Author's notes: here's the next chapter, I know it is going slow but I like to write in detail sorry if it annoys you, and to make you even angrier at me I haven't translated a part of the story XD but bear with me you can translate it yourself and see what it says but I hope you don't figure out what I am writing about. Please write some reviews so I can see ho you like my writing and how I can improve. Edited due to corrections ./. My bad

There upon the table laid Bella, leaning over her was the young girl Alice, with long dark hair and odd coloured eyes that were filled with tears. It filled Bella with mixed emotions one was sympathy for Alice who looked so terrified and then funnily she felt content.

She could no longer feel her body; from tip to toe she was completely num as if she had been submerged in a river of ice. Her throat was dry making it even more difficult to speak. And other then Alice sobbing she could only hear her heart beating slower than it should like the finger if a metronome her heart kept a steady pace but it was still very slow.

The only thing she could feel was her hands, and at the tips of her fingers she could feel the sensation of warm blood creeping up under her body she knew then that Alice's attempts where pointless.

Bella took her hand and placed it over Alice's and smiled at her "Grazie, but you shouldn't worry yourself over me" Alice looked at Bella confused but Bella knew what she saying "forgive me, I am so selfish," her voice sounded weak and crackly like she had a cold "you are so young and innocent, you shouldn't see anything like this, mi perdoni" Bella started to go into a daze.

Alice looked down her face scrunched up in an attempt to stop the tears "Bella" she shouted louder at her "BELLA!" just then Bella came to and looked at Alice and smiled again.

"Yes so young and bella, I hope you stay so innocent too." Bella started to cry slightly "I hope you never see anything as horrifying as this again, you're too young, not even a woman yet, still just a Bambino, an innocenti and pure Bambino."

Just then Pino returned to the room with another man with him, dressed completely in black from head to toe other than his face which was covered by a plane white mask with an elongated nose, if at a distance Alice would have thought he was some kind of bird.

At first Alice was fearsome of the odd man watching every move he made; Pino came up and took Alice's hand away from Bella's chest "It's ok Alice he is a Dottore" they stepped away and let the man look over her.

There was a moment of silence in the room as the doctor prodded and docked at Bella's blooded body. Alice clung onto Pino's arm and wept "Is she going to make it?" Pino hugged her in comfort, he didn't know if Bella would live or die, he just didn't know.

"Alice stay here ok" Pino let go of Alice and walked up to the doctor, he put his arm on the man's shoulder and whispered "come sta?" the doctor shuck his head and looked at Alice across the room. He then turned Pino around toward a wall "You may want to take the young lady out of the room; I doubt that she'll deal with morte that well." He whispered

Pino nodded and turned to Alice "Come with me Alice per favore" he put his arm on her shoulder and lead her out of the hall, down the corridor and into the room she was in before "You stay here until I come back." Alice nodded, she wanted to say she would like to be with Bella but she was still crying over all the blood she had seen. Pino smiled sympathetically at her but you could tell the smile was hiding his fear, like a scared child he tried his best to cover his emotions. He turned and walked away returning to the hall and to Bella.

Bella was lying motionless, the doctor didn't know what to do so he patted Pino on the back and sighed heavily "Sometimes god is stronger than science" he then walked away into the distance. Pino however could not accept the fact that Bella was doomed, he couldn't take it the tears fell uncontrollably, he clenched his fists and hung his head he had never felt so useless.

"Pino" a voice came from Bella "Pino, venire qui I need to tell you what I saw." Pino lent over the table Bella smiled at him with her eyes closed slightly "You haven't changed; you're still that idiota poco che sapevo allora"

Pino clenched his fists even more "Tell me Bella cosa è successo"

"I was out on a simple retrieval mission that was it"

"How did you end up like this on a simple...?"

"Listen, I saw a Borgia soldier from the roof tops. At first he didn't see me so I followed him."

Bella grabbed Pino's arm "Pino their planning something evil" Pino's eye's opened wide when it came to the Borgia they were always told they should never engage them unless directed, the Borgia were just too dangerous for training assassins to deal with.

Pino took in a deep breath "Do you know what they plan to do Bella?" Bella looked horrified at Pino "What are they planning?" Bella didn't answer she was in shock.

Alice was sitting on the bed in silence, her arms were still trembling and her hands were covered in Bella's blood. They looked like they had been dipped in red paint, it had to be paint, blood seemed so unreal to her, or maybe it was so real that Alice could only pretend it was something else, but she knew it wasn't it couldn't be anything else so she was silent and still in shock. Then out of the distance she heard a sound she wouldn't forget, it echoed throughout the rooms.

