MARIANNE POV

Alice just informed us she saw the castle on which we had the hybrid hostage. I wanted to yell exactly where that castle was located, to run with them, to fight for that girl I didn´t even knew, but I knew that if I showed a bit of affection to that family or to that girl and I helped them, I was going to earn the whole Volturi´s fury and I knew they wouldn´t stop until they killed us all. I had no exit, I was going to have to behave as the coward I was and run away. I walked normally to the living room, sat in the armchair and heard the plans. I waited patiently for someone to say the right words for me to sneak out, and so I did, apologizing, relieving all the regret I really felt.

I ran to the little room designed to me, packed the few stuff that could seem to be necessary, hugged the Cullens as tight as I could and ran to the airport, ready to face what I had been trying to run away from, fearing the second Aro touched me, thinking how much my point of view had changed since I met the Cullens.

During the flight I had time to calm, to comfort and cheer myself, to prepare physiologically to put on the emotionless and hard mask that all Volturis wore, ready to stop all the charity and compassion I felt for each member of the Cullen family, ready to tear off the pure smile on my face, ready to become a compassionless Volturi again.

When I arrived to the castle I pretended I was myself again, I made a triumphant arrival, Aro, Caius and Marco seemed surprised to see me, I warned them with pretended panic and they rushed the guard to start preparing the defense immediately, they weren´t going to hide anymore, they congratulated me, he came in, and in that moment I remembered why it was worth it to be a Volturi.

I asked to see that hybrid that seemed to be so important, and I was allowed, with the condition of not hurting her, that was going to be hard since he was so protective that made me want to hurt her and I was going to try to restrain myself.

I walked next to the door; I had no idea of what I was going to tell her, of how I was going to act, if I should be good or a Volturi, especially when I could hear her fast heart beat and her breathing, when I smelled a unique perfume like none I had smelled before.

RENESMEE POV

9, 10, 11…..135 steps were heard from the other side of the door. At this time of my life I really didn´t cared whose steps were, I cared about why they were so much, so patient and so slow. I doubted about everybody´s intensions right now, and I was starting to get upset.

I wanted that person (if you can call Volturis persons) to come in immediately, and if he or she just wanted to kill me, I would only ask for it to be fast. I was getting pretty sick of having no idea of what was going to happen next, or of having no idea of why they were coming in now, or when I was finally going to be free.

They arrived to 356 steps. I stood up and tried to spy from the door´s lock, nothing .I was starting to feel as if I was in prison, I had realized I was since the start, I just hadn´t felt it.

After 478 steps, the door finally opened. It was a Volturi I had never seen before. I wasn´t pretty sure she was a Volturi, after all she was wearing colorful clothes, she was shinny and beautiful, and she walked in a joyful way, from my point of view, that just seemed suspicious for a Volturi. She was quite thin, red-haired and for a strange reason happy, she waved with her small cartoon hand –"Nice to meet you Nessie, I´ve waited a long time to meet you, I hope you aren´t bored here, I´d never been hostage but I´m sure it´s not pleasant"- she said, she smiled widely and with brilliant teeth, she jumped to my bed and invited me with a face to sit next to her. I had so many questions, but I was too surprised to ask any, I moved slowly to the bed, and I sat keeping my distance and just stared at her, I supposed my face had a giant question mark written on it. She laughed, I looked at her raising an eyebrow as if asking what was funny about all this, but she just laughed harder.

-Don´t worry, I know your nickname because I met your family, end of the story. Trust me, in all this freak show of family I am the only one who really wants to keep you safe, it´s just that after meeting your family, you just can´t hurt them- she said in such a sweet calmed voice that made me trust her even less, how could she know my family and not help them find me?

I figured out a couple of hypothesis, she was a hypocrite; she was meaner that Aro, she was a liar, she was a mind reader and the story of my family was a lie, or she was my passport to freedom.

-I have lots of questions-I gasped, -That´s pretty natural-she replied, smiling.-First of all, if you know my family, why aren´t they here, uh?-I asked, or demanded, to be exact, -Easy, because I´m a Volturi, not a Cullen, and if Alice found you I would naturally come and warn Volturi before Cullens arrived-she answered as if that was the most natural thing. I was speechless; she had been spying my family to stop them from finding me, great. Now I was really hopeless, I was dying or becoming one of them. She just stared at me, as if I was a retarded or a crybaby.-Well, what is next, killing me? My family? Holding me hostage forever?-I asked, with a whisper, as if I just recovered my breath.

