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Cameron

"I don't want to hear anymore. I wish you would have never come here." I told Chris and Seth. I didn't say it to be mean. I just couldn't help but be angry at them for tainting the memory of my mother.

"I'm sorry you feel that way LG because I sure as hell don't regret meeting you." Chris told me. I looked at him.

"You ruined my memory of her. You made her into a monster." I told him. He quickly shook his head.

"No Cameron. Your mom was never a monster. She was a hero who made a terrible mistake. It happens. Just like Sarah and all of us made a mistake by not listening to her in the first place and by treating her like some lawbreaker instead of what she was… Our family." Chris said.

"Law over love, that's their way. That is your way." I told him, just as Jameson had told my mother. I was angry at Jameson for betraying my mom but he was right about one thing. They did kill her for what she did and they didn't care that she was their family. Chris sighed.

"It used to be but not anymore. What happened to Leanna was due to the human deaths her actions caused but also to our own prejudices. Volterra isn't a real family, they're a ruling government and their first priority is to protect our way of life by defending the human way of life. That was what got drilled into Sarah and now she regrets it and she is trying to make up for it. We all are. I know you are upset about the outcome of the Volturi's influence on all of us and I when I say we regret that mistake. We should have never allowed Leanna to be exiled. Sarah shouldn't have allowed it. Not after they took away her wolf. That was punishment enough. They acted according to the law but they forgot about family. We are never going to let that happen again." Seth told me. I could feel my anger return at his statement.

"Then why didn't you defend her. Why didn't you try to bring my mother back?" I asked him accusingly. He looked at Chris for assistance but Chris just looked down to the ground ashamed.

"We tried to make contact with Leanna, to keep her in our lives even though she was exiled, but your mom didn't want anything to do with us. Bringing her back home would have been pointless because we would be fighting for someone who didn't want to come back to us. She was so angry when she was turned to a human. She was just so angry... It wasn't until she befriended your fathers that she started to go back to being the Leanna we knew. Actually, it wasn't until your fathers started fighting over Rita that she went back to normal but she still refused to see us. She refused to talk to any of us because she could sense that we had captured all the werewolves she released." Chris seemed to be contemplating on that last part as if he was thinking it more to himself.

"How? I thought mom was human." I asked him.

"Sarah's kids can take away the wolf but they can't take away the spirit warrior. Nobody can take that away because those powers come from nature. She wasn't nearly as powerful as she was before but she still had some powers. She knew what we were doing, that nothing had changed in Volterra and she shut us out of her life, even me. Her best friend. She really distanced herself from me. It was strange. It was as if her connection to all of us disappeared and the only connection she cared about was the werewolves." He told us.

"But she was right to be angry at you. All her efforts to save the werewolves failed and you were still killing them after everything she went to save them." Billie told Chris. Chris nodded.

"The werewolf situation hasn't changed because they were still a huge risk to humanity. I have no idea how Jack managed to live among humans this whole time but I can assure you that he was the exception, not the rule." Chris told us. Seth nodded.

"Obviously something must have been different about how the virus affected his shape shifter DNA because otherwise, Cameron wouldn't be here. Children of the moon are sterile. The virus takes away their ability to procreate." Seth told us.

"Cameron hasn't shown any signs of being a werewolf but we are worried she might." Jamie told them. Seth looked at me.

"I really don't know how you're even possible little one but I promise you that I will do everything to keep you from suffering their fate." Seth told me.

"How?" Billie asked him.

"We need to study her DNA. We have pretty amazing labs back at Volterra. I'm sure that we can…"

"No!" I cut him off.

"Sarah might have learned a lesson about family loyalty but I can't trust her. If she wants to help Jaime and Billie she can but I don't want to go anywhere near her or Marco or Isabel." I told him. Chris's eyes opened wide when I mentioned my mother's niece and nephew.

"Wow. You really did see what happened. You are going to be a very powerful spirit warrior, just like your mom." Chris told me.

"Her dreams got stronger after our parents died. That's when everything changed." Billie told him. Chris nodded.

"Makes sense. She probably had her gifts since she was much younger but her mom blocked her memories." Chris said.

