Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures

"We've been tracking them for a while," his voice was calm yet collected and somehow still sounded very alert as he explained to his lover.

"They've killed countless in Seattle. Disorganized, conspicuous. Too conspicuous."

Edward continued to explain. The explanation began after Bella overheard the news about more killings in the Seattle area, realizing it was just a mere three hours away. Wild wolves were their best guess on the news...but wolves wouldn't travel into the heart of a city, silly humans and their trying to be logical. So they thought of other wild animals, or the far fetched idea of an extremist serial killer, that could possibly do it.

The Cullen's knew better than to believe that.

"So it's a few newborn vampires?" Bella asked, still trying to wrap her head around the impending situation.

The Cullen's hadn't ever elaborated on the danger of newborn vampires before. She'd been through tracker vampires; a love-lorn, heart-scorned vampire was currently waiting in the shadows to kill her. Now newborn vampires? What else could there be out in the world that Bella didn't know about?

"Not just some. It's an army, Bella. Someone out there is creating an army of newborn vampires with the intention of fighting a war. A war against who, though? And just who would be creating them?"

Carlisle Cullen asked. His thoughts were more concise than the rest--he was the eldest after all. He'd been around a few centuries and had heard a many a wise tale in those years.

They'd thought a few times that it could be Victoria, coming at long last to exact her revenge on Bella. They'd been waiting for this to happen for over a year now, but hardly any signs. Alice had been watching Victoria's decisions wisely, nothing at all jumped out at the seer that could possibly point towards it being Victoria creating the newborn army.

Even the wolves had said she hadn't came within a one hundred mile radius of Forks for nearly eight months or better. They'd been Victoria free for too long, Bella thought to herself. Something bad was bound to go wrong. Something involving Victoria.

"Can we just face the facts here? I'm a bad vampire magnet."

Bella said, sort of melodramatically but, no one could disagree with her. Even Edward, he tried to say that wasn't the case, that whoever it was had a grudge against them all, not just Bella but... within the privacy of his own mind, sometimes he did wonder if Bella did attract the wrong types of people.

A small chuckle that only his family noticed escaped his lips.

"What can we do?" Bella asked, looking between her lover, Edward; and the rest of her extended vampire family.

Jasper was the one who spoke up, "If they're newborns, even if they're out on the kill for another clan of vampires... the smell of human blood would make them frantic. Bella shouldn't be here for the fight, but the least she can do is scent up the place real nice. That might trick the newborns long enough for us to get the upper hand."

It was merely a suggestion but naturally Carlisle and the rest of the family agreed. It was a good idea; even Edward had to admit. He was at least relieved when Jasper said he didn't want Bella there. No one wanted Bella there, even if the cause of the fight ended up to be over her. At that moment, Carlisle got another idea.

"The wolves. An army of newborns would have no idea they exist. Even if it's Victoria, who's to say she would tell them about the wolves? She knows little of their numbers anyway, according to Jacob. They don't all go out on patrol."

Edward couldn't help but to agree with Carlisle, having listened to the rest of Carlisle's reasoning within his mind. "The problem is, will they trust us and fight along side of us?" Edward questioned Bella; she knew she and Jacob had been on the outs as of late, all because of the her breaking her hand on his jaw thing...

Edward was back in her life, that meant that Jake couldn't exactly be there twenty four seven like he had been when Edward was out of her life. But it was no secret that the werewolves and the vampires had formed just a smidgen of an alliance due to the love triangle between the wolf, the human and the vampire. A tolerance so to speak.

"I think they would. But I don't want them getting hurt, Edward. Especially not Jake. Think about Seth, he's so young. And Leah, she may be strong but she's just a girl. That would be like Alice getting hurt in this battle..."

It was a tense situation, no doubt. When Bella mentioned that Alice could get hurt, naturally Jasper stiffened up and tightened an arm around his Pixie. Bella knew that the wolves wouldn't turn down a fight against the newborn vampires. But if they'd actually side with the Cullen's, that was a factor unknown.

Bella and Jake had resolved some of their tension at the Graduation party that Alice threw just last night. But now...she had seen the newborn army was coming, something that they'd pushed from their mind last night, but absolutely couldn't tonight.

They needed something else though. They needed something that, in case if the wolves decided not to join in and help fight against the newborns, this back-up something wouldn't let them down. A reliable source...

"Carlisle, I'm not sure we should get her involved. We aren't exactly who she would normally work for." Edward said, reading Carlisle's mind.

Carlisle couldn't help but grin a little quirky grin, a grin that was centuries old...quite literally. Everyone looked between Edward and Carlisle; over and over, especially Bella. Only Edward knew what the several centuries old vampire was thinking.

"He's going to call her. The Vampire Slayer."

No one else truly seemed surprised, no one else but Bella. Carlisle, being affiliated with the Volturi, whom are affiliated with the Watcher's council; he knew just who her Watcher was, even if he himself didn't know much about the Slayer. Other than the old myths and legends about the Chosen One.

Bella on the other hand, had never heard of a vampire slayer. But if her job was to slay all vampires... Her eyes widened, those dark doe eyes of hers.

"A VAMPIRE, WHAT?"

It was more or less a shriek out of the small woman, but enough to startle each vampire in the slightly crowded room. Including Rosalie, which was a very rare feat to accomplish.

"It's alright, Bella. Desperate times call for drastic measures. The Vampire Slayer is a very informed woman, she'll know about us. She'll know that we aren't that kind of vampire. Or at least, I'm hoping on that. We may be... different to her but surely she'll see where we're coming from."

Carlisle explained to Bella in a calm voice before quickly leaving the room to telephone a friend of his, a person who could place him in contact with the current Slayer. A person who could put him directly in contact with her and soon, he hoped.

"I hope Carlisle knows what he's doing," Bella said in a meek voice sitting upon the sofa next to Edward. He placed a calming hand upon her back and gently rubbed. "If anyone knows what they're doing, it's Carlisle." He tried to reassure her.

"Edward... vampire slayer. You're a vampire. What's to stop her from...," Bella took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. "Slaying you all?" She did have a wonderful point but as Edward said within the confine of his mind... Carlisle would never put his family into dangers way. Not intentionally, at least.