-Not at all dear, doing that is totally case less, we´re just evaluating you, but if your family intervenes in this, we wouldn´t be able to evaluate you as we should- she said, as if explaining a 3 year old that 2+2=4.

-Well I don´t consider your "evaluation "necessary, you already tried this when I was born and it didn´t work, so give up and set me free, besides in that time Nahuel was the example of what I was going to become, so this is another excuse to bother my family, right?-I answered her, tired of the whole play Volturi had made to just to bother us, besides this little red-haired didn´t scared me at all, so I was going to be entirely honest to her and tell her all the thoughts I´d kept for myself.

-Honey, if that´s your point of view I´m terribly sorry for you, any other question, doubt or complain?-she answered, treating me as if I was stupid.-Yes, I want to know all about how my family passed this days, specially Jacob- I replied, making a threatening face, raising an eyebrow in the end. She resumed me my family´s sadness and desperation as if that was natural, and she also laughed about how she fooled them, that was a clear insult, I wanted to punch her face, to kick her out through the window´s glass, but since she would beat me the minute I tried, I just made her a face, stood up, and waited in front of the door like pushing her out.

I felt so lost and confused, so tired, desperate, in surrender. I lost the few strength I had left, I ran to the bed and I started crying, desolately, hopelessly, desperate, my cry was like a beg to the Earth to stop moving, as a reproach to the world, as a raindrop asking to fall, as an emptiness in the Universe, and it was frustrating how nobody could hear it, how the sun kept shinning outside, how my family was still looking for me, clueless, response less. Then I felt as a crybaby until I fell asleep.

BELLA POV

She ran away, she was a coward after all. Besides I didn´t even liked her, that was natural, such a good attitude coming from a complete stranger wasn´t normal at all, and at this times and with the experiences I had during my existence, everybody seemed suspicious to me.

-Well, I already have the tickets to France, so let´s move as fast as we can-Carlisle announced. I didn´t had the need to pack anything, I´d been ready for this moment since my daughter disappeared.

The flight was the longest flight I´d ever done, or at least to me it seemed to go slowly just with the purpose of making me loose the few patience I had left. When we finally got down the plain, the delicious smell to human blood increased, just to burn my throat and remind me I hadn´t gone hunting in a while. I stopped breathing and sat in a chair at the airport, with my husband holding me so tight, that if I needed oxygen I would have to pull him out. Even though I didn´t need to sit, I felt the need to support myself in something. I felt anxious, nervous, desperate, and all that feelings together made me fell exhausted too.

Finally Carlisle arrived with a rented old van and we pulled inside immediately. There was too much to think about, Zafrina took her own way since we left the plain, I suppose she is planning to be the surprise factor in the attack, in case there was an attack, and it was safer if any of us knew where she would be. I stared at the view, because only considering the possibility of the Volturis hurting my Renesmee was too sad and painful to think about it, even though all was against us in this moments, we hoped to find our beloved Renesmee alive, healthy, we hoped to hug her soon, we wanted her smile, her company and her safety.

We advanced, pretty slowly from my point of view, through green prairies and yellow fields. I felt that every second I spent just sitting there was a complete waste of time. I wanted to run towards that castle with all the speed of my invincible body, I wanted to knock at the door, brake it if needed, run and find my daughter, but I was just sitting uselessly on the back seat of an old, slow van.

JACOB POV

Ugh. In such a small van the smell to bloodsucker increased to a level that was intolerable for my nose. The Volkswagen old van was too slow and too silent, in a mood that crushed your last and brightest hope until it turned it into a giant black hole of surrender in your chest.

-Somebody open the windows, the stinky smell to wet dog is unbearable –the Barbie demanded, I rolled my eyes in her direction and threw my back in a way that my hair ended up right in her nose, and I even shook my hair, just to shut her up, and bother her a while. She pulled my hair back and threw my hole chest to its original place, she looked at me –That´s what you get when you are a bad dog, your masters hit you-she said, raising an eyebrow and stamping her right foot impatiently , I rolled my eyes again and growled at her, she just saw me with killer eyes and turned around, while Bella saw me as a mother watching her 6 year old misbehave.

