Hello Darlings,

Another chapter updated - I'm sorry it's so short and that it took so long for me to update. I had Lucia - it's a Scandinavian thing - and some tests, so... please do not blame me.

There is a person who reviewed and wondered if I could get Alec's or Jane's perspective of Katie being sick. Well... I've tried to do so in the first part ;D

Well - I've gotten like, what? Four reviews... could you please, please, please review more? The more reviews I get - the more and faster I want (will) to write!

Next chapter - the mystery of Alec...

CHAPTER FOUR

Alec

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~Feather~

Why? Why? Why had I been convinced? I shouldn't have left her! How could I? She was sick! And I just left her there. Why? Why? Why hadn't I stayed with her? Why hadn't I asked Aro if he could ask someone else? Why hadn't I spoken to Jane or Demitri before? Why had I just left her there? She had been so warm, and still she had been freezing. What if her fever rised? What if she was calling for me? What if she wanted me to be there? But I wasn't… That showed how much of a monster I was. I had just left her there, weak, helpless and lonely.

She had been lying on the bed, too warm and too pale. She had been lying there – tossing and turning. Screaming. And I left her. What if she died? What if she got worse and I wasn't there. Then everything would be my fault.

It had been urgent – Aro wanted Eleazar so that he could finally get to know if he had any use of my sister the next time. I didn't know what I hoped for. Her having an ability or her not having an ability. What if she didn't have an ability and he would find her useless and he would kill her. If she had an ability… then she would have to come with us. But I didn't want her to come with us. Didn't want her to see all those dead bodies. Didn't want her to get turned either.

Just the thought of her – pale, red eyes… different – made me shiver. I didn't want her to change. She was a good, selfless, kind and wonderful person - the best person I had ever met. You never knew if that would change when she was turned.

I wanted her skin to stay soft and warm, I wanted her heart to beat, I wanted her eyes to keep that beautiful green color I once had, my sister once had and my mother once had, but most of all - I wanted her to be happy. The pain she would have when she would change... I wouldn't be able to see that. I loved her so much... she was my sister. But there was no way I could turn now. Then I would most definitly be punished. It wouldn't take long - I would be by her side soon. I had to be.

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It took me one day to reach Forks from Italy. I didn't like the little city, really. Wet and boring. Squashy green colors everywhere. Too much green, if you ask me. Though I could understand why they would choose just this town. Here where it almost never was sunshine. The less sunshine the more time they could be out with humans. The thought amused me - living with humans. Not eating them... I caught one of The Cullen's scent. The blonde female - I followed it outside town to a big house. Of course they were expecting me - the spiky, black haired female had the power to see the future. They must have seen me coming.

I walked the path leading to a house. It was quite modern and good looking, but a bad smell was sticking in my nose - I remembered it well since last year, werewolfs.

"What are you doing here, Alec?" a female asked from behind of me, and I turned around - it was the short black-haired one smiling, "Why has Aro sent you here?"

"Alice" I said, my voice clinging with - well heard - fake joy, "It was a long time ago, you look good, and the little one - Aro hope she is well!"

"She's feeling just fine - I've seen you're training on not eating humans, when you deside to really stop, you're welcome in our family" she said, and no matter how closely I studied her I couldn't see if she was lying. Was she serious?

Of course she isn't. I'm a killer - they don't want me.

"Thank you - well, as you probably know, I would like to speak to Eleazar."

Katie Brown

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"He said he was going to stay here!" Jane said, almost in panic - maybe was it just the light or maybe she looked paler and more tired, "He said he was going to keep you safe!" she looked up at me, "he loves you, you know" she smiled faintly to me, "He loves you more than anything else - even more than me." she didn't say it as if she was jealous, it was just a normal fact, "You are the clostest thing he has to life - he would do anything for you, he would never leave you all alone."

"Well - he did." I mumled, my voice low in a whisper.

"He didn't mean too - if he did, he did because he had to. Because he was threatened, or maybe did it to keep you safe... maybe he was getting to hungry, it was getting too hard to resist and he had to get out before..." her voice trailed off, she was looking out of the window. The birds were flying outside - it just seemed so unfair, while my world seemed to have stopped, theirs were the just the same, so trustful and happy. What a great life - only flying around and singing for everyone. It would be so much easier to be a bird. "I really hope he is ok!" Jane said, and brought me back on earth.

"Sure he is." I said and put my hand on her shoulder. She looked up at me with something new in her eyes. Trust? Love? Anyway, something that hadn't been there before, "Jane?"

"Yes?"

