Chapter 18: From Witch Twin to Babysitter
(Alec's POV)
It's been two months since we asked for help from other covens. Since then we would get some leaders from rumors, but they would always lead to dead ends. As the days went on, so did my hopes on finding Raven. Two days ago, Aro decided it was time to call back the covens and see if anyone had any ideas.
Again, I was sitting by the pond wonder what I would be doing if Raven was here. The sound of a heartbeat pulled me from my thoughts. A second later Nessie was attacking me with a hug.
"Hello Alec!" she smiled brightly. When I composed myself I looked at my sister, who was right behind Nessie, for answers. Jane was smiling in amusement at me.
"The Cullens are going to Venice," Jane smirked, "and the wolves are back in Forks. So Edward said you volunteered to babysit." Jane turned to leave then remembered something, "Oh and you need to cook her lunch and dinner too." The panic on my face made her laugh as she walked away.
That's the last time I'm going to be nice to Edward Cullen. I looked back to Nessie who was watching the fish in the pond.
I sighed standing up, "ok then, so what do you want to do?"
'Please say watch movies and sleep,' I thought, 'it would make my life so much easier.'
Nessie looked at me and smiled. Then she stood up so quickly that she lost her balance and started to fall towards the pond. When I reached out to stop her, she grabbed my arm and made me lose my balance. A second later there was a huge splash and we were in the pond. Thankfully it wasn't very deep. Nessie go to her feet looking apologetic at me while I sat in the pond soaking wet.
"Sorry Alec," she said, "but I thought you would be able to keep your footing when I grabbed you." My response was a mumble. Suddenly she giggled causing me to look at her. Nessie reached for my head and a second later she was holding a tiny frog.
"You've got a lot of frogs on your head Alec." I shook my head but that only made the frogs jump onto my shoulders or hold on to my head. Nessie started laughing so hard that she fell back into the water.
This was going to be a long day...
It took five minutes for me and Nessie to get all the frogs off me, mainly because they kept jumping back onto me. I had forgotten that there weren't only fish in the pond.
"Maybe we should go get into some dry cloths," I said taking off my soaking jacket while she wrung out her hair.
On the way to my room we ran into Demetri and Felix.
"Go for a swim?" Demetri asked smirking, "why do you smell like fish?"
I glared while Nessie answered, "we fell into the pond." She smiled.
"Fell?" Felix asked, "dude since when do vampires fall?"
"That was my fault," Nessie said, "I fell and grabbed him causing him to lose his balance." This didn't help my situation. Felix and Demetri looked at me and tried not to laugh.
"We have to go." I said trying to sidestep them.
"Uh Alec," Felix said reaching for my head. When a frog appeared in his hand the two just started bursting in laughter, Nessie did too.
"Come on," I said annoyed walking around Felix and Demetri, who were almost on the floor laughing. Nessie followed me to my room smiling brightly.
I opened my bathroom door and placed a towel on the counter, "take a shower to get the pond water off you." I said, "I'll go get you dry cloths." She nodded and closed the bathroom door. When I heard her start the shower I left to her guest room. On my way to Marcus's wing, where her room was, I ran into my sister. The second she saw me she started laughing, hard.
"Have fun swimming with the frogs Alec?" she asked through laughs. I growled annoyed. This only made her laugh harder.
When I returned to my room with Nessie's dry cloths, she was sitting on my couch wrapped in a large towel.
I grabbed some dry clothes for me and stepped in my bathroom to wash off shutting the door behind me. After taking a quick shower and dressing, I returned to my room to find Nessie jumping on my bed.
"Your bed is so bouncy Alec," she said, "but why is the bottom made of metal though?" She asked as she came down from a bounce sitting cross legged in the center of the bed looking at me. "All the beds I've seen are made of wood frames."
Why did this girl ask all the wrong questions? Aro has the guards' beds built out of metal so they don't break easily...After a few years he got tired of replacing our beds, especially mine.
