A/N: Yeah...I know...I've disappeared off the face of the earth, but I came back, you know? So, don't be mad. And I know you must've suffered with how bad that cliffy was, so here's the resolution and you might not be happy about it.

run baby run
don't ever look back
they'll tear us apart
if you give them the chance
don't sell your heart
don't say we're not meant to be
run baby run
forever will be
you and me

We the Kings - Check Yes Juliet

I was taken aback. I looked around for some sort of escape, some way for Caleb to get out.

"We know you want answers," the stranger said. "The Volturi can give them to you. You're a rarity. You have withstood the powers that we have put up against you…we want to run a few tests. Come with us and your family, your loved ones," he said, looking at Caleb, "Will be safe."

"They'll be safe when the Volturi are dead too," I retorted, feeling the rays of sunlight begin to fuel through my body.

"You really think you can beat them?" he asked, sounding angry now.

"I thought you were just freelance," I said sharply. He glared at me and took a step forward, Caleb did so as well. I pushed him back though. "You're not getting hurt. Go and find my parents," I told him. He shook his head.

"You can outrun him, Claire," he said softly.

"But you can't. And if I carry you, you'll weigh me down and we won't outrun him. Just go get my family."

"Will you please stop? There was a reason I cornered you two here: I wanted you two alone. When I told them about the dog, they became extremely interested. They want you too," said Blake simply.

"You touch him and I'll rip the empty jugular from your throat," I threatened, baring my teeth.

"Fine, then we'll just take you. And if you don't cooperate, the agents we have at your mother's house and your grandfather's house will take care of making sure the Cullens never mess with us again," Blake said warningly. I could smell something familiar on the breeze then and my breath caught. "Oh, good, they'll be here soon," said Blake with a wicked smile. I looked around as a thirty or so vampires that I didn't recognize appeared. By their looks, they were wise, old. Two of them, who stood beside each other, looked no older than thirteen, and incredibly alike.

"Alec and Jane," I said through gritted teeth.

"And Demetri, Heidi, Caius, Marcus, and Felix, and a few others of our guard," Blake finished. I saw my father mixed in with the group and my mother not far from him, both being held against their wills, the more I looked, the more recognizable faces I saw. It was my whole family, but they couldn't fight back. "Think about it, their safety, answers for you, all you have to do is come with us."

I looked around and saw them. They could fight back, but I saw Jane…what the memories of my family members told of her. I saw Alec. I didn't even know what he could do, but his power was supposedly terrible to behold. I saw them all, and their frightening abilities. It scared me, and I wanted my family to be okay. I could see Emmett, looking like he was going to fight back, but he couldn't. Rosalie was a mess, not her normal beautiful self. Alice was worried, constantly looking at visions of the future as my choices changed over and over again. I didn't have much choice, did I?

My father looked at me then and shook his head.

No, I didn't have a choice at all. He knew what I would do to help my family. They meant everything to me, everything in the world, except Caleb, who was still by my side. But they would hurt him too if I didn't cooperate. I bit my bottom lip and a drop of blood oozed out.

"Fine, I'll go," I said, looking at Aro. He looked upset, betrayed. He looked like he was sorry for having to do this.

"If you break this deal, we will bring everyone here and exterminate your coven, understood?" asked Caius, walking towards me. His white hair was eerie. I glared at him, but nodded. "Go home…we'll pick you up to take you to the airport tomorrow. They can say goodbye if they want. But they will not be riding in the same car…well, Carlisle can, since we will ask him the questions about your creation."

"I didn't create her," said Carlisle, throwing one of the vampires off of him to enter the circle that had formed around me.

"Then who did? Some rogue?" asked Marcus as he looked from me to Caleb with a confused but apprehensive look. I could see Caleb's lip rising over his teeth very inconspicuously.

"No, I did," said my father, throwing the two restraining him off. I saw my mother try to get lose but fail as my father walked towards me and placed his hands on my shoulders. "So, you'll be talking to me," he said simply.

"But you know the uniqueness of her biological structure?" Caius presumed, glancing at Carlisle.

"I am a doctor, am I not?" Carlisle asked, sounding almost insulted.

"Fine, then both of them will come with us," said Caius, waving his hand as my family was released and the vampires escaped back into the forest. Caius, Marcus, and Aro glanced at me one more time.

"I'm sorry it had to come to this, Carlisle. We were once such great friends," said Aro before the three of them also departed, Jane and Alec walking beside them like guards.

I couldn't hold it in after that. I fell to the ground, only to be caught by Caleb, who supported me as I sat on the cold, moist earth. I cried. I actually cried. My family bent down and tried to soothe me, but all I wanted was to press my face further into Caleb's warm and comforting chest. I would have to leave him tomorrow.

"Carlisle," Caleb began, looking up at my grandfather. "Is there any way we can beat them if my pack, the La Push pack, and your family intercepts them at the airport."

"No…too many human lives would be at stake in a place like that. Plus, we couldn't ask that of Jacob again. He wouldn't want to help Claire or Edward, only Bella," Carlisle replied.

"Alice?" my mother asked, looking at my aunt.

"I don't know right now. It's not clear. It's shady, and it looks bad. But I can't really make out a thing. I think it's over. I think…there's no way for us to win."

"Why didn't you see this coming?" my father roared in anger. Alice looked like she would shrink back. Many of us would. But she just gave him a fierce glare that was enough to put my father back in his place.

"I can't believe this is happening," I whispered softly. I could feel Caleb's grip on me tighten as he tried to comfort me.

"Why didn't you know, Alice?" my mother asked, sounding more so curious than disapproving.

"They know me too well. I told Jasper weeks ago that I was getting memory flashes like I had with Victoria all those years ago. We thought it was just someone we knew who was facing a point in their life that was confusing. We assumed it had something to do with Claire…love is very confusing after all," Alice said, smiling at me. I couldn't help but smile back. I could tell Alice felt incredibly guilty.

