Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Twilight characters

This story's rating is 'M' do to previous chapters and possible future chapters.

At the field where the fight took place and the battle had finally come to an end and every single member of the Cullen family and Leah's Pack had survived. They were now in the stages of cleaning up all the bodies of the newborns then burning them to make sure that they were all dead while they awaited the arrival of Edward, Leah and Bella. It was Alice who was the most concerned that they would get there in time, seeing that Jane and three other members of the Volturi were on their way. That and they needed to make sure that the Pack left before the Volturi members got there. By the time they finally got to the field, the Cullen family were all standing beside a large pile of burning newborns and the Pack was on the other side of the feild waiting. Bella stood beside Leah, holding onto her hand as Edward lead the way towards his family.

"How long?" Edward asked as they moved up next to his family, wondering how much time they all had before Jane and the others would arrive.

Alice turned in his direction, relieved that they were back. "A few minutes. Maybe ten?" She answered looking at Edward before her eyes found Bella and Leah's hands joined together. The pixie couldn't help but give a small smile. Grateful that Bella had found someone that loves her yet she couldn't help but feel sad about the fact that she wouldn't be with her brother any longer.

"The Pack needs to leave." Carlisle said softly as he looked over at Leah who was a bit confused as to what was going on. "The Volturi won't honor a truce with your Pack."

Leah gave a light nod, letting him know that she would make sure that her Pack would leave but she didn't quite understand why they couldn't really be there and who the Volturi was. All she did know was that Bella was afraid of them and by the looks of it, so were the Cullens. That let her know that these Volturi people meant buisness. With the acknowledgement that her Pack needed to leave, she turned towards were they all stood and her eyes immediately spotted Jake standing off to the side by himself. Movement behind him caught not only her eye but his as well. He turned around and launched himself towards the lone newborn that was still left alive.

"Jacob, no!" Leah yelled, letting go of Bella's hand before rushing off in the direction of Jacob who was in a head lock. That was a position that could easily get him killed if someone didn't help him.

Phasing in mid air as she got closer to the newborn and Jacob, tacking the vampire off of Jacob and rolled around on the ground with him as she tried to get her jaws around some part of the thing but the newborn was quick and she soon found herself in a similiar position that Jacob had just been in. The newborn had its arms wrapped around her sides and he jerked down, instantly getting a loud yelp of pain from the female wolf. He dropped his hold on her and she fell to the ground, phasing back to her human form as the others from her pack took care of the newborn vampire.

"Leah!" Bella yelled when seeing her lover on the ground writhing in pain. Running as fast as she could in the direction that her naked girlfriend was in, hoping that the girl would be okay and that it wasn't that serious.

Both Edward and Carlisle made it to the Native girl first. Doctor Cullen checking her over to see what type of injury she had substained while Edward looked down at the girl and placed a cold hand on her shoulder. "Leah. Hold on. Carlisle's gonna take care of you."

"The bones on the right half of her body are shattered." Carlisle explained as he continued to check over the girl's injuries while Bella dropped down beside her girlfriend.

"Bella." Leah said softly, looking up at her mate. Trying to control her facial expressions so that she didn't worry her imprint with how much pain she was really in but she wasn't going a very good job.

"Leah, I'm right here." Bella whispered, not really trusting her voice because it was killing her inside to see her girlfriend in pain like she was but she also want to give her as much comfort as possible which was a hard task. The only thing she could think of to do was gently caress the side of the girl's face.

The rest of the Pack quickly phased in the woods and got their jean short on before rushing out to help their fallen sister. Jacob was one of the first to reach them. It was obvious that he was feeling extremly guilty for what happened to Leah but he was also pissed for not having the chance to kill the newborn like he thought he should have. "Leah, you idiot, I had it!"

"Jacob!" Sam warned him, using his alpha voice a bit to let him know that now was not the time for that type of arguement before he kneeled down beside Carlisle so he could listen to what the Doctor had to say about Leah's condition.

"I need to set the bones before her accelerated healing kicks in." Carlisle says as he gently moves one of Leah's arm to get a better understanding of what was going on with the bones inside. "It's already starting."

"We need to get her out of here. We're not gonna win a fight with the Volturi." Edward explains, knowing that their time was running out.

Sam looked between Edward and Carlisle, realizing that they needed to get Leah out of their before this other threat comes to them. "We'll take her back to Billy's." He told the Doc in his deep voice.

"I'll be there as soon as I can." Carlisle says with a nod to his head.

"Hang on, Leah." Bella said softly as she leaned down and pressed a kiss to the female wolf's head then moving back then standing up so that the boys could pick her up.

One by one, each member of the Pack genlty bent down and started to lift her up. Even though she was in pain and hissing a bit as they lifted her, they were all being as gentle as possible to the hurting wolf.

"It's okay. We got you." Paul assured as they began to walk towards the woods.

"Bella..." Leah whimpered as she turned her head to the side a bit, looking for her imprint.

