Rosalie's POV

After months of training she could safely say that the women was an excellent fighter, she was able to avoid all of the attacks sent her way and at the same time counter attack. I knew that she didn't need my help she had it under control and no doubt she could beat them with her eyes closed.

"Hey!" I called gaining the attention of three of the attackers giving the fair-haired vampire the chance to decapitate one assailant. The ones who'd turned my way returned to the fight full force.

"Hey idiots." I said harshly, before attacking. I decapitated one of them who was shocked to see me attacking and had stood stunned watching me approaching . One of the three that were left attacked me, and soon we were engaged in a fight. His fighting was sloppy it was easy to see that he was going with his instincts without an once of training. I dodged all of his attacks with ease and proceeded to send him a couple of punches and pined him to the ground by his throat causing cracks to appear on his marble like skin. Not wanting to drag out the fight any longer I decapitated him with little effort. I got up and look around meeting the eyes of the fair-haired women. She was scrutinizing my every move.

"Why did you help me?" She asked in a voice void of any emotion.

"I actually don't know" I frowned at the sudden realization "I had this impulse to help even though I know don't know and you didn't really need my help. You are more than capable to take on seven or eight vampire and still win." I said with a steady voice. She smirked.

"You are right young one but I must say that you could do it too, maybe not eight but definitely five It would be an easy win for you." I nodded.

"May I ask you how such a young vampire can fight better then most older ones?" She asked curiously.

"Lets just say that I had an amazing teacher." I didn't want to reveal the existence of the Amazon coven to a vampire I don't even know the name of.

"And who might that teacher be?" She asked more forcibly this time.

"Someone who prefers to stay anonymous in this world, few know of his existence and he would prefer to keep it that way." She looked pensive for a moment, and then nodded accepting my lie.

"If that is the wish of this person, then so be it. I haven't introduced myself yet, my name is Athenodora Volturi."

Shit Volturi, she is part of the Volturi I should have known seeing the way she fights. I've heard her name before, Tanya and Eleazar had talked about her once. She was one of the Volturi Queens, the wife of Caius. Confusion took hold of my mind I thought that she was a prisoner some what because she and Aro's wife couldn't leave their tower. She was out in the forest with no guard to protect her. Trying to regain my composure I introduced myself.

"I'm Rosalie Hale."

" You know of me." she said with confidence.

"Yes." was my simple answer.

"How interesting, few know of my existence seeing as my dear husband had me imprisoned in a tower for so long You're teacher must be very old to know of me." she said with a little surprise.

"Actually it wasn't my teacher it was someone else."

"You seem to know a lot of old vampire for one so young." she said still surprised but curiosity shined in her crimson eyes.

"I do know a some old vampires but I doubt any of them are even close to your age, maybe my teacher is I'm not really sure."

"You got me curious to know who that teacher of yours might be, being almost as old as me and unknown in our world but if it wasn't he who told you about me then who was it?"

"Tanya and Eleazar Denali."

"Ah, Eleazar was in the guards was he not, And Tanya Denali an old coven and thousand years old, I should have guessed You were friends with them since you have the same diet seeing your eyes."

"Yes I am, I'm part of the Cullen coven." I spat the name Cullen which wasn't unnoticed by the older vampire.

"You don't like them, in fact you despise those so called Cullen's" The elder vampire tilted her head her brows furrowed in confusion

"If you dislike them so much why are you part of the coven then?"

"I have a feeling that I should stay, don't ask me why I have no idea." I looked away not wanting to think of the Cullen's anymore they always made me so angry.

"A feeling you say, it's very interesting, the same feeling that you had when you walked in here and helped me with those idiots?"

"Yes, the same feeling." I confirmed.

"You could posses a gift of some sort." she said more to herself then to me.

"Maybe."

"What did you feel exactly?"

"I felt like...like I needed to help you, I had to do something I knew that you could take them, but that didn't stop me from reacting the way I did"

"Very interesting." She said nodding. "Tell me young one why are you so far away from your coven ?"

"I wanted to travel, see the world, after Irena told me about all the things she has seen, I wanted nothing more then to travel and see all the magnificent places she had described." I said dreamily. I had been traveling for a while now, I've seen amazing places and learned a lot of thinks. I haven't encountered that many vampires but those who I had met had taught me a lot.

"I remember a time when I was like you, dreaming of places and people, those times are long gone. After being imprisoned by your mate you want nothing more then to leave for a while and be on your own to think about the life that you have been leading." Athenadora's voice trailed off making me feel a deep sense of guilt for intruding even if I had helped her.

"I'm sorry to have interrupted your time alone."

"Nonsense, those vampires who attacked me interrupted it long before you did and to tell you the truth, It feels natural to spend time with you It's like I have known you my eternal life."

"I feel the same way." We stood there for a while in silence, both lost in our thoughts. It was weird for me to be so comfortable with someone that I just met and a Volturi Queen at that! But I couldn't not be, it's like when I am with the Cullen's I can't help disliking them, and wanting to be anywhere but with them.

