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Volterra, Italy

ISABELLA's POV

The plane ride was uneventful, after Jane had finished tending my wounds she left me in a room with a large bed, however I couldn't get comfortable. After nearly six months of sleeping, when I could, on a threadbare mattress on the floor, the bed was extremely uncomfortable. I finally managed to fall asleep and miraculously stayed asleep until the plane was ready to begin its descent. Jane had come in to wake me, and she took me into the cabin and strapped me into a seat as I was blurry with sleep and pain. After we landed, Jane escorted me to a black limousine where she sat beside me, Aro and Demetri were also in the car. I was still nervous about them, I didn't want to be hurt again and even though Jane promised no one would hurt me, she was just a girl like me, a vampire yes, but still a girl.

Honestly I was glad that no one else had approached me during the trip, the only one who came near me was Jane. We were in the car for sometime, passing through countryside and townships before we approached a beautiful castle within one of the cities, Jane whispered in to my ear

"It's the castle of the Volturi, and your new home," this was my new home, it sounded strange to me, I hadn't had a home for a long time, not since before James. "Your room is right next to mine and the brothers have put in a hospital wing for you. I'll take you to meet your doctor in a moment." Jane took me through the corridors, there where so many of them, but we remained on the ground floor of the building and finally she led me into a suite of rooms that she called the hospital, it did in-fact look a lot like a hospital and there was a nurse and doctor waiting for me. One was a woman who while not young, was not old probably in her late twenties or early thirties with long brown hair and a kind face, the other looked to be in her forties, she was tall, with mousy brown hair cropped short. Jane introduced the younger woman as Nurse Johnson and the older woman as Dr Friedman. Both woman watched me with eyes filled with pity, Dr Friedman approached me and said

"Bella, we need to attend to your injuries can you tell me what hurts the most?"

"Everything hurts, but I think my back hurts the most, doctor." my voice was barely audible, Dr Friedman asked me to remove my top, so she could inspect my injuries, I heard her gasp when she saw the welts covering my back. Suddenly I felt self-conscious and wanted to hide. I could hear the doctor muttering about infections, stitches and other medical what not. She told me that the wounds on my back would need to be cleaned. Then changed three times a day to start off with and she would give me antibiotics to treat and ward off any further infection. She said that the best way for the antibiotics to be effective would be for IV drip, now I may have been held captive by a sadistic vampire but I was still terrified of needles. Dr Friedman also recommended stitches to a dozen of the newer welts on my back. Yay! more needles. I had barely spoken while she continued her inventory of my injuries moving to my arms, legs and stomach. One day I might even ask what they were, but not today. Nurse Johnson came into the room,

"The portable x-ray machine has been delivered, Dr Friedman and is ready for use." Nurse Johnson said

"Thank-you nurse" was the doctors reply, we went into a room and the doctor took dozens of x-rays, hours later she was done and Jane brought me lunch and spent some time talking to me. She talked about what she remembered of her human life and about her brother, Alec.

JANE's POV

I left Bella alone with Dr Friedman and went to organize some lunch for her, normally I would be guarding the brothers but Aro, has reassigned me as Bella's guard and I was thrilled, I really liked the little human, and wanted to help her. Chelsea and Heidi would also be helping with Bella and eventually Aro wants to introduce her to male members of the guard. But for now only Aro, Heidi, Chelsea, Dr Friedman, Nurse Johnson and I were allowed in the East Wing which now had our medical rooms. I did not know what to get Bella for lunch, in the end I got Felix to go get some take-out, he brought back a wide selection. Way more than one human could surely eat.

As I walked into the room, Bella was resting on the bed, she looked so small. As I went over to her, she looked up quickly, startled for a moment, then smiled. I told her I had brought her some food and that from tomorrow a chef would be preparing her meals. Aro had hired the woman to provide meals for Bella, her doctor and her nurse. Unfortunately we discovered Bella was unable to keep any food down, her nurse explained that after such a period of near starvation Bella's body was not used to food and she would need to be on a liquid diet of special nutritional shakes for several weeks before she would be able to eat solid food again. We began to talk and I decided to tell her how Alec and I became vampires.

"Alec and I were born in the early 15th century in a small village in the Italian countryside our mother died in childbirth and being twins we were already considered to be evil." I stopped here because for a long time Alec and I had believed that we were born evil, after all we did kill our mother, and that we had deserved the treatment given to us by the villagers. But I knew she wondered why I had saved her and why I wanted to help her, so I continued with the story of my human life,

"Our father was abusive, he would often beat us, believing that he could beat the devil out of us, the children of the village would throw stones at us, calling us witches and devil's spawn and there was famine in the land which meant that the was rarely enough food for the villagers to feed their families. Alec and I, well we would often have to share whatever we could scavenge."

