Halloween Surprise

Twins of Night and Day chapter twenty-five

Dedicated to. . . . . . . .The girls since they seem to have lost all their fans.

The blood helped sedate her bloodlust but Jeza still couldn't concentrate. She was suffering a major injury to her esteem from being kicked out twice for a stupid move. And she was terrified of what the Volturi would do to punish her because of that mistake. The best case scenario would be docking from their payment. Worse case scenario involved a sort of death…for her at least if not Roz and the boys as well.

Alex noticed that she was not completely focused. He shifted closer to her and slid his arm around her. "Love? What's on your mind?"

"Hmm?" she looked up for a second, confused. She could read his eyes and she shrugged and looked back down at her lap. "Nothing, just wondering about something."

An impressive little vampire with short brown hair flashed across her mind. Jane was looking completely thrilled in the evil way that could only mean she was thinking of torture. Her red eyes were menacing and terrifying. Jeza was glad that she still had her walls up against Roz's mind.

"Aro, Caius, or Marcus?" Roz asked slightly bored but still somewhat interested.

Jeza shook her head. "Not them."

"Then who?" Caleb was barely beating Roz with his very subtle interest.

"Jane." She replied quietly. "Maybe Alec too, but Jane for sure."

"Don't worry, I have an idea." Alex smiled slightly. "I just came up with it now as a matter of fact."

"Really? What?" Jeza concentrated on that little idea to distract herself. She could almost see Felix and Demetri leading her to Jane and Alec on Caius or Marcus's orders. Aro at least would be somewhat lenient.

"Well, Halloween is coming up and I was thinking about trick-or-treating for information."

"Where though?" Roz laughed humorlessly. "Do you want to visit Bella's mother or something?"

"No besides, she would be of no help." Alex said calmly, putting up with Roz's bad temper. "I was thinking we should go back to the Cullens'. I can stay back while the rest of you go ahead. You can claim I was being a threat to you again."

"That probably won't work." Jeza sighed heavily, doubt weighting down her words. "Rosalie won't be forgiving and forgetting any time soon. And the Volturi wait for no one."

"But it's not Rosalie who's making the decision to take you in." Alex reasoned. "Carlisle will make the decision, even if it puts it to a vote, at worst you'll be at a tie. For sure you'll have Rosalie against you, Bella's a possibility too, but the only others who would even consider shunning you at such a time would be Edward and Emmett. And they would only do it to appease their girls if they actually think about it though, you two will be safe and you can do any recon you need to."

Oz crossed her arms as she thought, trying to poke some kind of hole in Alex's plan. She couldn't find one. Jeza smiled weakly at him, leaning on his shoulder.

"I'll miss you, baby." She said, closing her eyes.

"I won't be far, never worry." He said, smoothing her hair out of her face.

Another long drive was made longer by the silence between the girls and through them, both cars. To fill the impressing noiselessness, radios were turned on and music filled both vehicles with a senseless distraction from the quiet.

Roz still lead the way, and Jeza followed behind at the appropriate distance. Jeza tried to keep her eyes off the back windshield of her sister's car while Roz was struggling to stop glancing up at the truck in her rearview mirror.

Caleb took up his nervous habit of drumming his fingers soundlessly against his knee and glancing out his window, he tried to ignore Roz's flickering glance. Alex was careful not to cross any lines as she let his hand rest gently on Jeza's leg, his thumb working back and forth on the denim of her jeans.

"How long do we have?" she asked suddenly, turning to look at Alex quickly.

"Less then a day until the night of All Hollow's Eve." He replied his voice soft and soothing, rare for him.

"We should stop soon then and work on our cover." She said, her hand hesitantly moved to the headlight control and back again without changing anything. A little longer, she told herself. "Will you be taking Caleb with you?"

"No," he looked at her with a half smile. "He's your protector against me, remember?"

"Oh, yeah," her hand twitched again. "Should I signal Roz then and tell her?"

"I think you should."

She sighed and nodded, flipping the high beams on and off twice, her sign to Roz to lower her walls so they would exchange information.

What do you want? Roz asked with disinterest.

We'll be getting into town soon and Alex and I think it would be a good idea to get our cover disguises ready. Jeza answered, trying to sound just as disinterested.

Where are we going to stop?" it was meant to be rhetorical and mocking as they were surrounded with trees on a tiny black road.

Alex says anywhere you want to pull over will be fine, so long as we do before sunrise and before we get out of this forest. Jeza replied, completely honest as if she hadn't noticed that Roz was joking.

Okay then, prepare to pull over. And they did, both vehicles were tuned off on the shoulder of the road almost simultaneously.

As twilight rolled in, the car and the truck rolled into the little town again. Jeza didn't bother to stem the flow of tears as they drove. She didn't want to be away from Alex while she was still feeling so scared of her impending punishment. Roz had forgiven her and they were mentally speaking to each other again. With the connection reestablished, Roz was staring to share Jeza's fear.

They followed down the streets they remembered and sooner than they though they would, they were going through the forest-lined driveway of the Cullen's house.

Alice sat on the porch steps like she was waiting for them. Her head snapped up when they came into view, her golden eyes worried.

The girls slowly got out of their vehicles and stood by them hesitantly. Alice jumped up and went to them immediately.

"It's Alex." Roz said wiping her hand over her eyes. "He's angry with us again."

"I know," Alice said sympathetically. "You'll be safe here."

Oh no, the girls are back!! Tehehe, I promise there won't be too much drama! But yeah, not much else to say now…except, new rule, I'm gonna need at least three reviews per chapter before I update from now on. And I know that's not hard for you guys! I mean seriously, I use to get on average about 3-4 reviews a chapter and lately that number had gone down quite a bit…I even had a chapter with 9 reviews! So no complaining, just review!! I don't care if you're mad at the girls or not, if you're still reading, you better still be reviewing!!

Also, I have an end for this! And it's fast approaching! I have another chapter and a half written as of now, but unfortunately, other than that, there's probably not much else after that. I don't know if I'll be reaching 30 chapters, so y'all are going to have to get ready for the end! Lucky for you though, the girls aren't going to be all that willing to let me go yet. So you'll have to watch my profile for another appearance from the girls, that is, if enough people still love them enough to read it… You may have to request it if you want more from them…they're feeling kinda neglected by you guys!

Anyway, the next chapter will be up…soon hopefully, it all depends on you! Chapter twenty-six, "Safety?" will be a little bit off topic, but still, you'll get to see Bella, and Edward, and Jasper, and Carlisle, and Emmett, and Esme, and even Rosalie very very soon!!