Readers, this is my first fanfic and I would like to thank my bestest friend Kate (KATEMmcr) in the whole wide world for getting me off my butt to write this story! (:

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Is This Punishment

Chapter 1
BPOV

It had been 208 weeks since that day. I refused to remember it, it hurt too much. Knowing what I was force to leave behind. The day they took me away from my best friend, my mother, Esme Anne Platt. Yes, I suppose you're wondering why a fourteen year old girl would only have one friend and that one friend being her mother well I was never fascinated by the outside world. So I went to school payed attention, I didn't worry about who was the cutest guy in the class or who had their hair done the ugliest. I spent my time reading, I fell in love with many characters ranging from Erik Night and James Stark from the House of Night series to Fang from the Maximum Ride series. I suppose I should go back so you can get the full view of my story.

I was sitting at home, in the full gleam of the sunlight reading Strange Angels for the seventh time this year, Mum was busy in the bathroom cleaning herself up. Apparently there was a new doctor starting the night shift at the hospital tonight, and apparently he was single. Mum had been looking for a man for most of my life, she said that she was drunk when she got pregnant with me. She said she didn't mind though because her actions had brought the most beautiful angel in the world to her. Anyway back to my story.

She came out of the hall in a hurry, when she did this she reminded me of that rabbit from Alice in Wonderland you know the that sings the song 'I'm late'

I'm late, I'm late for,
A very important date.
No time to say hello, goodbye,
I'm late, I'm late, I'm late
I'm late, and when I wave,
I lose the time I save.
My fuzzy ears and whiskers,
Took me too much time to shave.
I run and then I hop, hop, hop.
I wish that I could fly.
There's danger if I dare to,
Stop and here's a reason why;
I'm over-due, I'm rabbit stew.
Can't even say goodbye.
Hello, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late.

I started giggling like an idiot once I realised that I'd just imagined my mother dancing around in a rabbit suit sing that song.
"Isabella, darling what are you giggling about over there?" she asked peering at me from the kitchen.
"Nothing Mother," I replied returning to my book "do you have to go out to the hospital this early? You said he wasn't even coming until the night shift!" I said putting my bookmark in its place and going to stand with her in the kitchen.
"Sweetheart, I know he isn't coming until the night shift but we have to make sure everything is all in order for when he gets there" she said brushing my soft brown curls out of my face.
"But mum, you know how much I hate staying home alone, I always have the feeling I'm being watched!" I said as her arms enveloped me into a tight protective circle.
"You have nothing to fear my beautiful angel, I'll come back in two hours to check on you" I checked the clock it was already three o'clock, where did the time go!

It was an hour after she'd left when there was a rather loud knock at the door, now being responsible and following instructions I ignore it and made sure the curtains were closed together making me invisible to the person at the door. As the person was walking back down my drive way I quickly peeked out the curtains, then man was about 6"2'and he wore a rope concealing most of his body as if he was hiding from the world. Almost as if he felt my eyes on him he spun around at a speed I didn't think was possible, all my thoughts stopped when my eyes locked with his, his eyes were bright ruby red.

I let the curtain fall back into place as he continued walking back down the drive and let my mind wonder. What kind of person would have ruby red contacts just to scare someone, they looked like blood. That's if this person was even human, no. It wasn't possible, the supernatural didn't exist .. did they? I let my thoughts wonder as I fell asleep, all this was confusing me. I was startled awake when a loud smash came from the room that the front door faced, I contemplated hiding under my bed a being a coward but the other half of my min got the better of me.

I tip-toed out into the hallway, all the way hoping that the usually creaky floor boards wouldn't reveal me, when I got to the end of the hall I stuck my head around the corner just enough so I could see who was there and what I saw in our lounge room made my heart beat erratically. There standing in my lounge room, facing me were five cloaked figures with red eyes, each boring holes in my face. I froze, I couldn't move. I was scared to say the least; it was then that I noticed that they had broken the door in. This made me angry, they had absolutely no right to come into my house and break the freaking door down!

