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Alena's POV

"Hey look, we're here."

A gentle nudge woke me up and I rubbed my eyes tiredly. Sitting up straighter, I pulled open the window cover and looked out to see a beautiful countryside. The coast was clear and the ever-nearing airport was a magnificent work of art made from glass and metal.

"Wow, it's beautiful!" I breathed out loud.

I glanced at Nessie beside me, poor her, she wasn't allowed to bring Jacob, for one, he hadn't been on the invitation and second, they were sure to kill him in Volterra. I, I couldn't believe that I had been on the invitation, I'd read it a million times over to try and find some mistake, but there it was:

To: The Olympic Coven

Aro, Marcus and the Volturi invite Carlisle, Esme, Edward, Bella, Reneesme, Emmett, Alena, Alice Cullen and Rosalie and Jasper Hale to

Caius Volturi

And

Athenodora's Volturi's

Anniversary party, you have been requested to stay for the party and an additional three weeks after this as part of a vacation. Hope to see you there.

-Volturi-

Part of me wanted to laugh, since when did the Volturi send out invitations? This was amusing.

"Come on, let's go."

Nessie had gotten up and started to hassle me towards the exit door.

"Alright, alright, I'm going!" I chuckled, putting on my leather jacket and now I was attempting rubbing my ankle that was strapped to a shiny black patent heel. Right now, I wish I hadn't given into Alice's puppy eyes when she asked to dress me for the ride. I mean, it wasn't that bad, the clothes weren't that uncomfortable, but I looked way to 'chic' to be going to just a plane ride in denim skinny jeans, leather jacket, grey puffy-sleeves top and those shoes, the evil shoes that were designed to kill your feet .

"By the way, you look a tad over-dress. I mean, not in a bad way, but you do look a little bit." Nessie advised me, "I think it's the shoes."

I rolled my eyes, "Tell me about it, I don't think anyway can get past Alice's puppy-eyes."

She 'oh-ed' and grinned

"Oh shut up! You look great!" Alice's voice chirped into our conversation as we boarded off the plane.

We gathered together and walked around when I caught sight of three people standing in the middle of the airport.

Pale skin, perfectly chiseled features, painfully gorgeous and looked as still as a rock, a male, bulky, just about the same as Emmett, but he looked taller. He had more hair than Emmett, perfectly combed and his arms crossed over his broad chest. There were another two, they looked like twins. The male, had brown hair that shadowed over his eyes, his lips clamped together into two thin lines. His twin's expression did not look too much different either, her hair, a lighter shade of brown, just about blonde. Her lips were fuller than his and her eyes, bigger than his. Her hair was cut short and tied up, I guess the length was a little above her shoulder, she was quite short too, looking no older than 13 or 15. Her twin looked about 17 or 18 and the bulky one looked in his twenties. I tapped Carlisle on the shoulder

"Carlisle, don't they look… vampiric?"

Carlisle frowned then looked in the direction my gaze was headed and his face smiled pleasantly and he motioned for us to follow him as he walked to their direction. They caught sight of him and while a look of distaste fell on the young girl's eyes a look of respect and the minor delight arose in the other two.

"Felix." Carlisle shook the bulky guy's hand.

"Alec." He then shook the other male's hand.

"Jane." He gave a one-shake to the female who gave him a sickeningly fake smile.

"We have a car waiting for you, please come." Felix's face broke out into a smile.

We followed them to a limo that was waiting out the front of the airport.

"Your luggage's already been collected and in the boot." Alec told us.

We climbed inside and all sat down, it was quite a big car and had heaps of room. Carlisle cleared his throat and introduced us in the car, equally saying who was with whom and having to mention that I was human; I think they figured that out already though.

I couldn't stop sneaking glances at the Jane; she looked kind of scary, like she had a lot more up her sleeve than she showed.

"What!" She growled at me.

I immediately leapt into a subtle defensive mode.

"Nothing…"

"Why were you looking at me?" She asked, eyebrows raised, eyes filled with malice.

I narrowed my eyes; I hated her guts and attitude. Someone had to stand up against her, even if it was a human, so be it.

"Something that looks like a head, but it's a little smaller and uglier."

Felix barked out a laugh and Alec smirked, even Jane gave way to a small smile and she shook her head.

"Touché" She smiled at me.

I looked at the rest of the Cullens who had a ghost of an amused smile on their faces.

"I think you're one of the first people to ever stand up to me, I gotta give you props, nice work." Jane grinned.

"We're here." Alec interrupted.

I got out of the car to see a giant castle, literally a castle. It was made out of stone and the works! But it was beautiful!

"I'm afraid that all the rooms have been taken up, Aro's invited just about every coven, Olympic, Romanian, the Denali's and so on," Alec sighed, "So one person here is going to have to share a room."

Jane's smile lit up, "Alena can stay with me."

Alec and Felix's face jumped to surprise.

"What?"

She grinned, "You heard me."

Alec frowned, "She's human… what if you slip?"

I gulped, well, that was a problem.

Jane waved her hand as if this was no big matter at all.

"I'll feed a little more than regularly, beside, I have better control than most of you anyway." She smirked.

