~You Loved Me For All The Wrong Reasons~

~1500 A.D.~

Aro was pacing back and forth, never has a member of the guard yelled out like that in front of them.

"Aro, we must decide what to do with Lyanna. This could tear the coven apart if her anger gets stronger." Caius said

"I will not have this coven at war with itself brother."

"We cannot kill her otherwise we would face not only Alec's wrath, but Jane's wrath as well. They are our most prized possessions, we cannot lose them." Marcus said.

"We will decide this later, she's coming."

Lyanna entered the throne room, Aro, Marcus, Caius in disbelief about her appearance. A young girl who always kept herself prim and proper , the perfect little wife of Alec Volturi, now a broken woman who wants nothing more to be free. She brought light into the palace once she became used to her surroundings and the her new status as an immortal. She was like a child-woman who learned the things she needed to be a proper lady despite being a peasant in her mortal life. Now she wanted to be free, free from her marriage to Alec, free from her immortal life in order to join her brother in the heavens.

"Aro." Aro turned to Marcus.

"The bond between Alec and Lyanna, it's fading. I feel nothing from Lyanna but only hatred from her." Marcus said.

"Impossible." Caius sneered.

Aro looked towards Lyanna, and saw her staring down, tightening and untightening her fists, as if she was ready to hit someone.

"Lyanna you may speak child." Aro said.

"But watch your tongue child or we shall see you dead." Caius snarled.

"I will decide the punishment if she should speak ahead of herself brother." Aro retorted.

Lyanna looked up her red eyes looking more and more darker as she has not had blood since a new moon.

"550 years ago, my life, my mortal life was stripped away from me, I became something I did not even think of being. I was set to marry on my own terms, but all that was taken away from me. In learned to live and feel like what it felt like to be human again, doing the things I did in my human life. I would give anything to be human again. I became loyal to you through my love for Alec, now I'm trying to feel loyal, but feel nothing. Since I know nothing else, I will stay be loyal as much as I can." Lyanna said.

She knelt before them. Her fiery spirit was leaving her, she was someone that not even the Volturi leaders even knew. Aro grabbed her hand and tried to read through her thoughts, but found nothing of her meaning that she would deceive them later on.

"You may go Lady Lyanna." Lyanna rose and left the throne room, half of the entire guard looked in awe, no one has ever left the masters alive when facing punishment, a vampire went in, but ashes came out. Lyanna went to the only place she could feel human again, The Vatican City. It was already dusk, when she went outside of Volterra, her hearing allowed her to know that someone was following her, but she just didn't care. She quickly ran to the Vatican City and found herself entering a chapel. She removed her hood, and just looked up towards the cross with Jesus hung and paintings of the other Gods. She just stared at the cross, she always kept her faith close to herself during her human life, and still during her immortal life. The scent of blood made Lyanna turn and a young woman physically around her age came in. Her hair a color and small stature, she noticed the eyes were light brown, the young woman walked as if she was on air.

A naturally graceful girl. Lyanna thought.

The woman came closer, Lyanna just turned and tried to mind her own business, but the bloodlust began was beginning to consume her, she tried not to let herself kill the young woman. Lyanna abruptly got up and began to leave the chapel.

"Excuse me!" The woman called out.

Lyanna turned and faced the woman, and slowly walked towards her.

"Are you alright?"

"Yes, m'lady. It's just that I was raised to never be in the presence of nobles unless I'm serving them."

"Oh! Rubbish!" She grabbed her hands and was alarmed by how cold she was, unaware that it's her natural temperature. "Goodness you're freezing, here take my cloak." Lyanna looked frail to the human woman and the woman assumed that Lyanna barely ate.

"I'm m'lady, you are?" Lyanna asked.

"Goodness, have you been living under a rock? I'm Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of the current pope."

"I didn't know the pope could have children."Lyanna asked in disbelief.

"He can't that's why me and my siblings are bastards."

The woman Lucrezia looked towards the alter.

"It's ingenious isn't it?"

"What is m'lady?"

"The Church, it's like an enormous bank, the faithful pay to keep its magnificent splendor."

"Yes, even in the church it is filled with corruption and greed. God gives people riches and yet they kill for more, all so they could feel powerful."