"I'm right here." Bella told her as she got into her line of sight and moved with the boys until she was stopped by Edward's cold hand holding onto her wrist. She looked at him with a questionable gaze.

"You need to stay, Bella. The Volturi are going to be expecting you to be with me." He told her.

Bella looked at him for a moment before turning to look at Leah who was looking at her. The brunette really didn't want to leave her girlfriend in her time of need but she knew that Edward was kind of right. If she was not there when the Volturi arrived it could mean bad things for not only her and Leah but for the Cullen family as well. And she loved them all too much to let any thing bad happen to them. She sighed and nodded her head then watched as the Pack carried away the woman she loved. It was obvious that Leah didn't want her to stay but she really had no choice but to go with her comrades.

"They're coming." Alice suddenly says, looking a bit worried and nervous about facing the Volturi. Especially Jane.

No sooner had the Pack left and the Cullen's gathered around where the fire was, the Volturi walked out of the trees and towards them with their hoods over their heads. It was nerve racking for Bella to watch them walking towards them the way that they were. They walked some what slowly, taking their time to add to the anxious feeling most were feeling as they neared them. Bella stayed close to Edward which caused him to wrap an arm around her waist to give her comfort. When they stopped just a few feet away and as one pulled back their hoods, it was Jane who spoke first.

"Impressive." Jane said with no emotion. "I've never seen a coven escape an assault of this magnitude intact."

"We were lucky." Carlisle responded.

"I doubt that."

"It appears we missed an entertaining fight." Jane's brother Alec said as he looked at at the Cullens.

"Yes." Jane agreed. "It's not often we're rendered unnecessary."

"If you'd arrived a half hour ago, you would have fulfilled your purpose." Edward told her softly, keeping Bella close.

"Pity." Jane said before letting her eyes roam over the Clan until something caught her eye. "You missed one."

Behind them, a young newborn vampire girl who looked to be scared and nervous of her surroundings. It caused Jasper to move to her side to show that he was willing to protect her rather than kill her because she was the only one not willing to fight them during the battle. The Cullen's turned to look at the girl before looking back at Jane.

"We offered her asylum in exchange for her surrender." Carlisle explained the reason that the newborn was still alive.

"That wasn't yours to offer." Jane told him before turning her attention towards the young newborn. "Why did you come?" Just after the question, the young newborn dropped to the ground, screaming in agony. "Who created you?" The girl didn't answer, she just continued to scream from the horrific pain that Jane was causing her.

Unable to handle the screams from the young child, Esme turns to Jane with the hopes of helping to ease the newborns pain. "You don't need to do that. She'll tell you anything you want to know."

"I know." Jane smiled.

The pain the newborn was experiencing stopped and she took in deep breaths before turning up right to speak. "I don't know! Riley wouldn't tell us. He said our thoughts weren't safe."

"Her name was Victoria. Perhaps you knew her." Edward said, trying to help the girl out by answering the question he knew the answer too.

"Edward, if the Volturi had knowledge of Victoria, they would have stopped her. Isn't that right, Jane?" Carlisle told him before turning around to look back at Jane.

"Of course." Jane answered. There was silence for a brief moment before Jane turned her head to the left slightly. "Felix."

The large vampire standing just behind her, took a couple steps forwards, already knowing what it was that Jane wanted him to do and that was to take care of the newborn standing behind the clan. "She didn't know what she was doing." Esme quickly spoke up causing Jane to hold her hand up to stop Felix from moving forwards. Willing to hear the woman out. "We'll take responsibility for her."

"Give her a chance." Carlisle added, knowing that his wife had already grown somewhat attached to the young girl.

"The Volturi don't give second chances. Keep that in mind." Jane tells them before looking over at Bella and Edward as she says the last thing. "Caius will be interested to know that she's still human."

"The date is set." Edward informed, which caused Bella to take in a deep breath at hearing that cause that was something that she would have wanted to hear him say a while ago but now that she was with Leah, it was something that she didn't want to hear. Now how was she suppose to get out of this, knowing that the Volturi were waiting for her to turn.

"Take care of that, Felix. I'd like to go home."

Felix walks forwards and moves easily through the Cullen family as they move out of his way, knowing that this was something that could not be fought. Jane had spoken and they could not say anything but all eyes followed him as he stalked up to his prey. The look Rosalie was giving him was close to a death glare, having always wanted childern couldn't believe that Jane would order such a young girl to her death...even though she was technically already dead as a vampire. The screams were aweful to listen to and they had to look away as Felix quickly ripped the girl apart.

At Billy's place, Bella quickly pulled up in her ford truck and quickly threw it into park and jumping out. Seeing that every single member of the Pack was outside with Billy, Emily and Sue. All waiting impaitently for word on Leah's condition. Bella walked quickly up to Billy who was trying his best to comfort Sue Clearwater about to ask about her girlfriend when she heard Leah screaming from inside the house. The moment they heard the girl's screams Sue grabbed a hold of Billy's hand and squeezed it, finding it extremly hard to listen to her daughter like that.

