Chapter 10: Capture

(The day after the Cullen's discovering Bella is dead.)

EPOV

I was in Italy now. I was sure the scenery was beautiful but, after Bella dying, the word beauty meant nothing to me. My life meant nothing to me without her. I don't know how I'd existed without her. Some say it's better to have loved and lost then to have not loved at all. In a way that's true, but if your love was as strong as mine was for Bella, you would die at the loss of the one you love. And that's exactly what I intended to do. Die. Because without her life was meaningless and painful. I knew that what I was doing now would hurt my family so that's why I blocked Alice from seeing my future. Why I haven't called, why I haven't written, why I haven't told them what I'm doing. It would kill them, Esme especially, and I felt awful for doing it. But I had too.

I looked impatiently around the room that the Volturi had let me stay in. I hadn't had time to book a room and though I wouldn't have minded running around or just sitting under a tree for the night, the Volturi had insisted I stay, saying it would be easier for them to let me know their decision in the morning. The room was really quite beautiful. Golden carpet, cream walls, a big double bed with jade sheets that matched the curtains of the window to the left of the room, and a sofa opposite the television and bookcase. I layed back on the bed and began going over yesterday evening's events.

*FLASHBACK*

"Edward, my dear friend!" Aro stepped forward gracefully and held out his hand, "To what do I owe this pleasure?"

Before I knew what was happening, my hand was in his and he was reading my every thought. I watched what he was seeing through his mind and froze when he got to the first day I had met Bella. It had been in Biology and I'd acted impossibly rude to her. The memory made me cringe.

He began running through every memory since then, the first time I touched Bella, the first time I hugged her, the first time I kissed her and every embrace and time spent together after that. When he finally came to the memory of me leaving Bella, a small sob escaped my lips and when he got to the vision Alice had of Bella dying, I desperately tried to pull my hand from his, but he kept it in his firm grasp.

"Please, stop," I begged him, "Don't make me relive it."

He let go of me then and stared at me, bewildered.

"Edward, what is the meaning of this? Who was this girl to you?"

"The one I loved more than my own life. That's why I've have come today. I'd like for you to kill me. Now she's gone, I have no reason to live any more."

I looked down at the ground and silence filled the room.

It could have been hours before Aro spoke, I wouldn't have known, but eventually he did, "Come, brothers. We have a lot to discuss. Jane, my dear, please show Edward to his room. He will stay with us tonight while we make our decision," he said turning to Jane, "and be nice." At that she smiled sweetly before turning to me and motioning with her hand. Then Jane led me through many halls and stairways before she finally came to a halt. She opened the door and once she was sure I was inside, locked me in from the other side.

*END FLASHBACK*

And now, here I was, drowning in my own misery, waiting to see if Aro would give me the one thing I now wanted from life. Death.

Just a few minutes later Aro, Caius and Marcus all stormed in followed by Jane and Alec.

They closed the door behind them and Aro spoke,

"Edward, my dear friend, we know that you have requested to be killed and we have decided to decline that request." My heart sunk, "We however wish to offer you something. I know how powerful your gift is and we would like to offer you a place here in Volterra. You would be part of the guard, mainly hunting down newborns and bringing them back to us."

I started to shake my head before he was finished, "Sorry Aro, but if you do not wish to give me the only thing I now want from life I will have to go and find somebody who does. I do not wish to live any longer and what you've offered me would mean living forever feeling loss and agony. I just can't do that."

I stood up off the bed and walked over to the door, meaning to walk straight out of the Volturi's lives, but I was overtaken by darkness and couldn't feel, see or hear anything.

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