BELLA

They made their way across the road, as they got closer I could see the protruding bulge Angela had for a stomach.

"Hey!" She called. "It's great to see you, you haven't changed a bit," she said to us. We smiled.

"And you Angela, only I see you have changed," Edward laughed looking at her stomach. "Congratulations."

"Thank you," she said with a smile and put her hand on her stomach. "Ben and I weren't expecting to have a baby just yet, we're getting married in the fall, the baby just came along," she laughed. I smiled; I knew exactly how she felt. "Do you have children yet?" she asked. If my heart beat could pick up it would have. I shook my head, fully aware that there were two beautiful children behind me that were one hundred percent my own.

"Not yet," Edward said and squeezed my hand.

"Are you planning to have any or is it not your thing?" She asked. I noticed how Angela gained her confidence over the years, she'd probably never had asked us this sort of thing before.

"We're not sure yet." Edward answered for us. Angela nodded understandingly.

"Oh, who is this?" she asked when she caught the sight of Eddie and Renesmee.

"This is my brother, Edmund and Bella's cousin Renesmee. They've come to live with us for a while." He said. I assumed he thought the resemblance between us was too similar.

"Oh, I didn't know you had a brother from your birth family," she said. "Nice to meet you Edmund and Renesmee," she said to them. Renesmee smiled at her.

"You too," she said, "did you go to school with Edward and Bella?" She asked. Angela nodded.

"So did Ben," she said and took his hand in hers. Ben was quiet. He hadn't said anything yet, he was just looking at us all one by one.

"Well it's good to see you Angela, We have to get back, lots of things to do," Edward said with a light hearted laugh.

"Of course, well I was glad that I saw you, we are living in Oregon now, and we were just coming to see old friends and my parents. We were going to stop by and invite you to our wedding; only your house was empty. We went to see your father and ask where you moved but we noticed he moved as well." Angela said to me. Charlie had moved to live in La Push with Sue when they got married.

"Oh well, Edward and I would love to come, I'll stop by your parents' house later and you can let me know where and when," I said with a smile.

"Ok!" she said excitedly. "I'll see you soon."

"Bye Angela, bye Ben," I said.

"Bye," everyone said to each other and we walked our separate ways. I let out a large sigh. Edward laughed at my side.

"They haven't changed at all! They still look seventeen; I wish I still looked seventeen." I heard Angela say to Ben across the road. I heard Ben agree with her and assure her she was a youthful twenty five before they walked into a shop.

"She was nice," Renesmee said from my side. I took her hand in mine. I hated denying she was my daughter.

"She was, she was the closest I had to a best friend in Forks High School," I said to her.

"I thought Jacob was your best friend." She said, I heard Eddie snigger from the other side of Renesmee, I glared at him.

"He was and still is, but he didn't go to the same school as me."

"Oh," she murmured. "Sorry you had to say no," she said and took a step closer to my side. I lifted her hand and kissed it. I knew what she was talking about.

"It's okay baby," I whispered. She was sorry that I had to deny I had children. I honestly thought she would hate it more than I did, but she was the one comforting me.

We made our way to the car and Edward drove us home. We stopped by La Push to drop Renesmee and Eddie off before we made our way to our house. When we got in we went straight to the basement. Carlisle was sitting with Emma; Emma was slouched over with her arms behind her still tied to the wall.

"Carlisle," Edward said and handed him the book.

"Well done son," Carlisle said approvingly and opened the book at the first page. "Did Anne get this for you?" he asked looking through the book.

"Yes, she also gave Eddie a book about his kind. It looks like there are more like him. He is reading it now, I'm sure he'll let you have a look when he's done."

"Oh that's wonderful! I never thought to go and see if Anne had anything on him."

"Carlisle she knows all about Renesmee and she said she's met some like her, why didn't we go and see her when we wanted to know more about Nessie?" I asked.

"She's only just come back into town, otherwise I would have." He said not looking up from the book. He stood up and carried the book over to Emma. He knelt down to her level. "Hmm," he murmured and stood back up again. "It seems like this is what is possessing Emma. What do you think?" he asked pointing at a description of a demon in the book. Edward nodded.

"That's the first one I thought of too. It's possible."

"The only thing is how do we get it out of her?" he asked flicking through the book again.

"Anne told us of three ways," Edward said. He explained the methods and Carlisle dismissed the idea of us doing it ourselves straight away.

"I have a friend, he's a priest. He might help, he owes me a favour," Carlisle said and put the book down on the chair.

"Are we doing this now?" I asked my voice rising.

"Not yet. Tonight maybe. We need to know if it's even possible, like Edward said; the word of god may not help us. We will need to move her to holy ground."

"That's a myth though right? That we can't stand on holy ground?" I asked Edward he nodded.

"We can but because we are not true 'creations of god' we need to be careful where we do this ritual."

"But we are not evil. I know that. We've never taken a human life. Well I haven't, neither has Carlisle. Our souls are still pure... ish... right?" I asked. Edward shrugged.

"Why do you think I was so reluctant to change you Bella? I don't believe my soul is undamaged. I'm not even sure if I believe yours is, and that's what will torture me for the rest of my existence."

"Edward. How can you believe your wife has a damaged soul? You have seen her with your children; you know how much she cares for everyone. There is no way in this world that Bella has a broken soul. Her soul is complete." Carlisle said. I smiled at him and turned to Edward. "We will see what we have to do Edward. You may not be able to take part in the exorcism but I'm pretty sure Bella can."

"I don't want her in there without me when this happens," Edward said and pulled me to him.

"I'll be fine Edward," I said and pulled away from him. "Does this mean god exists?" I asked. He shrugged again.

"No definite word," He said.

"But crosses don't hurt us. That's a myth, why can't we use the 'word of god'… I'm not even sure what that is," I said. Edward laughed.

"It's complicated." He said.

"I'm going to go and ring my friend. If he isn't willing to help, I guess we need to find a witch."

"Or kill her," Emmett said from the stairs.

"There is still a human girl in there Emmett. We are not killing a child," Carlisle said sternly and walked past him and through the house. Edward shook his head at Emmett.

"Smooth," Edward said.

"What?" Emmett said with a shrug. "I say that's the only possibility. If not the girl is still going to be scarred for the rest of her life, I say we're putting her out of her misery."

"Compassionate Em. Really," Edward said sarcastically and led me up the stairs. Emmett followed us arguing about why he was right; he was producing a very good argument. However I knew no one would ever go for it. We passed Carlisle talking on the phone. We were half way across the house when we heard a vicious snarl. I span on my feet to face Edward, stepping into the security of his chest. We had left her alone. In over a day, she hadn't once been alone.

"Why isn't anyone down there with her?" Carlisle said to us.

"Crap," Emmett muttered and ran into the basement. Edward and I followed him and found him pinning Emma to the wall. She was snarling and trying to reach him with her teeth. Edward ran to help him, I reached out as he shot passed me, I didn't like him being so far away from me and so close to danger, but I stayed by the stairs, terrified to go anywhere near her. Less than a minute later Carlisle came down.

"He said he'll help. He will arrange it; he said that he didn't want an audience though. For this to work he will he will coordinate some humans to help him and that I may be there to witness and take care of the girl if she comes to any harm but no one else." Carlisle said and stood next to me.

"Good. When is it scheduled for?" I asked.

"Tonight. I want this thing out of my house," he said and turned to go back up the stairs. Emmett widened his eyes at Carlisle in shock. I had to admit, it was the first time Carlisle had called Emma a 'thing'.