A/N: So I was having a little bit of writer's block this week but I got some inspiration from seeing an old friend of mine.

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The entire ride home I was trying to keep my shield on Renesmee in the car in front of me, which is easier said than done. When we got home, Renesmee and I ran off into the forest without saying anything to our family. It wasn't usually like us to keep a secret from any of them but she needed to talk to her mother about something. A mother helping her daughter and I was happy that she would confide in me instead of Esme. I love the fact that she went to Esme for advice on things that she couldn't talk to me about but now she was going to talk to me about it. Once we were out of hearing range I took my shield off of her and we sat down on a few rocks in the middle of the forest. She looked at me and looked at a loss for what to say.

"What's going on honey," I asked her. "You know that you can talk to me about anything. You know I keep secrets better than anybody else in this family, especially from your father. Everybody else tells me their secrets, so can you. So what happened today?"

"I met a guy."

"A guy huh? What's his name?"

"Ross he goes by. And mom he is so sweet and he seemed nervous talking to me and he's just adorable."

"What does he look like?"

"A little bit above six feet with dark brown spiky hair and brown eyes that are identical to mine."

"And what did you guys talk about?"

"Everything from music to sports and he just seems so perfect mom. I think that I like him."

"You might sweetheart but just wait and see, you never know what may happen. Do you want me to have your father keep tabs on him?"

"No but I know that he will anyway. How was he doing today?"

"Not good, I had to shield him a few times just so that he would break something. He is just a little bit overprotective is all honey. He will get used to it eventually but he doesn't want anybody talking about his baby girl or thinking about her or me even. Most of the time when people talk about me he is freaking out too."

"I feel bad for daddy."

"Why?"

"Because he always has to deal with listening to what everybody is thinking and it can't be easy for him to never get privacy."

"I can agree with you in every way. I think that's why he loved me at first. The fact that he couldn't hear me gave him some peace and quiet whenever he was around me."

"But that's not true anymore."

"No it still is. I just talk to him through my thoughts sometimes when I don't want anybody else to hear me, like today for instance."

"What's going on that you don't want anybody else to hear?"

"That is none of your business, that's between me and your father."

"Too much info mom, jes."

"Sorry honey. So tell me more about this Ross guy and then we can go hunting like we are supposed to be doing."

"I don't know much about him mom, we've only had like one conversation. But I feel different, it's just weird because I have never felt this way before."

"And you look different too."

"What do you mean?"

"You seem to be smiling constantly for no reason. Your eyes are sparkling too. Honey I think that you should take this seriously but be careful. I'm a little worried about the differences."

"What differences?"

"You are a vampire too Renesmee. I don't care how big and strong this guy is you will hurt him if you aren't careful."

"I know mom," she responded. She seems to say that every time she really didn't feel like listening to me or when I repeated myself over and over again. "I'm just not sure if I should do this or not. I'm afraid."

"Of what?"

"If this is going to be serious then I don't want to end his life."

"That is going to be a hard decision if it comes to it but it will be his decision. Some people don't care if you're a vampire or not, look at me. I know what you are going through but I don't want you to get ahead of yourself. You haven't interacted with him much yet so let's just see how this plays out and later on down the road we will figure it out. Just before careful not to show him your gifts."

"I know mom," she said. There it was again. Having a daughter with an attitude, I guess I really was a mother now. "I used to hid my gift around Grandpa Charlie too."

I sighed at her and she gave me a hug as soon as she saw my expression. She tried not to talk about my dad because she knew how upset I still get by it. However, I hate making my daughter suffer because of my depression about my dad. She pulled away from me and I could see the happy glee in her eyes, even though she was trying the best that she could to hide it. Her cheeks also seemed to have a light pink tone to them, like she was constantly blushing. I smiled at her and took her hand in mine and led her back into the forest to go hunting.

When we got back to the house everybody was sitting at the table waiting for us to get back.

"Sorry it took so long," I smirked. "I hope you weren't waiting too long for us." I looked over to Edward and he was glaring at me like he was upset. It was probably because my shield was still over Nessie and he couldn't read her mind and it was going to continue to stay that way until she wanted to tell her father about the situation.

"No," Carlisle answered. "We came in here when we heard you coming. "Now have a seat."

Renesmee and I sat down in between Esme and Edward and then smiled at our family. Alice, Jasper, Rosalie and Emmett also accompanied the table. I felt bad for Nessie when she would finally tell everybody because Emmett of all people was going to give her hell. It was now time to talk about the matter at hand, that I had completely forgotten about while I was dealing with my daughter's new discoveries.

