Hello everyone! Sorry I'm late, I've been at my dad's helping him put things onto his new car. Always good fun!
Thanks go out to Pien and Fran for all their help, I'd be nowhere without them, so thank you.
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Chapter 33 – The Aftermath Part II
"We're not afraid of you!" Paul snapped.
We snickered at them. "It's not us you need to be afraid of."
They both blanched as they looked at Charlie and Samail. When I looked back at them, they were smirking.
'Lord Edward? Even with their fear of,' here Ruse snorts. 'The Angels, they are still just as disloyal, dishonest and disgusting as before.'
I nodded, acknowledging his words. I had a feeling they were going to try to squirm their way out of this. They wouldn't change their minds, it's a good thing there was a mind reader and an empath in the room.
Before we could get started, Bella came squealing into the room.
"Oh, My Gods, Edward! I have the best news!"
Jacob's thoughts entered my mind by way of him watching Bella's ass as she ran past him.
'What I wouldn't give to get my dick in that, even with the vampire stink all over her.'
I growled low at that thought but it didn't deter him from thinking about it. I was grateful, however, that he didn't know what it looked like so his imagination was lacking and it was easy to ignore.
The others were, chuckling at Bella as she was still squealing and added a little dance to her routine. That gave Jacob ample opportunity to stare at her breasts.
'I'd love to put my mark on those.' He imagined her bare breasts as he bit down, marking them with disfiguring scars. From what I could read in his thoughts, it wouldn't be the first time he had done it.
I decided to read his mind more thoroughly or ask Aro to touch him somewhere to see what his upbringing was like. He might be more of a problem than I first believed.
Bella had reached me by this stage and was trying hard to get my attention. I gave it to her just before she put her hands on her hips. "Yes, my love. What news do you have that you come squealing into the dungeons?"
She did a little shimmy in front of me before she blurted out, "the potion worked, Edward! Leah forgot all about the person that hurt her! She changed instantly, from sad and sullen to happy. It was a beautiful thing to behold. She was happy and chatting with the girls before she looked around the room and then… Guess what?"
"What, my Bella?" I laughed.
"Jared and Leah looked at each other and bam! They imprinted. She is sooooooo happy…"
"What?"
Bella turned to look at those that had interrupted her. Her happy-go-lucky demeanor changed in an instant to that of a strong leader. "Was I talking to you?"
Jacob snorted at her. "You shouldn't be talking at all! Women are to be seen and not heard!"
"Is that so? And who made you the all-mighty ruler of women?"
"The Gods made men the ruler of women. They are to be seen, not heard. They shouldn't stick their noses in conversations with men as their opinions do not matter. The best place for a woman is to be barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. They have no rights and are therefore at the whim of man." He spouted like gospel. "The only right they have is the countertop!"
Bella was stunned into silence as were most of the vampires around us. Even Charlie and Samail were silent. Jacob's mind, however, was a running commentary of thoughts and actions growing up.
I looked at a scene where Jacob was about five.
"Jacob, JACOB? Where are you?" His mother called.
Jacob was out in the shed behind his house tormenting a little mouse that he had captured. He placed it in a jar, then dropped a lit match inside and closing the lid. His mother came into the shed as the poor little mouse caught fire.
"NOOOOO! Jacob what are you doing?" she screamed right before Billy came into the shed.
"Shut up woman!" He snarled before smacking her across the face. "He's trying to find himself. There's nothing wrong. Now get back to the kitchen where you belong."
"Yeah, Mommy! Where you belong!"
His poor mother was so stunned by Jacob's copying of his father that she burst into tears and ran into the house.
"That's it son. Women are only good for two things."
The next scene Jacob appeared to be about ten years old.
Jacob had lost his mother a year ago but that didn't stop his behavior. It just transferred to his older sisters. He smacked them and ordered them around just like his father. They were objects to be used and abused.
He was out at the beach one day when he saw Rebecca with a man. His father had told him to never let it happen because they would leave them and women were only there for two things. The first he knew about – which was to keep house and look after the men. The second hadn't been explained to him yet, although he had an inkling because his hormones were kicking in. Even at age ten. It didn't help that dear old dad had been handing him skin mags since his birthday.
At this point though he had to deal with his sister.
"Rebecca!" He thundered. Even at ten, he was a formidable looking boy. "What do you think you are doing?"
"N-n-nothing J-Jacob. I-I-I w-was j-just s-saying h-h-hello."
Jacob could tell that the man thought something was up with her attitude. But it didn't deter him.
