"Oh Caius , screw beautiful. I'm brilliant. If you want to appease me , compliment my brain''

"You inspire my inner serial killer, Ursula"

"I'm a little busy preparing a motion to kick your ass , blonde"

She was driving him insane in every way one human being could drive another. But she was still holding onto his heart. And he had to give credit where it was due. At least, in her case.

She was an intruder in his relatively peaceful life and he was ok with that

And she always contradicted him. She never failed to have a sarcastic remark safely stored for him.

Their relationship was sort of like cat and mouse, in which the cat and mouse switched roles.

When Caius pushed open the door freshly fed and cleaned up he chuckled. This has to be the weirdest Human he'd ever met. Instead of freaking out and trying to escape she was sitting in his chair and reading one of his books like she lived there and hadn't a care in the world.

"Take a picture. It'll last longer," "She joke without from her book.

"Making yourself comfy I see."

"Well, I can't pass up the chance to read an original Shakespeare." She said and he chuckled.

" And about the I will. I'll. canaalready yes the headlines for tomorrow; 'The most arrogant doctor reads another doctor opinions '."

Caius heard her laugh again, and his heart soared. He loved when she laughed, and he loved it, even more, when he was the person who made her laugh. Whenever he made her laugh his heart and mind filled with pride. The first time he got a laugh out of her, she looked shocked. Since then making this woman laugh was one of his favorite things to do, and he did it often. The truth she made him laugh like no other could. Before Ursula Black, his life was orderly but cold and lonely. Before he met her he never admitted to himself that anything was missing. Now, he knew what was missing. Ursula Black was the light in his life and the love of his life even if she didn't know it.

"Where have you been all morning? " Caius asks walked toward pulling the book away from her hands.

Ursula glared at him saying." With my favorite female vampire. "

"Jane?"

FLASHBACK

"So are you here to kill me?" Ursula asked in a monotone voice.

They looked at the woman shocked.

"I do not have time for that. Go and tell your blonde king I am busy. Capito?!" Ursula shouted.

They continued to look at Ursula with mouths dropped and eyes bulged.

"Will someone fucking answers me!"

The blonde was the first to come out of their trance and she snarled, "Show a little more respect to your superiors you little spoiled child!"

"Spoiled child? Spoiled child! You know what you midget bitch FUCK YOU! There's nothing fucking superior about you, you may have abnormal abilities but I can do a lot more important shit than you can bitch!"

She growled and tried to lunge herself at Ursula, but the shorter male grabbed her by the waist and slammed her on the ground and snarled in her face, "You harm a fucking hair on her head Jane and Caius will kill you!"

"Let me brother"

"Ha! I knew you were twins! And you better watch who you're calling worthless bitch only thing you're good at is being so short you can suck dick without bendinggingr knobbly ass knees hoe!"

The two other males burst out in laughter falling on the floor rolling around, "That's the funniest shit I've ever heard! Oh god we are definitely keeping her now she's fucking hilarious!" he looks at me. "You're my new best friend now."

Ursula giggled... "Sorry but I'm not going to be some pet ?."

"A pet? who kept you like a pet that is crude no Master Caius sent us. He wants you to Italy. I can tell that Aro is going to love you already you're a feisty thing aren't you?" the lanky brunette questioned.

" Eh I used to not be so feisty just had to be used and my heartbroken for this side of me to come out," shrugged her shoulders. "So what are your guys' names?"

The big one stood up, " My name is Felix my new best friend," he grinned bowing slightly.

Next, the lanky one stood, " And I am the sensual Demitri," he waggled his eyebrows at me and also bowing slightly.

"Well it's nice to meet you Felix, Demitri, and Alec," Ursula smiled. " Though I can't say it's a pleasure meeting Jane," Ursula spat at the end.

"Oh my god, I love you!" Felix shouted and ran up to her giving her a big hug.

END FLASHBACK

" Of course," said Ursula pulled herself away from the flashback of their first meeting" Jane is my favorite. She reminds me of a member of my diagnostic team, Kolet. Τiny and sweet but a Hulk hides inside her"

And. "

"Am I right, my king?"

