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Jasper POV

Just as we walked out of what seemed the hundredth shop that evening, Alice gasped and pressed her fingers to her temple, all the bags in her hands dropping to the floor and laying askew on the floor. My eyes widened. She backed against a wall, leaning against it for support.

"NO!" She screeched.

I rushed over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder. I'd previously learnt there wasn't much I could do when Alice was having her visions, but to just be there with her. Finally, her vision ended and she stood there, leaning on me, hyperventilating. Waves of distress rolled off her like a storm.

"Alice, honey, what's wrong?" I drew back a hair that hung over her face.

She gulped and looked around, without another word, she took off. I stared after her in complete confusion, but then followed her scent, quickly catching up with my long legs.

I then saw where she was heading, the Park. I breathed in and caught the scent of Demetri, Alec, Alena's friend Chloe and a fainter smell of Chloe.

"Jasper, we're too late!" Alice yelled out as we closed the distance between Demetri, Alec and Chloe. Alena wasn't there.

I could feel the adrenaline moving through me, my old battle mode coming back again. I looked at my wife for a second; she was standing still in complete shock, looking as though she were crying, even though we couldn't. I wanted oh so desperately to gather her up in my arms and tell her that everything was okay, that whatever was hurting her, I would make sure it wouldn't. But before I did that, I had to find out what was actually wrong first.

"Demetri! What happened?" I ordered him to tell me.

He was on his knees, looking as though his whole world had collapsed. He then uttered three words that made my blood, if I had any, boil.

"Vladimir! Ozera! Dan!"

I looked around, Alena was better at explaining things, but as I looked around, it shocked me terribly to find that Alena was not there! Her scent was barely minutes old, but she wasn't there, completely gone! I finally pieced together what Alena and those three other names meant. They'd come back! They'd taken her! Alice hadn't seen fast enough! She was gone! I felt rushes of guilt, anger and sadness from Demetri. It started to rub off a bit on me as well, and before I knew it, I was feeling the guilt, anger and sadness that he did. I bared my teeth.

"You let her go!?" I half questioned, half accused.

My unbeating heart became sympathetic in the next second as I saw the great remorse on his face. He was terribly ashamed and upset with himself.

"I know," He muttered, "I know. I let her go." He sighed in complete shame.

I rolled my eyes in annoyance and went to pull him up by the collar. He reacted defensively and snapped for my wrist. I jumped back just in time and wheeled back for a snarl of my own.

"What are you doing?" A frightening voice shrieked.

I looked around and saw Chloe cowering by some trees, Alec was reaching out to comfort her, but she seemed too frightened even for him. I immediately sent her calming waves and relaxed as the creased lines in her face disappeared and her ragged breathing slowed to normal. I looked at Alec who looked like, for once in his life, didn't know what to do.

"Alec, can you do something helpful?" I hissed.

He looked at me in complete confusion until I looked pointedly at Chloe. He 'oh-ed' and then I saw a white mirage haze creep up upon Chloe. Her eyes went white and she gasped, whimpering in fright. Alec quickly rushed over to her and gathered her up in a hug were she was on the floor, by the trees. He murmured calming words in his head and then looked at me.

"I did what I could. Now can you help me out?" He looked grief stricken as he held the shaking Chloe in his arms. I sighed and sent out for calming waves until she stopped and stayed still in Alec's comforting arms. I still felt some uneasiness emitting from Chloe, but it was nothing to serious. I turned back to Demetri and growled. His eyes narrowed and he got up, in a defensive crouch. His eyes were slits and regret and rage were coming from him. Unfortunately, he was too caught up in his emotions and it looked like he was going to take his anger out on me. Oh great…

He growled, and cocked his head to the side slightly. I tried to send out calming waves, but he growled and lashed out at me.

