With Time Comes Power

A/N: Special thanks to my beta KCLutz4475…Tasha hon you totally rock.

Chapter 13

Take Me to Your Leader.

Isabella's pov

It took a few months before Jasper started to feel at ease with me going off alone for my walks, I was so glad that things were getting better and Jasper was starting to trust me again, Jasper still kept a close watch on me, but slowly let me venture off on my own. I loved the forest, as I went back to my everyday perching on the limb of a tree, listening to the birds chirp and at night with the singing of the crickets. I think I could sit here day in and day out alone and enjoy the forest without any interruptions, but of course life goes on and so does my family.

"Isabella…are you out here," I heard Jasper call. I sigh and call back.

"I'm here Jasper."

"What ya doing darlin', you know you've been out here all day and it's coming up on midnight, don't ya think you should be heading home," he asked.

"Yes Jasper, I'm sorry, time kinda' got away from me," I told him as I dropped from my perch landing in front of the love of my existence. Jasper smiled at me and wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling me close to him.

"What do you find so alluring out here?" he asked and I looked around and shook my head.

"Everything Jasper, I can't help getting lost in the quiet, it makes me think of home somehow."

"Darlin', you are home," he tells me kissing the top of my head.

"I know, but…" I sighed. "It's not home, home…you know 1800's home," I told him worried what he might think of me thinking about our time so long ago.

"I know darlin', sometimes I miss it to, it's so different now and I know it's hard sometimes, especially since you were thrown into this time era. It's not fair to you. Hell, I miss it and I lived through the changes as they came along," he told me.

"I thought it was just me that felt that way," I whispered, as I lowered my head.

"No darlin', all of us that were turned back then or even farther back feel that way, It's just part of being a vampire, we have too much time on our hands to think of nothing else. So we think of things that could have been," he said with a chuckle. "You have me still in your life sweetheart and that will never change," he said as he leaned down and kissed me passionately. I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him back, getting lost in my Jasper. Once he pulled away, he stared into my eyes. "Let's get back to the house," he said barely above a whisper, as we joined hands and walked back in a human pace.

We walked into the house and sat down with Char and Peter, who smiled at us as we came in.

"Well you've been gone a long time Isabella," Peter chortled.

"Yeah, I kinda' lost track of time," I told them feeling a little bit embarrassed. I guess with Char or Jasper always with me while being punished it felt good being by myself once again.

"Well did you at least enjoy yourself?" Char asked with a chuckle and I echoed.

"Yes, I did…very much," I told her looking over at Jasper who smiled back at me.

Jasper and Peter started talking about something or another as Char and I watched some old movie that was on television. They were talking about something that had to do with how vampires used humans as pets and how they found it humiliating. It caught my attention so much so that I lost all track of the movie we were watching and listened to Jasper talked about Bella and how she was pretty much a pet of the Cullen's until her change, with the only difference of her being more family than a slave. I furrowed my brow and looked over at Jasper.

"Slaves? Vampires use humans as slaves?" I asked not believing what I was hearing. Jasper and Peter looked over at me and nodded.

"Yes darlin', See we have something that draws humans to us, most of them are drawn, but are smart enough to shy away. But the ones that don't usually become slaves sort of," he said.

"Sort of? Either they are or they aren't Jasper, which is it?" I asked.

"Well they are, but they chose to be with the promise of being turned at some point in time, they call them familiars. They do things for the vampire who can't go out during the day. Now in Forks that would never happen, because the constant cloud cover, but let's say a vampire lived in L.A or Texas, some places that are sunny more than not, they use familiars to do errands for them," he explained.

"So…do they actually turn them like the vampire promises?" I asked.

"Sometimes…mostly not, if the human gets too pushy they usually just drain them and go find someone else to do their bidding," he said.

"That's awful Jasper," I whined. He shrugged his shoulders as he nodded.

"Yeah, but too true I'm afraid," he replied.

"And you say that Bella was a familiar?"I asked.

"Kind of, most vampires called her a pet, but in reality she was a familiar, but she was more than that. The Cullen, family, like ours are more humane, so Bella was more a part of the family, whereas most vampires don't give a shit, about anyone or anything. Carlisle mostly kept humans away and to tell you the truth, he tried to keep Bella away as well, but she was Edward's singer and he couldn't stay away from her, so Carlisle admitted defeat and allowed her to come to the house and you pretty much know the rest," Jasper continued.

I sat and thought about it for a minute letting it all sink in, I had been around only humane vampires, I really never thought about how other vampires were, but if I sit and think about it I guess it was true…I mean, Maria, was selfish, she didn't care who she had to kill to get Jasper back to fight for her. She searched out a lot of people, she would find them just to turn them into one of our kind, only to use them to do her bidding and there are the ones that find us in the forest a lot. They weren't humane either, they drank from humans and searched us out just to prove they were better fighters than we are, or Jasper is anyway. So, it really shouldn't surprise me about familiars. I shook my head not wanting to think about it anymore.

