Chapter Thirteen

Vivian's POV

I smiled at my sister as she stepped into the room I was so grateful to everyone for taking care of her. I had become increasingly worried when she ran from the house I should have gone after her. But I watched Emmett running for the door and thought he would have a better chance at calming her.

As soon as we made it to the rental house Domenica and I would need to have a discussion, this had been one hell of a day. And it only seemed to drag on with no end in sight.

"Welcome back." I smiled to my sister.

Domenica grinned back, "thank you dearest now do we really only have two days?"

I nodded, "unfortunately, I had just announced the idea of you and I making a trip to Brazil. We could possibly work something out with Joham to give up who our actual target is and to finally kill him."

"And Alice saw you both bite the dust and that can't happen yet. I just found out I have an Auntie!" Jacob gloated throwing his mammoth arm around me.

I shook my head smiling it did feel good to have a possible answer even if it did come from an old ghost story.

"Do what!" Bella yelled, her mouth hanging open.

"Well now maybe both of your pests will leave when you do." Rosalie snapped.

"Back off of my family." I defended.

"Ow! Go Vivvie!" Domenica laughed.

"Congratulations," Esme offered, "you do favor a bit."

"I told you so." Jacob grinned.

"Thank you, we are only basing this off of a story that Jacob's father told to us early. Until I have solid proof then I am not over the top convinced."" I explained.

"DNA." Edward suggested.

"That's what I told her." Jacob shrugged.

"There would be a genetic link between you that could easily be traced." Carlisle explained.

I looked to the head vampire with a small smile, "how could we have it done?"

"Swab for doggie drool." Rosalie jabbed.

"Hey Barbie knock it off, if you have a problem with me then that is perfectly fine because I have no problems putting you in your place. But if you drag my sister into this then I promise you I will make you regret it." Domenica snapped at Rosalie.

"I am not one of your little targets that you murder every chance that you get. You are as crazy as your father do not think to underestimate me Domenica." Rosalie said going in for the kill.

I slid my possible nephews arm from my shoulder before taking a step forward looking at Rosalie before glancing to my sister. I knew that one hurt but she would never showed it, I was fuming at the words thrown to her. I did not realize my clinched fist had begun to tremble slightly.

I took a small breath crossing my arms, Jasper, Edward and Bella had been paying attention to my hand. I looked to them as they watched me carefully.

"Man that was really unnecessary babe." Emmett said to Rosalie.

"And now you are taking up for her how perfect just let me know before you decide to leave with her." Rosalie glared.

"Stop….it…..now." I said through my clinched teeth, my anger was building as I felt a heat rising from my gut.

"Auntie?!" Jacob called.

I took a deep breath pushing the raw emotion down forcing it into remission the way I had done so many times before.

I opened my eyes looking to Rosalie, "my sister is not crazy. We both have killed a number of times before, just like you. There is a piece of that monster inside of us all, we just used our monster to survive day to day without apology. The average person in our situation would have done the very same thing. Now the two of you can fight as much as you wish once we have neutralized this threat we are about to face. Do you understand?"

"I do not take my orders from you." Rosalie said.

"Rose she is right, let's take a breather from the bickering and fighting if we want to save my daughter then we have to work together." Bella said looking to me. "What do you suggest?"

"We need to know exactly what we are facing, the players, how many and what they are equipped to do." I began, "Domenica you know how they fight so I could use your help with this." I smiled reaching out a hand for her.

Domenica grinned with excitement, Emmett grinned at her with pride as she walked over to me. Before Domenica joined me she took the hand of Amelia who had been standing by a large window listening.

"Come on lovey we have trained you the best that we can now it is time for you to be part of this for once." Domenica grinned.

"Finally." Amelia grinned.

Pride was not the proper word for me to define the way I felt about my own little family, yes I did not know who my mother was until now. I did not form friends outside of our own coven yet here I was surrounded by good people, Jacob included. I had spent so much of my life taking care of everyone else but I loved it, my family would always be the one thing that would never change. It could only become better.

Domenica and Amelia now stood with me much to Jacob's disapproval due to his growing suspicions of Amelia but he had nothing to worry about. Jacob moved slightly closer to my left side keep an eye on Amelia, I glanced over to him hoping he would get the hint.

"So Amelia you work closest with you dad have you ever heard anything about the third party?" Emmett asked.

"Not very much looking back now though I should have noticed. He would have close door meetings that only a few of us knew about it, we were told that a meeting would be held in fifteen minutes and that we would need to leave the room." Amelia explained, "I did however find a folder just before we left Brazil titled MJ."

"MJ!?" Bella called out looking to the other room where Marianna and Jackson had been placed for the time being.

"Yes I never looked into it though I'm sorry." Amelia spoke quietly.

"There is only one way to find out isn't there." Domenica said walking out of the room.

"D." Emmett called.

"What? Relax I'm not going to explode." she laughed walking to the other room.

"No I'm not worried about that I just don't want to miss out AGAIN!" Emmett replied with Domenica's laugh filling the hallway.

"Here's my question how is it you worked SO close with keeper of the asylum yet you know nothing?" Jacob questioned.

"He is a very secretive person if he did not want us to know then we did not know, no matter how close we worked with him. I know that I look like the odd one out of place, my sisters are practically his Generals. So if you wish to point a finger in my direction then alright but remember Vivian and Domenica are fighters and they are very, very smart. It could easily be one of them." Amelia answered.

Jacob looked to me giving me an "I told you so" glance as all of the eyes in the room drifted to me as Domenica entered the room with Emmett. The gazed shifted between myself and Domenica, their thoughts processing the idea.

