p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"emstrongA/N: OMG! So Finally I am doing an update! Yay! it's been a couple of years since I have written for this story, so I had no idea where I had left of in this story, so I reread and changed a few things. I can't promise that I will take the story in the direction that it was going before. I am older and a better writter now, so I hope you all enjoy. As always please comment / review and rate. /strong/em/p
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p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"BELLAS POV:/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I walked down one hallway After another, with no direction in mind. Something was wrong, i just couldn't figure out what. I had days when I would get like this. My abilities came at a price. There would be days where it would olverwhelm me and I would find myself mimicing other peoples abilities without even meaning to. The only thing that I found would work is physical exercise. At first I would go to the training halls, but my Head Guard finally protested when I started ruining her best soldiers. One guard, went so crazy she began pulling out her own hair, and even eventually wripping off her own ear. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I killed my head guard for the insult, but none the less, I stopped going to the training center when I had one of my episodes like this. Now I just paced, as fast as I could, for hours on end. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I also knew that the Cullen boys presence was definitely not helping. The feelings he made me feel, the love, rage, admiration, where making me weak. I couldn't handle the emotions. I was the Queen of the Volturi and yet one measley little vampire was able to effet me like no others have been able to do. I had destroyed the old council, and turned their guard into mine. I had enslaved all vampire men and many human men, and yet this one simple, pathetic boy was proving to be my downfall. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I couldn't do anything about it, and trust me i had tried. At one point I had even ordered him to be killed, to turn around and kill my own guard when she attempted to go through with it. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I stopped, dead in my tracks. 2 months ago, I had every intention of quickly and quietly leaving Volterra and going back to the Cullens. Even if things didn't work out, at least then, maybe, I could get some if not all of my memories back. But that was not to be. Immediately after this, we had an uprising from some of our lesser members. That bitch Layla was finally dead, or dying as the case may be. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Catriona, one of my personal guards, had decided to be a little sneaky slut, and spied on some of my private conversations. It was my fault really, I had underestimated her, trusted her, and considered her a friend even. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Instead, she went behind my back and turned my entire personal guard against me, broke dom out of the perminant state of torture I was keeping him in, and together they revolted. It was a blood bath./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"***FLASHBACK***/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I was swimming in a river of blood. Literally. Hundreds of human beings where dead in this pool. Their sweet red nectar sustaining us all. I swam a lap then another and another. Just thinking about my decision to leave my empire behind. I would be sad to see it go but I need to actually figure out once and for all who I was before I became a vampire.. to see who and what turned me into such an unfeeling bitch./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I stepped out of the pool, naked and unashamed. I walked over to my silk robe, a bridal white, and turned it on, quickly turning it blood red. My brown hair was matted and black, stained with blood. I wiped my face, slurping the blood as it dripped to my mouth, loving the explosion of different flavors on my tongue. There was a sweet, innocent taste that I knew was from the pregnant mother that we slaughtered after she was stupid enough to come to use pregnant and beg us to turn her and her child immortal. HAH, even I would not create a blood child. There was also a cloying, sultry taste that I didn't know who was from./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I walked inside and stopped, my guards where no where to be seen. They knew that I had wanted privacy but that had never stopped them before./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I heard a scream, no I could hear the screams. At first I had thought nothing of it until I could hear the laughter. The male laughter from a voice I knew all too well. HOW IN THE HELL! i knew instantly that I had been betrayed. Something was not right, and someone, no not someone. Only one person knew where he had been kept. How dare they. Withing in minutes i ran from my room at the top of the castle, to the dungeons down below, deep below. Everywhere I went there was female bodies, dead, brutally killed. Slaughtered really. If it had been by my order I would have been amazed at the glorious splendor, the gloriousness of it all. But today, when this was done without my knowledge, I could only be furious at the wastefulness. This was a masacre, a pointless, painful massacre./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"As I walked, I began to slow to an almost human pace. I think a part of me dreaded having this betrayal confirmed./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I turned the final corner and there they where. It was Dam, Catriona, Layla, Jane, and Zafrina. My very own personal guard. The people that I had spent the most time with. The people who knew me better than any other person on the planet. