Heyya everyone, i know it has been a while, but it is time for a new chapter :) This isnt quite the end, but there are only going to be 2 or 3 chapters after this one :( i know it is sad, buti have taken longer than i expected to write this story and uni is getting quite stressful so i dont have enough time to write stories and do my degree. anyway, enough of me. ill let you carry on with this one for now. see you at the bottom :)

Bella's POV

It didn't take me long to find my way to the castle where I knew Charlotte was. After being away from here for as long as I have, I felt a little uneasy about being here but familiar at the same time. It was a very strange feeling. As I drove up to the castle I realised I didn't have a clue what I was going to do. I really didn't think about this when I left the house and I really should have. I stopped the car outside the entrance that I knew that I knew was exclusively used by the vampires. I opened the door and walked into the building that I had made a point of avoiding for years. I don't know what I expected to find inside but it certainly wasn't what I saw. The entrance hall looked more like the foyer of a modern sky scraper in New York, not a 1000 year old castle. The walls had been painted with Black and white patters and looked very modern and new. You really wouldn't have put this with the people who lived here. There were a 4 sofas in the room along with small end tables that matched the colour scheme. The biggest surprise in the room was what I saw next. There was a desk in the centre of the room where a human women sat typing away on a computer. I didn't move, but she looked up from her desk and smiled at me.

"Oh hello. Can I help you with anything?" she asked me, looking directly at me, smiling calmly.

"Do you work here?" I asked her, slightly confused.

"Of course I do." The girl laughed a little at my question.

"I need to see Aro. Could you please tell me where he is?" I asked her, coming out of my confused haze.

"Oh im sorry, Aro isn't seeing anyone today, but I can make an appointment for you." She said clicking on her computer.

An appointment? Was she serious!

"No, I need to see him now! And im pretty sure he is going to want to see me!" I growled at her.

She didn't say anything else, but she did pick up her phone and dial a number. When the person on the other end picked up, she began speaking in Italian. I seriously wish I had at least attempted to learn the language when I was here. Would make things so much easier right now, instead of standing here trying to listen to a conversation that I couldn't understand.

"What is your name miss?" she asked me, removing the phone from here ear

"Isabella Swan." I answered.

Before she could even put the phone back to her ear, the person on the other end, began speaking quickly.

She nodded her head before putting the phone down.

"My apologise miss Swan, I didn't realise you were expected. If you follow the corridor down there, you will find Aro on the third door on the right. He is waiting for you." She said, smiling at me.

I nodded my head lightly before walking quickly down the corridor to the door she had said Aro would be in.

I didn't hesitate when I get to the room. I opened the door and walked in. Aro was standing there with a smile on his face.

"Bella, my dear. How nice of you to finally arrive." Aro said as I closed the door behind me.

"Where is my daughter?" I asked and I walked towards him.

"Oh Charlotte is perfectly fine. Did you really think that I would actually hurt her?" he asked me.

"Well you kidnapped her and brought her half way around the world. I really wouldn't put it past you." I told him.

"Well I can assure she is fine and perfectly safe. I will bring her down after you and I have talked." He said, walking over to a set of chairs that was on one side of the room.

"And what would I want to talk to you for?" I asked him, as I watched him sit down in one of the chairs.

"Because you want your daughter back. Do not think I am unaware of what a mother would do for her children." Aro told me knowingly.

"Fine! But let me see her first so that I know your not lying to me." I growled at him.

"I do not lie Isabella. Your daughter has been brought here simply as bait for you. Not an incentive for you to talk with me." Aro said as he got up from the chair and walked towards a door that was on the other side of the room. I heard him talk to someone on the other side before coming back into the room. Moments later, I could hear a number of foot steps coming towards us. The second time the door opened, I nearly cried. Charlotte appeared in the middle of Demitri and Felix.

"Mama!" she cried as she ran forwards towards me. My arms were open ready for her as she came hurdling towards me.

"Oh my god! Thank god your alright! You are ok aren't you? They didn't hurt you?" I asked her as I held her close to me, stroking her hair back.

"No, they didn't hurt me. I'm fine. Im just happy to see you." She said as she clutched to me tighter.

"Not as happy as I am to see you baby." I pulled her back from her and looked into her eyes. Her eyes that had been turning an orange/ gold colour the last time I saw her, were now black pits.

