Jacob POV
We had all gathered outside of the house to start the training. According to Alice the Volturi would come within a few days and we all had to be ready. Renesmee, Sam, Edward, Bella and I were standing and watching everyone train as we discussed some of the "plans".
"Your turn Seth!" Jasper yelled and Seth took a leap towards him.
"The packs will all be on the field, ready to attack." Sam said.
"Agreed." I replied.
"I want Seth with me." Renesmee said.
"Why?"
"Because I could need him."
"Renesmee…" I leaned in towards her. "…why? I can protect you" I have to admit I was a little hurt by the fact that she wanted him there and not me.
"It will keep Sarah calm." She said.
"But..."
"Jacob. I think it's for the best." Bella interrupted me and gestured for me to drop it and be silent.
I shook the moment of me as we continued.
"Could Sam's pack stay to the left and Jacob's to the right of us?" Edward asked.
"Yeah, sure."
"Vampires in the middle?" I asked and Edward nodded. "Just like last time."
"But we are going to need Jacob and Ness with us at first." Bella added.
"Our friends will be here any minute now so we will have to elaborate on it later." He continued.
"Can't wait for them all to meet A.J and Sarah." Renesmee said and hugged me.
"They will love them both." Edward smiled and hugged Bella.
"SAM! Your turn!" Jasper yelled and Sam ran off.
We stood there silent for a while and observed them all training. I had Renesmee in my arms and Edward had Bella in his.
"Jacob... Could I talk to you?" Bella asked softly and got out of Edwards arms.
"Yeah sure." I said and kissed Renesmee on the cheek before we walked towards the forest.
Bella POV
I knew I had to talk to Jacob myself about this. Because I didn't want to put more on Renesmee and he knew what I had in mind. I wouldn't have to say it out loud.
"So… What did you want to talk about?" Jacob said as we walked across the field. I made sure we were far away enough so Renesmee couldn't hear us.
"When I tell you tow on the field, you have to listen to me and DON'T argue." I said calmly.
"Bells, what are you talking about?" he said with a frown.
"They will probably be here tomorrow or the day after, we don't have time to argue about all of this and I won't elaborate." I took my fingers and massaged his frown away. "Don't worry. We are all here." I said and leaned my forehead against his.
"MOM! THE DENALI'S ARE HERE!" Renesmee shouted and I looked back at her waving to us.
"Now let's be nice to the guests." I smiled to him and took his hands. "Don't act like a little baby."
He laughed and squeezed my hand as we started walking. "Don't you remember? You are thirty five, I'm thirty two. That makes you the influencer and me the influencee. If I act like a baby it's because you act like a baby." He smiled and let go of my hand to run to Renesmee.
Never in a million years did I expect that one to come back and bite me.
Edward POV
As the Denali's arrived I read their thoughts and thankfully, without even knowing our leverage, they were ready to fight.
"Bebé linda!" Carmen smiled and hugged Renesmee. "How you have grown! I still remember the first time I held you."
"Carmen." Renesmee smiled and greeted the others too.
"I heard your bebe linda had her own." Carmen smiled to me. "Could I see her?"
"I would love for you to meet my angels." Renesmee interrupted us and we lead them inside.
"They are still in bed. Shall I go and get them?" I asked Ness.
"No. Jacob and I will." She smiled as they ran upstairs.
"She has grown into a beautiful young woman." Eleazar smiled.
"She sure has." Carmen and the others agreed.
"She is the perfect mix of you and Bella." Kate smiled and hugged Garrett. She was thinking how much she in this moment wanted kids herself.
"How are you taking the whole…imprinting thing?" Garrett asked me with all the compassion he could give.
"It has been hard." I admitted and put my arm around Bella. "…but it has brought us the most beautiful grandchildren."
"GrandchildREN?" Tanya asked. I and Bella nodded proudly.
"Oh my." Eleazar whispered as Renesmee came downstairs with Sarah and Jacob with A.J. He had started to detect her talent.
"This is our family." Renesmee whispered to Sarah as she inspected everyone. She was a bit unsure if she could trust them or not since she was reading their minds and they were thinking the same. They had only expected one child.
"It's okay." I said to Sarah. "They are here to help us."
"FAMILY!" Anthony shouted and held his arms out to everyone as we laughed.
"May I?" Garrett asked Jacob. He hesitated but handed him over. "Hey. How are you big guy?" he asked and A.J was very pleased to be acknowledged him as big guy.
