Author's Note

I do not own Twilight.


Jane stood in the doorway and stared up at the two guards.

They stared down at her.

"So this is where you got off to," said Felix, almost amicably.

Almost.

"Aro sent us for the children."

"What?"

"Aren't you going to let us in?"

Jane closed the door in his face.

Then locked it.

It wouldn't come even close to holding him of course, but it held long enough for her to flit upstairs to where Alec was playing pokemon with the children.

"We have to go."

"What?"

"We have to go, now. Felix and Santiago are here."

Alec let out a string of curse words, which mostly seemed to consist of the word 'fuck.'

"Daddy says you mustn't say those words," said Ivanna unhelpfully.

Jane scooped her up. "Get the other one."

Alec goggled. "Have you gone mad sister?"

"Get the other one!"

Alec got the other one.

They opened the window and leapt out as the bedroom door crashed open. Jane pressed herself against the wall of the house, edging round it to the back door, and let herself back in. Alec followed. They ducked down out of sight and listened as Felix and Santiago ran for the woods.

"That won't keep them long," Alec said.

"It won't keep them at all."


They flitted upstairs and found Count in his room, occupying himself knitting a… um, something. Jane dropped the female brat in the doorway. "You have to leave."

"I think you'll find this is my castle."

Alec shoved the male brat after his sister. "I think you'll find it's no longer safe."

"We warned you."

They flitted back to their room to grab their few belongings and documents before heading downstairs, where they were faced with Felix and Santiago.

"Clever trick," Felix said, looking down at them. "Funny."

Jane smiled, showing him her teeth. "We thought so."

"Aro's been wondering where you two are."

Alec snorted. "Alec can go fuck himself."

Felix snarled. "I'm sure he wouldn't mind if he had to reassemble you."

White mist began to curl around them, winding happily up their legs and spilling across the floor towards Felix and Santiago.

"I'm sure he wouldn't mind if you didn't go back at all."

Felix growled and drew his fist back. The white mist twisted around him. Jane saw his eyes glaze as Alec took hold. His fist still swung and she ducked, only for Felix to bring his fist downwards, crashing into the back of her head. Jane crashed to the ground. She was up again in a half instant, leaping for him and wrapping her arms around his neck. Santiago was stumbling about behind them, blind, deaf, numb. Cracks began to spread up Felix's neck to his face. He staggered backwards. Jane yanked at his head, feeling it crack. Damn this eternally tiny body! She threw herself backwards, slamming them both into the ground and ripping Felix's head off in the same action. His body continued to twitch and move, drawn, of course, to the head. She threw it as hard as she could into the next room and launched herself at Santiago, who was still stumbling about blind. She grappled with him, feeling his head crack and crunch beneath her, until at last his neck gave way. She flung his head upstairs as Alec began to hunt for firestarting materials.


Count left before they did with the two brats packed up in his rusty old car.