My first Volturi fic. *crosses fingers and hopes for good reviews*. It's slightly OOC.

Summary – Aro meets a young girl named Thana on a plane from New York to Italy. They talk and before he realizes what is happening he's developing strange feelings for this young girl. Will his hunt for power and indifference to humans overcome his feelings for Thana? Will the Romanian Coven stand in his way? Read and find out. Sulpicia (Aro's mate in the series) does not exist.

Chapter 1 – A Long Flight.

(Omniscient POV)

Marcus, Caius, and Aro walked to the flight terminal of John F. Kennedy International Airport. Aro and Marcus both seemed more bored than usual. For Marcus, looking bored was nothing new, on Aro however, it was odd. Caius looked at Marcus and then Aro.

"Aro, I think perhaps Marcus is rubbing off on you. You haven't looked this bored since the internet went out and the repair guy couldn't get to us for a week," Caius said quietly.

Aro chuckled a bit and a small smile graced his lips, the internet was one of Aro's favorite things. It was right up there with Italian operas and blood.

"Perhaps," Marcus said as they sat near the entrance to the plane, "Aro needs a mate to satisfy his boredom. You've been like this ever since you saw Edward and Bella with that half breed. Perhaps you need someone to make you happy like Bella does Edward."

"You think I need a mate?" Aro looked shocked. The thought of finding a mate never really occurred to him. He'd never experienced a strong feeling towards a woman other than lust.

"Just a suggestion," Marcus said with a shrug. He himself missed his mate terribly. It had been a very long time since she had died but the image was still sharp in his memory. It was painful to think about. Sometimes he would image her there, speaking with him, laughing with him, curing his own infinite boredom.

"Flight 268 to Italy is now beginning to board. All people in first class, rows one through four, please make your way to the gate.

Aro, Marcus, and Caius made their way to the boarding area, showing the lady at the gate their boarding passes and walking down the passage to the plane.

"I remember when they first invented planes and made them available for public use. The Wright brothers were geniuses," Aro said as he took his seat in second row, seat B.

"That is the least inconspicuous topic change in history, Aro. You're avoiding the idea," replied Marcus, sitting next to him in the isle seat. Caius nodded as he took the seat across the isle from them.

"That's possible, but it is still a topic change. And I do not wish to continue on with the former topic. Now find something new to discuss, like global warming," Aro snapped. The two blink at him like he was mad and began talking quietly amongst each other while Aro stared at the cloudy sky.

Ten minutes passed and Marcus and Caius had gotten to the topic of how vampire novels portrayed vampires so badly. Saying that the burned in sunlight and couldn't go near crosses or garlic.

"What a load of-" Marcus's comment was cut short by a young girl, about 14, stepping between then and looking at Marcus shyly.

Her name was Thana, her eyes a sharp dark blue. She had a piece of gum in her mouth that she was chewing slowly, trying not to freak out. Her heart was thudding like a jack hammer. She was scared of people and now she would have to sit next to two people in an enclosed place for about seven hours. Her hair was black and straight with two dark blue locks at the front which where braided and pulled back and clipped together, making it look like a blue crown around her head. She was wearing a plain black turtle neck sweater and black jeans with black Vans. Her hand's had black gloves covering them and were clenching and unclenching as she stood there. All the darkness of her outfit contrasted greatly with her pale skin, though she was so covered up the only skin you could really see was her face and the top of her neck. She had a dark blue backpack hanging on her right shoulder, looking like it was about to fall off. She wore no makeup or jewelry. She was in all a very dark looking person.

"Um, excuse me," she said while looking down at her shoes, "but that window seat is mine." She bit her lip, completely scared. She'd never flown anywhere, never been out of the country, or even away from her parents for more than twelve hours until about a week ago. Now here she was, on a flight to Italy.

"Oh, of course." Marcus said, standing up a minute to let her past as Aro put his feet on Marcus's seat.

"Thanks," she muttered quietly.

She put her backpack under the seat in front of her. Looked out the window for a short second and then closed it. She took one of her gloves off slowly and put it in the front pocket of her backpack. Then she closed her eyes and putting her head back.

"I'm Aro," Aro said. Her eyes opened and looked at him. His hand was outstretched slightly toward her to shake. She took this as a friendly gesture, though it was really just Aro's way of reading her thoughts. She took it shyly. Not noticing the cold much. His eyes widened for a fractions of a second, not long enough for her to see. There were blank spots in her thoughts. It was odd. Like Bella's thoughts only not all of her thoughts were hidden. Sometimes only an hour at a time, sometimes days. It was strange. He learned that her parents had died under strange circumstance. They had been found with bullets through their heads in a police station. No one was sure how they got there, they were just there suddenly. No one could figure out who killed them, and no weapon was found. There were three days missing before and after the occurrence. She didn't think about them much after that. Apparently she was on her way to Italy to live with her grandparents and cousin who she'd never met.

