Hey guys I'm back with a chapter again. Thank you for your reviews!

Sorry for my long absence. But it looks like I might disappear for a few more days to come too because my computer got totally busted and I'll update as soon as I get that thing fixed. So as compensation I made this chapter extra long. =)

Now most of you guys did want a lemon but some of you guys didn't. And I really didn't want to change the rating of my fic. So for those who did want the lemon, I did include an intimate scene but I didn't give a lot of vivid descriptions and whatever I wrote I hope it's allowed in a T rated fic.

Enjoy! =D

Chapter 26

'That's a lot of teachers for one lesson,' Ariana commented, looking around her.

Alec had brought her to a deserted forest clearing not far from the castle, people hardly ever visited, after sunset. She wanted to learn to fight and Alec had agreed to teach her because he deemed it was something very necessary for her to know.

Ariana looked around her. There was Jane, sitting on the soft grass looking all relaxed. A little further away from her was Felix and Demetri laughing about some joke either one of them had cracked.

On hearing Ariana's comment, Alec chuckled. 'Well, I needed Jane. So I asked her to come. Now, those two,' he indicated Felix and Demetri. 'They turn up anywhere they think they can have fun. And they almost always find the fun element in about anything you present them.'

Ariana smiled. Sounds like them alright.

On hearing Alec and Ariana, Jane turned her head to see them. She stood up, brushing dirt off her pants. 'Who the hell told those two about this?' she demanded from Alec.

Alec shrugged. 'Does anyone needs to tell them anything around here?'

Jane let out an exasperated sigh. 'Annoying.'

'We can hear you, you know,' Felix's voice boomed towards them.

Felix and Demetri had already started coming towards them from where they stood.

'I didn't forget,' Jane pointed out to his remark which made him frown. Then Felix looked at Ariana. 'Ariana's first fighting lesson,' he said with a grin. 'Wouldn't miss the fun for the world.'

'Nope, sure wouldn't,' Demetri agreed.

Alec rolled his eyes but smiled all the same. 'Yeah now you think about it we could use you guys. She needs to see an actual fight first and you two fighting it out seems to be a perfect display.'

Felix and Demetri grinned like they were expecting Alec to say just that. Then they looked at each other.

'What's the score again?' Felix asked Demetri as they walked towards the middle of the clearing.

'Nine thousand two hundred and eighty to me and nine thousand two hundred and seventy nine to you,' Demetri answer.

'When the hell did you take the lead again?' Felix demanded.

'Last night, doofus!' Demetri said. 'We had two draws and I took the last fight.'

'That wasn't a fair fight!' Felix complained. 'You cheated!'

'How the hell do you cheat in fights?' Demetri said. 'And stop complaining like a sissy. Why don't you try and even the score out right now?'

'Oh yeah,' Felix said, grin forming on his face. 'Be ready to lose it.'

Are they serious? Ariana asked Alec in her mind. They keep count of how many fights they win or lose?

Yeah. Alec replied. They're weird that way. But it's always entertaining to watch them.

And they got into that many fights? Ariana asked disbelievingly, eyes wide in surprise.

They don't get into fights. Alec clarified for her. It's just their form of fun and practice.

I just hope one of them gets their skull cracked for a change. Jane thought monotonously when Demetri smirked at Felix.

'Bring it.'

And then suddenly they were a blur. Ariana hadn't expected them to dash at each other so abruptly and with so much speed. Once the fact that the fight had started, registered in her mind and she looked at them carefully, she could see them again, even when they were running at supernormal speed. She could see everything clearly with her heightened eyesight.

Felix is physically the strongest in the Volturi. Alec told her, his onyx eyes following the two in the fight. Heck he's the strongest vampire I've come across. Once he catches you it's almost impossible for you to get free of his grip. Once caught, you can count yourself dead.

So that's why Demetri is running around like that?

Yes. Demetri is faster than Felix. And he uses that to his advantage. So it's hard for Felix to catch him. But he manages somehow.

Felix stopped moving right then. Demetri started circling him within a ten meters radius. Felix's eyes carefully moved from side to side carefully observing Demetri, never taking his eyes off him.

Felix is planning on tripping him! Ariana said, even more surprised. What were they, from kindergarten? Is that right?

Alec laughed. Well in that case Jane will be disappointed.

Demetri is waiting to see what Felix does. Ariana said, picking up everything from their minds. And Felix is getting impatient. He's calculating something. He's calculating how fast Demetri crosses a certain point.

