Beautiful Stranger

by Dollhousegirl

The Volturi have a secret school, in which they teach young girls how to act like them without turning. Volturi's Studies of Educational Graces. Marni is a fourteen year old who is thrown into the school as an unwilling bargaining chip for her father. As she refuses surrender and demands her freedom, she is forced to learn a lot more from the school then just beauty. Alec/OC.

1. Prologue

Beautiful Stranger

Prologue

Many years prior, centuries in fact, the three brothers of the Volturi-rulers of all their kind in their own right- pondered amongst themselves one day,

What makes us so beautiful?

Now most who were asked this question would immediately answer the same thing;

"Tis their species. Yet another envied addition to their graceful motion, lovely haunting voices, and inhuman strength."

However as they continued to ponder over the simply answered question, another quickly formed inside their minds;

Were their gifts something that could be taught?

They wondered if their lesser gifts could be taught, and not only be passed through the immortal change. This new idea burrowed its way into their heads, and planted its seeds deep within.

At last, their curiosity, unsatisfied without answers and ever lingering, won out. And the new idea's seed grew and grew until its fruits blossomed and deepened their color, tempting them ever more so to harvest and produce a new creation.

And so they did; they created a school, special and secret-even from their subjects outside the castle, where only a select few of their servants' mortal daughters attended.

The young ladies were far more than willing to learn from these gods and goddesses among men, in hopes of becoming just like them, and some hoped to be even better.

After years of this elaborate experiment, they found neither results to completely disprove nor prove their ideas about the matter.

However, this school brought forth more opportunities then they anticipated; Once they graduated, their graceful beauty and minds (at least compared to others of their race) won them the best husbands that were easily swayed to return the favor to their tutors.

Who wouldn't desire these accomplished and almost perfect copies of themselves?

These unexpected rewards only increased with time as women's rights did; No longer would they have to wait for these flighty girls to choose one betrothed among the many to gain more influence in our world.

And even as they lessened their restraints for the selective entry, their school remained well ordered and still a great secret from their subjects and even their allies.

Yet even as their selection grew less specific, their rules and restrictions on the students themselves only become more intense.

And thus is the tale that tells of the birth of the Volturi's Studies of Educational Graces; a school that offers rewards that outweigh all the silver and gold that can be earned there.

Yet, threatens its students with punishments worse far worse than death…