A/N: You'll understand my mistrust of the government a bit better by the end of this chapter. Now I can blame my paranoia about The Man on the Volturi.

I'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF REVIEWS COMMENTING ON THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN MY STORY AND BREAKING DAWN I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE CHAPTER THAT IS INCREDIBLY CLOSE TO BREAKING DAWN. I KEEP MY STORY UNIQUE IN THE ENDING AND HOPEFULLY YOU WILL ALL FIND IT SATISFYING.

BELLA COMES HOME IN THIS CHAPTER PLEASE REVIEW AND TELL ME IF YOU LIKE HOW I HANDLED IT!!!

This chapter is dedicated to my new kitten Luna, named after Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter. She awful loony and super loving. She's the best!

Disclaimer: Like last chapter a lot of this is influenced by Breaking Dawn which wasn't written by me, don't you know?

Chapter Fourteen

Home

Bella sat on a rock outside of the Cullen's house watching the goings on, curiously. There were a lot more vampires around then she expected and Jacob, which pissed her off. She was only sitting there because she didn't know how to approach the situation. Most of the vampires wouldn't recognize her and they all seemed on edge, not a good time to walk up to a vampire.

Even though they couldn't kill her and in all likelihood would simply take her to one of the Cullens, she wanted her homecoming to be on her terms.

Bella wanted her baby so desperately that it was making her antsy. Both Allegra and Edward were no where to be seen and after fifteen minutes of waiting, she'd had enough. It was far past time she came home. It was honestly a bout of stupidity that had her staying so long in Tunisia. Arrogance and stupidity.

She stood up and Hannah followed suit.

"You go ahead and make sure everyone in there knows I'm coming," she said. "I don't want to startle anyone and you've always been better than me at getting through crowds."

Hannah nodded, laughed a little at Bella's statement and made her way out of the forest towards the house. Several vampires stopped to look at her. She was wearing one of her favorite t-shirts, that stated, "I Only Hate Two Groups of People: Those Who Are Prejudice Against Other's For Their Nationality And The Dutch." It was neon blue and clashed horribly with her pink skinny jeans, but that had never stopped her in the past and it certainly wasn't about to stop her now.

Edward rushed out the door when she got close and started talking right away. Bella missed most of it, but she hear the words, "Allegra" "in" and "danger" all in the same sentence without a "not" in sight and that was enough to get her out of the forest. She ran out from between the trees, paying close attention to every word coming out of Edward's mouth. She wanted to be well informed when she beat the crap out of him for putting her baby in danger.

"What do you mean someone is coming to kill my baby?!" she demanded.

Edward looked over at her, shocked.

"Are you going to answer me?"

Bella's thrill upon seeing him was diminished by fear. The moment he came into view, she realized what she already knew to be true. He was her one true love, he was her world, he was the best thing that could ever happen to her but he was also ten thousand time less important to her then her daughter.

"Bella!" Alice's shrill voice called from the house. She danced out towards Bella, but Edward reached her first. He pulled her up into his arms, his body was shaking and heaving. Almost like he was trying to cry, but lacked the ability.

Bella struggled against him, pushing against the marble hardness of his chest, uselessly. He wouldn't let her go until he was damn well ready. Bella wanted to hug him, telling him everything was okay and that she would forgive him for leaving her if he would forgive her for disappearing for five-ish years and returning with a child. She wanted to kiss him and tell him she had always loved him and would never stop loving him.

When Alice made it over to them, she started pulling on Edward's arm and he growled at her, that was when Bella realized she'd have to try something different to get him to tell her about Allegra. So, she did exactly what she wanted to. She wrapped her arms around him, kissed him all over his face and whispered in his ear all the things she wanted to say… Plus a few.

"I love you, Edward. I love you so much. I never stopped loving you. Please, please, please forgive me. I was so sad. James told me it would make me feel better to do something productive. For a while it did, I could forget how much it hurt, but it never went away entirely. The pain away came back. Something would remind me and I'd just fall apart. And when I found out I was pregnant I wanted so much for that baby to be yours-"

"Thank you, Bella," he whispered into her ear. "You've given me the greatest joy in my life. Thank you." Bella grabbed his cheeks and pushed his face back, he complied.

"That baby girl needed a daddy and I couldn't think of anyone I'd rather have a child with," she said, honestly. "Please, Edward," she begged. "Tell me what's happening with my baby!" Her eyes filled with tears at the thought of her little girl in any danger.

"Victoria came back," he said. Bella closed her eyes, holding the tears at bay. "She found out about Allegra from Laurent. He told her that our little girl was an immortal child and she went to the Volturi."

