A/N: Hey guys I have to apologize for not updating this story as I had promised earlier. Life just got really crazy around hoping to update soon again if I can do it tomorrow.

Alec landed back in Italy only 6 hours later. The flight had been short and they had run some of the way too. It had given him time to think about things. Like how he was going to convince Aro to let a shape shifter come to Italy with Carm to kill Tierra. Did this guy know about vampires? That was a question he was going to have to talk to Carm about before he got an answer. Although he remembered the look in her eyes when she first got to the house that day and was a little upset until Marco nodded to him.

"She will be fine Alec. It's Carm we all know her better and we know she will pull through this." Marco smiled a little before returning his attention to Jane.

As they walked together in the castle Gianni was standing in front of her desk pacing back and forth. Alec smiled at her as he headed for the chamber only to be stopped by the sudden halting of his sister's feet on the ground. He turned around and let out a loud huff at her and returned to her side along with Marco. "Jane what is it?"

Jane was looking at Gianni and in her own way trying to comfort her a little. "Gianni, what's wrong?"

Gianni looked at Jane and smiled a little. "Parent returned a little while ago and went into the chamber he has been in there for a few hours now and none of them have come out to say anything. And Heidi is supposed to be back with the guests any minute."

Alec looked at Marco and whispered to him. "That is why we need to get in there and tell Aro what Carm said." He urged him along to the chamber with his sister.

The three walked into the chamber and up to Aro and the Volturi head masters. Alec smiled as he walked up to Aro speaking almost silently into his ear and making sure that he was able to understand what Carm wanted in exchange of killing Tierra for him. He was sure that if she was left to her own devices then she would come up with other demands so he wanted to get his answer to her as soon as he possibly could do that.

Aro listened silently and nodded after Alec was done before standing and walking up to Parent. "Your requests are most absurd at the moment my dear friend."

Parent let out a hiss after Sarah said something to him. "That is not the reason why you are declining my offer to bring that girl back here. Aro she has something that you have desired for years and she is within your grasp."

Marcus slowly rose from his seat to stand beside Aro. "Never the less she had made a deal with us and has not touched a human yet. If that is still the case then she is still free to live with the Cullen family."

Parent began to pace in the chamber he needed something to nail Carm to the wall right now. He needed proof that she had gone after a human being and attempted to kill it. However what he did not know was that Elexa was busy brewing a spell that would no doubt make Carm go after a human by the day's end for him. So he left the chamber in a huff trying to figure out what to do about his problem still unknown to the fact that Aro had full intentions of killing Tierra before the week was up.

When Parent returned to the coven he looked at Elexa and Alex who were working on something in their house. When Parent walked in he found out what they were up to. "Bezzerk said that he saw a vision of Carm killing a human."

Parent looked at the two of them. "And what is the other half of the vision that he seen?"

Elexa looked at him with a grim smile on her face. "You getting Tierra back here with you."

Parent rubbed his chin a bit, this was a habit that he had picked up when he was human and had never really gotten rid of it fully. "Well it seems like I can't win. I either get Carm back or I get Tierra back. The problem is which one do I want back more."

Alex looked at him, shaking his head. "No the bigger question is if you get Carm back here because she has bitten a human what is going to happen to Tierra in the long run. And what about all those thoughts you have had with Carm betraying you."

Parent nodded. "Well what are you working on right now then?"

Elexa smiled. "A way to make it that Carm will not be able to resist a human's blood when she smells it. Then all someone has to do is make a human break skin for her to be yours."

Parent nodded to the two of them. "Good work. Carry on and let me know when you are done. I think that Alec and them might have something up their sleeve."

Alex stopped Parent from leaving by placing an arm in front of him on the door. "You need to talk to Bezzerk about the visions that he had while you were gone to see Carm. You might be surprised about what he seen but keep in mind that we all enjoy what that girl can do to you when she feels like helping you in the long run."

Parent looked at him. "Who was it this time?"

Alex put a hand to his mouth and turned his hand as if to lock his mouth with a key. Meaning that he was going to have to talk to Bezzerk about the situation and that it was his story to tell not Alex's or Elexa's.

Parent nodded and left making his way over to Bezzerk's place and settling on the couch while Karen made some food for herself to eat while he waited for her husband to return from where he had ventured off to this time. "He probably has just gone out to think."

Parent nodded. "A bad day for visions?"