"Alright Alice," Edward barked. "You've been blocking me out all day and now you can talk."

"Jez Edward, cool your jets," Alice responded. "You already know stuff unlike everybody else. She looked at me quickly with a little bit of a glare in her eyes and then looked around to the rest of the family seated around the table. "I had a vision of Aro this morning. He has been attempting to keep everybody in line. For now it is working but I still see us meeting. We could be here in a forest, back in the clearing in Forks, the forests outside of Volterra, their castle and a million other places. It just keeps changing because I'm looking at everyone's future, all of us, all of them, of our friends and it is just confusing me at the moment. When more is set into place it will become clearer. However I hadn't noticed until this morning that they lost two members of the guard. Felix and Demitri are gone. I'm not sure how or by who but I searched their futures, thinking that maybe they were just gone for the day, but there was nothing which could only mean that they are dead. Now we just have to figure out what we want to do."

She looked around the table and everyone seemed to be in deep concentration. I had already had time to think about this situation all during school so there really wasn't much for me to think about. I put my shield on Edward, breaking it from Renesmee so he couldn't hear her, because it has to be hard to think about issues when everybody else is yelling in your head, with their own conflicting minds. He also needed to make his own decisions instead of just siding with somebody else.

"Thank you," he said quietly to me. I smiled at him and he kissed my forehead.

'What did you ever do without me?' I thought to myself.

"I had a very big headache," he chuckled. I put my shield all the way around him so that I could think without him hearing my thoughts.

"I think we need to stick with our previous plan," Carlisle spoke first, like he always did. I don't think anybody would ever take that position from him. "We need to continue to be careful and keep planning. We want them to make the first move before we jump into anything with the Volturi."

"Another outbreak and we go to them," Alice stated immediately. "I can't stand seeing another outrage and all of those innocents right before their deaths. It will be up to us to take them down."

"There won't be a doubt right," Emmett questioned. He really wanted to get his hands around the Volturi so that they could stop tormenting our family, threatening to take certain members away, to be held captive and kill all of the others left standing. "I hate just sitting here not doing anything."

"We will continue to train," Edward interjected. "And we are going to need to kick it in high gear. We need to be extremely prepared for this battle. Bella's shield has never been stronger and Nessie," he stated starting to cringe. I guess he hated the idea of her being there as much as I did but she was one of the more powerful of us. "You need to get control of you telekinesis powers. I know that you have been working with them but perhaps John will be able to help you."

"And Nessie," Esme stated afterwards. "Practice those new tricks outside please and stop destroying my brand new vases."

"Sorry Grandma Esme," she said sounding like a 7 year old. Oh she was a 7 year old.

I had almost forgotten that our new family members had powers. Ann had an electric charge and was able to shock people from a distance while Alex was able to slow down to time or freeze people. I was going to have to talk to him about his powers because I was a little fascinated by it. Carrie was able to keep the peace of a massive crowd, kind of like Jasper but she couldn't manipulate all emotions like he could and John, of course, had telekinesis powers like Nessie.

After the meeting was dismissed, Edward, Renesmee and I went over to the other house and sat in the living room. The colors in their house were very bright with a lot of accents of blues, all different shades and accents of red in their kitchen. I was so used to Esme's classic designs with mostly white and the only color showing up in artwork through out the house. I loved Esme's ability to design but their house seemed more young and fun than ours did. The three of us sat on the couch and waited for Ann, Carrie, Alex and John. John and Carrie sat on the loveseat while Alex sat in the chair, pulling Ann onto his lap when she tried sitting on the floor. She flashed her bright smile and laughed a little bit as he tried to tickle her.

"So how was the meeting," she asked us after Alex gained control of himself.

"It went well I guess," I spoke. "We think that we are going to need help training and you may also. Alex and Carrie I would like to work with both of you to see if we can combine our powers together or something like that to make it work to our advantage. And John, if you could help Nessie better understand her powers then we would really love it."

"Not a problem," John responded. He smiled and looked at Nessie. "How long have you had your powers?"

"A few years but I have never really used them. I've been practicing and I can split a tree in half from at least 20 feet away."

"That's amazing, I don't think that I could do that but we will still work on it."

"What did you have in mind for me," Alex asked me directly. He and I had never really talked much because I was too busy talking to Ann to really get to know him. However, I did learn more about him from Ann so I wasn't completely lost.

"I was just wondering how exactly your powers work."

