Chapter 12 - Wedding Rings and Other Things

Before...

The year was 1841, Katie had been with Carlisle in their new home in New Orleans for almost eleven years now, and as before, she was beginning to become bored. So she decided that she was going to visit Volterra again. The only problem was that Carlisle did not want her to go.

"And why not?!" Katie asked.

"Because they are a bad influence, they have no respect for human life." Carlisle responded.

"I stayed with them alone for nearly 25 years! I think I have shown that I can show restraint, and besides, they do respect my choices, unlike you!" Katie said, she was so angry, but her anger suddenly stopped and was replaced by regret when she saw the look on Carlisle's face, and worse, when she heard his thoughts.

He sped out of the house, and tears stung at his eyes. He ran into the forest, while a voice ran on and on in his mind. She didn't want to be immortal, she hates you, she'll leave you, she's already gone.

He ran and ran and ran and ran until the sun was nearly risen. When he saw this he cursed himself for his stupidity, he quickly made his way back home, and tried to calm himself. He knew he overreacted, but something in him did not sit well with the idea of her going to visit the Volturi, and especially Aro, without him. He entered their large home, and he did not hear Katie inside. His mind jumped to think that she had left, or that she too had gone to blow some steam. However, another part of him knew that she wouldn't have done that, and that part of him also knew what happened when Katie got upset.

"Katie?" Carlisle called out.

He heard a small noise from the drawing room and quickly sped there, and he was not prepared for what he saw. Three men were writhing on the floor, and Katie was standing in the middle of the room, staring at nothing, tears streamed down her face. Carlisle took another step into the room, but suddenly a blinding pain erupted from his head.

"Katie, Katie stop." Carlisle choked out in between pained gasps.

After a moment Katie blinked, and she gasped when she saw the three men who had come in to help finish the last wing of the large home, but when she heard a different man gasp behind her. She quickly turned, "Carlisle." she said as a mortified expression passed her face. "I-I'm so sorry." She sped over to him and grabbed his arm, "Are you okay?"

"Katie, I'm so sorry." Carlisle said as he caught his breath.

"No, I'm sorry, I should've calmed down, I should have kept it internalized." Katie said, she was crying. That was the bad thing about being turned when you were still a teenager, her emotions were often all over the place, and she cried a lot.

Now...

Katie was helping Alice and Rosalie get Bella ready, when she heard Bella's mother's thoughts wondering where she was, Katie decided to go out and bring them to her room. She opened the door and looked down the staircase, there was Charlie and Renee, Charlie looked up and saw her.

"Ah, Katie, do you know where Bella is?" Charlie asked.

"She's just up here." Katie said, walking out from the room. She noticed Renee was wondering who she was. She walked down the stairs to meet them, "Hi, I'm Katie, Edward's older sister. You must be Bella's mom, it's a pleasure to meet you."

"Oh, hi!" Renee said, "Please, call me Renee."

Katie smiled, "Of course, Bella's just in the room at the top of the stairs." Katie walked outside to where the guests were starting to gather, she noticed that some of Bella's friends from school had arrived, she heard their conversation, and laughed a bit to herself knowing that all the vampires here did too. She took her seat next to Carlisle, they looked at each other and smiled.

During the reception Katie went to talk to Eleazar, she had first met him when he was a member of the Volturi a few hundred years ago.

"Katerina, it's good to see you again, how've you been?" He asked her.

"I've been good Eleazar, I hope you've been as well?" Katie replied.

"Yes, of course." He replied, there was a moment of awkward silence, in which he knew Katie was reading his mind, and was uncomfortable with it.

"Sorry, I usually can't help it." Katie said.

"No, it's fine." he said, it was followed by more silence.

"I-thank you, for not saying anything about, well..."

*Flashback*

The year was 1827, Aro and Katie had been almost inseparable since the revelations of their feelings that they had only one year prior. They both wanted to keep their relationship a secret, but they could barely keep their hands off of each other. So that was why Katie was sitting on Aro's desk, her legs wrapped around his waist, Aro's fingers trying to undo the back of her corset, her lips brushing his collarbone.

Eleazar had been instructed to find a vampire, and report on what their abilities were, he suspected that there would be some resistance, however he encountered none since Jane and Alec had gone with him. So he had returned much earlier than expected. This was his last task before he would leave to find a different life with Tanya, and he was instructed to report straight to Aro when he was done.

He approached Aro's private quarters, and he assumed that Aro would have been anticipating his return, so he simply entered, and saw Katerina and Aro together.

Aro had thought it was a little funny, but Katie and Eleazar were both mortified.

"Yes, I know. It's uh fine, I've never been one for gossip."

"I know, but you don't know the hole I would be in if someone found out, so thank you." Katie said. Eleazar nodded, and went to rejoin his family.

The rest of the wedding was quite uneventful, but it was nice, peaceful, something the Cullen's and company don't often experience. Then, when it was time, everyone helped to send of the newlywed couple to their honeymoon. Carlisle stood next to Katie as the car drove off into the night, he looked at her and wondered what she was thinking, he had never really been able to tell what was going on inside her head, and for a moment he wished he could have her abilities.

"No you don't." Katie said jokingly, Carlisle patted her shoulder before he walked inside.

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