A/N: 18 years after the birth of Renesmee. Jacob and Renesmee had been inseparable since she was born and there had been no troubles for a long time. Here's Chapter 1! Enjoy! :-)

Renesmee POV

The day had arrived. Graduation day. I was kind of nervous but I had no reason to be, I wanted to leave. I wasn't sad because I knew that I'd stay in touch with all the friends I had made over the years but I still had a squirming pit at the bottom of my stomach, something wasn't right. Just watching all my classmates endlessly walk up to the podium and give cheesy speeches about life's ambitions and the future, just seemed blurry and dreamlike. Maybe I was just tired. If anyone asked, that would be my excuse.

Now I could faintly hear my name being called out from our headmaster of Forks High school. I gradually stood up and gave everyone around me an apologetic smile as I bumped and squeezed past them to make my way up to the podium. I kind of appreciated that my surname began with a "C", so I could get my speech over and done with fairly quickly and just relax for the upcoming hour. Walking towards the stage, I had one thing and one thing only on my mind now, "don't trip or fall over". I was so concentrated on not making a fool out of myself in front of the hundreds of students and the many eyes of the parents that I didn't realise that my parents Edward and Bella were watching keenly from the very front row of the hall accompanied by Jacob. Sitting behind them in an organised huddle were my uncles and aunts: Alice, Jasper, Emmett and Rosalie with my grandparents Carlisle, Esme, Charlie and Renee. It was only when I turned around on the stage to face everyone that I saw them and my breath caught in my throat. What I was about to say became trapped in my throat, and I made a wheezy noise in my throat. Jacob looked at me encouragingly. This managed to spur me on and I gave him a secretive smile.

"I would like to say how... phenomenal my time here at Forks High school has been. Through the ups and downs, I managed to stay positive and if there was a time when I was down, I knew that I had countless teachers, friends and family to help me through it." I gave a shy glance to Mrs Parelli who seemed to be dabbing at her eyes with a handkerchief. "I was always given the right advice and guided towards the right direction. But who knows what the right direction is? I certainly don't, even now. It could be through that door." I pointed towards the door to the left of the stage. "It could even be through that door." I then pointed over to the door to my right. "Or what about this door?" I gestured to the wide arched door at the back of the hall which very conveniently burst open at the sound of my words. The crack of the door reverberated around the room and the wind whistled eerily through the silence. Everyone in the hall gasped and swirled round to see what had created this sudden outburst. Strangely enough the doorway stood empty and the silence again returned to the hall. One by one, the heads of the audience slowly turned back round to face me. I'd lost track of where I was but I tried to carry on my flow of speech.

"I never quite knew what I wanted to do and even now it is still a mystery, but I know I can definitely be sure that I will always..." The movement out of the corner of my eye distracted my speech and I jerked my head to look at the black glow on the edge of the stage.

I didn't know whether to be afraid or in awe. For what I could see in front of me was a cloaked creature, with a black hood pulled over its head standing still watching me. I looked towards the audience and they seemed oblivious to this creature standing quite clearly on the stage. I kept looking from the audience to this person to see if I could understand why it was staring at me so intensely. Despite it looking straight at me, I couldn't determine any facial features which sent chills down my spine.

"Renesmee dear, is something wrong?" Mrs Parelli murmured to me whilst patting me on the shoulder which made me jump. She'd positioned herself at my shoulder so I had to turn my back on the hooded beast. "You're shaking dear, would you like to sit down?"

I didn't reply to Mrs Parelli, I just turned around and tried to look at the mysterious human again to reassure myself that someone was really there. The creature had gone. I widened my eyes in disbelief and quickly scanned the hall. I didn't manage to relocate anyone suspicious, so turned back to Mrs Parelli and said, "I think I'll sit back down and collect my certificate a bit later, I'm feeling a bit... nauseous."

