Author's Note: Hi everyone, rather tired had to do maths homework: Trinomials, don't worry about it unless your planing to take advance year 11 maths, actually it's not too bad, really, it's actually fun, that until tomorrow when my math teacher to take the complete fun out of it. "sigh"

I can't wait to get past Volterra so i can go back to writing all me again, without input from the wonderful Stephenie Meyer.

Anyway i hope you enjoy this chapter, please review, thank you very much and i'll see you soon.

Chapter 5

Running Reunion

"Go, Bella, Go." Alice hissed, as she pulled the car up in arch way, in the shade, hidden from the blinding sun.

I scrambled out of the car, shot her a frantic look, before tugging my dark hood up over my head and then I was out in the square shoving my way, gently towards the clock tower.

They're everywhere! I sensed and started to move faster, well as fast as I could without seriously injuring someone in the process.

Cursing Edward for his horrid pick of days to die, I continued to shove my way threw the crowd of humans, ignoring the cries of anger and irritation that where yelled from behind me.

It was like moving threw a red cloud that could fight back when you tried to fight it, and I was, I was fighting it hard.

I was going so slow, the red cloud was holding me back and I couldn't keep this up without hurting someone.

Then I heard the sound of running, trickling water. A fountain!

With a sigh of relief, I ran for it, jumped, gracefully up on to the brick work about it, then I fell in to the icy water. I may be a Vampire but I will always be a klutz.

Without giving the icy water much thought, I thrashed my way across it to the other side, jumping once more gracefully out into the crowd and staggering when I landed, almost landing flat on my face.

I'm glad to say the crowd really started to part way for me after my little dip in the fountain; I guess they didn't want to share in the experience with me.

The Clock tolled.

Come on legs, I didn't know why but my silent heart was beating madly, it wanted me to get to the to where he was before anything could happen to him.

I knew in that moment that if Edward life ended, my would too. The unseen force that had kept me going was the same force that was driving me to save him. No matter how much pain he might have caused me in my human life, that didn't matter! Nothing matter, but to get to him and for him to be safe once more.

With this new determination, I ran with more purpose ignoring every cry that was yelled at me, the only conscious things going threw my head was getting to him and to not run someone over, though I guess that would turn the Volturi attention away from him.

Edward.

My eyes widen as suddenly he came into sight. Normal humans wouldn't have seen him, standing, bare chest in the shadow of the alley that he was waiting in for his moment to shine, literally.

"Edward" I yelled, his name suddenly came so naturally from my lips.

"Edward, no." I screamed, begging him to hear me over the crowds din and the clocks deafening tolls.

I went to scream out his name again, but for a moment my breath was taken as I saw him completely. He was beautiful. even running and screaming; I could take in his beauty.

It doesn't matter if doesn't want me or love as long as his save, my thoughts screamed.

The clock tolled and he started to take a long stride forward, towards the light. And towards me.

"No!" Edward, stop! Wait for me, please!" I screamed at him.

And then, we…well, you see neither of us stopped, so we… ah, CRASHED!

I slammed into him, and he to me, and if we hadn't grabbed hold of each other, we would have be slammed back the way we had come.

But since we had both grabbed each other in the crash (which had sounded like a clap of thunder. I wouldn't have been surprised if half the plaza had looked up at the sky at that moment), we had just fallen in a heap on to the stone path of the alley, out of the sun, with me on top of him.

His eyes had open somewhere in the collision and he seemed to be as out of it as I was.

He looked around him, which wasn't much to see, except dark brick wall and rock paths, then he looked at me and the dark, almost black eyes lit up.

"Amazing." He whispered, his amazing voice was filled with slight amusement and awe. He raised a hand and touched my cheek gently. "Carlisle was right."

"Edward." I gasped, looking behind me at the crowded to make sure no one had seen exactly where the thunder clap had come from, I vaguely realised that my hood had come off sometime between my running from the car to Edward. "We need to get further back into the shadows." I tried to get up and off him, but his arms where around my waist tightly. Now if I was really trying I could have gotten always, but hey, I was being held in the arms a young, beautiful Greek God, who would want to get away?

