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Chapter Six
Domenica's POV still
"What is that smell?" I thought inhaling the thick smoke around me, it reminded me of that night I had revealed to Emmett. Discussing it with him had given me a flood of memories the only difference is these felt real, too real.
I looked to the forest in front of me then glancing to my feet, I was standing on gravel.
"Why am I standing on gravel?" I whispered, my teeth began to chatter, my eyes began to fill with tears.
I slowly turned around gasping staring at the charred remains of a house, it was the Cullen house from last night.
"Oh my God…"I whispered choking on my tears falling to my knees, "wake up D….wake up." I whispered closing my eyes.
I took in the black smoke, I remembered the smell now it was flesh.
"Wake up!" I yelled to myself.
I opened my eyes, I was still there with my mouth hanging open shaking my head at the carnage that I had caused. I had to have caused this I was the only one around right?
I scanned the area my eyes finally landing on the body to my right, it was Vivian.
I felt a cold, slimy hand land on my shoulder, "I have been waiting for you to come around." my father's demonic voice whispered in my ear.
I shot up in bed gasping for air, I flopped back down shoving my face into my pillows.
"It was just a dream, it was just a dream! Damn it to hell I hate sleep! Why couldn't I just be dead then these God forsaken things would stop haunting me!" I thought, my mind was racing, my shoulder burned at the memory of his hand on me and his voice echoed in my head.
A faint knock rapped on the wooden door, I roll myself into a sitting position quickly.
"Domenica?" Amelia's voice called out.
I quickly stepped to the door, cracking it open looking at my little sister's angelic face. She was so quiet and shy, she had barely spoken a word yesterday like usual. I wish I could infuse part of me into her so she would be a little more outgoing.
"Are you okay?" she asked looking at my face.
I nodded quickly, "of course what is the plan."
"Yesterday Vivian and Carlisle set up a time to meet here to map things out. So far the story we are telling father is you knew Emmett from one of your college stints. We are using your connection to get close to the family." Amelia explained.
"Absolutely not! We are NOT putting a SINGLE member of that family in his war path." I said opening the door grabbing Amelia dragging her with me into the living room. Sitting around the room was Bella, Edward, Alice, Carlisle and Jasper with Emmett standing against the back wall.
"Too late for that." Alice stated.
"It makes more sense for that to be the excuse." Vivian explained, "it would give us that quick shot into the house. It's what he expects."
"No that is not what father expects." I began.
"You would know right?" Bella chimed in.
I crossed my arms staring at her, "look I know that you do not like us, fine with me because you are not my favorite vampire of the decade either. But I do understand the anger towards us. After all we were sent here to kidnap your daughter and take her to an evil mastermind so that she can be brainwashed. She would be made to believe that you were the enemy. The only thoughts she would have regarding yourself would be that she would much rather burn you alive that look at you. And yes I did use to be her because I did what I to in order to survive until the next day arrived. Do not expect me to apologize for it. So instead of proving you right and be the monster that I am, we are here risking our own damn lives to save YOUR daughter. None of us want Renesmee living our previous lives, I WANT to insuring that she stays in your arms. Now if you do not mind I am going to smile and play happy with you so we can figure out just how in the hell we are going to save her. Comprendo?! Now sit here, talk amongst yourselves and give me ten minutes to think! The longer we sit here discussing the rights and wrongs of immorality the longer he has to become suspicious!" I didn't give her or anyone a chance to explain, I turned and went to the bathroom, grabbing some clothes on the way.
"Are you sure we haven't met before?" Emmett whispered.
"No that's Domenica for you." I heard Vivian say kindly, at least she didn't have problem with me.
I didn't have a problem with me either, I like me just not the dreams of murdering everyone around me. I shook my head sucking down the tears, night would fall eventually and I would have my release then. I took a quick shower, pulling on a pair of older jeans and a black Henley top.
"Now we need a story to tell father, something that he will not be suspicious about. I do not want him to slither in without our knowledge." I explained.
"We need to bring him here that way we will be on a leveled playing field." Carlisle said.
