Chapter 27

Previously…

There was growling and the sound of ripping all around me, when I heard a growl extremely close by.

I turned quickly, expecting to see a nearby fight, but instead there were two lone guards staring at me with their eyes wild and their teeth bared.

No one else was close, everyone was fighting.

It still leaves a couple of them to get … to you.

I was unprotected, and I knew no one would be able to help me in time.

It was a man and a woman. Two faces that I had never seen within the Volturi, so I had to assume they were new. But how new? New as in created a couple of years ago? Or new, as in created a few months ago?

Their eyes were red and bloodthirsty, only trained on me. Their legs were already crouched, preparing to pounce.

I steadied my stance on the ground, preparing for the first attack, and hopefully, after the training, deal with it and avoid being, well according to Alice's vision, killed.

They growled and snapped their teeth at me and I growled back, not looking anywhere else but the two infront of me as they circled. Within a second they pounced, and I heard someone shout my name in the background.

The female reached me first, but since she was a bit lighter I managed to dodge her quickly, pushing my hands out to hit her and knock her to the side. My guess was she was a little bit inexperienced.

I managed to turn my head quickly in time for the male to reach me, and I was able to protect myself from him going to bite my neck. However the force in which he was travelling knocked me to the floor, with his weight on top of me, and his strength far stronger than my own.

My hands were free so I was able to hit his hands away, and stop him from ripping my limbs apart.

But his strength was too much. Whilst trying to hit him, he quickly moved his hand and grabbed my wrists, his hand squeezing so hard that it felt like they were about to break off. I screamed in pain, and was too weak to stop him from slowly pinning my arms either side of my head. He couldn't bite me though as I either head butted him or tried to make a bite of my own, so he didn't try it.

His eyes flickered upwards above my head and I tilted back to see the woman I had dodged just moments before walking towards me.

I struggled beneath his grasp, but he just laughed. Probably felt like he was going to get a promotion within the Volturi ranks for taking out their main threat.

I just hope Jordan burns your ass.

The other girl was getting closer, and was bending down with her arms outstretched towards my head.

For the last few moments, I closed my eyes and apologised. I said sorry to God for failing my family, for being reckless at such an early stage in the fight, and now I feel like I've doomed everyone. Alec and Jane wouldn't be dead already, they would be sitting back at the sidelines waiting until our defensive wall comes down.

Which has been staying up pretty well whilst I was under attack. I guess that's a good point.

I was glad it would be done with quickly. Surely decapitation would mean no painful suffering for a measurable amount of time.

But for one tiny moment, I was scared of dying. Escaping death with my immortality meant I didn't really think of it becoming a problem. But now, within seconds of it happening, I was considering all different possibilities. Heaven or Hell? Complete blackness? Reincarnation? Who knows? Maybe ghosts are real as well.

I hoped I could be some sort of a ghost because in that moment I didn't want to leave my family. I wanted to be with my daughter and her children. Be with my best friend Jake. Continue the rest of eternity with Edward as my soul mate.

I would miss them all.

I kept my eyes closed whilst I felt her reaching closer to my neck. I didn't want them to watch the life pass out my eyes. I didn't want those murderous faces to be the last things I saw.

So I waited for the end.

.

.

But it didn't come.

Lying on the ground, I could feel the vibrations along the floor and into my body. A continuous thumping, like something was running.

And then I heard it. The growling, the biting, the ripping.

But it wasn't from my body.

I opened my eyes in time to see a large sandy wolf jump and knock down the girl, clamping his jaws along her neck and severing her head.

In the total surprise and shock of what these creatures were, I used Seth's distraction to free my arms, manage to lift myself up and reverse the tables, with the man helpless on the floor. Before he could react to my attack, I grabbed his head and twisted.

Wow…I've just killed someone.

If there's a Lord out there…don't punish me for not feeling sorry.

