Chapter Fourteen

Jacob's POV

To say I felt comfortable with my new Aunt leaving with that little manipulative mastermind Amelia was an understatement. And Vivian was up to something you do not give that type of 'look' unless you mean business. Nessie needed to be protected but so did Vivian regardless of if she liked it or not. I needed to fill in the others before I took off to meet with the pack.

I stepped into the house listening to the commotion.

"They are not the bad guys! How many times will that need to be spoken out loud before someone gets it through their thick skull!" Emmett explained.

"You do realize that it's Amelia right?" I spoke up.

"No way she is too nice and obviously cares about Nessie." Bella shook her head, "she has spent the whole afternoon with her while Vivian took a trip to La Push and Domenica frolic in the meadow with Emmett. I think you are wrong if they wanted to help Nessie they would not allow less important things to step in the way."

"Bella makes a good point I think we should bring Amelia back to ask her a few questions." Carlisle suggested.

I was so shocked at their blindness that I was actually speechless.

What the hell is wrong with them! Could they be that stupid their brain cells must finally be contained in a deep freeze.

"Did none of you notice Amelia threw both of them under the bus and attention away from herself? " Emmett asked.

"She was only stating a reasonable fact, how could we point a finger to her without looking at the ones that have the training to properly pull it off." Jasper added.

UGH! They are STUPID!

I stormed from the room into the direction of Marianna and Jackson, I wanted some answers from the ones that had given us the story. I walked into the room looking at the two of them sitting on the floor, fear was on their face when they noticed I was not my Aunt.

"Don't, please?" Marianna asked.

"Tell me what I need to know!" I said, I had to remain calm if I phased in the house Esme would kill me.

"We already told you everything." Jackson said.

"Wrong! It's a little convenient that you show up just in time for Amelia to sprout doubt all around the place. Now our posse has split to fight separately." I explained.

"Which is the perfect battle plan because it leaves us as the ones to scatter." Emmett added stepping into the room, "I am with you on this, there is something fishy about Amelia."

"Then what do we do now?" I asked.

"Amelia is with them so I think someone needs to be at that house at all times. They may already have an intuition to the problem but I would rather be on the safe side." Emmett said.

"I need to meet with the pack to fill them in on everything. See what you can get out of these two unless blondie comes to kick your butt first." I laughed.

"Shut up and go. You have no idea, that pea sized brain of your couldn't understand." Emmett growled.

"Says the frozen one." I snorted before walking from the room.

I walked to the front door just past the living room before Bella called out to me.

"Jacob wait."

"What Bells?" I asked turning to speak to her.

"You and Emmett have known the two of them for only a couple of days, you have no idea who they truly are. Look at their family history they could easily be the brains behind all of this." Bella explained.

"I understand what you are saying but Nahuel is from the same family, remember him? Yeah the one that came here to help save Nessie and yourself from almost certain annihilation. You never once questioned him now did you? So why question them? Just because of the way they grew up? Funny how you never have an issue accepting the bloodsuckers at face value. You never had an issue defending them either. You did not have a problem accepting the pack once you understood the truth. Now Vivian comes here, tries to save your daughter and you throw suspicion directly on them. Vivian has much more compassion than I do because I would have told all of you to shove it and take care of yourselves. They are not the bad guys." I explained before turning away towards the door.

"If you did not believe that she was your Aunt would you be quick to defend her? She may not even be family what if that is a ploy also? Edward said that he heard Amelia explaining their back story just after they landed. They needed a story to cover their tracks, I don't want you to get hurt." Bella explained.

I mentally slapped my hand to my forehead, "She IS my Aunt damn it! And how CONVENIENT that AMELIA is the one to come up with the back story to give to everyone."

"I can prove that they are not the bad guys Bella." Emmett chimed from the hallway.

"Why, because you had an affair with Domenica while you were a human?" Bella casually stated.

"Err it wasn't an affair we loved each other why can't any of you just accept that already! And no, I trust her she is lethal when she reaches that point, she has had plenty of time to take us out." Emmett snapped before glancing at me, "they want to talk to you."

"Damn it! What now?!" I thought.

I stomped back into the room, "what!"

"Here." Marianna said kicking a Blackberry at me, "it has all of the information you will need to know to help Vivian."

I picked the cell phone up looking down at the screen, "what are you giving this up?"

"Because I owe her many times over. Now I want someone to ensure that Jackson and I can leave, that nobody will come for us." Marianna said.

"Hell no!" I shook my head.

"Then I cannot tell you who the leader truly is," Marianna said putting her head on Jackson's shoulder, "you will have to find out for yourselves when the messages begin to come in."

"So you do know!" I demanded.

"Of course why do you think we told you the story? It was all a ploy to throw suspicion onto Vivian and Domenica." Jackson explained.

"Right." Emmett nodded before stomping over to Jackson lifting him to his feet by his shirt.

"Stop!" Marianna yelled.

Emmett ignored her as he pulled Jackson into the living room, "tell them EXACTLY what you just said!"

"No not until we are ensured safety." Jackson shook his head.

"If you do not tell them I swear!" Emmett growled.

"Emmett, let's not threatened them we will get nowhere." Carlisle said stepping over to Jackson.

