Chapter Ten: Blood on My Hands by The Used

"You felt the coldness in my eyes, something I'm not revealing

Though you got used to my disguise, you can't shake this awful feeling

It's the me that I let you know, 'cause I'll never show

I have my reasons…

…Straight from your eyes, it's barely me

Beautifully so disfigured

This other side that you can't see, just praying you won't remember

Feel the pain that I never show, and I hope you know

It's never healing…"

(There was just too much that fit this chapter…I thought…Check the song out…)

Disclaimer: It's on my profile. From now on it'll be on my profile.

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One second Rosalie Hale was standing in the field her and her family played baseball in and then the next she was in a house that she had never seen before.

Her vampire family was no longer before her.

And the last she had seen of them they were about to be tortured by Bella.

Sure Bella had told her that she didn't plan on hurting them, but she also knew that Bella was a woman scorned. And everyone knows that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

She didn't miss the malicious glint in Bella's eyes either.

Bella was out for blood…figuratively speaking.

And Rosalie didn't blame her in the least.

But that didn't mean that she wanted to see her family get tortured. For the past while she was angry at them and hurt that they kept on choosing Ashley over her. In a lot of ways she still was too. But her family had been there for her when she needed it at times. They loved her. And they dealt with her no matter what she threw at them.

She did love them. All of them. Except for Ashley, her soon to be sister-in-law. For she would never be a sister of Rosalie's even if she was a vampire.

And yet a small part of Rosalie did want her family to suffer for the pain they had caused. The pain they caused Bella by leaving her and replacing her. The pain they had caused her with not listening to her protests of Ashley. The pain they had caused her by always siding with Ashley instead of her.

Carlisle, Esme, Jasper, Alice, Edward, and even Emmett needed to feel how it felt.

But how could she love her family so much and yet want them to feel so much pain? Did it make her an even bigger monster to want them to suffer?

"Welcome to our temporary house, Rosalie!" The twin of Sophie said. Rosalie remembered her name to be Lucy and her ability to be able to sense abilities.

Rosalie smiled down at her. "Thank You Lucy. But what do you mean temporary?"

"Bella never has us stay in one place too long. We'll be leaving this place soon." Lucy quickly explained. More detail was not needed.

Bella was going to torture her family, possibly destroy them, and then move on to elsewhere as if it was another ordinary day. For all Rosalie knew it could just be another ordinary day.

"Anyways, this is Alex," Lucy pointed towards one of the two boys. He had short blonde hair and looked to be older than the other. "He's a recent addition and able to teleport. He brought us here. And this is Max. He's telepathic and doesn't talk much." The other boy had short jet black hair.

"Hello," Rosalie kindly said. She didn't know what to do with herself in front of these children. She hadn't had this much contact with kids in such a long time that she felt out of her element.

A thought occurred to Rosalie then, "Why were we teleported? Couldn't we have just run?"

Lucy shook her head. "No, Bella didn't want your scent to be followed here. We can cover our tracks very well, but it was easier to do it this way." She explained.

Rosalie let that sink in. Bella didn't want the family to find her.

"Bella's back," Max spoke up. He and Alex had migrated over to what looked like the living room and had plopped themselves on one of the couches found there. How they acquired the couches was something that Rosalie didn't think she was eager to know.

Bella threw the front door wide open not caring if it slammed against the wall or not.

Her children filed in behind her.

"Bella," Ava said. "The Cullen's are going to be involving the Volturi."

Bella stopped in her tracks and grew stiff. She hadn't even noticed Rosalie standing in the living room.

There was one thing that Bella hated more than the Cullen's. And that was the Volturi. They may have pitied her in the past to grant her one favor, but that one favor had constantly caused them to try and blackmail Bella and her children to join the guard.

Repeatedly they had tried to "ask" her and repeatedly Bella had turned them down.

She had no desire to join the Volturi guard.

It was only the fact that Bella had on occasion helped the guard that they left her favor alone. Every once in a while one of the guard members would appear to ask again if Bella had changed her mind about joining the guard.

Bella's answer was always 'no.'

But to involve the Volturi was a pathetic move by the Cullen's.

And it was one that wasn't going to do much for them.

Bella was almost positive that the Volturi knew nothing of Ashley - the human - knowing about vampires and such. The Cullen's had broken one of the biggest rules enforced and they were going to be paying for it.

Bella turned towards Rosalie and asked her, "Do the Volturi know about your human?"