"Hello sweetheart." Carmen cooed to Sarah as she pulled Renesmee's shirt over her face to hide. "Can I see your beautiful face?" she asked softly. So thrilled about the compliment Sarah peeked her little face out from behind the shirt and showed her face. "You are even more beautiful than your mother was." Carmen gasped.
"Thank you." Sarah mumbled and sat straight up in Renesmee's arms.
"Do you want to go to the nice lady?" Renesmee whispered to Sarah and showed her how nice Carmen was. It eased Sarah's mind and she pressed her face to Renesmee's neck and nodded. "Good girl." Ness rewarded Sarah and handed her to Carmen.
"You might be the most enchanting little creature I have ever laid eyes on." Carmen smiled to Sarah.
"You too." Sarah whispered with an unsure voice.
"Thank you!" Carmen kissed her cheek and we all laughed.
I noticed that Eleazar finally had fully detected Sarah's talent. "Amazing." He whispered and held an arm around Sarah in Carmen's arms. I smiled to Bella.
"Isn't she?" Carmen said and Sarah smiled.
"No." Eleazar said and looked at Renesmee. "I mean yes she is amazing but I was talking about her power. Do you all know about this?"
"We are aware of our daughter's talent." Renesmee smiled and Jacob hugged her.
"Sarah special!" Anthony told us all and tugged on Garrett's hair.
"What's her talent?" Tanya asked and walked up to Sarah.
"She can use other people's talents." Eleazar told her.
"And not only that." I smirked. "She can give out powers."
"Impossible." Kate mumbled.
I walked up to Sarah and Carmen handed her over. "Sarah, could you maybe show Kate your power?" I asked.
"Which?" she whispered to me, fully aware of the fact that she had a lot of it. She suggested trying the new power she found in Kate.
"No not that. It will hurt her." I told Sarah. "Maybe my power?"
She nodded and put her hand out to Kate. I made sure to be in Kate's mind as it all hit. The cold feeling, all of us saying something along the lines of 'I told you so' and the others wondering what was happening.
"Wow." She mumbled and Sarah took back her power.
"See!" Sarah giggled with triumph.
"Good girl." I chuckled and kissed her cheek.
"May I?" Tanya asked and wanted to try the talent herself.
"Here." Sarah smiled and held her hand out.
Renesmee POV – later that day, nighttime.
As Jacob was holding me Sarah was showing everyone her talent. They were all equally amazed as we all had been. I could tell Sarah was enjoying the attention and compliments while A.J was content with being in Jacob's arms with us which was good because it was usually the other way around so to see them step out of their comfort zone assured me that maybe they could live without me.
"Can I go out and play?" A.J asked us.
"No, we have to be with the guests for now." I told him and he pouted. "Later."
"I want to go back to sleep!" he whined and rubbed his eyes.
"I will do it." Jacob sighed.
"Good night big guy." I kissed him on the cheek before Jacob walked up with him and walked over to the others.
"Where did the other cutie go?" Carmen asked.
"He was sleepy." I shrugged my shoulders.
"God I miss sleeping." Garrett mumbled and handed me Sarah.
"The others will be here soon." Alice smiled and ran outside to greet them when they arrived.
"So do you have a plan for when the red coats come?" Garrett asked dad as we all walked out.
"Something like that." He smiled. "We will discuss it when everyone has arrived." He said and patted Garrett on the back.
Jacob came down the stairs and put his arm on the small of my back as we stood on the porch.
"What's going on?" he asked and kissed Sarah on the cheek.
"Senna and Zafrina will soon be here." I said and leaned against him. Just as I said that I heard them making their way through the woods.
"The scary ones with the red eyes?" he mumbled and Sarah twitched at his comment and looked scared.
"Great." I muttered to Jacob. "Sweetie they aren't scary. They have red eyes because they drink blood. Like you do."
"Why aren't mine red?" she asked and held her hand to her eyes.
"Because you aren't full vampire." I explained.
"Don't be scared darling. Daddy was just being silly." Jacob said with a soft voice and stroked her hair.
"Real silly." I muttered and nudged him. "They are here to help us." I smiled to her.
"Nothing will help. Not until she sees it herself at least." My dad mumbled and placed his arm around mom as we waited.
