I hope you like this chapter! Sorry I took so long getting it posted. I start off with Aro's point of view, then it switches to Sulpicia's. :) Leave me your reviews so I know what you think, thank you!

Chapter Three- Scream

Aro looked around at the small home that he had recently settled into after the owners polite offer after he gave them a small poutch of coins. Though, he studied them as they mumbled there thanks in Italian to him, to which he merely gave them a wave of his hand. He was in deep thought about Sulpicia, but from the look of her guardian he had a serious doubt that the old woman was ready to simply "give up" Sulpicia.

He figured he could be wrong, but he was unsure. He paced back and forth before sitting down in an old wooden chair that gave a stubborn creak as it supported his weight. He mumbled to the air as he heard Caius step into the house, a few whispers and giggles let Aro know Caius was to his ways of charming the daughter of the couple in this home.

Caius walked into the room with a smug look across his face which only made Aro shake his head towards him. "What is it now?" Caius asked, the smug look quickly being replaced by a more normal irritated expression.

"You seem to want Athenodora to lose her mind, don't you?" Aro asked, leaning back in the chair even thought it continued to creak.

"She knows I just do that for food." Caius snapped in a quick, defensive tone. As much as Caius seemed to have a "cruel" attitude towards humans or other vampires, that wasn't anything to how it would be if someone threatened anything against him and his mate. Especially if it resulted in possibly losing her.

A slight chuckle left Aro and he gave a glance around the small home, he missed his own home back in Greece. But he had to admit, Italy had a sense of warmth to it that he found different. He shook his head and leaned forward in thought.

Caius stood in place, glancing around the room at the poor furnishing and noticed slight cracks in the ceiling where rain could easily leak through. "How long do you plan to stay Aro?"

"Hm? Oh..well, until I earn the affections of Lady Sulpicia of course." He said as if it was amusing that Caius hadn't already guessed that.

"Maybe I could help you with that Aro.." Caius trailed off into a little grin. Aro tilted his head and gave a simple grin of his own. "Oh? Tell me how..."

Sulpicia herself though, was currently letting the old woman 'drag' her back into the small home as she let out a soft sigh. At first, she was helping her walk then all of sudden, she's being practically dragged and being told a lecture about how certain royals are no good.

Sulpicia didn't understand it, she could imagine that the old woman would be happy, ecstatic that a royal would notice her dear Sulpicia. Sulpicia glanced around and saw the tiniest of all the children walking while holding straw toys surely that the old man made for them.

They were ages two and then four, but very innocent. The youngest little girl wore a ragged small dress that had patches covering where some of the holes were, Sulpicia was very attached to them and considered them 'hers' even though they surely were not.

The little girls had bright blonde hair and two different colored eyes. The youngest had one green and one blue, while the four year old had one gray and one hazel.

They were standing barefoot on the hard floor, dirt covered part of their arms and faces, it left no doubt to Sulpicia that they had been outside playing with the older kids but not looked after properly, they were never this dirty if she herself watched after them.

Sulpicia left the old woman and walked to the girls, leaning down she picked up the youngest and took the other by the hand, leading them to the table where she sat them on. She got herself a bowl of water and two rags, then began to clean the dirt off each of the girls faces and hands.

They were always silent but would smile when Sulpicia would take care of them, but tonight they were not smiling. "What's wrong le mie bambine?" She asked them softly but they lowered their faces. The old man walked slowly into the kitchen area where Sulpicia was and coughed.

"Another family in the village said they'd be taking them for us." He said, in a tone that made it seem like a "good" thing. But this was not a good thing to Sulpicia, in fact it enraged her. "What?!" She said, standing up from her seat.

"How dare you even consider it! They will not be going anywhere!" She almost yelled at the man. Even though this man looked as though he could break if anything touched him, he simply just shrugged his shoulders at her and shook his head. "We cannot keep you all!"

Sulpicia almost saw red in that moment, her arms began shaking as she felt her legs were weak, this was one thing that she felt were 'hers', one thing that she looked forward to when she returned to this small home. The little girls were something that could brighten her day.

"You can't do this." She said, her stubborn and denial attitude was slipping through as she glared daggers at the man in front of her. For so long, she respected that he watched over them all, that he 'cared' for them, that he was like a father figure.

