No Need to Say Goodbye
Chapter Fourteen
Here's the next chapter. I wasn't in the whole lovey-dovey-let's-have-some-drama-mood for a long while. But I've recently watch Titanic. Gosh. I love that movie. Thumps up for Jack Dawson! I wish Rose would have moved over on that door... GOSH! SERIOUSLY WOMAN! Balance the friggin door so it wouldn't tip! *Sigh* oh I love Jack! Anyway...enjoy the chapter... this one has a bit of a cliffy at the ending, so please do please review! If you review, I'll hand you a platter of Alec... maybe with a bit of Jack Dawson on the side! HAA! Thankyou so much for reading and deepest apologizes for the wait!
His eyes were still open. They were unmoving until he gave a slow blink and then his head turned. Nessie was in deep slumber, her chest rising in a stable pattern and the rest of her barely moving except for the occasional twitch. His brows knitted together as he realised that he'd stayed with her the whole night. He'd only meant to stay until she fell asleep and then leave back to his own room or go hunting. The flaming in his throat tightened as the thought of succulent fresh blood dawned upon his mind. With a deep sigh, he moved smoothly out of Nessie's bed, straightening his clothes as his feet touched the ground. His head turned towards the window in her room and he saw the breaths of moonlight. In his mind, he swiftly calculated the time to be approximately three or four in the morning. There was barely any activity down in Volterra except for the stray wanderer or animal. His eyes glazed a little as he gazed out the window and spotted a man wandering in an alleyway. The man's blood seemed to call to him that night and as soon as Alec's eyes locked on him, it was just as though a lion were preying on an antelope. Swallowing back a pool on venom in his mouth, he stalked over to her window and swung one foot on the ledge, ready to jump out. Looking back, he tilted his head to look at the half-breed beauty again. The moon's light drew on his face, gracefully accentuating the dark shadows that matched his personality. Ducking his head under the top of the window, he leapt gracefully out, landing with a soft thump- like the closing of a book. The hunt was on.
~00oo00oo00~
Like all other days, the sun reached Nessie's lids, coaxing her awake. With the usual yawn and stretch, Nessie woke fully and ran tired fingers through her hair. It was so strange; she had dreamt that she had had a nightmare about Alec and Jacob fighting, then she's 'woke' from her dream and Alec had burst into the room comforting her and staying with her all night. With an almost dizzy feeling, Nessie bit her lip as she realised she wasn't imagining it and that it had actually happened. Looking to the other side of her bed, she breathed a sigh, though in relief or disappointment, she didn't know. Alec was gone. Probably hunting...
Her stomach growled at the thought of food and she took a few minutes to get in a shower and change her clothes. When she finished she walked briskly out of her room, eyes darting for the merest second to Alec's door. With a little concentration, she tried to see if there was any movement on the other side of the wooden frame, but nothing was heard. With another sigh, she headed towards the kitchen.
On her way, Nessie detected movement from the corner of her eye and saw two people turn the corner and head in the same direction as her. Shifting her head ever so slightly, she placed the two figures as Jane and Demetri. With a very small nervous squeak, she pretended to have to do her shoelace to the side so that they passed her. As they did, Nessie noticed the doting smile on Jane's face. She'd never really seen an expression like that on Jane's face before. It seemed like a nice change. Beside Jane was Demetri, chuckling. His scarlet eyes were downcast as he shook his head. He has a nice laugh, one that vibrated straight through his chest. It deftly reminded Nessie of a cat purring in delight.
Straightening up again she followed the two as it seemed they were headed to the kitchen. Neither of the two took notice of her and continued their trek forward.
"Demetri, you're so funny." Jane's affectionate tone stated.
Demetri gave her a funny look but smiled and patted her shoulder, "Well, bella, that means a lot coming from you."
Nessie raised her brows... was there something going on between these two?
"Demetri," Jane asked after a moment's pause, "Are you drawing today?"
