A/N A huge thanks goes to my wonderful friend OoJasper'sAngeloO for her beta work and to my pre-reader sinfulroad69 for helping to make this better. A small time jump here, but it was needed. A few more twists, and just so you know I really enjoyed writing this chapter. Hope you enjoy reading it.
I do not own Twilight or any of the characters.
Bella's POV
It was six months ago today that our beautiful girls came into the world and boy have they grown. They now look to be about two or three and its almost as if the world revolves around them. At least the family does.
Mom left about two weeks after they were born with promises that they would be back. She didn't say when, but she did say that once the girls were older training would begin. She also told us more of the plan.
There was a total of seven children that were needed to be able to bring the Volturi down without losing any lives. Once they were all here and old enough to begin to train with their gifts then the final plans would be set in motion. The downside to all of this, it would probably be about two and half more years before we were ready.
Mom never told us where the last two would come from or when. She did say that every child would have a gift. The problem with that is that one of our girls doesn't seem to have a gift. At least she's never shown to have one.
Kalypso is quite a "spitfire" and not a quiet child at all. She's more like her uncle Emmett and has gotten into more trouble than the other two combined. Her gift, while isn't what could be called a defensive gift, its still a strong gift that will help to sneak up on our enemies when the time comes. She is also even tempered, rarely gets mad.
She can stop and start her heart at will and she can hide her scent as well as anyone else's. It seems to work almost like a shield, except it doesn't keep stuff out or away from her or us. It keeps our scents inside away from anyone else on the outside. Hence her name, "she who conceals."
Avyanna has her quiet times and her mischievous times as well. She has her daddy's gift and can feel and send feelings to others just like Jasper, but there is an added thing. Others are drawn to her like a magnet, but she has to "turn it on" so to speak.
Its kind of scary to watch. When she turns it on, whomever is the "victim" is so entranced by her that they don't see, hear or smell anything else. They will do whatever she tells them to do. Unfortunately for her uncles she loves using it on them. It doesn't matter if its a male or female and of course its nothing sexual, just they are completely in her power.
Then of course there's Adara. She's the smallest of the three of them and the quietest. She's shy and doesn't speak often. She's like her daddy in that regard. She prefers to sit on her daddy's lap or mine and watch whatever is going on. Although when her sister Kal, as we have started calling her, is up to some prank she is more than willing to go along with her.
So far we haven't seen any kind of manifestation of a gift. Nothing at all. While I'm not really worried, the thought of her not having some way to protect herself scares me. She has such a tender heart and we have just recently started to let them hunt.
Of course daddy has to be an overprotective father and refuses to let them hunt anything other than deer or elk. The first time that Kal decided that she wanted to hunt her way, Jasper got extremely angry with her for disobeying.
She had come across a mountain lion and took it on. It was a good thing that she had killed it by breaking its neck first, but still Jasper was so angry with her. He was more worried about the big cat being able to cause injury to her since we hadn't ever tested the hardness of their skin.
Of course she pulled out her pouty lips with the quiver, her big eyes filled with tears and looked up at her father who was fuming. He lost all steam as soon as he looked into her face. He did sit her down and explain why he didn't want them going after the big game.
Of course I can't go as I'm too human, so this is something they get to do that is special for just them and their daddy. Obviously some of the others also take them, but Jasper always insists on going with them.
Little Adara, while she needs the blood like her sisters do, refuses to kill an animal. She would rather bring them home as pets. She already tried to bring home a cub from a lions den. When Peter said that they could raise it and when it was bigger then daddy could have it for breakfast, she cried and decided it was best not to bring home any more animals in case daddy got hungry.
The first hunt did not go well for either Adara or Jasper. He had caught and killed a doe for himself and then tried to give the fawn to her to feed from. When she realized that her daddy wanted her to kill the tiny deer she had learned from her sister just how to melt her father's heart.
She gave him the same pouty lips with the quiver and all, the big eyes, and the tears rolling down her chubby cheeks. He apologized and promised that while she would have to drink blood, he wouldn't force her to kill the "nice" animals.
I can tell you one thing for sure, life is much more fun with the girls in it. Busy as well. The whole family chips in and does help with them, although I wouldn't exactly call Em and Peter's input help. More like trouble with a capital T.
They are still feeling the punishment they got for the last trick they taught the girls. For some unknown reason they seem to think that if its the girls that are doing it, they can get away with shit. They found out the hard way that wasn't the way it was gonna work with us.
It was one night after the girls were in bed. It had been a couple of days since Jasper and I had had any private time together and both of us were feeling frisky. We had waited until we were sure that the girls were asleep, or at least we thought they were.
