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So I got my first (sort of) angry review. One of my readers does not like Renesmee or her bratty ways. I have created a hate in someone like the hate I felt for Bella while reading "New Moon" and "Eclipse". LOL.

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Chapter 39

I don't know how long it was exactly that I lay there. If I had fallen asleep or if I just floated mentally away, but I snapped out of it when I heard a voice in the distance.

"Are you sure she's this way?" It was Finn.

"For the last time yes," Leah's voice answered. "Nessie?" she called out hoping I would respond, but all I could do was sob at hearing the nickname Jake had given me when I was little. All the memories just seemed like lies now since Rose had revealed the truth.

"There she is!" The beam from a powerful flashlight blinded me briefly as Finn came to me rescue. "Ness, can you hear me? It's going to be okay." He was unsure if he should touch me and waited instead for Leah to take action.

Leah's hand touched my shoulder causing me to flinch. For all I knew she wanted me dead, she was a member of Jacob's pack. "Nessie, it's okay. You're safe. No one's going to hurt you." The concern in her voice only made my pain worse, "I know you're frightened right now, but I think you should let us take you home."

Finn moved closer to me forcing Leah to move back while he tried to get me to come around.

"Leah!"

"We're over here," Leah shouted to Sky who appeared with Quinn by his side.

"Thank god we found you," Quinn said as she knelt down beside me. She gently touched my arm and was able to comfort me along with her brother. If I had been in my right frame of mind I would have wondered why she was still wearing her mask.

"I don't think she's going to be able to get out of here on her own," Leah said to Sky.

The next thing I knew Sky had scooped me up into his arms and was bringing me to the car. Finn noticed that my body had gone ridged. When he stepped in front of him Sky gave him a dirty look.

"Can't you see she's scared of you?" Finn said in a stern voice.

Sky looked down at me and after asking if he could handle it, he unload me into Finn's arms. He carried me all the way to the car that they had driven in. He placed me in the middle of the back seat where he got on one side and Quinn got on the other. Sky got into the driver's seat with Leah in the front beside him.

Resting my head against Finn's shoulder I let him hold me. He was human so I knew that even if he wanted me dead there was nothing he could do. He was my friend, but I had already been betrayed twice, three times and I would have had to get the word sucker tattooed on my forehead.

"I know things are bad right now Ness," Quinn whispered as she stroked the back of my head, "But it will all work out in the end."

I wanted to believe her, but things were just so bad that it was hard to think that they would ever get better. I felt Finn's breath against my ear. I thought he was going to kiss me, but instead he made me a promise.

"All you have to do is say the word and I will find a way to get you out of the country. We can run as far and as long as you want to. I promise I will keep you safe."

"Don't worry Nessie," Leah said. "We'll be home soon and then everything can be worked out. It's just a huge misunderstanding." Leah made a call on her cell. "Yeah, Bella calm down. We found her. As well as can be expected. We're on our," she started to say when the car began to slow down. "What the-?"

When the car came to a full stop I looked up and saw a young boy standing in the middle of the road.

"What's a kid doing out this time of night?" Finn asked then started staring straight ahead like Leah and Sky.

"Remember Ness," Quinn slurred. "It will get better." Then Quinn turned to stare at the mystery boy. They all seemed to be enthralled by him and it wasn't until I looked into the boy's eyes that I understood what was happening. Everyone who was in the car was frozen in a type of suspended animation, unable to move or see or even cry out. I knew that boy and what he was doing.

The name Alex hissed from my lips before my world went dark.

"She waking up," a voice said. "Nessie, can you hear me?"

My eyes fluttered open to see Leah's face smiling down at me. Things were fuzzy in my head as I tried to remember what had happened. I remembered dancing with Jacob at my party, his arms around me. I remembered him down on one knee with a ring in his hand. I remembered being so happy then feeling absolute terror as I ran away from home. My father and Jacob had wanted to kill me.

I was getting ready to cry again when the memory of Alex standing in the road flashed in my mind. With Leah's help I sat up to see that we were in a small, dark room. There was no furniture in the room, only a single light bulb that hung from the ceiling.

"Is everyone okay," I asked. My voice came out raspy. Hoping it would help I swallowed as I waited for an answer.

"We're alive," Finn said from the other side of the room. He was sitting next to Quinn who had the hood to her cape covering her face.

"Where's Sky?" He was the only one missing from the room.

"I don't know," fear laced the words Leah spoke. "All I remember is seeing that damn leech in the road and then passing out. We were the only ones here when we woke up."