I quickly stood up, holding the man's lifeless head in my hands, and quickly threw it into a nearby fire, along with the rest of his body.

When I turned around, I felt a little bit of hope spark within me.

It seemed like the tables had indeed turned, as now with the wolves making their surprising entrance, the shock of the newer Volturi members seemed to be their demise as the distraction quickly lead to their death. And now it seemed like everyone was fighting, no one was sitting on the sidelines.

"Bella!" Someone called out, and I quickly turned and crouched in defence, but I heard them call out again and I recognised their voice.

"Edward?" I looked to see if he was in trouble, but instead I spotted him running to me, dodging the nearby attacks and fights, and ran straight to me, enveloping me in a tight hug, in which I thought he would never let go.

He pulled back and his hand was tracing my face. "Oh Bella, I saw, and I'm so sorry love, I tried to get to you, but they stopped us and there was nothing we could do, and then I saw you again…" He pulled me into another hug and was kissing the top of my head, "…I thought I was about to lose you." He pulled back again and had both his hands cupping my face. "I'm not leaving your side now, I'll protect you." He said with fierce determination, and with that he leant down and gave me a searing kiss.

"Edward," I interrupted remembering where we were, "…the fight." I whispered. He pulled back reluctantly, but he never let go of me.

"Thanks Seth." He quickly called out to someone behind me, and I turned to see Seth helping Jacob finish off another Volturi member.

"Thank you Seth." I said to him sincerely.

"He said you're welcome." Edward replied for me.

He turned around then and we both kept a look out for anyone coming close or who needed our help.

"Alec? Jane?" I asked.

He growled. "They're still alive. Don't want to risk being killed in action right now. I can hear them, but can't get a fix on their location. But I know Chelsea's dead. Rose and Alice sorted her out."

I nodded, not that he could see it, but I think he knew I did it.

"Watch out." He suddenly warned, and pushed me to the side a bit as another unknown guard charged towards us, but Edward quickly tackled him to the ground. He avoided the swipes and other manoeuvres his opponent was making as he had him pinned to the ground.

I quickly ran towards them and knelt by the man's head, grabbing his arms at the right moment and pulled backwards. He screamed in pain, but Edward quickly silenced him by biting his neck, and making it drop to the floor, where he picked it up but couldn't see a fire that was in range so he just tossed it to the side as he started to separate the other limbs.

When we finished we stepped back again and kept watch for anyone close by. But for me, I couldn't help but take in fully the scene before me.

There were three fires now, all sending smoke to the sky, and the sickly scent of the burning bodies filled the air. From each part of the field, it looked like the upper hand in each fight changed constantly. I couldn't tell who was winning or who was losing, and what was worse was I couldn't individually spot anyone out. It was all chaos in a blur, and it scared me not to know who may be alive, and who may already be dead.

My heart pained in my chest where I could already see one or two wolves lifeless on the ground, and immediately felt sorry for them and their families.

My eyes darted around the field to try and see if I could spot our family.

I noticed Tanya and Kate working together against two others, and I watched as Kate managed to get a hold on one of them and they quickly dropped to the floor. To their left Emmett was circling Felix. His clothes were already torn and ripped, whereas Felix's cloak seemed like a thread hadn't even been pulled. Jasper had just joined Alice and Rose on the other side of the field as they struggled with a male vampire.

"Edward we've got to help."

I could tell from his expression that he looked completely unsure. "We can't risk it. Not until Alec and Jane are dead."

I huffed, but continued to focus on arranging my shield around the right people. I didn't want to make a mistake and let Jane under it accidently.

"How long till Jordan and Caitlin get here?"

He shook his head. "I'm not sure, I can't hear them yet. It could still be a few minutes."

Numbers were going down, and in all the madness I couldn't tell who was dying, all I could see was larger unfilled spaces in the field.

I turned around again to check we were ok, when I spotted something at the far edge of the field. Two of the Volturi I think, based on their attire. I focused on them more and noticed it was Demetri and the black-haired girl from Alice's vision.

