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Caius crushed another half written letter into the fire without looking and sat at his desk with a bowed head in his hands. It was going to be two months since the girl had left the castle under Aro's orders and prevented Caius from having any communication whatsoever with her as the days slowly passed with as agonizing speed that could have made Caius want to kill himself, if he was still human. One would have thought in another lifetime perhaps, he should have been relived to have her sent away and finally be able to have some peace of mind to himself and his personal affairs.

But ever since that night he had went to go see Domonica to relive his anger and stress and pray that the girl was going to forgive him the next morning for his inexcusable actions of humiliating her in front of her fellow classmates and friends, he kept calling himself a stupid idiot and asshole for allowing himself to fall trap to his own jealousy. Yes, he should have known better than to scare the hell out the boy, and yes, he should have just let the boy flirt a little, before politely warning him to not go any further with the girl.

Cauis rubbed his face and threw down his hands onto the desk, angry more at himself than anyone else. Domonica had come by recently to see if he needed her for anything, but after he had nearly snapped her neck and yelled at her to get out of his life while at the same time calling her a harlot, she quickly to her Que and left just as quickly as she came amide obvious snickering from both the guards and residents who had witnessed his violet outburst. After that situation cleared itself up, thanks to the stern warning Aro had given everyone to watch themselves around his younger brother, Cauis suddenly announced that he would not resume leadership role in front of the whole guard one day after feeding, until he had taken a queen and had time to take care of his personal affairs.

he smirked at the memory of the surprised and shocked look on Aro's face after hearing his unexpected announcement. It looked like someone had ran his face over with a truck several times before deciding to fix it by blowing air into his face. Sculpida quickly took upon herself to personally visit Caius's chambers a few nights later and try and talk him out of his rash decision. It wouldn't look well to the outside covens if they caught wind of what was going on within the Volturi Coven and the humiliation his decision would bring to them if they also were to discover his sudden bout of aggressiveness and hostilities towards his own kind that was due to a simple human girl.

He was quick to bitterly point out to her after enduring an hour's worth of lecture from Aro's queen, that if it wasn't for him sending Electra away and forbidding him on the pain of death, to see her at all; non of this would be even happening in the first place and she should take care of what she said to him, should he decide to return to power and deal out a punishment for her openness with him. That left the woman completely speechless and she left in a fit of hysterics after he suddenly busted out laughing at her for no apparent reason while Demetri and Jane peeped inside with surprised expressions.

Flickering out of his chair, Caius jumped out of the window and landed on the pavement far below on light feet. The evening had fallen finally and the sun had set an hour ago, leaving nothing but a clear night sky with scattered stars shining brightly under the watchful eyes of the full moon. Quietly taking a familiar route that led outwards to a different part of the castle grounds that was seldom used by anyone else, except himself, Caius gingerly walked at a slow human pace with his hands folded behind his back.

Walking in these part of where his late queen had tenderly tended her rose garden over the passing centuries, gave him a peace of mind that nothing else could. If he could't see Electra for the time being until Aro was fully satisfied of putting him through this kind of misery, than at least he could take comfort in being in an place that could regularly remind him of Athenora's memory.

Caius eventually came to a full circular garden with a grove of black elder trees that he had carefully taken from their native land in Greece, after the overthrow of the Roman Coven, and given as a gift of his late queen as a symbol of their love. She had requested the trees after being asked to make any wish she wanted, to be planted in the middle in a triangle pattern, leaving a diamond shaped patch of grass in the center. At first when he had first heard of her unusual request, he thought that perhaps she was being a little too mundane with how she wanted it to turn out. But after seeing them grow each season with every passing decade that they spend together, he could see how much it meant to her, deep down.

It wasn't often she asked very much from anyone around her as she watched on the sidelines while doing her duty as his queen, but when she did ask him, he was often very quick to fulfill them and make her happy as best as he could, not as her king, but rather as her easily hopped over a low fence that encircled the roses from the main pathway and landed in the center of the grove where a little marble marker stood from the ground. He flickered over to several patches of different kinds of roses that were still in bloom, cutting the stems with his sharp nails before tying them up with red ribbon he had brought with him from his study and placing the bouquet in front of the marker.

