random volturi headcanon: alec loves cats, especially black cats (because he knows what it's like to have a bad reputation and to suffer at the hands of superstitious humans) and once got into a fist fight with a group of older boys who were trying to drown one.
He ended up getting arrested (because he punched out a cop trying to break up the fight) and his "Uncle Arthur" had to pick him up from the local jail, looking at his "nephew" with a perfectly worried guardian face ("oh no! That doesn't sound like my Alec!!) but eyes that say this:
When Alec gets home, he gets another scolding about beating up the local yokels (again)...but that cat he saved keeps coming around.
Even though vampires terrify it.
Even though it can only be around him for a few moments before bolting off, that mangy black cat spends it's entire life in the gardens of Volterra, hissing demonically at anyone who comes near but allowing Alec close, even close enough to pet it. It lived far longer than it should have (nearly twenty-eight years), returned after a brief disappearance missing an eye, hated everyone and everything in sight, and was known in the city for biting priests, teenage boys, and elderly people with canes.
He called it Crowley.