Karen smiled and slightly nodded her head. "I think so. He won't talk too much about them. He knows how much I enjoyed having Carm around and so when they are about her I tend to know because he won't say too much about them."

Parent smiled a little. "Well she is doing fine where she is. I think that she is happy living among the people she is with. Actually she might be returning sometime soon to see us."

Karen clapped her hands and settled in her seat. "That would be great and then maybe we can convince Aro to let her turn me?"

Parent shook his head. "Sadly I don't think that she will do that for you. Karen she had never turned someone and had them survive her venom is way too strong for that to happen ever."

Karen smiled as Bezzerk walked through the door and looked at Parent with a smile. "I assume that Alex told you about the visions I had today?" he asked as he walked up the Karen giving her a gentle kiss on the cheek. "Karen, I wonder, can you give Parent and me a little while to talk? I think we need to discuss some things."

Karen nodded and left the house going outside to the garden to tend to the plants that were growing there and the flowers that seemed to attract the people that everyone seemed to enjoy to have during the day.

Back inside Bezzerk took a seat on the couch and looked at Parent with a grim smile on his face. "The first one showed two options as usual although I refused to tell everything to Alex. The first part was Carm hunting and killing a human, then killing Tierra. The other has Tierra coming back to you after wondering around it what seems to be forever to her." He took a deep breath letting Parent absorb what he had just said to him.

"The other one that I had was that Josh leaving the coven on you and going over to the Volturi. I fear that he has already done this in a way. The over part of that vision is him ending up dead."

Parent got up and stocked out the door leaving as soon as soon as he could do that.

-Meanwhile Back In Washington-

Carm turned around and smiled at Paul as she bounded into the house once again. "Don't worry everything is going to be fine. I promise you that." She gave him a gentle kiss and then rubbed her head lightly. "I think I need to get some sleep." She pulled Paul over to the couch with her and pushed him down as she settled herself onto of him quietly. It was 12:30 when Paul looked at the clock and decided to get some sleep himself so he let his body rest figuring that he would wake up when Carm got up in the morning.

Paul placed his arms around her and hugged her tightly to his warm body. With a smile on his face he went to sleep perfectly happy. The immediate danger was gone, the girl of his dreams was in his arms sleeping, and he did not have to worry about Sam bothering him tonight to go out on patrol. He was just perfectly happy right at that moment in time.

Alice, Jasper, and Emmett landed at home a short while later with a deer for Carm to have when they found her sleeping. Jasper thought about waking her but then decided they may want to wait for Carlisle to make the final decision about that. They both looked comfortable and Jasper wanted to spend some time with Alice before Carlisle came and enforced the grounding rules on them. After everything that day they were stressed out and they were all ready to spend some time with their mates that night.

Emmett headed out to the garage to see if he could find Rosalie out there working on a vehicle. When they had returned inside and went upstairs Rose went to check on Bella and Edward. They were sleeping as well so to speak.

So morning came and so did the rest of the time until Monday morning came around and Carm woke up nice and early. She was not looking forward to the upcoming school day. Through all the craziness going on around the house she had completely forgotten to look at the schedule she had stolen from Bella a few days before. Carlisle had been nice about keeping Bella away from her for the most part and to make it easy for Carm to go though the days while she was still getting used to all the smells around the town of Forks. But today was different she was going to be in class with all the people and she did not know if she really did trust herself enough to do that. So she sat on her bed as she stared at the clock in her room. It said 6:30 AM she looked again wishing she had the will to move time forward and have today over and done with. She had not heard from Alec yet and she did not expect to hear from him for a while.

Edward and Emmett walked into the room about ten minutes later looking at her. Edward smiled as he placed a hand on her shoulder. "Hey I could not hear you anymore so we figured you were up. How did you sleep?"

He was cheerful and Carm didn't enjoy it that morning. "Fine now why do you care about that?" She yelled at him as she backed up from his hand almost hissing at him when she did that.

Edward got up from the bed and took a step back looking over at Emmett who seemed just as shocked as he was about the entire situation. Carm had not been able to get a hold of Paul last night so they had not spent any time together and yet she had seemed to be okay with the idea last night Edward thought to himself as he heard Emmett's thoughts as well. 'Probably school today.' As Edward nodded his head he turned to the door.

Emmett looked over at him hoping that Carm was too angry to listen to his mind as he asked. 'You going to go get Jasper?'

Edward nodded and slowly walked out of the room. Emmett returned to Carm and smiled. "Are you alright, Carm?"

