A/N: Italics above the 'surprise' are strictly what Renesmee is showing Charlie and Renee. During the 'surprise' as always it's what Edward hears from other's minds.


Previously: "I followed Edward's moves and I jumped out of one of the upstairs windows. Well very gracefully I might add. By doing so I impressed Edward and some of the family that were watching from the said window." Wow, Bella graceful. I never thought I would see the day. "I kicked off the high heel shoes Alice had put on me during my changing and I threw them back through the open window. I then ran barefoot through the forest with Edward."


Chapter Twenty-Seven: Breaking Dawn Part Four

"Like I said earlier there is so much to explain but so little time tonight. I will tell you the most important details and we will go from there."

Charlie and I both nodded and then Bella continued her story.

"So, now I can run and jump like Edward and I now have this raw, massive, beautiful power."

Charlie leaned even further forward.

"Everything physical is easy, but it was hard for me to focus the expanded capacity of my mind."

I was waiting for Charlie to fall face first into the carpet.

Actually…I really wanted to see that.

"After some brief instructions from my husband, I soon caught the scent of elk, I started towards them but then I smelled something more… fragrant and I turned towards it. I was in mid hunt. Nothing could stop me."

Charlie suddenly sat up ram rod straight and looked at his daughter, wide eyed and mouth agape; his face paled to a chalky white.

Bella looked down, took a deep breath and looked back up.

"I heard a pursuer behind me, so I turn and snarled; it was Edward. I felt horrible that I had growled at him. Edward and I then realized what that fragrant smell was. That it was human blood."

My eyes widened as I finally understood what was happening.

A nasty chill ran down my back and stayed there.

"But I proved to have incredible self-control when I broke out of mid hunt, held my breath, turned and ran away from the scent of human blood.

Charlie sighed in relief and so did I.

Thank God, my daughter is strong.

That probably would have killed her.

Jacob stretched out and yawned.

"That is something newborns aren't supposed to be able to do. Ever."

Charlie smiled and Edward nodded his head with a small smile gracing his lips.

"I was amazed at my control but even more so, I was amazed by the passionate touches of Edward, now that he no longer has to worry about hurting me. I was amazed at how much I still wanted Edward more than anything. More than blood."

Aw, so romantic!

I love romance.

"By the end of the hunt I had killed a mountain lion and a mule deer buck and fed."

Ew.

I shuddered.

Charlie's smile never faltered.

"After I was full and after I watched Edward hunt, we raced home to see Renesmee."

Little Nessie looked over at her mother at the sound of her name.

Renesmee climbed over on Bella's lap and cuddled up against her chest.

Bella smiled and gently stroked Nessie's soft curls.

"Jacob met us outside to test my control; I was happy that Jacob was and is still my friend. That he is still in my life. My brother."

Charlie and I both smiled.

I am so happy he is still in her life.

Jacob smiled and snorted out a laugh.

"Or son in law." He muttered under his breath.

That earned him a smack by Bella and a low growl by Edward.

Charlie just gave him a dirty look.

"Everyone, including Jacob and excluding Alice and Edward was afraid to let me hold my daughter. But Edward told everyone about my control on our hunting trip." Bella continued without another beat.

Charlie smiled again and leaned a little more forward.

"When I saw Renesmee; she looked two months old rather than two days. I hold and hug my daughter without one ounce of difficulty."

Charlie's face glowed with pride as did Edward's.

I smiled over at my daughter before crossing my legs and leaning back.

"When Renesmee touched my face; I saw Renesmee's thoughts and memories."

I gasped and so did Charlie.

What?!

Charlie leaned even more forward and kind of cocked his head to the side.

"Renesmee go show Grandpa Charlie and Grandma Renee what you showed Mama the first time, ok?"

Bella told her daughter sweetly.

Bella leaned in and whispered something to her daughter.

Nessie's face was kind of sad at first and then broke out into a huge smile and she nodded, causing her bronze curls to bounce around.

Renesmee hopped off of her mother's lap and came over to me and Charlie.

She climbed up onto Charlie's lap and smiled sweetly at him before raising her little, long fingered hand up.

She placed her hand on Charlie's cheek and he gasped.

After a couple of minutes she removed her hand and Charlie pulled her into a hug.