My greatest fear was coming true. Aro had taken me away and had found Sky in the process. As if that weren't bad enough, Leah, Finn and Quinn were in danger too. It was my fault they were being held prisoner. All because I ran away from home and they cared enough to come find me. I would not let Aro hurt them so I sucked up my self-pity and tried to figure out a way to get us out of the room alive. None of my fellow captives attempted to stop when I went to test the strength of the door. I realized why when the door gave way with very little effort and I saw what was on the other side.

Two of the largest vampires I had ever seen glared at me until I closed the door. We were trapped and there was nothing Leah or I could do to get all of us out safely with god knew how many vampires guarding us. For all I knew the entire Volturi coven had come to town to play.

"Where are we?" I walked over to check on a very silent Quinn. If you weren't paying close attention you would miss the fact that Quinn was talking to herself.

"Don't know," Finn answered as he watched his sister. He tried to push back her hood only to have her bat his hands away. He sighed resting his back against the wall. Getting on my knees, I tried to get Quinn to talk to me, but she wouldn't. According to Finn she was talking to the imaginary friend she had had as a child. "I think being kidnapped by a gang of Mafia style vampires has caused her to have a breakdown. Wow, I never thought I would say those words." I could tell that he wanted to smile and be brave. That he wanted to hide his fear with humor, but it wasn't working.

"Finn I–,"

"This is bad isn't it?"

"Yes."

"But we're not dead, so that's a plus." He looked Leah's way and said, "Seeing as how you're the adult in this situation why aren't we dead?"

"I don't know," she said. "I thought Aro's main goal was to find Sky, but now I'm thinking there's more. I think they took you guys to lure Edward and Alice here. He's wanted them to join the Volturi since forever. What better way than this?"

"Someone should have sent Aro the newsletter cause my father doesn't care, he tried to kill me remember?"

"You don't know what you're talking about Renesmee. You weren't there." Leah argued then corrected herself. "Technically yes you were there, but you still have no idea what happened."

Leah proceeded to tell us the events surrounding my birth. Of how Jacob broke away from Sam Uley's pack so that he could protect my mother from being killed. How because of me, Edward and Jacob, who were sworn enemies became friends.

"But I saw Jacob try to kill me."

"I'm not going to lie to you Nessie. None of us had a clue what you were. As far as your father was concerned you were the first vampire pregnancy and every day that your mother carried you, you were sucking the life from her. Edward was terrified of losing Bella. We were all scared." She seemed to lose herself in the memory, "Then you started communicating with you father and it was like your entire family lost their dammed minds. I will never forget the day you were born. I swear, as long as I live I will never see Jacob as happy as he was that day, he was over the moon for you kid from the instant he saw you. He beat himself up for weeks because of what he tried to do."

I was. I had called my father a monster and slapped Jacob. I had treated them as if they were no better than the Volturi. Leah moved beside me, put her arms around me and told me it was going to be okay. Both Edward and Jacob knew that I loved them. She was going to say something else, but the door opened and one of the large vampires entered the room followed by two smaller female vampires. The females were carrying trays of food and set them down before us.

"When you have finished eating let us know," the male vampire said. "Aro craves a word with you."

We were left alone with the food. Finn was the first to lift the lid off one of the trays. It was heaped with different fruits. The next held a variety of cheeses and bread. Before anyone could stop him, Finn began to stuff his face.

When Leah shot him a dark look, he muttered "what?" around a mouth full of bread. It was apparent when he didn't keel over that the food was poison-free. With the exception of Quinn, we all began eating. Quinn continued talking to her invisible friend. The food was surprisingly good. As I watched Leah eat the last grape all the food I had eaten formed a huge lump in my stomach. It was time to go see the vampire that had haunted my nightmares for years.

Finn jumped up and tried to stop me from going to the door.

"I'm going to have to see him sometime. The sooner I get it over with…"

He held his hand against the door as though it would keep me from opening it, "This isn't like pulling off a Band-Aid Ness!"

"You think I don't know that, but at least this way I can find out if Sky is okay," I glanced at Leah who was pretending not to listen as she comforted Quinn.

The door opened after I knocked and the large vampire aptly name Bruno led me down a long hallway to what I hoped wouldn't be my death.

I was brought to a large stone room. There was a huge fireplace that looked like it might house a small family. In the center of the room was a table that reminded me of the one at home. The walls were decorated in banners that showed the Volturi crest. It was a black bird and on its chest was a shield divided into four sections. One held a cup with three drops blood above it. The second was the scales of justice, the third was a crescent moon and the forth was an arm welding a sword. I couldn't stop staring at the bird. It talons clung to the shield and its beak was opened in a silent scream.

In spite of the wall art the focal point of the room was the leader of the Volturi, Aro. He sat on a thrown like the king he thought he was, waiting for me to be delivered to him. Greeting me with a smile that was anything but kind he said, "Renesmee Cullen, it is so good to finally get to meet you." He arose with a grace that I had often seen in my father. "May I say that you have become quite the beautiful young lady?"

