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A/N: Okay, here is the last chpt I have completed at this time for you guys. I will be working on the next chapter today. Nxt chpt will be the confrontation between Bella/Collin. The truth will be reveal at last. Thank you guys for all the wonderful replies the last two days. You guys have kick my muse into overdrive! Xoxox August

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Bittersweet Chapter 27:

Edward laid in his bed covering his face with his cold ash white hands. He could see Bella behind his eyes. She was playing with Lizzie, reading her a book. A book that seem to please the child immensely. He smiled as he watch the child glow as her mother spoke to her as if she understood each word spoken to her. He felt his heart strings tug as he realized for the hundredth time since he had been changed that this was something he would never be apart of. A child. A person who would share his DNA, possibly his eye color, have some type of personality vaguely similar to his own. It sucked he told himself. It sucked that his life went down this path but it was the only life he had to live so he needed to suck it up.

Climbing off the bed he walk to the window as he look out of the glass into the woods. He could see animals flickering, crawling, flopping about as they made their way to search for food or shelter. He knew he had to stop himself from slipping into her mind. It was a risky thing to do. It was however also very cool. He had never experienced anything remotely like this before. He also had not made a point of biting people to suck out the poison in their veins either.

He foolishly allowed himself to replay the vision that Alice had shared with him. The vision where he saves Bella's life. At least from his perspective it seem so. What puzzled him was why he took her away and why it did not show what he was to do next? Was he suppose to take her far away from the battle or simply place her somewhere and go back to the fight? He could not imagine leaving his family behind while they fought for their very lives. It was unlike him.

Closing his eyes again he dug into his mind and it was this time that he saw something that made him regret sneaking into her head. He saw Jake kissing her. Holding her face between his hands as he tenderly held her close to him. He could feel Bella's lust as it went into over drive. He yank his thoughts out of her head. His hands shook. He felt like he was going to explode in his jeans. Laughing sadly he shook his head as he made his way to the shower. A very cold shower. One that hopefully would ease the suffering he had been feeling ever since he tasted Bella's sweet siren blood.

Collin did not need his wolf senses to know that Leah would be waiting for him in the small hut they had placed him in. Opening the door he step in, inhaling her heavy scent of cinnamon as he approach her. She seemed almost lost and scared for a second until she look up at him.

"I'm fine." He answered before she even ask.

"Good." Leah pretended to only be concern due to him being a new wolf member but they both knew it went deeper than that.

"You and me. We have a connection, don't we." On the way back Collin could not stop thinking about how Jake had describe the imprinting between himself and Bella. It hurt him. It even enraged him but then he found himself seeing Leah's face in his mind. He knew somehow that the two of them had a connection similar or hell even exactly like the one Jake and Bella now shared.

"Yes, I think so." Leah frown as she stood up slowly.

"Think so?" Collin step closer to her as he grip her upper arms gently.

Leah look down at his hands and then up at his face. She was not sure whether she wanted to demand he let her go or demand he take her right there, right now.

"It's weird. I don't understand it." Leah let the invisible wall slip crumble between them as she answers him honestly with what she knows.

"Did we somehow imprint on one another?" Collin licks his lips as his eyes roam to her lips. He can't help but wonder if they will be soft to the touch or hard. He had yet to see her smile. Usually her lips were pressed firmly together.

"Maybe." Leah sighs heavily as she feels her heart racing while his eyes remain on her mouth.

"Should we test it out?" Collin swallows as he leans in closer. Leah continues to keep her eyes open until their lips press together. Not hard. Just barely, like a feather tickling your skin. When his tongue glides out, grazing across her lips, causing them to become wet with his saliva she feels the full impact of his body so close to her own. Her hands move up and around his neck as she pulls him in closer to her body. A hunger that she had forgotten begins to grow in the pit of her stomach. A need that had been so long denied bursts into her veins as she kisses him back with all the longing she had been holding onto since the moment they first met.

She sank her hands into his hair and wrenched until he grimaced. Collin enjoyed the pain. The pain meant he could still feel something, anything was better than nothing. He also felt such a strong current of desire between them. It was consuming him. It seem to soak into his pores as he felt himself hardening so hard he feared he might get blue balls if he did not get inside of her tight blue jean shorts.

Needing to be closer to her he scooped her up in his arms, carried her to the bed. She broke away from the kiss long enough to pull his shirt over his head. He return the favor yanking her blouse off, throwing it down on the floor. She reach around and pop her bra loose, pulling it down and off her chest. Collin sat there for a second as he inhaled deeply. Looking at her small but firm breasts, his mouth watered, his head dip down as his tongue darted out against the hard pebbles that beg for attention. He gave them both plenty while she scratch his back, crying out with pleasure.