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I watched as they tensed. They where expecting me to be in a rage, so I just smiled. When they thought that I would attack I just walked slowly over to one of their victims that I knew was still human. I leaned down and bit her, injecting her with my venom.I held her as it coarsed through her veins./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" I heard multiple gasps and smirked as they all took a step back. This would only be the second vampire I had made. My first being dam. I had created him a vampire, and starved him, made him so weak he could barely move. Well that would explain the slaughter, I guess. After all the deprivation and teasing I had given him he must have been ravenous./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I put the girls head down knowing that she had hours to go for her body to heal, if she survived the change at all. There wasn't even a second from the moment I released the girl before I was on Catriona. I flew at her with lightening speed, kicking her in the stomach. She flew backwards, crashing into a mirror. without even turning I grabbed the hand that was fling towards the back of my head and flipped them over me and sent them crashing into the cave walls of the dungeon. I turned to Jane, who was now cowering in a corner. She stood up when I turned towards her, jetting out her chin in defiance. I just shook my head and beckoned her to me with a crook of my finger. She started to walk towards me. I shook my head again and pointed downwards with the same finger. She swallowed, needlessly, and got on her hands and knees. She crawled towards me slwoly, her whole body trembling. This amused me the most as I knew she was doing it on purpose as a sign of submission. Like when a weak wolf roles over towards an Alpha wolf to show respect. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Wait, wolves? what would make me think of wolves? I have never seen a wolf a day in my life, and yet there where these flashes of a brown mixed with red wolf in my head. I felt a bond towards this mysterious wolf, but that was not possible. I began to get angry at the yet more unanswered questions my head was creating for myself./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Without really deciding to I stopped my foot. I felt as my toes crashed into flesh. I heard the crunch as she literally snapped and turned to dust. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I looked down and sighed. Dammit, what a waste!/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"***END OF FLASHBACK***/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"After that betrayal I couldn't leave. Wether I liked it or not, vampires did need a leader, and for the moment I was all they had. Apparently I couldn't even afford to leave the damn city, without their being an uprising. So I stayed, I put out all the minor fires, and calmed everyones concerns, sometimes with kindness, but most often with force. I had to show that I could be kind, but that I was always firm and not to be messed with. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"But as time wore on, I was having more and more memories, just flashes, of things that I didn't understand. I was wanting more and more to leave, just to run away from it all. I wanted to just stay screw the voltorri and let this city burn to the ground. But unfortunately, I knew that even if i felt this way, there was many who didn't. There was still thousands who would step up and try to finish my legacy or create there own. I kenw that even with my infinite powers I could not save them all./p
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p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Edwards POV:/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I shivered in my cell. I could hear and feel the constant pain and misery of everyone in volterra. It was killing me. There was so much pointless bloodshed. It was all pointless. Every day they killed at least another 20, she killed even more than that. More often than not they didn't even kill for food. They killed for entertainment. SHE seemed to enjoy it immensely, more than the rest. But every now and then I saw the truth behind the mast. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Every now and then I would catch a glimpse of the pain and misery she felt at it all, then like a flash it would be gone./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I heard the guards coming down the hall, and forced myself to stand. I knew that it was me they where coming for. Every night they came and got me, forced me to watch her as she helf court. Every day she would make me stand and watch as she slaughtered innocent people one second, and then turned around to the next and was so achingly gentle. Then there was her newborn. That was an odd relationship, it was one of a mother and child. But Bella was not the mothering one. It was almost as if the vampire she created was a replacement for her mother. I guess even she has needs./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I walked with the guards to the thrown room, and took up my usual spot. I kept my eyes open and unblinking, but I didn't see. I concentrated on not feeling the pain of those around me,not seeing what they where thinking. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"My eyes glossed over, and I waited and waited. If i hadn't been starved since coming here, which weakened my abilities, this wouldn't have even been possible. But they did, so it was. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I finally noticed that something was off and I began to really look around me. A group of humans, more humans then I had seen in Volterra at any one time, was walking into the thrown room. There was nearly a hundred of them. I gulped, dreading what was coming next./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I knew what she was going to do. I saw as her eyes began to practically glow that she was hungry and planned to feed, that all of them where going to feed. And that I was going to have to watch, again, and starve./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Bella got up from her thrown, and began to walk over to them, as she moved, so did every other vampire in the room, including myself. we walked in sync. Every step was a march. Every swish of clothing was a whisper as we all lowered our hoods. The humans began to twitch, we could smell their delicious fear. I walked with Bella over to a human girl, no more than 18 in age, we all watched as she took the first bite, signaling the start of the feast. In unison we heard the screams of everyone as we converged on them, giving them no chance to escape. The girl fell to the floor as I dropped to my knees and fed. I drank for what seemed like hours, but wasn't nearly long enough before I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I smiled, and looked directly into the blood red eyes./p
