Edward left Alice in a flash heading straight for Carlisles office where he knew he would find him. And find him he did.

Carlisle Cullen sat behind the huge mahagony oak that would be his desk shuffling through papers quicker than thought possible. With another days work out of the way, he had spare time to organize and reorganize things. Of course the speed ability helped along the way also. Before Edward had reached the door, he was staring at it, watching his son enter with a troubled expression and fire in his eyes, something was up.

Edward walked into Carlisles office with purpose and quickly took a seat in the chair infront of the desk. He could tell Carlisle was examining him up and down and would know something was wrong. He waited til he could straighten his words right, then started talking before Carlisle had a chance to speak.
"Alice had a vision." He started saying, his voice extremely low. His eyes shifted and with a second thought he was up, shutting the door, and back in his seat. "There are these... people, you could say. They have power. Magic of some sort." Once he had said it he knew how stupid it had sounded but Carlisle had his full attention and urged him on with a brisk wave of his hand. "These people were in a circle, a group of them.. at least twelve.. maybe there is more... but they wore black hooded cloaks and white masks. There was a leader who stood on the outside and gave a speech about how they were to invade this town of Forks, Washington and take on these... special people..." He paused a moment to let that sink in. "Meaning us..." He stiffened, pursing his lips and thinking a moment before continuing. "The leader said that they would invade our town in search of us and.. Nessie..." At that his fist curled before he could help it. "We don't know what or even who these people are, but all we know is that they are headed are way and there will be trouble I'm afraid."

Carlisle eyebrows creased as he took all of what Edward said into perspective. By the sound of it, they were all in trouble... especially Nessie. Not that this hadn't come about before, but they way Edward was speaking gave about something more. Knowing the enemy is one thing. Not knowing the enemy is entirely different. "I see." He said blatantly, letting the thoughts put themselves together in his mind like a puzzle. "Alice didn't happen to mention when about these.. strangers where to arrive, did she?" When Edward shook his head, he grimaced slightly. He was defintly unsure of what to think or what to do at that moment. Standing, he paced his desk, eyeing out the window, the trees restless in the wind. So here we go again. "Does anyone know about this yet?" Again Edward shook his head.

"Do you know what Bella would do if she found out some "strangers" where coming to destroy us and take Nessie?" Once more Edward shook his head, slightly agitated. He knew what Carlisle was thinking and didn't like it. One bit.

"Of course." Carlisle stopped in the middle of his desk putting his hands on that back of his chair. "We will have to dicuss this with everyone..." He said staring at Edward with a worried expression himself. "I know Bella will not take this easy, but neither will the rest of our family.."

Both of the men were in silence while the others were busily chattering away downstairs.
Rosalie and Emmet were coming back in soon. He still hadn't a notice of were Jasper was though, and poor Alice was in shook yet over what she had seen. They were looking at eachother with defeated expressions. "I suppose you are right, they have to know.." Edward finally spoke, standing to go towards the door, Carlisle walking beside him.

"For right now all we can do is take in as much information we can get, gather up as much knowledge about these people as we can. We will get everyone together and dicuss our plan of action. We'll need Alice to help as much as she can too... this will not be easy..." Carlisle spoke as the two of them were walking down the stairway to where everyone else was at.

They wouldn't have to say much because their expressions said it all...