I do not own Twilight, though I wish I did, I would have Caius if I did, and I would love that *proceeds to melt into a pile of drool and goo*… Anyway on with the story.
Bella POV
You would think that by now I would have learned how to stay away from trouble. After spending time with a coven of vampires and then a pack of wolf shifters, I should have the brains to stay away from the largest coven of vampires, which just so happened to the leaders of said race. It just seemed that I could not stay away from things that could kill me in less than a second.
So that leads me to where I am, a human, sitting in the personal study of one of the vampire kings, Marcus. In the room with me happened to my mother and father who were talking to the other two kings as well as my Aunt Sulpicia. The fates must hate me, or they just love to make my life a living hell I thought slumping further down in my chair. "Daughter, are you alright?" Mom asked me as she put her hand on my leg. At my nod she went back to listing to Aro.
"Lilliana is going to being here for a visit here in five days. We must make sure everything is in order for her visit." Aros gaze swept over those in the room. I wonder what has to be done I thought as his gaze landed on me making me think that my change was one thing that needed to be done. "My dear niece, who would you like to change you?" he asked me. Yup, my change is one thing that needs to be in order, I thought.
Now don't get me wrong I know what to expect when it comes to the change and the year after but I just don't know who I want to change me just yet. I also know that you would take on some of the traits of the one that changes you is not something that you should take lightly. "I think that the most logical choice would have to be Caius." I said in a light whisper. If father is right about him being my mate then I would want to be bonded to him in every way possible, I just hope that he will agree to be the one to make me like them.
"Yes I would have to agree with you, he would be the best choice." Mother said looking at me with a smile on her face. "We need to set the time now." She looked at dad was glaring at Caius who was looking at me with unveiled curiosity in his eyes.
"It should be this evening; it would give her just one final day to eat whatever she wants one last time." My uncle said with a sad look on his face. It was almost as if he didn't want me to be changed yet. "I am going to miss your cute blush my dear, it is so amusing." He said as he stated to laugh causing my face to heat up and him to laugh harder.
"Very well Brother." Caius said standing up. "Meet me at the top of the stairs at 7 this evening. I will change you in my room." He said to me before he walked out the door leaving the five of us to sit in wonder of what just happened.
It was only the second day, but the first full day, with them and already they have agreed to do more with me than the Cullen's ever did in a year. It makes you think that they wanted me more than the so-called decent vampires.
"That went better than what I thought it would go, I have to be honest." Aro said as he was standing up. "Shale we go to my study to talk about Mothers visit."
"Goodbye my love," father said before he kissed mother on her lips and then he gave me a quick hug and kiss on the forehead. "I will see you in three days my lovely daughter." Why would I not see him before I started the change I thought as I felt like a knife hit me in the stomach.
"I vote we go to the gardens for lunch sister." Sulpicia said holding her hand out for me to take. "I do wish to get to know the girl that will be able to tame the savage beast, who is better known as Caius." She giggled as she looped her arm through my right arm as my mother took my left arm.
We laughed all the way to the gardens. Sometimes it was over something that someone in the guard did, other times it was over something one of the kings did but more often than not it was over my clumsiness. That is one of the things that I could not wait to lose, the other being my blush. The gardens were beautiful! There were almost all the flowers there but the most prominent being roses: Red, blacks, whites and yellows; you name a color of a rose and it was there. They even had my favorite flower growing towards the center, fire lilies. I just wanted to stay here and never leave.
"Mom, Auntie, was I too forward in wanting him to be the one to change me?" I asked the two vampires as we waiting for lunch.
"Why would you think that?" Mother asked me as she placed her hand on top of one of mine and Auntie doing the same with the other.
"I think you were not forward enough," Aunt Sulpicia told me getting a glare from mom. "Didyme, what? The dear should have been more assertive. That really would have gotten his attention." She sounded so sure of herself, something that I would love to be able to do.
"Just ignore you Aunt, she is too much like my Brother!" Mother hissed out, but I knew that she was only joking.
"She is mated to the mad man," I joke back with her getting her to laugh with me and a sound of disbelief from the other woman. "What I meant was, I haven't even talk to him outside of when all of us gather together. What if I am not what he is looking for?" I said as I hung my head.
