The Angel's Diary

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Day 25

Those basta of vampires.

The Volturi.

They waited until the war was over that they came and acted like they really wanted to be there to help us. I knew it because I could heard what Alex was thinking. Basta. He wanted to kill us all, but Jane didn't let him.

"I see you have a new member in your family. Why didn't you send us a letter?" Jane looked at Stephen with interesting in her cool eyes.

" he was turned not long ago, there were a lot of things we had to take care of." Carlisle said, looked at the remain of those new born vampires.

" what is your name?" Jane smiled cruelly and sent a shiver throught Stephen's back.

" Stephen Cullen." He was a Cullen now.

" ahhh, Stephen Cullen. What a nice name."

Suddenly, the Volturi changed their attention to the new born that was with us.

" look like they missed one." Alex licked his lips. ' at least there is one for me then.' i heard.

Again, basta.

" she is with us." Carlisle said.

" I don't understand." Jane looked curious at the young female vampire with us.

"She has surrendered," Edward answeared Jane's toneless question.

" surrendered?" Jane looked at Edward's face. The other Volturi with her exchanged a quick glance.

Edward shrugged. "Carlisle gave her the option."

"There are no options for those who break the rules," Jane said flatly.

Carlisle spoke then, his voice mild. "That's in your hands. As long as she was willing to halt her attack on us, I saw no need to destroy her. She was never taught."

"That is irrelevant," Jane insisted.

"As you wish."

Jane looked at Carlisle oddly and then back at the young vampire.

She frowned.

" you there, what is your name?"

And the girl broke down crying. " B…Br…Bree…"

" why are you here?" Jane asked.

The girl cried harder.

" who sent you?"

" NO. SHE WILL TELL YOU EVERYTHING SHE KNEW, NO NEED TO TORTURE HER…" Esme screamed angrily, her mothering insist wanted to help the little girl.

Jane looked up, sudden humor in her usually dead eyes. "Oh, I know," she said to Edward, grinning at Esme before she turned back to the young vampire.

" please, stop, I don't know, Riley didn't tell us anything, he said we shouldn't know too much…"

The girl continued to cry for mercy.

" the one who created all those eighteen new born vampire was Victoria. All brand new, unskilled." Edward said through his teeths. I could see that he was trying to control himself, not going to kill that cruel vampire.

" was?" Jane turned to Edward. And left the girl alone for a while.

" I've dealt with the creator." Edward said, looking back at Jane coldly.

" and this Victoria, she was in addition to the eighteen here?"

" yes. She was with another new born, he was older than the others but not over one year."

Jane turned back to the girl.

And continued to torture the young vampire.

" did he tell the truth?"

"I .. I don't know… eighteen…twenty…I am not sure… please…stop…"

" did this Victoria creat you?"

" no….i don't know…"

"I don't know," she said, flinching again. "Riley never said her name. I didn't see that night . . . it was so dark, and it hurt. . . ." she shuddered.

"He didn't want us to be able to think of her. He said that our thoughts weren't safe. . . ."

Jane's eyes flickered to Edward, and then back to the girl.

Victoria had planned this well. If she hadn't followed Edward, there would have been no way to know for certain that she was involved. . . .

"Tell me about Riley," Jane said. "Why did he bring you here?"

"Riley told us that we had to destroy the strange yellow-eyes here," Bree babbled quickly and willingly. "He said it would be easy. He said that the city was theirs, and they were coming to get us. He said once they were gone, all the blood would be ours. He gave us her scent." Bree lifted one hand and stabbed a finger in Bella's direction.

"He said we would know that we had the right coven, because she would be with them. He said whoever got to her first could have her."

I heard Edward's jaw flex beside me.

"It looks like Riley was wrong about the easy part," Jane noted.

Bree nodded, seeming relieved that the conversation had taken this non-painful course.

She sat up carefully. "I don't know what happened. We split up, but the others never came. And Riley left us, and he didn't come to

help like he promised. And then it was so confusing, and everybody was in pieces." She shuddered again. "I was afraid. I wanted to run

away. That one" — she looked at Carlisle — "said they wouldn't hurt me if I stopped fighting."

