Revenge Is A Dish Served In Numbers

C10: Brought Before The Queens

Standard Disclaimer: I don't own any of the recognizable characters

Alice's POV

A few weeks after Bella's proposal we were standing Guard in the Throne Room, and according to my vision earlier in the day, today would be the day Sulpicia's trackers would bring in Carlisle, and that this entire ordeal would be over soon, and after that we could finally have our dream wedding, which was already being planned by Rosalie, Jane, Heidi and Victoria, at Sulpicia's orders, although the four women didn't mind it one bit. Rose knew what I wanted, and Victoria had become incredibly close to Bella since we had arrived here, so she would take care of all of Bella's needs.

Bella seemed to notice when she squeezed my hand, which had been become our preferred method of conversation when we were on Guard Duty.

Sulpicia, Esme, Athenodora and Tanya were mostly just playing with their cellphones, while Didyme and Marcus seemed to be lost in each other's eyes at the moment, since there was nothing else to do right now, and I now understood why Jane hated these days so much.

Sulpicia and Esme had been rather indulgent with us over the last couple of weeks in letting Bella and I explore the Castle and relieving us from Guard Duty, but in the end we both knew that being in the Guard was a privileged position that sometimes included having to stand guard when there was no actual reason to, besides the fact that Heidi and Victoria would soon be in with the next round of tourists.

When Rosalie and Jane walked in together with Alec a few minutes later both Bella and I knew it couldn't take long before our other sister was here, but to my surprise, they made their way over to Sulpicia. "My Queens, we have captured Carlisle and part of his army and have put him in the dungeons for the time being." Alec said as they bowed.

All of them grinned at that. "Excellent. Was he already desperate enough to tell you where Edward might be?" Athenodora asked with an almost sadistic smirk.

"Unfortunately no, my Queen, and I thought it more prudent to bring him before you before I put him under my gift." Jane said softly.

Sulpicia smiled at her. "You have done well, my dear Jane, come, let us see what you have been up to." She said as she held out her hand for Jane to take.

Jane did so with a smile, and the grin spreading on Sulpicia's face was telling enough. "You three have done well. I am very proud of you. We will deal with him after we have eaten."

The three nodded and took their places, with Rosalie and Jane next to me and Bella while Alec to his spot on the other side next to his mate Chelsea, and at that moment the doors to the Throne Room opened, revealing both Victoria and Heidi with a big group of tourists, most of them completely oblivious as they snapped pictures of the ancient stonework.

As soon as the doors closed we attacked, picking out our own victims while leaving the rest for the Queens, and as the screams started, I couldn't help but smirk as Bella came over with two girls about our age.

We shared the girls between us and I was still amazed that we were able to do that. Not many mated couples could do so and I couldn't be anything else but feel honored that we were one of those couples, and honestly, seeing Bella with a blood stained mouth and her vibrant red eyes was a very big turn on.

Bella's POV

Seeing Alice with blood all over her face definitely was a big turn on and I could see in her eyes that she was thinking along the same lines, but unfortunately we couldn't do anything about our feelings until later today. There were more important things than our libidos for once.

I was ecstatic when Jane, Rosalie and Alec said that Carlisle had been captured, and I knew it could only be a matter of time before Edward and the rest of their army was captured and killed.

"Now that we have eaten, I think we should get this trial underway. Heidi, would you and your mate collect Carlisle from the dungeons and instruct Felix, Demitri and Santiago to kill the others." Sulpicia said with a smile.

The two nodded and after bowing to the Queens, they left the Throne Room, while Sulpicia turned to me and Alice. "I know you are dying to say your piece to him, Bella, but I hope you don't mind it if we handle this."

I smiled at her. "Of course I don't mind, my Queen. What he has done to Esme is far worse than what he has done to us. All I ask is that I get to tell Edward where he can stick it once he is captured."

Sulpicia smiled at that. "Of course you can sweetie. I promised you that, didn't I. Edward hurt you most of all, so he is all yours when we capture him."

I smiled and nodded as Carlisle was led in, fighting heavily against Felix and Santiago as he glared at everyone, but mostly Esme. "Why am I not surprised to you here. You were always nothing more than an opportunist, you bitch!"

Esme smirked at him. "Oh Carlisle, you are so stupid sometimes. You know my loyalty was never to you, my loyalties will always be with my mate and the Volturi, and now that you are here before us, you will know exactly what the meaning of pain is, for every single moment that you have degraded and insulted me and my mate."

Sulpicia smiled at Esme before stepping forward, taking Carlisle's hand with some force, the cracking of his skin being heard around the silent room. Sulpicia's mouth turned into a ferocious snarl. "You really are as stupid as you look Carlisle. I once thought highly of you, but your actions against my mate, who let you know several times who exactly she was, might I add, have condemned you. Just know that your army is already dead and that Edward will follow soon enough. He has hurt my daughter just like you have hurt my mate, and that is unforgivable." She said angrily as she snapped her fingers.