"Dear, at least you have spoken to him. I didn't even get that when Aro and I mated. We were strangers, and like with any other mated pair love does come." Auntie told me as she wrapped an arm around me. "It is very common in our world for that to happen, especially if the male is highly dominant."
"Once you are changed you will have eternity to get to know him the way that you want too." Mom told me as she pulled me from my Aunt to her.
"Thank you," I told them both as I started to tear up. "I'm sorry that I am such a baby right now." I said as I wiped at my face. After my break down things went back to normal for us, well back to being light hearted banter between the two vampires with laughing at them.
Lunch was served in the gazebo overlooking the small koi pond. I was given a small salad, while mother and Aunt Sulpicia was given a cup of something, but from the smell of it I could tell that it was blood. The conversion remained light as the day slowly went by. The sun was starting to remove his light, so that the moon could shine hers over the land. Before I knew it was time to go in for supper, mother and Auntie never once leaving my side as I was given a plate of pasta with Alfredo sauce with some broccoli and a little bit of chicken.
"It is just about 7 my dear," mother said as she took my plate and started to wash it in the sink behind me. "You should be getting ready to meet Caius." Her shoulders started to shake with her silent sobs, her eyes glazed over with venom tears that would never fall. "I just wish you wouldn't have to go through all that pain." I was crushed in her embrace before I could get a word in edgewise.
"I will be fine Mom," I said into her ear holding her trying to comfort her, the best I could. I knew then that I would have to find a way to be quiet during my change. It was going to be almost impossible but I know that I can so it if I have to. If Carlisle Cullen could stay quiet through the change, so can I, I figured. Given the case, I knew I would have to be silent for mother and father. "I will see you before you know it mom." I said as I left her to go to my Caius, who was no doubt waiting for me where he said he would be, on the top of the stairs. Before I left the room I heard my mom say in a broken voice, "Such a brave daughter we have Marcus, she truly is our little girl." I didn't have to be that intelligent to know that she was talking to dad who was still in his meeting with Uncle Aro.
Up the stairs I went and sure enough there was Caius, his snowy hair standing out against his black suite, shirt and tie. He looked good leaning against the banister, and looked over to me when my feet hit the landing. He gave me a small smile that made had my insides melting. "There you are," he said as he came to my right side and put his arm around my shoulder leading me in the opposite direction of that of mother and fathers wing of the castle. "I hope you truly don't mind being changed in my room," Caius said looking down at me. He sure wasn't acting like the Savage I heard that he could be I thought. In fact now that I think about it, I don't think that I have seen that side of him yet, if I was being honest with myself.
"Not at all Caius," I said giving him a small timid smile. "I hope you don't know mind that I will be in your space for three days." I shot back looking around at the few painting on the walls. Unlike those in mother and fathers wing, the ones in Caius's wing were all of battles. Some had him as the main focal point others didn't. The one that truly caught my eye was the one of Lilliana. Her serene face in fathers painting was contorted in a fierce snarl. Her eyes were totally black, not a speck of white left in them. Her clothing was slightly ripped and she was ripping apart a werewolf, blood was splattered on her face, and the ground was already red with the blood of the others that had decided to fight her, on the ground were the ripped apart corpus of the others. Father wasn't kidding when he said that the others were different than the one that he had I thought.
"I see you like that painting," Caius said in my ear. Being that he was a whole head taller than I, he had to lean down some but I didn't care. His voice was enough to make my insides to melt and my legs to turn to jelly. "Mother was in quit the frenzy that day." He said when I turned and gave him a look that told him to continue he did. "You see those dogs thought it would be funny to take me when I was still a Newborn Vampire without any fight training." He said, and I did not miss the way he snarled out the word "dogs" to me. That would explain why he wanted to kill them all when the Volturi first came into power, I thought, "Mother was so mad that her beast decided to come out and play. She destroyed the whole pack, all 30 and some odd number, by herself." He finished with a sick laugh that let me know that he was truly untamable. "That is enough of the past, it is time for us to move into the future," he said putting his arm around my shoulder again and leading me into his room.
"Caius, may I ask you something?" I asked at his not I continued, "When Aro said 'Make sure everything is in order for Lilliana's arrival' he meant me being changed right?" I got another nod from the male next to me, "Why?"
