Disclaimer: I don't own Twilight, but how cool would it be if I did?! Just think of how gay everything would have been.

A/N: So I'm sorry if I'm not posting as regularly as I used too. A lot has been going on this semester and I've been going to the hospital a lot. It's gotten to the point that when I walk in all the doctors and nurses know my name. That's really sad y'all!

Tanya's P.O.V.

I would have loved nothing more than to marry Bella right then and there, but I need her to be 100% sure before we do anything. So here I am again staring up at the ceiling while my gorgeous mate sleeps peacefully next to me. She is literally the only person I know who can propose twice and go to sleep right after without an answer. I for some reason find it enduring at this point.

I can't hide the fact that I hope Bella doesn't change her mind upon waking up in the morning. I can't wait for the moment that I get to call her my wife, and in all honesty the sooner the better in my opinion.

I'm pulled out of my inner musings by my phone vibrating on the nightstand. I quickly reach over and grab it before it has the chance to wake Bella up. I look and see that it's the text from Alice I've been waiting for.

Everybody's on the way back to the house now. It's up to you if you would like to wake Bella up now or wait until later.

I sigh as I look down at Bella and see her resting peacefully. I would hate to bother her right now after such a tough day. I quickly text Alice back telling her to keep everybody outside and quiet.

I gently kissed Bella's forehead as I slowly slide out of bed. I quietly exit our room and head downstairs. I really hope this talk doesn't take too long.

I patiently wait out front for the others to join me. I couldn't resist smiling as I see Kate walk out of the trees holding Victoria's hand. I know she's still my enemy since she did build an army to kill Bella, but I'm still happy for Kate.

"Laurent are you and Victoria good now? Or do I still have to worry about her trying to kill Bella?" I ask deciding not to waste time and get straight to the point.

"We're okay now, and if it's okay with you and Bella I would like for Victoria to come stay with us. I have already abandoned her once, and I would hate myself if I did it again. Of course there are many things that still need to be discussed, but I think we should wait for Bella before we do." I nod silently as I listen to what Laurent has to say.

"Okay I believe that is fair. You all took longer than expected and Bella had a hard day so she's already asleep." I sigh as I run my fingers through my hair. I feel subtle calm waves wash over me and I know it couldn't be anybody but Jasper. I give a small smile in appreciation.

"Did something happen while we were away?" Irina asks in concern as she sends Victoria as suspicious glance.

"Ummm….I'm not sure if it's safe to talk about Bella's personal issues around Victoria. No offense, but you do want to kill her." I say with a slight growl. I hear Kate growl back at me slowly.

"Oh please Victoria doesn't kill anybody who doesn't deserve it. So Bella in all honesty was never in any real danger." Victoria's companion from earlier, Matthew, says as he walks over to stand by her.

"I'm not sure that was as helpful as you thought it would be Matt." Victoria says with an over exaggerated eye roll.

"Hey! I did my good deed of the year by tracking down Laurent and getting you two back together. Now I'm just here to enjoy the show." He says with a cheeky smile that easily rivals Emmett's.

"Anyway! I never meant Bella any harm. If there's anybody that I want to kill that would be Edward." I wonder what he did to end up on her hit list.

"It seems that Edward's on everybody's hit list nowadays. What exactly did he do to you?" I asks as I cross my arms over my chest.

"I think this conversation should be had with Bella present. This is something that she should really hear so she can stop you before you do anything rash." Kate says as she cuts Victoria off before she has the chance to say anything.

"Oh god if you're saying that then it must be really bad." I sigh as I look to Victoria and see that she probably isn't a threat to Bella anymore thanks to Kate. "I'm going to let Bella get some more sleep. We called her mom today, and it didn't go as well as I had hoped." I growl at the memory of Renee trying to play the victim.

"What happened? Is Bella okay? Does she need a hug?" Carmen fires off question after question not giving me a chance to answer any of them.