"Demetri! Stop it!" I yelled out as he clawed at me again. I jumped out of the way and raced behind him so that I could catch him in a headlock. Unfortunately, we were just about evenly matched and he wheeled around just as I reached out. I jumped back again, took a few steps back and ran forward. His crouch became deeper as he anticipated the lunge, but then I leapt over him and tackled his unprotected back. He fell forward, a harsh snarl emitting from his mouth at the same time. I pressed my knee into his back and bared my teeth, positioning them not to far from his neck.

"Calm down." I growled in his ear, sending out calmness to him. I then felt him rigid posture under my knee relaxed and his haggard breathing grew normal. As I looked carefully into his face, I saw his eyes turned white and I mentally thanked Alec.

"Get off me!" He spat out.

I swung myself off him, taking care not to come too close to his mouth. His teeth were still bared and his eyes, though blinded, looked out with hate.

"Jasper, she's with them. But I don't know where! All I see is her, and a dark room. Nothing else, I don't know why!" She moaned.

I ran over to her and clasped her in my arms, feeling the distress roll of her in waves. I stroked her face comfortingly until she grew tranquil.

I looked to Alec and nodded, he then withdrew his power from Demetri who stood up, dusting his pant and hung his head.

"Jasper, I'm so sorry. I'm just so mad at myself."

I sighed, accepting his sincere apology, "It's alright Demetri, and not everyone can control their emotions."

A ghost of a smile was on his face, "You would know too well."

I smiled, mainly to myself, but to Demetri as well.

"Alec, take Chloe, she's seen far too much and I'm afraid she's now apart of this. Alice, dear, Demetri, we have to get back."

They all nodded in agreement.

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Chloe POV

I sat there, so scared to move. Then, all of a sudden I felt calm. Too calm, I tried to feel annoyed with myself, but I couldn't. All I could do was try to keep my mind off my emotions and concentrate on the arms that were holding me right now. Alec. Alena's admittedly gorgeous friend, I'd never seen anything like him before. He was flawless, he as perfect. What more, I think he might have been interested in me. And in all honestly, I think the feeling was mutual.

I tried to comprehend the strange events of the evening. The strangeness began at the restaurant. Neither Alec nor Demetri looked too keen to eat their food. The 'diet' didn't seem like the whole truth. Also, why did they need to be on a diet? Those two were physically perfect. I'd never seen Alec's body, but I'd seen Demetri's in that strange, strange and embarrassing encounter after graduation. His abs was very defined, as well as the V-line at his hips. I then felt a blush creep up my cheeks at that memory. It shouldn't be one I was comfortable with replaying, but you know what, it seemed only fair that I, in fact, was not comfortable with relaying it.

I was very scared at the moment.

I was blind!

What more, I was sure Alec had something to do with it! What secret was Alena keeping from me? I recollected my thoughts. They moved far too fast for humans, and they had these… powers? I'm sure I heard a snarl from Demetri! He sounded feral and extremely dangerous. And then Alice and Jasper showed up! Out of nowhere!

I switched out of my thoughts and back into reality to hear that we were heading to Alena's place and that I'd seen too much. What were they going to do? Kill me? I hoped not, I honestly was too young to die! I had things I wanted to do, relationships I wanted to be in! I couldn't die! Couldn't they wait until I was like eighty or something to kill me? My life would be practically over by then. Yeah, wait until I was eighty. I seriously thought about mentioning my age plan to them when I felt myself being heaved up! I shrieked in surprised. It felt like I was in someone's arms…

"Just keep quiet okay?" A voice called from above. It was Alec's. I was Alec's arms. And as embarrassing as it was to admit it… it felt good to be in Alec's arms. They were hard, but molded so I could fit and be somewhat comfortable at the same time. I nodded in agreement as he told me to be quiet.

Then, I felt a charge of wind on my face and I heard the wind rush past my ears at what seemed like an impossible speed. I held my breath until these things stopped. The darkness faded from my eyes and color began to bleed back into my vision. I found myself at the Cullen's front door and in Alec's arm.

"Um…" I bit my lip as I looked up into Alec's concerned gaze and I felt my cheeks grow hot.

