It's the last chapter :( Thank you so much to those who have read this story!
Sara Kai- Yes, Jane and William are very much in love.
Chapter 12-Jane
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Jane still smiled in the morning. She looked to William who grinned back. Jane nursed Faye while she made a quick breakfast of cold rye bread and chicken meat.
"I have to go back into town today," William said through eating the meal.
"Alright, but you have to hurry back."
Jane hid her smile behind a chunk of bread. Faye reached for air and made her little noises.
Her mother set her in the cradle after she was wrapped up.
William sighed and looked up to the girl he loved.
"Jane, I really do have to work today."
"I know." Jane giggled.
He sighed again.
"I have to go get fresh snow." She looked up to William with her blue eyes. Since the river had frozen over she collected snow to melt for water instead.
Jane reached for her worn shawl. Her feet already were covered with the moccasins.
When she was covered, her hands reached for the light tub with a cup inside.
"I'll be back in say twenty minutes."
"Be safe, Jane." Williams's voice was serious.
She laughed and nodded. "Only if you are."
Outside in the white world the cold air hugged Jane. She trekked away from the house where the clean snow was. All winter William had to do this since she was bedridden. But now she could finally take charge of her role as a wife again.
Once the house was out of sight, Jane found a mound of snow that had fallen recently.
"This will work."
Kneeling down, one of Jane's hands grasped the wooden cup inside the metal tub. Shoving it into the snow and bringing the contents to back to the tub was the motion she had to repeat over and over until the tub had filled.
Even working fast and hard, Jane couldn't fill it for fifteen minutes.
Something made her want to work faster. It started out as a whisper.
Hurry it called to her.
"Hold on! I'm almost finished." She snapped it.
Hurry…
Jane shook her head and with one more cup emptied, she quickly decided that it was enough.
Grabbing the handles of the tub, Jane briskly walked in her footprints back to the house.
The feeling of rushing turned slightly into a feeling of worry.
She felt as if someone was watching her.
Following the voice's demands, Jane began to walk as fast as she could. As the house came into view, Jane wanted feel relaxed. She would be safe in her house.
Jane bit her lip.
"Hello, Jane."
She jumped at the bell like voice. Her head whipped to the side. Two men stood a little aways from her. One of them was tall and had a large build. The other was shorter; close to Jane's size. Their skin looked almost as white as the snow.
"Who are you?" She whispered, panic rising in her. "How do you know me?"
The smaller one stepped forward. "You don't know me?"
Jane wanted to take a step back, but recognition caught her instead.
The boy looked like Alec. He had Alec's light brown hair, but the hair was too nice to be his. It had never been so smooth. The boy almost had the same facial features, too. But they seemed too perfect and frigid for her rough twin. His skin wasn't suntanned like Alec's. They held none of the freckles that were spread across her twin's face. His movements were too graceful for Alec.
And his eyes. They weren't the warm blue that she remembered. They were blood red. The eyes held no warmth.
"You aren't Alec." Jane shook her head to diffuse the thought.
The boy laughed and walked closer.
Jane backed away immediately.
"But I am him. He is me. Jane, I am Alec."
A movement behind him caught her attention. The big one had begun to walk up to them.
Jane flew her eyes back to the boy.
"Stay away from me." Jane warned trying to keep the fear out of her face.
Alec grinned. "Jane, it's me. I'm here to help you."
For a second, Jane almost saw her twin shine through this graceful, frigid boy.
But then it was gone.
His grin turned cold and bitter.
"How can you help me?" Jane asked. She felt her hands shake from the cold and the fear building up in her.
This felt wrong.
"Come with me. You can leave here and become powerful. You'll have whatever you want. Just come with us."
Jane remembered a passage from the Bible about the devil tempting Jesus with riches and power.
It scared her. Alec scared her.
"I don't want to go." She whispered.
"Of course you do, Jane." Alec reached his hand out.
Jane backed away from him. "I think you should go."
Alec's face changed into a bitter mask.
"Jane, don't be foolish. I can take you away from all this. Come with me."
His voice became hard and demanding.
She shook her head and turned away from him. He was in front of her so suddenly that she dropped the tub in her hands. Snow flew up into her face, but she didn't brush it away.
"What are you?" She whispered, finally letting her entire body to tremble.
Alec drew closer to Jane. "I am powerful."
She felt her foot drag backwards. "Leave me alone."
Jane looked back to her house.
"No." Alec's harshness made her wince. He came up to her faster than humanly possible and grabbed Jane's wrist.
"Let me go!" She screamed at the top of her lungs.
Alec sucked in a breath and laughed bitterly. "You really shouldn't have done that."
Jane yanked her arm but Alec held on tighter.
