BPOV
As the guard fought one another to find a champion, I left to find my brothers. Jasper opted to stay and watch, hoping to get new tips and maybe even lend out a few of his own. I headed into the more private section of the castle, my Father's and Uncle's quarters. Listening intently, I sensed them all in the den and headed there, walking at a slow human pace. I took the time to think about the events that happened in the last twelve hours. I was tremendously happily that Jasper was accepted as easily as he was. I was even more overjoyed when I notice him laughing and joking with my family. As I turned the corner my thoughts shifted, confusion and hurt was evident throughout my features. Alec was a concern and problem. But in all honestly, he had hurt my feelings. He had been my rock while growing up and to have him act and treat the love of my life like that, it made me question my childhood. Had he always been like that? Was I just naive and young and didn't see it? I looked up to see the dens door in front of me. I knocked and announced myself before stepping inside the room, smiling brightly at the three men who had raised me.
"How is it going? Any hell raisers need taking care of?" I joked, an easy way to start a convo with the usually three stern leaders. They sat around the office in various stages of comfort. Father sat in the main chair behind the desk, files and paperwork placed messily in front of him but he leaned back in a relaxed state, making him not seem as strict and scary as he was known to be. Uncle Marcus sat on the black couch with his one foot resting on his knee, a book of ancient love myths and love lines open on his lap. The pages were yellowing and the book seems to be as ancient as him. Uncle Caius looked the most tense, standing in front of Father, his hands leaning against the polished oak wood and his body stiff with what looked like anger. He had yet to turn to me, and as I walked around the table I purposefully made eye contact, earning a smile, albeit small, from him.
"Princess, what's wrong." Marcus looked up at me as Dad asked me this. He had always been the one to sense when I was lying or holding back information.
"Nothing, honestly. I just need some construction to happen to my wing when I'm back in America." I smiled and hugged him from the side, looking up confused when I sensed the tension rolling back into the room. "What's wrong? Did something happen to the Cullens?"
"No, no. Nothing like that. We were just having a little disagreement about your return back Jasper's home. But it's nothing to worry about. Construction? What happened?"
"Oh, you know boys. Just a little bit of play fighting," I brushed it off before quickly changing the topic. "It's my home as well. I might not have lived there for long, but that's where Jasper is, which means it's where I am." Uncle Caius stood tall and pointed accusingly at me.
"Exactly. So if Jasper just moved here, this would continue to be your home. And you can take you spot on the Royal throne."
"No. I wouldn't ask him to move from his family. They've helped him when he was in need, and I know he feels like he is forever in their debts. And he loves them all. I wouldn't ask him of that."
"But you've left us! We were all you've ever known and know you choose the Cullens over us!" I go to fight back,as I was never one to let Uncle Caius get his way. We were always the ones fighting as he often was stricter than Father and Uncle Marcus combined.
"Enough. Isabella can make her own decisions. We all saw how she lights up around Jasper, this is her time to live. She never gets to do that here. She's had responsibilities since the day she was born. Let her have fun and act like a teenager. My real concern is that Alec and Jasper were 'playing' recklessly enough to cause damage to my castle walls." My eyes widen at that. When ever Father recurred to the castle as his, and not the family's, there were sure to be consequences. "Meeting in the Training room now." He stood up and ran out of the room, Caius throwing a stern look my way before following. Uncle Marcus slowly closed his book with a sigh, placing next to him before he made him way over to me.
"They care about you. And want you to thrive. The bickering is them just caring enough for you. That's what you get for having three, ancient men looking after you." I laughed at that before sending a mental thought his way. Alec and Jasper are about to get the worst yelling at aren't they? Marcus nodded, and we both started running in hoped to get to the training room in time.
JPOV
As soon as Bella left the room, the volume jumped by seventy percent, and the vampires split themselves and started fighting instantly. They all were trained well, even fights among most. The way the fight ended was if the other vampire every got to the point of having their head easily detached. After thirty minutes, it seemed like some of the matches were ending, the winner moving to find another winner to battle. I observed keenly, all the different techniques I was seeing. For a guard that trained daily with one another, they didn't fight the same, making the predictability a lot harder. Soon we were down to the last four matches, the rest of the vampires forming a ring around the room and quietly watching. Not a single sound was heard except from the four pairs, that was until the heavy doors flew open, Aro and Caius stopping abruptly in the middle of the floor, all vampires, fighting or observing, standing to attention immediately. I found myself following, mostly cause I didn't have Bella to coach me through what was happening. Aro's eyes scanned the crowd until he met with my eyes, calling me to come forward. As well as for Alec to come forward. I silently groaned, she told them.