Cool fingers touched my hand and suddenly, Jane was dragging me to her room. I stopped at a mahogany door and as she opened it, I gasped.

There was definitely a color theme of red, white and black. She had a Japanese styled room with carved pictures of wooden fans and cherry blossom on her wall. Her bed was gigantic, a large king size with black pillows, a white bed spread, red sheets and a three-colored (red, black and white) blanket on top. There was an en suite connecting to it and a large mirror on one of the walls.

"Wow, this is beautiful." I admired.

"Thanks, uh, I guess you'll be taking the bed." She laughed.

I dropped my bag next to bed and flopped in the bed in question.

"This is so cool!" I yelled.

She laughed and shook her head.

"So since you won't need me at night, because you'll be asleep, I'll go hunting then."

I nodded, "Sounds good to me."

A knock on the door sounded and Alec's head popped through the door,

"Jane, Aro wants to see you right away."

She sighed and shot me an apologetic look, "Sorry, but I'll be as soon as possible."

I waved a dismissive hand at her, "No worries, I'll just get settled in here."

She smiled reassuringly, "Put your clothes in the wardrobe, get changed too, I'll be back in due time to take you dinner."

I thanked her appreciatively as she left.

I walked to the bathroom and gratefully kicked off my shoes, shimmied out of my jeans and stripped my jacket, shirt, bra and underwear off.

I stepped gracefully into the shower and adjusted it to the temperature that I wanted. I stood then, absentmindedly running my hands through my hair every once in a while as the wet beads of water cascaded over me. I washed my hair and turned the water off. I stepped out and wrapped a black towel around me. I made my way to the vanity and brushed my wet hair.

I heard the door open and I whipped around, wielding the hairbrush in my hand only to see Edward come through the door, followed by Bella and Nessie, the latter pair untimely making their way to the bed and plonking themselves on to it.

"Hey guys." I smiled.

"How come our room doesn't look like this?" Nessie whined.

"This is Jane's room; she gets to decorate it however she wants." Bella laughed.

I finished brushing my hair and made my way over to my suitcase, pulling out a white singlet top and black track pants. Rushing over quickly to the bathroom en-suite, I pulled the door closed and got dressed quickly. As soon as I emerged from the bathroom fully dressed, my phone beeped from the bedside table I'd left it at.

Hey Lee, fancy a water fight, I can get some balloons w/ water w/in the hour ;) Emmet [AN: w/ = with]

I smiled and texted back a reply.

Sorry, Jane promised she get me dinner, she'll BBS so I guess I can't. Lee

I smiled as my phone beeped again, sometimes I got so jealous of the speedy vampire speed they had.

2 bad! EW, Ice-queen, she's so scary for a little thing. Good luck!

I chuckled as I threw the phone on the bed.

"I can't believe you melted the Ice-queen." Bella said out-of-the-blue.

I frowned, "Why does everyone call her the Ice-queen?"

Edward grinned, "Can't you see why?"

I laughed, "Oh come on! She's not that bad! She's so nice."

Bella scoffed, "To you! Hopefully she'll start acting more... civil to us because of you."

Edward started to play with a pen he found, "Anyway, I wanted to know if you needed to get some dinner, before we go hunt."

I shook my head, "Nah, Jane said she'd go with me, and is the whole family going to hunt?"

"We sort of need to, we haven't fed in days!" Nessie sighed.

"You're leaving me here? With the whole Volturi, every single one of them...?"

Edward smiled reassuringly, "Oh yeah, apparently, Aro wants to see you."

My eyes widened, "Aro!? Why?"

Edward shrugged and sighed, "I heard something about an interrogation, but Renata cut me off."

"Renata?" I asked... who was Renata?

"Renata's part of the Volturi, she's like mum sort of, a shield, she can defend against physical and mental attacks I think..." Nessie answered.

I sighed, "Great..."

"Oh Aro's not that bad, he's just scary because he's, cheerful."

I laughed, "Cheerful?"

Ness grinned, "Yeah, it's a little weird, he's happy about almost anything, polite to and whatnot."

I shook my head, "That is weird."

The trio headed towards the door, "Rosalie says we're going now, don't worry, if anything happens, you just call me, okay?" Edward advised.

I nodded and flopped back on the bed not long before the door opened again.

No noise.

"Jane?" I called out.

"I certainly hope not." A slightly accented voice answered back, it sounded to smooth and slick. For some reason, I felt instantly drawn to it and sat up quickly, trying to run my fingers through my hair in one of the quickest attempts ever to make it look presentable.

"What are you doing?" The voice asked again, I looked at the person in question.

I think I died and went to Heaven.

Okay, so I knew the vampires were very, very, very beautiful due to their perfect granite skin and features and whatever their venom does to them. But, this one, was more than perfect, he was beyond words, the man looked so beautiful, every other vampire made him look like a Greek god, Italian in this case. His short, frosted brown hair that wasn't long but wasn't exactly short, but it was perfect. His crimson eyes gazed fiercely at me. All of his features were perfect; I couldn't see a single spot that wasn't taken up by glorious and undeniable beauty. His lips were in a thin hard line, his stance was feet slightly parted and arms crossed over his chest. He was tall, and I loved tall men.

