Edward POV

I stood with my wife holding hands facing the rest of the family in the living rom of the main house. All of their eyes portrayed different emotion, there was disvelif, worry, outrage, shock and sadness. The last two were everyone's, the first few belonging mainly to my children and adoptive mother.

I finished the explanation of the reasons why me and Bella were intending to leave for Volterra in just two weeks, leaving time after graduation and to iron out the creases, but to me, who would never let anything happen to Bella, the plan initially seemed water tight.

The challenge seemed to lie in getting everyone to believe the same thing.

"Guys the promise has been made, if we leave it they will just come sooner, leaving us very little if no time to defend ourselves." I said firmly.

Bella spoke quietly from beside me and everyone's faces softened when she did. I gave her hand a gently squeeze and kissed her hair.

"We still don't know where Zara took Charlie either." She whispered.

I wrapped my arm around her and held her into my side.

"If me and Bella go to Volterra we stand a better chance of getting Aro on side, if not Heidi if she has already returned back there." I said.

Emmet spoke up then, "But I thought we had established the fact that it was Heidi and Demetri's private guard who shot Bella in the baseball field."

My wife flinched and I swallowed, nodding in response to my brother.

"She's still the best ally we have." I replied, throat and voice tight as if I were being strangled.

"What about Jay, the other witch, or the Denali's?" Esme spoke up next.

Carlisle decided to answer for me.

"Jay as far as we know is going to protect her sister, and because we know mothering about the situation Charlie is in with her, we may as well leave her out of this."

"But I though she offered to help?" Renesmee asked, speaking for the first time.

Jasper looked at her softly, "But so did Heidi, look how that turned out."

Carlisle sighed and put his head in his hands, "So you are asking us, as your family to accept the fact that you are willingly going to walk into Aro's hands without any allies besides one another?"

I nodded and Bella whispered a quiet 'yes'.

Carlisle sighed and glanced at Esme, who folded her arms and replied with a look that told him that the chances of her being happy or accepting anything at the moment were very slim.

I glanced around quickly, listening to individual thoughts as I went.

Nearly everyone in the room looked nothing short of horrified of the prospect, the worst being that on my children's faces.

"If w go to Volterra we can use the pensive to see where Charlie is, then e will report back and you can go and get him." I tried.

Carlisle looked at me, wondering mentally how I knew about the font of water I had used to see Bella when I had last been taken, coincidently when Charlie had been born.

"If you let Aro know of the witches and what they have done it could spark a war between all of the supernatural races, I can't imagine the wolves, however many are left in La Push, taking sides with us against the witches." Carlisle said firmly.

I swallowed, "I want my son back."

Bella wrapped her arms around my waist and pressed her face into my chest, I rubbed her back soothingly as she fought not to cry.

Esme shook her head, "Why can't we just wait, we can use the time we have to collect allies and look for Charlie. Zara can't have got far if her sister is handing around, why don't we start there and search for him instead of jumping the gun to play some kind of real life chess game with Aro."

Bella took a small step away from me and looked at me sadly.

"Esme's right." She whispered and I sighed.

"Bella..." I started but she cut me off.

Bella shook her head and spoke whilst looking at me sadly.

"Finding Charlie is the most important thing; he needs to be home, with us, his family."

I swallowed, "but if we piss of my father and the Volturi he won't have a home to come back to, much less a family."

However my wife only shook her head again.

"You know she's right Edward." Alice said gently, and my eyes snapped up to glare at her, we got along well enough most of the time, but I refused to be patronised by someone has flaky in power and above all short as Alice was.

However my expression softened when Bella reached up to cup my cheek, forcing me to meet her gaze. Her eyes looked up at mine, the bottom of her irises pooling with tears.

"Let's bring him home, and then we can deal with whatever else is heading our way." She whispered.

I swallowed, "But at the moment I can't protect you from my own father, let alone his entire army and a whole collective of un known's..."

She hushed me and hook her arms around my neck.
"You're not alone; you'll never have to be that again." She whispered and we hugged each other tight, me letting out a shaky breath before straightening up and looking my family over.

Carlisle spoke first, "So we start by looking for Charlie?"
I nodded, "Then we start looking for allies, we are going to need all the help we can get."

Heya guys, thanks for staying with me, so AMAZED we cracked one hundred reviews, thanks to all the usual people, even those who just read and don't review! So yeh there will be a video to accompany this chapter and hopefully another one up by this evening, you should be glad I've done all my homework, or my mum would be down on me like a ton of bricks!

SO glad it's nearly the Easter holidays, I can update LOADS then! Only one week to go.

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