Nothing ever stays the same.

Chapter 1- Just another mission

I stood with my back up against the wall and my heart pounding in my chest, my chest heaving up and down from my rapid panting. I was covered in ash and sweat from my near burning and I had a few burns on my feet and legs where the fire had begun to devour me. The town's people had thought my brother and I were witches because we could do things, and they weren't even that interesting, I mean so what if someone scared me they felt a jab of pain and if my brother ever felt distressed people blacked out, so what. I didn't hear their footsteps as they proceeded gracefully into the room; they were like ghosts, pale and almost translucent with frightfully red eyes that bore into my brain and triggered my power and I noticed them flinch slightly and then the one that seemed to be the leader spoke to me

"Dear one, would you please stop that" he said in a voice that was feathery light and sickeningly sweet

"Why should I?" I asked putting in as much attitude as I could manage despite the fact I was cold with fear

"Because" he said just as serenely "you are safe now"

"Safe? Well if I'm safe then you won't mind telling me where my brother is then"

"Your brother, well he's with my brother, we are here to protect you because we have had our eyes on you two for quite some time"

"Who is 'we'?"

"We are the Volturi an ancient clan of Vampires that effectively make sure that we stay secret"

"Ok…" I began stuttering as the fear grew inside me "so why have you had your eyes on my brother and I"

"Because darling, we think you may posses certain gifts that may be beneficial to our plight"

"But why…I mean I'm only sixteen, I won't be any use to you" The man then flashed me a wicked grin and his sharp teeth gleamed in the dim moonlight, and it was then that I whimpered cowering against the wall even more my heart hammering even harder and my panting even wilder.

"Oh don't worry Jane; it'll be over before you know it"

All that I can remember of after that is blackness, eternal and deep and pain, absolute and bewildering pain.

"Jane!" A voiced exclaimed as I woke from my contemplation and then the face of my brother came into focus, beautiful and angelic like all things young and vampiric, even old and vampiric.

"Yes, Alec" I asked feigning irritation so he'd be quick about it

"Aro, wants to see us" Ah, Aro the man who changed me, the man who could be called my father if t weren't for the fact that he puts me in harms way every time he needs his precious laws enforced

"Alright then" I said as I gazed out of my bedroom window from my comfortable armchair "I'll follow you down in a second"

"Are you alright?"

"Yes, I'm fine, just, thinking"

"Ok then, see you down there" And within a second of saying that Alec was out of my room and making his way to Aro's study which meant that he wanted privacy. I stood up and placed the book I was reading back on the shelf and moved over to my closet where I grabbed my cloak and then moved towards the door opened it and then moved in the direction of Aro's study. I passed many a face as I navigated myself to the staircase that would bring me to the masters common room and then towards the hallway that led to Aro's quarters. I stopped at the door that was third furthest from the end and knocked on the door and waited for his feathery voice to let me in and then it came

"Come in Jane" I opened the door and walked into his lavishly decorated office with books, paintings, and priceless artefacts covering every inch of his office. Aro was sitting behind his desk beaming as he normally does his near translucent skin hasn't really changed from the day he changed me and that was almost three hundred years ago. Sitting in front of his desk was Alec and Demetri.

"Ok, now we can get started" Aro said with pure, unrelented enthusiasm 'I have a mission for you three, it is of great importance and I only trust you three with it" Aro then stopped to asses our reactions and then continued "it will require all three of your abilities to complete this task"

"What is the task then Master?" Demetri asked with unbashful curiosity almost sitting on the edge of his seat

"There is a human, who I believe has great potential and may even contain certain qualities that may be of use to us" Alec then interjected his own question

"So you want us to find this human and bring them back here?"

"No I want you to find the human, change him where he is and if you cannot detect any talent then you dispose of him" Aro said, unaffected by the instruction in his words, as if he had (and he had) ordered the deaths of hundreds of vampires and humans.

"That won't be a problem master, just give us the details and we'll leave in the morning." I said shooting a warning glance at both Alec and Demetri for their impertinence.

"Right, the human is a male, he is approximately 16 years old so about your age Alec and Jane and he is currently staying in Belgium on a family holiday and we believe that this will make good cover for his disappearance. He is Irish, just thought I'd trow that in, and if he does have a gift you are to bring him back here"

"Understood master, but do we know his name?"

"Oh right, yes we do, he is named, Arthur Riordan Corcan" Aro finished and looked around at the three of us "Are you up to the task" and then we all said

"Yes"

"Then you are dismissed"

I walked out of the room gracefully and diligently and then once outside of Aro's grand office I began to run back to my room to get changed ignoring my brother and Demetri.

As I was packing my bags, mainly with the usual dark grey 1800's and early 1900's clothes I normally wore, I disturbed myself by thinking that if this person did have a gift that would involve three of us going to Belgium to retrieve does that mean Aro does not favour me anymore. I immediately shrugged the thought away because it was absurd to firstly think that something like that and secondly to have it bother me like it did. Then there was a knock on my door and then Demetri and Alec entered

"Hello Jane, packing already I see" Demetri said as he came in

"Demetri, it would have been very polite of you to wait until I invited you in" I said a sweetly as I could while leaving a trace of threat laced in my words

"There's no time for formalities we need to make a travel plan and possibly begin to outline our plan of attack and then there is always our cover story"

"Ok then, you still could have waited though" and then I gestured the two of them over to my fireplace where I had a love seat and an armchair organised and indicated for the two of them to sit down. I then went over to my desk retrieved my laptop and then moved to sit in the armchair facing them. I turned on the laptop and then loaded the Internet and started looking at flights while the other two discussed cover story.

"There is a flight to Brussels from Florence tomorrow at 11:35 am and it arrives 5:25 pm"

"Sounds good, book it, but make sure it's Business Class" Alec replied

"Hmm and…done" I said and then moved over and joined them on the couch "what's the story?"

"Well you two are going to act as my niece and nephew and you are in Belgium on holiday to spend quality time with me, sound ok?"

"Yeah, it's fine" Alec said unphased "Jane?"

"I like it"

"Thank-you, now I was planning on using you Jane to seduce him seeing as he is your age"

"I'm sorry come again," I said as I gasped at him, I then pulled myself together and gave him a glare and a little shock, he flinched, and I felt the normal relief that I do after I inflict pain.

"My suggestion was to just have you, well…you know seduce and lure him to us so we can change him" I raised an eyebrow at him and he flinched thinking I was going to shock him, I love having people fear me it gives me gusto and feeds my ego. God I love myself.

"Ok then Demetri, I'll do it, what could possibly go wrong"

"True" Demetri agreed, "Now I'm going to go to my room and pack, so see you two in 5 hours in the lobby"

"I'll head to my room to, so see-you Jane" Alec said, and after a peck on the cheek from Alec both of them left to their respective rooms and I cleaned up and continued packing not bothered by the plan in the slightest.


A/N: I will publish the next chapter of this story if there seems to be a market for it. So please Review to let me know if my efforts are wanted.