He took a seat next to it by a nearby tree and leaned his back against the trunk as he stared silently at the marker. It had been a few hours after they had landed at the airport the night, Electra had spent her first restless night as new member of the Volturi family, Marcus had given Caius a silver urn that contained the ashes of his wife's remains. Apparently after destroying the rouge vampire's mate who had killed her, Demetri had taken it upon himself to burn her to ash and spend the time needed to gather and find an urn while with Felix at the funeral home.

Wishing he was human, so he could drown himself in a hard spirit drink to get ride of the raw open pain in his heart, Caius let out a cold laugh. "I would have never guessed that a single mortal girl would be making me go through all of this, my sweet wife." He told the marker.

Reaching out, he caressed the ancient Greek letters that were carved into the stone. "Or going completely mad for that matter in front of everyone else." He added softly, leaning back against the tree with a wistful look in his dark eyes.

"Master?" He heard Demetri's Italian accent along the path. Caius let out a soft curse. Could for not a single second in his immortal life, people, including his pesky bodyguard just leave him alone without having to tag behind him where ever he went?

He gave his wife's resting spot a final caress before flickering to find his bodyguard standing respectfully several feet away by a marble pillar. Demetri bowed his head as his master came closer before looking up and finding his usual glare on his face.

Dang...

Caius sighed and just walked away from him. "What is it that you have to come hunting from me at this current hour?" He growled as he heard the bodyguard's light footsteps quickly catching up from behind.

"I am sorry if I disturbed you master, but Marcus and Aro wanted me to come get you for an very important and delicate matter that requires your personal judgment." He replied seriously as they continued walking. Caius suddenly spun around, causing him to pull up short before he collided into him. His pitch black eyes stared at him until Demetri felt the sudden urge of wanting to turn into a frighten kitten and run away, if it wasn't for the urgent request that his other master had suddenly sent him for.

"What is it so important that my brothers would even think of disturbing my personal private time, Demetri?" Caius asked slowly. Demetri made a very human gulping noise and took a quick step back to put some room between him and Caius, just in case, his master decided to rip his head off without thought. If only Felix was here to help support his backside.

"They told me that it was very urgent that you appear in the main throne room at once." He explained to him carefully Caius tilted his head to one side and crossed his arms over his chest as he continued to pin his loyal bodyguard with his penetrating stare.

"Explain." He ordered coldly while turning around and resuming his walk back to the castle. Demetri scratched furiously at his spiked hair with his fingers and did a little frustrated hop dance before flickering after him at vampire speed.

"Some guards who were about the city tonight on nightwalk duty, came across a newborn vampire that I believe is perhaps not even a few months old into his immortal birth.." He began as he followed Caius.

"Just cut the fucken crap and get to the damn point, Dems" Caius complained. "I'm tired of the useless extra information."

"Sorry master, but we thought that it is important that you are aware of the age of the newborn because of the other information that Aro was able to gather from him." He apologized.

"You mean to tell me that you have him in custody?" Caius asked with sudden interest as he came to a complete stop. Again, Demetri had to put the brakes on and stand beside him with a sheepish expression. "More like prisoner of interest due to the information that I was given to report to you, master."

Caius shrugged his shoulder and waved a hand in the air. "And it is?" He coaxed.

"This newborn male vampire happens to be the ex boyfriend of Electra." Demetri told him with tightly shut eyes. Before he could even open an eye to see the reaction of his master's face, Caius was way gone. Cursing for not telling the extra information, he ran after Caius, calling his name as he raced down stairs and halls to catch up. By the time he managed to arrive to throne room, he heard Aro yelling at Caius to stop hurling their prisoner into the walls and take a seat beside Marcus before things got out of hand.

Demetri slowly walked inside and found Caius starting down at the newborn they had taken prisoner with such hate and rage, it was just amazing he didn't burst into flame from the look alone. Marcus stood up and went to Caius side, whispering for him to calm down enough to hear what Aro has to say about the newborn before making any rash actions that could cost him more than just another humiliation or punishment from their brother later.

Caius shook him off and stalked to his throne, sitting down with an icy look in his eyes as Demetri was ordered by Aro to hold down the newborn with another male guard. It surprised the Italian how young looking the newborn was, considering that it was hard to even imagine for a split second that this was the very same person who abused, beaten and impregnated Electra when he was still human.

