Chapter 33: From one Place to the Other

~Edward~

By the time Bella and I returned to our home with Anthony and Renesmee, there wasn't much time for us to really settle down. Alice was having strange visions and they were all centered on Hanover. My sister was also experiencing headaches which made it hard to focus on what she was seeing in those visions. From what I read of her thoughts, going to England sooner rather than later was what was needed.

As I talked with Carlisle one evening, Anthony had climbed up on the sofa beside me and was on my lap spinning the wheels on the little truck he had gotten at some point before our lives started getting so hectic. His brown hair was getting thicker and longer, and was still damp from a recent bath.

"Does Alice believe that Esme and I should go to Denali, or meet you all in England?" Carlisle asked.

"For now she sees you heading to Denali. Do you know if there is anything that can be done for her headache?"

"Medically there is nothing, though I'm surprised she's having them at all."

I nodded as Anthony tilted his head up looking at me. I put my finger on my lips and he mimicked me before getting back to examining the wheels on his yellow truck. "She thinks it may be someone trying to block her from seeing. I've been able to read her thoughts when she does have the visions and she's right on the one count. We do need to go to England. Jasper and Emmett already have a flight ready for us. When you get to Denali ask Tanya if she's seen anything strange, anything not normal even for us," I requested while I listened for my daughter's heartbeat.

Renesmee was still with Bella helping her mother pick out the things from her room that she wanted to take with us on to England. They were talking about what it would be like to live there, and I was glad to hear some excitement in the tone of my little girl's voice. The next place we lived after all of this was finished, would be secluded enough for us to be able to stay so our children could feel a sense of permanence.

When I ended the call Anthony struggled in my arms. I turned him around so he could see me, and he gave me his truck. "Where should it go?" I asked.

He watched me and laughed when I drove it down his small chest. When I finished my son wanted it back and pushed the truck up my chest as I chuckled. It was past his bedtime and after one more game with his truck, I stood up setting him on my left hip as he drove it up and down the left side of my chest.

In Renesmee's room Anthony leaned out for Bella, and when she took him he cuddled into her arms.

"Mommy, I want this one too," Renesmee said as she walked out of her closet holding a giant stuffed bear that she hadn't played with in a long time.

"You haven't played with him in such a long time. We can put him in storage with some of your other toys."

"But him my friend," Renesmee whined. She was getting tired as well.

"Why don't we talk about it in the morning," Bella suggested as Anthony began to fuss.

Our daughter sighed, nodding her head once as she gave her big bear a hug. While Bella left to get Anthony settled in for the night, I sat down on the floor helping Renesmee put her two piles of things into plastic storage bins.

"Daddy, we going to have fun in England?"

"I think it will be a good adventure for us," I answered. It would be an adventure, as to the good of it, I was unsure.

"Me have own room?" My little girl was getting really tired. When Renesmee had gotten plenty of rest she talked using the correct words in her sentences. When she was tired, she reverted back to what we called baby talk.

"Our house in England is very big, and you can have your own room if you choose," I agreed.

After helping her get ready for bed, including tucking her under the covers, I settled next to her and began humming her lullaby. I also hummed the one I'd written for Bella and by the finish of that, my little lady had gone to sleep.

In our son's room, Bella was packing some of his toys while he slept in his crib. I knelt behind her and my wife leaned back into my waiting arms. "We can do this later," I whispered.

"If there is danger, we need to have everything ready to leave at a moments notice," Bella answered leaning out of my arms so she could turn around. "I'm sick of this. When we get to England we need to deal with…" Bella broke off as we heard foot fall outside the house. Both of us took in deep breaths of air smelling the scent of a werewolf. My cell began buzzing in my pocket but I didn't move to answer it, coming to my feet without making any sound. My wife was already lifting Anthony out of his crib and I nodded as she left to go down the hall to our daughter's room.

Jasper and Alice had gone hunting, and as far as we knew Emmett and Rosalie were at the other house with Lily. Further away limbs were being broken as if someone else was coming to our home. My cell went off again and I put it to my ear, glad I always kept it on a low volume. It was Alice.

"I know you can't talk. All I get are blurred visions. Jasper stay here," Alice hissed before getting back to me. "You and Bella need to get the babies out of there. Emmett and Rosalie already have Lily at the main road in his jeep at mile marker seventy six. They took her into town and are waiting on you. We are going to meet you in Boston. Don't worry about packing and hurry." she hung up and I raced to Renesmee's room.

