CHAPTER SIX: Touch her and I rip your head off

ISABELLA

"But how do you know?" Renesmee asked me.

"I don't know. I just have this feeling. Call me Alice but I feel like I know." I replied. She had asked how I knew where we were going. I told her I was following my instinct. I had a feeling that there was a reason I had chosen Africa. That there was a reason we were heading south. That there was something or someone here.

"But mama..." Nessie whinged. She just wanted to stop running. She wanted to be in one place.

"Renesmee how many times do I have to tell you that you cannot start a sentence with the word but?" She frowned at me and we kept walking. It was dark and she wanted to sleep. "Just a few more miles baby." I said. Her smile brightened straight away.

I felt bad. I couldn't give my daughter a proper life. She couldn't have real friends or a family. She didn't have a house or a family. She couldn't go to school and she couldn't have a family. Out of all the things I couldn't give her, the family part was the worst.

I wanted her to know her father, her uncles and aunties, her grandparents. Well grandparents on one side at least. We stopped for the night and I set up Nessie's sleeping bag. She snuggled into it and then hopped into my lap.

She didn't like sleeping on the ground. I promised her that we would wander around Africa for a while and then we could settle somewhere that she liked. I did want to see the country.

She fell asleep to the lullaby again. Most of the time when she wanted me to read her a bedtime story it would just be me telling her one of my own stories. She preferred hearing about my antics with Jacob. I would always shake my head when she wanted to hear a story about something stupid Jacob and I had done together.

I moved her to be placed on the ground and went to the creek. I sat there and stared at my reflection, would they even recognize me now? I looked so different. I really had to look to see me.

I moved back over to my daughter and put her back in my lap. When she woke up she complained of being hungry.

"Well if you're so hungry then you'll eat some human food."

"But I don't want to! It's yucky!"

"What did I say about the but? Now if you were so hungry or thirsty then you would put up with the human food okay. We can't hunt until we get into thicker forest okay." I said to her. She nodded and grabbed an apple out of the bag.

She always ate healthy foods and never the junk stuff. We started walking at a human pace through the bushes. There was no sun shining through the cover of the trees so we stuck to the path. I had looked at a map when we got off the plane and memorized it.

"Can we stop for the day I spotted a really nice looking field? It has a creek and everything mama. Please?" I smiled.

"Sure thing sweetheart." She showed me the way to the field she had seen. I felt another pang in my dead heart. It reminded me so much of Edward. It looked so much the same. There were obvious differences but most of it looked so similar.

I sighed. Maybe just maybe this was the pull I had felt. The feeling. "Mama?"

"It's nothing sweetheart. Let's got hunting." I smiled and she dropped her stuff and we started off. I was not very thirsty so I only took down one animal. Nessie on the other hand was extremely thirsty and took down three animals. Two of which were twice the size of her.

She was lucky she had Edward's height.

We headed back and Renesmee fell onto the ground puffing her stomach out. "Okay, I'm full." She said. I giggled at her and placed myself next to her.

I cherished moments like this. Just Renesmee and I. Mother and daughter. "Did you hear that?" She asked quietly.

I nodded and sat up. I couldn't pick it. Nessie put her hand on my face questioning me with the sound. It sounded like a stick being snapped. But not quite. I put up my shield, strongly around Renesmee. I jumped up into a defensive position.

Whatever it was, if it was even a threat, I was ready for it. I did see much a blur of yellow jump out and leap at Nessie. I jumped in front of her at the attacker. I pretty much tackled whoever it was out of the way and onto the ground.

They were pinned under me. "Try and touch her and I rip your head off...Jasper?" I said in shock. I was positive. He seemed to have realised that his attack had not been successful. He tried to jump up again.

He succeeded and tried to step past me. I went back into defensive mode. As soon as he pounced I threw up my shield and it threw him back into a tree. The tree snapped with a defining crack. "Jasper?" I heard Alice's musical voice. I raced in front of Renesmee and made sure I was directly in front of her. Alice payed me no attention as she picked Jasper up.

She probably didn't see me standing here defensively. I was ready to attack them at any second. No matter how much they were my family and I loved them, nobody would hurt my Nessie. "What happened?" Alice asked with a frustrated look on her face, "I can't see anything!" She complained.

