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Chapter 7: A Twist of Fate
Jasper POV (When Bella Reached The Bottom Of The Stairs)
I sat on the only furniture in the cell where the Volturi kept us. And after awhile sitting here all on a stone bench was probably the longest time in my lifetime. I wasn't ready to accept my death. I could leave this world where there Alice and my family. Something broke the silence of the cell blocks. It was a woman giving a soft gasp as if she was crying. The voice was familiar.
"Hello?" I called out. The heard the faint sound of clicking against the stone floor. The woman must be wearing heels. I stood up to properly greet the unknown person. And soon there was a figure of a woman in a figure flattering dress.
"Jasper Cullen," she greeted, "I was wondering where you were." It was the girl with the fire hair. I didn't even need her hair to know who she was.
"I'm not surprised to see you here." She was probably here to take in her vast collection for the Volturi. I walked closer to her then something was definitely different. "Wasn't your hair fire red?" I asked trying not to be hostile.
"Yes, I suppose it was," She admitted quietly. She place a hand to cover her face as I walked closer to her. What was she hiding from the world?
"Why don't you want to be seen?" I asked politely as I could to hide my anger and curiosity.
"Do you want to see a killer?" She asked as if she was ashamed of what she was. The others seemed proud. She was different. And her smell around her was so similar I couldn't quite place it.
"I've seen a lot of killers, trust me one more won't hurt," I tried to persuade her. She still didn't move. "Think of it as a final request." That broke her. She brought her hand down to her side. I reached out toward her face to bring her slightly closer to me. She didn't protest. I moved over slightly that way as much moonlight as possible could shine on her face. And there was a person who I had not seen in ages. A person who I didn't expect to see ever again, especially in these conditions. "Bella?" Was all I could say. A name I have not spoken in quite some time. She looked at me her eyes were now a topaz and red mixture. She was a vampire and a Volturi vampire at that.
"Hi Jasper."
Bella POV
There was a long silence between us. No one knew what to say, because there was too much to say. There were probably so many questions he had for me and none of them were forming into a verbal conversation. As for me well I was feeling way too many emotions to even fathom words. This moment would have been better if he wasn't in a holding cell waiting to be killed and if I wasn't the one who helped put him there. As the silence passed something happened I would not have seen coming. He reached out and pulled me closer to him in an embrace. Though the cold bars were between us there as a new feeling I remembered and that was relief. It was calming to be with someone from my past…even if he did want to eat me back then. But I never blamed him for that I understood why and now I understood on a different scale being a vampire. I returned the embrace we were like that for awhile until he let go.
"How is this possible?" He asked me still observing me as if making sure I wasn't an illusion.
"It's a very strange story," I said sitting on the floor of the long hall to start pulling the bobby pins from my hair that were starting to annoy me, "Not to mention long." Jasper sat down next to me he seemed to be more comfortable and reassuring himself I wasn't this ghost from his past.
"I think we have time," he urged. I looked down the halls seeing if anyone else was patrolling the hall checking on everyone in the cells. "They don't come around until sunrise so we have time. I looked at the window and noticed the moon was high so it seemed about midnight. No doubt the dance was still going on. I wonder if anyone was looking for me. I was also wondering what Edward had done when I escaped from his grasp.
"Where should I start?" I asked. "I don't know how much there is to tell you," I told him honestly.
"Well how about you explain how and why you're a vampire and that you are working for the Volturi." He suggested rather bluntly. The tension between us could easily be cut with a knife.
"That's a long story you're not going to try and suck my blood like you did over thirty years ago?" I joked. He was quiet; I quickly thought I said something wrong. "I'm sorry I'm not good with tension, sarcastic comments just come out sometimes."
"It's all right, just start your story. If it is as long as you say it is, this might take all night." So I began my story with me deciding to go Italy on this crazy whim and ended up lost. He laughed at me trying to figure out and Italian map. I cannot help but laugh at that too, now that I'm fluent in the language. I continued to where Dmitri found me and how I became a hunter to the Volturi.
"That is really all there is to know I've been living the small routine until now," I concluded my speech about my life. "And now I'm here sitting on the floor talking to you about this sob story that is my life."
"Could be worse," he told me.
"Yea, like how?" I asked with a laugh.
"You could be in my position." Ouch that hit a new field of emotions couldn't even focus on finding their names.
"I am sorry Jasper. Really, I didn't want to do what I did, but if I didn't I cannot imagine what Aro would have up his sleeve for me." I shivered knowing the exact torture the Volturi used against those that disobeyed them. I've witnessed it and I would not want to be a victim to it.
