I Will Never Let You Go

Chapter 1: Observe

"Alice!" I whined when my twelve year old body was brutally slammed into the side of the yellow Porsche when she sharply turned on the long winding road. I picked up my glasses that fell to the floor and put them back on.

I couldn't believe I got dragged into this, but it's not like I could just let Bella walk out of the house with Alice and head to Volterra, where the Vampire Kings lived, to save Edward's life.

"Sorry," she said before taking another sharp turn, speeding past a tractor.

"I'm guessing you didn't rent this car?" Bella asked Alice as she narrowly avoided hitting another car on the road.

"I figured you wouldn't be opposed to grand theft auto."

"Not today," Bella said before Alice froze. "What? What do you see?" Bella asked desperately.

"They refused him," Alice gasped. So the kings refused to kill Edward? So then Edward is going to have to try and get their attention somehow else, like breaking their laws so they will be forced into killing him like hunting in their territory, exposing himself to humans, or some other method that would insure chaos and a one way ticket to hell. Why were we trying to save him again?

"So?" Bella encouraged.

"He's going to make a scene. Show himself to the humans." Alice explained as she sped up. I sighed shaking my head at his stupidity. I hated it when I was right.

"No! He can't!" Bella cried hysterically.

"When?" I asked Alice as I leaned forward in my seat placing my hand on Bella's shoulder, trying to calm her down so she wouldn't do anything rash.

"He's going to wait until noon, when the suns at highest." I looked out of the window to see the sun slowly rising towards the middle of the sky. We didn't have much time left to save him... if we were going to save him.

"God Alice, you gotta hurry up." Bella complained.

"Past that tower," she pointed to a tall Clock tower that was dead centre in the middle of Volterra. It was actually quite a beautiful city, with it's stone buildings and lovely architecture. It's a pity we are only here to save Edward. It would've been nice to look around the city and see more of it. If it wasn't infested with vampires I might have considered living here in another life.

The pixie like vampire drove straight into the city, dodging the residents who were all wearing bloody red cloaks. I winced when she became particularly close to hitting a few of them. Alice beeped her horn as we came across a large crowd of people all bunched up together blocking the way through. Why were they all wearing red cloaks? Was it some kind of festival?

"Why are they all in red?" Bella asked Alice and she gripped her hair tightly.

"St. Marcus Day Festival."

I had read about that a while ago. It was the day when St. Marcus supposedly drove out all the vampires from the city, leaving Volterra to be the safest place from vampire attacks. But the vampires never really left. I guess the kings made that up so the people would have nothing to fear while living there. Well technically that is true since one of their laws is no one hunts in Volterra or they will immediately be dismembered and set afire. When we were on the flight heading to Italy Alice explained most of the vampire laws to me.

"They're commemorating the expulsion of vampires from the city. It's the perfect setting, the Volturi will never let him get far enough to reveal himself." Alice told us as she rounded another corner, climbing higher and higher up the hill which the town resided on.

"Five minutes!" Bella started gasping for breath as she saw the time on the dashboard.

"I know. Bella just breathe."

Before we could get closer to the clock tower a police man stepped in our way demanding us to stop. Bella threw herself out of the car before turning back to Alice.

"Alice!"

"Bella you're the only one he can't see coming. If I go he'll read my thoughts, he'll think I'm lying, he'll rush and do it."

"Where do I go?"

"At the end of the clock tower. Go!" Alice cried before Bella took off in a sprint and disappeared through the sea of bloody cloaks.

"What happens now?" I asked her she turned the car around and parked it in an abandoned alleyway. She got out of the car and opened my door putting on a pair of sunglasses and a scarf that matches her gray long sleeved coat.

"We follow her and hope for the best,"

~IWNLYG~

Alice broke the lock on the wooden door and stepped inside, pulling me with her. Bella and a shirtless Edward were standing a few feet in front of us, and two gray cloaked figures up ahead. Bella appeared to have an aura of relief about her as she gazed at Edward, the two of them obviously having some kind of closure to a pressing matter that we had interrupted.

