**Bright Idea**

Edward met Edmond as he was coming to do his routine checkup on the children. They had at this interval grown another quarter of an inch in height since their previous appointment the night before and their growth was steady, and had been for the past six months since their birth. They had grown to just over four feet in height but Edmond could see their growth spurt beginning to slow.

"This is all good. Of course their growth spurt is unusual to m. I've never known Halflings to grow at this pace; however their manifestation of their power is a good sign." Edmond reported to the family who was still absent Nessie and Jake. "It's still early to determine, but we may be able to expect their physical growth to slow soon, while their bodies begin to adapt to their size. I can't account for their height. Usually with the Halflings I've produced, at six months old they are closer to resembling perhaps a four year old than a seven year old, but they seem healthy enough." Edmond said closing up his bag.

"Well thank you again so much. It is a comfort to have your expertise in our father's absence." Edward said extending his hand to shake with the count.

"My pleasure to be of any service I can." He said shaking Edward's hand and leaving the room.

Edward followed him out begging for a moment of his time.

"Certainly, perhaps you wouldn't mind stepping into my study." Edmond offered ghosting the way to his nearby office in the south.

"I wanted pass this by you. We were considering as a family, the fact that you are correct. Aro needs to be stopped. Would you agree the best way may be simply using the element of surprise, then getting him to bring his confrontation to us?"

"How do you suppose we do that?" Edmond said with a ghost of a smile.

"Renesmee had thought to go to NYC to lure him to try to kidnap her again, but we all agree that is ludicrous, however, while not as dangerous but even more infuriating, is to take her to him ourselves. Thereby we show ourselves responsible for what happened in Switzerland, for I fear that if we do not make him make the first aggressive move, we either set ourselves up for a stalemate or we lose an advantage."

"Okay, I'll send Maximilian and his sister Jacqueline to find a window for us." Edmond said, pulling out his phone.

"They won't be in danger?"

Edmond smiled. "You haven't met them yet. No, they will be in zero danger. Max's power is mental invisibility and Jacqui's a mirror. Whatever power you have, she reflects."

"Fascinating."

"Wait till you see it in action. By far my favorite moment for her will be when she meets with Jane…" Edmond said as the phone rang.

'Max, take your sister Jacqui, go to Volterra.'

'Is it time?' Max asked.

'Not yet. We need to pay Aro a visit.'

'I just received an invitation to his annual masque in October.'

Edward's eyes lit up immediately.

'Perfect. That'll work.' Edmond said with a smile. 'Make the arrangements. I'll be sending a friend to you,' he said eyeing Edward.

"Alice," Edward said.

'Alice Cullen. Expect her within the next few days.'

'Ok, father,' Max said and his father hung up the phone.

"This will work out better than I had hoped." Edward said in contemplation.

"You're going to take her there aren't you?" Edmond said.

"Well between both of our families, and the gifts we possess, there's no way he'd be able to take her, neither would he so boldly do something against his so called principles." Edward said.

"Well his principles not with-standing, I doubt he would try anything outright, simply because he's a coward not an idiot." Edmond said smiling.

"Well, I'm going to go talk this over with Alice and the family and see if they have anything to add before Alice goes to NY to meet with your children."

…

Renesmee rolled in the crunching leaves near the lake, where she and her husband had fallen asleep, with a sublime smile on her face.

"Why are you so happy?" Jake asked adjusting his arm for Nessie.

She would have answered him with words, but pictures were so much better… "Close your eyes," she said softly, and touching his eyelids with her two fingers, Jacob began to see their wedding day. Nessie's fingers trailed down his cheeks, over his square jaw, down his neck and onto his heart as the memory enveloped him. The sound of Adagio played in his mind, the memory of their vows, 'your love has become the anchor of my heart and soul,' he heard her saying on their wedding day, the shining of his eyes as she spoke to him filled his mind. The flutter of her heart as he spoke his words to her, 'Carry me in your heart Renesmee, carry me in your mind, and as long as you know that I love you, you will never have to fear anything. I will protect you, I will love you, I will comfort you, and I will carry you. You are my life and I love you with every fiber of my being, with every beat of my heart. You my life, my love, my wife.' Jake found himself overwhelmed while her kiss interrupted the memory.

"Jake, you are my everything…" she said kissing him again as they lay on the bed of leaves. "I know what I need to do, and what I need you to do, Jake." She said seriously.

"Tell me what you need from me, Nessie Black."

"I need your love Jake. I need you to make love to me… but I need you to do it for me…" she said bashfully.

"Are you ready for that?"

"I am ready for you. I am ready for your love. Your love saved me before, but now when I really need saving, the only thing I can think to do is to trust you, with my body, my heart and my soul."

"I don't want you to if you aren't ready," he protested.

"What is ready? I am ready for love; you are love. If we can't get through it together now, I don't see how it will get any easier later."