"Love at least give Tanya the chance to answer a question before you fire off another one." Eleazar says gently as he places his finger against her lips effectively silencing her. I nod to him in thanks before I answer her first questions.

"Renee wasn't willing to truly listen to what Bella had to say. Instead she tried to play the victim which only upset Bella more. I believe Bella is okay, but I think she's going to need some motherly love which I'm sure you're more than happy to provide her with. And when she wakes up I'm sure she'd be up for a hug." I give Carmen a sad smile as she nods slowly.

"So her mother is the reason she's been feeling so lonely then?" Emmett asks softly as he looks like somebody kicked his puppy.

"Unfortunately. I never realized how bad Bella's childhood was until I heard her yelling at Renee. In reality Renee was never a mother at all she was mostly just an egg donor who sometimes acknowledged the fact that she has a child. The pain I heard in Bella's voice…." I sigh deeply as I feel my heart clench in my chest painfully.

"I'm sorry Bella feels that way. I understand what she's feeling, but on the bright side she is lucky enough to have a father who loves her and all of you." Victoria says softly as she gives me a reassuring smile that surprising helps a little bit.

"Any advice would be awesome.' I say with a small smile. Maybe Victoria isn't as bad as I thought she was. "I thought calling her mom would make her feel better, but I'm worried I only made it worse."

"Just make sure she knows that all of you are here for her, but maybe it would be more helpful if she knew Carmen and Tanya are always there for her more specifically. Tanya because you're her mate and Carmen because you can provide her with a healthy maternal bond that I'm sure Bella has always wanted." Well damn Victoria just got here and she already has better advice than all of us combined.

"So I guess you're safe Victoria and we're all back to square one of wanting to kill Edward. Somehow I had a feeling this was going to happen." Rosalie says with her usual bored expression on her face.

"I understand why Kate and her family want to kill Edward, but why would his own family want to kill him?" Victoria asks Rosalie and the other Cullen's.

"Because Edward tricked us into leaving Bella here, and the only ones who were smart enough to see through him were Alice and Emmett. The rest of us blindly followed him." Jasper says with a look of deep sadness in his eyes.

"Wow for some reason I can't really say that I'm surprised by that. Edward seems like the type to manipulate people to get what he wants even his own family. Why haven't you turned him to ash yet?" Victoria asks as she looks at me in confusion.

"Because Bella told her not too." Emmett says with a cheeky smile that I really wish I could knock off his face.

"I haven't seen any of you trying to kill him either so shut up!" I growl as I cross my arms over my chest in triumph.

"You have to admit she got us there." Eleazar chuckles as he wraps his arms around Carmen's waist as she starts to growl softly.

"Okay well that's not fair because it's impossible to say no to Bella especially when she gives you that look! It's like saying no to an injured puppy!" Kate says quickly trying to defend herself even though we all know it's a battle she lost long ago.

"Try and justify it all you want Kate, but you know we all lost this battle the second we met Bella." I smile softly as Kate groans.

"Does Bella have this kind of power over all vampires?" Victoria asks with mirth in her eyes as she watches Kate pout like a child.

"We're pretty sure she does. We call it the Bella Effect, and so far there's only been one vampire that hasn't liked her and well you know what happened to him." Alice says with an unsure smile as she looks at Victoria.

We all quiet down as we hear a mumbled groan come from inside. "I think Bella's waking up. You might want to get back before you get in trouble." Kate says with a cheeky smile as I roll my eyes as run back inside.

I sit down on the edge of my bed as Bella starts to roll over. I hear her sigh deeply as I run my hand along her back gently. "Where did you go?" Bella mumbles as she moves closer to me.

"The others came back so we were downstairs talking. Did we wake you?" I ask gently as I brush some hair out of her face.

"Anything interesting that I should know about?" She asks as she slowly starts to sit up.

"Besides the fact that Victoria has no desire to kill you no. We decided to wait for you to wake up to talk about the rest." She nods slowly as she rubs the sleep out of her eyes.

