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AU Breaking Dawn

All pairings are the same as in the book, E/B, Em/R, A/J, Carlisle/Esme and Jacob imprinting with Renesmee.

Summary: She was alive - I just knew it. Edward had told me that our Renesmee, my baby, was gone. In my heart I knew she was out there alone with no memory of who or what she was. Did she even remember us?

Last Time:

Edward's POV

I bit her ankles and used my venom to seal the wound. I continued with her wrist and the inside of her arm at her elbow. The last place I bit was the soft smooth skin of her neck. It was in that moment that Jacob's thoughts screamed at me.

The look on his face was of a beaten man, and not a boy. He realized that his best friend was now dead. I felt the truth and his sadness; we were slowly starting to understand each other.

"Go Jacob. Get out of here before you lose yourself."

Only one day later everything seemed almost perfect. I'm not sure what happened, my thoughts were centered on Bella and her transformation. It is too painful to remember right now, but I do promise that I will share it very soon. Until we find more hope in the winds, I shall continue blaming myself for not being there to protect my daughter.

'I will continue to believe that you are safe Renesmee, not just for your mother…but for me.'

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Chapter 2: Home

By TaintedDarkInuShemeeko

Little Renesmee's POV

My world changed so fast. One minute my Aunt Rosalie is giving me a bottle of warm blood while Jacob stood across the room and made funny faces at me, and then the next there is chaos all around me. I heard ripping sounds and angry growls fill the air around me.

I realized I was no longer in my Aunt Rosalie's arms when I heard her snarl and scream.

"No, don't touch her!"

I came to understand that whoever these people were, they were taking me away from my family. I couldn't see Jacob, but I could smell him along with Seth and Leah. There was a loud snapping sound followed by whimpers of pain.

My cheeks were wet as my eyes started to leak. I let my own cry escape from my little body. I understood everything that was going on, but there was nothing I could do physically. However, I had already learned that if I cried loud enough my family always came for me.

So I let lose a shrill high pitched cry out of my lungs. Within seconds the rest of my family was there to aid me. There was so much pain and fury in my father's eyes as he glared and growled at my kidnapper.

I hear a snapping sound followed by a loud crack. The female who had been holding me. Suddenly handed me off to a man dressed in a dark blue cloak. I caught recognition in my Grandpa Carlisle's face as my new captor held onto me. I realized that my kidnappers were just like my family. One of the invading females tossed out an electric current at my family, knocking them off their feet.

I winced and tears slipped from my eyes as I realized that my big brother Jacob was hurt more than the rest of my family. I quickly reached inside the hood of the cloaked male vampire and touched the side of his face; he flinched at the touch.

I pleaded with him to make the dark haired one, who I learned was called Karelle, to stop her attack on my family. I made sure to share the caring images I had of them in my head.

He whispered something to the red-violet haired female standing next to him, Jewel. Jewel called out to Karelle.

"Karelle, let's go. There is no need for that, the child is willing to come with us. We need to go; the block won't last much longer."

My big brown eyes glanced over the shoulder of the blue cloaked man. Grandpa Carlisle and my father were checking out my big brother Jacob. I watched as my father suddenly sprang to his feet.

His face was filled with horror and despair. He leaped forward toward us, only to disappear. It was a few seconds before I realized that we were the ones that had disappeared. I wasn't sure how it had been done, just that it had.

I knew that they were safe. All I wanted was to be able to get back home. They never really told me why they needed me or why they wanted me. I was starting to wonder if I would ever get an answer from them. Karelle never let me touch her; something told me that she was the one holding all the answers. Jewel however never seemed to get enough of my questions, although there were plenty she wouldn't answer.

Randy was quiet and soft spoken. I would ask him often when I could go back home. His answer was simple, "I don't know child."

Since the world was new to me, I had no way of knowing how fast time would pass. I had only one thing to hold on to, the determination and fury that had been in my father's eyes. He would never give up looking for me; that was what I kept telling myself.

Along with one more thing, 'There's no place like home.'

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Edward's POV

At first I paid no heed to the fighting that was coming from downstairs. Like the rest of my family we all thought that Rosalie and Jacob were fighting with one another. Since her birth the day before Rosalie never left her side, it was hard even for me to spend time with her due to Rosalie's coddling. The protectiveness Rose had for her increased once Jacob realized that he had imprinted on the littlest one in our family.

At the sound of Renesmee's shrill cry I glanced over at Bella's still changing form and bolted out the door. It was only for a brief moment that I could read their thoughts before they disappeared.