"It is surprising to find someone new in our territory that is far away from home, my dears." Aro exclaimed as he took his seat between his brother and folded his hands before him as he stared down at the newborn. "What is your name, child?" He asked gently. The newborn tried to break free from Demetri''s tight grip, but ruthless twist of his wrist from the other guard warned him to not mess around with any of them.

"Answer the master." Marcus ordered harshly.

The newborn smiled cockily at him as he glared at the three lords. "My name is Devon." He replied back with a defiant tone. "Is it part of another coven to interrupt one's meal when he is hunting?" He added. "I was merely passing along through the city on my way to another town to hunt, when your stupid minions here, decided to jump me just as I was about to fill my hunger."

Caius allowed a brief prayer to the Gods that at least Electra wasn't here at the current moment to face the person who ruined her life had turned into a even bigger monster, only this time, he wasn't human any longer.

"How did you come to be a vampire, Devon? " He questioned him while leaning back in his seat in a deceptively relaxed manner. Marcus and Aro both tenses as they two were well aware of when their brother began to play the game of cat and mouse with someone who didn't even know who they were dealing with. Marcus was going to stop Caius, but Aro merely raised a finger and shook his head no at him as he allowed Caius to do his duty as prime interrogator.

"Do allow him to talk, my brother." Aro requested as he looked back down at Devon with a slight smile. "I am most interested in hearing what this young newborn has to say for himself before we go any futher with this matter."

"As you wish, Aro." Marcus conceded, appearing seemingly bored to the foolish mind, but he was just as alert as everyone else in the room as they faced the person responsible for Electra's fall from grace.

Aro motioned for Devon to continue. "Please, if you may."

Devon shifted his legs underneath him, but the guards grip's were too strong to allow him to do so. Caius flicked a mere look towards's Demetri's way. The bodyguard slacked his hold slightly but didn't let go of him completely.

"I just was visiting some friends out here four months ago with family and friends when all of a sudden one night as I was heading home, someone attacked me in an alleyway and left me to die as I lay bleeding from being bitten. The next thing I knew, someone else came along and hulled my ass to some godforsaken place in a middle of nowhere in the country side and I was burning for three days."

Aro leaned forward slightly in his seat. "Did you see your savior, Devon?" He asked curiously.

Devon shook his head no. "By the time the burning all had died down and I finally awoken as this new being, I just figured that I couldn't go home and let my family see me like this. So I just figured out what I was and did as instinct told me to do as I adjusted to my new life."

Caius intently stared at him, thoughts of what Electra had told of this...newborn's past human abusiveness towards her even after the fact she had informed Devon early on of their pending unborn child. If he was alone with Devon still as a human, he would have loved to taken his slow, sweet time in showing him what real pain and suffering was really like. He allowed a very cold smile to touch his lips as he continued with the interrogation.

Lets just see how much they could get out of him before they decided what to do with Devon. He already had decided on what his fate was going to be anyway as he sat not even a foot away from Electra's ex. It was a good thing Aro and Marcus called for him, or else he would have missed out on all the fun.

"What can you remember of your human life, Devon? Do you have anyone special in your life right now?" Caius asked in an inviting silky voice. "Surely with your good looks and all," He gestured towards the muscular built of the newborn's body. "Surely, anyone female could easily have you for a mate."

Devon shrugged and let out a harsh laugh. "Well if you can count this one bitch that I had for a while as my girlfriend back in high school, you can say I do."

Aro sent Caius a sharp warning look just as he started to growl at the insult toward Electra. Marcus looked away, caring not if they did away this heartless being and save her the information that they just happened to kill her former abuser.

Caius caught the warning and instead, recluse back into his seat, tapping his forefingers rhythmically against the wooden armrests.

"Continue on, Devon. What about this..." He paused, hating for what was about to come out of his mouth, but knowing he had to play the part ,no matter what the others thought later on. "What about this former bitch of yours?"

"Let me tell you, man." Devon shook his head with a gleeful laugh. "She was something when it came to pumping her in bed. The first night I fucked her, was like my first night with a virgin. Well," He screwed his eyes up at the ceiling. "That was her first time, now that I can recall that event. Anyway, her name was Electra and we were introduced by some of her friends and I had heard about her always having this crush on me." He continued on in a boastful voice that made Demetri want to snap off his head if it wasn't for his three masters sitting in the room.

