Isabella's POV
I stood there, in the room that Cronus has locked me in. He hasn't said anything to me yet, and I haven't bothered to talk to him. Though, he keeps coming around, staring at me, like he's waiting for something to happen.
For the sixth time, Cronus came back into the room. I was sitting on the bed, staring down through the window. I would've tried to escape, however I couldn't. He put a spell to keep the windows and doors locked when I tried to get through. He's a vampire and a witch. He's a lot stronger than you would think.
Cronus, like usual, stared at me again. I didn't want to meet the gaze of this hated man. So I did what I did best, ignore...
"Isabella?" Cronus said, he tried to sound sweet, until he got impatient. "Look at me."
"What?" I asked, with a stubborn attitude. Then he grabbed my throat and pinned me against the wall.
"You will respect me, do you understand?" He asked. "Or I will kill everyone you've ever loved. And you know that I can do that." He let go of my throat, dropping me to the floor. I was ready to break down. Brutus was afraid of this man. Brutus. There is no doubt that I am scared. I'm beyond scared.
I felt myself shaking at this devil walked around the room for awhile. I stood by the wall, trying to calm myself down. But it wasn't working. There was nothing I could do to calm down.
Finally, Cronus stopped walking and looked at me. "Answer all of my questions. I will know if you're lying to me or not." I nodded, to let him know I would do what he asked. "Why does your mother want you dead?"
"Because she thinks the vampires and wolves are not best for the human world, so she wants us dead." I answered. Cronus laughed at my answer. I didn't say anything stupid.
"Are you sure?" he asked.
"It is what she told us. We had no choice to believe her, considering she's made us all sick, including the wolves." I said. "She killed my child."
"Wow..." Cronus said, in astonishment. "How is Brutus alive?"
"No one knows. The Council want him dead as soon as possible. But I've made a deal with him. I need to know my history of my family. No one has ever told me anything. So he tells me, as long as I keep him alive." I said.
"Sit on the bed Isabella." Cronus said. I slowly moved to the bed, not wanting to deal with any of this anymore. I was tired of being pushed around. I felt weak, not to mention not having been able to hunt.
Cronus left me in the room again, not saying anything else to me. I felt my body getting tired. More tired than it usually does, but I didn't want to fall asleep. Not with some crazy hybrid running around here. But it happened anyways. Now that I recall, I haven't had a lot of sleep lately. I've been trying to take care of everyone, but myself.
When I woke up in the room, there was a dead silence throughout the entire building. I stretched out my back, and legs, this is what I get for curling into a ball last night.
I reached over, trying to feel Emmett's body, wondering if he slept with me. But he isn't there. Then I remember where I was. I jumped up, and pulled myself together. Something was going to happen to me. I just couldn't process that through my head yet.
That's when I broke down. I started crying in my own arms, having no one to be around to help me. My mother wanted me dead, Cronus- well who knows but I do think he's on her side, there was an army out to kill everyone, it was all just too much.
When I started screaming out of anger, I felt a pair of arms wrapped around my body. Surprisingly, it was Cronus. I pushed him off of me, not wanting to deal with him. He mumbled my name, and then put his hand over my eyes. Somehow I ended up falling asleep because of him. Damn half vampire, half witch...
Waking up again was... awkward. Cronus was lying with me, but not touching me. His eyes were closed and he was breathing steadily.
I flipped myself over, trying to make him get the point. But then I got worse. He scooted my body closer to him. And wrapped his arm around me. He was speaking in a different language, which I couldn't pick up anything he was saying. I didn't know whether he was saying it to me, or to someone else.
When I reached my limit, I pushed him off, and stood up. And he just laughed at me. He laughed.
"What is so funny?" I asked.
"You are just like your mother. You want to know all the answers." Cronus said. "But you can't. And I don't think you've learned that yet Isabella. Your mother certainly hasn't."
"Get away from me." I said.
"I'm afraid I cannot do that. I am not your enemy."
"And you're certainly not a friend." I hissed. He sighed, and stood up. Walking away from me without saying a word. Why did he keep doing that?
