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BPOV

The Volturi were making me angry. They wanted to keep me alive when clearly I wanted the opposite. It was well past midnight when I left the building, which was the center of their operations. I didn't want to stay there longer, not after I saw who they ate. It turned out they ate people who were touring Italy. It sickened me. So I spent the first couple of hours after midnight wandering the city in its glory.

By the time I figured it was 3 a.m., I decided to call home. I wanted to apologize to Charlie for leaving so unexpectedly, and possibly say my last good byes before I got myself killed.

I reached a phone booth in the middle of the square close to a big water fountain and decided to make a collect call home. Hopefully Charlie would be home. I dialed the house number and said my name according to the call. I waited three rings. On the fourth some one who was not Charlie answered.

"Jacob?" I asked.

"Bells, thank goodness. Where are you?!" He asked in a worried tone.

"It doesn't matter, where's Charlie?" I asked.

"He's at the funeral." Jacob said. I thought I could hear my heart shattering some more.

"They found him? They found his body?" I asked not really wanting to know the answer.

"Yeah…wait, what?" Were the last words I heard from Jacob before I hung up the phone.

I replayed the conversation in my mind over and over hoping beyond hope that what I had heard was wrong. But I knew Jacob would never lie to me. Of course I thought of the possibility of a different funeral. But if that were the case, Jacob would have not answered my phone. He would be there too. Wouldn't he?

After that I walked aimlessly around the city, with no real place to go. I was beginning to think about what I could do to get the Volturi to end me. How strange that I could think about my death so calmly. What was their purpose? They were here to enforce rules on all of the rest of the vampires, and they do it without the consent of the rest of us. So they were here to make sure we never got out of line, in which case meant they'd get rid of any one who threatened to reveal our existence. I knew what I had to do.

JPOV

"It was Bella." I said after she hung up the phone.

"What did she want?" Sam asked me.

"She wanted to talk to Charlie, and I told her he was at the funeral."

"Which you forgot to mention was not Edward's." Sam said. "She might kill herself… well at least that's one less blood sucker to deal with."

"Don't talk about her like that." I said her defense.

"Don't start with me." Sam said in warning. "Shift and let Leah know what happened. Let her know that if that blood sucker wants to save Bella she'd better hurry."

I ran to the side of Swan's yard and just inside the woods I shifted. Leah was still running from what I could see and she was close. I still couldn't believe she took him there.

APOV

"Idiot! That good-for-nothing-dog!" I yelled. I knew she would call and I saw what she would decide after the phone call. I couldn't believe he'd be so thick headed as to not mention whose funeral it was. I was running out time and fast. A couple more hours, I thought, just a couple more and we'll be there.

EPOV

It was a hot afternoon, humid heat and cloudy. It was horrible weather for any one to be out here. No wander they kept their cat forms for long periods of time. I was in a reservation. Many of the people here were young and from their thoughts I knew they were much older than they looked. Many were any ways. The ones who were the real young kids were about as crazy as the dogs in La Push. And they were females. They tried crazy stunts like I knew the dogs did, especially when an unlucky vampire went through.

On the day I arrived I witnessed it first hand. The kids almost dragged a vampire into the village. They were teens and had just retracted their claws. They thought it would be cool to get a little action and catch a vampire. The juniors got a scolding when the elders had to kill the vampire they brought back in the middle of the rez. I thought it was amusing, I pictured this as being something the boys in La Push would do, if every one believed the legends. But they were all female. There was only one male cat in the Pride. He was one of the elders of the rez, his name was Nakota and he was the oldest of them all, even older than Chilaili.

He carried himself like the Alfa he was. Although sometimes I questioned his position because Chilaili liked to question him always and in the end it was what she said that counted. It was almost like if he was just there for show until the next male lion came into the picture. He even questioned his position sometimes.

Today I spent the day relaxing. Usually I would study the people here but today I felt tired, which was never a good sign. I spent the afternoon half asleep, listening to what the people around me thought. At around four in the afternoon I caught the thoughts of the pride.