I took an unneeded breath before telling her of our human deaths, "One day we were attacked by a group, and as they were hitting Alec, all I could think of was our pain, then one of the boys fell down and screamed in agony. We had always been labeled witches or children of the devil but now witch hunters were called to the village, we were 'tested' and tortured until near death and then we were burned, Aro and his brothers saved us, the villagers were massacred and Aro was forced to turn us earlier then he had intended, for the Volturi had been watching us for some time, as we were dying with no hope of surviving what they had done to us."

Bella looked at me, then gave me a comforting hug, I was shocked, this girl who had been through so much was still so compassionate, so selfless. As a vampire I had lost all faith in humanity, due to the way I had died, but this girl, my sister had shown me that humans were like vampires, some were evil, yes, but others were selfless and kind.

I watched as she slowly ate the food I had brought to her and when I asked if she was comfortable, she replied softly with,

"Yes Jane, everyone has made sure of that" I was glad that she was comfortable

"Are you in pain?" I asked hoping the doctor had given her something

"No, Dr Friedman gave me some morphine"

"Good" I knew that I would have to report to Aro, he would be glad that she was talking more and I needed to hunt. When I told Bella that I would have to leave, but that the nurse and Chelsea would be with her, she began to panic.

"No Jane, please don't go" then she began to mumble "don't leave me alone" I wasn't able to calm her down but Dr Friedman had given her a sedative to help her sleep, so I just had to wait for it to take effect, Chelsea had arrived to take over, and she watched from the corner with a sad look on her face. When I was eventually able to leave her, I headed toward the throne room and requested an audience with the brothers.

ARO's POV

My thoughts had centered on the young girl, in our new medical wing and what to do with the vampire in our dungeons. He had not really broken any laws, although the Volturi frown on the unnecessary killing of children. Perhaps I could let Jane and Alec take care of him, outside of Volterra, or arrange for him to 'attack' a member of the elite guard. He was a sadistic piece of work and danger he had nearly revealed our secret a number of times. Hmm...

Jane had requested an audience and the human doctor was ready to make her report. Jane came into the throne room and told us about Bella's problems eating and her panic attack. My brothers weren't overly interested, they didn't understand yet, but they hadn't met her either, I knew she would be important to all of us here in Volterra, and I already saw her as a daughter. Marcus wouldn't know her bonds until he saw her and right now she wasn't ready. When Jane requested leave to hunt, I was confused she knew that Heidi would be back later today with humans. But then Jane explained that she wished to hunt animals from now on, to say I was shocked would be an understatement, Jane had never before had any inclinations to change her diet, in-fact she enjoyed human blood more than most. But she was a beloved member of the guard and they were free to eat however they wished, she wouldn't be the first 'vegetarian' on the guard, as Demetri and Santiago also hunted animals.

After Jane's revelation, she left to hunt and talk to Santiago about her new diet, Santiago had spent time with the Cullen and Denali Covens learning their way of life, Bella's doctor was admitted into the throne room, empty now except for myself and my brothers, after all she was naught but a human, hardly a threat. I wanted to know the extent of Bella's injury and anything she may need to enhance her chances of a full recovery.

"Masters" she started, obviously the guard had instructed her on how to address us "the girl, known as Bella has been sedated. I imagine you want an overview on her injuries" with a slight nod from me she continued

"She is malnourished and has anemia, her blood work is a mess. Bella has 36 welts on her back, 12 of which are severely infected, this does not include the scars mind you, she has lacerations, punctures, bite marks and bruises on every part of her body, she needed well over 60 stitches" my brothers were beginning to look horrified

"The major broken bones include all ten of her upper and lower phalanges, her right radius, her left ulna, and all her ribs, most of these have begun to heal and some rather badly. Her left tibia will need to be rebroken and set properly. She has a half dozen torn ligaments. There is also evidence of repeated sexual assault, and there is scarring which has left her infertile. Honestly she should be dead, yet she is walking around. Her recovery from the physical injuries is going to take months, if not years and she may never recover from the emotional trauma." the doctor finished up her report, and I wanted to cry for my daughter, of course as a vampire that was impossible. The doctor was escorted out of the room and I turned to my brothers.

I apologize for any inaccuracies in the description of Bella's injuries. I am not a doctor, nurse or medical student.