She nodded and smiled. "I just don't want to go to school today that is all. Do you think Carlisle will let me stay home?"

Emmett shook his head. "I don't think so Carm. Why were you being so mean to Edward this morning?"

Carm shrugged a little. "I think I'm a tiny bit thirsty. But he was thinking something that I disliked and I don't want to think about that right now. Although he keeps bringing it up in his head. He needs to stop doing that on me, Emmett."

Emmett turned her around to look at him. "What does he keep thinking about that is annoying you? Carm if this has been going on all week and that is why you have been acting that way towards him you should have told one of us. Carlisle or any of us would have understood what was going on especially Jasper."

Carm nodded and then looked at the chains that had kept her safe last night from doing anything. Carm has persuaded Jasper to put them on without him really wanted to do that to her. He seemed to think that she could handle herself but she was not as confident as he had been so she used her powers of persuasion to convince him to see it her way. "He wants me to talk to Bella about something."

Emmett looked at the door as Jasper slowly walked in wearing a long sleeve shirt and pair of jeans. He took a seat on the bed and looked over at Emmett. "Rose is waiting for you to go hunting with her this morning. Somehow he is saying yes to that so I would go before he changes his mind."

Emmett smiled at Carm and then got up running out the door and down the stairs.

Jasper looked at Carm once Emmett was gone and smiled at him with an evil grin on his face. "That should be funny to see what happens now, don't you think Carm?"

Carm smiled a little, "Won't Carlisle be mad at you for doing that to him?"

Jasper nodded. "Yes, but that is nothing compared to what him and Rose did to me this morning so you can call it pay back. Plus there is no reason why Carlisle should ever find out about this, if he does I'll tell him about this morning."

Carm smiled a little then remembered today she was going to have to face everything she had spend the past week fearing. Without another thought she let her wall down and immediately started to flood the room with her feelings until she remembered that Jasper was sitting right there beside her.

When she pulled everything back in and tried to smile she could see that Jasper did understand what was going on. "Sorry I didn't mean to dump all of that on you, Jazz."

Jasper smiled. "It's alright. I would actually prefer to know what is going inside your head today. It might make it a little safer for everyone at school. But don't worry about a thing alright. And you don't want to ask Carlisle if you can skip class."

Carm looked at him completely curious about this. "What makes you say that?"

Jasper smiled and turned his voice really low. "My first week here I asked him and he did say yes to me only to drag me to the hospital with him instead. Trust me on this one Carm you don't want to go through a day with him there it is a million times worse than school will be." He thought for a moment and then asked her. "So what is the deal between you and Edward right now?"

Carm shrugged a little knowing that Edward has probably said something about her little yell and hiss towards him and then she hissed at Jasper out of pure annoyance that he was now asking about what the big deal was. "It is nothing." With that she got up and attempted to walk out the door only have Jasper pulled on the chain that was attached to her wrists.

"Carm you are not leaving here until you answer that question properly with the truthful answer. What is going on between you and Edward?" He sat patiently on her bed gently hanging onto the chain in his right hand. His eyes met her and he knew what she had done to him the night before but he also suspected that she was too thirsty to do it this morning and that was an advantage for him. When her eyes left his he spoke the question in a silent tone inside his head knowing she would hear it. 'What has gone on between you and Edward so much that you would yell and hiss at him this morning?'

Carm pulled at the chain that was in his hands and tried to get away from him. "It is nothing you need to worry about that is between me and him and he needs to deal with this for a while until he learns to keep his thoughts to himself."

Jasper pulled the chain towards him and forcing her to move closer to him as he gripped the chain closer to her wrists. "It is my business and my worry because he is in a bad mood now and I have to put up with it for the entire day. So tell me what has been happening between you two. I have dealt with this the past few days. Until you see him in the morning you both are fine but the second you see each other your mood goes sour and his goes bad too. Until he leaves and goes to see Bella, then he comes back all happy and joyful."

Carm shrugged her shoulders and turned to glare at him. "I want to go see Paul right now. Can you take me over there?"

Jasper shook his head. "We have to get ready for school soon but after school I am sure you can go over and see him or he can come over here to see you."

Carm shook her head and pulled the chain again. "No." She moved as far away from him as she could until he finally gave up the contest and went downstairs to talk to Carlisle.

Carlisle was standing in the kitchen making a safety supply pack for them to take to school with Carm. "How is she doing up there?"

