Hey there!
So here is chapter three!
I also had to repost chapter two, because of some mistakes I hadn't been aware of earlier, but there is absolutely no change in the plot or anything significant so you don't have to read it again!
Also, how about you review? Constructive criticism is always appreciated, so feel free to point out any mistakes! Enjoy!
-Emma
DISCLAIMER: I do not own anything. This story is merely a way of a fan to prolong their enjoyment of one of their favorite books!
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Where do you go after everything is destroyed? When your entire world has been crashed into pieces so small they seem impossible to fit back together?
We didn't go anywhere. We went home. But home wasn't home for a long time, I think. I remember Mom and Daddy and Jake, they were all so relieved. We hadn't won entirely, but we also hadn't lost, we were all alive and for the time being, safe.
We were all so happy with our friends, celebrating the victory, talking to the only other half- vampire we knew. I remember it all in a rather blurry way, going slightly out of focus at the edges. I was younger then obviously and that's how I justify the memory loss.
Then, after they left, our friends, our ally's, we all felt a bit empty. We got on with our lives, settled in a slow domestic routine, explored just how, well normal life could be.
It was fantastic. I got so used to it, that the stress and fear in Alice's voice caught me completely of guard and scared me beyond belief.
Was something like before going to happen again? Would we be standing before the dark cloaked monsters again and have them hold council for our lives? Would we, this time, really completely lose? Would we die?
I was overreacting, I knew, but my mind couldn't help but conjure up the most horrible possibilities.
I realized that somehow, tragedies in my family always started with Alice having a vision.
Would this be another tragedy, I wondered as I stared at the ceiling of my bedroom. Beside me Jake was fast asleep and with his steady breathing to help me I felt myself drifting of to, losing myself in the whirl of darkness and strange thoughts.
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"Renesmee, honey?"
Was that Daddy's voice?
"It's time to get up."
Oh. My eyes fluttered open and I found myself to be lying cozily nested in my bed. It was morning already. Next to me Jacob lay, still snoring.
"Morning Daddy." I mumbled, still feeling sleepy.
"Why don't you get dressed and then come to the living room, Bella and I want to talk to you."
"About yesterday?"
"Yes, about yesterday. I'm sorry we scared you sweetie."
"Okay."I rubbed my eyes and stepped out of my bed, careful not to wake Jacob.
Daddy smiled at me and looked at Jacob, lifting an eyebrow.
I shrugged and smiled back, then headed to my bathroom. Behind me I heard him leave the room quietly.
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Momma and Daddy were sitting on one of the worn out couches in our living room. Upon my entrance, Mom looked up from her book and put it aside as she greeted me with a smile. "Hello Renesmee honey. How did you sleep?"
"Okay." I curled up in my favorite armchair across from where my parents were sitting and studied their guarded expressions carefully.
Something had happened. Alice had seen something.
"What did you want to talk about?" I asked. " Aunt Alice saw something, didn't she? Something bad?"
"I'm sorry we scared you yesterday." Daddy looked uncomfortable. "Alice was just overreacting a bit."
"Over reacting a bit?" I was vaguely aware my voice was doing that same shrill thing Aunty Alice did when she was upset.
"Daddy, she said they were coming to ruin our life's. Who is they? The Volturi?"
"Renesmee, yes, Alice had a vision , but nothing like that!"Mom said.
"Then what!"
Alice must have seen something really terrible if they couldn't tell me! I knew it was the Volturi, I just knew! Who else could she have been talking about? We were all going to die!
"No!" Daddy snapped. "That is not happening and It's not what Alice saw!"
Momma turned to Daddy a question arising on her face. "Edward?"
"Well what did she see then!" I was starting to get frustrated. Were they seriously going to not tell me?
"It's just nothing important Renesmee, It's nothing you have to worry about."
Stupid father with his stupid mind reading!
He actually had the decency to look hurt.
I turned to look at Momma. "Where were you yesterday night?" I asked.
"Out hunting."
"You're lying!" I cried out.
"What?"
I turned around to see a very sleepy Jacob behind me.
He rubbed his eyes. "Why are you all yelling?"
"Were not yelling!"the three of us screamed in unison.
Jacob's face went blank."Okay." he said and silently backtracked into the kitchen.