They were passing open chances against people on our side. Not that I was complaining, but why were they doing that? They were staying along the edge, but moving upwards into our direction.

"Edward, look to your right?" His head turned slightly where he seemed to have spotted the two, and a crease formed between his eyebrows.

"Are they running away?" I asked, watching as he focused on something, and then his eyes suddenly widened.

"They're going after Caitlin and Jordan. Aro knew they wouldn't be here, but he had an idea that if a war was going to happen, then we wouldn't fight without our best weapons. They're using Demetri to track them down, and the girl, Jenny I think her name is, she's just being used so that no one notices them, that's her gift, to go by unnoticed. It mustn't affect you since your mind is shielded. I don't think they realise all of us can still notice them though, they're just so absorbed with their own battles they just can't take notice of them. "

The two of them continued to run, and I knew within a couple of seconds they would be passing through the forest line behind us, and going to intercept Caitlin and Jordan.

"Edward we need to stop them!"

"No, you can't fight them."

"Then you go! You're the fastest, and no one else is noticing, you have to go now!"

He turned around and looked at me. "Promise me you'll stay here."

"Promise." I said, and he quickly sped in the direction of the two of them.

I held my breath as he got closer to them, and then just before they got past the trees, Edward managed to tackle Demetri and bring him to the ground.

As I watched him, my nerves were a wreck as I watched him fight the two vampires, whilst Jane's sharp attacking stabs resumed over my head.

"Stupid bitch." I muttered in annoyance at Jane, hoping she would just give up already.

I occasionally glanced over my shoulder to make sure no one was coming up behind me, but continued to watch Edward with bated breath.

"Come on." I whispered as I watched Demetri dodge one of Edward's attacks and placed a punch at his ribs hoping it would knock him down. I flinched, and looked around them hoping someone would notice and help him, but instead I saw someone else heading straight for them.

Emmett must have been separated from Felix or…well something happened, and now Felix was making his way towards the fight.

"Please, someone notice." I whispered. Edward had his back to Felix, and so I don't think he knew that he was coming up behind him. Demetri and Jenny had him completely distracted of Felix, and solely focused on the two of them.

As much as I didn't want to think about it, I knew with Felix, a 6ft bodyguard, helping Demetri and the other girl, Edward wasn't going to stand a chance.

"Edward!" I called out, trying to warn him, but he didn't notice. "Edward!" I tried again as Felix continued to get closer and closer, but he mustn't have heard me again and was continuing to fight.

Was it the overall noise? Was he completely focused on what he was doing and what he was listening to in his mind that he couldn't hear what was happening outside?

In his mind…

I looked around in vain for someone close who could maybe quickly relay the message onto Edward, but it was no use and I was running out of time.

I looked at the decreasing distance between Felix and Edward and made my decision. A stupid, completely reckless decision, however it was based on my love for Edward, and that I needed to protect him, as much as he protected me over the years.

I focused and quickly extended my inner shield so it wasn't protecting my mind and quickly shouted in the depths of my mind, Edward! Behind you!

In that second I prayed he could hear my voice over the others, and when I saw a slight bit of confusion on his face, and then he made a low jump to the left just as Felix reached them and ended up colliding with the other two, I knew he heard me.

But I didn't snap my shield back in time.

I felt the pain before I even realised what was happening to me. Within a second I was down on the floor, and my whole body was burning in pain. Horrible, torturous pain, it was everywhere in my body.

It felt like every single cell in my body was being attacked, stabbed and then burned individually, the searing pain wouldn't go away.

The few seconds felt like hours, and I just wanted it over with in any way.

And then my shield snapped back to place over my mind.

The pain stopped, but it was like it had weakened me and I couldn't pick myself off of the floor.

I tried to roll my body to the side, but I was stopped when I saw a small figure in a jet black cloak, about two feet away from me. I knew immediately who it was. Jane.