"She's not my human. And no they don't." Rosalie answered.

"Excellent." Bella grinned. "Let them involve the Volturi then. I'd like to see them hide their pathetic human. My new plans don't allow that."

"Carlisle would have thought this through, Bella. And even if he hadn't, Edward is too damn protective of Ashley. I can't even look at her without Edward going all psychotic on my ass." Rosalie said.

Bella contemplated Rosalie's words for a second before turning towards Ava.

"Look and see what they will do with Ashley. If they hide her I want to know where." Bella commanded her.

Ava nodded and then progressed to stare off into space.

Rosalie uncertainly glanced from Bella to the young girl whom Bella had called 'Ava.' She had yet to meet this child and learn what her power was. Rosalie had since figured out that all of Bella's children had some sort of special ability. Now it was just a matter of finding out what they were.

"Bella, what is she doing?" Rosalie asked.

"She's checking the future. She's psychic just like your dear sister, but so much more talented." Bella said.

"Better than Alice? How so?"

"She can take a made up scenario, focus on it, and see what the outcome will be. That scenario could either happen in real life or it could be something that never happens. I had her factor in the fact that another psychic would know of the storm today and she saw your family coming to play probably before you guys even knew about it yourselves." Bella explained.

Rosalie didn't have time to respond, not that she had a response, before Ava broke from her haze and looked towards Bella.

"Right now they're deciding what to do with her, but they'll eventually end up putting her on La Push reservation until the confrontation is over." Ava said.

Rosalie stood there shocked that Bella now knew what was going to happen to Ashley before a decision had been made by the family.

"Excellent. We'll be there to make sure she doesn't fall into harm's way with the wolves." Bella laughed.

"The Volturi will be here by tomorrow night. So…in less than 24 hours." Ava answered next. Bella hadn't even had to ask the question.

Bella turned around to look at the rest of her children. They stood straight and stock still before her.

"Alright now listen up!" Bella started, "The Volturi will be here soon. We all know how much they love a good battle. I want all of you to practice your fighting and your abilities if need be. I trust you don't need a reminder of what happens if you're not tough enough."

All the children nodded.

"Get busy." Bella barked at them.

Her children all disappeared, no doubt running down to the training floor to prepare for the upcoming fight.

o.o.o.o.o.o

"Bella are you really going to show Ashley to the Volturi?" Rosalie asked.

She and Bella had been up in Bella's room sitting and staring. No words were passed between the two, until now.

"Why? Are you against it?" Bella calmly asked her.

Rosalie thought about it. "No, it's just that," she paused before continuing. "They're my family, you know? And I don't want to hurt them no matter what happened before."

Bella turned to stare at Rosalie. "I thought they were my family once. And it's because of our past that I want to hurt them."

Rosalie tried not to be intimidated by Bella's red eyes, but it was unnerving.

"How come you don't want to hurt me?" Rosalie asked.

Bella closed her eyes before speaking. "Back then, we were different, Rosalie, or our relationship was. You hated me, I didn't like you."

"But for all you know I do still hate you."

Bella smirked at her. "You don't. I've heard about your actions when the subject of me came up with your family."

"For all I know you could hate me."

"Rosalie if I hated you, would I bring you here without attacking you?"

It was a rhetorical question and Rosalie didn't bother perusing the subject anymore.

"Why do you not hate me anymore Bella? What made you change your mind?"

"I never hated you, you just intimidated me. After what I've learned, I've figured out that you were protecting me back when I was a human and also that you were jealous of me." Bella replied.

"It wasn't you I was protecting, Bella. I was protecting my family." Rosalie argued, but Bella gave her a pointed look and Rosalie sighed. "Fine in some ways I was protecting you. From losing everything. There always was that chance that it could go wrong and I knew what that would have meant."

Bella and Rosalie fell into a silence again as they stood side by side and stared out the window into the surrounding forest. They could distinctly hear the sounds of vampires practicing their fighting and abilities.

It was Rosalie that broke the silence.

"Bella," Rosalie softly started. "Why are you doing this?" She didn't need to elaborate more. Bella knew what she was talking about.

Even though it wasn't needed Bella took a deep breath. "Because."

"Because why Bella?"

"Because it hurts, Rose!" Bella snapped. She stood up and started to pace around her room, avoiding looking at Rosalie. "It hurts to see what could have been. I could have been Edward's fiancé. I could have had a family! I could have been happy…." Bella trailed off.

