DISLAIMER: I DON'T OWN THESE CHARACTERS. SM DOES.

Bella POV

We stood in the field waiting. It was the same field we had several years before in the fight for Renesmee. Except today we had no idea what the Volturi wanted, Alice couldn't see anything past their arrival. It was like someone was blocking them. Everyone looked nervous – even Carlisle was fidgeting. We had almost the same gathering as last time, except Amun, Kebi and Alistair were with us.

Through the trees came the black hooded figures. Garrett muttered the same words as last time as if to try and break the tension. They halted the same distance from us as last time. The first difference was that Aro walked forward – alone, even without his guard – with his hands opened in a greeting gesture. Somebody growled and I realised it was Edward reading Aro's thoughts.
"Relax my friends, I come in peace. I just want to have a friendly… conversation," he smiled. "Carlisle?"
"Yes?" For the first time ever, Carlisle looked scared, genuinely scared. Esme looked just as petrified and he had to force her to let go of his hand. "It's okay, love." He failed to sound sure.
"I promise, Edward, you can stop growling. I not going to hurt anybody."
"What do you want then?" Carlisle asked him.
"To help you, my friend. Come here." Aro backed up into the middle of the field and beckoned Carlisle. He hesitantly crept forward and stood a few feet away from Aro.
"I don't think I need help," he mumbled.
"That's because you don't remember."
Carlisle looked completely confused, as did the rest of us.
"Eleazar? I want you too."
Carmen snarled and stepped in front of her mate. Eleazar squeezed her waist and went and stood next to Carlisle.
"Do you remember just before you left us Eleazar, the new born that we, um, somehow acquired?"
"You mean the one that scared the crap out of everyone?" he asked nervously, shuffling his feet.
"I have to pee…" Garrett whispered to Kate. She elbowed him in the ribs, smiling despite the situation. "Yeah, that helps." I think he was just trying to relax everyone a little bit.
"Pretty much," Aro laughed in reply to Eleazar. "And you remember how we got Georgia to blank him?"
"Yes…"
"Well, now we're going to un-blank him and hope he doesn't destroy the entire country… or himself." Now Aro seemed slightly unsure. "Georgia, will please come here?" The girl that was supposedly Georgia stepped forward and came over to him. A murmur went up through our crowd, no one having seen her before.
"Wait, what does this have to do with us exactly?" Eleazar asked.
"I told you. We're going to un-blank him so he can use his power again. He had impressive self-control and we, most of us anyway, think he can handle it now." Aro said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"We're not harbouring a dangerous vampire, Aro," Carlisle spoke for the first as part of their conversation.
"No that you know of my friend, you've been blanked."
Carlisle paled a little bit. Eleazar looked shocked. Esme growled and Tanya held onto her wrists to stop her going forward.
"You mean…" Eleazar looked from Aro to Carlisle.
"Yes. Yes I do. Bella, I want you to put up your shield and shelter your entire gathering, bar Carlisle of course. Eleazar I want you back inside it. You lot," he turned back to his guard. "I suggest you back up. Georgia, after you've done it, I suggest you run. Carlisle, I beg you not to hurt me if I stay with you."
Carlisle was visibly shaking.
"It's okay, Carlisle, it won't hurt. I mean you might get a headache, seeming as it's going to be a lot to take in, but that should be about it."
"Is it… is it actually safe?" Eleazar asked. He looked a bit scared of Carlisle.
"I think he can handle it."
"I don't," Carlisle mumbled.
"You'll be fine. Eleazar back, Bella shields up."
I did as I was told and Eleazar backed up and stood in front of Carmen, never once taking his eyes off Carlisle.
"Aro?" Carlisle asked. "I don't want to."
"Georgia, now please," Aro said, ignoring Carlisle. She touched Carlisle and at first nothing happened. Aro took a few steps back. Esme tensed.

Suddenly, my entire shield shivered, then sparks leapt from its surface. Aro was on the floor, convulsing and Carlisle was kneeling with his head in his hands.
"Get a grip Carlisle!" Aro begged urgently. Everything stopped. Aro stood and smiled at Carlisle.
Then my shield blew. All of it. I didn't think it was even possible. It was everything then nothing. The ground was shaking, snow was pouring from the sky and boulders were flying.
"BENJAMIN!" Amun screamed over the ruckus.
"It's not me!" Benjamin was in tears. "I can't do it that strongly."
Sparks flew across the ground, igniting trees into flames. My shield popped up, a cube not a dome, over to the side of Carlisle and Aro. It was so defined the sides and corners were sharp and it was a startling blue colour. It wasn't me doing it. Edward was screaming something but I couldn't hear him through the chaos. All around us, our surroundings changed – we were suddenly in some tropical jungle. I could even feel the heat coming off the sun and the damp from the plants. I could physically touch the trees as if they were real. As well as that, memories, not mine but someone else's, flashed before my eyes. Child abuse, forest, blood and pain, forest, Georgia and Aro, forest. Every now and then reality would return and the boulders, the sparks, the blue square could be seen. Then we were all blinded, our senses blocked off – Alec. I thought Aro would use him. Then a wonderful calming effect was spread over us and everything was gone. Completely gone and we were back to normal.

Carlisle was breathing heavily and just stood there trembling.
"Keep that on the inside next time, would you?" Garrett was the first one to speak. He sounded out of breath as well. He began walking up to Carlisle.
"No!" he yelped. One panel of the square shield leapt up between Garrett and Carlisle. Carlisle was thrown backwards as it shocked him.
"Carlisle, you did better than last time," Aro told him.
"What happened last time?" Emmett asked.
"He burnt down a building and shocked Caius off his chair," Eleazar said with a smirk, looking relieved. Somebody in the Volturi snickered.
Carlisle had his hands over his ears as if trying to block out noise. He would freeze momentarily every couple of minutes.
"Alice," Edward murmured.
"Yeah?"
"He's seeing your visions."
She looked shocked but nodded.
"He'll hear your thoughts too, like you Edward," Eleazar told them. "And read minds the same as Aro."
"Carlisle, you can't block it," Aro said to him.
Esme started to go toward her husband. Again the blue wall appeared.
"Carlisle-" she started.
"I don't want to hurt you," he mumbled.
"What the hell just happened?!" Tanya shrieked.
Eleazar and Aro exchanged eye contact.

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