Vivian shook her head, "there is someone in his entourage, none of us are quite sure who, that allows all of us to move under a cloak of darkness. If we do not realize they are on the way we will be the ones taken by surprise. Then it will all over."
"It will not be over we can take them." Emmett said grinning with pride.
I so respected that man's tenacity, "Father has his sights set on the prize and he wants it pretty bad, I thought he was going to start drooling when he told us of this plan. He would come here there is no doubt but they will try creeping in through the backdoor so to speak. Father will send the little 'army' to fight while he slips in and takes Renesmee." I said the kid's name slowly I still didn't get it.
Carlisle seemed to be trying not to laugh at my attempt "we also have a pack of shape shifters here to help."
"I understand but it is my assessment that it would be best for me to take him to another location that way if I lose control, there is nobody around me to kill but him. If anything happened to any of you I would not forgive myself." I explained. "This is not your battle to take on."
"You want to take him to Italy." Vivian said.
"Yes." I nodded staring into my sister's brown eyes.
"Italy?" Bella asked.
"The Volturi right? When Nahuel came here to testify for Nessie he told the Voturi about your father and the three of you. Obviously they have not found you yet, if you go to Italy then you may be turning yourself in as well." Edward said.
"Whatever it takes." I said sternly, "I knew they had been looking for my family, both Vivian and I have known for months."
"So you did nothing which has led us to this point, my child in danger from being sucked into your world." Edward demanded.
"We have been trying but he is always tipped off." I shrugged.
"Well since you are the one always losing time maybe you have been tipping him off, have you already tipped him off about our plans?" Bella asked.
I saw the eyes drift towards me, they cannot be serious could they? There is no way.
"Bella you saw how she flipped when you attacked her sister. There is no way she could slip out of her mind, go crazy, call Joham up and be like yo pops we are about to turn your stupid ass in to the Volturi so run along now and play." Emmett said, "something tells me if she had the proper back up he would have been dead a long time ago."
"Why are you taking up for her?" Bella questioned crossing her arms.
I didn't give him a moment to defend, "hold on if you are trying to insinuate something you are dead wrong, get those worms out of your skull they have eaten too much of your brain. I am not a home wre…no wait, grave robber. But you are right I could run and tell my father the crypt keeper."
"She isn't right." Vivian and Emmett both said.
"Yes she is," I said turning to them, "the mere fact that I can slip out so to say is enough proof for me." I shook my head crossing my arms.
"Domenica we need you, you are the best fighter out of our group. Emmett you said that she would be watched at all times correct?" Vivian asked looking to him.
"Yes I did and no need to ask it's done. I will stick to you like Velcro to make sure you do not slip out of it which you will not do. You would not turn on your family, I do know that much."
I shook my head, "Amelia will stay with me. As much as I would love to piss off your wife this isn't the time. So Amelia stays with me if I try anything she knows what to do, right?" I asked looking to her sweet face.
"Yes." Amelia smiled.
"Okay so now that is covered. Let's get down to the nitty gritty and my personal favorite the planning." I cleared my throat, my posture straightened and my arms uncross.
"You do this often?" Jasper questioned.
"Yes it's what I have been trained to do." I shrugged, he smiled a little.
"Me too kind of, long story. I was involved with the southern wars and helped with the army and so forth." he explained.
"Oh man that was like hell on earth, I remember the Volturi cleaning house I still cannot understand why they have not gotten to us yet." I shook my head.
"Me either." Bella said still angry.
I seriously could not fault her for anything, we had let the Cullen family down by not stopping him sooner than this. I started thinking about why we had come here it made my blood boil with anger as I thought about the life little Renesmee would have if father gets his way. I curled my hands into fists clinching my teeth so hard I thought they may break.
"Forget the Volturi they have yet to fulfill their obligation to take the bastard out. We need to split up, when we do not come home he will be looking for us and for the kid." I turned to my sisters my eyes felt like they were on fire I knew everyone in the room was on edge.
"Calm down Domenica." Carlisle said.
