Me: Hello people!

Edward: Hello

Emmett: Hey! Would you look at that, you are updating earlier than normal. We figured you would be at the theaters seeing Breaking Dawn.

Me: Well you know, I thought I would be nice since I left last chapter with such a terrible cliff hanger that I would wait to see the film and spend my time working diligently writing.

Emmett: Your hometown theater sold out of tickets for the opening weekend didn't they?

Me: *holds head down in shame* Yes

Edward: You know that he is going to hang this over your head forever right?

Emmett: Or at least until you do something else I can make your life a living hell over.

Me: What makes you think I would do something else you could hang over me!

Edward: Okay, before this gets ugly let's get this show on the road. Emily in no way shape or form owns anything twilight.

Emmett: Not even a midnight showing of breaking dawn ticket stub!

Me: Shut it Emmett! I got to see it Saturday morning for your information! Everything belongs to Stephanie Meyer.

Chapter 28: Never bet against Alice.

BPOV

I had honestly hoped that I would never have to see this woman again or talk to her other than to send the occasional holiday card to. But to see her standing so comfortable in the middle of my father's home looking as though owned the place really ticked me the hell off. I had just had one of the most memorable evenings of my life and now I had to come home to see this waiting for me at home.

"Aren't you going to come and say hello to your mother?" Rene asked me as she opened her arms for a hug. She looked calm, cool and collected. As though this was a regular day occurrence for her.

I felt my blood start to boil over. I could see Mama Sue trying to raise the frying pan like she was going to swing it like a baseball bat, but Jake had a strong grip around her arms. I don't know what he was trying to whisper in her ear, but Mama Sue wasn't having it.

I hadn't even realized that I was shaking until I felt Edward take my hand in his to steady it.

"Renee," I had never heard Charlie's voice sound so deadly, we had always joked that Emmett was a bear and Mama Sue was Mama Bear, Dad had always been an easy going type of man. "Don't you dare walk into my home, cause such a commotion over shit you have no right to have a say in and then think for one second that you could talk to MY children."

Renee never took her eyes away from my face. "Well, Isabella? Aren't you going to give your Mommy a hug?" I will never understand how she could give so little respect to people. Watching how she ignored my father, I finally felt something in me snap.

"Alright." I said, sounding much calmer than I felt. "I will give my Mother a hug." My attempt to step forward was hindered as my arm was tugged sharply back and my body collided into Edward's chest. "It's okay," I told him, "I know what I am doing." Reluctance flashed across his face, but he let me go. I didn't miss the looks of disgust that flashed on my brother and Sam's faces as I started to walk forward and the look of triumph flash across Renee's features.

When I was close enough to Renee to smell the strong scent of her perfume I side stepped her to the left before she could grab onto me and walked straight over to Mama Sue, wrapping my arms around her in a tight squeeze. "I'm sorry I was late getting home, Mama." Jacob released Mama Sue's arms enough so that she could wrap them along my lower back. "I love you, you sweet, sweet girl." She whispered into my hair.

Our little moment was disrupted by the sound of monotone clapping. I released the woman who raised me and turned to face the woman who lived for herself and herself alone. She had a smile on her face that didn't meet her eyes.

"Bravo Charles, bravo. You and your little wifey over there have finally managed to turn both my children against me. Not, as you know, that I am here for them of course. They have turned into such failures." Normally when Rene says things like that it would cut me like a knife, but just than I felt nothing for her other than pure anger. Who the hell did she think she was?

I felt Mama Sue's arms tighten around me. I didn't know if it was to try and comfort me or to keep her from wrapping her hands around Rene's throat. "You needn't say anything else. You have caused enough damage to MY children, do what you do best and leave. Don't forget to let the door hit you on your way out."

"Stupid Indian," Rene scoffed. "The saying is don't let the door hit you on the way out."

Mama Sue thought for a moment and gave Rene the sweetest smile I have ever seen. "No, I think I would prefer it if the door hit you."

