I woke up this morning and guess what?

I wasn't Stephanie Meyer! Dam it-guess i will try again tomorrow.

Thanks to a great beta (Clglover) I am getting closer though!


Chapter 12: Standing By Family

As Bella stepped up to the house, she put me down on my feet. This was the first time Bella ever ran with me. The speed of the air gushing past was intense, and unnerving at the same time.

"Are you okay? Can you stand, walk?" Bella eyes showed so much worry in them.

"Yeah, I think I'm okay. I'm just sleepy. I'll be fine." I took Bella by her waist and pulled her close to me. Despite my inadequate clothes and her unnaturally cold skin, I felt warmth radiate from her. It felt as if love was physically pouring out of her body. We walked into the house still in our embrace. All six vampires in the house minds screamed the same thought: "What the hell?"

Before Bella or I could say anything, Alice jumped up from the computer she was working at and asked, "We're going to fight a coven?"

All eyes were on Alice waiting on the explanation of the apparent vision she had.

"What did you see, Alice?" Jasper asked, moving quickly to her side. Alice looked as if she was staring miles away.

"Three other vampires, luring men to their death. Oh my god, they want Edward." And with that all six pairs of eyes were back on Bella and me, still standing at the door.

"I think it has something to do what happened last night at the dinner club," Bella managed to choke out without looking at any one in particular. She finally looked up at me and began pulling me over to the coach.

"Edward, what happed at the club? Tell us everything." Carlisle was taking charge of the conversation.

"It happened when we were leaving. Emmett, Jasper, and I were outside the club getting the car, then out of nowhere, I started hearing music. At first, I thought it was coming from inside. Then suddenly, without even realizing what I was doing, apparently I started walking towards the music. It had this pull on me." I was trying to remember as much as I could.

"A pull? A pull on you?" Bella was angry... and jealous?

"Nothing like the pull you have on me, love," I said, trying to defuse her anger while hiding a smile. I continued, "This felt like a force that I had no control over. I didn't even realize I was walking away until I felt very strong hands holding me in place." The entire room had gathered around the couch that Bella and I were sitting on. All eyes where then on Emmett and Jasper.

"Yeah, I thought he was just sleep-walking. I called his name, like, half a dozen times and he never even turned around," Emmett said.

"Whatever was 'pulling' him didn't make him feel any danger or suspicion. He was completely at peace the whole time. I assumed it was because we had such a great time, that the emotion he was feeling was just contentment." Jasper was trying to recall exactly how I felt at that moment. I couldn't remember any of it, like it was a memory years old, rather than hours.

"You all are telling me that you didn't hear any of the singing?" I felt a little embarrassed. If it wasn't for the fact that I had just experienced it again, I would havethought that I was going crazy.

"No," Emmett and Jasper stated simultaneously.

"It happened again. Just now when I was headed back to his house," Bella said directly to Carlisle.

"Out of no where, I started feeling the pull again. I didn't hear the singing until I actually made it outside. I was halfway across the lawn when I saw Bella but I couldn't stop myself from heading in the direction of where the sound was coming from, Bella tried to stop me but the lure was too strong. I could hear Bella talking to me; I could feel her hands on me, but it was like my brain wasn't registering any actions other than walking towards the singing. It pulled me all the way into the forest behind my house. Bella made them leave and only then was I free of the force again. We immediately came here."

"There were three vampires, all women." Bella said, "They were standing together, Edward said they were singing but I couldn't hear them until they spoke to me. We couldn't have been more than fifty feet away. They said that now that Edward heard their song, he would eventually come willingly," she moved closer to me on the coach and laid her head on my shoulder. I buried my face in her hair, her scent always relaxed me.

"Good job, baby sis! You must have kicked some ass!" Emmett saw the silver lining in everything.

Bella looked a little annoyed at her brother, "No Em, I didn't fight them. Carlisle, do you know what this is?"

"I am afraid so. They are a Siren Coven. They have been around since the beginning of time. They are similar to the beings the Greek mythology is based upon. This, however, can't be the same coven, as that particular coven was destroyed thousands of years ago. Their power, as all vampire powers, is connected to their abilities when they were human. I've heard of a group of women who were turned in the 1920s, they were a singing group. They simply disappeared one night after a show and they were never heard from or seen again. Based on what you all have said here, the stories must be true: Vampires cannot hear their songs, it has no effect on them. Once someone hears their song, apparently their will is taken away and they don't want to, or have the ability to leave. There is one other thing, their song only affects men. I wonder..."

I could hear Carlisle's thoughts as if he had said them out loud, "If they are the reason for the sudden rash of disappearing men in the immediate area?"

"Exactly," Carlisle said. He looked at me with surprise as it seemed that I picked the question right out of his head. He was looking at me curiously, distracted from the current conversation. He had planned to ask me about that later.

"Okay, so what is up with Alice's vision? Why are we fighting them?" Rosalie was a little ticked off, however I wasn't sure if it was because I had interrupted her morning or if this conversation was boring her, or because she was about to participate in a fight for a mere human.

