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As we stepped out into the courtyard the sun hit my face and with Evie at my side is was as though I was feeling the sun for the first time in three centuries for it was the sunlight as I remember it. An overwhelming lightness accompanied by comforting warmth. The rays of the sun were exactly the same as Evelyn's presence. She was my light in the darkest of afterlives imaginable.

I looked down beside her as loosened my grip on her arm and allowed my affection to snake its way around her arm through my fingertips. I was still in awe at how strangely human I managed to act around her. The memories of my short human existence had jumped to the forefront of my mind as if Evelyn had called them forth. Habits and mannerisms I had not exhibited in three hundred years were sneaking into my demeanour to my constant surprise. As I turned to Evie is saw she was still as frightened as she had been walking past the newborn and felt terrible for what I had just made her endure and what was to come.

"Evie, I need to get you away from here and that would be faster if I carried you. Is that okay?" I asked timidly.

Still incapacitated with fear she simply nodded vigorously and I wasted no time gently swinging her onto my back and launching into the narrow passages between the tall buildings around us which allowed no sunlight to pass between them not that my appearance would have mattered. I travelled faster than any human eyes could follow. I only hoped it was fast enough so that no vampires could follow.

I knew of a hotel on the other side of Volterra where Jane and I had gone to recover a vampire with abilities Aro showed great interest in. I suppose though that knowing Aro it was little wonder that a Vampire with the ability to kill a vampire with a single touch when he desired would prove wonderfully intriguing. Aro had not counted on him being so very uncontrollable and was forced to kill him but not before he had taken 12 of Aro's guard with him. I was glad that Evelyn was no longer in the terrible place where so many atrocities had occurred. A hell much too tainted for an angel to ever enter.

Within a minute of doubling and tripling back in order to through Demetri of our scent for however briefly, we reached the Hotel La Locanda. I slowly slid Evelyn of my back as we reached the end of the alleyway closest to the Hotel and placed my hands on her cheeks as she slowly gained the courage to open her clenched eyes. Her skin was pale and I was immediately worried that something more serious than fear was going on.

"Evelyn are you okay? You are so pale and unsteady on your feet" I said as she leaned suddenly to the left and I caught her before she could get only slightly off balance.

"I'm… I'm fine" she stuttered as she opened her beautiful blue eyes, "just very motion sick. You run very fast Alec."

Even despite the tiding of the last few minutes I could not prevent a genuine smile that appeared on my face and was glad when Evie reciprocated it, even if it was to a lesser degree due to her nausea.

"Are you ready to go in? I figured we could get you cleaned up and relaxed a little in her while we figure out what to do next." I said, motioning toward the modest hotel.

"Yes please. It would be so nice to have a shower. I probably smell terrible."

I couldn't help but chuckle.

"Terrible is certainly not how I would describe it."

Evie's smile shone through the darkness of our circumstances with a vibrancy I had never seen.

"You know, that is the first time I have heard you laugh" she said softly.

I realised that I myself had not heard the sound of my own laughter in a very long while. Not true laughter. In fact even with my perfect memory I did not recall a single moment in my afterlife where I had been happy. Evelyn was the happiness I knew I didn't deserve but I was far too selfish to reject it.

"Okay lets go." I said as I lightly touched her arm.

We quickly crossed the street and entered the La Locanda lobby. The clock above the reception told me that it was 6:30pm and darkness would be coming in a few hours which explained the multitude of tourists that crowded the small room. I found myself holding my breath as the close proximity to the crowds began to cloud my conscious thought. Evelyn must have felt me tense beside her and placed a reassuring hand in my own which calmed me enough to maintain control. I would never again let her see the monster inside of me rise to the surface as she had in the first moment we met. As my thoughts returned to me I realised the source of the hold up and why the lobby was fuller than it should have been.

An overweight middle aged man with expensive shoes but appalling tastes was screaming at the young woman behind the reception counter who had apparently been too incompetent to record his booking in their only executive suite and he was apparently of too higher social standing to stay in a room of lesser calibre. It was far more likely from his demeanour that it was he who had been too incompetent to make the booking in the first place and loved an opportunity to flaunt the fact that he was a "An influential member of the Slovenian Legislative Assembly, thank you very much". Apparently his useless status in Italy did not excuse or explain his rudeness or poor tastes.

"Wait here, Evie" I whispered in her ear and made my way to the screaming fat man.

As I neared him I knew I would not be tempted by his scent to end his tired with a flurry of bites and tears. He smelled disgusting even with human blood pulsing through him.

"Is there a problem here?" I asked letting a small amount of the venomous tone I held in the Volturi filter into the seemingly innocent question.

The fat man with a savagely unattractive complexion to match his attire looked down his crooked nose at me with an idiotic superiority he would later regret.

"Get out of it kid! Nobody asked you." He quite literally spat before turning back to the poor receptionist but not before doing a double take at my red eyes which he probably thought were some kind of fashion statement, as the few humans who saw me often assumed. After all there were far odder fashions out there and as someone who had seen each of them pass through the centuries, red eyes barely registered on the top 100 weirdest things I'd seen.

"You go and get the owner right now. You don't know anything you silly girl!" he began screaming at the girl again.

"I think it would be best if you left" I said forcefully allowing the full ferocity of my nature to rise to the surface and the façade of a beautiful innocent looking boy to fade away.

As he turned to presumably tell me to get the hell out myself he looked into my eyes and his primal human instincts screamed danger as he visibly shrunk before me and found himself fleeing before he realised exactly why. Though, he did not manage to flee before I slid his overstuffed pretentious designer wallet from his far too tight pants and hid it in my jacket.

As I turned back to the receptionist and saw the relief on her face which clearly showed that she had not seen the look of pure death I had unleashed on the man I smiled charmingly at her. She was only a two or so years older than I looked and my stance of a world wearied soul made up for those two years.

"Thank so very much for that. I thought he would never stop." She said smoothly with a flirtatious smile. My red eyes barely shook her either. I suppose people were temporarily desensitised from the colour red after seeing it everywhere at the St Marco's Day Festival

"In return I was hoping you may help me with a room" I said in a stoic but civil tone. This girl was obviously taken by my appearance. If only she knew the truth; I was a monster and the still, cold heart I had already belonged to the beautiful blond by the door.

My curt reply had obviously caught her off guard and she took a step back and grabbed a key hanging from the opposite wall.

"Um… y…. you'll be in room 13." She stammered as I immediately grabbed the key being careful not to touch her hand and alert her to the fact I felt hypothermic. I moved quickly to Evelyn and lead her through the corridor to the stairs that lead to the rooms.

As we moved past the many tourists I knew that if Aro tracked us to here he would have no trouble disposing of all them simply to get to Evelyn and me. This hotel would have to be very temporary. Even though I had spent most of my life in the town I knew in that moment one thing with every fibre of my being; we had to leave Italy… soon.

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