Rosalie sat there watching her every move. When Bella stopped pacing, Rosalie stood up and walked over to her still form. "You can still be happy Bella. You don't know what it's been like without you."

Bella snorted. "Obviously it's been hell." She sarcastically mumbled.

"It has been. All you see is that you were replaced by a human, Ashley. But you don't see the important signs."

"Like what?"

"Like the fact that Emmett hasn't laughed as loud as he did when you were around. Like how Alice hasn't been on a shopping trip that takes hours and how she never does makeovers on Ashley. Like how Esme is practically smothering us as a mother because she doesn't want us to leave or feel unloved. Like how Carlisle has slowly withdrawn from his work because some of the patients remind him of you. How Jasper can barely stand to stay in the house due to all of the sadness. And how Edward disappeared for months where he barely even made contact with us. You haven't seen all of that Bella." Rosalie finished. She had hoped that her speech would have gotten through Bella, but she watched as Bella shook her head in denial.

"No, I don't care Rosalie. It's their fault."

Rosalie was slightly confused now. "What's their fault?"

Sadness grew in Bella's eyes. "It's their fault that Charlie, Renee and Phil died. It's their fault." She repeated.

"How?" Rosalie asked. She wanted to understand why Bella blamed her family for the deaths of Bella's parents.

"If they hadn't have left, just up and left, then Victoria wouldn't have gone after my loved ones since we took away her loved one. Your family could have protected them and fought her. At the very least Alice should have seen it and came back to stop it. But no, no one came and saved them and they died because of me and because of the Cullen's. And I will make them pay for that. For lying to me about loving me, for leaving me, for the pain I lived with before and after my parents deaths. It's their fault."

Rosalie was shocked into silence.

Bella had suffered so much. So much more than any of them had originally thought. They had left her heartbroken and unprotected. Unprotected against Victoria and her wrath.

Now Rosalie didn't blame Bella for her anger.

"Bella?" Ava's voice said from the doorframe. Both female vampires started and turned towards the young vampire. "It's time." Ava told them.

A wicked smile adorned Bella's face and she nodded. "Gather the other's."

Ava left the room and Bella turned towards Rosalie.

"Are you going to stop me Rose?" She asked.

"I don't know. They're my family Bella and though I understand your motives I don't necessarily want to see them harmed." Rosalie sighed.

Bella nodded. "Still you need to come with us this time. Aro will want to be seeing everyone."

Rosalie nodded her head in understanding.

"But we're still going to get Ashley."

"Fine by me. She is as annoying as hell." Rosalie said. Bella laughed and took off downstairs and to her children with Rosalie on her tail.

o.o.o.o.o.o

Carlisle Cullen was sitting with his family, minus a daughter, in the front room of their Forks, Washington house.

Everyone was stock still and deep in thought.

Finally Carlisle spoke up. "I don't see any other way Edward."

Edward, as expected, started protesting. "No, no, I refuse to pass her over to the wolves…no-"

"It's the only way Edward. They won't follow her scent over the border when we tell them of the treaty. And that's if they follow her scent. She's safest in La Push." Alice reasoned with him.

"But you can't know that. The wolves could get her." Edward argued.

Alice sighed, tired of explaining to her stubborn brother. "I can't see her anymore, but she will be safe. The wolves wouldn't harm her. They protect, not harm."

"Wait," Emmett interrupted. "You can't see her in your visions? Why?"

"My guess is that it has to do with the wolves. That's beside the point though. It's either the wolves or the Volturi, Edward. And they won't be happy that Ashley's a human." Alice pointed out. Finally she had a clear future, kind of. Ashley was going over to La Push because Edward had decided it was safer. Coming out of her vision Alice nodded at Edward.

For the others benefits Edward nodded his head and said, "Okay we'll take her the boundary line."

A sigh of relief went through the room and the air felt lighter.

They had been arguing and shooting down ideas about where to hide Ashley for some time now.

As soon as they had arrived home, Carlisle immediately dialed the Volturi and explained the situation to them. It had thrown everyone for a loop when the Volturi weren't immediately outraged at the thought of a small army other than there's.

"We're having a slight problem." Carlisle started. "It seems that a vampire we know has a vendetta against us and she has a small army behind her."

"What is this vampire's name, Carlisle?" Aro had asked.