After a while the silence was broken by Athenodora saying that we should probably burn the decapitated vampires and relocate befor some more show up.

After setting them on fire and leaving the little clearing I followed Athenodora without second thought letting her lead me to an unknown place. I must really be loosing my mind since when have I begun to trust people I barely know?

"Don't over think it child, I feel it too I don't trust easily either." The ancient said with a small smile playing on her lips.

"How .. How did you know what I was thinking about?" I was shocked did she have a power similar to Edward's?

"It's easy really, I was thinking the same thing and seeing the worry in your eyes clued me in. You don't trust easily, something happened to you that keeps you from doing so and judging by the look on your face I am correct."

Too shocked to speak I nodded.

"Come we still have a couple miles to go."

"Where are we going?"

"I discovered a long time ago a cave around here, we will arrive there soon"

True to her word we arrived a few minutes later in front of the entrance of a cave. It was dark for human eyes but to us it was as clear as day. It wasn't a fancy place, just the strict minimum, there was a couch, a book shelf with some really old looking books, a small table and a chandelier.

"What do you usually do here?" I asked

"I just sit around, read, and think I haven't been here in a long time, you are the first person I actually brought here, not even my mate has been here or knows of this place."

"What happened? I heard that you couldn't leave the tower, in the Volturi castle, how did you get away?"

She proceeded to tell me how after the death of Didyme both Aro and Caius were scared to loose them, herself and decided to protect them by imprisoning them but they made them feel content leaving the life of prisoner by using the gift of a member of the guard to keep them content. It wasn't until they were attacked and he died that they were free from his gift. The minute they had realized what their mates had done, they had gone on a rampage and decimated half of the guards in their rage. To say that Aro and Caius were angry was an understatement but faced with the rage of two ancient vampires older then themselves had shut them up. They had received what they deserved, no one should live like a prisoner and not know it. They were so scared to loose their mates and go mad like Marcus did, that they thought the best thing to do was to lock them up.

Athenodora had said that Sulpicia had gone to think in a place only known to her like she had done. They would go back to Volterra after a while, no one can stay away from their mate for too long, but as she had said they would have them begging on their knees before they would let them come near them.

After that explanation they started to talk about anything and everything. They talked and talked for days without stopping, it was the first time, either had revealed so much about themselves to another person let alone another Vampire, their bond was growing they could feel it and they didn't even think about stopping it. The nature of it was slowly changing. After a while they came to see each other as mother and daughter. Rosalie had a mother as a human, heck she was probably still alive, but she had never been close to her the way a daughter usually is to her mother but Athenodora understood her, listened to her, and gave her advice. She was so comfortable with her that she didn't feel the need to hide anything from her. She told her about her gift and the ancient agreed with her that her gift had to be hidden from Aro and Caius, they were too power hungry and would stop at nothing to have more power at their disposal.

From what the ancient told her, Marcus didn't care about anything anymore. The loss of his mate had put him in an eternal depression. If he could he would kill himself but the other two rulers wouldn't let him. He was the eldest one of them all and his gift was useful. I felt bad for him leaving a miserable life with no spark of happiness in it.

"Where are you going to go now ?" Athenodora asked one day.

"I don't know, I was thinking about going to Russia, but I'm not sure." I answered.

"That's a good idea a lot of beautiful places to see, would you mind having a little company while your there?" The question was so casually asked that anyone would have thought it was a simple yes or no answer. But I knew better, It was her way of asking me if I would mind her presence during my travel. If I could accept her in my life enough to let her spend so much time with me.

"I wouldn't mind some company, on the condition that it's good company." I said with a hint of playfulness.

"Oh pff, I'm always good company."

"And who said I was talking about you?" I was getting used to our banter, they always brought a smile to my face.

"Like anyone one you know can hold a conversation better then me." She said with such arrogance that I was tempted to contradict her just to get a rise out of her.

"You are right, Oh powerful Queen, no body can even be compared to you." I said sarcasm dripping each world, affronted, she turned her head to the right, chin held high. I couldn't take it any longer, I laughed.

If it was possible she turned her head further up with even more affront. After I calmed down I tried to apologies but she wouldn't here any of it.

Our days were spent like this, switching between talking, fighting, disagreeing, and having our little banter during our travel through Russia. It was fun, Athenodora knew a lot of things about the monument, going as far as telling me stories about what happened during their construction. It was a unique experience and an amazing one. One day Athenodora had asked me to go to Volterra with her, at first I refused without even thinking about it but after she promised that she would protect me with her life and keep them from forcing me to join, I accepted given a bit reluctantly to make her happy. She didn't want to go there on her own and having me by her side made her happy, I couldn't say no.

So here we are standing in front of the Volturi castle side by side. I'm pretty sure if I was still human, I would have died of a heart attack by now. As soon as we set foot in the castle, dread washed over me.

God please help me, what am I doing?

AN: hey guys, I hope you liked the chapter, please tell me what you think about going over Rosalie's past. If you have any ideas to integrate into her past please tell me I would happily try to fit them in. Thank you for reading