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(Listening to my niece singing 'I can't be tamed' -_-)

Chapter 10

Aro PoV

"By the size of your smile I can say she said yes, brother" Caius spoke the instant I set foot inside the throne room, with a hint of humor in his words. I keep walking to my throne right beside him when Marcus came thru the door.

"See? The plan did worked. You should have done this decades ago Aro" Marcus was rights he had been telling me to do this long ago. He always says that time and distance are the best way to prove a relationship, the feelings for each other, is they are sincere, will last or improve. Mines are obvious, but hers? Are gradually growing, sadly, she is refusing to free them. All because of that human! "So tell me Aro, what are you planning to do with Elizabeth on your little vacations?" Both Marcus and Caius were wearing their mocking smiles

"My intentions are simple, dear brothers, I want some time along with Elizabeth to show her my real feelings, it seems she thinks I only want her for her ability. I'm planning to prove her wrong to show her that I love her, that is her who I want not her powers"

"You have our full support brother but don't forget about the main reason for this, gather as much information possible from that coven" Only Caius can destroy my little romantic vacation reminding me something like that, of courses that's the reason I am going out but since is nothing dangerous I am taking Elizabeth with me.

"Its still amusing me how Athenodora fell for you, you don't have a romantic bone in your body" Marcus rubbed his chin giving Caius a thoughtful look

"I have my own charms" Caius said very proud of himself, before we could ask him about his 'lovely charms' Santiago appeared.

"Master did you called for me?" The nervousness from the previous incident was there.

"I know you told her"

"Master I'm sorry I tried not to tell her but-" I cut his word raising my hand to stop him.

"She is curious as a child, she is completely oblivious of your feelings and she manipulates you. You just pleases her that's something out of your control. I understand that, however, if your feelings are getting a little too wild I, with any doubt, will give you another job and someone else will be her personal guard, maybe Lorenzo" (A/N random guard member)

"Master I asked you personally for this job knowing the consequences, but I can assured you there's nothing to be worry about, Mistress Elizabeth safety comes before mine or anyone else. You know I would never hurt her or you. So please Master, I beg you let me keep this…is the only thing I can do for her"

I stared at him for a moment thinking about this. He knows she is mine and, with time and patients, our feelings will be mutual and I trusted him, I believe him and his feelings for her will keep her safe he would give his life for her if it were necessary after all when a vampire love is for all eternity, forever her 'slave'.

"I considerer we are tolerable leaders but this case is beyond tolerance, you must know I will keep my eyes on you more often, if I see something out of place I will…replace you" He understood perfectly what I meant with 'replace' him. Nodding and turning on his heels he left the room with his head bowed.

Meanwhile I was thinking about which hotel we should go!

EllyPoV

Didyme and Athenodora are in my room babbling about the upcoming trip, apparently Marcus and Caius will visit some other friends and taking them. Like a little child I hid under the blankets while listening to them I just can believe I said 'yes' my stupid mouth moved before I could stop.

"Elly, why is your bed so hard?'

"Because you sat on my leg Didyme, get off!"

"Elizabeth, why are you so upset? And for god's sake move the blankets from your face you are a grownup woman, why are you acting like this?" Athena's words were firm but soft, she was acting like the mother we see in her, showing her authority but never leaving her loving nature.

"I think I know why, Athena" Even when I'm not looking at Didyme I know she must have that adorable smile she always use when she discover something like this "She is nervous about going alone with Aro"

"That's why she is acting this way?" Athenodora's melodic laughter filled my room "Don't be silly dear, there's nothing to worry about. Aro is a perfect gentleman he wont do something you wont approve off"

"Oh really?" I got up from my bed, moving the blackest angrily but they only entangled around my legs and I almost fall to the floor "How about thinking of killing my brother and when I thought he wanted to kill me the day after that and what about earlier this afternoon when he was planning to hurt Santiago for something that was my complete fault!"

"Don't forget about his obsession with the little vampire, Alice" Didyme added

"Yes! And his obsession with…what! He is obsesses with who?" I was only gone for two week and I miss everything! I saw Didyme placing her hands on her moth trying to cover her smile. Why is she smiling!

"Aro seems to really like Alice Cullen's gift" Athenodora answered me. So its always came down to having a 'fascinating' gift? Yup! that was Aro alright…

"What's wrong Elly? Jealous?" Didyme asked me with a small smirk on her perfect lips and using a challenging voice.

"Jealous? Of what?" I crossed my arms in front of my chest using the same tone of voice she did. I don't know if its jealousy or what, and I hope Its not, but the mention of Aro and another woman in the same sentence send a strange feeling inside me. And speaking of woman…I still need to meet that new receptionist Jolanda.