"Come on, guys. It's a festival. We wouldn't want to make a scene." Alice warned them as she closed the door behind her taking off her scarf and sunglasses she used to shield herself from the sun.

"We wouldn't." The taller of the two agreed.

"Enough!" A feminine voice called as I heard footsteps approach us at a rapid pace. A figure strode confidently into the room, removing her hood in one swift movement revealing her gold hair that was pulled up into a tight neat bun, her red eyes shining brightly in the dimly lit hallway. She looked to be only fourteen years old with a black attire, white tights, and black shoes. Fashionable yet slightly out of place for this time period. She's older than she looks and holds an aura of confidence, suggesting that she has superior fighting knowledge that she can use to defeat all and any enemy or a gift that allows her complete protection. All three of them wore a 'V' shaped pendant around their necks, signaling that they worked or are the Volturi.

When I became scared or frightened for Bella's or my well being I immediately start to over analyze everything, taking in every detail, every expression, every action, hoping to find something useful that could help us escape or use against them to keep us alive. I was very good at making deductions, but I didn't do it often because people became very offended very easily.

I swallowed hard when I realized we might not make it back to Forks, that this is where we will die. I clutched Alice's hand tightly in my own as she came closer to us.

"Jane," Edward sighed in resignation, letting his head drop.

"Aro send me to see what's taking so long." Jane sniffed the air before she looked over at me. "A soul child?" she questioned as she looked into my similar red eyes.

Nobody knew why but I was born with red eyes. The doctors told my mother it was an eye disease that caused my eyes to be red but I never thought so, and neither did Bella. What is a soul child and what does it have to do with me having a similar color or red eyes?

Jane narrowed her eyes at Edward and Alice. "Aro will be most displeased with you." She told them stiffly before walking over to me.

She held out her hand to me, much to my confusion. I hesitated before placing my hand in her own, not knowing what was going to happen next. With surprising gentleness, she pulled me along her side and began to walk back down the hall.

"Just do as she says." I heard Alice whisper to someone, most likely Bella. I heard them follow us as Jane pulled me along.

At the corner of my eye I saw the big burly Emmett like vampire hand Edward a bloody red cloak to cover up the fact that he was shirtless. Why was he shirtless in the first place? He was probably going to get himself killed by revealing his abnormal skin to the humans. That makes sense considering it's Edward we're talking about and he likes to be as dramatic as Bella.

Jane lead us down a hallway to a set of stone stairs before we came across an elevator.

"Don't be scared." I heard Edward murmur to Bella. Easy said than done, I thought bitterly as I fought the urge to wince as the air became colder and colder the lower we traveled.

"Are you?" Bella countered with a shaky voice, not that I could blame her.

"No." Even I could tell he was lying.

The two Volturi guards stepped in the elevator first at the back and Bella, Edward, and Alice were in the middle while I was in the front next to Jane, with my hand still tightly connected to hers.

I didn't realize how tightly I was gripping her hand until she gave me a gentle squeeze, as if she was trying to reassure me to stay calm.

I still had no idea what a soul child was or why Jane was treating me so nicely, but to be honest I didn't want to question it, rather I would just pray for the best for Bella, Alice and myself. Edward could go to hell for all I cared for after what he had done to my poor big sister. I have never seen her so broken and empty before. All the nights Charlie and I would wake up from Bella screaming in her sleep, or when I held her while she broke down multiple times, or when she would just stare into space for hours on end not saying or doing anything. If we managed to get out of this alive I pray that Bella has learned her lesson and will kick Edward to the curb and find someone who will love and appreciate her and not leave her broken in the middle of a forest. But to be fair all the other guys that have shown interest in Bella, including Jacob, seemed to be immature assholes just looking for a pretty girl to hang off their arm and use them for release. Edward, as much as he is immature, would treat Bella with more respect than Mike or Jacob ever would, besides the whole, leaving her in the forest by herself thing.

Opera music echoed throughout the small metal box as the doors closed and we began to descend deeper into the Volturi's home.

Jane stepped out of the elevator once it had arrived, pulling me alongside her as we walked through, what looked like to be, a receptionist area.