Demetri nodded with a smile, "Yes... though, as beautiful as Volterra is, it seems I've run out of things to draw."
Pursing her lips Jane nodded, "I see. How disheartening..."
Demetri shot her a look, a small smile on his face, the edges of his eyes crinkling up showing genuine contentment.
"Maybe, bella, I could draw you?"
Jane has the decency to look shocked as she faltered her step, quickly regaining composure, "What?"
"Well, I've run out of things to paint and draw, but I've been told I'm pretty good at portraits. Perhaps you wouldn't mind being my model for the day?"
There was a twinkle in Jane's eyes before she looked away, "I don't know... I might be busy..."
"Ah..." Demetri's almost disappointed voice came.
RING-RING
Nessie's phone gave an untimely entrance call behind the two, though; they barely glanced back at her. Nessie bit down a small curse as she saw the name on the screen.
Jacob.
Closing her eyes, she quickly pressed the hang up button and muttered, "Go away."
From in front of her, Jane quirked a mocking smile as she turned around, "What? Fairytale fading in Happy Land...?"
Nessie's eyes narrowed, about to make a crude tease about the suspicion of Demetri and Jane, but bit her tongue and pocketed her phone.
"It's not your business."
Jane took no heed of her comment, "That's why you're here though, because trouble sprouted with your precious family? Or was it your pet?"
Nessie clenched her fists but any comment was cut off by another voice.
"Now, now, Janey... I thought it was beneath you to talk to half-breeds."
Alec.
Jane's gaze went past Nessie to her brother, "That principle doesn't seem to have reciprocated for you. Dear brother." The latter statement seemed to be a stressing of whose side he was supposed to be on.
"I'm her caretaker... it's a different matter." He replied smoothly.
"Scarcely!" Jane snarled back.
Demetri sensed the change in atmosphere and laid a hand on Jane's shoulder, bending down, murmuring calming words in her ear. Surprisingly, they work as her shoulders relaxed and eyes fluttered to a close for a moment as she gathered herself. Nessie jumped slightly as she felt Alec's presence now next to her. With a low chuckle, Alec nudged her gently in camaraderie.
Suddenly, it felt like a thousands knives with the aid of fire was rushing through her body. Pain cried through her body and then out of her throat. The look in Jane's face was obvious as she gave a small satisfied smile. Alec narrowed his eyes, his upper lip curling ever so slightly. Then, it was Nessie's turn to be more shocked as Jane dropped suddenly to the ground, Demetri catching her just in time. The look on Jane's face was mystifying and terrifying.
"DID YOU JUST USE YOUR ABILITIES ON ME?" She screeched.
Her face was covered in anger, slightly humiliation and shock but mostly betrayal. It looked like she was about to cry for a moment, but then stood up, Alec's hold on her gone. With the darkest look Nessie had ever seen from her, Jane glared at both Alec and Nessie.
"Jane..." Alec weakly replied, "I'm sorry... I just had..."
He was met with a ferocious snarl. Jane shook her head, her eyes sullen and lower lip quivering. Gone was the dangerous cherub, replaced with the sad almost quivering cherub.
"You're my family."
Her three words sounded like an accusation as she stalked away. Demetri glanced at Nessie with a confused expression then a regarding one at Alec before he followed Jane.
"What just happened?" Nessie spoke.
Alec sighed, "Don't worry about it."
Something stirred in the pit of Nessie's stomach. What had just happened was mind blowing. Alec had just put her safety before the person he was known to love the most. Before his sister who was his twin and most importantly, his family... And Nessie had just surpassed her in Alec's ladder of priorities. Her arms grew slack and she forgot everything for a moment. A strange feeling bubbled up inside of her as she realised that Alec was protecting her. He always had been and for some strange reason Nessie had the feeling he would always protect her.