"Aunt Leanna still had that kind of power as a human?" Jamie asked him. Chris nodded.

"Like I said, she wasn't as powerful as before but she was still a very gifted spirit warrior. No one could take that away from her." Chris told him.

"Is there a way to do this without having to go to Volterra?" Billie asked them. Seth and Chris both looked at each other.

"Not really. I need tissue and blood samples that are fresh and I need access to my lab in Italy. We have the best equipment at the control center. Anything that I take from her now will be ruined during transport and unfortunately, if we want to save Cameron's life we have to study her DNA as soon as possible." Seth informed us. I could feel the tears in my eyes again.

"I figured. Uncle Jack mentioned something similar on one of his letters to aunt Leanna. He was trying to convince aunt Leanna of sending more samples or letting him finally meet Cam." Jamie told them. I didn't know this little detail but it only confirmed the fact that I would eventually need to face my aunt and cousins.

"We would never force you to do anything you don't want to. I promise but we have the resources to help you Cameron. More importantly, we want to help you. We want to do anything in our power to keep the virus from infecting you." Seth told me. I was still very unsure. I didn't know what the right thing to do or think was. Mom didn't trust them. My father's dying words were to keep me from them.

"I don't know. I need to think about this." I told them honestly. Chris came closer to me and took my hand to get my attention. I sighed and looked into his eyes. His eyes were so sincere, like Seth's. I had to admit that as upset as I was about all of this, as much as I wanted to run away from them, I wasn't sure that I could run away from Chris. Not realistically.

"You trusted us before. Don't let what happened with your mother change that. It was all a mistake on both our parts. I personally would have insisted more on bringing her home except that Leanna was miserable in Volterra. She found her happiness while she was away from us and, as much as it hurt, none of us wanted to take that happiness away. I am sure that the real reason why she kept you away was to protect her new way of life not because you were in any danger. She just wanted you to have a normal happy life. The life she had learned to cherish by accident." He said. He was right about that. Mommy always smiled. The only time she didn't smile was when she talked about her family which is why I never asked about them. I really regret not asking. There was so much I didn't know. Seth put his arm around Billie and Jamie smiling at all of us tenderly.

"Please give us a chance to be your family. To prove that we are worth keeping. Don't you miss having a family? I promise you that we will love you and protect you for the rest of eternity, just… Please… No more running away ok?" Seth told us. He was looking at Billie in particular. Billie had tears in her eyes. She nodded.

"Ok. We're not going to run away." She told him. Chris looked at me for confirmation.

"Ok." I whispered and Chris instantly relaxed. I looked at Jamie who just nodded.

"We'll give you a chance but no more secrets. Its time for us to know what's going on. We want to know the truth about aunt Leanna, our grandparents, the werewolves, everything." Jamie told them. Seth nodded.

"I think that's fair." Chris said and Seth nodded in agreement.

"Why don't we all find a place to sit and we'll get started." Seth suggested. Jamie showed them the way to the living area and we entered into the large living room.

"This is nice." Chris commented. He sat in the sofa next to me, Billie and Jamie while Seth sat across from us.

"Aunt Leanna had it built. This is her safe house. No one was supposed to know about it." Billie told them. Seth nodded.

"She had a lot of trust issues so this doesn't surprise me." Seth told us.

"So what happened to my mom after she was exiled and to grandma and grandpa. Did they try to make contact with her or with our dads?" I asked him. Seth took a deep breath.

"They did with Leanna because Leanna knew what happened but not the boys." Seth told us.

"Why? Why would they abandon them and us?" Jamie asked him. I could tell just by hearing him that Jamie was really hurt and bothered by what our grandparents did. Seth looked at him and gave him a sympathetic smile.

"Because they wanted you to have a normal life. This isn't an easy life Jamie. You've only had a taste of it but living for eternity is not easy or simple or exciting. It's a painful monotonous life that is only made bearable by the love of our spouses and our families." Seth told us.

"So… That doesn't really explain why they abandoned us. We would have still loved them the same if we had known. We would have still been human but we would have had them in our lives." Billie remarked.