"Erm, Bella." Carlisle finally said. He hadn't wanted to give away her name. He had wanted to explain the situation in detail to the Volturi in person and not over the phone.

"I assume that's not her full name?" Aro asked next.

"No. Her name is Isabella Swan."

"Ahh," Aro said. "We'll be there."

He didn't bother saying good-bye before he hung up.

Carlisle and the rest sat there unsure as to what just transpired.

It wasn't until Alice broke the silence by saying that the Volturi would be there in less than twenty four hours time that the Cullen's started to speak again.

The Volturi knew nothing of Ashley and they wanted to keep it that way until she was a vampire. So there next step in the plan was to hide Ashley away from the incoming vampires.

"We'd better go. We've been arguing for hours now and the Volturi are almost here." Alice said.

Everyone nodded and stood up. Edward disappeared upstairs to wake Ashley, who had been asleep ever since her encounter with Bella. Within minutes both of them were back down and out the door with Alice by their side. The other family members had taken off to the field already.

Edward was going to run Ashley to the border and as he was he explained to Ashley where they were taking her. She was reluctant at first, but eventually gave in, mostly due to her exhaustion. Bella's little stunt had taken a lot of energy from her.

After a quick good-bye at the border line, Edward and Alice took off to the field where they would meet up with the rest of their family and the Volturi.

"Edward," Alice suddenly said. "What if they want to kill Bella?"

"That's unlikely Alice." Edward dodged the question. He tried to read her mind, nonetheless, but came up short when he found that she was counting from one to one hundred in different languages.

He didn't have time to ask anymore because just then the field came into view and they could see both the rest of their family and the Volturi guard.

"Here we go." Alice said under her breath. She and Edward didn't stop running until they were right next to their family members. Carlisle and Esme were standing in the middle, Emmett and Jasper were off to their left, and Alice and Edward appeared on their right.

"Thank you for coming on such short notice Aro, Marcus, and Caius," Carlisle began. "But there's more to the story that I feel you should know."

"I don't think there's more to this story." A voice all of the Cullen's recognized spoke up.

Bella.

She stepped out of the forest, like the first time they had seen her, and walked forward with some of her children trailing behind her and Rosalie matching her step for step.

"Rose!" Emmett exclaimed. He made to run at her, but Rosalie sent him a hard look and shook her head. Jasper put his hand on his shoulder and pulled him back in line with the rest of the family.

Bella stopped so that she was facing both the Volturi and the Cullen's.

"Hello Aro, Marcus, Caius." She greeted all of them.

"My dear Isabella, how are you?" Aro replied.

"Fine and you?"

"Splendid. I see you've added more to your coven." Aro carefully looked at each of the children.

"Just a tad." Bella said.

The Cullen's stood on the side, gawking. They were stunned to say the least. They hadn't expected the Volturi and Bella to know each other. They suddenly understood why Aro wasn't immediately angry when they told him of the army. He had known all along.

"You know each other?" Carlisle asked.

Bella laughed. "Of course. You don't think I'd have an army without the Volturi knowing, now did you?" She asked them. Her tone and condescending smile told them that she did think just that.

"Now Isabella, Carlisle has told me that you have a vendetta against his family? Is that true?" Aro asked her. Bella's eyes tightened around the edges, but otherwise she kept her cool.

"Yes, it is." She said.

"Aro, aren't we forgetting something?" Marcus spoke up before the interrogating could go any farther.

"Yes, as I recall we had an agreement." Caius added.

Aro nodded his head. "Isabella, my dear, is your coven ready? Jane has just been dying to use her powers."

"We're ready." Bella simply said.

Confused the Cullen's watched from the side as Jane, Alec, Demetri, Felix, Afton, Corin, Heidi, and Renata all stepped in front of the three brothers.

Then Bella's children all stepped in front of her. With the exception of four girls who made a circle around Bella and Rosalie.

Emmett started to feel uneasy. He didn't like that Rosalie was in the middle of whatever was about to go down. "Carlisle? What's happening?" He asked hoping for an answer. But Carlisle just shook his head indicating that he didn't have a clue.

Without any warning the two covens started fighting one another. The three brothers stood behind and watched their guard fighting the children of Bella's. Bella was also just standing there, watching. Nobody bothered to go after the children that had circled her. The Cullen's suspected that they knew about Hailey's shield.

Hailey was one of the four girls that were surrounding Bella and Rosalie.

