After it was over she and Riley would run fast and far, until the Volturi got tired of chasing them.
The next few hours changed Riley. Victoria made him choose between being with her and saving Diego‘s life. Riley chose Victoria and refused to acknowledge the feeling that he had chosen wrong. Victoria was high-strung and paranoid after the Volturi‘s visit. She insisted on extracting as much information as possible from Diego. In the end, Diego told her everything that he and Bree suspected. Riley was horrified by her actions and the things she made him do, but because he loved her he had to find a way to reconcile who she was with what he loved. He had to close himself off to his feelings of pity and humanity. He tried to enjoy Diego‘s pain the way she obviously did. Victoria was pleased with the change. Now that she felt Riley had proven himself, she told him the truth — mostly — about the coming battle. The majority of the newborns would be slaughtered before the Cullens were destroyed. She would not join the fight; she would observe to make sure the right members of the Cullen clan were destroyed. If a chance presented itself, she would act. After it was over she and Riley would run fast and far, until the Volturi got tired of chasing them. She lied about only a few things — including who her real target was, and that Riley would be escaping with her.
Riley did well in his last days with the newborns. He was able to manipulate them into exactly the mindset Victoria wanted. He did not entirely understand why the focus should be on the human girl — Victoria said the Cullens would be less effective if they were trying to protect the human — but he primed them perfectly. His only failure was in losing Fred; of course, in the end, he couldn‘t remember that he‘d lost him. After sending the newborns on their way, he met up with Victoria at the rendezvous point she‘d chosen. She told him that a key member of the coven had hidden to avoid the fight, and together they were going to make sure he didn‘t survive.
DIEGO
NAME: Diego
DATE OF BIRTH: November 1987
DATE OF TRANSFORMATION: July 2005, at age 17
SOURCE OF TRANSFORMATION: Victoria
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Los Angeles, California
HAIR COLOR: Black
EYE COLOR: Brown (human); bright red/black (newborn vampire) HEIGHT: 6‘0‖
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Diego had thick, curly hair and a faint olive tone to his vampire skin. He was lean but muscular.
SPECIAL ABILITIES: He did not possess a quantifiable supernatural ability.
FAMILY/COVEN RELATIONSHIPS: Diego belonged to Riley‘s coven of newborns.
PERSONAL HISTORY:
Diego grew up in a lower-class, single-parent home in Los Angeles. He lived with his mother and younger brother. When he was sixteen, his mother relocated to Portland for a job that then fell through. Diego worked part-time jobs to help out while he went to school. He was determined to go to college, and to help his younger brother get an education as well. Diego had some trouble with a gang at his high school, but he did his best to avoid them. He was furious when he found out that the same gang was pursuing his younger brother. He tried to convince his brother to stay away from them, and he talked with his mother about switching his brother to a different school. Before they could come up with a plan to remove his brother from the situation, his brother was killed in an initiation ritual.
Diego went crazy with grief. He stole a gun from the house of one of the gang members.
He‘d learned who was actually responsible for his brother‘s death, and he tracked him down and fatally shot him. The other members of the gang came after Diego. They had him cornered when Riley interceded.
FRED
NAME: Fred; nickname: ―Freaky Fred‖
DATE OF BIRTH: April 1985
DATE OF TRANSFORMATION: August 2005, at age 20
SOURCE OF TRANSFORMATION: Victoria
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Vancouver, British Columbia
HAIR COLOR: Blond
EYE COLOR: Blue (human); bright red/black (newborn vampire) HEIGHT: 6‘2‖
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Fred is tall and broad-shouldered.
SPECIAL ABILITIES: He has the ability to make anyone feel physically repulsed. He can use this ability to make someone unable to think of him for a period of time.
FAMILY/COVEN RELATIONSHIPS: Fred belonged to Riley‘s coven of newborns; he is currently a nomad.
He embraced being a science nerd and related to others academically but not socially.
PERSONAL HISTORY:
Fred grew up with his father; his parents divorced when Fred was ten. His mother remarried and had three children, half-siblings whom Fred rarely saw. Fred‘s father was not very expressive, and Fred found that the only way to communicate with his father was through logic rather than emotion. Fred had a natural inclination toward the sciences, which his father encouraged. In elementary school he was bullied occasionally because he was thin and wore thick glasses. In high school Fred grew very tall, but he was awkward and gangly. He embraced being a science nerd and related to others academically but not socially. He tried to avoid attention, and hated to be singled out except in the classroom. Eventually, Fred received a scholarship to Stanford University. Physically, he had gotten past his awkward stage and was quite attractive, but he was oblivious to this. After his sophomore year, he volunteered for a special research project offered by his favorite marine biology professor. Fred spent the majority of the summer on remote beaches along the Oregon and Washington coast, camping for the most part. It was a solitary trip, and he went several days at a time without seeing another person.
Riley found him on one of those beaches and imagined that Fred‘s disappearance would seem quite explicable. He asked Fred if he was interested in some excitement. Fred said no, but Riley didn‘t take no for an answer.
Fred is one of three newborns who survived the rest of the coven‘s demise; he went on to become a solitary nomad.
RAOUL
NAME: Raoul
DATE OF BIRTH: October 8, 1988
DATE OF TRANSFORMATION: September 2005, at age 16