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Unbreakable Faith
A/N: This story is written as a collaboration by both Xo Bella Italiana oX (my new pen name) and DeathsQueen26. The idea, however, came from Luckystar125. We hope that you enjoy the story and look forward to reading your reviews. If you have any questions or comments, post them in my reviews and I will answer them in my next Author's Note! – Bellisma
Chapter 7
(Faith's POV)
'I'm not ready to face Marcus, Fay. It's going to be hard enough explaining this to Aro and he can read people's minds. They will never believe us! What are we going to do?' Didyme tells me in what sounded like complete panic and anxiety.
"Don't worry," I tried to soothe her. "I will get Aro to touch my hand, and then once he sees everything he will know that you are really stuck in my head. Then, hopefully, he will explain it all to Marcus. After Marcus is told, we can make up a plan to have us separated. Now, does that sound so hard?" I asked Didyme as I walked down the hall.
"That is what youthink will happen. Aro will probably forget that Marcus is in the room and when Aro says something about me Marcus will flip."
I sighed. "Just remember, you are already dead, so they can't do much but yell at us, because I'm betting that they won't want to take the chance on harming you."
"Here we are," Aro said interrupting a conversation that he had no idea was going on.
He opened a large oak door and held it open for Marcus and me to pass through. There is a large wooden desk in the center of the room that matches the door that I had just passed through. The wall behind the desk was covered in filing cabinets and there were three leather chairs with one behind the desk and two in front of it.
"Would you like to sit? I understand that humans tire fairly easy," Aro said gesturing to the chairs that I was eying.
I sat in the chair furthest from the door while Aro moved to stand next to me while Marcus stood near the now closed door. "So tell me, my dear, why did you wish to speak to me privately when I could end your life in less than a blink of an eye?" Aro's words made me stiffen. What if he kills me before I can explain?
"He just wants to scare you, he won't really do it," Didyme's words allowed me to relax into the chair.
"It's more of what I wanted to show you rather than tell you," I say to Aro in the calmest voice that I have heard come from my mouth in a very long time. I raise my hand from my lap so that Aro could touch it.
Once our hands met, I started to relive my life. It's not like I was just remembering everything that I lived through, but I could feel everything that I had ever felt and it was like I was seeing everything like I'm reliving it all over again. The only difference was that it was happening a lot faster than it did when I was living through it all the first time.
Finally, I am able to see myself in the present once more. Aro was looking at me in shock.
"Didyme... but how?" Aro clutched my hand so tightly I could barely feel it any more. I could see Marcus stiffen at the sound of his dead mate's name.
"It is I, brother," Didyme said in my head. Seeing as Aro is still holding my hand, he heard what she said and dropped my hand in shock.
"How is it possible?" Aro questioned me in a gasp.
"We are not sure as of yet, but I had a vision of you telling me about a vampire that could separate us," I told him in a rush of words.
"Ah, yes, you're gift. I was surprised to see that it was similar to Alice's but far more advanced in what you are able to see." He pondered out loud before shaking it off. "Anyway, a century or so ago while I was reading a young vampire's mind I saw her creator do something along the lines of pulling out a person's soul, if that is what you would like to call it. She was able to place it in a different body. I should have a file on him somewhere; it should take me just a minute to find it."
Before I could even blink, Aro was standing in front of one of his filing cabinets looking through it so fast that I couldn't even see his fingers moving.
As Aro continued searching, I snuck a look at Marcus for Didyme's benefit. Marcus was looking at Aro in curiosity, but kept his mouth shut from asking any of the questions that were obviously on his mind.
"Ah, here it is," Aro said making me look toward him once more. He hands me a tan folder and slowly, I opened it.
There were three papers inside of it. One was a drawing of a man in his late 30's and the only way that I could tell that he was a vampire was that he had ruby red eyes. Besides that he looked quite plain with his short mousy brown hair and suit jacket.
I looked at the other papers and found out that his name is Daten Mangum. He was changed in his 30's in the early Renaissance era. He has been a nomad most of his immortal life and the only time he moves a soul into a different body is if the body can make it through the change of becoming a vampire. He was last seen in France 46 years ago with what was believed to be his mate.
"Will he be able to move my soul into a different body without Faith having to die?" Didyme asked in my head and without thinking I repeated the question to Aro.
"Didyme wants to know if I will live if she is removed from my body."
"WAIT A MINUTE!" Marcus shouts making me jump. "Are you two saying that my Didyme is stuck in this human's body with no way out?"
"Yes brother, that is correct," Aro replied in a clam voice.
"But that is not possible! She died in an accident. Her skirts caught fire during a camp out," Marcus exclaimed in a distressed tone. "I think I need to sit." Slowly he lowered himself into the seat next to me. "How?" He finally asked.