His hand felt like paper as he caressed my face. I didn't want him touching me and wanted to pull away, but thought that doing so would upset him. Finding out if Sky was all right and getting us out alive was worth his adoration.

"I can't read you," he commented as he gave me a confused stare then continued, "I apologize for not attending your party…and for the accommodations, but you are hostages."

"I understand." I said, as if I needed reminding. "You were too busy plotting and scheming to worry about paint swatches."

The smile melted into a scowl, "I see you are your mother's daughter."

"So I've been told."

"How…unfortunate."

A smart response was on my lips when the room began to spin. The floor rushed up to meet me when Aro caught me in his arms and placed me on his thrown.

"Child," he said, "Are you ill?"

"I'm fine."

"No. I don't think that you are. Was the food not to your liking? I had the very best purchased for you and your friends. Perhaps that isn't the problem? When was the last time you fed?" He sounded more like he was gloating rather than voicing any kind of concern.

I wanted to answer the question, anything to shut him up, but I couldn't. I tried to remember the last time I wrote anything in the journal Edward gave me. I knew I had written in it, but not when the last time was.

"Would you like me to get you something, that young fellow that came with you perhaps?" He laughed as I cringed at the idea of feeding off of Finn.

As he continued to laugh more vampires entered the room and I was relieved to see Sky among them alive and well. Acting as guards on either side was Caius and Marcus. Before I could ask him if he was okay, Aro jerked my body off the thrown and stretched my hand across a table that was nearby.

"As I'm sure you know I have wanted certain members of your family to join the Volturi. Their gifts were most extraordinary. Time and time again been refused, I do not tolerate being refused." As he went on explaining, a female named Chelsea stepped forward carrying a strange looking blade. It was black and shiny and she looked very happy to be welding such a weapon. It looked like the one in the coat of arms that hung on the wall.

"That is why I've gone to all this trouble to get you here. With you and your little friends here I can convince your father and mother and Alice to join me. Or at least they will if they do not want to see you dead. Now I was going to send along another note to inform your parents that you were here, but then I thought of a more…creative way to get my message across. "

Aro took the blade from Chelsea while holding my arm firmly in place with his other hand.

"Do you know what this is Renesmee?" the blade caught the light as he held it up for me to see.

"A knife," I answered doing my best not to show him my fear.

"Yes, but you see, it's not just any knife. It's made from special volcanic glass and it is extremely sharp. Sharp enough to cut through a vampire's body. Allow me to demonstrate." A manic glee filled his eyes as he lifted the sword and brought it swiftly down severing my left hand, the hand that was wearing Jacob's ring from my arm.

I don't know if it was because I was part vampire or because I went into some form of shock, but the pain wasn't as crippling as it should have been. I sunk to the floor when Aro released my arm. He tossed my hand to Caius while giving the sword back to the young female vampire.

"Give this to Gianna, she knows what to do with it," he said as walked away from me.

When I saw Sky break away from the others I wanted to shout for him to stop. There was no need for the two of us to get hurt.

"You said you wouldn't harm her!" He pulled one of the banners down from the wall and began to tear it to pieces so that he could bandage my arm to keep me from losing too much blood. While vampire didn't bleed, I was only part vampire.

The uncontrolled rage I had expected from Aro at his son's outburst never came. Instead he ushered the others out of the room. The only one to object the dismissal was Chelsea. It took only a brief look from Aro to change her mind. Sky wrapped the scraps around my arm and kept saying that he was sorry.

"You shouldn't be doing this," I told him. "You're just going to make him mad."

"Darling girl," Aro leaned against the corner of the table with his arm folded across his chest. "Why would I be mad at my son? Especially after everything he's done for me."

"W-what?" I stammered. None of what they were saying was making sense. Sky was afraid of Aro. That was why he and his mother and Kit had been running for so long and why they had come to us for help.

"You look confused little one," Aro said using the nickname Sky had given me when we first met. I looked at Sky, silently begging him to say that the old vampire had lost his mind. That there was no way he would ever do anything Aro asked of him.

"I think it's stopped bleeding," Sky said in a strange detachment. "The pain won't last long."

"It's not true, is it? I asked him, fearing the answer. "You didn't help?"

"Of course it's true," Aro shouted. "I'm not the monster that Cristiana and that mongrel would have you believe. I have made it a point of being a part of my son's life and have gone as far as to include him in the Volturi. He is one of my greatest soldiers."

Sky had finished bandaging my arm and laid it in my lap. He averted his eyes as he did and began to move away when I grabbed him with my remaining hand.

