Alice's POV

The wait at the clearing was painstaking; we were ten minutes earlier than the Volturi so we stood in a loose semi-circle, awaiting our judgement. Jasper was standing as still as a cardboard cut out, his arm was draped possessively around Serena and I. All there was to do now was to wait.

"Jasper?" I asked, inclining my head upwards to look at his face.

"What's wrong darlin'?" Jasper looked at me; his eyes were filled with pain and anguish as he kissed my head.

"I love you, always remember that."

"Of course I know that, stop stressing Lis, everything's going to be okay and nothing will take Serena away from us. We just have to remind

them that she is doing no harm to the rules and she is actually like Renesmee was. I'm sure Carlisle will not be best pleased with Aro since he

broke the promise Carlisle entrusted him with the last time." I heard a small twinge of laughter in his voice and he spoke.

"Well, well, well, look what we have here," A dead voice loomed out of the forest as eight cloaks loomed out, they seemed to be spirits in the way they flowed towards us across the soft grass.

"Hello Jane," Jasper snarled, tightening his grip on us.

"Now, now Jasper, no need to use that voice no is there?" Aro said calmly, removing his hood as he spoke, I noticed that everybody except one vampire let down there hood. In the eight vampires there were Aro, Jane and Alec, Demetri, Marcus, Reneta, Chelsea and the hooded figure, they had a female grace and stature but I still couldn't figure out who it was.

"Well there's no need to threaten my family is there now, don't you agree Aro?" Edward replied, his voice thick with acid.

"You know the rules Edward; it's not something we take lightly." Marcus snapped, glaring his eyes at Edward with shear loathing.

"You know we do no harm! You're just assuming that we half-breeds are going to suddenly snap and turn into some kind of monster but were not!" Renesmee shouted, causing Jacob to push her further behind him with a soft flick of his tail.

"Ahh, dear Renesmee, don't worry we haven't forgotten about you. You were such a sweet little child but you see rules are still rules and everything has to be looked over," Aro said, "Now Jasper, Alice? Would you kindly let me meet your lovely daughter? Serena is it?"

"Yes it is," I said firmly.

Grasping Jasper closer to me I slowly walked into the middle of the clearing. Aro followed suit and walked across with the hooded figure. As we reached the middle we stopped a few feet away from each other, not daring to go any closer. Aro stepped ever closer, causing me to pull an awakened Serena closer to my chest and away from his pale, bone like fingers. The hooded vampire stepped with him, their brilliantly bright eyes darting quickly from Serena to Jasper and I then back again.

"My, my Whitlock, you have been busy now haven't ya'll?" A thick southern drawl escaped from the vampire's lips as she removed her hood and bored her eyes into Jaspers. He froze as rigid as a board as they locked gazes before thawing out and growling at the female vampire. Behind us Edward echoed Jasper, their voices full of fury and rage and she stood their smirking with her blood red lips. "Still got your feistiness has we?" She ran her fingers down the side of Jasper's face before he flinched away, crouching into his fighting stance.

"Maria…"

Alice Cullen