A/N: a little late…again… Seth 3 (You'll understand later) Just as a note, it does change from Jasper's POV to Alice's, because I know someone would say something about that if I didn't. And it gets really complicated in this chapter, but essential.

Disclaimer: Twilight and all its characters belong to Stephenie Meyer…sigh, even Seth and Jasper. But Daniela's mine. Yay.

"Oh god," Alice whispered, her eyes were blank, but her face was frozen with horror.

"Alice?" I asked worriedly, grabbing her shoulders and shaking her. She blinked and she looked terrified. Her dread assaulted my senses, but I didn't even wince for my mind was on her. "What's wrong? What'd you see?"

"They're…the Volturi…" She bit her lip.

"That's not an answer," I told her, trying not to be impatient.

"Sooner," she whispered.

I froze, already figuring out what she meant, but I pushed for a full answer. "Sooner what?"

"They're coming sooner, Jazz!" Alice cried.

"Why? What changed? How do you know? When?" I drilled, asking the important questions.

Alice let out a sob, though she couldn't cry. Against all my instincts to continue with my questions, I pulled her into hug and didn't press the issue. Alice shuddered with her sobs and pressed her face against my shoulder.

We stood like that for a little while before Alice pulled back, ready to talk. "Aro heard a…rumor about Daniela. He's curious. So, he decided that it was time to pay you…us a visit and pretend he doesn't know about her. It's this weekend. I saw him telling…Caius about it."

I let out a breath in annoyance. "Luckily he doesn't know about your clairvoyance. It's one of our advantages. But he will, as soon as he touches you." I sighed in frustration. "I think we might be able to get them to stop and listen. But Bella isn't ready. She doesn't know how to protect anyone but herself and Edward. She's our other advantage. If only I knew how to get her to be better."

Alice ran her thumb over my hand, comforting me now. "I may be petrified about this, but…I can still hope deep down it'll be okay. You should too."

I pulled her back into my arms and just held her. But I couldn't help but wonder…who did the Volturi hear this rumor from?

Later, Jasper and I told the new dilemma to the rest of the family and the rest of the vampires here to help. Everyone was gathered in the Cullens' living room when there was a loud knock on the door. I felt strange all of a sudden. Like…I had lost my ability. That was absurd.

I followed Jasper as he went to get the door. He seemed almost…angry and disgusted, like he already knew who it was.

He threw open the door and there was a group of tan boys with no shirts and shorts. I wrinkled my nose at the awful scent of them, leaning away.

"Alice?"

I looked up quickly at the familiar voice. Bella's ex, Jacob Black was standing among the group. "Jacob?" Jasper looked quickly at me before putting his arm possessively around me.

"You're…one of them?"

I sucked in a breath when I figured that Jacob knew what he was talking about. "How do you know?"

He scoffed and pushed to the front. "It's my job."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

A taller, older guy was standing next to Jacob. He held up a hand to silence Jacob, who listened immediately. "Jasper," the guy said, eyeing Jasper somewhat angrily.

"Sam," Jasper responded stiffly.

"We've been having off the charts transformations lately. I knew it was your doing. Why are there so many vampires around?"

"My wife, Alice. Her family-"

"Bella's a vampire?" Jacob cried in horror.

Bella appeared next to me, Edward close behind. "Hi Jake," she mumbled.

"What's your excuse?" Sam asked Jasper, narrowing his eyes.

"It was necessary. The rulers of the vampire world are headed our way. They would have killed the Cullens if they hadn't been turned. The rest…well they're our army. Nothing against the Volturi, but the best we could do."

"Forks is about to be attacked and you didn't consult us?" Jacob asked in shock.

"Why are they coming here?" Sam asked, ignoring Jacob's outbursts.

"It used to be about the fact that Alice knew. Now it's…our daughter…" Jasper sighed.

"Dude, vampires can't have kids," one of the other boys muttered.

"You're right," Jasper said, scaring the boy to be quiet, "Alice was human when she had Daniela."

I turned and went to grab Daniela from my mom. I brought her to the guys that I still had no idea about why they knew about us. "This is Daniela, our daughter," I introduced.

"Hi," Daniela said shyly, clinging to my neck.

I heard more than a few gasps from the group. But one was more appreciative then shocked. I heard Edward mutter something and look around the crowd of guys.

Sam looked behind him, curious. "Seth?"

A shorter guy pushed to the front, but not really paying attention to anything around him. The way he was looking at Daniela… I turned and half hid her from his view.

Jacob was watching Seth with wide eyes. Most of the other guys were too. I was utterly confused and somewhat disturbed, though I had no idea why.

"That's sick!" Edward cried, causing everyone to look at him.

Seth blinked a couple times. "Daniela." He got a goofy smile.

I wrinkled my nose and didn't even pretend to be polite anymore. I went behind Jasper, only peeking around his arm.

"What the fuck is going on here?" Jasper asked angrily.

"Hey! Don't swear around her!" Seth cried.

"It's called imprinting," Edward started in disgust, "it's like some kind of thing for werewolves." Werewolves? The fuck? "They simply find their soul mate and they imprint on them. They can't help it and it just happens, with no notice. It's like falling head over heels in love. This Seth Clearwater just imprinted on Daniela."

"NO!" I cried, leaning into Jasper more to try and imagine this wasn't happening. Some wolf did not just fall in love with my daughter. The Volturi isn't coming after us. It was just Jasper, Daniela, and I, happy without worldly problems to bother us.

"He can't help it," Sam reminded me, too gently, too calm.

"I won't let him! J-just go away! All of you!"

I felt a hand on my shoulder and looked up to see Edward's sympathetic glance. "C'mon. Let's go back to Esme and Carlisle."

I nodded and quickly followed him and Bella back toward my family. I ignored Seth's angry yells at our backs.

"Goodbye," Jasper said pointedly.

"Wait," Sam said forcefully. "What will happen when these vampire rulers show up? How do you know? When?"

Jasper sighed in annoyance. "Alice sees the future. She's been seeing the Volturi for months, but just this morning they changed their minds and are coming this weekend. Most likely, they'll try to kill us all, because Daniela is an 'unknown'."

"I won't let them!" Seth cried.

I bit my lip to stop from crying. I held Daniela tightly to get her to stop looking over my shoulder to get a glimpse of Seth.

"We'll help you fight. We have over ten in the tribe and fighting vampires is out specialty. Since Seth imprinted on your daughter, you are part of our family now. It is our responsibility to take care of her and her family," Sam explained.

"NO! I'm giving her up!" I cried, though I wasn't in the conversation.

Daniela tugged on my shirt and I glanced at her. "Seth?" she asked, looking toward the door.

"No," I hissed, "no Seth."

"Let me explain this to you," Sam said from above me. I looked up in shock, wondering when he got there. "Seth isn't in love with Daniela. He will be when she grows up, but for now he only wants to protect her. He'll be her friend, her protector, whatever she needs. And once she's ready, she'll be in love with him. She could choose to avoid it, but that kind of devotion is hard to ignore. She isn't being forced into anything. She just gets someone who wants the best for her."

I bit my lip and looked down at the child in my arms. Could this really be good for her? If it helped with the Volturi, it'd be great. It if kept her alive, maybe was a good thing.

"Jazz?" I whispered, meeting his eyes over Daniela's head. He shrugged, probably not sure about it himself.

I took a deep breath and said the words that would not only change my life, but my daughter's as well. "Okay."