A pretty brunette behind a desk, that held white lilies and a simple lamp, greeted us in Italian? as we walked past her. Thanks to my glasses I could see the faint pink in her golden cheeks despite the makeup she had applied and the grace of a human as she sat back down. I could see her chest moving up and down at a normal rate, suggesting that she either didn't know what they were or knew and was at ease with it. I opted for the former, thinking no one sane could possibly know their secret and still be this calm. Or she's just plain insane.

I absentmindedly noted that this room had an instant calming effect for Bella but made Alice and Edward tense up. It was obviously made to have a comforting aura to relax humans but I didn't know for what purpose.

"Is she human?" I faintly heard Bella ask.

"Yes." Edward whispered back a coldness in his voice suggesting it was what I hoped it wouldn't be.

"Does she know?"

"Yes."

"Then why would... She wants to be..." Bella trailed off when she realized that the woman wanted to become one of them.

"And so she will be." The smaller Volturi guard said to Bella.

Why on Earth would a human willing become a vampire? Why isn't she screaming in terror? Do the Volturi have some kind of power to keep her calm and manipulate her into thinking she wanted to become like them? Maybe they had something on her? It's not like I could help her in any way shape or form. As far as any of us know we're heading toward our deaths. And if she was here willingly then I would have no remorse for the woman if she turned out to be dessert instead of turned.

"Or dessert." Jane finished, smirking to herself darkly.

I glanced back at her again. There wasn't anything that stuck out as valuable, she's pretty I'll give her that but other than that she doesn't look like the type of person that would be an asset to them, more like a hindrance if I'm being honest. I doubt she'll last the month before she's eaten... as cruel as it is to say but it's true. Besides, if she was valuable they would've changed her already.

I had so many unanswered questions and hypotheses that I started to get a headache. I reached up and took off my glasses for a second, letting Jane lead me as my vision blurred. I rubbed my eyes before putting my black framed glasses back on, sighing internally as the headache passed.

We walked down a dimly lit hallway before we came across a set of double doors made of dark wood. Jane let go of my hand and used both of hers to push the doors open to reveal a massive marble room with eight vampires residing in, not counting Alice, Edward, Jane and the two guards that followed us in. She reached back and grabbed my hand tugging me forward into the room while I observed our surroundings.

Two vampires were guarding the door as we came through and two more on the left hand side of the room, guarding another door that lead somewhere else. The room was shaped as a giant dome, the roof more than 30 feet above us that slowly caved upwards, with the smallest windows directly above, allowing the light to shine through. There were brilliantly carved marble pillars that littered the edges of the room with painted back rectangular shapes decorating the wall higher up. The room was very well designed and very well kept but it had an aura of age, suggesting that it was older than it looked. There was also a large hallway behind the kings throne that lead off somewhere. There were Italian words written in the marble on the walls and a drain at the bottom of the floor.

I noticed the room seemed to slowly decline downwards towards the drain. If I didn't know any better I would've assumed it was used as an escape way through the sewers, but as I gazed around the room, they seemed rather protected and I doubt that any enemy could make it this far without dying and even if they did I have the impression that Jane would be able to take them out considering the two vampire guards that followed us wore simple silver pendants while Jane wore a golden pendant with gems and elegant swirls surrounding the 'V', suggesting that she is higher up on the guard, very important, and for a good purpose.

Therefore that isn't an escape route... but a drain. A drain for all the unused blood that wasn't consumed. This was there feeding room and they were expecting their meal to arrive at any moment.

Directly ahead of us were three thrones, no more than a foot apart, decorated in gold and the finest wood where the assumed vampire kings sat in all their undead glory.

A/N: This isn't a romance story! So what do you think? I wrote this a very long time ago and I lost the inspiration to finish the very last part of the story and I was hoping by posting it online that I would have the motivation to finally finish the damn thing.

Now this isn't going to be a normal story or even a romance so I'll hope you'll bare with me on this. And please let me know what you think of the chapter. Were there any typos? Please let me know.

I do not own Twilight.