If you recognize it, it's not mine. Except Stella, she's all mine. Major Bella and Edward bashing!
Greek is bold italics; mental conversations with Gods is italics. Bold is phone conversations
After watching to make sure Harry was greeted by someone, I turned and shadow traveled back home, coming out of a shadow by the stairs, and walked back over to where Alice sat on the couch. "Bella's not dead." I told her, sitting down next to her. "What do you mean? I saw her die." Alice asked, looking confused. "Charon told me that the only death in the area today was Harry Clearwater. That means that there's something creating a blind spot in your vision." I told her.
She stared at me for a moment before releasing a growl of irritation. "Great, a blind spot, just what I needed." She grumbled. I nodded in agreement, before standing back up. "I'm going to go make myself some hot chocolate, the Underworld can leave a person kinda cold." I told her, gaining a nod as I walked into the kitchen. Deciding to give myself a bit more time to come to terms with Harry's passing, I decided to boil the water on the stove, getting a mug down and adding the cocoa powder. I stopped dead when I heard the door open though, and I held in my anger, knowing that it wasn't Charlie. "Alice? Oh, Alice!" I heard, confirming my silent guess.
I heard Alice ask Bella how she was alive, more curious than concerned, not that Bella would be able to tell. I scoffed silently at Bella's stupidity of trying to cover jumping off a cliff with falling off of one. Alice hadn't bought it either, making me hold in my laughter, since it appeared the selfish brat didn't even realize I was home. I tuned out their conversation, pouring the now boiling water into the mug I had ready, and mixing it together, adding caramel and a single ice cube to cool it down enough to drink. I started walking into the living room, intent on startling the bitch when I heard Bella speak. "Jacob's sort of a werewolf." She muttered, making me choke on air.
She whirled around to face me, horrified look firmly in place. "Bella, werewolves are not good company to keep!" Alice exclaimed in exasperation. "Speak for yourself." Jacob said, coming into the house. I glared at him when he didn't even seem to notice me. "Hey, look Alice! It's the puppy so far up Bella's ass that he doesn't even remember the girl who was like a sister to him!" I exclaimed, relishing in the stunned and hurt look on Jacob's face. It was no less than the asshole deserved for completely ignoring me for the bitch. "Stella, I..." He started, but I held up a hand and glared at him.
I smirked internally at seeing him flinch at my glare, glad to know that it still scared him. "Save it, Black." I told him before rounding on the brat I shared a house with. "You! You are such a selfish, pathetic, whiny little bitch! Harry Clearwater died today and you think everything would be just perfect to go cliff diving? I wonder what Charlie would do knowing that his daughter was obviously suicidal, maybe he'd finally put you in the nut house where you belong! I bet you don't even care about how Charlie is handling Harry's death. Hell, I bet you don't even care he died now that Alice is here. After all, she's a link to your precious boyfriend, and I use the word 'boy' loosely since he's not even mature enough to be called anything other than a fucking bratty baby." I told her, not even caring when I saw her tear up.
I faintly heard Alice snort at my dig at her brother before I was interrupted. "That's enough, Stella!" Jacob exclaimed, defending the pathetic creature in front of me. "Of course you'd defend her over me, wouldn't you Black? What does it matter that we were practically siblings when we were kids. All that matters to you is your stupid little unrequited crush on her, which she doesn't even care about. You never listened to me, Rachel, or Rebecca when we told you that she didn't like you back when we were kids, so you've just got to hurt yourself trying to prove us wrong." I said, smirking at his wince.
He growled lowly at me, but didn't advance. "Face it, Jacob. Your head is so far up Bella's ass, you can't see that she would never choose you over Edward. Best friends forever, isn't that what you said when we were kids? Well, let me edit that to what you mean now. 'Best friends forever, until Bella calls me and I go straight to my master like the clueless dog I am'. Now that sounds a bit more realistic, don't you think?" I asked, a hard bite to my voice. I noticed Bella staring at Jacob and smirked, turning toward my soul sister. "Come on, Pixie Sticks. Bella needs to discipline her puppy." I said, grabbing her arm as she giggled, and lead her out of the house. "That was brilliant, Stella." She said, still laughing slightly. "Thanks, but I am so done with this bullshit. It's almost impossible to find a shred of actual loyalty around here, which pisses me off. I mean, Bella pretty much ignored Jacob as a kid, so I became friends with him. Then all of the sudden, he's so far up her ass that he doesn't even know which way is up." I vented.
She nodded, before spacing off with a vision for a minute before snapping out of it. "Oh, Hestia help me." She growled out. I was confused for a second, before seeing her hands smoking slightly with her obvious anger. "Pixie Sticks?" I asked, hoping the use of my nickname for her would calm her down a bit. "I'm going to kill him myself." She growled, clenching and unclenching her hands as she walked back into the house. "Bella, it's Edward. he thinks your dead, he's gone to the Volturi." Alice told her. Suddenly, Alice's anger was completely understandable, and I found myself pissed off at the boy as well.