Our daughter was wide awake huddled in Bella's arms as I knelt down. "You can't make a sound baby. Mommy and I are going to get all of us to safety. I need you to climb on my back and you need to hang on as tight as you can."

She nodded and I kissed her before she scooted off the bed and onto my back. My senses kicked into overdrive. So far there was still only one werewolf outside, I wasn't sure if it was the same one who had come before, nor was I sure if he was a man or a wolf.

We climbed out of Renesmee's window after Bella slid Anthony into her shirt which she had tucked in to her jeans. He was also awake, being very quiet, seeming to know we needed that from him. The wolf was on the other side of the house. I held up my hand and counted down with my fingers. When I got to zero, Bella and I jumped and took off into the woods. The wolf didn't hear us and we avoided making any sound. I held one hand behind me keeping Renesmee steady, feeling her hot tears against the back of my neck. I wanted desperately to give her to Bella and go back for the one who was stalking us, but there was no time. Now I was glad for all of the security Jasper had put on our computers. Everything was encrypted and any wrong password entered would completely crash the hard drives. We had backups in safety deposit boxes of everything, so there wasn't any way, unless these people had someone more apt than Jasper, for them to get any information from them.

Ten minutes later we made it to the jeep. As soon as we were all in Emmett took off. There wasn't any time to reflect because seconds later a camouflaged SUV pulled out of the woods behind us. Renesmee was crying now as was Anthony while Lily sat on Rosalie's lap completely still. In her mind she kept repeating that it was them, and not to let them take her away. What I didn't understand was how they had known we were back in Hanover.

Emmett was good at off road driving and spun off the main road back into the woods. It was a bumpy ride and there were no amount of words we could say to ease the fears our babies were experiencing. The SUV was keeping pace and I sniffed the air but was unable to catch any scent with us going so fast.

"Hold on to them," Emmett yelled. He brought the car to a sudden stop and just as the SUV was screeching to stop, trying not to hit us, my brother put the pedal to the floor. We spun out a little but his jeep was meant for this kind of thing. The SUV had gotten stuck and none of us minded as Emmett got us back out on the main road.

"Shh, we're safe now," I whispered over and over to my daughter as I rubbed her back. Eventually she cried herself to sleep, along with Anthony, though Lily was still awake, still huddled in my sister's arms.

"Daddy, you drive like a crazy man," she breathed and it lightened the moment.

"But I got away from them didn't I?"

Lily mulled that over in her mind for a moment and gained a new level of trust for all of us. "You didn't let them take me."

"None of us will ever let them have you," Rosalie reassured.

Once she had gone to sleep we had time to talk about what had happened. "How did they know we were home," Emmett asked as he drove without the lights on. We were using back roads, staying of the main ones that led to Boston. That added hours to our time, but we didn't have a choice in the matter.

"I'm not sure they really knew," I answered. With the urgency to get my family to safety, I hadn't tried reading the mind of the person who was outside of our house. Going back through my thoughts there wasn't anything new to really go on.

"Was it the same man who came that one time, before I was turned?" Bella asked as Anthony whimpered.

My wife took a moment to sooth him and once he was settled again, I gave her my answer. "I think it might have been."

My phone went off and it was Carlisle. "Tell me you are all safe," he said.

"We are all accounted for," I answered. I didn't know if we were safe. "Where are you and Esme?"

"Waiting for our flight. Did you have the computers logged off?"

"The ones at my house were. Emmett, were the computers on or off at your place?"

"Off," he said.

"What about cell phones?"

"We have ours, but mine is the only one we're using, just in case there is another vampire who could have heard. Do you have any suggestions?"

"Head to England using the secure flight Jasper set up. While you're traveling make sure he doesn't use the name Cullen, though I don't think he has. He said something about using Whitlock and maybe Masen for our documents," Carlisle informed.

Once I hung up with him, I phoned Jasper and got him before I heard the ring tone.

"I already have new passports and pictures to go with them. We are all using Whitlock for last names for the time being, with our first names. Alice doesn't see any more problems for us. You need to have Emmett leave his car at the Alamo rental agency outside of Boston on highway ninety three, fifty miles due east of the airport. There are shuttles that will get you to Logan, and Alice is already there waiting for you with the papers you need. Once we are in England there is a storage company coming to take it away. I've also checked on the houses. They never even went inside."

"They wanted us to run?"

"It looks that way," my brother answered.

