SM owns it all … I just like playing with her toys …

How about Two Chapter's in Two days? LOL Enjoy

The last time … We ended with …

Charlie and Kate locked eyes with each other and I sensed a great deal of shock bouncing off the both of them.

Eleazar's grew wide as he took in my sleepin' mate.

And there was a huge commotion goin' on down stairs…..

Chapter 14

(Renee's POV) Aug 18, 2004 about two days before Bella leaves for Washington.

Back about a week ago I was getting my daughter ready to move in with Charlie and back to Washington. I wasn't happy with this situation, but it was what my Bella seemed to really want to do. I knew that she was seeing what being a new step daughter was doing in my new marriage, but I was hoping that the three of us could work things out.

After I'd met Phil and feel head over heels in love with him, I'd had a hard time splitting my time between the two loves of my life. Bella being who she is, has always seemed to have taken a backseat in my life. I tried my hardest to make sure that I'd spent enough time with her. Her grades never dropped, and she's seemed to handle my weekend getaways like an adult with no wild parties or boys spending the night.

After Phil and I got engaged Bella had planned the whole wedding for me, knowing how horrible I am with the little details. She took care of the cake, flowers, photographer, video guy, DJ, reception, and the church. The only detail that I'd had to deal with was which dress to choose, and even than Bella had made sure to only give three or four to choose from. It was a wonderful day and had gone off without a hitch. I don't think I ever really thanked her for my day, but she never really seemed to need those extra pats on the back like most of us need.

A few weeks after the wedding she'd asked if she could move back to Washington and Charlie, I was beyond shocked. Yes, she may look more like Charlie hell she even acts just like he does half of the time. But never in my wildest dreams, did I ever expect her to want to up and move away from me. She's been with me since birth, and for her to leave me was just heart breaking.

She'd given the excuse that she'd wanted some time with her dad before going off to college, though I'd known all along that that was just a complete fabrication. She was trying her best to give us newlyweds some space and time to ourselves. When Phil was home last year he and Bella had grown close, and I'd thought of them even as becoming close friends. Bella didn't seem to mind feeding and cleaning up after a third person, and I know that Phil and I both appreciated all of her efforts tremendously.

But while we were way on our honeymoon in December, which is just another one of those things that Bella had put together for me. Phil and I seemed have grown so much closer without her being around. I feel guilty even admitting that, but it's the truth. Phil and I had made such strides in our relationship while we were alone together. With Bella around we were never able to just let loose, and be the happy go lucky couple that most people are after they have just been married. We'd never been able to run around the house naked, and have sex on the countertops like most newlyweds are able to do. Not with my Bella there. If she'd ever walked in on us in the middle of our alone time, she'd never forgiven me. No poor my Bella had a hell of a time buying our monthly famine needs without blushing, and even than she'd still turn as red as a tomato. I couldn't even imagine if she'd ever walked in on us.

The new school year is starting next week, and Bella made sure before she'd left that I'd had everything needed to my new classroom this year. I'd decided that I wanted the room done in a Winnie the Pooh theme, knowing how my first grades would enjoy it. I've been teaching first grade at that same school for almost seventeen years now. Every year Bella and I come up with a new theme for my classroom. It's one of those things that we do over our summer breaks together.

She's been doing the bills for so long now that, she's even got classroom decorations budgeted into our monthly bill cycle. I've got no clue how I'm going to handle the bills on my own once she leaves for Washington. But knowing my daughter she's already thought ahead and planned everything out for me. Maybe I'll just drop that in Phil's lap after the baseball season is over.

I know that I count on Bella too much, but she's all I've had to lean on until I met and married Phil. Sure Charlie would've been there for us at anytime if we'd asked him too, but with Bella being who she is why bother asking for his help.

I don't like thinking about Charlie. The way I'd left him back in 1987 is not my proudest moment in life, but I knew that if I didn't leave when I did he'd find out what was really going on and that wasn't an option. How do you tell the man you're married too that his best friends and his wife are not all together human? I never could find a way to do that, so I just had to let him go.

