AN: Its 2022 ehehe, and i'm giving you a long chapter that will give you a rollercoaster of emotions. I hope you keep tissues by your side because this is one heck of a chapter. Read, Review and i wish you good luck!

Rumors spread throughtout the ranks of the Volturi members that one of wives were about to leave. They first breath a sigh of relief when they thought it was Sulpicia for they thought their master grew tired of her. However they did not expect that it was Didyme who was leaving.

The guards were also shocked when it was revealed that Marcus was accompanying his wife as well. For a mistress and a master to leave a coven was unheard of. Several lower guards in the Volturi leave occasionally but for a leader to leave shook the guards to their core. The wives were not the one to listen to such gossip however they were intrigued as well. Athenodora and Sulpicia awaited the raven-haired woman in their tower.

They almost rushed to Didyme the moment she opened the huge door.

"Are the rumors true?" Athenodora asks, as straightforward as ever.

Didyme's silence was enough for the fair-haired woman to pick up on what was the truth. Athenodora sat down the chair silently. Her eyes then drifted to Sulpicia whose eyes remained downcast to the ground. The fair-haired woman inhaled sharply.

"You do know all along." Athenodora said simply.

"I do not know if the rumors were true..." Sulpicia said silently but the fair-haired woman paid her no mind, instead Athenodora kept on pestering the raven-haired vampire.

"I take it that you will take the twins with you?" She asks inquisitively as Athenodora briefly remembered their conversation before. It was a bittersweet moment for the fair-haired woman. She was well aware that Didyme longed for a peaceful life which was quite in contrast to the Volturi's way of living. Their positions as the Volturi wives do impose some threats as they were mates of the most powerful coven as of the moment.

She could have done the same, however the fair-haired woman knew it in herself that her husband would be the one to discourage her. Knowing Caius, she knew he would not follow her.

"No." Didyme replies shortly as Athenodora's eyes widened. "They wished to stay here and who am i to force them to leave? Do take care of them for me." She added as she sat down next to a bewildered Athenodora. Confusion can be seen in the fair-haired woman's face.

The fair-haired woman was at crossroads on what to feel. Part of her was relieved that the twins would remain here where she could keep an eye on them. A part of her was saddened for they could not make up for the times where they grew up too fast. She was happy for Didyme on her choice to be happy.

Yet it was a bittersweet ending to part with a women she had built a friendship with for centuries.

"I take it as Aro gave his blessing seeing how radiant you are." Athenodora said as she scanned the raven-haired vampire's face. It was quite odd for him to allow them to leave however it did not matter for the fair-haired woman. "Just do not forget to visit, sister."

With every tear you shed, it shall spark a fire in my chest.

Felix closed one of the classic books he tried to read. He had found himself in a tree to read a novel in order to pass time. Jane was nowhere to be seen, yet the burly vampire deduced she was spending with Didyme. The news of their upcoming departure clearly spread across the ranks of the Volturi coven. It has caused quite a fuss among the ranks of the guards yet he paid them no mind.

"If i'd known that you would have been here, i would not have searched the whole place." Felix's attention was caught by the blonde vampire who sat next to him in the tree branch.

"Then you would not have found me." Felix leans in and kisses the blonde on her cheek. He stares into her ruby red eyes that mirrors his own. There was something in her eyes that he could not fathom at all. It was the color of blood yet it was possible to get lost in her eyes as if it was a sea. "Are we finally running away?" He adds lightheartedly.

"Running away?" Jane asks bewildered and the burly vampire could only chuckle.

"You once begged me to run away with you. Away from Volterra, just the two of us."

"What makes you think that we can leave?" Jane asks silently.

The burly vampire absent mindedly continued the book that he was reading. The silence did its job to gather all his doubts as his mind began to feel unease. The blonde vampire who sat next to him seemed so close yet so far. Their arms were touching yet he felt so distant to her.

The burly vampire never thought he would fall for her.

"Are you not coming with Madam Didyme?" He asks and the blonde vampire just sighed.

He knew that Jane internally wanted to go where Didyme will go. The burly vampire could only remain silent knowing the real reason she will stay. He found it ironic that when she was given a chance to run away that Jane did not budge. He could vividly remember her begging him to run away with her. She was given a chance

"Have it not crossed your mind that it is already painful for Master Aro for his dearest sister to leave?" Jane says softly. "For Alec and i to leave with her, would put him in a vulnerable situation."