"I understand the ways of the Volturi and I forgive you for following your orders I would not want you to be a victim to their ways even if you are a slave to them already." I nodded staying silent and letting him talk. To talk to someone who wasn't part of the Volturi was nice. "If everyone knew it was you under that hood I think everyone would have reacted differently to what was going on, especially Edward."
"I doubt he has anything good to say to me," I snarled lowly.
"And what makes you say that?" he asked, some what surprised at my reaction to his statement.
"You want to know how I found this place?"
"Now that you mention it yes I do, but what does it have to do with Edward?"
"He was at the ball, party, whatever and he asked me to dance and we did and then he threatened to kill me." I collected my thoughts before I continued. "I broke away from him and tried to get as far away from him as possible but he followed me and then pinned me against the way wanting to rip my mask off and no doubt my head along with it. When I got free of him there was a small door that led me here."
"That doesn't sound like something Edward would do." Jasper was honest. "But then again he hasn't been normal for a while. Jasper dropped his gaze down to the floor debating to continue. "When we left you he went into a deep depression and his mood has gotten so dark and he has been living in this black hole. We all tired to snap him out of it but nothing worked. Eventually…we just gave up on him."
"So the reason he wants my head on a platter is because he is crazy because he left me?"
"More or less, yes."
"Then he shouldn't have left."
"He thought he had no choice, he wanted to protect you."
"Good job there. Have you seen my job title?"
"Point taken, but we cannot turn back time unfortunately but if you told him who you are…"
"No," I flat out told him before he could finish. "That is one of the last things I will do."
"Why? If they knew who you were they would definitely open their hearts to you again, even Rosalie."
"Even if I did I could not return what ever they felt no matter how much I wanted to."
"Why not? I'm sure deep down in that dead heart of yours are the same feelings you felt as a human."
"Because I lost the memory of emotions a long time ago."
"Care to explain that to me?"
"As hunters we are only allowed to feel two things. Anger and Hate. Any others are a display of weakness. Granted over these past few weeks I have remembered two other minor emotions but none to make me feel like I did when I was human. That person has been long gone."
"Since when?"
"Since you all left."
"That was a smack in the face."
"I'm sorry. But you have to understand that as a hunter we are supposed to be invisible and no one should know who we are. And once the Volturi know that you have relationships with other beings besides Volturi members then you will quickly be ashes in Aro's fireplace."
"You are in the Volturi far too deep to be saved it would seem."
"No kidding, but I will live my life until I don something wrong and then I will perish like others before me."
"How do you readily accept death?" He asked quite angry. "Why do invite death to your door step?"
"Because I have nothing left to lose I have no emotions, no one that cares, I have nothing to live for and you do, that's why you will not accept you're death. You have something to fight for. You have a family people that would step in front of you to defend your life and I don't. That is why I can accept my fate and upcoming death."
"You can have that back everyone would love you again if just tell them who you are."
"I lost that chance a long time ago; I don't see any of them in my future."
"What about Edward?"
"I can't decide this now." I looked at the window. The darkness of night was beginning to life and the morning light was taking its place. "I think it is best I go. People will be here soon and no doubt people are looking for me." He stood up and held out a hand to help me to my feet. I brushed the dirt from the floor off my dress.
"Well to lighten the mood if you weren't an emotional train wreck when you came here I would comment on how beautiful you look."
"Thanks. I'm going to try and get back here tonight," I promised if I trace back my foot steps in the light I can find you again." I didn't want to leave a piece of my past is here a part of me I didn't want to let go. A friend, something I have not had in a long time.
"That would be nice, but you will probably be down here alone. Do you remember what today is?"
"Oh…." Today were the trials everyone down here was likely to die today by sunset. For some reason one emotion took over all of my actions and it made me cling to him like a magnet. "What am I feeling?" I asked.
"Sadness mostly," He told me. I tried to relax me and it momentarily help and then there were foot steps. Before anymore conversation or action took place I sprinted off down the hall becoming invisible to everything.
Edward POV
I sat in our compartments waiting for the trials to begin. I was escorted back here last night after I went after the girl with fire hair. I got the what for from both Esme and Carlisle shortly after that. But that was around midnight right after Alice had trouble seeing Jaspers future. Therefore she was securely locked in another part of the apartment where she could block her thoughts and focus on figuring out what was going to happen to Jasper. In my hands was the mask I had gotten from the girl. The red and gold flickered in the morning light. I was told by the guards that the girl was as harmless as a flea unless ordered to do something so I must have been a big threat to her. Then hand knocked me out of my thought. It was Carlisle.
