A/N: Salutations fellow citizens of this fantabulous universe! First and foremost I would like to, yet again, apologize for not updating my story regularly, I will try to feel more inspired and motivated and comments always help.*wink*wink* Thank you all so much for being so very patient with me! I love you all! Also, if you get a chance, check out my new project! "Burying the Castle" which is Alice's story. Xoxo!!

Alice POV

I started thinking swiftly about how I was going to handle this, it had to be perfect. Renesmee was and always would be our entire family's precious angel and no harm could come to her. First, I decided, I will have to get everyone out of the house so that we can be alone then I would try to get her to talk to me. If she didn't, I would somehow bring it up but I wanted it to be her if at all possible. That would be the tricky part.

I thought about ways to get my family out of the house, or perhaps, just Edward and Bella could go on a hunting trip and I could stay with Nessie. That would work perfectly and be so much easier. All Edward would have to do is simply suggest. Arrangements for this were made, Renesmee told her parents that she did not need a babysitter but when she found out that I was coming over, she didn't protest. What can I say? She loves me! It made me feel almost guilty for tricking her into this but her health took priority.

I danced into the house as I would any other day and hugged Nessie who was sitting on the couch with a stack of movies for us to choose from. "Hi Ness!" I smiled brightly as I sat down and looked at the movies.

"Salutations." She said back, Nessie was such an odd teenager but we all were...in a way. She seemed a bit down today though.

"Is something wrong darling?" I asked.

"No…nothing is wrong dad just frustrates me sometimes is all with his annoying mind reading and his 'understanding' of me." She said, adding double quotes around the word understanding.

"What was it this time?" I sighed at Edward's distasteful behavior.

"He's just a jerk and he doesn't understand…but it doesn't matter, let's just watch a movie." She said, looking down at the floor and pulling her knees to her chest. I could see tears on the edge of her eye lids and it made me sad. Seeing her cry made me feel like I was crying, even though that isn't possible.

"Nessie tell me what happened." I pleaded, running my finger under her eye so that a tear wouldn't spill over.

"No I don't want to talk about it ok!" She got up and walked out of the room, slamming her bedroom door angrily. This was much worse than I thought. For the first time in a while, I didn't know what to do.

"Nessie please," I sighed, wanting her to trust me enough to open the door rather than me having to break it down. I got no response.

Unexpectedly, the disgusting fragrance of wet dog began to fill the air and I knew that Jacob was close by. I was right on target when I heard a knock at the door and immediately went to answer it. Jacob would know Nessie was home, in fact, sometimes it was odd how much he did know about her. It was almost as if he, like Edward, could read her every thought but with Jacob and Nessie it worked in both ways. "Hi mutt," I said pleasantly when I saw him standing shirtless at the door.

"Hello Leech. What happened to Nessie?" He asked his tone a bit sharper than mine.

"Jake nothing happened, she is in her room," I said slightly appalled that he would have that accusatory tone with me.

"Well if she is alright then why do I feel this…" Jake cut off, grabbing his chest and winding his brown eyes in pain. He was trembling and I could tell there was a risk of phasing.

"Jake, what's wrong? Please go outside if you're going to do that." I recommended.

"Its Ness, I always get that pain when something is wrong with her," He explained quickly, running to her bedroom door. "Nessie, babe please let me in." He got no answer. It looked like it was time for me to break down the door. I carefully broke the metal hinges in two, not breaking the frame and careful not to scare Ness. When I removed the door, she was lying on the floor curled in a tight ball shaking violently. Jake and I both immediately rushed to her side, both about to pick her up and carry her to Carlisle and getting there at exactly the same moment, where she was in both of our arms.

"Jake I can take her to Carlisle," I told him, giving him a meaningful glare and taking my niece into my arms. "Nessie what's wrong?" I asked. She was scalding hot.

"I'm cold," She cried, tears pouring down her face. I sighed and handed her to Jake who looked like a sad puppy begging for scraps at the dinner table.

"It's ok Nessie, I've got you now, and you are alright calm down." He said soothingly we both raced to the house to get Carlisle.

"Growing," Nessie finally managed. Her growth spurts were always painful and horrifying but I hadn't ever seen it this bad. Jake sat there, holding her close and shaking almost as much as she was. I concentrated on the future, wishing I could see past the barriers that Jake and Nessie created.

"Her heart sounds weak," Carlisle said, finally speaking in an almost monotone voice. I hadn't ever seen Carlisle like this. "She is too weak to be growing this fast, we have to get her to the hospital so that we can be ready for anything that happens." He said sternly, taking her from Jake's arms and running all in one swift motion. Jake, like a magnet followed very close behind, phasing to be able to keep pace. I followed as well as we ran through the forest.

"Jake…You're..." Nessie started to mumble something before passing out in Carlisle's arms.