The moment he was gone through the door I burst out crying.
What was so bad they couldn't tell me?
"Renesmee, no!" Daddy was moving towards me but I held out my hand, telling him to keep his distance.
"Okay honey." Mom had gotten up from the couch. "Okay, calm down. I promise nothing bad has happened, okay."
"Then what did happen?"
Mom looked at Daddy and he sighed.
"We can't tell you Renesmee."
Why did everything have to be so darn complicated!
The door to the kitchen was opened forcefully and Jacob rushed into the room carrying a cup of coffee.
"What's going on?" he demanded. "Nessie, are you okay?"
"She's fine." Daddy snapped.
Wrong thing to say to an overprotective werewolf when It's something concerning his imprint.
Jacob pulled me into a hug and stared at Daddy with furious disbelief."She's crying!"
"They won't tell me Jake, they won't tell me anything."
It was all to much! They had to tell me! They just had to!
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They didn't tell me.
Instead they sent me away with Jacob, completely ignoring me and my request to see Aunty Alice.
They told Jacob to take me and go to La Push to spend the day there. And that was it. Nothing more.
I was furious.
( "Renesmee, we have things to attend to, and you like spending time with Jacob, don't you?" But Alice!" I told you, it was nothing1" "Why won't you speak the truth!")
Why were they being so ridiculous! I wanted to scream. Did they think I would just believe them!
Jacob didn't know. He looked rather confused, but Daddy had told him that it was important and he had taken me with him.
So now, we were speeding down the highway to La Push.
Within two minutes of driving, Jacob's phone rang and he pulled over on the side of the highway talk to Daddy. (Caller ID is everything.)
He got out of the car to talk and closed the door behind him, so that I couldn't hear what he was saying, but I could see him pacing while talking and he looked angry and frustrated.
After half an hour(!) during which I amused myself with listening to fall out boy on the car radio, he hung up and got into the car, which he started silently and suddenly we were driving on the road again.
"Jake?" I asked softly .
"Yeah?"
"He told you about what Alice saw, didn't he."
"Yeah."
"You can't tell me?"
"No."
"Please? I'm twelve Jacob, almost thirteen. I can handle it."
"You're not twelve."
"You know what I mean."
Silence.
"Alice saw someone. . . coming."
My heart skipped a beat.
"Coming to get us?"
"That's what she thought at first, that's why she was freaking out."
"But. . .?"
"But now she thinks that someone is coming to seek safety among the Cullen's."
"Oh." I breathed. "Jacob, Who? Why?"
"Ness, I really can't tell you more." He looked uncomfortable and my heart filled with love and warmth for my best friend. He obviously wanted to tell me, but my parents were forbidding it.
I smiled reassuringly ar him. "Okay." I said. "Thank you Jake."
He let out a breath and then smiled at me. "Always Nessie."
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"So, what's the plan for the rest of the day?"
Me and Jacob were lounging on his couch watching some stupid program on TV that resembled a soap opera. Except everyone had a gun and someone was apparently undercover. Don't ask.
I wasn't really paying attention anyways, my mind was focused on what Jacob had told me earlier.
Someone was coming to the Cullen's. To find a sanctuary.
So they were in danger or being chased by someone. Who?
My brain immediately went to what was my biggest fear, the greatest danger I could imagine. The Volturi.
There were many possible people who would be fleeing from the tyrants and many who thought that because the Cullen's had "defeated" the Volturi (which is not what actually happened. Alice had outsmarted the Volturi and forced them to back down or face possible failure,) , they would be safe with them. That thought made me feel rather panicked. They would not be safe with my family, they would only be endangering us.
"We finish watching this ridiculous show, cook dinner, and Edward said he would pick you up at seven."
"Sounds like a plan. What should we make for dinner?"
Jacob shrugged. "Spaghetti? You like that right?"
Then a new thought seemed to dawn on him. " Or wait, do you need to go hunting?"
"I think I'm fine if I don't go for one day."
"Are you sure?"
I smiled at him. Silly overprotective werewolf.
"I'm fine, but I am hungry. Can we start cooking now?"
"Sure Nessie." He smiled back at me and got up, heading for the kitchen.
Ten minutes later the sauce was slowly simmering on the stove with the noodles cooking in a pot next to it. Jacob was grating cheese and I was making a salad in a giant salad bowl.
