Walking up the steps of her home, Kate was instantly hit by the smell of wet dog, a smell that to her kind was disgusting. 'Something's up' she sighed to herself as she opened the large glass door and wandered into the living room where she found Sam, Jacob, Quil and the wolf she'd met earlier, Paul, whose eyes had lit up at the sight of her. "Heavy night?" Sam, whose eyes had narrowed greatly, boldly asked as he noticed the tiny drop of blood still visible on Kate's lips. "Relax" Kate said with a growl, "I hate the thought of human blood being drank just as much as you do". Kate swiftly moved into the kitchen and grabbed a tissue to wipe the blood from her lip. She held the blood stained tissue in front of her, softly staring at the small circle of rose red blood in the centre. Kate could feel her whole body tingling just as it had done when Demetri kissed her and she couldn't help but smile at the thought of that kiss. She closed her eyes for a second, forgetting about everyone in the room behind her as her breathing quickened from the memory of Demetri's touch.
"Are you ok?" Said a deep voice from behind her. Kate was immediately startled by Paul's voice, and upon turning round, accidently dropped the tissue onto the floor. "What?" Kate asked as she hadn't clearly heard what Paul had said. Paul slowly bent down in front of Kate and softly picked up the tissue, cringing slightly at the sight of the blood before handing it to her as he repeated his question. "I asked if you were ok, you just looked….I don't know… in another world?". Kate let out a small laugh as she took the tissue from Paul and stuffed it into her pocket, "You have no idea" she replied. A confused look instantly spread across Paul's face at Kate's answer, a look that said he had many more questions that Kate felt she didn't want to answer. "Ignore that, I'm fine" she clarified with her best 'trust me' expression. The pair stood in silence for a moment, just smiling at each other, as Kate noticed a slight sparkle in Paul's eye. "Kate, Paul, come sit for a second we have urgent things to discuss" Carlisle called.
Everyone took a seat inside the living room of the Cullen's home, waiting in anticipation for Carlisle to tell them all why they were there. "Alice" Carlisle said softly, "please tell everyone what you saw in your vision earlier". Alice nodded and stood up to take Carlisle's place in the centre of the room, a look of regret etched across her features. "As Carlisle said, earlier I had one of my visions and I'm afraid to say that it wasn't a good one. I saw the Volturi, not just Jane and Alec but all of the Volturi in the clearing….they're coming for us". The gasps at Alice's last words filled the room as everyone in the room fell silent contemplating what Alice had said. "Why are they coming"? Sam suddenly asked with a confused expression. "They know about Renesmee" Alice answered as she looked in Bella's direction, "they think she's an immortal child". Kate followed Alice's gaze to see Bella and Edward stood in the corner clinging to each other tightly. "But how did they find out about Nessie? We've told know one" came Jacob's enraged voice from the other end of the room. "All I can think is that someone has been watching us" Carlisle answered softly trying to calm the situation. 'Watching us…..someone….Demetri…..…watching us', the words rang through Kate's head as though everyone one was shouting them at her. She daren't saying anything, not yet anyway, she had to know that it was him for sure. "There must be something we can do, right Carlisle?" Emmett asked one again breaking the silence. "Witnesses" exclaimed Edward, "we should get witnesses to testify that Renesmee was naturally brought in to the world then the Volturi cannot question us". Kate was trying desperately to focus on what was being said but once again that familiar face of Demetri's kept flashing in and out of her head. "There's something I need to do, I'll be back later" Kate said as she pulled on her jacket and ran to her car.
Kate drove to the outskirts of town, to the motel she knew Demetri was staying at. She slowly pulled her car into the car park and stepped out examining the building in front of her. It was an untidy place with dimly lit windows and lights on the roof that didn't stop flickering. 'The perfect place for a vampire to keep a low profile' she thought to herself. Kate wandered forward opened the front door which was now hanging off of its hinges. The smell of cigarette smoke and alcohol instantly hit her as she stood in the reception area. Kate rung the bell that was lying on the desk in front of her which to her pleasure caused no reaction of anyone within the building. She pulled a book that was lying under crumpled pieces of paper and laid it in front of her before searching through the badly written names and numbers in front of her until she found the single letter 'D' next to the number 22. "Got ya" Kate whispered to herself as she slid the book back under the pieces of paper before making her way up the rickety staircase. Kate went up several flights of stairs until she reached the last level of the building where she found an arrow pointing to the right. Kate tiptoed down the corridor reading the door numbers as she went until she found a blue door at the very end with "22" carved at the top of it. Kate took one last look down the hallway to make sure no one had seen her before hammering her knuckles against the door in front of her. A few seconds later the door creaked open and there stood Demetri with his usual grin, "What a pleasant surprise" he said.