Out of frustration, I just messed up the room. I threw everything on the ground, not wanting to look at any of it anymore. About ten minutes later, I am sitting on the floor, tired again, wanting to fall asleep.
I did fall asleep. I woke up by someone carrying me through the house. I guess they were taking me to another room, for ruining the first one. A thought of running out of this person's arms slipped through my mind. I was too tired to move. Too weak. So I ended up falling asleep again.
Once I woke up, the making of the room was different. It was dark, no windows, a huge bed, tv, couch, bathroom, dresser. The door was all black, and made of metal. I could feel someone standing just outside of it... great. I looked around, the noticed that Cronus was right next to me, smiling. I jumped up, and sighed.
"You have to check who are in your surroundings first. For all you know, I would've been a newborn trying to kill you, and you would have no idea. Pay attention." Cronus said. He had no shirt on. His black hair was a mess, and he was perched on one elbow, looking at me.
"Where are your clothes?" I whispered, trying not to look at him.
"Well, since you decided to mess up your room, you're in mine. And I like to sleep without so much things on my body. It's relaxing. You can try it if you like." He smiled. "The only thing I am wearing though are these boxers, or whatever these humans call them. They're quite comfortable. Much better than before."
"Please, put some clothes on." I said. He just laughed at me. "Stop laughing at me. I hate that."
"I can't help it love. You're so adorable." He said.
"Please." I scoffed.
"Emmett would call you adorable, just as much as I would, so what's the difference?" he asked.
"I love him. Not you." I spat, looking directly into his eyes. I saw the pain enter his eyes, as he started to leave the bed. What, did he love me or something?
"There are clothes in that draw for you. I'm pretty sure you don't mind changing." He said.
I stared at him, trying to figure him out. But I couldn't think of anything about him. Other than the fact that he was a crazy-psycho homicidal hybrid that had a bad history of killing everyone, he was handsome. And that dark heart of his, seemed to brighten whenever I was around him.
"Isabella, are you listening?" Cronus asked, grabbing me out of my thoughts.
"What?" I asked.
"I said you need to get dressed." He said. He some pants on and a black shirt. Almost what Emmett wears a lot...
I get up and walk to the dresser, that's when I feel his eyes boring into my back. I try to ignore him, and open the drawer. I'm not surprised to see that all the clothes were black.
"Do you mind?" I asked, turning around. There was no way in hell that I was changing with him in front of me. He just smiled and walked to the room. He knocked on it, and someone opened it for him.
"Be quick." He said, without looking at me, and walked out.
I groaned, and did what he said. It didn't take long, but I did wait to bring him back in. Part of me was telling me that this hybrid was in love with me. But another part of me was telling me that he was going to kill me. I didn't know what to believe. It was all too hard.
I tapped on the door three times, and Cronus came in.
"Are you done?" he asked.
"Yes." I choked.
"Come with me." He said.
Cronus was rushing down the hallway, while I was almost running to keep up. I think he was doing this on purpose, only because I could see him smiling.
Since I wasn't paying attention, he stopped and I ran into him.
"You don't need to be so... clingy." He laughed. I felt myself go red. I didn't know why I was turning red from him. But that was just... embarrassing...
"Ha ha. You're hilarious." I said. He fully turned around, facing me.
"Don't move..." He said. Cronus continuously kept getting closer to me. I wanted to push him away, and run through the halls, out the door. I didn't want to be near this man. And if he was going to kiss me, I was going to punch him in the face...
"What are you doing?" I whispered. His lips touched mine very lightly.
"Umm... Cronus." someone said, and he pulled away from me. Thank the Lord...
"What?" Cronus asked.
"Umm... there are a lot of people surrounding the building. I think they're Isabella's friends..." a newborn said. My shoulders relaxed.
"Dammit." Cronus said, grabbing my arm. "This is exactly what I didn't want to happen."
He was mumbling constantly, about wishing the others would just leave already. "Listen, before I go, we need to discuss something. Do you understand me?"
Emmett's POV
We were surrounding the place. We knew that a newborn saw us and would tell Cronus, but that was part of the plan. We needed him to tell Cronus.
I walked out of the trees, and he saw me. I wanted to talk to him personally, without a threat to either him or I.
