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Disclaimer Deuce: So I really have no clue what to write here this chapter… this is kind of a first… ever

Embry's POV

It was almost like a horrible clown car watching all the wolves piling out of the Cullen mobiles. We all hugged and everyone asked about the kids. They were down for their nap at the time. Then it came to Sam and Leah. They awkwardly hugged as expected but when Leah left Sam's gaze lingered. Wait what… I thought to myself then realized exactly what happened. Anyone else would have probably said it was nothing. I stared as he continued to watch her walk away. He's checking her out… which means… I walked straight up to him and hooked a punch straight across his face knocking him down. I'd underestimated how weakened I was from sickness when he came back and tackled me and I couldn't even move out of the way. I hit my back hard and winced in pain as he threw a punch, I leaned left as his punch connected with the ground. I pulled him in to a headlock and repeatedly punched him in the side. Jacob and Jared finally separated us. I stared right in to his eyes and he knew I'd saw him.

"What the hell you two? You've never fought before why now?" Seth said interjecting between us. Seth was nearly as big as I was.

"We need to talk about something." I said plainly.

"I'd say." Seth responded. Jacob let me go and Jared let Sam go.

"Let's go for a run for some privacy." Sam nodded as I led him in to the woods. We walked through some heavily wooded area until we got to an opening.

"You're not dragging me out here to kill me are you?" he asked.

"The thought crossed my mind." I shrugged.

"What the hell happened?" I asked him point blank.

"Well… Today Emily and I had a fight…"

"Oh so one fight is all it took? One little fight and you already just want her back, after all this time."

"It's not like that."

"Isn't it? Don't you remember who put her back together? Jacob, then Jacob abandoned her too, and I put her back together after that."

"Yeah I know you did, and no… you don't understand."

"Don't understand what? You're going to step back into fuck with her just a bit more?"

"I wouldn't do that!"

"You have!"

"I didn't mean to… I didn't try to…" He stumbled.

"But you did."

"Listen to me Embry… there isn't a day that goes by that I'm not sorry for what happened… No what I did to Leah."

"At least you're admitting it was your fault."

"But it wasn't… it was fate's fucking fault." He said. Fate… I hate Fate… both the person and the predestined presence that keeps fucking up my relationships…

"I left to protect her… She told me not to… she told me if I left I wouldn't have a home… but I left because I knew protecting her and my baby were more important than being with them… I don't know if it was then or when I managed to phase… but then I was free… I was no longer tied down to Emily… and all I could think about was Leah, how much I love her, and how I'm so sorry for everything that happened."

"It's not fair to her."

"I know."

"I mean Leah." I explained. He nodded.

"I knew what you meant."

"Can we agree at least not to tell Leah until she finds out." Sam nodded.

"I think that might be the best way to deal with it." He said sadly.

"Not tell me what?" I heard and a cold tingle went down my spine. I stared in to Sam's eyes to give him a look that said "don't even think about it."

"It's nothing." I said not turning around. She grabbed me by the shoulder and spun me.

"Bull shit it is"

"What is it?"

"You don't want to know…"

"Yeah I do actually." She said defiantly. She always was defiant, never could take my word, never go along with anything.

"No, believe me you don't want to know."

"And why should I believe you?"

"What do I gain by going behind your back and telling secrets to Sam?" I said trying to give her the idea that it was my secret instead of Sams.

"I don't know."

"Come on Sam, let's go see Mike." Sam nodded and turned.

"No, you're not leaving that easily… and even IF Sam was faster than me, which isn't… you aren't anymore. Don't you think I've noticed you're weak." I flinched at that. I've been weak for years, just not physically.

"I didn't mean to say that."

"I'm sorry, some of us were bitten by vampires… someone you might know, Patrick, remember?"

"Oh so it's about him again?"

"He almost ended my life! It happened over a month ago and I STILL haven't fully recovered."

"You know what? He's struggling, but he's trying damn it! And that's better than you, you want me back even now, you're just trying to get me back all along aren't you."

"No… I'm trying to protect you." Sam had started to try and get between us.

"Protect me from Patrick? That's pathetic, even for you." I shook my head.

"He's not the only one you need protecting from."

"What do you mean?" I closed my eyes to force myself not to look at Sam.

"Patrick isn't the only real threat to you…" I paused for a moment.

"The Volturi will also want the mother of one of the half blooded." Leah looked as if she lost something, maybe it was hope… She couldn't be hoping that Sam will come back? No… she wouldn't. I turned my back and started walking away.

"Run away Embry… it's all you ever do." Leah said at my back.

"I'm not the one running away."

Tanya's POV

I needed to get away from Mike. It broke my heart. He wasn't the same person, he was getting less monstrous but he still didn't seem to want me. I know it wasn't true and I knew it was petty but I couldn't help but feeling hurt by it all. It was like he was standing there, He's been gone all this time. He'd lost his caring side. He used to be so gentle. Sure he looked almost as big as Emmett and worked hard to intimidate people but then He'd turn around and be the most gentle and caring person I knew. Turn the love goggles off. The truth was I was let down by Mike and I felt run down. I walked down to the basement of the Cullens house. I felt drained… like I could fall asleep right now and it would be possible. I sat down behind the piano and played a familiar song that resonated with how I felt. I started softly and quietly.

