Walking down the hall with Demetri was always an experience. It was amusing to her to watch as others would actually trip each other to get out of his way. It was so different than when she was by herself. No one was outright rude to her or anything, but they certainly didn't go out of their way to give her room to move. Only once was there an actual issue. She was just wondering around the floor, exploring while Demetri was on the phone, and a group was heading her direction. One of them refused to give her enough room to pass them, and he slammed his arm against her shoulder. She had her hood up, so he couldn't see who it was, and when he snapped at her to watch where the fuck she was going, she lifted her head enough to show off her face. If vampires actually had blood that was able to drain from their face, that dude's would have drained all the way out of his asshole.

She hadn't said a word. Her lip curled and her eyes crinkled in the corners.

It was a stand off. She was waiting for him to apologize, and she had no fucking idea what the hell he was waiting for. She hadn't done anything to him, and she wasn't going to act like she did. The three others that had been with him were not so subtly telling the guy to just say he was sorry, but all the guy could see was he just intentionally assaulted the newest member of the coven it was actually his job to protect.

Bella thought his face was hysterical.

The staring contest lasted until there was a rough clearing of a throat, and the two turned to look up the hall, one with a grin and the other with terrior, to Felix.

The Enforcer looked back and forth between the two vampires and cocked a brow. "Is there a problem here?"

Still, Bella said nothing, just looked back at the one that ran into her with a cocked brow. This was his fault. She would haven't have said a word had he not, just gone on with her day. He was the one that brought this shit on himself.

When it was clear she was going to be keeping her mouth shut, the other vampire looked at the pissed off mountain of a guard. "No, Sir, Master Felix."

Felix just grunted as he crossed his arms. "Sure as fuck looks like it." When he heard the newborn giggle, he looked at her. "What are you doing here? You were supposed to wait in the lounge."

Bella shrugged. "Demetri said I could look around."

Lifting a brow, Felix shook his head slowly. "No, Demetri did not. His exact words were... wait here, I'll be right back."

Pursing her lips, Bella then grinned. "So I paraphrased."

Felix's face smoothed out as he lifted a hand, crooking a finger at her. He watched as she looked back at the other male, smirked, then skipped down the hall to stand in front of him. He simply looked over her head. "Do not, ever, let me catch you around her again. Believe me when I say you will regret it."

She had ended up telling him what happened as he led her back to the lounge she was left at, and he passed it on to Demetri when he returned from his phone call, but so far as Bella knew, nothing came from it. She answered the two questions Demetri asked, and told him it wasn't necessary to do anything because the guy clearly knew he fucked up. That happened on her fourth day in Italy, and she had never seen him again, so as far as she was concerned, it was handled.

It was really that point she had started to be left with a babysitter on a regular basis. She had been told it wasn't her, it was everyone else, but it sure didn't feel like that. Then again, she was one hell of an escape artist, and slipped every single one, every single time. The only one she couldn't seem to get away from was Caius. That mother fucker had eyes in the back of his head or something, because he always seemed to know exactly what the hell she was up to, and never turned to look at her as he called her on it. He was also always able to find her when she snuck off, usually even before Demetri. She was beginning to wonder if that was more by design, because she had been caught in numerous places she had been expressly told not to go by herself, so by the time Demetri found her, she wasn't by herself. Caius though, would simply grin with a 'prove it' at the unimpressed look that would settle on the tracker's face when he called the king on his bullshit of her being with him the whole time.

Caius himself wasn't much out of his own teens when he was turned, maybe 20 at most, and had taken an actual liking to the newborn. The downside to this in Demetri's mind was that he was quickly becoming a partner in crime of sorts, and between the two of them, certainly kept him and the other Elites on their toes. When one was missing, they both likely were, and one of them was a ruler of the race. The twins were convinced it was only a matter of time before the two took something too far, and others agreed. However, unlike Bella, Demetri could find Caius without issue, and that usually meant he would also find his newborn charge. It didn't matter who the instigator was, though Demetri was more than positive it was Bella. Neither one could seem to help themselves. One was too young, and the other was bored as shit. However, one of them was one of the kings, so there was literally nothing they could do but be prepared to put out the evental fires those two were going to set.

Glancing down at his charge, he chuckled as she snickered when another pair of guards pressed themselves into a wall as they got closer. He never paid much mind to who might have been in his path as he traversed the halls, but he supposed there was humor to be found. It wasn't like they were walking down the center of the hall, so they could easily pass without the theatrics. He did ensure Bella stayed between him and the wall, so if protection became necessary little effort was needed. In the moment though, he merely flexed the arm she held to catch her attention and told her to hush.

For Bella, she just smiled at him. Prior to now, other than the day she arrived, there had never been any physical contact between them in front of any of the guards. Sure, there were times he would push her behind him when they came upon a fight or something similar, but usually, she was more concerned about hiding in her hood than she was anything else. This time, however, she was still overly flattered at what he said to her on the catwalk, that when he presented his arm to her, she took it with a quiet giggle.