"Alec, please let me go!" Jane sobbed slightly. He frightened her so terribly.
He suddenly pushed her to the ground with force that knocked the breath out of her. Cold pricked her skin as the snow rested around her.
"Can't you see what I'm doing for you? I am here to rescue you from this life, Jane! Don't you want to live for once? Don't you want to feel what it's like to not have to slave away all day?"
"A human is coming." a deeper voice spoke. It was the other boy.
Alec glared in the direction of her house. Jane moved her head to see William rushing to them.
"William! No!" She screamed. He ignored her.
Alec kneeled down so he was just above Jane.
"You should have just come with us."
Fear exploded inside her. Jane jumped to her feet and ran to the human running towards her.
When she crashed into William, his hands wrapped around her.
"You have to go! Now!" She cried.
"What did they do to you!" her husband demanded.
"We did nothing. Though, I am afraid you have." Alec spoke.
William released Jane and she grasped his arm.
"Don't." She begged.
William stepped forward despite Jane's wishes. He stood taller than Alec, but the other guy towered above her husband.
"I want you out of here right now, and if I so much as see you again…" Anger was very apparent on his face.
Jane looked to Alec who had kept a straight face with no expression.
"And what will you do if we don't leave?" The big one asked.
William clenched his hands into fists and took a step forward to him.
They moved in blurs, but suddenly William was in the snow with Alec's hand on his throat.
"I have been dreaming of the moment when I could kill you." His coy smile back in place.
"Stop!" Jane screamed. "Alec," She paused as the boy's face darted to her, "Let him go."
Alec's grip on William's throat tightened.
His smile still in place, he said, "No."
Jane fell to her knees. "Please! Alec!"
His words were sharp and cold as ice. "No."
One movement in his wrist made a cracking noise. William's tense body loosened and stilled.
Alec stood with a mocking smile. "Now if only you had come with us."
Her hands shook.
Something ripped into Jane and yanked. She felt as if her chest had been ripped out letting blood pool out along with everything she was.
Her body was separate from her mind as it tripped over snow to reach William.
Her hands grasped his shoulder and they shook with all the strength her body had.
His eyes didn't move. The green orbs had lost their light and saw nothing.
Words poured out of her body's mouth.
"William!" Over and over. The snow had already made his skin cold. No warmth came from him.
Inside, Jane felt a pain so vivid. It tore inside her eating away at her insides. It froze her over in ice so cold it burned. She couldn't think. The emptiness inside her was so painful, too painful.
It burned away everything. All she could do was stare down into the dead eyes.
"He's gone."
The voice made her blood boil. Anger mixed with the ice inside her.
All she wanted to do was make Alec feel the pain she felt. The emptiness and the anger swirled inside of her, shaping something familiar and unfamiliar. It grew inside of her before the feeling consumed her entire body and mind.
She barely felt herself collapse.
It was still there drawing her energy.
Jane mustered one word. "Pain."
It exploded from her. Her mind focused only on one person. Alec.
A cry of misery and torment escaped from boy she loathed.
But it was like breathing out air. Before long, Jane ran out of air and it ceased. It left her weak and tired on the ground. Her eyes closed out of exhaustion.
"Alec!" his partner said with bewilderment.
"I'm okay, Felix, I think." Alec, for once, sounded winded.
Felix demanded. "What happened?"
"She is powerful like Aro said she was."
The way he said it made Jane want to sink into the ground. She hated the sound of it.
"What of the girl?"
Alec sighed. "You can hear her as well as I can. She's fine."
"Then let's go back. Grab her."
Ice cold arms wrapped around Jane.
Her mind felt more fatigued than her body, but she made one thought.
Faye.
Her child was still in the house. What would become of her? Her heart grew weak. Jane imagined her child freezing and starving.
No.
I can't let her die. Please! She is my baby!
No one answered her thoughts.
She is only a child!
Jane mourned for the loss of her family. She knew she would never see Faye again.
Hatred ran through her veins. Anger at the ones who caused this.
A spasm of energy waved over her.
Jane forced her eyes opened. They saw Alec's face and the sky whipping away so fast.
Her mouth opened.
"I won't ever forgive you for this. You aren't my brother."
Alec looked to his sister hearing her faint words.
Jane felt herself go into nothing. Her whole body grew cold and froze over.
And that is the story of Jane.
One question that you might be asking is how Jane possibly joined the volturi. Thank Chelsea for that, her power destroyed the bonds Jane had with everyone and made Jane bonded to the volturi. When Jane woke up as a vampire, she remembered practically nothing since all her bonds with everything important were smashed. Since she can't hate her brother or the volturi anymore, all the hatred was pointed to the rest of the world hence the reason she is so sadistic.
There is just the epilogue left now.
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