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CHAPTER 25

Abigail's Point of View

So the Volturi took me to their place in Italy. I didn't try to stop them, I didn't make it hard for them. I figured they were stronger than me and I didn't want to be harmed by it. We ran the entire way there with this weird guy carrying me. I guess I should have been more scared than I was.

They weren't cruel to me, they fed me and everything. They just didn't really tell me anything. I talked to a girl, Amanda, who is still a human. She said they weren't going to kill me. They were still thinking about what was going to happen.

I really wished that I left some sort of hint for Anthony, I mean Alice probably already saw all of this, but Anthony is probably worried sick. I know that he's going to spend forever blaming himself. But as long as the next time I saw him proved that nothing was wrong, everything would be fine.

It was a little scary how calm I was about the whole thing. I missed Anthony, but that was a given. I was worried how he was taking all of this. I knew they weren't going to kill me. They knew that Carlisle would be upset and all. I mean, the family has connections.

I heard they were planning on changing me. I wouldn't complain. I mean, it was going to happen anyways. I just would have rather done a few things as a human first. Most of them involved Anthony, all of them involved Anthony actually. I guess it wasn't so much what I wanted to do as much as that I wanted him to be there.

Bella already told me that when I did get changed Anthony couldn't be anywhere near me when I woke up. The bloodlust would be too uncontrollable. She said that I would be able to see him after a week or two. This was after I spent a good amount of time hunting and everything. We didn't want to take any chances, I didn't want to hurt Anthony at all, I would never forgive myself for that.

I knew the bloodlust would be hard at first, but Bella was relatively young, and she had absolutely no problem around Anthony. She said that it wasn't even that hard at first. She explained what the burning in the back of my throat would feel like and how I had to try to ignore it. I probably wouldn't be able to hunt around Anthony for the first few years, just incase I attack him instead of some poor animal. But I didn't mind that so much.

I hadn't really spent that much time with Edward, but he was always kind to me. I saw a lot of similarities between him and Anthony. They both could be extremely shy when they wanted to be. I loved how strong Edward and Bella's relationship was even though they had been together for 20 years. I know that Anthony and I will be like that, perhaps even stronger. Anthony is my life, he always will be. So that's why I have to stay strong for him and not freak out in this giant mansion the Volturi call home.

Amanda was actually really nice. She would eat with me in my room sometimes. She made this situation all the more tolerable. Sure I had only been here for approximately two days, but it was still an awkward situation. The one who scared me the most was Jane, I heard of her power and I prayed that she wouldn't use it on me. I wasn't going to give them a rough time, hopefully I would make it back to Anthony completely unharmed.

I was scared of Jane. I overheard a discussion that her and Aro had once,

"Why can't I just use my power on her a little bit? I think that she's already pregnant."

"She's not pregnant, you can tell." Aro also scared me, but just not as much. He didn't intend harm.

Jane continued, "That entire family is trouble for us, and you know it! They have a child then their offspring has a child and so on and so on. We are not going to allow that! And why is that girl not scared? She hasn't tried to escape yet. We have to do something!"

"Using your power will not help this situation at all. It's better that she has not yet tried to escape. I'm sure that she's not afraid because she's been around others of our kind. She doesn't know that we're not like the Cullens."

Um, yeah I do.

"So what? We need to scare the girl a little bit. I'm telling you she's already pregnant."

I sighed, "She's not pregnant. We took her away so she wouldn't get pregnant. We're going to wait for the Cullens to come than we are going to talk rationally about this. I do not want to get on their bad side. Carlisle is a good friend of mine and I am not messing it up because you do something careless. Do not go near her."

They had this conversation the first day I arrived here. They had it outside my room, so of course I was able to hear them. I don't know what was Jane's problem, but I would try extra hard to be nice to her. I figured that her power was to put me in some sort of pain, I don't think that would be very pleasant.

I was sitting in the room they gave me when Amanda opened the door. I thought that she was just here to talk to me like we've been doing the past two days but she surprised me, "You're family is here."

I expected them to come sooner or later, I kind of figured later, Alice must have had some sort of plan. But maybe coming in such a short amount of time was the plan. Amanda walked me downstairs. The strange man that took me, Aro I think his name was and Jane were there. Standing across from them were the Cullens, all except for Bella, Edward, and Anthony.

Immediately I started to worry. Had something happened? Were they harmed? Were they misinformed of some events? Did Anthony go crazy and did something stupid, which I knew that he was completely capable of doing? I looked back and forth between everyone to see if maybe he would just pop out somewhere, but of course that didn't happen. Carlisle was the only one wearing a smile on his face.

"We just want to take the girl back. No harm intended."

Aro crossed his arms over his chest, "You're clan is growing much too rapidly. I assume that you are going to change her sooner or later is that correct?"

Carlisle nodded his head, "Yes, of course. We know your rules."

"That will give you a clan of 10. I assume that you would want her to have children, which would force this clan to grow even further."

Carlisle shook his head, "No, we're not growing anymore. This is it."

Where was Anthony?

"You already have werewolves and various other clans. We cannot let you grow anymore."

Carlisle nodded his head, "Yes, we understand that. This girl means you all no harm. She is not going to have any children."

The man named Aro turned to me, "Is this true?"

I nodded my head, "No children."

Jane then said, "She's lying."

I shook my head, remembering her power and remembering to be extra nice to her, "No, I swear I'm not."

"You're lying." She turned back to Aro, "Can't you tell? They are all lying to us."

I felt a huge bolt of pain seep through my body. I couldn't help but collapse to the floor and let out a scream. I didn't know what was happening. But suddenly the pain increased. I heard mumbling going around me, but I couldn't make out what anyone was saying. I felt some cool hands touch my arms but my eyes were shut and I couldn't make out who it was.

I let out another scream, the pain was too intolerable. It wouldn't go away. I didn't know if Jane was doing this, or if it was something else. Had someone bit me? Was that it? I didn't feel venom or anything. I couldn't feel any blood anywhere. I let out yet another scream, please make it stop.

It felt like eternity, the way I was curled up into that ball, screaming my lungs out. I heard Jane's laughter somewhere in the distance. Did she really get so much amusement out of my torture? I had done nothing to her. And I would do nothing to her, why was she doing this?

The pain toned down a little bit, enough for me to make out Jane's words, "Do you see what will happen if you lie?"

"I'm not lying!"

To my surprise I heard Rosalie call out, "Stop it Jane! She has done nothing to you."

But with this Jane only increased the pain even more. I knew that nothing was actually happening to me, it was just her playing with my mind, but it still hurt, a lot. And I didn't know what to do to stop it. I screamed again. I was sure that I would lose my voice by the end of this all, if there was even an end in sight.

The pain increased as I felt two strong arms wrap around me. I couldn't make out any words, but slowly the pain stopped. I stayed curled up in a little ball as I felt the two arms lift me up and cradle me to their chest. I knew from the heartbeat exactly who was my savior.

I'm sorry guys, I lied. It's actually 27 chapters and an epilogue. Sorry, I said 28 before. But the next chapter is going to be really intense. And I love the chapter after that one! So just hold on in there!

And sorry that this chapter is kind of on the short side. I really am.