"Well I can freeze the moment that I am in. Look." I was staring at him for what seemed like a second and then he was standing in front of my face with flowers from the garden. "See."

"What did you just do?"

"I froze you and went outside and came back in. It tends to confuse people as well."

"Was it only me?"

"No I can freeze a whole moment. The only one that didn't freeze was Edward, which is weird."

"No it's not. My shield helped him out on that one."

"So my power won't affect you with your shield. That is interesting."

"It could work to our advantage. We have to get back over to the house and talk to everybody, formulate a game plan. I have a great idea."

I ran over to the Cullen's house and yelled for everybody to come into the living room. Aedan, Camden, Ann, Carrie, John, Alex, Nahuel, Huilen, Makeeda, Naira, Adisa, Edward and Renesmee came in after me and then the rest of our family descended down the stairs.

"What's up Bella," Emmett called. "We just finished a family meeting."

"I wanted to talk to you and guys and help us with an experiment outside please."

Everyone did as I asked and we were outside.

"Okay, the Cullens on one side and everyone else over here."

They all did as I asked and there was around 20 yards in-between them and Alex and I stood in the middle. I looked at Alex and smiled. I threw my shield over my family and myself as Alex used his powers to freeze time. It was totally crazy to watch as Cullens stood there, not knowing why nobody on the other side of the yard was moving. Emmett walked towards them and I kept my shield on him. He walked in front of Aedan and shook his hand in front of his face. Nothing.

"Nessie, I want you to concentrate," Edward whispered in his ear. "Lift up Ann and bring her over here."

Nessie's face became strained a little bit as Ann lifted up slightly from the ground and brought her over to underneath my shield. Renesmee smiled to herself as Ann came out of the freezing spell.

"What the hell just happened," she asked looking around at everybody. "Nessie was that you?" Nessie nodded and Ann gave her a hug. "I hate when Alex does that to me, he does it all the time when he wants to stay in the moment."

"Ann, keep your thoughts to yourself," Edward said shaking his head. "You do remember that I can hear what you are thinking?"

"Sorry Edward, I was just remembering is all."

"Why don't you do us a favor and use your power. I want to see something."

Ann looked across the yard to where she was standing just seconds earlier. I watched her look at Cassie and smile before she lifted her hands out in front of her. I didn't see anything happen but I knew by the look on her face that something that she was using her powers.

"Now lower your shield Bella," Carlisle asked from next to where Ann was standing. I lowered my shield and saw Cassie drop to the ground.

"Damn it Ann, what the hell was that for?"

"Edward made me do it."

Carrie glared at Edward and if looks could kill then Edward would be dead.

"What the hell just happened," Aedan asked noticing that Ann was across the yard and hadn't even seen her move.

"Alex froze all of you and using my power I prevented the Cullens from being frozen. Then Renesmee used her power to bring Ann over here and then Ann used her power against Carrie to prove that it was able to penetrate the shield."

"Wow," he said with astonishment. "Could I use my power too?"

"Yes Aedan," Carlisle said as everybody crowded around Alex and I. I was so happy that I had come up with a plan that might actually work. "Now we don't know if the Volturi have a shield, I'm sure that they are looking for one now. We need to look at this situation in the best way that we possibly can. Bella's shield will protect us all from the mental attacks from Jane and Alec but that means that she will be their first target. We need to keep Bella from getting hurt, that's going to be a priority because without her we will all be in an extreme amount of pain or not able to see what is going on around us.

"Aedan, Renesmee, and Ann you can all use your powers through Bella's shield and Alex you can prevent them from moving with your freezing power. And Camden you will be able to tell us who their new shield is, if there is one and Carrie you can manipulate them into thinking that they are at peace, which will also put you in danger. When we see them you are going to need to relax them into thinking that we aren't there for a fight and then we will attack. If all else fails guys then we are going to need to fight physically. You all know that I am not for any of this fighting but what they are doing is wrong.

"The Volturi need to be defeated and it is our mission to accomplish this. We will train every afternoon after you get out of school and I will be taking morning shifts at the hospital to give us more time in training. Jasper and Edward will lead the strategically fighting, while Emmett will show us how to use brute strength. Bella keep working on your shield and Nessie, keep ripping apart the forest and try to increase your strength by focusing on things from further and further away. Ann, try to see if you can increase your shock any because if you can power it up it will help us immensely. Bella also work with Aedan and Alex and try to use your powers together.

