Chapter 27: The Volturi

Renesmee's POV

I was terrified right now. I wasn't terrified for myself. Well maybe I was a little scared for myself. It was mostly my baby boy EJ that I was scared for. Aro had a certain look in his eye as he stared at my son that just terrified me.

"Young Renesmee. I see you have a family of your own now" Aro said. "A wolf baby. I could tell just by the scent alone" he said.

EJ clung on tight to me. As a defenseless baby he couldn't do much else.

"and you have humans in your company with human infants of their own. As well as another hybrid " he said as he looked at the rest of my family. It was a statement that sent many more shivers down my spine. "Surely you must know what this means?" he asked.

Actually the thought hadn't occurred to me at all, but now that it did I was absolutely terrified. Humans were forbidden to know about the clandestine world of vampires. This would only mean two fates for my human family. It's either death or vampire life for them now.

I was so absorbed in my thoughts that I didn't realize what Aro was doing until he had already grabbed my hand.

The second that I remembered what his gift was I yanked my hand back. However, it was already to late. All of my past thoughts and memories were his to do with as he pleased, and that scared me to no end. He knew that I had more human family at home that knew the truth. He knew the location of my family now.

I felt my heart triple in speed as I realized that I just accidentally put my family even more danger than they already were in. I was sending another threat their way.

Why in the hell didn't someone tell me that Volterra, Italy is where the Volturi lived?! Why is that of all places in the world that I had to choose the location of the Volturi?!

"Well it looks like we are going to have to pay Carlisle another since he and his coven broke another one of our sacred laws" he said.

The world started to spin around me. I felt someone else hold me up. I looked and saw that it was my sister Sarah.

"See you soon Renesmee" he said before he and Jane left.

It wasn't until we got to the hotel when everyone started throwing questions at me from right to left.

"Who was that?!"

"Is he dangerous?!"

"Why did you bring us somewhere else that was vampire infested?!"

These were just the questions that I was able to hear as everyone was screaming and all the babies were crying at the same time.

"Everyone shut up!" I screamed as loud as I could. Immediately everyone went quiet. Even the babies stopped crying and looked at me in wonder.

"His name is Aro. He's part of the Volturi. They are our version of royalty. They make and enforce all laws. Yes they are dangerous" I said.

"Why did you bring us here then?" Sarah asked.

"I didn't know that this is where they lived. Nobody ever told me. I don't know why. It would have been very useful information" I said.

"Why didn't you know anything about this?" Kimmie asked Noah.

"I never learned much about the Volturi either" he said.

"What are we going to do now?" Mike asked.

"I don't know. We have to do something though. Now they know where our family is and they are in danger" I said.

"Why? What did they do?" asked Sarah.

"Revealing the existence of the supernatural, whether on purpose or by accident, is forbidden by law" I said.

"So what happens now?" asked my sister.

"There are only two options for this type of situation. One the human turns into a vampire, or two, the human gets silenced permanently" I said. Talk about a conversation stopper.

It was Mike who asked "What happens if we don't comply?"

"The Volturi will destroy us all" I said. "Aro has a powerful gift. He can read every thought that we've ever had just by touching us. That's why he's going after the whole family. He thinks we've let to much time to go by without either changing you or-" I couldn't even finish my sentence. Although they seemed to know exactly what I was trying to say.

"So what now?" Sarah asked.

"I don't know. I don't know. I don't know" I said over and over in frustration. I couldn't believe that I had so stupidly got us in this mess.

"For now we just have to sit tight until we can think of something" I said.

They all agreed that was the best plan. We went back to our rooms after that. I didn't exactly have a good night. How could I rest easily knowing that a large coven of powerful vampires that want us all dead is just a few blocks down the street from us?

EJ was also acting very restless for some reason that I couldn't understand. At first I thought that he was just afraid after everything, but something told me that it was something else entirely. My motherly instincts told me that something wasn't right, but I couldn't figure out what it was. It really scared me.

EJ's odd behavior throughout the night only intensified. He simply refused to eat, or sleep, or calm down at all. No matter what I did, nothing worked. He wouldn't even use his gift to talk to me either. He was basically acting like a normal, human baby.