Before he could savor them further she rolled him over onto the mattress, nipping at his chin with her teeth. Closing his eyes he enjoyed the closeness between their bodies. To feel such warmth upon his skin. Leah pressed her cheek against his as she nibble on his ear lobe. The smell of his scent, one that reminded her of how the air smelt after a thunderstorm sent her senses reeling.

She tugged on his pants, pulling them off of him with such fever that match his own. He yank her up off the bed, pulling her pants down until she was able to kick them off the rest of the way. Pulling her body back down on the bed with his. The both of them naked as the day they were born.

"I need you inside of me." She whispers a soft blush coloring her bronze skin.

She knew in her heart there would be other times to play, but this time she needed him with such great urgency that nothing else would satisfy her hunger.

Taking her hips between his hands he prop her up over his cock that stood hard and upward. Reaching down between her legs she centered it with her wet core. With one low groan she slid down onto him. Her core swallowing his cock between her legs with silky wet smoothness.

She cried out in pleasure as she ground herself against his hips. Needing to feel completely connected to him in every physical way. Her heart raced, tiny beads of sweat roll down her spine as she rock back and forth on him. Each climax growing with rapid speed. Her head soared into clouds as stars and lights sprung behind her closed eye lids.

The realization that the last time she had been intimate with a man had been with Sam. The night before his first phased into a wolf they had shared a time like this. The two of them making love, expressing their emotions as their bodies joined harmoniously together. God, how many nights had she laid awake thinking of how wrong it was that he now joined his body with Emily? How many nights had she fallen asleep crying in disbelief that he no longer loved her? Too many to count.

A single tear slid out of the corner of her eye as it hit her just how hard it must have been for Sam to let go of her. To walk away from something they both had found so natural. As natural as breathing. Yet here in Collin's arms, buried on his cock, she knew with every fiber of her being that she would no longer, ever want for another man than this one. They belonged together. Despite their differences, despite their history of heart ache and anything else that might come their way they would always be connected with a mystical pull that branded them imprints. Soul mates.

Alice return from her hunt to reveal to Carlisle that she saw only twenty of the Volturi step onto the plane. A fishing group no doubt. To fish out just what level of danger that they would face before Aro sent out his very best.

Carlisle did not like even the small number of twenty entering their area. They were each chosen for their unique abilities. Which meant that they were all extremely lethal. Lethal enough to take out La Push within hours.

Grabbing his phone he dial Jake's number. He was going to need them to meet up tomorrow to start setting up plans to prepare for the battle. Plans that he hoped like hell they manage to out smart their enemy.

Jake listen as Carlisle warn him about the number of vamps headed to their area. Although the number was not quite as big as he had expected the fear in Carlisle's tone warn him not to feel cocky about it. The wolf growled and twisted beneath his skin warning him that the number of wolves in his pack was about to grow quickly. Danger was on it's way.

Now not only did he have to fear Collin losing it once he learn of his daughter's existence but he had to deal with a bunch of rabid pissed off vampires who were hoping to make his people become extinct over night. Between planning for the attack, training new wolves he wondered when he would have time to appreciate his new life with Bella and Lizzie? He reminded himself he could not be selfish with the role of being an Alpha. Not now. In order to keep Bella safe and Lizzie alive he would have to muster up all the strength and all the wisdom he could obtain to keep them from harm.

Hanging up the phone he reach down picking Lizzie as she giggled excitedly and open her mouth to expose a pearly white tooth in her lower gum line. Jake smiled warmly at his daughter. She had her first tooth. Such a simple and yet thrilling moment in his life. Tears filled his eyes as he prayed that more teeth followed the single tooth.

"Jake are you okay?" Bella walk up on the scene as she watch Jake's face play with several emotions before it stop with such a pitiful sadness that broke her heart.

"She has a tooth. Look." Jake turn Lizzie around to face Bella as he tickle her underneath her arms so she would laugh exposing the tooth.

"OH MY GOD!" Bella clapped her hands as she bounced up and down on her feet.

"I swear Lizzie I thought we were going to give you a Indian name such as no tooth Lizzie but you finally got one." Jake laughs heartily as he turns her back around to face him.

Bella continues to giggle happily as Jake plants kisses all over their daughter's face.

"This is what it is all about." Jake whispered as he look deep into his daughters eyes.

"What?" Bella asks curiously as she slips onto the couch next to him, looking at Lizzie's face closer.