"Oh, sorry..." He replied back, slightly biting his lip and let me down.

"No, it's okay." I said, slight breathless.

As soon as I was steady on my feet, I watched as Jasper slipped a key into the door, unlocked it and went inside, we all followed him. I felt like I was on a death march, everything was so scary.

"DEMETRI! YOU BETTER HAVE A GOOD EXPLAINATION!"

I cringed as I saw Edward stride up to Demetri, hands on hips and looked him straight on in the face. Demetri cringed and turned his head away so he wouldn't have to look into Edward's eyes. However, after a few seconds of death-glare he stepped back and shook his head.

"So you just let her go."

Demetri shut his eyes, looking as though he thought this was a bad dream that would just go away. His head was hung and posture rigid.

Edward's face twitched and he raised his hand back, it looked like he was going to hit him. The stranger thing was that Edward's fingers were raised in a claw. Suddenly, Rosalie darted between them and put a hand on either one's chest. Demetri stepped back with a defensive but surprised expression, as did Edward.

"What are you doing Rosalie? You hate him."

She bit her lip and a look of regret crossed her face, mixed with annoyance.

"I know, but I do owe him. This is the least I can do. Don't fight."

She looked pleadingly up at Edward.

"Please."

Edward sighed and lowered his hand, "We've got to get her back." He growled.

I opened my mouth to say something, to tell them that I would at least like to know a little bit of what was going on. But I kept my mouth shut. Edward's eyes widened and he turned around, looking straight at me.

"You! What are you doing here?" He hissed, making me cringe back. Everyone turned to look at me.

"Oh, this is brilliant! Another human!" An angelic voice rang out. I looked and saw a young girl, who looked about the age of thirteen or fourteen with an angry expression. She caught me looking at her and gave me a twisted smile.

"Pain." She said as she directed her entire attention on me.

Suddenly, I felt unbearable pain course through my body. I shrieked out, my legs giving way underneath me. I was the second last on in the door, so it turned out that I'd slumped back against a pair of legs… Alec's. The pain was unbearable! I felt like every part on me was on fire, being tortured ruthlessly over and over again!

"Jane! STOP!" Alec roared and stepped in front of me.

Suddenly, the pain was gone but Alec's face had screwed tight and he was fighting a scream. His eyes rolled back and his knees gave way. But as soon as that happened, the girl, Jane, gasped and Alec stopped shaking. She ran over to him, well, that's what I thought she did, as I didn't see her. One minute, she was next to a man with jet black hair that reached his shoulders and milky red eyes and then she was in front of Alec and I, crouching down in front of him, hands on his shoulders as he breathed in ragged breaths.

"Alec! Why did you do that?" She whined with worry and a twinge of regret in her voice.

He breathed in, "I won't let you hurt her."

Comprehension flashed across her face and she looked up at me, "You're Chloe?"

I nodded timidly, immediately fearing this girl. I had a feeling she had something to do with the horrible pain I'd experienced. I watched as she diverted her attention back to Alec. She brushed a piece of hair away from his eyes.

"You shouldn't have done that! You got yourself hurt! Oh, I'm so, so sorry Alec." She apologized.

He feebly waved a hand, "Jane, sis, it's all okay."

I bit back a gasp. That evil girl was his sister?

She fell on him in a hug, jumping back after a second. She looked back up at me as she stood up.

"I hope you know what you're getting yourself into." She hissed.

I gulped and looked at everyone. There were dozens of people in this room. All looking at either Alec or me… the first thing I noticed was that they were all exquisitely beautiful. The second thing I noticed was that some had red eyes, some had black and some had gold.

"What are you?" I choked out.

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Edward POV

Chloe looked absolutely petrified as everybody looked at her. I couldn't blame her.

"Carlisle?" I heard Bella ask. I looked at my wife, wondering what she was thinking.

I don't know if we should tell her. What will Aro and the other think? Will they kill her?