By around 6am I noticed that he was beginning to develop a fever. Right away I panicked, but luckily I had brought some baby medicine. Although I didn't think that I would need to give it to him. The medicine did seem to help him, but he still acted strangely the rest of the day. He was also starting to develop a cough. His fever began to come back and I gave him more medicine, only it didn't work as well as it had the first time. I was starting to get really worried and frustrated that I couldn't figure out what was wrong with him. He was still refusing to eat. Once I had finally got him to eat he threw up like ten minutes later. Now I was really worried.

I decided that it would be best if I just took him to the hospital. None of us wanted to go out unless it was absolutely necessary because we were afraid of another run in with the Volturi, but I wasn't left with a whole lot of options. My baby boy was sick and he showed no signs of getting better any time soon, in fact he was getting worse.

They took their time examining him but they told me that it was just a really bad cold. They gave me some medicine to give him. I left with an uneasy feeling though. I just didn't feel that the diagnosis was right. A cold shouldn't be this bad, right? Or maybe it's just this bad because he's so young. I still didn't believe it. But that was all that I had. I just hoped that they were right, although I had a feeling that they weren't.

I hurried back to the hotel as fast as I could with a crying baby in my arms. I gave him the medicine before giving him a bath. I thought a cold bath might be a good idea to bring down the fever, and also he really needed one period.

The bath did the trick and brought the fever down. It also relaxed him a lot. He fell asleep in the crib that I had rented for him. My eyelids felt heavy suddenly and began to droop close. It seemed like only seconds later that EJ's wailing had woken me up. I looked at the clock and only three and a half hours had gone by.

I ran over to my baby and picked him and right away began rocking him. His fever had returned with a vengeance. This had to be the highest that it had been yet. He kept on crying and coughing. It was torture, my baby was suffering and there was nothing that I could do to make it stop. I gave him more medicine and threw him in the bathtub again.

Soon after he fell asleep again. I had him nestled up against my body as I laid on the bed watching TV. I didn't know what to do. I had no way to help my baby.

After a few more hours I was startled by someone knocking on the door. I ignored it, hoping that whoever it was would just go away. It was probably just a cleaning person.

"Nessie, open the door, it's me" came a very familiar voice.

I sprang to the door as fast as I could in my happiness.

I threw open the door and there stood my grandfather.

"Carlisle!" I shouted in shouted in my shock before throwing my arms around him. He wrapped his arms around me too. We just stayed there hugging for a full moment before we slowly released each other.

"Carlisle what are you doing here? How did you find us? Why are you here?" I asked all of the questions that popped into my mind.

"Alice had a vision of the Volturi coming for us. She sent me to find out why. Although your presence here must be the answer" he said.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know" I said.

"It's not your fault Nessie. We should have taught you more about the Volturi. Then you wouldn't have picked this place" he said

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"So why are you here? Why did Alice send you? Is anybody else here?" I asked. I didn't understand why Alice would send him. He's the leader of the family. He was the most needed back home to take care of the Joham problem.

"Nobody else came. She said that she had a feeling that I was needed here for more reasons than what she could see. It was a gut feeling she had. It still frustrates her to be "blind" as she says" he said. "I didn't figure out that you were here until I came across your scents when I landed at the airport. All I had to do was track you and find out what hotel you were at" he said.

"Well I'm so happy to see you. I really miss everyone and it's nice to see someone from home again" I smiled.

"You have no idea how much I miss you Ness and EJ. Your my granddaughter and he's my great-grandson and I love you both" he said. I couldn't help but cry.

"I love you to gramps" I said.

EJ's loud crying stopped any further conversation. I immediately ran to him again. His fever was as high as ever.

"What's wrong with him Nessie?" came Carlisle's voice from right behind me startling me a little. I hadn't even heard him enter.

"I don't know, he's been really sick for the past few days. I took him to the hospital and they just said that it was a really bad cold. But I don't believe it" I said.

"Here let me look at him" he said with a look of worry on his face.

I watched as my grandfather pulled out some of his medical equipment. Trust my grandfather to bring medical supplies on a trip. He just looked more and more worried as he continued to examine him. I grew more worried as a result. If my grandfather was worried, that was not a good sign to me.

After what seemed like an eternity he finally looked up, but with a grave look on his face.

"I'm right, it's not a cold is it?" I said.

"No, it's something far worse. I think he has lung fever. It's the same thing that Esme's son had as a baby. If he doesn't get the proper treatment soon he'll die" Carlisle said.

My world fell apart.

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