Rene's eyes narrowed. "This isn't over. I will get what I want, it might not be now but I will. I always do." With that said, she turned and walked to the front door. She paused for a brief second and called over her shoulder "Take good care of yourself Blondie. Wouldn't want anything to happen to that precious cargo you are carrying." I looked over my shoulder to see Rosalie's face go even whiter before hearing the sound of the door slamming shut.

We stood still like deer caught in the headlights, waiting to see if the wicked bitch was actually gone. It wasn't until we saw her headlights blinking as she left eh driveway that Edward broke the silence.

"I don't want to seem rude or anything…but what the hell was that?"

Emmett moved from his previous position by Sam to sit on Rosalie's other side. She disentangled herself from Leah and buried her face into my brother's neck while he wrapped her in his arms and held her tightly. I have never seen Rose cry like this before, I started getting worried that she would start to hyperventilate. Leah took it upon herself to answer Edward. "That is what the public calls Rene, the human incubator that carried Emmett and Bella. Speaking of, Bella, did you get a haircut or something? You seem different." Leah gave me her big sister stare while looking me up and down. I felt as though she had x-ray vision or something.

Edward couldn't be derailed from what we had walked in on. "What was she doing here and what did she do to Rose?"

"Hold that thought for one second son," Charlie ordered. "I know that it is late and everything but I need you to call your parents over here pronto. Tell them I am sending Sam out now to make sure they don't get stopped for speeding. I'm going to call Peter and let him know that it's alright for Jasper and Allie to bring the kids back from Charlotte's, maybe have them come over too to be safe." No one moved. "GET YOUR ASSES MOVING PEOPLE THIS IS SERIOUS! Do you have any idea what that…THING is capable of!"

That sure lit a fire under everyone's behind. While the boys went about their assignments, Mama Sue dragged Jake to the kitchen murmuring something about getting tea and coffee ready for the grownups. I felt a little off just standing around so I knelt in front of Rose and placed a comforting hand on her knee. I sat for maybe a minute or two when I felt a pair of eyes boring into the back of my head.

"Leele, can you please stop staring at me." I didn't even have to look up to know that it was her.

"Sorry, I just can't put my finger on what seems so different about you." Oh God.

"Nothing is different, just drop it and tell me what the hell happened." I demanded, using all my courage at the moment to lift my head to meet her gaze. It's not like I had a big sign on my forehead or anything about what had happened earlier…right?

Leah let out an exhausted sigh. "I wasn't here for the beginning of it. Jacob and I had decided to let Emmett and Rosalie watch Cabby for a bit while we ran to the store to get more formula and take a breather. Mom and Dad were here so we thought Em and Rose could handle it, get some practice dealing with a baby in a safe environment. When we got back we saw a strange car in the driveway and nearly ran into Alice who had Seth holding on to one hand and Cabby in his car seat in the other."

"When did Alice get here?" I interrupted.

"About nine thirty-ish, nine forty five. She was Rosalie's ride home. Now shut up and let me talk!"

"Sorry"

"As I was saying, Alice was making a break for her car. She told us some crazy bitch was inside causing a problem, Sam was on his way from the station and Dad told her to get the kids out of the house in case things got really ugly." Good thing too, if the yelling that was going on when Edward and I got here was anything to go on. "I ran inside to see Rene yelling about wanting to start fresh and trying to grab Rosalie's arm. I didn't think, just reacted, and before I knew it I had Rose seated on the love seat and Mama was standing in front of us with a frying pan."

"What is with you Swan women and frying pans?" I was so engrossed in Leah's story that I didn't even hear Edward walk up behind me. "What did she mean by 'starting fresh?"

Before Leah could answer, Rose lifted her head. "She wants my baby. She stormed in here yelling about how she can't have any more children and that her first too were nothing but mistakes and screw ups." She cried while placing both her hands over her barely noticeable baby bump. "I don't know how she could have found out about it. No one but family and Dr. Mallory know about it."