She's back, Chilaili. The wolf is back, but she's not alone.

What do you mean? Who came with her? Chilaili asked.

It's a bloodsucker! The lioness said outraged. Good to know the pack used the same derogatory names.

What? Chilaili was also outraged.

She just stopped around the perimeter. I don't know what she's doing there. Should we go check it out?

I'll go with you don't move until I reach you.

I got up then. I groggily stood up and began to walk. I used their voices to guide me. Half way there, a lioness caught up to me and allowed me to ride with her. But I wasn't sure who it was.

We reached the same spot where Leah had left me some days ago. I saw Leah in her human form with another overly big t-shirt. Alice was behind her, she looked like a scared little girl almost. But from what I could hear Leah told her to stay behind her.

"You've returned." Chilaili said in her commanding voice.

"That I have, cousin." Leah said. "This," She said gesturing to Alice. "is Edwards sister. She has come back to retrieve her brother."

"Are you mad, pup. I could smell her from a mile away and you're telling me this is his sister? Do you mean to make him a meal?" Chilaili said disgusted.

"No." I spoke. "She's telling the truth. I've lived with them for most of my life. Her family adopted me."

"And you know what she is." Chilaili asked me looking at me with almost amusement.

"I do. Please don't worry; they do not feed on humans, rather animals. They see things differently from their kind. I assure you." I said. I saw doubt cross the lioness' features. "Please, Chilaili."

"If you are positive, I cannot keep you against your will." She said. "You are after all a man in this country."

"Thank you." I said and started walking towards Alice. She noticed I didn't look good and whispered it to Leah. Leah nodded in understanding.

Edward, we don't have time for you to be feeling like this. Carlisle is going to meet us half way out of here and giving you your medicine and a couple of other things to keep you up. I really need you to focus, if we're late, Bella will kill herself. Alice told me.

"What?" I whispered when I reached her.

"She'll die if we don't hurry." She repeated. "Oh…you smell like man." She said wrinkling her nose. "You are going to shower… Get on." She swung me on her back and started to run. Within seconds Leah was next to us.

She's going crazy. She really thinks you are dead. I probably shouldn't have brought you here. Leah though.

"It's ok!" I yelled over the roar of the wind. "You did what was the best thing you could do."

I'm afraid for you. What will happen if you go there. You'll be in a nest of, of, blood suckers.

She sounded very concerned about me. and that was strange because from her mind it was rare for her to have any modest thoughts about any one. She had her own pain and she replayed it over and over again. Probably to remind herself about it.

I didn't know what to tell her after that. She did me a big favor and I was worrying her...

Please Edward, you don't have to go. You can stay and live. I'm really afraid for you, especially after what Alice said. If you are sick you need your rest. She had these crazy thoughts going through her head. She was imagining me saving Bella but everything going wrong from there. I didn't linger in her thoughts long.

By the time we reached a major city it was well past an hour. We headed straight to the air port. Alice left me with Leah so that she could hide from the sun that had yet to go down. We waited for Alice at the terminal. She was out getting supplies and my medicine.

When she arrived I took the shot in my left arm and drank something before we boarded the plane.

"Please be careful." Leah whispered to me. "I know it's weird and all for me to say this...I just don't want anything to happen to you, even if she is your sister. My concern is always the humans." I saw the change in her face as she said that, it went from concern to stoic.

"Thank you Leah, but I think I'll be fine from here on out." I told her.

"You always have a choice, you know. But I guess you made it already." She said with a small smile.

As Alice and I went through the terminal, Leah waved good bye. People passed by and looked on to her like she was a freak. Some of those thoughts weren't nice.

"She seems really worried about you." Alice said.

"It's just her duty." I replied.

"Perhaps." Alice said. "But I felt a hint of something else. Too bad she cancels me out. Now that I'm away from her I can know what Bella is up to. Let me think." She sat in her seat and quickly and picked up the phone from the plane while the flight attendant looked at her strangely. She dialed at impossible to see speeds and on the second ring I heard Jasper's voice coming from the phone, she spoke to him like if there was no one around her, because no one could hear her. The conversation was short and to the point and in less than a minute I heard an 'I love you too' and she hung up. She then relaxed a little bit and closed her eyes. It was very silent after that.

