A/N: Right after I posted Chapter 18 I started on this chapter. I find this to be a brilliant chapter XD

I'm trying to balance out the build up and the action in this story. I don't want it to be too boring, but I don't want too much action going on at the same time, lol

The song you should listen to while reading this chapter is by Florence and the Machine The song is called "Howl"

The song fits perfectly so go listen to it!

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Nessie POV

The news was devastating. Poor Embry. He was so young. Who new how long he would be in a coma for. I was very thankful though, that Jacob wasn't fighting with the others. I felt helpless, and if these vampires had a strategy like this, then this would definitely be a problem for all of us.

The next two days passed in silence. Jacob was quiet…very quiet. I understood how he felt. Embry has been his best friend since they were young boys! I remembered Jake telling me all the fun things he used to do with Embry and his other best friend Quil before they joined the wolf pack. I tried not to cry, I really did, but I could feel Jacob's tense emotions from across the room. Even though everyone told me that the vampires looking for me was not my fault, I felt like I had caused this whole mess.

I was the one who had started this war.

I was the one who had to make everyone split up.

I was the one reason why Embry was put in a coma.

I looked down at the bump under my shirt. This was the reason why these vampires wanted to kill me. They didn't want a hybrid like me or Arabell to live, because they knew we could breed and possibly create a more powerful species than themselves. I suddenly felt like a monster.

WAIT RENESMEE! What are you thinking? Look at Arabell. She is a monster too?

I looked over at Arabell, who was sleeping peacefully on the couch, the sunshine shining over her breathtaking features.

No! She's not a monster!

I suddenly felt horrible for calling my daughter something so degrading. I couldn't take this anymore. I knew that everything that happened this past year was all my fault, and everyone was getting hurt because of me.

I ran into my room and through the tall glass doors. I didn't know where I was headed, but I just wanted to run…somewhere. I cried while I ran. This was the first time in my life where I didn't care anymore what happened to me. This was really deep. I felt like someone had stabbed me in the chest. I tripped over a mountain of sand and rolled next to the shade of the palm trees. My tears were pouring down my face. I didn't care if these vampires found me now. I was the reason why they were hurting my family, and I just wanted it to end.

I then shut my eyes and cried myself to sleep.

Jacob POV

I had been too busy sulking around that I realized I hadn't seen Renesmee all day. She usually was up and about most of the day, but it was already five in the afternoon and I hadn't seen her since about noon. Maybe she was sleeping. I thought.

I walked down the hallway with Arabell in one arm to mine and Renesmee's room. I peaked open the door quietly, but found that she wasn't laying in bed. I then started panicking.

"Arabell…where is your mother?"

She looked at me, her thumb in her mouth. Then I saw her eyes open wider, and the pulling sensation I felt of her vision coming into my mind.

I found myself running on the beach, about five miles away from the house! I panicked even more. Nessie was this far?

The rain was pounding onto my skin…against the sand.

I found Renesmee curled up under a few palm trees…soaking wet.

"Renesmee!" I yelled! I held her limp body in my arms.

I snapped out of the vision. Before I knew it the clouds took over and shut the sun out of the sky…small drops were starting to fall on the windows, running down like tears.

I ran to the couch and set down Arabell, running out the doors and jogging the five miles down the beach to Renesmee.

I followed Arabell's vision and found Renesmee's body right where I saw it in the vision…under the shade of the palm trees…curled up and helpless. I picked her up, and held her to my chest.

"Wake up, Ness! Wake up!"

I held her against my chest again. For the first time in a long time…I cried.

Then I felt a hand against my cheek. I looked into her eyes.

"Jake…" She mumbled.

"What were you thinking?" I said, staring deeply into her chocolate brown eyes.

"Jake…I'm…sorry." She mumbled, closing her eyes. "Everything that has happened has been all my fault."

I raised her closer to my face.

"Nothing…absolutely none of this is your fault. I don't ever want to hear you say anything like this ever again! I don't even want you to think that way! Why would you ever do this to yourself? Were you trying to hurt yourself?"

"Jake, please. I'm so sorry!"

She wrapped her arms around me and buried her face in my neck.

"Renesmee, I love you! Please, I can't lose you…ever."

"Jake I'm so sorry. Please forgive me. I love you too."

I sat there with a helpless Renesmee in my arms…the rain pouring down our faces.

I never took my eyes off of her. I never wanted to lose her. I wanted her to be with me for as long as we would live, or exist…in our case.

I held her in my arms, rubbing her back in circling motions. It had been a week since the incident. Sara and Bray had left to go hunting again, and Arabell was sleeping in her crib next to our bed.

"Jake?" I heard Renesmee mumble, the first word I heard out of her mouth that morning.

"Yeah?"

She hesitated to answer, but finally did after a moment of silence.

"How much longer do you think we are going to live…like this?"

I didn't know an answer for that.

"For as long as we have to."

There was another long moment of silence.

"What if they find us…What if they…take Arabell…"

I felt her body start to shake.

"Renesmee…shh shh. Relax, love." I saw a tear run down her face. I wiped it up and kissed her cheek.

"They won't. We are strong, and safe. No one will hurt us. I won't let them."

Renesmee then placed her hand on her stomach. I placed mine on top of hers.

"I feel very blessed to have you in my life, and everything you have given me."

Right after I finished that sentence she pounded her lips onto mine.

Nessie POV

I was sleeping on the couch with Arabell in my arms when I heard a tapping on the walls. It sounded like it was coming from outside. I looked out the windows from where I was. The palm trees were completely still. My heart was suddenly still. I held my breath. Arabell woke up in my arms. Once again she showed me another vision.

Through the window I saw a dark figure walking around the house. It was too dark outside to tell who it was…but then it walked towards the light of the kitchen…and I could see the bloodthirsty, red eyes of the figure.

A newborn.

I snapped out of the vision, my breath shaky. I held a finger against Arabell's mouth, motioning her to be quiet. I didn't take my eyes off of the figure that walked around the house. I knew it was too late to run.

Where was Jacob? I panicked.

Right when the figure walked around to the kitchen window, Jacob ran into the room.

I looked at him, my face obviously showing the terror.

"I smell-"

Right then the newborn ran into the window and right for Jacob.

"JACOB!" I screamed.

"Run Ness! RUN NOW!"

I took Arabell and ran for the garage, but there was another vampire, a tall, stocky man with the same red eyes. I moved back a few inches.

"Why run, pretty girl? I can save you the trouble." He laughed.

I turned and ran for the hallway, but the vampire caught my leg and I tripped, falling to the floor.

I struggled to get up. "Arabell, keep your arms around my neck!"

She did as I said. I limped across the floor. I was out of breath, like someone knocked the wind out of me.

"Feeling oxygen deprived. Oh pretty girl, you won't be needing that much longer!"

He laughed. I looked down at Arabell who couldn't breath as well. I couldn't let her die.

Suddenly his laugh was cut short, and he was knocked into the wall by another figure.

Bray…

He knocked the newborn against the wall countless times.

"Get up Ness! Get away!"

I took a gasping Arabell with me and ran through my room to the glass doors. Another newborn vampire pushed me through the glass doors, shattering them.

I rolled through the sand with Arabell held against my chest.

"Arabell, I'm so sorry, I love you."

And with that I closed my eyes tightly, expecting a blow from the newborn, but instead, I heard the howling of my Jacob from a few feet away.

"Jake…No!"

He was in his wolf form, shaking uncontrollably. He ran up to the dumbstruck newborn and knocked her out of my line of sight. All I could hear were the terrifying shrieks of the newborn as Jacob ripped her to pieces. I held a shaking Arabell to my chest and blacked out.