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Say hi to the Volturi!

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Kat Smith: Listen, you're not a bitch ok? You are a lovely human being. A lovely human being with lovely dogs. I know how stupid teachers can be. Especially male ones. Don't give a damn to them. Hope you like what I'm about to do next. Also, do you know anneyongseyo?

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The clearing was filled with sizzling piles of bonfires, smelling of burning flesh. Edward gently dropped me to my feet before grabbing my hand tightly in his.

He led me to the group of vampire standing in the middle, near a big bonfire and I looked at him with a question. "The wolves had to leave. We don't know how they would take the truce with the pack." He shrugged and I nodded as Esme, Alice and Rosalie came to me, hugging me tightly. "Are you ok?" Rose asked. "Yeah," I smiled as Alice curved her nimble fingers around my chin and turned it. Esme winced at my face before looking at Edward.

"It was a human." He answered.

"Don't worry, Esme, I kicked his butt." I assured and Alice and Rosalie laughed while Carlisle joined us, wrapping an arm around his wife. "Don't worry, Tulika, once we're out of here, we will see to that bruise." He said. I smiled gratefully. I didn't know how I was going to explain that to Charlie.

"Stephen," I said.

"We sent him with the pack." Carlisle answered.

Something caught his ear and he walked nearer to where Jasper was standing. We followed and I gasped when I saw the girl sitting in the grass. She looked up when she heard me and her eyes went feverish. They were burning red as her mouth opened and a keening wail, her body stretching forward, claw like fingers digging deep into the ground.

I backed up into Edward feeling his arm wrap protectively around my midriff.

"Carlisle told her to stop fighting and they would spare her. Jasper and Eleazar disapprove." He whispered in my ear.

"Have you decided?" Carlisle asked gently.

"I want her!" the girl hissed and I felt Alice draw closer to me too as Jasper wrapped a large hand around her neck.

"Son," Carlisle said calmingly. "She doesn't know any better."

"She isn't even showing any restraint though." Jasper let go of the girl before looking at me. "Don't worry, T, she won't hurt you," he said gently brushing past me to join Eleazar as Carlisle continued talking to the girl.

I sighed, turning to look at everyone. They were safe. My family was safe. I hadn't lost anyone.

"I promised you we would be safe." Edward smiled at me, making me chuckle.

I turned to Edward wrapping my arms around his neck, pulling myself closer to him. He was still a little cold but I didn't care as he gently pressed his lips to my forehead.

"I love you so much." I whispered.

"I know. I still love you more. Please believe that." He said.

I nodded, looking over his shoulder as Emmett talked with the cousins and Jasper and Eleazar kept mumbling about something too low for me to hear.

"Eleazar is wondering if he should leave with Carmen and the girls." Edward told me.

"Why?" I asked, frowning.

"It will be preferable if we don't involve more than we need to." He said.

"I thought you said the Volturi was not bad in this reality." I mumbled.

"They aren't, but they are still strict. If they think we asked for help, they'll wonder why we didn't reach out to them."

"It's too late now, they're here." Alice muttered and immediately a wave of tension went through the group.

Edward wrapped both his arms around me as jasper and Emmett joined us, forming a semi circle around me, probably masking my scent. Carlisle stayed near the girl, all of their eyes intent on the farther tree line.

"How many," I asked.

"Four main and four more soldiers, eight," Edward counted.

I had to squint to see them but soon they were moving, separating from the mass of black as they moved into a line, each one wearing a dark cloak with a cape and cowl around the neck.

The one standing in the middle was the smallest, almost as small as me. They were soon standing right in front of us and they reached back to push back their hoods in synchrony.

I immediately snuggled closer to Edward's chest. If you weren't scared of the Volturi you had to be an idiot. Especially, since I knew I wasn't immune to their powers. I was extremely scared of the twins.

The girl in the middle had to be Jane. Petite, angelic, her luminescent face roved over all of us before settling on the newborn vampire.

"Jane," Carlisle said.

"Carlisle, it's good to see you. It's been years and you haven't visited. Aro misses you." She said in one breath, her voice high pitched and bell like.

