I really don't like the looks of this. Edward said. We should get out of here. I tried to ignore him but it was really hard. The venom in my veins pulsed as I didn't know what was going to happen. Chelsea saw before that I didn't have heels on and Aro insisted that I put on a pair of heels to give me height and a powerful demeanor. The doors parted again and there in the same exact outfit Edward was wearing was the actual Edward. I slight gasp escaped my lips and Edward from my head walked up to him and stared at him and walked around him as if he had just watched a clone walk out of a machine. "Alec, I don't like this." I said projecting my thoughts into his head.
"Welcome Mr. Cullen, I assume you are alone?" Aro greeted.
"Yes, I am, I lost my family somewhere in Korea." He said. The Cullens faces flashed through my head and my worry became a sad emotion.
"Very well, if I understand this correctly you want to join us?" Marcus said.
"The last time you were here was to be killed because the human you once loved had become diseased." Caius pointed out. He was on a suicide mission last time he was here because of me? He couldn't die; I had so much to ask about my human life.
"Honestly I would love it if you would just kill me now." Edward said.
"I'm afraid your gift is too precious for us to waste." Aro said with a conniving smile.
Edward kept trying to be killed and eventually Jane got sick of it and started to use her power. He growled in pain and agony and screamed bloody murder. I couldn't take it. I saw Alec's hands form around the air and started to cut his senses. "Don't you dare or I am walking out right now." I said putting his hand back to his side.
He looked at me appalled. "Do not interfere with my work Isabella." He growled. I looked to him and scrunched my nose up at him and shot my arm toward him and a big bubble formed around Edward.
"You will not hurt an innocent person who has been in the dark about what really happen to the person he once loved." I growled back and Edward was in a crouch on the floor. "Aro if I may put my two sense in now instead of later." I asked. I looked to Derek who was silently flipping out, he knew my story he knew why I was doing this.
"This will be a good show. Proceed with free will Isabella." Aro said.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING ARE YOU CRAZY! Edward asked.
Apparently in this moment I am crazy Edward, bear with me. I told him.
HE LEFT YOU AND NOW YOU ARE GOING TO SAFE HIS ASS? Edward pointed out
"Aro, this poor man has been through enough, you're guard is unkempt. They do what they want at free will." I said shooting the comment at Jane and she shot me a death glare as I took off the hood of the robe from my head. I walked in front of Edward facing the Aro and the Lords and glanced back to Edward, my heels that Chelsea had me wear clacking on the stone. "I will be the first who says that this man should suffer, because his suicide mission was about me." I said.
Aro's eyes were wide and mental illness shot through them. "Delightful." He smiled. "This is better than watching the tele."
"Honestly Aro, she can't be serious." Marcus said in monotone. "Just kill him if he wants to die this bad."
Aro shushed his brothers and he stepped down from this throne to the stairs. "Continue Miss. Gilbert." He said.
"Gilbert?" Edward questioned in a whisper.
"Edward and I were a couple when I was human." I said, "Or this is what I am told."
"You don't remember?" Edward asked.
"Very vaguely, I remember the times with your family, I remember some of our dates, not many." I said looking into his eyes full of hurt.
"I think I might be sick." Alec said.
"Quiet Alec." Aro demanded. "Is there anything you remember leading up to you being changed?" Aro asked.
"He left me." I said simply. "I remember that clear as day."
"May I?" He asked.
"Take care of yourself." Edward breathed, his breath against my skin. My eye shut trying to block the pain. There was an unnatural breeze and my eyes flashed open. The leaves on a small vine maple shuddered with the gentle wind that followed.
"Bella?" Laurent asked, looking more astonished than I felt.
"You remember." I smiled.
He grinned, "I didn't until I saw what had just happened. I didn't expect to see you here." He strolled toward me.
"Well, I'm not too proud to be in this situation." I told him truthfully.
"Yes, I see." Laurent nodded.
"Yeah so I thought you were in Alaska with the Denali's." I asked trying to stall.
"You're right, I was but I just don't agree with their life style." Laurent smiled and walked toward me more.
"Well, I better get home; my homework a waits." I told him backing away.
"Oh don't leave, Plus you don't want to do homework after everything that had just happened do you?" Laurent tested.
"Well, I can't put a break on my life; I have exams coming up soon." I lied smoothly.