"Of course not."

The truth was Caius hadn't been listening, at all, basically. And the reason was that with the summer sun shining into the room and the blue dress Ursula was wearing, the woman's eyes were so blue, so incredibly blue that Caius was simply and blithely staring.

She sucked her bottom lips a little between his teeth and bit slightly, Caius needed a moment to remember breathing because this, what he was seeing, gave him many ideas.

" Are you ok?"

" I am fine"Caius's answer was short but Ursula could tell something was bothering him.

"Ok, well if anything is bothering you make sure you talk to me," Ursula reminded him. "I'm not a mind reader."

"No that's my job," Sais Aro walking into the room following by Sulpicia. Aro jumped into the conversation causing the occupants of the room to chuckle.

"So Mister Mind Reader, what am I thinking about?" Ursula couldn't resist and just laughed when Aro glared at her.

Ursula looked innocent, an expression that didn't belong on her face. It made Caius want to do dirty horrible things to corrupt her just a little. If he was honestly one of the most attractive things about her was although she had a good heart; she was not wholly innocent. It made her perfect in Caius' eyes.

" I gonna take you back one day, my dea said Aro smiling.

Ursula reached into her pocket and pulled out her prescription sheet. She quickly filled it out, ripped the paper off and handed it to the vampire. Aro hesitantly took the paper and read it to himself before looking back at her.

"What is Clozapine?"

Ursula nodded solemnly, "I want you to take that, it'll help with the delusions and hallucinations."

If a vampire could blush Aro would be bright red, some of the guards were trying to hold in their laughs, Ursula could also see Caius, Marcus, and Sulpicia trying to stop themselves from laughing

" Ursula you are a crazy bitch," Caius commented.

"My my Caius. Was that a compliment I just heard? Are you going soft on us?" Ursula said with a smirk while the brothers laughed and Sulpicia tried to hide her giggles.

"I think she has you, dear brother," Sulpicia said smiling at him. He returned it with a smile of his own and Ursula couldn't resist.

"Oh, first a compliment and now a smile from the almighty Caius. Hell had officially frozen over ." Ursula sayss and she hears a chuckle rumble from Caius' chest.

"Indeed it has Cara," Aro said and Ursula saw Caius's scowl returning but slightly upturned in the corners.

"Oh Ursula is joy," Marcus says trying to control his laughter.

"Just toying with mu little blonde. We cannot allow that ego to get too big or there would be no room for the rest of us." Ursula told Caius laughing. Everyone including Caius broke out into fits of laughter and minutes later Ursula notice that some of the guards have come in to see what the commotion is. The elite guard and Cullen are all standing there looking at them in confusion, but there is a slight smile there too at seeing the Masters and their mates all so happy. Aro dismissed the guard to their duties and once we calmed down, they got down to business.

This was a big thing. Ursula had found the room accidentally once. Alec had been alone there. He had shown me around and they had invited me back. She was the only one they allowed in this private domain. It was an odd sort of half an anen. She had found this small door down a hall, it was half-open, expecting a storage room or broom closet She looked in to see a hallway. She followed it to the garden, the stone of the walls was dark and gray and it smelled damp and was overgrown with plants. The stones on the floor having weeds peeking up and little ways in, the stones gave way to grass. The garden was very pretty. TThesesome stone benches. Everything was overgrown and wild. Alec and Jane told her Aro had gifted it to them a few centuries previous, a place they needed, to escape. They both had their bedrooms in the main area with the guard but this secret domain was their world. A place where they felt free and relaxed. No one was allowed there, no one until me. And now Jane was claiming it as mine too, as though she really were their sister.

"Why do you cry?" Alec asked, more curious than concerned.

"I just missed you," Ursula told him going to sit on the bed with him. Jane came to sit on her other side.

"We always miss you sister." She said wrapping an arm around me. "If you did not were a doctor at the most famous hospital I would kidnap you to be here with us"

Ursula hugged her and Alec hugged them both.