I smiled, in spite of the situation. Carlisle, never thinking of himself and only of others. For the sake of Carlisle and his ever worrying mind, I looked into Aro's.

Well, we could handle Alena, why not this one. Besides, she might have a power. After we tell her, we'd have to change her, of course. Alena has been a human too long. As soon as we get her back, we'll turn her too.

I growled at Aro who shot me a happy look.

"Aro!" I hissed.

"It is only fair. Either that or she dies. Mind you, I don't really like members of my guard being unhappy."

I looked at Carlisle who had a pained look on his face.

"Edward, there is nothing else we can do son." He said regretfully.

Chloe looked up at us in absolute confusion, "Die? I don't want to die!"

Aro grinned happily at her, "Then we change you."
Her eyes widened, I did not like where this was going, "Change me into what?" She asked.

Before anyone could stop him, Aro answered her question, "Into vampires."

Her breathing stopped for the slightest seconds. She was completely dumbfounded!

"What? Vampire!? Are you guys crazy."
"Chloe," Carlisle reasoned as he walked up to her and closed the door and then faced her, "Do not be afraid. What Aro said was true, we are vampires."

She looked back at Alec who was looking at the ground.

They're all crazy or something! She thought frantically.

I laughed, "If we were Chloe, we'd all be hospitalized right now. But we aren't. So we obviously aren't crazy or something."

She looked at me, flabbergasted.

"What? How? I just though of that? What?"

I sighed, "We might as well explain to her."

Most of the Covens cleared the room; they were all thinking to give us time to explain to her. They did not want to be here when she started to scream. They disappeared into the forests and I could hear hunger on most of their thoughts.

Pretty soon, it was the Denali's, the Volturi and us, the Olympic Coven left.

We sat her on a chair and stood in front of her.

"How are you vampires?" She asked in a shaky voice.

We all looked at Carlisle to explain this.

"Chloe, no one really know exactly how vampires came to be, but we've been around for centuries, millenniums even. The oldest vampires I know are over a thousand years old and they're in this room right now."

I professionally covered a smirk as I watch pictures of old; withered and wrinkly Dracula's run through Chloe's mind.

"Not quite Dracula Chloe." I laughed.

A look of fear, confusion and annoyance ran through her mind, "Can you stop doing that?" She whined, "I don't know what you're doing, but stop it!"

"Doing what?" I feigned innocence.

"Edward, please stop reading her mind." Carlisle reprimanded me gentle. I gave her a smug grin as we waited for Carlisle to keep explaining. She looked downright afraid.

"You read my what?" She squeaked.

I sighed, a little bored of this already, "Your mind."

"Oh, okay, that's totally fine." She bit back sarcastically. My smile saddened a little, being sarcastic was Alena's thing, and I was terribly worried about her. I hoped she was alright, the very next time I saw those Romanians: I would kill them!

"So who are these vampires who are over a thousand?" She asked after a moment's silence. We all looked at the Volturi.

The ones with the red eyes, she mentally remembered.

Aro smiled happily at her and swept a grand bow, "Aro. This is my brother Marcus and my other brother Caius. We rule the vampire world."

I rolled my eyes.

Chloe audibly gulped, "I've seen you outside, don't vampires like, I don't know, burst into fire in the sun?"

I laughed, "Myths. But our bodies do weird things in the sunlight. The times you've seen us outside, it's been cloudy. Also, garlic, coffins are myths and we do not turn into bats."

Chloe raised an eyebrow, "Okay, so all the things I've heard about vampires are myths, let alone the fact that they even exist."

I nodded, "Yes, just about."

"But you guys drink blood right, or is that a myth?"

I chuckled darkly, "Nope, that's still a fact. Our family are what we call, 'vegetarians', we feed on the blood of animals. Animal blood makes our eyes turn gold. Vampires that drink human blood eyes are red. But when we're thirsty, our eyes are black."

She nodded slowly, "Oh that makes sense."