Jasper sprung back up, he seemed to have calmed down. His mouth was hanging open, "I think we found what we were looking for..." He trailed off. Alice turned to look. She let out a squeak.

"BELLA!" She yelled and ran at me. My shield was still up and she was flung back. Jasper caught her.

"Oops. Sorry about that. I'm still a little on nerve since Jasper tried to attack. By the way I was serious about ripping you head off." I said.

"What the hell just happened? God I'm blind." Alice huffed.

I pulled down my shield from myself and keeping it still on Renesmee. "Okay this time you'll be able to come up to me." I stated. She walked up nervously with a hand in front of her face. I giggled at her and walked up to her.

I wrapped my arms around her while watching Jasper who was trying to get a look at Nessie. "I missed you so much Bells. I cannot believe we found you! Beat that team Emmett." She said.

I laughed, "Umm, team Emmett? And I've missed you too."

"Never mind."

"Bella, why are you with a human?" Jasper asked while coming up to me. I moved in front of Nessie again, and got into a defensive position. "Sorry about that we were hunting so I had already let the instincts take over. Sorry." I relaxed.

"She's not human." I said.

"But she has a heart beat..." Alice said. I smiled. Nessie moved closer to me and placed her hand to my cheek while staying behind me. She was asking if this was Uncle Jasper and Auntie Alice.

"Yes sweetie." I took an unneeded breath and pulled her to my side. "She's half human. Half vampire...." I said. She looked so much like Edward and I you could easily tell she was our child, but because she looked eight...you wouldn't figure.

Alice and Jasper's mouths were both hanging open. I laughed, "Yes it's possible. And she's only three. She ages extremely fast. She eats both human food and drinks blood. She has a heartbeat." I said. They were still shocked.

"But...but..."Jasper said.

"You can't a sentence with but Uncle Jasper." Nessie said and smiled at him. She already had him wrapped around her little fingers.

"God she looks so much like Edward it's scary. Where did you find her?"

"Find her? What?" So they didn't know about Nessie. "What Alice didn't you see any of this?" I asked shocked.

"No, it's exactly like the wolves. She's not there. I couldn't see you either because you were always around her." She stated.

"Oh."

"So where did you find her?" Jasper asked again.

"I didn't exactly find her. I found out about her about a day before Michel came and took me away." I said.

"What do you mean?" I sighed. Maybe Michel wasn't the only dumb vampire. No they weren't dumb I don't think they even knew that this could happen.

"She's my daughter!" I said.

"But, how?" Jasper asked and tilted his head to the side a little.

"What so you cheated on Edward with this Michel guy? I cannot believe you! I didn't even know that could happen!" Alice said angrily.

"No...I have never done anything with Michel like that. Except what he made me do. I never wanted to do any of it." I said.

"But then..."

"Alice! No. She didn't. That little girl called me Uncle Jasper. She looks like Bella and Edward! Bella found out about her before that guy took her. She's Edward's daughter as well Alice..."

"OH MY GOD! That is so awesome. Ha, Rosalie is going to be so pissed. She always wanted the baby...then Edward got one." Alice started to laugh and I joined in. I had missed them so much.

Once we stopped Nessie tugged on my shirt impatiently. "Oh right. Jasper, Alice, this is your niece Renesmee." I said, "This is Uncle Jasper and Auntie Alice..." I said. She smiled at them and stuck out her hand.

Alice hugged her, "I have a niece! And a new Barbie! YAY!" She said happily.

"At least I'm not you doll anymore Alice." I stated. I kept a close eye on Jasper.

"I won't hurt her Bella. Sorry about that. Really I am." Jasper stuck his hand out but Nessie just wrapped her arms around his legs. He hugged her back and smiled. She came back over to me and I smiled.

"Ooh come on we have to go tell Edward!" Alice said happily.

"Where is Edward..?" I asked trying to see if he was behind them.

"Oh he's over the other side of the country we'll head to Congo to the house we have there. Carlisle and Esme are there. I'll call team Emmett now and tell them we found you." Alice said. I felt my face fall.

She rolled her eyes at me and pulled out a silver mobile phone. "What is it Alice?!" I heard my love's voice say. He sounded angry.

"Edward I just had a vision..." Alice said sounding sad. She shot me a smile.