"Umm..." I responded, "Are you hungry for lunch yet?" I asked changing the topic. She looked at me clearly unhappy for not answering, but nodded.
"How about we go into town." I said trying to avoid cooking, "there are a lot of places to eat there."
"Can we shop too?" She asked jumping off the bed.
"I guess so." At this point I will do anything to avoid cooking. Lucky for me today was very cloudy so I wouldn't need to wear a cloak to town. After I put in a pair of blue colored contacts we walked to the garage. I drove to Volterra's outside mall in my black Lamborghini with Nessie sitting in the front.
Nessie choose a small restaurant in Volterra's outdoor mall.
"Hello," a woman in her early twenties said coming up to our table, "I'm Lilly and I'll be your server today." She smiled brightly at me.
I ignored her and looked at Nessie, "what do you want?" I asked.
She looked at the menu quickly and ordered a kid's pizza with a coke.
"And you," the waitress asked smiling at me again.
"Nothing for me."
"Well you just let me know if you need anything." She said in a somewhat slutty tone. Was this woman not aware of the child sitting across from me? When she walked away, Nessie spoke.
"Hay I think she wants to be your friend Alec," she said smiling, "you should give her your number or however people say it." I looked at her and smiled a little.
"No she doesn't want my friendship." I said. Nessie stared in confusing.
"Then what does she want?" This was the second time this topic has come up with her. While I would have no problem telling her; I know that if I do her parents would tear me apart and feed me to their mutt.
"Ask again when you're older."
"Why does everyone say that to me?" she complains, "what does that mean?"
"So what did you want to shop for?" I asked quickly changing the subject and like all women when shopping was mentioned, Nessie was instantly distracted.
"Cloths, accessories, gifts for my family." She listed off smiling. Throughout lunch she talked about cloths and the shopping trips Alice took her on. However, she lost me at cloths.
"Is there anything else I can get you?" The waitress asked as I paid.
"No," I said flatly, "we're done."
She nodded, "So do you have a girlfriend?" she asked twirling her long brown hair with her finger.
Before I could speak Nessie did, "he does." She said smiling brightly, "her name is Raven."
Huh? Did this girl even know what that meant?
However her comment saved me from the flirty waitress who walked away disappointed.
"Do you even know what that means?" I asked her as we left the restaurant and walked along the mall.
"What a girlfriend is?" she asked entering a clothing store, I nodded. "Mom says it mean a girl you're romantically involved with." I stopped in my tracks.
"But I'm not romantically involved with Raven." I said watching her pick out cloths, "I'm just her friend."
"Really?" She asked handing me cloths to hold for her, "but dad and uncle Jasper says you're in love with her."
What the hell?! The Cullens don't even know who she is! Why do people keep pestering me about this?
"We're just friends." I said flatly. She looked at me thoughtfully before grabbing her cloths and walking towards the changing rooms. I followed and sat in one of the lounge chairs.
"Alec." She said before closing the door, "I'm not convinced that you're only friends with her." With that she smiled and shut the door.
Great... Now a kid is bothering me about my relationship life.
For the next twenty minutes Nessie tried on cloths and modeled them for me. I honestly don't know why, but she continued to ask me what I thought about each outfit. After my fifth 'it looks good.' She gave up.
"Don't men know anything about clothing?" she mumbled from her dressing room. I smirked in amusement. Jane would always say the same thing when she forced me to go shopping with her.
I learned that Alice gave Nessie a credit card, so the girl bought every outfit she picked out. Then she made me carry her bags. So here I was walking with a little girl down a mall carrying a bunch of bags.
My reputation is so ruined...
"Hay," Nessie said stopping suddenly spinning around, "you should buy a gift for Raven."
"Why?" I asked.
"Because it's a nice thing to do." She said walking towards Volterra's most expensive jewelry shop.
Are expensive stores a magnate for women?