"You are so not getting any tonight." I whispered to Jacob and walked down onto the grass where my parents were. Jacob slowly followed and carefully placed his hand on my shoulder.
As I strained my vision I could see Senna and Zafrina in the dark forest. With quick movements they ran across the open field and greeted everyone.
"Great to see you!" I heard Carlisle say as they embraced.
Sarah pulled on my shirt and motioned us to back away. "Don't worry sweetie." I whispered and kissed her cheek and handed her over to Jacob.
"They only LOOK scary but they aren't." I heard Jacob say.
"Adding fuel to the fire. Drop it." I whispered to Jacob and walked up to Zafrina and Senna. "Hey!" I smiled and hugged them both.
"Renesmee. How you have grown." Zafrina's rough deep voice mumbled in my ear.
"You look the same." I chuckled to Zafrina and hugged Senna real quick.
"Now I believe you have someone to introduce?" Zafrina smiled and looked back at Jacob.
I smiled while we walked over to Jacob who handed Sarah over to me. "Don't be scared." I whispered and kissed her head.
"Hello." Zafrina smiled and bent down to Sarah and me. "We shall be great friends." She said with a wink to me.
"You seem to be great friends with all the Cullen girls." I chuckled and Sarah hid her face against my neck once more.
"No need to be scared." Zafrina said with a soft voice.
"She knows." I said and pulled her back so she looked at us. "Show Zafrina your pretty face." I smiled.
She carefully held her hand out in a strange manner and I only observed. "Here." Sarah said and moved her little fist towards Zafrina like she had thrown something.
Zafrina flinched and stood straight up. "What was that?" she asked and placed her hand on her chest.
"What did you do?" I giggled to Sarah and the next second the somewhat green scenery around me turned white and covered with snow. I laughed and kissed Sarah's cheek as the snow went away.
My dad laughed and walked up to us. "There is something we need to talk about." He said to Zafrina. "Now give back." He murmured with a smile to Sarah.
"Here." She said and gave the power back. "Sorry."
"What are you sorry for?" Zafrina asked.
"We should go inside." I smiled and Jacob and I walked inside with the others. We sat down on the couch and Sarah demanded to sit in her dad's lap and A.J whined for me.
"Mmmmmmm-ommy." He mumbled and played with my ring.
"You know what would be fun?" I whispered in his ear.
"No?" he looked suspicious and excited.
"Zafrina.." I said and she walked over to us. "I want you to meet my beautiful boy." I handed him over.
"You are a tough guy." She chuckled as he played with her hair. "What is your name?"
"William Anthony Jacob Cullen Black." He said flawlessly and triumphant.
"Long name. But a beautiful one." She smiled. "Where is your favorite place?"
He smiled and leaned against her ear and I heard his gentle whisper. "Mommy and daddy's arms."
She smiled gently and he giggled.
"Someplace like… the park." I explained.
He thought about it for a second and jumped up in Zafrina's arms as he knew what to say. "FOREST!"
Jacob laughed with pride. "Wolf boy." He smirked to me.
"Forest it is." Zafrina said and I saw his little eyes look around in wonder.
"Woooooow." He whispered. "Mommy?" he said and held his hand out to me.
"It's fine." I smiled and took his hand. "I'm here."
"He is so cute." I heard Esme whisper from the corner of the room. His eyes locked on me as Zafrina took the vision away. He let out a big laugh and clapped his hands.
"Was that fun?" Jacob asked from the couch.
"YES!" He squeaked as Zafrina handed him over to me.
The kids only had energy to stay awake for a while so we decided to put them in our bed so we could cuddle up to them later.
"How are we going to use Sarah's ability to our advantage?" I asked.
"Renesmee and Jacob…" dad said and pointed at us. "…you two have to be here before it all starts. Then we have to have a smooth escape for Renesmee and the kids down to the basement."
"Sounds good." I agreed.
"Just keep one of the windows open." Bella said and pointed to a small rectangular window at the bottom of the house. "They can easily slide down there."
"Why do we even need a plan? If they attack we attack and kill them." Jacob snarled.
"Jacob, it isn't that simple. We won't kill them unless we have to." mom explained.
"Why not?" he moaned irritated.
"It would cause to much attention." dad said. "We will only do it if we have to."
"But.."
"Jacob." I interrupted him and shook my head.
"Fine." he mumbled.
"Now we will have to choose who will get what talent. Who can use or need it the most." dad said.
