Chapter 4

Let's Go

I've got nothing left to say
But we've gotta carry on
I've got so much left to do

Let's Go- Cartel

The rest of the week passed uneventfully. It was the following Friday as Edward and I got Noah and Sadie ready for school. Alice reminded us that it was picture day and to dress accordingly, meaning to wear what she had picked out for us. Sadie had a pretty brown dress with white embroidery along the neck and at the hem, along with a pair of brown sandals. I was amused when I saw the Cullen Crest bobby pins that were holding her curls back.

Noah was annoyed with his white button up, short sleeve shirt. Alice had also picked out brown and cream plaid shorts and allowed his Chucks, which he would have worn anyways. They both had to put on hoodies because of the drizzle.

Alice had put out for me a long blue tunic shirt with red, pink, blue and green embroidery. She paired the shirt with a pair of medium wash skinny jeans and green sandals. I had decided to leave my hair down but just as I was about to leave my room to go to Sadie's, Alice came in a whirlwind. She pointed to the bed and I sat down with a sigh. Alice went to work in what would have been a blur to human eyes. After two seconds she held a mirror up for me and I examined my hair. She had pulled back two pieces on each side and French braided them for about two inches then just had regular braiding until the back of my head where she tied it off with a small, black rubber band and the tied a pretty green ribbon.

"This is my version of boho chic on you," She smiled, running her fingers through my hand. "Of course, I try and make it as youthful as possible. You are fourteen," She winked at me and then skipped off to torture someone else. I smiled at the thought.

After the twins were ready, they scampered down stairs for a quick breakfast of brown sugar and cinnamon oatmeal and a glass of apple juice. We were out the door and in The Bus, on our way to school. Edward and I dropped Noah and Sadie off with me sending warning glares to their teacher. English came too soon and I was once again met with Miss. Makona's uneasy presence. For almost every question she asked, she called on me to answer them which I did, easily and calmly. It seemed to unease her that I always had the right answer. She would huff and move on in the lesson.

Just when I thought about slamming her into the wall, a folded up piece of paper appeared in front of me. I opened and was met with Alice's handwriting.

Just ignore her. Throwing her into the wall will not be helpful, at all.

I sighed and nodded slightly, trying to calm myself. Soon the class was over and I moved on in my day. Lunch rolled around and we all met at the van.

"Let's go to the ocean," I suggested, crossing my arms. I needed to just sit and think, relax my mind. I had discovered that sitting on the beach was the best thing for that.

I was met with murmured agreement and we all piled into the van. We arrived at the deserted beach and we all took off, breaking into couples. Edward grabbed my hand and I led him down closer to the ocean. He sat down and I sat in between his legs, resting against his chest.

I sighed. "So, what did you hear?"

"It was quite interesting. She is furious with you, for what reason, I couldn't really catch. Her mind was jumping from her lesson plan to you. I did pick up that she felt threatened by your gorgeousness," He placed a kiss on my neck and I could feel his smile. "She's known as the beauty of Hilo, I guess. She kept thinking of all the beauty pageants she won when she was your age and knew that you would have given her a run for her money,"

I huffed and slammed my fist on the sand, making it fly up while creating a six inch crater. "Why me, though? Alice sits right next to me and I know that she has Rosalie sixth period-"

"But you remind her of herself," he cut me off, explaining. I let my head fall back to rest on his shoulder. I focused on the gray sky and took a deep breath, taking in the ocean air and Edward's sunshine scent.

"How do I remind her of herself?" I seethed. Really? That was why she was going to be a complete witch to me? How stupid.

I felt Edward shrug. "I couldn't get a clear thought. Odd, for someone like her. In her eyes, you look similar to her when she was your age. You're smart, just like she thinks she was. She's guessing you have some sort of talent-"

"I don't have a talent," I amended, looking into Edward's beautiful face. His honey eyes sparkled down at me, his smirk pronounced. He leaned down and whispered in my ear.

"You have many, many talents, Bella," I shivered as he spoke these words so softly into my ear.

"That's not very nice, Edward," I breathed.

He chuckled. "I've got to use my advantages," He kissed my cheek, completely chaste and innocent. I pulled away from him a bit. We didn't have time for fooling around, but with Edward and I there never seem to be enough time to get our complete fills of each other.

After a few minutes of just sitting there in each others arms, I sighed. "You're very good at distractions,"

He chuckled. "You worry too much," I scoffed.

"I worry too much? Sure, Edward, sure,"

"What's that suppose to mean," He asked playfully.

I turned around and faced him. "It means that all you did when I was human was worry,"

It was his turn to scoff. "That's because I would turn my back for one minute and you would be in a life and death situation."