Jasper had made quick work of our clothes and it was just starting to get good when we heard Kal asking for a glass of water. Jasper being the good dad that he is got up and slipped on some sweatpants and went and got her some water.
He had just gotten back into bed when Adara said she had to go to the potty. Since she was so tiny she always needed help getting on the toilet. Jasper always let me handle the "human" moments of our girls, so I got up this time and went and helped her.
I quickly put her back to bed and had just gotten naked again when Avyanna said she was thirsty. By this time daddy was a little frustrated, so he got up and brought a whole pitcher of water with three glasses to their room.
He was back in bed and ready to go and we actually got to do some kissing before we heard our baby say that she had to go again. I got up again, frustrated myself now, but like any good mama would, I took her back to the bathroom, but she couldn't seem to go this time.
I took her back and tucked her back into her bed. I went back to my own bed and we actually got a little further this time. He was just about to use his tongue to taste me when Adara said she really had to go this time.
I got back up and she actually did a tiny bit this time. Then I took her to her bed once again. I practically ran towards our bedroom and lunged at poor Jas who was really frustrated now. This time it only took them five minutes before Avyanna spoke up this time, "Daddy, there are shadows all around our room and in the closet, can you come and stay with us until we fall asleep?"
We both got up this time and went into their room. It was Adara that gave away what was really going on. She was sleepy and asked her daddy, "Can we go to sleep now? Uncle Peter and Uncle Em said we only had to make you come to our room a few times. I'm tired and want to sleep now."
They tried to run, but Jasper was too fast and caught them both. After taking some of his frustration out on them, they got the privilege of staying the rest of the night with their nieces, while Jasper and I had the rest of the night to ourselves.
They were also cut off by their mates who completely understood why we were pissed at them. The worst part, they still had to make sure to please their mates so they didn't go without some sort of release. If they tried to get them to let them have sex, or do anything else besides bring them pleasure, another day was added to their punishment. Right now they were looking at about a month without sex for them. Now they had to "service" their mates whenever they wanted them to.
I highly doubt they'll ever try anything like that again, but we are talking about Emmett and Peter. They actually tried to get Carlisle on their side and have him talk to their mates about their punishment. He just smiled and reminded them that they were the ones who had used the innocent children for their games. Now they had to suffer the consequences.
We also found out that the girls were extremely intelligent. They were capable of doing high school work at this point. Once they were taught something, it stuck with them. Their brains seemed to be more like a vampire's with the memory and ability to learn things with super speed.
We had been working with them and they went basically through a level in a week's time. Right now they are at tenth grade level and almost done with it. We had to get computer programs to know exactly what to teach them at each level. One thing was certain, we had to teach them the harder stuff.
The only hitch we had was when it came time for the history lessons on the Civil War. Jas was almost in a constant state of pissed off at the shit the humans were teaching kids about that war. There were many things that Jasper said was untrue.
So we taught them the hard facts like who started it and why. Most people believe that it was just about slavery, but there was more to it. It was more about the right to not be forced into doing something just because everyone else was doing it. Jas didn't join to fight for the right to own slaves, but for the right to say no if the law wasn't a fair one, the right to be able to have a vote for or against that law.
The girls loved hearing about what their daddy could remember about his human life. Of course they did want to know how their daddy got turned. That was a very touchy time for him. We had vowed as a family to never hide what they are, or what I am, but his history with Maria was filled with violence and none of us wanted our babies to be subjected to that kind of horror.
We told them the basics and did tell them that Maria was a very bad vampire. That of course brought out the fact that their daddy had scars and they wanted to know how he got them. So he had to explain that he had been made to train newborn vampires and that they liked to bite. He also made it a point that not all vampires are bad.
We had also decided that we needed to make sure they understood that while they did drink blood that humans were never to be hunted or killed. Humans had families and friends just like us. They were also taught that under no circumstance should they ever reveal what they are or what they could do to anyone outside the family, human or vampire.
When the girls had asked their daddy about his scars, I saw the pain in his eyes. His daughters, once they had been told that he got them from training and fighting newborns, said that they liked them. They knew that he could always protect them.
When the girls were eight months old we found out what our darling Adara could do. It scared the shit out of all of us when it happened, but we then fully understood what her name meant. Jasper and I were also very grateful at that point that she was very laid back, quiet and gentle.
We also found out that she had an extremely bad temper. It took someone she really loved being seriously threatened in order to make her mad. It was the only time her gift would show itself. We had another problem though. We had no way of training her to use it, not without severe consequences to us.
We found out all of this when strange vampires showed up. The family had gone hunting except for Esme who had volunteered to stay with me to help with the girls. So we had no real protection except for my shield and of course Avyanna's empathic gift.