Felix and calculating? Alec sounded amused. Are you kidding me?

No. Ariana said. Why's that so surprising?

Felix never thinks. Alec said. He is completely dependant on physical strength. He's not very subtle when it comes to fighting. He almost fights like a newborn. But over the years he picked up a few tricks which give him a pretty good edge in a fight.

As though confirming Alec's opinion, Felix shook his head and stopped analyzing the fight.

He stopped thinking. Ariana said.

Not surprising. Alec said with a grin.

Felix charged at Demetri compelling Demetri to break his never ending circular motion. But even though Felix lunged at Demetri, Demetri being faster escaped the wrath of Felix's clutches by centimeters. Felix took in the impact of clutching thin air and turn on his toes to face Demetri who had escaped behind him.

Demetri smirked at Felix. 'What is it, old lady? Can you get any slower?'

Felix snarled and Demetri laughed. And that's when Felix lunged for him again. Caught off guard for that split second, Demetri had given Felix all the time he needed. Next second, Felix had Demetri by his neck and Demetri's feet were off the ground. Demetri cussed pretty loudly.

'Looks like we're even again,' Felix told him grinning, but letting him go. Demetri landed on his feet and massaged his neck.

Jane sighed. 'And here I was expecting broken skulls.'

'So Ariana, what did you learn from the fight?' Felix asked good humouredly.

Ariana looked confused for a second at being asked the question so abruptly. She lifted her shoulders in a shrugging manner and said, 'To not stop and smirk in the middle of a fight?'

'Fair enough,' Felix agreed and Demetri grinned and scratched the back of his head sheepishly.

'That fight was boring,' Jane said.

Felix rolled his eyes. 'Then do us the great honor and show us how to make it entertaining, princess.'

A hint of a smile etched on Jane's face. 'Why not?' She walked towards Demetri and Felix in the middle of the clearing.

Seriously she's thinking about taking the two of them together! Ariana let Alec know.

She can, trust me. Alec told her smiling himself. Only there's not much fighting when she does that.

What-?

As though answering Ariana's question Felix said, 'Ground rules first. NO POWERS!'

Oh.

In reply Jane looked at Felix and Felix flinched and immediately looked away from her.

Alec cleared his throat. 'I'll take that,' he said as the three of them turned to look at him. Jane looked at Alec as he left Ariana's side to join Jane. 'And you can use your powers all you want.'

Ariana was surprised. Was he mad? Which mentally stable person wanted to get tortured by their own will?

Jane looked at Alec with furrowed eyebrows. But Alec returned her calculative gaze with the same smile. Then she smiled too.

'To make it fair you don't get to use your powers,' Jane offered.

'But you get to use yours?' Felix asked eyes wide. Obviously he hadn't come across Alec and Jane fighting like that.

Jane nodded putting on an angelic smile on her face. Alec still had that nonchalant smile on his face.

'How the hell is that fair?' Demetri demanded, taking the words right out of Ariana's mouth.

Alec shrugged. 'I don't have a problem.'

Are you insane? Ariana screamed inside his head. She hadn't yet seen how Jane's powers worked. And frankly she had no wish to. And definitely not when Alec was the one who had to take the full blast of it.

'This should be interesting,' Demetri said at last, moving away from the middle of the clearing and coming to stand near Ariana. Felix followed suit.

Perfectly sane, Ariana. Alec assured her, amusement in his tone.

You're actions say otherwise. Ariana replied back. Seriously what are you thinking?

You don't know? Alec laughed.

Ariana had forgotten how Alec could turn a serious conversation into a joke in a matter of seconds. Especially when the conversation was with her. It didn't amuse her. It just irritated and annoyed her. And Alec seemed to find amusement in that too.

Alec!

Alec laughed and stretched his arms in front of him. The action made his back tighten under his black shirt and the sight of it made the butterflies go haywire in Ariana's stomach. Give me some credit Ariana. Just sit back and watch.

But-

Ariana didn't get to finish her sentence because suddenly Alec completely disappeared from her sight. And with that she knew the fight had already started. Alec was nothing but a blur. Even with her vampiric vision she had trouble keeping her eyes on him. They didn't take up a lot of space during the fight but almost seemed to move about only within a five meter radius. But their fight and movements were more organized that almost looked preplanned.