I turned and started hitting my head on the coffee table…better yet I would have if Edward didn't pull my head back gently. "Stop that, I really don't want to go to the emergency room tonight."

"Damn it!" Leah yelled. We all turned to look at her in shock.

"Leele, I hope you don't want our little sister to be in the ER." Em said with a slight frown.

"No, not that. Steve Mallory and Rene used to be friends and I think they still keep in contact. He must have congratulated her on her first grand baby or some shit." I waved my hand for her to continue but she just tilted her head to the side and looked between Edward and I. "You know, something seems different about Edward too. Did you guys go to the Spa or something? It's almost as though your skin is glowing or some shit."

We shook our heads in the negative. She looked between us for a few more moments before getting a look on her face that matched the expression of a cat that got to eat a bowl of cream. "Well I'll be damned."

"What?" Emmett and Rose asked at the same time.

"Is it about Rene and my baby?" Rose managed to whisper out.

"Nope." Leah smirked. "I can't believe I didn't notice sooner." I started to sweat. What the hell is she thinking?

"Leele…" I managed to get out before Leah suddenly stood up, grabbing me into a hug in the process, and started jumping up and down squealing.

"OH my God! My little sister has finally gotten laid!" How the hell did she figure that one out? "Was he a gentleman? Was it over in two minutes? Young boys do tend to get over excited. You have to give me all the details!"

"WHAT!" Was yelled so loud it could be heard around the world…or at least in my living room from all the males present…which was every…single…one...including my purple faced father.

I was mortified.

Thankfully (and I do mean to thank heaven almighty for this one) before my father or brother(s) could say or do anything to a white as a ghost Edward, the front door burst open to revel two very haggard looking teenagers holding a crying Cabby and a hyper as hell Seth, followed by my worried Aunt Charlotte and Uncle Peter. Charlie gave Edward and I the we-are-not-finished-with-this-discussion glare as he ordered Alice, Jasper, Edward and I up stairs with the young ones. Apparently the Rene issue outweighed the whole losing my virginity thing…for now. Leah opted to join us youngsters up stairs in Seth's room, claiming that she wanted to calm Cabby down. Judging by that logic the Earth is flat and Santa decided to join Weight Watchers.

"What the hell did we just walk in on?" Jasper asked as we all settled down. He leaned against the closed door while Alice, Leah and I sat on Seth's racecar bed and Edward sat on the floor next to a surprisingly wide awake Seth, who instantly started to play with some of his action figures that were laying around. Cabby was calmly resting in Leah's arms, having stopped crying as soon as she took him from Alice.

"You don't want to know." Edward answered, his cheeks still painted red.

"Oh yes they do!" Leah was practically vibrating in place with excitement. Before she could say anything else, and embarrass me and Edward any further, I slapped my hand over her mouth. I didn't even let up when she licked my hand. We are sisters after all; we have the same germs…at least that was what I kept telling myself in my head. "I will let you go if you promise not to say anything," I whispered in her ear. "I promise to give you details later." I pulled back and waited for her to nod her head in agreement before I took my hand off her mouth and whipped it on my jeans. Alice thankfully had some hand sanitizer.

Edward ran his hands through his hair. "Man, I wish we could hear what's going on."

"Yeah," Alice agreed, looking out of Seth's window from where she sat. "It looks like Mom and Dad are down there now, I can see their car behind yours. Speaking of, you seem different." Oh Lord have mercy, not again. Alice looked between Edward and I a couple of times before she started squealing at a decibel only animals could understand. Thankfully it appeared that Cabby inherited the Swan sleeping through an earthquake trait or else we would have had an issue.

"Allie," Edward started, but stopped after Alice smacked the back of his head.

"You two hooked up! And you weren't even going to tell me! Your own sister and best friend! I at least let you know when Jazzy and I did it!"

