[A/N: Pretend real quick here that vampires like alcohol, just for kicks. Okay. ~melonkitty.]

WHAT YOU'VE DONE

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Jane walked on with Alice behind her, the pixie like vampire worrying her hands.

The maze continued until they entered a grand hall, decorated with gold accents and the various art pieces. Looking up the roof was painted with magnificent pictures of angels, and demons, with humans torn between them.

"Marcus knew Michaelangelo, he painted it as a token of good faith." Jane said.

The reached the end of the hall, and stood standing in front of a grand set of wooden double doors. The deep red wood remanded Alice of the destroyed feeding room and she shuddered.

"The Masters and Isabella retire within, I will return to take you back when you are finished." Jane said walking away.

Alice looked up at the imposing doors, taking a breath, she reached forward to knock.

"Enter." Came a voice from within before her hand graced the wood.

She opened the door slowly. peeking around the edge, and what she saw made her think her eyes would pop from her head.

Bella sat on the bed, in the lap of Marcus, with Aro and Caius to her left and right. Aro and Caius turned to her, glancing murderously. Bella's head was tipped back against Marcus's shoulder, her eyes closed and a small smile on her face.

What made Alice think that her visual capabilities were in jeopardy was the fact that the three men were shirtless.

"I would appreciate it if you did not look at them such, Alice, not if you wish to keep your eyes." Bella said quietly.

"Sorry?" She said, looking away.

A slight chuckle met her ears.

"More of a question than an apology, if you ask me, Isabella." Caius said as he kissed her hand.

She smiled a little at him.

He got up and went over to a small table with bottles and gasses abound. "Brandy? Or your usual?" He asked.

"Mmm… Vodka, Caius." Bella said. "Give Alice my vintage rum."

He nodded.

"Bella, what's going on?" Alice asked as she accepted the glass from the Volturi king.

Bella looked at her.

Alice did the same.

Bella's hair was a shade darker than the brown that it once was. her chocolate brown eyes were now an angry red, displaying her diet to the rest of them in a mockery of the past, but they were slightly sunken, and permanent shadows resided beneath them. Her figure was thinner than the last time that Alice laid eyes on her. This was the leftover proof of what her friend had been trough, the proof that she might no longer be her friend.

"An eye that stares sees but the surface, Alice." Bella told her.

"Sorry." Alice mumbled looking away.

"It's quite alright, seer, you are worried over your friend. I'm sure that there was reason for it, just as there was reason for her to look at you the same." Aro said with a slight smile.

Bella hissed lightly at him.

Marcus ran his hand on her arm calming her as he brought her more into his lap and against his bare chest.

"How can you be so calm after all that happened in the throne room?" Alice asked after a moment. "You weren't even speaking to me in there, but now you are."

Bella smiled, glancing at Aro.

He laughed a bit. "She is more calm with our touch, I have already said such, it is even more so with bare skin." He smiled a little, looking at Bella sitting on Marcus. "And she doesn't have to speak to get a point across, Alice Cullen."

Bella smiled, and then Marcus burst out laughing.

The situation surely shocked Alice. She looked at Bella, before hearing something that sounded like it was spoke in the wind within her mind. "I do not need to speak aloud, Alice, I can invade your mind and speak there."

When Alice returned to reality, she looked at Bella in shock.

Bella smiled a sweet smile.

Aro smiled as well. "Ah, you've told her." He laughed lightly. "I never get used to that, despite my own ability." He was quiet or a moment, then laughed again looking at Bella. "Jane said the same?"

Bella nodded.

Alice was still in a state of shock.

"If this is too much for you, Cullen, then you may leave." Caius said, drinking from his glass.

"I… I'm sorry, it's just a bit to take in." She mumbled.

Bella smiled slightly at her. Then she stood and went to stand in front of her.

Alice stopped breathing, trying to tell herself that this was the Bella that she knew. But it wasn't. This was a vampire that had spent her last human moments in vast pain from her and her family, this vampire had massacred an entire feeding room, this was a vampire that could kill her without batting an eyelash; and Alice wouldn't hold it against her if she did.

Bella smiled a bit at her. "I'm sorry you're so conflicted, Alice." She said quietly. "I would like to make our friendship last. But it's all up to you."

Silence. You could have heard a pin drop… on the other side of the planet.

"I would like that." Alice said with a slight smile.

Bella smiled as well. "Good."

"What… What about Edward?" Alice asked on a whim.

Bella froze from where she as heading for the brothers. "If Edward comes anywhere near me, he will cease to be even a spec." Bella stated frigidly.

Alice shivered, then, downed the sweet alcohol to get her attention away from her kind friends cool composition.

Bela smiled slightly as she sat in Aro's lap his time. She looked at him, then touched his cheek.

He chuckled for a moment, then sobered, looking her in the eye.

The look he met was heated.

"Alice, you may want to leave." He said.

She didn't need to be told twice.