Ariana never left Alec's mind. And she saw how the only thing he concentrated on was to never give Jane a chance to focus her gaze on him. And the rest he seemed to be doing on instinct. But Jane was fast too. Her feet barely seemed to touch the ground as most of the time she seemed to jump away to evade Alec. If Ariana didn't know better she would have seriously thought she was flying around.

'Alec still has advantage over Jane,' Demetri said at one point.

'How can you say?' Ariana asked. She couldn't even guess where the fight was going.

'Well for starters, he's faster,' Demetri said.

'Fastest,' Felix corrected him. 'In the Volturi.'

Demetri nodded in agreement. 'And he's been victim to Jane's gift more than any of us have. Over the years he's almost grown immune to it. Not that he doesn't feel the pain. No one can be immune to that. He just knows how to handle it better.'

Ariana's first reaction was utmost horror. 'What?' she exclaimed, eyes wide in disbelieve.

Demetri couldn't understand why she was so shocked. He had told something reassuring, didn't he? So why the shock?

'What?' he asked warily.

'Jane used her powers on Alec?' Ariana said. 'And more so than on anyone else? What are you talking about?'

'Well Jane loses her temper a lot,' Demetri said with a shrug. 'And when she does, a little use of her gift lets slip.'

'Little being the understatement of the millennium,' Felix scoffed.

'And Alec's usually most of the time in front of her,' Demetri said. 'So yeah…'

Ariana's mouth hung open. She was speechless.

'Look, Alec's the only one who can calm her down,' Demetri explained. 'And he usually has the full blast of it, trying to stop her from using her powers on someone else here.'

'And it isn't like Alec never used his powers on Jane,' Felix further reasoned.

'But that's different,' Ariana said. 'His power doesn't hurt.'

'Well, they were always like that,' Demetri shrugged the matter away. 'They love each other to death, but it never stopped them from being violent towards each other. This scenario is pretty normal here.'

Ariana still couldn't understand any of it. She turned her gaze back at the fight. Jane let out an angry hiss when her attack on Alec missed. And she was frustrated that Alec wasn't letting her focus her powers on him. He was too fast to hold your gaze on him for too long.

And as abruptly as the fight had started, it came to an end in a same manner. Jane stood for a second trying to find Alec, when Ariana clearly saw Alec come up behind her in less than a nanosecond and tap her on the shoulder. Jane taken by surprised, was about to turn and attack him but as soon as she raised her arm instinctively to attack him, Alec caught hold of it and twisted it behind her back, leaving her helpless. Jane snarled in defeat.

'It wasn't a fair game, sis,' Alec said finally. 'But guess I still won.' He smiled and kissed the top of her head and released her. Jane was fuming. Alec flinched.

'Now, try not to be a sore loser, Jane,' Alec said after having tasted a little bit of Jane's power right then.

Jane rolled her eyes. 'Yeah, whatever! Maybe restricting you from running about would have made the fight fairer.'

Alec laughed. 'Whatever makes you feel better,' he said as Jane made her way towards the rest of them. She turned to Felix. 'I feel like another round would do me good. You game?'

Felix grinned. 'I'm always game. But no using powers.'

'Whatever old lady,' Jane replied, stretching her arms. Felix rolled his eyes and accompanied Jane a bit further away from the rest of them and a few hundred meters away from where the fights have been taking place before.

Alec waited for them to leave and looked at Ariana and waved her to come to him. Ariana hesitated. She still wasn't sure if she could fight like that. But what had to be done had to be done right? And it was her who had insisted on learning how to fight. She walked to him feeling slightly nervous. Alec smiled at her, almost as though he could feel her nervousness emanating from her.

'Nervous?' Alec asked. 'The first day I met you I saw you making a guy fall on his knees. It's hard to believe you could be nervous over this.'

Ariana remembered that and smiled at the fact that Alec remembered it too.

'I'm not nervous,' she said, shaking the feeling off.

'Glad to hear that,' Alec said. 'So you ready?'

Ariana nodded.

Alec moved away from her creating distance between them. After he stopped moving away he said. 'Try to dodge my attacks. We'll start with that. Once you have learned this, then we'll go into offensive attack.'

Ariana nodded. And the next thing she did was completely close her mind, so Alec couldn't hear what she was thinking. The she stood facing Alec who charged at her after a few seconds.