"Allie, you're my little sister! I didn't want to know then nor do I want to know now what you do with your boyfriend." He shivered.

"Well I needed to know thank you very much! I just won a lot of money thanks to you two!"

Wait a minute. "Alice," I waited until I had her full attention. "You guys made a bet for when we would…you know!"

"Yes." Why does that not surprise me?

Edward was about to launch into a lecture about personal boundaries and why they were important when I noticed that Seth was still in the room. I motioned for everyone to shut it as Seth threw his action figures down. "You know, for a bunch of big kids you all can be sooo stupid. You gets…Um what's that word that starts with a d and is about paying attention?"

"Distracted." I supplied.

"Yeah, that word. Anyways, you are forgetting the main objective here."

"And that would be?" Leah asked.

"What the parents are talking about, duh." Seth told us slowly, as though he was trying to teach a bunch of fish how to swim.

"How can you know what the word objective means yet you don't know the term distracted?" Jasper asked as he took a seat next t o Alice on the bed…not that there was any more room. She ended up sitting in his lap.

"I watch cop and detective shows on demand when no one is paying attention to me. Like Castle, Burn Notice, CSI Miami, and Rookie Blue for fun. Do you want to hear what's going on or not?" Seth looked so cute kneeling on the floor with his hands fisted on his hips.

"Not to be a kill joy here, if anyone loves spying on people you all know it's me," Alice stated. "But how do you plan on figuring out what they are talking about when we don't have any baby monitors here?" Good point.

Instead of answering her, Seth crawled over to his bed and started to pull a bunch of toys out from when he is told to clean his room. Finally, after five minutes or so of digging, he pulled an old Mouse Trap board game box out from under his bed. I had no idea where he was going with it until he lifted the top of the game box.

He had a bunch of what looked like high tech spying equipment that you can get from those discover stores at the mall or order from those websites mentioned on the back of comic books, only this one looked like it cost a pretty penny. There was a six inch viewing screen, tiny microphones and cameras, lots and lots of wires, and about four sets of mini walkie-talkies.

"Where the hell did you get the money to buy all this?" Leah asked the one question I am sure was on everyone's lips.

"Puhleeeese, you think you are the only ones I sell information to? I just give you guys my discount rate cause I like you. Normally I charge ten bucks to the kids at school and fifteen to Mom, Dad, Uncle Peter and Em." He picked up the viewing screen and turned it on using its tiny remote. Pressing different buttons he showed us images of the band room at school, the playground, the truck and finally the living room downstairs. I made a mental note to search my room and locker to see if he managed to put anything on there. "Before I turn on the volume I will need a generous donation of five bucks, Leele you can listen for free since you bought me that new Green Lantern movie last week." As we handed over the money I began to wonder if Dad knew anything about this…Seth would make a very good tech dude at the station.

We all got real quiet as we listened to the adults talk about Rene and what they planned on doing about her. Mama Sue suggested that she and Esme agree to a sit down with Rene in neutral territory, such as Bella Italia, to let Rene know that her presence wasn't welcome and that if she thought she was getting her hands on Rose and Emmett's baby she would be surely mistaken. Naturally Carlisle and Charlie were against the whole idea, stating that Rene is a loose cannon. Aunt Charlotte suggested that they should place a restraining order against her if she came within the same city limits as Rose since it could be considered stalking because Rose was eighteen. Sam second that idea, mentioning that legally she had no say in Emmett's life because he was eighteen. Even though Charlie vetoed the idea of a sit down with Rene, he told Rose and the others that he would have some of the guys at the station on watch detail. If Rene in anyway shape of form tried to get near any of us kids, the other officers would radio either Dad or Sam to take care of it.

When it looked like the meeting was over and we had gotten all the info that we were going to get, we all started to pull away from the screen when Alice noticed that Mama Sue and Esme headed into the kitchen. Normally it wouldn't have attracted much attention except that before they left the room the two women kept glancing over their shoulders.