When I hung up Bella looked at me and Rosalie turned to face me without waking Lily. "Jasper was able to use the closed circuit cameras in our houses to check on things. He said they never went inside. It looks like they wanted us to run."

"Shit," Emmett growled, and I knew how he felt.

After telling them what the plan was and giving Emmett the address of the rental place, I explained to Bella about the cameras Jasper had put in when he and Alice got home this last time. "She saw him doing that, and it had been on his mind for a while."

"I'm so thankful she has that gift."

"I am as well. I just wish she could see why this is all happening. I think we all do," I added.

When we arrived at the rental place, Lily had woken up but Renesmee and Anthony remained asleep. Alice was on the phone with Emmett and told him which spot to park in. When we were parked she was waiting with everything we would need.

"Aunt Alice, is this my fault?"

"No honey, don't you even think that." Alice said giving her a hug before we headed to the bus terminal to wait on a ride to the airport. Once we had and had our tickets verified as well as our new passports, we met up with Jasper and went with him to the part of the landing strip reserved for private flights. Our jet was waiting and the pilot had very little to do before we were taxiing out to the run way for takeoff. None of the adults took a breath until we were in the air, and even then we were on alert. This time there wasn't a full flight crew. The pilot and his copilot were the only two and they had been paid not to ask any questions.

"Alice and I did enough shopping to get us through this flight and to our home," Jasper said as he pulled a few suitcases from the overhead. One had clothes and a few toys for Renesmee; another had the same for Lily. The last for Anthony had his clothing as well as diapers and wipes.

Since Lily was awake we kept conversations light, talking about what we needed to do at the house once we got there. Renesmee woke up once, long enough to use the bathroom and as she went back to slip Lily sat in the seat beside her also falling asleep.

As the plane began to land, Anthony woke up and was in a good mood, not seeming any worse for wear due to our quick exit from home and from the US. I got him changed while Bella prepared a sippy cup of blood for him. While he drank from that, cradled in my arms, I stood looking out the window feeling a little less worried, like this was where we really did need to be.

"Da," Anthony said reaching his hand up and patting my lips with his fingers. It was a game he liked to play and when I opened my mouth a little he pushed them inside. I nibbled very lightly and my baby laughed.

"Is that funny?" I asked.

He had gone back to drinking his sippy, but his green eyes were wide open and he was watching me very closely.

The home we had in England had been built even before my human birth. It had three levels, the third being mostly attic space. There was also a wine cellar that was hard to find unless you knew it was there. Jasper had already talked about using it to hide the babies if it ever came down to that. It was divided into three different living spaces, with each section having its own kitchen, though at one time the house had existed as one big home.

We drove in two separate SUVs and by that time both of my children were awake. Renesmee had begged for me not to let her go and given what she had been through I let her sit on my lap as we headed toward the house.

"What if they find us," She asked for the seventh time since she had woken up. I kissed the top of her head. "We won't let that happen." When she took in a deep breath her chest heaved and Bella reached out and took her hand.

On my other side Anthony was looking out the windows content to sit in his car seat. His thoughts were jumbled, mostly just random words of things he was seeing, which blurred by us with the speed Jasper was using to drive us. Alice was with Emmett, Rosalie and Lily in the other SUV a little ahead of us. Our sister was keeping an eye on everything even though she was still having problems with her head hurting.

Nearly two hours after our plane landed our SUV slowed down and we pulled past a large Rot Iron gate which was beginning to close as Jasper sped back up as we went down the long winding driveway. Large Hornbeam trees lined the driveway making a shady canopy as we drove toward our house. When we arrived Lily and Rosalie were looking at the rounded garden in the driveway which created a small turn about affect.

"Do you want to go have a look?"

"Don't go away," Renesmee said looking up at me. I tilted my head down and kissed her forehead.

"I'm right here, baby. I won't leave you, okay?"

She nodded, and when Lily opened the door Renesmee slid down onto the floor of the SUV and scooted out on her own. While Rosalie stayed outside with the children, the rest of us got the luggage Alice had packed and went in the main entrance. My wife was in front of me and stopped, stunned by the sheer size of the foyer alone.

"Esme must have had a field day decorating all of this?"

None of us were there at the time Carlisle had purchased this house and had presented it to Esme, but after he returned I could see from the descriptions both in my mother's mind and as she told us all what she had planned for this place how much she loved it. "She was thrilled and still loves coming here. I'm not sure she will ever have it finished, not unless we stayed her a while," I said.