I hate thinking about this stuff, but after the phone call this morning it's hard for me not too.

*Flashback*

Tuesday, July 1, 1997

I'd left our home in California and driven Bella, to the meeting point in the north of the state on Saturday. This is where I've driven her every year, to spend a couple weeks every summer with Charlie since 1988. My Bella has turned into a beautiful and responsible, ten year old young lady.

She's so much more responsible than I've ever been in my life. This summer she'd taken upon herself to take a couple of summer school classes, at the local community college in cooking. I've always liked to make different and exotic meals, but Bella has never really appreciated my flare for the exotic. So she started planning and making our nightly meals, and has even taken it upon herself to plan our lunches once school starts back.

She's so much like Charlie it's kind of funny to see. I've tried to turn her into a little me, but that has never and will never happen with Bella, she's to grown up and mature to ever be like me. She's even a year ahead of where she should be in school now. This past September the teacher's in her fifth grade asked if they couldn't have her tested for more advanced studies while she's in school. Once she was tested she had not only graded a year above everyone else in her class, the elementary school started sending her to the junior high school for both English and Science. They only class that my daughter was now testing average in was Math though she'd never brought home a paper with a grade lower then a B-. I remember how that B just about broke her heart. She has been and always will be such a perfectionist.

That leads me here to today. I am sitting Gardens of Avila Restaurant it's a nice restaurant and resort, and I'm waiting to meet my father. I've read everything that I can about him from all of my late mother's journals, the books that focus on the fictional Elfin lives, and even a few books that are supposedly written by elves themselves. I find it all to be a bucket of bullshit, but who knows this really could be the real deal. I know from what Billy Black has told me, this Aaron Rainer Bayne is a real life Elfin King. That he still lives in his home in England somewhere. I've read in my mother's journals and found out how his middle name, is how I'd been given my first name at birth.

I've dreaded this moment since I was twenty four years old, a little over eleven years now. I'd found out the truth but that doesn't make it easy to sallow or live with, but it is what it is I guess. Since it's my birthday and Aaron promised to be paying for this expensive meal, so I ordered a nice bottle of wine and I'm enjoying the views from the windows next to the table. I showed up thirty five minutes early to this meeting, and I'm never early to anything. So I can tell that I must be truly nervous about this meeting.

It's almost time for Aaron to show up, and as I'm pouring my second glass of wine in walks the most gorgeous man. He is tall and completely eye catching. As the hostess walks him to my table where he bends down from the waist, and places the softest most tender of kisses on my check. He then takes the seat across from me, and as the hostess walks away he starts talking.

"My Renee, I have looked forward to this visit for many years now. I cannot tell you how happy I am to finally meet my only daughter and Heir." Aaron says with the richest British accent.

"Why now? Why do you want to meet me now? You've known about me since my birth, and from what I've read you've been not only sending my mother presents, but me as well since 1961." Those journals that I thought my father was sending were really from Aaron.

"I've come here to talk to you about your rightful position within our family line. You are to be the next Heir to the thrown in Elfin. As I am sure your mother wrote about this within her journals. But I am saddened that you did not have the forethought to bring my granddaughter along for this meeting." Aaron stated.

"You leave my daughter out of this. This crap is just between you and me. She has nothing to do with any of this, and I will refuse you any access to her. Do you hear me? I've had to leave her father, and move more than six hundred miles away from him to keep this big secret. My Bella will never know about you and her grandmother, so just know that now. I don't want you to ever go anywhere near her. Is that understood?" I stated.

If he thinks he make demands, than why the hell can't I damn it? He has no right to even think about going anywhere near Isabella, and if he thinks for minute that she'll ever be part of his craziness he is sorely mistaken.

