So sorry this chapter took me so long! I wasn't quite sure how I wanted to write it lol. To be honest, I still don't know if this is how I wanted to write it, but I needed to update lol. I hope all of you like it!

I dressed as slowly as I could, trying to make the time go by faster. This way by the time I got downstairs my mom would be pulling me out the door to go shopping, and I wouldn't have time to see Luke.

The knock on my door made me jump.

"Sorry, didn't mean to startle you." Luke's voice made the cuts and bruises throb.

"W-what do you want?" I whispered too low for anyone else to hear.

Luke crossed the room and took my face roughly in his hands and crushed his lips to mine. "I missed you. Can't I come and say hello?"

How are you getting your thoughts past my father? I wish more than anything that my father would pick up something in his thoughts.

Luke kissed me once more. My stomach turned. "I'm that good." Luke chuckled.

"I have to go." I said softly and grabbed my bag as I walked towards the hallway.

Luke's hand was tight on the back of my neck. I bit my bottom lip to keep from screaming out. Dad, come here! Luke would have no idea I called him up here. I was relieved to have my dad walk in on Luke handling me the way he was.

But, my luck, Luke dropped his hand and growled. "You called him up here? You'll pay for that." He hissed in my ear just as my dad appeared in front of us.

"What's wrong?" My dad's eyes searched both of our faces.

Luke smiled warmly and put his arm around me. "She's ready to go."

"Thank you, Luke." My dad seemed to look at him a little longer than what was necessary. He took my hand and made me walk in front of him down the stairs. I don't know if Luke was following my dad or not, but for now I felt safe.

"What time are you ladies going to be home?" Luke asked as he reappeared from behind my father.

"We will be home later this evening. Alice wants to tackle the city today." My mom sighed. I knew she wasn't looking forward to a day of shopping, but my guess is that my father is making her go.

"Ok then, hurry back to me." Luke said warmly.

"I will." I fought to keep my voice calm.

"Come on." My mom held out her hand for me to walk in front of her.

She draped her arm across my shoulders and I could easily feel the bruise from Luke's hand on my neck from earlier.

We walked the short distance to Aunt Rosalie's house. "Hey, Mom?" I asked as soon as we were out the door.

"Hmm?"

"If I ask you a serious question, no matter what, will you answer me truthfully?"

"Of course," she stepped in front of me to stop me. "Sweetie, what is it?"

"Has… has Dad ever… Umm…" I took a deep breath." Has Dad ever hit you? Because he was mad at you?"

My mom's smile faded and her eyes narrowed. "No!" She yelled. "He would never to that! Why would you ask me something like that?"

"It was just a question." I shrugged.

"No, it wasn't." She disagreed.

"Seriously, Mom, it was just a question." I assured her.

"Renesmee is there something you need to tell me? You know you don't even have to say it out loud if you're scared."

My mind was screaming at me to tell her. To just put the thought in her head, but when she pulled me against her body in a tight hug, her scent reminded me that I needed to protect her. I would rather risk my life than watch hers end. I know my entire family would fight for her, but it wasn't worth it. Why pull in seven other vampires when Luke only wanted me? I took a deep breath before I spoke, "I swear, it was just a question. I know how Dad's temper gets sometimes, but it was wrong of me to ask such a stupid question."

"It wasn't a stupid question, honey." She kissed my forehead and we continued walking.

"Ready?" She asked before she opened Aunt Rosalie's front door.

"Yes!" I said excitedly.

"Hey!" Alyssa skipped towards us and stopped short when she saw me.

"What did you do?" She gasped.

"She fell." My mom watched Alyssa, trying to find something. But Alyssa didn't see me last night.

"Where's your husband?" Uncle Jasper asked as he came into the living room.

"He's home with Jacob and Luke. When are you and Emmett going over?" My mom asked him, but he wasn't looking at her. He was glaring at me, well, my face.

Please don't freak out. I'm fine. I closed my eyes and made up a vision of me falling up Melissa's stairs.

"Ok." Uncle Jasper said warily. He took my face in his hands to look at my cuts. "Do you need to talk?" He asked me quietly. My mom had left my side to go talk with Aunt Alice and Aunt Rosalie.

I shook my head. "I have nothing to say. Can't you people just realize I'm not the most coordinated person! When Mom was human did you assume the worst every time she showed up with a new bruise or a cut?"

"Ok, ok! I understand, but if there is anything you might be hiding you do realize how easily you can put that thought inside one of our heads. Any one of our heads." Uncle Jasper's eyes were baring into mine.

