There was so much happening. Edward and I had to somehow manage to convince Tanya and her family to be by our side when the Volturi arrive. Would they react the same way as Irina?
I insisted Renesmee sleep in the cottage at bedtime. Jacob was comfortable sleeping in his wolf form as he ran into the forest to be on guard and Heather was back at the house sleeping there. When Renesmee was fast asleep I walked into the front room where Edward was staring at the fire. "Edward I…"
I had no time to continue when he spun and moved across the room in what seemed like no time at all. When he reached me he crashed his lips on mine and his arms wrapped around me. We didn't talk for the rest of the night.
When the dark night grew bright to signal it was morning we pulled away. "Do you think they'll let us explain?" I asked as we got dressed.
"I don't know." I got Renesmee dressed and the three of us headed to the house where Heather and Jacob were waiting for us. "Edward, tell us about the Volturi's biggest advantage." Heather said as Jacob took Renesmee.
"It would have to be Alec and Jane."
"Those snots? What good can they do? Jane's power is stupid." Of course Heather can say that. Jane's power does not work on our kind, but on Edward's kind it causes deep pain.
"Alec does the exact opposite of Jane. He makes a person absolutely numb, taking away all senses including sight, smell, and hearing. If Alec is used he can make us fight blind and we'll end up hurting each." Edward explained.
"If that ever happen Edward then Bella and I can take them on." Heather smiled but Edward did not like the joke. But there was some logic. I could kill the Volturi with one movement of my hand but everyone said I should not use much of my powers. At least if I could take out Alec and Jane we would have the upper hand.
"Okay so now what about this Eleazar. Why does Alice want us to talk to him?"
"That's right you don't know; Eleazar used to be a part of the Volturi before he met Carmen. He knows everything about them." It was hard to picture the beautiful man at our wedding with a dark cloak but now I remember him mentioning something about the Volturi at our wedding. "Eleazar is a kind person who only wanted the law to be upheld."
"Was he one of their warriors?" Jacob asked.
"He No he wasn't one of their soldiers but instead he had a gift that the Volturi were interested in."
"What gift?"
"He's able to sense other's gifts." Edward explained. "He was able to give Aro a general idea of what a vampire can do. It really was useful when it came to potential guard members."
"This is all good but the vamps should be here any minute." How should we do this? With Renesmee in the room or out? Jacob in the room or out?
In the end Jacob, Heather, Renesmee, and I sat at the dining table as Edward stood near the window and we listened as the cars passed by on the highway. Renesmee looked at me with a blank face. "What if they don't like me?" We all stared at her.
"Of course they'll…" Heather silenced Jake.
"They don't understand you Renesmee because they never met anyone like you." I told her. "Getting them to understand is the problem." She put her hand on my cheek and showed me an image of us with her reading a book to me. "Of course we can do that again tonight."
She smiled before frowning again, staring at Edward. In my mind were all of us. Vampire, Original, werewolf. She fit nowhere. "You're special, that's not a bad thing."
She shook her head and showed our strained faces. "It's all my fault."
"No it is not." The three of us said at the same time but we could not continue as the sound of a car pulled up. "It's time."