Jasper shrugged. "Honestly I don't know how we are going to get through today with her. She wants to stay home. She is still mad at Edward about something, and Edward is mad at her about the same thing I would think. But neither of them will talk about what that is, besides it is something in Edward's mind that is annoying Carm. She still has the chains on and she has been trying to say that she wants to go see Paul this morning."

Carlisle nodded. "Alice why don't you and Carm take the Volvo out there before school and let the two of them talk. But don't stay too long that she would miss her first class. Just let her get a full scent of him and then tell her that it is time to go."

Alice nodded as she took off upstairs with the key to the chains and looked at Carm as she started pulling clothes out of her closet. "I am not going to school today Alice."

Alice smiled and looked at her. "Oh yes you are. But if you want to go see Paul before school we have to hurry up." She tossed a pair of jeans and long sleeve shirt at her. "Now get dressed." Alice unlocked the lock on the chain and stood at the door.

Carm slowly got changed and then looked at Alice. "What do you mean we get to go see Paul before school?"

Alice nodded her head. "Sam called and said that Jared and Embry need a ride to the school and Carlisle said that one of us would be over in the morning to drive them. But I am sure that Edward would go pick them up at the line."

Carm shook her head. "Nope I am getting ready. Just give me a second here." She quickly pulled her hair up into a ponytail and then ran a brush through the end of it. "But I need something before we go."

Alice nodded again and turned as they went downstairs. "Esme went out and got you a mountain lion this morning."

Carm turned to Esme and smiled to her. "Thanks."

Carlisle walked over to the table where they were sitting and eating their food. "I called Paul and he should be there waiting for you to get there. He was going to get a hold both Jared and Embry and let them know they are going to meeting with you at his house."

Carm nodded and smiled at him. "Thanks Carlisle I really appreciated this."

Carlisle smiled at her as he took a seat beside her in the chair. "We need to talk Carm while you sit there eating though." He cleared his throat out of habit and then started to explain his thoughts to Carm out loud. "What has been going on between you and Edward needs to be resolved. I am not going to ask you to tell me what it is but I am going expect you to solve it with him when you get home tonight. It's driving everyone around here crazy including Jasper. So think about that today."

Carm nodded as she finished off the mountain lion. As she and Alice got out into the car she had barely said two words to him. "What is going on Carm? Usually you are louder than this, aren't you happy to be going and seeing Paul?"

Carm smiled a little. "Ya I am happy to be seeing him I just don't want to have to talk to Edward tonight about what has been going on lately. I am sure that everyone will be around but listening to what we are saying to each other."

Alice looked at her and smiles a little. "Carm, we have all had our disagreements with Edward about what he gets his nose involved in but with you this seems to be something different."

Carm nodded. "That is because it is. He does not have his nose in this he wants me to talk to Bella about my transformation. He seems to think that what happened to me will turn her off of her idea to become one of us. I just don't want to talk to her about that, it was hard enough for me to talk to you guys about it now he wants me to open myself up to a perfectly good smelling human."

Alice looked at her and smiled. "Is that why you don't like the idea of having to talk to him about this? Because you think that he will convince you that there is more and that you can do anything if you put your mind to it."

Carm let out a huff and sunk into the seat until they arrived at Paul's house. When they got there Paul was standing outside in a navy coloured T-shirt and a pair of jeans. It took Carm less than a second to be out of the car and into his arms. "I can't do this, not today, Paul you have to explain to them I can't go through with this." She was hugging him as close to her body as she could.

He hugged her back and pulled her chin up to look at him. "Do you have your cell with you right now?"

Carm nodded and wiped away the venom tears that were coming from her eyes already.

Paul handed her a small piece of paper. "It has Quill's and Sam's cell numbers on it. So if you need them then you can text them and let them know what is happening. I'll be in class all day but I will give you a call tonight and we can talk about how your day went." He pushed a loose hair behind her ear and kissed her gently until Jacob showed up in the Rabbit with Jared and Embry.

Jared came up behind them with a smile. "Yuck guys do you have to do that in public?"

Embry was holding a muffin in his hand that he had gotten from Emily on their way over. "Ya guys I am eating here."

Paul looked up from Carm for a few seconds and smiled at his "brother" before returning his attention to Carm. "Well then continue eating and let me kiss her in peace and quiet for once without you guys always trying to interfere with it." He pulled her closer to him and then turned to look at Alice for a second. "You guys probably have to get going don't you?"