"So we had a few beers and all, I took her to a bedroom and fucked the shit out of her that very night." Devon cracked a half smirk. "After that, we ended up dating and such for a while, next thing I know, this bitch decides to pop a fucken kid on me, saying that its mine and I have to take responsibility for it. Like hell I would for a fucken broken condom baby?"

Aro and Marcus could hear the faint sound of splintering wood under the fingertips of Caius as he sat there, listening to a firsthand account from Devon's lips of what he did to Electra, unbeknownst to him, that Caius had already heard her account from her lips as well and they had her under their care.

"Demetri, do you mind getting Jane and Alec for us? I think they would be most interested in what Devon has to say for himself." Aro asked politely. Demetri gave a curt nod to a hidden guard behind a stone pillar to take over his spot so he can go carry out Aro's order.

Once he had departed, Marcus lightly touched Aro's hand with his finger for a brief second. "Let's not draw this out unnecessarily Aro." He told him while seeming bored. "We are wasting our time with the likes of him."

"Are we really, Marcus?" Aro retorted, turning his wide smile on Devon. "So what happened next, Devon? Did you take responsibility for your actions?"

"Are you fucken kidding me?" Devon cried. "I told that mother fucken bitch to get an abortion. And does she bother to listen to me? No! She ended up going around school, telling all her friends about how I knocked her up and got her pregnant while I become the laughing stock of the whole school."

"What did you do you exactly after she humiliated you?" Aro cut in while glance out the side of his eye for Caius's reaction. Before Devon could possibly reply to his question, the double doors of the room were thrown open. Jane walked inside with Alec and Demetri following quickly from behind. If Demetri informed them of who exactly this newborn is, she didn't give any indication, except a quick side glance as she came up to stand in front of Aro.

"You called for us, master?" She asked in a vacant tone. Aro pointed gracefully at Devon's way.

"Jane, Alec, this is Davon. He is a newborn that two of our guards had apprehended after he tried to feed within our city without permission." He explained to the twins. Jane and Alec turned as one to stare at him, both of their eyes cold as ice.

"Is that so, master?" Jane mused. She cocked her head to one side. "All of the newborns are quite annoying within the first few months of being reborn." She added while exchanging swift looks with her brother.

"So, do you want me to finish or what?" Devon spoke up impatiently. "I'm starting to get a bit irate over here."

"Aren't we all." Marcus said under his breath. "Just finish what you have to say and let us be done with it." He told him out loud.

"Thank you, sir." Devon replied mockingly. "So, as I was going to say, I taught her a lesson."

"And what exactly was that lesson?" Caius asked sharply.

"I merely just hit her a few times and before I could do anything about it, my own father slapped a restraining order on me and she runs away into the blue. I never saw her again, but if I did," He shook his head, smirking at himself. "She would get one that is permanent."

Everyone held their breath, waiting as they all looked at Caius who appeared to not be paying any attention as he stared down at his cuticles.

"It seems that you are the most heartless individual that has walked this earth. You called a young woman a bitch because she didn't do as you told her to do," Caius spoke without looking up. "Secondly, you're a cowered and a sore loser if you had to stoop all the way to the lowest level of having the conciseness to even beat a pregnant girl up who is carrying your child and in the same breath, declare that you would kill her if she was right in front of you." He finally looked up and stared straight into Devon's eyes unmercifully "Why should I even allow you to be set free, if you are not going to follow the rules that our kind has? Hmm?"

Devon opened and shut his mouth. It was starting to turn into a situation that he was beginning to have a bad feeling about. He had originally thought that after being caught by the guards of the city for trying to feed, they would just let him go once he explained himself, but for some reason, there was something else he couldn't put his finger on. "I didn't know there was laws." He responded dumbly.

Aro let out a amused laugh and clapped his hands together. "Of course you didn't know because there was no one to tell you about them." He smiled. "And there is one more thing that you should know as well, Devon." He added in a lower tone as he leaned forward slightly. Marcus let out a sigh, but didn't bother to stop him as he watched Devon's face changed from shock to pure terror.

Oh well for him in this lifetime or any other for that matter.

"The young lady you so willingly called a bitch," Aro said slowly, so to draw out each word like a sharp knife cutting along skin. "She is well taken care of by my younger brother here." He motioned at Caius who by now, was wearing a cruel smile on his lips. Devon's eyes snapped right at him as he struggled to get to his feet.

