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Sitting Ducks

From the moment I saw Emmet launch at Felix everything just happened so fast. There was a loud bang when Emmet and Felix´s bodies collided. I let out a breath I didn´t realize I had been holding and focused once again on the fight ahead.

My shield was in place and protecting my family, friends and allies. I was ready to do my part of the fighting now.

The plan was all ready to be set in motion. Everyone had chosen their opponent. Some had more reason behind their choice than others. I for one wanted nothing more than to be the last person Jane ever let her eyes on – and I wanted her brother to watch as I destroyed her, piece by piece.

Edward let go of my hand after he had squeezed it reassuringly. He crouched down and started running for his target. Like 6 years ago he wanted to be the one who took down Demetri. I wouldn´t even think of the possibility that he wouldn´t be victorious.

I mirrored his actions and had Esme by my side. She was going to help me keep Alec in check while I took care of Jane. It sounded so easy, but they had to have been trained to fight without their special abilities, they were members of the Volturi guard for crying out loud.

I ran as fast as I could towards Jane who had a puzzled look on her face, so she hadn´t expected it to come to a fight then?

I stopped right in front of her, she couldn´t hurt me.

"So Jane. We meet again," I said in a bitter voice.

She didn´t reply but simply stared at me.

"What? No hello?" I said with sarcasm dripping from my voice. Esme had stopped right beside me in front of Alec. She was still in her crouch. Alec looked like he wanted to run for it. Maybe they had relied on their special abilities a bit too much then. Well, their loss our gain. The sooner we were done destroying the twins from hell the sooner we could help the others.

"No courtesy then. Fine by me," I said. A smile crept up my lips. "Any last words then?"

She started laughing now. Either she was insane, had a death wish or she simply had more up her sleeve than she led on right away.

She stopped laughing but kept a smile on her lips. She looked me right in the eyes and crossed her arms across her chest.

"You seem so confident my dear Bella," she answered back.

I´ll admit it wasn´t in my nature to be so confident, but the Volturi had put fuel on my fire one too many times. I was not going to stand for their crap any longer. And I´ll be damned if I´ll show them my weaknesses. Jasper had taught me that confidence won half the battle, so if I looked like I had already won then maybe they would fear me more.

Obviously I was wrong. Jane found my feeble attempt on confidence amusing.

"I am," I answered her.

"You can´t win," she said back with a creepy smile on her lips.

"Is that so?" I asked back. She was obviously also using the confident tactic.

"Yes," she stated simply. "You don´t have the strength, abilities or the experience to fight a guard like ours."

I smiled back at her trying to look like she couldn´t shake me. I had to keep the façade, it was crucial that I didn´t let my guard down. On top of my fake confidence I always had hope. I waited for a second or two before replying.

"Well Jane, look around you. What do you see?" I asked her. There really wasn´t much to see though. The fog had enrolled most of the fighting, but we could still hear the others though. A fire had already been started and the smoke was rising up through the fog making everything more unclear.

I glanced behind her and noticed Charlie being held in a death grip by Heidi. He looked beyond scared. Our eyes meet and I pleaded my apologies through my eyes. I would not let him pay for my choices. His fear would bring me the confidence I needed. I would not allow them to hurt him.

While looking into Charlie´s eyes I remembered something Charlie once told me about police work. Kind of like the good cop, bad cop thingy. He once told me about an assignment he did at the academy. I could try to play it that way. I owed him to perfect this.

I decided that I would pretend that we didn´t have the strength to fight back, let her lose her guard for one second. I wanted her to feel secure in her victory and her strength; it would open up her weak spot. I glanced around her allies once again and noticed something we had expected, but it still amazed me.

"No matter the outcome of today´s battle, we have already won, Jane," I said with a smile. I could feel Esme looking at me puzzled. She would catch on soon enough.

Jane turned her head to the side and looked at me curiously.

"You see Jane, both in this life and in our deaths we will have something more powerful than anything you have in the Volturi. We have a power that cannot be destroyed by something as simple as death. A power you can never accomplish by endless training or by spreading terror," I answered her silent question. Esme turned to face Alec again; she knew what I was talking about.

"Are you going to say something cheesy like love?" she half laughed the question.

"That too," I said. "We´re also a family. You may kill me right here and now, but you will never be able to break the bond between me and my family." I indicated my head in the wanted direction and Jane´s glare followed curiously.

"We stand together as one. We live as one, we die as one," I said again smiling this time. "That is something you´ll never experience in your existence."

Jane snarled at this, obviously not pleased with the obvious cowardly ways of her leaders. Aro, Caius and Marcus had fled the scene of the battle and were standing as mere observers in the forest line. They were ready to make their escape. It really must be demoralizing to watch your leaders chicken out like that. So much for being fearless and indestructible.

"Well I hope you have said your goodbyes to your loved ones then," Jane spat clearly irritated. She crouched down in front of me signaling that the battle between us could begin.

