A/N Hope you like, sorry for the long wait I've been in a writers slump for a bit.

"Oh shit!" Holly muttered as she saw the message on her screen, they had not only found out she'd left, but knew where she had gone. How? Only Bella and this family knew her location, in the time she'd been there they wouldn't have had chance to tell anyone and even if they had, they wouldn't it wasn't like they knew her situation.

"What is it?" Bella asked.

Holly smiled a fake, nervous smile. "Nothing, Bells, it's just a problem I have. I should be going."

"Holly, if you're in some sort of trouble we may be able to help. We know a lot of people." Bella's boyfriend, Edward, said to her.

Holly knew she couldn't drag them into this, the Volturi had proved themselves to be dangerous and well equipped, they had found out her location soon enough. She wanted their help, really she did, but it would be selfish of her. Aro, the Volturi, vampires...it was enough to hurt her head.

"What was that?" Edward said, shock crossing his face.

Holly raised an eyebrow, "What?"

"You..." He stared, and then left the room. The family turned to watch him leave, but Bella continued to look at Holly. The older sister merely shrugged her shoulders and tapped her head as if to say, 'Is he right in the head?' Bella scowled in response.

"Okay, lovely to meet you all, I must be going."

Bella walked over to her, "Wait, really, are you okay?"

Holly was touched by the moment of care by her younger sibling and smiled, "I'll be fine, I'll call in a few days to let you know everything's okay."

She gave Bella a loose, hasty hug and then did everything but run out of the Cullen's front door, the longer she stayed the more she was dragging them into what she saw as her mess. Holly had never appreciated being dragged into other people's problems and she wouldn't do that to Bella and the Cullen's.

As she turned to get into her car, Holly saw Bella's worried face looking out at her from the large glass windows but let it be, she was so much safer this way. Holly might have never said it, but she did love Bella, in her own little way. She was happy Bella had found love and a family; it was more than Holly had done and as the older sibling, she laughed to herself. She hoped Bella had been happy growing up, Renee wasn't unkind but she was selfish, but then maybe Holly was as well for never coming and looking after Bella like a good sister would have done.

The road wasn't a complicated one, and soon Holly, with all her fantastic navigational skills, was edging closer to forks, her only question was a difficult one. How did one escape the Volturi?

Sometimes, Aro used to wonder what it would be like to have a child, being a vampire he had been denied that possibility. He had always expected to be distant and strict, he wasn't a loving man, and he barely tolerated the pathetic whines of children. Neither was he a cruel man, everything he did, he did for a reason. So he decided he would have been the perfect patriarch.

Holly had turned everything on its head, she wasn't a child, but she was oh so naive to the world. At her age, she had yet to see the cruelties of human kind; she didn't understand the difference between want and need and must. Yet Aro also felt naive for believing that he could ever be a distant and strict father. With Holly, he wanted to coddle her, protect her, lavish her with all she desired and hide her away from the outside world. The word love could barely even describe the fierce emotions he was feeling towards the Swan girl.

Aro was also angry, angry that she would dare run from him; he had offered her safety and love, something he knew her life was lacking. He had seen it in her memories, what she wanted, and Aro had given it to her. Still, Holly was only human; she wouldn't understand things like he did. He would have to remind himself that in order for their relationship to go anywhere.

They were currently waiting for the runway to clear and were circling the sky in the Volturi's private jet; Demetri came to stand beside him.

"She has left Forks and is heading towards Port Angeles, Sire."

Aro sighed, "It's a good job we don't want to harm her, she's terrible at running away."

Across from him, Caius hissed, "You mean it's a good job she's not like her irritating sister and that we can track her in the first place.

"If she's not gifted she's not a target, which I'm grateful for."

Aro's eyes met Caius', "She's your daughter that's target enough, every second she's not in Volterra she is in danger. You have made an enemy of too many people, Aro."

"I could say the same thing to you, dear brother."

The plane began to descend; Aro's was filled with trepidation at getting Holly back to where she belonged. Sulpicia would be ecstatic to meet her, she was already angry at Aro for letting her go in the first place. His mate was not one you wanted to anger but Aro seemed to make a daily occurrence of it.

He hoped Holly could be happy with them, but if not he would have to resort to using Chelsea, at least for a little while. He knew the limits of Chelsea's gift, Marcus was proof of that, eternally loyal and miserable was the only way to describe the eldest king. Without Didyme by his side he had lost all life, which was why Caius and Aro protected their wives so much, so that they would never be reduced to Marcus' fate.

They reached the ground, and then split into two separate vehicles. Aro and Demetri in one, Caius and Felix in another, Santiago stayed with the plane. They were close to her location according to Demetri, then, they saw her car. They knew she had rented a small silver audi and they tailed it to a car park, by this point she must have know they were behind her as there was no reason for her to stop.

She didn't notice at first, it wasn't until she had taken several exits that she saw the two black mercs that had been on her back for forty minutes, she couldn't see through the glass but Holly knew who it was. Up ahead, she saw the sign for a multi-storey and climbed it to the roof where only a couple cars had parked.

She stopped the engine but didn't get out straight away, she was scared, and what would they do? Was this really a good idea or was she way in over her head? Aro...he would be angry.

Holly shook her head; she was much braver than this. She stepped out of the car, mustering up all her courage to control her racing heart.

"I didn't realise you would follow me to another continent."

"I didn't see you as a reckless fool," Aro spoke back, he was around ten feet away, but his words went straight through Holly.

Holly shook her head, "I'm not reckless, I just like my life as it is."

"I'm afraid that's going to have to change."

Holly was shaking, she couldn't hide her fear, the man terrified her. Then, someone stepped out of the car. He was tall with short curly blonde hair and an impressive figure, he held himself with some kind of indifference, he was the kind of person Holly had gone for in college, dangerous.

His eyes met with Holly's, then they widened and each of them stared at the other for a second, it was like a current sparked between them and Holly couldn't look away. Her racing heart didn't speed up; it slowed down with a calm serenity, as if suddenly everything made sense. She wanted to approach him, find out who he was, but one look at Aro's expression and she held back, making a point to look away from the blonde man.

"Fine, you won."

She hoped Aro didn't realise why.

A/N There you go, chapter six should be up soon, please read and review!