"Peter, Renesmee!" I yelled but my voice was muffled by the pouring rain falling from the sky. Peter didn't turn around, but I saw Renesmee jump out of her chair at the sound of my voice. She obviously wasn't expecting me. That thought hurt.

I ran towards her as she ran out of the covered patio of tables and in between confused on lookers. It seemed like forever before she was in my arms. She wasn't the one who started to hug, I was the one who forced her too. She actually was confused, but I sensed that she was relived after being worried. I just wondered why.

"Renesmee," I said as I kissed her forehead. "I have you." I rocked her back and forth in my arms. And I instantly knew at that moment, that all the trouble and how I had betrayed Alice and Jacob immediately paid off because I had my life in my arms again.

"Mom," Renesmee said in a relived but annoyed voice.

"I'm here, sweetie," I said not wanting a reply.

She looked up from my chest and put her eyes on my face. "Why? Why are you here?"

I laughed knowing I should be asking her that question. "Why are you here?"

Renesmee hesitated not knowing what to say. She just shoke her head. "Well, I'll talk to you about that later."

"Oh sure we will," Edward said behind me. Renesmee switched her focus from me to Edward.

Her eyes brightened, but then stared at the ground knowing she was in trouble and Edward was the one who was most likely going to give it.

"No, Renesmee," Edward said as he lifted her chin up. "Not now, I'm just so glad I've find you." He gave her a hug.

I smiled not completely realizing that I had Renesmee safe and sound. The only thing that stopped me from dancing and jumping for joy was the fact that Peter was watching.

I walked around Renesmee, to Peter who was conspicuously looking the other way of us. I knew at that instant that he was hiding something and he was here for a reason, and it wasn't just chance that he was here with Renesmee.

"Hello, Peter," I said as I sat down on the other side of the table. He quickly looked up from the newspaper he was obviously not actually reading.

"Oh, hello Bella," he said in a fake voice. "What are you doing here?"

"No, Peter," I said as I jumped out of my chair and leaned across the table so my hair was touching his face.

"The question is, why are you here?"

Peter backed up in his chair and smiled innocently. "What do you mean? I was just dropping by in Rome, and I just happened to see Renesmee at the Colosseum. You don't think I planned this, do you?"

Edward walked over and looked at Peter with a glare that instantly made me feel safe.

"You know what, Peter," Edward said in that angry voice I loved. "I think you did."

Peter didn't answer but looked at us with disbelief.

"Peter, you don't understand. Renesmee…..she's in danger. And, when we couldn't "see" her, we were worried," I said.

"Why, would you?" Peter said. "No one would want her, right?"

"You know, Peter. Yes, there are dozens of people stalking her waiting for the right moment to come and take her. That's why we were worried," Edward said lowly. "You don't know how much she means to us."

"You know," Peter said. " I have an idea of how much she means to you. But, seriously. I just met her at the Colosseum. That's all."

"Well, it just doesn't seem like that could happen all by coincidence," Edward said angrily. "When we were looking for her, Alice saw the wrong place where she thought Renesmee would be. Someone fed the wrong information to her."

Peter laughed. "Seriously, Alice was just having a miscomprehension. Everyone makes mistakes. You can't blame someone for that."

"We have all the right too," I said. "You don't know, how confusing and frustrating it was, when we were trying to find Renesmee. Something inside of me told me to go the other way, and that voice inside rarely comes out."

"What, now you have voices talking to you in your head?" Peter said jokingly trying to enlighten the conversation.

I looked at Peter with disbelief. "Peter," I said slowly. "How did you get to Rome."

"By a plane, of course," Peter replied.

"I mean how did you get out of Carlisle's eye. He was constantly watching you. But obviously, that wasn't the case in this situation."

"I asked Carlisle if I could go. He said I could. He also said that Renesmee was there too, and he thought it would be good if I kept an eye on her when she was with that mongrel."

"You're lying," I said angrily. "I can hear it in your voice!"

