Visitors

The smell of dog still hung in the air as Jacob drove along the driveway, away from the house. I listened as he turned right and sped, too fast, down the highway. Everyone started to disperse; Esme moved outside into the garden and started to plant various seeds which she'd bought the other day; I could hear the small pellets drop into the moist earth as she planted the new life. Carlisle glided up the stairs into his office, probably to work on some new paperwork or read an old book. Rose and Emmett strolled into the living room, Emmett turned on his Xbox and started hitting the buttons furiously, and I could hear the plastic creak and moan as he pushed too hard on the delicate joysticks. Rose sat down on the leather chair and watched Emmett with bored eyes; now and then she would inspect her perfect nails or play with her hair, all habits she'd picked up when pretending to be human. Alice danced up the staircase and sat beside Jasper, who turned his head towards her and smiled slightly. Alice began humming a tuneless song and Jasper laid his head on her tiny legs. Edward kissed my cheek gently and moved back to his position next to the piano; I listened as my lullaby drifted through the air towards me.

I stood in the hallway for a couple of hours, just listening to the delicate notes coming from the piano and listening as Alice's humming entangled with the notes, drifting perfectly into the gaps. I was trying to imagine what Renesmee and Jake were doing at that exact moment in time, perhaps Jake was trying to force her to eat something or maybe they were already at the beach. It startled me when Alice's humming stopped at the exact moment that my lullaby did. Jasper's voice broke through my imagination like a knife being slammed into a chopping board,

"Alice, what is it?" he moved his arms around Alice, encasing her but not touching her, as if he would somehow interrupt whatever she was seeing. Everyone was already gathered around the staircase; Carlisle moved down the stairs and placed a firm hand on Alice's shoulder.

"Alice. What did you see?" Carlisle's voice was firm; he needed to know what was happening.

"I-I don't really know" Alice's black brows pulled together as her eyes refocused, "It was kind of blurry, I couldn't see because of those stupid dogs!" My mind immediately rushed to Renesmee; had something happened to Jacob? Was Renesmee in danger?

Alice's eyes glazed over for another few seconds and then she was staring at me with a look of horror on her face.

"Alice, what is it? What's going on?!" I practically screamed the question at her. Edward wrapped his arm around my waist and spoke with no emotion,

"It's not perfectly clear but it looks as though there are some strangers on La Push beach-"

"La Push? But that's where Nessie is!" my hands balled into fists and I had to fight the urge to sprint out of the front door.

"They're not vampires but they don't look human either. We should go and see for ourselves, they could be a threat", I saw Edward glance at Alice and she nodded once, her brow puckering with the effort of trying to see past the werewolves.

"I'll come", Emmett stepped towards Edward and Rose followed,

"Me too", Rose pulled her hair into a lose bun and turned towards me, "I won't let anything happen to Nessie, Bella, I promise".

Edward nodded and then turned to the rest of the family, "Esme, Carlisle, Alice, I need you to stay here, in case Jacob and Nessie return. Jasper, you can come with us, we might need someone to calm the situation". I saw Jasper glance once at Alice and then he was by my side, his hands behind his back. Edward clasped my face in his strong hands and whispered to me, "We'll go and see who these people are, everything's going to be okay, they're probably just some friends of the Quiliettes".

"And if they're not?" my voice came out as a gasp.

"If they're not then they've got me to answer to", Emmett flexed his muscles and smiled widely in my direction, he was clearly more optimistic than I was.

We took Emmett's jeep to La Push; it annoyed me because it seemed so slow compared to running, but Edward said it would seem strange if we ran there, as though we were looking for a fight. We reached the beach in less than seven minutes; I could smell the brine and salt from the sea as we pulled onto the sand. I darted out of the jeep, faster than humanly possible, and walked at a quick human pace towards the smell of my daughter and best friend.