"Hi," the store attendant said as we entered the shop, she leaned across the counter, "can I help you with anything." Again another human trying to hit on me. Annoying... Luckily Nessie didn't notice this time.
"We're shopping for his girlfriend." Nessie said looking at jewelry.
"She's not my girlfriend." I mumbled. When the attendant smiled I regretted speaking.
"This one Alec," Nessie said from across the store pointing to a case, "get her this one." I came over to look at the necklace she picked.
"If it's my gift to her," I said, "then shouldn't I pick it out?"
"You will buy this for her Alec Volturi." Nessie said sternly. I stared at her shocked. Little kid has an attitude. Hope she didn't pick that up from me. It would give her parents another reason to kill me.
"Fine," I said looking at the attendant, who was trying not to laugh, "I'll take that one."
After she rung me up I decided it was time to head back to the castle.
"Can we go to the toy store first?" Nessie pleaded, "then we can head back."
I sighed, "fine, one more store."
Nessie had a lot of fun in the toy store. I didn't because there were one too many kids for my taste. But what was worse was all the women hitting on me. Eventually I started to lose my patience and told Nessie it was time to leave. She noticed how uncomfortable I was and nodded. Before we left though, Nessie bought some face paint and tons of Legos and a large kit to make bracelets.
"So what's for dinner?" Nessie asked as we put all her bags in her room.
"What do you want?" I asked really not wanting to cook.
"Spaghetti with butter." She said smiling at me.
I sighed "ok."
When we reached the kitchen I couldn't believe my luck. Gianna, our human secretary, was in there cooking her dinner. Guess I got out of cooking today.
"Gianna," I said making her jump in surprise, "can you cook spaghetti for our guest?"
"Uh, s-sure." She stuttered, "I mean yes sir." I sat down at the table with Nessie who had pulled out Phase 10. After a couple rounds, Nessie's food was done and Gianna left to eat her dinner at her desk.
"That was mean you know," Nessie said when she finished eating.
"What?"
"Making that woman uncomfortable and scaring her."
I rolled my eyes, "I could care less about humans." I said looking at her, "I thought your parents would've told you that."
She nodded, "they did, but I still think it was mean."
I stood up placing her dishes in the sink, "I'll try not to do it when you're around then." I said.
She smiled and I continued, "what do you want to do now?" her smile got wider.
Oh crap...
I was sitting in the guest lounge while Nessie was getting stuff out of her room. She told me that she had something fun planned and that made me nervous.
"Ok," she said hopping into the lounge with the bags form the toy store, "I bought crafts for us to do." She smiled and the first thing she pulled out was the face paint.
Oh hell no... "I'll do anything but that," I said crossing my arms leaning back in the chair I was sitting in.
"I'm a guest in this castle and you're babysitting me," She smiled opening the face paint, "so you have to do what I want."
"What kind of logic is that?"
"I don't know," she said, "but my dad told me to say that."
"I think your father is going to lose his head when he gets back." I mumbled.
"Come on Alec," she said climbing on my lap, "face paint is fun."
"For kids," I tried to move my face away as she moved pink paint towards me.
"Stop moving," she hissed a little.
Eventually she won the fight, but only because I do have a conscious and didn't want to accidently hurt her.
"I think I would prefer the mutts company." I mumbled as she painted lord knows what on my face.
She smiled brightly, "ok last touch," she said pulling out sparkles.
Yup my reputation is completely ruined...Thank God no one is here to see this. Of course as soon as I thought that my sister, Felix, and Demetri walked into the room.
"Hay how was-" Jane started but didn't finish her sentence when she saw my face and started laughing so hard that she fell backwards onto the floor.
"Nice pink hearts Alec," Felix said between laughs. Demetri was on the floor with Jane as well laughing.
"Hay Nessie," I said, "I think Demetri and Felix would like to have their faces painted as well."
Her eyes light up and she got off my lap, "come on you two sit down." She said bouncing over to them
"I'm good." They said at the same time, but Jane pushed them towards the couch forcing them to sit.