Even though Alec moved towards her and let his instincts drive him, his thoughts let slip at the last moment and Ariana knew exactly what he was going to do. She moved several steps to her right when Alec was inches away from her. Alec hadn't expected her to move away like this in the last second. He turned and went at her again. This time instead of going for the obvious he decided to do something unfamiliar. He charged at her like before, but changed course at the last moment to catch from her right. But his hands enclosed around thin air, as Ariana ducked and then shot away few paces behind. His thoughts had given away again. Alec realized it would be hard to deceive Ariana. Ariana turned and smiled at him. He returned the smile.

I'll catch you, alright. He assured her.

Ariana smiled and shrugged. And Alec ran at her again and again. She was fast, Alec noticed. And she could act in a split second time. Her whole mind reading ability gave her a pretty big edge in a fight. Even if Alec let slip his thought at the very last moment, she could react to it in that small amount of given time. So Alec increased his speed, giving her less reaction time. But she still managed to escape his clutches a few times before he could finally catch her unaware and pin her to the ground.

He looked down at her and grinned as she struggled to free herself. But he was still stronger than her. And she failed miserably, which made him smile wider.

'Quite the elusive bunny there, aren't you?' Alec said, lowering his head and kissing her nose. Ariana didn't reply but smiled and closed her eyes at his action. 'What did I say,' Alec said, implying that he had told her that he would catch her.

'Next time it's going to be tougher for sure,' Ariana assured him this time looking into his coal eyes.

Alec laughed. 'I'm counting on it,' he said and pulled her to her feet.

'You did pretty well for a first time,' Demetri commented, who had been watching their fight.

'I guess it's because of the whole mind reading thing,' Ariana said, modestly.

Felix and Jane, it looked like were done fighting too. They made their way towards them. Felix was massaging the back of his neck, a frown on his face. It looked like he lost most of the fights.

'Lost?' Demetri asked a very disgruntled Felix.

'Duh,' Jane answered for him. Felix rolled his eyes.

'I need to hunt,' Felix said, finally. All he wanted to do was get away from Jane for the while.

'Yeah, me too,' Alec said. 'I don't remember the last time I hunted.'

'I'll tag along,' Demetri said. He looked at Jane.

'No thanks,' Jane said. 'I already hunted yesterday.'

Demetri shrugged. He turned to the other two. 'Let's go.'

'See you in a bit,' Alec told Ariana. Ariana nodded. He kissed her forehead and departed with the others.

Ariana went back to the castle with Jane. She desperately wanted to ask Jane why in the world she used her powers on Alec. It just wasn't right. She opened her mouth to ask her several times but then closed it again, not knowing how to approach the subject.

In front of her room, Jane turned to Ariana. 'Come out with it, already,' she said. 'You're obviously dying to ask me something.'

Ariana nodded.

'I know what you're gonna ask,' Jane said with a sigh. She opened her room's door and went in, beckoning Ariana inside.

'You want to know why I use my powers on Alec, huh?' Jane said.

Ariana nodded. 'How can you? He's your brother.'

'Well, why is he always there when I'm pissed?' Jane said. 'And he doesn't even learn from his mistakes!'

It didn't seem a convincing enough excuse to Ariana and she frowned.

Jane shook her head wearily. 'Ariana, you do know that I control the amount of torture I can inflict on a person, right?'

Ariana wasn't aware of that. So she shook her head.

'Well, I can,' Jane let her know. 'And if Alec thinks he's taken the most of my powers, he's clearly in the next universe. Whenever I use my gift on him I make sure it hurts the least. That's why he thinks he can take it and it's no big deal. But he didn't even get the real picture. Not even close.'

'Oh,' Ariana said.

'No one in the Volturi did,' Jane said matter of factly. 'Except Gianna. And I didn't even get to use it in full volume. She was lying there shrieking her head off even before I could reach the maximum level.'

'Gianna?' Ariana remembered the human sitting in the mahogany desk in the entrance of the castle when she first came here.

'Oh yeah,' Jane said. 'She was the one who let Vladimir in. She had it coming. She was lucky Alec wasn't the one who killed her because he refused to get up from your side. She could have had it much worse.'

'You killed her?' Ariana asked.

Jane shook her head. 'Felix did.'

'Oh,' Ariana said. She really didn't want anyone to die over what had happened. But she didn't say anything. There was no use crying over spilled milk.

Jane smiled suddenly. 'Satisfied?' she asked Ariana. 'I would never torture Alec like there was no tomorrow. But he needs to learn to keep his distance when I'm pissed.'