In the time she was there, there had been plenty of times he vanished for a short while to deal with guard issue or another, but the is the first time he asked her to go with him. There was a such a dark gleam in his eyes, she couldn't tell him no even if she wanted to. She was far too curious what popped in his head, and she had actually wanted to see what it was he did, because so far, she had seen him do more watching than anything physical. She knew who was at their destination, but for whatever reason, she wasn't worried.

However...

If Bella felt inferior to Rosalie as a human, that didn't hold a candle to how she felt standing in her midst now. She never really thought she herself was ugly per-se, but prior to this moment, she had only ever gotten a fleeting look at the blonde bombshell since she obtained her new eyes, and there was a part of her that actually resented Demetri a little bit for suggesting she go with him to deal with the trouble making Cullen.

Never in her life was she more thankful for the creation of turtlenecks, and actually unfolded the one she was wearing, covering her face with one hand as she pulled her hood up with the other, glaring at the tracker from the corner of her eye with a growl in her throat.

Demetri glanced down at her when he felt her eyes, and rolled his own. He never did understand how anyone found this particular vampire attractive. Admittedly, he certainly held no fondness for blondes, but this one always looked as if she smelled something foul, and anything she might have had going for her in looks was gone the moment she opened her mouth.

Jane, who was leaning on the wall with her hands behind her back, narrowed her eyes slightly when Demetri and Bella walked in the room. There was something different there, she could almost smell it. Clicking her tongue, she resigned herself to asking her brother about it later.

Rosalie also noticed it, and scoffed. "Whore." Taking slightly off guard at volume of Bella's growl that was now directed at her, she still didn't take the warning for what it was and spoke again. "You could have at least broken up with Edward before you started fucking someone else."

Bella knew Rose hadn't been with anyone but Emmett, literally, ever in her life. But, that was still one more than she had, so the absolutely last thing Bella was, was a whore. She already wasn't exactly a fan of the blonde's, but for whatever reason, being accused of doing something she didn't do struck a nerve, and she lunged.

Ready for it, Demetri snatched Bella off the ground with one arm while looking at the Cullen who was looking at the pissed off newborn with slightly wider eyes. "Newborns, huh? So quick to lose their temper. So disinclined to put up with others. So fully capable of tearing you to shreds." Looking at the snarling infant in his hold, he hummed. "I did promise her, her owed pound of flesh." He then grinned at Rosalie. "Should I put her down?"

Flicking her eyes to Bella, Rosalie lightly cleared her throat as he returned her sights to Demetri. "You don't scare me."

Demetri's grin only widened. "Yes I do. You're eyes glow with it, and you scent is so covered in terror, it's making my nose itch. But that is beside the point. I'm not the one you should be currently worried about." Setting Bella on her feet, he held her back by wrapping his fingers around her hip bones, keeping her in place for the moment. "See, I don't have time for you. You're not that important. On a sliding scale, you fall somewhere between taking a shit, and taking a nap."

Letting go of Bella, he slid around her, holding up a finger to tell her to wait a moment before he turned back to Rosalie. Taking three steps to move closer, he laced his fingers together as he crouched and looked her in the eyes. "I'm going to let you in on a little secret. I was going to let you skate, because I have no desire to deal with you, or anyone else with the Surname Cullen for that matter. I have too much other shit to do on a day to day basis that I was going to leave you all alone, banished to the barracks for the entirety of your service, just so I didn't have to see you because you piss me off. All you had to do was behave in a way I forgot you were here, but you couldn't even accomplish that for ten damn minutes. So... because of you, your whole coven is going to suffer tremendously, and I am going to make sure they know who to blame for every scratch, every bite, and every slight inconvenience I can fucking think of."

Leaning back from the gleam in Demetri's eyes, Rosalie's lip curled. "That's not what you told us in the dungeon."

A cruel smirk settling on Demetri's lips as a brow rose. "I did, actually. I flat out said I do not want you on my guard. Out of everything that followed that statement, there were three things of importance. I told you the proper way to address me, and what would happen if you didn't. I told you to stay away from Isabella and what I would do to those that didn't. Lastly, I told you I don't run a catering service. That's it. For everything I said, that was all that really mattered." Pausing a moment, he hummed. "I suppose I did say I was going to make your life Hell, but honestly, what worse could I have done to you than take away your precious animal diet?"

Rose's eyes narrowed, and her voice got a little too preachy for Demetri. "Carlisle told us all about..."