He had a little tear in his eye as he said, "Thank you sweetie."

Renesmee nodded and then climbed onto my lap.

Little Nessie smiled up at me and raised her hand slowly.

I nodded and her smile grew.

She placed her little hand on my cheek and I couldn't help but gasp.

I could still see through my own eyes but I watched Renesmee's memories and thoughts in my mind.

The first was a memory; it was her very first memory.

It was weird, like looking at the sun through closed eyelids.

I could hear voices, Edward and Bella's mainly.

I could hear a loud lub dub, lub dub, lub dub; that had to be Bella's heartbeat.

Then the memory shifted to the same weird looking at the sun through closed eyes thing, but there was screaming and yelling.

It was like in the memory Nessie couldn't breathe.

The memory shifted yet again.

I could hear the struggling, screaming, shouting, choking and bones cracking; then silence came for only a moment before it all started again.

Suddenly the glowing red scene that I've seen since Nessie placed her hand on my face, changed.

There was a blinding white light and then she saw Edward's face for the first time.

His face was covered in blood and he looked absolutely terrified.

Edward said her name before Bella asked for her that's when Renesmee saw Bella for the first time and I truly saw how bad of shape my daughter was in.

Bella's face was twisted, ravaged, covered in sweat and blood.

Bella's expression in the memory was an adoring smile; her brown eyes glowed over their deep circles.

Then the image enlarged, Bella's face came closer to the unseen vantage point, and then abruptly vanished.

The memory shifted again and it showed what Nessie felt when she saw Jacob for the first time and their special bond.

Then yet again the memory shifted and she saw Bella for the first time after Bella's change.

I shuddered at Bella's red eyes but was too amazed at how their mother, daughter bond was so strong.

Renesmee showed me her mother holding her and then the mental pictures faded.

Little Nessie had removed her hand and smiled softly at me before climbing down off my lap and returning to her mothers.

"She does the exact opposite of what Bella and I can do. Bella keeps everyone out. Renesmee lets everyone in. I can read thoughts and memories. Renesmee can show her memories and thoughts."

Charlie and I both nodded and smiled at them.

Bella smiled back at Charlie and me before she continued her story.

"I noticed how Jacob was staring at my daughter. It made me angry but I calmed down very quickly, I knew he had no control over it."

Jacob yawned again and Renesmee crawled over onto his lap.

"But when Jacob called my baby Nessie; nicknamed her after the Loch Ness Monster, I lost control and I lunged at Jacob."

Charlie shuddered and I got that stupid chill again.

"Ness go show Charlie and Renee what your Mama did to me." Jacob told little Nessie and she nodded and came over to us again.

She went to Charlie first and he shuddered and thanked Renesmee again.

When she came over to me again I was ready for the weird sensation.

In the memory Bella charged across the lawn towards Jacob and Seth jumped between them, Bella looked like a graceful predator leaping at her prey like an arrow arching from a bow.

Renesmee moved her hand and smiled at me, before returning to Jacob and her mother and father.

"Seth jumped in front of Jacob and I crashed into him, breaking Seth's shoulder in the process. I felt awful but his shoulder healed within a few hours."

Charlie nodded and leaned further against the couch.

"Edward and I were both extremely annoyed by Jacob's imprinting on Renesmee, but we accepted that it was involuntary."

Renesmee moved back onto her father's lap and rested her head against his chest.

"I believe Edward told you this but because Jacob had imprinted on Renesmee, the pack cannot hurt her; the treaty is reinstated and is now rewritten."

Nessie looked up at her father, but Edward shook his head quickly and then nodded once with a smile.

Ness nodded, before resting her head again.

"Renesmee was growing at a very alarming rate. We didn't know anything about hybrids at the time and we didn't know what was going to happen. We didn't know how long we were going to have her because of the rate she was growing."

My icy chill returned and I was suddenly scared.

Charlie gasped but then he relaxed quickly.

"We will have her forever." Bella reassured, making me relax as well.

"Jasper was very discomfited by my control, he wondered if super-self-control was my gift."

I sat up quickly and looked at me daughter.

I wonder if it is her gift?!

"It isn't. I just have really good control."

Aw okay.

But still cool!

Charlie smiled

"Renesmee showed me every happening of her day. She wanted me to know all about her."

