Hiya! I'm about drop dead tired but I have nothing else 2 do this particular moment, so I decided 2 update this one…I really do have a soft spot for it. :) but, yeah, thank you, u guys totally rock keep reviewing! O, & since no1 objected 2 my writing notes, I shall continue to write! –cough cough joy o joy cough cough- I can just hear my friends saying that.
Disclaimer: -tear- no, Twilight is not mine.
I stared at my pale fingers, clenching them into a fist as tight as I could. Jane stood beside me, clenching her teeth to keep herself from hissing. The black hoods covered our faces fairly well, but I could see Felix's red eyes glaring at the floor. I had been with them for five years, yet I hadn't yet stopped being slightly afraid of them for reasons I could not remember. Everything before my life here was a blur, just a speck of dirt on the wind.
Aro, unaware of the anger, continued on with his little speech. "…apparently they have a question for us." Feeling his eyes on me, his favorite guard, I looked up. "I want all of you to be on your best behavior." His eyes flickered to Jane. "Do nothing unless I command you." A hiss ran around the room, but no one argued with him.
I turned to leave with the rest of them, but Aro's voice called me back. "Bella, come here." I walked back gracefully toward him.
"Yes?" How cold my voice sounded. I couldn't help but suddenly feel the urge to run away as far and as fast as I possibly could.
Aro frowned, as if he sensed this thought lurking behind my mind. "I want you to stay in the background during this visit of the Cullen clan." I raised an eyebrow.
"Why?" I asked, clenching my fists again.
Aro considered this. "You are special. Just stay in the background in case we need you." His tone was dismissive and angered.
I tightened my eyes and nodded once. "If that is what you want. When are they due here?"
Aro waved his hand in the air. "Oh, an hour or so."
I walked away. I didn't want this clan to come here, there was something about them… I rolled my eyes. It didn't matter if they came or not. They would soon be gone and hopefully the two powerful ones would join forces with us.
An hour later, I settled into my spot in the background where no one would see me. My black cloak covered my brown hair, which I hoped would prevent them from noticing that there was someone in the corner.
When they arrived, I was struck by how close the clan was. The big brawny one intimidated me, and I was thankful that my power could make him a weakling. Walking next to him was a beautiful girl, even more beautiful than Heidi. The one with the pixie hair cut walked gracefully beside a tall blond. Following them was a tall bronze hair boy, who looked lost and sad. Steering the sad one forward was the leaders, Carlisle and his wife.
A wave of nervousness tingled through me as I watched them. They shouldn't have come here, a part of me whispered that I didn't even know was there. My more brutal side of me smiled. It's their death, it whispered.
Fighting to gain control of my thoughts, I watched them. Carlisle walked to the front and confronted Aro with such confidence that I felt amazed. "Aro."
"Carlisle! I'm glad to see you and your family are well!" Aro said with fake courtesy.
"Well, not all of us are well." He said quietly, glancing quickly behind him at the sad boy, the beautiful one that I could not tear my eyes from.
Aro raised his eyebrows. "Really? Whatever is wrong?"
The short one danced forward with familiar grace. I shook off the feeling that I knew her from somewhere and watched carefully. She crossed her arms. "Bella, you remember Bella, was changed into a vampire. A little while later, someone…well, kidnapped her." I closed my eyes, annoyed at having to listen to this.
Aro nodded seriously. "That's not good at all. She had such potential." He murmured sadly.
The brawny one glared. "Well, not only did she have potential, but she also had Edward's heart! We were wondering if you were willing to send your guards out to look for her."
Aro looked thoughtful for a moment. "Oh, I'm not sure. We're having some troubles with vampires around the world at the moment and I can't spare any of them." Every single one of the younger vampires looked ready to argue, but Carlisle stopped them.
"It's all right, we understand. If you should see her anywhere, let us know." The bronze haired vampire looked up at Aro with angry eyes and I quickly blocked Aro's thoughts from getting to the boy.
He looked around in confusion, suddenly alert, and I melted away into the shadows. He glanced at the short girl and I swear that they exchanged a silent conversation.
Aro noticed this and motioned Adam forward. "Adam, would you escort our guests out?" His tone implied doing more than that and something inside of me snapped.
"No! Edward, don't let him! Get away from him!" I shrieked. My hand flew up to my mouth, wondering why I had warned this strange coven who didn't drink human blood.
The entire family looked at me in confusion. Something sparkled in the short girl's eyes but Felix quickly took me out of the room. He slammed me against the wall and I pushed him back, angry.
"What were you thinking?" He shouted. "Why in the world would you warn them?"
I shook my head. "I don't know!" I snapped. "Something inside of me just…snapped apart. It was like I wasn't myself."
Felix eyed me. "Fine. I can tell your telling the truth. Besides, you're such an awful liar." I growled at him and he put his hands up in the air. "Just saying!" He insisted, a playful gleam starting in his eyes. I smiled back at him.
"Fine. If you say so."
"Aro's gonna be so mad at you." He said after a moment's silence.
"Yeah, I really don't want to make the Slovak Nelapsi any more angrier. The Cullen's should be gone, I'll go take my punishment before he gets any more angrier." I sighed at this propect.
Felix grabbed my hands and pulled me close. "Okay. Meet me in my room later tonight?" He asked suggestively.
I smiled and leaned my head against his chest. A feeling so powerful suddenly came across me. I wished it was someone other than Felix that I was with right now. But I knew nobody else and I did have feelings for him…they just weren't very strong.
I tore away from him and walked away, almost tripping over my feet as I did so. I saw Felix shake his head before vanishing and I wondered once again why I didn't have the perfect grace everyone else seemed to have.
When I arrived in front of Aro, he was neither mad nor displeased at my actions. He was pacing around nervously. "It's not your fault, Bella. There's so much going on right now." He rubbed his head. "I think I'm getting a headache." He waited for me to smile at his small joke, but when I didn't, he rubbed his hands and kept talking. "Remind to grab Adam later tonight. I have some service I want him to do for me, but he's busy right now." I nodded and walked away to Felix's room. I just wanted to relax and he could make me do more than that.
No one was in there when I silently closed the door. I sat down and waited, slightly impatient. A soft cracking of branches outside froze me and I watched the door, ready to pounce and attack anyone. The door slowly opened and a figure in a cloak came in. But it was no one I knew and I stayed tense. The door shut and the vampire in the cloak faced me.
"I think it's time for you to make your dramatic exit." The whisper echoed across the room.
I actually had a lot of fun w/ this chapter. But I'm also tired and tend 2 hallucinate so I mite just b loopy or something. About the whole Slovak Nelapsi thing, it's another theory I have. Twilightlexicon has been pretty much my home while I'm working on this story, and when I looked Aro's profile thing, it said he slaughtered an entire village to keep Jane and Alec from being burned at the stake. –cough cough- it was from a personal correspondence w/ Stephenie & the info from the book is on page 134 of Twilight. 'The Slovak Nelapsi, a creature so strong and fast it could massacre an entire village in the single hour after midnight…' theory's r fun. O & w/ my other theory, the one about Bella being the Romanian Varacolaci I remembered a piece of info I didn't put down. She can smell blood & Edward seemed very surprised by that fact. Sorry, just 2 make something clear, I chose Felix cuz in page 572 of Eclipse, Felix winked and could possibly turn in2 something more if her memory was erased. Sorry long note, I'm tired tho & tend 2 ramble. Let me no wat u think.