Didyme opened her mouth to say something but a small knock of the door stopped her

"Who is it?" I asked

"Is me Marcus, I am looking for Didyme had you seen her?"

"I am on my way love" Didyme responded but before she left she turned to me and said "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."* With those words she left my room

I just stared at the place where she was seconds ago wandering what she meant by that, of course I knew the quote form the play A Midsummer Night's Dream, but why she used it?

Athenodora spoke taking my attention back to her "When I said he was a perfect gentleman I was trying to say that he would never force himself on you, you should know that by now. Besides, now that I think about it, if he have wanted to get rid of you he would had done that long ago…. I think you should go to sleep now and get some rest" she kissed my forehead, she really see us like her daughters "See you in the morning Elly"

Two days later…

Santiago's attitude have been a little cold lately he even avoided me when there was no need to be guarding me, I asked Felix but he just shuddered. I decided to left that behind and resolve it later because today I was leaving with Aro to…Venice! Didyme already left with Marcus to France and Caius and Athenodora were on their way to Estonia.

Apart form everything I was really exited about going to Venice, since I was a kid I'd wanted to go and today that dream will come true!

There was no need to get a plane it only takes about two hour from Volterra to Venice by car. We took a less ostentatious car, Aro's Mercedes-Benz SL-Class convertible and nothing stopped him from getting the 2011 edition. Why would he buy a convertible car if we can't be out in the sun?

~o~O~0~O~o~

I was so relieve when we finally arrived at the hotel, the tension in the car was killing me, we talked about stupid things the first fifteen minutes but after that I faked to be asleep. He was singing alone with the radio some of Andrea Bocelli's songs and I have to admit that Aro sounded good even better than him!

We stayed at the San Clemente Palace Hotel & Resort located in Isola di San Clemente. The hotel was beautiful a world where ancients and modern times find a place to live together, after all the building was centuries old.

"There are thousand of other better looking hotels but this one has a great view and is pure magic" Aro said taking me inside the presidential suite. He stayed behind helping the guy with the luggage taking them into the closet. It was already dark outside but the view was perfect, magical almost, taken from a fairy tale.

I rested my arms on the window frame thinking about painting this tomorrow morning when a pair of strong hands touched my shoulders "This is the place where I wanted to take you for our …honey moon" Aro said tenderly, his hand moving slowly finding a resting place around my neck, he pulled me closer to his strong chest "Sadly, there was no honey moon to begin with" he chuckled kissing the top of my head.

"Aro…what…are you doing?"

"What does it look like I am doing? Can I not show that I love you through physical expressions?" I moved from his arms this time he did no attempt to hold me. I sat in one of the chair facing the fireplace.

"You don't love me Aro, you just use me" I said in a mere whisper only audible enough for a vampire. Its not love when you marry someone for power.

Taking me by surprise he kneeled by my side. Aro Volturi had never gone on his knees, never. A Volturi leader like him would never show any sings of inferiority.

"Elizabeth look at me" I refused to, I tilted my head to the side trying to hide my face behind my hair. "Elizabeth look at me, please" Now it sounded like he was begging. His hands touched my cheeks moving me head in his direction, now I was facing the red eyes vampire I married because I feared him. "Why would you believe that? Why?" His eyes held mines and but I brief moment I could swear he was about to cry "Answer me! Why would you believe such thing?" I could nor answer him my mind was to busy screaming 'who is this man? who is this man' to build any coherent sentence. Who was this man? This man begging me for an explanation. This is not like him. He was making a fool of himself. It hurts me to see him like this, it hurts me to see him so broken so desperate but there were no words in my mouth.

"Elizabeth I love, I have had loved you from the instants you came into my existence. But I was afraid, afraid to hurt you, I know you still craving for that man. I know my feelings are not mutual, but I wanted you, I wanted to show you what you mean for me asking you to be my wife but the day of our wedding you were so sad, in those lovely eyes your suffering was immensely obvious. So I decided to cancel the honey moon and not push any further just patiently waiting for you." What is he saying he loved me? Aro Volturi the merciless and cruel leader of the vampire world was telling me he loved me?

"Why are you telling me this Aro?" I was confused I really was, I wasn't expecting that. His "confession' came from nowhere

His face softer and with a small smile he responded "You believe I only want a pretty and powerful wife, but no my love do not think that, never think that, is you who I want for you. Even without powers I would love you" his hand caressing my face trying to give me a comforting touch.

"I can't love you Aro…and there's nothing I cant give you…besides my gift"

"My love I am not asking you to love me, I am asking you to let me love you. Do not be so sure of that Elizabeth you can give me everything is you all I want and need" He got up not braking any eyes contact "I am not pressuring you I know someday you will love me too and I will be here waiting for that day with great desire" Aro bent down and planted a soft kiss on my cheeks before that he whispered "I wont hide it anymore I will show you any way possible that I speak the truth"

"Elizabeth I need to go and have a word with the manager, you won't mind if I let you alone for a brief second?"

