I'm back everyone! Sorry, finals have been brutal, but now I'm back thanks for waiting!
3rd POV
"She is indeed an interesting specimen..." murmured the pale vampire.
"Yes," breathed another no his left, "She'll serve us well."
"U-huh, she's strong too," replied the nervous blond in front of them, "Just make sure you take her away fast, her coven will sure notice!"
"Silence! You do not address us that way! As if we were the ones coming to you for help!" roared Caius. She stepped back in surprise, no one had ever spoken to her in that manner before, she chuckled nervously, "He he, my bad! So can I live here now, since I, uh supplied such valuable information?" her sentence squeaked at the end as Caius narrowed his eyes at her, "You are no use to us, you have no talents, nothing, nothing special at all." he finished with a sniff.
"It's quite alright Caius," Aro assured, he said it softly but had a sharp tone with it, as if he was scolding him, he turned back to the vampire smiling warmly at her, "You have indeed supplied us with useful knowledge, dear one.." Her expression lifted, "However," Aro continued, "Not as useful as you may have hoped, but maybe you can help us... retrieve this vampire you speak of, and if you do, allow yourself to become one of the great Voultri. Reasonable enough?" She agreed, knowing that this was the only chance of gaining their trusts, "Yes. Just make sure that I get her lover and with that I'm content."
"Agreed," he moved his hand and a large shadowed appeared behind her, "You summoned me master?" the figure grunted, the vampiress couldn't help but stare at his size.
"Yes Caleb, find our dear guest some attire and a room, you will also go with her and Emily to help retrieve our, well hopefully retrieve our future addition to our family."
He nodded, "Your name?" he asked the girl. She whispered the response still in partial shock of the enormous guard. again he nodded, "Come this way... Audrey." they left the room, leaving the three "lords" sitting on their thrones.
"Aro do you really intend to let her join us, even if she doesn't have a tool we could use?" Caius finally said after a long silence.
"Caius, after all these years we've spent together, do you not know me?" Aro chuckled, it sounded more like a sigh, "I'm not really interested in Audrey, but rather the vampire I saw in her thoughts." Caius nodded satisfied by that answer and rose to leave, Marcus did the same. Now Aro was left alone in the stone room.
He alone breathed the name that lingered in the darkness, long after he left.
Bella.
Bella's POV
"Bella!" I turned to see Alice running at me, oh no. I turned to the door, maybe I can just close i--
"Oh no Bella! You're no getting rid of me that easily!" Alice caught the door in time.
"Alice! How did you find me!?!" I almost screeched, my neighbors would probably still hear me. "Um, psychic remember?" she cocked her head and pushed open the door, "I wanted to see your ho-- You call this a house?" I sighed, she did have a point, the furniture, well the few that I had were, old sagging, dusty and ripped in many places. I crossed my arms, "Well, not everyone can predict when the stock market can crash Alice," I snarled. She held up her hands, "Okay, okay, anyway, I wanted to hear your part of the story..."
"Who said I wanted to tell you?" I retorted.
"You will, when I call Emmett over hear to kidnap you...again," her eyes narrowed, she looked absolutely terrifying, she even started to reach into her pocket to pull out her cell-phone. "Okay, fine, but after I tell you will you leave?" I held my hands up in defeat.
"Maybe," she pushed her way in and sat on the only chair there and crossed her arms, "Begin."
I took a deep breath, "Edward left me and the rest of you went as well, without saying good-bye I might add and I ran, not knowing where I was going.." Alice nodded signaling that I should continue.
"Some vampire crossed my path and bit me.. after a few days my transformation was complete, I staged my death and left. I took what ever I had from my college fund bank account and moved to Canada. I took on a part time job and went to community college." Alice eyes widened with shock. "I after I graduated I went to a few jobs until I had enough money. Then I went to another college, when enough time had past I came back to Forks and enrolled in high school. Then you showed up and everything changed.." I stared off into space for a bit again then walked to the door and opened it, "Okay. Bye Alice."
She rolled her eyes and sat firmly on the chair, she was not going anywhere, "He was nothing without you," she whispered as she began her story, I slammed the door and leaned against the wall, as much as I wanted her to leave, I was curious. " I don't even know why he left you, I just remember him saying that he didn't want to destroy the life that you had right now, or something... But still, he never spoke, never left his room, he did nothing, he only came out to hunt and even then, he ignored us.