"How long was I asleep for?" She mumbles as she leans into me.

"It's only been about 3 hours. If you want we can wait until morning angel." I say as I wrap my arm around her waist and pull her into me more.

"No, I'm okay for now. I might catch a few more hours later though." She says around a yawn as she wraps her arms around my neck. "Could you carry me please?"

I smile and shake my head because it's truly terrible how whipped I am. I stand up and slide my arms underneath Bella's knees and quickly lift her.

I start making my way downstairs and see that everybody's standing in the living room giving me a knowing look. "Shut up," I say as I see Kate opening her mouth to say something.

"You don't even know what I was about to say!" Kate says with a pout.

"You're right. I don't know and I don't care because I know you were going to say something about me being whipped." I sigh as I sit down in the love seat with Bella on my lap.

"So you're not denying the fact that you are indeed whipped if I'm hearing you correctly." Irina says from her spot on the couch next to Laurent.

"Well since I have the best mate in the world I'm perfectly okay with being whipped." I shrug as I gently kiss Bella's shoulder.

"That is such a whipped answer!" Kate shouts as she takes a seat in her usual chair and tries to pull Victoria into her lap.

"You know that it's okay for you to sit down right?" Bella says as she watches Victoria resist sitting in Kate's lap.

"I didn't want to seem too casual before we had the chance to talk." Victoria says trying to maintain eye contact.

"Well we know who's going to be the mature one in their relationship." Bella mumbles knowing that we can all hear her. "Anyway what is it that you want to say?"

"Well first I wanted to apologize for the whole vampire army mishap. I never created them with the intention to kill you. It's just after James was killed and Laurent left I got really lonely, and now I see that wasn't the best way to go about it." We all watch as Victoria struggle to find the right words.

"Victoria, while I think an army is a little much I can understand why you would do it. I'm not mad at you for anything because looking back you have never directly tried to harm me. As long as you keep it that way we'll be fine, and welcome to the family." We all watch Victoria look around in disbelief.

"Wait are you serious? You're just going to welcome me to the family just like that? There's not going to be some long drawn out discussion where everybody practically threatens my life or something?" Victoria looks at Bella as though she's just grown a second head.

"I mean all of them could threaten your life, but I'm pretty sure after yesterday they realize that I'm probably the most dangerous thing in the room. So I can threaten you, but I really don't see the point. I can see that you care about Kate and obviously you care about Laurent so I think you'll be a good addition to the family. But I do wish you good luck with Kate because you're going to need it." Bella says with a cheeky smile that causes everybody else to smile.

"Thank you Bella….that really means alot to me." Victoria says as she finally sits down on Kate's lap.

"I'm glad everything worked out now can we move on to why Victoria wants to kill Edward. Also can you please explain the whole James thing. We all thought that he was your mate." Rosalie says with her usual irritation. Again we hear Kate growl slowly in the background.

"Kate calm down please." Victoria whispers in Kate's ear softly. "Now Rosalie, James and I were only ever friends. He was actually my only friend for years until we met Laurent. Everybody just assumed that he and I were mates, and we never bothered to correct them. Who told you that James and I were mates?" Victoria asks, but I'm pretty sure she already knows the answer.

"Edward," all the Cullen's say in unison.

"Victoria, I think it's best if you just skip to the most important part of the conversation now." Alice says as a look of disdain settles on her face.

"Right okay so when James, Laurent, and I stubbled upon Bella and the Cullens playing baseball we had every intention of leaving, but first James wished to talk to Alice since he knew her when she was a human. Edward on the other hand blow everything way out of proportion." I feel a growl building in the back of my throat. I don't like where this conversation is headed.

"Wait so did Edward send Alice and I to Phoenix with Bella on purpose?" Jasper says in disbelief as he also sees where this conversation is headed.

