Complications

As promised we arrived at Charlie's bright and early to see how he took the whole situation. We walked up to his door and rang the doorbell. This time a fully clothed Sue answered the door.

"Hello, Bella" she said warmly "Edward, how are you?" she questioned

"Good thank you for asking Sue. How is Charlie?" Edward questioned back

She didn't speak for a minute and I was starting to get worried, but right as I was about to say something a big grin spread across her face.

"Actually to tell you the truth, he is doing amazing. He took everything really well. He seems to be coping with everything although he still is mad at Edward for turning you. "She said to me.

I nodded and Sue invited us into the house, we settled down in the front room while we waited for Charlie to finish getting ready. When he came down and spotted us in the front room he approached us with a small smile on his face.

He sat down next to Sue facing us and took in a deep breath before finally speaking.

"Well, after everything I have found out it seems unbelievable but I must say that it kind of makes sense. Just because of the bear sightings and the Cullen's being so different. But I will tell you the truth about how I feel." He took in another deep breath before saying "I believe you."

I was utterly shocked but ecstatic at the same time. Not only was I going to live forever with the man I love but I also still get to keep in contact with my father. Things couldn't have worked out better if it was planned this way.

We talked to Charlie for about an hour before we got a phone call from a frantic Seth.

"Bella! We need you down in La Push. Jacob had to come home from his honeymoon early because we smell vamps in the area, and they aren't the Cullen's. As we followed the smell we noticed they were following our scents. It went right to the border of la push before turning around. We lost it after that but Sam has a hunch that the are coming back to confront us. Can you and the Cullen's please come down here and help if it turns into a fight?" He said frantically

I was shocked but I worked quickly telling Seth we would be there soon as Edward called the others and told them to get down here A.S.A.P, the took off on foot and Edward and I headed to La Push.

We got to the boundary line and Seth was there waiting, he led us over the line and to Billy souse. As we approached Jacob ran out to meet us.

"Bella" he sighed obviously relieved "you're here. Are the other Cullen's on there way?" he questioned

I nodded as he pulled me into a tight bear hug before talking to Edward.



"Thanks Cullen." He mumbled

Edward just nodded and Jacob led us into the house where all the other werewolves were seated in the in the kitchen around the table. They looked up as we walked in, most of them looked relieved to see us but Leah didn't she seemed furious that I was there.

Edward broke the awkward silence "So can one of you show Bella and I part of the trail you caught so we can see if either of us recognize the scent. Well actually mainly me seeing as Bella hasn't many others like us but anyway."

Jared stood up and offered to take us, and then lead us out of the house and into the woods outside. He quickly transformed and took off with Edward and I at his heels. Finally after a few minutes of running we came upon a clearing. Immediately I smelt the scent of 5 or so vampires. I didn't recognize it so it wasn't the Denali coven; I looked over to Edward to see if he recognized the scent.

He had a look of horror on his gorgeous face; he wasn't saying anything so I tapped into his mind.

No! This cant be happening we just got them off of our tails. The only reason they wouldn't attack straight away is so that they could go back to Voltura to get more backup. This could be a real problem.

I broke the connection I had with his mind and his thoughts finally made sense to me.

The Volturi were coming, HERE TO FORKS. Probably to slaughter some of my good friends.

I new technically they couldn't hurt me but would I be able to protect my whole family and all of the wolves? What if I couldn't?

Edward broke me out of my thoughts by scooping me up and running back towards la push. He obviously knew that I had read his thoughts and I knew what was going on. We got there quickly and we walked back in the house to tell the wolves what we had found.

As we approached the pack they all looked up at us anxiously, I knew they could tell it was bad news because of the looks on out faces.

"What's the matter?" Jacob asked anxiously.

I looked at Edward silently telling him to go ahead and let them know, he nodded and began speaking.

"Well we easily caught the scents and I immediately recognized them. They are 5 members of the Volturi."

All of the wolves gasped realizing what this meant.

"So does this mean they know about us, and if they do why didn't they attack?" He asked shakily



"Well I am almost positive the know that you are not regular humans." Edward said "and the only reason they wouldn't attack right away is that they probably went back to Voltura to get more help. Then I assume they will attack." Edward finished

The others were too scared to talk, before anyone said anything else the Cullen's all burst into the house. We explained the situation and everyone was not happy. We were all contemplating the situation when Carlisle broke the silence.

"Excuse me Sam, how old was the scents you followed." He questioned

"Umm, it was probably about 4 days old." He answered

Before Carlisle could say anything back Emmet cut in.

"If the scents were 4 days old how come we didn't smell them when we came here for the dogs wedding?" he asked curiously

"Because the scent was on the opposite side of La Push." Sam answered

Everyone nodded and Carlisle spoke again.

"If the scent was that old the Volturi could be arriving any time with endless amounts of guards. We need to make a game plan." He said seriously

"Well I think that all of the Cullen's should be hiding with one of us to mask there scents, until we know what they want for sure. It could be that they don't want a war." Sam stated

Carlisle spoke up again. "I wouldn't put it behind Aro to have some sort of ulterior motive so I think Sam has a good idea, the only reason we should intervene is if the wolves are in serious danger." He concluded

We worked out the rest of the plans and it was decided that all of the Cullen's would wait within hearing range with Seth, while the others approached the Volturi in wolf form, all but one that is in order to speak for the pack. Jacob was the one that would be in human form, so naturally I was worried.

We all separated into two groups, the ones hiding and the ones approaching the Volturi. Seth and all of the family headed out into the woods to wait.

Before long we got a signal that the Volturi was approaching. We all became silent and watched through the trees for them.

I immediately recognized Aro as he glided up to Sam and studied the odd sight before him. Walking behind him were Jane, Felix, Demetri, Alec, Caius, Marcus, Heidi, Joslyn and a large group of vampires I didn't recognize He didn't seem that surprised as he spoke to Jacob.

"Interesting" he crooned in his sickly sweet voice. "I have heard legends but I never believed them to be true. Are you truly werewolves?" he asked Jacob



Jacob nodded and spoke for the first time to the ancient vampire.

"Yes, we are and we don't want a fight." He said calmly.

"Oh I don't plan on fighting unless you refuse to agree with me." He said softly before looking over at the large wolves.

"Anyways." He said giddily "I have a proposition for you. We will not harm any of you…. DOGS…. If you accompany us back to Voltura and let us perform tests, then you could be very useful as guards." He said happily.

Jacob looked disgusted "we will not be your test subjects or your personal body guards, and we will not accompany you back to Voltura, we are happy here and we plan to stay that way." Jacob said sternly

Aro looked like a child who had gotten his candy taken away. He quickly got over the sadness and got angry.

"I will give you 2 choices." He said " First you and your mutts here and there families if they wish, can accompany us back to Voltura by your own will or second we can kill some if not all of you and force anyone that is left to come with \us. We will give you until tomorrow morning at dawn to decide, and then we will be back. Choose wisely." He said before leading the others away.

As soon as we were sure they were gone we met up with the others. We all looked at each other knowing that we were all about to go into war. And the survival of my friends and family all depends on me and my powers.

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A.N. Sorry for the cliffe but it had to be done. It's too late for me to keep typing and I wanted to get chapter out today. So anyways the more reviews I get the faster I update. Also again I want to ask you to please check out the poll on my profile it has to do with another story I am considering writing. Anyways thanks again.

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