"The whole house was, well, as you may call it in the Dark Ages, it was like someone had died, like Edward had." she looked at me with miserable eyes, "The only person that didn't feel as bad as the we did was Rosalie," she laughed a cold hard laugh, "Rosalie didn't understand why we were like this, upset she went out every night, to every club, to every party she could get into. Eventually she did a little research and found a club for vampires, somewhere in New Hampshire, where she met Audrey.
"Audrey was another vampire, one like Rosalie, shallow, cared only about beauty. They bonded instantly, Rosalie rushed her home to meet us, everyone was polite and she was about to leave when Edward came home from another hunting trip. Well, long story short, when I threatened to kill her she snapped and told us that she was from the Voultri and would send them there to kill us unless Edward would become her mate.." Alice snarled at the end of the sentence, her eyes brightened, "Until today, Carlisle finally had some time and called Aro and we found out that Audrey had no part of being in the Voultri at all! We kicked her out, I snuck away from the festivities and came here!" she grinned, "And I'm not going back without you!"
I gaped at her, what ever I had expected their story to be, I didn't think it would've been what she had just told me right now. Then I was stuck in my epiphany, all this time I had believed Edward had not loved me anymore, I had seen many things to back up that; when he said that he and his family were leaving with his expressionless eyes, Audrey, him kissing Audrey...
But if Alice's story was true, then Audrey meaning nothing to him. Then when had he--
I suddenly remembered the pain in his eyes when I had rejected him, ran away from everything, those memories that I had dismissed because I was sure of the first option. Could it be that Edward... had still loved me?
"Edward loves me?" my voice cracked at the end.
"FINALLY!" Alice yelled, "Now do you get it? We have fallen apart because of you Bella, no one could replace you okay? Now are you going home with me or not!?!" Without a word I got up off the wall and went into my bedroom and packed my clothes, when I came out Alice was talking on the phone, her back facing me, I heard, "Emmett? Grab Jazzy I need you and him to help me bring Bella h--" I snapped the phone shut, she whirled around about to let me have when she saw the bag in my hand. The smile of an angel replaced her face and we left my apartment and nightmares behind...
It was time to move on.
Edward's POV
We watched with curiosity as Alice drove up in my car with a stranger in the passenger seat. That is until we caught her scent, Bella.
She silently got out of the car, her eyes never looked up from the ground. Alice, on the other hand was radiating with victory it was almost blinding to watch.
I got her Edward! She's coming back!
She practically screamed in her head.
Alice started as they approched us, "Bella had decided to.." finally she couldn't hold it any longer, "LIVE WITH US!!!!"
Emmett was the first one to greet Bella, "My little sister!" he squished her into a tight bear hug, he froze, and waited to see Bella's reaction, Am I being to forward? he thought.
Relief flooded onto his face when Bella laughed and squeezed him back. The rest of us seem to relax as well. When he finally released her, Esme ran over and hugged her, "My..Dear...Bella!" she choked out. Carlisle smiled and embraced both Bella and Esme, "It's good to have you back.."
Rosalie silently stepped forward and kissed her on the cheek, "I'm sorry," she whispered. Those two words seemed to knock down that wall that Rosalie had kept up for so long. Bella smiled, "All's forgiven."
"Hey Bells," Derek said as he hugged her. Sophia nearly knocked into her, "Bella!"
Jasper grinned, "I'm glad I'm not tempted to kill you anymore, that was a downer." Their was a moment of silence, Jasper had never been that forward before.
Bella laughed, "I guess that's what you could call it.." I felt everyone's eyes turn on me when Bella looked at me. She walked slowly over to me, all the playfulness gone, "You and I have some unfinished business mister." she said seriously, then suddenly grabbed my shirt.
Ooh you're gonna get it! (Emmett)
Be prepared Edward... (Jasper)
But before I could hear anyone else's opinion Bella leaned in, smiled and kissed me. I heard hoots and cat calls behind us, but I hardly cared. I was back with my one reason for living and all was right in the world...
That is if it had lasted.
Okay! Chapter five is out and done! I"m sorry it took so long. Like I said, finals were brutal and I had to focus a ton of my time on studying...
Thanx for waiting! But I'm back!
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