My mind flashed back to the astonished face of the guard. Alec stood, his feet spread shoulder length apart and his arms folded over his chest.
Alec had seen the wolves before, from what I remember, and from what I've heard from the stories my cousin, Kate had told me. He glared at Jacob and wrinkled his nose.
"Of course there would be more trouble waiting for the smart ones!" he muttered with a grimace. Clearly he wanted no part of this.
"What do you mean, the smart ones?" I asked. I was too curious to hold my tongue any longer.
"Some of us came back, the members of the guard that felt no need to further debrief the Cullens. Clearly, the whole thing was a misunderstanding. Apparently we were wrong completely. And this human," he spat the word while turning to scowl terrifyingly at Gianna, "tried to help you for a mere bribe! What do we need a receptionist for anyway?"
Jacob listened intently, but he still lowered his head enough for me to stroke the red fur that surrounded his face. My parents exchanged worried glances that I knew they trying to be careful not to let me see.
My eyes flashed to Gianna's terrified face. She stood behind the Volturi, frozen stiff.
Oh, please don't let them hurt her. Please, please, please! I chanted to myself.
Dad glanced at me, his eyes soft and smoldering, trying to ease my troubled mind.
"This doesn't need to turn into a fight," he repeated.
"Oh, but on the contrary, I do believe it does," Alec sneered.
I ground my teeth together to keep the slurs and profanities that I desperately wished to shout at him even though I knew that, of course, they would be futile.
"Please. Just. Stop," I struggled to say evenly. It felt like my throat was closing in on itself.
Alec tilted is head and his black eyes scrutinized me and he sneered under his breath. He crouched down and put his hands in front of him.
Everything after is still solely a blur , even now, as I recall the events of that night.
What I do remember is being yanked backwards by my father and letting my fingers press into the cold, firm brick of the wall. My mother was then attacked by the women, Chelsea.
"Mom!" I screamed. My father was beside her instantly pulling Chelsea off of her. I pulled my hand to my mouth to keep my terrified screeching to a minimal.
Jacob stayed protectively in front of me. Then, Santiago jumped on my father's back and Jake ran over to intervene. Jake used his teeth to rip Santiago off my father. Tears rolled down my cheeks as Corin and Afton jumped in. Alec just stood there, his eyes thick with superiority. Did he have no heart? Gianna was on her knees and holding her face in her hands.
I blinked a teardrop from my eye and then there was a hand that gripped my forearm pulling me. I wiped the tear from my eyes with the back of my hand. I looked up at person who held my arm. Alec glared at me and threw me to the ground at his feet.
The look on my father's face haunts me to this day. The agony in his eyes was heart wrenching. Everyone had stopped fighting the second Alec had grabbed me. Corin, Chelsea, Afton, and Santiago struggled to hold Dad, Mom, and Jake.
"Stand up, human brat!" Alec spat at me.
If you want me up then why did you put me on the ground in the first place, imbecile?!
My infuriation causes me to do stupid things and at this particular moment the retarded thing I did was to not listen to a word Alec said. I just scowled at him.
He made an obnoxious, annoyed sound, grabbed my shoulder and then yanked me upward.
"She is the cause of all misfortunes, yet she does us no good!" Alec said to the other vampires. He talked down to them as if they were children.
"Alec," Gianna said from behind him. "Don't hurt her..."
Alec sneered cruelly at Gianna. He lifted his arm and slapped her so quickly that his arm was a blur.
Gianna screamed so loud that it rang in my ears for several minutes.
A light turned on in the warehouse. The scuffling of human feet and quiet voices was muffled to my ears, but I could make out the majority of the conversation.
"Did you hear that?" a child's voice questioned.
"You must be imagining things again. Go back to bed, sweetheart," a man's voice replied. Probably the father, I thought.
"No daddy! It was a lady screaming and voices and metal screeching! It's real!"
The man groaned and the furniture, a bed, creaked.
Footsteps proceeded to the window. Oh no.
Alec gestured to a dark alley. The guard that held my mother and father released them. Dad reached for my hand, but I shook my head and reached quickly for Jake and hoisted my self onto his back.
I reached my hand down and Gianna grabbed it hesitantly. She's fairly light and it was easy for me to swing her up to Jacob's back, and Jake raced into the alley.
The alley was cold dark and uncomfortable. If the human father came outside and saw us we were, well, screwed. I stayed on Jacob's back with Gianna while everyone stayed against the alley walls.
The father walked out of the apartment building and glanced around the street. He saw nothing and shook his head. He turned on his bare heels and walked back into the building and in an instant I leaned forward to get a better look at the mom's face, she looked like she was getting ready for something, but I didn't know what for I was being lurched forward.
Jacob ran full speed,which is much faster than I can run, toward down the dormant street. My mother and father trailed him, but where was Gianna? I could have sworn she was still on Jake's back, but she was no where to be seen. The Volturi hadn't any hope in hell of catching us so the battle between the Cullens and the Volturi would, to my annoyance, continue.
Five minutes later we turned into another alley. Jake ran in to go back into his human form. Don't worry he had shorts around his ankles so... well, so he wasn't naked. He came out of the alley in seconds.
"Why wasn't I let in on the plan?"
"'Cause you're naive," Jake said. I stuck my tongue out at him.
"She's smarter than you give her credit for," Dad cut in.
"Yeah, I know she's smart. She's smarter than I am-"
"Hell yeah!" I smiled.
"Watch you're mouth, Ness," Mom commented. I grinned devilishly. We were us again. We were together. We weren't safe, but we were together and this insignificant carefree conversation felt like it was the first time we could forget- about the Volturi, the controversial wolves, everything... and be us, a family.
We walked in a happy silence down the empty street. My mom broke the silence, not after ten minutes.
"We'll be right back," she said and kissed my forehead.
"Where are you going?" I called as my dad and her began to run ahead of Jacob and me.
"To get a car," Mom yelled back to me.
I tried to protest them leaving me and Jake alone but they were all ready gone.
"So what now?" I asked Jake.
"We wait patiently."
"Why couldn't I have gone," I whined.
"It's dangerous." Jacob's voice had gone grave.
"Getting a car is too dangerous?"
Jacob sighed and sat on the curb and patted the sat next to him. I sat down next to him and put my head on his shoulder.
"Renesmee Carlie Cullen, do you realize the hell you put us all through?"
"I didn't mean to! I just I thought it could help if I - just," but I couldn't finish for my throat was closing in attempt to keep from crying.
Jake wrapped his warm arms around me. "Silly girl, I didn't mean it was your fault. I only meant that if you went with them, there is potential that the rest of the leeches will be coming back and if they saw you..."
Soon we heard the purring engine of a little, black Lamborghini.