I realized that this was getting too hard for me to hide. His words matched my mom's from our talk on the way here. But, I knew they couldn't do anything until I said what was wrong. They could only make assumptions right now. Unless one of them tried to force it out of me, but I knew they wouldn't go that far. I shook my head again. "Nope, nothing." I shrugged and pushed past him before he could try and interrogate me some more.

"Emmett, come on." Uncle Jasper said impatiently and disappeared out the door.

I saw Uncle Emmett kiss both Aunt Rose and Alyssa goodbye before messing Aunt Alice's hair and punching my mom's arm. He walked up to me and kissed my forehead. "Klutz." He chuckled and disappeared. At least one out of the six vampires who have seen me believed my lies.

"Come on, I'll fix that right up." Aunt Alice took my hand and led me towards Alyssa's bathroom.

After my face was plastered with makeup I looked fairly normal.

After we bought out half of the city we left our bags in Aunt Rosalie's SUV for the guys to unpack.

I froze in the doorway when I saw my dad slapping Luke on the back when he knocked a ball into the pocket. They were all up in my playroom playing pool. "Where's Jake?" I asked when I realized he wasn't in the room.

"He's out running, he wanted to check in with the pack." My dad didn't look up from the table. "Did you girls have a good time?"

"Yup, we bought our winter wardrobe." I smiled, excitedly.

"That's good." My dad wasn't really listening to me. He made his shot and stood up straight. "I suppose I have to bring in all the bags now."

My mom flitted past me and appeared in my dad's arms. "You sure do." She chuckled and kissed him. Her back brushed up against Luke and he grinned at me. His face looked evil. I gasped and looked at my dad. He didn't seem to read anything from his thoughts.

"Say, Bella," Luke placed his hand on her shoulder and I balled my hands into fists.

She turned in my fathers arms to look at Luke. "Yes?" She asked warmly. I wanted to scream for my dad to pull her away from him, but neither of them saw the danger that was staring at her in the face.

"Would you mind if I took Renesmee to see Cooper? He has been asking why I haven't brought her around my house."

No! Please say no!

My mom looked up at my dad, letting him decide.

"I don't see a problem with that. We were just going to go hunting anyway."

"Oh, well that works out perfectly." Luke said excitedly.

"But, I want to go hunting." I said quickly.

Luke flitted over to me and kissed my cheek. I fought with myself to not cringe away. "No worries, I'll take you on the way."

Sure you will. I thought, and his hand tightened around mine, a smile always on his face. Did he really do that in front of my parents? I looked up to see if they noticed, but, of course they were distracted by the other. Why did I have to have parents that paid too much attention to the other?

I wanted to beg my father not to leave, but then again I was happy he was taking my mother away from Luke.

"We'll be home before 11. Please be home before then." My father said as he kissed my forehead.

"I will." I promised. I watched them leave and felt like crying. Alyssa was safely with my grandparents for the night.

I stood by the front door, my back pressed against it. Luke waiting in the shadows by the kitchen. I could hear his breathing come in quick spurts. I began to turn slowly to open the front door, but his hand stopped me. His fingers dug into my wrist, I could feel the bone about to snap.

"Look at you!" He yelled and punched me in my chest. I fell to the ground gasping for air. His hand reached out and pulled my hair to make me look at him. "What is all this crap on your face?"

"Makeup. My aunt helped hide the marks." I said breathlessly.

"You tell anyone?"

"You're still alive aren't you?" I growled.

Luke's hand slapped me across the face. "You will not speak to me like that."

"Why are you doing this? What did I do? How are you getting all this past Alice and my father?"

"Easily, Edward had explained to me that Alice can't see you at all. Therefore any decision I make involving you is blind to her visions. Plus I haven't made the decision to kill your mother yet. As for Edward, well, plenty of concentration. Us full breed vampires have a lot of room in our minds to keep us distracted. It's not that hard." He winked at me then brushed the back of his hand lightly across my cheek. "Do you know how beautiful you are?" He said as he kissed me. "I have to make sure you know you're mine." He growled.

"No, I'm not! I don't belong to anyone!" I cried out.

"Yes you do! You can never leave me. Think of how your father will react when he realizes his beautiful bride's death was because of you."

"You wont be able to touch my mother! She has my entire family to protect her, plus more wolves than you can ever dream of." I received a blow to my stomach for speaking out of line.

"I'll get through before you're family realized what happened. She does drive to school alone every day. She sits alone in her office most nights waiting for you to fall asleep then she turns into Edward's little-"

"Shut up!" I screamed. "You're a sick monster! Go away, I don't want to see you anymore! Leave!"

"You cant leave me!" Luke yelled. His hand clamped around my throat, cutting off my air supply. "Doesn't it suck that you need air?"