They spent the next couple hours catching up on all the castle gossip while Ursula read a medical file, the twins went to put on their usual attire and Jane put her hair up in its usual style.

"Jane?" Ursula asked as we walked.

"Yes Ursula." she was using the same almost formal yet, the caring tone she used with Alec.

"Why do you always wear your hair up? It is so lovely down."She had often wondered but never asked before.

"Why do we never dress casual or relax with others you mean?" Alec clarified, "her hair being only one of the things we often alter about ourselves when free of the company of outsiders."

"But not just outsiders, the family as well."

"We are the outsiders, even among the Volturi Bella. We are Aro's favorites for our abilities and are treated very well. We are, like Demetri, in the highest ranks of the guard but they are our coven, not our family. Aro has taken us in and cared for us, he changed us and we care for him and the other kings but our respect for them holds us to our place in their case. With the others, we are the witch twins. Feared and respected but not cared for." Jane clarified.

"It is not wise to show weakness," Alec added.

"Am I weak then?"

"No. You have much loved, Ursula. Not only by us but also by many. The Kings, especially Caius, who is much feared, adore are knownownown to care for you. Demetri and Felix love you as most of the upper guard does. Your heart is a great strength. People see how you are with us, with the kings and marvel at you. None would hug Alec as you did last night. Certainly, none would great us with such genuine joy and none would argue and bargain with the kings the way you do, not and get away with it. You not only get away with it but make them smile and laugh. People are amazed at what you do, what is allowed for you. You come in and the Kings demand no more chibrobrobbbroughtroughl as it upsets you, they request Chelsea to bring only criminals and old people to ease you. The greatest vampires in existence cater to you because you show them love and acceptance. Your strength is in the love you give to others as you somehow bewitch us all into loving you."

"You are an amazing human sister when you are a vampire you will be beyond that. You are a gifted shield, yes. But your true gift is the beauty of your soul." Alec added.

"Why would it be a weakness to let your hair down? Metaphorically and literally speaking." She asked.

"I wear my hair as I do because in our times it is what was done when a young lady reached a certain age in the presence of men. It was also not done to be informal in any manner in front of those of a higher class."

"It is also a protection for us. People fear us, Ursula. They leave us alone because we are always dangerous and untouchable." Ursula felt sad for them, that they so rarely laughed or relaxed. "We were young when we were turned, but we were near adults in our own time. The world was not kind to us then and we have not been kind to the world since. We had only each other then and while we serve our Kings, while we are utterly loyal to them, we have only each other now."

"Until you." Jane added, "You befriended us and have become a much-loved sister."

"Kids," Ursula called out. They made their way to her slowly. They seemed nervous and Ursula would bet it's because they didn't want to get on her bad side again. Ursula knew Jane and Alec would know that even Caius Volturi is afraid of her when she's in a bad mood. "You are all my children. I don't love any of you more than the others. "

"You were right," Alec spoke first.

"We haven't had a mother since before we were turned," Jane explained seeing her confused look. "And our human mother was worthless. The little village we were raised in was poor, to begin with, and our mother didn't even try to feed us on a regular basis."

"We would have to beg for or steal food daily," Alec took over when Jane started to choke up a bit. Ursula instantly moved to wrap Bella's arms around her two vampire children.

"Well you know you never have to worry about food," that comments got a small smile from them, "and you never have to wonder if you are loved again. I promise I will love until I no longer walk the earth. And if something were to happen, I would continue to love you even after I am gone."

"I am honored to be seen as such but I wonder why or when as this is the first you have called me such," Ursula admitted, using the more formal tones of the Volturi, hoping they did not take it that Ursula does not considerer them family but unsure of how to ask them.

"It is not actually," Alec admitted.

"The first summer you spent with us we had considered you our friend and were sorry to see you go. The second summer we were happy and nervous for your return wondering if you would still be as we remembered."

"You smiled at us in the throne room and I was so relieved. I thought you might not want to be friends with us." Jane admitted and Alec took her hand.

"Of course I did. I missed you that year. I sent you a gift for Christmas and I know I didn't write much but I've always been bad with emails let alone actual letters and you only got an email account the second summer."