Ariana nodded.

'He's my brother, Ariana. Pissed or not I am always sane enough to remember that fact,' Jane said.

Ariana nodded. Jane having control over her powers was new information to her. So basically no one in the Volturi had any idea about Jane's true potential. Ariana shuddered to think what it would be like to be a victim to that. Her eyes fell on a painting hanging on the wall right in front of her. Jane's room had no scarcity when it came to paintings.

It was a breathtakingly beautiful painting of a landscape. And when she looked at it closer she saw something that puzzled her.

'Jane, did you paint this?' Ariana asked, indicating the landscape drawing.

'What?' Jane said, slightly taken aback by the sudden question. 'What makes you say that?'

'This looks like your signature,' Ariana said, taking a closer look at the painting. Then she added. 'It definitely signed Jane.'

Jane gave a tilted smile. 'You have a keen eye,' she commented. 'Anyone hardly ever noticed that! Vampiric sight or otherwise.'

Ariana shrugged. 'Maybe they just weren't looking,' she said. 'Coming back to my question, did you paint it?'

Still with the mysterious smile etched on her face, Jane looked at Ariana with an amusing look. 'C'mon,' she said. 'I'll show you something.'

Majorly curious and slightly confused, Ariana followed Jane to the room right beside her study. She opened the door and entered and Ariana followed her in now more or less burning with curiosity. As soon as she entered the room and set her eyes on the inside her jaw literally dropped open.

If she didn't know it was Jane's room she would have believed it to belong to a strikingly successful, professional artist. And her jaw dropped even lower when she saw the signature on most of the paintings was Jane's herself. There had to be at least over a thousand paintings in that room! Not all of them were hung up. Some were stacked together, some leaned against the wall. And then there was an empty canvass on the stand with paint brushes and colours beside it at the ready for its owner to start with them again.

Every painting was beautiful in its own way. Ariana turned to look at Jane surprise bordering on shock, evident in her golden eyes. 'Jane you did all this?'

'Well when you're living for four centuries you have to find something to pass you're time with,' she replied with a shrug.

'They are beautiful,' Ariana said. She still couldn't believe her eyes. She had never thought Jane the artist type. She was always so indifferent and silently dangerous. Who could've guessed that she actually had a passion for painting?

'Yeah, I think so too,' Jane said in a lighthearted manner. 'I could give some artists a run for their money, couldn't I?' She added in a joking manner.

Ariana turned and looked back at the paintings and let out an incredulous scoff. 'You don't say!'

'What are you doing?' Alec asked entering his study to find Ariana piling up papers and books from the ground and setting them on the table. She saw heard Alec and lifted her face to look at him.

'Oh hey,' she greeted with a smile.

Alec still looked around the place with a questioning look on his face.

'Oh yeah, this,' Ariana said. 'I was sort of cleaning the place up. Because I came in here to find a book to read and couldn't find anything in the language I understand in this rubble.' Ariana had her shirt sleeves folded to her elbows and her long hair was tied up messily on top of her head with what looked like a pencil. Alec looked around. The place actually looked better than before.

'I can see the floor,' Alec spoke his mind, a smile forming on his face.

'Don't. Mess it up. Again,' Ariana told him sternly. 'This took a lot of energy even for a vampire.'

Even though Ariana tired to look stern, with the five, fat leather bound books in her hand and her hair pulled up in a messy way she couldn't pull it off. Alec's smile widened with clear amusement. He stepped towards her.

'Those are not in English as far as I recall,' Alec said, indicating the books in Ariana's hands.

'Yeah, I know,' she replied. 'That's exactly why I was putting them aside.'

Alec took the books out of her arms in an effortless action and set them aside on a table, not taking his gaze off hers during the whole time. Suddenly Ariana found her back pressed against the wall behind her with Alec standing in front of her, less than an inch gap between them. His hand came and rested on the wall right beside her head and his crimson gaze bore into her ochre ones.

'What's with you?' Ariana asked, smiling at him.

Alec lowered his head and put his mouth close to her ear and said in a low voice, 'I just realized that I didn't get to kiss you since the airport and that's been more than a day.'

Ariana's eyebrows went up higher and her smile grew wider.

'So what do plan to do about it?' Ariana asked as Alec placed a soft kiss on her neck.