"Alright dear," Mrs Parelli replied, she walked me towards the steps and helped me down to my seat. I felt like a complete idiot. Through the crowd of heads, I could see Jacob's searching eyes trying to find me. We locked eyes and he mouthed something inaudible to me. I looked away and again at the back of the stage saw the hooded man, it was definitely a man. I gasped, which made my friends sitting around me give me really concerned looks and consoling hugs. Fear must have been the only thing in my eyes because when I looked back at Jacob, he stood up abruptly and ran towards the side door, beckoning me to follow him.

Once the door had shut behind me Jacob pinned me to the wall and put both hands firmly on my shoulders and said, "What's wrong? You're definitely not yourself; do you want to go home? I can take you home. We could watch films. Eat food. Or even relax for the evening. Just get away from all this celebration?" I placed my forefinger on his lips to shut him up, maybe a bit too aggressively as I seemed to hit him in the face with my finger and he shifted his head away from my hands. "I'm fine, it's just that there's someone in the hall with us, who it seems only I can see," I started. "He's standing on the stage watching everyone and occasionally he disappears. I just got a bit startled. Can you see him?"

"Who? There's no one else on the stage Renesmee!" Jacob replied.

"But there is! Why can only I see him?" I gasped. Jacob embraced me lightly and said, "If you see him again, tell me. I'll go and sort him out," Jacob said with a cheeky wink. I shoved him away from me; he really wasn't taking me seriously. "Come on, let's go back in," he said.

Together we walked back into the crowded hall and began making our way back towards our seats. My classmate, Rosie, stood on the stage dramatically re-enacting a Shakespeare quote as part of her speech, typical Rosie. No sooner had we walked across the room I saw the hooded creature perching on the edge of the stage frighteningly close to my parents. Then a deafening crash erupted from nowhere and dust billowed around the room. The dust made me lose sight two feet in front of me, yet I could hear people screaming and gasping amidst the clouds. I could hear my heart in my ears and my hands started shaking. After minutes the fog cleared and confused people stopped moving around frantically to assess the damage around them. Tables were upturned; chairs askew and the papers and pens lay precariously about the hall. Then I saw it... Jacob. Jacob was lying motionless on the floor in a pool of red liquid. Blood.

One by one people began screaming and rushing over to see if Jacob was okay. "Call 911..." "He's just unconscious" "Don't touch him" "Who did this?" The shouts of worried people echoed around my head and I moved over to Jacob and tried to catch a glimpse of him. Just one look of his limp head set me off. My shoulders shook and the tears burst from me and I collapsed to the floor. My head in my hands and I just barely noticed that Bella and Alice had come over to me to help control me by using soothing words. It wasn't helping.

It seemed like hours had past when I looked up and my Granddad Charlie was in the process of uploading Jacob to his car. After that, people seemed to slowly evaporate from the hall, leaving only me and my small family left standing in there.

"What's happening?" I said amongst countless sobs.

"They are relocating and rearranging the graduation due to today's misfortunate events," Edward began, "Jacob is being taken to the hospital, we'll let you go and see him tonight. For now we'll go home and just try and relax."

I nodded numbly and everyone started vacating the hall, "I'll be out in a minute, I just need to collect my bag," I informed the others solemnly. They all replied with "Okays' and I was left on my own standing in the empty hall. I fetched my bag with my valuables and essentials in and began making my way towards the door.

"Why do you associate with Dogs and Rats?"

I whirled around, the voice making me jump and behind me stood the cloaked stranger. "I-I what?" I stuttered.

"Why do you associate with Vampires and Werewolves little girl?" the stranger asked venomously.

I ignored his question and blurted out, "How come I can see you? I'm the only one who can see you, no one else can! Why is that?"

The stranger laughed wickedly and just said, "I'm a shadowhunter." As soon as the words had been said, he disappeared. I took this as my cue to leave – and quickly. I ran the fastest I had ever run in my whole life, out of that hall and didn't look back, not once. I knew deep down that I should tell no one of this brief encounter with the shadowhunter. What was a shadowhunter? I was so scared.

A/N: I do not own any of the Twilight/Mortal Instrument characters.

My Beta readers were:

LivieQuinney - who is currently working on a Mortal Instruments fanfic, it's amazing, GO AND READ IT! :)

Pannelle :)