Felix and Santiago gave a slight bow and proceeded to tear apart Carlisle, leaving only his torso and head intact, and I had to smile as Esme stepped forward and picked it up. "I have been looking forward to this for a long time. I will enjoy watching you burn to nothing, and I can't say it was nice knowing you either. Just take comfort in the fact that your Golden Boy will join you in oblivion soon."

"He was more of use to me than any of you were. I will gladly accept my death knowing that all of you will soon be dead." Carlisle spat before Esme held him into a brazier, which made me gasp a bit. Weren't we all highly flammable?

Alice merely smiled at me. "Don't worry love, Esme is the only vampire that can not be killed by fire, or most of the other means for that matter. She has a regenerative gift that will heal any injury and can regrow body parts."

I smiled at that and watched with morbid fascination as Carlisle burned to ashes along with part of Esme's arms, but as soon as she pulled them out of the fire, her arms grew back at lightning speed, once again looking like nothing ever happened.

She then flashed me and Alice a quick wink before making her way back to Sulpicia. "Now that the business of Carlisle has been concluded, I think we have all deserved a day off, so to speak. The search for Edward will of course continue, but we will take this day to celebrate. A lot of wrongs were righted today." She said as she dismissed us all.

We all bowed and left, Alice and I making a beeline for our room. "Mom is like a walking vampire cheat code." I said softly as we walked through the halls.

Alice giggled and kissed my cheek softly. "Only in part, love. She can be killed and from what she has told me some people have come very close. If any part of her survives, she will regenerate, but if all of her is burned, then she won't be able to come back."

I smiled and pushed her against the wall before kissing her. I had missed having her this close today and I just wanted to feel her close right now.

Alice wasted no time in tangling her hand in my hair, and while her robe prevented her from wrapping her legs around my waist, she tried anyway. "I should really talk to Esme about these robes at some point, they could use more width in the legs." She said as she pulled back.

I smiled at her. "You just want to climb me. I think they are perfect, not to mention the feel of them against our naked bodies."

She grinned as we took off again, this time actually making it to our room. "If you really mean what I think you meant, show me." She said in an almost demanding tone.

I merely smiled and took off my robes, revealing to my fiancé that I really didn't have anything on beneath it. "Convinced now, my love?"

She nodded and threw her own robe off before tearing her clothes off and tackling me to the bed, the old wood groaning under the force of it. "I am very convinced, and now I will show you exactly what it does to me."

I moaned loudly as she started eating me out and for once I laid back and let Alice do so many magical and wonderful things to my body, and as I gently ran my hand through her silken hair, she looked up with a grin, which made me moan again. She looked so innocent in that moment and I just wanted to kiss her senseless and never let her go again. It was also another reminder that I had made the right choice in asking her to marry me already.

Of course because of how worked up I was, I knew my first orgasm wouldn't take long, and thanks to Alice's gifted tongue, she once again proved me right when I moaned out my orgasm a few minutes later.

Alice seemed to notice my inner thoughts and kissed her way back up my body. "What could you possibly be thinking about?"

I smiled and kissed her deeply. "About you mostly and how I just want to kiss you senseless right now."

She smiled into our kiss and straddled me, her hands making their way to my breasts. "I wouldn't mind that, especially if I can stay like this. I love playing with your breasts."

"They're all yours love, as long as I get to play with that magnificent ass of yours." I said softly.

She smiled at that. "I never knew you were into that kind of stuff Bella."

"Please, have your seen your ass lately, it is amazing. Every time you wear a pair of jeans I have to contain myself not to rip them off and bury my face in there." I said with a grin.

Alice smiled at that. "Well it is yours whenever you want it, my love." She said softly.

I smiled and flipped us over, motioning for Alice to get on her hands and knees. "Good, because I want to try something that I have wanted to do for a very long time."

I then kissed each of the pale cheeks softly and started eating her out from behind, making my lover moan loudly, and not for the first time I was so happy that we were vampires so that I could do this. "Do you trust me love?" I asked softly.

"With my life Bella, you know that, you can do whatever you want to me, and if you are going to do what I think you are going to, you might want to get some lube." She said with a soft smile.

I kissed her just above her tailbone before I flashed to the cabinet which held most of our sex toys, including several lubricants and for tonight I chose one with strawberry scent, which was Alice's favorite. "I wasn't going to put anything bigger than a finger or two in there love, we can work to that in the coming months."

She smiled and moaned as I started spreading some lubrication on her tight ring. "Have you done anything like this before love?" I asked softly, for once acutely aware that she had at least a hundred years in which she could have experienced all sorts of sexual things.