"Please," I gasped.

"If I can't have you, no one will." He hissed in my ear.

This was it he was going to kill me. Maybe he'll leave after he was done with me. Maybe he'll leave my mom alone.

The faces of my parents flashed though my mind when they came home to realize what happened. The hurt in their eyes was enough to keep me fighting. I closed my eyes and decided to send my thoughts into the man who has been my hero since the day I was born. The very first one to ever hold me in his arms. The very first person I ever laid my eyes on. They were dim memories, but I could see his face clearly.

Daddy, please be close enough to hear me. I remembered exactly how I got the cuts that he thought was from a fall. I flashed him images of what was happening to me now. I'm so sorry I lied to you. He was going to go after mom if I told anyone. I let my thoughts flow into his mind.

Luke's hand tightened around my neck and he slammed my head into the wall behind me. "You're telling them aren't you! I'll kill you right now, your mother is dead!"

"He heard that too." I choked out. He stood up and kicked me hard in the stomach before disappearing.

It was over for now. I curled myself into a ball waiting for round two to start.

"Renesmee!" My dad's voice rang with anger. The front door flew off the hinges as he burst through it. Uncle Jasper and Uncle Emmett were behind him. My mom pushed past my dad, her chest raising and falling as she panted, her hands balled up in fists. I saw her sniff the air once and looked directly at me. I hid my face, waiting for the screaming to start because I lied to them.

"Edward." My mom gasped as she dropped to her knees besides me. "Sit up honey, where did he…" My mom trailed off growling. I have never heard a growl that fierce erupt from her chest, and I've seen her mad before.

"Everywhere." I felt the sobs beginning to vibrate my chest.

She helped me to my feet and her and my dad began to inspect all my new cuts and bruises. My dad raised his hand and laid it softly over Luke's hand mark on my neck. I saw his bright golden eyes immediately turn black with rage. I half expected fire to come pouring out of his nose and ears.

"Where is he." He snarled. My dad tucked me safely into his side, and I was finally able to breath a sigh of relief.

"We'll follow his scent out." Uncle Emmett hissed.

My dad let me go and walked over to my uncles. They were both crouched and ready to spring at the first sign of danger.

"No! He's expecting that!" I turned to cling to my mom. "He'll come after you! He said he will. He knows I let dad hear my thoughts!" My mom crushed me against her chest and I let the sobs come.

"He's not going to touch me." She assured me.

"He knows when you're alone!"

"Dad, you have to take her out of here! It's too late for me. Take mom away, please! Her shield can't protect herself from him!" I begged.

"No, no, NO!" My dad rushed over to me and took me in his arms. "No one is going to touch either one of you. I swear!"

"But-"

"No, Renesmee!" My dad yelled. He knelt in front of me, his eyes still as black as night. "No one touches my child and gets away with it." He growled. It seemed to bother him to look at my face, so I turned away from him. It only made him angrier to see it.

"Come on!" Uncle Jasper started walking towards the back door.

"What the hell…" Jacob looked at the broken door and his eyes searched the room frantically until he found what he was looking for. As soon as his eyes fell on me his whole body started to shake. By the look on my parent's faces Jacob knew exactly what happened. "Luke." Jacob said his name with acid in his voice. His shape blurred and my dad and uncles pushed him towards the front door. "Let me go, I'm fine!" He snapped. He pushed through the three of them and ran over to me.

"Sorry, Jake." I whispered.

"Oh, honey." I caught the tear stream from his eyes before he wiped it away. "I'll kill him. He's mine! No one touches you like this. You're safe now. Everything will be ok." Jacob whispered, and I did feel safe. His words send a wave of calm through me.

"Jake." I cried out and flung my arms around his neck.

"It's going to be ok." He said and placed his hands on my hips to push me away.

"Bella, stay here with her. He doesn't come anywhere near her!"

"Jake, I got it." My mom put her hands on my shoulders. I welcomed her cold touch to my sore muscles.

"Bella, get Carlisle over here. Have Esme take Alyssa further away." Uncle Emmett ordered.

Jacob kissed my forehead, my dad hugged me tight and promised me Luke was never going to touch me again. He reached past me and placed his hands on either side of my mom's face. "Keep our daughter safe." He whispered against her lips.

"I will." She vowed.

My dad looked at me once more before he turned his back on us.

"Edward!" My mom called after him. He turned around to look at her. "Do me a favor, make it hurt." her voice was cold.

Hot tears streamed down my face. I wanted to beg them not to go, but my voice was lost somewhere. I didn't even have control over my lips.

"You got it." He growled.