The night went on as we spent a quiet night together, with the breaking of dawn, we all went out to hunt, after we returned Jasper said he had a meeting with Jinks this afternoon and just wanted to let me know if I came back from my usual walk and found him not here, that's where he'd be. I told him that was fine and I would see him later on.

I gave him a kiss and left for my walk.

I hadn't been gone long when I heard a rustling in the forest. I swung my head around and sniffed the air, I knew I could handle a threat, but I remembered what Jasper has told me about not facing anyone alone and the first thing I thought of after that was that Jasper would stop me from taking my daily walks alone and that frightened me more than facing the threat. I dropped from the tree and took off running as fast as I could towards the house only to be stopped by ten vampires who blocked my way, I skided to a stop looking at them.

"Who are you and what do you want?" I asked sternly.

"Why you Mrs. Whitlock, one of them said. I watched as a smirk crossed his face. What caught my eye next was what they wore. Long black robes lined with red strips at the edge of the opening and around their collars. Jasper had told me about the Volturi and told me to watch myself if ever I found myself around one them, for a lot of them held special gifts.

"Look, I've got to go home, my husband is waiting for me and if I don't show up soon he'll come looking for me," I lied.

"You're not going anywhere little girl," he said, as I let the fire built up in me, the wind started to whirl around my feet and a bead of sweat formed on my upper lip and forehead. "I wouldn't do that if I were you Mrs. Whitlock. We have your husband and your family, if Aro doesn't hear from us within the time allotted he will give the order to kill your husband and your family," he threatened.

"I don't believe you…Jasper wouldn't allow anyone to capture him," I told him.

"Is that so…then who does this belong too?" he asked as he held up the Whitlock wrist band Jasper wore on his wrist still to this day. We had them made when we moved away from the Cullen's as a matter of fact that's what gave Jasper the idea, to form our own family crest. But this vampire had it which meant the Volturi had my Jasper and my family.

"What is it that you want from me?" I asked and he smiled, I don't want anything, but the Volturi wish your presence in Volterra, as soon as possible, so you will come with me," he said. My shoulders sunk, knowing that they had me and I had no choice, but to go with them. One of the guards grabbed my arm as did another one on the other arm and ran with me to a waiting private airplane. We boarded and one of them sat me on one of the chairs and fastened my seat belt. After takeoff, it seemed to take forever to get there. I over-heard them talking about Aro imprisoning the Cullen's at the castle and a group of guards were sent to retrieve one of the wolves and to kill the rest. If I could cry I would have. Just the thought of them hurting the wolves, because of me made my dead heart ache. And the poor Cullen's being imprisoned, because of me and now Jasper, Peter and Char being held against their will.

After landing at the airport in Italy they grabbed me again and took me to a car that was waiting on us in front of the airport. To say I wasn't frightened would be a lie, even with all my powers, I still feared the Volturi. Mainly, because I really didn't know them or what they were capable of, Jasper said I could hold my own with them, but it still frightened me especially since they thought it was okay to frighten my family and friends.

"The more I thought of this the more agitated I became, how dare they use the people I love to get to me, who do they think they are? They maybe the rulers of the vampire world, but that didn't give them the right to blackmail or kidnap or even threaten someone. Once we were at the castle I was livid. As the vampires began to push me towards the door, I began to shove back.

"Get your hands off of me," I yelled pushing away from them. "Unless you want to burn to ash," I continued.

"Listen honey, I'm only following orders, so unless you want to scrape the ashes off the ground of your beloved husband you'll do as your told," he chided. I looked at him with death in my eyes.

"You will pay for your tyranny and I'm just the person that can do it," I told him.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever, let's go, the brothers are waiting and I make it a habit to never keep them waiting, because honey if I have a choice of who's going to kill me it sure in the hell won't be the brothers," he said grabbing my arm as I fought to keep from going into the castle.

We stood in front of a giant double door made of iron. Hell, it would take a vampire just to open that door, I thought to myself. The doors finally opened as the guards pulled me in front of this platform where three men sat, one had long black straight hair and looked at me with a twinkle in his eye, and I could see he was glad that he had finally found me. One of the others had long blonde hair almost white that was also straight and hung down his back and he looked as though I was wasting his time. The other one looked older than the other two, he also had dark hair, but it was only shoulder length, he was paying attention to what was going on, but didn't give much interest to me. I hated being here and I was worried about Jasper and my family. So I opened my mouth and asked, loudly.

"Where is my husband and family and what the fuck am I doing here?" I yelled, as the long dark haired man began clapping his hands, before speaking.

"Very well said my dear, welcome to Voterra."