I smiled at her trying to relax her, but she turned around as a brat. I just couldn´t understand bloodsuckers, the closer we were to the big prize, the more scared they became. I thought of that fucking Volturi hurting my Nessie and I couldn´t stand it, I was going to fight even if my life was the prize, I was going to get back what was naturally and undeniably mine, that only thing that was entirely and completely valuable in my life, and I wasn´t going to let Volturis harm it just because they wanted a couple of Cullens on their files.

That thought made me feel that fury flame turning on in my chest, swinging rapidly and slowly at a time, running through my arm anxiously to my fingers, vibrating, I tried to control it, but right now it was so pleasant, it made me feel so powerful and I only wanted it to keep running, -STOP!!- I yelled at Carlisle, I felt the van´s sudden stop movement , I opened the door and without thinking and threw myself victoriously to the air landing in 4 paws , I felt so free and comforted , I started running , I saw the castle and ran even faster, leaving a van behind in the highway and finding myself in front of a big wooded medieval door, made up in a fancy style quite proper for those Volturi.

Until then I realized that it had been pretty stupid from myself just transforming because I felt like, because in a time recovering my human shape was going to be necessary and everybody was going to see me naked like for about 10 minutes, and I can imagine the Barbie exploding in laughs, and that was going to be pretty embarrassing, but in the end, doing that would be pretty stupid from her, I whispered and howled high, pretty stupid from myself …….

BELLA POV

Jacob couldn´t stand the pressure anymore, naturally, he was just a stupid, very stupid mutt that transforms just with a bit of worries, and he also behaved like an infantile 6 years old boy when he wanted to. I hated him right now. For no apparent reason I wanted to smash his werewolf face with a baseball bat. I knew I was being unfair with him, he was suffering more than anybody else in this van, and he was letting all his fury flow by bothering Rosalie, but I just couldn´t find anyone else to be upset with right now, apart from myself. I saw him fly in his metamorphosis, then I turned left and right, checking if there was someone in the highway who could´ve seen him, since he was too stupid and reckless to take the job of watching before just transforming. Luckily the highway was empty. I closed my eyes and counted Rosalie´s right foot stamps, suddenly I heard a howl, stupid Jacob!! He was howling!

RENESMEE POV

I was lying in my beautiful fancy bed, bored of everything, sick. My life in this golden jail had been horrible, they just had me abandoned here, except for Alec, who always brought me food and talked to me once in a while. I had read most of the books on my mini library, I had drawn every item in the room and I had tried every possible combination with my clothes, I had spent hours staring at the field and some other hours staring at the golden chandelier up me. The other time I had left I had I spent it daydreaming about my family arriving to release me. Then I heard a miracle, believing it was just another crazy dream, but this time it was real, a sound of Gods, a sound that was as unique as every color in the rainbow, it was my Jacob's howl.

It was different from other howls for a single reason, it was soft, and only I recognized that brushstroke of Jacob´s voice in such a wild sound. I stood up as fast as air; I ran to my window as fast as I could and tried to see that brown wolf I loved. I saw him sitting in front of the door, as if waiting for someone to open. Then I saw a van parking and I distinguished my mom and my aunt Rosalie descending gracefully from the van.

My mom ran to the door and she punched it so hard that I thought she was about to break it. I heard footsteps descending from the stairs, I suppose the Volturi guard, ready to stop my family, but I knew today I was going home. Alec came in and opened my door.

-Move to the living room, fast!-he demanded, I ran, and I started feeling how hope was finally raising through my window, and when I entered the living room, I finally saw all the faces I thought I would only see again in dreams.

When I came in my whole family smiled widely, and I smiled back, finally my life was recovering some sense, and the entire earthquake I´d been into was ending and the damages were being rebuilt.

Aro opened his arms, like welcoming me, allowing me to meet my family, and I didn´t doubt it, maybe I wasn´t going to have another chance like this.

I ran and hugged my mom ,my dad kissed my forehead, my beloved grandparents Carlisle and Esme hugged me, I hugged my uncles and I hugged even tighter a brown wolf that sat in a corner, my Jacob, he recharged his snout in my shoulder , and we knew we were never going to let go.

Aro sat in a velvet throne, which I didn´t remember in my granddad's painting –Well that is all, Renesmee, Cullen family, you are free to go, enjoy your day- he said smiling. I was amazed; I never thought it would be that easy.

