p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"Chapter 1: Love at First Sight/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"As the Volturi began their slow, terrifying march across the snowy field, it happened.../p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Jacob, Seth, and Edward stared at Leah in alarm.../p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"She had imprinted on Jane! Jane! Satan's Lilith herself. Evil personified./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Leah had never felt so protective towards anyone else, not even her little brother Seth. This was the cold one she had heard about? She was a mere child! Her maternal brain searched for answers. The Volturi were here because they thought that Renesmee was a forbidden immortal child...but Jane was clearly a child herself. She wasn't even five feet tall, and had never even developed breasts. She looked like a cherubim. Had Aro created an immortal child of his own? Is that why she was so wicked? If vampires' abilities are exaggerated manifestations of their human abilities, then why would a little girl possess the strongest ability to inflict pain this world had even seen? How could one so young be so sadist?/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Jane froze, suddenly enchanted by the beautiful silver wolf with copper ears and pale blue eyes. The wolf transitioned into an Indigenous woman with sharp features and shoulder-length sleek black hair, a large tribal tattoo on her upper arm. The wolf-turned-woman walked right up to the invisible front line between the two armies as if compelled./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Jacob tried to command her as her Alpha to get back and transition back into her wolf form, but the power of the imprint was much stronger than his control over her. Wolf Seth whined loudly in fear as his older sister faced the strongest, most sadistic and evil vampire coven in existence in her fragile human form. Edward and Carlisle also commanded her to fall in line, to no avail./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Jane was in a trance, already at the front line as the Volturi's main weapon. Her entire , immortal existence had been consumed with being used as Aro's weapon. She couldn't remember her human father, so Aro served that role in her life. When he wasn't sending her out to punish vampire heretics, she often spent her days sitting on his lap while he sat upon his throne in Volterra. He had saved her from the agony of the flames on the day of her human death. He had given her power and a purpose...inflicting pain on anyone in her path was an outlet of indiscriminate revenge for the pain she had endured while being burned at the stake./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"He would never let her go...unless he could have Alice or Edward./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"It was at this moment that Alice and Jasper entered the snow-covered valley with what appeared to be a human man. Alice approached Aro, who took her hand, kissed it, and gazed into her mind with his abilities. Jane felt pangs of jealousy, stabbing at her heart like the sharp icicles that hung around them from the pine trees and rocky crags. He learned the truth about Renesmee and the nature of hybrids like her and the creature who had accompanied her and Jasper. Next, Edward, Bella and Renesmee- who rode a large reddish-copper Wolf – approached Aro. Jane hated the Cullen's. Aro and the Volturi wanted to collect Alice, Edward, and his newborn shield Bella. She wasn't sure who she resented more- Alice for having the potential to be Aro's new favorite, or Bella for preventing her from inflicting pain, rendering her useless for the first time./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"But, when Aro took Renesmee's hand, Jane's jealousy multiplied tenfold. She tried harder to project an aura of pain over the Cullen's. Bella glared at her with all the rage of a mother bear, and protected them all with her mental shield. Jane moved to physically fight them, but her twin brother Alec held her back. This finally broke Aro's euphoric state and he severely chastised Jane, scolding her for making a move against the Cullen's without his command. Leah lunged forward, transitioning back into a Wolf, and Jacob in his Wolf form growled loudly and gave her a sharp nip on the neck in an attempt to bring her back in line before an all out war began with the Volturi. Aro turned to Edward and demanded to know what was going on./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Leah has imprinted on Jane, just as this copper Wolf named Jacob has imprinted on my daughter. That's why she was riding him. Here I will show you." said Edward, holding out his hand for Aro to take so that he may see the truth about imprinting when he looked into Edward's mind. Aro had already had a small glimpse when he had touched Renesmee's hand and knew that Edward spoke the truth about the shape shifter and his hybrid daughter./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""While this is certainly fascinating, our dear Jane will be going back to Italy with us.' said Aro, and turning back to Jane, he snarked, "And don't even bother to ask my Darling, you may not take home this stray puppy."/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You can't have my sister! She's mine! She stays with me!" yelled Alec./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Everyone turned at once at the sound of the quiet and stoic Marcus' voice, "Jane, my dear, I lost my mate long ago and the rest of my existence has been numb and meaningless. This is a decision only you must make. We must let her go if she wishes, Aro. We cannot deprive this child of her happiness after all she has done for us."/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"This threw Aro into a rage, "Absolutely not! Do not challenge me Brother! Jane is mine and she will remain with me!"