"We don't know," I answered with a shrug. "Didyme was helping the others around the castle when she found a letter from the Romanian coven to Athenodora. The letter was talking about how they could take you down from the inside now that Caius believed that she was his mate. Didyme had Athenodora go into the woods with her and once they were a good distance away from the castle she confronted Athenodora about it. Somehow Athenodora knew this was going to happen because an ambush was waiting for Didyme. Two large vampires grabbed her arms while Athenodora ripped her head off. Next thing she knew, she was in a baby's head…myhead."
"I'll kill that low life spy if it is the last thing I do!" Marcus shouted jumping up from his seat.
"No don't!" I reach out to stop him. "That's not the way to go about this. Wait until Didyme has her own body so that she can testify against Athenodora. That way none of us seem like crazy people ranting about some voice in my head," I stood up as well and began to follow around a pacing Marcus as I tried to get him to listen to me.
"Faith is right," Aro agreed. "It would be best for us to keep this to ourselves just for the time being. I will have Demetri bring this Mangum to the castle believing that I want to meet him because of his mysterious power. This way there will be no suspicion. We need Didyme to be able to face Athenodora so that there is proof rather than it looking like some mental human going on about a voice in her head and making harsh accusations against one of the queens."
"Fine, but would it really be safe for us to have a human wandering around the castle that long without giving the others a reason for them not to kill her if they get hungry?" Marcus brought up a very good point; I really didn't feel like dying any time soon.
"Yes, that is true," Aro says rubbing his chin. "Faith, you are living at your cousin's house in Forks, correct?" As I nod my head Aro continued. "The Cullen's live fairly close to her, so I don't see any reason why you could not stay with her as long as Carlisle agrees to protect you. But you would still not have a way to contact us in an emergency," Aro rambled more to himself than to anyone else.
"Perhaps we could get her a cell phone, like the ones Sulpicia makes all of us and the guard carry around," Marcus suggested interrupting Aro's ramblings.
"Good idea, brother. Faith, are you okay with us doing this?" Aro asked.
"If you don't agree to this then I will find a way to kill you myself," Didyme growled in my head.
"Well, Didyme isn't giving me much of a choice, so, yes, it is fine," I said letting out a small laugh.
"Seeing as we do not have the time to get you a cell phone," Aro pulled out a gold card from his desk drawer, "you can use this to pay for your phone and anything else that your heart desires," Aro forced the card into my hands.
"Aro, I can't take this. It is too much." I can't believe he just gave me his gold card. I was in complete shock. This was such a complete turnaround from the man who was just in the throne room.
"Well, that's how Aro is," Didyme answered me back. "He has to keep up with appearances by using fear if necessary so that others don't think that he is easily taken advantage of. It is all a part of the job, I guess you could say."
"Nonsense," He says immediately after Didyme's explanation to my thoughts. "If you could only see the amount money that we have you would not be so worried about the little bit that you could possibly spend. Didyme thinks of you as her daughter, so in turn, that makes you my niece and that makes it okay for me to 'spoil you rotten' as people say now a days."
"You might want to just get used to it 'cause once Aro makes up his mind there is no changing it," Didyme says with a laugh.
"Thank you," I told Aro in the kindest voice that I could use while still being in such shock.
"As long as you buy yourself a few things a week I will be happy. My family gets the best."
Aro wrote the pin for the card and his and Marcus's numbers down on a slip of paper and handed it to me. I put the card and paper in my front pocket so that I don't lose them.
Marcus, Aro and I spent quite a while talking. Marcus - once you get him to open up - is very kind and caring. I have begun to think of him as a second dad in the time that we have spent together. Aro is like the crazy uncle that I never had, seeing as Charlie is calm and laid-back.
"Well Faith, you have been locked up in here for a while and Bella is most likely worried sick about you. I will get a guard to lead you to the others," Aro ran out of the door.
Slowly, I stood up with Marcus's help. "I expect a call from you at least once a week with an update on how you and Didyme are doing," Marcus gave me a small hug before releasing me when Aro returned with Alec.
"Faith, Alec will be leading you back to your cousin and you will be able to leave. When you arrive back home please have Carlisle call me," Aro said giving me a quick hug. A shocked look crossed Alec's face for less than a second before he quickly composed himself.
"I guess he's never seen Aro hug a human, huh?" I chucked in my head making Didyme laugh as well.
I walked toward the door so that Alec could lead me out.
"Oh, and Alec? Please remind the Cullen's of my offer," Aro said making me pause as I walked through the door.
"Yes, master," Alec responded before he quickly started to lead me down the hall.
After several twists and turns, with me almost running to keep up with him, we reach the waiting room that Bella, Edward and Alice were seated in. Alec reaches them before I do and I am left to walk over to them as he speaks to the group in a quiet tone telling them that they are okay to leave now that it is dark. Once I reached them Alec was already gone.
"That guy needs to learn to slow down and not live life in such a rush!" I said to Didyme.
"Well, as soon as I have my own body I will teach him a lesson on speed. How does that sound?"Didyme jokes.