Bella looked over at her daughter again and whispered something to her.

Little Nessie yet again came over to us and went over to Charlie first.

When she was finished showing Charlie she came over to me.

She showed me Rosalie brushing through each of her curls gently.

She showed me Carlisle and his measuring tape; and how much she hated it.

She showed me Rosalie and Alice taking pictures of her.

Renesmee smiled and then returned yet again to her parents.

Bella leaned forward and opened the beautiful box on the coffee table.

She pulled out one of the photo albums and passed it to me and Charlie.

Charlie and I flipped through the paged of the scrapbook.

There were pictures of Renesmee as a newborn through to now.

Pictures of Renesmee and her family, Charlie, the wolves and many, many people I do not know.

There was one picture that really caught my eye.

The picture was of Edward, Bella and Renesmee standing in front of a beautiful little house.

It looked like something that came out of a fairytale.

I looked over at Charlie and he was smiling at all of the pictures.

After we finished looking through the scrapbook we handed it back to Bella and she placed it back into the beautiful box.

Bella smiled as she began her story again.

"Then Alice handed me a key; that day was my nineteenth birthday."

Charlie and I simultaneously leaned forward.

"Edward also handed me a key, but the key from Edward was going to wait. It was to my 'after' car. I could wait to see it."

Man I would want to see the car!

"But the key from Alice was a birthday present. It was a house for Edward and me. A beautiful cottage renovated by Esme. A storybook stone cottage. Edward and I spent a very romantic night together. Our second honeymoon."

I smiled.

That was the house in the picture.

Well I hope I would get some details this time.

Edward snorted and then hid his face in his daughter's hair.

Bella looked over at him but said nothing.

She looked back toward her father and me and continued from where she left off.

"After Edward carried me over the threshold and showed me the house, we never made it to the bed. We didn't have to catch our breath or rest or eat or even use the bathroom; we had no more mundane human needs. Edward has the most beautiful, perfect body in the world and I have him all to myself."

Charlie made his weird choking sound again and leaned back against the sofa.

"And I was never going to find a point where I would think, 'Now I've had enough for one day.' I will always want more. I didn't know how we were ever going to stop. And it didn't bother me at all that I had no answer at all."

Dang they could just keep going and going and going.

I wish I really knew the capacity of their love.

I wish I had what they had.

"Later on, Jacob was aware that we were planning on moving away. He thought he could help me stay in Forks by having Charlie see me and let him make the wrong assumptions."

Charlie shuddered and adjusted himself on the couch.

"So what did Jacob do? He went and phased in front of Charlie! He thought Charlie was the reason we were leaving. Anyways, he then tells Charlie that I had changed, that Edward and I are caring for a special baby; Jacob starts to tell Charlie more, but Charlie wants to hear as little as possible—he'd like to remain on a need-to-know basis."

Bella glared over at Jacob before looking back at us.

So Charlie knew some of this stuff before I did.

That made me kind of mad.

I uncrossed my legs and crossed them the other way.

"Everyone was angry with Jacob, but Jacob didn't realize the danger or the pain he was causing me. Edward explained it to Jacob as sticking a white hot branding iron down my throat."

Ow!

I can't even imagine that!

"Alice had colored contacts for me, to fool Charlie. I then get a crash course in acting human and I instructed Renesmee not to touch or bite Charlie."

I wondered if she had contacts in right now.

I looked over at Edward and he shook his head 'no'.

I looked into Bella's eyes and noticed that they were the same shade as Edward's and the rest of the Cullen's.

Her eyes were the bright, beautiful golden brown.

"Renesmee use to like to bite Jacob when she was hungry and no one was acting fast enough for her."

I laughed lightly and Charlie joined in.

"Charlie arrived and he saw me for the first time since my change. He felt shock, disbelief, fear and anger. Edward introduced Renesmee as his orphaned niece, which, is the cover story. Then Charlie sees the resemblance in Ness to me and himself. And then he heard the real story; but just as need-to-know."

Charlie moved again.

Man, I wish he would hold still.

"He knew Renesmee was our daughter even back then."

That is no fair!

Charlie knew we had a granddaughter before I did?!

I had a nasty heat rush through me.

I was mad!

