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WOW...WOW...Thank you so much. Words can't een describe. 29 reviews since last update. WOW. much closer to the review: favorite ratio (50:50) I dream of every night. Thanks again. Kindly keep it up. Now the part of the show where I can be silly.

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C Thompson: Ooooo finesse...like my shampoo. Madamoiselle Turtle? I like it. It has a certain ring to it. Forget Lily. That's a much better name. Neway, thanks for your salutation. hmmm reminds me of charlottes web. nevermind me, im just prattling. You too? What's with the death and destruction? o well, thank you anyway. I shall now fortify my bomb shelter.

minimeyer: because...JUSt because. And edward thinks that's reason enough so MHEH! tehehehe :P

DuckChick: I like ducks too. In fact, I adore anything that waddles, penguins, ducks, errr... other waddly type creatures. It's a thing...neways. I bet you he'd get paid a million bucks per shoot if he agreed. Edward's really missing out on some dough. Thanks for the review.

Melody Cullen: Kill Edward?! hmmm...ill think about it and get back to you on that. (shify eyes) Thanks for the review. ly...blah blah...youre a regular...you know the drill. Pink elephants...I heard they live in Dumbo. Yes the classic disney movie. Or...if you don't feel like animating yourself, theirs some in Turkey, or so the rumor goes.

sparklette: Thank you. Wait no more! So...are you just a very small sparkle?

GoodbyeLove4: I know. Sadness just keeps seeping into my story. I try to write humor but the sadness, drama, suspense bug has bitten me. Sadly, there is no cure. Thanks for the review. Come again. :D

shadow-wolf: Ill get around to explaining faeries in greater detail sometime. Errr... Read holly black books, or hunter's moon. They're not of the tinkerbell variety. They're big, powerful, mischeivous. Think Jareth from Labyrinth if youve ever seen that. Sidhe are an old irish myth. Although some would disagree... k. loving for forever beginningg...now!

breaking dawn: Wait Begone! Thanks.

Eliane: KK...Thanks for the love homeslice. (tehehe)

iamswitzerland: Thanks. Well, you know, I try. neways, Accio is a spell in harry potter used to summon things. It's like an...errr..."Come here!" Man do I feel like a dork. Yes well, books rock my nerdy socks, or so the facebook piece of flair says.

social distortionist: I love when people people laugh or quote. You did both. YAY! made my day. Neways thanks. ooooo double smiley. Nice.

angelfromhell: NOOOO Harry potter is happily married to genny weasley...or so the poorly written epilogue told me. Gah. Crossovers. Delicate subject matter there. Either can go very well or very very VERY badly. Tum tum tum, its a bird, its a plane, no its HARRY POTTAH!Get the snitch! i wow...Excuse me, ive temporarily lost my mind. If you find it, plz return it to the mailing adress listed on the cerebral cortex... o and thanks.

minilove4ever: u crazy people and your dashed pen names. Madness i tell you, MADNESS! That being said, thank you for the review. (lol)

jjrenee85: Good directions... HEHEHE. With the way Edward's going, avoiding it and all, he might need some GPS installed into his uber vampire brain. Thanks again.

LaruenBTtwilight fan: IM TYPING IM TYPING. lol thanks though. No pressure though, right? HOw in the world you resisted cheesecake is beyond me. But wow. Im impresssed, and touched beyond words. I have two others...No More Bears, and Off the Job. both funny. but off the job is a parody about what happens when the characters are not in use.

nobodyparticular: OUR GALS BEAT LSU...by one pt. but still. I knowwwww. Magic spells just don't work like they used to. Neways, blah bee blah. C Underlined Text.

thefuturemrsedwardcullen: OMG THAT STORY GRATED ON MY NERVES SO MUCH!! grrr... i meant to flame but i couldn't see past the red fury in my eyes. grrrrrrr again. What a jerk. Glad she's stopped writing though. and i hope to god that isn't how she really writes. Pandy's on its way. I only got five measly minutes with it :( bye bye pandy... o yeah, thanks.

inlovewithyouforever: thanks katie

meyarose: this story was originally meant to be a comedy...Now its a strange mixture of everything. Read underlined text.

mediavalagression: mwuahaha. they are my specialteeee! emphasis on the eeeeee. glad u like.

albnal33: my word, this is taking forever...hmmm...i cant hear you giving away my plot...lalalala...or do i just WANT you to think that. My bomb shelter is TOO high tech for you. Lil jon...hehehe as well.

horsecrazed: ME TOOOOOO!! about the horses. But of course, i live in tennessee so that is to be expected.

shatteredlovebrokendreams:Entry fees are 2 dollars for the llamas and free for the smirfs...they'll probaly attack you neways. Its a smirf thing. SUper sharp pitchforks, with built in flamethrowers. thanks again.

kerssica: HERE WE GO! my hand hurts alot right now. THat's how much i like you! Red hair? interessting. Kersica the flying irish reindeer? o wait...ya you live in the netherlands. i forgot. I think i see you. You're a smudge on the horizon...o wait...that's jsut a blimp for heinz ketchup. AM SOOO in for hitchkikeing to Alaska to free the fun. THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE FUN! (gollum gollum) it's a quest. YAY. plz breathe. And emmett just hasnt been up to his creativity standards lately. Im severly dissapointed. I tried to wizrd myself some time. believe me. It failed tho. GPS...that would be my special power. Quasimodo Bella version? hmmm... sounds fun. Sadly, that's locked up in Alaska right now. Newho, read underlined txt.

mattybabe: now... would u like your name to have alliteration or rhyming? Mattybabe the Mongolian eal. Mattybabe the Manatee? Mattybabe the Narwhal? I just like narwhals. nice english accent, chap. Thanks again. Especiall for your zoo contribution.