"Yes, we got that for you. We have no need for it otherwise." Alec smiled. "We were also surprised and very touched that you thought of us over the holiday. Still, we have been centuries without being close to Torto onto anyoneeenene. It was a surprise that you seemed happy to see us. Most smile nervously at us and nod politely, hoping to be away from our company or that our attention will not fall on them."

"Then you spent time with us and found our place." Jane smiled. "When you left that summer we viewed you as our sister. Few talk to us outside of our place in the guard unless it is Aro or Caius. They have heard us call your sister. Many who travel through Volterra or cross our paths know our sister resides here and is not to be touched."

"We had hoped you felt us, family, as well." Alec did not look at me as he said this, though they had stopped walking and were now sitting near the lake.

"I do see you like family," Ursula assured him. The two of you, Demetri and Caius are my Volturi family and I love you."

"We love you too Ursula." Jane smiled at her.

Bella was dismayed at the sight of a human Ursula, sitting and laughing with two female human drinkers.

A wave of jealousy passed over Bella looking at the woman she realized her earlier assessment her figure was right, she was stunning. Bella would kill for a figure like her's. Bella was tall and slim but had no curves and small breasts even after she became a vampire nothing chanced., whereas the woman had plenty of curves and what looked to be a decent cleavage. The best word Bella could think of to describe the woman was sexy.

But the envy was not just because she was beautiful but because Ursula Black was human. Bella Cullen nee Swan had regretting to become a vampire?

No

A married woman?

Yes.

A vampire is always young. Without wrinkles, without your ass lying on the floor.

Being a married woman was difficult. Her husband treated her as if she were still human. It was as if she was made of glass. She was controlling her every move, every word that came out of her mouth, every single one she was wearing. Her brothers-in-law wanted her to learn how to fight but her husband said she was not fit for a lady. She didn't finish school and didn't become a doctor as she dreamed.

To be a mother. Renesmee was a miracle for their supernatural word but Bella didn't want to become a mother. The mother she grew up with was a selfish bitch who thought of herself. She didn't want to become such a mother.

Dr. Black.

Bella looked up for her at Google and became green form her jealousy.

Ursula went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland where she was in the pre-med program, maintaining an excellent GPA and eventually getting a perfect score on her MCAT. At the age of 29, he had just been appointed as the Chief of Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.

Bella wanted to speak with the woman. To learn what it was so fabulous and important about her having all Volturi around her finger. She wanted to know why Caius Volturi, the man who called her a liability, has a soft side about the doctor.

Bella wanted to like Ursula, in part because she seemed like such a great woman. She was the kind of person Bella could see herself becoming in ten, maybe fifteen years' time, minus the ego and the personal limo and the elaborate pinstriped suits.

Ursula was successful, charming, undeniably stylish. The only flaw in her character was her overblown sense of self which wasn't so much annoying as it was distracting. It made it that much harder for people to notice her good qualities , even though they were overshadowed by her arrogance and were kind of of the blink-and-you'll-miss-it sort - so people often looked at her and assumed, right off the bat, with the suit and the polished shoes and the neat slicked back hair, that she was an asshole through and through.

Bella walks into the garden wanting to talk to the woman and fortunately being a shield because the twins seem like they want to kill her. Alec put his hand around Ursula`s shoulder and Jane stood in front of Ursula in a protective way.

"What you want Cullen?"Jane growled at her, angry that she had interrupted their time with Ursula.

"Isabella Cullen. The woman who walked out of Volterra with her heart still giggled, then she made a disgusted face." Also, only two covens fed from animals but what about poor innocent Bambi? And Simba? And Koda?"

"Who's Koda?" Jane laughed.

"The little bear off brother bear" Alec giggled from the doorway.

"Innocent animals have to die for you. What about their babies? Do you even think about the poor baby lions that die because mamma lion happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time?"

Ursula bit her tongue to keep from laughing at Bella's expression. Bella looked shocked and guilty.

