A/N: I am so, so sorry that I didn't update when I said I would but yeah, that week and the weeks after were just really bad…anyway you guys don't want to hear about my crap so let's move on. Here we go….

Chapter 13 – Dinner

Edward POV

After Aro showed up at the house, he told us that Bella was in Volterra and that she was going to try to take over the Volturi. He told us we had to go there now or she would kill Marcus and Caius. He told us we needed to save her and he acted as if he really cared about Bella but I could tell from his mind that he just didn't want to lose his seat of power. Despite the fact that we knew Aro just wanted us to return with him so that he could try and overthrow Bella, we returned to Volterra with him. He was confident that despite Bella's anger she wouldn't actually try to hurt us, he believed he could use us to make Bella leave so that he could stay in power. All of us were just planning on trying to make Bella come to her senses.

We managed to make it into Volterra quite easily through the sewers and walked right into the throne room. They were talking about us as we walked in and just managed to catch the tail end of the conversation. Before I even saw her I could smell her scent, it still called to me as it did when she was human, but now it called to me in a completely different way. I no longer had to face the burning in my throat when her scent enveloped me and I welcomed the relief from the burn. I took a good look at her as we walked in. Her back was to us but even from her I could tell that she looked different, she was thinner than she was when we left. If she were human, I would've thought she was sick. Her hair was longer and hung is waves around her face, but it didn't seem as if she put much effort into how it looked She was even more beautiful than she was when she was human which I never could've imagined possible. And her voice was the most amazing music my ears had ever heard. This new Bella was amazing, you could almost see the power that seemed to radiate around her. Her mind was still silent to me and I just wanted to see her face so that I could read her emotions through her eyes like I had when she was human. When I returned my attention to the conversation, Bella was asking how long it would be before we arrived and before my family or I managed to speak Aro spoke up and answered for us. I expected her to look right at us…..right at me. I hoped that when she did I would be able to see a little of the old Bella that I loved so much, but she didn't even spare so much as a glance our way as she glared at Aro. I was shocked to see that her eyes were still a bright and threatening scarlet. I had hoped that by now her eyes would be gold or at least orange, because the Bella I knew would never kill anyone.

"Who the fuck was supposed to be guarding the goddamn doors?" She said calmly as her head snapped back to face the guard. I was shocked to hear her cuss, she had never used such vulgar language when she was human, and it was strange to hear her sweet voice utter such language. Her question was answered with a tense silence; I could hear how everyone in the guard was afraid to answer, afraid to invoke her wrath. I was just beginning to fear that I would have to break the silence when Aro spoke.

"We snuck in. It doesn't matter who was watching the doors." She turned back to Aro looking angry. And now that I wasn't focused on her eyes, I could see that her face looked thinner and more angular than it had before we left, she had definitely lost weight. But after reading Jacob's mind I wasn't too shocked, although I was hoping that he was lying about how bad she gotten when she was human.

"Well then, that changes things. So you snuck into my castle and are now here acting all high and mighty like you still rule the vampire world. Did you think you could overthrow me or something?" She spoke mockingly to Aro and I almost smiled at her strength. Here she was my beautiful sweet Bella speaking to Aro as if he was nothing but trash at her feet. I probably would've smiled if I hadn't caught Aro's response in his mind before he spoke. I tried to beat him to the punch and answer her question before he could try to speak for us. And instead, we ended up speaking at the same time.

"No" I said quickly, while Aro said "Yes" smugly. He really was stupid if he actually believed that we were going to go along with that. I was about to say something more when I noticed that she had flinched when I spoke, almost as if she had been struck. When she pulled herself together, she looked back at Aro, still avoiding eye contact with us.

"Well which is it? Yes? Or no?" she said with exasperation.

"No." Carlisle answered her quickly, realizing she was getting impatient and Aro was going to make things worse if we kept letting him speak. She looked shocked for a second before her expression became neutral once again.

"Oh. Well it's not like you stood a chance anyway." She said with a laugh. I was about to ask her what she meant when she spoke again.

"By the way Aro, where is Renata?" It was a strange question for her to ask now, but I stayed quiet to find out why she was asking and how Aro would react.

"You honestly haven't figured it out?" His voice was amused as he replayed the memory of him killing Renata. I was shocked; Carlisle had told me that she had been his personal shield.

I was still contemplating Aro's memory when Bella's hiss broke through my thoughts, "Where. Is. She?"