/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Caius chimed in, "Perhaps we could arrange a trade, Brother. Our Long Awaited Alice and the newly established Edward Cullen clan would certainly make up for the loss of Jane under the condition that we kept Alec."/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Jane felt hopeful. Maybe she wouldn't have to choose between her family and the mysterious She-Wolf who she felt like she couldn't go on living without even though she'd only known her for mere minutes./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Alice stays with me!" Jasper snarled./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You can't have my daughter!" newborn Bella screamed. Wolf Jacob was poised to strike./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Aro backed up, but remained calm, "This is not a negotiation! We leave now with Jane and come to call on our Cullen friends another day."/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"It was then the normally monotone Jane spoke up. She had intended to come across as a strong independent woman ready to leave home, but her face and vocal chords remained that of a twelve year old little girl, so she came across as a spoiled and sullen daughter instead."/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Father, you cannot keep me locked away in a tower as you do your wife, Sulpicia!"/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Bella mused to herself that Edward probably would have kept her locked in a tower had she remained human, and was glad that she shielded him from hearing her thoughts./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You know that is for her own safety. We have many enemies waiting to kill my beautiful Sulpicia, just as they killed my sister Didyme."/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"It was at this moment that Edward read the terrible truth that had lain dormant in Aro's mind for so long that he had almost believed his own lies./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You killed her." he said in quiet revelation./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Lies! Heresy!" yelled Aro and Caius in unison./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"And then Jane remembered. It had been shortly after her changing. She had been sent off to her playroom by Aro. He had bought her all of the finest dolls and dresses in the world. But, she had snuck out of her room because she had become so attached to her Maker and loved to see him in action as a leader when he consorted late at night in the council chamber with Caius and Marcus. But this time Marcus did not join them because he was overcome with grief that night at the loss of his wife, and Aro's sister, Didyme. Jane had still had her teenage mind in those days and couldn't make sense of the whispers in Italian./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Is it true Aro? Father? Tell me it can't be true! I...I...I was supposed to be playing in my room, but I sneaked out, and I heard you...but...but I was just a child when I was turned and I spoke French and English and ...and...you were speaking Italian. I'd convinced myself for all these years that I misunderstood what you whispered to Caius about Didyme. I wanted to believe I misheard because she was your sister, as I am Alec's sister. Because you were her Maker, as you are my Maker."/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Suddenly, the once catatonic Marcus let out a demonic, guttural, throaty ROAR. His face was so contorted with grief, rage, and betrayal...his eyes so burgundy with blood lust...that he no longer resembled the human being he had once been. It all happened in a millisecond, too fast for human eyes, but the vampires bore witness to the gory overthrow of the Volturi./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Marcus had torn everyone apart like the ragdolls in Jane's playroom. Stone limbs lay everywhere as Marcus used all of the torches they had brought to burn them all – including himself – in a massive bonfire. The stench of death filled the mountain valley and the snow avalanched down the surrounding mountainsides./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"By some miracle, Wolf Leah had been able to grab Jane's cloak with her teeth and toss her up onto her back, sparing her from the coup. All of the vampires from the Cullen coven and the wolves ran back to the Cullen mansion before the snow collapsed around them. The other covens returned to their homes around the world, with the exception of the Romanians. Edward had held Renesmee close to his chest, and was able to shield her from seeing the carnage. But, Bella knew from her visit to Volterra when she was still human, that her daughter would never forget the sounds of death./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"As they arrived at the Cullen mansion Jane began hyperventilating./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""ALEC! ALEC! NO! ALEC! PLEASE! NO! ALEC!" She let out a Harpy screech and for a second all of their nerves were consumed by the sensation of fire until Bella shielded them all./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Jacob and Edward comforted a sobbing Renesmee./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Jane's otherworldly screaming continued for several minutes as her features contorted, threatening to turn her into a demon like Marcus. All the while she was projecting the pain illusion while a barely restrained newborn Bella focused on holding up the shield instead of ripping Jane's head off of her shoulders./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Sam! Kill her now!" Edward commanded./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Leah Wolf lunged herself outside of Bella's shield of mental protection and though she was incapacitated with pain she somehow through the power of the imprint was able to crawl over to Jane and nudge her hand with her snout. Jane immediately collapsed to the snowy ground of the Cullen's yard and began sobbing. She had transformed from Lilith back into a little girl, one with tears of blood running down her cherubic cheeks into the