"I understand your need to protect your off spring. I as a father and grandfather feel the exact same way. Though I feel no need to keep her from knowing what she is, and what she is to become. One day she will be the next in line to the thrown after you my dear." Aaron said his voice sounding as sweet as honey, and dripping with nothing but sincerity.

"It's nice to know that you care deeply about the both of us, but let me tell you now that I will never become your Heir and neither will my daughter. We both deserve to live our lives the way in which we choose too, not you. Am I making myself clear?" That last glass of wine might've been a mistake. I'm being more honest and direct then I'd planned to be with him right now.

"So you are taking a pass on becoming my Heir. You are not going to do as it has declared for you to do since your birth?" He asked looking and sounding, both shocked and completely outraged at the same time.

"That is exactly what I'm telling you. Now I understand that this may put you in a bind or whatever, but I want to live my own life and that doesn't include some weird elf crap. It's all about me taking care of my daughter and doing what I want to do with our lives." There I'd put all that I wanted to say to him out there and on the table before we'd even eaten our lunch. Now I can go on with my life as normal and let this go for forever.

"You or your daughter will never be able to live normal lives. You will both be looking over your shoulders until the day that each of you die. I have many enemies and once it is known that you refused both of your birthrights, there will be those among my kind that will stop at nothing to take what has been our family's legacy for years away for us." He'd stopped talking when the waiter came to take our orders. I refilled my glass and started my third glass of wine before Aaron starting talking again.

"Do you understand completely what you are giving up in with this dream of yours? Do you realize that you are destined to become more than a common school teacher of humans? Do you know what you are denying not only for yourself, but your daughter as well? How could you not want what is not only best for yourself but for her as well?" Aaron asked looking both perplexed and confused.

"Yes I am sure." What more does he want from me? I'd already answered his stupid questions, and I really just want to move on with my life.

"As your will daughter, after today I will have no further contact with you. I will let you live your life the best way that you see fit. If you were to ever need me, all you would have to do is call me." He'd stopped talking, and pulled at a rather ordinary business card and laid it on the table next to me.

He stood up, walked around that table, came to stand next to my chair, bent at his waist again, and lightly kissed my check as he whispered in my ear, "Happy thirty fifth birthday to you my daughter. Good day to you." He turned on his spot and left without even eating his lunch.

*End of flashback*

For the last few months Bella and I have been receiving nonstop prank calls. We could hear voices in the back ground, but after we'd say Hello the caller would just hang up. Only to call back within an hour or so, I never thought anything about it. As the teacher of first graders and with the internet now showing not only my home address, but also my phone number to on it to them I'm pretty used to it.

That is until this afternoon, the phone rang Bella got to the phone first and answered it.

"Hello…. Hello? Is anyone there? Yes, this is Isabella Marie Swan. How may I help you?" After a long pause, I'd assumed that the caller was asking her questions. "Yes Renee Hamilton Dwyer is my mother."

"Yeah she's home. Hold on a second…..Mom you've got a phone call."

As I'm walking up to Bella, I see the receiver resting on her shoulder when she says, "It's some guy, and he sounds like his from Ireland or something. His accents so thick I could barely make out what he was saying." She says as she shaking her head and handing me the phone.

I watched as she left the kitchen to make her way back to her bedroom, to hopefully finishing packing most of her lose items that she's taking with her to Washington. As I put the phone up to my ear and starting talking.

"Hello…"

"Renee Hamilton Dwyer is this you?" Asked a strangers voice.

"Yes it is how may I help you?" There hasn't been a bill collector calling here since the year Bella took over the bills, so I know that this isn't one of them.

"I think that I can help you my dear. Your father is Aaron Bayne correct…"

I never gave the guy time to finish with his statement. I just hung up on him, and I was hoping like hell that this is all one bad joke. No one knows that Aaron is my fathers not even my ex-husband, my new husband, not even my best friend and daughter Bella.