"I'm Thana," she replied.

"That's a beautiful name," Aro smiled slightly.

She shrugged, "Guess you'd think so. It's Greek. It means death. My parents name me Thana after they discovered they were having a girl. If I were a boy they would have name me Thanatos."

Aro's eyebrows rose, "They named you knowing the name meant death?"

"Yeah, long story short, they wanted me dead before I was even born. But my grand father wouldn't let mom have an abortion," she sighed.

"Oh," Aro said, looking at Marcus. Marcus was looking between Aro and Thana with a strange look on his face. Somewhat a cross between surprise and slight fear. This was due to the odd bond Aro and Thana were developing very quickly.

"How old are you?" Thana asked suddenly looking at Aro's hands, where it rested on the armrest.

"Twenty-six," he replied, "and you?"

"I turned fourteen last week."

"Oh, so then is this like your parent's birthday present to you?"He asked, knowing that he was wrong but wanting to make her speak to him more.

Now the plane was beginning to move. Her hands clenched around her jeans and her eyes closed tightly. She shook her head as a response to his question. To scared to speak. Aro looked at her for a moment and began to feel the need to comfort her, but suppressed it and settled for just staring at her face and willing her to relax.

Marcus and Caius were long forgotten by Aro but they were rather quietly observing the situation taking place. Caius was slightly worried that Aro was falling for this human girl, but Marcus was much more worried by the connection that Aro and Thana seemed to be developing faster than a vampire could run…

"Are you scared of flying? If so then it often helps to forget you're in the air, just imagine your driving in a very large car," Aro wasn't sure were this sudden need to comfort her was coming from but it wasn't going away easily.

"Um…" she opened her eyes a bit to look at him and then closed them again, "It's not the flying that scares me, it's the air…it's kinda against me right now."

Aro, Marcus, and Caius stared at her with wide eyes. Caius was close to laughing, Marcus was questioning her sanity, and Aro was completely intrigued.

"What do you mean the air is against you?" Aro finally spoke up as minutes passed and the plane got higher into the air.

The flight attendants started going through safety precautions and what not but the vampires weren't listening and Thana was too scared to realize that someone other than Aro was talking.

She looked at him, her hands unclenching and her heart calming. No one ever asked her about the elements. They just figured she was crazy and ignored her.

"I've been focusing a lot on elements lately and working a lot with air, but I keep losing my focus with air and so it gets to the point where it's about to move for me but then I get distracted and it's mad because it thinks that I need to try harder or not at all. I bet I sound crazy to you, and I wouldn't blame you for thinking so, but it's just how it works."

"You control elements?" Marcus asked, intrigued now. If she could do what she was implying then she would be a magnificent addition to the guard.

"No," she muttered and crossed he arms in anger, "If I could control the elements then the air wouldn't be mad. I guess I'm just more of a water person." The plane began to shake harshly and Thana became very tense.

"Sh-"

Her word was cut off by the intercom coming on.

"It seems the plane has hit a bit of turbulence. Please remain calm." A man's deep voice said.

Thana clutched her seat and started chanting.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry," she said quietly, begging the air not to bring down the plane.

The turbulence stopped after a minute and Marcus and Caius stared at each other then at her…

"Can we please drop the whole air thing?" she asked, and they all nodded.

Thana and Aro were silent after that and Marcus and Caius took up a new conversation.

"Bram Stoker was a good writer but very bad at telling about vampires. He got everything completely wrong," Caius was saying about an hour later. He was speaking quietly so that only Marcus and Aro (though Aro wasn't listening) could hear.

"Yes but he was the best at telling it," Marcus replied, "I mean have you read any modern day vampire novels? Complete and utter crap if you ask me."

Aro shook his head, finally entering the conversation, "There are some rather good vampire novels that aren't that old. Interview with a Vampire was a very good novel. I actually enjoyed reading it."

Marcus and Caius nodded and the three of them looked at Thana whose eyes were closed as she listened to her iPod, softly mouthing the words to the song she was listening to. "I think it would be interesting to get a humans opinion of vampire novels," Caius commented and Aro and Marcus nodded.

Aro slowly tapped her shoulder softly and hers hands rose to take the headphones off and turned to look at him.

"This may seem like an odd question, but what is your opinion of vampire novels," Aro asked, hoping she wouldn't think he was weird…though not exactly sure why he hoped this.

Her face held confusion for a minute and then she became thoughtful. Pondering whether to go all historical about vampires, the myths and the things she believed to be true, or to just say that vampire books were a load of crap. She went with the latter.

"Well," she began, "everyone is entitled to write whatever they want about whatever they want but for the most part, vampire novels are just complete…bogus," she said, censoring her thoughts. "The only thing that they all hold in common is the fact that vampires drink blood, and even that has its lies, in some stories. Like being able to feed off a person every now and then without them changing or dying. A vampire would either kill the person or the bite itself would change them. That's it." When she finished her little speech she put her headphones back on and turned he music up.