-Is this really it, so easily? - I asked while I stood up and advanced towards Aro from my Jacob´s side, still surprised, waiting for a terrible battle to unleash, because I knew Aro wasn´t to give up so easily.

-No it isn´t it, it can´t be it, Aro you can´t let her go with such big liars so easily-Alec replied, yelling, and then looked me in the eyes.-What are you talking about, my family is the most honest family in the vampire world-I replied, he was clearly lying, my family was totally pure and honest with me.-Maybe Carlisle and your uncles are honest, but your mother and him, they have lied to you all your life –He declared, I just couldn´t trust in such accusations, my mom and my Jacob were the persons I trusted the most in the entire Universe, and they´d always been honest with me.

-Did they ever tell you about the affair they had?-he asked, more to my mom and to the brown wolf standing next to her. The 2 persons that I loved the most involved in a romance, that was just stupid, I didn´t believe it, I didn´t want to believe it, just to imagine them together was like a stake fixed to me rightly in the heart. I just couldn´t believe it.

I turned, amused, to Alec, -Aro, do you mind?-he asked, Aro ran towards my Jacob and touched his left paw, Jacob closed his eyes, and when he dared to open, he lied in the floor and covered his snout with his front paws, and stared at Alec, with anger.-Well, that´s undeniable, he loved her, so much, and she seemed to correspond him for whiles, especially when you came to us, dear Edward- Aro said, signing my eternal condemn to unhappiness with pure and single lies, and I felt how fury began dominating me until my last nerve.

-Stop lying at me, STOP IT!-I demanded, yelling to my loudest voice, even though I wasn´t pretty sure of whom I was talking to right now. I was staring at Alec and then I turned to Aro, like waiting for something, I wasn´t pretty sure of what reply I wanted, but I wanted somebody to say something. I wasn´t brave enough to turn to my family right now, I just kept staring at Aro, and now I identified what I wanted to come out of his lips. I wanted apologies, apologies for lying, for holding me hostage, for everything, and I wanted to run away with my family.

-It is true, and you should know it was fair for her to know someday, you just couldn´t keep this from her during all the eternity, and if I was her, I would´ve liked knowing- my aunt Rosalie declared, in a tone that finally made me think that lie was becoming an undeniable true that crushed me until I felt even smaller and stupider than a fly.

-What? You are a big pair of liars, how could you do this to me? This is unbelievable!, and YOU! Stupid mutt, go and look for another idiot that believes on your stupid imprinting, because I´m not the idiot that gives up on every stupid lie you say, you both are the worst creatures in the world, and dad, you are way more masochistic that of what I ever imagined, you leave my mom without caring about her, well maybe that wasn´t such a big mistake, she had a dog to lick off hear tears, you guys really make up a great team your secrets were the best kept secrets in the history of secrets on Earth ,oh and just to establish my point, I don´t want to see their faces again, never!-I yelled, with the last of my vocal chords, and then I ran trying to find calm in the middle of the storm on which I was right now .

I had nowhere to run to, I had no home; I was completely lost and alone in the immensity of the Universe. Everything I believed and placed my hopes on had been a lie, all my hopes had been air castles that vanished with the single opening of a box full of secrets and important things that had been kept from me, I sat in a rock, and I started crying. I just couldn´t of anything sadder happening in my life, and this cry was the loudest and the deepest of the cries in my life. I had so many emotions inside me, sadness, disappointment, frustration, but more than anything I felt so stupid. For the 1st time in my life I felt so stupid, immature, I´d been fooled like the baby I never was.

During my 9 years and a half of life I had been blind. I imagined how many times they´d kissed when nobody saw them, how many times my mom felt furious when he hugged me, how many thoughts were hidden smartly from my dad, how many of the smiles they shared had another meaning.

Suddenly I felt a friendly hand holding my shoulder, comforting me. I turned; it was the person who took the bandage from my eyes. He wrapped me in his skinny arms as I dropped all the tears designed for my existence, and trembled.

-A painful true is better than a life filled with lies- he whispered. His words were few, but so meaningful that my tears were lowering, getting lost inside his black suit.-You still have a room with us, but now it will be unlocked- he said. I wanted to reject that option, but you can´t reject the only option you have when you are destroyed inside, when your soul had just been devastated by an earthquake that didn´t seem to stop.