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An Element of Surprise

Darkness only paused in the small clearing where a fire flickered. Why they'd risked a fire I had no idea. It did nothing to warm us, and no food we ate could be cooked. It was just a risk, and I didn't mean catching alight accidently.

A fire meant they were just all too easy to hunt down.

I smeared dirt across my face to disguise my scent and closed my eyes. I knew my goal. Maggie. Leave the other two alone, they are no use. We don't want their deaths on our hands. Only fight if they resist.

And do not lie to her.

I'll do you proud Aro. I thought. I had it all planned.

Three figures crouched around the fire- two women and a girl, though in the shadows you could easily mistake them for only one girl. Siobhan was such a big woman her long thick black hair was the only thing that classified her as a female.

The man next to her was small, long limbed and skinnier. He had a hard face, permanent scowl and short dark brown hair and stubble. This must have been Liam.

Maggie was not sitting down like the other two. She was very petite and very childlike, with such a small build and vulnerable look to her that she looked like if you tapped her shoulder she could fall to pieces. Long bouncy auburn curl fell around her armpits, held back off her face by a knotted gypsy scarf. Her face was bright and quite beautiful, but currently twisted with confusion. The way she moved was so graceful she could have been a dancer.

"Magdalene," Siobhan's voice was dominant, loud and booming, "Stop dancing about and sit down."

"Sorry," Maggie's voice had the slightest Irish accent, though it was nothing compared to Siobhan's, "I just… you know. Have a feeling. That something's going to happen soon."

I had to choke down a laugh. So innocent. So sweet.

So clueless. She had no idea.

Siobhan's eye narrowed as she glared around the bushes. Pulling up her mate, they sped into the trees, no doubt to scour the area for intruders. She and Liam really trusted Maggie with everything. Anything she said would be acted upon. Her talent gave the upper hand on almost everything.

Almost everything.

My gift was right at my fingertips- I could feel it. Feel it wafting through my body like an addiction. It was an addiction. I wanted to let it out. I wanted to let it leak, no, flow from me and watch the look on Little Maggie's face when she felt it hit her, when she realized…

Suddenly, Maggie stopped dancing, her feet frozen solid to the ground. Her eyes darted left and right so fast I didn't even have time to blink her eyes glazed over, then narrowed - on me. Our gazes locked. If my heart was still beating I swear it would have been banging against my ribs like a sledge hammer. Her lips parted slightly in surprise as she took in my bright crimson eyes, the dirt smearing my features to confuse my scent and, of course, my black Volturi cloak.

Then she started screaming, and like that, my element of surprise was gone.

I cursed under my breath. Maggie wasn't screaming out of fear, she was screaming to bring her absent coven mates back. The little vampire was smarter than she looked. I noted I should have gone for it as soon as Siobhan and Liam had left the clearing. It's what my patronising sister would have done. I'd never hear the end of this.

I scraped the mud off my face and shoot from my nest in the bushes, putting out the roaring fire with a flick of my heavy cloak and zooming to stand beside the screaming Maggie. I clamped one arm around her skinny waist and pinned her against me, and my other hand over her mouth, cutting her off mid-shriek.

"Shh," I whispered mockingly in her ear.

She whimpered softly in terror, which I wasn't sure was real or just to pry into my cold dead heart, but she didn't dare fight back. She had been taught well.

Siobhan and Liam re-entered the clearing in a blur- but stopped short dead when they saw me with Maggie. Maggie twisted in my arms feebly at the sight of her coven mates. She was, to my dismay, at least a few centimetres taller than me, but mostly due to her curls gathering on her head. It was her only advantage, besides Siobhan and Liam.

Not that much to be proud of, I thought happily to myself.

"Alec," Siobhan hissed my name like it was poisonous. She glowered at me, body shaking and eyes radiating with rage.

I smiled angelically at her.

Siobhan took an angry step forward. I released a small gust of power next to Maggie's leg, and the tiny girl's weight slumped backward into me. She honestly weighed nothing.

"No!" Siobhan yelled, holding up her hands pleadingly, "Please don't hurt her!"

"I won't. I'm the cure to my sister, remember Siobhan?" I cocked my head slightly and smiling at the woman. She looked like a mother, all flustered and panicked at the thought of me bringing harm to her 'daughter', "I don't hurt. I don't make people feel pain. I make them feel nothing."

Maggie groaned, her eyelids fluttering, and Siobhan could only watch as her coven mate's entire body sagged now as I released my full power into her. Maggie didn't do anything as I picked her up in my arms, her head lolling back as if unconscious. I could imagine her sinking into a pit of nothing, alone in the dark, unable to move, unable to speak, unable to blink…

As I took her away.

My sister would be proud of me.

"Let her go," Liam's accent was gentler than Siobhan's, but he spoke more softly than his mate anyway, "Please, we've done nothing wrong. She doesn't deserve this."

I looked down at tiny Maggie, still in my arms. Without her movement, she looked like a corpse. Her facial features were relaxed, her head slack against my stomach. Her eyes were gently closed. She really was very pretty. I wondered if once she was bonded to the Volturi via Chelsea, I could have her from time to time.

"Aro wants her," I replied in a velvety voice, "That's all that matters to me."

Siobhan lunged. Without me needing to move a muscle, her giant frame seized up and dropped to the ground. Her eyes glazed over. Liam gave a cry and ran to his mate. I stopped the flow of paralysing mist from my carefully aimed fingertips and looked down at the two vampires.

"I want to take Maggie and leave peacefully," I growled, "The Volturi don't want war. Just her."

"War is worth her," Siobhan's words were slurred from the effects of my gift, but didn't lose their volume, "I'll die for her."

"You're obviously the only one here with any sense," I turned to Liam, "Will you let her die? For a child you didn't want in the first place?"

He let out a slow, angry hiss, but his fingers tightened around Siobhan's arm at the same time.

Knowing she couldn't fight me, and she couldn't reason with me, Siobhan realised that her situation was hopeless. Her crimson eyes hardened, "One day, Alec, you will get what you deserve. You and your whole stupid coven."

Except she didn't say stupid, if you get my drift.

"I know," I ran a hand down Maggies cheek and she shuddered. I leaked more nothingness into her and she stilled once more, one arm handing limply below her and the other draped across her chest, "But not today."

In a flash, I was gone from the clearing, but my sensitive ears didn't miss the wail of despair Siobhan gave as I took her daughter away.

I know, you can't see how Maggie could ever fall for guy who basically drugged her,and kidnapped her from her family. And Alec's an asshole. I know. Things will get better, I promise.

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