"I have been busy, with work and keeping up appearances." Carlisle smiled a little before Jane's eyes flitted to the new born girl again.

"Hmm, it seems we have been rendered useless." She muttered.

"We didn't want to waste any more time in taking them down, they were already drawing too much attention." Carlisle explained.

"Of course," she was still looking at the girl.

"You," she snapped suddenly and I flinched, making Edward's arms tighten around me warningly. Her courteous voice was gone, replaced by a harsh snarl. "Name," she said.

The girl looked up when she felt she was being addressed, glaring at Jane. Jane smiled suddenly and that was the first time I saw a vampire using an offensive power against someone.

The girl's back arched, a piercing scream ringing through the clearing as she curled up into herself still screaming. I wanted to yell at Jane to stop but I didn't, digging my fingers into Edward's forearm to stop my impulsive thrashing.

Jane finally stopped, letting the girl breathe.

"Name," Jane asked again.

"Brea," she choked out.

"How many of you were there?" she continued.

"I don't…don't know, twenty, eighteen…I can't tell," Brea answered immediately.

Jane shot a look at Carlisle for confirmation and he nodded. "There were nineteen here." He said.

"Who created you?" Jane asked. Brea's eyes widened in fear as she darted about but I knew Victoria hadn't allowed her to see her. None of them had known her.

"Her name was Victoria." Carlisle said.

"Victoria…hmm and why did she feel the need to create an army?" she asked.

"They were planning on killing us! They were going to encroach on our territory, these strange yellow eyed ones and because of her! She has some way of killing us. She knows things!"

There was a ringing silence but Edward had already gone rigid next to me as Jane's eyes very slowly slid to our thick group, her eyes finding me easily.

"Oh…a human…" she mumbled, her voice had gone very low, almost predatory. Edward tugged me closer infinitesimally as the entire guard turned their heads to look at me, eyes wide in surprise.

"Oh Carlisle…what have you done?" one of them asked, almost sadly.

"Nothing that is beyond the rules, Demetri," Carlisle threw a stern look at the man.

"She's my mate." Edward said his eyes were holding me so close to him now; he was almost crushing me into him. Jane's eyes narrowed at me then dropped.

"Bring her forward," she said.

"Jane, she's one of us." Alice said.

"Then you don't have anything to hide, we won't hurt her, bring her forward," Jane said.

Edward had frozen solid but I put a hand on his chest, trying to pull away from him and he glared at me, pulling away his arms as I moved from within the group to stand in the front, looking down at my shoes.

There was a pause and then I felt two separate pairs of hands on me. I looked up to see Jane right in front of me, her hand on my cheek and Edward next to me, hands on my shoulders.

"Do not worry, Edward. I will not hurt the mate of a family friend." Jane laughed a tinkling laugh as she looked into my eyes.

"Do you have a name?" she asked.

"Tulika," I said immediately.

Jane's lips quirked in amusement as she glanced from me to the girl then back again. "She's scared of us. Now, why would the girl say you are a threat?" she asked.

"Victoria had a grudge against her. Her mate tried to kill Tulika and I in turn killed him." Edward said tightly.

"I see, well, I must say this is a very strange situation…" she paused suddenly when one of the men spoke up quickly.

"We need to bring her to Aro." He said.

Edward turned his head to frown at the boy as I looked at him too. The boy was identical to Jane. Big doe eyes, a fine straight nose, plump full lips, dark hair falling in fringes to his eyes, he was perfect. He averted his gaze from me, his eyes hard as he communicated with his twin.

"They have a bond." Edward explained my unspoken question and both of their eyes flickered to me.

"Well, well, well, I have to say my brother is right."

"Wait, what?" I asked.

"Your story is a little too convenient, my dear. Besides, we're just messengers. We have to show you to the leaders." She said.

No one said anything as Jane flickered her eyes to the big one…Felix.

"Kill that one, we have to go home."

Brea immediately began whimpering but no one said anything as Felix took hold of her hair, dragging her away to one of the burning piles.

Her screams were soon cut off as Jane smiled at me.

"I'm sure we'd get along really well…Tulika."

Take a minute and just ask yourself.

What am I going to do to your beloved Edika?