'Ran! Jewel! Get the child.'

Jacob had been injured and Carlisle was seeing to his wounds while Alice and Esme helped Rosalie to her feet. The low growls coming from me and my family seemed to shake the house.

I turned to go after the two that had my daughter only to be thrown against the wall. A shocking pain burned through my body, almost like what Kate could do.

For several minutes I couldn't move. Every time I tried my limbs screamed as if they were on fire. A few seconds after the stinging burn started to fade I suddenly could hear the soft, gentle voice of my little girl.

'Daddy, I told them I'd go with them. I don't want to see you get hurt again. Tell momma I love her, and I'm sorry for hurting her.'

The female named Jewel was waving toward the one called Karelle.

"Karelle, let's go. There is no need for that, the child is willing to come with us. We need to go; the block won't last much longer."

I forced myself up and away from Jacob's still form. As I leaped forward, my onyx eyes met with the deep chocolate ones of my daughter.

"No Renesmee, don't - you don't have to do this!"

My un-beating heart seemed to freeze in my chest and then drop as my daughter disappeared in front of my eyes.

"Renesmee! Re-nes-mee!"

It had only been a few weeks ago that I had been condemning her for killing her mother before she was even born. Now the very thing that Bella had given her last breath for was gone. The room around me seemed to fade as I thought back to the previous day. After cutting through the rock hard membrane that surrounded her, I gently pulled out the creature that had been responsible for Bella's now broken body.

I realized that her skin wasn't cold and hard like mine; it was slightly warmer than Bella's skin. I noticed that this child wasn't the son of Bella's dreams. It was a daughter, and the second her brown eyes found mine I was lost. Besides my Bella, I could not love anything more than this beautiful little girl.

I had not been able to keep Bella's humanity as I had planned; it seemed that fate had other plans for us. Bella may lose her deep soulful eyes but they would continue to live in our beautiful precious little Renesmee. She loved Bella as much as I did, if not more.

I winced slightly every time she reached up and touched the side of my face. Renesmee's question was always the same as she showed me the only picture she had of her mother. It was the image of my wife when she was broken and dying.

As the memory faded it took me several seconds to realize that's all it was now, a memory. The small, warm part that I had left of my human Bella was gone. It was stolen right in front of me. I was supposed to be the one to help avoid attacks on our family, and I hadn't seen this assault coming.

An agonized cry erupted from inside of me. I was finally comfortable with what fate had given me and now it had been ripped from my arms. My legs felt limp; it was only the second time in ninety some years that I had felt so numb.

"Edward, Edward can you hear me?"

I could just barely make out Alice's voice through the hazy fog that seemed to hang over me. There had been ten of us. How could we have let this happen? Somehow they had gotten by Alice...somehow they seemed to be able to block their thoughts from me… How it could have happened was the one thing my brain could not comprehend.

"Edward, son can you hear me? Are you injured?"

There sound of Carlisle's voice snapped me out of my catatonic state. Soon my family's thoughts were buzzing inside my head. Emmett's was first.

'Who the hell were they?'

Jasper's thought, followed behind his. To where it was then greeted by Carlisle's at Esme's.

'What could they gain by doing this?'

'Do they know more about Renesmee then we do?'

'My poor, scared grandbaby.'

Alice and Rosalie's thoughts were the clearest and loudest.

'This is entirely my fault. I should have seen this somehow, I should have focused more outside the family.'

'I was in charge of her. Edward asked me to take care of her. If only that dog wasn't here…'

I had my own questions.

'Why? Why take my two day old daughter? What was the purpose of it all?'

I paid little heed to their thoughts or Carlisle's words as something more important came to mind.

'Bella.'

There was no thought for me only reaction as I found I was able to move again. I disappeared before any one could speak to me again and found myself back upstairs in the room that Carlisle had dubbed the 'recovery room'. My onyx orbs noticed that Bella still laid semi-stone still on the bed.

Her heart let out heavy thudding sounds as my venom continued to move through her body, consuming every part. I noticed that her pinky and ring finger on her left hand would twitch every fifteen to thirty seconds. Forty beads of sweat were built up on her forehead. In two strides I was at her side.

As I busied myself with gently wiping the sweat from Bella's forehead and neck Alice entered the room.

"Edward, I'm so sorry. This is entirely my fault."

My eyes were burning, telling me that if my stone body were capable I would be crying.

