A/N another chapter, as promised. I hope that I'll be able to post the next chapter on Wednesday.
I walked into the throne room, the two men were sitting on their chairs. They were arguing. I think that they didn't even notice me there. Caius and Aro were talking about Didyme, Marcus' dead wife and Aro's sister. I heard the words 'kill' and 'ordered'. This was enough for me. Aro had ordered Didyme's death. This was when I saw Chelsea. She walked to Caius and used her power. I saw a subtle nod from Aro when she was done. Chelsea had used her power to strengthen the bond between Caius and Aro. It would be like there had never been a fight.
I wanted to walk away when I was spotted. Aro had me pinned to the wall immediately.
"What did you hear?" he questioned me.
"Enough."
I kicked him and he flew to another wall. I took one look at Caius, waiting for the attack and ran, confused. Caius hadn't seemed angry. He hadn't lifted a finger to help Aro, who was recovering from his collision with the wall.
Most vampires didn't take the time to walk at a slow pace. It wasn't unusual for us to run as fast as we could. Noone tried to stop me. By the time that Aro had recovered and asked for the guards I'd grabbed my backpack and left Volterra. I was on my way to Alaska.
I knew that I had no obligations to Them. To the Cullens. It hurt to say it, but I didn't want to live forever, unable to say those names.
I was the reason that Victoria and James came after us. I was the one that had to fix it, preferably without them knowing.
The Volturi were unable to get to my plane and they didn't even know what flight I was on. I had used another alias, Jane Volturi. They would never think of looking for that name. She would be standing beside them while they were hacking into the flight records.
The plane landed and I was one of the last people back on the ground. I was on my way.
I was able to come close to them without being detected. Alice wouldn't be watching me, Ed- Edward wasn't able to read my mind, they wouldn't hear me and I made sure they wouldn't see me.
The house was in the middle of nowhere. I didn't know why, but they were probably not going to school while living here.
The house itself was beautiful. It was open and many parts were made out of glass. The living room was visible from where I was standing. Emmett was playing some kind of game, he was killing random guys right and left. Rosalie was sitting next to him, her head on his left arm. Seeing as his right arm was moving.
Esme was talking to Carlisle, I couldn't make out the subject, because they were talking fast and softly.
Jasper had a book lying in his lap. He seemed to be reading the book at human speed, because it took a minute for him to turn the page.
Alice was sitting on the piano, her feet dangling in the air. She was singing a song that was accompanied by a beautiful melody. The melody came from the piano. Edward was playing a song I'd never heard of. It was a slow and sad song, yet, I felt the love that was meant to be in this piece. It was lovely.
I felt a slight pressure on my shield. It was the pressure of a power touching it. I walked back without making a sound and found the place where the pressure stopped. I ran the perimeter around their home and imagined the line on the ground that I could not pass. If I wanted to do this without the Cullens knowing, I'd have to keep the newborn army out of my imagined circle.
I was sitting on the ground, waiting for Victoria, when I smelled the stench again. The wolves I'd encountered were closing in on me. I waited, I could not leave this meadow before Victoria was dead.
Three enormous wolves jumped into the clearing. I didn't move and waited until they noticed me. When they did they all jumped for my throat. I jumped into a tree and held my hands into the air. I didn't want to kill them.
"I mean you no harm," I said calmly, hoping that they would back down. The huge animals stood in formation, they were careful and looked like they were considering their options. I didn't know how they were communicating, though.
The one in the middle transformed and I was astounded to see Jacob of all people. He looked older, much older. The other wolves didn't speak. He was obviously their spokesperson. He walked to me, meeting me in the middle.
"Who are you?" he asked suspiciously.
"I am whom they call the Runaway. I am an enemy of our leaders, the Volturi. And the female that is called Victoria."
"You know Victoria?" he said, doubting my words.
"She wants to know who I am. I actually ran into you when she was chasing me a couple of weeks ago."
"That was you?" he asked. He was probably having problems keeping up with the newest information available for him. "We started chasing Victoria when you'd left our territory. She was sure to be a threat to us, you were just passing by."
"It was me, I had some unfinished business in Forks. I killed no humans in that area or another."
"I recognize your eyes. You are an animal hunter, are you not?"
"I am, why are you this far from home?"
"My alpha asked me to do something which I didn't agree to. I am the great-grandson of Ephraim Black, the rightful alpha. I separated myself from the pack and Leah and Seth here joined me."
He pointed at the wolf on his left first and moved his finger to his right when he said the name of the boy I didn't know very well. He was a young boy on the reservation, that was all I knew of him. He was a Clearwater, Leah's brother.
"We decided to travel and ended up here. We were hunting a couple of vampires that are heading this way. They are a group of new vampires and we wanted to surprise them here. Victoria Is the leader, but she is not in contact with them. It's like she doesn't want the group to know that she's there."
"She's on her way to the Cullens, they killed her mate. She wants revenge."
"So it all comes back to those damned Cullens."
"You know them?" I asked with faked surprise.
"They lived in Forks for a while. One of them fell in love with Bella, a human. He left her and she jumped off a cliff. They were the reason that there were so many of us. There are usually only three wolves in every generation that phase."
"I'm sorry for the grief that my mind has cost you." It felt right to apologize to Jacob. His tribe had probably never heard a vampire apologize. Well, maybe Carlisle.
"You don't have to apologize for something you didn't do. We are not here to kill you."
"Thank you for your kind words. I want to make a deal with you. You help me get rid of the army coming this way without the Cullens knowing and I'll give you what you want."
"We ask for your company. We want to learn more about vampires. I can promise that we won't use it against you as long as you don't kill a human. Deal?"
"Deal."
A/N I'm an idiot. I haven't thanked any of you for your reviews, I apologize. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I have nothing left to say people. The next chapter will probably feature only Bella and the wolves. And Leah and Seth will meet Bella in their human forms.