Immortal love

Disclaimer: Now that we are on the subject of Twilight – No es mío. Ce'nest pas le mien. Es ist meiner nicht. Non è il mio. Het is van mij niet. Não é o meu. это не является моим. Det er men ikke. 不是嗎. 私のものではありません. δεν είναι ορυχείο. 광산이 아니다. فليس من الألغام. не е моя. No és meu. To nije moj. To není moje. Se ei ole minun. זה לא שלי. यह मेरा नहीं है. To nie jest moje. Nu este a mea. Det är inte min. Це не моє. Nó không phải là tôi. Is est non mei. It is not mine.

Betrayal

Esme POV

"Do not hurt them! Do not hurt the prisoners!" Aro shouted over all of the commotion of the battle, gesturing at Bella, Alice, Rosalie, and me.

Those of the guard in the Volturi who supported Caius obviously paid no heed to Aro's orders. One of them lunged at Bella, who quickly retaliated and hit him back.

I ran through the crowd, searching for Carlisle. I saw Jasper gaining the upper hand in a battle against one of the guards. Emmett had just thrown another guard against a wall. Edward and another one were circling each other.

Rosalie and Alice had teamed up together against another guard. But where was Carlisle?

"Esme!"

I saw him leaping down from the clock tower.

"Carlisle!" I embraced him, and he wrapped his arms around me.

"Are you alright?" he asked me.

"Yes. Seth saved us, just in time." My eyes flickered to the mound of ashes that was being blown away by the wind. "But Zack, it just happened so quickly…"

"I'm sorry. He saved you, too."

"What is going on out here?" We turned around to face the alleyway. Two more figures were coming out of the darkness. Sulpicia and Athenodora, the two remaining wives.

"Aro!" Sulpicia snapped, glaring at her mate. "What is happening? Where are all the humans?"

"Caius, same question to you, too!" Athenodora added.

The two Volturi leaders began pointing fingers at one another and started shouting accusations. But they didn't manage to see until it was too late.

Two gray figures had lunged at the wives. Stefan and Vladimir. The wives shrieked and began running away, but to no avail. Their heads were torn away from their bodies and tossed into one of the many fires.

"NOOOOOO!" Aro and Caius both shouted.

Then a third figure stepped forward. Marcus. He bowed his head politely to the two Romanian vampires. "Thank you for your assistance."

"It was our pleasure," Stefan replied, smirking.

"Yes, that was most fun," Vladimir added.

"Marcus, why would you do that to us?" Aro wailed.

"To show you how it feels!" Marcus hissed. "To show you how it feels like to lose a mate! Now you know how I felt when you killed Didyme."

"What? That's preposterous," Aro spluttered.

"Save it. And you!" Marcus turned to Caius. "You don't give a damn about how I feel. You told me to move on. You told me that I should just forget about her. Now it's your turn to try. And you knew what Aro did."

Aro looked furious. "Jane, Alec, come over here and deal with this thing!"

To everyone's surprise, the two twins stood behind Marcus instead.

"I support Marcus," Jane replied coolly. "He deserves his vengeance."

"I agree," Alec put in.

The rest of the Volturi nodded in agreement and began congregating around Marcus. Aro and Caius looked frightened as they backed away.

The battle had stopped, and the other side, the ones made up of Carlisle's allies, stood off on the sidelines, watching.

Marcus stepped forward. "You have two choices. You may leave and never show your face to any other vampire again, or we will kill you."

Aro and Caius exchanged a glance before fleeing. Cowards.

The battle was over. No one had really won. But vengeance had been gained, and I could go home now. Unless Marcus decided otherwise.

Ahhhhhhh, raise your hand if you were expecting that!

I didn't even expect that. And I wrote it. O_O

Sorry for not updating in a while. Lots of stuff going on. If you read my Alice story, too, then you'll know what I've been up to.

Review = preview still, that hasn't changed. And thanks to ChocolateGal16 for reminding me to update on this stuff.