"People believe that the more rich they are, the powerful they feel. Money can be taken away in a split of a second if handled carelessly."

"And yet I mockingly call myself the 'Holy Daughter', when my family is far from being holy. A brother who killed my lover, another brother who killed my first and second husbands. "

"I must go m'lady."

"Wait."

Lucrezia took off a necklace which was pearls in the shape of a cross, pearl chain. Lyanna knew that she meant to give it to her.

"M'lady, please the necklace must mean a lot to you, I couldn't possibly -

"I insist, you need God on your side more than I do."

Lyanna took the rosary with her, bowed and walked away, but not before mumbling under her breath.

"I hope you pray and cry for me m'lady for I have no more tears to shed."

She quickly left and found a whore trying to sell herself to man, her anger and bloodlust overwhelming her, she quickly killed the man and drank from him, the whore screamed, but Lyanna silenced her quickly by snapping her neck and drinking from her. She looked to see if anyone was there and quickly disposed of the bodies in the ocean. She walked back to Volterra enjoying the night sky and light rain beginning to drench her hair, but she realized that she did not care about it anymore. She reached Volterra an hour before sunrise and entered the ancient palace of the Volturi, she found Alec waiting for her, but she ignored him. He grabbed her pushed her towards the wall.

"Where were you wife?!" He asked in a quiet seething rage.

"Why would you care? You are the one who put whores in our marital bed!"

"Because you are still my wife, and therefore I must know where you are!"

"I am your wife, not your prisoner Alec!"

Alec let go of her because he started writhing in pain, Lyanna turned to her head and saw Jane looking at her brother with hatred she had never seen before.

"Jane please."

Jane cut off her power and grabbed Lyanna's wrist and went to her chambers.

"Lyanna, are you alright?"

"I am, thank you Jane."

"You are my sister. I must protect you the same way I used to protect Alec."

"It's all my fault, it's all my fault."

Lyanna fell to the ground in distraught.

"What is?"

"You and Alec used to be so close and then the infidelities, the lies, the disappearing, everything. All because of me, I should've been Alec's food rather than mate."

"Don't speak like that Lyanna, you are my sister. I cannot allow you to speak such words."

Jane held Lyanna as she sobbed, Alec heard everything, and walked back to his chambers, he looked at himself in the looking glass, and with one swift punch the looking glass was shattered and the shards surrounding his hands, but no cuts on him.

"What do I do."

"My son."

Alec froze at the voice, he vaguely remembered that voice, that voice belonged to his mother. His mother whom he held in high regard, his mother whom he would've done anything to have her on his side and hold him again as he were still a child. Tragically, his mother was hanged as a heretic for birthing Alec and Jane, the twins were wrongly accused for being witches. Felix, Demetri, Chelsea, Aro came to their aid, it was too late to save their mother, but the flames were barely at the calves of Jane and Alec, the scars barely visible now.

"What have you done my son."

"I fell in love momma, that's what happened."

"No, my lusted then fell in love. The child that is your wife, thought she fell in love you, my darling boy, but was rather lust for you."

"Then why did she stay with me if it was not love?" Alec asked looking at his mother through one of the shards in the broken looking glass, her blonde hair put in an elegant braids, her emerald green eyes staring back at her son's red ones.

"My son, you still don't understand do you? Many can mistake lust for love, it's is dreadful mistake that can lead people to make the wrong choices."

"Are you saying that Jane and I are dreadful mistakes?"

"NO! Never. Both of you are the best things that ever happened to your Father and I, both of us died protecting you both, your father in war to keep our village safe, and I protected you long enough before the pathetic excuse of a trial."

"What do I do now mother? What do I do now that my wife despises me more than anything."

"Alec, my darling boy, she wasn't meant to live this life, she was meant to grow old, find a new man to marry after her first fiance, her first fiance was going to die on the way to deliver his order by highwaymen."

"I couldn't bear to see her with another man, mother. That's why I changed her, to keep her with me, to know that I have someone other than me and Jane."

"I am grateful that she kept company to your sister, I can see how much your sister loves her, but the heavens are trying to fix her destiny, and this is not it my son."

"Are you saying that, that she is going to die?"

"I cannot say for certain, but -

"Mother please, tell me the truth is Lyanna going to die?!" Urgency creeping into his voice.