"You fucken asshole!" He shouted at him as three guards tightened their hold onto his shoulders, arms and head. "I will fucken kill her! Where is the bitch! I Swear I will kill her if it's the last thing I fucken do!" He swore. Caius motioned for Jane and Alec to come stand next to him before turning his attention back at the struggling newborn.

"Oh rest assured, the only last thing that you will be doing, Devon," Caius told him mockingly. "Is feel the pain of burning flames as your whole body burns into nothing but a pile of black ash."

Devon spat venom at his feet as he bared his teeth at them all. "She is nothing but a lying whore and that kid of her's deserves to die and rot in hell!" He snarled as Aro motioned for the guards to get him up into a kneeling position. Devon, try as he may, could not resist the powerful grip of his captors as he struggled to escape.

Caius gracefully stood up from his seat. "May I, brothers?" He asked Aro and Marcus as he stared down his nose at Devon's struggling form. "I would think that it is about time we end this game."

Marcus nodded. "Finish him."

"Jane, do you mind using your ability on him?" Caius asked sweetly.

"No, I do not mind at all, master." She replied with a gleeful smile on her angelic looking face. She turned towards Devon and just said one word.

"Pain."

The next second, Devon was screaming horribly, his back arching all the way back as his eyes rolled in the back of his head. Alec looked at his master's for permission, but when none gave any indication of him stepping in to numb his senses from his twin's power's, Alec just stood back and watched. Caius went over and grabbed a handful of hair as the guards tensed with anticipation of what was coming. Already, the room was starting to fill with black and white smoke from a side fire that Demetri has started in hidden pit that was built into the marble tiles.

"This is for Electra, you no-good-piece of shit." Caius breathed, eyes dark as night as he stared into the fear filled crimson eyes before him. Jane turned up the intensity of her ability until nothing but pure agony screaming could be heard all over the castle by everyone within and out. Caius looked back for a second at Aro who just gave him a nod. Turning back, Caius let out a furiouse roar and ripped Devon's head clean off his shoulders just as the other guards ripped off the arms and legs and thew the pieces into the burning fire.

Still holding onto the head, Caius lifted it to his eye level as Devon tried to speak, but could not any longer as he helplessly stared into nothing but a pit of pure black. "I hope you rot in hell for every sin you committed in both your human life against Electra because I will make sure you suffer well without Alec's numbing to dull your senses." Caius told him before tossing the head into the fire. A loud scream came from within the fire as Devon slowly burned in several pieces of what was once his full body.

Marcus and Aro joined Caius to watch him burn as the others slowly filtered out of the room, leaving behind only Demetri and Alec to keep watch as the sound doubled to a fevered pitch before suddenly cutting off.

"It's a pity that he wasn't human, Caius." Aro said absently. "I'd have preferred to make him bleed for all of this."

Marcus sighed and shook his robe out. "Well that was really entertaining for once. Who would have know of that ever happening." He said as he decided to go and retreat for the night to his own private chamber. Caius didn't see his brothers leave the room as he continued to stand there in the same area and watch the flames burn what was left of Devon into Ash.

"Um, master?" Demetri spoke after a while. "About earlier-" He started to explain but Caius shook his head, raising his hand.

"No need to explain at all, Dems. I am glad that you called for me tonight." He looked back at the fire. "He would have still been alive if it wasn't for his confession."

"But at least he is dead, right master?" Demetri asked uncertainly. "Now with him out of the way, she can put her mind at ease."

Caius let out a great sigh and un-did his ponytail with one hand as he started for the door. "He might be dead, but she is still very much alive and there is a lot that has to be done in order to have her back home where she belongs, Dems." He told him. "Toss the ashes in the sea as soon as the fire has died out, I don't want a single dust to be around of him." He ordered before slamming the double doors behind him.

Demetri's hand came up to his throat unconsciously "I hope I don't get to feel his hands ripping off my head like that." He said to the air before returning to his watch to the fire. Alec patted him on the shoulder and gave him a comforting smirk. "I don't really think you can even come possibly close to pissing off the master as this asshole did tonight." He told him with a laugh.

The Italian guard tried to smile back but instead, looked at the double doors of where Caius just passed through. "I wonder when he will be able to see her?" He asked out loud. "It already has been two months and I don't even really get to hear from her at all."