BPOV

It took careful planing, but I came up with a plan just the same. In a day and a half there was to be an annual festival in Volterra. It was to celebrate the day the vampires were driven away by St. Marcus. Or so they called him. I knew who it was, I wasn't a fool. The vampires here were beautiful and dangerous.

It was when I found out about the festival that I knew when to do it. It now made sense why there was so many people here. They were here for the festival and I needed a big audience. It would be easy.

There was a big clock tower in the middle of the city, right by the square and where there was a big water fountain. That's where I was going to do it. Once the clock chimed noon I would walk out into the middle of the square and reveal the existence of vampires. It would be perfect and they would have to kill me. I was ready.

I spent most of the day just wandering around aimlessly not caring. It was actually kind of hard, there were so many people and some smelled delicious if I do say so. It was more to distract me though from the inevitable. It was going to happen anyways. I wanted it to happen. I watched as people passed by minding there own business.

EPOV

Alice woke up with a start. She gripped my arm so tight I though she would break it.

"She's going to die Edward. We have to get there soon." Her eyes were full of panic and she showed me with her thoughts what she saw Bella doing. It was horrible, the after come of it that is.

"Our plane is landing soon for the switch flight...just be calm. We'll get there." I assured her not quite convincing myself.

"I hope so, it was terrible." She whispered.

"I know, I saw." I whispered back. "Are you sure this was faster than running?" I asked.

"Well, it would have been no problem, if Leah were to carry you, that is. But just me and you..." I understood what she meant. She was nice enough to not think it or speak it, but if she ran she would have had to swim with me on her back and I would have been a burden. Vampires are always faster when they run solo.

"Attention passengers, our flight has landed for the switch flight. Those headed to Italy may now proceed to the next flight." The speaker above us announced. We quickly stood up and we were one of those who got off first and got on first in the next plane. We had to wait another ten minutes before it took off, Alice was jumpy in her seat.

"Please calm down, your not helping me." I hissed at her. Her emotions were rubbing off on me with just viewing her thoughts...no wonder she's with Jasper.

About three hours later our flight landed. It was a hassle to get out of the busy air port.

"Curses!" Alice yelled.

"What?" I asked freaking out by her outburst.

"I forgot about the time difference...It's today!" She yelled. "Wait here." She instructed and I did.

A few minutes later she drove up in a very fast very nice yellow Porsche 911 Turbo. "Get in." She said opening the passenger door from the inside.

"Where did you find this?" I asked.

"I borrowed it." She said emphasizing 'borrowed' which meant she stole it. "Let's get out of here."

She sped up and within seconds we were on the main road headed for Volterra.

It was silent, none of us wanted to think about what we were about to do.

"How long do we have left?" I asked finally averting my eyes from the country scenery I had been watching for over an hour.

"Not that much...forty minutes at the most." She said keeping her grip on the wheel "We are almost there though, we'll get there just in time..."

It was quiet again and about twenty to thirty minutes later we reached the outskirts of the city. There was a big line of cars outside and they were all being parked out side the walls of the city. Alice cursed inwardly and continued to the side of the road to the gates of the city, she drove so fast everything was a blur. When she reached the gate she made a a quick one eighty and stopped just outside the gates in an awkward angle to keep the sun away from her.

A guard walked up to her window and she rolled it down. I saw the look of awe he gave her and she smiled at him radiantly. He spoke in Italian first and when he realized we didn't speak it, he spoke English with a very heavy accent.

"I'm sorry ma'am, but the city is closed for the annual festival." He said.

"I'm sure it is." Alice said sweetly, "But could you please make an exception?..." She then pulled out a big roll of money and handed it to the man. There was a one thousand dollar bill in front.

"Is this some kind of joke?" The guard asked.