"Well you haven't gotten permission to leave the house, so get home before I tell Dad!" He sneered as the older man held onto her arm to prevent her leaving. "Take your hand off her before I make you. She's only fourteen and you have no right to be around a child."
"Rebecca, I'll be around." He promised.
She nodded before running off towards the house.
"Don't come near her again, or I'll beat you to a bloody pulp."
"You just try and stop me." He sneered right back.
Jacob stormed home right after that and as soon as he walked in the door, he smacked Rebecca across the face before punching her in the stomach, while her older twin, Rachel stood and watched. They knew not to get in the way of punishments.
"You won't go near him again Rebecca. If you do, I'll make sure he's gone."
The next scene was another five years later.
Jacob was furious. He hadn't managed to scare away the man that had been around Rebecca and when she was old enough, she'd ran away, married him and moved to Hawaii, leaving him and his father to fend for themselves. Rachael had left home after Paul had shifted and imprinted on her earlier that year.
He needed a release and he didn't care if the girl he was dragging along was going to consent or not. His father had explained that women were only good for two things all his life. The first was easy – keeping house. The second had been explained when he was twelve – that was to put his dick in; it was put up or shut up. And that was how he'd treated women since his first experience with a hooker at age thirteen. At least good old Dad was good for something.
Jacob was mad today because his father was treating him like a maid and that was not his job around the house. He'd punched his father in the nose and told him to be a man and go get a woman to do the jobs he wanted him to do.
He managed to get the girl into the woods a little bit away from all the families on the beach. He had some regard for the kids after all. He'd learned all manners of keeping them quiet when he wanted them and with his looks, it often wasn't hard to get them to follow him away.
But here he was now, furious, overheated and taking what he wanted from the girl with no regards for her. He'd pulled her behind a tree before kissing her harshly. When she realized that this was not going to be what she wanted, she'd started to fight. That had gotten his blood boiling; he liked it when they fought. He hissed at her to shut up as he tore her top apart and wrenched her bikini bottoms off, tearing them at the same time. He wrapped his hand around her throat, choking her so that she couldn't scream as he slammed himself inside.
But even this wasn't helping. He growled low in his throat before pulling out and walking away. He'd turned his back for one second when the girl had picked herself up off the ground and tried to run away. It was that one act of defiance that changed not just her life but Jacob's as well. As he lunged at her to stop her, he'd transformed for the first time into his wolf, and as he landed, he ran his paw down the side of her body, tearing her open. That act appeased the anger in Jacob.
He had no remorse for what he had done, and his dad didn't help when he covered it up as an animal attack. Just like all the other things dear old Dad had covered up over the years.
The next scene was recent. Jacob meeting with Vladimir, Stephan, and Balail, just before coming to Italy in the Romanian's secondary location in the States
"This one you can have. She'll need to be taught, though." Balail handed over a photo of two women that looked much like sisters. He pointed to the younger of the two.
"Mmm, and what of the other with her? I could teach them both."
"No," Balail said through gritted teeth. "She's mine. Nobody is to touch her but me ever again."
Jacob shrugged his shoulders nonplussed. One warm body was as good as the next, this one, though, he might have to keep around a while. There was something about her. He could imagine her worn and beaten down, open to anything he said because he'd trained her that way. He could see her round with his child and then him teaching the child everything he'd learned from his father.
He couldn't wait…
Before I'd even thought about it, I'd placed Bella behind me, launched myself at Jacob and planted him on the floor with my hand around his throat. I released the most chilling growl I'd ever created as I leaned over his prone form.
"How does it feel, hmm? To have your airway blocked while there's nothing you can do about it? Maybe we should have someone rape you while you aren't able to do anything about it. You are a sorry excuse for a man bred, from an even sorrier excuse for a man; who will also be taught a very valuable lesson by me.
"You see that beautiful girl there?" I asked pointing to my mate, who was watching both the proceedings in front of her and the scroll that her father had out in front of him. Which, I could see through her mind, showing that the writing of Jacob's name was getting darker and darker.
He nodded at my question while watching Bella with as much of a leer as he could. "YOU WILL NEVER TOUCH HER!" I growled so loud that Bella had to cover her ears, I started to squeeze harder around his neck. I was feeling more satisfied as his face began to turn blue.
"Edward? Edward, baby? Please stop! Please don't become a murderer, you don't deserve to live with that the rest of your life." Bella begged from behind me. "Grampy, please, do something!"
"Demetri, Ruse. Stop him now!"
