AN: I'm soooo sorry for the late update guys, but my holiday plans changed and I ended up going away earlier than was planned, so I didn't have a chance to update. However, to make it up to you I will post two chapters today :)
This is the longest chap so far, plus it starts to get a little more interesting so I hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: No, I still haven't managed to convince Stephenie Meyer to give me the Twilight characters but when I do, I promise to tell you so we can share ^_^

CHAPTER 3(anticipation)

SETH POV

'They're not going to stop.' He thought, 'They're not going to listen to reason. Jacob was right, they're going to keep on coming and they are going to kill us all…'

Seth's mind had gone completely blank with terror; all rational reasoning had flown out the window to be replaced with cold, mind-numbing fear.

Suddenly, a sharp pain in his left ear broke through the fog in Seth's mind and he snapped himself out of Jacob's head and back into his own so that he could glare at his sister, whose sharp wolf-teeth were responsible for the current pain in his head.

'What was that for?' Whined Seth.

'You were gettin' soft on me.' Leah snapped back, 'Pull yourself together Seth. If you think I went through all this trouble to fight on your Leeches side just to have you freeze up and chicken out before I've even had the satisfaction of kicking some bloodsucker butt, then you can think again. You wanted in on the fight and you got it. Now snap out of your stupid fear and get ready to help your so-called buddies if they need it.'

'I'm not going soft,' replied Seth indignantly. 'I'm just worried about everyone else.'

Leah gave him her best 'big sister look,' the one that said 'I know you're lying and I know that you know that I know but I don't have the time or the energy to fight with you, so shut up,' then she turned away and began to walk towards the clearing. Only to stop again when Seth called out, 'Hey Leah, Thank you.'

Leah's eyes widened and her thoughts were filled with surprise for just a moment at the true feeling in her brother's words. It only lasted a few seconds though and the emotionless mask was back in place. She turned and continued to trot towards the clearing, not slowing her pace as Seth hurried to catch up with her.

When they reached the clearing a few seconds later Seth's fear was suddenly replaced with anticipation.

Not anticipation for the fight, because the Volturi seemed to have stopped their approach at the sight of the wolves, and not anticipation for the coming battle of words either. In fact, Seth had no idea what exactly it was that he was anticipating, just that the moment he had set foot in the clearing and seen the Volturi with his own eyes, a strange feeling had settled itself low in his belly and he felt himself being tugged towards the so called 'bad vampires,' overcome with a strange need to be among them. As though seeing past their hoods would somehow fill a place in his life that Seth hadn't even realised needed filling.

He was so overwhelmed by the need that Seth didn't realise that the rest of the wolves had stopped until he was bought sharply back to reality by Leah biting him yet again, this time on the tail.

'What the hell do you think you're doing?' She screamed in his head. 'Are you trying to get yourself killed? Are really that eager for a fight or are you just too stupid to notice that they've stopped?'

When she realised that he'd spaced out and started towards the Volturi again, Leah lost her cool, 'SETH CLEARWATER!'

Her mental shout was so loud that both Jacob and Edward-who was currently being interrogated by the head of the Volturi- turned their heads to look worriedly at her and Seth, who had jumped back into awareness with a sudden start. 'Sorry Leah, I don't know what's come over me. It's like I'm being pulled toward them. I really can't help it.' Said Seth, purposely leaving out the fact that wasn't sorry at all and that he didn't want the feeling to stop, because he didn't want Leah to get even angrier.

At his words, Leah's anger immediately turned into concern for her baby brother. 'What do you mean you can't help it? Does it hurt? Can you block it? It's one of those bloodsuckers isn't it? One of the one's with weird psychic powers.'

And without even waiting for a reply, she was back to anger, which was this time directed at the Volturi. 'Which one is it?' She growled, surveying the line of (mostly) impassive, hooded vampires. 'Which is one doing this to my baby brother? I'LL RIP THEIR THROAT OUT!'

Again, her shout had drawn the attention of Jacob and Edward, which upset Seth even more, those two were under enough strain as it was, he didn't need to be adding to it so he hid all thoughts of the strange feeling to reassure them.

'Don't worry about it Leah, it was bad before but it's better now,' He reassured his sister.

'What do you mean its better now?' Leah questioned, suspicious of his sudden change of heart.

'I mean that I can't feel it anymore. I don't know why, maybe it's because you distracted me. Maybe Bella's shield stopped it, I don't know what it was but it's definitely gone.' Seth said, desperately hoping that Leah wouldn't pick up on his lie and just let the subject drop.