Here she goes again. Once again, Jane thinks of him first above all.

Liar. Liar. Liar.

He knew her well enough to realize that the blonde vampire was lying. In order to not upset her, he plays along.

"Of course, i do understand that. I do think i could not bear to be separated with you." Felix dared to lean in and claim the blonde vampire's lips. She involuntarily reciprocated his kisses as his arm snaked around her waist. Jane pulls away from his intoxicating touch.

One more step, she might have done things she would have regretted.

"I apologize for making you feel uncomfortable. It was brazen of me to kiss you like that."

Love was never easy but he was holding on to a promise that one day Jane would come to love him at whole. He knew that time would come that nothing else will matter but only the two of them.

So with each tear she cannot shed.

Each time she would suffer from heartbreak.

A fire grows in his chest.

A flame that he would fight so hard to keep it with light but can also burn him in return.

"Is there really not anything i can say to convince you to come with me?" Didyme asks once she asked her charge to take a stroll with her in the castle grounds. Jane happened to run into her when she was heading her way back to the castle.

"We talked about this." Jane reminded her in a sing-song voice. Didyme could only chuckle and pulled her charge closer towards her. The rustling of the leaves made them stop in her tracks, she had sensed a presence that was lurking in the grounds.

"Someone's coming. Its better if you went back to the castle, dear. Rest assured i can handle myself" Didyme said.

"B-But…" Jane protests.

"Just listen to me, Jane." Didyme said in a hurried tone. "Hear me out, Jane. Whatever happens tonight, i do not blame you for it."

Instead of going back to the castle as Didyme wished, the blonde vampire hid behind the bushes. She had made herself hidden to any unknown attacker but stayed close enough to watch over raven haired vampire did not even seem to be alarmed for the unseen presence they sensed.

"What are you doing outside at this hour?" Aro asks as he made his presence known. Jane breathed a sigh of relief when it was her master and not some mindless attacker.

"Brother…" Didyme smiles at her brother. Unknown to her was a sinister plan inside her brother's mind. Jane remained hidden at a distance, completely disobeying Didyme's orders to return to the castle. Little did she know she was about to witness something she should not have.

"When i changed you, i thought you would be at benefit to the coven. I thought you would happen to have a power that can be useful for me." His red eyes darkened with loathing.

"Did you regret changing me?" Didyme asks brazenly.

"Yes."

In Aro's eyes, disappointment was seen. He thought that his sister would be more than someone who could make you happy with her powers. The raven-haired vampire thought she would be someone valuable yet she was not. Didyme could only scoff in annoyance.

"What could i expect from a power hungry person like you? It seems like i did the right thing of keeping her away from you." She places his hand on her cheek. One touch to show him her visions of what the future might hold.

He saw a battlefield, strange clothing, and snow. The raven-haired king was shown the visions of the future. His precious Jane was standing in the middle of the battlefield, looking frightened. She happened to ran away from a vampire who had a pixie like appearance.

He stood frozen as she was dragged towards a huge black wolf. The wolf growled as it dropped a mutilated hand that happened to fall from its mouth. Aro watched her to be torn apart by the black wolf.

He pulled his hand away from his sister. All this time, she had been hiding her true colors. Didyme gave him a smirk that he wanted to wipe badly from her face. Sulpicia had been right all along.

How could he not see the signs?

"I'm tired of this kind of lifestyle. I am tired of this lifestyle of constant warring and political power-play. Marcus and i wish to live a quiet life."

"How long will you stay blind to your sister?" Sulpicia's voice echoes in his head. "She's betraying you in broad daylight! She did not even bother to hide it!"

He played dumb to his wife's words. Didyme's innocent and carefree nature was all an act. All of her little white lies yet darkness lurked beneath. He scoffs bitterly, Didyme was indeed his sister. He ignored Sulpicia's accusations and kept quiet for he loved his little sister.

He gave Didyme everything, and she turns out like this? Betraying him in the end.

"Why would she tell the twins to come with her? She wanted to overthrow you!"

All the twisted games she had played with him and the double ended questions she used to throw at him. In the times he doubted his wife for slandering his sister, but turns out she was the real villain after all.