He continued to gently trace my face and I went on and let him, we weren't in complete view of anyone, unless they where searching particularly for us, which I hoped they weren't, plus I was enjoying the attention, for I had never had anyone look at me like he was now, it made me feel special and whole, like nothing was wrong with my world at that moment. But I knew there was something wrong in my world and that we where in danger, big danger. But that didn't stop me from feeling whole and complete like I had never been before.

"I can't believe how quick it was. I didn't feel a thing – they're very good." He mused, I couldn't believe he thought he was died, how could he dare even think that? I fumed. He closed his eyes and started to whisper something in his honey, velvet voice. It took me a moment to realise that he was speaking Romeo's lines in the tomb.

"Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty." Then he open his eyes again and they where curious, "you look exactly the same, but your smell…" he trailed off for a moment, but shook his head. "So maybe this is hell. But I don't care. I'll take it."

"I'm not dead." I moaned, interrupting him, then thought about it. "Well, not technically, physically I am dead in some places but mentally, I'm fine, but that's beside the point. The point is neither of us are dead, technically. Please Edward, we have to move, NOW! They can't be far away!" I started to struggle seriously against his iron arms, and he reluctantly let me go, but hie brow was forward in confusion.

"What was that?" he asked politely. He sat up and started to really take me in. about time!

"We're not dead, well not technically, but we will be if we don't move! Please, can we get out of here before the Volturi comes?"

He was still trying to take me in, he was trying to look at my face, at my eyes. I felt suddenly self-conscious and stood up quickly almost knocking myself flying to the ground again, but Edward was on his feet and steading me. Then from steading me, he yanked me fully away from the light of the plaza and into totally dark alley, shoving up against the alley wall. For one horrible moment I thought he was going to attack me and try to kill me. I even if I was suppose to be saving him, if he had attacked me, I would have attacked back and I would have won.

But instead, once I had fully gathered my sense I found that he's back was to me and he was blocking me from view from whom ever was coming into the ally.

I peered under his arm to see to dark shapes, materializing from the surrounding gloom.

"Greeting, gentlemen." Edward said, his voice was calm and pleasant but I could hear the warning with his tone and words. "I don't think I will be requiring your services today. I would appreciate it very much, however, if you would send my thanks to your masters."

"Shall we take this conversation to a more appropriate venue?" one of the shadows whispered in a smooth menacing voice. I couldn't help but shuddered, I just wanted to get away. My fingers twitched by my side and I shoved them into my pockets, trying to ignore the tingly within them.

"I don't believe that will be necessary." Edward's voice was hard now. "I know your instructions, Felix. I haven't broken any rules."

"Felix is merely trying to point out the fact of the Sun." the other shadow said in soothing tone, that sent shivers up my spine.

Now that they had both stepped into some light that shone into the alley, I could see that they where both dressed in heavy grey cloaks that reached the ground and seemed the wind didn't affect them.

"Let us seek better shelter."

Edward nodded, "I am right behind you, but…" he turned to me, his eyes ones again looking me up and down, "Bella, why don't you go back to the square and enjoy the festival?" he said to me, but on a way that was meant for the other two to hear.

My heart jumped when he spoke my name. I had never had it spoken to me like that. I t was soft and gentle and made me feel completely safe, even though I wasn't.

Nothing until now had truly convinced me that I had once had this creature's love, but the way he looked at me now and the way he had said my name, almost as if he still couldn't believe that I was truly there with him, but I was, I really was there. I smiled shyly at him, though it might have come by as hesitant, I don't know. But the moment was broken by the first shadow, Felix.

"No, bring the girl." He leered at us. i pulled a face at him, but I wasn't going to leave Edward any way. But Edward had other plans.

"No, I don't think so." His voice was flat and icy; all pretence of civility was gone. He was moving slightly, inch by inch, into what I realised was his fight position.

"no." I hissed at him.

"Shh," he murmured back at me.

"Felix," the second figure whispered reasonable from the shadows. "Not here." Then he turned to Edward and me. "Aro would only like to talk to you again, since you have decided to not force our hands after all."

"Certainly," Edward agreed. "But Bella is allowed to leave."

"I'm afraid that is not possible," sighed the polite shadow regretfully. "We do have rules to obey."

"Then I'm sorry, but I will be unable to accept Aro's invitation, Demetri."

"That's fine." Purred Felix, I scowled at him. Felix was huge! Tall and broad shouldered.

