A/N I'm so sorry for updating so late! I have been working for my granddad(planting; isn't it so much fun? Please note the sarcasm)and have been really busy lately. First I had production week and had to drive into town everyday to do firebreathing(I know, so cool), then it was my younger sister's eleventh birthday(who knew little sisters could grow up so fast?) and in between all that, we found out that Mum's having ANOTHER baby! I was screaming and yelling for about ten minutes straight when I was told.

Apart from that, I have also updated my new-ish story Music Lessons and have been writting more for various stories that are both fanfiction and my own.

All in all I think I have a resonable excuse(s) for not posting sooner.

Anyways, hope you enjoy Chapter 10...

Chapter 10

Jane and Alec were the ones who met us. They directed us, still in the car, to a local car-sitting joint where we were to ditch the vehicle. As Renesmee locked it, she slipped a note onto the seat with contact details for the Cullens. She obviously didn't want to part with her car.

"Follow us," Jane ordered in a dead tone. She pivoted gracefully and marched away. Alec fell in behind us. He was silent and brooding, not uttering a word the entire time. I hastily grasped Nessie's hand and squeezed gently. She squeezed back.

To everyone else, it would look like we were scared and were comforting each other. In reality, I was creating a link between us. Unfortunately it only worked one way. I was sent feelings, thoughts and pictures straight from her brain but couldn't respond but the contact did aid my sheild.

Wedged between the witch twins, we were led through the town. They kept to the deeper shadows even though the sun was hiden behind a thick blanket of cloud. I guessed they were so used to avoiding sunlight at all costs. I was sorely tempted to run out from under the pavement hangings just to see what they would do with their fear then. But of coarse, I didn't.

"This way," Jane snapped and turned down a side street lined with houses. The further along the street we went, the more lavish the properties got. Eventually we came to a large grassy field. Sitting in the centre was a helicopter.

I snorted aloud before I could stop myself. Both Jane and Renesmee shot me looks.

"Nice ride," I attempted to control the giggles bubbling up my throat, "I am so scared of your dangerous bloodsucker asses." I snorted yet again. Somehow I just couldn't picture arrogant Jane sitting in such a modern, human contraption.

She snarled but her lips immediately twitched up into a beautiful innocent smile.

"You know that won't work, don't you," I spoke in a low tone, frowning angrily.

"You never know, you can't keep that shield up forever," she sang sweetly. If I had been human and had met Jane on the street, I would've fallen for her deseptive charm easily. Thankfully, I knew better.

I yawned damtically, "Are you done with the threats yet or should I go to sleep for a few minutes?"

"Jasmine," Renesmee reprimended softly, "Let's just get in the helicopter." I inspected her thoroughly and found her face drawn and her skin even paler than normal. I nodded and wet camly and quietly for her sake.

The flight didn't last long. Soon we were barraling through the countryside in a black sedan with tinted windows.

The driver was definitely human. He kept glancing back at us in the mirror and over at Jane who sat in the passenger seat. His heartbeat was thumping loudly indicating his fear. Perhaps he know who-or what-we were.

My fingers were still linked with Nessie's. Our twined hands rested in Alec's lap. Every few seconds he would glance down at us and our contact. Jane had ordered him to sit between us.

My vision faded in and out of focus as the miles sped by. I realised with a start that the sky was dark and we were approaching the walls of Volterra very fast. As the car slid beneath the mightly portcullis, I shuddered and closed my eyes.

The driver must have known the Italian city very well to navagate the narrow winding streets so well. He pulled up in front of a closed business shop front and said something in Italian. Alec replied with a smooth tongue and the man nodded nervously.

We stepped out of the car and before the last door had even slammed shut, he was off. I stared after him until the tailights disappeared around the corner.

"Come," Jane said in her cold voice and walked toward the locked door of the shop. Just as she neared the glass panes, she disappeared. I blinked and noticed for the first time a thin crack of an alley along the side of the building.

I went first with Nessie behind me and Alec trailing after. Our footsteps echoed off the stone walls. I listened to the rhythmic step, step, step of out captors. Suddenly, Jane's steps vanished. I hesitated, not wanting to bump into her.

She knelt and pulled up a drain. Without waiting an extra beat, she stepped nimbly forward and the yawning black hole swollowed her up in an instant.

I looked back frantically to find Nessie just as bewildered.

"Go on, it's perfectly safe. Just bend your knees to absorb the impact," my gaze flickered back to Alec. Somehow, I believed him and taking a deep breath, I jumped through the ground.

As soon as my feet touched the soden concrete ground, an arm grabbed my neck from behind and squeezed. My scream was cut short and turned into a strangled gurgle. Heart frantic with panic, I bit and struggled but the hands didn't move.

"Nessie!" I gasped out. My windpipe was constricted by the stone cold skin. I gathered my remaining air and whispered, "Run."

My vision darkened and grew sparkly but I pushed the oncoming sea of black away. Clentching my teeth, I heaved both my physical and mental shield away from me and surrounded Renesmee instead. Luckily, she hadn't jumped yet and was free from restraining hands. I heard a scuffle above our heads and then the sweet sound of sprinting feet.

Jane must have realised what was happening by then and the pain flooded into my body. I screamed as my back arched from the imagined agony.

"You're quick but not quick enough," I spat out, "She's gone."

My lips wouldn't move after that, the pain was too much. I shrieked like a wild animal, thrashing in the grip of my captor.

The last thing I thought was, Please be safe. I wasn't sure who I was pleading for; Renesmee or Seth? I didn't have time to decide before my consciousness slipped from my grasp.

Okay, so I intended to draw in out a bit longer but the words just flowed from my fingers in an unstopable wave...Whew! Man I should stop trying to be so dramatic!

Anyways, I'm kinda proud of this chapter. I wasn't quite sure how to write this part when I first started but now it's over and done with, I'm happy with how it turned out.

What do you guys say?

Oh and I'm going to try something out this time. You know my other story? Well, I decided to try the whole review-four-times-and-I'll-update thing and it worked so I'm going to try with this story. But because it hasn't had quite so much attention, I'll just say two reviews for now.

Till next time my fellow fanfictioners!

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