"When was the last time you hunted?" I asked her.

"the day they took me." She said looking right into my eyes.

She must have been here at least a week. By the time that she had been taken, to peter looking for her and then coming for Jasper and me and finally getting here. I know we had only been travelling for about a day or two, but she must have been here much longer.

"Why haven't you let her hunt?" I asked Aro over Charlottes shoulder.

"We have given her opportunity to feed, but she declined every time. It seems your daughter is sticking to your way of life." Aro said from the other side of the room.

"Well you should have let her go out and hunt." I said as charlotte moved to my side.

"And risk her running off to you. Now now Bella, you must think I am stupid if you think I would allow that." Aro said smugly.

"Now that you have seen that your daughter is perfectly safe and unharmed, I do believe that you said you would talk to me about something." Aro said, moving back over to the chairs that he had been sitting in previously.

"Fine. Charlotte, go wait outside. Ill be out in a few minutes." I told my daughter. Before she could move, Demetri had pulled her from and and forced her arms behind her back.

"No! don't hurt her. Let her go, you have what you want now. I'm here!" I screamed.

"Yes I do. But for all I know as soon as Charlotte is safely outside the room, you could use your powers against myself or my guard and I cant have that." Aro said, smiling at me as if this was a normal conversation.

"You bastard." I growled at him. Just as I could feel myself taking control of him, I heard Charlotte scream from behind me. I turned around to see Demetri pulling her arms back further, so that they were slowly being pulled away from her body.

I calmed down and turned to face Aro again.

"You have made it very plain that the source of your power comes from your emotions, so naturally I took precautions after I knew how to get you here." Aro said looking over at Demetri who let Charlottes arms go. I heard her sigh in relief as soon as her arms were free.

"What do you want with me?" I asked, turning to face Aro again.

"You know exactly what it is I want from you my dear." He answered me. I backed away from him knowing the price that I would have to pay for him to get what he wanted.

Jasper's POV

It took Peter and I longer than I would have thought to get to the castle. I found a door that went into a large reception area that looked like it belonged more in a business environment, rather than the castle of vampires.

"Hello. Can I help you?" A Young women asked from behind the glass desk that was in the room.

"Um, have you seen a women come through here. Long brown hair, slim figure?" I asked.

"Yes, Miss Swan is talking with Aro at the moment. You can wait out here if you want." She offered.

I listened hard to see if I could hear anything, but I couldn't. they must have super thick doors here so they could have privacy.

"Can you tell me where she is?" I asked her, throwing waves of honesty at her.

"down the corridor, and it is the third door on the right." She told me. I told Peter to stay here and wait for me. The last thing that I needed was for him to go flying off the handle if Charlotte was in the room with Bella. Which was very likely. I don't know if I would be able to watch his back and mine, while trying to concentrate on getting Bella and Charlotte out of here safely.

I thanked The women behind the desk before I walked down the corridor towards the door that she had directed me too. I could hear someone talking in side the room, but I couldn't hear exactly what was being said. The doors they have in here must be really thick.

I opened the door to walk into the room where I knew Bella was with Aro and the rest of the Volturi. I saw Bella standing with her back towards me, facing Aro. I didn't get a chance to say anything before Aro spoke.

"Mr Whitlock. What a pleasure to see you are here already." Aro said to me. Was I expected to be here?

Bella turned around to face me with tears in her eyes. As soon as her eyes met mine, I was engulfed with a wave of fear coming off her.

I had never personally met Aro, but I had heard from Carlisle that he was highly respected throughout our world, so the least I could do was to answer him.

"Aro. I did not know that I was to be expected." I said to him, before looking back to Bella.

"Well, I assumed that you would have accompanied Bella to Italy, although I did not expect you to arrive at the castle like you have." He said smiling at me, but I could tell that it was not a genuine smile.

"I had to make sure she was safe." I glanced to the side to see Charlotte standing next to a larger man, who wasn't much bigger than Emmett. I could only assume that he was Demetri from how Carlisle had described them. By the look of Charlottes eyes, it was plainly obvious that she had not hunted for a while. I was glad that I had told Peter to wait outside.