Emmett relaxed some when he realized that fact. Nobody would be getting to Rosalie.

The three vampire covens watched as some of the children were doing horrible, some doing a fantastic job of fighting, and some that were using their abilities to their advantage.

Finally the fighting stopped and they could assess the damage.

Everyone of the Volturi guard was still standing.

Only a few of Bella's army were left standing - the four that were encased in the force field, one boy, and one girl. From what the Cullen's could remember at least five children of Bella's army had been killed.

"You're losing your touch at choosing abilities, Isabella." Aro said.

Bella looked around her. There were chunks of vampire that were lying around the field. "Easily replaced and for better abilities." She shrugged. "Besides I think it's you three who are losing your touch."

"We can take away your favor, Bella! You best not talk to us like that." Marcus growled. Bella narrowed his eyes at him, but didn't reply. She would not let them take away her favor. It was all she had.

Aro held his arm out. "Calm yourself brother." He turned towards Bella. "What do you mean?"

Bella smiled at the Cullen's and sent them a wink.

Their stomachs fell. She was about say something that concerned them. Alice was desperately trying to figure out what Bella had planned, but she couldn't get a clear future.

"I find that showing you is so much better than telling." Bella said. She turned towards the last boy standing in her army. "Bring her." He nodded his head and disappeared into the forest for the briefest of seconds before coming back out with a body slung over his shoulder.

"Put me down brat! I'm going to tell Edward about this! Then you'll wish you weren't a vampire, but dead for real!" The body shouted as it thrashed against the boy.

Before she could say anything else, Ashley was thrown on the ground in the middle of the three covens. She looked up and around her surroundings before she noticed Edward. She jumped up from the ground and ran towards him. "Edward!" She yelled.

The Volturi watched as the human girl ran towards Edward Cullen and embraced him. They watched as he embraced her back. Then with a nod from Aro they watched as she fell to the ground, screaming in pain thanks to Jane.

"Aro, stop, please." Carlisle pleaded. He along with Emmett and Jasper were trying to restrain Edward from foolishly trying to stop Jane.

Ashley stopped screaming and thrashing.

"You know the rules Carlisle. Since you are an old friend, we'll kill her and spare you and your family." Aro said.

"We should kill them all." Marcus said.

Edward helped Ashley stand up and stood protectively in front of her. "We're to be married." He told the brothers.

Aro, Marcus, and Caius turned towards Bella then with identical smiles. She was watching them with a critical eye. She knew that they were planning something now and she would have to do it because they would blackmail her.

"Is that so? Well I would love to see a wedding, wouldn't you Isabella?" Aro asked. Bella gritted her teeth and stiffly nodded her head. "Excellent! You shall be married on Saturday!" Aro suddenly exclaimed.

The Cullen's didn't know what to say.

"And Isabella will be a part of the planning and the ceremony." Aro added.

Bella stared at him. "Why?" She asked.

"Now Isabella you don't want us to retract our favor now do you?" Caius calmly said.

There was no option for Bella then. She had seen it coming, but still she hoped that they wouldn't resort to that. With a sigh of resignation she said, "No. I would love to help plan."

"Wonderful. We'll be back on Saturday to make sure that our orders our fulfilled." Aro said. Aro, Marcus, and Caius turned to leave and their guard followed suit.

The Cullen's were still watching the part of the forest where they had disappeared when Bella said, "Hailey start a fire. The rest of you gather every last piece and throw them in."

"Bella aren't you going to let them heal?" Rosalie asked her.

The Cullen's turned in time to see Bella shake her head. "No, they were defeated. I'll find stronger ones."

"But that's cruel! They were just kids." Rosalie said.

Bella snorted. "They were vampires Rose. They should have been stronger." The children were done with throwing their friends into the fire and they had retreated into the forest. Bella turned towards Rosalie. "I'll see you later."

Rosalie gawked at her. "You're actually going to help plan the wedding?"

"I have to. The Volturi will know if I haven't and I can't let them retract my damn favor."

Rosalie was about to ask her what this favor was when Bella walked away from her and into the forest successfully ignoring the Cullen's as she went.

She would have to put up with them enough very soon.

Damn Aro, Marcus, and Caius.

This one was long. I ate, I laughed, and I talked all while writing this. The next chapter should be out soon.

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So who's bought New Moon? I haven't. But I'm curious as to how many did and when. Like did you go at midnight and buy it?

Xx. Liv.