But for right now, she could easily murder him to keep the girls with her. "It is done. They go in the morning...Mi dispiace." The man said and showed a frown, but Sulpicia ignored it and returned to the girls, finishing with the bowl of water and seeing their cleaned faces. She took them to the room that they all shared and laid them down next to where she slept.

They cuddled up together, almost like little animals, and went to sleep. Sulpicia however, remained awake, she walked back to the kitchen where the old woman was sitting with the man.

"Sulpicia..non si può vedere il reale, che è pericoloso." The woman spoke in a shaky voice, something about her made her look afraid. But Sulpicia stood straight and instead of fighting, she simply nodded her head.

'Go sleep, Sulpicia." He said after the woman leaned against him. Sulpicia stood there for a long moment before returning to where she'd sleep, she changed into a simple white gown that had a few tears at the bottom and laid down next to the girls.

Dreams were what woke Sulpicia up as the sun was coming up, and screaming from the outside, her dreams involved Aro, how she met him and that he took her away from this place. But the screams that echoed into the room and household, crushed her dreams and made it seem like she was instead the one screaming.

When she awoke, she saw she was still there but that the girls were not asleep next to her. Ignoring anything for shoes, she quickly got up and rushed to the kitchen area where the girls were meeting their new 'family'. This made Sulpicia stop and frown, the girls were being shy and hiding behind the man, but Sulpicia recognized the family. They were a young set of couple, with one child already behind them. That child was their son, he was small but seemed older than the girls.

Sulpicia stepped forward to say something, but was given a warning look by the man. She glared at him, but stepped forward anyway and kneeled in front of the girls. She looked at them and they simply hugged her. There was no crying of wanting to stay, this wasn't a hug as to 'help, rescue me, I do not want to go'. This was a goodbye hug from both of the girls that she was so much attached to.

Sulpicia could have sworn that her heart felt like it was cracking all over, like it was breaking and falling from her chest into the empty pit of her stomach. The girls let go of Sulpicia and left with the family not too long after, leaving her kneeled down on the dirty floor.

She felt her throat tighten, tears threatened to fall from her eyes. Two of the only people she could ever truly care for and allow herself to become attached to her, had left her. She stood up, not caring how she was dressed or that her feet were bare, and ran out of the house. The ground was wet, screaming was still happening, curiousity was to Sulpicia but she ignored it.

She needed to get away, so she kept running. She ran across the slippery ground, almost tripping but easily catching herself. She glanced over her shoulder, briefly taking her eyes off the way in front of her as the ends of her white night dress were becoming stained with dirt and mud.

What escaped her line of sight, was something in the path ahead of her, it tripped her causing her to fall against the ground, light sprays of what she thought was mud went up into the air and fell back down around her feet. But wait, this wasn't mud...she looked more closely as she realized what it really was.

The color didn't match up, it was too deep and too red...

She noticed she had fell into it and slowly lifted herself up into a sitting position, as she had pushed up, her fingers dug into the ground, getting dirt underneath her nails as well as red all over her hands.

Bile rose up into her throat before settling back down, she slowly turned to look at what she had tripped on and saw a body. Her eyes went wide, she wanted to scream at that moment but she was too in shock. She looked towards the direction that she was running, only to see more bodies laid out against the ground.

The smell of so much blood raised up and was hitting her in the face, it was in her hair, all over her night dress, and covering her feet and hands. The dirt seemed mud-like because of it, but it was slightly warmer than what regular mud would be like.

She tried to stand herself up but fell back down into the blood, more sloshed up into the air only to fall back down against her, she coughed from the smell, it seemed to be clouding her head.

Rust...it smelled like rust.

Suddenly, a hand grabbed her shoulder in a firm grasp from behind, causing her to scream.

I hope you all liked this chapter ^.^ Here are the translations, I'm sorry if they are not correct, agains I use google translate for them.

le mie bambine- My girls

Mi dispiace- I'm sorry

non si può vedere il reale, che è pericoloso.- You cannot see the royal, he is dangerous.

If I missed any, please let me know and I'll edit them in, thanks!