A/N: This was supposed to be one-shot but I decided to cut this in ... three (?) pieces. Let's say three or four. I don't know where I got the idea but I begun to write this in spring and I never finished this so now I decided to end this story. I haven't finished this yet but I am going to do it soon. I apologize my mistakes in the text.

Twilight belongs to Stephenie Meyer.

"You have to do it!"

The voice bounced in the castle's stony walls reaching me again and again. The words got stuck in my head tighter at every echoing and returned the conversation with my masters to my mind. Aro's eyes had been glimmering of interest and insanity, Caius had almost been disgusted but an interested look had been on his face. Their faces faded away when eager and a voice too familiar shouted behind me, asked me to stop my walking. Jane. She had smiled her sweet and dangerous smile.

"Alec! Brother! Stop!"

She grabbed my arm and turned me to look at her. Words fled from her lips, but I didn't listen. I knew what she was saying so I didn't have to listen. And she knew that I wasn't listening.

"Now", Jane looked me in the eyes, she didn't smile, "you must listen to me, brother."

"I heard enough from Aro", I snorted, turning my back to her and continuing. Why had she seen it? Did she think that her version of what she had seen would help me? Did she think that I could do what Aro had asked?

No, I couldn't do it without hurting myself and her. But Jane didn't understand and if she did, she just thought of her own benefit, the Volturi's benefit. Our benefit.

"Listen! Aro asked you to do a very easy thing and he expects you to succeed and bring the half-breed to us."

I stopped in my steps and looked at my sister over my shoulder. She came to me, a manipulating smile on her lips. But I knew her too well to fall for it.

"Aro would respect you even more if you did it. He knows you want to do it, though you hesitate." I didn't say anything to her but in my mind I was shouting. "Alec, you are a Volturi. You have always been faithful to the Volturi. Will you betray us now?"

Yes, I would betray them. I would do anything else than this. But I knew that Aro wouldn't let me slip away. He wanted me to do it and he wouldn't change his mind. I thought it was stupid. He had wanted many other vampires to join us but he hadn't got them. Why would she be an exception?

"As your sister, I won't let you fail. If you lose your worth in Aro's eyes so will I."

Bollocks. My dear sister was of course thinking of what would happen if I didn't do Aro's will. If I didn't do what Aro wanted, she would be doomed too. No, I didn't believe in it. Aro liked my sister a lot, she was too important to him and to the Volturi to be destroyed. Aro wouldn't easily abandon her skill or mine. But I knew Aro wouldn't be happy if I didn't, if I would fail on purpose.

"Alec", Jane said, she was almost whispering, "this could turn into something good. If she would join us… If she would stay here, she wouldn't need to leave you. You would never have to abandon her."

I shook my head and continued my way through the halls. She would never join the Volturi. She would never drink human blood. She wouldn't do that, not even for me. She hated this lifestyle, she hated us. I was an exception but I wasn't enough to change her lifestyle. But I didn't want her to change. I wanted her to be herself, a blushing girl who knew how to defy me.

Jane wasn't after me anymore so I let myself stop walking. My mind was a mess and I was only thinking of what had started all this. Jane had seen us, me with the girl. Jane had told Aro what she had seen but she hadn't told everything. She had told her version and Aro had figured out a plan and I was the one to fulfill it. He had said so smoothly, so pleasantly,

"Alec, the next time meet your friend, bring her to the castle. Bring her and introduce her to us."

I shook my head and hit my right hand straight to the wall, knowing that it was impossible to refuse. I hadn't even tried to do so, I had only bustled in my mind and cursed Jane for what she had done. I had swallowed my words and nodded, expressionless and promised to do something that I didn't want to do. I had swallowed my frustration and anger and been calm. I had accepted Aro's words without fighting back. It enraged me.

Was I afraid to defy them? Was I afraid of speaking my own mind? Was I afraid of admitting something I hadn't even admitted to the girl?

Yes and no.

I was still in dept to Aro. I owed him my life that he had rescued. I owed him my sister's life. And though I had been loyal to him during the past centuries, I didn't feel like I had paid my dept. I still owed him my life, there was too much of it left.

But… I wanted to betray him, I had shown him my loyalty hundreds, even thousands of times. Now, I wanted to show my own will.

A/N: I hope you liked it and will wait for more. I try to publish the next chapter soon but it can take some time because I want my friend to beta read it. Review and tell if you spotted any mistakes.

~sugary spring