"Nothing. Just a secret between father and daughter." Jake's eyes sparkle as he leans over kissing Bella on the cheek.

"Secrets, uh. I hope Daddy doesn't keep those from Mommy." Bella warns him with a look.

Jake suddenly feels the impact of her words. She had just refer to them as Mommy and Daddy. Would it remain that way once Collin became a part of Lizzie's life? The thought of her calling him Jake instead of Daddy ripped at his soul. He hoped like hell that day never came. He would love her just the same but having the honor of being called father when it was him who raised her and protected her seem only right.

"What's wrong? You went from bright to dark in less than a minute?" Bella saw the way his eyes had darken in an instant.

"I was just thinking….well…it's silly I guess." Jake frown nervously as he considered how to express what he was feeling exactly with out sounding like a dumbass.

"What?" Bella push him.

"I hope when we tell Collin that he agrees to let Lizzie continue to call me Daddy." Jake's cheeks burn with a awkwardness he had not known many times in his life.

"I can't imagine why not?" Bella snorted.

"When Collin gets married how would you feel if Lizzie began to call his new wife "mother" ?" He pointed out.

Bella felt her heart lurch at the idea of Lizzie labeling anyone other than herself as her rightful mother.

"I see your point. But on the other hand, you have raised her. This imaginary woman would not have been so close to her like you are." Bella hoped she sounded convincing enough to ease his fears.

"True." Jake shrug his shoulders giving her point some validness to it.

"So how did it go today? You seem upset. Well, more than usual." Bella joked as she made silly faces with Lizzie as Jake held her on his lap.

"I'm not going to lie to you, a lot is going down. So much that I wonder if I should send you and Lizzie to your parents home." Jake found himself suggesting something that had not occurred to him until this moment.

"What?" Bella look alarmingly at him.

"Its bad Bella. I won't lie to you. Some vamps that apparently are far worse than Victoria are out to eliminate everyone here in LaPush. Everyone with the Quileute blood line." Jake's eyes slowly went from Bella's face to Lizzie's. Bella understood what he was saying without words spoken between them.

"Why do they want to kill your people?" Bella gulped hard as a tremendous surge of fear swept through her veins and stuck like pine needles into her heart.

"They have learned that the wolves exist,. They know we are one of the rare things to destroy them. They figure if they take us all out then they no longer have to fear us." Jake stood up holding Lizzie on his hip.

"Surely your not the only wolves in the world." Bella exclaimed angrily.

"Maybe. Maybe not. The point is we are a direct threat to them. According to Carlisle they want us dead. Everyone of us." Jake look at Bella with a heart wrenching smile. Bella followed him up the stairs. She knew he was taking Lizzie up to her room, to her bed.

"Can you stop them? I mean, you killed Victoria, couldn't you kill these vampires too?" Bella hoped like hell he would give her some smug and cocky bull shit answer like he normally would but when he remained silent for several minutes she suspected he had his doubts.

"Don't know. I do know that the more vampires who come in our region will mean possibly more of my friends and neighbors will start popping out the good old wolf gene. Which means we will be training like crazy. I'm not sure how many more there will be. I just know that between training and going over strategic plans with Carlisle will not leave me with much time with you and Lizzie." Jake informed her as he places Lizzie into her bed. Pulling the blanket over her he smiles as she yawns in agreement that it was time for her to lay down.

"Night night Lizzie." Bella leans over the railing placing tender kisses on her daughter's forehead.

Jake mimics her actions.

"Night night honey." Jake's voice whispers.

"Nigh dada." Lizzie softly whispers as she closes her eyes.

Jake's head whips around as he and Bella both share the first time they had heard her say the word Night.

"She is growing up so fast. First a tooth and now a new word. In a week she will be jogging and reading books." Jake teases.

Bella giggles as she walks out of the room.

"I'm not sure about the reading part but the way she is starting to pull herself up and take steps away from the furniture I might make a wager on the jogging." Bella teases back.

Taking her hand, clasping their fingers together he smiles warmly at her.

"I love you Bella. I truly do. I just want what is best for you. I promise I will do whatever it humanly takes to keep you and Lizzie out of harms way. Even if it means I might have to send you both away." Jake warns her as he turns them to face one another.

"I know you want us safe. I want us safe. I just know in my heart you will not be strong enough with us so far away. You will worry. You need me here with you." Bella pleads with him.

"I do need you Bella. I …well…we can take it one day at a time. See what Alice's visions gives us." Jake leads her across the hall to their room.

"Alice's visions? What is that about?" Bella asks with a quick laugh.