"The power their song has on the men is an immediate death warrant. The song is intended to draw the most attractive men. Of course, he willfollow the song and the women will kill him. Men do not walk away. Eventually, Edward will be unable to stay away from them and he will be able to find them again, even if he never hears the song. The only way to cut the ties that bind is to kill the three women." Carlisle looked pained to say that. When Bella was telling me about her extraordinary family, she said that Carlisle was a lover of all life, compassionate; death was wasteful to him. I felt horrible that it was going to be because of me, that Carlisle would possibly have to go against one of his strongest principles.

"So we are going to put both our physical lives and our livelihood in jeopardy to protect him." Rosalie was furious, Emmett had to hold her tightly by her arms to keep her fury from boiling over too much. "I refuse to do it," she was talking to us all but looking deep into Emmett's eyes. The tone of her voice changed instantly to that of sadness. Rosalie placed her arm around Emmett's waist. I could read in her mind she was silently trying to convince Emmett not to participate in this, either. She loved him, and her life, too much to possibly see it all end. I understood her thoughts; I couldn't imagine Bella in a fight to protect me. I was angry with myself; I was supposed to be protecting her, not the other way around.

Emmett's thoughts were not the same as Rosalie's. Although Rosalie couldn't read minds, Emmett was pleading with her in his head, "I'm sorry, Rose. I have to help him. He's like family now. Please forgive me." Although his lips never moved his silence said so much more. Everyone knew what his look meant and that further pissed Rosalie off. She snatched herself away from her lover and stormed out of the room. Emmett looked broken.

"Emmett, I'm so sorry. I don't want to be the reason you all are fighting. Look, I will go. I can deal with this on my own," I couldn't look anyone in the face. I was not going to tear this family apart and I couldn't allow them to be put in danger because of me.

"NO!," Bella screamed out and jumped off the coach. "I will protect you and I am not leaving your side!"

"Don't worry about it, man. Rosalie will be okay. She knows how much you mean to Bella. She'll cool down and come around," Emmett was already trying to think of ways to cheer her up.

Alice, Jasper, Carlisle, and Esme hadn't said a word, out loud anyway. All of their thoughts however said something differently.

"I have to protect my new son, Bella will be devastated if anything happened to him and I can't see my daughter broken. It has taken her so long to find love and I refuse to let it end like this. I will fight and I will do whatever I can," Esme thoughts were even more motherly than her verbal words.

"Okay, if he can track them by this pull, maybe we can surprise them. Maybe use that to our advantage," Jasper was instantly in combat mode.

"I can't see anymore visions of them, I will have to keep looking," I could tell by Alice distant stare she was already mentally in the nearby future.

"We will be fine and I will protect all of my family," Carlisle stood very proud.

After a brief moment of silence, Carlisle spoke, "Edward you will stay here for the day so that we can watch you and see if anything changes. Bella will escort you home briefly enough for you to change clothes and inform your father were you will be. Emmett, go with them just to be safe." With that, the meeting disbanded.

"Give me just a minute, guys. I have to go take care of something," Bella said as she walked out of the room.

Bella's POV

I hated to upset Rosalie. To be honest, I respected the way she always spoke her mind, especially when it came to protecting her and Emmett. I didn't understand it in the beginning when we were both new to this life and Emmett had just been changed. We both witnessed love through Esme and Carlisle, but when she found Emmett, I could see a change in her. She was experiencing it first hand. Now that I had found Edward, I understood how she and the rest of my family felt about their mates. I knew my unorthodox love of a human was hard for her to grasp, but I hoped that she would try for her sister; I had to at least ask her to try.

I knocked lightly on her bedroom door and walked in before she spoke. She was lying face down on her bed, her face buried in her pillow.

"Rosalie, I am so sorry. I hope you can forgive me; forgive Edward and me. I have to do this and I can't do it without you." I pleaded asI took a seat on her bed beside her.

"I know you love him, Bella. I just can't sacrifice the love of my life for him, a human."

"Would you please stop using the word human in a derogatory manor? I know this is weird," I let out a short laugh, "think of how I feel. For years I witnessed you and Emmett, Alice and Jasper and Carlisle and Esme. I never thought I could feel like this for anyone, let alone fight for it. I can't explain the love I have for him clearly enough to myself, or anyone else, but it doesn't matter because he knows exactly how I feel and I know he feels the same way. Rosalie, please stand with me. I can't do this without you."

Rosalie sat up in her bed. I knew she had been defeated but I still needed to hear her say the words.

"You're lucky that I don't want to see you crying and mopping for the next two centuries," she joked. Rosalie moved closer to me and pulled me into a tight squeeze.

"Thank you, Rosalie." I instantly felt better knowing my sister was going to fight by my side.

"Is everything okay in here," Emmett asked, standing in the doorway of his and Rosalie's room.

"Perfect," Rosalie and I said together and laughed.

I knew my family would be okay, we would stand together as we always have. More importantly I knew that Edward, my love, would be okay as well. That was all that was important to me.


I hadn't planned on doing anything in other than Edwards's point of view but this just seemed right to do.

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