I crossed my arms and turned away from him. "That's not true. A lot of the time it wasn't my fault,"

"No, just that pesky talent you have of getting into trouble." He laughed.

I smacked his arm and he laughed. I raised an eyebrow and then pounced on him, tackling him to the sand.

"Quit fooling around," Emmett's booming laughter resounded throughout the beach. "We have to go back to school," He held up his hands and shrugged. "But we could always leave you here, give you some alone time," He wiggled his fingers and the other laughed, making their way to the Bus.

I rolled my eyes and got up off Edward. He was on his feet in half a second, his arm wrapped around me, leading me to the van.

The rest of the day went by smoothly and by the time we had gotten home, Sadie's nightmare was almost forgotten. Edward helped them with their reading assignments as I cooked them dinner. After Sadie and Noah were finished with dinner, Edward sent them out to play. He wrapped his arms around me as I cleaned up the kitchen. Esme and Rosalie had gone hunting. Emmett and Jasper were getting ready to play a new video game that wasn't even released yet. As they set up the game, my ears focused on the sound of the TV.

"...continue to search for the mysterious killer. Already six people have been found drained of all blood with crescent shaped markings. Police still are unsure of the tool that is being used. People are being warned to be cautious because there is no defined pattern to the people that have been found. They are all ages, races and sexes. And now on to-"

I instantly stiffened. "Edward," I whispered. His arms tightened around me.

"Alice," He called and she was next to us in an eighth of a second. Alice had a torn look on her face. "Please, tell me you know something about this,"

"I...I haven't seen anything," She hung her head and pressed her fingers against her temple.

"How could you not see anything," Edward growled. I rested my hands over his.

"Edward, stop it. It's not her fault," He dropped his head onto my shoulder and exhaled heavily.

"I'm sorry, Alice,"

"It's alright," She smiled lightly at him. "What I have seen are just blurs and flashes, nothing is concrete. They're creating holes for me," She sighed. Jasper was at her side in the next second, resting a hand on her shoulder. The calm that replaced the tension was refreshing and I shot a grateful look at Jasper but his eyes were focused on Alice.

"Well," I cleared my throat unnecessarily, "Alice isn't the only one able to see the future," I mused as I shot a glance out the kitchen window above the sink. Sadie sat on the swings, going higher and higher with each pump of her legs. Noah sat on top of the jungle gym but then he suddenly stood up and jumped landing perfectly on top of the swing set. If my heart had been beating, it would have stopped with my intense fear.

"We still don't know if that is true or not," Alice argued. "This could just be the work of one or two very sloppy vampires who maybe fairly new. It doesn't mean there is a newborn army on the way," She tried to reassure me. I merely nodded, knowing she had a point.

"We should still check it out," Jasper said, "We don't want attention drawn to us, especially since we just moved here. We don't want rumors that the new family is a group of axe murderers," He chuckled darkly.

"Just of the wild life," Emmett added with a smile; he had came into the kitchen right after Jasper. This helped get rid of the nasty tension even more.

"We'll talk more with Carlisle when he gets home," Edward added and we all agreed.

***

Sadie's POV

Why do they lie?
Why can't you see?

Noah and I listened from the swings as Mommy and Daddy talked to Aunt Alice. People had been killed and vampires were probably the ones to do it.

What do you think of it, Noah? I asked Noah using our connection.

He shrugged. It probably has something to with your dream.

You mean vision, I corrected him.

No, he shook his head, Momma and Daddy said that it was a dream.

I rolled my eyes. They are in denial. It was a vision, I'm sure of it. It scares them sometimes, ya know.

What scares them?

That we have these really cool powers.

He shook his head. Mommy and Daddy aren't scared of anything, Sadie.

Whatever, but still. We need to be getting ready for whatever bad vampires are coming, and they can't just accept it that I'm just like Aunt Ali.

Noah gave me one of his looks. The only way you're like Aunt Alice is the way you never shut up.

I hit his arm. "Hey!" I yelled, this time out loud. "That's not true,"

He smiled. "Sure it is," I raised an eyebrow and then pounced at him. We rolled around on the ground, laughing. Noah got out from underneath me and started running for the house. I chased after him.

Try and catch me! He yelled in my head. I raced after him all over the house, finally reaching him once we had reached the living room, I tackled him and we flew into the nearest wall. There was the sound of glass breaking and something else smashing.

Uh oh. We thought together.

"Sadie, Noah!" Mommy's voice called out to us, worried. We were suddenly wrapped in her tight hug. She sobbed.

"Are you guys alright," She started looking us over in her usual fashion when she thought we were hurt. I turned around and winced. The brand new TV was broken in half and the stand it had been sitting on was shattered. Oops.