"Great, I'm sure that I'm not the only one who would appreciate it," I responded.
I noticed that Edward was giving me a weird look once again before getting directions from the girl at the front desk as Bella rushed over to hug me. It was clear that she was really worried about how long I was gone for. Regardless of how quickly she made it over, it was obvious that she was absolutely exhausted. I guess you could say that she was dead on her feet.
A few minutes later we were standing outside the building that we were just in. The streets were just as crowded as they were before we went in, if not more so.
"Faith, would you like to go with me to get the bags and a car?" Alice asked me, but before I could answer her I was on her back speeding through the crowd as the party outside was still in full swing.
In the time that it took to blink we were standing in front of the bushes that we had stashed the bags behind. Alice pulled the bags out of the bushes quickly and handed them to me.
Once I had a hold of the two bags, I was in her arms once more and we were flying through the sea of people. When we come to a stop we are in a dirt parking lot full of cars outside of the city gates. Alice lowered me to my feet and took Bella's bag from me. Alice walked up to a dark colored car looking around for other people. Suddenly it hit me what she is doing.
"Well, I always wanted to learn how to hot-wire a car," I said as a large grin covered my face.
We waited in a pool of shadow to the right of the gate with the engine running. Edward and Bella appeared and slid into the back seat together while I stayed up in the passenger seat next to Alice.
She was apologetic. "I'm sorry," She gestured vaguely toward the dashboard. "There wasn't much to choose from."
"It's fine, Alice." Edward grinned. "They can't all be 911 Turbos."
She sighed. "I may have to acquire one of those legally! It was fabulous!"
"I'll get you one for Christmas." He promised.
Alice turned to beam at him, which obviously worried Bella since she was already speeding down the dark and curvy hillside at the same time. Thanks to my visions, I already knew that we would be just fine.
"Yellow," she told him.
Edward kept Bella tight in his arms. She looked rather comfortable and I envied the comfort she had with him. I knew that what Alice had said about Jasper and I was real because ever since we left Voltaire I kept getting flashes of the two of us together looking happy and in love. But that still didn't mean that I didn't worry.
After a moment of silence, I turned around in my seat and smiled at my cousin and then Edward. "Hi, I'm Faith Swan." I formally introduced myself.
"Edward Cullen," he smiled back with a nod, not releasing his grip on Bella. "So you're Bella's cousin and Alice's biological great niece as well as Jasper's mate that has a powerful gift in human form. That, by the way, is really something."
I grimaced. "All of the women on my mother's side had some form of the gift. I unfortunately have every aspect of the gift. Though, I guess it comes in handy since I'm able to control it now, but let me tell you…before then was a nightmare! I couldn't stop the visions from not only the future, but the past and present flying through my head at the most inopportune times! It was so mentally draining!"
He chuckled and nodded. "I'd imagine so. Being a mind-reader has it's downsides as well."
"I bet," I smirked.
His face suddenly became serious. "I want to thank you for everything that you did for Bella while I was… away." He winced slightly at the word. "I'm glad that she had you to lean on and be there for her to protect her. I don't know how I could ever repay you."
I shook my head. "She's my cousin, it's my job to look out for my family. You don't need to do anything to repay me."
He just gave me a small smile before elapsing into silence as I turned back around in my seat.
"You can sleep now, Bella," he murmured moments later breaking the silence. "It's over."
She swallowed thickly. "I don't want to sleep. I'm not tired."
He pressed his lips to the hollow under her ear. "Try," he encouraged.
She shook her head.
He sighed. "You're still just as stubborn."
The bright lights at the airport in Florence gave Bella and I a chance to brush our teeth and change into clean clothes. Alice bought Edward new clothes and he left the dark cloak on a pile of trash in an alley. The plane trip to Rome was so short that there wasn't really a chance for the fatigue that I was beginning to feel to drag me under. I knew that the flight from Rome to Atlanta would be another matter entirely, so I asked the flight attendant if she could bring me a Coke so that I wouldn't have to be disturbed during my sleep in between flights.
Bella asked the attendant for a coke as well causing Edward to give her a disapproving look. He knew just as I did about her low tolerance to caffeine.
Alice and I were sitting behind the two of them and I could hear her murmuring to Jasper on the phone. From what I could tell, they were arguing about me causing me to shake my head and sigh.
"I don't want to sleep." I heard Bella remind Edward once again. "If I close my eyes now, I'll see things I don't want to see. I'll have nightmares." I knew that was a crock of shit; she just didn't want to sleep during this time with Edward. Knowing how my cousin thinks, she believes that they will be leaving again after we get back but I knew that it wasn't my place to tell her otherwise. She wouldn't believe it from anybody's mouth but his.
I closed my eyes and let vision after vision overcome me about the new family that I would be meeting in just under a day. I knew that when I got off of the plane, Jasper would be there waiting for me and it made me nervous but excited at the same time for what the future held ahead of us.
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