"I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
Because your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I've held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

You used to captivate me
by your resonating light
But now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I've held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I've held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me."

I didn't even notice that Rosalie had made it down the stairs.

"Hey Tanya, how are you holding up?"

"How do you think? Mike's a fucking newborn vampire!" I said exasperatedly.

"What did you expect, you just need to be patient, He'll be the same person you fell in love with."

"I'm not sure he even exists anymore. All he lives for is blood and fighting."

"Don't give up on Mike, he's in there it'll just take time."

"He's lot himself to being a vampire… maybe this monster is who was all along… I don't even know why I tried… he's hopeless." I said and I heard a sound in the distance.

"What the hell was that?" Rosalie and I ran outside and saw Mike's back. He was shaking in anger, then he turned his head to look at me. Oh shit… no!

"Mike I'm sorry I was just frustrated." He turned back away and an energy ball formed in each hand. His hands moved forward and the energy balls became one and then grew larger than a basketball and blasted in to a tree blowing it up leaving a circular hole ten feet in diameter in the tree line. I stepped towards him then felt warmth on my stomach, I looked down in horror and saw a ball of energy the size of a softball palmed in mikes hand directly at my stomach.

"If you don't want a nice hole in you to match Xavier don't come any closer, don't follow me." I stopped short. I wanted to cry but couldn't, Mike was threatening me. He turned and walked away. He didn't even walk away quickly, I couldn't do anything but watch him leave through the hole where the tree used to be.

Harley Brown's POV

So these are the fabled 'werebears.'

"So you're the werebears." I said eyeing up the biggest of them.

"And you're the Minnesota Timberwolves. Let's hope you're better than your basketball team."

"Well they're better than your NBA team, how are the Seattle Sonics doing?" a bear took a step forwards but was stopped by their leader.

"You must be grumpy bear." Derek said next to me.

"Grumpy bear? We're werebears, not carebears!" the wolves snickered.

"Yeah… that's going to need to stop." I heard Jacob from behind us.

"Jacob, it's good to see you again."

"It's been too long Harley… You should stop by more often." He said hugging me.

"Truth be told I'm still not completely comfortable around vampires."

"I can understand that…" I looked up and down the bears again, even the smallest of them were bigger than I was. I was the biggest of the Minnesota Wolves.

"Well we need to get all of you working on fighting." Jacob said.

"Okay… lead on." I responded to him. We dropped all our bags on the ground and chased after him in to the woods.

Carlisle's POV

They're just kids… all of them. They've never fought a war. They've never killed vampires before… this will be a slaughter. And all the blood will be on my hands. All I've ever wanted was to live in peace and soon less than a decade since our last entanglement with the Volturi we have another. How did this even happen? I watched Layla dance to no music in the living room. She was worth fighting for. I still didn't know why this fight had to happen. I stared out and watched the wolves wrestling with the bears. They were still kids, and even our 'war hardened' veteran wolves were still all in their twenties.

"You're afraid." I heard Jasper behind me.

"Yes… aren't you?" I responded.

"I do not fear death for myself, but for those I care for. For my part I've committed sins of a thousand fold against others though some have committed none. If this is my end I know it will be just."

"You believe that Jasper? You've changed."

"Spending time docile doesn't clean the blood of innocence from my hands."

"Maybe not, but I believe repentance does."

"I believe there is no repentance I can achieve in my life for the massacres I've helped to cause."

"Have you asked for forgiveness?"

"From whom? Hah… no I haven't I've lost count of all the people a slaughtered… all I can do now is live out the remaining weeks to their fullest, and hopefully take a couple Volturi bastards down with me."

"I still believe we can settle this amicably."

"The Volturi didn't come back to settle this, they came back to slaughter us, and because we won't give up Destiny they have all the reason they need to do it, because we didn't obey their rule."

"Yes… it does put us in a rather unfavorable position."

"And the Egyptians agreed to help us regardless?"

"Yes I explained to them what happened with Xavier."

"And of the Irish Coven?"

"They said they couldn't oppose the volturi twice in less than a decade." I explained.

"What chances do we have?" Jasper asked me. I stopped then decided to answer him honestly.

"Next to none… We just need to pray for a miracle."

Rosalie's POV

Tanya had been standing there staring at what was left of the smoldering tree where Mike had left for the last thirty minutes. I glided to her side but didn't say a word. She didn't either, she just stared at the wreckage.

"You didn't do anything wrong Tanya." She laughed next to me but it wasn't funny.

"You know… I don't think I could have messed that up much better."

"I think it's possible." She could have said much worse about him.

"Maybe it's better this way." Tanya said still not having looked at me.