I felt myself being lifted even as I fought to continue what I was doing. They held me still while I kept my eyes on the dirty bastard at least until Bella stepped into my vision.
She placed her hands on my face pulling my attention to her. "Edward, baby, please? Calm down for me. Look at me!" She demanded. I nodded to let her know I was paying attention. "Calm down, baby. He's not worth it. I won't have that on your soul."
I nodded, before taking her hand and pulling her towards the table. I clapped Charlie on the back before I took my seat again and pulled Bella into my lap. "Charlie, trust me, this one is all yours."
He tilted his head at me before asking; "that bad?"
"Worse, my friend. And that was before he had thoughts of your daughter pushed into his head by her great-grandfather." I say running my hand through my hair and tugging just a little.
Charlie's lips thinned into a very fine line as he tried to control his anger. Just as he stood, the doors to the dungeon flew open and a very agitated Merril soared in and landed on the table. He held out a leg to Samail before he hopped over and up to my shoulder.
Samail stood and read the paper to himself first before looking up at Jacob. "Do you know what this is boy?"
By then, I believed Jacob had learned to keep his mouth shut. He began to realize that vampires weren't like their legends, they were much faster and stronger than he'd been led to believe. His inflated ego had taken a hit. During the battle we hadn't used all our strength and speed, it was too close to our own to do that.
My little action towards him had brought that home.
"This here is a letter from the Gods with an amendment to your death codes on that scroll my great-grandson is holding. Originally, you were going to be sent through the gates to Limbo and then moved onto Purgatory – for a very long painful cleansing – and then released for your final chance to redeem your soul.
"Every person gets four goes at making and restoring their soul. Every single person on any planet in the universes, unless the Gods step in. We – meaning the Gods – keep track of the previous lives you have lived, and according to our records you've always been worse than others living in your time period. You were entitled and mean and always treated women either like cattle or disposable dolls for your use and abuse before throwing them away. You never learned to be a decent human being.
"And this is your worst attempt at life yet." Samail sighed. "Not just that, but I can imagine your thoughts on that beautiful girl over there based on Edward's reaction. According to the letter from the Gods that I have in my hand, you will be skipping all of the above and we will be taking you to Hell to be locked into an eternity of your own making. Three lives of raping and killing too many women to count are coming back to haunt you in a very serious way."
We all watched as Samail walked up to Jacob and touched the now gagged and bound boy on the shoulder. Jacob was six foot five, wide as a brick shithouse; dark skinned and had jet-black hair. But as Samail walked away from him, he began to change. He went from a linebacker to a stunning cheerleader type. She was now a little under five foot five, blond hair and a body most girls would kill for.
"Hello, Jackie," Samail smiled. "Do you realize what you are in for yet?"
Behind the gag, she started to scream, argue and even cry.
"All this and your fun hasn't even started yet. Demetri, please remove the gag and tilt her head back." Samail instructed.
Demetri removed the gag and Jackie started to whine. "What?! I'm a girl; you've somehow turned my god-like body into a girl's! And don't think that carnival get-up, being dressed as death, can scare me. As long as I can wolf out, I'm immortal!"
"Please, Jackie, try." Samail smirked.
Jackie closed her eyes and concentrated on the feeling of phasing. We watched with anticipation as she started to shimmer before her form changed shape. When she was finished, the whole room was in hysterics. Instead of the large russet wolf, he was expecting, she was a small, chocolate puppy.
"It wasn't just your physical form that changed Jackie but your inner animal as well." Samail chuckled. "If you please, Demetri, this potion needs to be given first."
Demetri picked up the puppy before holding the head still as Samail used a syringe to squirt the liquid into its mouth. Then they held her mouth shut and forced her to swallow it.
"This potion Jackie, strips the wolf from your being so that it will no longer be a concern." We watched as Jackie was transformed back into the woman she had become. "Say goodbye, Jackie. Charlie, take this one to Lucifer. I'm sure he'll have a very special room for this soul, and make sure he gets this letter. His code is now: 666."
Charlie stood, walked around Jackie and tapped the back of her head. The soul once again separated from the body. Charlie took a hold of Jackie's soul and disappeared out of the dungeon as fast as possible.
At this point, we all looked over to Paul. He seemed to have become very pale, and was trying hard to disappear into the chair upon which he was sitting. I delved into his thoughts before anyone could ask any questions, seeing what I needed to see. Before I engaged him, however, I looked back to Ruse.
'He's changed his tune now. I feel like there is a lot of undercurrent going on in his feelings that were overshadowed before by Jacob. He has someone at home that he's missing, and he feels incredibly stupid for some reason, too.'