"Why?" I demanding thinking of all the lies he told my family. Worst of all the lies he told to Leah who was at that moment worrying about him. She loved and trusted him more than anything, but none of it was real.

"He was going to kill my mother Renesmee. What was I supposed to do? She and Kit are all that I have."

Everything Aro had said was true. He had been secretly following Sky's family over the years, acting the part of a loving father at first in order to earn the young boy's trust only to turn on him. He threatened to kidnap Cristiana and torture her if Sky didn't do his bidding. At the same time came the promise of death for the wolf that had stolen Aro's first love. If I hadn't been in so much shock I would have laughed. If Sky believed that Aro was capable of love, then we were in even bigger trouble than I thought.

Having had enough I pushed myself off the floor, "If we're done, I'd like to go back to my room."

"We are done when I say we are done," Aro loomed over me.

I felt Sky take my arm, "We're done." He ignored his father and took me back toward my cell. He stopped me when we got to the door. "What are you going to tell her?"

"You mean about the fact that you're a liar and have been working for the bad guys the entire time? I'm still trying to work that one out for myself." I was hissing at him with such rage. "It was you who made me forget to feed, wasn't it?" I wondered who else's mind he had messed with while he pretended to need our help. Was poor Quinn's breakdown his handy work?

"It was only to make you weaker. You were never in any real danger."

I couldn't help but laugh, "You had us all fooled, but there's just one thing I want to know."

He sighed, "What?"

"When you told Leah you loved her, was that the truth or just part of Aro's plan?"

Before another word could be said, the door opened with Finn standing on the other side. He glared at Sky, his fists at his side; he was fighting to keep from hitting someone. He moved aside to let us into the room where Leah was sitting on the floor. There were black tracks running down her face from where she had been crying. She had been so worried that Sky had been hurt or worse killed at the hands of his father, but that wasn't the reason she was upset now. Her face was as set as stone.

Sitting between us was Chelsea. She turned to look at us and said, "Took you long enough to get back here junior."

"What are you doing in here?" Sky said.

"Oh I just thought I'd come and catch your friends up on everything that's been going on," she stood and walked over to stand in front of Sky. "I mean that's cool and everything right? Renesmee knows all your dirty little secrets, so why not tell the rest? Friends really shouldn't lie to friends."

Chelsea began to leave the room, but before she did she added one final nail in Sky's relationship with Leah.

"You really are you father's son aren't you? When he told you to get close to the wolf I never thought you'd take it as far as you did. My god, you deserve an Oscar or something because you had Wolfy over there believing that you actually cared about her. Nice."

"Get. Out." Sky slowly turned his head and I was sure that if she didn't hurry then Sky was going to kill Chelsea with his bare hands. She left the room laughing and when she was gone there was absolute silence until Leah stood, walked toward Sky and stared him down.

"It isn't true." It wasn't a question. She couldn't risk hearing an answer that she didn't want. "Everything she said was a lie." Leah's eyes flickered, and then glazed over with tears as she waited for him to speak.

"I was told to get close to the Cullen's," Sky began to explain. "Aro promised that as long as I did what he asked of me, then no one would get hurt." He tried to reach out to Leah only to have her pull away. "I had to do it Leah. He was going to kill my mother and Kit if I didn't. You have to believe me."

Leah didn't lash out or scream which she was well in her right to do. "I don't have to do anything. That includes listening to anything you have to say. I'm just glad that I found out the truth before I let myself fall completely in lo-," she stopped before she said something that she couldn't take back. "Get out." She turned away from him so that he would see any of her traitorous tears.

"Leah please, I love you," Sky turned her back to face him only to end up with Leah's fist sending him flying into the wall.

"I said get out!"

Sky picked himself up, "It wasn't a lie." Sky gave Leah one last look and then left the room.

BAM! That just happened! Yup…that's right. Sky was working with Aro the whole time. I can't wait to hear the feedback from this chapter.

I know that the Volturi crest that I described is not the same as the actual one that they wear in the movie, but my story was written before New Moon came out in theatres.

Let me know what you think of Sky being a member of the Volturi. Does it make you happy? Sad? Angry? Hungry? I'd love to know.

CHAPTER 40 TEASER

Finn began to fuss over me. I assured him I was fine, that it no longer hurt, but ended up having another dizzy spell. He made me sit and covered me with his coat. Then he made me rest my head on his shoulder. I was too tired to say no and wanted whatever bit of comfort I could find.

"I haven't been feeding either," I told him when Leah's soft snores told me she was asleep. "Besides being a super liar, Sky can make people believe certain things. That's why my father believed him when he said he wasn't evil. I brought him into my home Finn. This is my fault."