"Its not that simple Billie. Once you knew about immortals, your wolf would have been activated. We used to think that it was only the proximity to vampires that activated the gene but its also the knowledge of vampires. Just you knowing about us would have made you phase. That's why only the Elder council members know about the immortals. The younger generation isn't allowed to know unless they are in eminent danger. It was the only was to keep future generations from phasing. It was the only way for our decedents to have a normal life. If your grandparents would have told you that they were alive, that Kal survived the fire because he became immortal again, then there was nothing to stop the three of you from phasing." Seth told us.

"It wouldn't have mattered." I said to myself but they all heard.

"We didn't know that. Dalia is a seer but her visions of you have been blocked. She stopped being able to see you the moment Leanna died." Chris told me.

"How?" I asked confused.

"We don't know. That's why your grandparents wanted to have custody of you. They fought for you. They asked the council and the Volturi for permission to reveal themselves but they denied by both because you still had one living relative. Jack. None of us had any idea that he was a werewolf." Chris told us. Jamie was sitting at my other side so I easily felt his already solid body tense.

"We never really knew Jack. He wasn't a part of our lives yet they decided it was ok to hand us over to him. He was a stranger. They were our grandparents. I just… I don't understand this. I don't understand why they didn't fight harder." Jamie told Seth. Again, I could hear the hurt in his voice. Billie took his hand and I took the other. Seth just looked at us contemplating.

"They did fight for you. So did Nessie and Jacob. Edward, myself… we all fought for you. And believe it or not, so did Sarah eventually. In the end Sarah took Leanna's side and tried to do the right thing by her, even if it meant going against her imprint and her own children. Your deaths, made her have a change o heart." He said softly and took a deep breath.

"How is that possible?" I asked him doubtfully. The Sarah I saw in my dreams would have never taken my mother's side. She was her enemy. MY enemy. Seth smiled.

"For you to understand that, I need to tell you the whole story of what happened after your parent's deaths." He told us in warning. Jamie took my hand and nodded at Seth giving him permission to talk about the most painful event in our lives. Seth smiled at him sadly and started his story.

Flashback

Leah was out for a run with her brother and granddaughter in northern Italy. She loved this area. During the winter, it reminded her of the woods back home. More importantly, the glossy white snow helped her forget of everything that was weighing her heart.

"You ok, grams?" Her granddaughter, Ciara asked her. She was Liam's youngest and one of her sweetest grandkids.

"I'm fine kid." Leah lied. She was running for a very specific reason. She had missed yet another one of her son's birthdays. Her twins had just turned 26. They were still fighting and she could do nothing about it. She was supposed to be dead, some days she wished she were.

"Don't think that way Leah." Seth told her sadly. She could see the hurt and sadness in his mind and in her granddaughter's when she wished she were dead, but she couldn't help it. Leah ignored them and continued to run for a few more miles when she felt a sharp pain in her chest. She howled into the air from the pain. The large bird that had been flying over her, suddenly appeared next to her. He too seemed in distress.

"It's the boys Leah. Something has gone terribly wrong." Kal told her. They both phased and began calling their families and Leanna.

Nessie was taking a walk with her brother/son-in-law through the new gardens on the outskirts of the castle. They walked hand in hand as they did years before, in a simpler life that seemed like eons ago.

"Do you think she'll like it." Duilio asked her. Nessie rolled her eyes at him.

"Are you kidding? She'll love it Duli. It was very sweet of you to create this beautiful garden for her. You are an attentive husband." Nessie told him. He sighed.

"Thanks, sis. I just want to see her smile. Her smiles are so rare these days." He told her while imagining his wife, Sarah smiling, wondering if the sparkle in her eyes would ever return.

Nessie nodded at her brother's observation. Her daughter, Sarah, rarely smiled. She had been distant for years. Sarah never got over her terrible fight with Leanna and this weighted heavily on Nessie's heart. Jacob was also distant. He rarely visited Sarah or Leah. Only on special occasions or family events did they come together in the same room. It was the first time in two centuries that the families were so distant but at least things had settled into amicable terms.