'That's not funny' I mouthed to her. She just kept on smiling.

"What of Alice?" He said sounding scarred.

"That...That...That...Orlando Bloom isn't going to be in the next Pirate's movie." She said and started laughing hysterically.

"Alice that was not funny! I'm in a bad enough mood having to deal with Emmett and Rosalie not focusing and going off to do everyone knows what every single time I say to take a break. It's disturbing. And the fact that I haven't found anything yet!" He said. I itched to talk to him. I gave Alice the evil eyes.

"Sorry Edward I couldn't help it. I'm getting the evils from Bella though so maybe I should let her talk to you." She said simply.

"What?"

"We found her Edward."

"YOU FOUND HER?! LET ME TALK TO HER!" He yelled. You could hear the excitement in his voice. I giggled.

"Hang on hang on. Now, just get your butt's up to Congo. You can talk to her there." Alice said being fully serious.

"WHAT?! No I want to talk to him now!" I said.

Alice started to laugh again. Nessie joined in and Jasper fell over. I started laughing then. "Jasper did you actually just fall over?!"

"Shut up that was not funny. That girl is...wow..."He said. Nessie smiled her killer smile at him and he almost fell over again.

"Okay Edward." Alice smiled, "See you in Congo." She said and hung up.

"What! I wanted to talk to him." I frowned at Alice.

"Trust me; your meeting in Congo will now be even better. I've seen it!" I frowned at her. "Come on I want to get there before team Emmett." I pulled Nessie up onto my back quickly.

"Hey I want to walk!" She said.

"No. Now come on."

"Alice you know we will get there before them. They're still in Egypt, we're closer." Jasper said. She nodded. We took off headed to Abolo in Congo. Alice kept ignoring her phone. I tried getting it off her but never succeeded.

The next morning we arrived at our destination. There house was smaller than the old one but it was still amazing. We walked inside. "Alice, Jasper. Hi." I was still behind them.

"BELLA!" Esme yelled seeing me first. Nessie was behind me and I wrapped my arms around Esme. "Oh I've missed you dear." She said. I let go of her and hugged Carlisle.

"Hello sweetie, and who might you be?" Esme asked Nessie. She smiled her toothy smile.

"I'm Renesmee Carlie Cullen. I know who you are. Mama told me lots about everyone. You're my nana. Esme. I was named after you." She smiled. Esme was shocked. I giggled.

"She does that on first meetings." I said. Esme looked up at me. She would have been crying if she were human.

"She's beautiful."

"Yes she is. And she's your granddaughter." I said.

"But...How old is she?" Carlisle asked.

"Three. I'll explain later." I said. "It's a long story."

Nessie hugged Esme and she started to dry sob. It was one of the sweetest sights I'd seen in a long time. I yanked out my camera and snapped a picture. "Sorry. It's for my scrapbook." I said. Esme hopped up and hugged me again.

"But how?" Carlisle asked.

"And you're my granddad Carlisle. I'm named after you as well. Who aren't I named after?!" She said sarcastically and hugged Carlisle who hugged her back. I sucked in a breath and explained to them that she was half human half vampire.

"You know you are going to have to do this again for team Emmett." Alice stated, what was with the team Emmett? I shook my head. Nessie was snuggled into Esme on the couch. I was next to her and Carlisle was jotting things down on a notepad. He was fascinated by Nessie.

"So tell me how fast did she grow?" He asked me.

"Quick." She was asleep now. "I'm scarred. I don't know if it's going to stop. It's slowed down but...I can't live without her." I said while looking down at my hands folded in my lap. Alice came over and wrapped an arm around me.

"She'll stop. I'm positive even though I can't see it." She smiled. I felt better.

"I'm going to put her in our bed okay." Esme said and I nodded. (AN: Sorry but while writing this I'm listening to the song Hope it gives you Hell by the all American rejects. I think...yeah and I'm like god this is weird! Sorry back to the story)

She was upstairs when three people burst through the doors. He scanned the room until his eyes fell on me. His hair was windblown from running but he still looked like my Edward. My face broke into a huge smile. His face mimicked mine.

I jumped up and ran straight to him. He opened his arms and encircled me. I gripped him tightly. "Bella..."He said into my hair.

