Chapter 9

REMEMBERING

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN TWILIGHT...DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO DOES? GOOGLE IT.

Aro POV

Edward is back! With his sister, Alice, the one who can see the future! Maybe it was a two for the price of one down at the talented vampire shop. This is brilliant, wonderful and simply fantastic! Now all I have to do is persuade them to stay them to stay-should be easy enough... Oh, it is going to be a happy ending, oh how I love happy conclusions, just the other day I was reading this fabulous book filled with happy conclusions. I think it was called talefairies or was that fairytales? Hmm I must check that later.

Bella though lovely was much more beautiful in Edward's memories... what a few months can do to a human! Of course we will have to get her back to being healthily physically, mentally and emotionally, perhaps this is a project for Marcus, after all he does know what it means to lose a loved one...It may help to distract him from his, ahem-how shall I put this?-suicidal thoughts.

Ah, Marcus- my dear brother, I do wish that he did not want to die. I can barely remember a time when Marcus was happy-albeit snarky and sarcastic and ironic and cynical-but happy...In his own way. If only Marcus could go back to his old personality... I would bear his cruel and sharp observations if I were able to see my brother happy again.

This Bella is most intriguing; she seems at home amongst us vampires. I cannot wait to see what she will be like once she is turned! I do wish that mu brothers would hurry up; I want to introduce them to our newest member of the guard. Oh dear, it appears that I had better learn to keep my thoughts to myself as Edward does not appear to be particularly happy. The price of being a mind reader is that occasionally you hear things you wish you had not, for example I have after many centuries learnt to avoid contact with Alec like the, to use a human term, plague. That boy has a perverted streak I swear and judging by Edward's shuddering, I see that he has yet to learn that same hard lesson as I once did.

Marcus POV

Unsurprisingly, I won the game of *Primero*. Caius now owes me his share of the billiard room and, on top of that, he has to go with Jane to what she calls "the cinema" to see the latest, to use her terminology, "chick-flick". After Jane coerced the entirety of the Volturi into watching "The Notebook"- and tortured anyone who so much as rolled their eyes at the film's over-sentimentality, the majority of those with more than one brain cell have ran, screaming terrified when Jane asks about putting on a film . I dare say that I shall get some good, quality entertainment out of this scenario. Oh, I do love annoying Caius!

The vampire in question is currently glaring at the floor. I suspect that he is still irritated after his most recent defeat. "Brother, do try not to burn holes into the Persian mat, it dates back to 1777." My statement just encourages Caius to glare at the carpet even more openly and with even more fervour. I would laugh, but I do not wish for Caius to fix me with his most "horrifying" glare.

"We had better go, Aro will be looking for us," Caius states gruffly. Yes, Caius is most definitely annoyed with you so mission accomplished Marcus. I hope Aro is not overtly aggravated by Caius' sudden bad temper; He does hate it when either of us is anti-social...

Abruptly Felix charges into the room, trips over the mat and attempts to bow to us. I shake my head and rub my temples; Aro has been trying to teach Felix how to be graceful for five centuries at least. As he picks himself up off the floor Felix shoves a hand through his hair (a terrible habit of his), then and only then does he begin his message. I wonder why Aro sent him, last time Felix was sent on a message he broke Jane's "Iphone" I think it was called, and for 48 hours, I experienced HELL- "Master Aro requests the presence of both Master Marcus and Master Caius, to hear the case of Edward Cullen."

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NB *Primero*= This is an old Italian card game which became popular throughout Europe in the 16th century and perhaps earlier. Players are dealt four cards in this showdown game. The combination, which gives its name to the game, is theprime, which consists of one card of each suit.