"I know Duli. I know… but there is still time to set things right. I still have hopes that Leanna will come around. I am sure that someday, she will come back home and bring Cameron with her." Nessie told him. Duilio smiled out of kindness because he was doubtful that this would ever come to pass. He patted her hand and kissed it, unwilling to squash his sister's hopes.

"I'm sure she will." He lied. Nessie knew him well enough to recognize that he was humoring her but a mother can never lose hope. Duilio walked her over to one of the elaborate fountains when Nessie gasped and held her chest in pain.

"Nessie! What's wrong?" He asked her quickly. Nessie started shaking as she heard her daughter's voice in the wind.

'Mother… I'm sorry… Please protect her…' The wind whispered and Nessie collapsed into Duilio's arms. She was sobbing.

"Leanna!" Nessie yelled out when the voice disappeared. She searched for her but she couldn't find her and it made her cry even harder. Duilio was confused and terrified. He didn't know what to do so he picked up his phone. As soon as he did, it started ringing Seth's name.

"Hello? Seth?" He said desperately.

"What's wrong?" Seth asked, hearing the desperation in Duilio's voice.

"It's Nessie. She is sobbing uncontrollably and she just yelled out for Leanna. I think something must have happened." Duilio told him as Nessie nodded in confirmation.

"Leah and Kal just felt something happen to the boys. Kal can't get a hold of any of them." Seth told him. Duilio gave Nessie the phone and took her into his arms because he didn't think she could run.

"I'm heading back to the castle with Nessie. Get in the virtual room and lets see if we can get a hold of them through someone in the council. I'm sure one of them has to know what's going on."

"Good idea. We'll head back to the house right now." Seth told him and they both hung up.

"Don't worry Ness. We're heading home right now. We'll get a hold of her, I promise." Duilio told her as he ran back to the castle, hoping with all his might that he won't have to break his promise to her.

The throne room wall was set up to view the virtual room; therefore, all the family members were present. The entire wall of the throne room merged with the wall in Leah's house through the virtual effect, making the room seem larger and making it seem like all the family members were in one room. Sarah sat at her thrown watching as Leah cried and Kal paced back and forth waiting for Seth and Edward to get off their phones. Finally, the council called both families on a large projector. Dr. Rivers-Atera was present and he looked grieved.

"Leah… Kal…" Dr. Rivers started. He sighed not knowing how to break the news. "I am so sorry to have to inform all of you that there's been an accident. Danny, Rita and Leanna were on the road together when they were hit by a semi. The driver fell asleep at the wheel, it was an older model so… Well that's not important…" He said after seeing the desperate look in Leah's eyes. He decided to get to the point. "I am sorry to inform you that they did not survive the accident." Dr. Rivers told them. Nessie screamed out as did Bella, Isabel and Marco. There were instant sobs across both rooms. Sarah watched as Her mother held her chest heaving and sobbing onto Jacob's arms. Her father held her but he could not sooth her for he was crying too. Across the room, Kal grabbed his hair and fell to the ground while Leah sat perfectly still, her eyes wide and lost, the tears streaming down her face. Seeing her tears made Sarah touch her own cheeks. They were wet, yet Sarah could not feel the tears. She couldn't feel anything.

"You!" An angry loud voice said. Sarah looked up to see her father pointing at her. "You did this! You let them turn her, you exiled her, YOU KILLED YOUR SISTER!" Jacob screamed out and growled. He was shaking.

"How dare you!" Duilio growled, instantly standing to his wife's defense.

"Jacob, please calm down. It was an accident. This was not Sarah's fault." Nora told him. She was a descendant of Paul and Rachel, and the current Chief of the tribe.

"Silence yourself!" Kal scolded angrily, much to everyone's surprise. He looked straight at the council.

"He is right! Leanna was never meant to be a mortal and fate chose to intervene and my son was caught in the mist of it all. My son!" Kal told them.

"You cannot seriously blame Leanna for what happened to Danny. It was a human accident. It wasn't anybody's fault and it certainly wasn't Sarah's." William told both Kal and Jacob. The look on Kal's face matched Jacob's in both pain and fury.