"How do you think I found out you were planning on over throwing us Bella?" She looked shocked for a split second and then something seemed to click, but I was only paying a small amount of attention to her reaction as I saw Aro's memory. He had managed to catch Renata the day before Bella's coup was going to take place. Aro managed to get close enough to Renata to touch her before she could react, and by the time she was able to react, Aro had already seen Bella's plan. He managed to kill Renata before she could make a sound and he fled the castle with her remains and burned them outside the walls of Volterra. I saw from his mind that he had immediately decided to head to use in hopes of overthrowing Bella after she got rid of Caius and Marcus. He was incredibly smug about his plan and hoped that he had managed to get one over on Bella when she spoke.

"Oh well she was pretty useless anyway." He didn't even get a chance to react before Bella raced forward and began to tear him apart. My family and I stared in shock as Bella dismembered Aro quickly.

I caught the scent of many approaching humans just as Bella looked up at us for the first time. Aro's dismembered body was at her feet.

"Are you gonna stay for dinner?" Her voice was mocking and cruel as she spoke. And she laughed as all of us could only stare at her in shock.

I kept trying to process what she said as she walked around us, around to where Heidi was ushering several humans into the throne room. She just couldn't be eating humans, could she? The rest of my family was still standing as I was, our eyes still glued to Aro's dismembered corpse. We were still staring when the screaming started. I tuned around just in time to see Bella drop the body of a drained human to the floor and wipe her mouth with her hand. She looked up and smiled as another human backing away from the carnage of her guard tearing into the other humans ended up right in front of her. He bumped right into her and before him or any of us could react she pulled his head to the side, exposing his neck and sank her teeth in. She drained him in an instant as everyone else finished their meals and a dead silence filled the room as Bella dropped the man's dry body. When she looked at us her, again, her lips were bloodstained and her eyes were such a bright red that they seemed to glow.

She smiled sarcastically at us. "Awww….now there's no more left for you….You should've joined in before we finished." She said with a cold smile that seemed out of place on her sweet face. I was still in shock, we all were. Bella, my Bella was a killer, and it didn't seem to bother her one bit. She just killed two humans in front of our eyes and didn't seem bothered in the least. When neither of us spoke, Bella laughed.

"Oh, sorry. I forgot that you guys value human life," She said with a cold laugh, "how pathetic." She turned from us then and faced the guard.

"Felix, Demitri."

"Yes Bella." They both said quickly.

"Take out Aro's body and dispose of it."

"Of course, Bella" They said quickly and then dashed around us to get to Aro. They left the throne room quickly carrying the decapitated body.

"So if you aren't here to overthrow me, then why are you here?" She said as we stared after Felix and Demitri.

"We….uhh…wanted to see you Bella. We wanted to make sure you were okay." She cringed as I spoke and then as she processed what I said. A million different emotions played across her face before pure fury took over.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU PLAYING AT CULLEN? YOU HAVE NO REASON TO BE HERE YOU POMPOUS ASS! TELL ME THE TRUTH, WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU HERE?" She yelled angrily, her voice echoed menacingly throughout the castle in the dead silence that followed her outburst. I wasn't sure how to begin. I needed to tell her the truth; I needed to tell her I still loved her. I was still contemplating how to tell her when I saw her face crumple. Her entire posture changed, she looked completely and utterly broken, all I wanted to do was run to her, comfort her and tell her repeatedly that I loved her. I was about to speak when anger replaced her broken expression, although I could still see it in her scarlet eyes.

"Seriously what the fuck is wrong with you?" she said speaking directly to me. "Wasn't hurting me once enough for you? It's too bad I'm not going to give you the chance to do it again. Aro told you I could read your thoughts, didn't he? That's why you were thinking that. You were trying to get me to let down my guard." I stared at her in shock, she could read my mind? "It's too bad I'm not the same stupid little human who fell for your Bullshit last time. I've grown Edward, and now it's time for me to repay you for the pain you caused me." She said smugly as a blinding pain shot through my whole body. And I collapsed to the floor in agony.

A/N: I am so so ridiculously sorry that it took my so long to update. But my summer had been crazy and I don't really mean in a good way. Although it hasn't been all bad. But still the summer had been quite suckish and I'm working two jobs as well as helping my family with a ton of other stuff. So I am so sorry that it took so long, I tried to get this out sooner but it just could be done, I'm sorry. But I hope if any of you are still reading this, that you enjoy this chap. It's late and I'm not going to get a chance to edit this so I'm sorry for the errors. I hope you still enjoy it; please review and I'll try and get another chapter out soon. And for those of you reading Unprecedented, I will get a chapter out soon, I promise. So, again I'm sorry about the wait and I hope you enjoyed the chapter despite its shortness and It's errors. Anyway, I'll try to update soon. Please review, so that I know someone is still reading this story, despite how long it's taken me to update. Again sorry about the wait.