fresh-fallen snow./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"As the Volturi began their slow, terrifying march across the snowy field, it happened.../p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Jacob, Seth, and Edward stared at Leah in alarm.../p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"She had imprinted on Jane! Jane! Satan's Lilith herself. Evil personified./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Leah had never felt so protective towards anyone else, not even her little brother Seth. This was the cold one she had heard about? She was a mere child! Her maternal brain searched for answers. The Volturi were here because they thought that Renesmee was a forbidden immortal child...but Jane was clearly a child herself. She wasn't even five feet tall, and had never even developed breasts. She looked like a cherubim. Had Aro created an immortal child of his own? Is that why she was so wicked? If vampires' abilities are exaggerated manifestations of their human abilities, then why would a little girl possess the strongest ability to inflict pain this world had even seen? How could one so young be so sadist?/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Jane froze, suddenly enchanted by the beautiful silver wolf with copper ears and pale blue eyes. The wolf transitioned into an Indigenous woman with sharp features and shoulder-length sleek black hair, a large tribal tattoo on her upper arm. The wolf-turned-woman walked right up to the invisible front line between the two armies as if compelled./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Jacob tried to command her as her Alpha to get back and transition back into her wolf form, but the power of the imprint was much stronger than his control over her. Wolf Seth whined loudly in fear as his older sister faced the strongest, most sadistic and evil vampire coven in existence in her fragile human form. Edward and Carlisle also commanded her to fall in line, to no avail./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Jane was in a trance, already at the front line as the Volturi's main weapon. Her entire , immortal existence had been consumed with being used as Aro's weapon. She couldn't remember her human father, so Aro served that role in her life. When he wasn't sending her out to punish vampire heretics, she often spent her days sitting on his lap while he sat upon his throne in Volterra. He had saved her from the agony of the flames on the day of her human death. He had given her power and a purpose...inflicting pain on anyone in her path was an outlet of indiscriminate revenge for the pain she had endured while being burned at the stake./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"He would never let her go...unless he could have Alice or Edward./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"It was at this moment that Alice and Jasper entered the snow-covered valley with what appeared to be a human man. Alice approached Aro, who took her hand, kissed it, and gazed into her mind with his abilities. Jane felt pangs of jealousy, stabbing at her heart like the sharp icicles that hung around them from the pine trees and rocky crags. He learned the truth about Renesmee and the nature of hybrids like her and the creature who had accompanied her and Jasper. Next, Edward, Bella and Renesmee- who rode a large reddish-copper Wolf – approached Aro. Jane hated the Cullen's. Aro and the Volturi wanted to collect Alice, Edward, and his newborn shield Bella. She wasn't sure who she resented more- Alice for having the potential to be Aro's new favorite, or Bella for preventing her from inflicting pain, rendering her useless for the first time./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"But, when Aro took Renesmee's hand, Jane's jealousy multiplied tenfold. She tried harder to project an aura of pain over the Cullen's. Bella glared at her with all the rage of a mother bear, and protected them all with her mental shield. Jane moved to physically fight them, but her twin brother Alec held her back. This finally broke Aro's euphoric state and he severely chastised Jane, scolding her for making a move against the Cullen's without his command. Leah lunged forward, transitioning back into a Wolf, and Jacob in his Wolf form growled loudly and gave her a sharp nip on the neck in an attempt to bring her back in line before an all out war began with the Volturi. Aro turned to Edward and demanded to know what was going on./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Leah has imprinted on Jane, just as this copper Wolf named Jacob has imprinted on my daughter. That's why she was riding him. Here I will show you." said Edward, holding out his hand for Aro to take so that he may see the truth about imprinting when he looked into Edward's mind. Aro had already had a small glimpse when he had touched Renesmee's hand and knew that Edward spoke the truth about the shape shifter and his hybrid daughter./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""While this is certainly fascinating, our dear Jane will be going back to Italy with us.' said Aro, and turning back to Jane, he snarked, "And don't even bother to ask my Darling, you may not take home this stray puppy."/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You can't have my sister! She's mine! She stays with me!" yelled Alec./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Everyone turned at once at the sound of the quiet and stoic Marcus' voice, "Jane, my dear, I lost my mate long ago and the rest of my existence has been numb and meaningless. This is a decision only you must make. We must let her go if she wishes, Aro. We cannot deprive this child of her happiness after all she has done for us."/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"This threw Aro into a rage, "Absolutely not! Do not challenge me Brother! Jane is mine and she will remain with me!"/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Caius chimed in, "Perhaps we could arrange a trade, Brother. Our Long Awaited Alice and the newly established Edward Cullen clan would certainly make up for the loss of Jane under the condition that we kept Alec."