The Lure by Camilla

Chapter 7- Flying out and Epilogue

Chapter notes

The story of my bel vampiro italiano ends with this chapter. I have nothing more to post until I am advanced enough with the sequel to The Parachutist. I am writing, but I am still unsure about the final part of the plot. Until then I have to stall. Love to everybody.

You know what they say about characters taking over? The moment Angelo stopped being anguished he started saying riddles and cracking jokes…There was no restraining him. He is a very pleasant and easy person, actually. Simpatico!

Bella

The other three males took Sasha hunting. I tried to play chess with Alice on her portable set, a futile exercise. When not anticipating the moves I would do, she occasionally monitored the hunters, but all was well, apparently.

The first to come back was Jasper. He looked very nervous, though.

"Jasper, what happened?" Alice asked . His discomfort was evident and we could feel it.

"It was fine, Sasha took immediately to hunting, and he is quite calm now. They will be here soon, Edward is preceding them."

"Very well, but then what is irking you?" We chorused.

"Well, you know how it is, after the hunt blood lust sometimes gives place to just..lust. It happens to us, when we hunt in pairs, it happened to them. It is instinctual, normal," he said, but did not look very happy.

Alice giggled, "Jazz, my poor empath, were you hit by a wandering desire going in a surprising new direction? What do you want to do about it? OK, come with me, let's try something new." And they quickly retreated to their room.

Edward came back, followed a little later by Angelo and Sasha. Sasha's clothes were a mess and Angelo's too, despite him being a neat eater. "First hunt, you know," he said sheepishly."Let's go change." And to the spare room they went, certainly for round two.

I looked at Edward and a fit of laughter overcame us.

"No secrets, no privacy, this is the life of vampires!" we chanted. And we also went to our room. We put some loud music on and I used my shield to keep the others' minds out. We also did experiment something new that night and I wondered if Jasper and Alice had done the same, but I did not ask.

Some days passed and it was clear that any further tourism project would have to be scrapped. If you create a new vampire, you have to take responsibly for him. We had to extract Sasha from Russia and bring him to some haven where he could safely finish his newborn period. Alaska would be the perfect place, and our 'cousins' would take Angelo and Sasha in, but how to go there with a continent and an ocean in between? At the same time we had to prevent Sasha having close contacts with humans, lest he jumped them. This made any collective transport unsafe.

"You know," said Angelo, while we were discussing options," this reminds me of the old riddle we have in Italy, about a man who had to cross the river in a small boat. He had a sack of cabbages, a wolf and a goat to transport, but the boat could only carry two items. One was him, who had to row. Now, if he transported the wolf first, the goat would eat the cabbages. If he transported the cabbages, the wolf would eat the goat while he was crossing. He could transport the goat first, but then on the second trip he would have to take either the wolf or the cabbages and leave what he had transported on the other side with the goat, while he rowed back for the third item, so one or the other would be eaten… a logistics nightmare!

In any case, I think that my hut in the Alps is safe enough. Winter is coming, it is not a ski area and there will not be tourists around. Even in summer I hardly saw anybody, and if I did it was from a distance. I can make the baita more comfortable and we could stay there for a long time."

The way Sasha behaved made him feel confident to be able to manage him alone. It was possible. After all, Carlisle had also managed newborn Edward alone, with no accidents.

"Yes, we can try to get him to Italy," Edward said. "I can rent a small plane and fly it, so Sasha will not be in contact with humans." Every time I realized how rich my family was and how many things Edward was capable of doing I was amazed. Angelo at first would not hear of it, but Edward convinced him to accept, since it was the best course. A car trip crossing so many countries and facing so many unpredictable accidents was not an option.

I was a little sorry that the Alaska plan was unfeasible, because I had loved the idea of Tania having two beautiful male houseguests she could do nothing with. Well, thinking of Tania always draws out my mean streak.

Soon we started to implement the plan. Sasha already had a visa for Italy stamped on his passport, due to his trip to Venice, but it had expired at the end of February. However, a '2' could became a '12' quite easily and extend the visa to the end of the year. Alice, a very good forger, found the right ink and did it.

Edward located an aircraft leasing company in Frankfurt where he could rent an Executive jet. Then he called Carlisle, asking him to send by courier his flying license directly to Frankfurt, where he would pick it up. He would go to Germany with a commercial plane, submit his flight plan, pay for the rental, come back to Moscow, collect us and fly to a minor airport in Northern Italy.

Then we would bring Angelo and Sasha to the hut in the Alps, take the rented jet back to Frankfurt and finally fly home.

The difficult moments would be when we boarded the plane in Moscow and left it on arrival in Italy. However, the airports for private jets are small, there are not many people around and Edward would deal with officials, presenting all our documents together.

A few days later the plan was implemented, and it worked. When Edward landed in Moscow we were waiting for him near the airport. Sasha, fed to the brim by repeated hunting, eyes covered by dark glasses, was told not to breathe, feign a severe cold and keep a handkerchief to his nose. Alice had impregnated it with a strong perfume, in case he forgot not to breath. Angelo and Jasper were tight at his sides, keeping him in check."Like two carabinieri," Angelo hadlaughed, in reference to the Italian military policemen, who are the butt of many jokes and are supposed to do everything in pairs.

A few hours later, we passed with no trouble through the customs of the small Italian airport we had landed in. It was done! The SUV we had rented online was waiting for us outside of the airport. No road reached the hut, not even a real trail, so eventually we got there on foot. Then Angelo went with Alice to a nearby town to buy some necessities, mainly things to help them pass the time. He intended to teach languages to Sasha, starting with Italian and English, and, moreover, this was going to be like a honeymoon for them.

It was time to say goodbye. After the necessary time had passed and Sasha could safely board a regular plane, they promised to come and visit us in America. We would procure and send them all the papers they would need. J. Jenks, now a little older, but always a dependable forger, was going to get another big commission from the Cullens.

We left them in front of the hut, the sun was setting and they were looking at each other, reciprocally admiring their sparkling skin. An image of beauty.

The rest was easy and very soon after that we were finally home and going to collect Renesmee and Jacob. Emmett was vastly entertained by our Russian adventure and very sorry to have missed it." Gay Pride, uh?" He said. "Maybe we should organize a Vamp Pride sometimes…" his booming laughter filled the house.

Epilogue

Edward

We have two new vegetarian 'cousins' in our extended family now. Presently Angelo and Sasha are living in San Francisco, and they frequently come to visit us, or we them. When we organize hunting trips together, Angelo is delighted by the variety of big game that can be found in the US. He has repeatedly been offered a lot of money to start a modeling career, but he always refuses, because he doesn't want to have his photos on magazines. In any case he has the Volturi's 'pension fund' in Switzerland and Alice has offered him suggestions on how to make it grow with wise investments. They both are not particularly study oriented, so they are thinking of what to do together. They are experimenting with artistic cabinet making, and seem to be very good at it. Time will tell.

Chapter endnotes

. Well, only in the Twilight world becoming a vampire can be considered a happy end! I hope you liked this story and will send me a final review.

The riddle of the wolf, the goat and the cabbages, (or any other version of it) is probably known in other countries too, but if you don't know the solution, you can say it in a review or go to my profile and send me a message. I'll answer you.