"If Sarah will be able to use The Volturi's powers we won't have to worry at all." mom said quickly.
"As we can see her talent is strong. She picks up on it quickly. In a matter of seconds." Zafrina said.
"Renesmee needs a damaging talent. Just in case." Jacob said.
"I'm fine. Give it to someone who needs it in the fight." I insisted. A part of me wanted it just in case but another part of me didn't want it to go so far that I needed a talent.
"She will get one." My dad said and looked at me. Damn..
No use to insist once more that I don't need it? I thought to my dad and sighed. He just shook his head. I rolled my eyes and saw Kate deep in thought.
"She can give a talent to someone who already has one." He said to her.
"Oh." Kate whispered in a surprise over my dad's annoying talent. "Now I think that Garrett should get one too." She continued and I got enough of this 'talent talk' and decided to go upstairs and get in the bed with Sarah and Anthony.
Neko Case- Don't forget me
I snuck in the bed and made sure not to wake them as their little golden eyelids were shut. My hands caressed Sarah's long locks as they laid spread out over the pillow. Anthony's hair was now down to his chin and a small ponytail had started to form in the back. Jacob had insisted that we would let it grow long even though I was highly against it. I thought a short hairstyle suited him, it made him look a bit more like Jacob. My father told me over and over again that Jacob had long hair before he became a werewolf so maybe we should let Anthony's hair grow out and see how he liked it. But I think my dad finally had come to terms with the fact that women would always have the say in this family. We could probably not even think about cutting Sarah's hair without her getting upset. But I liked her hair long, it reminded me of myself at that "age."
"I like my hair." She mumbled and cuddled up closer to me.
"I'm sorry. Did I wake you?" I whispered.
She shook her head and ran her fingers through my bangs. "I want long hair like you."
I lightly chuckled and pulled her closer. "You have long hair."
"I want longer." She whispered like it was a secret that no one could know.
"Then we will let it grow out." I smiled and put her hair like a mustache on her upper lip. It brought me back to the memory of when Jacob did that on our first date. God…my life has been such a blessing and I don't want to let it go. I want these little creatures in my life forever.
"Are we going somewhere?" she asked and blinked her eyes.
"What have I said about digging around in people's brain?" I pushed out a smile and kissed her forehead.
"Sorry." She mumbled and played with my wedding ring. "This is so pretty."
"Thank you. I think so." I smiled and held my hand out to display it.
"I want one of these one day." She said and I could almost see her princess dreams in front of me.
"You will." I kissed her forehead again. "I promise."
"But mine will be bigger." She giggled.
I heard Anthony let out a whimpering yawn and he rubbed his eyes. "Mommy?" he whispered.
"And Sarah." She whispered and hugged him.
"We were just talking about girl things." I said and pushed his bangs back. "How are you doing under there?"
"Good." He giggled.
" We should cut your bangs soon." I said.
"NO!" he said and put his hands on his head. "I want long hair."
"You won't be able to see soon." I laughed.
"I don't need to." He pouted and hid his face next to Sarah's shoulder.
"Okay. But don't come crying to me when you walk straight into a wall." I said and he just kept pouting.
"Are there more people coming here?" Sarah asked.
"Yes. Tomorrow." I said and played with her hair.
"Are they nice?" Anthony murmured.
"Yes." I chuckled. "They are all nice. They are here to help."
"For what?" Anthony looked up at me with big eyes.
"Because people are coming to hurt us." Sarah said. It felt like I lost my mind for a second as panic struck.
"Hurt us?" Anthony whimpered.
"Yes." Sarah said.
I was frozen. The pain of knowing my children felt fear killed me.
"I won't let them." I said franticly but tried to keep calm.
"I know." Sarah smiled and Anthony cuddled up closer to her. "She won't let them."
I was once again frozen. My daughter. My now six months old daughter who looked like a small two year old knew I would never let anyone hurt either one of them. I would never be able to comprehend how intelligent they are. It still feels like I saw their faces for the first time yesterday. It still felt like it was yesterday I felt them kick inside me.
"Why do they want to hurt us?" A.J asked.
"Because they.."
"It's complicated." I interrupted Sarah. "But we will do everything in our power to keep you safe."
"Will we have to leave you and daddy?" he asked.
"Daddy and I will always be with you." I whispered and pointed to his heart as Sarah laid in between us and watched. I laid my hand carefully on his chest and Sarah laid hers on mine and Anthony followed.