/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Jane felt hopeful. Maybe she wouldn't have to choose between her family and the mysterious She-Wolf who she felt like she couldn't go on living without even though she'd only known her for mere minutes./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Alice stays with me!" Jasper snarled./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You can't have my daughter!" newborn Bella screamed. Wolf Jacob was poised to strike./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Aro backed up, but remained calm, "This is not a negotiation! We leave now with Jane and come to call on our Cullen friends another day."/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"It was then the normally monotone Jane spoke up. She had intended to come across as a strong independent woman ready to leave home, but her face and vocal chords remained that of a twelve year old little girl, so she came across as a spoiled and sullen daughter instead."/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Father, you cannot keep me locked away in a tower as you do your wife, Sulpicia!"/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Bella mused to herself that Edward probably would have kept her locked in a tower had she remained human, and was glad that she shielded him from hearing her thoughts./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You know that is for her own safety. We have many enemies waiting to kill my beautiful Sulpicia, just as they killed my sister Didyme."/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"It was at this moment that Edward read the terrible truth that had lain dormant in Aro's mind for so long that he had almost believed his own lies./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""You killed her." he said in quiet revelation./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Lies! Heresy!" yelled Aro and Caius in unison./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"And then Jane remembered. It had been shortly after her changing. She had been sent off to her playroom by Aro. He had bought her all of the finest dolls and dresses in the world. But, she had snuck out of her room because she had become so attached to her Maker and loved to see him in action as a leader when he consorted late at night in the council chamber with Caius and Marcus. But this time Marcus did not join them because he was overcome with grief that night at the loss of his wife, and Aro's sister, Didyme. Jane had still had her teenage mind in those days and couldn't make sense of the whispers in Italian./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Is it true Aro? Father? Tell me it can't be true! I...I...I was supposed to be playing in my room, but I sneaked out, and I heard you...but...but I was just a child when I was turned and I spoke French and English and ...and...you were speaking Italian. I'd convinced myself for all these years that I misunderstood what you whispered to Caius about Didyme. I wanted to believe I misheard because she was your sister, as I am Alec's sister. Because you were her Maker, as you are my Maker."/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Suddenly, the once catatonic Marcus let out a demonic, guttural, throaty ROAR. His face was so contorted with grief, rage, and betrayal...his eyes so burgundy with blood lust...that he no longer resembled the human being he had once been. It all happened in a millisecond, too fast for human eyes, but the vampires bore witness to the gory overthrow of the Volturi./p
p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Marcus had torn everyone apart like the ragdolls in Jane's playroom. Stone limbs lay everywhere as Marcus used all of the torches they had brought to burn them all – including himself – in a massive bonfire. The stench of death filled the mountain valley and the snow avalanched down the surrounding mountainsides./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"By some miracle, Wolf Leah had been able to grab Jane's cloak with her teeth and toss her up onto her back, sparing her from the coup. All of the vampires from the Cullen coven and the wolves ran back to the Cullen mansion before the snow collapsed around them. The other covens returned to their homes around the world, with the exception of the Romanians. Edward had held Renesmee close to his chest, and was able to shield her from seeing the carnage. But, Bella knew from her visit to Volterra when she was still human, that her daughter would never forget the sounds of death./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"As they arrived at the Cullen mansion Jane began hyperventilating./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""ALEC! ALEC! NO! ALEC! PLEASE! NO! ALEC!" She let out a Harpy screech and for a second all of their nerves were consumed by the sensation of fire until Bella shielded them all./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Jacob and Edward comforted a sobbing Renesmee./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Jane's otherworldly screaming continued for several minutes as her features contorted, threatening to turn her into a demon like Marcus. All the while she was projecting the pain illusion while a barely restrained newborn Bella focused on holding up the shield instead of ripping Jane's head off of her shoulders./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Sam! Kill her now!" Edward commanded./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Leah Wolf lunged herself outside of Bella's shield of mental protection and though she was incapacitated with pain she somehow through the power of the imprint was able to crawl over to Jane and nudge her hand with her snout. Jane immediately collapsed to the snowy ground of the Cullen's yard and began sobbing. She had transformed from Lilith back into a little girl, one with tears of blood running down her cherubic cheeks into the fresh-fallen snow./p
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