Aro, Marcus, Caius were all surprised by her answer. She didn't mention anything about them being beautiful or strong, just that they drank blood. That showed quite a lot about her opinion of vampires in general. Blood drinkers, she probably considered them monsters.

They pondered her answer and began to discuss her in general. The strangeness of her thoughts, the abnormal way she talked about the elements, and her parent's odd death. Aro wanted to know more…much more.

"Thana?" Aro said, tapping her shoulder to gain her attention another hour later. Thana rolled her eyes behind her eyelids and took the headphones off.

"Um," for the first time, Aro wasn't sure what to say. "I was just wondering, why are you going to Italy? Not to pry or anything just…curious."

Thana looked at him, and then the others who were pretending that they weren't paying attention.

"Well, my parents were killed...so I'm moving to Italy to live with my Grandparents and cousin." She looked down, hoping not to be pitied. That was the last thing she wanted.

"Oh," Aro said, looking apologetic, "I'm sorry to here that."

Thana shrugged. "They weren't very good parents to begin with. Besides, I've never been to Italy, might be a good experience."

"Where in Italy do your grandparents live?"

"I think that they live on the outskirts of Volterra, but I can't be sure. I haven't talked to them much. I only know that I'll be homeschooled at the same level as my cousin, who is technically in the same grade as me, but she's two years older."

"So your cousin was held back?" Marcus asked, butting into the conversation.

Thana laughed, "I wish, it'd be something I could hold against her but no. I skipped a couple grades. I'm technically in eleventh grade."

"You must be very smart then," Caius said.

Thana shrugged, "I like to think so." Her eyes traveled down he arms and she shuddered softly.

"What side of the family are your grandparents on?" Aro asked.

"My moms," Thana said, "They don't like my parents very much though. They disowned my mom the second she ran off to America with my dad, claiming that she was a disgrace to the family name. They said that me having to move in with them is pure fate. So apparently they hold nothing against me."

Aro nodded. Marcus and Caius went back to discussing her as the flight dragged on. After a few more minutes Thana fell asleep and Aro just stared at her. The hours seemed long on the flight to Marcus and Caius but Aro was completely content in watching the young, smart, beautiful girl sleep. He brushed his hand against hers to figure out what she was dreaming about and the dream took him as a complete surprise.

She was sitting in a meadow, twirling a flower between her fingers. He eyes were green, and the area around her seemed to glow with life. It was night time and the air wisped around her, blowing her hair lightly. There seemed to be a stream nearby. You couldn't see it but even human ears could hear it. She was frowning, almost crying, as she stared at the flower, until it suddenly burst into flames. Her eyes lit up and she smiled. Then Aro noticed something about he eyes. They were changing colors rapidly, blue, green, white, red, then it repeated. Then they flickered up to something in the forest, alerted by a snapping branch.

"You're mine now," a hoarse voice rang out. Then a shot was fired. And suddenly she was lying in the meadow. The green of the plants fading, the moving air halting, the fire of the flower going out with a poof, and the stream's rushing water seemed to almost cry from losing her.

Aro's hand whipped away quickly and her eyes fluttered open, she looked around confused for a moment and then sighed and sat back in her seat.

"We are now making our initial descent, the temperature in Italy, 53 degrees Fahrenheit. The time is 5:30A.M." The message was then relayed in Italian, French, and German.

As the plane began to descend Thana's heart raced faster. Aro, just patted her hand and said, "Don't worry, you'll be fine. I swear it."

Thana didn't know why but his words relaxed her. She nodded and smiled slightly at him. Marcus kept his thoughts to himself but decided to tell arrow about the connection that was now practically unbreakable between them.

The plane finally came to a stop. Thana grabbed her bag from under her seat and put her glove back on. Then they walked through the pathway to the gate together, Marcus and Caius ahead of them rolling their eyes as Aro walked slowing next to Thana.

As they neared the end of the pathway Aro gabbed her hand and shook it softly while saying, "Well, it was a true pleasure meeting you, I hope our paths cross again soon."

Thana looked down and murmured a soft, "Yeah, I hope so too," and then they parted.

Aro kept looking back as he made his way with Marcus and Caius and Thana met her grandmother for the first time.

Thana wanted to look back but kept shaking the feeling off until finally giving up and looking back toward were he had walked off; too bad he was already gone.

Longest chapter I have EVER written. I feel accomplished. XD

Okay so review and I'll try to update ASAP. And sorry if there are and missed "y"s or "r"s, those keys aren't working right.

Most of my inspiration from this story came from the songs Possibility by Lykke Li and Satellite Heart by Anya Marina, both on the New Moon Soundtrack. If you don't have it I suggest you get it and listen to those songs. They're really good.