"What about the children?" Leah said quietly in an empty voice that would have alarmed her family if they weren't also in so much pain. Nora looked to her aggrieved.

"The children are safe. They are with Yuren for the time being. She has informed them of what happened, though Cameron already knew. She is taking good care of them." Nora told them. Leah nodded.

"We will get on the first jet out to go get them." Leah told her. Instantly Nora's expression changed. She looked around to the other council members.

"You have been gone for a long time. They don't really know you anymore. Plus, the children are human. I think their parent's would have wanted them to continue to live as human." Nora told her. Nessie hissed.

"You said that Cameron knew about the accident. She is showing signs of being a spirit warrior." She told Nora. Nora nodded.

"I know. But Leanna did not want you involved in her life. We have letters from them. Legally our hands our tied. Leanna, left Cameron to her father and since Danny did not leave a will, the children automatically go to the next of kin and that's Jack." Nora explained.

"We don't even know who Cameron's father is?!" Leah exploded. "Do you really think she should go to some stranger? Do you really think that the best thing here is to separate them?" Leah yelled at her. Nora shook her head.

"That won't be necessary. Leanna's letter indicates that Jack is Cameron's biological father. We have already contacted him and he has confirmed it. We also ran DNA testing on the blood we have on file for Jack. Cameron is his. Yuren wants custody of them but I can tell you right now that Jack has priority and he wants them. They are going to court and I am sure Jack will win custody so my hands are tied." Nora told them. Leah was shocked by this news. She and Nessie looked at each other, both women were surprised to know they shared a granddaughter.

"I know that you want the kids but they still have a human family. They have Jack and, even after all the fighting with his brother, Jack wants the kids. That should tell you something." Nora told them. Leah finally broke down and started sobbing. Kal held her hand and tried his best to comfort her.

"I think this just solidifies the fact that we should tell them their grandparents are alive. Cameron has two sets of grandparents and Jamie and Billie need us now more than ever." Jacob told Nora. Nora sighed.

"I understand what you feel Jacob. Jackson was my brother and when he died I struggled between taking custody of Rita or letting my parents have custody but my brother chose me and if my parent's have tried to take her from me I would have never forgiven them. Jack is a good man and he can provide for them. He is Danny's twin so he is the closes thing they will have to Danny and he is Cameron's father. Plus I have to respect Leanna's wishes as misguided as they may be. I'm sorry, but the council has voted and we are going to support Jack's petition to take the kids to live with him. Of course we will ask him to move back but if he doesn't we will allow him to take the kids out of the reservation." Nora told them. Jacob was steaming.

"So you rather put our grandchildren's lives at risk rather than have them know us! They can be attacked!" Jacob yelled.

"Jack has lived outside the reservation successfully. No one knows that the kids are decedents. Their identities has always been kept secret." Nora told him. Jacob was shaking his head. He was about to say something but Sarah cut him off.

"No. It is too dangerous. We've already lost too much. I do not support this. If Jack refuses to move to the rez then we must intervene in some way." Sarah told them.

"if you intervene. You will mark them as targets." Nora reminded her. Sarah and Nora stared at each other.

"I agree." Marcus said. He had been silent, unsure of his place in the matter but he knew it was time to intercede. "The children should not be told. They should be allowed to live a normal life with their uncle and father. If we send scouts for protection, we will be putting their lives at a greater risk. Let us observe from afar as we have continuously done for Jack and if we must we will intervene." Marcus told them. Sarah was unsure about this but she was always unsure about whether or not she should challenge Marcus in these situations.

"In addition. If we send scouts, the proximity may cause the children o phase especially young Cameron since she already shows a proclivity for the supernatural." Marcus told them.

"I want my granddaughter home." Jacob hissed. Marcus nodded.

"I understand…" Jacob instantly cut him off.

"How can you fucking understand anything! How can you possibly understand what its like to loose a child!" Jacob screamed at him. Marcus looked pained for a moment.

"I've not lost a child. I've lost three." He told him. Duilio looked at him surprised as did Sarah. They and their children were the only ones who knew about Marcus's human children. The room fell silent as this revelation. After a few moments, Nora spoke.