Alice nodded to him. "We do but you two should talk about the other thing tonight. I'll talk to Carlisle about it but you need to discuss what is going on with someone Carm and I think Paul might be the best person for you to do that with."

Carm nodded then kissed Paul one last time before going to get into the car with Alice, Jared and Embry. Paul walked over to the car and looked in the window at the two wolves who were sitting in the back seat of the vehicle. "You two behave. If I hear from Carm that you were bad or annoying her at any point today I promise you Sam will find out about that and he will ask her and she will agree to that don't you worry."

Embry pushed his arms out of the window. "Alright Paul we won't tell her about that insanely annoying monologue you had last night going because you were forbidden to see her because of what you said to Sam during the day."

Paul put his head into his hands. As Carm got out of the car and went over to him. "What are they talking about, Paul?"

Paul glared over at Jared and Embry. "That is what I did not want you to tell her about." He walked over to the other side of the car and hugged her close to him. "We will talk about that later. You need to be on time for school, Carm."

Carm's eyes burned an orange and she looked directly into his eyes and pouted slightly at him. "Please, tell me what happened."

Paul shut his eyes and shook his head. He had gotten used to her constant eye trick and had found out that he could close his eye if he was really intent on something and she would drop the subject normally only to bring it back up later but right now that would be good enough for him. "Not right now. After you tell me your little dilemma tonight I'll explain the one that I got myself into along with Jared and Embry last night."

Carm sadly nodded her head. "Alright, I guess we can do that I deal with that if I have to." She pouted a bit more and gave Paul a set of perfectly formed puppy eyes.

Paul smiled and opened the door for her. "Now have fun and if anything happens just think that I am with you all day long and you don't have to worry about a thing."

Carm nodded and gave him a quick hug and kiss before climbing into the car herself as Alice sped down the road.

Jared laughed for a second. "Thanks Carm I think we are going to be late for school today thanks to you."

Carm looked over at Alice and she shot them a look. "Don't worry Carm we are going to be early. Rose fixed the engine in this thing so it runs very well."

When they got to the school Jasper went over to the Volvo to greet everyone and give Alice a hug. And turn to Carm. "Your first class is with Edward and it is English," he looked down for a second. "Bella is in the class with you."

Carm looked up at him alright she could not avoid this concept any longer than she already had avoided it today. "How many classes do I have with Bella, Jasper? I want the honest truth."

Jasper took a deep breath and then looked over towards Edward and Emmett who were leaning up against the jeep. "The only class you don't have with Bella is the one you have with Rosalie."

Carm climbed back into the Volvo and sat there with her arms crossed across her chest. "I am not going into that school if I have to put up with her all day long. I will not do it."

Jasper went over to her kneeling beside her. "Carm we talked about this before. You will do fine. Remember that first time you smelt Bella."

Carm nodded. "Ya unfortunately I remember it and the pain I felt that day all too well. Thanks so much for reminding me of that fact yet again Jasper."

Jared looked up from the car and noticed Mr. Green the principal heading this way. "Um guys I think we have a problem here."

Jasper looked up and shook his head. "Alice can you handle the principal for me then go get Emmett."

Alice nodded and went over to Mr. Green who was still heading over to see what was going on with the Cullen family.

"Alice Cullen. I would never expect to see you here causing trouble before the start of school."

Alice smiled at him. "Sir it is not me. We just got a new sibling and she is having a bit of trouble coming to terms with the idea of going to school again."

Mr. Green smiled. "Ah. Well if you are late for class I will tell Ms. Cope to give you admit slips without questions."

Alice nodded and headed for the jeep as she yelled out behind her a thank you to him. When she reached the jeep she danced to Emmett's side. "Jasper wants you at the Volvo. Something about Carm not wanting to go into the school, I think."

Emmett nodded and walked over to the Volvo kneeling down in the door way. "Carm, how about we try this? I know what Carlisle said to you this morning while you were eating. I will explain to Edward your feelings about everything since I know what is going on. But in return you have to try to get through at least the morning of the school day for me. If you are in too much pain come lunch then we can think about taking you home or getting you some blood."

Carm nodded and slowly made her way out of the Volvo. "Alright I guess if I have to deal with that then I will. But I don't want to have to deal with Edward tonight."

Jasper looked at her. "You get through the entire day here and we will clear that up with Carlisle." He added with a smile.