"Just guessing 'immortal children' are against some vampire law?"

"Yes, they were considered so dangerous that they were all killed along with anyone who dared protect them. They were so lovely that entire covens were destroyed protecting them. They never matured so they were incredibly volatile, any slight upset could send them into a violent rage that would end in the deaths of hundred of humans."

"Not good."

"No, their mood swings were impossible to control. They made it impossible stay inconspicuous."

"I mean those bastards thinking my baby is one these immortal children is not good." Bella ran her hands through her hair, exasperated. "Why would they immediately believe that an upstanding family like yours would do something so terrible? Carlisle was their friend. How could they believe something this awful about their friend?" Bella demanded.

"When Edward found out from Charlie that you'd gone off to do some job with a guy none of us had ever met before, he went looking all over the world for you," Alice explained. Bella tried to look over at her, but Edward wouldn't let her go. "One of the places he looked was Volterra. Aro was intrigued by his search, got a good look at his mind and wanted him to join the Volturi."

"I refused, of course," Edward said.

"I have a feeling that Aro has been obsessed with 'acquiring' Edward ever since."

"He was interested in you too, Alice. And Jasper."

"Edward," Bella said, pushing on his chest once more. "Will you please let me go so I can see my daughter?" Edward let her down, but kept a hold on her hand and took her into the house.

Bella stopped suddenly when Allegra came into view and her eyes clouded with tears. "Oh, sweet baby," she murmured. Allegra was sitting in front of the piano on Jacob's lap, showing him the song Edward had taught her to play. The image was so perfect it would be burned into Bella's mind for the rest of her life.

Allegra looked up when Bella spoke. Her eyes grew wide and she squealed. The entry way was suddenly very crowded. Most of the vampires came when she let out that happy sound. Bella knew it was a happy sound, because she knew her baby, but it would be easy for someone who didn't know her to mistake if for distress. Edward helped her through the throngs of people blocking Bella from her daughter.

Allegra was wiggling in Jacob's arms trying in vain to get to her Mommy. She was begging for her Mommy. "Mommy! Where's my Mommy?! I want my Mommy! Mo-" Bella scooped her up and pressed her against her chest.

"Oh, baby, my sweet Allegra!" Bella sobbed. She pulled her back slightly and looked over her baby. "You're so big, honey. When did you get so big?"

"I got big while you was away, Mommy!" Allegra was crying too, clinging to Bella, showing her images of them together. Forever. "I never wants you to go away again! You was gone too long! I missed you, Mommy!"

"Oh, baby girl," Bella sighed, pulling Allegra back into her chest. Her daughter nestled there, crying into her shirt while she cried into her hair. Edward held them both.

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"… And then, and then Oliver came in and we played crow boys and then we went on the Ferris Wheel and the rolly coaster and the go around! And then Daddy got pulled away by Grandma and had to go sit with the growed ups. And then I blew out the candle on my sinamon wrolls and wished super duper hard that you'd come back and then you did! And here you are because you did!" Allegra said, talking a mile a minute.

Bella and her were curled on one of the couches in the living room with Edward squished behind Bella. She was sitting half on his lap and didn't seem to mind one bit. She didn't mind Allegra's babbling or the fact that their little girl wanted to tell her Mommy everything she'd missed while she was away.

The visiting covens and nomadic vampires were all crowded in. Most were simply curious about what Bella and Hannah could possibly do to help the situation. Tanya's curiosity was tainted with jealousy, but Edward did nothing to rebuke her, because her envy did nothing to diminish her loyalty to the mission.

Eventually Bella sighed. Edward could tell she wanted to deal with the Volturi situation before hearing every little detail of her daughter's life while she was away. Allegra took a bit of a breather and Bella jumped at the chance to get a word in.

"Alice? Could you get me a jar of peanut butter?" That wasn't what Edward expected to hear. Perhaps something along the lines of 'Jasper, could you calm her down or put her to sleep?' But no, peanut butter.

Alice danced to the kitchen and was back in the living room with a jar of peanut butter in a few seconds. Bella took it with a "thank you" and had Edward open the jar. She stuck her finger into the creamy concoction and stealthily sunk her finger into Allegra's mouth. Allegra stopped talking immediately, sucking on Bella's finger. She cleaned off her Mommy's finger in record time and Bella covered in finger in peanut butter yet again.

"Mommy's finger tastes like peanut-" Allegra started to say before Bella maneuvered her finger back into her mouth. Bella repeated this procedure over and over again until Allegra fell into a fitful, peanut butter induced nap.