He was lucky.

'Okay...' Replied Leah hesitantly, 'But if it comes back let me know right away.'

'Course I will.' Said Seth, with a mental smile thrown in for good measure (yes, it is possible because Seth's just so damn happy) and finally, with a last worried look, Leah turned her attention back to the Volturi who, it seemed, were fishing for reasons to attack the Cullen's, despite the fact that they had proven themselves innocent of creating an immortal child.

Again however, Seth was not paying very much attention. His mind was too busy concentrating on hiding his thoughts from Leah and trying to figure out what the strange feeling in his belly was, because, despite what he had told Leah, it had not disappeared. If anything the feeling had grown even stronger.

He scanned the Volturi lines but none of the vampires seemed to be paying any attention to him. They were either staring into space, glaring at the other vampires, glaring at the wolves or gazing adoringly at their leader. However, Seth did notice that the feeling became almost overwhelming when he looked at the two small figures cloaked in the darkest grey, just to the left (Seth's right) of the Volturi leaders.

'It must be one of them that's doing this to me.' He thought. But he couldn't be sure, and it was only now that he decided to pay attention to what was going on around him.

The blonde Volturi leader seemed to be on some kind of Werewolves can't be trusted, we should kill them all rampage. Luckily, none of the others seemed to be agreeing with him. Thinking that there was nothing to help his cause currently going on, Seth tried to think of his own way to get closer to the two slight vampires so that he could figure out which one was responsible for the strange but pleasant feeling. He wasn't having any luck whatsoever when the need for a plan was suddenly taken right out of his hands.

Seth had only been listening to the goings on in the clearing with half an ear but his full attention was caught by the current words of the Volturi leader. 'Aro' he thought, remembering the name from when Edward had used it earlier.

"I do not think that these creatures will reveal our secret," The vampire was saying. "If anything, they are even more careful with it than we are."

At this the blonde vampire looked murderously furious, while the wolves and the Cullen's all breathed a sigh of relief.

But Aro hadn't finished. "I have been reassured by Edward that these Wolves mean us no harm and I trust his word completely. However, I would like to further reassure both myself and the members of the vampire race who are unable to read the truth in his thoughts." At this, Aro's face took on an evil smirk, "I would like to speak to one of the wolves. Personally."

Unable to believe his luck, both in being able to get closer to the two hooded vampires and to have the chance to help his friends without fighting, Seth was already up and running to the woods to phase before the rest of the wolves had begun their outraged howling.

'Seth, what are you doing?' Asked both Leah and Jacob in alarm as he disappeared into the trees.

'I'm phasing back to human form,' he replied. 'It will be easier to communicate with Aro that way.'

He heard, and just as quickly ignored the shock in their thoughts as he looked for a place where no one could watch him phase.

'What the hell are you talking about Seth? You can't do that, it's too dangerous. We don't have to listen to the psycho leech. Anyway, if anyone's going to go, it'll be me' Said Leah, loath to let her brother set even one foot in danger.

'No Leah,' Seth argued. 'It has to be me. I'm the only wolf that actually likes vampires. I'm not repulsed by their smell, or their cold skin or even their lifestyle. If I talk to them they'll have no plausible reason to attack us. If you go you're likely to lose your temper and attack someone and that isn't going to do our cause any good.'

'I don't care, that's just not a good enough reason Seth.' Replied Leah, 'I'm your big sister, Mum left me in charge and I say you're not going.'

When Seth ignored her and got ready to phase anyway, Leah began to chase after him so she use any force necessary to stop her little brother doing something that she considered to be stupid, but she was prevented from doing so by another voice. 'No Leah,' Said Jacob calmly, 'The kid's right. He's the only one that's got any chance of proving that wolves and vampires can live together peacefully.' When Leah made to interrupt, he stopped her, 'I don't like this any more than you do Leah but this is something that only Seth can do. He'll never forgive you if you stop him and something bad happens to someone because the Vamps decide we can't be trusted.'

'Thanks Jake, you too Lee,' said Seth fondly. 'I know you're just trying to protect me, but I'll be fine. Promise.' Then, with another one of those weird mental-smiles that only Seth can do, he phased, dressed and walked back towards the clearing in complete confidence, despite the fact that the feeling of anticipation was growing stronger with every step.

Sooo, is it any good?
I like it :D

Next chap is in Aro's POV and will hopefully be up in a couple of hours...

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