I closed my eyes as the kiss began to deepen. All of my senses went numb and my brain shut down. The only thing I could focus on was Alec’s cool lips against mine and his firm, strong arms embracing me gently. I never wanted this moment to stop. But eventually, it had to. With a disappointed sigh, Alec leaned backwards and looked at me. His fiery red eyes glowed with a light I’d never seen before. His lips were slightly parted and a lovely crooked smile spread across his face as he eyed me up and down. A happy little giggle slipped past my lips and I covered my mouth with my hand in wonder. How long had it been sense I’d laughed? Truly and sincerely laughed because I was happy? Not for a very long time. Alec joined me in my laugh as he gently stroked my cheek. For a second everything around us seemed to glow in every shade of gold that existed. And then Alec froze and he shot an angry gaze against the little wooden cottage in front of where the car was parked. I followed his gaze and gasped for my breath. Jane was standing outside the cottage, pure hate and rage vibrated from her body and she trembled as she stared at us. I remembered her threat about what she would do to me if I didn’t stay away from her brother. And I guessed that kissing him wasn’t exactly staying away. Alec hissed low at my side and even though I didn’t look at him I knew that his eyes were sparkling with a mix of the deadliest read and darkest black. Jane hissed back at her brother before she shot me a cold look and returned into the cottage. For a second or two, we both just sat there, frozen. My heart was racing at top speed and a horrible picture of me on the floor, screaming out my pain as Jane stood over me with a satisfied smirk on her face, passed through my head. I’ll make your life a living hell; I could hear her words in my head. Just as I thought I was going to panic, Alec grabbed my hand and forced me to look at him. He frowned when he saw my terrified expression. With a gentle touch he stroked my cheek and hushed softly at me.

“Don’t worry”, he said and smiled a little. “She’ll get over it.” I swallowed loudly and nodded as I leaned my head against his palm. A small sigh slipped past my lips and I closed my eyes. For just a second all the problems disappeared and I felt completely safe. Then I opened my eyes and reality came back.

“Are you ready?” Alec asked and looked at me with concern in his eyes. I managed to smile as I drew a deep breath through my teeth.

“Yes. Let’s interrogate some werewolves.”

 

The little cottage turned out to be a lot bigger than it looked. From the outside it looked like any hunters cottage whatsoever, but inside it looked like an interrogation room from a criminal show on TV. The cottage was split in the middle by a glass wall, one of those who were glass on one side and a mirror on the other. On one side of the glass – the side with the mirror – a man was bound in a huge metallic chair. The man was unconscious and sat relaxed in the chair with his head hanging against his chest. He had no shirt and his tan chest slowly heaved up and down. His hair was messy and dark black. Without a closer look, I would have mistaken him for Jacob. Jacob. My heart skipped a beat as a flash of pain traveled through my body. An image of my family – vampires, humans and werewolves – flickered in front of my gaze. With a deep breath, I shut my eyes closed and focused on the present. When I opened them again, I saw Alec in front of me. At once, everything slowed down. My brain started to function again and the painful memories disappeared.  I smiled quickly when I noticed that he was looking at me to. A sudden impulse of kissing him ran through my body and I blushed slightly as I moved towards the glass. The rest of us – Alec, Jane, Felix, Demetri, Santiago and I – were on the other side of the glass, so that the glass wall separated us from the still unconscious werewolf.

“Are you ready?” Felix asked and lifted an eyebrow at me. I nodded and shot a quick look at Alec before I followed Felix through a door. The door led to the back of the cottage, where another door was placed. As we entered the other door, I saw the back of the unconscious man in the chair. The big mirror wall seemed bigger than it was, and I knew that four vampires studied me very closely on the other side of that glass. Next to the metallic chair with the werewolf in it, a huge metallic table was placed. On the other side of the table, a much more comfortable chair was placed. Felix showed me to the comfortable chair with a hand gesture before he took a step back. As I sat down, Felix picked up a little remote-control from his pocket and clicked one of the buttons. With an unpleasant buzz, the chair started to vibrate. The unconscious man started to vibrate as well, until the vibrates turned into spasms. I started to protest with a horrified expression on my face, but Felix hushed me and waved me of. Instead of getting up and help the man – as I planned to – I sat down and watched as the poor man was chocked over and over again. After about two or three minutes of electric chocks, the man finally started to wake up. When he started to groan, Felix clicked the remote once more and the chocks stopped. I let out a sigh of relief as I watched the man slowly return to reality. When he was fully conscious, I smiled at him and put my hands down in my lap.

“Hello”, I said and looked at the slightly confused man. “I’m Renesmee Cullen. Who are you?” For a while, the man looked completely lost. But then his eyes focused on me and a flash of hate went through them. I winced a bit at his harsh gaze, but otherwise kept my poker face on.

“You already know who I am”, the man said with a dark voice. He had a bit of an accent that I couldn’t place, but it made him seem cold and harsh. Kind of like Alec’s – or any other vampire for that matters – skin. With a deep inhaling, I smiled once more – determent to me polite.

