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Chapter 3
BPOV

Now I'm sitting in the room I share with Felix, my love, waiting for him to get back from the mission Aro sent him on with Jane, Alec and Demetri. Demetri had become a brother to me just as I expected, he was weird about my relationship with Felix at first but I'd told him that he could like it, or he could lump it. The door slammed bringing me out of my thoughts. I looked to the door and saw the only person I didn't want to see. Aro, my replacement father, he had one of his skin tight smiles on oh how they made me want to puke my breakfast up. I would have rather had Marcus as my father, it would have at least given him some meaning to life and I would have had a much more carefree two years. I can guarantee you that as soon as I'm turned and my bloodlust is under control I'll be leaving this hell hole behind, taking Felix with me of course. Maybe we'll go to Forks, Washington I hear there's hardly any sun there. We could blend with humans and all. I was brought out of my thoughts for the second time in those few minutes by Aro clearing his throat.

"What is it this time Father?" I sneered the word, here we go, get ready for it.
"I was just coming to tell you that you'll be changed in a day, when young Felix gets back but seeing as you're in such a good mood I think I might stick around and explain to you how easy it would be to just slip up and BAM you'd be dead" he said chuckling, this was the fifth time this week he'd said this.
"So you keep saying, but that's all you do. No actions involved, how long will it take before you do snap and decide that you're sick of your little toy and just snap my neck?!" I said storming out of my room and to the main chamber to find Marcus, he always had a soft spot for me.

Aro knew better than to piss me off even more when I got like this, but there was something different about today. He was following me, he never follows me anywhere, he always storms of in the other direction like a hormonal thirteen year old. The chamber doors came into view and I could virtually feel Aro breathing on my neck, I picked up my pace knowing that Aro could easily keep pace with me but the faster I went the faster I got to my favourite uncle. I got to the door Afton was guarding I quickly slid through the door just as Aro's fingers grazed over my clothes.

"Uncle Marcus!" I screamed launching myself into his arms, he caught me with ease as a low chuckle escaped his lips.
"Hello beautiful, how are you this morning?" he asked placing me on his lap whilst kissing his cheek.
"Aro's being mean again!" I shouted pouting and crossing my arms, fully aware that Aro would be able to hear me, speak of the devil.
"Now, now Princess. You know I was only reminding you of what could happen" he said throwing the hood of his robe back and settling himself on his thrown, I rolled my eyes which didn't go un noticed Caius and Marcus laughed while Aro gave me a disapproving look. Hmm .. it was time to play innocent.
"Honestly daddy it wasn't me" I said pouting while pointing to Marcus "it was him, honest!" Marcus's jaw dropped. I then turned to Marcus and pushed his bottom jaw towards his top, and whispered knowing everyone could hear me. "You might want to close your mouth, might catch flies, I heard they don't taste to nice" I couldn't hold it in anymore, I burst out into a huge fit of giggles. Caius was now scowling at me, I scowled back "Hey, what're you looking at old bones!" he growled at me while Aro and Marcus looked as if they were going to pee themselves from laughing so hard.

That was when it happened; Aro and Marcus were preoccupied trying to control their laughter and Caius made his move. He leapt at me, pushing me off Uncle Marcus's lap and crushing me to the ground. I screamed, like I've never screamed before. This caught both Marcus and Aro's attention they leapt up, what surprised me was that there was a third growl which game from door. My head whipped to the door and there standing in all his glory was my Felix that was when I smelt the blood. I looked to my uncles and father their eyes were pitch black, black with thirst. Felix darted towards me kicking Caius of me and taking a protective stance in front of me. That was when the darkness consumed me.

When I resurfaced from the darkness it came with a throbbing headache, and Felix's face all up in mine. He grinned down and me, kissed me smack bang on the lips and whispered "it's time babe" before I felt both Aro and Marcus's teeth sink into my neck and then into my wrists. That was one thing that annoyed me, not one; no never had Felix called me love or beautiful, it was always babe this and babe that. And then the fire consumed me.

The whole way through my transformation I focused on Marcus's breathes, counting every one of them I think he must have realised this because once my arms and legs had gone numb from the fire he let out a low raspy chuckle. I was surprised that by the time the fire reached my heart I was still able to think coherently. Everyone that had told me about their transformations had told me that they couldn't think straight, I was brought out of my thoughts by my heart that was now beating quite erratically. I felt someone pick up my left hand their skin was normal temperature, my change must nearly be over, there was a huff of annoyance and then the person dropped my hand. It must have been Aro, still annoyed that he couldn't get a hold of my thoughts, well suck on that Mr Pansy!

I could feel my transformation coming to an end, the spaces between my heartbeats were becoming longer and longer. Then it stopped, I lay still for a few minutes still listening to Marcus's breathing until a voice broke the silence.
"Why hasn't she opened her eyes? What's wrong with her?" he asked all panicky I sighed causing everything to stop.
"Would you shut up! There's absolutely nothing wrong with me!" I was surprised with the amount of venom in my voice. The strange boy ran and scooped me up into a giant hug "hey! What the hell, get off of me!" he froze, dropping me good thing I was a vamp or I would have landed on my granite hard butt. For the first time in three day, I glanced up at everyone but the problem was I didn't recognise any of them .. well that was everyone except for Marcus, my Uncle Marcus.