I'm sorry, it slipped out. Well not really, it's hard to lying to him, do you see those beady eyes. They see into your soul. Bella's voice infiltrated my mind and I subconsciously scanned my eyes to see her. As she ran into the room, she was staring at Aro, an eyebrow raised and a hand in her hip.
"Daddy, we really don't have to do this." Aro just smiled in return, apparently not following for the pout she was giving him.
"Oh, princess, I just want to know what happened." He walked forward confidently and held a hand out for me. I willingly place my hand in his, his eyes staring just past my shoulder for a minute before he turned to Bella. "Isabella stop shielding him."
"Sorry, it's a habit." She looked sheepish but guilty as Aro focused on my memories again. Silently he moved from me to Alec, replaying the same scene but through his eyes. When he was happy with what he saw, he took a step back and turned to Bella, apparently saying something to her in his mind cause she frowned and stomped her way to a chair and flopped down, a glare set on her features.
"Please explain yourself."
"He's manipulating Bella—"
"He won't accept that I love Bella—" Alec and I spoke at the same time, but before we finished we turned to one another and glared.
"You don't have her best interest at heart. You just see her as a shiny toy with unstoppable powers. She's just the best thing on the market and you just want her for the power."
"And you can't admit that she chose me over you. She chose someone she knew for a month over someone she's been around all her life. Well guess what, get use to it."
"I can't stand back and let you use her as a puppet, when I know you'll break her heart and I'll be here to pick up the pieces. You think you won't screw up, but trust me you will, and the day it happens, she'll be coming back here, where you won't be but I will be." I glanced over at Bella, who was now not just glaring at Aro, but all three of us. Taking my chances, I figured she was already mad, let's just keep going.
"You just can't wrapped your tiny head around it, can you? I won. And I'll always win. She let me inside her bubble, something you've been trying to do for the past ten years. And let me guess, you were close? You thought you could be in the inner circle of everything. But then I came along, and stole it right from you. Suck it up, cause she's mine and I'd be damned if you ever get to lay a finger on her again." That must have struck a nerve, cause soon I was flying, yet again, through the air and right through a wall. I got up quickly, and charged towards him. He jumped up as I did a baseball slide under him, jumping up as he landed and jumping onto his back. I contorted myself enough to drop us both down to the floor, Alec managing to lay a few good punches on the way before I flipped us and I landed one right in the middle of his face. Tiny cracks formed from the punch, he snarled and flipped us over, winding up his arm to lay one back. As he threw the punch down I was slid out from under him, and found my self stuck against the wall unable to move. As I look up to see what happened, Alec was on the opposite side of the room in the same exact position. My eyes moved to Bella, who stood up calmly, not looking at either of us and walked out of the room.
BPOV
I thought letting them yell at each other would help, then it escalated. Truthfully, I would have stopped them before they told Aro anything but Marcus laid a heavy hand in my shoulder, keeping me in my seat. I walked back to my quarters. Not sure how long they'd stay where I placed them. I quickly packed my bags, and a couple more suitcases of my clothes. I then made my ways to say goodbye. Dad apologized which I waved off, not blaming him.
"I'll get them to tolerate one another some day. I'll see you soon and keep in touch, but I actually have to start going to school and not taking so many vacations." I hugged my uncles and then went to say bye to the elite guard. That took a bit longer as we decided to discuss some good punishments for the idiots stuck to the wall. We laughed and talked for about an hour before I hugged them and headed back to the training room. I felt proud when I noticed them in the exact same position, silently having a conversation across the spacious room through glares. I dropped them both then walked out of the room, hearing Jasper instantly chasing after me.
"Bella, I'm so sorry. I let my anger get the best of me." I didn't acknowledge him, continuing my brisk walk to the underground garage. "Babe, please let me explain. I'm not with you for your powers. I'd want to be with you even if you were human, I love you so much. Lease, we can work through this." I held back a laugh at his pleads. He sounded like he cheated on me and that I would break up with him. I decided to let him suffer a bit more, and didn't speak throughout the whole drive to the airport, his voice the only sound the whole ride. By the time we made it on the private jet, he was rambling things that didn't even make sense. Just before the wheels left the runway, I held a hand to stop him.
"Jasper, relax. I ain't mad enough to start a World War III, I'm mad at you, yes. Which is why your being given the silent treatment, but I'm no where close to pushing you out of this plan and leaving you wherever you land." He let out a heavy sigh, throwing his arms around me and nuzzling my neck. I smiled before in removed my self from his grasp.
"Oh no, babe. No touching for a week."