Beyond her, I could see in the background a small white fog slithering across the ground. Was that from Alec?

Now Jane was looking down on me, her face set in her evil smirk as she laughed to herself. Then her face changed and she growled before lunging for my throat.

I managed to pull some strength back and lift my hands up in time to grab her wrists, but the force of her lunge sent us rolling on the floor, both of us trying to attack the other. Her size made it difficult for me to attack, as she easily dodged or escaped my grasps.

There was growling and hitting, but unfortunately Jane's skill and experience won, and I was pinned to the floor with no way of escaping. Her hands had moved to either side of my face immediately and she was just about to twist when I suddenly saw an orange flash, and then she screamed in pain.

Her grasp on my face let go straight away as she grabbed her head, clenching her eyes shut as she fought the pain.

In her weakened state I pushed her off of me and she fell to the floor as she started to disintegrate before my eyes.

A part of me was happy to see such an evil person die this way, her comeuppance for inflicting so much pain onto other people.

Her eyes weren't angry when she looked back to me, and her expression was more childlike, and it reminded me of the fact that she was just a teenage girl, and that this life shouldn't have happened for her. But before I could feel any sort of sympathy, she finally crumbled to dust on the floor.

"And good riddance." I heard someone comment from next to me, and I turned to see Caitlin walk up besides me. She turned her head to me and said, "Told you it was a good idea for me to be here."

"Thank you Caitlin." I smiled to her and gave her a quick hug, but I quickly pulled back remembering something. I looked over towards the edges of the field to notice Alec's fog was no longer there.

"Where's Alec?" I asked confused.

"Oh, Jordan's sorted him out." She said whilst looking at a spot on the field. I followed her line of sight and indeed saw Jordan, well, in his wolf form, tearing at Alec.

"And he didn't use his power because…"

"Oh, he told me on the way here, he didn't want to risk hitting anyone else. It's not like we have a homing device on it, it just moves in that direction, so one lucky dodge for one bad vampire could mean an unlucky death for a good vampire, know what I mean?"

I nodded, and looked down to the pile of Jane dust at our feet, and was slightly glad Caitlin was accurate. "See if you can go and get Benjamin and see if he can somehow blow that dust into a fire."

She nodded at me and ran off in search of Ben, sending orange flashes here and there to try and help the others.

It mustn't have been long now till the end. With Caitlin and Jordan now here, it gave us the upper hand, and I could feel like we were going to beat the Volturi.

I stepped back away from the main action, knowing I had had enough last minute saves for one fight.

Whilst moving to the side I looked desperately for Edward, as I didn't know how that fight had ended. I looked from left to right, trying to spot his bronze hair amongst the crowd but I couldn't see him. I couldn't see Demetri or Felix either.

Please God no…please tell me he's alright.

I was about to start panicking when somebody grabbed my wrist, so I turned around quickly to attack but I stopped when I saw two golden eyes staring back down at me. His face was dirty and his bronze hair was a mess, yet I was just happy that Edward was standing infront of me.

"Thank God you're alright." I said as I quickly hugged him, but he pulled back and held me at arms length.

"What the hell were you thinking?" He asked angrily.

"What?"

"Just before, when I was against Demetri and Jenny. Someone shouted to me in my mind to watch my back, just as Felix was running up behind me."

I remained quiet knowing where this was going. It wasn't like I could defend and say I was alright; Jane managed to take advantage of my unprotected mind.

"Did you not already know that I can recognise people's voices Bella? Did you not know that I could pick yours out from a million people talking at the same time?" He shook me gently in his hands as he said, "Why did you remove your shield Bella? When you knew Alec and Jane were still alive, why did you do it?" His eyes searched my own for an answer. He wasn't angry, just upset.

"I had to help you, you hadn't noticed…"

"Yes I hadn't noticed, but I would never have wanted to put yourself in risk like that."