I took another glance around the room and my eyes locked onto the man that had his hand next to mine, I slowly touched my hand to his and gasped. All my memories came rushing back to me, my life before the Volturi took me, sitting with Uncle Marcus, tormenting Uncle Caius, my love for Felix, arguing with Aro my father, my plans once I'd completed my transformation, they all disappeared as soon as they came except this time they stayed with me. I was broken out of my thoughts by Aro's voice. Oh I hate him so much.
"My child I assume you're thirsty. We have lunch arriving in five minutes" he said with a sadistic smile.

I froze up, no I wouldn't; couldn't kill a human it just wasn't right. I would hide in my room, I would run to the surrounding forest and feed off an animal as long as I didn't kill a human. Uncle Marcus's hand grasped mine and I was hit by his thoughts
'Isabella, I know you can hear me, I can feel gifts. You will have many, you will be absolutely repulsed by the smell of human blood along with many others, but I fear for your safety if Aro finds out, Demetri cannot track you when you get the chance run, run and don't stop. There is a vegetarian coven in Forks, Washington once you reach them learn to project your shield keep it over the Cullen's no matter what, and they too will be untraceable'

I looked at him again, was he serious? He was helping me escape! I knew there was a reason he was my favourite Uncle, now I had to figure out how to break this to Aro my father I shuddered at the word.
"Father perhaps I could hunt out of the city, Uncle Marcus would accompany me. Just to get a taste of the real world, I don't want to have everything brought to me on a silver platter." His eyes grew distant and he starting stroking his chin thoughtfully.
"Alright, but you have to go with both your Uncle and young Demetri understood?" oh well good enough.
"Yes father I understand" I leant up and kissed his cheek then Marcus and I went to find Demetri just as we were leaving the room Felix chose to ask the question I didn't want him to ask.
"Shouldn't I go with them to Master?" god he's an idiot!
"No, you should not and you are to stay away from my daughter! Understood?" He growled Felix looked crushed.
"Yes Master" he said taking a sudden interest in the ground then he looked up and me puzzled.

I was walking down the corridor to Demetri's room, which was stationed right next to Felix's when I asked Marcus about it.
"Uncle Marcus, what happened back there? What set Father off and why was Felix looking at me like he did?" I said taking a sudden interest in the floor much like Felix had when I heard Marcus sigh I looked up.
"Princess, you know that your father is very protective of you and well yesterday was the first time that he'd read Felix since you'd arrived two years ago, that was when he realised that Felix was using his gift on you. When he told us we wanted to rip his head off." He said as a low growl built its way up his chest.
"Whoa, Uncle Marcus Felix said he didn't have a power" I said arching an eyebrow at him.
"Isabella –"
"Bella" I cut him off, only my mother, Esme called me Isabella. Speaking of mothers Sulpicia walked around the corner as we were reaching Demetri's room.
"My Baby! Why didn't they tell me you were being bitten? I wanted to be the one to change you!" I growled she released me and took a step back.
"I'm not your baby! I am not anyone's baby except my real mothers!" Her eyes pooled with tears that would never fall as she turned to march off.
"We'll see what your father has to say about that!" I cussed under my breath and Marcus gave me a disapproving look.
"Anyway, you were saying?" I said as I knocked on Demetri's door.
"Felix has the power to make you feel false emotions" he finished as Demetri opened the door.

"Demetri!" I screamed and flung myself at him he caught me effortlessly while chuckling.
"Ah there's my beautiful Princess, I wondered when you'd come find me" he said setting me back on my feet.
"Anyway, I'm going hunting and you have been ordered to escort me" I said grinning and pulling him down the corridor.

Just as we reached the door to the underground path leading to the outside of the wall there was a fierce growl that echoed off the walls we turned around to find Felix in a defensive crouch his teeth bared and he was glaring at my hand in Demetri's.
"Wow Isabella –" I growled at the name "you sure move on quick, not even a single glance at me and you're off holding hands with Demetri" this time Demetri joined me with the growl I sent him.
"You know what Felix Volturi, fuck you! I know what you did while I was human, did you honestly think I'd still like you after I found out." I growled at him "you are pathetic!" I sounded out each word and had enough time to pull Demetri and Marcus with me before he pounced missing me by a centimetre. We got to the doorway, no sign of Felix and we ran into the forest.
"Bella, I thought you said we were going hunting. Why are we in the forest?" Demetri asked looking puzzled.
"Demetri, I said we were going hunting, I didn't say what we were hunting but I refuse to hunt humans like the rest of them, no offense" Marcus nodded understandingly and Demetri looked sceptical "Demetri, Marcus, you want to try it with me? Or you just going to stand there and stare at me like idiots?" Marcus just winked and Demetri shrugged.
"Lead the way Princess!" Demetri saluted while signalling me to go first.