We should change her now Edward, there's no saying what she will do next.

I looked at Aro, he had an expectant look in his eyes and he talked to me with his mind. I looked at Carlisle then pointedly at Chloe's neck. Carlisle sighed.

"Chloe," He began quietly, "There's something we have to do. You might object to it, but we have rules in this vampire world."
He shot a dark glare in Aro direction to shrugged, "Rules are rules Carlisle."

Carlisle sighed again and nodded, "Chloe, listen carefully, we have a rule that humans cannot know about us. That is the one sacred rule, to keep the vampire world a secret. And now that you know too much, you have the choice of dying or being a vampire."

Her face dropped, "WHAT!"

Carlisle hung his head, "I'm sorry."

Chloe looked around wildly, looking for exits. I sighed, "You won't get out."

She gulped again, "What about Alena! She's human! And, and, Alec!"

Carlisle frowned, "Alena was pushing the time barrier… she was supposed to be turned soon anyway. And as for Alec, I don't know what gave the idea he was human."

She looked at Alec, in absolute confusion.

"But he has brown eyes." She said, innocence clouding her every word.

We all looked at Alec, he blinked in confusion. I don't think he realized he still had his contacts on.

"Alec." He looked at me and I pointed to my eyes.

"Oh, right." He reached to his eyes and delicately took out the contacts. As soon as he looked up, blazing red eyes stared out.

Chloe gasped loudly and then promptly fainted.

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Alena POV

I woke up on the bed; it was completely dark except for a smidge of light streaming in from the window. I got off the bed, my muscles defying every move. I felt my feet on the stone floor and heaved myself off the bed. I was mad. Boy was I mad. The next vampire I saw, I was going to punch them! I had had it! Stupid Vladimir, stupid Stefan, stupid Ozera, stupid Dan! Stupid everything! Stupid plan with stupid vampires to take over the stupid world! And now, I was stupidly in the middle of the stupid thing! I let out a yell, though I'm pretty sure no one heard me.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door and what sounded like a heavy metal lock being drawn back. I whipped around to see a vampire walk through. His hair was just above his shoulder and pushed back behind his ears. He was tan but pale at the same time… all part of the vampire enigma. His blazing red eyes were fierce and he looked no older than thirty-five. Probably part of the Romanian Newborn army.

"Hello." I smiled; maybe I could convince him to help me escape.

His expression turned hard, "I'm not supposed to talk to you."

I smirked, "Looks like that plan just failed."

He nodded, accepting that fact. I looked past his face and to his hands. There was a tray in his hands. It had a glass of water, some bread and an apple on the wooden tray. He placed the tray on the table and stepped back, closed the door and watched from the door.

My mouth dropped open and my hands found my hips.

"Are you kidding? They're going full out on his hostage thing?"

The vampire raised an eye, "Is there a problem?"

I rolled my eyes, "No, everything's fine." I sat down on the chair and gingerly picked up the apple and bit into it. It tasted good.

"Stefan and Vladimir placed me as your guard." The vampire told me as he leant against the door.

I nodded and pursed my lips as I finished the apple and got started on the bread.

"I can guess some things, like why I'm here. But I can't guess your name. What is it?"

The vampire gazed at me and after a short second answered.

"Tyson."

I nodded, "Hi Tyson, I'm Alena."

He nodded and noted that I finished the dinner so he took the tray, walked out the door and locked it behind him.