"What do you mean, I'm lying? Seriously, Bella. That's the whole story!"

"No, it isn't! It just doesn't seem possible that Carlisle would let you out so soon after the accident. He would never, it would be too risky!"

"Well," Peter said quickly. "Obviously he wasn't thinking about that when he let me go."

"Oh sure the hell he was," Edward said stepping in. "He never lets that leave his thoughts. It's a promise, we all vowed to keep."

"Well, that poor little Carlisle broke the promise," Peter said in a voice that belonged to a moody teenage boy. "You'll have to deal with him when you get home. I won't. After all, it was his decision, not mine."

"Wait a minute," Edward said pointing at Peter. "It was all and more your decision. When you came into our household, you became apart of the family and its rules. You endangered yourself and our existence at the same time. It wasn't Carlisle's decision. If someone tells you that you can jump off a cliff, it doesn't mean you go do it the second your are allowed too. You have to think about the consequences. The effects before you let go. Before you jump.

Peter shook his head as he stared at each of us. Renesmee's face was still layered with fear, but it's depths were lined with relief. I could tell by the look on her face she was stunned beyond words, and couldn't speak even if she wanted more than the world to.

"Peter,." I shoke my head looking for the right words. "It doesn't matter how you got here anymore and what you did. It's now about Renesmee. All I am saying is that there is someone following us. Someone following her. Wanting to get her. And they won't stop until they find her."

"I know that. But you think that I'm playing the role of someone else I'm not. I can't just blow it off," Peter said.

"Well, you just blew off the fact that you just met Renesmee in a Colosseum when you were supposed to be at home. Do you know the chances of that happening?"

"You know what," Peter said as he picked himself out of his chair and threw his folded newspaper down onto the red and white checkered table cloth. "I'm leaving. Okay? I don't have any answers for you. At least answers that you are looking for."

At that moment Peter stormed out of the patio, and across the street, disappearing behind a dark corner as the sun does behind a cloud. The wind picked up, and the clouds completely covered the sky, casting a weird shadow on the little puddles on the streets. I knew Peter was lying. He was hiding something from us. I just needed to know what.

I looked at Edward with bewilderment and worry. Edward returned the same glance but then motioned his head to the side where Renesmee was sitting.

I instantly understood. I picked myself up and walked out of the restaurant to Renesmee who was sitting alone on a street bench next to a tall lamppost. I could tell she was terrified by the position her body was in. She was apart of me, and I felt all the pain she did.

I sat down next to her. She didn't move. It was like she wasn't aware of her surroundings but was in a whole different world.

"Renesmee," I said quietly as the wind blew through her hair. Edward walked over and stood against the lamppost. She didn't look up, but continued to stare at the grey ground.

"You are safe," I said softly. "I promise." I waited on the bench for Renesmee to respond for about ten minutes before I promised myself I would get worried. But, that ten minutes went as fast as the day I met Edward. I started to get worried, because Renesmee never moved. She continued to stare straight on at the ground, never moving her fingers. I couldn't even see her shoulders raise up and down at the movement of her breathing. All there was that was giving movement to her was the wind. It was blowing through her hair, bringing it all over, silently tearing me apart piece by piece knowing that there was no life in Renesmee right now. The life that was once mine had lost in magic. Lost it's fire.

Edward sensed my worry and walked over. At that moment, I felt like Bella for some reason, before I became a vampire. I felt helpless, but madly in love with Edward. I knew I couldn't do anything. So here I was again, in that stage of my existence being helpless. For some reason, if felt good. Like I was actually being taken care of. That feeling I got every time I saw Edward when I was still human, returned. I don't know why. Edward said that the human feelings would come back after a few years, but I didn't know this feeling would come back. Come back at this moment. I felt like myself again. Like I wasn't a monster, but just me, just me sitting on a street bench in the midst of the most tragic thing that has possibly happened to my daughter.

That memory brought me out of the deluge of memories of my human times. I knew that I would miss them, but I didn't know I would that much.