"It was only for like two seconds, I didn't think anything would happen."

"But something did happen Bella. I could…I could hear what was happening, I could pretty much feel what Jane was doing to you, why didn't you think of your safety?"

"Because I was thinking about yours!"

"Bella, I would have been fine…"

"Really?"

"Yes, but doing something risky that would get yourself killed, I wouldn't be able to survive without you."

"And what? You think I wouldn't feel the exact same way if it was the other way around and you got yourself killed because I never done anything to try and stop it? I don't care that Jane managed to hurt me; the point is you're okay, and I'm okay, so we shouldn't be at each other like this because-"

"Bella shh one second."

My mouth was hanging open. "What? No Edward listen-"

"Shhh, please." He asked, and I watched as he seemed to concentrate on something, but not here, in his mind I think.

He focused on the thoughts for a few more seconds before he quickly grabbed my hand and pulled me towards some part of the field.

"Edward, what's happening?"

"It's Carlisle and Aro, they're negotiating something." He answered, half focused on what the thoughts were saying, half getting us wherever we were going safely.

"Do you know what?"

He shook his head, "Carlisle initiated it, I think it has something to stopping this."

We finally made it to Carlisle and Aro, who were circling each other. Aro's expression was murderous, complete anger, whilst Carlisle's was the total opposite, his expression was calmer, a face that I assumed would help whatever he was negotiating for.

When we got there, Aro's head turned to us and he bared his teeth, growling at us. Edward and I both growled back in retaliation, preparing to attack incase anything happened, but Carlisle lifted his hand up to stop us so we stood up from our crouched positions.

Carlisle turned back to Aro, and Aro's blood-red eyes pulled away from us and back to Carlisle.

"Aro, please, you've got to consider what I've just said. Let us have a mutual understanding and part ways. The Volturi are still needed to keep control of the more dangerous vampires, the ones that need to be punished."

"You've killed almost all of my guard." Aro growled, his eyes flickering to Edward and I.

"We've had losses ourselves Aro. You can replace your guard…"

"Not all of them." He added, probably in reference to the abilities some of them possessed, not the actual people.

"…but we've lost friends, even family…" I looked up to Edward to see if anyone we knew had died, but he didn't respond. Who had we lost?

"…but Aro, we can't have any more bloodshed, call off your guard."

We waited for Aro to respond, but he said nothing.

"You know I'm right Aro, you've lost your guard due to a stupid, paranoid suspicion. You should have known we wouldn't do anything about in the first place. You know me Aro; we are not the type of family to do that. You might be able to save some people if you leave now."

Aro remained silent as he thought over what Carlisle had said. His eyes glanced to the fights surrounding us, the fires, to Edward and I, and then finally to Carlisle.

The anger seemed to leave his face as he nodded and he slowly withdrew from his crouched stance. "I will be contacting you in the near future Carlisle, to re-affirm some things."

Carlisle nodded to him in agreement and then Aro turned away.

"Tell the others to stop fighting and that the Volturi will be retreating on orders from Aro. If any Volturi member refuses to leave then we shall kill them in return." Carlisle ordered the two of us, but it seemed a few had already received the message as some were following Aro back to the lining of the forest where they disappeared behind the thick trees.

Within a few seconds, the remaining Volturi members were running away from their fights and scattering into the forest, and unfortunately, as the black cloaks started to leave the field, you could really take notice of how much our numbers had decreased.

I guess there's always a part of you that would automatically assume that everyone will be OK after it all, that no one would die, that you wouldn't lose anyone that you loved. Who of us were still alive? And who were the poor souls who passed?

I took a quick scan of the field, trying to recognise anyone. There was no time for celebrating the Volturi's retreat until we knew who had survived, and who had been killed.

A breath I had been holding rushed out when I spotted Alice's spiky hair from across the field, who was standing next to Rosalie. Jasper was alive also, along with Emmett, but something seemed different about him.