"Ah, but that wasn't his gift to offer, young one,"

Jane murmured, her voice oddly gentle now.

"Broken rules demand a consequence."

Bree stared at her, not comprehending.

Jane looked at Carlisle. "Are you sure you got all of them? The other half that split off?"

Carlisle's face was very smooth as he nodded.

"We split up, too."

Jane half-smiled. "I can't deny that I'm impressed." The big shadows behind her murmured in agreement. "I've never seen a coven escape this magnitude of offensive intact. Do you know what was behind it? It seems like extreme behavior, considering the way you live here. And why was the girl the key?" Her eyes restedunwilling on Bella for one short second.

"Victoria held a grudge against Bella," Edward told her, his voice impassive.

Jane laughed — the sound was golden, the bubbling laugh of a happy child. "This one seems to bring out bizarrely strong reactions in our kind," she observed, smiling directly at Bella, her face beatific. If I didn't know her better, I would say she has a very beautiful smile. But then I knew her, she was a cruel and evil vampire. No doubt her laugh would mean anything but good.

Edward stiffened. I didn't have to read her mind to know what was on it. Not good.

"Would you please not do that?" he asked in a tight voice.

Jane laughed again lightly. "Just checking. No harm done, apparently."

"Well, it appears that there's not much left for us to do. Odd," Jane said, apathy creeping back into her voice. "We're not used to being rendered unnecessary. It's too bad we missed the fight. It sounds like it would have been entertaining to watch."

"Yes," Edward answered her quickly, his voice sharp. "And you were so close. It's a shame you didn't arrive just a half hour earlier. Perhaps then you could have fulfilled your purpose here." Jane met Edward's glare with unwavering eyes.

"Yes. Quite a pity how things turned out, isn't it?" Edward nodded once to himself, his suspicions confirmed.

Jane turned to look at the newborn Bree again,

her face completely bored. "Felix?" she drawled.

"Wait," Edward interjected.

Jane raised one eyebrow, but Edward was staring at Carlisle while he spoke in an urgent voice. "We could explain the rules to the young one. She doesn't seem unwilling to learn. She didn't know what she was doing."

"Of course," Carlisle answered. "We would certainly be prepared to take responsibility for Bree."

Jane's expression was torn between amusement and disbelief.

"We don't make exceptions," she said. "And we don't give second chances. It's bad for our reputation. Which reminds me . . ." Suddenly, her eyes were on Bella again, and her cherubic face dimpled. "Caius will be so interested to hear that you're still human, Bella. Perhaps he'll decide to visit."

"The date is set," Alice told Jane, speaking for the first time. "Perhaps we'll come to visit you in a few months."

Jane's smile faded, and she shrugged indifferently, never looking at Alice. She turned to face Carlisle. "It was nice to meet you, Carlisle — I'd thought Aro was exaggerating. Well, until we meet again . . ."

Carlisle nodded, his expression pained.

"Take care of that, Felix," Jane said, nodding toward Bree, her voice dripping boredom. "I want to go home."

I saw Edward tried to push Bella behind him, no doubt he was trying to lock the imagine out of her eyes. Esme was on the edge of crying. Rosalie and Alice tried to keep a cool face. But I knew Rosalie was hurt to see such an young girl got killed.

" NO!" I stant between her and Bree.

Jane frowned.

" Erik Cullen, what are you doing?"

" she is with us, she didn't break the rule, Victoria and Riley did. Give her another chance!" I said.

" Erik…" like my standing up gave my family something, Bree was my family member the moment she chose to give up the fight.

The others decieded to join me.

" she surrendered." Bella said, and Jane looked at her, still frowning.

" please, we will take care of her…" Esme plea.

Alex stepped up. But Jane stopped him.

" fine. You want her? You can have her." Jane smirk.

Not good at all.

" really? Tha…"Jane turned her eyes to me.

" but he is coming with us."

(TBC)

Note: hmmm.