"Well, I can take that all away." Laurent smiled.
"I'm okay." I smiled and started to run back to the main highway.
Suddenly he was right in front of me and I was on the ground, his teeth in my neck.
Everyone in the castle seemed to receive my memory as I didn't direct it to any in particular. "Bella I am so sorry." Edward whispered.
"What are you doing, stop calling her Bella, that's not her name!" Alec roared.
Edward didn't know how to respond. "Alec." I said.
"She's mine! I don't know who you think you are but you're not a part of this family!" Alec shouted.
"Alec that is quite enough!" Aro demanded and Alec stormed out of the room.
"I told you she was bad news." Jane spat stalking past Aro to follow her brother.
"Aro I'm not cut out for rudeness and pain, not now." I said taking off the cape. "Thank you for letting me observe but I don't think I will be joining in the near future."
"Aro if you wouldn't mind me staying a little longer to talk to Alec then I will be leaving." I said.
"Back to Vancouver?" Derek asked.
I looked to my brother. "Maybe, I might even go home." I said.
"Vancouver is your home Bell." Derek said.
"No, my home is in Washington, Derek you're whole world is waiting for you in Vancouver, not mine, Amy misses you terribly." I said.
"I know, we talked this morning, she's still upset by my decision." He said.
"Then come home, be a man and go sweep her off her feet." I suggested. "Make up for lost time."
"Oh no, not all of you are leaving…" Marcus said.
"Marcus what you feel for your late wife, is how Amy feels for her husband, you of all people here would understand the most."
"You don't know anything about me." He snarled.
"I know who killed her, I know everything about everyone. 2 weeks in this castle can teach you a lot, it's in the paintings, and the history is in the walls." I said. "This whole place is an open book."
"Try me." Caius challenged.
"You loathe werewolves, and wiped out over 1,000 packs worldwide." I said pushing the envelope. But then when I thought about Jake and what could happen to him if Caius were to find out about them, "You sick bastard. They protect when they sense danger, and you were a danger, but let's face it you were lucky you got out alive."
Let's just stop right there. Edward said from inside my head. Go talk to Alec and let's get the damn dog and leave, this could start a war and you and I both know this won't end well.
"That's common knowledge." Caius said as if it were nothing.
"Marcus are you so naive that the person who killed your wife is right under your nose?" I asked. "Painting 4,245, will tell you exactly who did it."
"Alright, that is enough Miss Sassy Gilbert; take your friends and leave." Aro said quickly.
Derek had the ability to compel people, so he told the Volturi leaders and the rest of the guards that were there that they didn't know a thing. Edward, never came so the person they didn't know who was coming never showed, therefore this all never happened.
"Edward we need to talk, go with Derek, you two catch a plane and go. Derek if Jake is still in Vancouver tell him I'll be home soon." I said.
Derek nodded along with Edward and they left after Derek compelled Gianna and Heidi who were outside the whole time. Derek caught Jane on the way out. I ran up to Alec's quarters and I knocked on the door and let myself in.
"I'm leaving." I said. He turned from the mirror.
"Don't leave." He pleaded, "We still have a full day together."
I shook my head, "Things are different now, complicated and uneven." I said.
"But you're still with me?" Alec said in a bit of a question.
"Alec, I love you, but Edward is my past, the past has been left unclosed, I need to shut it." I said. "Come to Vancouver in a few weeks when it's closed, The guard is back to its original people, Derek is gone, please will you come when I call?"
Alec nodded as he watched me stumble to take off the heels and change back into the flats Amy had me wearing, "It might be nice to see Canada as a tourist and not when I am not of a mission."
"We can see all the sites." I promised.
"Call me when you land?" He asked.
"Of course," I nodded. "As for the previous events, they never happened in the minds of everyone who listened or witnessed it."
"Good old Derek." Alec mumbled.
"I'm sorry I just can't have the Volturi after me for causing a disturbance in the peace." I told him.
"Understood." He said and kissed my lips. I pulled on his collar of his dress shirt giving me a little height to kiss him better. I was short compared to him now that I was back in my flats.
"See you soon." He whispered.
"I love you Alec." I said.
"I love you too Isabella,"
He gave me one last kiss and I left his chamber and walked myself out with Edward by my side.