"Only if you laugh at it." Alice said sweetly. He then sniffed the money and gave her a curt nod to continue into the city.

My heart began to race faster than it had ever.

"Ok, listen to me, Edward." Alice spoke. "She's going to be in the city square, hidden right between the clock tower and another building, I'm going to get you as close to her as I can..."

"By the fountain." I finished for her. I saw everything she was telling me to do in her head. "I know what to do." I said.

"Then I'm counting on you, you're a fast runner...Now RUN!" She yelled as the car came to a screeching halt and I flung the door open and ran in the direction I saw in Alice's mind. I ran for all I was worth headed towards the clock tower. "Bella!" I yelled fruitlessly knowing she couldn't hear me. It didn't take long before the mass of people slowed me down. I fought with everything I could to get through and not hurt some body. People looked on to me like I was crazy or some sort of moron, but I didn't care. I heard some nasty things from other people I passed by and I was glad I didn't understand...the tone was enough. And I continued to run.

I felt as if I couldn't go fast enough. When I reached the fountain I figured it was easier to cross through it than through the people. I flung myself in the fountain and began to run dragging my feet in the water. The people around looked and pointed to me, but I didn't care. "Bella!" I yelled again. I kept going for all I was worth, nothing was more important to me than to stop Bella. The only thing between me and her was this fountain and more crowd. The fountain seemed to last for ever.

When I finally got out I was soaked. I ran into the people but this time it was easier to move around them, none of them wanted to get wet because of me so they moved out of my way. I set my eyes to my destination, an ally next to the clock tower that was covered in darkness. A family of four were there happily enjoying themselves, the mother watching me thinking I was headed for them. A girl around the age of seven was running around her mother when she suddenly stooped to look into the ally. I felt time slow down. My feet weren't going fast enough, the water slowed me down. I dreaded the chiming of the clock striking noon. "Bella!" I yelled at the top of my lungs.

I was close now, very close I crossed the family and I was just inches from her. The clock chimed noon and I was closer, it chimed again and I saw a glimmer of her skin being touched by the sun. "Bella!" I yelled as I ran into her rock solid body. I didn't nudge her, and I think I hurt myself more. "Edward." I heard her say. I looked down on her and she was smiling. I shielded her from the sun although not good enough. "Wow, they are fast." She said. "I was hoping for that...Carlisle was right we do have a heaven and I like it."

"Bella, please. You're not dead..." I said while I was trying to push her back to the ally. I huffed and picked her up and then set her back on her feet once we were safe in the shadows.

"I'm not?" She asked. I then saw recognition show on her face. "What are you doing here?" She asked.

"Saving your life." I said. "Bella, honey, I'm not dead...I'm here."

"But..." She began.

"It was a misunderstanding." I assured her.

I felt Bella stiffen all of a sudden and she got into her defense position. I didn't know why until two rather large figures formed out of the shadows. They were cloaked in big dark gray cloaks and judging from their thoughts they were vampire.

"Bella...Aro would like to speak to you now." One of the vampires said.

"No thank you, Demitri. I think I'll pass." Bella said coolly.

"I think you are going to talk to him." The other said they began to close in on us, they would take us by force if they had to.

"Now boys, I don't think we have to resort violence." I heard Alice's voice before she showed up. The vampires stopped now realizing they were even. I saw the look of surprise in Bella's face.

"I think we'll be going now." Alice said sweetly.

"I'm sorry, but I was instructed to bring Bella back, along with her company." Another voice much more sweeter said. Alice and Bella froze, and from their reactions I felt the need to stop breathing. It was a girl also in a cloak who spoke, the other two eased a little.

"Shall we then?" Alice asked smiling.

"Get on." Bella whispered to me. I climbed her back awkwardly. I had never gotten on her back she always carried me in front. I was too big for her back. But I think she felt the need to be in front of me. The thoughts in the little girls mind were enough, even I cringed. And only I knew what she was thinking. "Close your eyes." Bella whispered to me.

She began to run and within seconds we stopped just outside a narrow slit on the pavement, big enough for one person. The girl went in first and then Alice. Bella put me down.

