Anna and Alec and Vic and Val.

AleC. ViC.

I sense a really dumb pattern. xD

Anna's POV

I scream because Vic- Victor looks just like he did when-

I don't even see it happen, but suddenly Alec has Vic pinned down.

"Don't to that." His voice sends chills down my spine and I'm not even the one he has trapped. "Don't touch her."

My heart soars. I know vampires are cold, but it feels warm in my chest, despite everything.

Victor snarls in his face, lines twisting his face. "You can't tell me what to do, Volturi. Val!"

Val is surrounded my the smoke of Alec's power. I can just make out her figure through it. My eyes whip back to Victor and Alec, but I have no idea whether to interfere or not. It never occurred to me to fear Alec before, but he looks like a demon as he stands up, pulling Victor up onto his knees, smirking as the other vampire tries to break free of the grip.

"Can't I?" Alec whispers. He leans in, and Victor's eyes widen, struggling growing more frantic.

"You can join us- we are beginning an army! You can join us!" he cries, voice hoarse.

His eyes turn to me and we both know he has lost. An army, he could decimate. But Alec is better than an army. I should stop this, I shouldn't be watching this. I'm a monster for letting Alec do this but I just see Mom looking at me the morning she died and a pit of hate burns in my stomach.

Alec begins, slowly, twisting the vampire's head off. Like a really weird cork. I wonder for a second if he's going to give some sort of really evil monologue before he dies.

"You could have been the best of us." Victor hisses at me.

Apparently he will. Goodie.

"-your power is? And each further dose of venom could have made an even stronger newborn. Enough to rival any other coven. Even the humans, despite their numbers, would have to accept us as gods. Anna, you could be the first to help us build a new world, just stop this Volturi brat-"

He stops making sense after Alec punches a hole through his stomach.

"Are you going to kill him?" I ask.

Alec looks at me over his shoulder. His lip curls. "What else do you expect, Anna? He broke a Volturi law, creating you."

Somehow that stings. "But you're not Voluri anymore."

His eyes flicker. He looks down at Victor and shakes his head. "The law remains."

My stomach feels empty. I'm a monster, I know- I feed like one. But this man helped kill my parents.

I crouch down beside them, and Victor's eyes roll.

My fingers tremble as I reach out and grasp either side of his head. Alec's eyes darken.

When I pull the head from the body, he presses a hand onto the small of my back, and I realize how much I was shuddering. He kicks the body away. An arm wraps around me, and for a moment I expect him to smirk at me or say something dumb and corny.

"Busy day," I mumble.

"Anna." He looks at me, and if I had a heart it would skip a beat in that moment. "What about Val?"

My heart sinks back into its cage of doom.

Does Anna kill Val? Or will Alec do that? Or, indeed, do they let her go? Its partially up to you- leave your thoughts in a review.

Almost finished this, finally. There should only be a couple more chapters to go!