"How can you make light of our diet like that!? It isn't something to joke about!"Bella cries

Ursula could see Demetri and Felix in the balcony. Both in hysterics.

"They kill human..."

"Watch your fucking mouth " Ursula explodes."You don't know about Volturi and what they are. Yes, they drink from humans but they drink fromrapfrom and killers. No human being is are real and they look like people and don't you dare say to me that you are not a human because I do not care if your pussy is shining. People killing for fun and money and power but also killing to survive. They are vampires and need blood to survive. Insult them again and I carry hairspray and a lighter!"

Bella looked like she was going to shit bricks and the twins were trying not to laugh at her face.

"I know you because Jane told me about you. The woman without self-respect and backbone. The woman who came to save the love of her life after leaving her in the woods telling her that she was a pet. You don't have some respect for yourself, my dear. Fortunately, your story is not a book: Bella Swan tried to teach me that I can't be someone without a man. Pathetic "Ursula sneered

Bella simply stares at her in astonishment.

"Truth hurts, huh?"

Bella roars"I love him..."

"Love sucks" the woman yelled at Bella."We live in a world of hypocrites: Where people pray for your downfall but smile in your face like they love you all at the same time. Love and happiness are nothing but says you can't live without love. I think oxygen is more important. It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is "about WHAT". I don't ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do. Truth begins in lies. I've found that when you want to know the truth about somebody that someone is probably the last person you should ask. Reality is almost always LIES."

"The biggest lie of all: I love you"

Ursula never put herself under the illusion that she was a good person. Living in a world where people were either good or evil was a fairytale. Her mother tried to ignore it, letting Ursula dirty her hands with necessary violence. Even with her arranged marriage, Ursula knew she'd never love Oliver, and he told her that the night they met. "Love is for children," Ursula said before pouring him a flute of champagne. Even after his death.

In Ursula's experience, love was useful when it could be manipulated.

They were watching them. Ursula and Caiua look happy together. Sitting next to each other at the table while the Volturi gets drinks, sharing private smiles and jokes. From across the table, Marcus can see how Caius has an arm around Ursula's waist, the perfect complement to resting his head against Ursula's shoulder when he laughs.

Everyone has an opinion for two of them. The words people have used to describe Caius' feelings towards Ursula.

Inevitable. That was the word Marcus had used when he coaxed him into the conversation in that round-a-bout way the brother had when he wanted Caius to talk about something more emotionally meaningful . That was the word that he had used when the subjects of the closed-off vicious vampire's feelings came up. Feelings for someone he had once sworn to take down only to befriend.

Natural. That was the word Sulpicia had used when she caught her dear friend's eyes linger too long as the doctor had exited the throne room after the taught agreement they had. It was only natural when you are so close to someone, knew them better than you did yourself some days, to feel this way. It was only natural when you stood side by side with someone for so long to develop a deeper connection. He had asked sharply if she ever experienced something as trivial as what she was implying. She only smiled at his quip with a fondness that Caius hadn't quite expected. "With Aro, and plenty of women in my life, of course. As I said, it's only natural."

Nothing more was said on the matter.

Obvious. That was the word Jane and Felix had used. No one had never seen the two of them agree on something so quickly. It was at a Christmas party watching them flirt all night. The other day the two of them spent the night taking bets with the Volturi on "When the master and the doctor would stop being stupid."

Unavoidable. That was the word Aro has used that same night. She knows how to play Caius like a fiddle and, despite his usual admiration for Ursula, he wants nothing more than to snap at her. The woman was a sassy little shit. Sharp-tongued and quick-witted, she grew up to be an extremely intelligent, highly antisocial, mal-adjust. The school had labeled her 'at risk' and her parents pegged her as a 'troubled' teen. Ursula was always there. No matter how much they fought or argued, they were there for each other, without fail. Seeing them together reminded Aro of him and Daytime. They loved to hate each other but they also loved each other. Ursula wasn't afraid to stand up to Caius, or correct him, or yell at him for being reckless. Ursula was the only one who yelled at Caius for being reckless. Ursula was the only one who yelled at Caius, ever.