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Chapter Eleven

Visitors

EPOV

I had enjoyed watching Bella's reactions to all the questions that the horrid Mike Newton was throwing out to us. Even in old age, Mike Newton's mind was on one track. I heard his thoughts as he came out the door. He had almost hit the pavement when he thought he saw the 'love of his life' standing across the lot. He knew that it couldn't be Bella Swan, as Bella should be nearly ninety year old like him, but age was just a number. This young thing looked just like her, just a bit more like those Cullens that she had hung out with back then. Every thought that would flow through his head during our brief encounter outside set my mouth full of venom. I had to try very hard not to crush the old man's head. He had annoyed me to the extreme those seventy odd years ago and he seemed to be even more annoying as a senior.

I tried to portray that I was enjoying the conversation for Bella. I knew she wouldn't want me to get too angry with him, especially now that he was older. Our entire time in Forks before, I had wanted to take out Mike Newton, but I had time and time again stopped at the request of Bella. I knew she was mine and would be forever and eternity, but that didn't stop me from wanting to injure anyone that thought ill or spoke ill of her. My Bella deserved all the respect that any person could give her and I expected no less, not even from Newton. His grandson showed up just in time but even his thoughts were less than pure when his grandfather needed him. He had been just like his grandfather, looking at my wife. I tried hard to not listen to their mind voices but they, like Jacob had been, thought vividly and loudly.

I had watched through Mike's memories as he had watched Bella choose me and be with me. He remembered seeing us at graduation speaking with Charlie and had wished that he was the lucky man next to her. His memories fast forwarded to the day I married Bella. I could feel the jealousy in his memories. His memories skipped around until he married the lady that he met during his first week of college. Mike's memories was comparing that poor lady to Bella. I had known from Bella's first day at school that Mike had planned to win her affection but I would have never thought he would carry it with him after he married and to top it off, seventy plus years. I couldn't say that I blamed him. I would love Bella for eternity and would have done so even if things had went the other way and she had chosen Jake. I would love Bella always and forever.

Bella was quiet along our journey home. I had gave her the rundown of a portion of Mike's thoughts, there was no way I was going to go any further. As we approached the house, I could hear thoughts of another besides my parents and my siblings. I began to smile as I parked there car. Bella turned her seat to look at me. "I think you will be pleased when you walk inside," I urged. "I think the dealings of today will go away pretty quickly."

Bella stared at me. "I really am not in the mood for surprises or gifts, Edward," she warned me.

I knew that what she would find inside would definitely surprise her and she would be ecstatic. I followed behind my wife as she walked into the foyer. She glared over her shoulder as to warn me if I had done something special, that she would have my head. "Go on in," I urged her.

As we joined our family in the next room, I could hear Bella's gasp and then the excitement broke through her voice, "Renesmee!" she exclaimed. "Oh, baby, I have you missed you so much." Bella crossed the room and flung her arms around our first born. I knew when I heard our daughter's thoughts, that Bella would be ecstatic. I had listened to see if Jake, Emma, or Masen had joined her, but that wasn't the case. It was just our Nessie. Bella was hugging our daughter and touching her face. "I have missed you, angel. You just don't know how much."

I could hear in Ness's thoughts how much she had missed us, but even more so, how much she missed her mom. Renesmee had special relationships with all of us, but she and her mother had a very close bond. It went further than the normal mother-daughter relationship. With Renesmee's unique abilities and above average intelligence, she and Bella, as well as myself had made an unbreakable bond while she was still in Bella's womb. Ness had seen firsthand and could remember what her mother had went through as a mortal so that Nessie would be here. Her mother had sacrificed her life to make sure that Ness had one. That bond was unbreakable. They had not only a parent-child bond, and a friendship, but it was a savior-saved bond. Bella had tackled all odds and had saved our daughter's life from all of the rules that had said one of them would die. Bella had protected her with Rosalie's help from all obstacles including me, her own father.

I tried to stand back for as long as possible to allow Ness and Bella some time with one another. It had only been a few weeks since we had left, but that was the longest time they had ever spent apart from one another. I couldn't take it anymore and I had to take my little girl in my arms. She may be seventy years old in age but forever she would be my little girl. I hugged her tightly. I had missed her so much. She brought her hands to my face to show me what she, Jacob, Masen, and Emma had been up to the past few weeks since we had been gone. Emma had grew a bit more since we had last saw our family. Ness still looked young and her body had remained that of a young person. Emma was her and Jake's first child and was just barely four years old. She was slightly bigger in appearance, maybe that of a six year old, but she grew no where near the rate that Renesmee and Masen did. That had been the icing on the cake for us, becoming grandparents to a child that what somewhat be normal. She was still more vampire than werewolf or human, and it was almost certain she would live forever, but watching her grow normally gave us more time with her as a child. Her intelligence was definitely above average and she gave us every reason to be proud. Ness was home schooling her so that she wouldn't have to explain time and time again why her grandparents and extended family looked so different. Emma could easily pass as a human.

