The Second Life of Bree Tanner
A/N I do not own anything related to Twilight or Bree Tanner. Stephenie Meyer owns them. Sadly :(
Summary
What if Bree was never killed by the Volturi? What if Diego survived Riley and Victoria? What if they found each other; lived with the Cullens and became vegetarians?
Ch. 1: Confrontation
If my heart still beat, it would be beating so fast. The fire blazed behind me. The Golden-eyed ones or the Cullens were talking amongst themselves and were looking at me as if I was the ashes they were burning. In particular I noticed a tall, red-haired vampire holding a small, fragile looking one behind him, protecting her. I noticed the wind change direction and the scent hit me, hard. My throat was on fire in an instant and I felt myself go into a hunting crouch. I heard hisses all around me and I suddenly felt strong arms grip onto me and a set of jaws on my neck, ready to break it if necessary. I saw in the corner of my eye that it was the scarred blonde vampire who swore that if I was out of hand he'd kill me. I wanted him too. My best friend Diego was dead, he was never coming back.
"Sit down and don't even think about going after Bella if you want to live" he hissed sharply in my ear.
"I don't want to live" I hissed back. I saw Scarface smile until a small hand rested on his shoulder.
"She wasn't going to attack her Jasper, she's hurting. She's lost her mate" I heard the small, fragile-looking vampire whisper to Scarface, known as Jasper. I liked her more now. But one thing took me off guard; mate? I looked up at her with a confused expression; she smiled at me until her eyes focused at nothing. I remember Riley telling us about their powers, and I knew straight away that she was the one who could tell the future based on our decisions. Jasper ran to her side abruptly and held her hand. Her eyes soon came back into focus and she turned her attention to her anxious family, and human.
"They're coming, north of the clearing" they then took their positions in front of the human and the redhead. They were protecting her from whatever was coming. I heard the Golden-Eyes hiss at the clearing and finally I saw them.
They walked gracefully. They wore grey hooded cloaks and were being led by a short vampire in a black cloak. There was a tall muscly one at the back of the group with two thinner, leaner males flanking the girl. They walked slowly until they were a few feet away from the Golden-Eyes.
"Hmmm" I heard a dead voice come from the small leader. They pulled their hoods back in unison. I then remembered who they were. They were the mysterious Volturi, the ones who had wanted our creator to destroy this clan. She had obviously failed. The leader looked younger than me, human age, yet they all looked older than all the Golden-Eyes combined. They're eyes were as red as roses, much darker than mine. I looked at them curiously, they seemed very confident in what they were planning to do. They were going to punish the Cullens for whatever they had done wrong. If this led to a fight, the Cullens were going to lose.
"Welcome Jane" I heard the redhead say calmly. He still held his human tightly. She seemed nervous but at ease in his arms. So he knew this Jane, but his voice wasn't friendly at all. Jane scanned her eyes over the clan, and finally rested on me. I looked down quickly, her gaze was intimidating. I covered my head in my hands and tried to think of anything that wouldn't cause any pain. I thought about that human's sweet-smelling blood running down my throat, which caused me pain. I thought about Diego, which also caused me pain. I couldn't do this; I want to die, to stop this feeling. My thoughts then focused back onto Jane and the Volturi.
"I don't understand" she sounded annoyed, like she didn't want to be here.
"She has surrendered" Redhead said. They were talking about me?
"Surrendered?" she snapped, questioning his statement.
"Carlisle gave her the option" Redhead explained. He sounded like the spokesperson for the Cullens. I thought Carlisle was the leader?
"There are no options for those who break the rules" Jane said, her voice dead once again. Rules, what rules?
"That's in your hands. As long as she was willing to halt her attack on us, I saw no need to destroy her. She was never taught" Carlisle answered in a calm voice. Damn right I was never taught! Riley didn't teach us anything, he didn't even know what the sun did to us! Jane's face showed a mixture of confusion and frustration.
"Aro hoped that we would get far enough west to see you Carlisle, he sends his regards" Aro must be the leader of the Volturi, and he and Carlisle knew each other.
"Thank you, please return my regards" he smiled and Jane nodded.
"Just out of curiosity, how many were there?" she asked, disinterested.
"There were twenty in total, including the creator and an older one who was about a year old" Carlisle replied.
"Twenty?" Jane repeated. "Who was their creator?"
"Her name was Victoria" Redhead answered. How come he knew her name before any of us knew? I then remembered Riley saying that there was a mind reader in this clan. He must be it. "I destroyed her and the older one Riley" he jerked his head east and I saw that there was a cloud of thick smoke billowing from the side of the mountain. Yes Riley and this Victoria were dead, exactly what they deserved for taking my Diego's life. I started to like this vampire just for the fact that he killed Riley; even if he keeps a delicious smelling human as a pet. I now knew that if I died today, it wouldn't be in vain.
Jane then turned her attention to me.