"And we might," Emmett added as he walked past us.

Before we could get going, the door opened again and Rosalie came inside with our babies. Renesmee was back in my arms and was just as amazed by the place as her mother was. "It very big daddy," my little girl whispered.

"Yes it is. Would you like to have a tour?"

Renesmee turned and looked at me with her little eyebrows furrowed, and my wife smiled as she stood next to us. "Daddy wants to know if you would like for him to show you all of the rooms."

"He going stay with us," she said sounding unsure.

"Look at me," I answered. Once I had her full attention I gave her more kisses first.

"Your Mommy and your aunts and uncles, along with me are going to make sure that nothing like that happens ever again. We don't know why those people came after us like that, and we were very careful not to leave anything for them to use so that they might find us. I am not leaving you alone. Sometimes I might have to go and hunt, in which case Aunt Rosalie, or Aunt Alice will watch you, or someone else who loves you, but I won't be gone long if I do leave."

"It scary Daddy."

As my daughter leaned against my chest, I shut my eyes holding her as close as I could. "Now why don't we go have a look around?"

When she agreed, we got our things and started down one of the long hallways.

By bedtime that evening Bella and I were, for the time being, sharing one of the larger rooms in the southern end of the house with our two children. Esme had phoned saying she and Carlisle would be there early in the morning and told us where the baby furniture was. Alice had spent most of the day along side Rosalie ordering clothes for all of us, and we were waiting for Carlisle to arrive with one of our hard drives. This house had all of the modern amenities including internet hook up which had allowed my sisters to shop online. Alice and Jasper had brought one of their computers with some of what we needed, and for now it suited our purpose.

"Daddy, I don't like the noises."

"This is a very old house. Older houses sometimes make more noise, but I promise it isn't anything for you to worry about."

"And you and Mommy not going anywhere?"

Bella came over from laying Anthony down in his new crib, having gotten him to sleep and settled in bed beside us. "We will be right here when you open your eyes I the morning. Maybe tomorrow we can go outside and have a look around."

Our baby nodded as she yawned and fell asleep not long after Bella joined us.

"What are you thinking," I whispered as we slid down to lay on the mattress on either side of Renesmee.

"How lucky we were. Charlie was beside himself when I got a hold of him. He says he wishes he could do more, but promises not to do anything other than be the Chief of Forks. I spoke with Jacob. He and the Pack of been on alert since we found Lily, but they are stepping up patrols. He said some more of the younger boys have turned."

That meant there were other vampires around, possible tied to Joham. "Maybe they have been tracking Lily. Bella, I've been wondering if there's something she's got on her that lets them know where she is. I know how James Bond it sounds which is why I haven't brought it up, but if this man was using her to do whatever it was, he would have wanted a way to keep tabs on her."

"It sounds out there, but before I came to Forks, so would vampires and shape shifters. Is there any piece of jewelry she wears that she's never taken off?"

For a few moments I thought that over, but to my knowledge there was nothing like that. "I'd need to ask Rosalie. If so it would mean possibly having to move."

"But they never came to Rio or the Island," she pointed out as Renesmee rolled away from me scooting until she was snuggled against Bella's chest laying on her right side instead of her left.

We were quiet until we were sure she wasn't going to wake back up. "They may not have as good equipment as we have. The other theory I have been playing over in my mind is that there is a vampire who can see like Alice.

My wife frowned at me. "Alice only sees things based on what someone is going to do. How would that help them find Lily or us?"

If we chose to we could debate it all night, but we both agreed until morning there was no more reason to discuss it. For the rest of the night we talked about the plan we had to go to Volterra, still unsure how any of that would play out, and the complications that had risen since we had first started discussing that.

Morning brought with it a steady rain which was normal for England this time of year. It wasn't a problem however because there was more than enough inside to keep our children busy. Bella and I had settled in the oversized common room with our two, watching as they explored the area along with playing with some of the new toys Alice had packed. Anthony had taken interest in a hobby horse that had been restored, that he could ride on. As he began to try and figure out how to get on it, Renesmee saw him and started over to take it away.

"Anthony get's to have the first turn," Bella defended.

Our daughter stopped in her tracks. "But he not know how to ride it," she answered, a little annoyed that we were keeping such a close eye on her.