"Come on guys," she chuckled, "you don't want to be rude to our guest."
I smiled at them enjoying the satisfaction of revenge. About twenty minutes later Felix had whiskers and a cat nose with sparkles and Demetri had a sparkly rainbow across his face. Jane had taken pictures form us then disappeared so quickly before we could stop her. However, Felix and Demetri still tried to stupidly run after her leaving me alone with Nessie again.
Nessie pulled out the Lego kits and bracelet kit. "Now we make stuff," she said, "you can play with the Legos while I make bracelets.
"I can do that," I said happy I wasn't doing any more girl stuff.
For the next three hours Nessie focused on making bracelets while I built a castle out of Legos. I'll admit to myself that I did have fun with the Legos, who knew building something out of them could be so time consuming.
Eventually Nessie yawned telling me it was finally bed time.
"Ready to go to bed?" I asked.
She nodded packing up the bracelets she made. Then she put her arms out to me. This time I understood and picked her up. On my way to her room she fell asleep. About half way to her room Marcus decided to show up.
When he saw me he smiled in amusement and I suddenly remembered the face paint. "Have fun babysitting Alec?" he asked softly so he wouldn't wake up Nessie.
"I guess," I said, "It gave me something to do."
He nodded, "Aro received word that all the covens will be here tomorrow evening."
"Ok." I continued to walk down the hall.
"I like the hearts too Alec." Marcus laughed when he walked in the opposite direction of me. When Edward gets back I'm so going to kill him. When I reached Nessie's room I pulled back the sheets on her bed. However when I tried to put in the bed, she strengthened her grip on me. Not this again...
Eventually I was able to get her to release her grip and place her in bed. After tucking her in I went to the bathroom and washed the paint off my face. When I returned Nessie was sitting up looking at me.
"What's wrong now?" I asked
"I don't like being alone." She said looking at her hands. I sighed.
"Fine," I said sitting on the other side of the large bed with a book, "how about I sit here until your parents get back." She nodded and laid back down. However she scooted closer to me and grabbed my shirt to make sure I wouldn't move. I remembered that Jane used to do that all the time when we were humans. In fear of Nessie ripping my shirt, I garbed her hand and allowed her to hold onto mine.
Tomorrow, I'm going to have to kill someone just to get my reputation back. However, Nessie did bring back memories of the good times Jane and I had when we were humans.
Right at midnight, Bella and Edward walked into the room smiling at each other.
I got off the bed releasing Nessie's grasp on my hand.
"Thanks for watching her Alec." Bella smiled sitting by her daughter.
Edward smirked at me in amusement, "you have a little pink pait on your chin." He chuckled.
'Bite me' I thought walking out of the room making him laugh harder.
The next day I didn't see Nessie because she was with Benjamin all day. Jane and I spent the day in the throne room listening to ideas on how to find Raven. When the evening came the room was filled with all the covens and Nessie ran up to me and Jane.
"Jane, Alec," she said smiling, "hold out your right hands please." We exchanged a confused look but did as she told. A few seconds later Jane and I were wearing dark red and black bracelets.
"Friendship bracelets." She smiled at us.
"Um, thanks." Jane said stunned. Before I could reply the throne room doors opened and everyone tensed. Nessie ran behind me not wanting to draw attention by running back to her family.
Stefan walked in causing me to growl lowly. I could hear Vladimir coming down the hall as well. What the hell are they doing here?
Aro had the same question, "Stefan," he said standing cautiously from his throne, "what are you and Vladimir doing here?"
Stefan looked behind his shoulder as Vladimir walked in.
"I believe you lost something." Vladimir said carrying a very ragged and tired looking vampire.
Raven...
Author's Note:
Yep I know, Cliffhanger! :)
Not what you expected right?
Review please; I'll try to get the next chapter up as soon as I can.
Just a note: My story won't follow Meyer's story on the Romanians.