"What?" Emmett asked noticing the glances.

"Amelia has a point." Bella said looking to me.

"A very good point after all the whole 'we are here to save Nessie' could be a ploy to get us away from her long enough for you to sneak in to get her." Rosalie motioned to me.

"Oh hell no blondie!" Jacob yelled

"What the hell!" Emmett joined in with Jacob, "I love you babe but you are wrong on this one."

"What if she isn't." Jasper asked, "it would make perfect sense for Vivian or Domenica to be the true leader they have all of the proper qualities."

"I agree." Rosalie said.

"No," Alice shook her head, "someone else is giving the orders I saw Joham speaking to someone in a big square room."

"But who did you see him talking to exactly?" Rosalie asked.

"You guys I am telling you, all of you are wrong. Vivian is too nice and D would never do something like that." Emmett defended.

"Your precious D falls in and out of time Emmett! What makes you think she has not fallen out of it during the five minutes you have not been with her to speak to daddy!" Rosalie growled.

"Because the only time I haven't been around her is when she was asleep!" Emmett growled back.

"Exactly! And were you in her room while she was asleep?" Rosalie threw into the mix.

Emmett shook his head stubbornly, "nope I will not believe it."

"Yeah because you are still in love with her." Rosalie gritted.

"Oh snap." Jacob stated.

"Stop it all of you." Esme spoke, "remember what we are all trying to do."

"It is a difficult thing to accomplish Esme especially when there is distrust." Edward spoke. "I can tell you I have seen their thoughts, some I wish I had not seen., and there is nothing in it. The day that we met them the only concern in Vivian's thoughts were protecting Nessie and staying peaceful with us. And while that was a top priority in Domenica's thoughts she did also question if she could keep Emmett."

"But what if they did their research Edward then they would know you were a mind reader. If they processed that knowledge they could learn to suppress certain thoughts." Bella explained.

I finally had enough of the distrust from them, I shook my head once with a loud huff. I ran my fingers through my hair before cupping my hands over my lips.

"Just keep little Nessie safe we will take care of Joham without your help." I glared before walking to the front door with Amelia on my heels.

Domenica snorted, "you all have absolutely no idea who you are talking about." her voice echoed before I heard her footsteps behind me.

"I can't believe that they would just throw you under the bus like that." Amelia said as we walked up the drive way.

My hands began to tremor slightly as I spun around to her, I clinched my hands into fists before shaking them again pushing the anger back down.

"You are one to speak about someone throwing the other under the bus aren't you?" Domenica asked.

Amelia and I turned to see our sister, her eyes were slightly lighter than the honey shade.

"What?" Amelia asked, pain in her voice.

"You just threw BOTH of us under the bus tonight by even suggesting that we could be the Commander of Joham's little empire. How dare you." Domenica said becoming angrier. "I would rather walk into a coven down in the jungle back home bleeding profusely that to EVER work for that monster!"

"Which is exactly why we believe you." Jacob spoke up.

"Oh jeez, Jacob don't do this please? Nessie is your top priority I need to know that someone will be with her at all times. Someone that would not hesitate to kill." I stated.

"I will I promise but I also want to know you are safe." Jacob replied.

"Aw family bonding!" Emmett cackled.

"What are you doing?!" Domenica gasped.

"I just need to get away for a few minutes the accusations were pissing me off. You would never put Nessie in danger." Emmett said with a smile.

"Thank you." Domenica smiled, "but your family needs you, you are their strongest."

"Yeah I know but you owe me an explosion." Emmett grinned with a wink.

"Dude.." Domenica shook her head.

"Yeah I know I'll be by to check on you later." Emmett said before turning back towards the house.

"Hey!" Domenica called.

Emmett spun to look at her, "what?"

"I will be fine, spend some time with your wife." Domenica smiled.

"Okay."

"He remembers?" I smiled.

"Unfortunately yes and apparently he will have to make a decision." Domenica said watching him.

"If you two are going to start discussing thoughts I'm out of here." Jacob said making a gagging noise.

Domenica laughed before turning, punching his arm lightly, "go back with him we will be fine I will take care of Auntie for you."

"What are you going to do walk?" Jacob asked.

"Car." Amelia pointed to our little grey car.

"No do walk." Jacob said looking to me, "do that or do not leave please?"

"I will be fine." I said giving him a hug, "tell them that we will track Joham, try to take out as many as we can along the way."

"Joham will not be traveling with the first group, he will arrive shortly after in order to take advantage of the Cullen's attempting to defend themselves. Make sure Nessie is guarded at all times." Domenica explained.

"Dude you can't go to Brazil you heard what Alice said." Jacob said getting a worried look.

Domenica looked back to me, I looked into her eyes hoping that she understood.

"Right." she smirked, "Auntie Vivvie is a tracker my little area rug we are only going to look for them."

"Exactly." I smiled, "shall we?"

"Absolutely." Domenica said.

"Dude please." Jacob said again, "you can't die not now at least you are going to need help when that shaking finally just explodes."

"What shaking? I just get a little angry but I just push it down." I explained.

"Right, you better come back here alive!" Jacob stated yanking me into his arms squeezing, "remember what I said." he whispered.

I hugged back again, "I will."

Jacob stepped away before looking over to Domenica, "I think you could kick Rose's ass by the way." he grinned messing up her hair.

"You know it!" Domenica laughed watching Jacob walk away.

Domenica looked back to me, we stood looking at each other for a few moments.

"Ready?" I asked her and Amelia before the three of us stepped into the Pontiac.

Amelia stuck the key into the ignition bringing it to life before leaving the drive way.