So, I'm not going to write a whole other book (though the idea of following everyone to Dartmouth and Renesmee's first frat party and a big crazy fight with the Volturi is extremely tempting), but I thought I would explain a few things that I didn't really get around to in "Daylight Moon," assuming anybody's interested, that is. :) Maybe someone else can take my idea and run with it...
So for a long time I didn't really have any brilliant explanation how the Volturi knew that Renesmee and Jacob were getting married. I purposely didn't explain it because I HAD no good explanation. Later, though, I thought of a totally fun one that could open up this whole new story line, but I just don't have it in me to write a whole other unpublishable story. I had a great time writing Daylight Moon, but it took me a year and I just don't have the energy to do it again. :)
Anyhow, I was thinking that Jacob and the Quilieute wolves are not really werewolves, but shapeshifters. Their "shape" was just a matter of chance. So why couldn't there be other "shapeshifters" around the world with similar stories? I decided there would be some tribe of indigenous peoples in Africa or South America or something whose people became some other sort of animal; like a leopard or panther. South America seems better. Then the Volturi could have discovered them when they went to interrogate Joham (Nahuel's father). With their plethora of powers and persuasive ways, the Volturi convinced at least one of the shapeshifters to join them. Then they sent him/her to spy on the Cullens and kind of keep tabs on them. Just as with the Quilieute wolves, Alice wouldn't be able to see them, and maybe they'd been around longer than Jacob and crew had, so they were better at "thinking like a leopard/panther." If they were totally "animalistic" when in that form, Edward probably wouldn't notice their thoughts; they would be just like any other predatory cat. And perhaps the Cullens and Quilieutes noticed a scent that was slightly off, but it was so similar to mountain lion that they just wrote it off.
I also think it would be very interesting to explore what WOULD/COULD happen with Jacob and Renesmee as far as kids go. I would think that after she stopped aging Renesmee's body couldn't change anymore, just like vampires, and she wouldn't be able to carry a child. And I'm not sure I like the thought of Renesmee as a mother and Bella as a grandmother. Jacob as a dad and Edward as a grandfather would be hilarious though! Maybe she COULD have kids until she stopped aging, though. Like a very small window of opportunity between pre-pubescence and stone-vampireness. And maybe she'd want that...
So, anyway those are my - belated - explanations/ideas. I think it would be so fun to have the whole college experience, have everyone out in the woods at some point, and come across this giant cat. Then there'd be this whole fight and the "mystery" would unravel and maybe Jane and Alec and Dimitri would get involved and someone could put Jane in her place! :) That would be fabulous! And there could be some great scenes with Jacob trying to take care of a baby that actually ACTED like a baby- changing diapers and crying and shaking car keys... :) So, if anyone wants to use my idea for a seventh Twilight book ("Midnight Sun" being the fifth), be my guest! Just send me the link so I can read it! :)
-Kristin