CHAPTER ONE

~Siblings~

Dying here would be fine. Dying here would be ok. In his arms, in his cold arms. His skin were so cold - and yet I felt so warm, as if I was going to melt. He was looking down in ground, but still I could see the pain in his eyes and it tortured me.

"Look at me," I whispered, smiling faintly. "I need you now - please look at me."

But he didn't look up. Didn't want to see me in pain, I guess, but I wasn't. The only thing I felt was love - rushing through me. "I'm fine, now look at me - I love you."

His eyes flickered to mine and suddenly he kissed me - then finally he whispered the words I had waited for ever since the first time I saw him. "Katie, I love you," he whispered looking steady into my eyes, and then the darkness fell over me. I whispered a goodbye, seeing him crying without tears. I murmured a. 'I'll be fine' and then floated away. Gone... I was dying there, in his arms, peacefully - so happy.

And the last thing I saw, was his beautiful marble face.

That day in school sucked, I had been so distracted and just hadn't been able to work. It just felt like someone was stalking me - every time I looked over my shoulder or glanced at a window I expected to find someone standing there looking at me. It freaked me out.

Then the day, to my relief, was over - I walked home, took my key, placed it in the key-hole, turned it and then opened the door. I let my bag fall to the floor and then started walking for my room - just like any other day. Though it weren't. This was the day that would change my life.

I heard a clear voice from behind of me. "Hello sis," I turned around and saw two children. A boy and a girl - they looked familiar in some way. Both of them pale, red eyes and black shining hair. "Some time, huh?" the boy said. "You've grown!"

"How? What?" I couldn't understand, firstly - what did they do in my house, and secondly - who were they?

"You don't recognize us?" the girl asked, looking sadly amused. "I knew they wouldn't - Aro was right, they would only forget us..." Then she did something with her face I only knew one person would do - she wrinkled her nose in that funny way. But it couldn't be her... could it?

"Jane - Alec?" I asked - shocked, and for a second I travelled back, remembering the times when my sister, brother and I played. Now I saw it - the same black hair, the same eyes, the same angelic face. It was all the same, only more beautiful - but also more cold. Instead of their green eyes, they were red - and their skin wasn't soft and tan as before, it was pale. My older siblings had disappeared when I was seven but I still had some clear memories from them.

"I guess they did remember us," Alec said and smiled to me.

"But - it has gone eleven years and you're... small!"

"Well - Our master, Aro, waited one year, but got bored and changed us instead," Alec explained, like I would understand every meaning in that sentence.

"Your master?"

"Mm - he's ok, you'll like him," Jane said and grinned.

"Where have you been all this time?" I asked them, not able to understand that my siblings was finally back. "Why didn't you come earlier?"

"We had to be with our master - we're the greatest defence he has, so we have to be with him when he goes to attack," Alec said and walked closer. "He never thought of it before, but now that it has been proved that abilities can be lying in the family - he wanted to meet you."

"What are you talking about - and why have you changed so much... or rather so little," I said and eyed both of them out. "What are you?" I asked, suddenly braver then I thought I could be in a situation like this one.

They stared at me for a long while and I had never seen anything like it. They were absolutely motionless, like some marble statues. I waited until they would start talking. "Not human." Alec said, he spoke softly trying to make it easier for me.

I snorted softly, "Appertenly not. So, if you are not human, what are you?"

He smiled -- it didn't reach his eyes, "What do you think I am?"

When I didn't say anything he sighed. " I guess we'll have to tell you, sis, sooner or later and I'd rather choose sooner," he said and turned away from me. "We're immortals, you call us vampires, it's that easy - stopped aging when we were changed, Aro thought we would be useful with our abilities."

"Vampires?" I choked out, not knowing what to do - vampires was something you read about in books, seeing in movies, not meet at home... I knew that either way I would stay with my siblings and not loose them again. "And your Vampire master wants to meet me to see if I've got an... ability," I said swiftly. "Can you explain the word ability just a little?"

"Well, both Jane and I has these abilities, Jane can mentally give another creature pain, and I can shut out different senses," he said and grinned. "It's pretty cool actually." But to me, giving another creature pain or making someone blind didn't sound so cool.

Finally I could move, slowly I walked forwards. Fear rushed through me but I didn't stop walking, they looked at me curiosly and I put my hand on Alec's cheek, it was cold... ice-cold. "If you really are vampires... you do eat humans!"

Jane gave me a quick look, "Well, yes - technically we're dead so our digestion doesn't really work so we can't eat normal food... if we do we have to choke it up later and it's... not at all pleasant, believe me," she said and laughed. It had gone such a long time since I heard them laugh. It felt weird, like in a dream.

"Can you come with us now?" Alec asked. Still as unpatient as he had been ten years ago.

"But- I can't just come with you like that, I have to tell dad about you, he'll be so happy... we can leave out the vampire part, right?" I said and smiled, they were so different... and yet not.

"How do you think dad will take the fact that we're thirteen and hasn't changed at ten years - it's better if he just thinks we're gone, just like he will think you are," Jane said, "It'll be ok, he'll come over it."