"Renesmee," I said loudly so she could understand the gravity of this situation.

"Answer me!"

To my relief Renesmee looked up but there was black lines of mascara trailing down her face. She had been crying, and at that moment, this situation was more serious that I ever thought it was.

"Renesmee, what's wrong," Edward said brushing the hair from her face.

Renesmee started to sob quietly. I couldn't tell the difference between the rain falling and her tears. They were falling at the same speed and quantity.

Renesmee didn't answer but just shoke her head. "Where's Jacob," she said through quick and heavy breaths. "I need him."

I saw Edward's face turn down. "Okay," he said while reaching into his pocket and grabbing his cell phone. I could tell he was hesitating. He didn't like this situation more than I did.

As I saw the tears dripping down Renesmee's face, I knew there was something wrong. Something that she was hiding from me, and it was slowly hurting her second my second.

Before Edward could hear Jacob's voice, it was right behind us, followed by the soft sound of Alice's stilettos.

I turned around towards the other side of the street, and saw Jacob and Alice urgently looking for us. Before I could call or signal them, Jacob spotted Renesmee. I saw his worried face turn from anxiety to relief and then back to worry, when he realized she was crying.

My breath stopped when I saw him running between the cars of incoming traffic and heard people cussing and yelling at him. The commotion was great, but he didn't care. His whole life and existence was centered on Renesmee, and his life was hurting. There was nothing else in the world that would stop him from making his life feel better.

I could see the disbelief on Alice's face. I couldn't comprehend all the emotions she was feeling at that moment because she herself could not comprehend them.

"Renesmee," Jacob said with relief and anger as he jumped over the curve of the side walk. Renesmee looked up when she recognized the voice that she had been attached to her whole life.

"Jacob," she said as he finally reached her. "Renesmee," Jacob said through sobs the muffling of sobs. Jacob lifted Renesmee up from the bench into a huge hug. "I didn't think I would ever see you again."

"Me either," Renesmee said laughing through tears. Renesmee and Jacob didn't separate. We were so close to losing her, and now that she was safe, there was no way we would let her out again.

Jacob and Renesmee sat down on the bench. I was unaware of Alice quietly whispering to Edward. I turned to the lamppost where Edward and Alice were talking, and they stopped when they realized I was watching.

Edward saw the hurt on my face and frowned. I looked away and concentrated on Renesmee and Jacob.

"Nessie, what happened," Jacob said as he wiped the tears of Renesmee's face with the sleeves of his grey jacket.

"I was afraid I wouldn't be able to see you again," she said as she laid her head on Jacob's chest.

Jacob put his chin on Renesmee's head. "Well, I'm here now. You don't need to be afraid."

I wondered why Renesmee thought she would never see Jacob again. I knew that there was something wrong with Peter and he was lying but I had no idea how it connected with Renesmee. I also didn't want to bring Renesmee out of the happy time she had with Jacob and make here remember the past events that scared her, but I had to if there was any way I was going to figure out what Peter had done.

I turned to Edward and Alice. They were whispering again, this time more quietly. It hurt to know that Edward was hiding something from me, but I knew there was a reason he was not sharing it with me. He probably expected me to figure it out myself.

I looked at Edward purposely, trying to catch his eye. It wasn't hard to because he was constantly staring at me as if he was going to block a stray bullet that was storming towards me.

Edward gently hit Alice in the ribs with the tip of his elbow. She stopped and looked over at me. She sighed as Edward walked forward. I knew he saw the look on my face and he knew that I needed to know what he was talking about.

Edward smiled as he took my hand. "Bella."

"Yes, that's my name. Do you have anything to tell me," I replied slowly. Edward stared at me with the eyes of an angel. Yet they were demonic. They were soft, yet scorched with heat.

Edward didn't hesitate to tell me. "Bella, Alice thinks you were right."

I didn't want to hear it, yet I knew it was true. I also was confused. I usually wasn't right. Well, when I thought about it, the more I guessed the more it was true. My conscious was to thank. It was tuned to another radio station than everyone else, picking up different things.