"We should get back to the house and pack your things, Claire. You need to be ready first thing in the morning, and with them, goodness knows when that actually is," Esme said sadly. I would be gone from Esme too. That made it even more unbearable.

The last night I had with them passed all too fast. I didn't want it to end, and at the time, I got my things together to go to the airport. I was crying the entire time. The family had said they wouldn't come. My mother pitched a fit, trying to choke out her invisible tears and convince me otherwise. Esme was comforting. Alice…was confused. She couldn't find my future anywhere, and the stoic Jasper, he, for one of the first times in my life showed me his emotions, almost crying. He soothed me, though. Emmet was in a rage, as well, ranting and screaming and breaking things when I said goodbye to him. He was still under the impression he could destroy the Volturi single-handedly. Rosalie was calm, and yet I could see and hear in her thoughts just how upset she was.

"It was…great knowing you kid. I just wish…" she began, searcing for words.

"Yeah, me too," I said with a smile before we gave each other a hug, a real genuine hug. Rose was my aunt, and no matter how self-absorbed she could be, she cared about me more, and I knew that. I loved her for that.

Then came the time for us to load up into the car. I scarcely believed the night had passed that quickly.

"Claire, just calm down, it'll be okay. We'll bring you back. I promise," my father said as he hugged me as tightly as his stone muscles would allow. I felt him kiss the top of my head and another tear escaped me. It was weird, crying. I could see them all sobbing dry…but I was a flowing well. It felt wrong. I shuddered as Caleb got into the backseat next to me. I couldn't help it, I crawled right over to him and curled up next to him, resting my head on his chest, burying my face in his shirt as he kept his arm tightly around me. I shook sobbing. He whispered comforting words, kissed my hair, kissed the top of my head, kissed my fingertips, everything he could get a hold of but my lips. A kiss on the lips would be a goodbye kiss, and I knew he was coming to get me. I hoped he was at least.

"I love you," he would whisper over and over again. And in my hysterics, I could only nod. I shuddered against him as I felt the car stop.

"You don't have to do this," Carlisle said, turning in the seat to look at me. Carlisle, my father, and Caleb were the only ones who came in this car. The other got out and went inside the airport ahead of us. Caleb had to almost carry me in. He supported all my weight and I gripped him like he was my own life, my own soul, and it surprised me how much I knew it was true. I didn't care that he smelled like a wet dog or anything like that. I wouldn't see him for God only knows how long; all starting today. I shuddered at the thought and I held on to him even tighter.

"Please don't go," he said softly, leaning down to kiss the top of my head.

"I have to, if I don't they'll kill you or hunt you guys down," I said softly.

"We can fight, what about the plan with the other pack's help, we can do something," he said softly.

"And get hurt. I don't want that. I want answers and they'll give them to me. I won't break my promise to my father and grandfather, though, no blood, none. I swear it," I vowed, as Caleb slowly set me down and I embraced my father in a teary hug. I could see that he wished he could cry too, for once he wished he had that human weakness because there was no other way to express how he felt, and I knew that, I was in his head. I embraced Carlisle next and he smiled at me, a weepy and sorrowful smile. He was probably good at these goodbyes with how old he was. He didn't make it awkward and he shielded his thoughts from me with a Gregorian chant from back in his times. I smiled at him as he released me. I stepped back towards Caleb and he clutched my hand for dear life. Had I been moral, he'd have crushed it, but like this, it felt comfortable, soft, sweet.

We began walking towards the gates and security and baggage check when I saw them, and Caleb instinctively released my hand and I felt a shudder of rage go up his spine. I whipped around to face him, placing my hands on his chest.

"No, please, don't," I whispered softly. He looked down at me through his beautiful eyes and touched my soft hair before nodding, without a smile, without any sign of happiness.

"So, is she ready?" Jane asked, skipping forward. I could see my father's face tighten as he looked at the little menace blood-sucking child.

"Yes," came my father's strained voice.

"Alright then, Claire, you ready?" Jane asked, looking at me as I saw two members come and take my bag with them towards the gates and security.

"I…I guess so," I said, frantically gripping Caleb's hand as I felt tears rising in my face again. Jane looked at Carlisle.

"Your log," she said expectantly. Carlisle sighed and handed the folder I hadn't noticed he held to Jane. She opened it and scanned through it, smiling. From what I could tell was going on in her head, it was the log of the days I was created and an entry every few months after that. Jane smiled, looking up at Carlisle. "She'll be such a wonderful addition to the guard," Jane said excitedly. "And we'll be best friends."

My eyes widened. I hadn't suspected, even with my abilities, that being part of the guard was what they wanted me for. I thought it had been for pursuit of knowledge and learning about what I could do. What was this new idea? I took a step backwards into Caleb's arms and Jane stepped forward towards me. Caleb's lip rose over his canine teeth as she did and she stepped back again.

"Whatever, call off your dog so we can leave," Jane said with a smirk. I turned around and looked at Caleb, more tears than I had ever had before began spilling out of my face. I shook my head frantically as he pulled me to his chest and kissed the top of my head. I knew the goodbye kiss was coming now as he tilted my face up to his and pressed his warm lips to my frigid ones. The kiss was perfect, deep, and more than anything, melancholy. But I loved it because I loved him. His hands stayed on my cheeks while mine pressed against his muscled chest. I loved him, perfectly and truly, and I knew he would come and get me, eventually. He would save me. I knew he would.

A/N: sorry about how long that took, I'm pathetic I know. I got working on another story and this one just fell behind, but I'm with it again, no worries. So, review, read, refer people, haha. I hope you like this incredible plot twist here!!