Sacrifice.

"Carlisle take Esme away from here!" "Damian no!" "What else was I ever useful for!" "We will send a group!" "They wouldn't last two minutes and no one is stupid enough to accept it!" "But..." "Take her Carlisle and tell the others! will you. Tell the Denali's my thanks for putting up with me, thanks the Irish for becoming a family to me and thank Caroline and Rebekah for being there for me and loving me when they knew I could never love them!" "I will Damian, you have my word and thank you again!" he grabbed Esme before running off and taking a nervous breath I started to turn into my wolf form kneeling before closing my eyes spoke, "Mother, father...I will be with you soon"

"Carlisle where's Damian?" Rebekah growled "Everyone gather in!" "We haven't got time!" Edward snapped pulling the next stump in the way, "This is important!" "What?" Emmett asked, "Damian told me to pass this message on: He thanks you Siobhan and Liam for being like parents to him and you Maggie for filling that void that was left when his brother died, he thanks you Denali's for putting up with his shenanigans, I'm sorry Kate I knew you were close, he also thanked you Rebekah and Caroline for being there comforting him and loving him when Esme said no and thanked you for standing by him and up for him! For the rest if you don't understand by now, he has sacrificed himself to buy us time" "Please don't make him!" "He choose to, he was given the choice to walk away with us but said no! thanks to him we have a better chance of surviving!" Aro nodded before looking over to the members of the volturi they nodded pulling a red strip of cloth from their capes and tied it around their right arm, "We fight in his memory, he may have tried to kill us but he is still honourable!" "Let me fight by his side!" Rebekah cried out but being pushed back he said, "He wouldn't want that. Now let's get ready!"

They stood there waiting for the swarm but it wasn’t coming, they could hear in the distance the cries from the vampires and the growl from the wolf but surely he couldn’t do it... couldn’t defeat them all? “Fuck!” Esme cried clutching her arm, “Esme?” “I feel like my arm has just been cut!” Jacob studied the arm showing the mark and nodding said, “He is wounded! You will feel his pain!” but there was nothing just more cries from the dead for minutes more then Esme clutched her leg, “I think his leg is broken!” Esme cried leaning on Jasper for support, “He won’t have long left!” Aro spoke but there was another click this time back into place as the fighting continued. Thirty minutes had passed and clutching her chest and wheezing before clutching her nose and knee and waiting more they heard a massive crash and a thump, “I...I can’t feel anything!” Aro sniffed the air and listening in heard the rampage of vampires running towards them and acknowledging it spoke, “I’m sorry for your loss!” Esme cried out looking at her husband, “I feel so empty!” “Now you understand how much the bond consumed you!” Jacob spoke before shifting and staring back forward the footsteps grew louder.

“We won! We won!” Alice yelped hugging Jasper looking at the dead vampires around them and wolves. Sam looked down at the fallen packs members before comforting Leah looked at the other members who had died, “Twelve dead!” Aro spoke and looking over Carlisle spoke, “We need to burn the bodies!” Aro nodded tapping Carlisle lightly on the shoulder, “We... I... I... should... um...” Rebekah wept devastated, “I know Rebekah, I know! Let’s find him, shall we?” Tanya soothed wrapping her in a friendly hug, “Yes, let’s all do that!” Carlisle commented hugging Esme. They walked up to where they last saw him and seeing the bodies scattered on the roads, nowhere was safe to stand, no foothold could be achieved and the bodies were even hang from the trees, “He did all this?” Emmett spoke shocked by the number as the others started pile up the bodies, they walked over studying each one then hearing the screech from Caroline stopped to see more bodies but at the bottom of the ditch next to them on the gravel lay the body of Damian, wounds covered his body and bones snapped out of place. Caroline held the body’s hand kissing it as she cried, “Goodnight, my warrior!” Esme looked away as she heard Rebekah snap, “Well now your life is back to your perfect own self!!” she turned around to respond but seeing the Volturi look down at him Aro knelt to the body and spoke, “I respect our enemy. Felix, Caius, Marcus help me carry the body back!” they nodded using their cloaks to act as a stretcher and looking over Leah and Seth, Sam immediately hugged them tightly, “It will be okay, trust me!” "Poor boy, never got: to love properly, never got a second family or anything and sided with us when we kept ruining his life. And now another person has died for us. How many more will die for us!" Alice spoke and looking over to the responding voice of Carlisle heard, trying to rationalise it “He choose to!" but shaking her head Alice snapped back, "He had ****, he knew we wouldn't be able to form up if someone didn't buy us time, he just saw logic in it. He had nothing to lose but also was the only one who could fight them off with a good level of success? we wouldn't have lasted five minutes! I’m going to break the news to Sue"

Days later and seeing the gathering of people for the burial Sue stood there clinging to Charlie who hugged her tightly, “I’m soo sorry Sue for your loss, he didn’t deserve to die this early on but if there is anything I can do to help just ask!” "No, you have done enough! another one of our family is dead thanks to you!" “Sue, I didn’t want it to be like this but your children are alive because of him, we need to remember that!” “I will but it doesn’t change the fact he is dead!” “I know and I can only offer my condolences!” she looked over to Sam who nodded shifting into his wolf form and attacked Aro with the others joining in, “What the hell are you doing?” Carlisle begged seeing the others get attacked and Growling Jared barked, “Finish what he started!”

The stand off had begun Caius was dead by the Denali’s hand after Carmen and Eleazer died, Marcus and the wife’s were murdered by the wolves as Aro was beheaded by Felix and giving it to Tanya to show his new loyalty and Jane and Alec were pushed behind Tanya defensively keeping her promise to protect both members no matter what. The three groups remained, the Wolves, Denali’s with Irish and Cullen’s. “Why did you do that for?” Carlisle yelled looking at the Denali’s, “Payback. Now we should kill you all for what you did to our family member" “He wasn’t your family member, he is the wolf’s!” “He was still our coven member and friend, to Kate lover!” Rebekah looked at Caroline who agreed before saying, “I am so done with this shit!” before taking each other’s hand kissed the tombstone as they comforted each other walking away, “You won the part of the heart he could give!” Rebekah stated towards Caroline who responded with, “But you were the better defender and lover to him!” the Cullens looked at the wolves who looking down spoke, “Time to kill you both!” “Alice where are you going?” Carlisle growled, “Me and Jasper discussed this a few days back. We are leaving the coven and joining the Irish’s Coven, they agreed and we are packed to go, so goodbye!” Rosalie looked at Emmett who nodded before saying, “Goodbye father but we are to, joining the Denali’s in his honour!” they walked away and the wolves smiling did the same, “Sometimes your helping is making things worse! remember that...if we ever see you again! Damian was the better option! But now you live by your choices!” Sam spoke leading them away, “Good luck, you’re going to need it!”