Carlisle had told me about his friends, the Volturi leaders. They were fair and actually quite kind unless you broke the law. As a soul sibling, I was allowed to know about them, but Bella had no such claim, so she had to be turned or killed for her knowledge, and yet she was still human. The bastard was putting his family in danger just to piss them off enough to die. Knowing that we'd be going to stop his ass from committing some crime or another, I ran up to grab my bag, and saw daddy Hermes already there, holding my backpack out to me. "Your passport is already in there, I'll tell Charlie that Alice got an emergency call from L.A. and needed your help. I'll tell him that Bella went with because she wouldn't let Alice out of her sight." He whispered.
I nodded, grateful that he was looking out for me, and went back downstairs. "Let's go stop a fool." I said, seeing Bella come down the stairs after I spoke with her own backpack. I raced out to the Mercedes with Alice, ignoring Jacob's pathetic attempts to get Bella to stay as I hopped in the front seat. Alice pulled out her phone as she drove away, calling the airline, as I started playing solitaire on my own phone. Alice hung up after a minute and spared a glance at me. "Did you come up with something to tell Charlie?" She asked, and I smirked, knowing that the language change would piss Bella off. "Daddy Hermes packed my bag for me, and told me he'd take care of it. Apparently, you got an emergency call from your family in L.A. and I went with to help, while Bella's pathetic ass tagged along because she didn't want to let you out of her sight." I told her. "Do you honestly think he'll buy that though?" She asked, and I turned to face her, catching Bella's irritated look out of the corner of my eye. "If you saw how pathetic she's gotten, you wouldn't be asking that question. She turned into a zombie when he left, putting Charlie through hell." I told her.
She looked contemplative as she drove us to the airport. Bella was too tense to speak, thankfully sparing us from her bullshit whining, and Alice and I settled into a comfortable silence. We managed to get to the airport in record time, barely catching the flight out to New York before it took off, though we were unable to sit together since we booked seats so late. Since my backpack was small enough, I didn't put it with the carry-on bags, instead putting it at my feet, and after takeoff, I pulled it into my lap to see what had been packed for me.
I saw a change of clothes, my wallet, a ziplock bag with some ambrosia, a hairbrush, and one of my favorite books on Greek mythology that I loved laughing at. I knew I could get a package of one of those no water needed toothbrushes at any travel shop in an airport, so I resolved to get some in Italy or maybe New York if we had enough time. I felt kind of bad for Alice though, who had to sit next to Bella. However, I knew that it was kind of a good thing, since Bella's panic attack probably would have forced an emergency landing, and I wanted to catch the idiot before he got himself killed to prevent Carlisle and Esme from losing their son.
Sooner than I thought, we were landing in New York, and I didn't get the chance to enjoy being back in the state before we were running to catch our connecting flight to Italy. On this flight, the three of us got seats together, and I made Alice sit between Bella and I, so I didn't have the urge to kill Bella if she did something stupid, which was possible. Almost immediately after takeoff, Alice settled herself into a trance to try to watch what was happening in Volterra, the city I knew the Volturi resided, and Bella ended up falling asleep halfway through the flight.
Once I saw that pretty much all the passengers had fallen asleep, I tapped Alice's shoulder, snapping her out of her trance. "Did you talk to Ninja about what we're doing?" I asked, not knowing if she'd gotten the chance to do that on the way to New York. "Yeah, he made me promise I'd be safe. The Volturi are kind to those who haven't broken the laws, but with us just leaving you and Bella without attempting to make sure you wouldn't tell, it won't look great on us. Bella won't help matters either, since Edward basically told her that they were all evil and would take any vampire they wanted and force them to join their coven." She told me.
I had to roll my eyes at the combined stupidity of both Edward and Bella. Honestly, if Bella wanted a real description of the vampire leaders, she should have gone to Carlisle. However, it didn't surprise me that she took everything Edward told her as truth, not even caring that he hadn't actually met the leaders. She'd probably believe him if he told her he sky was orange. The only thing I'd ever seen them disagree on is her being changed, and if vampires had souls. The others knew that they did have souls because daddy Hades and momma Aphrodite had told them that they didn't take the soul in the change, it was just Broodward that didn't believe it. "Well, let's hope that nothing bad happens then." I said, leaning back in my seat to rest my head on the pillow I had gotten from a flight attendant. "Let's hope. Get some sleep, Stella. I'll wake you when we land." She told me, and I nodded before allowing myself to drift into Lord Morpheus' realm.
Yay! I did a double update again tonight! Alright, I hope you guys don't mind where I left this, I just didn't want to end the chapter while they were driving to Volterra, you know? Alright, well, I hope you guys liked the chapter and all that usual stuff. I'm gonna go take care of a few things. Leave me a review if you want one more chapter tonight, I will literally do it if I have even one person say they want one more tonight. Love ya, and read and review!