"How dare you show me of a false scenario!" He asks her lividly. "Is betraying me not enough for you? I had enough of your schemes, Didyme."

A tiny gasp escaped from Didyme's lips as his hands dug into her neck. His grip was strong enough to break the immortal skin that was hard as a rock. She looks at him terrified, her wide eyes telling him to stop.

"Do you have any idea how your meddling ruined everything?" He hisses as he leaned towards her. Didyme could feel her brother's seething rage in close proximity. "You ruined everything. He was obedient to me before, until you came along to ruin everything. I could forgive you for poisoning his mind, but until the twins came along." He tightened his grip on her neck.

Didyme looked at his brother in pity. He changed, he was not the older brother she had looked up to many centuries ago. She was ashamed to be even related to this man.

"You influenced her to the point that she nearly wavered her loyalty towards me."

"You corrupted her!" Didyme exclaims. "Do you have any idea how much you broke her, Aro? Jane turned out the way she is because you kept on driving her away! You turned her into a monster!"

Aro slapped his sister harshly. His fists clenched as he tried to mediate his anger towards his sister.

''I corrupted her?" He scoffs. "Are you not the one who questioned everything towards her? You were the one who purposely kept her away, also in Marcus' case. You complained to them too much until you convinced Marcus to leave!"

"I never questi-" Aro cut her off.

"You did!" His hands grabbed her throat once more as he crushed it in anger. "I know you questioned everything, dear sister. Marcus would not have thought of leaving if it was not for you! If you did not manipulate him to leave, we would not be having this conversation!"

"You are not my brother." Didyme spat.

"We would have been unstoppable, dear sister. You as a seer and I as a mind reader. But you left me with no choice but to get rid of the weak link."

Jane covered her ears when she heard the raven-haired woman's piercing screams and cries. She kept her mouth shut, just as Didyme ordered to.

She should have went back to the castle.

Aro knew he crossed the line the moment he murdered his sister and set her on fire. Aro did not feel an ounce of guilt when he murdered his sister. Jane staggered back, horrified of what she had witnessed. By the time she had returned to the castle, her master was already screaming in agony for his dearest sister. All the things she heard and witnessed, shall forever haunt her for a lifetime.

All of the things she had witnessed kept replaying in her head.

The silence after Didyme's passing was far too much to bear. The castle that was once filled with happiness was now filled with emptyness and forlorn. The whole castle was mourning for the loss of Didyme. It was sudden after all, the guards did not anticipate one of the Children of the Moon to attack one of the Volturi wives. It was so sudden as they did not have the time to process anything.

The predator had gotten away before they had the chance to retaliate.

Three people were mostly affected. One was going through the motions of losing his wife. One was the brother who murdered his sister. The other one was plagued for remaining silent for what she witnessed.

"Jane…"

The blonde vampire snapped out of her dazed expression. She had locked herself in her room the moment she heard the news but of course she knew what really happened. Alec appeared in the doorway and somehow mirrored her lost expression. For some reason, Alec thought his sister looked much worser than he was.

"What changes?" She asks her twin quietly. Her voice was already raspy but clear enough for him to hear.

"The masters ordered that the wives should stay in their tower. With the death of Madame Didy-" Jane cut him off before he could finish.

"Take her name out of your mouth!" Jane exclaims as her lips quivered. If she had been human, Alec knew his twin would have been crying already.

"Sister…" he attempted to console his twin.

"Hearing her name makes everything so much painful." Her haughty eyes looked at him in despair. "Don't make me feel more pain."

Hearing Didyme's name makes her feel guilty enough. Should she keep quiet for the love of her master or give Marcus at least the truth in order to do Didyme's death some justice?

Jane was torn on what to do.

By hiding the truth, she would be an accessory to the crime she had witnessed herself. Alec looked at his sister intently, something was not adding up. He sat in front of his twin: grasping her shoulders tightly.

"Jane."

Jane knew that she was in serious trouble. With the information she withheld, she felt totally at lost. If she told him everything, she was in serious trouble. Alec would urge her to tell the truth, knowing how righteous her twin was. Could she ever accept such a horrendous surprise?

"Jane, you can tell me what you know."

She kept on asking herself, wondering how she could dodge her brother's suspicious glance. The blonde vampire kept on closing her blood red eyes but she can't block her memory out.

"Jane! Snap out of this! Tell me what's wrong already!"