It occurred to me that a lot of the time we spent together was cooking and eating. When I said that aloud Jacob laughed at me.
"Well, I like to eat. Especially if we've cooked the food together."
I grinned at him."Me to. Hey, don't eat the cheese! It's for the Spaghetti."
"It's for eating!"
"With the Spaghetti." I said and took the plate of grated cheese away from him.
"Hey!"
"Oh, you can wait for two minutes."
He pouted. "No."
I couldn't help but laugh at the face he was pulling.
"The food will be ready in one minute." I informed him.
He sighed theatrically and sent me into a fit of laughter. "Fine."
In the background the phone rang.
"I'll get it." I sang and ran towards the living room,.
"Hello?" I picked up the phone.
"Renesmee?"
"Hello Mom."
"Honey is it okay if I come over in a few minutes?"
"Uhm, but it isn't seven yet and we're just having dinner."
"I know, but I want to talk to you."
"Really talk?
"Yes."
Like trust me enough to tell me what this is all about?"
There was a pause.
"Yes. "
"Okay, see you in a few minutes."
I hung up the phone and spun around to see Jacob standing behind me.
"What's up?" He asked.
"Uhm, Mom's coming over to talk to us."
He looked relieved. "Okay Ness. Let's eat now, then."
"Let's."
The doorbell rang when I was halfway through my bowl of Spaghetti.
"She rings the doorbell?!" Jacob muttered beside me. "She used to just come bouncing in no matter if you wanted her here or not."
I giggled and went to open the door.
That sounded like a fun version of Momma.
"Renesmee!"
And I was pulled into Mom's cold arms for a hug that left me in need for air.
"I'm so sorry about this morning honey! We just weren't sure what was going on and we didn't want you to worry!"
She let out a small laugh.
"That obviously didn't work."
"It's okay Mom."
"Bells come on in!" Jacob had made his way to the door and ushered us inside.
"Okay Mom, tell me what Alice saw. Except for someone coming to the Cullen's for sanctuary"
"How do you know that?"
"Uhm."
"Werewolf couldn't keep his mouth shut, eh?"
Jacob scowled at her. "It's not fair to keep everything from her. She's a part of it to and you were freaking her out.
"Hhm." Mom pursed her lips.."I suppose so. We didn't mean to."
"Scaring people just comes with the whole vampire thing, right Bells?"
"Ugh, Jacob, we don't have time for your vampire jokes."
I giggled.
"Nessie thinks they're funny."
"She was laughing at my joke."
"Shut up you guys." I muttered as I sat down in the couch.
"Bella, tea?" Jacob offered. With milk? Or rather blood?"
Mom scowled but I couldn't help but smile. "Not funny Jake."
"Whatever you say." With a chuckle he disappeared into the kitchen and Mom placed herself on the couch next to me.
"Can we talk now?" I asked her hopefully.
"Yes. But you need to know that while we are in a critical situation everything is going to be fine, okay?
"Mom!"
Just get to the point already!
"Okay, Renesmee. I trust you not to freak out on me honey."
"Good, cause I'm almost thirteen you know."
"I know, believe me. Alright, yesterday, you were with Jacob right?"
"Hhm."
"Well, when you were gone, Alice had a vision."
"Right." I nodded. " A vision of someone coming for us."
"Exactly."
"Did she see who it was?"
"Nahuel."
"Nahuel!" I echoed. Nahuel was the only other (with his sisters) of my kind and I owed my life to him!
When we had been about to start the fight with the Volturi, when Aunt Alice had appeared, Nahuel in tow, and with his testimony, we managed to avoid the battle, in which surely I or my beloved friends and family would have been killed
"So you remember him." All traces of a smile were wiped of her face.
But she had said he was coming for us. Or running to us.
"What exactly did Alice see?" I whispered hoarsely.
"Nahuel running, running in our direction, the Volturi following him, him leading them to us to battle."
Oh.
I felt like I couldn't breathe.
Figures cloaked in black clouded my memories, saying I was a danger, that me and my loved ones had to die. . .
"He turned on us?"
"No." Mom actually smiled and her smile looked real. For about one second until it faded of her face again.
