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"Ah Edward, see, now aren't you happy we did not grant your request for death?" Aro spoke cheerfully.
I was in the throne room with Alice, Edward and the Volturi kings after we stopped Edward from exposing himself to humans. Everything happened so fast I don't think he even realized I shouldn't have been able to push him back, yet I did.
After seeing Edward something in my mind just clicked. I no longer felt the love I thought I would, just anger.
I was angry for the way he left me. I was angry that he took my family from me. I was angry that he was able to make me feel like I was less than the dirt on his shoes. And I was most of all angry that he thought he had any right to use me as an excuse to die.
He is just so selfish. Did he not think of his family? How upset Esme would be to lose her eldest son?
During my internal ramblings I didn't notice Marcus take Aro's hand.
I turned to glare at Edward. If it weren't for him I would be home with Jake right now hanging with the pack.
"Isabella my dear,"
"It's Bella," I interrupted Aro which earned me a hiss from Edward and a giggle from somewhere in the guard.
"I apologize, Bella, I know your Edward here can not read your mind. My power is similar. May I give it a go?" God does that man ever not sound cheerful?
"He is not my Edward and sure but I doubt you'll get anything." He grabbed my hand gently and held it for a second. He let go and clapped his hands together with a wide grin on his face.
"My oh my, how wonderful. Hmm, maybe," he turned to a little girl next to the thrones. I think she was the one to giggle earlier. "Jane darling would you mind?"
Everything happened so fast I felt my reflexes kick in.
"NO!" Edward screamed as he tried to block me.
I had him and Alice already in my shield so I knew we were safe from whatever her power was.
All of a sudden Jane's sadistic smile fell from her face as she crumpled on the floor obviously in pain.
Everyone turned their gaze from Edward, who was floating a few feet in the air, to Jane, who was on the floor still sobbing from the after effects of her power.
"Well that's new," I said casually.
All heads snapped to me, and I just shrugged. I turned to Edward and floated him towards me.
"God, can you get over yourself? You are absolutely ridiculous with your whole 'I am man, hear me roar' shit!" I waved my hands around to emphasize my point.
"Seriously, I can handle myself. I didn't need you there to protect me from our good 'ol buddy Laurent, why the hell would I need you now?"
He went to say something but I held my hand up. "That was a rhetorical question fuckward. Now, I am going to release you and you are going to chill the fuck out, got it?"
Edward just nodded his head. I released him and he fell to the floor, ungracefully I might add.
I turned back to face Aro who was jumping up and down in place clapping his hands. He looked like a five year old on Christmas morning.
"Splendid! Absolutely splendid! Isa-, oops I apologize, Bella, my dear! It appears your mental shield has progressed wonderfully and you have even learned to control it. I must say I am impressed. I don't know any vampire of that strength and here you show up, a mere human! This is absolutely marvelous!"
At this point I noticed the boy beside Jane get a pissed off look on his face, I knew what would happen next.
He charged at me with all his speed so I used my shield to assist me. I dodged and before he could come back at me I had him pinned to the wall by his throat.
I stayed staring into the vampires eyes as I spoke to Aro.
"Aro, please learn to control your pets. I am not in the mood for this shit. I was dragged from my home by my ex-best friend to save her dumbass of a brother who happens to be my ex-boyfriend who told me I wasn't good enough for him. Although, apparently, I am good enough for him to use as an excuse to end his pathetic existence. This all happened because I wanted to have a little fun cliff diving! Imagine if you had waited till next week when I was going to go skydiving!"
At this point I had walked over to Edward and got in his face while leaving the male vampire who attacked me pinned to the wall. "Would you have honestly believed I would jump out of a plane without a parachute? Actually I may try that sometime now that I think of it." I wonder if my shield would work? Maybe I can manipulate it enough to fly! O wait, what was I doing? O yea yelling at the ex.
"Sorry zoned out for a second there. Bottom line is, I just want to relax and none of you idiots are allowing me to do so. Hey, would anyone happen to know if the pizza is good here?"
Everyone looked at me funny, probably because they aren't used to my newly developed random thought process,
"O yea, sorry I forgot vampires don't eat food, well, the same food."
For some reason Edward thought now would be a good time to plead his case.
"Bella, I love you, I lied that day in the forest. I wanted you to be safe. I just wanted to protect you-"
"PROTECT ME? I don't need you to protect me you stupid, selfish, sparkling piece of shit!"
With each word I spat at him I took another step closer. When I said the last word I pulled my fist back and swung hitting him in his face. I was rewarded with him flying back in to the wall with a thunderous crash.
My shield was able to many things with practice and one was giving me the strength 10x that of a vampire.
"Edward, please do us all a favor and just go home to your family and don't ever do anything this stupid again." I sighed.
Edward's face snapped to Marcus as he yelled, "That's not true Marcus! She is my mate! We are meant to be together!"
I could see Jane just itching to use her power on him for speaking to her royalty that way.
She turned her head to me and I just smiled at her, letting her know I wouldn't protect him this time. Edward dropped to the floor screaming in pain. Aro placed a hand on Jane's shoulder and she let up.
"Now, now, Edward. We all know Marcus' power is to sense bonds and yours is not that of a soul mate with Bella. If that is not enough proof for you, I believe Bella has made her feelings towards you quite clear. You two are just not meant to be together."
Wow, this guy is still smiling. Is there such thing as crack for vampires? If so this guy needs to ease up on it.
Aro continued, "Alright!" he clapped again, "let us get down to business shall we? Now, Bella dear, our law states that you must either be changed or die due to your knowledge of us vampires being you are technically a human. Although somehow I believe if you really want to stay a human we could not stop you."
"You are correct Aro. I respect your place as vampire royalty and that you would like to enforce your laws but for now, I would like to remain human."
"Well than, I would like to at least offer you a place within our guard."
Hmm, well I know I want to stay human indefinitely but maybe I could take this as an opportunity to learn more about my power and control it better. Maybe even figure out how I did whatever it is I did to Jane before.
Edward noticing my pause, ran to me grabbed my shoulders and started shaking me.
"Bella, I won't allow you to do this! I only wanted to keep you safe from our world! Please just come with me love, we can be with our family again!"
He really is an idiot! What did I ever see in him? I just ignored him and turned to Aro with my answer.
A/N uh-oh cliffy! Yay! Review if ya'll like!