It was rare of Alec to raise his voice at his sister. His outburst shook her to the core yet she felt nothing as he kept on shaking her shoulders.

"I saw her." Jane stated numbly as her eyes stared into her brother's. Her gaze was devoid of any emotion. Alec edged away from his sister as he dropped his grip on his sister. "I saw her die, Alec. I witnessed everything."

All the things she witnessed was running through her head. All the things she heard kept on plaguing her thoughts and tearing her apart slowly. The truth unfolded right before her eyes but she cannot seem to tell a soul of what happened last night. The blonde vampire's feelings were all messed up. With Alec pressing on her to tell him, she felt cornered.

Would it be the same as killing Didyme, if she hid the truth?

"Why did you not tell me sooner, Jane? We can hunt down those wolves! We can avenge her. Madame treated us like her offspring, the least we can do is bring justice to her death."

Her twins words made her feel so much guilt over hiding the truth. Didyme treated her as her own daughter and she repaid her kindness like this. She would try to pretend, yes. She can try to forget everything but it would be driving her to insanity. She sat motionless as Alec darted out of her room.

Jane knew it in herself that she would force herself to remain silent in order to protect someone she loves the most.

"You called for me?" Jane asks once she sat down in Marcus' study.

The Volturi king faced the young blonde with such regret. It was like seeing a mirror of herself as they shared the same haughty look that plagued them both. The only difference was he was grieving for the loss of his wife and she was tormented if she should tell the truth. His eyes were as black as night which was an indication that he had not been feeding since his wife's death.

"Alec told me." Marcus starts off. His voice was a low whisper as he stood up and closed the door to his study. He clearly meant that this was a very confidential matter. "You saw how she died and you witnessed all of it."

He stared at her with such boredom and apathy. Jane truly saw how the loss of Didyme affected him in a span of a week that has gone by.

"I will not hesitate onto exact revenge on who killed my wife." His emotionless gaze met her terrified ones. "Whether it is a wolf or a vampire. I want you to tell me what you have witnessed, Jane."

The blonde vampire froze in panic.

"Master…" she trailed off.

Marcus was looking at her, gone was the apathetic and emotionless gaze he once gave her. If only he knew that keeping such a big and dark secret was making her lose her mind. The blonde vampire avoided his steel-like gaze and her gaze drifts to Didyme's portrait that was hanged in his study.

Jane could have sworn the portrait was staring back at her. Didyme's gaze burning in the back of her mind. With such big secret she harbored, will she ever be free?

Has she crossed the line because of her love for her master?

"Jane!" She was surprised when Marcus grabbed her shoulder and desperation was seen his black eyes. The blonde vampire stared at him with such horror. "Tell me what happened thats all i will ask of you." he begs.

If only he knew…

If she told him the truth then she was at fault as well. She would be punished as well and it would be like she had betrayed her master for telling the truth. Such revelation can divide the Volturi, no scratch that:

The Volturi will be torn to shreds with such revelation.

As if coming back to his senses, a distraught Marcus retreated back when he saw her terrified gaze. He wanted answers from her but there was no excuse for him to frighten her. His livid gaze turned back to his emotionless and apathetic ones. There he goes again: staring into space. The blonde vampire pitied her but she knew she cannot tell him the truth.

Her heart broke to see him in this state. The couple had been one of her parental figures in the coven and to see things end up this way was truly heartbreaking. To remain silent was as if to kill Didyme herself, but she knew her priorities. To put Aro first was her mantra and she did not or rather cannot be the one to rat him out.

"I'm sorry." He gives her a apologetic glance. The distraught Volturi king did not wish to bring her more trauma. "It must have been hard for you to remember how she died. Just… just tell me when you are ready."

He stormed out of his study and left the young blonde alone with Didyme's portrait. Jane huddled her knees to her chest as she sank to the floor sobbing. Her portrait stared at her and seemed to haunt her with her deepest secrets.

"Hear me out, Jane. Whatever happens tonight, i do not blame you for it." Didyme's bell-like voice echoes in her mind.

"I-I'm sorry!" She sobbed as she rocked herself back and forth. "Please forgive me… I had no choice…"

As she sobbed her heart out, Jane knew she would eventually pay the price for her sins. Behind the oak doors, Marcus sighed deeply.

He simply knew. Jane did not even need to tell him.