Hello my furry (or not-so-furry) friends. I have decided I will update every time I have a math lesson. Unfortunately for you, I don't ever have double math HAHAHA. But you should get regular updates now. So be happy. I don't really know what is going to happen with this story so my chapters might get a bit short since I can't really write meaningless fluff. Anyway... here is your promised update.

Isabella had grown even quieter over the journey back to Volterra. Her mind had been blocked off from his making it impossible to try and help ease her suffering. Aro sank back into the dark leather seats and watched Isabella's face as she thought.

"You don't have to stare at me so much Aro." Isabella's clear voice broke the silence that had permeated the air since they had first entered the car. He glanced at her and saw that she was glaring out of the window at the barren countryside and the falling snow. "After all, I'm merely a convenience for you aren't I. Just some girl you met on holiday." Her voice was bitter and cold, different to the voice he had grown accustomed to over the week since they first met. He finally realised the reason for her unnatural silence, the anger behind her scarlet eyes.

"How can you say that Isabella? I told you how I truly felt earlier." He was shocked that she would think he had been insincere in his feelings until a whisper of one of her thoughts broke through the barrier she had built. He ran the thought through his own mind over and over again. Wife... love... return was the thought rolling through the vaults of his mind as he tried to decipher a meaning. Was she trying to suggest that they should get married and return to Forks? Or had she somehow found out about Sulpicia? A subtle probe into the weaker sections of her mind block revealed that it was the second option that was troubling her.

Aro grabbed her wrist and lifted it to his mouth, lips brushing lightly over her palm. She turned at his ministrations and looked at him, her eyes hard and cold before replying in a detached voice. "Your wife was your true love just a while ago. You probably did exactly the same act for her then as well. Am I to be like her? Cast away at the first human who catches your eye?" She pulled her hand away from him and backed up against the door of the car, as far away as she could be in the confined space. "Am I nothing to you?" As these words reached Aro, he flinched back as if they caused him physical pain and she felt a small stab of guilt before she remembered the reason for this. She had to be sure that his wife was not his love. Otherwise she might as well return to the dreaded Cullens and live out her life as a slave to their beliefs and conventions.

He stared at her for a second before angrily pressing his lips against hers and wrapping his arms around her. To avoid breaking the kiss, he sent her a quick thought from his mind. Never, my Isabella. Never will I deny who we are when we are together. Never deny it Isabella. He felt her body soften at his words, reacting to the kiss. As she wrapped her arms around his body, Aro felt her barriers tumble down to rubble, leaving all her insecurities out in the open. He smiled and gently showed her the truth about herself, crushing all doubts about their love as the car sped closer to Volterra.

Alec looked at Nymphadora with a blank look on his angelic face. She had remained in her own form and had shocked him when the woman he thought was Sulpicia had walked out of the bathroom. He didn't know it but Sulpicia had lent the girl a specially crafted perfume designed to hide the smell of blood, replacing it with a unique vampiric smell. Gone was the vampire scent that he had inhaled over the weeks that they had been ensconced in the bedroom replaced by the scent of fresh, human blood.

"W-who are you?" His voice trembled, as he watched her move towards him. As she reached him she held out a white stick with a piece of paper wrapped around it. With a glare at the mysterious girl, Alec read the words on the paper that told him how the pregnancy test worked. His hands shaking, he looked at what he had thought was a stick. Glancing quickly at the screen he saw that it had returned positive. This girl – this human, carried his child and Sulpicia had known the whole time. Now he saw the reason behind little intricacies that had sped past him before. Now Alec understood the full extent of their trap. For trap it was, and now he was at their mercy. Collapsing to the floor, Alec of the Volturi placed his head in his hands and wept.

The human gazed at him with something akin to pity and took his head in her own hands. "I'm so sorry." These words, however, went almost unheard by the delicate vampire on the floor. She pressed her warm, soft lips against his cold, stone lips and kissed him ever so gently. "I loved you when Heidi brought me in to be the Volturi's food and I love you now. When she gave me a chance to properly love you... and for you to love me, I leaped at the opportunity. I hope you can forgive me and in time love me." She pulled her face away from his and looked at him speculatively, noting that he was now taking an interest in what she said. "Oh Alec. I'm so sorry." She turned away to avoid his eyes.

This time it was Alec who held her face in his hands. "Never be sorry. Not for this." He placed his hand against her flat stomach and smiled a watery, teary smile. "Never, ever, ever be sorry." And then he kissed her as gently as he had when she was Sulpicia, and a flare of hope rose in her heart, reigniting her will, her life, and her ability to love unconditionally.

Now isn't that a cute ending? And I just realised that I can sort of write a meaningless fluff chapter. Mind you... this isn't relly meaningless fluff. More like meaningful fluff because this chapter and the events wherein DO have a purpose. Yay. Returning to the Cullens next chapter. Sorry about the lack of Bella/Aro in this chapter and probably the next. I sort of have 3 different stories going in just this one, meaning I need plot bunnies for all of them. Please Read and Review and I will update. And did anyone get my inside joke? LOL, I just realised that Dora never told Alec her name. Anyway... can't be bothered to change it. Goodbye friends. Hope I am still alive to read reviews because my dad caught me writing this instead of doing schoolwork. Oops.

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MagicWriter446

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