"Seth too?" Sarah asked.
"Seth too." I smiled. "I have something for you two." I said and got out of bed.
"Presents!" Anthony squeaked and they sat up in bed. I opened my drawer and picked up the little blue box.
"What is that?" Sarah asked as I walked back to the bed and sat down again.
"It's a gift." I said and opened the box and put it down in front of them.
Sarah's face was priceless. Her mouth formed into an O and Anthony looked a bit confused.
"So pretty." She smiled and let her little fingers run along the necklace. "Mine?"
"Yours." I smiled and picked it up. It was a flat round little silver pendant with inscriptions on it.
"Que Quowle?" she asked as she read it and Anthony picked up his own.
"It's in Quileute meaning 'Stay with me forever'." I said and helped Sarah put hers on.
"Me too?" Anthony asked and I helped him. I watched them admire each others necklaces and thought back to the first time Jacob had said those words to me.
"It says something on the back too." Sarah said as she held Anthony's necklace.
"What does it say?" he asked.
"It's a bunny." I chuckled.
"Bunny? Does mine have something?" Sarah asked.
"A butterfly." I laughed.
They looked confused at each other.
"Why?" they both asked.
"Long story." I said to avoid the answer and hugged them. "Now promise not to lose them."
"Never." Sarah smiled and looked at it.
"We promise to stay with you forever." Anthony smiled.
Jacob POV
"Okay so we have it all planned out?" I asked. My brain was starting to hurt after all this talk.
"Yes." Edward chuckled. "Now go to sleep. You must be tired."
"You got that right." I mumbled and hugged Bella. "Good night."
"Good night, Jacob." She smiled.
"Sleep tight." I chuckled to all the vampires and walked upstairs.
"Never." I heard Sarah say as I walked in the hallway.
"We promise to stay with you forever." Anthony said as I walked in the room. I saw Renesmee sitting on the bed with the kids.
"What are you guys talking about?" I asked and walked up to the bed. Anthony stood up and hugged me.
"Nothing." Ness said and I could clearly tell it was something. She put a little blue box away and I remembered it. She had packed it in the last second.
"Okay." I said and thought we will take it later. "Now shouldn't you two be sleeping?" I said and threw A.J next to Sarah as they laughed.
"MOMMY WOKE US UP!" Sarah laughed and pulled the covers over herself and A.J.
"Oh sure. Blame it on mommy." I said and played stern. "I'm going to have to tickle you to sleep if you don't start snoring soon."
They laughed franticly and wrapped their arms around each other under the covers. "Shh!" I heard A.J whisper through a giggle.
"I don't hear snoring." I said. They giggled and I slowly grabbed the covers by the end. As I heard them laughing even more I pulled the covers of and let out a playful growl. They both screamed through their laughter's and wrapped their arms around each other again.
"DADDY!" Sarah laughed as I tickled her kicking feet.
"You don't want me to tickle you?" I laughed.
"NO!" she squeaked and A.J laughed.
"Okay!" I said and abruptly stopped. They looked at me with smiles and waited for me to attack again.
"You two should really sleep." Renesmee smiled and got the covers of the floor.
I wrapped my arms around her and tickled her as much as I could. The kids started laughing even more and Renesmee squeaked at my touch.
"STOP IT!" she shouted and laughed. "JACOB PLEASE!" I could almost HEAR the tears from laughter coming.
"Well then why did you wake them up?" I laughed and the kids started jumping in bed. "Huh?"
"GO DADDY!" Anthony laughed.
"JACOB." Renesmee whimpered and I stopped. She looked over at the kids as they laughed. "Oh it's funny huh?"
"YES!" Sarah and A.J said.
"We will see about that." She smirked and jumped up on the bed to tickle them. They both started to laugh and scream again.
I carefully took the covers up and as Renesmee stopped and stood up I put the covers over them. They still laughed but finally the laughs turned into yawns.
"Told you I would tickle you to sleep." I smiled to them as their eyes shut. Renesmee leaned her head against my shoulder and yawned herself. "Sleep?"
"Sleep." She agreed and we carefully laid down with the kids in the middle of us.
"I love you." I murmured before my eyes shut.
"I love you more." Was the last thing I heard.
One last chapter left before the fight. Are you excited? :) Now is the time to leave last suggestions for the fight and what happens since I will now start writing it.