"Edward, what is with you and your offspring destroying TVs?" I heard Uncle Emmett ask. He sounded upset.

"Mommy we're fine," Noah told her. He placed his hand on her face.

"Yup," I chirped in. "Completely fine," I did a twirl to show that I wasn't hurt.

She sighed. "You guys...What were you doing?"

"Just playing," I said, as I placed my hands behind my back, rocking back on my heels. It was then that Daddy kneeled down next to Mommy.

"You guys know you're not suppose to be running in the house," Daddy reached up and pulled a piece of TV out of my hair.

"Sorry," We said together.

"Now, you both are going to help me clean up this mess," Daddy said using his Daddy tone.

"Edward," Mommy started to say but Daddy stopped her.

"This is their punishment," He said to her and Mommy nodded. He looked back at us. "Noah go get the broom and dust pan, Sadie go grab the garbage can," We both went and got them and bought them to Daddy, then we helped him as we sweep up all the mess. Mommy had gone upstairs while Uncle Emmett sat on the couch and pouted. Soon all the mess was cleaned up and Daddy made us sit next to Uncle Emmett while he took the trash out.

"Sorry about the TV," Noah told him. Uncle Emmett sighed.

"I know you are, but we just got it and I don't know if Esme can get another one," He sighed again.

I got up and plopped myself on his lap. "Don't worry Uncle Em, now you have even more time to play with me,"

"Of course," He laughed and hugged me to him. He tapped my nose with his finger, "That's what you're good at Sadie, is finding a sliver lining,"

"Sliver lining?" I asked him. I didn't know what that was.

"Yeah, you know, finding the good outcome in a bad situation,"

"Oh," I said then paused. "Okay!" I smiled. It was then that Daddy came back in the room and told Emmett to go to his room.

"Sure Dad," He replied as he made his way up the stairs. Daddy rolled his eyes and sat next to us.

"Sadie, Noah," He started. "When Nana gets home, I want you to apologize for breaking the TV," We nodded. "And I want you to apologize to your mom, for scaring her," He smiled at us and pointed to the stairs. We started to run up the stairs until Daddy told us to walk, which we did.

Mommy was in her and Daddy's room, doing homework. I went and sat on her lap as Noah climbed up behind her and stood behind her, wrapping his arms around her neck.

"Sorry for making you worry, Momma," Noah said as he hugged her.

I hugged her and said, "Yea, sorry Mommy,"

She hugged us both, one hand going up to Noah the other wrapping around me. "It's okay, sweethearts. You just scared me. I sometimes you forget that you guys don't get hurt like how other kids would," She laughed. "I'm glad my babies are a little more durable than I was," She kissed Noah's cheek and then kissed the top of my head. We stayed like that but after awhile Mommy said that it was time to get ready for bed. We both got baths and then were put into bed. I was feeling funny, sort of how I felt when I had my first vision. My head hurt a little and it was hard to see.

"Daddy," I called after he had tucked me in and he was starting for the door.

"Sadie," He looked at me.

"Will you stay with me?" I asked him. He smiled and nodded. He laid down next me, wrapping his arms around me. Daddy started humming the song he had made for Mommy. I soon drifted off to sleep.

When I opened my eyes again, I wasn't sure where I was. It was dark and it seemed like I was in a city. I started walking around, looking for someone. Noah wasn't with me. I heard a noise from an alley and started towards it. There were two people. They seemed to be struggling when suddenly the one person went still and fell to the ground. The other person turned towards me and started walking towards me. Their eyes seemed to glow red and suddenly there were a few pairs of the glowing red eyes. Hands covered in dark red reached towards me. I looked up to see fiery red hair blowing around a woman's face, her eyes looking happy while her mouth snapped in a snarl. I screamed.

I kept screaming. I felt arms around me and I fought against them, screaming for Daddy.

"Sadie! I'm right here. Daddy's right here," I heard his voice whisper in my ear. My eyes opened and I stopped struggling. I looked around and saw that I was still in my room and Daddy was holding me. I started crying and held on tighter to Daddy. He rocked and shushed me. I heard my bedroom door open and smelled Mommy and Noah. Mommy smelled, well, like Mommy. Noah smelled like apples and water.

Mommy wrapped her arms around me even though Daddy was still holding me. I let go of Daddy and held onto Mommy. She rocked me back and forth as I continued to cry. I suddenly felt a hand on my face and I stopped and opened my eyes. Noah was staring at me.

It's okay, Sadie. Momma and Daddy are here now. It's okay. He told me and I calmed down. You are always able to block me out whenever this happens. I don't like it.

"Sorry," I whispered to him. He nodded and Daddy pulled Noah into his lap.