"Cronus." I said. "We need to talk."
"What do you want?" Cronus asked.
"What do you think I want. I need Isabella back."
"Why?"
"Because I love her." I said. "And you took her away from me. She doesn't deserve this."
"She's in danger. I'm helping her." He barked back at me.
"We know she's in danger. We all are in danger."
"No you're not. Amelia isn't trying to kill you all. She's trying to just kill Isabella. She's using you all." Cronus said. "And if she's not with me, she'll easily succeed."
"I don't believe you."
"Of course you don't believe me." He said. "The history of Isabella's family is very much complicated. It's hard to explain."
The rest of the vampires and wolves came out with me. Some of them standing behind Cronus.
"Go bring me Isabella." Cronus said to one of his guards. "Brutus, it's nice to see you around."
"As for you." Brutus said. He hasn't been on my good side lately. I actually did choke him because of his... nevermind.
"Ah Isabella, there you are." Cronus said. Bella was being stubborn like she usually was, and pushed the newborn off of her. Good.
I smiled at her, and opened my arms up. She ran straight into them, passing Cronus.
"Are you alright?" I asked.
"Now I am." she whispered.
"Isabella, please." Cronus said. Then she backed away from me. She mumbled 'I'm sorry' on her lips, and walked back to Cronus.
"What did you do to her?" I growled, taking a step towards her. Carlisle stopped me by grabbing my shoulder.
"He did nothing." Bella said. "You'll understand in a minute."
"You need to know Isabella family history. Brutus has decided not to tell her the full story." Cronus said. "So why don't we make ourselves comfortable, and talk."
We got inside the living room. It was dark brown and red. Cronus sat in a chair, with Isabella sitting next to him. Something was up with those two.
I sat close to Bella, just to make a point that she was mine.
"I don't want to wait anymore. Get on with this. There's not a lot of time left." Caius complained.
"Impatient..." Cronus whispered. Bella laughed with him. They laughed together.
"Listen. The family history is... difficult to understand. How should I begin this? Oh, well once upon a time there were two families that hated each other. Isabella and I were in those two different families, no we are not related. And this isn't some type of Romeo and Juliet story either. You know Isabella's parents already. They were different from the town. My family claimed them to be mythical creatures that survived on human souls. So we accused them of it. Then the next day, my parents were dead. And mind you I was only a little boy back then. Since my parents were killed, and everyone was afraid that Amelia and Charles would go after them if they take me in, Isabella's parents decided to take me in. During that time, Amelia was pregnant with Isabella. 3 months later, Isabella was born. It only took 3 months for Amelia's pregnancy to happen. It was strange. I've learned from my mother and father that it took only 9 months, so I did what my parents did, and accused them to be creatures. But they didn't kill me. I never understood why. When Isabella was three, and I was seven, I did do something that made Amelia and Charles hate me for life. I took Isabella away from them. And hid her."
"You hid me?" Bella asked.
"I was young love. I didn't know what I was doing." He said. "They couldn't find her, and thought a human took her. So out of rage, they... killed the entire town. I saw the entire thing, Amelia turning into a wolf, Charles drinking the life out of them. It was horrible, but since I was a little boy, I saw it fascinating. Of course they found me, and grabbed Isabella away from me, then left me all by myself with everyone dead around me.
"That's when the dearly, beloved Council comes in. They had seen everything that had happened. They revived the town, but erased their memories. But not mine. Instead, they took me with them. Penelope here raised me like her own. She made me study myths, read books, everything, up until I was 18. Out of nowhere, Charles came to the Witches World, and screwed everything up. He bit me. And since Penelope loved me dearly, she tried to change me back, but lead to a curse. I ended up being a hybrid- witch and vampire.
And for a very long time, I could not control who I was. There were nothing but witches around me, who- by the way- smell human. I ended up killing a lot of people. So I beg Penelope to send me away from that place, and she did. That was the last time I had seen her, until today. When I got back to the human world, I put a vengeance on Charles. I was going to kill him. But instead, I found Isabella. I thought it would be best to kill her instead. But I couldn't. She was too... kind, too pretty. So I kept her alive."