Then, she wanted to slap herself, how could she not see it before? The real reason she'd come to Volterra, the yearning, that pull she felt. It was to him. This vampire... the enigmatic, bipolar-like, amazing vampire... Forever had his silhouette plagued her subconscious, unknown to her though... until know. The feeling grew stronger inside as Nessie realised more. She had feelings for Alec.
"Are you alright?" Alec's wary voice came.
Suddenly, everything shifted back into place, "Yeah, fine. Sorry. Just heading to the kitchen for breakfast..."
With a curt nod, Alec disappeared from sight, leaving Nessie to continue with her earlier trek. She shook her head, trying to deny it. But she found that once she had admitted it to herself, she couldn't deny it no more.
She had feelings for Alec.
But... that also meant she was in deep trouble.
~00oo00oo00~
Humming to herself, Nessie walked around the castle with a book in hand. All attention had been studiously on the book in hand until suddenly she heard a growl and a wall near her gave a sudden shudder.
"What the...?" She frowned and followed the direction of noise.
To Nessie's surprise, she saw Jane on the other side of the wall that had shaken, fists clenched, eyes blazing and a gaping hole in the wall. Jane's eyes flickered towards Nessie and a malicious smile crept upon her face. Nessie gasped, holding her hands out in the surrender sign as she felt the stabbing and firing pain.
"Wait!" She gasped, "I just want to talk."
The pain lessened slightly before ending abruptly.
"What do you want?"
"Just wanted to know the reason of why the wall wanted to move..."
Jane's eyes glittered with annoyed for a moment, her fists clenching even harder. Nessie braced herself for the pain, yet funny enough, none ever came.
"Haven't you learnt not to toy in other people's business half-breed?"
Nessie held back a wince at the insulting nickname but before she could say or do anything else, two more people entered the scene.
"Jane... what's going on?"
It had been Heidi and Demetri that had stepped into the picture, both with confusion etched on their faces, Demetri's holding more concern. Heidi caught sight of Nessie and stepped towards the girl she'd taken a liking to, protectively.
"Nothing, Heidi...just felt like redecorating..."
Demetri visibly held back a grin as he tucked his hands elegantly behind his back, "If there's no problem... Heidi and I should get back to it."
Jane closed her eyes for a moment before nodding and stealthy walking off in the opposite direction.
"Get back to what?" Nessie wondered, mainly to herself.
"Oh," Heidi answer, excitement lingering in her voice, "Demetri's drawing me."
The latter smiled politely at her before tugging on Heidi's elbow and leading her away. Nessie frowned and for some unknown reason, ran ahead to catch up with Jane. She reached her in no time, to the slight surprise of the shorter vampire.
"What do you want?"
"Are you upset?"
"No. Why would I be?"
"I'm just asking..."
"Well go away!" Jane snapped, starting to walk away again, but Nessie followed.
"Is it because Demetri's drawing Heidi? I heard you turn him down before. Why did you turn him down? You don't exactly look busy."
"I'm not busy okay! I was nervous! Wait! WHAT!" Jane snapped with confusion in her voice.
"Hmm...?"
"Why?" Jane brought her fingers to her forehead in weariness and frustration, "Why am I even telling you this. Why am I even talking to you?"
Nessie sighed, ignoring her chastising words, "Why were you nervous?"
Jane gave her a regarded expression. And then, something happened that Nessie never would have expected in a million years. Jane sighed, relaxed and shook her head in surrender. Maybe it was because she just wanted Nessie to go away, or maybe it was because in her thousands of years growing up, she'd never had someone to talk to about this. It didn't matter whether it was too the half breed or not, she needed to get it out.
"Because..." Jane decisively started, "Because I like Demetri."
There was silence. It only seemed to aggravate Jane. Nessie thought for a moment, her suspicions confirmed.
"He has the same feelings for you right?"
"Well, if he did he wouldn't be drawing Heidi right now!"
"You did tell him you were busy..." Nessie countered.
"I KNOW WHAT I SAID!" Came the snappy reply.
More silence.
