Hm. I wrote this till 12am. So, I'm sacrificing my sleep time here. Anyways, I think I'm going nocturnal anyway. I hope you like this chapter. Thanks roserose12345 for the ideas. Sorry I forgot to put you in the previous chapter's credits.

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I marched in front of everyone else, my hand pulling impatiently on Edward's. I could hear everyone's footsteps; Alice's light flutter, Jasper's steady march, Carlisle's patient walk, Edward's stuttering steps as he responded to my pulling and the Denalis' polite following, but I found that I couldn't hear Jane and Alec's. I turned around and noticed that they were no longer behind us.

"Where are-" I started to ask.

"They went to buy the airplane tickets." Edward said, forestalling my question.

"Oh."

I stopped marching away at full speed and slowed down. Soon, we arrived at the gateway. I gasped in horror, the whole place shone with full bright sunlight and there were still crowds of visitors to come and enjoy the festival. They would instantly spot us if we tried to go through the gate. I noticed Jane and Alec standing nearby in a dark alleyway looking grim. I looked at them until I caught Jane's eye and she nodded.

Looking around for watchers, they came over to us.

"I don't think there's a way out. We will be seen too easily. And I will not put it past Aro to kill us if we are seen in sunlight." Jane grimaced.

"I'll get a car." Alice slunk off into the shadows again.

"What if we wait until night time?" Kate asked.

"Aro will have sent out guards to look for us by then." Alec said.

"But we can drive out right?" I asked, worried.

"It depends; there are specific guards that watch over the gate, there is a special one that appears in less than 5 minutes. He has a special talent for spotting vampires." Alec said.

"What? A human can spot a vampire. What will he do?" I asked in distress.

"Normally, he stops us and forces us to go back to Aro." Jane whispered.

"But, if he knows about us then, wouldn't he be a weak point?" Carlisle asked.

"Of course, but like Gianna, he hopes to be changed." Jane grimaced.

I shook my head and looked away, closing my eyes as if wishing for a change of scenery, back to Forks, where Renesmee was not sick. I heard an engine speeding towards us and felt a pull on my arm, I opened my eyes to see Edward pulling me urgently towards a large jeep that could easily fit twelve people. I looked at the gate worriedly, thinking about the vampire spotter.

We all hopped into the dark interior of the car. I was hoping against my deepest fears that the man who could spot vampires would not be there.

Unfortunately, it was definitely my unlucky day.

"Jane! Alec! What might you be doing, exiting Volterra?" the guard inquired.

"We wish to visit Florence."

"And who are these accompanying you?"

"Friends of Aro's" Jane said shortly.

"Does he know you're out?" the guard asked suspiciously.

"Of course he does."

The guard's eyes narrowed in suspicion and started to reach for his mobile phone. Alec's hand shot up and grasped it in a millisecond. I grinned inwardly at our obvious advantage.

"There will be no need for that." Jane smiled sweetly, inches away from the pain she could give.

The guard noticed her expression and instantly repented, obviously knowing what she could do. He tucked his phone tightly back into his pocket and turned to face the twins again.

"Is there anything you may need?" he asked stiffly, watching Jane widening her grin.

"Oh, just tell Aro that there will be no need to worry about our return." Alec said happily.

"Ok then." He waved us through the gate quickly.

I sighed in relief and sat back in my chair, breathing again.

"Couldn't you do that everytime you wanted to get out?" I asked.

"No, it only worked today because today is St Marcus Day, but I had my doubts." said Alec.

I nodded and leaned into Edward's shoulder calmly. Alice and Jasper were holding hands and Carlisle was staring out the window, obviously worrying about something while the Denalis were looking rather awkward, squished together with us in the back seat.

We drove through Florence at the highest speed possible and made it to the airport in time to buy tickets to a flight that was leaving in approximately two minutes. We ran at human speed and queued up to the ticket receiver.

I hopped up and down on the spot as the lady took my ticket and checked it in the machine. She smirked at the floor, obviously taking in my expression. The action was very small, but I noticed. Immediately, I stopped bouncing and her smirk disappeared. I allowed a grin to take place on my face as I took my passport back.

I waited in the hallway for everyone else to pass through and then we set off into the plane to find our seats.

I flopped down into my chair and watched as Edward swapped seats with Jasper so that he could sit next to me and Jasper swapped with Carlisle to sit next to Alice. Garret and Kate chose seats close to Tanya, Eleazar and Carmen. As Carlisle sat down next to Edward's other side and the plane started to vibrate. Jane sat down next to me and Alec seated himself quietly next to Jane. I could tell that Edward was uncomfortable with this arrangement but he didn't complain.

Jane turned to look at me every now and then, and I caught her gaze once, burning into mine.

"You said you had a reason why you wanted to leave Volterra." I started.

Alec jolted out of his auto pilot mode and turned to look at me, startled.

"Yes." He said sadly.

Edward and Carlisle looked around at Alec and Jane and I heard Alice and Jasper's whispered conversation come to an abrupt stop.

"It was years ago, Jane and I lived happily in Italy, with our mother, father… and sister."

