Adelaide made her way carefully to Bella's room. She could sense something was off, it didn't sound like multiple people in Bella's room. It had to be an intruder, there was no way they had returned from their fight so soon and at this time. Adelaide clutched her necklace and opened the door.

"Ah, they told me I would be crazy to come here and look. They said I might die out here with the coven watching over this place." A shadowy figure ran fast across Bella's room, shoving Adelaide closer inside and slamming the door behind her. Adelaide lost her footing and nearly fell on the bed before a cold hand grabbed her arm to keep her up, goosebumps down her arm.

"Yes, so gorgeous. Just as I remember you being." The voice of the shadowy man was airy, it sounded as if he wasn't opening his mouth all the way to speak his words and just let them tumble out of his mouth.

"I am afraid I don't remember you," Adelaide started, "but I can assure you that your friends were right. The other coven won't appreciate you being out here."

"Did you make friends with them?" He asked, while pulling her upright and close to his body. Her back was still facing him, unable to see his face. "Of course you didn't. If you had, they would never let you be out of their sight. You are too valuable, even to those sorry excuses for vampires here."

"I don't know, I feel like you are the sorry excuse for a vampire. What, you have one life goal? And it is taking you how many decades, no wait, at least a century, to come this close?" Mocking this vampire, making him feel more anger, was probably the worst way to go in her current situation. However Adelaide knew that she needed to stall, bide her time with him. She needed to get help and knew how to get help, but she couldn't until she could assume the battle was over. If Edward drank her blood she could get him out here. It would only cause more problems for her to explain what she had done, but she needed to live through this.

The wolves had run Jacob back to the reservoir to try and tend to his wounds. From what they could tell his entire right side of his body had been mangled by the newborn attack. The wolves were going to allow Carlisle onto the reservoir once they had finished disposing of the bodies. Alice had a vision of the Volturi making an appearance soon, so they had to act quickly. Esme and Alice ran around trying to cover the scent of the wolves with the body parts of the newborn vampires. Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie were handling the bodies by throwing them into the large bonfire which Carlisle had built. Edward sat consoling Bella, hiding his annoyance that she worried so much about the wolf.

Esme had noticed something was different about Edward. His eyes were still dark and he seemed to be twitching his head, listening to many different noises all around him. It wasn't unusual for him to move his head towards whoever's mind he was reading but the amount and pace of his movement made him suspicious.

"Edward," Esme called out to him but as she did Edward shot her a glance and shook his head. It wasn't a good time to tell her what was happening.

Once they were done grabbing all the body parts and the bonfire was lit the only thing the Cullen family had to wait for was the Volturi to show up.

It was then Edward felt a ringing in his ear and then a song. He couldn't understand the words but he knew he had to leave. Almost like something was controlling him he turned instinctively around and began to ran.

"Edward!" Bella called after him, crying out his name. Despite their bond it wasn't enough to break his concentration to find where the song was coming from.

"That's why my message wasn't clear…" Adelaide's warm body was on the ground outside of the Swan's house. She had tried to fight the man in Bella's bedroom but her abilities were weakened by her current state. She couldn't lay a hand on him. Had he been a newborn vampire Adelaide might have been okay, but this man was no newborn vampire. No, he was a hunter. Trained to find those like Adelaide.

Adelaide laid motionless after the fall from Bella's window, glass shattered all around her and in her spine. However she was not bleeding, as she was using the moisture from the ground as a healing agent for her back where the glass shards were. She didn't have much energy left but she couldn't get the scent of her blood out there, she needed to hold it in.

The cold air bit at her lips and nose. This had to be why her message on the papers never became clear, it was because she wouldn't live to see either result. The hunter's shadowy figure stepped over Adelaide's body ready to finish what he came here for. Her right hand clutched the necklace around her neck, she had called for Edward right as she was thrown out of the window. Adelaide couldn't get any more time with this monster and right now it was do or die.

"I haven't decided if I should just take the necklace right off of you. Could you do me a favor and tell me if someone like me could use it? Or should I hunt down the rest of your family and find a weaker mind then you? I don't really want to keep you, but if you tell me you are the only one who can use that power, then I might have to let you live." The hunter smirked at her, he wanted to kill her. He wanted to squeeze the life out of her and see her eyes roll back into her head. Adelaide truly could not remember him but the animosity he held for her made it seem like they had to have met before.

"Tell me, quickly. Before I just decide you aren't worth it." He stepped on her chest, pushing down very slightly. They both knew that just a slight more pressure on her would cause her lungs to collapse and for her to die.

Then something happened so quickly that Adelaide didn't have any time to register what was happening. She felt the pressure on her chest grow as the vampire put more and more pressure on her when suddenly the weight was completely lifted off of her. She thought she had died in that instant due to the shock of it all. One moment she went from feeling no air in her lungs, her breath escaping her, gasping, she had failed her family. Adelaide was ready to embrace the cold of the ground and move onto her next life. Maybe she would be born normal? In a life with a real home on the land. A place she could be safe with a family, far away from vampires and hunters.

When she was able to breathe again she was still on the ground outside the house, but heard a fight going on near her. It was Edward and the hunter and as she turned her head to look over at the two another blurry figure passed right on over her, Emmett had joined in to help Edward fight.

The two were enough to take on the elder vampire as they had caught him by surprise. The hunter had no clue that Edward was still powered with Adelaide's blood and he didn't expect another vampire to join in on the fight. For Adelaide the fight seemed ages long but in reality it was over quite fast. Edward leaped into the air to slam down on the hunter while Emmett grabbed his leg mid run to trip in right underneath were Edward would land. While downed Edward grabbed onto the hunters head and began twisting, Emmett still held onto the back of the legs to keep him from running off. And with a sickening noise that sounded like both glass breaking and a statue falling from its pedestal, the hunters head was removed from his body.

"Add it to the burn pile?" Emmett casually asked Edward. Emmett didn't question why Edward was here, who the vampire was, or what Adelaide was doing on the ground. If Adelaide hadn't been in so much pain, and still catching her breath, she would have laughed. Then again, how could she laugh? She had lived through the hunter, her papers never made it clear what path she should take, but now she realized why. It wasn't because she was going to die here, it was because there was only one path to take this entire time, despite the consequences that may come, she needed the Cullens.

"Adelaide," Emmett said in a soft voice as he quickly appeared by her side. He knelt down in the glass put his hand on top of her hand, which still was clenching her necklace tightly, "What happened here?"

"I would explain but," Adelaide let out a small grunt, "I am still recovering from it."

"You have," Edward started to say, while standing up from the hunter's body. His voice became menacing and deep, "a lot," he continued as he turned to her, his eyes almost black, "to explain." He rushed over to her, pushing Emmett away with what seemed like barely any force, but enough to make Emmett, a brick, to fall back. Edward wrapped a hand around Adelaide's throat, the feeling of not being able to breath suddenly overcoming her once again.