"Why don't we see how the kids adjust t being with Jack? I will visit them myself to evaluate the situation after a few weeks. If I see anything concerning I will report back to you and we can discuss other options. But at least give Jack a month to be with the kids. I really think that he can get them through this." Nora said. There was a long silence.

"Fine." Kal told them after he saw the look on Leah's face. "We will allow one month. If the children are not adjusting to their new life then all four will be told the truth and we will go to them ourselves to help them through the loss of their parents." Kal told the council and the Volturi. Nora agreed as did Marcus and Duilio.

"Thank you." Nora told them and the screen went black.

None of the Olympians were satisfied with the outcome of the meeting but they knew that they couldn't be selfish. The children deserved to live as human and they knew they shouldn't intervene. As long as they had Jack, there really no reason to take them other than the fact that they missed them. The funeral was hard on all of them. They had to use glamour technology to change their appearance so that the humans couldn't recognize them. Leah and Nessie wanted to hold their grandkids but they didn't dare. The council only allowed them to be there if they promised to have minimal contact. It was a struggle but both sets of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins attended the ceremony from afar. Once it was done, they returned to their homes empty and broken.

About a week after the funeral, the council contacted the families once again. Some members had scattered to their personal safe haven so every wall in the throne room was connected to a virtual room in order to get all the families in one place. The throne room looked like a room of mirrors and each mirror lead to another family member's house. All three Volturi sat at the throne with all members of their family at their side. The projector screen turned on and Nora was at the screen. She was crying. Sarah held her breath. She knew what was coming. She felt the children disappear and Adela had confirmed it.

"They're dead aren't they?" Sarah asked her. More tears spilled from Nora's eyes. She nodded.

"No!" Renesmee screamed and dug her face into Jacob's chest. Leah roared, her entire body shaking in fury.

"You said that would be safe! You promised me!" She screamed. Nora lowered her head, more tears spilling from her eyes.

"It was a fire Leah. There was no way we could have anticipated this event. They died of natural…" Kal cut her off before she could finish.

"Don't you dare finish that sentence! All my children and grandchildren are dead within the past few weeks and you expect us to believe this is of natural causes? The werewolves must have figured out who they were. The must be behind this!" Kal yelled at her.

"He's right. We will send a team to investigate." Marco said to the families. Leah hissed at him.

"You! You put this curse on my children. You and your sister turned her human. The werewolves would have never known about my children if it wasn't for you!" Leah yelled at Marco. She looked at Sarah with such coldness and disappointment that Sarah trembled. She considered Leah as a second mother but she was wrong.

"We did what we thought was best in order to save Leanna. You were the ones who agreed to take her." Isabel told her, while trying to hide the hurt from her voice.

"Are you fucking kidding me?! We didn't have a choice! We were the only ones who had a back story that could match hers." Leah argued.

"This really doesn't solve anything." Duilio said, trying to keep the peace. Jacob glared at him.

"You shut your mouth! I shouldn't have ever let you into my family. You poisoned my daughters against one another. You made them believe that duty was more important than family and now look! Look at what your damn laws have cost us!" Jacob screamed. Duilio's lower lip trembled and his eyes stung. He was confused by his reaction to Jacob's words. He was strong, he was Volturi but at the same time he recognized the truth behind Jacob's accusation. Duilio's dream was to make the Volturi more like the Olympians but instead he made the Olympians more like the Volturi. The Volturi had changed a lot but not nearly as much as the Olympians had changed. He recognized the mark of indifference even in the Quileute council. They also were less about family and more about the bottom line.

"Daddy! You can't blame Duilio for something that had nothing to do with him. This battle was between me and Leanna." Sarah told her father. Jacob glared at her.

"You're right about that." Jacob said in a cold calculating tone.

"I should have never allowed you to lead this family." He told her.

"No you shouldn't have. As usual you passed on your responsibilities to somebody else, first Sam and then your own daughter. This is as much your fault as it is hers you irresponsible coward! You should have stood up to them. You should have stood up for your family!" Leah told Jacob. Jacob growled at her.