"Their story as to why there were here was just a ploy to cause suspicion on Vivian and Domenica." Edward explained looking at Jackson.

"Which means my Aunt just left with the enemy! She just drew the threat AWAY from Nessie! Anyone want to question her now?!" I yelled bringing Marianna into the room, "keep her here."

"We do not have two days, they are already here. Don't you all see that now? Amelia has been here the entire time watching, listening and running operations right under our noses." Emmett growled.

"And threw them under the bus to raise suspicion away from herself, onto Domenica and Vivian to get them away from here. Without them she has a better shot at getting Nessie." I said feeling the heat rising in me, I knew to subdue it. Apparently we Blacks are good at that, even when we do not know it.

"Cleaver girl." Jasper said.

"We have to stop Amelia." Rosalie chimed in.

"It's about damn time!" Emmett grinned.

"I just hope we are not too late." Carlisle said.

"Okay well standing here isn't helping. I will inform the pack, Alice do the psychic thing, get Nessie to a safe place and be on alert. I will have a few of them run perimeter around the house." I explained as I ran for the door.

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Vivian's POV

The silence on the way to the house was deafening, there was a feeling inside the cabin the three of us had shared. Jacob's accusations towards Amelia had hit me once we were outside of the Cullen house. Amelia throwing doubt on myself and Domenica encouraged the finger pointing from the family. Amelia played the perfect part blindsiding all of us with her quaint shyness that allowed her to go unnoticed.

"How could I have been so blind?" I though, "she is my sister." I said feeling a lump rise in my throat.

Domenica and I would need to find a way to discuss how we would handle this situation there would be no doubt that Joham would still need to killed, his small group of vampires that were in route here would need to be stopped but now it seems we had to kill our sister. Would we be able to do it? Do I have the heart to kill my own blood?

I did not have time to think of what if once I heard the click of the car doors.

"What the hell!" Domenica exclaimed looking to Amelia.

Amelia sat in the driver's seat with a smirk that I had never seen from her before, her once charming and kind brown eyes seemed to ooze pure evil.

"Do you think that I would be so stupid to stick by daddy's side for eighty years and learn nothing? That I would not grow tired from his constant mistakes in all of this. Or the two of you treating me as if I were some helpless creature? At least I did not fall for a pathetic human or have a dog of all things as a nephew!" Amelia spoke, her once sweet voice that had lacked confidence now had a scorching confidence that make my skin crawl.

"What the fu…." Domenica started, the electricity was building in the car, as she tried pulling on the door handles.

"They are locked you idiot." Amelia shot to the backseat, "and I would not attempt to break the windows either, it will not work."

I could hear the growl rising from Domenica.

"NO!" I yelled turned backing her, her eyes were glowing their canary yellow now, "not in here."

"Yes Domenica listen to our fearless leader if you explode in this car you will kill all over us. That I cannot allow you to do, if I die then we will never see the rise of the super race." Amelia spat.

"There will not be a super race Amelia because I am going to kill you." Domenica stated.

"That will be hard to do when the two of you are hidden away in the middle of Forks. Neither the Cullen's nor the Pack would risk their secrets being blow to attempt saving two traitors. See by now Marianna and Jackson will be edging their suspicions while your revolting mutt and useless vampire try pathetically to explain that I am the master mind." Amelia explained.

"The sweet part about it is while the two of you were trying to rekindle romances and figure out who your discusting human family is I happened to be cozying up to the target. I made very sure that she could trust me, that way once her host puts her to bed in that charming cottage alone. I can come in and little Nessie will have no problem leaving with me. However I will have to watch her, if she becomes as rebellious and human as the two of you I will have to make sure her punishments actually stick." Amelia said as she pulled the car up to an old warehouse.

"You." I gritted my teeth glaring at her.

"Yes me you pathetic traitor, you know the three of us could have done wonders with this coven." Amelia began reaching into the glove box pulling out a tube of lipstick.

Amelia took the silver top off and applied the mauve color to her full lips admiring herself in the rear view mirror.

Domenica snorted, "you would pick the boring color. You look at us like we are the monsters, I never had to worry about turning into father because you are far worse. You are human as well, the very things you claim to loathe. And a vampire, the very things that you wish to annihilate. And I would take being more of a human over something like you any day."

Amelia ignored Domenica and myself, a man stepped to the driver's side and opened the door.

"Next time make sure it is at least a BMW." Amelia snarled, "bring them." she commanded unlocking the doors.

A second man had joined the first, one pulled the passenger door open reaching inside for Domenica who opened her door to run.

"Come on Viv!" she yelled jumping out from the backseat.

I followed her lead opening my door, running to catch up with her. There was a small stampede behind us it did not take long for the group to catch us. The first to catch Domenica tackled her to the ground, her energy was still not to the level for her to pull off what she had in Argentina.

"Let go!" Domenica cried out as the first man held her arms behind her back, a second had joined in hitting her with a black object her body going limp.

"DOMENICA!" I screamed feeling the heat rising in my quickly as my entire body began to tremble. The sensation spread from my gut up my spine as I dropped to the ground, I had to be on fire with as warm as I was.

"Oh no you don't." Amelia's voice came from behind.

I felt a sharp stick in my neck before the world around me blurred as it faded.