"Alec, I cannot tell you that, otherwise the heavens would know that you will try to stop it. I must go."

"Mother, don't go."

"Goodbye Alec, Goodbye My Son."

"Mother!"

Alec snapped his eyes opened and looked around, his mother was gone, but the shards of the looking glass were there, he knew that it was not a hallucination, but it was real. He saw his mother for the first time 700 years since the last night of his life.

"Lyanna, I'm going to protect you, even if it kills me. I'm not going to let you die."

He found himself going through the alleys of underground Volterra, and for the first time in 700 years, he himself entering a chapel, the discussion of religion has always been a subject that he never wanted to discuss again. It was because of religion that he was like this. The choir was singing a hymn in latin, he stood at the front of the crowd that was gathered, a friar appeared at the post along with a cardinal.

"It is time that we discuss the deposition of the Borgia pope." The Cardinal said.

"This Pope is a lecherous abomination!"

Alec scoffed, he could see that the church still corrupted the minds of the people.

"Can we handle having a Pope who kills for more power, money, and land?!"

"But what if someone here is a spy working for the Pope, and reports this back to him. That would put him more on a guard than ever before." A peasant yelled.

Alec drowned out the voices and left, he after all these centuries, he could still not understand why Lyanna kept her faith with her.

He walked through the streets of Volterra hiding himself in the shadows, careful to show himself in the sun that was beginning to clear up the rain. It was in this type of weather that he remembered seeing Lyanna for the first time.

"Don't run far Lya!" Her mother yelled out.

"Yes, mama."

Lyanna was playing in the mud, the scent of her blood came across Alec, he assumed that the blood was one of a grown adult, he wasn't expecting a child. Staying hidden in the shadows he watched the hem of her skirt get more dirty by the hour.

"Lya!" He looked and saw a boy running towards within the same age group.

"Francesco" She said with a child's lisp.

He ran up to her and gave her dandelions.

"For the pretty princess."

"No, I'm not a princess."

"Yes, you're the pretty girl that everyone likes."

The child Lyanna took the dandelions from Francesco.

"Thank you."

"I wanted to say bye."

"Are you leaving?"

"Yes, my mama and papa are taking me to Rome so I can learn to be a friar."

"When will you comeback?"

"I don't know."

"Please be careful Francesco."

"Promise that you won't play in the mud anymore Lya?"

"I promise."

Francesco hugged her and pulled away.

"You still are just as pretty as a princess Lya."

He ran away from Lyanna, she started crying for her friend that was being taken away from her. Her sobbing pulled Alec towards her.

"Hello little one." He said kneeling down to her height. She looked up at him, the tears washing away the dirt on her face. Even with her covered in muck and dirt, she still looked beautiful, even for a child. He wiped the tears from her face.

"What's wrong little one?"

"My friend left me."

"Did he tell you where he was going?"

"He said to Rome." She said between sobs.

"And why are you crying child?"

"Because, I'm afraid."

"Afraid of what?"

"I'm afraid that I'll forget my friend. I always forget things."

"Don't worry, if your friend is that important to you, then I'm sure you won't forget him."

Alec stood up and began to walk away.

"Thank you Mister!" Lyanna yelled.

It was then that Alec was drawn to her, always watching over her. Sadly, the child Lyanna was right, she forgot about her friend, and meeting Alec all together.

The sun was beginning to show and Alec quickly hid in the alleyways and entered the Volturi Palace through one of secret entrances, he found Lyanna dancing, in her underclothes being kept together with a corset. He watched dance until she stopped, sat down, and looked at the sky through the window. The sunlight making her skin glow like diamonds, he never realized how much in truly danger his wife was in, his mother saying that the heavens are trying to fix her destiny. He walked away from her dance room and walked towards her chambers, he found things that she had brought her, mementos from the centuries of living, a gable hood, rings, jewels, necklaces, dresses from different eras and kingdoms, and a new necklace. The pearl rosary necklace that Lucrezia Borgia had given to Lyanna. He hoped that for his, Jane's, and Lyanna's sake that his wife wouldn't die.

So here is another chapter, I hope that you enjoyed this chapter. Leave a review if you wish.

-MySacredHeart