"Hi." I replied. He pulled me back and looked me in the eyes. "I missed you...a lot." I said.

"I missed you too." He leaned in and kissed me lightly.

"Damn it." I said after we broke apart.

"Uhhh...what?" He said sceptically.

"You still dazzle me. No fair." But then I smiled mischievously, "But somebody else here is going dazzle all of you to death. She's already got Alice, Jasper, Esme and Carlisle wrapped around her fingers." I stated.

"What, who?" Emmett said. I let go of Edward with a struggle and hugged Emmett then Rosalie.

Alice started to laugh again. "What are you blocking from my mind Alice?" Edward said.

She stopped and took some deep breaths, "I was right, Rosalie is going to be pissed." Alice said. I started to giggle.

"Hey!" Rosalie said.

"Alice..." I trailed off. Esme came back downstairs sobbing again.

"What's wrong?" Emmett said rushing to Esme.

"Nothing dear. Oh Bella. She is such a sweetheart." I smiled.

"Don't I know it?! She has her moments though. Especially with the whole I'm hungry thing. She says she's hungry but she won't eat human food. No. She's really stubborn." I stated.

"Wonder who she gets that from?!" Alice said sarcastically. Edward, Emmett and Rosalie all looked really confused.

"Right..." Jasper said.

"Here it comes..." Alice said.

"Ummm... I-" I started to say.

"Did I fall asleep?" Nessie came out rubbing her eyes; her hair was in front of her face.

"Yup sweetie. You're tired from all the running we've been doing." I said as I walked over to her. The three who had only just arrived were staring wide mouthed. "Everybody does the same thing." I stated while rolling my eyes.

She scanned the room with her big brown eyes and Emmett fell over I started laughing again. "That's two."

Her eyes landed on Edward and she reached up to my face. 'Daddy?' was her question.

"Yes." I smiled.

"I can't read her mind either." Edward said.

"Oops, still got the shield thing happening. Blame Jasper." I said.

"Hey come on! Once I saw her I probably wouldn't have killed her. Like you would've let me! You seriously did almost rip my head off." I smiled innocently.

"Did not. I just warned you."

Nessie let go of my hand and ran straight to Edward jumping onto him. I smiled. Esme sobbed again.

"Hello. Ummm...who's this?" He asked clearly dazzled by her.

"That's Renesmee." I said.

"And why is she here and hugging me?" He asked.

"Well because she's heard so much about you and I think she's wanted to meet you for a while. Well since she was born..."

"So another human knows about vampires oh joy. I mean honestly what is wrong with you Bella?!" Rosalie yelled.

"Well of course she knows about vampires she is one! Why are you being so hostile towards me Rosalie I haven't done anything to you."

"She isn't a vampire she has a heartbeat!" Rosalie replied.

"Yes, she does. That's because she's half human half vampire!" I wouldn't get angry. I stuck up my shield and pushed Rosalie back a little.

"What did you just do? Wait how the heck can she be half?!"

I sighed, "She can be half because her mother was human and her father was a vampire when they had sex! So if you couldn't figure that out then you probably won't be able to figure the rest out!"

"Bella..." Alice said.

"No. I put up with crap from her for ages. Now I'm a vampire just like you but with one thing you never had and obviously Rosalie you're still jealous."

"Bella lay off." Emmett said. I stopped and pulled my shield back. Nessie was looking at me. She put her hand on her my face while sitting in Edward's arms.

'What's wrong mama?'

"Don't worry sweetie." They all looked confused.

"Right I forgot to tell you about that..." I said.

"I am really confused right now at you saying that you have something that I never had..."

"A daughter Rosalie."

"But..." I rolled my eyes and Jasper chuckled along with Alice.

"Mama?" Nessie said.

"Yes?" I said. She landed on her feet when Edward dropped her.

"Mama?! Does this mean that you have a daughter...oh my god Bella?!" Edward said and walked out of the house. My mouth dropped and Nessie came over to me looking confused.

"Okay he's the second person to think that I would cheat on him! When are you going to get it?! I LOVE EDWARD CULLEN! I would never cheat on him." I pretty much yelled. He stormed back into the house.

"Then why do you have a daughter huh?" He said angrily.