"Can vampires cry?" I wondered lightly - trying to make her think of something else then our missing brother. Somehow she seemed to take Alec's disappearing much harder than I did. Then again, she had been with him since the day they were born... but somehow, inside of me - I knew he was ok, that he could take care of himself. He was my brother and I believed in him.

"No." she said sadly, "We can't." But in that moment she looked like she was going to burst into tears, "I'm going to speak to Aro, just... stay here - promise me that you won't go anywhere, promise me that you won't leave this room!"

I nodded once, "I'll stay."

"Promise." Like a promise could stop me - even though I was very honorable person, it wasn't like I couldn't go outside because I promised something.

"I promise." I said anyway - crossing my arms, a bit frustrated. Was it so hard to believe me? I said I wouldn't leave - isn't that enough?

She hesitated, but finally left the room. I think she locked the room but I didn't care checking. I was just so tired, so I fell down right on the bed and fell asleep in the next second. As I said - I believed in Alec, I thought he would be just fine.

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"Wake up." Jane said quickly and pulled of the warm cover, "Come on, hurry!"

"What?" I moaned, shaking - it was freezing cold. I didn't want to go up. I wanted to sleep. Sleep forever. Never wake up in the cruel, hard world. The world that was in that moment also very cold.

"Wake up, you have to wake up now!" she said and pulled me up, "Alec went on a mission for Aro - he is going himself to find Eleazar, even though we had Demitri we couldn't find him the last time. I suspect that The Cullen's Coven was protecting him, but now Aro asked him to go and get him." she shook her head, "I have to be there with him, Katie!"

"But... he can take care of himself, can't he?" I asked, "he has his ability - he know what he's doing!"

"They can kill him, Katie, one of the females in the coven is a shield, it's her ability - his ability doesn't work on her or the rest of the coven when she is around." she said and throwed me a pair of pants and a shirt, "Can you come, please - I don't like leaving you here, all alone with Corin or the rest in the Volturi... not even with Aro, it's not safe."

I took on the clothes quickly, "Sure, Jane - of course I'll come" I said, my mind going blanc. They can kill him, Katie. They can kill him, Katie. They can kill him, Katie. - that was the only thing going through my head, over and over again.

"Hurry!" she called, making me even more stressed.

"Look - I'm human, ok?" I said, my voice shaking, "I can't go on vampire speed!"

Jane caught my hand and dragged me with her, "We can't wait any longer" she said and I closed my eyes when she started running. I could feel the wind in my hair as we got outside. Then suddenly I was waiting in a car. All on less than two minutes.

"That was... fast" I mumbled to myself, my face white in fear, I was trying to check if I was feeling the last bit nauseous.

"Are you ok?" she asked. Looking on me - worried if she was doing the wrong thing taking me with her.

"I'm just fine." I lied, honestly I was feeling a little dizzy. I didn't know if I was going to faint or not, but as long as I wasn't I could always pretend I was ok, "Where are we going."

"Forks -", she said turning to the dark window, "- in Washington State - they meantain a permenent residence nearby - Alec must be there. He has to be there!" I understood she didn't like the Cullen's Coven.

"Can you tell me about them?"

She gave me a quick look - wondering if it was best not to, "Four males and five females. Five of them has abilities, all of them very powerful. It is the biggest Coven, not counting The Volturi - it's weird because vampire usually kill each other when they are so many but that Coven seem to stand very close, they think of themselves as a family. One of the females is... different. A child actually; half human, half vampire. Growing every day, every day until it's sixteen years old - it will only take about six years for it to full grow. But that is not the only thing - they have werewolfs, or shape-shifters I should say, on their side. One of the werewolfs has imprinted on the child. They are all very weird, if you ask me." She sounded angry and hateful. But not only that, she was almost sounding... jealous.

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We had just gotten off the plane "Katie, this way." she said and pulled me with her.

It had gone four months, four months, since I came to Italy. And every day I had been feeling like a puppet, like being controlled just like a marionette. Pulled right, pulled left. I had not chosen one way by myself. I was weak, that was why they controlled me - I was too weak to fight them off.

She pulled me outside, there next to the airport was a forrest. I guess that was why she had chosen a plane that would land just here, so that we could sneak out into the forrest so she could run with me sitting on her back.

It was dark, I couldn't see. The shadows were everywhere. "There you go" she mumbled as she threw me up on her back, "I think you should close your eyes now." she mumbled, amused by me being scared by the speed. Anyway, I did close my eyes. It just felt so weird sitting on her back. She was only thirteen and yet she could lift me as if I was in the same weight as a feather.

I could feel her legs running in such a power, such a speed underneith me. It was amazing - and terrifying.

The same as always. Sorry the chapter was so short...

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