A/N: Don't forget that I added two chapters today, so if you haven't read the last one, you need to go do that now. It's happy-ish and fluffy and short, so it won't take long.

"Let's play again!" Esme urged us.

"I'd like some alone time with my wife, if you don't mind," Jasper said quietly.

"Of course," Esme agreed, understanding what he wanted. "Take as much time as you would like."

Alice and Jasper sped upstairs to their room, and the rest of us sat there and looked at each other.

"I didn't think I would have that much fun," I admitted after a few moments of silence.

"Jasper helped," Victoria said. "Otherwise none of us would have had that much fun."

"I figured," I said. "So, what do we want to do now?"

"It's a slightly sadder activity than we were just participating in, but I would like to know what Edward said in his letter, if you don't mind sharing," Emmett said.

"Okay," I agreed. I ran up to my room and brought the letter back down.

The next hour was spent in silence as we passed the letter around, all of us reading it and then rereading it.

"That was very wise on his part," Esme finally said, breaking the silence.

"He always was a smart boy," Emmett agreed.

"You were lucky that he left this for you," Esme told me. I could see the sadness in her eyes.

"I'm sure Carlisle would have left something," I assured her.

"He knew it was coming, so he told me everything he wanted me to know before he was taken," she said. "Edward did not know when he would die, so for him, a letter was more appropriate."

"I feel so sorry for Jasper right now," I said. "He knows that his wife is going to die soon, and yet there's nothing we can do about it."

"We can still try, but it probably won't help," Emmett agreed. "It's hard for all of us."

"But I feel the worst for him right now," I said. "He knows it's coming, yet he can't be sad because then that would make the rest of us sad too."

"The rest of us don't have to worry about that as much," Esme agreed.

"What are we going to do when they take him too?" Victoria asked.

"Deal with it on our own," Rosalie answered. "Even if it will be hard, we have to try."

"We need to try to stop them," Esme said.

"How?" Victoria asked. "How are we supposed to stop a force that is so much more powerful than we are?"

"We've always beat the odds in the past," Esme said. "We're always lucky."

"I'm a member of your family now," Victoria said sadly. "I never beat the odds."

"We will this time," I promised. "Everything will turn out for the best."

"How can it?" Rosalie asked sadly. "We have already lost our brother and father, and we're about to lose our sister too. How can it turn out for the best if we can't be with our family?"

"There's always heaven," I said quietly.

Victoria laughed harshly. "Even if we have souls, I don't think that I'll be joining anyone in heaven. I've taken too many innocent lives to go somewhere for good people."

"Maybe it only counts for while we were actually alive," I suggested.

"I doubt it," Victoria told me. "I highly doubt it."

"You'll be there," I assured her.

"What if we don't go to heaven?" Emmett asked.

"Don't think like that," I told him harshly. "That's the only reason why I'm not still curled into a ball and not talking."

"You're hopeful, but I'm realistic," Emmett said.

"We're all going to heaven," I said stubbornly.

"Let's not argue," Esme pleaded. "I don't think I can handle it."

"Sorry," Emmett and I said at the same time.

We sat in silence for the next hour. There was nothing to do.

"Just think how boring eternity would be if we never had anything to do," I commented, breaking the silence.

"It would be boring," Alice agreed as she and Jasper walked down the stairs looking grim.

"How long?" Victoria asked, assuming that their grim looks meant that Alice knew how soon they would come.

She was right. "Ten minutes," Alice answered softly.

"How will they take you?" Emmett asked.

"I'm not sure," Alice answered. "Probably the same way that they took Carlisle. They don't want to kill us in front of everyone else just in case something happens and you have a better chance of stopping them."

"I'll miss you," I told her. I went to give her a hug, and she held onto me for a long time.

"I'll miss you too," she finally whispered. "And I hope you're right about going to heaven."

"Me too," I said as we pulled away.

Everyone, starting with Esme, took turns giving her a hug. She finally returned to Jasper's side and he wrapped his arm protectively around her.

"Say hello to Edward," I said softly. She gave me a sad smile to show that she would, if she saw him.

"Carlisle too," Esme asked.

"I will," Alice promised.

"How touching," a voice dripping with sarcasm said from the front door. Everyone except Alice tensed.

"Go away," I said without turning to look at the speaker. "We don't want you here."

"And I don't want you alive, but we can't all get what we want, now can we?" she asked.

"What's your name?" I asked, finally turning to look.

She looked at me, judging me, trying to decide if I was worth it or not. "Adeliza," she finally answered.

"Why are you doing this to us?" I asked.

"Why did Victoria hunt you for so long?" Adeliza asked. "Revenge is sweet, my dear, and I have a sweet tooth that can't be satisfied very easily. The deaths of a strong coven, not as strong as us, but strong all the same, is almost enough to cover it."

"You really are evil," Emmett informed her.

"I know," she said flippantly. "Now, I believe you already know who I'm here for, and I think you know it's fairly useless to struggle, so why don't you let her come with me willingly and we'll give you some time off to mourn her death before we kill the next one?"

"Never," Jasper spat. "We'll fight till the death."

"Your choice," Adeliza said with a shrug. Once again, our house was swarmed with vampires, all loyal to her, and they grabbed us, holding us back. "Take her." Adeliza commanded, nodding at Alice.

"No." Emmett said, ripping out of his captors' grips. He knocked them down, and then moved on to help Jasper.

But halfway there, he froze.

"Now now," Adeliza said mockingly. "Play nice, Emmett. We don't want to take you instead. It will be your turn eventually."

"I hate you, I hate you, I hate you," Rosalie spat. She kicked out to disable her captors, but froze as well.

"For a family who has accepted the fact that you're all going to die, you sure are feisty," Adeliza commented.

"We may have accepted the fact that you're stronger, but that doesn't mean that we're just going to lay down and let you trod all over us," Victoria said.

"Silence, idiot," Adeliza said. "You've bothered me for long enough."

"And I'm going to bother you until the day I die," Victoria told her. "You haven't heard the last of me."

"Just take the one we came for," Adeliza commanded, "And leave the rest. We'll come back for another one later."

With a final glare at all of us, Adeliza turned and marched out the door, followed by her minions who had Alice. Alice was struggling, but she couldn't break their grip.

"I love you!!!!" Alice desperately called back to Jasper.

"Shut up," one of the vampires holding her said, and then slapped her. We didn't see it, but we heard it. We all jerked, struggling to get free to go kill the one who had hit her. It was even worse when we heard her tearless sobs, both from the pain and having to leave us.

"Let us go!" Victoria commanded. She elbowed her captors, but they didn't budge.

Once again, the other vampires only stayed until they smelled the smoke, and then they let us go. Jasper ran out immediately to go find Alice, but the rest of us fought the vampires that had been holding us.

We killed two, but the others escaped. Jasper came back, but didn't say anything as he passed us and our pile of burning ashes. He went straight to his room.

We didn't see him for another week.