INVX: right there with you. THanks again.

Chapter 19 and ONe-Half

"Jasper, I can't believe you would even think of doing that! After all Bella's done for me!" Edward shouted.

He had Jasper pinned up against the wall by the collar of his shirt.

"Calm down, Edward. I didn't mean it. I'm just saying that it would be an advantage, not that I would ever do it!" Jasper yelled back. "Settle down!"

Alright, so maybe going to the meeting hadn't been such a lovely idea. Jasper was thinking about using my blood as a "secret weapon" to beat the Fae. Edward, naturally, promptly had a conniption.

Esme, Alice, and I all stalked over at the same time, hands on our hips. "Stop this now."

Edward took one look at Jasper's smug face before setting him down slowly.

"Jasper just thinks in military terms, that's all," Alice defended her husband.

"I know," I said, "Edward just overreacts."

"Hey!" he said.

I glanced at him with the best innocent, pouty face I could muster, and shrugged. He looked like he was about to protest, but then nodded in agreement.

After we had all gone to sit over at the couch again, tension dissipated for the most part, except the teensy underlying current of oh, 'everyone has to fight a near impossible war against malevolent faerie super-people…' Edward took a deep breath.

"Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we could win that do not," he shot a hard look at Jasper, "involve ending my fiancée's life?"

I was sure Carlisle would have an answer to this conundrum, but he and Emmett were out 'recruiting' at the moment, trying to petition other vampires to join their cause.

"We'll have to take them by surprise," Jasper finally conceded. "The Fae are masters of illusion. That'll be our biggest problem, trying to sort out the fake from the real." Here, he paused and looked at me. "That's why we need Edward so badly." His tone was apologetic.

I nodded and gripped Edward's hand tighter. Over the last hours, I had tried to convince myself that Edward fighting didn't necessarily equate Edward dying. Jasper being at the meeting had helped mellow my emotions, too, although there was a strange nuance of guilt ever present with everything.

"He'll be able to tell the difference," Jasper continued. "And also, we'll have the Volturi..."

I started. "The Volturi?"

Edward looped his arm around my shoulders. "Another reason why..."

He didn't finish the sentence. He didn't have to. This was just another reason that I had to skip town. I glanced at Alice. "When will they arrive?"

"Day after tomorrow."

"When will the fight be?"

She shot an uneasy glance at Edward and he nodded.

"Night after tomorrow," she admitted.

I gasped. The clock was ticking now, terrifyingly loud.

"We know what we're doing," Rosalie said.

"Yeah, I know," I looked at them all sheepishly. "I'm just having a mild mental breakdown."

"Obviously," Edward said.

"Because you know all about those, don't you?" I teased.

He chuckled. His melodious laugh, like deep bells, soon elicited my own.

Jasper appeared irritated. "No laughing at the war planning session!"

We looked over at him with guilty smiles, two kids caught with chocolate crumbs on their faces before dinner-time.

"Lighten up," Alice told him.

He scowled at her. "This is a war! Not a stroll the park, not picking wildflowers in the meadow, a war! And it'll be the hardest we've ever fought in."

Everyone immediately sobered, the little bubble of comfort, denial, and homeliness abruptly destroyed.

"Our greatest strength will be in numbers," he continued. "A newborn army would be ideal if we had had time. If someone," his eyes hurled daggers at Alice. "Had seen this coming."

"I was busy with everything else," she defended. "Carlisle would never have supported that anyway. Jeeze, Jaz!" She scooted away from him on the sofa.

"I know, love." He looked down and sighed, before gently brushing her shoulder. "I'm just stressed, and everyone else is stressed...which isn't helping. Forgive me?"

She turned and looked into his eyes. It was another one of their intimate eye conversations. Automatically out of respect, I averted my gaze.

I heard Rosalie's impatient huff, then assumed it safe to look up.

Alice and Jasper were holding hands now.

"Could we trap them?" Esme asked.

Edward shook his head. "They wouldn't fall for it, would they Alice?"

"No, they'd see through it in a blink. We're going to have to just do it the old-fashioned way?"

Suddenly the door opened. Carlisle and Emmett strolled in. Esme and Rosalie both rose to greet them.

Emmett was wearing a grin that stretched from ear to ear. "You mean like kung fu?" he asked Alice.

Alice rolled her eyes, before muttering, "It wouldn't hurt."

I pondered for a minute. Ninja vampires...hmmmm.

"Bella?" Edward was gazing at me strangely, one eye narrowed. "What are you thinking of?"

Placing my hand on his shoulder, I said, "You really don't want to know."

"Recruit many?" Edward asked of his father-figure.

Carlisle nodded, a strange victorious glint in his eyes. "Quite a few actually. We persuaded them to stay far away from Forks until after the wedding. We'll be on patrol tonight, too. We ran down to Texas."

My mouth fell open at the concept of simply running across several states in a day.

"Those vampires have acclimated to a violent lifestyle," he continued. "In total, we'll have nearly fifty-four fighting with us."

"And the Volturi," Alice added.

He smiled. "I never thought I'd be happy to hear that."

Those odds sounded infinitely better to me. Edward can do this. Edward can do this. You can do this. You can be brave...

A/N: Just a filler. Exams...realllll busy. More coming tonight? Tomorrow? Sometime then. I've kept you waiting too long. The guilt is painful. : So, here ya go. Something to chew on. Just some more info, some funny bits. My favorite is "No laughing at the war planning session!" God, i love jasper. Now, here's the question. Clearly, there will be a battle. And even more clearly is Bella is probably not going to be there for a good part of it. Would you like battle snippets from different characters points of view, or would that ruin it for you?