I instinctively let out a quiet growl in my throat, but I never let it out but I know that he heard me, for he glanced at me almost uncertainly.

Demetri sensing the obvious tension and stepped in, moving slightly that he blocked us from lunging reign.

"Aro will be very disappointed." He sighed. Edward smiled tightly at him.

"I'm sure he'll survive."

I suddenly realised something, something that the two shadows where trying to do. They where moving in away that was blocking the mouth of the alley way, forcing us deeper into the alley way. Or trying to force us, Edward was moving. He was pretty much dooming himself by protecting me, which protection I don't need.

Then he stiffen, which is a feat in itself, I hadn't thought he could have stiffen anymore, but obviously I was wrong. His head whipped around, as did mine to look into the darkness of the alley.

"Now, now, no fighting while ladies are present." I felt my mouth drop when Alice bounced towards us, smiling sweetly at everyone there, as if this was some sort of happy party in the sun, not some could be deadly fight in a dark alley.

Alice beamed at us when she came to stand beside us, but I could see the tension running threw her, but somehow though she looked rock hard and solid, she somehow seemed the most fragile thing on the planet. I didn't get it.

The men where arguing again, Edward didn't want to go, the two shadows wanted all of us to go, Edward was fine with that, just he wanted me left out of it, but I could since I seemed to be the cause of this mess, argued Demetri. Great, everyone thought this was my fault and I had can't even remember what I had done wrong in the first place.

"I'll go." I sighed; I was sick and tired of the fighting. Everyone's head whipped around to look at me, they had pretty much forgotten that I was present despite the fact they were arguing because of me. Men!

Me saying that, seemed to have made up everyone's mind, settled the argument to some extent and we where suddenly moving further into the darkness.

We came to a drain that sunk into the lower points in the paving. I groaned, what was with vampires and drains?

Alice smiled at me and then disappeared down the drain. I groaned, I knew I was going to be going next. Edward wouldn't not with Demetri and Felix behind us.

"You'll be fine, Bella." He whispered in a low, gentle voice. I glanced at him then stepped into the drain.

If I had been human, I probably would have demanded being lower into the drain then hoped that Alice would catch me at the bottom. But I wasn't human, I was a vampire, but I was still terrified.

God that drain was deep.

"Arh, uhm." I grumbled when I hit the bottom on the balls of my feet, then fell on my butt.

Alice laughed at me for doing that, before helping me to my feet. I wiped myself down of what ever had attached to me in my fall to the wet ground.

Then Edward was beside me, his arm around my waist and guiding me down the drain tunnel.

Every so often I felt him press his face into my hair, sniffing it, kissing it, I didn't care, I was in a dark, dreary tunnel, about to face certain death and I was happier then I had been in fifty-six years. Isn't that wrong on so many levels?

Then an unhappy thought hit me, maybe he was just being this way because he was guilty. Guilty because I was a vamp. He hadn't known about this until now, but he was probably guilty about that anyway. I was still trying to figure out why he had wanted to kill himself now after all these years. Maybe he was guilty that I had died a year after he had left and not seventy years after he left. I don't know, but he had to be guilty. I had half the mind to push him away and walk with Alice, but as soon as the thought crossed my mind and me preparing for the pain it would cause in going threw with the thought, Alice looked back at us, at me and shot me a dirty look. I pulled a face at her, but I gave up on my plan and remained where I was not that I was actually complaining in a sense.

But I didn't the guy to feel as if he needed to hold be just because he was guilty about what happen to me.

Alice shot me another dirty look and Edward glanced between us in confusion. He stared at Alice for a moment, but his face was still confusion. She obviously knocked him back with some completely off the topic thought that was making him even more confused.

He glanced down at me but I pretended not to notice, just enjoyed the fact that someone was holding me in such a protective way.

Suddenly, without my notice we had come to the end of the tunnel and had gone threw and iron bar gate, which closed with a clang behind us and woke me from my thoughts.

I looked behind us at the gates, wondering if I would ever get back to the other side of the again.

We came to a thick, heavy wooden door, which was open and we passed threw it into a suddenly bright room. That door closed behind us too. I looked up at Edward and saw that his beautiful face was tense and that his mouth and jaw were clenched tightly.

Even Alice looked serious. Now I was truly scared.