Observation
My mind was in no state of wandering when the threat of our lives was right in front of us; Aro. He was the leader of the Volturi, and the one that had made all of these laws that we vampires had to swear not to break. I could see the look on Aro's face of pure curiosity. I know what he wanted to know; whether my brother had broken the law or not. His blood red eyes flickered towards to Bella, and I felt like I should be standing beside her, but instead I kept my distance so that it wouldn't look like we were protecting her, or possessive of her. In a sense, we were protecting her, or was it she protecting us? I wasn't quite sure there.
Aro moved forward and took Edward's hand in his, and already I could see Bella tensed beside him. She was worrying too, as much as I was. Aro lowered his hand, as if going through everything that Edward had experienced. He probably was to be honest, since when he pulled back he looked over to Bella with an amused expression.
"Interesting, a mere human girl that just prevented a vampire from breaking the law, it is interesting."
I almost shuddered at his words. His tone was sickening with every sarcasm that he could muster. I wanted to go over to Bella's side and reassure her that everything will be okay, but I couldn't do that, not when Edward was right beside her.
"I can see that you can't read Bella's mind. I wonder, if my power has any effect on her." Aro said once again, his hands clasped together as if he was about to commit something that was vile and disgusting. Edward shot a sharp glance over at the leader, and said in the most polite tone as he could forced himself to.
"Why don't you ask her?"
Aro did just that. He turned to Bella with the most sincere, but sickening smile. "May I, Bella?" He asked, opening his palm up to her.
Bella hesitated at first, but when Edward said that it was alright, she placed her delicate hand atop Aro's own. And he was deep in concentration again. I did wonder if it worked, but with a flash of a vision of what Aro's reaction after trying to read Bella, I hid the smirk underneath the straight line of my lips. Aro's head snapped up, and his voice seemed immensely amused.
"I can't read her. This is fascinating." He let go off of her hand, stepping back with his hands returned to their original position; clasped together. He turned to Jane, and I knew what he was going to ask. Edward seemed to growl at him and I couldn't blame him. I was suppressing a growl myself.
"I wonder if Bella is immune to all of our powers. Jane, would you do me the honor my dear?" He asked with a sadistic smirk. Jane returned the gesture, and nodded at him before shifting her head to look towards Bella. Then Edward let out a loud growl towards Jane, and before I could even stop him, he was already launching himself towards her.
"Pain." Jane murmured so softly that it made me sick to the stomach. My golden eyes flickered towards Edward, and he stumbled to the ground in the most torturous pain that I could ever imagine. Before I was about to move over to Edward, another vision hit me, Jane's decision.
Even if Bella was human, Jane didn't really care it seemed. She was going to give Bella the utmost pain that any human would ever feel, and the pain would be enough to hurt one mere vampire like Edward. But there was something wrong. Jane's smirk turned into a frown and Bella stood there all nervous as if she was waiting for the pain.
The vision ended, and I had a light smirk on my face. Jane wouldn't know what it would hit her if Bella just stood there all confused and nervous. Edward's groan brought my attention back to what I was going to do. I moved as an inhumane speed and appeared by his side in less than a second. He was lying on the ground with the pure look of agony pain written on his face. I tried my best to sooth him with my words, and my mind, but that didn't seem to work.
"Jane, that's enough my dear." I heard Aro said, so I turned to look over at Jane. She had her eyes turned away from Edward, so I turned back to look at him. He was experiencing the aftermath of the pain, and I felt sorry for him.
There was utter silence and soon Aro's laughter was booming throughout the area. I couldn't help but smirk at that. I had already seen the look on Jane's face after all, so seeing it for the second time wouldn't hurt. I lifted my head up and looked over at her, her facial expression? Priceless.
"That is splendid. She confounds us all." Aro said between his softly clapping. I had to agree with him, she did confound us all. "Can you imagine the possibilities when she becomes one of us?" He said once more, overjoyed by Bella's 'talent'. My eyes widened at that, and I turned to look up at Aro when Edward was slowly coming out of his mental pain.