"Thank you, Ruse." I looked down the table to the others. "Mind if I take this one, guys?" They all shook their heads, leaning back and letting me take the lead.
Holding Bella close to me I looked at the wolf in front of me. "Why, Paul? I saw Jacob's memories and I know what you did when you imprinted on Rachael, so why?"
"What would you have me do?" he wailed. "He was the next in line for being Chief even though Sam was the Alpha. His father is the current Chief and he covers up everything. Jacob was a natural wolf and he did it better than the rest of us, he could take any of us."
He stood and started pacing. "Do you know what happens to the other half of the imprint if one dies?"
"I presume it's similar to a vampire mate. They fall apart and want to die." I responded.
He was nodding, as frantic as Leah had. "Yes, yes exactly! Only it would be worse for Rachael because they would take her home regardless of her wishes on the subject and worked her until she couldn't work anymore. Then they would have smacked her around because she couldn't do what they wanted. I couldn't do that to her – I couldn't fight Jacob – and I couldn't let them have her back. So I did what I thought was best and that was to follow that little egomaniac and hope for the best." He bent over with his hands on his knees, panting hard and releasing the stress of the last month or so.
"But now, now you're going to kill me and she'll die anyway. So what was the point?" With that, he sank to the floor and gave up. He didn't have it in him to defend himself and he didn't think there was another outcome.
I looked over to Charlie who had come back while Paul was talking and he flipped the scroll over to show that Paul's name had disappeared from the list. I handed it down the line to the others to look over.
'Edward, I think that he should be offered the same as the other two that were in here. If he takes the one that I think he will, we'll offer him help with counseling and how to help Rachael. She doesn't deserve to live with this forever.' Aro thought.
'Offer him the choice, he doesn't deserve this and neither does that poor girl. He's just like my Didyme and me from long ago.' Marcus sympathized.
'I can tell what the others are thinking based on their faces Edward.' Caius started. 'That poor girl doesn't deserve to die and I think this one was just scared. We're going to have to deal with this Billy. He cannot keep running this tribe. Seth will make a much better leader. Give him the choice.'
I nodded to them. "Bella, my love, please hop up for a moment." I stood after her and sat her back in my seat. Merril jumped from my shoulder and landed in Bella's lap for a cuddle. I walked over to Paul as he watched me cautiously. I offered my hand to him, helping him back into his seat.
"Paul, do you remember what was offered to Leah and Jared before?" He nodded but sat up with a little more hope in his eyes. "We want to offer you the same thing. We realize that you were put in a hard position because of those running the tribe. I'll let you know that we will be dealing with Billy and his bigotry when Bella and I come to help set up the reservation, so he will no longer be a problem.
"If you choose to forget and lose your wolf we will be offering you your memories of Rachael and counseling so you can help her and we will recommend it to her when we're there. Bella is very good at it. We've been through it before. I'll give you some time to think at the back of the room while we deal with Stephan and Vladimir."
Paul nodded again, looking very grateful as he stood and went to the corner set up for him. Once he was seated, I nodded to Demetri, Ruse and Felix, who had come back. I also noticed that Raina was talking to Paul, giving him information on how her potion would work. I walked back up to my place at the table, taking my seat with Bella again in my lap.
Aro glanced up at the two hissing vampires as they were led to the center of the room for their turn.
"In the interest of a fair trial," Aro snorted, because yeah, they'd had their chance. "We are going to give you the same opportunity to redeem yourselves as we have the others: accept what is and go on your way."
Charlie shook his head showing that they were on the list and getting darker. Which meant that they were going to be disagreeable.
"Never," was Vladimir's vehement statement. "We would continue to do as we have been, to get back into power. It is ours and we want it back!"
"Yes," Stephan agreed. "You don't deserve it or anything you have, it's ours; all that you have is ours!"
Marcus shook his head at them. "Then I'm sorry to tell you that we will not be holding you in the Volterra dungeons." He motioned for Samail and Charlie. They stood, Charlie walking towards them while Samail called out their death codes.
"Vladimir and Stephan. You have had a long enough life to have learned a better way of living. You have turned too many to count and killed even more. I am the original Angel of death and your deaths have been called for by the Gods. You have lived long enough murdering the innocent. As this is your first life on this earth, your souls will be taken through Limbo for a lengthy stay at Purgatory for a cleansing. I have no idea how long. Then you will be reincarnated. May I suggest you live your next lives a lot better than these or you may not be given another chance. Your codes are: 222."