"No…you can go"

He said something else but I dint 'heard' it, I was in shock. Aro…Aro Volturi married me because he loved me? All this time he had loved me? Did I fell asleep and this it's a dream? A very strange one.

Now what will I do? I certainly don't feel the same way. Would he get mad if I never returned them?

'if he have wanted to get rid of you he would had done that long ago' Athena's word came to me. I got up and screamed 'Argh! This is so confusing!' the loudest I could, thank you sound prove walls.

I'm going to bed lets see how things go in the morning…

AroPoV

I told you the truth hoping it would help. You need to know what I feel, but for you to know your own feelings will take a while.

' I can't love you Aro…' I laughed to my self when I remembered that, some of the people in the elevator looked at me like I was a mad man.

My love if only you knew, you do love me…but I have to play like if you don't.

At the reception table I waited until the three female receptionists stopped arguing about who will be attending me.

"Mr. Volturi! What a pleasure to see you again here in my hotel" those nervous words came for Mr. Cruzzola manager and owner of this fabulous hotel, it had belonged to his family for generations. They knew about us another reason why I came here. The last time I saw him he was about 8 and I was discussing something with his father, the beauty of Athenodora and Didyme left a big impression in him, we keep in contact but not face to face. "What brings you here, not that I mind of course" he shacked my hand and I saw how frightened he was thinking 'what did I do wrong is not the room of his likings'. He was a noble man very respectable and prominent, he was shorter than me with a small bear and a small bald on top of his head, he was in his late seventies.

"There is noting wrong I just need a favor, can you get me some animal blood? There's is only human and my wife wont drink it."

"Oh you found your self a companion, don't worry someone will take it there soon." his heart beats raised at the mention of blood but this is only part of what we can do and sowing fear is a great tool.

"Then, I will see you later Mr. Cruzzola"

I decided to go back to the room only to be greeted by the magnificent sigh of your sleeping self. I admired you for a few seconds you looked so beautiful, innocent and completely oblivious of the beast inside us.

I took off my suit and tie, found a good book and lay on the bed right besides you. The weight of my body caused you to roll closer to me and I took the opportunity to move you even closer until you head was on my collarbone and your arm around my waist. I hold you around your waist to keep you in place so you wont roll back, I placed to book aside and pretended to be asleep because I wanted to enjoy this dream for as long as it last.

Next morning…

EllyPoV

Did I fell asleep on the floor or this bed get harder? I opened my eyes really slow to see, not the floor but Aro! I was sleeping on him! There was this thing that held me there I wasn't moving, not trying to get up.

His eyes were closed and I just stared at his face, I've never been so close to him before, he was…handsome. Its made me wander what women think when he is about to feed on them. That the Angel of death is coming for them? Or they are dreaming and he is a prince coming to take them out of that misery?

I moved the hand that was around his waits. He looked so calm like if he was sleeping. My hand took free will and moved to play with the hair that was on his face. With my index finger I traced a imaginary line from his forehead down his perfect nose all the way down to those, somehow, tempting lips. And speaking of lips they formed a smile. "That tickles Elizabeth" he joked with his eyes still closed.

I moved quickly to the other side of the bed.

"Good morning Sleeping Beauty, waiting for the prince's kiss to wake you up?" He crawled to me.

"Aro stay there!"

Aro laugher was really loud. Was he making fun of me? "Put on something nice, my love. Today we are meeting my friend. He is coming here to take us to his house for the day

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We meet Aro's friend Algernon and his wife Katherine, on the lobby. She was only three decades older than me while Algernon was about 1, 600 years old, he was French but feel in love with this city. On the other hand Katherine was an English soprano singer who came to Italy looking for fame, her voice was her gift, you do what she sings. Algernon saw potential in her and turned her but with time they fell in love.

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Algernon house…

AroPoV

Katherine went to show Elizabeth the surroundings of her house while I stayed with Algernon to discuss the main reason why I came. We went to a balcony where we could see the beautiful garden.

"Aro your wife is even more lovely than how you described her" he said looking at one of his servant filling two goblets of blood for us. "But lets discuss the main issue first, we can brag about our wives later"

"Indeed my friend, so tell me what do you know"

"Aro, they are powerful. The leader may be older than you three. They are small about five, but their powers are nothing to take lightly" he took a small sip from his glass "I may not know all about the gifts but I do know that one of them can control and create fire." His went silence for a moment "They already killed two of my most powerful guard members" his guard is shot consisting on only 12 member so any lost was a great lost.