"Aro, she's not one of us." Marcus said in his tiring and boring tone. Of course, she was a human, did he just realize that?
"The girl knows too much about us." Was Caius' reply. Then I heard Aro sighed like he had just lost something.
"It is such a waste. Felix?" As soon as Aro said those words, and murmuring out the guard's name, I gasped as an image flickered into my mind. Bella lying death on the ground around her pool of blood. I knew Edward had seen my vision, since he shot up and went straight to Bella to protect her. He and Felix collided against each other, and I made this chance to move over to Bella to protect her. Unfortunately, I was stopped by the firm hand on my throat. My eyes snapped up to see who my capturer was; Demitri.
"Bella.." Her name fell silently on my lips as I was being dragged back. Felix had already had Edward locked in a firm hold, and Aro was shaking his head in disappointment of Edward's action.
"I guess I would have to do this myself." Aro said with such sadness that I knew that I could catch some mockery in his tone. I saw him moved over to Bella, and reached up to touch her face. I could see Bella shudder, and that was when I found my voice.
"Wait, stop! She will become one of us!"
Aro stopped then, his eyes instantly flickered over to me while his hands dropped from Bella's face. "I beg your pardon?"
Demitri reluctantly let go off of me, and I flashed a glare up at him and he chuckled at that. I turned my attention back to Aro as I walked up to him, shredding a glove away from my hand. I lifted my hand up to him, and he took it and clasped it between his. I watched as his eyes glazed over, and I felt nervous just by the touch of his hands. Then he let out another laugh, a bitter laugh, before he looked over to Bella and then me.
"This is very interesting, to have seen what you seen, before they happen. Would you do me a great honor of joining us?" Aro asked. And at first I thought he was bluffing, but he was serious. So I gave him the most sincerest smile possible, and shook my head lightly.
"My apologies, Aro. I'm with the Olympic Coven and I am not thinking of changing, ever."
He sighed then, in disappointed of my answer. He let go of my hand and turned to look at Bella, before he turned to me with a curious smile. "When will she be turned?"
That question caught me off guard. I knew that Bella would be one of us, but I didn't know when she was going to be. "I apologize once more, I do not know."
Aro's curious smile turned into a sadistic smile, and I gasped when his decision hit me. "I would like her to be turned, now."
Edward growled, and he turned to look at him. "Perhaps, not by you." He commented, before his eyes flickered around the room, then they landed on him, a satisfied smile on his face. "But, by you."
I widened my eyes. He wanted me to turn Bella. I couldn't do that. I couldn't even trust myself around her exquisite blood. I couldn't hurt her. I just couldn't bring myself to take her life away. Aro chuckled at my expression, I bet that he could read it.
"My dear, we will pull you off of her when you can't control yourself. I cannot let this chance go to waste. I must see her transformation for myself." Aro said softly and turned to Bella. I followed his gaze, and I could see that her eyes were widening in shock too. Her mouth was opening and closing, and I couldn't see her decision then. She was going back and forth on her decisions again, and I could tell that she wasn't prepared for this. I wasn't prepared for this.
"Bella…" I murmured silently, not caring if Aro could hear me. Then I felt a hand on my shoulder, pushing me towards her and before I know it, I found myself walking to her without my will. I turned to look at Aro, and he seemed to be hiding a chuckle.
"Bella, would you like to become one of us?" Aro asked as he stopped both of us in front of her. Bella's chocolate brown eyes looked at me, before they flickered towards Aro and then back at me again. She gave a slow nod, her eyes not leaving mine.
"Would you like to be turned by your best friend, and possibly your lover in the future, Alice Cullen?" He asked once more, and I widened my eyes. He couldn't just said what I think he did. My eyes quickly shifted towards Edward, and I saw his eyes widening as well. Then I heard his growl, a ferocious growl, and I knew that it was for me. My eyes left his then, and I focused more on Bella.
"I-If…she wants to…" She stuttered, her cheeks reddening. It was always cute to see her blushing, but in a time like this? Not so appealing.
