Alec

I sat on a plush red chair, my elbows resting on my knees, and my head in my hands as I stared blankly at the girl. Demetri was on the other side of the room, leaning up against the wall with his arms crossed over his chest as he, too, watched the girl.

At first, I had cared about looking regal and formal, but then, as the hours dwindled on, my back had naturally gotten into the slouched position that I was now in, and I was too lazy to correct myself. It was only Demetri in here, no one I had to impress.

We had both been waiting here already for five hours. We weren't allowed to leave the room, for anything. Felix stood waiting outside the doors, and he had been here just as long as we had.

The girl, Isabella Swan, was lying on a long couch that matched the color of the chair I occupied currently. Her screams had, thankfully, lost their voice, and so now she just held her mouth open, screaming silently.

The only sound in the room was of Isabella thrashing about on the couch. I knew I should have brought something with me to do, but I hadn't expected it to last this long. But we had to be here when she "woke up," and, although we knew it would be soon, we didn't know when exactly it would happen.

I wished Jane was here, and then maybe I wouldn't be so bored. Instead I had to be Aro's messenger boy. I wondered what Jane was doing right now.

I looked down at my shoes and tapped my feet up and down in a rhythmic pattern, my head going up and down the same time as my legs did. I hadn't been this bored in a long, long time. There was always something to do around the castle at night—usually involving some form of art.

I wondered if Aro was going to make me work with Demetri as well during Isabella's newborn phase. That could take years. And he had already told Jane that I would be exempt from the job, but I wouldn't put it past Aro to change his mind.

Ignoring if it would bother Demetri or not, I began whistling, carrying out a tune that I had played on the piano in my room the night before, in hopes of drowning out the thrashing and the otherwise unbearable silence. I combined this with my foot tapping, and was effectively entertained for the moment being.

I was brought out of it, however, when I noticed Demetri move away from his perch and walk toward Isabella. I stopped what I was doing and lifted my head from my hands, looking up at him.

"Alec, it's almost time." Demetri said lightly.

I sat still and listened. I could indeed hear Isabella's heart beating even louder than usual, its pattern sporadic and hasty.

I stood and walked over toward the couch slowly, until I came to stand next to Demetri. I looked down at the girl, soon to become a vampire.

Isabella had shut her mouth and was grinding her teeth together in the pain. Her hands were clutching the cushions of the couch around her, and her feet were pushing with all their might against the cushion that they were on. Her eyes were squeezed shut, and if she had been able to produce tears, they would be streaming down her cheeks.

The last part was always that hardest. Even though most of us didn't remember much of our human lives—they were so long ago for the majority of us—or even the early years of our vampire lives, no one ever forgot the last bit of the change. The pain haunted you forever. It rested with you the relief in knowing that nothing would ever hurt as much again.

Isabella's heart rate kept on speeding up, faster and faster, until I thought that it might beat right out of her chest and spiral into the ceiling. It soon became a hum, like the flapping a mockingbird wings.

And then, all so suddenly, her heart went from one continuous sound, to no sound at all, and her eyelids flew open, her eyes a dull black. They wouldn't take color until she had fed, which Aro would see to as soon as he was informed.

"Alec," Demetri said.

I didn't need to be told twice, and I raced out of the room at vampiric speed. I saw Felix come in as soon as I had opened the door and left. I ran down the many halls to the throne room, and burst in without knocking or being announced.

I stared straight at Aro and, now quite composed, told him, "Her transformation is complete, sir."

His pale lips curled into a smile, and he stared at something in the distance.

"Sir?" I asked, uncertain.

"Tell Heidi that we're going to need three humans, immediately. Once you've told her, you shall wait near the hall doors. As soon as the humans arrive, go and get Miss Swan as well as Demetri and Felix. She'll need to feed."

I bowed my head. "Yes, sir."

I ran back out through the hall doors, closing them quietly, and ran to Heidi's room. When she was not out finding humans or flirting with other guards, she was always in her own room.

I knocked and the door opened before my fist was back at my side.

Her eyebrows shot up upon seeing me. "Alec?" she asked in her high, feminine voice. "What is it?"

"Aro needs three humans immediately in the throne room for Isabella to feed on." I told her seriously, my hands together behind my back.

"Can I get them from a bar? That's the easiest place to find them at this time of night without breaking into homes and ripping humans from their beds." She asked. "If they're drunk they usually won't put up a struggle then as well."

"It doesn't matter where they're from. Just grab the first three humans you see and bring them back." I told her, before adding as an after-thought, "But make sure they're not too intoxicated. It would be bad for Isabella to get drunk or even tipsy off of her food."

She nodded and disappeared behind her door, reopening it a few seconds later. She was wearing a black leather miniskirt, sparkly silver high heels, a silver top with no back that tied around her neck and waist, and silver hoop earrings, her hair wild and curly.

Together we both ran back to the throne room, and I opened the door for her as she ran out, gave a quick head bow to the three leaders, and then ran out the main doors. I stepped into the throne room at human speed and closed the door gently behind me.

The days in which Isabella had been changing, we had all been holding our breath in anticipation of what she would be like as a vampire. Now we were reaching the moment of truth, when our lives would really change.

I just wish that I had known back then just how much they were really going to change.


Yay for premonitions! Albeit obvious premonitions...

Alec is one of my favorite characters (he's so cute in the movies. Agh, I'm such a girl), so it's going to be hard for me to make him all mean and evil, like Jane, even though he is described as being very malicious (although not quite as much as his sister).

The next chapter is going to be in Bella's POV (finally, I know, right?). I feel kind of bad that I dragged her change out so long. I could have made it one chapter per day, but oh well. It's done with now. And she shall be a vampity-vamp-vamp and she'll meet Caius. :D Caius is the cruelest of the three leaders, so that means poor Bella's gonna get thrashed. In the beginning, at least. We'll see how it all turns out...