Chapter 8- Betrayal

He did not know how many hours it had been since they had been together. There were no windows in the room, but it did not matter much. Their vampire capabilities enabled them to go for hours, never growing tired. But Fidelia stopped when she looked over at the small clock she had stored on her side table. It was almost 5am now.

Edward grabbed his clothing scattered across the room as she slid into a loose fitted mahogany dress and ran her fingers through her bed swept hair. He fixed the buttons on his shirt and collar.

"Some members of my old coven will be arriving soon. You should stick around to meet them." Fidelia offered.

Beneath her words and her thoughts, he heard something more; something that she was hiding from him. He shook off his suspicion, thinking that he was getting too paranoid over nothing. He followed her to the couch in the living room and casually lay on it beside her as she played with his thick golden hair.

"So what made you finally give up the "vegetarian" lifestyle and leave Carlisle like that?" Fidelia asked.

Edward sighed and answered, "We fell apart slowly, especially after he found a mate and eventually I guess I just realized that, some humans just don't deserve to keep living. That is when I decided to drink the blood of humans; only the bad ones."

"If you ask me, there are simply too many humans to worry about harming. I mean really, why are we made to drink the blood of humans if it is so wrong?" Fidelia said.

Edward thought about her words and simply replied, "I guess your right, all humans eventually die off anyways and new ones are born. Why should vampires care about them?"

For some reason Edward believed the words that were coming out of his mouth, but it didn't feel right to him.

Fidelia spoke, "did Carlisle ever mention his time in the Volturi."

Edward sat up, confused by the question,

"How do you know that he used to be part of the Volturi?"

"Because I used to be one of the guards in the coven," She said casually. "Didn't he ever tell you about the time the entire Volturi had to diminish a vampire army and a vampire child?"

Edward was surprised that she used to be a part of the Volturi, he wondered why she had left; it certainly could not have been for the same reason as Carlisle.

Fidelia spoke to Edward, but she did not address him directly. It was as if she was speaking to someone else through him.

"The time has come old friend, everything is in its place, feel free to send your entire guard. We'll be ready."

Having said that, she disappeared; her thoughts, her scent, everything was gone. Edward was thrown aback, could she have somehow teleported out of the room and what was she talking about, who was she talking to?

Edward had little time to gather his thoughts because in an instant, three black cloaked vampire figures barged through the door. Edward sprang up in a defensive crouch, he could tell from their thoughts that they weren't there to be friendly. They faced him, in the middle he saw a small blonde girl with big red eyes and to her right was a lanky boy who looked just as young. To her left, a tall and muscular man whose eyes wandered around the room searching for something, or someone. The robes made it obvious that they were from the Volturi.

Edward knew that he could not fight them all so he tried to flee. He dashed for the door as fast as he could when he was hit with a severe wave of pain. He dropped to the floor and writhed in the agony that ran through his entire body. Every nerve and muscle stung with the mind numbing sensation and he heard in the girl's thoughts that she was doing this to keep him from escaping. With clenched teeth, he managed to say,

"Stop… please. I don't know… what you want!"

His pleas went unanswered and he heard the large man say with a frustrated voice, "Damn her to hell. Fidelia's not even here, how can Aro send us to capture her when she can never be captured. It doesn't make sense!"

The smaller male spoke more softly, "Sister, Aro shall still want us to bring anyone who was with her back with us."

The girl frowned and at last, stopped torturing him. Edward was still on the floor recovering when the young male strode over to him and grabbed his upper arms as he infringed his mental power on his mind. Before Edward could react, he felt the numbing sensation come over him and the last thing he saw was the blurry sight of the vampire's red eyes peering down at him before everything went black.