Moving On
Prologue
"Your offense against the Volturi is unforgivable," Aro said finally. He and the other three masters of the Volturi had been deliberating on what to do with Edward, Alice, and Bella.
The three of them had it in good faith that they were going to die. Bella was a human, who not only knew about the vampires, but was compounding the offense by standing there, in the Volturi's castle, as if it were nothing out of the ordinary. Oh contraire. Bella knowing about the existence of vampires went against the single most important rule that the Volturi had: keep the existence of vampires a secret. And not only had the Cullens broken that rule by telling Bella, Edward, in a fit of romantic foolishness, had almost flaunted the fact that they existed in front of all of Volterra.
In the eyes of Aro, Caius, and Marcus,something so inexcusable couldn't be forgiven without punishment. Problem was, the punishment they believed in was death.
If only Edward hadn't of come here to die. If only Alice hadn't had that vision of Bella jumping off a cliff. If only Bella hadn't jumped off that cliff. If only Edward and the rest of the Cullens hadn't left Bella in the first place. If only they had all listened to Bella all those god-forsaken nights ago when she said she didn't want an eighteenth birthday party. If, only, if only... so many of them. And if only they could go back into the past and undo them all, they would not be in this mess and they would all be going about their lives, together, Edward and Bella in love, living with the rest of the Cullen family happily.
But it was too late for that. It was too late for any of it.
So here the three of them were, Edward, trying to commit suicide because he thought that Bella was dead, Bella and Alice, there trying to save Edward from himself. All of them waiting to die. All it would take was the snap of Aro's fingers and the Volturi guard would be on them and there would be no use in fighting. They couldn't even make a run for it. The Volturi knew them too well and would be able to find them no matter where they went. If they weren't for sure sentenced to death already, then running would definitely finish the job.
"But since we are so fond of you and your family," Aro continued, "we have decided to be lenient towards you. We will let you leave here alive."
None of the three of them relaxed. And in retrospect, Edward and Alice will wonder why Edward wasn't able to catch one thing specific on their sentence from on of their heads, and why Alice never had a vision, but for right now, they're to concentrated to notice the abnormalities.
Aro continued. "You, my young friends may leave,"
It happened to fast for either Alice or Edward to see it. Felix, that over-muscled asshole from the guard, rushed over at the speed of light, grabbed Bella out of Edward's arms and, and carried her over to Aro, all before she could blink.
"But she is ours," he finished.
His teeth cut into her neck as if her skin and flesh was butter. Her screams were what registered next.
Edward and Alice rushed at him, all the while Edward screaming wordless screams, his fury so great, it could no longer be contained, but before they could get anywhere, Felix along with Dimitri, and a bunch of other soldiers from that the they couldn't name were blocking their way to Aro a little to thoroughly for their liking.
Bella continued screaming. Aro continued drinking.
"Get them out of here," Caius commanded over all the screaming- from Bella, Edward and Alice, and the guard- in the room. "And be sure that have no need to call on you again. We shan't be so merciful the next time."
"You bastards," Edward screamed over and over. "I'll kill you.!"
They carried out by the whole guard and there was nothing they could about it. All the while Bella's screams rang on and on.