"He won't. Why would he come over it when I disappear if he still hasn't from when you did or from when mom died. He can't take it again."

Jane froze. "Well, we can't let you go now."

"So I don't have a choice in this?" I asked and he shook his head.

"Nope - sorry, sis," he said happily, he didn't care at all of what I thought about it. "You don't."

"Can I write him a note?" I asked them, and at once I saw Alec glance at Jane.

"... ok," he said, "I guess you can."

Of course I ran inside and grabbed a paper and a pencil at once, knowing that they wouldn't wait for me so long.

Dad, I'm alright. I'll come back... soon. I just have to do this. Please don't be worried or angry.
I love you really much and it hurts me to do this, I'm sorry - your Katie

Then Alec grasped my arm and without any trouble lifted me and carried me outside. Do you know how weird that looks? A thirteen year old boy lifting an eighteen year old girl down a stair and then out on the street!

"Let me go!" I cringed, and tried to hit him but knew I was the one who would get hurt if I did.

"I'm sorry, sis, I've just missed you," he said and pushed me into the car waiting outside the house, "That's all!" He closed the door and the second after he opened the door on the other side and jumped in. And Jane jumped in at my side, so I had to sit in the middle. I looked at the guy driving - he was tanned, had black hair and black clothes.

"How did you do that?" I asked him, shocked. Maybe they were vampires... how else could they do those weird things, and could do supernatural things - vampires to me were men with pointy teeth's, white skin, and they were not able to go out on the day.

"What?"

"You close the door and then directly open that door - s-so fast!" I stuttered, sheeply.

"Sis, as I said - we're vampires, we are superstrong-" Not like I noticed that, huh? "- superfast and look unnaturally beautiful to most humans," he started grinning on the last one.

"Well, you must understand that you can't just throw it in my face and expect me to catch it without any questions about it!" I told him and crossed my arms. "B-but my things?" I cried out as the car started driving, and I no longer could see my house.

"We'll take care of it, Katie!" Jane assured me.

"Who's driving?" I then asked, I really didn't like him.

"Daniel - one of Aro's stupid little humans, we got him so he could drive us around - since the last time we drove we got stopped by the police and had to kill them." Jane said and shrugged. "Anyway, I don't like him - doesn't smell so good, not at all as good as you do."

Alec gave Jane an strict glance.

"Where are we going?" I asked them, trying to repress the fact that they were staring at me with their creepy red eyes. Now that I thought about it, it really felt like they wanted to eat me - they probably wanted to.

"Italy, Volterra" Jane answered lightly.

I gasped, it was so far away - I had never even been outside America, "Italy?" I choked out, now I was afraid.

"Yeah, it's where we've been living for the last few years" Alec said. "It's cosy, really, we're living in this big old castle."

"Alec, Jane?" I suddenly asked, thinking on something new - something my brain did. Changing to something else when I thought something was troubling.

"What?" Jane asked, grinning.

"Well, you are thirteen and I am eighteen - does this mean that I'm your older sister now?" I asked curiously.

"Dream on, sis!" he said, laughing "I'm still five years older than you."

"We still have lots of more experience than you do, kid!" Jane said.

"Well, you're still a pain in the ass - both of you" I gave back, laughing - I finally felt the same feeling as eleven years ago. Togetherness - I had spent my eleven years as the only child with only one dad. Lonely.

"Thank you" Jane said and smiled. "I've missed you too!"

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I woke up - my memory dizzy. What had happened? For some seconds I thought everything had been a dream. I didn't know if it had been a good dream or a bad. But as I looked around, I understood that it hadn't been a dream at all. I had been kidnapped by my siblings, who had been kidnapped eleven years ago. They came back, and now we were together. But what would happen to daddy? I was lying in an old room - very old. The bed was really big, and warm. There were paintings on the walls of old kings and queens.

I suddenly saw someone sit in the other side of the room and turned my head.

"You're awake" Alec said and grinned. "Thought you were going to sleep forever - you fell asleep in the plane, I didn't know what to do so I just brought you here and let you sleep, guessed that it would do you good."

"Well, it wouldn't matter to you if I slept forever, you still wouldn't have changed." I said and sat up. "Where am I?"

"This -" he said and put up his hands "- is where we live."

"Alec... is this really you?" I asked - instead of looking at the room and outside, I looked at him. "You've changed so much"

"Being turned into a vampire... changes pretty much everything of how you look at the world - I'm actually surprised on how good I've been, I thought it would be harder to not eat you." he said and laughed.

I frowned, it was weird when he talked like that. I didn't want my brother to be a monster, to eat humans. I didn't like the fact that he had to restrain himself to not eat me. I was his sister for gods sake, "How was it, to... change, as you call it?"

"I remember it like yesterday, it's something you can never forget - it's very... painful," he said, and I felt my heart crumble inside my chest, and he made a face. "Two days of pure hell - when you go through it... you just want to die... you wish that you never were born - but then you wake up in this new body, the same and still different, but it was worse for Jane... she were laying in the same pain for a week... every day I sat there and saw her getting tortured," he looked so hurt... so broken, I wished that he never had to go through that. I wished that I could have been there. Even if he were the oldest one and I had only been seven, my human side took over and I blamed myself.

