Chapter 7: Danger

Edward

I saw what she was about to do two seconds before she did it. Rosalie threw herself at me. She was more feral than I had ever seen her before. I was just a fraction of a second faster than she was. I got out of the way just in time. Right before Rosalie was about to try to attack me again Emmett and Carlisle were both able to restrain her but she was fighting them tooth and nail to get to me.

"Get out of here Edward, go. Take the babies with you," Carlisle said.

I nodded. I held on tight to my grandson. I doubled back quickly to get my granddaughter as well. Nessie would be safe. Thanks to Jasper she was currently fast asleep in the bathroom, and, according to Alice, she would remain there for the rest of the night, out of harm's way. But if I didn't get my grandchildren out of here right now there was a very high chance that they wouldn't survive the night. Rosalie would never intentionally hurt them. But, right now in her pure jealousy driven anger anything could happen.

I found my granddaughter wide awake exactly where Nessie had left her. I picked her up quickly and ran out of the house as fast as I possibly could. I'd gotten five miles away and I could still hear the destructive chaos that Rosalie was causing back at the house. If we still had a house standing at the end of the night it would be nothing short of a miracle.

Miracle. That word weighed heavily on my mind as I held onto my two grandchildren. My mind was still processing everything that happened during the last twenty-four hours. I had a daughter. A daughter. No matter how many times I repeated those words to myself it didn't lessen the shock that I felt at all. In less than twenty-four hours my life had changed more than it had in the last one hundred years. I could hear the other's thoughts as they were approaching me.

Everyone but Rosalie arrived. "Son, we need to talk," Carlisle said. I nodded. It was time that I told the truth. I couldn't hide behind the lies anymore.

"I'll take the babies," Esme said gently. "I'll keep them safe,"

I knew they would be perfectly safe with Esme, Emmett, Alice, and Jasper there to look after them. They were family after all. But now it was time to have a much needed and much overdue talk with Carlisle.

Bella

It had been three weeks since I died. It had been three weeks since I'd awoken to my new life. The accident was still very much a blur. One moment my husband and I were driving and the next thing I knew we were swerving to avoid hitting a deer that had suddenly darted into the road. Pain. I remembered the pain very clearly. I saw someone with red eyes walking toward us out of the shadows. My heart skipped a beat. It had been over eighteen years since I last saw one but I'd recognize the telltale signs of a vampire. He leaned over my husband first and said "This one's dead already. Dead on impact I suppose. But the woman is still alive, just barely, but she'll do,"

Next thing I know his teeth are slicing into my neck. I burned in agony for three days straight. Really that was really only the beginning of my torture though. When I woke up I knew what I had become. I'd been abandoned by my creator and left underneath a tree without a care in the world. If I didn't already know about the existence of vampires I probably would've become completely feral. I stayed in the woods because I couldn't risk going back to my daughter or my grandchildren. I only went back once to see my daughter. It took every ounce of strength I had in me not to go comfort her when I saw her crying. Everybody believed that both my husband and I perished in that accident and it was safer for everyone that way. I couldn't risk accidentally losing control and killing my daughter or my grandchildren. For their safety I needed to stay away.

I wanted to cry. I was alive but I lost everything and everyone that I had ever loved. My husband and my daughter. From the moment I found out that I was pregnant with Nessie I loved her with all of my heart. But I was scared. Edward had said that it was impossible for vampires to have children. Yet there I was, 18 years old, scared, alone, and pregnant with a vampire's baby. I spent many worried nights wondering what was going to happen. How this was all going to play out. My pregnancy progressed as any normal human pregnancy would. I ended up giving birth to a very healthy baby girl. I devoted my life to my daughter. She was all that mattered. It will be as if I never existed. Edward's last words often replayed in my mind when I looked at my daughter who was almost a spitting image of him. If only he knew.

After my daughter was born I tried to find the Cullens. I thought that they at least deserved to know about Renesmee even though they had lied about loving me. Even though they had lied when they told me they had considered me family. I still wanted them to know the truth. I tried to find out more information about Carlisle's whereabouts from the hospital that he used to work at in Forks. One of the doctors had even contacted Carlisle and asked him if it was okay to give me his new phone number. The answer was "No. And tell her to stop looking for us. We don't want any contact with her,"

The message, when it was passed to me, were like a knife to the chest. But I would honor their wishes and stop looking for them. That was when I chose to devote my life to my daughter and to bettering myself. I decided to continue my education at the university level. I devoted my studies to Biology. I got into the Phd program where I met my future husband. We spent a lot of time studying together and that's when we started to fall in love. After graduation we got married and together we devoted our careers to studying illnesses and cures. I became particularly dedicated to finding a cure for cancer after Charlie died from the disease. One day we did it. We'd been testing on several different people with different types of cancers. It didn't matter what stage or what type of cancer they had, we were able to reverse the effects completely and quickly. We were able to cure them as fast as if they had just had a simple cold. We had done it. It was a game changer in medicine. My husband and I had chosen to remain anonymous as we didn't want the eyes of the media, and the rest of the world, to be on us and our daughter for the rest of our lives.

It was just my husband, my daughter, and I. I never told Nessie much about Edward or the rest of the Cullens. I never told her about her vampire heritage. Nessie was just as human as every other human on this planet. If I told her about her father and what he was I would just be putting her in danger. She didn't need to know the truth.

Our lives were perfect. Until three weeks ago. Now here I was alone. My husband gone and my daughter thinking that I am dead. I knew that she'd be okay though. We'd made sure that Nessie would be set up financially for life if and when anything happened to us. My husband was infertile so we never had any more kids. But he loved Nessie as if he had fathered him herself. We both agreed that she and only she and her descendants should inherit all of our money, property, and assets. We'd gone to our lawyer years ago and made our intentions very clear in our will.

Still, it pained me to know that my daughter was all alone in the world now. At least she had her babies now to give her the strength that she needed to keep going. As soon as that thought passed through my head I saw her in the woods. I was shocked to see her here. We were hours away from home. What was she doing here? I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn't realize she had seen me. She blinked and I disappeared from her line of sight. From the expression on her face I could tell that she thought that she must have imagined seeing me. That was good.

I secretly followed her to see where she was going. Then, to my absolute shock, I saw Carlisle. I made sure that I was well hidden as I spied on them.

"There you are!" he said. "We have been worried sick about you!"

"Where are my babies?" she asked him.

"My wife has them right now. She's taking care of them. For safety reasons she had to take them last night,"

"What happened last night?" Nessie asked.

"Let's just say there were several unresolved family issues that needed to be addressed. But enough of that. Where have you been?"

"I was in the woods,"

"Don't you ever scare us like that again young lady,"

I watched them go into a house together. I didn't know when, why, or how but somehow my daughter had crossed paths with the Cullens. With her family. She was going to be okay. I was sure of that. Now she would never see or hear me ever again.