"She was older than us by twenty minutes, but still counted as a triplet." Jane continued.

"We looked up to her, even though she wasn't older by much." Alec said.

"She taught us many things, she had inherited our father's gift of learning. We loved her a lot. Her name was Valeria." Jane said.

"We were rather young, when our parents wanted to go to a concert. We all wanted to go, so they bought five tickets, unfortunately, Jane and I were sick with the Spanish influenza so we couldn't go." Alec continued sadly.

I heard Edward's sharp intake of breath when he heard the disease. I had gasped as well, remembering the very illness that Edward had had before he was changed.

"Crying all day and night about how we weren't allowed to go, our parents tried to make us feel better by buying us some new books. We loved books so we instantly gave in and started reading."

"That was when it happened. In the books, there were many mentions of vampires in the world, with their cold white skin and dead looks." Alec chuckled humourlessly.

"Jane and I were intrigued with the idea of these beings, that on the night that our parents and Valeria left for the concert, we leapt out of our window and wandered the streets."

"Eventually, stumbling around in the dark, holding onto each other's hands in fright, we fell down the hole." Jane said, grimacing at the memory.

I shuddered, remembering the unpleasant feeling of falling down that dark hole into the unknown. Edward rubbed his hand up and down my arm, trying to make me feel better but I could feel the shudder in his hand, he had obviously seen it first-hand through their thoughts.

"We landed rather painfully. Still grasping each other's hands as tight as possible, we stumbled our way along until we came to the reception, there was a young lady there, it was not Gianna, but obviously like us. She looked at us in surprise and absently pointed towards the lift."

"We hopped in, excited now rather than frightened that we had discovered such an interesting yet dark place."

Eventually, going through more dark hallways, we ended up in the same room that the ancients were adjourned in the first time Bella came." Alec said.

I grimaced slightly when they mentioned my name in their story. However, they did not stop their story there.

"They were all there: Aro, Caius, Marcus, the wives and some guards."

"When we came in, we instantly saw them for what they were."

"They looked up impatiently at our entrance but their eyes turned into expressions of shock when they saw and smelt us."

"I remember screaming, and yelling 'Vampire!' at the top of my lungs. Until Aro came over swiftly and stopped me." Jane explained.

"I was afraid instantly that I had provoked them and that they were going to eat us."

"Until I heard him say: 'Are you afraid little one?'"

"I nodded and he gently put me down next to Alec." Jane whispered.

"'Are you going to eat us, sir?' I asked quietly." Alec said.

"Aro chuckled happily and we cowered in fear." Jane said.

"We started to back away but he held up his hand."

"I went up to him and grasped his hand, he closed his eyes and I suddenly felt frightened again. Was this how they sucked blood?" Jane said.

"He opened his eyes and grinned at us. 'You have the influenza, yet you venture out in the streets of Volterra?'"

"I stared at him open mouthed. And then the world started to go black. The next thing I felt, was immense pain. It lasted for a very long time and I heard a terrible sound revolving around me, after listening to it, I realised that it was myself, screaming. I used my strength to clench my mouth shut. After a while, I opened my eyes and found that everything was so clear." Jane said, sounding awed.

"I felt a similar thing, except I didn't go out so suddenly." Alec added.

"Aro was sitting in front of me and I looked at myself, observing my changes. My skin was pale and rock hard and my throat hurt so much." Jane complained.

My hand automatically reached for my own throat as I remembered the sensation when I woke up for the first time as a vampire, feeling the burn of newborn thirst.

"Aro started to explain what I had become and I started to feel so very frightened. And I looked around and saw that Alec was still writhing in pain. I asked why he changed me. 'My dear, the influenza grasped you very instantly. You knew our secret and I saw your potential, so I changed you.' he had said."

"The influenza did not get me as fast as Jane so Aro changed me later." Said Alec.

"Anyway, Alec's transformation completed and then I remembered about our sister and parents. They must be so worried that we weren't at home."

"And then Aro showed us the newspaper. There was a photo of our family on the front cover. We read the article and gasped in horror as we read that the mother, father and elder sibling had died in a car crash." Jane whispered, so quiet that it was hard to hear her.

"I felt the tears coming and prepared to hide my face but found that the tears just wouldn't come. I returned to my room and Alec instantly confronted me about my expression. I had to tell him." Jane mouthed.

I felt so sorry for them at this point that I wrapped my arm around Jane's tiny shoulders, I was so glad that she didn't glare at me, or shrug away my arm. It comforted me that she was getting relief from telling us this.

"We grieved for many days, we even attended the funeral, while standing nearby in the shade. And the newspaper reported the day after the funeral that we were missing. We had absolutely no intentions of showing ourselves, so we stayed to help Aro and discover our extra talents." Alec said sadly.

"Therefore, we understand fully your situation and we really do not wish that you go through the same pain that we did." Finished Jane.

There was silence all around. I couldn't think what to say to them. I was filled with emotion at their loss and finally understood partially the reason behind the hatred to our family. We had a family, while they lost theirs, and finally, when we had one in need of help, they finally fight for what's right, and what they want… to help us and have a family again.

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