Chapter 52

It had been so long that I had actually run with my full force and energy. I was pleasantly surprised when only after a few moments of running; I was already emerging into the backyard. Jumping over the river, I landed swiftly and ran to the large wall of fur. Squeezing through them, I saw who they were protecting… Jase and Leah…

"What happened?" I asked as I took in the sight. Leah on the ground in her wolf form, blood caked on her fur. Jase had his small hands pressed against a wound.

"She got hurt too bad… It's been hard healing her." Jase replied. His young face was determined and focused on the job at hand. "If I wasn't here, she would have died already." He clarified looking up at me quickly before looking back down. I noticed that there were large patches of dried blood in numerous places on her body; one of the main places seemed to be the one Jase was currently working on. Sweat was coated on Jase's forehead. He seemed to be struggling… I thought about my dad, mom, Alice, Jasper, and all the other vampires who had powers. They never had any trouble or had to struggle with using their's…

"Mom, I'm not full vampire like the rest of them." Jase said glancing at me then focusing back on Leah.

I nodded remembering that my son could read minds when he wanted to. Standing up on my toes, I tried to see around the mass of fur. Where were the rest of the Volturi?

The large black wolf, Sam, nodded and all the wolves moved, giving me the open window to see the yard. Nowhere in sight was the guard…

"They left. Aro took them and told us to tell Felix, Demitri, Jane and Alec to meet up with them later." Jase said. Again with the mind reading. "Sorry…" He mumbled. I smiled at my son and crouched down beside him.

"Anything you need me to do?" I asked watching his little hands glow with an unnatural light.

He nodded and bit his lip. "I need…" he sighed. I need werewolf blood. He said switching to his thought messages. His eyes looked guilty, like he did something bad.

"Okay," I stood back up. "Hey guys?" All the wolves' heads turned to look at me. "Umm, well Jase is weak and he needs some of your blood."

A low rumble came from one of the wolves' throat… most likely Paul… I continued to look to Sam, his word mattered the most. His eyes locked with mine as he nodded. I sighed in relief and turned back to Jase. "Honey, do you think you can keep the healing going while… feeding?" I asked awkwardly since feeding sounded weird…

He nodded.

I turned back to the wolves to see that a line had formed. I arched an eyebrow in question. "They're all doing it. That way no one loses too much blood and they're all helping." Jase answered to my silent question.

Oh that makes sense… I stepped to stand behind Jase. Quickly, Sam's wolf form stepped up and lay down, revealing his neck. Carefully without moving his hands, Jase leaned in and sank his teeth into the fur. He drank in the blood for half a minute then stopped to let Sam move and another to come in.

Within less than 10 minutes, at least 12 wolves had given Jase some of their blood. Jase's hands were now glowing much brighter and the wound was healing up much faster. Jase even looked better.

I gaped as the huge whole in Leah's side started to stitch itself back together under Jase's hands. With my eyesight, I could see the tissues twist back together, I could see the skin below the fur reattach, then the fur itself cover it back up. Slowly Jase withdrew his hands and sighed in relief. I wrapped my arm around him giving him a light squeeze. "You did it…" I whispered to him. "You all did it."

The storm started to pick up and drench us. Leah's eyes blinked open as she took in her surroundings and sat up. Sam barked, sending over half of his pack running into the forest. They were probably going to run rounds.

I hugged my son to my chest and stood up. "Leah, if you will, please go phase back and come inside." She looked up at Sam then stood up and ran into the forest.

"Momma, Sam says that he and a few others will be back. They're going to change back."

"Okay…" As Sam turned I thought of something. "Oh and Sam, could you find my husband and family and make sure they get home?"

He nodded. "Thanks… for it all…" He nodded again and took off running, the rest of his pack at his heels.

I walked back into the big house, happy to see it wasn't hurt or even touched in the battle. Thinking about how this hours, merely hours ago was filled with people dancing and partying, was hard to imagine with all the death and destruction that just occurred. I walked over to the couch and set Jase down. "Be right back." Just as I was about to go up the stairs, the door burst open. "Jacob!" I threw myself into his arms. "I'm so glad you're okay!" I cried.

"Shhh Ness, I'm fine." He said holding me. "Come on; let's move out of the way…" He moved me with him away from the door and back to the couch. As soon as we sat down, Jase threw himself into the hug. I couldn't really see anything besides the back of my eyelids which if open would only allow me to see Jacob's muscled chest, but I heard and smelled the rest of my family come in along with some of the wolves. I could distinctly smell the dried blood from Leah. Slowly, I pulled back and wiped my eyes. I had meant to go get towels but that was probably a wasted effort.

I glanced up to see my parents in a chair, my grandparents standing by the door, my aunts sitting on the stairs, my uncles standing by them, Leah standing uncomfortably by the door and Sam, Quil, Embry, Seth, Katelyn, Danielle, all coming in the door. Everyone's clothing was distorted and they all looked tired.

After everyone was in the house, Grandpa Carlisle walked to where he could be seen by all. Katelyn and Seth came and sat beside Jacob, Jase and I. I smiled and hugged Katelyn then looked back at Carlisle.

"I want to start by saying thank you all for your efforts in the fight. Without the help of the wolves and the Volturi, I'm afraid nobody could have survived an attack that massive. No matter how strong you are Emmett." He said smiling at Emmett who was about to say something. That got a small laugh out of most of us. "Everyone was needed in the battle and again, we thank you." There wasn't much that needed to be said… We were all alive, well except Rachel, but we already thought she died in the first place.

My mind started to race as I thought of Rachel. I thought about some of the stuff she said, "My abilities kicked in... Oh you know the regular regenerating ones." Was she going to just regenerate again and try to come back to kill my son and I?

"Renesmee," I looked up at the sound of my name. My dad was kneeling in front of me. "Don't think like that… She won't cause any more trouble… The Volturi have taken care of that…" I nodded but was confused on what the Volturi had to do with it. "Just don't worry okay?" I nodded again. He stood back up and went back to my mother who looked as confused as I felt.

Alice, out of nowhere, made some squeak noise and stormed upstairs in anger… There was no telling what that was about…

My dad and Jase busted out into laughter as Jasper followed her up the stairs. Everyone stared at them like they were crazy, including me.

"She… is… freaking out… over everyone's… clothes!" My dad explained between laughs. If he wasn't sitting down, he would have doubled over onto the ground.

Slowly but surely, everyone else started laughing. You also couldn't help it since Jase was. Contagious is an understatement in that category…

By the time Alice returned, she had a huge trunk with her and a glare on her face. She was already wearing new clothes.

"Shoo! Out! Scat!" She said to the wolves that were standing by the door laughing. That got us laughing even more.

"Alice, they're not cats!" I said laughing even harder, my breath was coming in short gasps. Seth was already on the floor clutching his stomach in pain from too much laughing. You could say we were slap happy…

Alice shot me a glare as the wolves walked out the door clutching their stomachs in laughter. "So… who's first?" She asked looking down at the trunk. In the blink of an eye, we all scrambled to our feet, slipping on the floor, trying to escape.

Everyone else was already out the door as I was trying to flee, but before I could get outside; a cold hand gripped my ankle and yanked me back… Oh no… anything but Alice and her clothes…

"You're first!"