"Oh of course she'd want to. Isn't it that correct, Alice?" Aro asked as he turned to look at me. I swallowed a gulp, and nodded. Bella caught my reluctant, and she hung her head as if she was being a burden on me. Oh, how I could always read her so well.
"Bella, please don't feel like you're forcing me to do it. I want to, it's just, I don't know if I'm ready to control myself…yet." I bit down on my lip then, and looked down at my feet. Mmm, I was wearing the most ridiculous pair of shoes! This was unacceptable!
"Alice…I do want you to turn me. But, in this situation…" I heard her trailed off, so I looked at her. Aro was growing impatient, I know, his grip was tightening around my shoulder after all. Then his hand left my shoulder, and clasped together, making a rather loud noise that got Bella to flinch.
"Let's not waste this chance." He said with the utmost enjoyment in his tone. Then his eyes glanced down at me, a hard, orderly stare. "Shall we, Alice?"
I knew what would happen if I said no, and I'd rather said no than to put Bella in danger. Before I could open my mouth to speak, Bella grabbed my arm and tugged at me. I looked at her, my eyes glazed over at her decision, and gasped. She wanted this, and she wanted me to be safe as well. My eyes tear up, but I knew the tears would never fall. She then brought her hand up to my cheek, caressing my marble face, then letting it fall and tipped her head back, exposing her neck. Beside me, I heard Aro growled, urging me to go on. He then took a few steps back, as I leaned up to Bella. One of my hands was on her neck, supporting it while the other trailing down from her jawbone to her neck. I've already found her pulse, but I was relishing on the warmth that was Bella before I took it all away, with one bite.
I sighed, inching my lips closer to her exposed neck, and to her pulsing point. Her heart quickened, her breath became ragged, her blood pumping rapidly within her body, her scent became stronger; it was all too appetizing. I mentally slapped myself. Bella wasn't a meal. So to make this less more painful for her, and for me, although more for her, I placed my cold lips on her warm skin, giving it a chaste kiss before diving my razor sharp teeth against her flesh. Already her warm, exquisite and sweetest blood was pumping into my mouth. I haven't tasted human blood before, but this, this was heaven. I wanted more, so I pushed my teeth deeper inside her, already knowing that my venom had already spread itself into her blood system. I felt her twitch in my arms, and her gasps, the next thing I know, a vision kicked itself in while I was relishing in heaven.
Bella, laying dead in my arms, while the Volturi just stood and watched with sympathy at the loss of the useful human.
I quickly snapped out of my vision, and willed myself to pull away from her. The monster inside me told me not to, and it was reigning me in. I fought against the monster, even though it was a huge struggle, I emerged victorious. I pulled away from Bella, and noticed that her eyes were already close. I heaved out a sigh as her blood rolled down at the corner of my mouth. I quickly licked it, and slowly set her down on the cold hard pavement. Edward's growling was becoming more and more ferocious now, and it was increasing in volume. I ignored him, and looked down at Bella. I could still hear her heart, but the scent was so welcoming that I couldn't be near her at this moment. I did the best thing that I could to prevent myself from killing her. I stood up from my kneeling position, and distanced myself from her as far as I could. That was when that I realized I had exited the room, following by the Volturi and Felix dragging my brother with them. It wasn't long until I heard her scream in agony, and I closed my eyes, trying to drown the sound out when my body was shaking with the guilt. If it wasn't for my vision, I would have killed her then. And now, I was causing her pain, the most unbearable pain of becoming a monster like myself; a vampire.
A/N: Did I babble in this chapter? Because it gotten really wrong. Lol.
Oh, this is not a twist. Well, maybe it is, but it is part of the twist. We all know that Bella is going to be turned one way or another. If Edward wouldn't do it, Bella would just turn to Alice since Alice can't really say no to her. If Alice refuses, somehow, since she's damn good at excuses, Bella would just turn to Carlisle. See? So either way, Bella is already going to get her wish comes true. Haha. And Felix should just kill the stupid pretty boy, urgh. Anyway, enjoy. ;3