Still Dawn: The Saga Continues

Chapter 66: Volturi

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CHAPTER 66: VOLTURI

"Will you just tell me what is happening?" I hissed in my husband's direction. He was still talking away on the phone and walking further away from me. "EDWARD" I yelled, becoming more and more agitated by the second. I dashed forward quickly so I was standing in front of him and held my hand out stretched to take the phone from him.

 He shook his head and turned around continuing his conversation;

 "Do you know for sure?" he hissed in to the cell. I was unable to make out what the caller was saying, and I was too angry to try and focus. "I should have seen this coming" Edward fumed, his fist clenching tightly by his side causing the granite smooth skin over his knuckle's appear stretched and distorted.

 "Yes OK, We will meet you there" Edward snapped the phone shut and turned to face me, a grave look on his face.

 "Wh-What?" I choked, taking in the look on his face until it was surely replicated on mine.

 "That was Carlisle on the phone" he sighed "They ran into Alistair"

 "And?" I probed,

 "He has been in Italy recently and-"

 "Italy?" I asked, cutting him off mid-sentence, "and how does that help us?" I was becoming annoyed at him now, he wasn't making any sense.

 "Tanya was there" he frowned "with them"

 "Them?" I echoed bluntly, wondering who he could be talking about. The only people I knew of that lived in Italy were,

 My face dropped as I realised who he was talking about. "the Volturi?" I whispered, as if the word somehow had stigma attached to it. Edward simply nodded at me, confirming my suspicion's. "I'm going to kill her" I screamed, turning on the ball's of my feet and running back to stand in front of Jacob. How could Tanya do this to us? Didn't she stand beside us the last time the Volturi came after my baby. She was prepared to even fight for her. If the Volturi had my daughter then that meant it was going to be even harder to bring her home.

 "Bella?" Jake began, cutting off my thought's, as he took in the look on my face "what's wrong?"

 "The Volturi" I hissed "The Volturi have Nessie"

 "No Bella... Tanya has Nessie. Stop panicking" he added, reaching out to take my hand. I pulled my hand back with another hiss and looked him in the eye.

 "No Jacob. Tanya IS the Volturi. They're working together" He stayed silent for a few second's, his mind registering what I was telling him. About 3.2 second's later his mouth hung open and he looked at me,

 "W-What?" he managed, his face screwing up until it was almost unrecognisable. "Why would she do that?" he asked, turning to face Edward.

 "Actually..." I elongated, turning on the ball's of my feet to face Edward "Jacob has a point... why would Tanya go to the Volturi? They killed her sister! Alistair must have got it wrong" even as the word's left my mouth I knew I was wrong. I couldn't even convince myself that Alistair was wrong, let alone Edward or Jacob, somehow it all seemed to add up. And if one thing was clear it was that Tanya was no longer the same woman we knew, something inside her had changed.

 The Tanya we knew would never have taken Nessie away, she wouldn't have wanted to hurt Edward that way, and above all else she was Carlisle's closest friend, she would never have betrayed him in such a way.

 "Bella?" Edward sighed, his voice wavering when he undoubtedly noticed my face contort and convulse as the thought's ran through my mind, he ran and wrapped his arm's tightly around me, "It's OK" he soothed, running his hard hand through my hair. "We know where she is now, we can get her back"

 "but what if she's not there Edward?" I fumed, stepping away from him, "what if she isn't there and this is another wild goose chase?"

 "Bella, if the Volturi are involved they will have kept her close by, they know how strong we are as a group and they wouldn't want to risk us finding her anywhere else?"

 "And how do you know so much about them?" I spat, knowing the answer before I had even completed the question. Edward reached up and tapped the side of his head, a slight but distinct smile on his lip's.

 "What's going on?" Emmett's voice boomed from behind me, I turned to see that him, Rosalie and the wolves had all now congregated behind us. Edward looked at me once more before taking a deep breath and filling them in on what we knew.

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 "I'm sorry" Rosalie uttered for the umpteenth time, "I just-"

 "Can't" I finished, "I know, I understand," Rose has spent the last hour apologising over and over again, explaining why she wouldn't be coming with us to to Volterra, she couldn't leave Henry. She had, however, insisted that Emmett come with us. Something he wasn't too happy about, he still didn't feel comfortable leaving Rose, but she had given him no other choice, so for now at least, he was agreeing.

 "Lets go" Edward said, tugging at my arm as he emerged from the house after retrieving our passport's.

 "OK" I agreed, smiling sympathetically at Rosalie before I stepped away from her. I knew how she must be feeling, I would never want to abandon my child especially under these circumstance's. But at the same time, I knew what she meant when she'd said she didn't want to tear the family apart, it was dangerous for us to be apart, but with Nessie at risk we were left little choice.

 We rushed towards the front of the house, I could hear Emmett behind us, saying a rushed, yet heartfelt goodbye to his family. I didn't want to interrupt him so we kept running toward's the car that was still parked outside the house. Edward had managed to get hold of Alice, and Esme, and we were all going to meet in Italy. The Denali's were insisting on coming also and Alice suspected that the Amazonian's would want to come, though they hadn't actually said that.

 Jacob was gathering his pack and they were running to meet us at the airport. Edward told me that Sam had refused to let his pack some along, where as Jake had ordered his to do so, meaning they had no say in the matter. I wasn't sure what help they would be but I was still grateful none the less.

 "Edward" I sighed once we were in the car "Why is she doing this?"

 "Well-" he began, reaching up to pinch the bridge of his nose as he thought "I can only guess, But, I would say' it is revenge for what happened at our wedding, she was truly hurt when the Denali's stayed behind and she felt betrayed"

 "But she was the one in the wrong" I mused,

 "I know that Bella- and you know that, but she doesn't" He reached over and took my hand in his, "She'll be alright"

"I hope so" I sighed as Emmett got in the back seat of the car without making a sound.

Edward nodded and started the car, pulling away from the house and racing towards the airport. We knew this was literally a race against time- if we didn't get to Ness in time then who knows what they would do to her.