"Hey Seth?" I asked. "Do you have something set up in the kitchen?" The kid rolled his eyes at me before pressing a different combination of buttons on the remote. Instantly the screen showed the two mothers deep in conversation. Sadly, Seth informed us that he wasn't able to hide a microphone in that kitchen yet so we had no idea what they were really planning. Whatever it was, Mama Sue and Esme only spent a little while discussing it before they left the kitchen. We had no need to follow their movements because we soon heard footsteps coming up the stairs. We only had a few seconds to turn everything off and shove all the toys back under the bed.

"Hey guys, you have all been really quiet. What are you up to?" Mama Sue asked as she opened the door, Esme standing behind her in the doorway. Thankfully we hadn't thrown all the action figures back under the bed and we all managed to look like we were having them attack each other while Leah played Referee cause she was rocking a sleeping Cabby. Thank God for small favors.

"Nothing Mama, just playing Power Rangers vs. Ninja Turtles." Leah told them.

"Oh…kay. Well we just wanted to let you all know that we are done downstairs and that the Cullen's are getting ready to leave. Sam is going to escort them home with Jacob just in case Rene is lurking about somewhere. Seth, put the toys away, its past midnight and you should be sleeping." When we all got up to put the toys away and Alice and Edward walked down stairs with Esme, Mama Sue pulled me to the side out in the hall way. "Don't worry about earlier with what Leah yelled out; I think Emmett and your father have forgotten about it for the time being. I warned Jake that if he brought it up I would let Charlie know that Leah and Jacob did not wait for the honeymoon. I am not going to lecture you about being careful and safe. You have seen the consequences for what could happen. Just be careful and know that I am here to talk or kick someone's ass if you need me to." This was one of the reasons I loved Mama Sue, she took care of all her children it didn't matter if Emmett and I weren't hers by birth.

We spent the entire weekend as a family, keeping an eye out in case Rene made another appearance. Emmett of course had to go into work but he was never alone, Sam, Jake, Leah or Dad dropped him off and picked him up after his shift at the shop. The Cullens and Whitlocks were in and out of the house as well and we played video games and board games to keep ourselves occupied and to try and keep Rosalie relaxed. No doubt she was stressing over Rene apparently wanting her baby. On Monday Carlisle got Rose assigned to a new OB/GYN who he knew had no connection what's so ever to Rene or Dr. Mallory (who got a warning for breaking doctor patient confidentiality). Alice spent her time trying to figure out what Mama Sue and Esme were up to whenever they walked away to talk amongst themselves, she even went so far as to volunteer to help make dinner… it didn't go so well…neither she or Rose inherited Esme's skill at cooking. So I wasn't too surprised when Emmett and I pulled into the parking lot that Tuesday to see Alice jumping like a kangaroo with an exasperated Edward and Jasper trying to keep her feet on the ground.

"WHAT TOOK YOU TWO SO LONG TO GET HERE? I WAS ABOUT TO CALL A SEARCH PARTY ON YOUR ASSES!"

"Alice! Remember, inside voices." Jasper told her, trying to calm her down. "We don't want everyone and their brother to know our business."

Alice stopped her jumping. "Sorry. I have been waiting all morning to talk to you all!"

"Alice…honey, you saw us all weekend and yesterday." Rose patted her sister on the head like a puppy.

"Ugh, that is not what I mean." Alice glared and removed her sister's hand. "I guess you guys don't want to hear about Sue and Esme sneaking off to P.A. this Saturday to have lunch at Bella Italia when they promised Carlisle and Charlie to stay close to home. Nor do you want to hear that they invited Emmett's and Bella's human incubator to join them." Her tirade over and done with, Alice turned on her heel to get out of the boys' hold and walked into the school building. We just stared after her, ignoring the bell ringing for us to all head to our first hour class. It wasn't until the vice principal herded all the stragglers with the threat of detention that we finally realized where we were and moved out asses inside.