"Mother is not fond of humans; she sees them as only food for us vampires. In fact she also is not so fond of werewolves or shifters." Caius said looking at me, "She would have killed you the second she saw you and there would have been nothing that we could have done to stop her." To say I was shocked an understatement. She would do something that would hurt her three children because of hatred I thought, "She has never been known for having a soft side, Isabella." Caius said taking not of my silence. "Now that I have scared you, would you like a moment to gather yourself before I change you?" he asked. I gave a little nod and he pointed to the door on the right, "The bathroom is right through there."
"Thank you for understanding, Caius." I said as I gave him a quick peck on the check and went into the marble bathroom and splashed some water on my face. I looked in the mirror just to give myself a silent pep-talk. He would never look at me the same way Dad does to Mom I thought, I am just to plain for someone as handsome as he is. The fates had to have it wrong; Caius would never be truly mine.
I walked back out into the sitting room to see Caius sitting in a black leather arm chair. "Are you ready, Isabella?" he asked. Now normally I would have yelled at him for using my full name, but I just couldn't bring myself to care that he did. It just felt and sounded right to hear my full name fall from his lips.
"Yes, I am," I said in a quite whisper, though I know that he could hear me. This time instead of placing his arm around my shoulder, he took my hand and kissed the inside of my wrist. With my hand still in his he led me through the door on the right into his room. His king sized bed had red blankets with black silk sheets and pillows. It also had see-through black curtains hanging around it. A brick fire-place took up half of the wall in front of it, and the two side walls were covered in books. On the back and left walls were two more doors that led to who knows where.
Still holding my hand he lead me over to the bed where he pulled the covers back for me to lay down before he took off my shoes and coved me up with the wonderfully soft blanket. "I am not going to lie to you and say this won't hurt, but I know that it will and I am sorry to cause one as sweet as you such pain but it must be done." Caius said, his eyes shining with an emotion, which I have never seen before, in their ruby depths. At my nod he kissed my pulse point on the right side of my neck before he bit down and pushed his venom into the bite. He licked the bite mark closed before giving it one more kiss. The last thing I heard before the pain took me under was, "I'm sorry my Isabella." Yet another person I would have to stay quiet for during my change was my last thought before I steeled my jaw shut so nothing would come out of my lips.
I didn't know what I was expecting the changed to be like but I was certain that the pain would be intense, though I was not expecting it to be this intense. What I was thinking it would be like was tame compared to reality. It took all I had not to scream at the top of my lungs for them to kill me; I think the only thing that kept me from doing so was my family. I could feel a weight on my left hand and every so often on my right as well. Though every time I started to think about what they were, the pain forced me back under. Caius's venom was running like hot lava through my veins, and it was keeping me from thinking straight.
Time means nothing to me now. I have no idea how long I have been burning, but I do know that it was starting to fad from my figures and toes, but the fire in my heart was getting stronger. Slowly the fire moved from my extremities and up into my heart. My heart was now beating as fast as a little mouse's heart running from a hungry cat. I just hope that this is over soon I thought and just like that my heart gave its last beat, and stopped. I slowly opened my eyes to see the dust bunnies floating in the giving off an eight colored rainbow from the lights and the sun that was filtering thought the window. I could still feel the weight on my left hand though it wasn't cold like what I was used to feeling, but the same temperature as what I was. I turned my head to the left to see that it was Caius. What I could see through my clouded human memories with poor human eyes, I could not see him for the beautiful creature that he was. He eyes still shined like I remembered but there was so much more now.
"Welcome to your new life, my sweet mate." Caius said, making my insides turn to goo and start biting my bottom lip, he than poked my nose making me stop biting my lip and start to giggle. It sounded like bells; there is no way that that is coming from me I thought, "Would you like me to bring in the others?" he asked me.
"Yes please, Caius. I want to see mom and dad," I said taking in the bells again as I sat up at human speed.
"You are going to be miraculous, my Belle." Caius said as he went to the door, taking my heart with him. The further he went the tighter my chest got. I would just have to speak to him about it later I decided.
AN- I hoped you liked this chapter. Tell me what you think, and where you would like to see this go I am open to suggestions.
Sugar
Edited: 7/8/14
Second Edit: 11/23/2014 (words added 424)
