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The World We Live In

"They CAN'T DO THIS!" Emmett roared and it felt like his voice alone would tear the house down. Jane turned her stare onto Emmett, her head tilting to the side. Emmett fell to his knees—pain and rage sketched onto his face. Even in excruciating pain, his eyes didn't leave Rosalie's. She was in the arms of Felix and Demetri—giving her own roar, her own fight.

"This is your punishment! You know the rules!" Caius shouted. His eyes seemed to be filled with glee as he watched the events unfold before him.

"But we didn't think it was meant for the older covens!" Esme cried. She was being restrained by Carlisle. She'd tried to protect Emmett by taking his place and receiving the pain. The vampire in Carlisle couldn't take risking his mate, especially not when about to lose his family.

"You're a threat!" Caius roared.

Edward, Alice, and Jasper were being held by members of the guard. There were about 20 vampires there besides the high guard and the masters, minus Marcus.

Jasper had thought out every scenario. There would be no way to get out of this without someone in his family losing a life. He felt defeated as he looked at Edward, hoping to that he'd 'heard' something that would help them. He glanced up and shook his head 'no'. I looked at Alice, checking her emotions. She felt resigned. He inwardly sighed and shot resignation towards Emmett and Rosalie. They both calmed slightly.

"We have lived peacefully as a family for over a century, Aro. We have never done anything to disrespect or challenge your authority." Carlisle tried to reason with the monster, but I could see that it was to no avail.

"Oh, Carlisle, you have challenged our authority. Not only did you choose to go wayward with your diet, but your numbers exceed ours. We cannot have that. That is why the rules are in place!" Aro stated.

Ah yes, the rules. No coven could be more than 4 members. If so, they needed to split up immediately and they would suffer a consequence for disobeying. Ten times the time it took the coven to obey their rule. In our case, it was a year that we disobeyed them. That wasn't the only new rule. Vampires had to drink the blood of humans. Any vampire seen with golden eyes would be punished. Vampires could not live amongst the same humans for more than a year. The town would be punished. After announcing the rules, they said that they would check to make sure in a year that the rules had been followed.

Since the rule has been announced, it has been 366 days. One year and a day. Rose was our consequence. They would take her and hold her captive for a decade and ten days. Forks would suffer for our mistakes. We were packed up already, but we were a day over the time. We didn't know what was in store for Forks, Washington. We just knew that Rose would be killed if we didn't separate and leave town immediately. Someone probably would have been dead already, had our eyes been gold. Luckily, we drank bagged blood last week.

I looked around me, taking everything in, one last time. There were almost 8 wolves passed out on the ground, chained. Jane attacked the alpha and the all took the hit, leaving them vulnerable to the sedatives held in syringes the lower level vampires carried. The only members of the family that weren't being held by Volturi members were Carlisle and Esme.

"Now, Carlisle, we won't be barbaric. It is up to you all to decide how you will be separated and where you will go. A few members of the guard will stay and see to your disband. You have 24 hours." I snorted as Aro said his peace and left.

The majority of the vampires left with him, taking a sobbing Rosalie and 8 wolves. Once they were out of sight, Jane released her hold on Emmett, and the rest of us were let go. I dosed Emmett with enough lethargy to leave him sitting. Carlisle had Esme under control. Jane turned to Carlisle with a sick smile.

"We'll be around, Cullens. We'll be watching." With that, the rest of the guard left. This is what the world has come to.