"Alice's interpretation was wrong. He was not leading the Volturi here, or anywhere, they were following him, he was running from them. Going to us for safety."
"And you know this how?" I demanded.
"Your father read his mind of course."
"Oh." I breathed. "Mom, where is he? Is he our house? If the Volturi are chasing him, then we are in danger to! What are we going to do?"
"Calm down honey. They don't know he's with us."
What? This was all going to fast.
"I don't understand." I said shaking my head. "Nahuel is in our house and he's running from the Volturi to us? Why is he running? Why come to us? He's dangerous! You sent him away, right?"
She didn't say anything.
"RIGHT?"
Mom shook her head silently. "You're freaking out.
"Of course I am! We don't play with fire for a reason!"
Jacob entered the room behind me and sat down next to me pulling me into his arms.
"Bella, I think you should start at the beginning. And then we can tear that bloodsucker to shreds since Nessie doesn't want him here."
She threw him a sour look and muttered something under her breath that sounded suspiciously like I'm gonna tear you into shreds.
"Fine."
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Want to hear the story? Want to see another one of my life tragedies?
Let me set the scene for you.
A very confused-looking for a life purpose-because father is a total failure- Nahuel.
A city in Italy.
Aro.
The scene on the confrontation has settled.
Nahuel has just left the safety of the lovely Cullen's, the perfect family, the one he would have liked to have himself. A mother, a father, a child, who love each other unconditionally and are willing to fight till death for each other.
He has just helped save them.
His world has been shattered into even smaller pieces than ours.
Once again, where do you go?
Well, you certainly don't go back home, kill your father in rage, and set out to find a life.
No, you don't do that.
You also, while doing precisely that, do not become overwhelmed by guilt and have a panic attack. Furthermore, during that panic attack you do not end up in Italy. You do not get found by Aro ripping apart houses in a small Italian town. You are most certainly not granted mercy by him, under one small condition. You have to accept the gift of a large black cloak. You do absolutely not become the first half vampire of the Volturi guard.
Or maybe you do.
Nahuel, in a hysterical, vulnerable not really understandable state joined the guard. He was not able to think, because Chelsea bound hm to Aro so much he forgot his bonds with everyone else. Even that little half vampire girl with the chocolate brown eyes he promised he would never harm.
The bond was broken when Chelsea was killed.
He realized whom he was with.
What he was doing.
Then he ran.
Running from the Volturi? Not a good idea.
Because, they chase you.
Let's move on to act two now.
I give to you: My family who are the only known vampires who have gone up against the Volturi and won and are also to kind to say no when someone is seeking safety among them.
Alice, a vampire who can see the future and everything in between
Nahuel, being chased like crazy and also running towards us with the Volturi so close behind, It's spitting distance. At least for a vampire.
So when Aunty Alice had a vision, she saw, a picture full of terror, Nahuel's terror, except for at the time she thought the fear in that picture was her own. When Aunty Alice first saw the picture, she saw Nahuel with the Volturi, coming towards us, arriving just in time for Grandpa's wedding.
Coming , she thought, maybe to kill us, but she found it more likely to imprison us, to take away our lives forever. (Hence, the moments talk.)
Then, when I set my stupid mouth off about the wedding, she cracked.
Stupid, stupid me.
At that point, while I was having a hysterical breakdown along with Alice, Momma and Grandpa and Grandma and Aunt Rose and Emmett, were out with the wolves, trying to stop Nahuel who was still many kilometers ahead of the guard , trying to convince him not to lead them to us, but take them away and protect us, once more.
He said he was running from them, not leading them to us, he said he needed to get away from them. And, because my family seems to want to get in trouble, they came up with a plan to distract the Volturi and lead them somewhere else(Don't ask me how they did it. When I asked Mom she clamped up and wouldn't tell me.)
And took an ex-member of the guard home with them.
While he slept they sent me away for the day with Jake, out of fear he hadn't been telling the truth and wanted to hurt me. When he woke up, They all talked, and Daddy read his mind, and he was speaking the truth!
"Honey", Mom, said from the couch across the room. "He wants to see you."
"No."
Next to me Jacob sat, who had not uttered word during the entire story, now looking furious.
"I don't think so Bella."
"Jake, I. . ."