I freaked out, what else was there for me to do? I'd had no idea who the asshole was, and now he knew enough about me to know my home phone number and call it. I bet he's the one who's been prank calling here for months now. I thought.

I'd been trying for the last few days to forget all about that phone call and focus on my daughter's leaving me, but I was completely unable to deal with the knowledge that someone not now knew about me. They also knew that I was the mother to a daughter.

That day of my thirty fifth birthday after leaving the restaurant, I'd thrown Aaron's business card in the trash. I'd thought that I'd never need to call and talk to him again in my life. Man, was I wrong. I now wished that I'd kept the stupid card so I could call him and ask for his help. But no I'd been a complete flake and thrown it away, never thinking on what Aaron had truly tried to warn be about back then.

I'll just get Bella away from here, and then I'll take off and no one will ever be able to find me. That seems like a good plan to me…

(JPOV)

Less than thirty hours left in my girls Arising is left now. She been a trooper throw this process so far. How Aaron could've done this to her without her knowin' before hand? Is just completely inexcusable to me, He's must be extremely desperate to do a stunt like this knowin' who she's fuckin' mated too.

I've known my far share of elves over the years. Just like all other beings some are as good as people can get, but others like Aaron are just as power hungry and ruthless as can be. Too bad my Bella's gotta be related a bad one, maybe she'll let me kill him? And we can end this bullshit once and for all. Nah, I doubt that my girl's too good to allow that shit to happen.

Eleazar ain't left the room since he'd entered it, but he can't seem to keep his eyes off my girl. And with this Resolute Mating connection goin' on, that shit ain't gonna fly for much longer.

"What is it? What do you see that's goin' on with my girl that has you so amazed?" His emotions were so focused on what he was learnin' about my Bella, that he'd never even remembered that I can feel everything that he's puttin' out right now.

"I'd like to find out what's fuckin' goin' on downstairs right now, if you don't mind Asshole. You can keep your questions about your girl til after that Fucker." Peter stated.

I'd known that it wasn't anything too big. I knew the wolves had gone on back home, and that had left Irina alone with Aaron and Renee. What I'd felt comin' from downstairs was nothing pure lust. Irina has set her sights on Aaron, and she'd probably pushed the lil fucker a lil bit too far for his likin'.

Next fuckin' thing I know the lil fucker's up here and in my girl's room. He's runnin' away from a girl vampire like the true pussy he really is. He must've pushed his way past Irina to get his sorry no good fuckin' elfin ass up here.

Peter, Emmett, Carlisle, Edward, and Marcus are blockin' his path on entrance to her room. Kate runs over and steps in front of Charlie. Esme, Alice, Rose, Charlotte, and Tanya all move to encircle the bed that's hold me and my girl. Eleazar stepped in front of Carman and got into his protective crouch in front of her.

If there's gonna be a fight it'll have be handled without me, for the first time in one hundred and forty some odd years, I hadn't the will to fight. The only I wanted to do was protect what was mine, and that means I'd have to let the others fight my battles for me so fuckin' be it. Once I know girl is outta danger and ain't hurtin' anymore, then I can handle anything that this fuckin' world can put in my way but not now and certainly never without the mate by my side.

"Please let me help my Heir. Their things that must be done within a certain time frame within the Arising process. If they are not accomplished she will suffer for it, not only for a longer Arising time but also afterwards. I need to push some of our families' magic into her. Or their will be things after her Arising that will not only take longer for her to learn, but she will also lack certain family skills or traits. They are transferred from one generation to the next, causing her to be weaker and unstable as an Elf and The Heir if done within a certain time frame." Aaron proclaimed.

"Let him in Baby. He can't hurt anymore then he already has right? Not to mention you'll be right here next to during the whole thing. You aren't leaving me are you?" My girl questioned mentally. Over the last few hours it was getting' easier and easier to get used to her bein' inside of my mind and thoughts, and for me to be inside of hers as well.