I took off running through the forest; it felt more like I was flying my feet were barely touching the ground. I could hear Demetri and Marcus running behind me. I came to a sudden halt when I smelt something disgusting, then it hit me. It was human blood I looked towards Demetri, his eyes were pitch black, not a single sign of the red it used to be I dashed towards him gripping his shoulders to get him to look at me.
"Marcus, go get him a mountain lion, there's one about a mile from here!" He took off running while I focused on calming Demetri down.
"Demetri, you need to calm down. Stop breathing, stop it, and focus on me. Damn it focus!" I then thought of the only thing that could calm him down. A more over powering emotion, and with that thought running through my head I crashed my lips to his. It was pure bliss, I never thought kissing someone would feel so good his arms wound their way around my waist and mine found their way around his neck. I slowly pulled away as Demetri kissed my jaw line all the way to my ear until he growled in frustration.
"I hope you know that I'm not letting you go after that!" he growled nipping at my earlobe.
"Who said I wanted you to let me go, but if you don't plan on letting you better be good at running away."
"And where exactly would we be running away to babe?" I growled.
"That's my secret, so you'll just have to trust me" I winked at him before my lips met his again.

We were interrupted by a throat being cleared, my head whipped to the direction that the growl came from. It was Marcus carrying a very dead looking mountain lion. I looked to Demetri and grinned.
"Lunch, is served!" I said giggling. I took his hand and dragged him towards the mountain lion as he sunk his teeth in I ran off in the direction of the grizzly bear I smelt before. The blood running down my throat was almost as good as the kiss I'd shared with Demetri, I buried the body and took off back to Marcus and Demetri.

We re-entered the castle to come face to face with a very angry looking Aro, I was waiting to see the steam come out of his ears but much to my disappointment it didn't.
"Isabella Volturi! How dare you?!" I growled.
"It's Bella Volturi! And how dare I what?!" I yelled my eyes turning to slits.
"How dare you say what you said to your mother! And what's wrong with your eye!?"
"You all know how much I hate being called Isabella. You know that there's only one person on this planet that can call me Isabella, you get every little thing you deserve! And I don't even know why you're talking about my eyes!" Marcus yanked my face towards him then he looked to Demetri's my head turned with his. They weren't the usual blood red, they were a swirling mixture between orange and red. I didn't expect the colour to change that quickly! I'd heard stories of the vegetarian vampires having golden eyes.

"You will go to your room and you will think about what you said to your mother!" Aro ordered causing my eyes to snap back to his face.
"Gladly, anything to get away from you!" and then I took Demetri's arm and pulled him up to my room with me.

I landed in the middle of my bed and started dry sobbing; it wasn't long before I was picked up. Demetri sat me in his lap and just held me as I clung to his shirt, that's when the banging started I tried to burry my head in Demetri's chest but the banging didn't ease up. I ran to the door, opened it, snarled, slammed it shut again and resumed my place in Demetri's lap.

About half an hour later Marcus walked into his room which is connected to mine, he sighed and walked over lifting me out of Demetri's lap and into his room. He sat me down on his bed placing my head in his lap, Demetri came in soon after setting my feet in his. Marcus's gaze flickered between the two of us then he sighed again.
"Gather your thing, we have to leave" he stated getting up and putting clothes in a bag.
"Uncle Marcus, what are you doing? I thought you were staying here"
"Bella, beautiful I cannot stay. Aro with read my thoughts and count it a treason then he'll send the guards to get you I can't have that. I'm coming with you. Demetri, go pack get clothes and that's it. We don't have time for anything else."

I jumped up dashing back into my room. I simply backed tops, jeans, trackies, hoodies, and my converse shoes. I got a map and shoved it into the bag too. Who knew where we'd be going in this century alone. Demetri came back into the room seconds after I'd finished packing I'd crammed my bag into his overly large bag as Marcus finished.
"Marcus you need to go tell them something or they'll be sending guards for you before we leave the country." I said unlocking the window and climbing into the night air.
"I'll tell them I need a break from all this nonsense, this crazy life. I'll meet you at the airport in seven minutes; we'll be boarding at gate twenty eight. Don't be late" he winked and shut the window on us.

I took the lead, darting through the forest with Demetri hot on my heels when I smelt them. Jane, Alec, Felix and Chelsea what they were doing out here? I had no idea that's when I realised what they were doing. They were feeding off the human we had left behind earlier today Felix stood and sniffed the air, as he turned to where we were standing Demetri and I took off into the forest we were so close to freedom I wasn't letting it escape my grasp this time.

We waited at gate twenty eight for a good five minutes wrapped in each other's arms occasionally pecking each other's lips. When I smelt it I panicked, I smelt Aro I didn't know what he was doing here but I wasn't about to let him catch us. If Aro didn't like Felix and I together something told me he wasn't go to look past Demetri and I. We saw the hooded figure approaching but there was something about it, it didn't look like Aro. The figure raised his hands and pulled his hood down, I let out a sigh of relief the figure was only Marcus but I was confused as to why he was wearing Aro's cloak.

We boarded the plane and I turned my back on the place I had been forced to call home for the past two years.