"Carrie try to remember that your power will be very useful to us and we need to be confident in ourselves. We know that we can beat the Volturi with our skills and our friends have already agreed to help us out. We will call them in about a month or so to do some training for a month or more, depending on how long it will take the Volturi to figure out what is going on or by them making a mistake. Alice, I know that you are having troubles but just keep your mind on the future. And I'm sorry for talking like I am the chief but I feel like this is the best strategy that we could have to ensure our own safety and the safety of the ones that we love."

Carlisle took a deep breath and smiled towards all of us, wrapping his arm around Esme's shoulder and kissed the top of her head. If he needed to breath then he would have had to take a breathe during his speech, which would not have been so dramatic. Edward came over to me and gave me a kiss.

"I'm proud of you," he whispered into my ear sending chills up my spine. "You're doing so great and you came up with such a good idea. Maybe we should wait until tomorrow to start practicing." He scooped me up into his arms and ran us into our house while I heard our family behind us.

"We better not go into that house for a while," Emmett said seductively.

"Gross," Renesmee yelled.

Ann's Point of View

After I watched Edward and Bella run upstairs, I smiled towards them. They seemed to be more in love than anybody that I had ever seen. I walked over to Alex and gave him a big hug.

"Hey babe," I said digging my head in his chest.

"Hey you," he said back to me kissing the top of my head. "That was pretty cool earlier."

"You too but I think that we still need to practice."

"I think that you may need the practice but I don't. I'm doing perfectly fine thank you very much."

I slapped him playfully in the chest and zapped him softly.

"I hate when you do that," he said rubbing his chest.

"Then don't piss me off."

"You'll get it after, don't you worry."

He looked down at me and I shocked him again and laughed quietly. I walked over to Cassie, John and Renesmee.

"I don't think that you need help," I heard John say to Nessie.

"But my dad seems to think that I do and so does my mom. My head just isn't into this right now. I've had a long day."

"I'm not used to people around me having to sleep," I told her wrapping my arm around her. "You should probably get some sleep."

"I'm going to wait, maybe I'll take a walk."

"Do you want me to come with you?"

"I think that I can take care of myself," she stated defensively.

"I know that you can Nessie but I was just wondering if you wanted the company. Maybe talk about school or something." I knew that there was something going on with her and I really wanted to know what it was. "Come on we can go for a drive, get some things in town if you want."

"I guess so, I was thinking about a new outfit anyways."

"Let's go, you can drive my car."

"Thanks."

I ran into my house and grabbed my keys off of my nightstand before heading back downstairs and grabbing my purse.

"I really should get my license," I said to Renesmee as I took a seat in the passenger seat and she adjusted the seat. "Sorry, I drive really weird."

"Not a problem. I always have to adjust the seat."

Renesmee turned the car on and we went down to the local mall in town. We shopped around a little bit and she ended up buying the perfect outfit for herself. At Hollister she found a think striped blue and white v-neck sweater t-shirt and a pair of light washed flare jeans with slits in the legs that never fully exposed her skin and she also bought a pair of black stiletto heels to go with it. We stopped and took a seat for a minute after she said that she wanted to talk to me.

"So what's going on with you Nessie? I know that you are hiding something."

"I met a guy."

"A guy, huh." I knew it. "What's his name?"

"Ross."

"And…"

"He is absolutely gorgeous and amazing. He has these really cute dimples and his smile is so wide and bright and he was so nervous talking to me. I just don't know what to do."

"You need to relax honey."

"I know I do but what do I do?"

"Talk to him Ness, let the situation go with flow. You just need to relax and let everything fall into place. He will make the first move if he knows what is good for him." I looked down at my phone and it was around 7 o'clock. "I think that we should get going so that you can do your homework and get to bed."

"Yeah that would be good. Do you think that you could help me tomorrow?"

"With what?"

"Helping me get ready."

"I think that is more of a Carrie or Alice thing."

"But I want you to help me, please?" She looked up to me and she looked so innocent and so persuasive.

"Fine, but only if you relax and talk to him tomorrow."

"I will do that."

We got up and she took my hand with a smile on her face. When we got home I gave her a hug before she went into her house and I went to mine. I instantly went upstairs to my room and lay next to Alex on our bed. I put my head on his chest as he wrapped his arms around me and I pulled my arm underneath him, pulling him as close to me as possible. I looked up to his beautiful face and smiled.

"I love you baby," I said looking him straight into his dazzling golden eyes.

"I love you too," he responded kissing me on the lips. I laid my head back down and he kissed my forehead and we spent the rest of the night laying like that until 5 when I was off to help Renesmee get ready for school.

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