"Edward, Bella," I heard Nana say. "Are they okay?"

I felt Mommy nod and then get off the bed. I buried my face into her neck, inhaling her scent. She carried me up the stairs and then laid me down on her and Daddy's bed. My eyes and head hurt and I was cold. Mommy wrapped a blanket around me and shut off the lights. I closed my eyes once I knew Noah was laying with me. I drifted off to sleep.

***

Edward's POV

Let's go! Everybody!
Let's go! Tell them we're coming!
Let's go! Everybody!
Let's go! Stand up with me

After Sadie and Noah fell back to sleep, I met with everyone down in the dining room. They were all sitting, waiting for Bella and I. Bella sat down, but I stood behind my chair, agitated.

"Sadie's having visions," I announced and I listened to the shock and the acceptance of the news in my family's minds.

"Are you sure," Carlisle asked.

"Yes," I took a deep breath. "Victoria was in this one," There were gasps, but I continued. "She was reaching out for Sadie. She knows nothing about Victoria, so I wouldn't see how it would be anything other than a vision."

"What are we going to do," Emmett asked. Are we going to have to move again? That would really suck.

"Edward," Carlisle questioned. I pinched the bridge of my nose.

"I'm not sure what we should do just yet," I sighed and felt Bella slip her hand into mine.

"We should stay," Alice voiced her thoughts. "If we move then she will just follow, leaving a trail of deaths in her wake."

Esme nodded, of course. "Oh yes. We can't just let innocent people be killed."

"So we stay," I said, my voice low. This was all my fault. If I had taken care of Victoria earlier, none of this would be happening. My children and my family wouldn't be in danger. Bella wouldn't be in danger. This time Victoria isn't going to get away. I'm going to end her.

"We have to prepare," I announced suddenly. Everyone looked at me, their confusion ringing in their thoughts. "We have to prepare for battle," I nodded towards Jasper. His thoughts flashed of his past.

"Battle?" Rosalie questioned. "Why the hell do we need to prepare?"

"Victoria isn't just coming by herself, she is bringing a whole army with her. I'm guessing it's to keep us busy, so she has a better chance..." I couldn't finish. My fist clenched.

She'll never get the chance, Edward. Alice comforted me.

"Jasper, you'll have to teach us how to handle newborns," He nodded, his own fists clenched. I read the shame for his past in his thoughts.

Emmett clasped a hand on Japser's shoulder. "Good thing we have you, man or we would be screwed," He chuckled and Jasper smiled at him.

"Do you think we should call some of our friends," Carlisle asked. I saw the images of a lot of the people he had met over his lifetime.

"Wait," Bella said before I could answer. "Won't this bring the Volturi down on us?" That was certainly a thought. She stood up. "I mean, they have no idea about Sadie and Noah. Victoria is bringing an army. She's already drawing attention in the news. They'll have to come and take care of that,"

"We will have Sadie and Noah hidden, if they do come, they won't know about them," I told her, wrapping my arms around her. She was still tense. "It'll be okay, love." She sighed and nodded.

Looks like I have some calls to make. Carlisle thought as he started thinking of who he should call first.

"Alice, I'm going to need you to search and try and nail down a time." She nodded and started thinking of why she hadn't seen anything at all.

We all stood up and Emmett suddenly put his fist forward, holding it out. "Cullen clan unite!" He said, enthused. We all just stared at him. He shrugged. "What? I saw it on a Captain Planet," We all just laughed at him and then separated. Bella and I went back to our room. Sadie and Noah were fast asleep. Bella went and stood in front of the window.

"What if the Volturi find out about them?" She whispered. I could hear the unshed tears in her voice. I wrapped my arms around her, holding her tight.

"They won't," I told her. She turned around to face me, her hand resting on my chest.

"But if they do, there is always that possibility, what are we going to do?" She asked her voice tight.

"We'll protect Noah and Sadie at all cost," I told her.

She raised an eyebrow. "Taking on the entire Volturi," She shrugged, "Sounds like a plan," She said sarcastically.

"Anything for them," I said and she nodded.

"Of course," I could see a plan forming in her eyes. She was thinking of something.

"What are you thinking about," I kissed her forehead.

She smiled. "Nothing important," I could tell that is was something important, but she must have had her reasons for not telling me.

"We'll make it out alive," I promised her as I held her in my arms. "All of us,"

She nodded and laid her head against my chest. We stood there and listened to the rain that pattered against the window. They would make it out alive, Bella, Sadie and Noah, but as for me, well that was one thing I couldn't promise. I would give myself if I had to. I would die for them. I couldn't promise that it wouldn't come to that.

I hated breaking my promises to Bella.

AN: Holy crap. Another chapter. Can you believe it?

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