6/18 Sorry to bother you.......

I wasted no time. Carlisle gave me the phone after he had dialed. After Alice looked and saw it was going to be alright. A woman answered the phone. "Hello, this is John Cullen for Aro Volturi please?" "One moment, connecting you now." The phone rang about one half ring when Aro answered "JOHN! How nice to hear from you!" Of course his excitement at hearing from me was obviously and act but it suited me to play along, of course he had heard from Jane already I supposed.

"Aro, I apologize for calling you like this but of course Alice looked and saw it would be alright. Your people just left here, and I wanted to make sure you got my side of the story, and apologize for my actions, and reaction to Jane's provocation." I could hear him inhale sharply so clearly she had not told him the WHOLE story. "Jane conveyed your offer to me to join your guard and assist you in enforcing the law. I am honored to be asked. I know my abilities could be an asset but am now doubting that I would like to join your team. I was considering it, but as this is all new to me, and having just found a mate, there are more practical concerns that come into my decision about joining your guard."

When Aro did not offer anything I continued "I am going to be marrying Tanya Denali, Alice Cullen and Esme Cullen are putting the wedding together. I would be very honored if you would be our guest and afterwards we could discuss this in person?"

I could hear the smile in Aro's voice "That is a splendid idea, congratulations! That coven has been hard hit by losses over the years. It is wonderful that there is something to celebrate. I will be nice to interact with her coven without being there to enforce the law. I will come with my brothers and several members of the guard to witness your union." I recognized the subtle implied threat, but decided to play nice for now. "We will send invitations immediately as we set the date, but it will be soon, do we have to worry about any scheduling conflicts of yours, or are we free to set any date?"

He replied "My schedule is mine to break, set the date, and we will be there." I thanked him for hearing me out and finished the call.

Alice was bouncing, so refreshing she was. You always knew what was on her mind. "OK, sorry I didn't ask first, but Bella explained you are the force of nature who must be obeyed for parties, so I assumed you would be the wedding planner with Esme like you were for Bella."

"Of course! And Aro was pleased with your call too. And Jane is going to be made to shock herself as punishment for her failure. I expect she will be a little nicer when we see her next!" Everyone laughed at that mental image.

Tanya looked surprised "OH MY GOSH! I HAVE TO CALL KATE! SHE IS GOING TO BE SOOOO HAPPY" then calmly she said "She wants to marry Garret, but I think was waiting because she felt bad about me being all alone. Now she can do it too!"

I said "hey why not make it a double wedding?" Alice tackled me with a hug "OH THANK YOU!" Jasper smiled and pulled her off me and everyone said in unison "OH ALICE!"

The next month was a flurry of activity. Visitors came and went, plans were made and guests arrived and the day was here. Our wedding.

The Volturi guard arrived, well most of them anyway. Marcus stayed in Volterra he did not do weddings. He mourned the loss of his wife, so he stayed there with a contingent of the guard, including Jane. It turned out she was in a lot of trouble for her failure. Her attitude was becoming increasingly difficult as she used her gift to inflict punishment far too easily and without being told. So they decided to teach her a lesson and ripped her into pieces and out those pieces in seperate boxes so she had to suffer in parts for a month.

I was horrified at what they decided to do and felt shame for causing it, when Aro touched me upon arrival said "No, she has been deserving of correction for some time now, her treatment of you was just the last straw. Hopefully this will humble her and make her a happier vampire."

I was not convinced, but let it go. Aro made the same offer to join to me that Jane did, but since I had some time to think and talk to Tanya about my plan I offered this compromise. "Aro, I think that becoming a member of the guard is a very tempting offer, but right now, I do not want to give up my freedom and become a full member of your guard. However, I do want to help. If I may suggest this instead? I become a member at large, you call me when there is a big problem, or a problem in our neck of the woods. Like a reservist in the military, called to active duty when trouble breaks out, and since I will be here with a powerful coven, they have agreed to assist me in this role. So it would be like you are gaining Alice, Edward and Bella too, well at least on a part time basis. You know Carlisle, and even if you have doubts because of the stakes you know deep down he can be trusted. He has no desire to rule, so we offer no threat to the Volturi, what do you think?"

Aro was no longer smiling he looked stunned. "I had not even considered such a thing. This idea has possibilities. A network of Volturi guard units. This kind of an organization would be tough to control, but with the right covens involved it could work!"

He returned to smiling and Alice Danced over and gave Aro her hand smiling broadly. Aro laughed "Thank you Alice, any doubts I had are now gone, this WILL work!"

Alice then extracted her hand from Aro's and grabbed me and said "Take your place, Tanya is ready!"

I stood at the front of the chapel and the music changed. I was surprised when instead of the wedding march In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida from Iron Butterfly started playing and the bridesmaids danced down the aisle doing the electric slide in time with the music, then Tanya rode a pogo stick on top of a giraffe down the aisle, NO? Ok normal wedding, you get the picture. It was a beautiful service, and I would have wept proudly if I could. I was overwhelmed with the emotion of the moment.

After the wedding we all changed including our guests in the prairie meadow valley for a game of baseball. It was going to be one of those perfect days for it. Tanya and I decided to forgo the honeymoon and just begin our lives together. Most of our guests played as well, and we had enough players to field 2 full teams with relievers.

Emmett finally got even for the dunking's. As I stepped up to the plate and he was crouched as the catcher, with all eyes on me he pantsed me. Not just the baseball uniform pants, but the boxers too...... Yep, everyone was in on it. Flashbulbs, and Kate's voice clear as a bell "Well, that explains your smile and inability to sit down Tanya!"

As I pulled my pants back up I could not help but remember how Emmett took the dunkings with humor and grace, so I laughed and stuck my hand out to shake his hand. "Ok, good one, especially giving everyone camera's that put this one over the top. You are the master, I am the student......"

Emmett smiled thinking he had won, when as he stood to take my hand I reached with my power, and YUP! Not only did his pants go to the ground but they were held there! He was displaying his Miley Cirus underwear for all to see.

There were more flashes this time then from mine, I looked at Alice "These are the camera's Emmett Passed out, yours was just flashbulbs. After all, I owed you for letting me plan the wedding!"

I laughed and hugged her, "you are the best niece ever!"

A/N; OK, so if I get 10 reviews and requests to continue this I will. I will write a story about the volturi side of it and being called to deal with a problem in the east coast with potential exposure to the government? Otherwise call this one done! To those of you who have read and reviewed, thank you, hope you enjoyed it, I have read so many good stories on this site I felt driven to write one myself. I just couldn't decide which way to go with the ending so I wrote two...... God Bless Stephenie Meyer, and may her muse inspire her to write more more more!