A/N: Here's the much-awaited (yeah, right!) chapter two. Now that the chapter titles display, can you guess the little in-joke?

DISCLAIMER: I do not own The Twilight Saga, it's characters, or any reviews for this fic. -drowns in emoness that I stole from Jasper-

Alice POV

Bella was shivering again, but it wasn't the same as it was on the plane. The plane was cold enough to make her shiver in her sleep, though the rest of us felt nothing at all. Bella had shivered when Edward carried her off the plane. She shivered when her head lolled onto my shoulder in the cab. She shivered so hard that I was surprised she didn't shake herself awake. But she was awake now and still did not notice anything, although the air here was hot enough to be mildly uncomfortable to me. On my other side, Jasper shivered, too.

I realized that this new shivering wasn't due to cold weather. In fact, it was bright and sunny in Volterra today. Around a hundred and six. Thankfully, all the humans of the city were hiding away in their houses, blinds drawn and refrigerated air going full blast. No one would notice the sparkly Cullens.

Suddenly, the heat rose.

My senses numbed and I had a little burst of weariness. Four of my senses dimmed considerably, but my eyes felt like iced razors. Cold and sharp, unable to miss anything.

Emmett was coughing violently and Rose stared at him, terrified. Bella was crying and clearly confused as Edward grasped at her shoulder to keep from falling on to the dirty ground. His face was tortured, not nearly as much so as when he left Bella, but bad enough. My Jasper dropped to his knees, whimpering and obviously in a horrendous amount of pain. I screamed so loud that I could hear myself through the numbness of my vision. I could feel myself being tortured, hurt over and over. It was so bad, so horrible, and it didn't ease. It just grew worse and worse with no end in sight.

My senses equalized again and I saw that the others had stopped to stare at me. Wondering what I had seen to make me scream, I'd bet. Edward's face was in shock; he had seen exactly what I had, though he was lucky enough to have not felt it.

The faint breeze had stopped and then I realized the meaning of my vision. It was a hot day in Volterra.

We were going to burn.

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Edward POV

When Alice stopped and her thoughts fuzzed up, I knew she was going into full-blown psychic mode. I stopped Bella gently and my family waited a few steps ahead, glancing back nervously. They did not like being back here so soon after what had happened and, like me, felt jumpy whenever Alice was seeing into the future. We were so sure it would be bad news.

I did not blame them; I, too, hated Italy now. Thankfully though, we were not going to the Volturi castle. Aro, Jane, Demetri, and all the rest had no reason to know we were here. We didn't even need to go near the clock tower, which was good. I was sure t would be very bad for both Bella and myself.

I didn't have to stop myself from remembering all the pain I had caused Bella and everyone else here. Alice distracted me with what appeared to be, if it was even possible, a much worse pain. I could feel nothing, but the looks of horror that played across everyone's faces in the vision were enough.

Little Alice has the lungs of an angry opera singer and the volume of several hundreds of people screeching at once. I had never heard her use full volume in all my years with her…

Until now.

She let out a bloodcurdling scream. Well, bloodcurdling to Bella. For the rest of us, it was just something that would have haunted our nightmares for years and years if we had been able to sleep.

I had never heard so much pain in one wordless yell before.

'We're going to burn!' Alice cried in her mind. 'It's coming, it's coming soon and bad and IT HURTS SO BAD PLEASE PLEASE LET IT STOP IT'S WORSE THAN CHANGING EVEN! FOR GOD'S SAKE, JUST KILL ME!'

I didn't stop to think; I just grabbed Bella, flung her over my shoulder, and ran for the shade. I hoped the others would follow quickly, before it was too late. Before they burned.

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Bella POV

It all happened so fast that I was having trouble comprehending it. I knew it was over in a matter of seconds, whatever it was…but Alice's horrible scream echoed in my ears. That was a traumatizing experience I could give our therapist; I knew that scream would follow me for months and months.

It all started when Alice stopped in the street. The rest of us continued on, not noticing, until Edward stopped me. Then there was a scream and the world dissolved as Edward ran with me. All was blurry, though I thought I could see Emmett following. After all, he was too big to mistake.

Edward sat me down in a shady spot and held me tightly. It felt good against my searing skin. I glanced down and saw that my arm was red, almost glowing. Great. I had sunburn, though we had only been out in the open for about five minutes. Until that exact moment, I never realized how much I had come to love Forks and all its clouds and rain. It was so rarely sunny there.

"Oh!" I let out a tiny gasp of understanding that I could barely hear, though I'm sure everyone else present did. "The sun…"

If I was being sunburned that quickly, then it must have been hurting them! Alice was completely out of it for a few moments. She just sat on the ground sobbing while Jasper held her. She didn't seem to notice her perfect designer jeans getting dusty. If she did, she was past caring about fashion.

A few moments later, Alice stood and shook herself like a wet dog. "I'm alright now. We're okay here, we just have to stick to the shady areas and get inside. Soon."

Jasper let go of Alice much more quickly than I would have thought and took out his book again. He was starting to bug me a bit, acting like nothing bad had happened.

"We should hurry…" He said in a monotone. "Someone's bound to have heard all of that and they'll come out to look."

Edward held my hand, clearly still shaken by what almost happened, and I wiped at my cheeks. They were wet….had I cried? I wasn't sure and didn't try to remember, because I could feel Edward's hand tighten around mine ever so slightly. He didn't like being back here anymore than I did.

We had reached the large house on the outskirts of Volterra and Edward led the way up the long, winding drive. Suddenly, a large hole opened up in front of us and Alice nearly fell in. I pulled her back. Clearly, she had not seen this coming.

"I suppose we're meant to jump," I said, sounding braver than I felt. I was nearly cowering in terror.

Edward gripped my hand reassuringly and Alice patted me on the shoulder before she took two steps back and ran forward, jumping in.

Emmett was silent for once, just content to hold tightly onto Rosalie as they fell quickly. Jasper sighed as he closed his book, holding in tightly as he jumped as a professional diver would into the ocean.

Once again, my family was diving into the unknown headfirst (literally!), though not necessarily fearless.

Was this any better than the first chapter? Did this one earn me any feedback? Pleeeeaaasssseee? -begs-

Chapter three will be up soon, faster if I get ONE review, just one -pokeypokey, hint hint- And chapter three is one of my favourites because it's all in Jaspers point of view and he is my all time favourite character. Which has absolutely NOTHING to do with my obsession with blonde guys... -shifty look-

-Kacey