"It's been going on for a while." Quil told Bella as he looked at her. It was obvious by the look on her face that she was extremly worried.

"Doc's re-breaking her bones." Embry added.

"Why did she have to butt in? I could've taken that tick." Jacob shook his head as he paced back and forth. Knowing that he was the one responsible for Leah being in such pain when it really should have been him in there and not her.

"Give it a rest, Jacob. She saved your ass." Paul told him with a glare.

The front door to the house opened and all the boys perked up, this was what they had all been waiting for. Was to know how their Pack sister was doing. Carlisle walked out with his medical bag in hand and Sam walking out behind him. "The worst is over. She'll be all right." He assured them. "I gave her some morphine, but her body temperature will burn it off soon. I'll come back to set up a drip."

Carlisle began to walk away from the house but when hearing Sue's voice, he stopped to turn towards the woman. "Thank you." She expressed looking at the vampire. Something she never thought she would ever do in her life time then held out her hand to the Doctor. Seeing the offered hand, he gave her a small smile before taking her hand in his and shaking it gently.

When he let go of the woman's hand, he turned towards Bella. "She's asking for you." He told her before walking away into the darkness.

She looked unsure about going in first, she thought it would be best if Sue went in, seeing she was the girl's mother but when she saw Sue nod her head. Letting her know that it was okay for her to go in first. She took in a deep breath and nodded her head and walked past everyone and inside the house.

Bella had found Leah laying in Jacob's bedroom. Her entire upper body and right arm were completely wrapped up and she looks to have sweated through the whole ordeal. Her girlfriend was so tough and brave that she couldn't even imaging going through what she had just gone through and just seeing her lover like this was heart breaking but what was worse was thinking about the Volturi and what Jane had said about her still being human. It was becoming a problem. Her still being human and the fact that she was now with Leah and not Edward this was going to be a big problem when the Volturi find out that she was no longer with Edward and had no thoughts of becoming a vampire like she had before. Stopping herself just inside the door frame of the room as she looked Leah over.

"Hey, Leah." She said softly, standing there unsure whether or not she should move closer. The fear of causing her more pain if she were to touch the girl caused her to stay put.

"Hey." Leah whispered, taking in deep breaths as she tried to swallow some of the pain that she was still experiencing. Realizing that Bella wasn't coming any closer, she spoke up again. "Come here."

She followed the Native girl's request quickly and moved inside the room further then kneeling down at the side of the bed near where Leah's face was so that they could actually talk to one another. It was the closest Bella could get to her girl without actually causing the girl pain and it was the best she could do.

"I was worried about you." Leah told her softly, as she tilted her head to the side to look at her mate.

"You were worried about me?"

"Yeah." She nodded her head slightly. "I didn't want to leave you with Edward. What happened?"

Bella looked down and shook her head. "Nothing."

"Don't lie to me." Leah told her. She wanted the truth and nothing less and she hated it when Bella was left alone with Edward then tries to cover up what happened while she wasn't around. "Please."

"The Volturi...they, um..they noticed that I'm still human." She said softly. Leah looked at her, taking in deep breaths as she waited for the girl to continue. It was those intense gazes that caused Bella to realize that no matter what she could never really lie or hide anything from her imprint. "And Edward, he told her that the date was set."

"No, it's not!" Leah growled, then wincing a bit when her muscles tightened around her healing bones.

"Take it easy." Bella coaxed softly.

"I will not take it easy, Bella." Leah snapped, then looked away from her as she tried to calm herself down. "He will not turn you into one of those things."

"No, he wont." Bella assured. "He was just trying to keep Jane and the others away."

"I highly doubt that." She said shaking her head. "If he lays a hand on you, I swear I will rip him to shreds."

"Leah. Please. Just stop." The brunette pleaded. "He would never hurt me. He didn't even want to change me in the first place."

"That was when he had you, Bella. Now, he has nothing. And I'm pretty sure that he thinks that if he were to change you that I would let you go and that would give him the opportunity to get you back."

Hearing this, Bella looks up at her for a moment. Trying to read her girlfriends face, to see if she could get the answer without actually asking it but Leah was so hard to read when she wanted to be. "Would you?"

"Would I what?"

"Let me go?" Bella asked softly. "If he changed me?"

Leah just looked at her for a moment. Wondering herself if she would be able to let her mate go if she were to be changed into the creature that she grew up learning was her enemy. "No." She finally asnwered, shaking her head. "I'd never let you go."

Chapter 9!

Sorry for the wait on this chapter. Moved into a new place and that kinda took up a lot of my time. But I'm settled and finally was able to write up this chapter. I hope you all approve. Let me know your thoughts!

Review!

EastynPaige

Special Thanks to:

Blue-Portrait
whitetigerwolf
psychovampirefreak
geschichtenleserin
Matthias Stormcrow
NeedNoName
Silo666
Akasha Hallows27
BigTimeGleekBTR
lynettecullen
ShadowCub
WhiteTiger18
paulswolfgirl2355
Mea the shipper