I easily spotted the russet colour of Jacob's wolf, who was helping picking up body parts and taking them to the fire with Jordan by his side.

Suddenly, Emmett went running in the direction of Jordan and Jacob, shouting something at them.

"Stop! Stop! Drop the piece!" Emmett reached the two of them, who just had a look of utter confusion. But then I noticed why he seemed different.

Emmett's right arm was missing.

"Ok everybody stop what you're doing, and leave all arms where they are. So that means no throwing them into fires or anything else, as I am positive it is around here somewhere. If you spot a good-looking, muscularly arm, then chances are it is probably mine."

I laughed to myself at Emmett, because only he would act this way when he was missing a body part.

Edward walked up besides me, but he had an unreadable expression on his face.

"Jacob wants us to bring the fallen wolves back to La Push. He says that they shouldn't be burnt along with those who killed them, but rather they should each have their own burial."

I nodded my head in agreement. "They all deserve one."

My heart pained in my chest as I thought of all the young lads who had given their lives to help protect one of their own, and all of our family. As I looked across the field, and saw the bodies lying lifeless on the floor; some had not transformed back and were still wolves, others were just young boys lying on the grass.

I could feel the uncomfortable feeling of the prickling in my eyes where, if I was human, I would be in tears right now.

I took a deep breath to just calm me down, and made my way to one of the wolves, because Jacob was right, they didn't deserve to be rested with those who murdered them.

Caitlin was walking infront of me, scanning the floor for what I assumed was Emmett's arm. "Caitlin?" I called, and she quickly ran over to me and hugged me.

"I'm glad you're ok Bella."

"Me too Hun, now could you run back and fetch your mum for me please? Tell her it's alright to come back now. Oh and watch out incase there's anyone who might try something. Take Jordan just incase."

"Will do." Caitlin nodded and ran off in the direction where I think Ness was. I needed to see her because about three times, I was so close to not seeing my baby ever again. I needed to hold her close and know that she was there in my arms, and that everything was alright.

Well, almost alright.

As Caitlin moved from infront of me, I caught a glimpse of the colour of a wolf's fur, lying motionless on the ground. It was sandy.

My heart sank as I made my way over to the wolf, hoping that it wasn't who I thought it would be, yet there was another part that already knew.

I knelt down next to the head of the wolf, and although it was an animal's face, I knew it was who I hoped it wouldn't be.

Seth.

I took a deep calming breath as I felt the prickling return behind my eyes, as I stroked the fur on his head. His eyes were closed, and he looked so peaceful.

It was only a while ago when I was thanking him for saving my life; his face had a wolfish grin, as he was enjoying what he was doing. Now, he just looked like he was in a deep slumber, but never going to wake up.

He's never going to see his family again. His children won't ever see their father again, his wife will never return home to her husband, Leah will never see her brother again.

Should I have turned him away the day he knocked on our door? Insisted that he goes home and stays with his family, rather than try and protect mine?

I had to move past any guilt, and just hope he died an honourable death, and hopefully took down a few of those Volturi bastards with him.

I heard someone walking behind me, and then they sat down next to me on the floor. Edward wrapped his arm around me as I leaned against his shoulder and cried quietly as I remembered Seth from the first time I met him all those years ago.

"Come on," Edward said as he slowly stood up, pulling me up with him, "we'll find someone else to carry him."

He guided me into a different direction, and I felt bad just leaving him there, but I know he'll receive a decent funeral; I'll make sure he gets one.

Jacob was making his way towards us. He had transformed back and now he was wearing his shorts. He looked at the expression on my face, and he immediately tried to look over my shoulder.

"Who were you just with?" Jake asked worried.

My voice was quiet when I answered; I was so upset I could barely speak. Who knows what I'll be like with others?