"Uh, well, I...uh...I, um...I...Nothing..." Great, I couldn't even speak properly around him.

"Well, when you've done stuttering, Aro wants to see you." He spoke so calmly and with such an air that he was definitely, without a doubt… mocking me. Joy.

He closed the door and I think was waiting outside.

I narrowed my eyes, what a jerk, a breathtakingly gorgeous jerk.

I groaned and ran to the bathroom and saw the clothes I'd taken off earlier. I quickly slipped into my earlier clothes of the jeans, shirt, leather jacket and ooh, those shoes! Oh well, they'd do. I was basically going to be in front of royalty anyway.

I stepped outside to come face to face with the sexy frosty brown haired vampire. At least I looked pretty good… right?

"Are you ready?" He asked with subtle impatience eyeing my clothes. I rolled my eyes, what was with the attitude!?

"Yeah, whatever," I sighed with a wave of my hand.

He gave way to something that sounded a bit like a groan and (another) impatient sigh.

He walked swiftly but he also walked slowly enough for me to catch up and practically run to keep up with him. Finally we stopped at another mahogany door. He opened it and stopped.

"Ma'am, please go in."

I frowned, stupid-polite-sexy-vampire-jerk!

"Yes, do please come in." Another voice sounded, cheerful voice, this must be Aro.

I opened the door wider and carefully walked in, the room was so big! I think it was a hall, I saw Felix and Alec there, and they both flashed a grin to me. I'm glad my hair was dry by now; I think walking in the presence of royalty with wet hair would have been a tad embarrassing.

Suddenly I caught sight of a tall man sitting in a throne like chair, which was out of three, with one leg crossed over the other. He had hair that was a little longer than his shoulders, half of it was tied up and his pale face donned a smile. He was dressed handsomely in a suit, ebony black and pinstripe.

"Hello Alena."

"Hello."

"I see you've met Demetri." He gestured to the frosty brown-haired god.

I tensed up, that was the name of the stupid-polite-sexy-vampire-jerk? How oddly fitting…

Aro got up and walked towards me, another woman followed a meter or so behind, he waved her off with a hand.

"Renata, she's human, it's okay."

Oh, so that was Renata.

He came up to me so we were face to face and took my hand and started to study my face, it crept me out a little.

"Ahh, they found you in a forest… oh you poor child, abused like that…"

I clenched my jaw, I was so glad that Edward had decided to give me the details on Aro when we were on the plane. At one touch Aro could read all your past and present thoughts. However, unlike Edward, he had to first come into physical contact.

"I trust you've settled in well."

I smiled, "Very nicely thank you."

"Yes I hear you're sharing a room with Jane, how odd."

I frowned, "Odd?"

"She doesn't really take well to humans; she doesn't even really take well to vampires too much."

I 'oh-ed' and clasped my hands behind my back.

Aro clapped his hands together and suddenly pulled out a sheet of paper which it handed to me.

"Well, since you're human, I think you may have some different tastes in activity than us, so I have personally set you an itinerary."

I raised an eyebrow as I took the paper.

"An itinerary, you shouldn't have." I muttered sarcastically, forgetting for a moment that they could hear me just as well if I had yelled.

He smiled as though he had taken both my tone of voice and sentence in a completely, more positive way.

I glanced through the itinerary.

"...Archery, Horse Riding, Rock Climbing and hang gliding! No freaking way!" I gasped.

Aro grinned, "Do you like it?"

I looked up, "I love this! Thank you so much!" I can't believe I actually meant it.

He grinned, "I wanted to make sure that your stay was pleasant, we aren't as 'evil' as others think we may be."

I grinned, "I see that now, thankyou so much."

"I arranged tomorrow as a special hunting day for the vampires tomorrow, but you'll be starting your activities tomorrow, I'll be sending one or two other vampires with you, I don't think it would be safe to have you alone. Some covens that don't take a good liking to us may try to capture you and use you as leverage..."

"Oh..." I nodded.

He clasped his hands together, "I see that Jane has arranged to take you out for dinner, so, off you go."

I raised an eyebrow and bade a quick goodbye.

I opened the door and almost bumped into Demetri.

"Watch it." He growled.

I scoffed and rolled my eyes.

"Alena, there you are!" I looked up to see Jane walk towards me.

"Jane." Demetri gave a quick nod of his head and a ghost of a smirk lingered.

"Demetri," She mimicked both his actions and tone of voice, "I see you and Alena have met."

He glanced at me, "Yes."

I smiled and took her hand, "How about dinner."

She grinned as mumbled something to Demetri then taking me back to the room where she had a selection of McDonalds set up.

I pretended to gasp, "Aw, Jane! You shouldn't have!"

She rolled her eyes and smiled good-naturedly, "Yeah, Yeah, whatever..."

I hopped on the bed and she passed me a cheeseburger, some small fries and a coke. I bit into my dinner and we sat there for a while, chatting until I finished, changed and fell asleep.