None of us got the chance to talk to Alice again until lunch. She told us that she overheard Esme talking to someone on the phone this morning as she walked into the kitchen for breakfast. She waited for Esme to leave the room before she picked up the phone and hit redial and Rene answered on the other end demanding to know why Esme called her back after she already agreed to the meeting at Bella Italia.

"Well I'll be damned." Emmett has such a way with words.

"I bet you anything this is all going to turn into a smack down!" Alice said gleefully clapping her hands.

"Alice, that wouldn't be a good thing." Edward reminded her. "Can you imagine the headlines? 'Chef of Forks' police arrests wife, ex-wife, and family friend after smack down.' He would never live it down."

"He doesn't have jurisdiction there for one, and I for one would think it would be awesome as all get out. A broken jaw just might be what that woman needs. And I for one would love to go see shit go down."

"I don't." Rose declared. "I don't want to even breathe the same air as that woman." Emmett wrapped his arm around her shoulders and gave her a small hug. "I agree with Rosie, I don't have anything to say to that woman and I seriously doubt anything is going to happen Saturday, Mama Sue works at the hospital. I doubt she will do anything to harm her career."

Edward and I agreed with Em.

"Ally, baby, I'm sure Aunt Sue and Esme are just going to tell her about how they plan on getting a restraining order." Jasper told Alice when she started to pout. "So no one wants to go and spy on Saturday?" She whined.

"No!" We answered as the bell rang to end lunch.

And that was the end of it…or so we thought.

Alice didn't bring the meeting up again that day nor the rest of the week. Neither did the rest of the gang. We had all agreed that this was an issue for the adults to handle as they see fit.

I didn't think anything of it when Mama Sue left early Saturday morning claiming that she was going to go shopping with Esme and that she wouldn't be out for long. Dad tried to insist that Sam or Jacob go with them but Sue said that she could handle herself. I spent the day catching up on homework and playing with Seth since Emmett was spending the day at the Cullen's since he had a day off…some sort of "Man-Day" where Jasper, Edward and himself were going to spend time together playing video games without their women. Leah had Rose over at her place helping her with baby training…in reality Leah got a kick out of Rose's reactions to Cabby and his dirty diapers. I hadn't heard from Alice all morning so when my phone went off around fourish I answered right away, figuring she had been with Leah and Rose all day and needed a break from all the crazy that must have been going on.

"Hey Devil-Pixie." I said into the phone while Seth smashed my action figure to the ground with his. "Has Leah driven Rosalie up a wall yet?"

"Hahaha, funny story. I'm not at Leah's."

I froze my figure in mid attack. "Alice, where are you?"

"Bella Italia of course. I wanted to see what our moms were going to say to Rene."

I felt a head ache coming on. "Alice, do you have any idea how mad Carlisle is going to be at you? Who knows what Rene is capable of! Not to mention how upset Esme will be that you went and spied on her."

"Oh trust me, Mom and Sue already know that I am here. And I doubt my parents are going to be upset with me."

"And why is that?"

"Because as the police were dragging the three of them to the cop cars for disturbing the peace to bring them down to the station, Sue saw me in a corner booth and I was told to call someone to come pick them up."

I was dumb founded. "Alice…sit tight, I will get Charlie and Sam and we will meet you by the station for details."

"Okidokie! And Bella I was so right! It was a smack down like none I have ever seen before!" She hung up before I had a chance to retort.

"Bella, what's wrong?"

"Nothing Seth, let's go find Dad so we can take a little field trip."

Emmett: Ooooooooo! What went down at the restaurant and what does this mean for our heroes? Will they be able to bail our favorite mother's out of the slammer? Will the next chapter be in Alice's point of view? Toon in next time!

Me: Emmett…what are you doing?

Emmett: I figured I would do the trailer for the next chapter.

Me:…..

Emmett: Hey I guess that means she likes it! Be sure to review and let her know what you thought!