"Because if you don't remember correctly I had sex with you! Maybe my feeble human brain was better at remembering things than yours. She's your daughter. Can't anybody other than Jasper see that? She looks exactly like you!" I said loudly hoping to get it in their heads. This was not how I planned the reunion.

Edward froze, his mouth was hanging open. "How could I forget?" Was all he said, he walked over to me and wrapped his arms around me. "Sorry love. I've become bitter since I've been without you." I smiled.

"It's okay." I stepped back from him and smiled.

"Now that that's all cleared up. I would like everybody to meet Renesmee Carlie Cullen. She is my daughter and Edward's..." I started on the story for the third time tonight. The entire time Edward had one arm wrapped around my waist and one arm around Nessie who was this time snuggled up into him.

"I took heaps of pictures..."I pulled out the scrapbooks I had made and passed them around. "They go from when she was born, three years ago. It was about a month or so after Michel kidnapped me." I said.

"Hope you don't mind love but I'm going to kill him." Edward said.

"I don't really mind at all. It's just I don't want anybody getting hurt, I mean he can be vicious and he has a power too." I said.

"How come we couldn't track your smell?" Emmett asked.

"Because I have a shield, one that couldn't protect Nessie and me from Michel's bonds. I think it was Jasper who said it, but I can only block out powers of the mind, like Edward's, not the physical stuff like Alice and Jasper. I can open up my shield to allow people in, that's how I let Nessie in. I mean I could let you read my mind if I wanted to." I said.

"Nessie?" Carlisle asked.

"Nickname." Edward was looking at me.

"Please? I've always wanted to get inside your head..." He gave me the puppy dog face. I almost gave in. Almost.

"Not going to work. I've lived with her for three years and her puppy face is a lot harder to deny, but I succeeded in that so I can deny you. Maybe some other time." I said and he pouted. I patted his knee. "You'll get over it."

"Does Renesmee have a power?" Carlisle asked.

"Oh yes, it's strange. You'll have to see it to understand." I said. Nessie sat up and smiled. "Why don't you show Carlisle something? I know, show him how fast you grew, he wants to know about that." I said. She nodded and wiggled out of Edwards grasp.

She waltzed over to Carlisle and said, "Be ready, it will probably shock you." Then she smiled toothily at him and placed her hand on his cheek. He was shocked at first but then got used to it. I removed my shield from her to allow Edward to read her mind. He seemed shocked too.

After she showed Carlisle she showed Esme something then Alice, Jasper, Emmett and finally Rosalie. "Wow." They all said. I giggled.

"Yup."

"Mama I'm sleepy."

"Okay sweetie. Come on, uhhh, where can I put her?" I asked. Edward stood up.

"I'll show you." He said and grabbed my hand. It felt perfect again. We walked into a room and I changed Nessie into her pyjamas and she got into the middle of the bed. I noticed there was a piano in the room. It must be Edward's room.

"Mama, will you sing me my favourite song?" She asked.

"I can do better." I said. I leaned up to Edward's ear, "Can you play my lullaby for me?" I asked him while fluttering my eyelashes. He just stared at me for a moment. Score, I can dazzle him too.

"Okay." He kissed me on the cheek and went to his piano. I smiled at the familiar melody. Renesmee fell asleep near the middle of the song.

Edward came back over to me and placed his arms around me. It felt right.

I was whole again.

AN: Hey guys well that's chapter six. Yes it was big. Now I kept trying to get the meeting perfect and then well that's how it happened! God I was going to drag it out a little but couldn't. Hope you liked it. I did. Now I have some random facts of knowledge for you all. Okay so did you ever wonder why vampires are so pale? Most of you figure its just because they don't have blood, well hey yeah that's right. Every human has a blood cell called erythrocyte; this is the blood cell that is filled with haemoglobin. These cells carry oxygen throughout the body right; this gives the body the pink colour we have. Without this then the body turns blue/grey. Thus leaving vampires this colour! So technically vampires could all just have Sickle Cell Anaemia, which is a disease where not enough oxygen gets to the blood cells. Yes random I know.

But now you all know. (I watch discovery channel. Hehe. I like it.) Now I am more knowledgeable. Yay me. yes I know I just started a sentence with BUT I do it all the time.

Righto. Any Questions? Comments? Let me know.

Nickynoo. P.S. REVIEW! PLEASE!