"It's Seth." I said, and my heart pained more when I saw Jacob's face sadden, and then he ran past us and to Seth's body. He crouched down and I could see from where we were standing the emotional pain he was in. His head leaned on his fist and his eyes were closed, his other hand was clenched.

I turned back around so I could give him some privacy.

"Bella!" Someone shouted out, and I looked up to see Alice running towards me. I managed to get my arm from around Edward's waist before Alice ploughed into me with a hug, her arms wrapped tightly around my neck, I wouldn't be surprised if her feet were dangling from the floor.

"You're not dead! I'm so happy that I was wrong, but I was so worried because it all began playing out exactly as it did in the vision and I panicked, and then you were by yourself with those two guards, but we couldn't help you because we were attacked, and then the wolves came and I couldn't see so I didn't know if you were alive, but then I saw you two kissing at the end of the field, and although I was extremely relieved, I have to say that you couldn't have picked a better chance to kiss her but in the middle of a battle Edward, no offense, and then I saw the fog from Alec's power, and I panicked again wondering if they had killed you, because there wouldn't have been any other reason to try because he knows it doesn't work with your shield, so I wasn't sure until I saw you just now and I'm so happy. I told you that you could have betted against me!"

I took a second to absorb all of it in.

"You mean you already knew it would have happened?" Edward asked, his recovery time for Alice's rants clearly much quicker than mine.

"Not now Edward, it isn't the time or the place, I'll tell you some other time." She responded, and then she quickly ran off. Edward turned to me.

"What she said." I quickly told him before he asked anything, and continued walking as I saw Caitlin and Jordan come out of the lining of trees, followed by Ness.

Her eyes seemed to scan the field looking for something, and then she landed on us and a huge smile broke across her face and she ran towards us. My arms were already open by the time she reached us, and managed to get both Edward and I in a hug.

I held her tight next to me, kissing the top of her head, so happy to know that she was in my arms.

"I'm so happy you're both alright." She said, her voice muffled from having her head tucked in to us. She lifted her head back, "Where's Jacob?"

Edward nodded his head in the direction of where he was behind us, but I remembered exactly why he was there.

"Don't go over there just yet," I mentioned quietly, and her mouth opened and I knew she was going to ask why so I just said it anyway, "Seth's dead."

Ness gasped and her hand came to her mouth. "Not Seth Clearwater Seth?"

I nodded, and she peered around me and a soft sob escaped her as she saw the sandy wolf lying on the floor. "We're just giving him some space."

I could see the desperation in Renesmee to just run over to him. Just being here was bad enough, watching the fights, wondering if everyone would make it; I can't imagine what it must have felt like to Ness.

Jacob stands up from his crouched position, and wipes his face. Must have been crying. He turns around and notices Nessie, and his face beams into an instantaneous smile. I go to nudge Ness forward to go to him, but something else makes me grab her shirt and stop her from going any closer.

Jacob hasn't noticed yet, neither has anyone else. The wind is blowing in the wrong direction for them to notice. Only myself, and now Edward had realised.

Edward pulls Nessie behind him and we try desperately to get Jacob to take notice.

Just behind a tree at the edge of the forest, was a shadow of someone. It had to be one of the Volturi as everyone on our side was in the middle of the field.

It all happened pretty quickly from there.

The shadow was actually Felix. Had Edward not defeated him earlier, or had he managed to get away from him? It doesn't matter what happened before, the point was that he quickly emerged from the trees, and charged towards Jacob.

Nessie screamed from behind us, and Edward and I tried to run forward and try to intercept him before he reached Jacob, but it was too late.

From Nessie's scream, he seemed to realise something was wrong and had started to turn around, not fully understanding how big the problem was. But before he could act against it, Felix had reached him.

Jacob was knocked to the ground from the force of the vampires weight, Felix's strength far outmatching Jacob's whilst he was human, and I'm guessing that's why Felix chose an easy target.

Jacob didn't have a chance to process what had happened, and therefore was unable to transform, leaving him far more vulnerable on the floor.