"No!" He said forcefully. "Why would you let him see Nessie?I can't believe he's even still here! I would have thought he had left! Why hasn't he left yet?"
"But you said. . .!"
"Send him away Bella!"
"I can't. Where would he go?"
"It's none of our business! You already saved him! And that was fine, good even! But he can't stay!Now make him leave before the Volturi figure out where he is hiding and come to burn us to ashes for hiding a criminal."
"He is not a criminal1"
"According to them he is! That's how it works in a dictatorship!"
I started crying softly.
Burn. We were going to burn. And then another thought hit me. If we didn't protect him, Nahuel was going to burn.
Jacob turned back to me and looked like he had just killed a baby kitten by mistake at the sight of my tears. "Nessie, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to yell!"
With a sigh he dropped back down next to me and t cuddled up against him. I was amazing how quickly I could make his mood go from furious to sorry and reasonable.
I wiped the tears from my face with the back of my hand.
"I think I would like to see him." I said quietly.
Jacob sighed.
"It's so dangerous Ness."
"But if Daddy read his mind then we know he won't hurt me.
"But what if he does!"
He turned to Bella. "You're not really letting him stay with you, are you?"
Mom sighed. "We haven't decided yet."
She paused.
"But Jake, what happened was not his fault, it wasn't at all. The Volturi are at the other end of the world right know, thinking that they are chasing Nahuel, while he is here instead." She sounded a bit frustrated.
"I know It's putting us in danger, but. . . I feel responsible towards him. We should help him.
I watched the two in silence. They had just gone from a screaming match to calmly discussing the matter.
I couldn't quite make out how I myself felt about this. For one thing, I was scared as hell. If the Volturi found out where he was, they would come back to us and kill us all.
The thought of Nahuel endangering us like that without a second thought made me incredibly mad! We didn't have top help him! Most likely, by taking him in, we had sighed our own death contracts.
And then, the other thought I was trying to compress because I knew it wasn't good, was sympathy. He had been manipulated by the monsters. Been forced into something against his will and now that he had managed to break free, he needed someones help.
I would have loved to help him, but i knew I shouldn't.
But maybe. . .
Maybe I could just talk to him. Because there was also some excitement there. He was of my kind! I felt the urge, to simply because of thar, hear him out.
Beside me, Mom and Jacob were still talking, and it was getting late.
I stiffeled a yawn.
Mom smiled at me.
"Nahuel will be staying with us at least for the next two days. So how about Renesmee satay here tonight with you Jacob and tomorrow, maybe she could talk to Nahuel for just a few minutes?"
After a long pause, Jacob reluctantly agreed. "But Bella", he said as she had already gotten up to leave. "If he shows any signs he wants to hurt you , our us, send him away. Please, don't endanger her even more."
Mom hugged Jacob lightly. " It's so hard for me to. I want to protect Renesmee to, I just. . . I feel like she should see him and I feel like we should help him."
Jacob nodded. "G'dnight Bells."
"Night Jake. I love you Renesmee."
"I love you to." I replied and then she was gone.
We had been talking for four hours. I felt exhausted.
A huge yawn almost split my head apart.
" Time to go to bed?" Jacob asked me and grinned.
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I sat across the half vampire at the big house .
Next to me was Jacob, holding me protectively. The rest of my family stood by, anxious.
I was, honestly, thrilled! Nahuel looked very much the same when I had first met him and he was . . . well, he was like me! He smelled like me! It was strange, but also oddly enticing.
"Nahuel." I said in a clear voice. And then I surprised everyone, even myself.
"I will help you."
Around me my family, shocked by my words, started anxiously talking amongst themselves and Jacob growled next to me.
"Renesmee!" Daddy said urgently. "You can't just say that! We have to . . ."
I ignored him and turned to look Nahuel straight in the eye as Jacob tensed up next to me.
"I promise." I said. "I promise that we will help and protect you."
Around me everything was silent.
It was a flash in my thoughts, really. Everything told me I couldn't leave him to burn. That would be like giving up your brother to the fire. I suddenly felt a connection to him.
No, he wouldn't die.
All my anger, my doubts about our safety flew out the window. I felt like he was a part of my family, a brother whom I desperately had to protect.
He lowered his head, clearly stunned by my words.
"Renesmee Cullen, I thank you immensely"
And so it began.