To my surprise she shook her head. "No, I haven't. Believe it or not you were my first in everything. I was a virgin before we made love that day of your first hunt."

"Then I am even more honored to be your mate and that we can be each other's firsts in everything." I said softly as I slowly slipped a finger in.

Alice moaned loudly and bucked her hips a little as I slowly started pumping my finger in and out of her tight ass, wanting to stretch her enough to add another finger and eventually prepare her for a strap-on. "Oh Bella, that feels so weirdly amazing. I can't wait to return the favor."

I only smiled and added another well lubricated finger. "I want to feel it love, because you know how much I believe in equality."

Alice smiled and started riding my fingers, while I latched me mouth onto her clit and pussy, wanting to bring her to a mind shattering orgasm. It was always the only thing I wanted to one-up my fiance in.

Soon enough she screamed out her orgasm, her ass almost squeezing my fingers off, and I actually thought to hear some faint cracks inside of her.

Once she had loosened up enough for me to pull out, I kissed my way back up her body. "Did you enjoy that love?" I asked softly.

She only nodded as she pulled me into her arms. "You have done the impossible. You've wiped me out with just one orgasm."

I only smiled and kissed her. "You always said that I did impossible things to vampires before I was turned, so why stop now."

She smiled as she cuddled up to me, both of us just luxuriating in each other's presence until the Queens needed us again.

Esme's POV

When the Guard had left, Sulpicia and I turned to the others. "That went better than expected, it almost seemed too easy." Athenodora said with a slight frown.

"That it was, why would Carlisle be so brazen as to try a direct assault like this, Felix said that he was stalking the city when they captured him." Sulpicia said softly, apparently deep in thought.

Suddenly it hit me. Edward must have used Carlisle as a sacrifice to see if there was any way he could infiltrate the Castle and try and launch an assault from within. I took Sulpicia's hand and let her see my thoughts, which got a slight gasp from my raven haired mate.

"You might be right there love." She said softly.

"What did you see Cia?" Didyme asked softly.

"Esme showed me a thought that might become a reality. Edward might have used Carlisle as a sacrifice to test our strength and a way to infiltrate the Castle." Sulpicia said a bit shocked.

Everyone looked equally shocked at that. "Then we should take precautions immediately, at least double the Guard for the time being." Athenodora said fiercely.

Tanya smiled and pressed a kiss to her lover's neck. "I think it's better if we didn't. It might make him suspicious of our actions if he notices that we have increased our security. If we do nothing but prepare in silence, he will get cocky and launch an assault he can not win, and then he can see how the Volturi deal with petty revenge plots and the ones that support them."

Athenodora smiled at her lover. "Why are you always so good at being my voice of reason?"

"Because someone has to be and you are more likely to listen to my reason then to that of the other's." Tanya said softly.

Athenodora smiled at that, knowing Tanya had an excellent point. "And that is not the only thing Dora. Tanya also knows exactly what to do to get you to agree with almost anything, all she has to do is threaten not to have sex with you." Didyme said with a teasing smile.

"Oh hush Di. It's not like you and Marcus are any better, or that Sulpicia and Esme are any better for that matter."Athenodora said with a slight pout.

I giggled at that. "But unlike you, we don't hide or deny it. We are quite happy to be addicted to our mates."

Behind the blonde Tanya grinned and wrapped her arms around her lover. "Life could be so much more fun for us if you opened up just a little bit more, love. At some point all our enemies will have surrendered are will have been vanquished, and I can't have you go all pouty on me when you have no one to fight anymore."

Athenodora smiled and relaxed against the taller blonde. "I know, and I am working on that, and having you close again is helping loads already."

Tanya smiled at her. "Well, I will certainly never leave you alone again. I need you close just as you need me close."

"I think both of us feel that way Tanya, I can never in good conscience leave Sulpicia again." I said as I wrapped my arms around my raven haired lover.

Sulpicia smiled and kissed me softly. "Good, because it hurts too much when you are not here, and my mood is usually the first thing to suffer."

I smiled at that. "Then I think everyone will be thankful that I will be here from now on. You're no fun when you're all mopey."

She quirked an eyebrow at me, the barely controlled lust almost exploding out through her eyes. "Really love, then I think we should postpone any talks for today and have you show me exactly what you mean by that."

I only smiled and kissed her before we left the others to their own devices, both of us having other things on our mind at the moment.

Rosalie's POV

Watching Carlisle burn to ashes was very satisfying to say the least. For years I had to endure his and Edward's backhanded comments about how I was turned and how I dealt with that, and to watch at least part of that come to an end filled me with a warm feeling that was also partly because of my sadistic little angel beside me and judging by the smirk she had on her face as he burned while her hand was firmly in my own, she was enjoying this as well.

