(A/N!) OKAY! So, I've said this before, I go off topic. I wrote this only AFTER I wrote the part that FOLLOWS this. That will be posted once I'm finished. Then I'll continue working on A Fading Sun. I SWEAR!

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Only two days ago, Nessie and I were enjoying the sights and smells of Italy.

Now she was lying in front of me, covered in blood.

Only, it wasn't animal blood...

Nessie had made a spur of the moment decision to go to Italy. She ended up dragging me along on an airplane, compliments of daddy Edward's credit card. Hah, he'd love that one. Daddy Edward. So while I enjoyed the scenery, Nessie enjoyed the selection. Although, there weren't as many animals as she'd anticipated.

We hadn't expected any trouble. That was, until the Volturi bloodsuckers came. Nessie had managed to keep me calm, even as they forcefully grabbed us both, dragging us to their lair.

There we met Aro and his cronies again. Aro, Marcus, Caius, Jane, and Alec. They stood around us in a loose semi-circle. I analyzed their faces one by one as they spewed angry questions out of their despicable life-sucking mouths.

Finally, Aro decided to play it the easy way.

He placed his hand on mine ever so carefully, as I was slightly trembling at the thought of being around the very beasts that had traveled all the way to Forks to kill my Nessie.

Next, he viewed Nessie's every thought. In the end, he said we weren't any danger. We were free to go. Before leaving the room, I snuck a quick glance at Jane. Her eyes caught mine, and I looked away. Something about her had changed. Something I feel I was practically trained to notice. I just couldn't put my finger on it.

Nessie's delighted squeals interrupted my concentration, "OH! I know this path," she screamed, "I saw it online! There's a lake somewhere nearby!" She squealed once more, and dragged me off down the path.

We walked at a relaxing human pace down the dirt path, hand in hand. Nessie was just basking in the moonlight while we walked. She kept her head up towards the moon, swaying sleepily, but her eyes never left the glowing goddess in the sky. She loved night. More than any other time of the day. It was so calm, and the night air was so clean, and so peaceful…

But then we heard crunching leaves. We took up slightly defensive postures, each having the other's back.

Then suddenly, Caius stepped out of the trees.

(A/N) Yes, I'm working on my punctuation, and how I lay out my stories. I don't try to do them like actual books. Also, my writing isn't planned, so I'm sorry... but I may end up contradicting myself many, many times.