“No, I don’t actually, Mr…?” The man sighed and closed his eyes for a little bit. When he opened them again, you could strongly see the defiance. For a while, he seemed to be struggling with himself before he sighed and nodded slightly.

“Montale”, he said with his deep, dark voice as he looked me in the eye. “Adrian Montale.” Silence lay in the air for a few seconds before I drew a deep breath and started the interrogation. 

“So, Mr Montale, are you aware of whom we are?”

“Yes”, he almost spitted out. “You’re the stinking bloodsuckers who killed my best friend.” His words chocked me a little, but not wanting to give him the pleasure of seeing me surprised, I kept on going.

“Yes, Mr. Montale, we are. But may I remind you that you were the one who attacked us first, not the other way around. We simply came to talk.” Adrian started to protest, but I raised one hand to silence him – and felt very grown up doing so.

“We are also not just any… bloodsuckers”, I said, using his words for us. “We’re from the Volturi, though we have some information saying that you and your pack are telling humans about the existence of vampires. This, as you may know, is illegal. There for, we – my dear companions and me – have traveled all the way down here to found out why. Because there ought to be an explanation for breaking the law, don’t you agree?” I felt extremely mature as I spoke and the more I said, the more confident I got.

“So, Mr. Montale, what do you think we should do about this?” I studied the man in front of me as he studied me back. As I waited for his answer, I could see Felix looking at me in both surprise and admiration. I supposed if Felix would handle the interrogation, it would be more torture than talking. This Adrian Montale guy should really be happy that he was being interrogated by me and not Felix, or even worse; Jane. 

The time passed and I asked this Adrian person a lot of questions that he – after hesitating for half an hour on each question – answered. For every question that he answered, I grew more and more tired. We must have been in this cottage for at least five or six hours, and I was beginning to feel stiff and very, very sleepy. When I thought I couldn’t take it anymore and seriously considered resting my head on the table and sleep for a while, Alec opened the door that led out to freedom and looked at me.

“It’s time to go Renesmee, we’ll finish this tomorrow.” Alec reached out is hand and smile a little. When Felix started to protest, Alec gave him a cold gaze before turning to me again. Even though I knew that the best thing to do was to continue this interrogation and sleep later, but Alec’s reached out hand looked so tempting and the thought of his strong arms embracing me made me surrender. I stood up with a sigh and felt my aching muscles protesting as I started to walk against Alec. When I reached him, he grabbed my hand in his had quickly pulled me out the door. I could hear Felix smashing something hard against – what I assumed was – Adrian’s head. I flinched at the sound and Alec quickly squeezed my hand as he pulled me towards the car. My legs almost didn’t carry me and as we rounded the cottage, I felt a sudden urge to sit down. I stopped moving and yawned loudly as I rubbed my eye with my free hand. It only took Alec a second to look at me, over-look the situation and then gently lift me from the ground and in to his arms. As I made myself comfortable in his embrace, I closed my eyes and inhaled his wonderful smell. Even though his skin felt like cold marble, his embrace was soft and I had no problem snuggling my head into his shirt. I was so tired that I already had reached the stage between sleeping and consciousness. Somewhere in my sleepy fog, I was aware of that we had stopped. Or maybe we hadn’t. I wasn’t sure if I was dreaming of if I was still awake. Far, far away, I could hear voices and I concentrated on listening to them.

“You have no right to just walk in like that and take our interrogator!” A high-pitched, very angry voice hissed. I didn’t like the voice at all and I made a small disliking sound. A hand quickly stroked my hair softly and someone hushed comforting.

“I have all the right in the world”, a softer, kinder voice said calmly. “She had been working too long and she looked like she was about to fall asleep right there and then. I did the best for all of us by taking her away. We’ll finish the interrogation tomorrow, when we all have feed and she has gotten some sleep.” The kind voice sounded determined, like nothing anyone said or did would make him change his mind. The angry voiced snarled.

“I would like to see what Aro thinks about this little romance you two have going on. He’s not going to appreciate you toying with his experiment.” The angry voice sounded mocking a sudden hate towards the person with the angry voice sudden appeared.

“Go home Jane, and worry about your own problems”, the kind voice said, but a harsh tone had sneaked up in the otherwise so peaceful voice. I slowly opened my eyes, and realized that the voices hadn’t come from a dream; Jane and Alec were standing close each other, starring each other down and snarling low. I chocked a yawn and pretended to still be asleep. After a while of them just gazing at each other, Jane let out a small sigh of annoyance before she quickly disappeared. I waited until Alec relaxed before I pretended to wake up, totally unaware of what just had happened. As soon as Alec realized I was awake, he looked down at me and smiled.

“Hi, Angel”, he said and softly kissed my forehead and carefully putting me in the car. As we drove off to our hotel, I studied Alec and smiled happily. I hadn’t really realized that he was mine. That he loved and cared for me, that he wanted me. But know that we sat here in the car, it started to sink in.

“I love you”, I said happily and smiled a tired smile before I closed my eyes. Just before I fell asleep, I could hear him whispering I love you too.