"You dare call me a coward! You dare point you fucking fingers at me after you abandoned your own fuching family? Maybe if you had stayed, none of this would have fucking happned!" Jacob screamed at her. Both Leah and Jacob were shaking. Dalia closed her eyes and saw where this conversation would lead and it scred her.

"Everyone, please calm down." She said hesitantly but neither wolf was paying attention to her.

"You and your family have been the doom of this pack from the beginning. From the moment that you imprinted on her!" Leah said, pointing her finger at Nessie who just stared at her best friend as if she were a stranger.

"The way I see it, this pack was fucked the moment you joined it. It was your fucking selfishness that made you become mortal and then instead of thinking of the mortal family you created, you abandoned them again! You a fucking flake and I regret the day I ever made you my second in command." Jacob told Leah. Dalia looked at her mother with begging eyes because she could see where this conversation was leading. Sarah got up and walked over to her father's screen.

"Enough! We are all in a lot of pain. Dad, Leanna brought this upon herself. If the children really were at tacked by werewolves then it was probably because she made herself known to them. She is the cause of this." Sarah told him. Jacob roared at her. The projection of his body was right in front of Sarah so when he raised his hand slammed it across his daughter's face, his hand never made impact. Nevertheless, Sarah felt the pain of his action and Duilio stood up in a threatening position.

"You fucking traitor. If I were there right now I would slap you into fucking sense." Jacob said to his daughter. Sarah looked at her mother but Nessie looked like she would have done the same if she could. Sarah just stood there in shock. She didn't look back to see the reaction of her Volturi family because she was too stunned to move.

"You dare raise your hand against your own daughter? Against my son's mate?!" Marcus said infuriated.

"You and your fucking son are the reason she is like this. You have torn my family apart!" Jacob said accusingly. Marcus hissed.

"As far as I am concerned, you are no father or grandfather. You are a self-righteous beast who should be put down but out of respect for MY daughter I would let you live regardless of your treachery and I will give you 24 hours to get your pack out of my territory." Marcus told Jacob.

"I second that." Caius said indignant by Jacob's behavior. Even after all these years, he didn't like Sarah but she was a Volturi wife and no one would threaten his family.

"Marcus, Jacob, Leah, please calm yourselves. We are all in a lot of pain and devastation. Lets calm down and think rationally. Turning against one another will not solve anything." Carlise finally intervened. He didn't want to overstep his bound but as one of the patriarchs of the family, he felt the need to stop the madness.

"I agree. We are all one family. We have worked to become one family for centuries. Let's not undo that in one night. We all need time to grieve. Lets all take a break and concentrate on figuring out what happened to the kids and afterwards we can discuss this again." Edward told them. All the feuding partied glared at one another.

"We will send out a team tonight to investigate." Dalia said, grateful that Carlisle made the decision to speak. She could see that his words would have lasting effects and that the dust would settle between all the families. It would take time, and there were some other pieces of the picture that seemed to be missing but she did see that the future held peace between the families.

"Fine." Leah said to her daughter in law. Jacob just nodded. Sarah stayed silent the entire time. She could see in her parent's eyes that they were more than just disappointed in her. It was as if they wished she were never born and that scared her. The monitors turned off and Sarah's world began to fall apart.

Sarah grieved for two weeks before she realized her family was right. She was a traitor. She allowed Marcus to value power over family. She treated her baby sister as a soldier and she allowed her to be punished as one. She allowed the council to accept this way of thinking. A true big sister would have fought and died before she allowed anything to happen to her younger siblings. Lina had told her this. She was only one who advised Sarah to pardon Leanna.

Lina had also made a terrible mistake and the magnitude of that mistake had exponential consequences. Lina's mistake was the reason the werewolves were so powerful but when Lina made her mistake, Sarah had only been in the Volturi for a short time. In the beginning, Sarah valued family over law which was what she wanted to instill in Volretta but now Sarah realized that she had allowed Volterra to change her and her family to value the law over her family. For the first time in centuries, Sarah looked at herself in the mirror and she couldn't recognize the woman she saw.

"This stops now." Sarah told her reflection and she left to make things right once again.