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p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"emstrongA/N: So i finally updated the story, sorry if you guys don't like where it is going... but I promise that you will love the ending. Hope you all got the Jacob reference! I wasn't sure, originally about including him in this story, but as i typed... it just happened. So please, as always /strong/em/p
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p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"BELLAS POV:/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I walked down one hallway After another, with no direction in mind. Something was wrong, i just couldn't figure out what. I had days when I would get like this. My abilities came at a price. There would be days where it would olverwhelm me and I would find myself mimicing other peoples abilities without even meaning to. The only thing that I found would work is physical exercise. At first I would go to the training halls, but my Head Guard finally protested when I started ruining her best soldiers. One guard, went so crazy she began pulling out her own hair, and even eventually wripping off her own ear. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I killed my head guard for the insult, but none the less, I stopped going to the training center when I had one of my episodes like this. Now I just paced, as fast as I could, for hours on end. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I also knew that the Cullen boys presence was definitely not helping. The feelings he made me feel, the love, rage, admiration, where making me weak. I couldn't handle the emotions. I was the Queen of the Volturi and yet one measley little vampire was able to effet me like no others have been able to do. I had destroyed the old council, and turned their guard into mine. I had enslaved all vampire men and many human men, and yet this one simple, pathetic boy was proving to be my downfall. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I couldn't do anything about it, and trust me i had tried. At one point I had even ordered him to be killed, to turn around and kill my own guard when she attempted to go through with it. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I stopped, dead in my tracks. 2 months ago, I had every intention of quickly and quietly leaving Volterra and going back to the Cullens. Even if things didn't work out, at least then, maybe, I could get some if not all of my memories back. But that was not to be. Immediately after this, we had an uprising from some of our lesser members. That bitch Layla was finally dead, or dying as the case may be. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Catriona, one of my personal guards, had decided to be a little sneaky slut, and spied on some of my private conversations. It was my fault really, I had underestimated her, trusted her, and considered her a friend even. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Instead, she went behind my back and turned my entire personal guard against me, broke dom out of the perminant state of torture I was keeping him in, and together they revolted. It was a blood bath./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"***FLASHBACK***/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I was swimming in a river of blood. Literally. Hundreds of human beings where dead in this pool. Their sweet red nectar sustaining us all. I swam a lap then another and another. Just thinking about my decision to leave my empire behind. I would be sad to see it go but I need to actually figure out once and for all who I was before I became a vampire.. to see who and what turned me into such an unfeeling bitch./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I stepped out of the pool, naked and unashamed. I walked over to my silk robe, a bridal white, and turned it on, quickly turning it blood red. My brown hair was matted and black, stained with blood. I wiped my face, slurping the blood as it dripped to my mouth, loving the explosion of different flavors on my tongue. There was a sweet, innocent taste that I knew was from the pregnant mother that we slaughtered after she was stupid enough to come to use pregnant and beg us to turn her and her child immortal. HAH, even I would not create a blood child. There was also a cloying, sultry taste that I didn't know who was from./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I walked inside and stopped, my guards where no where to be seen. They knew that I had wanted privacy but that had never stopped them before./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I heard a scream, no I could hear the screams. At first I had thought nothing of it until I could hear the laughter. The male laughter from a voice I knew all too well. HOW IN THE HELL! i knew instantly that I had been betrayed. Something was not right, and someone, no not someone. Only one person knew where he had been kept. How dare they. Withing in minutes i ran from my room at the top of the castle, to the dungeons down below, deep below. Everywhere I went there was female bodies, dead, brutally killed. Slaughtered really. If it had been by my order I would have been amazed at the glorious splendor, the gloriousness of it all. But today, when this was done without my knowledge, I could only be furious at the wastefulness. This was a masacre, a pointless, painful massacre./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"As I walked, I began to slow to an almost human pace. I think a part of me dreaded having this betrayal confirmed./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I turned the final corner and there they where. It was Dam, Catriona, Layla, Jane, and Zafrina. My very own personal guard. The people that I had spent the most time with. The people who knew me better than any other person on the planet. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I watched as they tensed. They where expecting me to be in a rage, so I just smiled. When they thought that I would attack I just walked slowly over to one of their victims that I knew was still human. I leaned down and bit her, injecting her with my venom.I held her as it coarsed through her veins./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" I heard multiple gasps and smirked as they all took a step back. This would only be the second vampire I had made. My first being dam. I had created him a vampire, and starved him, made him so weak he could barely move. Well that would explain the slaughter, I guess. After all the deprivation and teasing I had given him he must have been ravenous./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I put the girls head down knowing that she had hours to go for her body to heal, if she survived the change at all. There wasn't even a second from the moment I released the girl before I was on Catriona. I flew at her with lightening speed, kicking her in the stomach. She flew backwards, crashing into a mirror. without even turning I grabbed the hand that was fling towards the back of my head and flipped them over me and sent them crashing into the cave walls of the dungeon. I turned to Jane, who was now cowering in a corner. She stood up when I turned towards her, jetting out her chin in defiance. I just shook my head and beckoned her to me with a crook of my finger. She started to walk towards me. I shook my head again and pointed downwards with the same finger. She swallowed, needlessly, and got on her hands and knees. She crawled towards me slwoly, her whole body trembling. This amused me the most as I knew she was doing it on purpose as a sign of submission. Like when a weak wolf roles over towards an Alpha wolf to show respect. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Wait, wolves? what would make me think of wolves? I have never seen a wolf a day in my life, and yet there where these flashes of a brown mixed with red wolf in my head. I felt a bond towards this mysterious wolf, but that was not possible. I began to get angry at the yet more unanswered questions my head was creating for myself./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Without really deciding to I stopped my foot. I felt as my toes crashed into flesh. I heard the crunch as she literally snapped and turned to dust. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I looked down and sighed. Dammit, what a waste!/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"***END OF FLASHBACK***/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"After that betrayal I couldn't leave. Wether I liked it or not, vampires did need a leader, and for the moment I was all they had. Apparently I couldn't even afford to leave the damn city, without their being an uprising. So I stayed, I put out all the minor fires, and calmed everyones concerns, sometimes with kindness, but most often with force. I had to show that I could be kind, but that I was always firm and not to be messed with. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"But as time wore on, I was having more and more memories, just flashes, of things that I didn't understand. I was wanting more and more to leave, just to run away from it all. I wanted to just stay screw the voltorri and let this city burn to the ground. But unfortunately, I knew that even if i felt this way, there was many who didn't. There was still thousands who would step up and try to finish my legacy or create there own. I kenw that even with my infinite powers I could not save them all./p
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p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Edwards POV:/p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I shivered in my cell. I could hear and feel the constant pain and misery of everyone in volterra. It was killing me. There was so much pointless bloodshed. It was all pointless. Every day they killed at least another 20, she killed even more than that. More often than not they didn't even kill for food. They killed for entertainment. SHE seemed to enjoy it immensely, more than the rest. But every now and then I saw the truth behind the mast. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Every now and then I would catch a glimpse of the pain and misery she felt at it all, then like a flash it would be gone./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I heard the guards coming down the hall, and forced myself to stand. I knew that it was me they where coming for. Every night they came and got me, forced me to watch her as she helf court. Every day she would make me stand and watch as she slaughtered innocent people one second, and then turned around to the next and was so achingly gentle. Then there was her newborn. That was an odd relationship, it was one of a mother and child. But Bella was not the mothering one. It was almost as if the vampire she created was a replacement for her mother. I guess even she has needs./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I walked with the guards to the thrown room, and took up my usual spot. I kept my eyes open and unblinking, but I didn't see. I concentrated on not feeling the pain of those around me,not seeing what they where thinking. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"My eyes glossed over, and I waited and waited. If i hadn't been starved since coming here, which weakened my abilities, this wouldn't have even been possible. But they did, so it was. /p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I finally noticed that something was off and I began to really look around me. A group of humans, more humans then I had seen in Volterra at any one time, was walking into the thrown room. There was nearly a hundred of them. I gulped, dreading what was coming next./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I knew what she was going to do. I saw as her eyes began to practically glow that she was hungry and planned to feed, that all of them where going to feed. And that I was going to have to watch, again, and starve./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"Bella got up from her thrown, and began to walk over to them, as she moved, so did every other vampire in the room, including myself. we walked in sync. Every step was a march. Every swish of clothing was a whisper as we all lowered our hoods. The humans began to twitch, we could smell their delicious fear. I walked with Bella over to a human girl, no more than 18 in age, we all watched as she took the first bite, signaling the start of the feast. In unison we heard the screams of everyone as we converged on them, giving them no chance to escape. The girl fell to the floor as I dropped to my knees and fed. I drank for what seemed like hours, but wasn't nearly long enough before I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror./p
p style="margin: 20px 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"I smiled, and looked directly into the blood red eyes./p
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