"I'm... so sorry!" I whispered.

"It's ok, sis, I'm here, right?" he said and looked happier. "And Jane and you are here too, so I guess I'm fine."

"Jane is a little... different" I whispered, looking down in the floor - ashamed of saying so. "I'm almost afraid of her, the way she looks at me, both of you do, but... she really you know, stares at me!" When she looked at me it felt like I was some animal on Zoo. An animal you are soon to kill and eat.

"She had it... a bit tuffer than I did - her power is so strong... and she hasn't met humans, that she was not supposed to... kill, on a really long time." he said and it sounded as he was about to cry.

"And you have?" I asked him.

"I don't really like... killing people, it takes out on me later - I only feel disgusted with myself," he said without looking at me.

"Tell me more about the vampire thing," I said, wanting to change the subject.

"Well, we can of course go out into sunlight... but it's not a good idea on going into direct sunlight in public, we sparkle" he said - looking at me like it was nothing, "And we can't sleep, and we don't have to breathe."

"You... sparkle?" it was the first thing my mind could hear. "You sparkle?"

"Yes, I'll show you sometime" he said and grinned.

"Sparkle?" I was still in shock. "And y-you can't sleep?" I then asked my mind finally understanding what he had said after. "You don't have to breathe?" my mouth formed an 'o' and he laughed, amused by my reaction.

"No, we're dead, remember?" he said and smiled, not remembering that in my world, you didn't hear that a lot... you didn't hear that at all, actually.

"But... you can't sleep?" I said. "And... you don't have to breathe - what do you mean by that?" I asked him. "That you do breathe but don't have to?"

"Some does, some doesn'tm" he said and shrugged. "It's a habit, it feels weird not to breathe - but what's cool is that we can swim underwater, without drowning, 'cause we don't have to breathe!"

"Isn't vampires supposed to be mean?" I asked him, and crossed my arms.

"There is a lot of mean vampires here..." he said and watched the door. "We work for The Volturi, both humans and Vampires work here, we're their greatest defence as I said yesterday, so they would probably do us the favor and not kill you, or say that nobody can kill you and if they do they'll get punished." It sounded like he tried to convince himself rather than me.

Suddenly my stomach rumbled and he laughed. "I hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of procuring you something to eat." He murmured.

They surprised me and my question was out of my mouth before I had stopped to think. "Why?"

His dark brows knit in perplexity at my question, "Well, I am you're brother - and you must be hungry, you have not eaten something in quite a while."

"Well, yes," I hesitated, unsure if I really wanted to be here, at this conversation again. "but if I am only to die," -- I shuddered at the word – "then why even bother?"

His quiet answer was honest and gave me some hope. "you're not only here to die - as I told you, you're here to see Aro..." I interrupted him.

"I know - I know, but what if I don't have an ability?" I asked. "Do you really think he'll let me walk around here - useless?"

"Eat," he said instead of answering and turned slowly, ever so slowly to the window.

I took the plate at once ate the bread, I had stopped eating butter -- thought butter tasted gross -- but the bread was really good, I'd never in my whole life tasted anything better than that piece of bread.

"Does that really taste good?" Alec said disgusted, suddenly sitting next to me and I flinched away in surprise, "Sorry" he mumbled in a low tone.

"It's ok - I just... didn't see you there" I said and turned to the bread to take another bite, "It tastes pretty good, better than anything else I've ever tasted - thanks"

"Good" he said, but still looked disgusted by the bread. "You know, you are exactly like I remember you to be" he mumbled.

"Only older, taller, and shyer," I said but he shook his head.

"No - you're just as brave, good at taking everything in, you're smart - and you look absolutly gorgeous, for being a human!" he said and I shook my head - disagreeing. "If you only could see yourself clearly," he muttered and then stood up. "Are you ready to meet Aro?"

"I don't know... where is Jane?" I finally asked, I was actually scared of the Aro guy. He seemed weird.

"Away on a mission, finding some guy who can feel what powers other people has." he said and grinned, "A friend, Demitri, is with her - it will make things go faster, she'll be back by dawn"

"A friend?" I asked, I thought they didn't have any friends.

"Well, I trust him... of course, not with my life, but I trust him as a friend, he has the power to find people, mentally - I guess it's best to be on his good side." suddenly he looked deeply into my eyes. "Katie, I want you to know that whatever happens - I do love you, and Jane does too!"

"When I meet this Aro guy, will you promise you'll protect me?" I asked, trusting him fully.

"Yes, of course I will, sis," he said and smiled. "Though, I don't think I need to - Aro stand by his words!"

A pretty loose chapter - maybe you don't get much, but it's like this; her siblings finds her and takes her to Aro, because he wants to know if she has a power.

What do you think - is it crap, should I stop? Is it good, should I continue? Review, PLEASE, and tell me :D

I'll update soon, Promise!