"How do you figure?"

"He shouldn't be a part of this mess… If this is our fate, it shouldn't be his, he might be a bloodthirsty monster, but he's innocent." Tanya explained.

"Yeah… he never made this decision, he was just a pawn in Xavier's game, and even the Volturi are being used, to get back at all of us… hopefully he can distance himself and he'll be able to live out his afterlife." I agreed.

"He's not coming back is he?" Tanya finally asked. I could hear her voice go unsteady.

"Maybe… but let's hope he doesn't… this isn't his fight, and I want him to have his chance even if it's not with us anymore."

Leah's POV

Sam has been avoiding me, more than usually. Sure he never went out of his way to talk to me before but he never avoided me on purpose. He seemed different, much different. He didn't seem to ignore me, now it seemed like he was going out of his way not to pay attention to me. Slight difference but it was one. Whenever I needed to talk he had something else he had to do. It had to do with him and Embry. I knew Embry wouldn't talk especially since he seemed to be the once behind forcing Sam to stay quiet. Embry told me something else that had been bugging me since he left. There were two things he said that I found odd he said that Patrick wasn't the only real threat to me. Did he mean the Volturi? Of course that's what he meant since they are coming. Or did he mean Sam? That last thought ricocheted through my head. Why would Embry need to protect me from Sam? Sam was neutered now. But that wasn't what got me really thinking. It was his last words

"I'm not the one running away." Embry was crazy, he was the one running, what the hell did I have to run from? What was I running from? It was then I realized exactly what he was referring to. I hadn't seen Patrick since Leonard was born. Have I been hiding here all this time from him? No that's ludicrous. Is it? I'll figure out what was wrong with Sam and Embry later… It's time Patrick met his son.

Ayden's POV

"What do you mean we're leaving? Where are we going?" I heard from the other room.

"We're going to go to your father." Leah answered as I walked in to the room.

"Are we coming back?" Leonard asked hopefully.

"We will visit some times, but not any time soon." Leah answered. Leonard is leaving! I was excited. I walked in to the room.

"What are you smiling about Ayden!" He growled at me. I saw no reason why I shouldn't tell him the truth.

"Because you're leaving, and I won't miss you one bit!"

"Now Ayden, that wasn't very-" Leah said but was interrupted. I felt my body flying backwards in to a wall. My head snapped back painfully.

"Ouch! You're as bad as your daddy, I heard he tried to kill my dad!" I said angrily.

"Now you two stop it." Leah tried to say calmly.

"Is it true?"

"Well it's a bit more complicated than that." She said.

"He should have done it, your dad can't even keep up with us." I leapt across the room at him tackling him and slamming his shoulders to the ground.

"TAKE IT BACK!" I yelled and felt my body thrown up against the ceiling.

"Never!" What happened next surprised me. Leah ran across the room and Slapped Leonard hard enough to knock him down to the ground. I fell landing on my feet.

"BOTH OF YOU, STOP THIS INSTANT!"

"Mom! You hit me!" Leonard said as if he had done nothing wrong.

"You said Embry should die. I care about Embry. Do you want to hurt one of mom's friends?" he looked down sheepishly.

"No mommy."

"Good, now say you're sorry." He groaned.

"I'm sorry Ayden." Leah's attention turned to me.

"What do I have to say sorry for?" I asked honestly.

"You said you're happy he's leaving."

"What, I am! He's always so mean to me and never lets me play with him. He makes fun of me because I can't become a wolf"

"Is that true Leonard?"

"What? He can't! Layla and I can, but he can't."

"That's not nice."

"It's true!" I decided now was a good time to sneak out of the room. I wanted to be a wolf really badly. Then I could run with Daddy, and Uncle Jacob, and Layla. There was something else wrong though… Daddy wasn't okay. Everyone thought he was but I could tell. When he became a wolf it looked like it hurt him more than it hurt Uncle Jacob…. Daddy would never complain. I knew something was wrong. Everyone said he was still recovering but he wasn't. He was supposed to be the strongest and fastest of all the wolves but he was still weak from sickness. It would be our secret though, and when the time came, I would be strong enough to protect my daddy.

That's all folks… one more chapter before gratuitous violence begins. Oh wait… maybe it won't? maybe we'll get a cheap 'oh that's fine we don't need to fight.' That's right, I'm talking about you breaking dawn! I was disappointed by the lack of war happening! I'm throwing the bullshit flag! For those of you who prefer long discussions and brinksmanship I'm sorry… and what are you doing reading my overtly violent stories? Speaking of overtly violent I'd like to thank 2 reviewers in particular, Fusedtwilight who loves my gratuitous violence and has came over from the Volturi Story. Don't worry these series has plenty of violence left, and Laurazuleta for reviewing and forcing me to explain myself and helping me to make myself clearer in chapters, more thanks to come next chapter. Remember to review, leave rolls of 20 dollar bills, high fives, and Knucks. Catch you on the Flip side