I swirled my daughter around, placing her feet on top of my own the way I had when she was little and the way her mother and I had danced together because of Bella's lack of balance when she was a human, and danced her across the room. Our family was laughing and enjoying the moment as was Nessie. I stopped just short of the piano and placed her by my side as I began to play her lullaby. "I missed you as well," I declared after I struck the last ivory key to the last note of her song.

Our daughter had gotten to looking more like Bella as she had gotten closer to her full maturity. The only thing she had left of me was her bronze hair which still held the curls of her grandfather, Charlie. I reached out and ruffled her hair as I had done so many times before. "Dad!" she exclaimed.

I would never tire of hearing that word leave her lips. Our family gathered around Renesmee to discuss what had all went on here since she hadn't returned with us to know. After Jasper had informed her of everything that had happened in the forest, she turned to her mother, "Did you ever call Seth to see if the pack had saw anything or had picked up on a scent?"

I looked at Bella. I could see that it had slipped her mind. "It truly slipped my mind," Bella sheepishly admitted. "Edward and I went to the grocery today and I had planned to call him when I returned and invite him over."

"Momma," Ness said as she rolled her eyes. "This is important you know, especially to the pack. Sam needs to know so that he can prepare in case any other young boys start phasing. I think I should call Seth and then I'm calling Sam."

Renesmee marched out of the room and I could hear her murmuring into the phone in the other room. Bella shrugged her shoulders. I went into the story about Mike Newton while Ness was on the phone in the other room. Emmett laughed loudly and threw out a few jokes at Bella, one necessitating Rose to hit the back of his head as she did when he had crossed lines and overstepped boundaries. Ness returned to the room shortly after I finished. "You couldn't wait to tell about mother's admirer still being here until I rejoined?" she questioned. "You took longer than you needed," I scolded. "So what did Seth and Sam have to say?"

Emmett actually stopped annoying Rose and sat down next to her. All of our family gathered closer so that we could hear what Renesmee had to say. "Well, here's what I got," she started. "I talked to Seth first, invited him to come over. He said he will be over shortly. He has to run patrol and then he will be here. I discussed briefly the immortal that mom and Uncle Jasper encountered. He hasn't smelled anything through his own nose, but he didn't want to go into it, so he told me to call Sam…" Renesmee looked around the room to make sure we were all following her. I could hear the thoughts in her head and they were uneasy. I sent Jasper a look and he began his mood control. "Thanks, Uncle Jazz, I needed that." Once she was comforted, Nessie started again. "Sam wasn't surprised to hear from me. Of course, Seth had phased right after our conversation and I'm sure he got all the information from Seth's head. Sam said that from time to time they had smelled a scent, always the same, in the forest. There was no murders, no missing people, so they kept a close eye on the area but there was no reason to be alarmed. It had been several years since they had smelled the immortal until about a month ago. They smelled her again on the night Mom and Jasper went after her. Sam said that she came close to the treaty line and actually crossed it. He knew she wasn't associated or a part of our coven because of that. He and Brady, a newer wolf that we haven't met, chased after her. She turned to them and bared her teeth but kept running. Sam said she didn't appear to be a threat but they weren't taking chances. Next time she crosses the line, she's done and they ask that we do the same."

I looked around the room. I knew that Emmett and Rosalie would have no problem to obliging Sam's wishes. Em and Rose wouldn't have too much of a problem ridding us of the problem if they should cross her. I knew that Bella would be nervous, as she had never had to actually rip another immortal apart. I looked at Jasper and Alice. Jasper would take the same stance as Em and Rose, but Alice would be more like Bella. I knew that Carlisle and Esme would have great problems with this but they had to stick with Sam, for all that he had done for us. Carlisle cleared his throat, not that he needed to, "I hate destroying any creature. Sam knows this. Perhaps we can get the immortal to surrender to us if it becomes an issue, but I think we should proceed first in trying to talk with her." Our family began to murmur amongst ourselves. We would not be able to come up with a plan tonight if someone didn't listen. I knew we needed to take everyone's idea of fighting back into consideration. "I think I know what we need to do," I spoke. "Like Carlisle says, we cannot go after this creature and just destroy it. We need to see what her plan is. She may not be a James or a Victoria. That is what we all are assuming. Perhaps she had been living here while we were gone and she feels threatened with so many of us moving in on her territory, or what she had thought to be her territory. We must approach her kindly. If she puts up a fight, then we battle. But we do not go into a full attack. If we did that, and she is from a large coven herself, we could get a bigger problem than we have ever dealt with in the past. I think we need to proceed with caution. This immortal has given us no reason to be fearful."

My family listened to my words and one by one they nodded their head and agreed, less Jasper. Jasper never felt that you should go in with your hands out in front of you. He believed due to his training of newborns and the way Maria had trained him, that you go in with your weapons hid behind your back, ready to pull out all stops to succeed. I put my arms around my favorite two girls and held my wife and daughter into the night.