"I can't believe that seven vampires couldn't figure out how to get her to sleep, without Jasper's influence and you just stick a peanut butter covered finger into her mouth and not only does she fall asleep, she stops talking!" Emmett said, laughing. He came up behind Bella and squished her in a massive bear hug. He squeezed so hard and didn't stop until something (a bone) snapped.

"EMMETT!" Edward exclaimed. His bigger brother pulled away, horrified. But Bella was laughing. She reached over with her unharmed arm to push the bone that Emmett had broken, back where it belonged so it could heal. (Which it did seconds after being repositioned.)

"I don't know what he's going to do with himself, now," Bella said, smiling at Edward, but talking to Emmett. "He won't be able to rescue me all the time."

"He'll have to find a new hobby," Emmett said, grinning again, once he realized he hadn't hurt her. "Maybe you can marry him and show him exactly how you brought that baby into this world." Edward squeezed his eyes closed and punched Emmett in the chest, simultaneously.

"We can talk about that later," Bella said. Emmett laughed and Edward stared at her wide eyed. "And when I say 'we' I mean Edward and I."

"Bummer Bella," Emmett muttered.

"How about you put Allegra to bed," she suggested holding her baby up for the vampire to take. "So, that us grown ups can have a grown up talk," she added, patronizingly. Emmett scowled but took Allegra into his arms gently and rushed her up stairs. Bella looked over her shoulder watching them the hold time. Edward stroked her cheek lovingly, drawing her attention back to him.

"I love you, Bella," he said, sweetly. Jacob gagged, jokingly in the back ground. Bella went from doe eyed to pissed off at the sound. She turned her gaze to where Jacob sat with Kaatya and scowled viciously.

"I have a bone to pick with you, Black," she snapped. "Don't think that just because my girl likes you I'm going to forgive you attacking her."

"Almost attacking her," Kaatya said. "I stopped him for you before he got too close."

"I almost feel sorry for you, Kaatya," Bella sighed. "You have to deal with him for the rest of your life."

"If you want I can hold him down while you kick him a few times," Kaatya offered. "Just avoid the family jewels and his face, there the only parts I like."

Jacob rolled his eyes. "You'll forgive me eventually, Bells. You always do. And that better not be true, Kaatya."

"Would you stop this petty squabbling?!" Amun demanded, drawing everyone's attention to him. "And focus on the asinine plan your mate came up with to defeat the Volturi?"

"We don't plan on defeating anyone, Amun," Carlisle said calmly. "We merely hope to change their minds." Bella sighed.

"Someone please tell me what you have planned?" she asked. Edward told her. Everything they hoped would happen and all the little things they were planning in case the Volturi threw them a curve ball. She listened patiently, but Edward knew her well enough to know that something was brewing just below the surface. He was about to go on, to say something that would hopefully appease her, but she held up her hand to stop him. Bella closed her eyes and rubbed her forehead.

"So, this is what I heard. You're hoping that the Volturi, who have come to kill not only my baby but all of you as well, will stop, listen to reason and Allegra's heart beat, realize their mistake and… go home. Is that right?" she said. Phrased like that Edward understood what had upset her.

"None of us expect it to be that easy, Bella," he said.

"Of course not. That would be stupid." She turned to Amun. "I hate to admit it but I agree with you. This is an asinine plan."

"It sounds closer to impossible then idiotic," Hannah muttered.

"Well, do you have a better plan?" Rosalie snapped.

"The plan isn't what's bothering me, Rosalie," Bella snapped back. "It'll work just fine… with a little tweaking here and there, there's no way the Volturi will get anywhere near my little girl. The stupid part is at the very end."

"You mean when they leave?" Jasper asked, squinting at her. Just like everyone else in the room, he wanted to know what the hell she was thinking.

"Yes," she said. "This is probably one of the largest gatherings of separate covens coming together against the Volturi. Those bastards have over stepped their authority and I bet you anything this isn't the first time they've done it. And all of you plan on letting them get away with it. Am I the only who hears how positively stupid that sounds?"

"Bella-" Carlisle began, gently.

"Just because they leave this time doesn't mean that they won't come back. That they won't try again or try to pick each of your covens off individually for standing up to them!"

"Bella?" Hannah asked. She turned unwillingly to her friend. "You know how you have that uber powerful mental shield?"

Bella blinked. "Yes."

"Could you wrap it all snug around me and you so we can have a chat that your vampire beau won't be able to eavesdrop on?"

"Fine."

Bella closed her eyes and cringed a little and suddenly Hannah's thoughts vanished.