"I ain't goin' anywhere. I'll be right here, but I'm thinkin' we might have a problem with the others not lettin' him by them so easily. Rose will freak the fuck out when I tell her to let him come within inches of ya. All of them are just as protective of you as I am right now Darlin'."

"Can you guys please let my Grandfather by to let him do what he has to do? I want this Arising shit over as fast as possible, please for me?" Bella whispered extremely softly to all of us in the room.

Just like when she'd begged me not to kill Aaron and Renee when they'd first showed up the other night, everyone else was now feelin' the wrath of a small human girl beggin' like she'd done to me. How'd she learnt to do that is beyond me, but she's got every signal one of us wrapped around her lil human/elf finger already. I wonder what she'll be able to get us do once she's truly a full elf? I thought.

"Do you think I'd be able to get you to get Emmett eat more cottage cheese without losing a bet? Or make Peter squawk like a chicken?" My girl questioned mentally laughin slightly.

"You're in pain like no get out, and you're tryin' to make me laugh? Have you lost your mind in the Arisin' process, as well as your status as a human?" I questioned. Knowing damn good and well she was tryin' to make me feel better. But she'd needed to be worrin' about herself not me damn it.

"I'm really going to be full blooded elf, when this is over aren't I? What's that going to mean for you and I? Is this going to change this between me and you, because I really don't want this to change? I liked them fine just the way they were." I girl questioned then started cryin'.

Without being able to hear the whole conversation goin' on between the two of us in our heads, the other's in the room thought that my girl was cryin' for her granddad. Not even Edward had a clue that she was worryin' about us, and not the lil fucker.

For the first time ever I think that I've finally been able to pull one over on Eddieboy, without him even knowin' a damn thing about it. This mental blockin' Resolute Matin' thing might actually be very handy to have for entertainment purpose of course. I was I laughin' mentally now and my girl was too.

"Are you sure about this Darlin'? I can have them kick his ass outta here no problem."

"I'm going to be even more defective, if he does do what he has to do. Can you find out if it's going to make things more painful for me, because if it is then I want Carlisle to dose my IV again before he starts please?"

"Now you're thinkin'. I want you doin' that more often Angel, thinkin' about yourself first instead of others. I know how hard of a lesson that is to unlearn, but it's one that'll save you a lot of heartache sometimes. And don't you EVER let me hear of ya callin' yourself defective again. Are you hearin' me?" I'd had to have her know this. She'd need to learn a lot of lessons the hard way, but if I can keep her from getting' hurt before it even happens again than you can bet your fuckin' ass I'm gonna try.

"Yes I understand but old lessons are hard to break. It's easier for me to believe that I'm the weird or crazy one, rather than it is to believe that I'm special and unconditionally loved."

"You're unconditionally loved, no matter what Darlin' always know that. I'll just have to help ya work on the self esteem of yours that's all." I said thinking of all the things I'll teach her to help out with that, and most of them start in the bedroom.

"Stop that or you'll have to ask my Dad to leave the room." Next thing I heard was her mental laughter combined with my own.

"Aaron will this magic that you'll be puttin' on her, bring her in more pain than she's in right now?"

"It will cause the Arising to move forward at a faster pace. So yes on one hand it will cause her more pain, but for a shorter term." He'd answered.

"Before I let you anywhere near her, Carlisle's gonna have ta dose her IV line again. Hopefully we can get her pain lessened before you go causin' her more pain then you've already done."

"This had to be done. Everyone in this room has known this for several years now. If her mother had done as she was supposed to, this would not have been placed on Bella shoulders. This was not her burden to carry, but things are the way they are." Aaron said like my Bella and her momma are interchangeable.

Aaron stood in the doorway watchin', as Carlisle made his way over to Bella's side of our bed he grabbed the IV line, and shot it full of morphine. We all waited while the medicine kicked in, but with no one leavin' there protective positions around us.