"Okay, okay," Nessie redeemed, "Um... why were you nervous?"
Jane shot her a miserable look, "Does one really need a reason?"
"Sometimes."
"Ugh, you're so annoying. Well," She conceded, "I was nervous because well, I just was. It's Demetri!"
"Does he know about your feelings?"
"No."
"Are you going to tell him?"
"Easier said than done, besides... there's Heidi."
"I thought Heidi was with Felix?"
"What?" Jane was a little taken aback.
"You didn't know?"
"No...?"
"Oh, sorry... well, then, it probably adds up to the fact that Heidi was filling in for you...doing Demetri a favour I guess."
"Okay."
There was more silence before Nessie decided to wrap the talk up and go soon.
Nessie nodded, "Well, I know you don't like me, but at least listen to what I say..." She trailed off, wondering if Jane was even listening to her.
It seemed that the smaller vampire was as she nodded slowly, "Fine, what?"
"Well... if you really care about someone that much, then nothing should stand in the way, do what you need to do so show that person how you feel...because you'll never know what might happen."
Jane nodded slowly, "Okay."
Nessie frowned but turned to walk away. That wasn't exactly the response she was looking for, but at least a one word answer was better than no answer. Walking towards the direction of the hall that led to her room, Nessie found herself pausing as she heard her name being called out. She turned around to see Jane giving her an odd glance.
"You know, for a half breed—you're not so bad at advice."
Nessie smiled, feeling like she was actually getting somewhere with the impenetrable cherub.
"Thanks."
"Just one question... do you ever follow your own advice...?"
With that she left leaving Nessie stunned. Ness thought to what she had said to Jane. Alec had kissed her. That was his move. The ball was in her court. And she had a strange feeling that even though Alec denied it... he might have the same feelings towards her. Mistake or not, Nessie wasn't going to pass up this chance, no matter how many risks it might have had. After all... do what you need to do to show that person how you feel...
And so, Nessie headed off towards where she thought Alec might be.
~00oo00oo00~
She was in the throne room a little while later. It was practically deserted, save for Alec, the person he was talking to and very like smattering of the wanderer here and there. The thrones were still there, but it seemed that Aro, Caius and Marcus were off elsewhere.
Nessie walked slowly and cautiously up to him. Thankfully, his back was still turned to her and he seemed to be too engaged in conversation with a guard that she didn't know. The guard caught sight of her and bide goodbye, hastily retreating. Alec on the other hand was a little surprised, Remy, the newest guard may have been skittish but something past Alec had spooked him and he'd taken off. If there was nothing behind him, then it meant that Alec himself was scary, but he'd been pretty nice from his own observation. Still, he turned around to check just for good measure.
"Oh god!"
Alec cried out in slight shock. Normally, in fact, all the time, he'd never be caught off guard, but now he was face to face with the one person he'd been avoiding. A strange flittering feeling grew in the depth of his stomach and he closed his eyes momentarily after he realised that feeling was nervousness. Slowly, after composing his thoughts he sighed.
"Renesmee, what do you want?"
Nessie shrugged nonchalantly, "I just want to talk."
"About what?"
Now this was the hard part.
"Alec, I just want to say thank you."
"For...?"
"Standing up to your sister for me. I know that must have been hard, but thank you. Thank you for being there when Tristan...well...yeah, thank you for keeping me company last night, thank you for accompanying me to the gods and goddesses ball, thank you for breakfast that morning earlier. And thank you for that kiss."
Alec froze, looking around wildly. There seemed to be no one else in the room, everyone had left.
"What?" He finally muttered, in a slight daze?"
"Please don't make me repeat that?" Nessie replied weakly.
Alec ran the message through his head another thousand times, "Wait! The kiss? Why are you thanking me? I thought..."
"You thought I didn't like it... you thought that it was mistake. So did I... until now."
It was only then that Alec realised how dangerously close she was. Standing his ground though, he straightened up.
