Chapter 3: Threats

Nessie's POV

I hadn't felt this much fear since I first came face to face with the Volturi so many years ago. My heart was beating fast. My senses were hyper aware of everything that was going on. My life could be over in a second if he decided to kill me.

"My my. Young Renesmee. How you have grown,"

I didn't know it was possible but somehow my heart started beating even faster. When he approached me my upper body started trembling in nervousness. The man just smiled. There was nothing I could do when he decided to grab my hand. I wanted to rip my hand away from him but that would probably just result in me losing my hand altogether.

"Perhaps you're too young to Remember me Renesmee. But I remember you. I made a vow to the Cullens that I would find you if it was the last thing I did. Here I am finally able to fulfill my promise. It's been 13 years. So imagine my surprise when one of my informants told me that he had found you,"

"Please don't hurt me," I begged. "I'm not a threat anymore. Just look at me,"

"Oh but you are. You may be all human now but you still have knowledge of our kind. You're a human living amongst humans. Yet you also have knowledge of our kind. That maked you a threat. A liability that I can't live with,"

"But I haven't talked in 13 years. Why would I talk now?" I was trying to not sound scared but I was failing miserably. I could hear my own voice cracking in fear.

"You may not have spoken yet but you still can. You're still a liability,"

"Please," I couldn't believe that I was begging but it was all that I could do in the vain hope he would decide on leniency and not kill me.

"Oh I won't kill you yet. But I will soon. Unexpectedly. It'll be more fun to torture you first," and just like that he vanished. My body was still shaking and my heartbeat was going so fast that I was surprised it hadn't alerted the nurses.

I took a few deep breaths but thst did nothing to calm me. I was sweating bullets now. I hadn't feared for my life like this since I was little. I'd lived in peace for 13 years and now I'm back to fearing for my life again. Only this time I didn't have a family to protect me. I didn't even have my own half vampire powers to help me.

When I went to sleep that night I was scared that I wouldn't wake up in the morning. Terrified that Aro would come back and kill me in my sleep. Which actually would have been better the more I thought about it. Nobody stayed with me at night either. Sure a human wouldn't have been able to protect me but I would've appreciated having even a false sense of security.

The onlu reprieve I was getting from my worry was all the drugs the doctors were pumping into my body to keep me from feeling a lot of pain. I felt like I was in a dream like state half the time. I wasn't sure when the doctors were going to release me but it didn't seem like it was going to be anytime soon.

I hated being there. I hated being paralyzed. I hated that I had to fear for my life again when I've done absolutely nothing wrong. It wasn't fair. I hated that my biological family wasn't able to be here with me when I needed them most.

Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse. They did. About a week after waking up my boyfriend, Liam, came to visit. I was angry at him for taking so long to come visit me but I didn't realize it was about to get a whole lot worse.

"Hi Liam. How are you?"

"I'm sorry Vanessa,"

"Sorry. Sorry for what?"

"Not coming to visit you sooner but I wanted to wait until you were fully awake before telling you,"

"Telling me what?"

"Well I want to break up,:

"What? Why?"

"Isn't it obvious?" he remarked rather harshly. "You're not good enough for me anymore because of your condition,"

"What-"

"Oh for Gosakes you're a beautiful girl but I only liked you for one thing. I have needs. Needs that you can't fulfill anymore,"

"You're dumping me because I can't have sex anymore?!"

"Hey I only liked you because your beautiful and having sex with you all the time was awesome but you can't do that anymore. So I'm dumping you for someone else. Someone who can give me what I want, no, what I need,"

I didn't know if I was more angry or hurt. I loved him. I thought he loved me to. We spent a lot of time together. I spent a lot of time at his house. I probably went over there three or four times during the week. Not including the weekend. Yes we had sex every single time but I never would've guessed that he was just using me. I loved him and I thought he loved me as well. We'd been together for two years already. I never imagined he would just dump me because I couldn't have sex anymore.

"Go," I said.

"Vanessa-"

"Just go!" I shouted.

"Jesus girls are so temperamental sometimes," I heard him mumble as he walked out.

I got out of the hospital a few days late . Returning home did nothing to improve my mood. I was still angry at my foster parents for refusing to give me the surgery. I argued with them so many times over it and they always refused because they thought it was "to risky,"

When I finally returned to school I couldn't stand the way people looked at me when they saw me in a wheelchair. I didn't want people to feel sorry for me. What I hated most about school though was seeing how fast Liam found himself a new girlfriend. I still couldn't believe what had happened. I thought we had something solid. I thought he would be there for me no matter what. I even imagined getting married and having kids with him one day. Over the weeks I found myself seeking deeper and deeper into a depression. I'd lost my ability to walk, my racing, my boyfriend, I'd lost everything. Then there was the fear that Aro would come back and kill me at any moment.

Then one night while I was doing homework I got a phone call. I didn't look at the caller before answering.

"Hello?"

"Renesmee it's me. Matthew,"

Oh crap I'd almost forgotten about the private investigator I hired!

"Hey kid are you there?"

"Oh yes. Sorry. I was just nevermind-"

"Well I have some news for you. It was a lot of work. You're family wasn't easy to trace since they've moved around a lot these last few years. Oregon, Chicago, Alaska, New York. But I found them,"

"What?" I could hardly believe what I was hearing.

"I tracked your father down all the way to the hospital he works at New York. I went today. Carlisle kept trying to blow me off at first since he was very busy. That was until I dropped your name. He invited me over to explain my story to the whole family,"

"Then what happened?"

"kid you should've seen the emotional reactions from everyone. Especially Edward and Bella,"

"So what happens now? Are you going to arrange a meeting between them and I?"

"They're already on a plane flying to Kentucky to see you,"

Words failed me and emotion overtook me.

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