After a few minutes, and with Peter and Emmett holdin' me down to the bed next to Bella keepin' me within touchin' distance. Everyone else let Aaron pass and come to sit where Carlisle had just evacuated his spot. I was growlin' and thrashin' around on the bed like a mad man. I was seein' Aaron Bayne as nothin' but a threat to my Mate, and with me not doin' anything about. And that it wasn't sittin' to well with me.

Aaron cautiously finished taken that last move, and placed his hands onto my girl's forearms. His body instantly started glowin' like a disco ball again. His body was encompassed in a blue aura that soon past over Bella as well. Since my hands were touchin' her, I'd thought that I too would glow but I didn't. I just laid there listenin' to my Mate as she tried to calm my vampire ass down mentally.

"It's not hurting anymore then it was before yet." She said to me.

"Thank the Lord for small blessin' Sugar. What does it feel like?" I'd asked I wanted to know exactly what she was going throw, no matter how I knew it'd affect me later.

"Like a warm comfortable blanket has been place all over my body. It's warm and familiar to me. This is how I used to feel during my crazy dreams." Those words made me pull our blanket tighter around her.

Over the course of the next twenty seven hours, this is how we got through her Arising. She never screamed, even though at times I really wanted to her too. She'd comforted me with our mind to mind communication. And Aaron would tell her mental stories, after she'd drift away in sleep from the morphine we were givin' her.

I knew now that this Resolute Mating connection would be one hell of a gift, when she'd be dreamin' after all of this shit was over. That made the pain of the pull worth it to me in my book. While keeping an eye on Bella's and Aaron's mental communication, like now she was half in half out of her drug induced state. I was grateful for the times when her pain was lessened and I could keep an eye on her as well.

Charlie had been sitting in that same chair since Monday night. Never leavin' to eat or shower, he'd been just like I was and couldn't bear to leave our girl. Kate never left the room either.

After a while we had all started talkin' about different shit, after Marcus had come back from the airport. We'd sent him to go and pick up a very pissed off Phil from Port Angeles.

The emotions comin' off of Charlie were a mixture of confusion, fear, regret, and an unbelievable amount of fatherly love for our girl. But when he'd take a look over to the other side of the room at Kate he'd feel confusion, love, and a lot of lust. That's what most mates feel instantly once they've met.

"You know now why I came to be with you and your family, don't you Jasper?" Marcus questioned?

"I'm figurin' it out pretty quick."

"I did come to observe you and your Mate, but I knew that there was more going on here than meets the eye. I have sensed something peculiar going on within our family for quite some time now."

"What is he talking about?" Charlie finally questioned.

While Marcus and I were talkin' we'd kept movin' our eyes from Kate to Charlie repeatedly.

"Can you tell how you're feelin' Charlie?" I asked.

"I'm scared straight for my daughter, how do you think I'm feeling?"

"I'm not talkin' about Bella. I'm talkin' about how you feel when you look at Kate." I clarified.

"I … umm ..." Charlie was projecting nothing but embracement right now. " … I'd say that she's seems like a real nice lady, but …"

"You are her mate, Charlie. You were born for her, just like she was born for you." Marcus said. "Carlisle informed you of our gifts while you were away, correct?" Marcus must have known that to be a fact, because his confidence was throw the roof right now.

"Yeah he told me. Jasper can feel emotions, Alice has vision, Peter sometime knows shit, and Edward can read thoughts. What does that have to do with me?"

"I see connection within a person pertaining to relationships. I know for a fact that you and Kate are to be mates. This is not a connection that can or will be fought; it is just what is Charlie." Marcus stated.

"Well when in the hell is this shit going to stop, first my daughter Bella and now me?" Charlie Questioned.

"It would seem so yes. We will talk more on this after your daughter's Arising is finshed which will not be much longer."

Charlie's face was red as red could be, and Kate was acting all shy suddenly. That isn't something that I've felt comin' off of her before.

Hugs~Izzy