He cut her off with a hard scoff and his lips pulled into a snarl. "Carlisle is a fucking idiot, and if he has you convinced a three month stay over a hundred years ago makes him an expert on someone else's coven, you're as big of an idiot as he is. You might think you know how this place works, but I promise you, you have no fucking idea. We rely on others around here, you twit. Do you have any idea how long it takes to train a guard to my standards? Twenty-five years from arrival to graduation. Why in God's name would I put so much effort into seven vampires that will not be around long enough to receive their first assignment? Why the Hell would I waste so much energy on anyone I don't trust? The fact of the matter is, you weren't even going to be dealing with me as long as you did as you were told by the ones that oversee the barracks. You couldn't manage that, and as a result of your inherent idiocy, you have just fucked every single person you care about for two very specific reasons. And do you want to know what those are?"

There comes a point when keeping your mouth shut is literally the smartest thing you can do. There are some questions that should go unanswered. Rosalie didn't possess the ability to realize this was one of those times. "Because you're a prick?"

Cocking his head, Demetri ran his tongue along his bottom lip. "Okay... three reasons, then. That would be the first. The second is, I told you you would follow the commands of your superiors, or you would then follow mine. The biggest, however, is I told you I wasn't the one you needed to worry about." Pointing his thumb over his shoulder to his newborn charge, his eyes sparked with a malicious glee as Rosalie make a soundless gulp at the clear implication, but he went ahead and elaborated. "My orders come from her."

Having reached the point she felt she had nothing left to lose anymore, Rosalie growled low, her lips pulling slightly back from her teeth as she tried to put as much gusto into her voice as she could. "My mate is going to kill you."

"He is certainly welcome to try. But..." Never, in her life, had Rose ever heard such a demonic sounding noise as she did the moment Demetri chuckled. It was deep, low, and carried ice. He leaned toward her, his eyes pits of endless darkness as his voice caressed her skin like a lover's touch. "Not before mine destroys you."

It absolutely did not matter how little he liked them, or how much they pissed him off, Demetri did not put his hands on a female in a violent manner. Harming a female was beneath him, but that was certainly not the case when it came to the infant behind him. He did little more than wink at the Cullen before him before she vanished from his sights, the sound of his little charge's growl only just reaching his ear.

Standing from his crouch, he hummed in his throat as he watched Bella, seeing just how tightly wound she had become over the passing days. He certainly had his work cut out for him when it came to sorting out her less than stellar abilities. It was little more than a cat fight, and that was certainly something he couldn't have.

It was as he was reaching into his jacket for his cigarettes he paused, plucking a piece of blonde hair from the onyx fabric. Blowing it from his skin, he continued with what he was doing, a small chuckle slipping past his lips at the sounds from his newborn. It was as he was putting his lighter away that Jane came to stand with him, her arms crossed behind her back. He glanced down at her, but didn't say anything.

It didn't matter, because she did. "What do you want me to do?"

Demetri shook his head, puffing the smoke from his nose. "Nothing. Something was brought to my attention a half hour ago and, believe me, you do not want take Isabella's toy away from her right now."

Brows drawn and a frown on her lips, Jane swallowed hard. 'You're not concerned she'll hurt herself?"

Shaking his head as he placed his cigarette between his lips, Demetri snorted. "Were this an actual fight I would be, but since it's not, not at all." Removing the smoke, he cocked his head. "She's healthy now, and I need to learn her actual limitations, not just the assumed ones. She might not be able to bite, but if you ask Felix, that has no baring on how hard she can hit, or..." shifting his eyes to his covenmate, "how easily she can remove a body part."

It was almost like magic. The moment that phrase was given life, Demetri's hand shot up, snagging an ear out of midair that was aimed for his face. Tossing it in the air, he caught it in a better grip and looked at it, a thoughtful expression on his features as he tossed the appendage onto the floor. "Grace is certainly going to have a puzzle on her hands, isn't she?"

Both guards watched as the newest Voltalian landed a solid fist into the cheek bone of the Cullen, and when Demetri saw said Cullen's hand going for Bella's hair, Demetri grunted as he took a hit. "End it."

Without delay, Rosalie started screaming as Jane's gift took effect.

Bella, having not seen Jane use her power before, blinked as she backed away from what appeared to be a possessed body. Wide eyed, she watched as Rosalie's body flopped around like a fish out of water, unable to figure out what the fuck her problem was. All she had done was break some fingers, removed an ear, and ripped out some hair. In comparison to having your face all but ripped off by a wolf, that didn't seem nearly as bad to her. Lip curling in the corner, Bella scoffed. "God, you're a bitch."

Demetri finished his cigarette, dropping the butt, and twisted it beneath his toes as Jane cut off her gift. Completely ignoring the vampire on the floor as she curled into a ball, bringing her stump of a hand to where her ear used to be, he made his way to Bella, extending a hand to her. When she took it, he pulled her to her feet and then into his arms. Lacing his fingers behind her back, he looked down at her with a smile. "Feel better, Neos?" When all she did was grunt, he hummed. "Seems I have some work to do, then. Why don't we get you fed, and then we'll get you feeling better."