I hoped that my plan to point out that the Volturi didn´t have the same special bond that we as a family had would pay up. And soon it did. In one of our many tactic meetings during the last week or so we had agreed to the plan that Keith would freeze Chelsea as soon as he had the opportunity. We had wavered between Chelsea and Renata, but we had expected Aro to flee, and he would take Renata, his shield with him.

We would deal with the guard first and if the opportunity showed we would take care of Aro after that. He would no matter the outcome today have to pay.

I smiled at her as I heard what I was waiting and hoping for. Commotion started to fill the field and several of the Volturi witnesses stopped fighting.

"What am I doing here?" one said.

"Why am I fighting?" said another.

"I´m sorry, I didn´t mean to," said a small voice.

From the corner of my eyes I saw that the witnesses that had stopped fighting and some of the guard members were retreating. Keith had obviously found Chelsea and the plan was working. We were now separating the wolves from the sheep, the ones who wanted to be here of their own free will we would fight, the rest could choose sides or leave unharmed.

I crouched down in front of Jane.

"You were saying Jane?" I smiled innocently at her.

She growled but looked confused. We started to circle each other and Esme and Alec did the same. I wanted to wait for Jane to make the first move, I didn´t want to flaunt the fact, that I actually knew how to fight, in her face. For her to see me as merely a distraction till one of the more experienced fighters could take over would make her jump me quicker. The sooner she would be rid of me the sooner she could help her masters out.

With me out of the picture she would once again be unstoppable.

She finally pounced and she knocked me over. I quickly flipped us around so I was on top of her. I pinned her to the ground and I saw a flash of fear in her eyes. Clearly she hadn´t expected me to be anything but a sitting duck.

"6 years is a long time," I smiled at her. If she only had used her time just as wisely we would have had an even fight. She had spent all these years relying on her power, even though she knew I would be there shielding her out.

The guard had a reputation for being cocky, but this was just plain stupid. Did they really think that they could surprise us this time around when we had Alice? Did they really think that the twins would have a chance to hurt anyone if they didn´t know how to fight physically? This was almost too easy.

She tried to get up but I pinned her to the ground again and with a flick of a movement I had torn both her arms of. I wanted her to suffer more though, so I tossed the arms in the nearby fire and smiled as I stood up. She struggled a little, but soon she was on her feet as well. This was going to be easy, she couldn´t use her power and now she couldn´t use her strength.

Esme held Alec in a death grip so that he could watch the ending of his twisted sister. He was struggling like a mad man to break free, but was unsuccessful. Esme was after all very strong and she was protecting her children. I knew that would double her strength. On top of that Alec was not a skilled fighter. Clearly he had, like his sister, been relaying a bit too much on their psychic powers.

"Bye Jane," I said just before I kicked her to the ground and tore of her head. Her head and her headless body were soon in the growing fire. I felt proud of what I had accomplished, how much I had grown in the last couple of years. Nobody and I mean nobody threatens my family and live to tell the tale.

I went over to Esme and helped her dispose of Alec. He was screaming and begging for his life but we ignored him. He was just a pawn in Aro´s great plan to rule the underworld, but he had chosen to stay loyal and for that he must die. Alec never really fought back. It seemed as though he was I a state of shock. I almost felt sorry for him but I didn´t have time for that. I could repent later.

Both Alec and Jane had been the ones that resembled sitting ducks, not me and Esme. I still had the feeling that it was just too easy.

Soon we were joined by Carlisle, Alice and Rosalie. They had been fighting some of the witnesses who had chosen to leave the battle. Emmet was still fighting Felix but refused any help from any of us. He wanted to do this all by himself. Edward was also still fighting Demetri but he was joined by Jacob and Seth.

We couldn´t spot Jasper anywhere from where we were standing, but we weren´t too alarmed by that. I looked around and tried to find Charlie. He wasn´t anywhere in sight. Heidi had been holding him and she was gone too. None of us had fought Heidi. I was starting to panic when Alice spoke up.

"Aro, Caius, Marcus, Renata and Heidi have Charlie. He´s all right for now. Aro´s keeping him as a trade offer until he gets to safety. We have to get to him before he does."

We started running in the direction Esme and I had seen they were hiding during the start of the fight. Is wasn´t long till we picked up on Charlie´s scent and we ran faster. The further we got in the woods I was having a hard time keeping my shield intact on the ones still fighting back in the field. I had to let the shield down on them to be able to use all my energy on finding Charlie. At least I knew that neither Jane nor Alec would be able to hurt them anymore.

Instead I placed the shield around Carlisle, Esme, Alice and Rosalie. I hoped that my shield would be able to reflect the effect caused by Renata´s shield. Otherwise we couldn´t do this without Keith.

What will happen to Charlie? Stay tuned if you want to know ;)