I had seen Esme's ability in action only once before and again it left me in awe as her arms regenerated, the same smirk still on her face.

Shortly after that we were dismissed and Jane and I made our way to our bedroom to change, since we had a trip to the indoor pool planned.

Jane chose a very conservative black one-piece, which made me giggle a bit. "I know you hate being called cute, angel, but that bathing suit makes you look even more adorable."

She growled softly at that. "Don't call me adorable. I've never worn a bikini before because I know I couldn't pull something sexy like that off."

I smiled and pulled her into my arms. "Love, I think you would look drop dead gorgeous in a bikini. I know you don't care about what people think, so what is really keeping you back?"

She sighed and relaxed against me. "The fact that I will never have curves or assets like you. That I will be seen as a little girl for the rest of time and never be seen as a woman."

"Love, listen to me please. Having all these curves and assets has only brought me pain. I haven't told you how Esme came to turn me, and while it pains me to talk about, you deserve to know, all I ask is that you not interrupt, I can't tell this twice."

She nodded and kissed me softly as she moved us to the bed so we could lie comfortably.

I sighed softly before I began, drawing strength by pulling her into my arms. "I was turned in 1935 after I was gangraped and left for dead by my fiance next to the church we were supposed to get married in the following day. Esme found me and turned me on the spot before carrying me to her home to finish the change. When I woke up she told me what I now was, who she was and what I wanted to do. All I wanted was revenge and Esme helped me get it. I stole my wedding dress from my parents house and hunted the men down one by one, leaving my fiance for last, so he knew I was coming. I barged into his room in my wedding dress and killed him at slowly as possible, but I never tasted his blood. I kind of had a flair for the dramatics back then."

She looked at me for a long time, a variety of emotions visible in those beautiful red orbs. "I'm so sorry that happened to you love, and I can't even imagine what you have been through. I have also been through a lot before Sulpicia turned me, but never something like that. I am glad you got your deserved revenge and that those bastards suffered through it all, but having said that, your flair for the dramatics haven't lessened a bit."

I smiled and pulled her into a kiss. "Thank you angel, that means a lot to me. I have always hated what I had become and for a long time blamed Esme for it, but when I saw you, I knew that you were my destiny, let's not look back anymore, but forward to the future with confidence. Perhaps I should talk to Esme at some point and apologize for how I have treated her in my early years."

She nodded and kissed me deeply before blurring into her robe. "If you give me ten minutes, I will be back with a bikini so that we can take our swim. If you can do it after everything you have been through, then I will not let my past burden me anymore."

I smiled and nodded as she took off, and in the meantime I had plenty of time to get changed myself. Figuring she would go for either black or red, I chose a deep scarlet bikini, which I hoped she would like, since she seemed to prefer me in either those form fitting robes or nothing at all, a fact I didn't really mind. Jane thought I was drop dead gorgeous, and my own vanity would not refute that of course, but I also let my mate know that she was gorgeous as well because not acknowledging her beauty or enjoying and reveling in it would be a crime to womanhood everywhere.

Like she promised Jane was back within ten minutes, ripping of her robes as soon as the door was closed. "I think you will like this my love." She said as she flashed on her black bikini, and I was glad that I chose the scarlet one, because it looked amazing next to hers. "You have a very good taste, my love, you look absolutely ravishing."

She smiled and pulled me into her arms and onto the bed. "I could get used to this, but know that I will only wear this for you. Even Isabella and Alice will not get to see me in this."

"I would hope so, because you are just as much mine as I am yours, and only me will get to revel in your beauty." I said with a playful growl, which was probably the first one of my immortal life.

She quirked an eyebrow and straddled me. "Is that what you want to do now, Rose? Postpone our planned day of swimming for mind numbing sex?"

I smirked and pulled her into a deep and passionate kiss. "Does that answer your question, angel?"

She smirked right back at me and lied down against me. "That's too bad then, because I want to go swim with my beautiful mate."

I pouted a little at that. "That's just not fair, but you are lucky you are so cute or I might have taken offense to that kind of teasing. Usually the one cunt blocking me is your brother."

Jane smiled at that. "He is just worried about me. We have been all we had for almost a thousand years, and in his eyes nobody is good enough for me. He actually respects you for standing up to him despite our reputation of the Witch Twins."

I only smiled and kissed her softly. "Good, I don't want to drive a wedge between you and your brother just because you are mated to me."

She smirked at that. "I would choose you every time Rosalie. He may be my twin brother, but you complete me in every single way, but I do think we have wasted enough time. Let's go swimming."

I nodded and followed my lover to the pool, which was easily recognizable as having Esme's hand in the design, and as we floated in the warm water in each others arms, for the first time I could feel the stress of my being draining away. Eternity didn't look as bleak as it did before now that I have my angel by my side.