"Why is it different now? I mean what has changed since yesterday?" Jake asked raising himself up on an elbow to look into Nessie's eyes carefully.

"Because I remember… I remember how I felt the day I gave myself to you." Nessie's said resting her head on his arm, "I remember what you made me feel… that was all fun and games compared to this. This is real… my love is real, and your love is what will save me…Make love to me…" she said looking into his eyes.

"How will I know if you need me to stop?"

"Trust your heart to know if mine can't take it. You aren't careless, but don't be too careful either…I'm not saying it will be easy, but we can make it through it… they say the hardest thing is getting back in the saddle once you've been thrown…" Nessie said caressing his hair, trailing down to his face, "I trust you."

Jacob bowed his head, kissing the back of her hand gently.

"Okay Nessie," he acquiesced, kissing each of her fingers down to the tips of her nails, then turning her palms up he kissed the back of her hand while his eyes locked on hers.

His kisses trialed up her arms to her shoulders up her neck to her ear, where he whispered "sugar, I love you so much, I will give you anything you want."

Jake shifted his weight, kneeling over her, his fingers weightlessly unbuttoning her dress, kisses trailing where his fingers had just left.

She watched him carefully as she sat up beneath him to allow easy removal of her bra, after he had finished kissing her beautiful luminescent skin through the lace.

Her body shivered, but she beckoned him to continue.

His kisses were fire against her pale aching skin, her breasts heaved under Jake's touches, kisses and tender caresses. His tongue blazed a trail around her right pulsing nipple before he engulfed it in the heat of his mouth with passionate kisses.

She watched him intently as he worshiped her body, kneading each breast at a time, sucking and nipping gently, twisting and rubbing circularly while watching her face. His warm hands sent sensations through her body and her eyes involuntarily closed and her back would arch each time he took a nipple full into his mouth.

His kisses continued south on her body, his tongue diving into her belly button, the smell of her arousal letting him know she was almost ready.

His face was above hers almost in an instant, searching her eyes.

"Are you ready?" he asked tentatively to which she nodded in assent.

Jacob raised his body up and stripped his pants down, Renesmee physically tensed up. He found himself extremely unsure about the situation, but decided on something to help.

"I am yours…" he said as he laid down next to her in his own nakedness, "don't be afraid to touch."

Renesmee's hands visibly shook until she touched his firm chest where his heart was beginning to beat faster. As he had trailed kisses over her body, she kissed his flaming skin. His chest heaved at her touch, and his body responded when she laid her body on top of his, his arousal becoming hard against her leg.

Renesmee watched his eyes as her hand trailed down his stomach, and they closed as her dainty hand began to stroke his firm penis.

Jake could hear her heart pounding inside of her chest faster than it ever had before and his eyes returned to hers as she continued to stroke him.

"I'm ready Jake," she whispered against his skin, "but you're gonna have to do it for me…" she said shyly.

If her position had been effectively changed with pillows, it would not have been as easy as Jake's movement from beneath her to above. Jake kissed her mouth sweetly and as he slipped his tongue into her mouth, he slipped himself into her body.

She moaned around his kisses when he allowed himself to move inside of her deeply.

"I'm ready Jake." She encouraged again, pressing her pelvis closer to his accepting the support of his hand behind her back.

"I love you Renesmee," he whispered as he began his slow, easy movements inside of her. "You are my life, you are the reason I exist."

Her hands grabbed at his back, clutching for life, for the release of her fear, for the acceptance of the freedom of love and its protection.

Jake's hand slipped under her thigh, bringing a leg up around his waist and he began a rhythm that he knew she was waiting for. "Everything I do, I do for you Nessie," he promised as he pushed harder.

"Oh Jake, I love you…" she moaned heavily.

"Tell me when darling," he coaxed pushing harder, his firm, steady pace holding until her gasps came more quickly.

"Now Jake, now…" she whined releasing her hold on his back pushing herself into the ground and in another movement, her other thigh was held up around his waist and he began thrusting deeper.

Jake dropped onto the palms of his hands, effectively shifting his angle to reach her as deeply as he could this way, her ankles locking around his hips.

Renesmee's whimpers and whines then turned to gentle sobs as she began to squirm and squeeze her legs tighter together, reaching her toe curling orgasm. Jake eased up, rocking slow and deep inside of her until they both reached a sweet release, after which he gently laid down.

Their legs remained tangled and he inside of her as they snuggled closely together, she locked inside of his embrace, hugging him, tears silently falling. Time passed as Nessie drifted in and out of awareness. The silence was comfortable, for Ness, but was making Jake anxious. The sound of her calming heartbeat relieved him of some of his anxiety before she finally spoke.

"I love you Jacob…"

"Are you okay?" he asked, nervously.

"I am…" she said opening her eyes as a smile slowly stretched across her face.

She breathed deeply and began to remove herself from him, "let's swim," she said and instantly was in the water. Jake smiled and followed her wordlessly.

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