They began to struggle as Charlie walked behind them, but it was fruitless. One tap on the back of their heads and their souls were released. Charlie grabbed them both by the shoulders before he flew, once again, from the dungeon.
Demetri and Felix made short work of their bodies before throwing them in the incinerator behind a curtain in the corner.
I looked over to Paul to see that he was finished talking to Raina and was waiting for our acknowledgment. I motioned him to the center of the room.
"What have you decided, Paul?"
"If it would please you, Sirs, I would like to take option a, but I'd like to take you up on your offer. I think it would come in handy for both myself and Rachael. Raina has told me about the process."
Looking at the others to confirm the choice, I voiced our agreement. "I think that's wise. Go with Raina and Felix, and after you're done, they'll take you to the others. You will remember them but not what they are."
He nodded with sincere thanks before following them out of the room.
"Now, all that's left are the crazies." Bella murmured. Watching as her father came back in the door, holding up three fingers. We nodded in acknowledgment of what that meant for the Denali family.
We all took our seats, Bella sitting in my lap with a defiant air, before the five of them were placed in the center of the room on their chairs.
Kate's thoughts were all over the place, not settled on any one thing. Irina and Tanya finally seemed aware of how serious this was, but still believed that Kate had mated to me and last but not least, Carmen and Eleazar were quiet with nary a thought in their heads apart from worry. They were only worried for themselves, however, nothing like the love of your coven I suppose.
Before we were able to start asking questions, Kate decided to start in on a well-rehearsed speech, something I'd heard before, countless times.
"Edward, baby, you know that we are mated. You know you belong to me. Come on, stop with the games and let's get away. I can make you happy, happier than you've ever been. There are things we can do that you could only imagine."
It was at this point that I turned off my mind reading. I didn't want to see what she was going to be showing me. I had seen it all before. When she realized that I wasn't reading her mind and she wouldn't get her way, she started on a new stupid tactic.
"That little girl couldn't possibly do everything for you that I could do. Just let me take care of her and then we can live together forever."
As those words came from her mouth, warning growls from both Marcus and myself echoed through the dungeon. What dampened my rage at the vapid skank was that Bella snorted into my shoulder, it was almost as if she couldn't believe that Kate or the others saw any truth in the stuff coming from her mouth.
"The only explanation for her obsession must be a one-sided mating," Irina whispered to Tanya, who was nodding.
"It can't be anything else. Now that I watch them, I can see that the mating is proper between those two." Tanya hissed back while pointing at Bella and myself.
"There is no other explanation," Carmen joined in.
"There may be one..." Eleazar started only to be cut off by the other three arguing that "there is no other explanation." Maybe he wasn't as stupid as he'd led us to believe.
Kate was still keeping up her dialogue that no one was listening too. She was so single-minded that she didn't even hear her family.
"This couldn't get any more pathetic," Marcus commented from next to us as we watched the other four bicker with each other while Kate tried, once again, to use her same old arguments on me.
"I don't know, maybe we could have a vampire version of Jerry Springer or Doctor Phil." Bella sniggered.
She'd watched a few episodes of each for enjoyment during some of our down time in between all the drama.
Caius groaned and covered his ears as if it could somehow stop the noise from entering his head. "I can't take this anymore."
We snickered at his put-out face. It was funny to watch one as old as he was, act like an overgrown teenager.
"Okay, I can't either," Aro, whined. "Enough." He bellowed. "I just cannot listen to this anymore. You are all pathetic, every single one of you. I don't think I have ever seen a more disorganized coven in all my years on earth. I can't see one true leader among you. In fact, it's all so bad that I have no idea where to start...
"Oh, I know! How about this mating business. Ruse, come to the desk please."
Ruse rolled his eyes as he walked to the front of the room. Even without hearing his thoughts, his face said it all. He was as disgusted with them as the rest of us.
"For those in here not acquainted with Ruse, he's our resident empath. He knows true feelings from fake, he knows those of a mated couple and I'm pretty sure he can answer the question that I will have after this.
"Please, Ruse, are Bella and Edward fully mated? Oh, and before anyone from this coven in front of us butts in – does it go both ways? Edward to Bella and Bella to Edward?"
Ruse closed his eyes, making a show of it for the audience. "I can guarantee with over a hundred percent certainty that Bella and Edward are mated to each other. There is no faking that type of love and commitment. They have the most intense connection, and it's second to none that I have ever felt. Marcus and Didyme's comes a very, very close second."