"Why don't I remember you?" Bella asked.
"Your mother was deeply upset at the thought of you being with me. Considering that I was trying to kill Charles. So she threatened me. I could either leave you alone, or she'll find a way to torture me, part of that was to kill Penelope."
"What?" Penelope asked.
"She's not like who you think she is." Cronus said. "She wanted to find every way to get rid of me. And she did. I didn't want her to hurt anybody. She's been playing all of us. I'm not the one who's killed all those humans. It was Amelia. She wanted the Council to step in. Or, once the Volturi was born, she wanted them to kill me. It was never me. It was her. The way I am is because of Amelia. And she's still trying to ruin my life.
"And by that, she made Isabella forget me. How? I don't know. Something says she had a witch on her side. I knew the Council wasn't on her side, not for a long time. But once Isabella forgot about me, I was broken. For a long time. I hid myself far away from any society. Then here comes o'mighty Brutus. He came and found me, saying that I was needed back at home. He took me back to the Witches World. For a long time, I stayed next to Brutus, fighting in his wars, making myself stronger. Then one day, Penelope was upset with me. About being next to Brutus, killing innocents. All of me told me to kill Brutus and I did. Of course he came back to life, but I killed him. And the Council helped me put him down. Now he's alive again, and I'm still trying to figure out how.
"I went back to the human world to find out that Isabella was related to Brutus. I couldn't believe it. Brutus's sister, Miranda, had accidentally changed Amelia into a wolf. Brutus, Miranda, and Amelia are related, but they didn't look related. That's what confused me. It turns out that their mother had slept with someone else, ad gave birth to Amelia. And we all know what happened to Miranda, she disappeared somewhere. Anyways, since I had killed Brutus, and Miranda disappeared, I had no choice but to go to Amelia, just so I could be with Isabella. I told Amelia that all I wanted was Isabella, but she wouldn't do it. She wanted me to follow her. Do whatever she wanted me to do. And she would grant me Isabella. But since I was a hopeless romantic fool, I didn't know Isabella had already left out of her house, and moved on with her life. For years, I listened to her, and I ended up believing her. Then she, or someone killed me. I think it was a witch. I was still alive, but I couldn't move. I couldn't see anything either. Someone put me in a coffin for who knows how long? It was the worse time of my life.
"Then out of nowhere, Amelia comes back to wake me up. She said the only way I could get Isabella, is if I got her myself, and she disappeared. I was sent to some damned dimension, with Isabella locked inside of it. The only thing she didn't tell me though was that the dimension I was in was a place for killing all the vampires and wolves. And that's when I started to think... She woke me up to send me there, so I would be locked in it, so she could kill me. Officially kill me. Damn woman... She knew I would stay with Isabella the entire time. But, just before I went to the dimension, I may have called up a witch friend of mine to help me restore my powers. She has forgotten who I am, and I'm one step ahead of her." Cronus smiled.
"You do know that even though we are in the human dimension, she can still kill us with her army." Aro said.
"Yes I know. But we are hidden. You obviously didn't hear what I said. I have witch friends also. And have you forgotten who practically raised me?" Cronus asked. "Now that I've said my story, and I'm somewhat innocent, Penelope would protect me. Unless she really hates me. But I doubt that."
"Wait... How come you told me you didn't know how he was created?" Bella asked.
"There are a lot of things that you have to wait and find out, Isabella. That was one of them." Gary said.
"That makes no sense..." she whispered.
"Isabella..." Cronus said. "I am very selfish. I'll admit that. I've spent years trying to find you. Trying to be with you."
"I don't remember anything Cronus. I'm sorry. And I'm with-"
"I know. That's why I'm giving you back your memories." he whispered.
A/N: My computer is being so weird right now... Anyways, I'm starting to get sadder from all the people not reviewing. I only got two... :( So here's this, if I get five reviews per chapter, I'll show you a preview of the next chapter. So I suggest you review. :P I'm not going to show one now, considering I only got two reviews from the last one. And this chapter is early so I suggest you review.
I'm going to see Breaking Dawn today! WooHoo!