"Alice is a vampire part of the Cullen's clan that gets visions of the future. She saw the Volturi coming this way. She knows things. She alerted Carlisle that we were in grave danger and now they are preparing to stand with us." Jake explains the best way he can as they pull back the blankets. Bella starts the routine of undressing while Jake does the same thing across the bed from her.

"How did they learn about you after all this time?" Bella asks as she crawls into the bed.

Jake gets in beside her. Bella snuggles underneath this shoulder as she looks up at his face awaiting an answer. She spies his jaws clenching together with frustration.

"What Jake? Who told them?" Bella can hear the small alarms in her ears warning her his next words are going to once again blow her world apart.

"Sienna. She has become a vampire. She went to Italy where the Volturi are located. They found out about us through her." Jake answers with a guilty look on his face.

"Oh." Bella feels the blood in her veins grow cold at the idea of his ex being a vampire who had sold out Jake's people.

"Yeah, so there is a possibility she will come with them. Which leads me to worry about you and Lizzie. She will know the moment she sees you that you have come back to be with Lizzie and that you are my imprint. She hated you for that before just imagine what she will be like as a vampire." Jake shivered with disgust.

"A really super fast bitch with sharp pointy teeth?" Bella joked although her stomach still fluttered with fear.

"That and more." Jake laughs softly.

"Damn it. When do we get a break from these vamps?" Bella asks as she kisses Jake's smooth chest.

"Never. It comes with being a wolf, baby,." Jake sighs, while squeezing her gently.

"Wish I was a wolf." Bella pouts.

"Why?" Jake cries out. He can't imagine Bella's body shifting and shaping into a wolf. She was too soft, too delicate to see her running in the woods teeth snarling as she bit into a chalky tasting vampire.

"So I could be with you at all times." Bella answers with a sheepish grin.

"You are with me at all times. Right here." Jake takes her hand placing it over his heart where it thumps faster from the touch of her skin against his own.

"Awww…I love you too Jake with all my heart." Bella pulls her body up to kiss him with all the love she felt growing in her heart and her soul.

Sienna sat on the edge of the bed brushing her smooth silky hair as she stared at her image in the mirror. She was repulsed by what she saw. Her beautiful blue eyes were no longer staring back at her. Instead two red fiery orbs now set in her head. She could not weep. She knew they would see it as a sign of weakness. The cruel punishment would start up again.

The only reason she had been allowed a room at all in this fortress of hell was because she gave them some worthy information about the wolves back home. Wolves that could no longer help her. They were mortal enemies now. Jane had pointed out that if she ever return home they would kill her in an instant. Sadly, she knew Jane was correct. Jake had told her on more than one occasion other than the treaty that was made between the Cullen's and Jake's great grandfather, no other vampires were allowed to live if they came anywhere remotely close to the area.

She felt confident that after the heart ache she had left him with he would find no remorse in ending her life. She prayed she was right about that matter. Because once she return to La Push she hoped her new life as a vamp would end swiftly,. She did not like the things she was force to do to others.

She had to consider that once she had drank the visitors she did feel less anxious and a little more ease in her new skin. Turning her hand up and down she was still amazed at how cold her skin was. How perfectly pale and wrinkle free. Looking at her image, she knew before she had a pretty face but now it seem to glow. It was perfect. There was no flaw to be seen. It was the very thing Jane said that would help attract people to her, to lure them in for the kill.

She might have done tons of things wrong in her life. Hell, she even sinned quite a bit. However the last thing she wanted to become was a murderer on top of all of the rest of her crimes. She was already warned by Aro after he touch her hand that death would only come to her in the form of a brutal attack by someone much, much stronger than herself. She had a feeling that meant suicide was out of the question.

Closing her eyes she hoped that once they did arrive in La Push that death would find her and wrap his cold arms around her shattering her body into a million shards.

Collin laid snuggled up to Leah's backside. He could hear the soft snores alerting him she was fast asleep. Smiling contentedly he replayed their earlier sexual encounter. He was amazed at the woman's sexual drive.

He found himself remembering the way it had been to touch Bella. To fill her body with his cock. To allow his seed to fill her womb. Tears sprung to his eyes as he thought about the life they had created. A life that had been short lived. A life that fate saw fit to end before either of them had a chance to realize what was happening.

He knew that this thing, this imprint between him and Leah was real. Yet in his heart he also knew what he had felt with Bella had been real too. He hoped that she was truly happy with Jake. That someday she would find the peace he was already starting to feel seeping into his soul as the woman laying in his arms was already healing without saying or doing a thing about the matter.