A/N This chapter is dedicated to my friend Nicky, whose birthday is today. Congratulations, Nicky! I know she would like it if you reviewed and congratulated her, so please do so! Also, This chapter will be from Rosalie's POV, so you will be up-to-date about the events in Volterra.
We had just arrived in Volterra. It was a gloomy place, with no windows or mirrors I could see my reflection in. The children walked next to me, Nicky and Hannah holding Nikki's hands. I could see from their faces that they were looking up to her. When we arrived in the throne room, the smell of human blood was clear. I shuddered at the thought of all the innocent humans, children even, that were killed here. The girls were clearly thinking the same. I went to wrap my arms around Hannah. It was so great to have children around again. Nessie had grown up so quickly we didn't really get to enjoy her childhood, but they would be children forever, although they would slowly develop a bit mentally. I enjoyed having kids around so much! We would get to buy clothes for them, and give them makeovers!
I felt Hannah slowly relax in my arms.
"It's okay sweetie. Things will be different from now on." I told her. This seemed to help her relax further. "Carlisle, is it okay if we will go and pick the kids' rooms? They can't do anything to help us here." I said.
"Okay." He agreed.
"Well, let's go then! I'm sure there'll be enough fancy rooms around here."
"Yay!" Nikki exclaimed. I ushered the girls onto the stairs.
"So, do you want one of the guest rooms or the guard rooms?" I asked.
"Guest rooms!" Hannah and Nicky shouted in unison.
"Hey, let's first look what all the rooms look like." Nikki said with a little smile. And so we did.
We started with the guest rooms. They all looked the same, with only the number of beds in each room varying. Each room had at least one four-poster bed, a painting, and grey tinted walls. We agreed that those were boring, and decided to look at the other rooms.
The first one we entered, had a purple to black variation of colours, very dark, and it had one fourposter. It was bigger than the guest rooms, and with nicer decoration. The paintings were all from very famous painters, like Rembrandt. I sniffed the air.
"Chelsea and Afton's room." I told them.
"It's too dark!" Hannah complained.
"And boring!" Nicky added. That wasn't entirely true, the dark closets, paintings and purple patterns on the walls made sure of that.
"Well, let's look at the next one!" Nikki suggested. We went over to look there. It was a blue room, with mostly blue furniture. It was slightly more modern than the other one, with posters of famous rappers and artists.
"I take this one!" Nicky exclaimed. It was slightly more boyish than the last one.
"That's okay with me." Hannah said.
"Me, too." Nikki added.
"Well, that's settled then." I said. "Oh, and this was Alec's room, by the way." Nicky nodded.
"I thought so. He is the youngest boy of the whole guard." We went to look at the other rooms. They weren't really special. We found another blue room, which was quickly claimed by Hannah. The scent didn't match any scent I knew, so it had to be one of the other guard members. The kings' rooms were huge, and very old-fashioned. I thought Carlisle would probably like to have one of those, together with Esme.
We entered a red room. It was beautiful, very stylish. I had a feeling I knew whom this room had belonged to.
"Jane." Nikki whispered. She confirmed my suspicions. "I'd like to have this one. It's really cool. There has to be a new wardrobe, though! It's so Volturi style." She grimaced.
"We'll go shopping as soon as possible. We can go online shopping, since you won't be able to handle real stores just yet." I told them. I found a dark green room, and chose this one for Emmett and me.
We were looking at all the other rooms, just for fun. We opened the door, and inside sat a vampire woman with pitch-black eyes. She hadn't hunted for a long time, it seemed.
"Who are you?" I asked. After looking us over, and seeing three of us were very strong newborns, she decided to answer me.
"I'm Mrs. Beernink. I'm part of the Volturi guard. Marcus ordered me to guard the castle, and don't leave this room. I've been here ever since."
"The Volturi guard no longer exists." I replied coldly. "You can choose to join us, and become a vegetarian vampire. If you'd like to go away, you can leave. If you will try to fight us, though, we will have no choice but to kill you. Understood?" She nodded.
"I'd like to stay with you, and stop drinking humans. I didn't like it either." She smiled at us. It warmed up her face. I hadn't decided to trust her completely yet, but I thought she would be very nice.
"So, will you come downstairs with us so we can introduce you to the others?" I asked.
"Of course." She answered. And so we went downstairs.
The introduction went smoothly. Carlisle quickly accepted her. He then noticed the blackness of her eyes.
"I see you need to hunt." She nodded. "Shall I go accompany you?" He asked.
"Yes, that would be great." She answered. They went away. We decided to go online shopping. We bought lots of clothes, and very expensive ones, too, but it didn't matter. We had all the money we needed.
It turned out Mrs. Beernink had been a teacher when she was human, and was very good with kids. The girls liked her a lot. While we were re-organizing the vampire world, she was home-schooling the girls. They still had lots to learn. Of course, there would be plenty of time for that later, but we had to keep them busy.
I was bored without Emmett. I usually spent the nights playing games, shopping online things like books and movies, and reading and watching movies, together with the girls and Mrs. Beernink.
We were trying to get something of a democratic system to rule the vampire world, but it was very difficult, and we still hadn't figured out who the real leaders would be, as we didn't want to be the leaders any longer than necessary.
The girls were doing so well we decided to take them to the city. We wouldn't go for long at first, just so they would get used to it. Hannah had the most trouble. Nicky and Nikki were able to go into a store and shop some clothes. Carlisle and Esme went with them, just in case. Hannah stood outside with me, waiting, because the store was too crowded for her to handle. I could see it was all she could do not to jump on the humans that were walking past us.
It went on like that for a while. Us planning how to get some ruling system into the vampire world, the girls being home-schooled, and spending the nights having fun. We went into town with them a couple of times, and they all got better at resisting. By the end of the month, we were thinking to put them into school. It would be good for them to spend some time with kids the same age.
We wouldn't enrol in highschool again, as we were too busy re-organizing the vampire world. I was wondering why the others weren't coming back. It had been weeks!
A week later, they finally came. I didn't notice anything but Emmett. I ran full-speed toward him, and crashed into him. He kissed me passionately. After a few minutes of embracing, I was finally able to look at the others more closely.
I noticed all the girls were looking very depressed. I then remembered they had been hunting the immortal children. I knew how hard it was. I had been happy they didn't need to suffer as much as I did, but from now on, they would, too. I shot Alice a sad look.
"We need something to cheer us up." She declared. I grinned. With Alice, it was bound to be something good, whatever it was.