"It is time to go," He told me, "I suggest you get your sister. She will open the door for you." I nodded and walked over to the door. I gave it a small knock and there was no answer.
"Alice," I called. Still nothing. "Please Alice do not make this harder than it needs to be. Finally she opened the door. She looked worn but relieved.
"He is alive for now," she told me quietly. I put my arm around her shoulder and directed her to join the rest of our family. There was no guarantee that we would be the same after today. For once the fire haired girl was out of my mind and in a long time I focused on my family.
Bella POV
"WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?" Heidi came storming into my room just after I finished writing another letter to Alice. I had returned to normal clothes and I had returned my hair to the fire red that the Cullen's and everyone else new around here knew me as. "I have been worried after that man attacked you we couldn't find you!" She was freaked out and venting everything out. This was anger which was okay for us to show.
"I was hiding for the longest time but then I got lost and it took me a while to find my way again. There are so many areas I have yet to know around here a person like me could easily be lost," I gave a smooth excuse that I was practicing for the last hour.
"Then you will need an escort until all of this is over," Alec came up behind Heidi who was beginning to come down from her freak out.
"Are you alright Alec?" I asked. "I saw he was still coming after me and I wondered what happened."
"I'm fine, just my pride if hurt really. A full vegetarian taking down a hunter! Aro was not pleased at all that and this is why I have to watch you until all this is over. So that doesn't happen again."
"I apologize for that Alec; I didn't mean to become a burden."
"If it is you then you are no burden." There was an awkward silence between the three of us until Jane entered the room.
"Oh look who decided to come back to us," She snarled. "Come on its time for the trials to begin." I grabbed my hooded cloak and joined the others in rank. With Alec on my side and braced myself for one of the worst days as a vampire.
Alice POV
I was sitting in the court like room where the people on trial were place in this small pit where the Volturi's victims would be and all the other vampires like ourselves gathered around in stadium like seats. It would be a long torturous day then a vision came.
Jasper was fighting a cloaked figure. It appeared the figure was winning until he grabbed a part the cloak and then threw the figure across the arena like area. There was a loud thud and the wall cracked. The figure slumped to the ground and the hood had revealed fire hair that quickly changed to a faded brown. The kind of hair similar to that of which I have not seen in over thirty years. She was about to lift her head and then the vision went blank.
Who was this girl?
Bella POV
The trials were going at a moderately good pace. There were only a few that put up a fight and the guards seemed to have fun with that one. No one seemed to have enhanced powers or they didn't say it when Aro asked them before the final ruling. We all know how Aro likes powers.
"Jasper Cullen," The announcer called over the mumble of the crown. I looked for the Cullen's and found them right across the stadium. They were still and quiet as statues. I watched Jasper be brought into the circle I had been keeping count and he was the last one. The most important one in my book. I looked over at Aro and he was staring at me and that evil snarling smile crossed his lips. It was one of those kinds that would send shivers down your spine. He had a plan and he was going to have fun with it.
"Jasper Cullen," Aro began his part of the trial, "Do you understand why you are here?" Jasper nodded. "You can speak boy."
"Yes sir I do understand why I am here," he spoke with dignity though in the pit it seemed like he had none left.
"So understand why we will be passing judgment here today?"
"Yes sir." I looked at the Cullen's and found Alice who looked as if she would faint if she could.
"Very well, but first Jasper Cullen do you have any extra ordinary abilities?"
"Yes sir, I can manipulate emotions and I feel other people emotions." This please Aro he always wanted a Cullen in his collection I've heard rumors through the grape vine. He whispered to his brothers and they both agreed on something.
"Very well it see fit to me and my brothers that his punishment should be as follows…" Here we go anything but the torture and death sentence. There were two sentences I've learned today immediate death and torture followed by death. I cannot imagine him being tortured. "That if he survives and fight with one of my strongest Hunters he shall join them and serve them for eternity." Wait….What? What was going on here? There was a loud increase in talk between the vampires in the room. This didn't make sense.
"Has this ever happened?" I asked Alec.
"Not since I've been here. But it is Aro he likes to make new rules as he goes. It makes it more fun to him." Quick whispers of confusion where shared with everyone else who called themselves Hunters.
"How will they pick?" I asked Heidi who was on the other side of me. She shrugged. "My money is on Alec or Jane"
"And my brothers have decided that our Hunter will be the newest member of the group." I was silent. That was me. I was going to fight Jasper for life or death.
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