"Who the hell are you?!" I yelled once my heart beat had gone back to normal.
"We are but a small part of the Volturi, your new family. I am Aro; this is Jane," he motioned to a small girl that was glaring daggers at me "this is Demetri" Demetri looked like the over protective big brother that would happily beat up any guy that ever hurt you, "and lastly this is Felix" my eyes flickered to him, he was different for some reason I couldn't see him as a brother, it was almost as if I saw him as a boyfriend, wait, what? Boyfriend! What's wrong with me, I never notice guys, yet I'm noticing this person, who I don't even think is human!
"Okay now that I know your names .. would you care to explain why you broke down my door?!" I yelled,
"hmm, she's just as feisty as he said she'd be," Aro said, okay now I'm confused.
"What the hell! Who said I'd be feisty?!" I yelled crossing my arms over my chest, glaring at him.
"Oh just an old friend" he said whilst chuckling as if I was missing out on a private joke.
I was just about to go get some Creaming Soda when Aro clapped his hands together and said "Righto lets go, Felix you know what to do!" Felix started walking towards me exceptionally graceful for a man that size if I might say so myself.

He picked me up bridal style and I screamed an ear splitting scream, which in turn caused Felix to drop me, I landed on my arse and it hurt like crazy.
"What the hell was that for?!" he bellowed.
"Why the hell did you pick me up?!" I yelled back.
"Because we're going!"
"Well goodbye then but I'm staying here!" I said stamping my foot. There was a dark humourless chuckle from the other side of the room, one that I would recognise anywhere. That was the chuckle of Ronald Evenson.

A shudder ripped through my body and anger coursed through my body I spun around so that my back was facing Felix.
"What the hell do you think you're doing here?!" I demanded.
"What can't a man visit his own daughter?" he retorted with a smirk on his face, recognition hit me like a ball to the gut.
"Hmm .. yes, I suppose any man could visit his daughter, but you are not a man. You're a monster. A man wouldn't beat and rape the woman that gave birth to his child!" I turned on my heel and stormed into the kitchen went over to the fridge, pulled out a can of Creaming Soda and the fritz. Now the next thing I did was stupid, especially with the six very weird people in my house.

I was cutting the fritz up, my anger had taken control, I wasn't watching what I was doing. I hadn't notice anything until there was a feral snarl coming from three metres away from me and I was surrounded by Aro, Jane, Felix and Demetri, it was then that I had a deep gash in my finger that was oozing blood rapidly.
As the smell of rust and salt wafted into the air the darkness came closer and closer, the last picture I had in my head was Ronald being torn to pieces then Felix's beautiful face carried into the darkness.

When I woke up I was on a plane sitting in first class with Felix at my side staring at me, it was sort of creepy to wake up and find a body of muscle staring at you.
"H-hey" my voice was dry from not having anything to drink since passing out .. however long ago that was.
"You, you're beautiful when you sleep you know" he replied as if he was talking to himself.
"W-what? You think I'm beautiful?" no one had ever said that to me before I cleared my throat "so .. how old are you?"
"Yes I think your beautiful, both awake and asleep and I'm seventeen" his comment made me blush, no one apart from my mother had ever called me beautiful.

Thinking about her made the tears start to pool in my eyes. Felix immediately noticed this and his eyes widened in fear, he undid my seatbelt and pulled me into his lap stroking my hair which was surprisingly soothing. After the tears stopped I sat there curled into his cold hard chest and he whispered soothing words to me. Before I knew it I was drifting back into the darkness, this time I welcomed it because this darkness wasn't caused by blood.

When I woke up we were on the plane anymore, I was sitting in a car with window tinted so dark that everything outside looked as if it were night time even though the clock in the car clearly said 11:59am. I was sitting with Felix's arm wrapped around my shoulders as I leant on his arm, I wondered why he was always so cold but I figured I would get my answers soon enough and that time came in the next ten minutes as we arrived at a beautiful castle in the centre of Volterra, Italy. Felix climbed out first offering me his hand, as I stepped out of the car he scooped me up bridal style only this time I didn't scream I just giggled like a four year old. He leant down to my ear slowly, and in the most seductive voice possible he whispered.
"What, you're not going to scream this time?" which caused me to turn tomato red in front of everyone.
I buried my face in his chest as it rumbled with laughter; once he'd stopped laughing I noticed that there was something wrong. I placed my hand over my heart I could hear it beating steadily then I moved my hand to where Felix's heart should be .. there was nothing .. not a single thump. I then rested my head against his chest and there was no 'thump thump, thump thump'. Okay this was seriously beginning to creep me out.
All I knew for certain was Felix was not human and I was determined to find out what the hell he was. I didn't care how long it took me, I would.