Bella got up from beside me and walked over to her. "Why don't we help him?" That idea made our daughter happy which was a relief. As they helped Anthony get on the horse, I heard a car pulling up outside. Bella never faltered as she played with our children, giving me the chance to get away. It was Carlisle and Esme much to my relief, and along with me, Alice was there to greet them. While my sister and mother hugged, Carlisle came over to me and we hugged as well.

"We have both been worried. It's good to see you," he said.

"I know how you feel. Do we need to get anything else from your car?"

They had several pieces of luggage with them and as well some bags of things.

"This is everything. I think we are going to set up in the room closest to yours and share this part of the house with you and Bella if that would be suitable."

"That should be fine," I agreed.

When we got back to the common room, Renesmee was pulling Anthony on the Hobby Horse, though when she saw her Nanna and Pop, she dropped the leather strap and ran to them. Before Anthony could fuss, Bella had him in her arms. When she brought him over to where the rest of us were standing, our son leaned out for his Nanna.

"I want Nanna," Renesmee said suddenly running over to Esme and hugging her around the leg.

Rosalie and Emmett showed up with Lily along with Alice and we all headed up the stairs at the far end of the room, each adult carrying a piece of luggage for them. In their room, which was spacious enough for more people, Renesmee told Esme about all the scary things that had happened.

I noticed Lily easing away from Rosalie and when she left the room I followed her back downstairs, remembering the things I told Bella last night. "You don't have to leave," I said.

She walked over to the baby grand piano and sat down. "If you hadn't found me," but I wouldn't let her finish as I sat next to her and put my finger to her lips.

"You are a part of this family. None of us blame you for any of this, and you can't let them hurt you or make you afraid any longer."

Aa I wrapped my arms around her, Lily leaned into me. "I wish I knew how they could find us like that."

There was nothing Lily was wearing that was suspect to my theories so I let them go. "We'll figure this out. With all of us together now we are going to find a way to take care of keeping you and your cousins safe."

Once Lily was feeling better, she asked me to play her a song and as I began the rest of our family came downstairs to listen. It had been a long time since I had sat down to a piano but my fingers flowed freely over the keys. The music I chose was soothing and seemed to calm the tense atmosphere that had been with us since we left Hanover. When I finished Renesmee was ready to try and everyone else was sitting around talking about old memories. We all needed time to let things wind down, though it didn't mean we would let our guard down. Jasper's thoughts as he sat with Alice were on installing a closed circuit system here so that he could monitor anyone who tried getting to us. That would take some work, but for vampires it would only take a few weeks at the most.

After lunch when Bella went upstairs to lay down with our children, I found my brother and asked him to take a walk with me. Rosalie and Alice along with Esme and Lily were looking at shops in the London area, and Carlisle and Jasper were talking about security for this house.

"What's on your mind brother?" Emmett asked when we walked outside. There was a lull in the rain, though we stayed close to the house. "I don't want this to come out the wrong way, but since we left Hanover, I can't help but wonder if somehow Lily is being tracked."

Emmett was level headed and understood that I wasn't blaming his daughter for any of what had taken place. "I've been thinking along those same lines. So what, do you think there might be another vampire who can see what she does, or something else?"

"That's one theory. The other is that she's got something she wears or has kept with her since we found her."

Emmett shook his head. "Nothing of the sort. I think she was glad to get rid of anything that might associate her with Joham and his cronies.

At least that was something. It started to drizzle again and as we got back inside, Lily sought Emmett out asking him to sit with her at the piano while she tried to play chopsticks, something I had showed her earlier.

Upstairs, Renesmee was asleep, but Anthony was awake sitting on Bella's lap listening to a story while she rocked him. He didn't even look up as I entered the room, and once I was in the bed next to our daughter, I shut my eyes clearing my mind of all things so I could focus on Bella's soothing voice. My daughter moved closer to me and I put my arms around her focusing on the steady beat of her heart and the way she smelled like Strawberry Shampoo, the same way Bella used to smell, mixed with her own unique scent. Focusing on them eased my mind and from time to time we all needed a break from the chaos that our lives had become.

AN: Alright, here is a little action for you and as well some of the story with Edward Bella and the babies. So what did you think. I hope I didn't go to fast for you with this chapter, but they had to leave and get to safety as best they could. I'm not sure aside from someplace in the English Countryside exactly where they would live, but I wanted them to have lots of land in a secluded area in the middle of no where. As for everything else, I hope you will stick around because I still have lots more to go with this story and there will be others later where the kids are growing up.

Thank you for reading and reviewing. On to the next.

~Ella~