As the five of us rounded the corner the scene became clear: Nessie and Jacob were standing facing five extremely tall, tanned teenagers, two girls and three boys. The two girls looked identical; they both had cropped blonde hair just below their ears and their eyes were dark and menacing, their cheek bones seemed to jut out from their skin and their bodies were long and slender yet very muscular, as if they worked out a lot. They were wearing exactly the same clothes – small baby pink vest tops and long flowing skirts that went past their knees. I couldn't distinguish one scent from the other. The boys were all very different; the one that stood at the front of the group seemed to be the leader, he had long black hair down to his elbows and he wore a long leather jacket with no shirt, I could see that he was very muscular beneath the shadow of the jacket. He was as tall as Jacob but much leaner, without the broad shoulders. His eyes were a brilliant blue and he was grinning, showing off his perfect teeth. The other two boys stood behind him, one had deep red hair that was cut like the girls' hair. His body reminded me a lot of Emmett's – huge – and his plain grey t-shirt was pulled tight against his broad chest. He stood with his hands in the deep pockets of hid torn jeans, as though he didn't really care what was going on. The final boy had honey blonde hair as long as the leader's but he was smaller, with pale grey eyes and a physique a lot like Edward's. He was leaning against a thin, white tree with a smug grin etched onto his face and he dressed quite differently to the others; he wore a short, beige jacket with a white shirt underneath and pale cream trousers, he looked as though he should be in a business meeting rather than standing on a beach confronting vampires. My first thought was that they were werewolves. I noticed then that Jake was standing in front of Nessie, as though shielding her, and he was trembling from head to foot. I instinctively moved to his side, if something was making him this upset then it must be a danger.

Edward was by my side in a heartbeat, as were Rose, Emmett and Jasper. Emmett stood with his thick arms folded across his chest beside Rose, and Jasper stood at the other side of us, next to Jake. Jake spoke through clenched teeth, "I think they're werewolves".

I growled and my eyes flitted from one tanned face to another, did Jake mean real werewolves? Not just shape shifters like himself? Edward spoke then, quietly so that only the vampires present could hear, "They have come from the south, they are true werewolves, children of the moon. They heard about Renesmee and feel it is their duty to… dispose of her".

I snarled loudly and spoke loud enough for the southerners to hear, "Why?!"

The one at the front with the black mane spoke up, his voice was pure Texan, much more pronounced than Jasper's, "She", he gestured towards Renesmee, "She is a threat. We cannot allow her to continue", he raised a smug eyebrow and beside me Jacob shuddered furiously.

"She is my daughter!" I screamed at the smug dog, "And you will not touch her!"

The two blonde girls stepped forward slightly; they seemed to move as one and they spoke in the same way, "She is a child, a vampire child", their voices were rough, like they had been gargling sand.

"She is not what you think, we did not turn her", Edward spoke patiently and then growled fiercely as he listened to their answering thoughts, "You knew that?! And you were still going to-"

"Yes, we knew", the leader spoke again, "She is half human, half bloodsucker but she is still dangerous. She looks too human, she can mix in with them, live with them and act like them, there is nothing that would make her seem suspicious to them. This is why we must dispose of her."

"Why? What are you talking about?!" I couldn't contain my anger any longer and Edward had to step in front of me to prevent me from barrelling into the filthy dogs.

"She drinks the blood of animals, yes?" thebroad one with red hair spoke up, his voice was laced with poison, "But she could drink humans, if she wanted to"

Renesmee stepped forward, to stand next to Jake; he trembled once and grabbed her hand in his. She spoke with anger in her bell-like voice, "I do not drink humans! I'm not a monster!"

"But you could. That is why you must be terminated. You do not look like your family, therefore you do not seem a threat to the humans, and they do not fear you as they do your parents. You could easily attack them and no one would even suspect you", the red-head's voice ran through my veins like acid, I wanted to rip his throat out.

I spoke with venom spitting through my lips, "You will never hurt my daughter, no matter what. She is not a threat to anyone. I suggest you go back to where you came from and never come back!"

The leader stepped forward slightly and Jasper and Emmett did the same, low snarls ripping from their bared teeth. The black haired dog stopped and gestured to his pack to stop behind him, he spoke again, crossing his arms across his chest as he did so, "We don't want to disrupt your peaceful existence, we only need to destroy the young one, nothing more, please, let us continue and we will be out of your way".

Emmett moved into a crouch and growled loudly before springing towards the dog; Emmett moved like a bear pouncing on its prey, he flew through the air like a huge boulder about to smash into an unsuspecting passer by. He was almost upon the dog when he suddenly stopped. He just stopped. His huge body hovered in the air above the smiling werewolf and then he was hurtling back towards us; we dived out of the way as Emmett's giant stone body barrelled through the sand and hit a nearby tree, snapping it in half. Rose dashed to his side and Jasper and Edward moved forward into crouches. I couldn't believe what I had just seen; this tall, thin werewolf had just stopped Emmett in mid-air and thrown him away like a rag doll, something was definitely wrong.

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