It was Pino screaming the sound that screeched though out the room, it was like the horrifying sound of a banshee wondering though the lands haunting them with their ghostly wails.

Bravely Alice stepped out of the door and looked down into the corridor, no one was there and the atmosphere was clammy and uneasy, it worried her. She began to walk down the stone floor and into the hall at first she didn't see anything but her heart was beating faster than faster the closer she got.

She came to the end of the corridor and the entrance of the big hall; she stopped for a moment then picked up the courage to step inside. There sitting on the ground right in front of the entrance of the great hall was Pino he had his head in his hands and silently sobbing. Alice sat next to him she didn't look over to Bella she knew instantly what was wrong with Pino, she leaned her head on his shoulder as tears fell down her cheeks.

There they sat together both of them were motionless like the undead the stay where they were for several moments until Pino lifted up his head and looked over to Bella's dead body. She was no longer among the living like the shell of a doll that a child has abandoned.

Pino stood up and walked to the body her eyes were still open, her dead stare pierced Pino's heart as he looked down on her. Pino took in a deep breath placed his hand over her eyes.

Alice dared to look over at him only to see him whisper to Bella "Requiescat in pace" he then closed her eyes with his fingers.

"Pino, is she"

"Yes Alice she is dead" Alice looked on in silence and the two remained that way until Machiavelli and Ezio returned to the creed.

Both were shouting at one and other about something one or the other had said. Ezio was smiling and as usual Machiavelli was sulking.

Ezio was the first to enter and see Bella's body, Machiavelli second. Instantly they turned to Pino and demanded answers Alice simply looked on in confusion as three Italian men argued and shouted at one another occasionally pointing to Bella then to Alice this went on for several moments.

Then Ezio held up his hands and shouted "silenzio!" the other two stopped shouting and Alice was relieved at the quiet tension. Ezio looked at Bella then at Pino "Tell me did she say what happened to her?" Pino looked down to the ground "Yes Sir" her looked at Ezio straight in the eyes.

Bella's body had been moved from the hall but the floor was stained crimson, the three men were sat in the next room around a circle table, Alice was sat with them holing a silver cup filled with water. Machiavelli looked at Alice with dead eyes "What are you doing here?" Alice returned the look "I have just seen a person bleed to death right in front of me so shut up!" Ezio chuckled slightly.

Pino lent back and took down his hood "Bella was shot in the back while trying to escape"

Machiavelli bowed his head and Ezio looked on intently "she was running from a Borgia soldier she had followed" Ezio took his hand and placed onto Pino's shoulder "she said she followed him to the mercato centrale, there she saw Amerigo De Lombardi a close friend of Rodrigo Borgia" Ezio clenched his fists at that name Alice could see the anger in his eyes, Pino continued "I think she discovered that they are planning something big, molto grande." Machiavelli looked at Ezio in silence "So then she followed the soldier and Amerigo De Lombardi and over herd their plans but the roof she was on was lose an-" just then Machiavelli put his hand up as a signal and Pino stopped talking "What about this plan of theirs Pino?" Ezio turned looking at Machiavelli shocked he looked back to Pino smiling gently "continue Pino"

"The tiles were lose and the soldier heard one fall, she did not have time to get away, well the rest you know" everybody was quiet until Pino looked at Alice "You should go to bed signora it is late" Alice just nodded and walked away from the group returning to her room.

Once she had left Pino turned to the other men holding his hands under his chin he looked concerned "Now I can tell you what else Bella told me" Ezio and Machiavelli both leaned in awaiting the answer "just before she passed away Bella could only say little, her words were si scatenerà il fuoco dell'inferno, l'epurazione" the others were in shock at what they had heard, they all sat there wondering what Bella's dying words could have meant, the only clear thing was that the Borgia had a plan and the creed would need one of their own.

In her room Alice was laying in her bed staring at the ceiling, she was stunned at what had happened, were she was or what could happen next, would she get home? Could she get home? She tossed and turned at the thought of everything but one thing was clear where she was now was more than likely the most dangerous and exciting moments of her life, no it was the most dangerous and exiting thing to ever happen to her. Her eyes started to grow heavy and as they closed she thought of only one person, Bella, she yawned and shut her eyes and whispered softly "Bye-bye Bella" then Alice fell asleep as she did the voice of Bella echoed through her mind "Grazie"

End of chapter four.

Translations:

Grazie = thank you

mi perdoni = forgive me

bella = pretty

innocenti = innocent

Bambino = child

Dottore = doctor

come sta = how is she

morte = death

per favore = Please

venire qui = come here

idiota poco che sapevo allora little idiot I knew back then

cosa è successo = what happened

silenzio = Silence

mercato centralecentral market

molto grande = very big

signora = Miss