Sorry again about the long wait and then for the tiny chapter. I'm trying to get back into the groove. This site has changed so much it's insane! Anyways... If I have any readers, I hope you still enjoy this story. It's a work in progress. I hope you enjoy this as much as the other chapters or even better. I'm adding a twist. Enjoy! Bellawannabee92

When nobody came after me, I knew something was wrong. Robert at least would have come to see where I was. He was the only one who cared whether I lived or died. But I waited, watching the ground nervously. Hoping to see Jon wander around looking for me, wanting to be surprised by him for the first time in a hundred years. But instead, nothing.

The wind was blowing and there was a strange smell in the air. It took me only a couple breathes to realize what it was.

Smoke.

Someone was having a fire. Not just a fire, that wouldn't smell like that. Someone was burning. A vampire was burning.

Panic and adrenaline pulsed through me. What if the Volturi thought that Jon and Robert were making newborn covens? Would they burn them too?

In less than a second I was out of my hiding place. Smelling the air, I followed the scent. It took me deep into the forest. Deeper than Jon and Robert were when I left them.

"Oh please don't be Jon and Robert." I pleaded with an unknown force.

As I followed the scent, I heard yelling coming from ahead.

"Let go off me!"

"Watch your tone, boy! We could easily burn you alive too!"

"Jon, it's not best, just be silent."

"Just be silent? E is our only hope! And where is she? She left us a day ago mysteriously and hasn't shown her face since! Do you think I'm going to be silent? Hell no!"

I started running until I reached the end of the forest. There was a large cliff surrounded by trees. There were so many vampires, all of them in black robes. I instantly recognized them.

The Volturi.

The Volturi are the governing vampires. Without them, we would be revealed to all humans. Without them, vampires would run amuck just like those humans in Paris during The Great Priest's rule. They keep us in line and give us rules to follow. They keep us all safe.

I watched the bunch to see how they moved, how they talked. I needed a good angle on the argument. I needed to figure out the best way to convince them of our innocence. Not an easy feat when all of them are ancient and very powerful.

"Jon, E probably needed some time alone. She probably doesn't even know that we need her."

Jon laughed. "How can she not know? She knows damn well we need her help! She knew the entire time before they came that we needed her smarts and innocence to prove ours!"

"How could she possibly know that Jon? You never said a word to her. You were always ignoring her when she would say something to you."

"Robert, you and I both know that she wouldn't help me. We never got along. Why would she? I was always a jerk to her anyway…"

The Volturi were enjoying their conversation a little too much. They were mimicking them and talking amongst themselves about how to kill them. It took every molecule in my body to stand still and not give away my position.

"If you two are finished discussing your friend E, we can get on with punishing you for raging war."

"Excuse me, but I believe they haven't done anything of the sort." I said in the strongest, most confident tone I could ever have.

"And you are?" one of the oldest of the Volturi asked.

"My name is E. And I believe you have my family arrested under false pretences."

"Oh, so you're the infamous E we've been hearing so much about? Ah, I see. And what exactly do you mean, we have arrested them under false pretences?"

"What I mean is, these two have never turned anyone, besides me, and technically speaking, that shouldn't even be valid since it was several hundreds of years ago during The Black Plague. They have never committed the crimes that of which you have accused them of doing. They don't even drink human blood. All three of us drink animal blood. We find it wrongful to drink from humans. They need to live too don't they?"

"Interesting, but still, your family have been found at the scene of the crime. Lest now they must be treated like any other vampire that we have found at the site of an illegal act. We must take action. If we don't, the other vampires will run around chaotically thinking they can also get away with such crimes. We won't have that."

"But this entire city is a scene! Are you going to kill every innocent vampire along with the guilty who has ever been in the area during this time? What if they didn't even have anything to do with it? What if they were passing by this city to get to another?"

"It is hard to believe that if a group of vampires are raging a war that another vampire would walk into that area without knowing what is going on, let alone live to tell the tale unless they are on one of the sides of the war. You could be here trying to trick us if all we know. How can we be so sure you're not the organizers of the entire thing?"

"I say, we kill all three of them. But the girl first. I want to watch their faces as she is torn to bits." One of the Volturi said grotesquely. Jon started to jerk around with the vampires who were holding him still.

"No! Kill me instead! Leave E alone!" Jon started yelling. "I deserve to die, not her! She never did anything wrong! She always kept us out of trouble!"

The three leading Volturi chuckled together. "How adorable. You two are in love. Are you so sure you'd die for her Jon? Just a few minutes ago you were saying how much she hated you and how much you didn't think she would help save the two of you. Now you'll die for her? A little confused, aren't we?"

"Don't listen to him E, I know you hate me, but I would die for you. I would. You've been nothing but nice to me and all I've done is hurt you."

Find your voice E! You must, you need to stop Jon before he makes the biggest, stupidest mistake of his life!

"Jon, stop! Just stop!" My cry rang through the forest in rings of loud booming sound, vibrating the earth around us. I half expected the cliff to start crumbling, but the old ancient rock held fast. "You are not going to die for me." Jon started to protest, but with one finger, he froze. "You are not going to die for me, because you won't have to. I know what they want. I'll give it to them and you two will be free to do whatever you were going to do before I came into your lives."

The Volturi's faces were all shocked. They didn't know what I was talking about. Only, I knew that that was a big act. They wanted it to look like that wasn't their intent the whole time they carried on this charade.

"What do you mean? How can we go on without you? E, you are part of this family. You've always been." Robert pleaded, his eyes filled with the sadness that I wished I'd never see. He was like a father to me. And I was telling him to act as if I had never existed. I was breaking his heart.

"She never wanted to be in a family with me in it, Robert. I told you she hated

me. Why couldn't you see that?"

"Jon, are you crazy? I never hated you! You just get on my nerves, you never listen. But I never hated you, never."

"That's not true. I remember when we first meet, you said you hated me. You said that I was a jerk and didn't know what I was talking about. You even told me not to speak to you again."

"Jon, my family had died of the plague and I tried to commit suicide because I didn't want to die like they did. I didn't want to get that sick. I tried to die the only way I could with dignity. And when I woke up after being changed, you treated me like dirt for my decision. I was pissed. You told me that I had no reason to kill myself and that I was trying to get attention. You never realized that maybe there could be another reason to what I did. Maybe I just wanted to die on my terms instead of when the illness decided to kill me. You never understood anything. You were a bastard about it all."

Jon just looked blankly ahead, realizing for the first time that he was wrong about me from the start. He never understood anything, and now it was all so obvious.

I turned to the Volturi. "So what do you say, I give you what you want, and you let them go?"

"Sounds like it might be a deal but how can I be sure that you're not tricking me?"

"Why would I trick you? There's no way to outrun you and there's no way that I can protect myself from you if I tried."

"True. I accept your offer. Say goodbye to your friends."

"What are you doing E?" Jon asked, hysterically, finally realizing a trade was happening.

"You were talking about how I was the only one that could help you guys, it turns out, you're right for once Jon. I'm making a deal with the Volturi to free you two."

"Are you crazy? You can't make a deal with them for us! That's not what I meant!"

"But it's what must be done. It's the only way to save you." I laughed. "Jon, please don't be reckless and ruin what I've done for you. You know that I can't help you again."

"E, you better not have let them kill you for us." Robert scolded me.

"Don't be silly, Robert! They would have never killed me. Just, please keep yourselves out of danger and trouble. I can't save you twice."

"It's time to leave, E." The oldest of the Volturi said, being impatient.

"Maybe sometime I'll explain. For now, I must leave you. Good bye."

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