow to feed the animals. We need balance. For even human wars can produce great things in the end."

I hesitated then said, "bambina cara you are right. I just pray the balance doesn't get overthrown."

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