"Wasn't it?"
Nessie arched an eyebrow and took a step even closer, her dark eyes fluttered and hands slightly shaking. But she had to follow her own advice for one. Do what she thought best.
"No."
With that, she drew up to her full height, still not as tall as Alec, and shocked his as she drew her arm around his neck, pulling him down and pressing his lips against hers.
Everything electrified.
Alec almost gasped, but then relaxed into the kiss almost immediately. His mind was racing at a thousand miles a minute. What was happening? Why was she doing this? Why did he immensely enjoy it? Suddenly, as though a weight were lifted off him, he found himself not caring. He didn't care what anyone thought. This felt right. It felt good. It felt wonderful. Moulding more comfortably into the kiss, he decided to take care, delighting when Nessie shivered in delight as he cupped her jaw, deepening the kiss. From all the colours and images she was unknowingly showing him as she touched him, he knew she felt exactly the same. Alec almost groaned as his shell, the wall he had been hiding his emotions behind, cracked. He and Nessie had something. He wasn't sure what, but it was something wonderful and amazing. And now, now that it was unleashed, he was certainly going to make no attempt to stop it.
He almost grinned when he felt her tongue poke out cautiously at the seam of his lips. With a masculine chuckle, he pried his lips open and the two tongues danced feverishly with each other. Their lips were locked for quite some time before they finally let go of each other and gasped for air.
"This isn't going to work." He murmured, eyes closed, forehead resting on hers.
"I'm willing to prove you wrong," Nessie murmured back, "As usual."
Alec chuckled and smirked even more when she yawned.
Alec stepped back laughing, eyes flickering towards the sky, noting the darkness of the cover of the earth.
"You're tired."
"No." She yawned again.
He laughed softly and took her hand, "Come on, let get you to bed."
Nessie nodded, suddenly aware of how tired she was and followed him slowly back to her room. Her legs felt sluggish and she felt her brain shutting down.
"Whoa," Alec murmured, "Let's take this slow then..."
Nessie cracked her eyes open for a moment, "If you want... but then again, I don't know how long I'm staying. This relationship is going to be tough you know."
Alec refrained from laughing, "I was talking about the trek to your room, but uh...sure."
"Oh."
Everything else after that seemed to be a blur. Alec sighed and picked her up, bridal style, carrying her to her room and laying her comfortably on her bed. Pulling up a nearside chair, he then leant over her and brushed a few strands of hair out of her eyes. He couldn't believe this was happening. But it was. Pressing a kiss on her forehead, he smiled and ran a thumb over her lips.
"Night Nessie..."
He sat in the chair while she drifted off, thoughts themselves going to over her sleeping form. She looked so peaceful, like an angel.
RING-RING
Suddenly her phone blared and with quick reflexes Alec snatched up her phone from the bedside table and answered it without a second thought.
"Hello, Renesmee Cullen's phone" He introduced quietly.
"Who's this?" A strangled voice came out on the other end.
Alec frowned, "Who's this?"
The person on the other side gave a small growl, "I know your voice."
Alec stiffened and took a slow deep breath, "Who is this?"
The person on the other side snarled, "I know your voice."
Alec smirked in pride at being known but said nothing. Suddenly, he stiffened. The person on the other line had, it seemed, figured out who Alec was. And it was only then did Alec realise who the caller was. And that by answering, he'd let slip where Ness was.
"Alec."
Alec gave a soft gulp, not in fear of the caller, but in fear of the wrath a small half-breed girl would inflict upon him in the morning.
"Edward." He breathed back.
The phone line dropped dead and Alec let the phone drop to the floor, wincing at the very recent events and dropped his head in his hands. Nessie had trusted all members of the Volturi to keep safe and in discretion her location. And now, he'd just ruined her life by accidently letting slip where she was. Oh she was not going to be happy with him in the morning.
DUN-DUN-DUN!
See! I told you there would be a cliffy!
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