I turned my head looking to Carlisle, "the best way to win this battle is to split his resources. Leave your granddaughter in a safe location, Vivian or Amelia can stay with her along with a small group. Myself, Vivian or Amelia and the rest of you will go to a seperate location the two trackers will lead them here. Father will come to take what he wants most and it sure as hell is not us, we are only his little disappointments. I want to show him just how much of a disappoint me I can be"
"There is a field not far from here that could be used to draw your father there. We could keep Nessie at the house with Vivian, is that okay? I want to have someone there that I can be sure will be able to handle a situation should it turn horrible."
Vivian nodded, "yes."
"Thank you." Edward said.
"Your welcome there is nothing that I would not do to protect her from that life." Vivian smiled, glancing at Bella.
Vivian, always the diplomat but I loved that about her.
"Okay then I suppose we need to plan the teams will everyone from your family be available?"
A loud "YES.' rang out.
"What was that? I didn't get that part, "I grinned.
"Well there are eight of us and three of you General." Emmett said throwing that boulder of an arm over my shoulder.
The cold felt really good, I took a deep breath, "what the hell" I thought putting an arm around his oddly familiar waist. "Eleven then, we are uneven."
"Nope, the pack too remember." Emmett nodded.
Vivian gasped, "crap! I forgot Jacob was coming to pick me up to visit Billy today." she said running to her room probably to get her little folder of clues. Poor girl has been searching the globe for her birthplace, Joham should have just allowed her to believe she came from Spain.
Edward glanced to me.
"How many are in the pack?" I asked.
"Seventeen including Jacob."
"Okay with myself and sisters spaced out that leaves 26 available people or whatever." I began.
"Available for what?" Jacob said barging in, "oh man blondie is going to kick your ass." he laughed.
"Well if it isn't my area rug, I need you tomorrow so I can figure out a paint color for my walls so you match." I grinned.
The room laughed as I winked at Jacob.
I let go of Emmett, didn't want to either, and stepped over to Jacob to explain.
"We are going to take care of my father when he shows up here and we need every available person to help with the fight.?" I began.
"I can explain it to you on the way to your dad's house but something tells me by that goofy grin on your face you are already in." Vivian grinned stepping over to Jacob.
"Well frigging duh! We are all in by the way." he said holding an arm for her.
"Awwww!" I cooed at them.
"He's already betrothed." Alice laughed.
"What? To who?!" I was curious now.
Alice cut her eyes to Edward and Bella.
"If I had known you all were that kinky I would have moved here a long time ago." I said.
"Oh…..my……God." Edward said his eyes were wide.
"He imprinted on my daughter!" Bella yelled not impressed with my teasing.
"What the hell is imprinting?" I asked confused. "Some type of werewolf bippity boppity boo crap? What fairy godmother thought up that?" I asked, I could hear almost everyone laughing.
"It's a love at first sight gravity magic thing." Jacob laughed.
"Oh okay that totally explained it." I said turning to Edward and Bella, "I would hunt down that fairy godmother if I were you."
"Oh shut up." Jacob rolled his eyes, "ready?"
Vivian was still laughing, her hand covering her face all she did was nod as they walked outside.
"Well now what do we have left to do here?" I asked.
"Nothing I think that covers it for the moment, if you want Emmett could show you the two locations I was speaking of." Carlisle suggested.
"Eh how mad will Rosalie get?" I asked turning to Emmett.
"It'll be fine besides I'm suppose to stick to you like Velcro remember." he grinned.
"Right, okay that works for me. Seeing the battlefields will allow me to tweak the plan as need be." I nodded.
"Very well, we will be on our way then. Thank you again Domenica and you too Amelia I know that you could have easily made the decision to follow your father's plan but you did not."
"Your welcome." Amelia smiled warmly.
I smiled, I wish I had been in his family over my own they were so loving and protective. I would jump at that chance except I would just be in the way. Half of the people here hated me anyway so what was the point at least I got to spend some more time with Emmett and we had a valid excuse too.