"Just drop. Alice will catch you." Bella said. I nodded. I dropped down and was quickly caught by Alice. It was very dark where we were. Alice put me down and when Bella came she grabbed a hold of me from the side. I figured she wanted to walk to make what little time we had left together last. The vampires behind us weren't happy.

As we walked I constantly heard them sigh and think 'just pick him up and run..' It would have been comical if my life wasn't in danger, but then again isn't this what I wanted?

BPOV

We made our way slowly through the tunnel. It was only a matter of minutes before we saw the gates and from there we would go through doors until we reached the tower where Aro, Marcus and Caius were.

I could feel the cold surround Edward and for the first time I noticed he was wet. How did that happen. I wanted to get this over with. We got on the elevator and later went through that same door I went through not so long ago.

When we reached the inner chamber of the tower I heard every one stop their murmuring and sniff the air.

EPOV

I saw a vampire approach us and I quickly recognized him as one of the men in Carlisle's paintings. His name was Aro. The little girl I had seen gracefully glided to him.

"Jane. You are back." He said smiling embracing her tightly. I saw in his mind the replay of what she saw. He smiled broadly. "And you brought Bella back and a few of her friends.

He glided towards Alice and smiled. "Alice! It's so good to see you..." He took her hand, she smiled back but I could tell she wasn't happy to have to shake his hand. When he let go of her he approached me and stuck out his hand. "You must be Edward." He said. I took his hand. He held it there firmly for a while and I saw my past flow through my eyelids and I realized he was viewing my past. All of it.

When he let go he began to laugh, like he had just discovered something grand...It didn't hit me.

"Edward...you are so special, and the bond you have with Bella." He said looking at her. "You thought he was dead?" He asked her and she nodded. "And Alice you saw they would end up together...that is marvelous." He turned to the girl Jane, and spoke to her very fast, but I knew Bella and Alice caught it.

He spoke again. "Edward, you are something special...but you are human...and you know too much. I'm sure you know what has to be done." He didn't ask. He knew I knew what he had in mind.

"No," Alice said. "It can't happen yet." She said and she stepped closer to me, Bella held on to me closer.

"Edward, I'm going to offer you a place in my guard, perhaps if you agree you can convince your sister and Bella to join you."

"Why do you want me?" I asked calmly. Aro smiled.

"Not just anybody gets into our guard." He said. "We are all special here." He snapped his fingers and Jane looked at me and smiled menacingly, and I witnessed the worst pain I could ever possibly know. My body broke down and I felt as if my skin was tearing from my muscles and my muscles from my bones. I felt glass pierce my eyes and every known pain form in different parts of my body, it was agonizing.

"STOP IT YOU"LL KILL HIM!" I heard Bella scream and she got in between me and Jane. The pain instantly subsided behind the body of Bella. I began to pant heavily and my body felt tiered I was breaking down. I used what little will I had left to stay awake. Bella noticed my condition and I saw her face full of concern.

"Why...that's the point. He knows too much Bella, he has to die." Aro said, there was a hint of malice in his voice.

Alice spoke up. "It's not supposed to happen this way." She said. "Bella is supposed to turn him, but not until he's older..."

"How old?" Aro asked her a hint of annoyance in his expression.

"I don't know, a year. You saw haw far ahead I've seen." She said. He smacked his lips in annoyance and began to pace.

"I really don't want to have to wait...but your visions can always change." He said.

Bella spoke. "Please, if he has to turn I want to be the one to do it...it's something special and if he wants it as much as he says I want to be there to give it to him...I want to give him good memories before it, not kill him painfully." She winced, I could tell she was thinking about when she was turned.

"You really love him." Aro said. I could tell in his mind he wasn't moved by what she told him though. He really wanted to keep us.

"Yes I do." Bella said.

"I'll give him a year, until he's finished his schooling. In a year we will be visiting you and I hope to see him turned." Aro said smoothly covering his impatience.

Bella sighed and so did Alice. "Thank you." Bella said.