'What indeed,' Alec said; moving his mouth away from her neck and placing it dangerously close to her lips. Then his lips were on hers and he started to kiss her slowly. Moving his lips slowly against hers, Alec slid his hand around her waist, closing the minimal gap between them. Ariana kissed him back, moving her lips against his in perfect rhythm with his and slid her arms up his chest and let them rest there.

Alec deepened the kiss, parting her lips with his tongue and entering her mouth. He was still kissing her slowly like he was taking his time and exploring every corner and every contour of her mouth. Ariana could feel his hand rising up from her waist and going underneath her shirt. As soon as his hand touched her bare skin, she gasped inside his mouth. Alec smiled against her lips seeing the effect his touch had on her. Well it wasn't only one sided. Seeing how she was pretty close to bursting, Alec moved his mouth off hers and she gasped for air. His mouth went to her neck as one of her hands fisted his shirt and the other fisted a handful of his unruly hair. His hand came down from the wall and Ariana could feel it flicking open her shirt buttons one by one as his mouth kissed and nibbled at her neck.

The feel of her and the smell of her were making it very difficult for Alec to hold back. He was being driven over the edge and he wasn't sure how long he could hold back. He didn't want to do anything that Ariana might not be ready for and he knew that he had to hold back. But it was becoming increasingly difficult for him to do so. Ariana felt him holding back too. His grip around her loosened and his hands ceased motioned. Sensing Alec's dilemma, Ariana lifted his head off her neck and looked into his eyes.

'It's okay,' she said with a smile.

Alec was taken aback for a moment. With her past, he thought she might have some problem with going all the way. 'Are you sure?' he asked.

'No,' Ariana said truthfully. 'But I'll never be. But I'm sure about one thing.'

Alec raised his eyebrows.

'I love you,' she said.

Alec pressed his forehead against hers. 'Ariana, you don't have to-,' he started but Ariana cut across him.

'Sshh, I said it's fine,' she said and she pressed her lips against his. And the world came crashing down around Alec. His hands snaked around her waist, holding her close to him as he deepened the kiss.

'I. Love you. Too,' he said in between kisses and Ariana felt her shirt completely leaving her body and Alec's hands on her bare waist, slowing rising up tracing up her spine reaching for her bra hook. She moaned against his lips in an effort to bite back a scream. Her hands fidgeted with the buttons of his black shirt finally being successful in taking it off him. His lips went back to her neck and traced kisses down her neck and along her shoulder. Now with his shirt off, Ariana couldn't help but notice again how extraordinarily sexy he was.

Her soft hands slid up his bare chest, feeling every contour of his hard muscled chest. One of his hands traced up the smooth skin of her stomach while the other moved dangerously close to the side of her breast. His lips went back on hers and she wound her hands around his neck more to support herself than because of anything else because she couldn't understand why she wasn't bursting into flames already or why she wasn't falling down already because she was almost sure she couldn't feel her feet anymore. She bit onto his lower lip in an attempt to stop herself from screaming out loud.

And ruining that heat and passion filled moment, Alec phone consistently started ringing in his pocket. Alec lifted his mouth of hers, but didn't move even a centimeter away from her leaving his shirtless body pressed up against her, not guessing what sort of an effect it was having on Ariana. Ariana breathed heavily, mentally wanting to hurl the annoying piece of device out the window.

Alec took the phone out of his pocket and without even a glance at his phone to see who was calling; Alec crushed the phone by tightening his grip on it. It broke into a few pieces and he released his grip and the pieces dropped to the floor.

During the whole ordeal Alec didn't move his gaze away from Ariana's and a smile crept across his face as he heard Ariana's thought regarding his phone.

'No interruptions,' he said.

Caius was worried. He knew Aro was not going to do anything about the fact that Ariana was a weakling in the Volturi. She even drank animal blood. What vampire of the Volturi drank animal blood? But apparently Aro was turning a blind eye to everything that was clearly in front of him. Just because Ariana reminded him of his dear bereaved sister. As far as he, Caius was concerned, the death of Didyme brought nothing but good for the Volturi. She had been weak too. Her death had been imminent and Caius knew Aro had taken the right decision back then by doing what he did. Only Caius hadn't thought for even a minute that Aro was capable of feeling an emotion as strong as regret.

Caius sighed and then smiled. This called for a change of plans. It looked like he had to take matters into his owns hands for a change. The matters Aro was being too hesistant and ignorant to take.

His smile grew even wider as the plan formed in his ever calculative mind.

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