It was three males and my instincts were going crazy. Something wasn't right. They told us they were nomads and had smelled other vampires around and just came to check to see what was going on as they knew there were more than a couple. The problem was realized quickly when I happen to see the ring one of them was wearing.
It was the Volturi crest and they had been sent by Aro to check on the Cullens. One had a gift, he could absorb the gifts of others, as long as he could touch the gifted one. Also like me when my shield is up, no gifts would work on him, he was immune without a shield. Apparently Aro had sent others to watch the Cullens and were surprised to see some hybrids running around.
The gifted one was able to grab me. He had the other two grab Esme. The one they called Lucky had me and told me that Aro would be interested to know that there were not one, but four hybrids. I had to cooperate or they would rip Esme apart and they would also hurt the girls.
I could feel, even through my clothes, that the bastard that had me had a hard on. He wasn't even going to take me inside of the house, he was going to rape me outside and in front of my babies. He had ripped my clothes off. I would have fought him, but I would rather be raped, even in front of my girls than for them to hurt Esme or the girls.
The girls were screaming and crying. I could see Avyanna concentrating and knew that she was sending or trying to send emotions to her daddy to call for help. She had a connection to him that she could send him emotions no matter how far away and he could feel them.
I was on the ground and the bastard got up and was removing his clothes when it happened. Suddenly there was a wall of fire. It burned hotly for a few seconds before it was thrown at Lucky who was standing there with a shocked look on his face. He was on fire and was nothing but ash almost as soon as he caught fire.
The other two, who had no gifts except to be stupid enough to try to harm the Major's family, tried to run, but I sent my shield out to hold them in place. While Esme ran into the house to grab me some clothes and a cell phone, I just sat there and hugged my girls who were crying and wanting their daddy.
It took the family forty-five minutes to get back. I held the vampires in my shield until they got there. It wasn't Jasper that came running to us. It was the Major and he was angrier than I have ever seen him. He came over to us and checked me and then all three girls.
Kal told him everything. His eyes were solid black, yet his girls weren't afraid of him. Once he was sure that I hadn't actually been raped, he turned to the two vampires. His roar, I have to admit frightened even me.
He didn't even slow down. He grabbed the first one and had him in so many pieces before he could even register that Jasper had moved. Fortunately Esme had taken the girls inside, but they still saw what their daddy did to the big bad vampire.
The second one had his limbs removed and was taken to a cellar that we had here at the main house. The Major was barking out orders. It amounted to having Bia come here and "brainwash" the vampire with the story we wanted Aro to see. Then I was taken to my house by a very sexy Major who deemed it necessary to claim me and mark me again.
By the time we got back to the main house two days later, my mom was there with Bia. The story had already been planted into the vampire's mind and he was on his way back to Aro. It would be that they came here and pissed the Cullens off. Peter had been able to surprise Lucky and killed him. Emmett got the second one and they left George alive to warn Aro to stay away from the family.
We talked about Adara's gift then. It seems that she has a shield, but not one to protect, it was an offensive gift. She could just put it up, or she could throw it like I could throw my own. The difference was obvious, hers could kill instantly. There was another distinctive difference, hers only came out when she got seriously angry.
Plans were put into motion to try to teach her to put it up and throw it at will. Of course she would have to be careful where she threw it. We would start working with her after mom left. She was still training with Bia and the other vampires willing to fight for our right to live our lives in peace. It was mostly just making sure who was really on our side and who wasn't. She was still waiting for the other two children to be born.
Every child that would go in with us were going to be the results of the fucking experiments. Kind of ironic that it would be those created out of their sick games that would be their downfall. Still, mom said that it would be a few years before the actual encounter would happen, the babies had to grow up some.
Mom said something that was one of her cryptic remarks. I had gone outside with Adara and wanted to see if I could get her to raise her shield of fire. She came outside and came up to me and said, "Bella, you don't need to do this now. You should probably go and rest a bit. You're going to need your strength and in a few days you'll know why."
She left later that day without explaining what she meant. Sure enough it was about three days later I found out what she was talking about. I woke up earlier than I usually do, really sick. I ended up not only throwing up the food I had eaten the night before, but the blood as well.
It still took another two days of being so fucking sick, throwing up everything I ate, before I realized that I had been late. I had been doing the shot thing, but apparently I had forgotten my shot this month. Jasper and I had had those two days of almost non-stop lovemaking. SHIT!
I was pregnant again. . .
A/N Let me know what you think. Thanks to everyone who reviewed and added this story to their favorites and alerts. Love you guys. Just curious, do you think Bella should be turned before or after the encounter with the Volturi? Would love to hear your thoughts.