Felix was lying on top of him, Jacob only just managing to keep him at bay but he was clearly struggling. And then Felix suddenly took hold of one of his arms and sunk his teeth into his flesh, just as Edward got to them, and tackled Felix to the floor.

I reached Felix shortly after and together we pulled him apart, the anger within me for what he done and fear for Jacob just gave me renewed strength, and he barely put up a fight, before long his body parts were lying in different places.

As soon as I finished I turned back around quickly to Jacob, and the sight before me was like a huge stab to the chest.

Jacob was clenching his teeth, his muscles tight from what I must assume was an unbearable pain, but he wasn't crying out, as Renesmee must have ran over to him whilst we dealt with Felix, and she was holding Jacob, supporting his head on her thighs, his hand held within hers, tears pouring down her cheeks.

Caitlin and Jordan were only a few feet away, motionless as they stood and watched their parents together, their expressions completely heartbreaking.

"It'll be okay Jake, don't worry, we'll sort something out." Ness consoled him, but from the look on his face, I don't think he even heard her; he must have been concentrating on not showing her how much pain he was in.

Ness looked up to the both of us, her eyes filled with water, her cheeks wet with flowing tears. "Tell me there's something we can do. Tell me we can do something." She cried out to us.

Most of our family, the other covens and the remaining wolves were now surrounding us, but kept their distance.

Esme and Carlisle had come closer. Carlisle walked over to us, whilst Esme went to Jordan and Caitlin, to try and shield them from seeing their father dying, and their mother suffering emotionally.

I couldn't get the words to come out of my mouth. To see Ness in so much pain as she watched Jacob, it hurt me in a way I had never felt before. I didn't want to see her upset. But I knew there was nothing we could do for Jacob. It was poison to him; he wasn't going to make it. And it killed me to just even think that.

As she watched my reaction a sob escaped her as she looked down to Jacob, before looking back up to Carlisle.

"Please Carlisle, there's got to be something we can do." She begged.

You could tell from Carlisle's expression that he didn't want to tell her what we all knew.

She looked back down to Jacob and used her hand to just brush some of his hair back, and although he was in pain, he smiled up to her and managed, with the little strength he had in him, to hold her hand.

"Mum, Dad, please." She cried again, looking up to us, her distraught expression killing me inside.

Her tear-filled eyes moved from my face and slowly back down to Jacob, but her eyes lingered on me for a second, at my arm, and then her eyes widened slightly and it was as though an idea had came to her.

"We have time, it'll work." She whispered to herself, "Hang on baby, I'm going to save you." She said to Jacob whilst we were all confused.

I could see the urge in Carlisle to explain that unfortunately, there was nothing we could do. But she turned to him quickly.

"We have some time, just suck the venom out." She stated.

"What?"

"Come on, we only have a while left, just suck out the venom, like with what happened to mum…" That explained why the idea popped to her. The scar on my arm from all that time ago, when Edward saved my life by drinking out the venom from my blood.

"Ness, Hun, that was under different circumstances, Jake's a werewolf, his blood is different. Even if one of us tried, we wouldn't be able to bear it, it would be too late."

The desperation and determination was clear in her eyes.

"Well what if I do it?"

"Renesmee think about it-"

"I have thought about it! His blood won't taste bad to me and I can't harm him. Please, I can't let him go without at least trying." She pleaded to us all.

Carlisle finally nodded and there was a spark within me, within all of us I think, hoping that there was a way Jacob could be saved.

I wrapped my arm around Edward and we held our hands tightly as we watched Nessie say something to Jacob and then she started to lean down.

A vampire's bite to a werewolf. Poison to their blood.

Could Jacob be saved?

I hope with all my heart that he could.

AN - Sooo, this is the penultimate chapter, only the epilogue left :-( I tried to post this earlier but there was a problem with fanfiction. Anyways I'll do my best to get it up soon

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