"James was a great tracker, but even on his best day he wouldn't have been able to find Bella as fast as he did without help. Somehow Edward was able to track James down before he left Forks and told him where you were. He also told James who you were with and how he could get you alone. Again James was a great tracker, but even if he could find you he never would have been able to come up with a plan to get you alone is the few days you were gone." I release a fierce growl as I tighten my grip on Bella's waist.

"I'm going to kill that bastard!" I yell as I hear some of the Cullen's growling with me.

"Is it sad that I'm not really surprised by this? I mean honestly this sounds like something Edward would do." Bella says with a shrug that only seems to anger me more.

"Are you serious right now Bella?! How could you possibly not be upset right now?!" I growl as Bella turns around on my lap.

"What is me getting angry going to fix? Is me getting pissed off going to change the fact that I almost died because of Edward?" I nod silently as I rest my head on Bella's shoulder. What she said made sense, but that doesn't change the fact that I still want to kill him.

"I still want to kill him. Ever since he came back he has done nothing but cause problems and make everybody hate his guts more." I feel Bella chuckle as she runs her fingers through my hair.

"When have you ever known Edward to make anything easy? He did dump me in the woods after all." She is seriously not helping me control my anger right now.

"Wait he dumped you in the woods and he's seriously still alive?" Victoria says to everybody in the room.

"Well you have to understand that he is still family and while killing him sounds like a good idea we still didn't want it to come to that. Also he still somehow has Carlisle and Esme on his side, and even though we know they are wrong in their decision we still respect them enough to let Edward live." Jasper says I'm sure still pretty pissed off as well.

"Okay well I understand why none of the Cullen's would kill him, but I'm still confused as to why Tanya hasn't." I roll my eyes as I hear Kate try to fight off a laughing at me.

"I asked Tanya not to kill Edward because as much as I would love to dance around his ashes I'm still a forgiving person. That's why you're not ashes right now." Bella says calmly which is starting to worry me sometimes. She is always surprisingly calm when she really shouldn't be.

"Well when you put it like that you make a very good point." Victoria says as smacks Kate's shoulder causing her to finally stop laughing.

"You shut up mighty quick Kate look who's whipped now." I mumble into Bella's shoulder as I feel her smack my shoulder shutting me up as well.

"I never said I wouldn't be whipped by my mate. I just said I would never be as whipped as you are." Is she serious?

"Are you kidding me? Bella is way more scary than Victoria!" I shout because it's true! Bella can burn vampires skin with her bare hands!

"I….you….yeah I can't really argue with that because you're right. Bella is pretty scary, but that's what makes her awesome!" Kate says with a cheeky smile.

"I'm going to pretend like you two aren't talking about me like I'm not sitting right here." Bella says with an eye roll as she slides off my lap.

"This is a very strange family dynamic. Victoria I think you found yourself a good family." Matthew says with a bittersweet smile.

"Well we can be your family too if you would like to stay. I'm sure the more the merrier." Bella says with a sweet smile.

"Would you really be willing to let me join your family? You don't know anything about me." I look around the room and see everybody shrugging in indifference. I look at Victoria and see that she doesn't want Matthew to leave.

"As long as you're up to talking about a change of diet I'm sure you would make a great addition to the family." I say with a soft smile as I feel Bella lace her fingers together with mine.

"Does anybody love how we moved here with only 6 members of our clan, and now we've more than doubled in size?" Eleazar says more to Carmen than the rest of us.

All of us settle into a peaceful silence as we all just enjoy being in each other's presence. I smile softly as I enjoy my baby sister finally finding her eternal happiness. She truly deserves it.

"So with all of my new and old family present minus Charlie there's something I want to ask." Everybody turns their attention to Bella. "I want to marry Tanya like right here right now. Is there anyway we can make that happen?"

A/N 2: So a lot of people have been asking me to make my chapters longer which I thought was a good idea since there is more left of the story than I originally thought. So let me know what you think.

P.S.- Before y'all get it twisted I'm also using this to start the setup for some things in the sequel. Just roll with it for a minute.