I didn't know how to respond. I didn't want to say, told you so, but I didn't know any other way to respond. But, my conscious side was taking over, so I had no time to think before I was saying things.

"So, I was right," I said slowly. I instantly felt sick. If I hadn't stand in the way of Alice and Jacob going the other way, my daughter would most likely be the hands of the Volturi. I shuddered at the thought.

"Yes, Bella, you were. But that's not the point." Alice walked over as Edward said this. Her mouth was down in a frown and she was looking at me with sorry filled eyes.

"I know that's not the point. But what is?" I already knew what the point was, and I didn't know why I wanted it to be repeated.

Alice stepped in. "They are going to do all they can to get Renesmee. Even if that means…" Alice didn't have to finish the sentence for me to understand.

It was like my legs were knocked under me. They shouldn't have been. I already knew this was happening, but, for some reason, my body just shut down do to the surprise.

I wobbled over to the brick wall on the side of us and slid down, my back against it. I put my hands round my knees, burying my head between my legs . "What are we going to do," I said softly.

There was a silence. I could see out of the corner of my eye Edward and Alice looking at each other, wondering what to say to me in front of Renesmee and Jacob that wouldn't freak all three of us out.

"Bella, I don't know. We are going to figure this out. We are going to find a way to deal with this." I took Alice's word for it.

Jacob overheard us and lifted Renesmee softly off his chest. Renesmee looked at him with hurt and wonder. Jacob walked over and stood a few feet away from me facing Edward. I could see his muddy dress shoes through my legs.

"Edward, what is going on. I need to know. I'm apart of it now." I could tell by the look of Edward's face that he didn't want to tell Jacob but had to because what he said was true.

"Jacob, you probably already know." The wind picked up and swayed my hair in all directions.

"You can be surprised," Jacob said to himself.

Edward became uncomfortable. He looked to the right and left and there was people everywhere.

"We can't tell you here. They still may be watching…." Edward motioned his hand for us to get up. We followed him past dark alley ways and cobbled-stoned streets. Fortunately, the place he wanted wasn't far away from where we started.

Edward led us to a secluded alley way behind a remote pizzeria. The bricks of the alley were bulging out of the wall and were dew layered. I sat my back against a dirty green dumpster full of white, wet, garbage bags. I could see that it was getting darker. I could no longer see the, grayish white clouds reflected onto the puddles on the stoned streets of the alleyway. But, instead, they were black, so they blended in with the streets. It only was the stars reflected on the puddles that denied the resemblance. I could tell Alice didn't dare to touch the walls of the alley way or this dumpster.

Jacob folded his arms and put them on his chest patiently and looked at Edward.

Edward caught Jacob's eye and sighed. "Jacob, I'm going to tell you the main point. I can't go into details because I don't know them myself. "

Edward sat down next me his eyes to the ground. I moved closer to him so I could smell his scent. I also wanted to feel protected. His scent and the way he moved his body made me feel like I was. Now, I only felt that. It didn't feel like Edward was there. His body was there against a green dumpster, but his mind was somewhere else. A place where I knew he could only handle.

Renesmee softly took herself from her position next to Alice for Jacob protective arms.

"Why is everyone going quiet on me? Do you just expect to guess what's happening? We can't go weeping around before we know what we are weeping for." Jacob said as he saw everyone was quiet and down in thought.

"What do you expect, Jacob," Alice replied. " They want her, and right now, we aren't ready to stop them."

"What do you mean, not ready to stop them! For God's sakes, when vampires came to your baseball game suddenly, you were ready, but now, when these people aren't even here, and it isn't a surprise that they are looking for her, you aren't ready for them? How is that?"

Edward shook his head. "Jacob, we are dealing with something stronger that a couple of nomads. The Volturi. They have a lot of members. Members that have gifts that you wouldn't imagine possible. Members that are blood thirsty and looking for rare pieces. They almost had Bella. And she had no gift. And Renesmee. She has one gift, soon two, making her even rarer." That thought led me to think about her birthday which we would be celebrating once we came back from this horrible incident. She was turning sixteen. My little nudger was growing up.