I looked around and then walked over to the door, pressing my ear against it. I didn't hear any noise so I pulled the chair up the window and stood on it, peering out. I could just see out of it, but only the sky was in view. It was about sunset, or sunrise. One of them… I got off the chair; feeling very tired all of a sudden. Taking off my shoes, I walked over to the bed, the coldness of the stone floor sending shivers up body. I jumped on the bed, cringing as it groaned and under me. I rolled over so I was lying on my stomach. Laying my arms on the pillow and resting my head on them, I found that I was looking straight out at the headboard. Funny, there was a little sign there. As I looked closer, I saw that it said 'Chrysler Hotel'. I distinctly remember the Chrysler Hotel being somewhere in Seattle, but it closed down years ago. A glimmer of hope sparked in me and I sat up. The Chrysler Hotel was in Seattle, not to far from home; well not as far as it could have been. I could have been in Antarctica for all I knew, but I wasn't. However, my hope dropped in all thoughts of Demetri or my family finding me. There was no way I could tell them, with Ozera's shield. I had no idea what to do! I rested in the bed, tears finding their way out of my eyes. I let out a soft whimper. I was going to die, Stefan and Vladimir would use me to somehow get their way to ruling the vampire world again, and then, when they were done with me, they'd surely dispose of me. Oh, there was only a win-lose situation now.

I snuggled into the uncomfortable beds and drew the scratchy covers over me. The light I'd seen before turned out to be sunset as the light slowly faded away and pitch darkness took over the room. I let my tears come out more and more, a sob now and then. Before I knew it, I was shaking, the bed creaking under me. All I wanted was to be home. I wanted to be in Demetri's arms right now, I wanted the world back to normal. I wanted, needed, my friends and my loved ones with me. I wanted Chloe with me right now, even Cherish, it didn't matter how much she annoyed me. She was my friend. I then remember how suddenly I'd left Alec, Demetri and Chloe. Poor, poor Chloe... Having absolutely no idea what was going on. A rush of new emotions hit me like a wave and cranked up the waterworks even more. Loneliness... I missed everyone, I wanted to be back. Closing my eyes, I let the sobs rack my body and rock me soundly to sleep.

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I blinked, momentarily forgetting where I was but then immediately remembering as I saw the small dank room I was in. I heard a small shuffle and I jumped in the bed, frightened by the small noise. Turning my head quickly to the source of the noise I saw Tyson against the wall with a concerned expression.

"Is something wrong?" He asked.

I brush my fingers through my hair and ran a hand over my face.

"No, you just startled me, sorry."

He nodded in understanding and straightened up against the wall. I sat up in bed, in thought. I was wondering what my family was doing right at this moment? Were they looking for me? What were they doing right now? I looked at Tyson; he didn't seem that dangerous, not as malevolent as Stefan or Vladimir. He looked innocent next to them. Maybe, just maybe he could help me.

"Tyson, do you have a family, before they turned you."
Tyson's blank glanced flickered to me then away towards the wall and he said nothing. I sighed and leant against the head board of the bed, and looked up at the ceiling, trying to find a way to amuse myself.

"Elizabeth and Cassie..."

I looked at him with a confused expression, "Pardon?"

He looked back at me with a sad smile, "Elizabeth my wife and my daughter, Cassie."

I shot him a sad smile, "I bet they miss you."

He smiled, very miserably, "If I could, I would go and see them."

"Yeah, I miss my family too. They're everything to me."
He looked at me, curiosity eating away, "You're human. Why do they take such an interest in you?"

I shrugged, "Because, apparently, when I become a vampire, I'll have a powerful ability."

"When?"

I sighed, "It seems now that it's an 'if.' It would have been a when, unless they kill me first."

He sighed, "What your, I don't know, power-to-be?"

I shrugged, "Seems that almost everyone seems to know, except for me."

He grinned ruefully, "Well, that must suck."

I let out a short laugh, "Yeah, it actually kinda does."

We laughed for a second more, and then it grew eerily silent.

"I'm sorry you have to be here. I'm sorry I have to keep you here. But there's no other choice."

I sighed, "No, it's not your fault."

He smiled grimly, "You know, I'd go back to my family, but Stefan would probably murder me."

It grew quiet again. But I smiled to myself, I think I'd found a new confidant... or friend.

"If you could, would you get out of here and back to your family?

He breathed out a sigh, "Of course I would, wouldn't you?"

I didn't answer back.

I had a plan brewing in my mind.