I heard Bella turn around and walk towards me. Automatically, I opened my arms for her so that she could wrap her arms around me. I tried to get a newer gauge on Bella's emotions, but she was hiding them from me again. I needed to know why.

"What is going on Bella?" I asked her as I held her closer to me.

"Why do you always follow me?" she asked me, moving her head away from my chest so that she could look up at me and into my eyes.

"Because I'm not going to let you leave me again." I told her. What other answer was she expecting me to give her.

"But every time you follow me, you put yourself in danger. I hate that." She told me, tears running down her face.

I didn't know what she was talking about, but I didn't really have time to think about it, before I was ripped from around Bella and flung into a wall. I heard Bella scream before someone picked me up and threw me again. It must have been a pretty decent throw as well, because this one actually hurt.

"Stop! You have what you want now let him go!" Bella screamed at Aro.

I felt someone grab me by the tops of my arms and pull me off the floor.

"You said that if I gave you what you wanted that no one would be hurt. Please stop." I heard Bella crying.

"I said no such thing. What I said was that if you join me I would let who ever you wanted to live. Now I'm giving you a choice. Your daughter or you mate. You decide." Aro said smiling at me over Bella's shoulder.

The vampire who had thrown me into the wall grabbed me again, pulling my arms behind me with one hand and pulling my head painfully to the side with the other.

Bella turned around and looked at both me and Charlotte. I could see the tears that she had in her eyes still falling down her face.

"I want them both." She said not looking at anyone.

"I'm afraid that will not be possible." Aro answered her. I looked at Bella praying that she would look at me. She did finally look up at me, but what I saw made me take in a sharp and sudden breath. Her eyes were black, and not a thirsty black when some of our eyes are still white. Her entire eye was black. Before I knew what was happening, Bella had pushed Aro against the back wall and had him by the throat.

"You really don't want to push me! I will kill all your guards in this room if you do not let my daughter and Jasper go now." She growled at him.

"Bella my dear, do you really think you are capable of killing anybody?" Aro asked her. I could see that he was pushing her to see if she would really do it.

"I can kill them without even looking. You have no idea the extent of my powers. Now last chance. Let them go!" she said again.

Aro didn't answer her. I knew he was testing her to see if she would do it, but I didn't know if she would be able to stop herself once she had started.

"Fine." I heard Bella answer.

I heard Charlotte gasp beside me. I looked over to see the vampire that was holding her on the floor. She really could do this. Before I knew it, my arms were let go of and the vampire holding me fell to the floor with a loud thump.

I went over to Charlotte to see if she was ok. I could tell that she was obviously upset and traumatised about everything. I wrapped my arms around her and held her to me while we both watched Bella.

"There is no way I am coming back to you now. Now that I can see what a monster you are. How can you make a women choose between her child and her lover." Bella asked Aro.

Aro didn't seem to care that two members of his guard were dead on the floor in front of him, he just smiled evilly at Bella.

"Do you think you can keep running from me. You have tried it before and look where you ended up. It just makes more sense for you to come back." Aro said.

"it really isn't. and you wont come looking for me any more because you wont remember who I am." She told him.

Aro looked confused. I couldn't see Bella's face or anything that she was doing, but what ever it was must have been painful for Aro as his screams echoed around the room.

His screams lasted for a few minutes before he also fell onto the floor.

I let go of Charlotte and ran over to Bella, just in time before her legs gave way and she began to fall to the floor.

"Bella? Are you ok?" I asked her.

"Mmm, tired." Was all she said to me. I picked her up off the floor and walked away with her.

I didn't know what she had just done to Aro, and I don't think I wanted to know.

As soon as we walked out of the room, Charlotte ran to Peter, who picked her up and kissed her hard. I could feel how relieved that he was to have her back and knowing the she was safe. He looked over at me, and saw me carrying Bella.

"What happened to her?" he asked me.

"I don't know. I just want to get her back to the house." I said as I walked outside and found the car that Bella had driven her. I got into the car, never taking Bella off my lap as Peter drove back to the house. I was glad that Charlotte was safe and with us again, but right now I was to busy worrying about my Bella and my child that she had inside her.

Thoughts? There is going to be a sequal to this but not for a while yet im afraid. when ever i find time to write something other than and essay probably lol. You know what im going to say next, reviews please let me know what you are thinking :P

Till next time

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