"How that happened?" I asked. he was not exactly a leader but they ruled Venice and we considerer him an extension to our family.

"As you know Venice is a free city form vampires attacks, just like Volterra so any abnormality in the transition of events is easily marked. We discovered vampires hunting, I send 3 of my must prominent guard to examined the scenes but only one survived and he told us how the other 2 died and the little information I gave you"

"Aro don't underestimate them. You must be careful I have never seen anything like it" his face was serous, firm. His words held a big warning sign. When it came down to this kind of events he has the Volturi complete trust.

We both turned our heads at the same time to see our wives running around the garden chasing the butterflies. "Aro if you wife is as weak as you say she is then be prepared, she is an easy target"

They wont lay a finger on her!

EllyPoV

We went back to the hotel, Aro stayed behind with his friend and I went directly to the room, the three receptionists gave me a strange look…Oh! Right, Aro. Sexy Vampire in the building accompany by his wife, What else can you ask for?

The presidential suite have two floors and on the upper was a big balcony with a view of the lagoon and the private backyard with a private pool and everything.

I wanted to paint the moon, it was full and the reflection in the water was beautiful. So I grabbed my canvas, a tripod, the acrylic paints and the brushes, right when I was about to start a voice came form the lower floor, with him down there it looked like the balcony scene form Romeo and Juliet….NO! You got to be kidding, that was exactly what he was doing!

"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?It is the East, and Elizabeth is the sun!Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious.

(…)It is my lady! O, it is my love! O, that she knew she were! She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that? Her eye discourses; I will answer it. I am too bold; 'tis not to me she speaks. (…)The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night"

I placed my head on the palm of my hand resting my arms on the balcony's balusters, smiling at the sight in front of me, Aro really have a gift for expressions.

"See how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!"

"Aro, what are you doing?" He had already attracted an audience.

"She speaks!O, speak again, bright angel, for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him When he bestrides the lazy puffing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air."

He wasn't planning to shut up anytime soon, right? So I decided to play along with him, to see is that would help. I gather all the 'drama queen' power I have inside me and started reciting the play, Juliet's parts.

"O Aro, Aro!" I feel so stupid! "Wherefore art thou Aro? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a… Cullen?"

Aro started laughing but continued "Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?"

"Shut up Aro!" That was the cue to finish, people form the other windows clapped and whistled and he just loved the attention, After everybody returned to their rooms he jumped into the balcony.

"So what do you think of my acting skills, Elizabeth?" I rolled my eyes "Or were you too busy imagining me in those leggings?" he had one eyebrow raised with a small smile on his slips. I started laughing when I thought about it, and I said thought not imagined. "Actually I am pretty glad you did not, I looked quite ridiculous in those things" I keep laughing so hard I was loosing my air supplied.

"What do you think about the characters? Your brother hates Romeo"

I stopped laughing and took a deep breath "I hate them both"

"Why?"

"They got what I wanted" I shuddered

"What they got?" The red eyes vampire asked again.

I looked at him "They died together"

Aro turned to look at the moon, he sighted deeply and said "Elizabeth we all have done things that we regret later but in order to keep looking forward we need to let those memories behind. What you did was part of your nature, you should not blame your self for that. We are those creatures"

"What are you talking about? You don't know how it feels to take the life of someone you love" I let my self fall until I was sitting on the floor.

"Elizabeth, you did it to feed" He took a place right by me in the floor. "I tried to kill Didyme for power, but in the end… I could not do it, She is my sister and Marcus need her" The guilt in his eyes was immense. I cant blame him, he tried to kill sweet and lovely Didyme for power. This is the Aro I knew the one who do anything to get what he wanted. The one who destroy anything that's in his way. The same Aro I feared for those same reasons.

But in these two days I've seen a side of him I know nothing about. The sadness in his face made him look so…innocence and I felt a strong and strange urge to comfort him. Without thinking twice my arms brought him to my bosom where I spend the night stroking his head and playing with his hair.

The night stopped passing making this moments feel….good.

"I love you Elizabeth, why can't you see it?" he whispered. Maybe…just maybe he do love me, but…what about me? Would that change anything?…

Only Chronos knows the answers…

Author's Note

Please dont kill me! *hides behind desk*

I apologizes for the waaaayyyy OCC Aro, but in order to work this out it have to be that way ^^, and I'm really sorry for not replying to the reviews I received, problems with the page.

* the quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream is often used when referring to 'love at first sight' because is usually only physical attraction, but the interpretation of Didyme is different what she told Elly is that she should look more deep inside Aro's action not judging from what she see at first sight, to be able to understand.

Chronos is the Greek god of time, Saturn is the roman version.

Jacob: Congratulations this Author's Note did made senses!

Me: Shut up and get me a Thesaurus Dictionary.