"Noooooo." Kate wailed. "That can't be true, he's my mate, mine!"
Ruse had opened his eyes at the filth coming from her mouth. "Do you call me a liar, Kate?" he asked in a hard voice.
This made her snap her mouth closed. She had nothing to say to that.
"Before you ask, Aro, I know the question you want to be answered. No, there is no such thing as a one-sided mating." The three women were going to argue. "No, there is no such thing. I've been alive almost as long as the lot of you and I've never ever seen it."
"Then why? Why has she been like this?" Carmen demanded.
Ruse shrugged. "If I had to guess, he has to be the one person who ever said no to her. This made her try harder, as he became a conquest she had to have. After time, she became obsessed, and that would be when she started to believe they were mated or that they had this one- sided mating thing you speak of. In addition, you guys encouraged her to chase it instead of making her see how senseless it was and to let it go. That would have been the sensible thing for her sanity, because right now she's just plain old crazy."
Aro snorted. "Thank you, Ruse. So what say you before I ask Charlie and Samail what your fate will be?"
Eleazar looked up to me. "I want to apologize, Edward. I did try in the beginning, even Carmen did. But with her constant saying so and with Tanya and Irina saying it was true, it didn't seem like so much of a stretch. I'm sorry, you don't know how sorry I am."
I nodded, acknowledging his apology but said nothing.
"I, too, am sorry, Edward. I think because she wanted it to be true so bad that I wanted to believe it, for her. I'm sorry I pushed, both her and you. I don't know what else to say other than I'm sorrier than I can tell you." Carmen cried quietly before Eleazar hugged her.
Everyone looked at the girls, but not one of them would say a word. It looked as if they felt like they had done nothing wrong.
Aro motioned to Samail and Charlie. "You ladies have a lot to atone for. But I am not the one who has decided that your time is over."
Samail nodded to Aro as he stood. "Thank you, Aro. I wish I could give you ladies more sympathy for your current situation but I can't. What you tried to do was try to kill a being of the Gods. One that was born to help those and the earth around her, which would have included you. Not only that, but you tried to kill one of my line, as Didyme is my daughter, that makes Bella my great-great-grandchild. But then again, it is not I that you need to be worried about it's the Gods who have seen fit to decide that your time has come to an end.
"Charlie and Bella if you please?" He motioned to Kate. "Kate you have had lives before this one, and as such you will be going to purgatory for the last time. But first, the Gods have seen fit to have your mind cleansed by Bella to help repair any damage that you may have done to it. Caius, can you bring over a table please?"
Caius set up the table in the place that Samail had indicated. "Now Felix and Demetri place her on the table and make sure she cannot hurt Bella please."
Once Kate was on the table squirming and crying, Bella walked up and placed her hands on the sides of her face. She closed her eyes to concentrate. A few minutes later both women opened their eyes. Bella was relieved and Kate was calm. Bella nodded to Demetri and Felix as she made her way to me and sat back down on my lap. Kate was helped to her seat where she stayed quiet and calm.
"Kate, do you understand what will be happening today?" She nodded at Samail's question. "You will now be sent to Purgatory to be cleansed of your sins and then you will be given the option of either reincarnation or leaving your lives behind and going on to heaven – if you are repentant. Your codes are 222.3 333.
"Tanya and Irina. You ladies are in the same boat. Although your unwillingness to repent will mean a longer stay in Purgatory for the both of you. You won't be given the choice to reincarnate, it will just happen. Each of you has a code of 222.3. Charlie if you please."
We watched, hopefully for the last time, as Charlie stood and walked behind the three sisters. He tapped each one on the back of the head and then guided their souls out of the dungeon.
"Now what to do with you two." Marcus sighed. "I think as anticlimactic as this is going to be, you two are to serve time here in these dungeons being counseled on what it means to be a mythical being. You will be learning how to be within the realms of the law. You will learn more about being vampires and how to be part of a coven.
"That's part one. The second part of your re-education will be learning how to live in a coven. You will be placed in one, you will, however, not lead it, ever. You'll also learn how to make your way into the world and become successful members. The third part of this punishment will be the longest, however. You shall never lead another coven, ever again, for all eternity."
"Lock them back up please, gentlemen." Caius indicated to Felix and Demetri.
It was at that point Bella bounced up from my lap looking all sorts of excited. "Okay everybody, let's go hand out some good news. First, we have Benjamin and then I believe that Raphael's wife has some very, very good news for Rosalie and Emmett."
She grabbed my hand and started pulling me from the room while we all chuckled at her.
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