"No, Alice it's not. You have always tried to tell us that you were far from infallible. We should have believed you. This is my burden, if I hadn't split my focus so much and had Renesmee with me, maybe I would have heard them sooner."

Alice placed her hands on her hips and narrowed her eyes at me.

"So once again you plan on being the martyr. You know that's not fair. You have to stop putting so much blame on yourself. You know Bella wouldn't want you to do that."

I laid the rag down on the bedside table. My right hand moved to pinch the bridge of my nose with my thumb and forefinger.

"You're right, she wouldn't. She would take the blame as her own, seeing how she is Renesmee's mother. With that being said Alice, it is no different than what I am doing."

"But I…"

"No buts Alice, stop thinking like that. If they had wanted to kill her then why take her? They could have killed her right in front of us. They didn't, because they need her for something."

Alice's sing song voice asked what I myself was wondering.

"What is it they need her for, Edward?"

I turned to look at Bella again. I wanted to kiss her forehead, but I was afraid of causing extra pain. Was she in pain or had the morphine helped?

"I wish I knew Alice. By the time whatever it was that blocked their thoughts was gone, so were they."

Alice fluttered over and pulled me into a hug.

"You're completely right, we have to think positive. How are we going to tell Bella?"

I sighed as my dark eyes locked with Alice's amber ones.

"We won't be telling her anything, not until we can discern what her state of mind is when she wakes up."

Alice frowned at me.

"You know Bella isn't going to like that."

"Yes Alice, I'm fully aware of that, but there is nothing I can do about it right now. You should go hunting with Jasper and Rosalie."

She turned to go and then stopped.

"What about you Edward? You should come too. Emmett and Carlisle would care for Bella while you were gone."

I couldn't stop the small smile I gave to my little sister.

"Thank you for caring, Alice. However, I'd rather not leave Bella's side until she awakens. I shall go hunting when Bella can go with me."

"But Edward…"

"Go on Alice, and stop worrying about me."

She huffed and pouted at me.

"I can't help it. You're my favorite big brother, and I worry. It's not something I have control over."

It wasn't long before she left, leaving me alone with Bella. I took her hand gently and kissed it lightly.

"I'm so sorry, Bella. I will understand if you never forgive me. I'm not even sure that I want to be forgiven for what I failed to do."

My alone time with my wife was short lived. Carlisle suddenly appeared in the door way.

"Edward, son…Alice is right. You need to hunt. To continue to stretch this far is walking too close to the edge. You could fall."

I was aware that what Carlisle was telling me was not only logical; it was also very much the truth. However, I did not have the will to leave Bella's side.

"Edward, I don't think Bella will blame you."

I had been angry with Carlisle only once before in my life, when he first made me. However, the words kept spilling out of me with everything I was feeling.

"Why wouldn't she?! She loved Renesmee long before I did."

My eyes were burning and my chest felt as if it were going to combust.

"The minute she told me she was pregnant with my baby. I wanted to destroy it. She saw it as something beautiful and I saw it as a monster. It was killing her, and Bella still wanted it. I wanted to kill it. And now…"

I ran a hand through my hair in one quick fluid movement and then over my face. I did my best to ignore Carlisle's pained thoughts.

"Edward, you are not the only one who had such thoughts. In the end you gave into Bella's wishes and you came to love her just like her mother."

Bella was right here in the room with me and I felt as if I was breaking apart the same way I had when I left after her eighteenth birthday.

"I only fell in love with her when I could read her thoughts and I saw how much she loved and adored Bella. She hadn't even met her yet, but Renesmee knew that Bella was responsible for giving her life."

I ran my hand through my hair again and my voice cracked as I spoke.

"And now she is gone, and I couldn't stop it. We don't even know if Bella is going to make it through this. Renesmee might be the only thing I have left. She's my daughter and I didn't protect her. What kind of a father am I?"

Carlisle placed a comforting hand on my shoulder, though I barely registered it.

"You're a very good one. I will not have you thinking any less of yourself. Fathers make mistakes; the important part is that we learn from them. I don't know how or when, but we will find her. Renesmee needs her family. She needs you and Bella, don't ever forget that."

TBC…

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(A/N: This chapter was a little tough to write seeing how as I was writing Edward's POV I was making myself cry. I hope everyone enjoyed.

If any one was wondering I was listening to Lullaby- The Mitch Hansen Band, A World Without You- The Mitch Hansen Band, Sunday- Sia, and Breathe Me- Sia. When I wrote this chapter. Huzzah!

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