"Great," Jacob muttered.

"Yah, you get the point, now, don't you," Alice said. "This is serious. It isn't something we can take care of ourselves. That's why we are worried every time Renesmee disappears. We are afraid of the worse. And, it almost happened."

"Don't go blaming me now," Jacob said backing up from Alice with disbelief in his eyes. "I didn't plan this."

"We know you didn't," Edward said. "But, that's not the point. You don't mean to do things, but when you do, it has the opposite affect. Sometimes, things happen. And if you didn't do it, Renesmee most likely wouldn't have had that close of an encounter."

"Wait, Peter isn't part of the Volturi. Isn't he one of your adopted family members. Like your apprentice?"

"Yes, he is. I wasn't talking about him. I was talking about how one of the Volturi led him the wrong way from Renesmee. They were looking for, and were going to most likely make their move when we weren't there. Peter might have something to do with this, but, right now, I'm concentrating on the Volturi and what they did to Alice."

"Wait, wait! I'm confused! Now they did something to Alice?" Jacob replied.

Alice sighed. "Yes, they did. They made me go one way when I should have been going the other. Something screwed with my mind and made me think I saw one thing, but it was completely the other. If it wasn't for Bella, I don't know what would have happened."

I felt Jacob's glare on me. "What are we going to do for Renesmee?"

"Right now," Edward replied. "Let's give her time to recover. I still don't know why she is so scared after being with Peter. I feel like he has done something to her."

That sparked something in my mind. Where was Peter? And, what had he done?

I lifted my head out of my knees and looked at Renesmee. She was completely lost in this conversation. I would need to explain it to her later.

"Renesmee," I said. Edward looked at me with surprise. Renesmee looked at me with the same expression as her father had.

"What about Renesmee?" Edward said.

I waited a few seconds for Alice and Edward to comprehend what I just said.

"Of course," Alice said closing her eyes. I could hear the click in Edward's head as he understood what I said.

Alice walked over to Renesmee. She put her hands on Renesmee's shoulders. "Renesmee, what did Peter do to you." Alice said with concern.

Renesmee pursed her lips so she couldn't say a word. At that moment, I was hurting. She was not answering, and I knew Peter had something to do with it.

"Renesmee." Alice repeated. "What did Peter do to you." Renesmee closed her eyes and bent her head so her hair was completely covering her face.

I could see the horror on Jacob's face as Renesmee didn't answer. "Nessie," Jacob said shaking her on the back. "What did he do to you."

I looked at Edward with concern, but he didn't catch my eye. He was so consumed in what was happening. I know he was reading her thoughts. I have never been so thankful for that gift of his. As Edward's face turned from concentration, into anger, and then surprise, I walked over. Edward shook his head and ran to Renesmee.

"Renesmee," he said sternly, lifting her head up so she was looking at him. "What happened." When I could see tears trailing down her face, Edward started to get angry.

"I can't read your thoughts, Renesmee," Edward said. " Tell me what he did."

Alice's eyes were wide. She was surprised as I was. Ever since Renesmee was conceived, Edward could read her thoughts. Now, he couldn't.

Renesmee started sobbing. " I can't tell you."

"Why can't you," Edward said in a less angry voice. Renesmee looked at Edward with eyes that I will never forget. They were in extreme pain, and there was worry, everything that she had ever been through was reflected in her eyes. There was wanting in it too. She wanted to tell Edward, but she couldn't for some reason.

"He said I couldn't," Renesmee said through the muffling of sobs.

"Who," Jacob said.

"I can't tell you," Renesmee said looking to the ground.

"Renesmee, you tell me now!" Edward yelled.

"I can't," Renesmee said shaking her head and crying. "Or else."

"Or else, what," Edward said.

Renesmee started to sob loudly and excessively. "He said he'd kill you guys." Do or die.