I glared over at Charlie and then looked back over at my daughter.

"Charlie was shocked to discover that I had known about the mythical world for years, and he told me to tell him only what is absolutely necessary for him to know. This allowed me to keep my father in my new life without putting him in danger."

I felt myself calm down and I smiled.

"Charlie spent the rest of the day with the family. It was so nice."

I'm sure it was.

I looked over at Charlie and smiled at him.

He was sitting with his legs under his butt now; I wonder how he sat like that without me knowing it.

"I explained my daughter's name to Charlie and the rest of the family. Renesmee = Renée + Esme; Carlie = Carlisle + Charlie."

I still felt honored over that.

That beautiful little angel was partly named after Charlie and me.

"Charlie acknowledged that I looked good and told me that he would get use to the changes in me. It was a relief to me to know my dad was going to still be in my life and in my daughter's."

I smiled and I started to feel all emotional.

Charlie moved again and this time he stretched his legs out in front of him.

"After dad left I was super angry about Emmett's embarrassing comments and innuendoes; and that he said them in front of Charlie. So I challenged and beat him at an arm-wrestling match."

I glanced over at Charlie and his face was completely flushed.

I guess Emmett did cause a little stir.

I tried not to laugh.

"I adjusted to my new life extremely well, going as far as to think I was destined to be a vampire. I was born to be a vampire. I was born for this life. I was born for Edward."

That's so romantic!

I really, really wish I had what they had!

"In the upcoming months, Renesmee grew at an exceptional pace, mentally and physically, forming full sentences one week after her birth."

Wow!

I knew she was extremely smart but I guess I didn't realize how smart.

"Renesmee spoke at one week, walked at three weeks; and at that rate she would be an adult in four years; Edward and Carlisle were planning a trip to South America to find answers. But that trip never happened."

Chills!

I knew she would be fine, but I just couldn't help the scary feeling.

"Aro sent me a wedding gift. I then decided that I needed to go see Aro alone in order to protect Renesmee."

Chills!

Aro and the Volturi scare me to death!

Why would she go there herself?

"Because Aro can't read Bella's mind, see her thoughts. But that trip never happened either." Edward answered my unspoken question.

"Months later, I was hunting with Jacob and Renesmee in the forest when Irina from the Denali coven comes to apologize; she sees my daughter from a distance and mistakes her for an immortal child, whose creation is a heinous crime of the vampire world. Irina runs away as soon as she saw my daughter."

A sudden chill ran straight down my spine.

It was colder than all of the other chills.

I really had a bad feeling about all of this.


Surprise:

"That is something newborns aren't supposed to be able to do. Ever."

Charlie smiled, "She's pretty remarkable Edward. Thank you. You must be proud. I'm proud!"

Edward nodded his head with a small smile gracing his lips.

...

"Or son in law." Jacob muttered under his breath.

That earned him a smack by Bella.

"Uncalled for Jacob!" Bella hissed under her breath.

Edward released a low growl aimed at Jacob.

Charlie just gave him a dirty look. "So uncalled for...stupid dog...Well that was weird thing to think but still!"

...

"Don't show them anything past from what you showed me the first time." Bella leaned in and whispered to her daughter.

"Okay my love?"

Nessie's face was kind of sad at first and then broke out into a huge smile and she nodded, causing her bronze curls to bounce around.

...

"I believe Edward told you this but because Jacob had imprinted on Renesmee, the pack cannot hurt her; the treaty is reinstated and is now rewritten."

"Is it something bad Daddy? I don't know the whole imprinting thing or the treaty but it isn't bad right?"

Nessie looked up at her father.

Edward shook his head quickly.

"Not at all my love." He whispered quietly to his daughter.

"You'll tell me everything when I'm older right?"

Edward smiled and nodded his head once.

Renesmee nodded, before resting her head again.

...

Charlie gasped.

"What?! Wait oh hybrids...mature and stop aging." Charlie's thoughts were all jumbled about.

He then relaxed once he realized the truth.

...

"Renesmee showed me every happening of her day. She wanted me to know all about her."

Bella looked over at her daughter.

"Will you go show them what you showed me? Minus the blood."

...


A/N: I hope you enjoyed the chapter and a look into Renesmee's little mind!

Thank you my lovelies!

~TLG